In the Qianqing Palace of the Forbidden City, Zhu Youxiao was lying in front of a huge map at this time, which was the famous Kunyu Wanguo map, and the area that Zhu Youxiao was concerned about at this time happened to be North Asia, that is, the entire area from the Ural River and the east of the Greater Caucasus to the Bering Strait. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

According to Zhu Youxiao's plan, this time, the Ming Empire will no longer passively resist and expand like any previous Central Plains Dynasty waiting for the active invasion of foreign forces.

And this time, the Ming Dynasty wanted to take the initiative to attack the Rakshasa Kingdom before the Rakshasa Kingdom had exchanged troops with the Cossack cavalry due to the Praetorian Guards and launched an attack on the Ming Dynasty, and realize the most important step in the primitive accumulation and expansion of the imperial capital, and challenge the world power for the first time.

In the original history, the Huaxia Dynasty was a fat cow slaughtered at will under the knife of these empires, and at this moment, this giant bear in the north will become the most tempting prey in front of the Ming Empire.

Although most of the Rakshasa country is a cold land in Siberia, and production and life are not very convenient, but fortunately, the products are abundant, and the reserves of coal, iron ore, oil, natural gas and other resources are extremely rich.

This is undoubtedly a huge temptation for the Ming Dynasty, which has entered the era of steaming, after all, in the Ming Dynasty, resources are limited, and especially iron ore is too high due to the high sulfur content, resulting in the cost of refining good steel has always been high.

In addition, now also because of the large use of steam engines, the scale of domestic coal mining is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more large coal mines, many local officials have said that Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places have appeared for several days in a row are black fog-filled days, and even some officials claim that a large number of coal mining has damaged the foundation, and the tombs of countless emperors and generals have been affected, and even affected the dragon vein and destroyed feng shui and so on.

Considering that it is necessary to vigorously develop the steam industry of the Ming Dynasty and maintain the green mountains and clear waters of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the fact that the domestic resources can indeed be exploited in a hurry from a strategic level, Zhu Youxiao adopted the advice of most local officials, especially the relatively conservative local officials, stopped the mining of many coal mines, especially small coal mines, and issued a ban on mining on some famous mountains that so-called important dragon veins.

It is not that Zhu Youxiao is really ignorant and superstitious, but to avoid irreversible damage to the ecological environment in the Ming Dynasty due to industrial development, which is undoubtedly a huge disaster for a poetic country and nation, and it will cost a greater price to restore in the future. Rather than this, it is better to relocate these environmentally damaging and extensive factories and mines to the outside world in the first place.

In this way, a sparsely populated place like Siberia is undoubtedly a good choice.

In fact, by this time, Zhu Youxiao had ordered Jiao Lian's division of the Second Army of the Praetorian Guard to escort the explorers of the Royal Industries Company into Siberia in the name of pursuing the remnants of Lin Dan Khan, and found the Kuzbass coalfield in the Tom River valley in present-day Kemerovo Oblast, the second largest coal base of the polar bears in later generations, with tens of billions of tons of coal reserves, and the coal was of high quality and easy to mine because it was mostly open-pit coal.

Now, this coalfield has been officially occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and since the autumn of the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, a large amount of coal has been officially mined and transported back to the Ming Dynasty.

For this reason, Zhu Youxiao also specially named this coalfield Tianci coalfield, to show that this coalfield is given by God, not the Rakshasa country, although the Rakshasa country has now occupied this territory in a sense, but this does not prevent the Ming Dynasty from developing this treasure land.

In order to more conveniently transport a large amount of mineral resources from Siberia back to Daming, Zhu Youxiao also specially ordered the Ministry of Industry to plan to build a road between the Tianci coalfield and Lincheng in Siberia, and to prepare for the direct change to a railway in the future.

After a few months, not only in the area of the Tom River Basin in Siberia, but also in other parts of Siberia, other mining areas of the Ming Dynasty were established one after another, and not only coal mining, as long as the minerals that could be easily mined were almost eaten by the advance team of the Ming Dynasty one by one.

Every time the Ming Dynasty established a mining area in these places, a large number of military, government and company employees and workers would be stationed here, and residential areas and commercial areas would be directly established in these places, and some small market towns were gradually formed, which was also a way for the Ming Dynasty to gradually encroach on the Siberian territory of the Rakshasa Kingdom, just as polar bears later encroached on the Outer Xing'an Mountains.

