War is like this, especially the labor expedition, even more so, if you want not to die, it is impossible, from ancient times to the present, no matter which Central Plains Dynasty launched an expedition, it will pay a huge price, the consumption of national strength is second, the unfamiliar climate and geographical environment, will bring a huge threat to the soldiers living in the Central Plains, there may not be many people killed in the war, but there are definitely not a few who die of disease, this is the ruthlessness of nature.

20,000 cavalry expeditions to the Rakshasa country, none of these people have ever been to that barren land, it is too far, there are too many unknowns, even if they are as wise as Zhu Jie and as wise as Xu Yifan, they are all scratching their heads.

"Big brother, you let the two of us go on an expedition, and you want to go back to the capital, then, what about Mobei and Monan?"

Song Jiaxing asked.

The three major overseers have all run away, and there is not even a single person in this Mongolian desert who is in the array......

"You can rest assured that you will go on the expedition, Du Rui, before the imperial court decrees that you will come down, as the deputy governor of the Chinese army, you will be in charge of the military affairs of Monan and Mobei, and the border guards will be rectified in the Naturalization Mansion, and Lei Haoting, the chief soldier of the third town, will assist Du Rui in acting for the military affairs of the border guards! You select 5,000 elite cavalry from the south and north of the desert, and personally follow Jiaxing and Mufeng! ”

Just the preparation before the expedition, Xu Yifan prepared for more than ten days, 20,000 troops, grain and grass, ammunition, weapons, and army reorganization, all of which are indispensable, on the contrary, the elite cavalry of the three towns are all elite soldiers, but there is no need to worry about the lack of backbone elite strength in the army.

Everything is ready, the army under the leadership of Song Jiaxing and Qin Mufeng, swore to go on an expedition to Kazan, Xu Yifan made up his mind, this battle must be fought, and the Rakshasa country must be beaten to the bone's heart!

20,000 cavalry out of the division, Xu Yifan did not stay in Mobei for long, after all, there are still many affairs in the court, he is not in the capital, basically the affairs of the military department are to be personally asked by the emperor, who was used to being the shopkeeper, to deal with these redundant affairs, must be annoyed to death.

In the capital, Zhu Jie is not as unbearable as Xu Yifan imagined, without Xu Yifan, he will not be tired to death, after all, now the Ministry of War has been under the management of Xu Yifan for many years, and each has its own responsibilities, and some people under the redundancy can be dealt with, and besides, although Sun Chuanting and Xu Yifan are not in Beijing, there are still people in the capital, Gao Jie is also a generation of famous generals, Li Yan is even more civil and military all-rounder, and he has also acted as the secretary of the military department for a long time. Zhu Jie assigned all the affairs that could be assigned to two people, and he once again became the shopkeeper.

It's not that Zhu Jie hides in the Forbidden City every day to eat idle meals, but he needs to concentrate his energy on other things, such as education, science and technology, and industry and commerce!

Now it is different from the past, under the promotion of the imperial court, there are more and more private schools, more and more colleges are being built by the Ministry of Education, and the colleges prepared by the people are also springing up like mushrooms after a rain, blooming everywhere, although some good and bad are uneven, but there is better than nothing, at least give people the opportunity to receive education.

In three years, a pile of scientific discoveries and inventions appeared in the Ming Empire, which can be said to promote the national strength of the Ming Empire to run all the way forward, which is science and education.

There is something even more unexpected for Zhu Jie, that is, Yanhuang Company, when Xiongwu Hou and others were trading with the outside world, they naturally came into contact with more and more information from the outside world, in the far east, across the Pacific Ocean, there was a continent with an area wider than the Ming Empire, where gold and silver were everywhere, and there were treasures and wealth.

Wealth is moving!

This time, it was not the Ming Empire that made a move, but the businessmen did it themselves, Yanhuang Company took the lead, and even united more than a dozen big businessmen, from the offshore fleet to come to ten warships, plus hundreds of retired soldiers, twenty large merchant ships, for ocean exploration, this operation, Yanhuang Company alone invested at least 100,000 taels of silver, purchased the latest nautical charts from the foreigners, and went to the American continent!

The news reached Zhu Jie's ears, Zhu Jie kept rubbing his temples, this Xiongwu Hou, his courage is getting bigger and bigger, he went on an ocean expedition, dispatched more than 2,000 people in one go, and he really dared to do it, this is not to go deep into the South Sea, or the Indian Ocean, but to cross the entire Pacific Ocean, the distance is more than 30,000 miles, there are few areas that can replenish fresh water and food on the way, even if there are islands, most of them are desert islands!

However, Yanhuang Company and the big businessmen of the people can't wait, and they must be moved to action, and they can't let all the benefits be taken away by Westerners! By the time Zhu Jie got the news, the caravan had already set off, and Zhu Jie had to set off from Tianjin Wei by warship on the world map he drew by hand, rushed to Dongying, and sent it to the caravan.

Although there are still some differences between the world map drawn by Zhu Jie and the real world, after all, in three hundred years, there are still some changes in the coastlines around the world, and the vicissitudes of life can only be better than nothing, but in the end, it can provide a lot of help, at least according to Zhu Jie's map to explore, know where there are people, where is the most dangerous, and the navigation route cannot be provided, but the direction is still no problem.

However, after this incident, Zhu Jie also knew that participating in the snatching of the world's colonies and taking a share of the Westerners needed to be put on the agenda, although compared to the West, the Ming Empire was too far away from the American continent, but the national strength of the Ming Empire was also incomparable to that of Western countries, far from being comparable, even if the entire Western Union was together, this year, the comprehensive national strength may not be stronger than the Ming Empire.

Zhu Jie kept turning the globe he made in the palace, thinking about how to start in the future, where to start, and what strategic places need to be in his own hands, such as the Gulf of Mexico, such as the central plains of the Americas, such as the East Coast, and the great plains of South America, there are really a lot of good things in the Americas, and now the population is sparse, and the colonial occupation of the West has just begun, and there are still large areas of land that have not been occupied, and what if the affairs are occupied? It's a big deal!

Of course, grab it, then there must be a strong enough naval fleet as the backing, the era of sea power, is coming soon, the navy, is the Ming Empire to become the peak of the empire is the most critical, the army can only dominate the land, only the navy can navigate the world!

(End of chapter)