Andrei moved his finger to the other side of the map and explained: "Your Majesty, to the west of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is the Greater Lithuanian region in the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, even if the people and nobles here have a lot of careful thoughts about the Polish King and the Council of Sem, compared to Hong Tiancheng, who robbed the wealth of the nobles of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom and trampled on their wives and daughters, there is no doubt that the military nobles of Lithuania will resolutely resist the attack of the Taiping Army."

In fact, according to our information, after the defeat of their king in the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, the military aristocracy of Lithuania had reached an agreement with the Polish Council of Sem to unanimously oppose the Taipings, and even the Grand Duke Janusz Rajvier, who had been trying to separate Lithuania, and the head of the Lithuanian aristocracy with the most powerful Lithuania in Lithuania, took the initiative to send messengers to Krakow to discuss the matter of jointly fighting against the Taipings.

It is clear that the Lithuanians' hatred and fear of the unruly Taiping Army is far higher than their expectations of independence.

As for the southern part of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it was once the native region of Greater Poland, which was the area with the strongest foundation of Polish rule, where the great Polish aristocracy had a broad base of mass support, and there was a lot of cooperation between the military aristocracy, and it has always been the largest source of taxes and soldiers in the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.

If the Taiping army attacks there, the victory of the Taiping army is the collapse of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and the Taiping army is defeated and becomes a lost dog, with the background of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they can't afford a decisive defeat, and the Taiping army belongs to outsiders after all.

Whether it is the disintegration of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom or the rise and fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is a good thing for our Russian Empire, as long as the Poles fall, there will be only one enemy left in Eastern Europe, the Kingdom of Sweden will be left as an enemy, and it is absolutely in the interests of our Great Russian Empire to let the unpopular Taiping Heavenly Kingdom replace the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom.

It is foreseeable that Hong Tiancheng's religious-style military-political rule will forever fall into the brink of civil war and the quagmire of non-stop foreign wars, such an opponent is much weaker than the current Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and our Russian Empire can even enter Poland as a liberator, gain the hearts and minds of the people there, and expand the true meaning of the glory of His Majesty the Tsar to Central Europe! ”

When Tsar Mikhailovich heard this, he suddenly asked an abrupt question: "In case the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has defeated all the enemies, won't it directly border our Russian Empire and thus become our greatest enemy?" ”

Andrei was slightly stunned, blinked his eyes and smiled: "Your Majesty, I admit that the situation you said does exist, however, including our Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Duchy of Moldova, the Crimean Khanate and even the Ottoman Turkish Empire are all around the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom waiting to take advantage.

Your Majesty, do you think that these ambitious rulers of the country would watch Hong Tiancheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom really sweep the history of the Poles into the dust?

If Hong Tiancheng can really create a miracle, we will usher in a gluttonous meal, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which has no aristocratic foundation and popular base, can only be reduced to a delicacy on the table of the surrounding powers after overthrowing the rule of the Poles, and no one can stand alone against the power of half of Europe!

No one!!! ”

Andrei emphasized with unusually firmness.

Tsar Mikhailovich, who stayed at the level of 'amateur expertise' in history and military affairs, questioned: "However, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire almost did it." ”

"No, Your Majesty the Tsar, the Ottoman Turkish Empire has always faced only the power of the Holy Roman Empire and the Poles, as the most powerful Kingdom of France and Spain in Western Europe, it has always shouted and picked up bargains with the mentality of watching the excitement, even our Russian Empire, how much strength did it exert in resisting the Ottoman attack?

After all, even if Vienna was taken by the Ottomans, there would be no loss to our Russian Empire, and the fall of the Byzantine Empire was also driven by our ancestors.

Even the Ottomans, at their strongest, had not defeated the Crusaders of the Middle Ages, not to mention that the current Ottoman Turkish Empire had begun to decline, and the Ottoman armies that had reached Vienna were firmly kept out by the Holy Roman Empire alone.

Obviously, a single Holy Roman Empire is not enough to represent half of Europe's power, and the contradictions within the Habsburg Empire are too numerous to mention, and even the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which straddles three continents in Europe, Asia and Africa, has not been able to shake half of Europe, let alone Hong Tiancheng, who was born in a mud.

After all, Europe is a white Europe, and now is not the great era of the Mongol conquest of the west, the time has come when the Spaniards can conquer an empire with only a few hundred people, and the white Europeans will surely become the rulers of the world, and our future competitors will only be the same white countries, not the Mongols who are gradually left behind by us.

Your Majesty, the fall of the Siberian Khanate is ironclad evidence, how much military power did our Russian Empire use when it destroyed the Siberian Khanate?

The legacy of the Mongols, except for the Crimean Khanate, which has become the leg of the Ottoman dogs, has fallen under the guns of our great Russian Empire, since Columbus discovered the New World, the oceans are full of ocean-going fleets of white countries, what we need to do is to go as far south and west as possible, step into the Western European powers that are plundering the world's wealth and gradually expand, and replace them, and the enemies in other directions will only be eclipsed over time, and the gap with us will widen. ”

Andrei's eyes shone with dazzling brilliance, and he mastered almost all the intelligence system of the Russian Empire, the more he knew, the more confident he naturally became in the current general trend of the world, and the arrogant and lascivious decadent dynasty of the Kingdom of Spain could become one of the hegemons of Western Europe by virtue of overseas plunder, not to mention the Russian Empire, which was striving to govern the country?

As Andrei said, the direction of the Russian Empire's offensive is always to the south and west, and the expansion of the east is nothing more than the casual act of the Russian double-headed eagle and its natural greed for land, and no one cares to take away some territory that does not need to be obtained with great difficulty, even if it seems to satisfy vanity on the map.

"Very good, Andre, you have convinced me again, you go down and prepare, we need to convene a military meeting of all the imperial fronts to concretely establish the strategic issues of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."

"It is my honor to obey orders and serve Your Majesty!"