However, the thick black smoke from the coal smelting base in the coal mining area still attracted the attention of the Rakshasa country, at first these Rakshasa people thought that there was a forest fire, and hurriedly ran over, but they did not expect that a large amount of open space had been reclaimed between these jungles, and so many fortresses and houses had been built.

This made the army of the Rakshasa Kingdom, which was also armed and expanding to the east, very shocked and annoyed, although they knew that there was a powerful Ming Empire in the east and would be an opponent that they had to pay attention to in the process of expansion, but they did not expect to meet these Orientals in this hinterland, which was already considered their own hinterland.

"That's right, they are all from the Ming Kingdom!" As a Cossack cavalryman who had been brought back from the battle in the Outer Khingan Mountains, he was particularly impressed by these Ming people, and his hatred was naturally very deep, and he still remembers the scene when his own brother was burned to death by these Ming people's incendiary bombs.

"Then what are you waiting for, order to go down, directly outflank the past, wipe out all these hateful Ming people, dare to enter the territory of my Rakshasa country without authorization, and also destroy the forests of the Rakshasa country, build camps without permission, and mine ores! It's simply the dignity of the Rakshasa country! ”

As he spoke, the leader of the Rakshasa Cossack cavalry raised his saber and rushed towards this side, while the cavalry behind him also hurriedly followed, and the sound of horses' hooves sounded in the entire sparse taiga forest in an instant, and the whole forest was shaken by falling leaves.

Seeing this, the sentry standing on the high platform immediately beat the huge drum, and in an instant, the sound of the drum resounded throughout the forest.

"The enemy is coming! Fight now! ”

The Praetorian Guard soldiers who were taking a lunch break in the camp immediately rushed over in full armor, and directly flew over the factory and mining area, and as soon as they saw that these long-haired cavalry had rushed into the mine belt, Jiao Lian shouted first: "Pull!" ”

In an instant, countless mines drawn by a long line exploded violently from the shallow soil, and these long-haired cavalrymen were suddenly blown up on their backs, and their speed couldn't help but stagnate.

The cavalry of the Praetorian Guard hurriedly took advantage of this to jump directly over and shoot at these Cossack cavalry in teams.

The cavalry of the Praetorian Guard has long used rifled cavalry guns, the shooting accuracy has been greatly improved, the initial velocity has also increased a lot, and the penetration power can be enhanced a lot, and these Cossack cavalry who still rely on bows and arrows or sabers to fight are naturally not opponents, and before they can face each other, most of these Cossack cavalry who rushed over were defeated.

The greatest advantage of the Cossack cavalry was their speed and sharpness, but at this time their gallop speed was obviously not as fast as the speed of the Janissary muskets, so when they charged the Janissaries, they only fell in batches like cut wheat.

However, the Praetorian Guards did not dare to directly abandon the industrial mining area and pursue these Cossack cavalry who retreated immediately after receiving partial losses, after all, this was outside the country, although the Ming Janissaries were fierce but not many in number, if there were other Cossack cavalry taking advantage of the Janissaries to pursue the remnants of the enemy and sneak attack the mining area, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Therefore, Jiao Lian of the Praetorian Guard can only try to keep these mining areas that contain huge wealth first, and as for the arrogance of pursuing the remnants of the enemy and further attacking the Rakshasa Country, it can only be considered in the long run, and it will only be possible when Zhu Youxiao mobilizes a large army to conquer the Rakshasa Country again.

As expected by Jiao Lian and other Praetorian Guard officers, the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa Kingdom, under the command of its leader, really took advantage of the mobility of its cavalry and chose to attack the mining area of the Ming Dynasty.

There is no suspense that these Cossack cavalry were once again beaten back.

As a result, the Cossack cavalry in the region had no choice but to withdraw and inform the administrative officials of the Siberian Federation, who knew that they could not drive out the Ming army with the current force, and sent a message to Tsar Mikhail I, hoping that the founder of the Romanov dynasty would quickly mobilize more troops to drive away the Ming army, and at the same time sent an envoy to negotiate with these people in the Ming country, and the current Romanov dynasty is the first dynasty of Tsar Mikhail, which was at the height of its national power. The officials of Siberia, who were newly attached to Tsarist Russia, had reason to believe that the Ming army would be deterred by the national threat of their Rakshasa state.

