The reason why Zhu Youxiao dared to unscrupulously support the expansion of the Mongols was mainly because the military factory had developed no, tobacco, and huo medicines.

What does it mean to have this thing?

It means that it won't take long for Da Ming to invent a rifle with a range of thousands of meters, even if it is a bolt-type rifle, it can form a very terrifying combat effectiveness.

Of course, this kind of combat effectiveness is built on the basis of leadership, in the world of this era, the Europeans can't even make flintlock pistols, not to mention that once there is a real rifle, the result is naturally that it can sweep the world.

But as a civilized country, the Ming Dynasty has a bad reputation for aggression everywhere! Since this is the case, then simply rely on selling weapons and letting others help Daming to do such dirty work.

The Mongols had no industry, and no matter how much money and resources they grabbed, it would flow to the Ming in trade. At the same time, no matter how much land the Mongols occupied, once their reputation was discredited, it would be a righteous act for the Ming to strike at the Mongols.

In the future world, all nations will inevitably develop, and Zhu Youxiao naturally wants to consider the reputation of the Ming Dynasty.

But when taking into account fame, we can't ignore the existence of interests.

In short, people cannot go to extremes, and their reputation and interests cannot go to extremes, otherwise the result will be a pit.

In addition, allowing the Mongols to expand on the Eurasian continent can allow the Ming to save a lot of military spending, after all, if the Ming Dynasty fights everywhere, the military expenditure and the administrative expenses required after occupying a place are relatively large. At present, the development of the Ming Dynasty is mainly the marine economy, and the expansion of the inland areas of the Eurasian continent is actually a little more than enough but not enough.

If the site is too big. There are also many problems caused.

Wait until Daming's steam engine technology has reached a certain level. You can expand to Central Asia and other places. It became a neat roller like the later Tsarist Russia.

Therefore, it was in the interests of the Ming Dynasty to support the westward expansion of the Mongols.

At the same time, once the Mongols threatened the European countries, once Europe fought wars everywhere, the Ming Dynasty could also sell arms to the Europeans.

The Ming could also benefit the Ming by supporting the Europeans to expand around. Because the Europeans also did not start the industrial revolution in this era, and the Ming Dynasty had already begun the industrial revolution, as long as a large number of goods poured into Europe, it would be difficult for Europeans to complete the industrial revolution.

After all, the Ming Dynasty is a big country. And those countries in Europe are all big fart, once a big country like Daming has an industrial revolution, it is a superpower, and those Europeans rob more money, and the money will also flow to Daming through trade.

The biggest problem is trade.

Europeans are willing to trade with the Ming Dynasty, in the face of a country like the Ming Dynasty that carried out the industrial revolution, every sovereign country is basically unwilling to let the Ming Dynasty's goods drive straight in. will try their best to create some trade barriers.

In order to implement this strategy well, the first thing to ensure is trade.

The Mongols were easier to control. They don't have much industrial capacity, so they can only cooperate with Daming. The Europeans, on the other hand, still have industry, but they are more backward. Therefore, the premise of exporting arms to the Europeans was to break down their trade barriers, so that they could not complete the internal industrial revolution by plundering the outside.

At this time, the Europeans were colonizing the Americas, and the Ming Dynasty was also colonizing in the South Seas and Australia. This world is very large, and there are still a large number of colonies that have not been divided, and how to complete the colonization is the next test for the Ming Dynasty.

The means cannot be too rough, but too soft will not achieve the goal of colonial plunder.

As a traverser, Zhu Youxiao has a long-term view of the problem, and this vision obviously makes the ministers not understand it too much, mainly because they do not have a deep understanding of technological change and world change.

At this time, Daming science and technology research and development model has been on the right track, under the leadership of national forces, the same also formed a capital consortium can quickly apply technology to production, more Zhu by the school this traverser to guide the research and development route of science and technology, this is the pace of how many years ahead of the world?

A huge ambition has been born in Zhu Youxiao's heart, that is, to dominate the world.

Barbaric conquest is inevitably not sustainable, and the struggle for world domination also requires ways and means, and it must be able to maintain it for a long time. If it's just a glorious hegemon like ancient Rome and ancient Greece in Europe, it doesn't make much sense.

Anyway, now the Ming Dynasty is sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai and completing the industrial revolution first, it doesn't matter what the world is messing up into, as long as it is in the interests of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the national strength continues to increase, the technology is in the lead, and it is not easy to clean up those bandit gangs?

Moreover, there are these bandit gangs around the world as-stirring sticks, which can better set off the mildness of the Ming Dynasty's colonial methods.

The most important thing is that the frenzied use of force has too great an impact on the country and the people, and once the idea of getting something for nothing is frenzied, the atmosphere will also be damaged.

To put it bluntly, wealth is still created by creation.

It is possible to plunder abroad, but the method of directly grabbing money is not too advisable, so now in the process of foreign expansion, the Ming Dynasty has never let people sign an indemnity agreement like Westerners. Only in the areas to be occupied are the more backward natives captured, and then they are integrated into the civilization in the form of bonded labor.

The Ming Dynasty plundered the countries and races that had formed civilizations, mainly through trade. For example, for North Korea, Japan, and the countries of the Indochina Peninsula, they all export high value-added goods in exchange for labor and various raw materials from those countries.

In the process of such plunder, the use of force is to use as little force as possible.

The Ming Dynasty's use of force against Annan this time was mainly due to Zhu Youxiao's intention to recover Annan, which had been divided for too long, and at the same time, through this war, it was also a deterrent to those countries in the Indochina Peninsula.

After formulating a global strategy, Zhu Youxiao immediately asked the military factory to immediately start developing new rifles and new artillery.

The so-called new style is to use new fire and medicine.

Zhou Fuhai, who is responsible for the study of the stability of fire and medicine, has made a great breakthrough after more than a year of research.

As long as the safety production is completed, this kind of none, which is much more powerful than black powder, can be used in a large number of applications.

This progress made Zhu Youxiao very satisfied, and rewarded Zhou Fuhai. (To be continued.) )