Chapter 598: Unifying Europe and Asia
This time, the Stuart dynasty was no longer naïve to ignore the military strength of the Ming Dynasty, although it had always adopted a policy of appeasement, but the vigilance was still there. Updates are fast and ad-free.
As early as a few months ago, when the Ming Dynasty launched an offensive against Italy, Charles I successively transferred a large number of previously expanded troops back to the vicinity of London, especially the closest area of the Isle of Wight, to prevent the troops of the Isle of Wight from landing in this area.
Therefore, now when the Ming Dynasty successively increased its troops in the London Ming Concession and the Isle of Wight, the British authorities did not show too much panic, and even began to plan how to deal with the upcoming offensive of the Ming Dynasty.
Originally, the Ming Dynasty wanted to take advantage of the sinking of the opium cargo ship of the Meisheng Company by the English and the Stuart Dynasty's reinforcement of troops near London as the reason to launch a war against the British, but he did not expect that the English Charles I would first attack the Ming army in the London concession, intending to drive out the Ming army in London before the Ming Dynasty launched a large-scale attack, so as to fully control the strategic places.
The English army was the first to strike, but the Ming army stationed in the London concession also resisted stubbornly and successfully held the bridgehead where the main Ming force landed in London.
It is precisely because the Ming Dynasty had stationed troops in London and the Isle of Wight before, just like always resting two daggers between the necks of England, that it was almost easy for the Ming Dynasty to seize the core area of England in one fell swoop.
Charles I thought that he could recapture the Ming control area in London by preemptively, but it backfired, so he could only abandon the city of London and evacuate in the direction of Scotland.
In the autumn of the 45th year of the Great Tomorrow, 200,000 Ming troops began to enter the city of London, and advanced from Manchester, Birmingham and other cities to the northern part of England.
Charles I organized a decisive battle with the Ming in Maringa, and the result was naturally a great victory for the Ming Dynasty, and England, which was not very broad, did not have enough strategic depth, so it naturally could not resist the attack of the Ming Dynasty.
By the time Zhu Youxiao set foot on English soil, Charles I had already been captured alive.
Zhu Youxiao was not very interested in seeing this English king, just as he was too lazy to see the French king Louis XIV, so he simply ordered his subordinates to shoot this person directly.
When the English Stuart dynasty fell, it meant that the whole of Western Europe had been occupied by the Ming Dynasty.
Next, the only ones that need to be pacified are the Rakshasa and the Ottomans.
For this reason, the Ministry of War also argued over whether to fight the Rakshasa or the Ottoman Empire first.
In the end, Zhu Youxiao decided to simply attack at the same time, advancing from north to south, and there was no need to be entangled in whether to fight the Ottomans or the Rakshasa country first, after all, this conquest of Western Europe left a large number of free labor and plundered a large number of raw materials and ore resources, it is better to increase the scale of the war.
Li Dingguo's Northern Front Group and an army of Jiao Lian's Division, as well as the troops in the Mobei area of China, formed a northward group, attacking the Rakshasa Kingdom in an east-west direction.
The Eastern Front Group, an army of Jiao Lian's Department and the Ming Navy formed a southward group, directly attacking the Ottoman Empire.
These two so-called worldly powers are powerless in front of the super empire of the Ming Dynasty, although large-scale wars can be organized, but because of the backwardness of weapons and equipment and combat ideas, no matter how many armies are just the stuffing of meat grinders.
In the forty-seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty had successively pacified the Ottoman and Rakshasa countries, and then in the forty-eighth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty marched into South Asia.
There are only some primitive tribes or indigenous peoples in the Americas and Africa.
However, Zhu Youxiao did not want to let go of the original land of the Americas, and immediately after the end of the Eurasian War, he sent an advance army across the Bering Strait to explore the Americas.
But now, Zhu Youxiao has no plans to move a large number of soldiers and civilians on a large scale to reclaim the Americas, after all, now that the war has just ended, the territory of the Ming Dynasty has expanded dramatically to double the size of the previous territory, which means that it will take longer to digest, especially to strictly eliminate these non-Han civilizations that have newly occupied hell.
From Greenland to the Cape of Good Hope, from the Bering Strait to Australia's Mount Corsiasco, two-thirds of the world's territory is controlled by the Ming Dynasty, which will be an unprecedented problem for the management of the empire.
At this time, many newly occupied places were almost only military districts, and no one even managed them, and the army only brutally slaughtered those in power, and then the local people were always in a state of disorder and lawlessness, and even if a million troops were put into various places, it could not achieve the effect of effectively managing no castle, and there was even a phenomenon that managed tens of thousands of square kilometers of land.
In addition, although the Ming Dynasty now has a telegraph, it is indeed difficult for the central court to manage such a large territory in communication, so it can only adopt the method of centralization and sub-feudal system, Zhu Youxiao originally wanted to directly adopt the vassal system, but helplessly found that although there are many capable people among the children of the royal family, it is not enough to let the Zhu family have full authority to manage the newly occupied area.
As a result, Zhu Youxiao still adopted the governor's responsibility system, dividing the area except for the Ming Dynasty itself, that is, from the Outer Khing'an Mountains to Java Island, according to the geographical demarcation, and the governor controlled the military and political power in the region.
The first to appoint the appointment were Zhu Youxiao's own heirs and other capable people in the royal family, and secondly, there were generals with administrative talents in the army or in the army, such as Zhu Youlang became the governor of Australia in the Ming Dynasty, and Li Dingguo became the governor of England.
After all, everyone can see that this is similar to the feudal town of the Tang Dynasty, and once the strength of a certain governor rises greatly, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no such thing as destroying the central dynasty.
Zhu Youxiao is also worried about this, no one can predict whether the political outcome many years later will be whether the Ming Dynasty will be replaced by these governors, but if he does not do this, what can he do, with the current administrative efficiency of the Ming Dynasty, he cannot rely on centralized management to occupy two-thirds of the land on the earth, and can only be managed in this way.
Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao has always firmly grasped that the power to appoint the governor is in the hands of the imperial court, and the power to mobilize the army and the power to appoint and dismiss generals are still controlled by the imperial court, but a separate public security force is established under the command of the governor, that is to say, the military power is still controlled by the imperial court.
Moreover, Zhu Youxiao also deliberately divided the major governors into a little more detail, and the main officials of the prefectures and counties in these regions also monopolized the power of one side like the governors, that is, it was equivalent to many small princes at all levels within a large vassal state, so as to further avoid the emergence of a strong power outside the Ming Dynasty in the future.
However, just as no one can predict how the situation will change in the future, just as human life cannot last long, the fate of the Ming Dynasty cannot last long, and there is no most effective policy in the world to keep the Ming Dynasty alive, and Zhu Youxiao can only do to let the Chinese civilization always unify the world, so he does not dare to hope that there will always be only one country in the world, but he believes that he can try to make the world have only one mainstream civilization.
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