Chapter 582: The Ming Empire Expands to the Ottoman Vicinity

After the occupation of Southeast Asia, the next places that need to be revisited are Uszang and Yili Rangli.

Nominally, Wusizang already belongs to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, although the actual control is no longer in the hands of the Ming court, but this area is a plateau with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, and the industrial utilization value is not large, even if there are mineral resources, it cannot be mined and transported.

Therefore, there is little need to carry out land reform and return to the river and develop industry.

However, this does not mean that this place is useless, but it is an extremely important place in a strategic location, it is the highland of the entire Asian belly, the south can overlook South Asia, and the north can control and force the li, even if the Ming Dynasty does not develop industry in this place where birds do not, they must garrison troops here, in case they go south or north in the future.

Different from the Tang Dynasty, this era of Wu Si Zang is not the Tubo of the year, under the Pudu of Buddhism, there is no expansion of the heart of the year, only a good Buddha chanting, the upper nobles are occupied by monks, since Wu Si Zang was attached to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court does not know how many Dharma King living Buddhas. Zhu You also did not plan to change the land here, after all, this area is not suitable for agricultural and industrial production except for highland barley.

Of course, from a military point of view, since the garrison must send troops.

Fortunately, more than ten years ago, that is, in the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, the Mongolian and Shuote Department entered Wusizang from Yili, occupied the Ming Dynasty originally located in Xining Siwei, and in the following days, took advantage of the opportunity of the Ming Dynasty to launch colonial wars abroad to ban smoking at home, and blatantly occupied the Wusizang region, so that it gave the Ming Dynasty a pretext to enter Wusizang.

Therefore, according to Zhu Youxiao's instructions, while the Ministry of Rites sent a commissioner to inform the king of Wusizang that he would send troops to eliminate the Tartars and garrison them for a long time to protect local security and help the local residents to build, the Ministry of War sent the second town of the Fourth Army from Lijiang Prefecture in Yunnan Province to Wusizang, and the troops were divided into two routes, one to Lhasa and the other to Xining Siwei.

Whether it is the Mongolian cavalry or the Usi-Tibetan native soldiers attached to the special department, it is naturally not the opponent of the Ming Army, and the real test of the Ming Army is the marching and stationing life in this polar environment, as well as the construction of transportation and other public facilities. In the future, there are still many places with harsh climate that need the Ming garrison, such as the islands in the Arctic Ocean, which are rich in resources, and it is natural to occupy them first when the belonging of this area is not clear.

Although the power of the steam chariot of the Ming Dynasty is not bad, but in the end it is still not as good as Wuling Hongguang, although the hole card is higher than the Ferrari, but there is no good constant temperature equipment, liquid water and steam gas can not resist the cold, so the chariot is not able to enter the Wusi Tibet, the cannon can not be transported because there is no 318 national highway, can only enter the Wusi Tibet with guns and small Ming mortars, but even so, after the difficult trek into the Tibetan area, it is still easy to defeat the Heshuo Special Department, and the direct garrison is successful.

In order to ensure the security of Wusizang, the Ming decided to rule the region directly, implementing the administrative method of local autonomy but appointment and dismissal by the central government, but the cultural and economic construction was led by the Ming army, the reason was to help the people of Wusizang get rid of poverty and become rich, so that they could have more energy to study Buddhism, of course, this is also a disguised cultural import.

For Yili Jiangli, it is also effortless, so far, except for this large area of Asia from the east of the Ottoman Empire to the west of Yili Jiangli, the rest of the region has become the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

A few years later, a war operation codenamed "Oriental Hurricane" turned this vast Asian hinterland into Ming territory, but it is said that in those years, not only the waters of the Caspian Sea but also the waters of the Persian Gulf turned red. In the fortieth year of the Apocalypse, when the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao was close to the age of sixteen, the super empire of the Ming Dynasty finally became a close neighbor with the countries of Europa, and the Ottoman Empire only then found that the ancient empire in the East was actually close at hand, and also began to be dissatisfied with some policies of this super empire.

However, the current Ming does not care what the Ottoman Empire and other countries in Europa think, as a super empire whose land area is the sum of several civilized countries in the world today, the Ming Dynasty now only thinks about how to better unify the world, and rule the world, and build a harmonious and beautiful new home on the earth.

Now, in the whole world, only the Ottoman Empire and Europa's Franco, England, France and other countries still have the strength to fight, but the Ming Dynasty does not have the energy to destroy them now.

After all, after the occupation of Asia, the area ruled by the Ming Dynasty has expanded too much, and it will take a long time to digest, because the Ming military methods are too ruthless, and these places are not the Han cultural circle areas like Southeast Asia, so there will always be local sporadic rebellions after the occupation.

The funds for maintaining stability have been increasing, and Zhu Youxiao can't directly use these two-legged laborers to refine oil, after all, in these years, the most valuable people are still people, so they can only try to maintain stability, try to establish a new civilized order, but implement the balance of blood thick rules.

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That's right, Zhu Youxiao is now close to his sixtieth year, but because he is well maintained and has nothing to worry about in the Ming Dynasty over the years, he still looks like he is only forty or fifty, his hair is still black and blue, and his teeth have not been loosened.

And Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cirong, the two princes, have already become adults, and Zhu Cijiong, the king of Zhao, has become the governor of the Caspian Sea, with full authority to manage the vast land along the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, and has become the new chief officer of the first army of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cirong has been in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Household for three years, and now he is hanging the errand of the Ministry of Officials, the secretary of the Ministry of Literature and Literature, such a real official position is held by the prince today, which is still unique in the Ming Dynasty, but everything has changed in these years, and the emperor said that the prince must be familiar with the practice, and the officials can only accept it.

Of course, today's Ming people can also understand, after all, the current emperor is no longer the one who only needs to accept the bows of the ministers and make a symbol of the etiquette of the Celestial Empire, although the emperor is not good at handling daily affairs, but the big affairs to be decided cover a wide range, and the need to understand all walks of life is also very wide, the previous emperor only needs to deal with the scholar class and the common people, and now the social status quo to deal with is much more complicated than before.

From officials to citizens to slave laborers, from the army to the local to the religion, from the native to the colony to the feudal area, there is not a single thing that is not complicated, there is not a day when there is no conflict, and sometimes even Zhu Youxiao is worried, can the Eastern civilization system really maintain the long-term existence of a super empire.