However, what these Siberian Rakshasa officials would not have expected was that just as they were about to send an envoy to negotiate with Jiao Lian, the news of the Rakshasa Kingdom's brazen attack on the Ming mining area in Siberia had already been brought back to the capital by Jinyi Guards at an expedited speed of 800 miles.

After hearing the news, Zhu Youxiao immediately summoned Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang, the heads of the military department, and prepared to immediately discuss the plan to attack Zhuwen and launch a war against the Rakshasa Kingdom.

The Rakshasa Kingdom is a closed "Qing Dynasty" at this time, and when he naively thought that his national prestige could make the Ming Dynasty fearful, he didn't know how long the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao waited for such a war excuse to launch a colonial war against the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Soon, Zhu Youxiao ordered Lu Xiangsheng to prepare a crusade against the text, the main purpose is that the Ming Dynasty territory inherited the Yuan (in order to reasonably occupy the vast north, the historical view of the Ming court has also changed), and Siberia's Daur and Evenki were originally the people of the Ming Dynasty, and now the Rakshasa country is just a country of projectiles in the west, but when the Ming Dynasty has no time to take care of Siberia, it invaded Siberia and killed the local people such as Daur and Evenki in Siberia.

However, the Ming thought that the war was not conducive to the exchanges between the two countries, so it was forbearance and patience, allowing the two sides to put aside the dispute and develop together, but unexpectedly, the army of his country brazenly attacked the mining area of the Ming Dynasty, and attacked the civilians of the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect the people and accept the local exploited serfs, specially mobilized 100,000 troops to crusade against the Rakshasa country, if your country realizes its mistake, it should immediately surrender, not deductible, and cede more than 70 cities such as Tomkx in Siberia to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will stop the war!

As soon as the text came out, Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered the military department to dispatch the army and organize the supply of money and food.

At this time, the officials of the Rakshasa Kingdom in Siberia thought that these people of the Ming Kingdom were just making a small fuss and mining minerals in their own territory, deliberately provoking, and they did not think that there would be a big war.

As a result, they did not make any preparations for the war.

Qi Changguo and Jiao Lian, the two Praetorian Guards who had earlier entered the Siberian mine protection mission, had been directly ordered to capture the two important strongholds of the Rakshasa Kingdom in Siberia, Tomix and Yurga.

Qi Changguo's Praetorian Guard is a special force composed of light chariots and rifles, well-equipped, and the grassroots soldiers are all top soldiers drawn from various armies, with strong combat effectiveness and strong comprehensive quality.

Jiao Lian's 3rd Cavalry Brigade participated in the bitter battles of the Cossack cavalry in Outer Northeast Asia in the early years, and had rich experience in fighting the cavalry, so it only took a few days to quickly intersperse near Yurga.

It turned out that after the Rakshasa Kingdom expanded eastward and occupied Siberia, on the one hand, it forced the local residents to register as citizens of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and on the other hand, it built a large number of cities and strongholds, and Tomix and Yurga are two of the important points, and they are also transportation hubs.

At the same time, other armies also began to march to the Rakshasa country from the three directions of Mobei, Monan, and Liaodong, and Zhu Youxiao's order to them was "Drink the Ural River!" ”

However, at this time, the Tsar of the Rakshasa State, Mikhail I, and the officials he appointed to govern Siberia did not realize that there was a super-empire in the far east that had reached out to him.

The officials of Siberia in the Rakshasa Kingdom still thought that the minerals of the Ming people were just trying to make a fortune, and they did not realize that the Ming Dynasty had plans to directly swallow him in Siberia.

Therefore, these Siberian officials of the Rakshasa State still allowed his Cossack elite to continue to expand, and did not gather troops to prepare for the Ming attack.

It wasn't until Qi Changguo's special forces had climbed the city wall and used them to re-shoot and repel many long-haired ghosts, that these officials of the Rakshasa Kingdom in Siberia realized that a great war seemed to be coming.

But after a loud bang, the city gate was directly knocked open by the chariot, and a large number of Praetorian Guards had already rushed into Tomx, at this time, these administrative officials of the Rakshasa Kingdom surrendered, and some even ran away.

However, Zhu Youxiao did not know if the mere occupation of a Tomxes would arouse the alarm of the Rakshasa Kingdom, so Zhu Youxiao still ordered the Praetorian Guards to expand the results of the battle until the Rakshasa Kingdom fully agreed to cede the land to the Ming Dynasty.