Chapter 155: Beginning the Next Legend
The so-called West Sea refers to the Mediterranean Sea.
When Qiang Han opened the Western Regions, he didn't think that this was a lake when he saw the blue sea, that is, Qinghai Lake, and directly thought that it was the sea, the West Sea in the far west.
Later, the Han and Tang dynasties continued to expand westward, and after seeing the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea, the name of the West Sea also moved westward.
When the Turks were beaten away, they rushed all the way west to the sea, and the name of the Western Sea fell on the head of the Mediterranean.
From Middle-earth to there, it's thousands of miles away.
Li Yunze did not urge Zhu Gaosui and gave him enough time to think about it.
After all, far away from the familiar homeland, it is not a trivial matter to take the whole family west.
Li Yunze is still busy with the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and there are countless things of all kinds.
If he hadn't been rearming and training his soldiers to stock up on a large amount of supplies, the civilian officials would have believed that he had changed his temperament and didn't like to fight.
Naturally, the war still has to be fought, and Li Yunze is just making preparations before the expedition.
He didn't want to be on the way to the expedition when he received news of internal chaos.
After careful consideration, Zhu Gaosui finally agreed to Li Yunze's suggestion and chose to take his whole family and relatives to the distant West Sea.
The relatives mentioned here are naturally not clans, but the families of the fathers-in-law.
Coupled with heavy bounties and immigrants who wanted hundreds of acres of land to start and divide their fields, they set off to the far west with the fleets that kept going back and forth.
After sending Zhu Gaosui away, Li Yunze immediately ordered the complete recovery of the military power of the palaces everywhere, and gave them the opportunity to choose a distant place out of the town.
It was made clear that there was no need for vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty, and all vassal kings must be in distant places.
Some of them recognized early, and Li Yunze arranged for them to go to Nanyang.
If you don't want to grind and chirp, then directly arrange to go to Australia and various large islands.
After arranging the clan, Li Yunze began to strengthen the suppression of the ministers.
Jin Yiwei continues to expand again and again. Moreover, he also set up the East Factory and the West Factory to strengthen the ability of intelligence monitoring.
As for all kinds of opposition voices or something, Li Yunze will care about this?
With the popularization of compulsory education, many new era scholars with the name of protégés of the Son of Heaven have begun to emerge.
Most of them could not enter the court to be the rulers, but they were assigned to various yamen, clerks, and even government officials, tax collectors, and so on.
Not long after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, before the places had time to solidify, Li Yunze continued to replace the filth everywhere with fresh blood.
And there is no more such thing as hereditary.
Everyone has to go to school, pass the exams and go everywhere.
The biggest criterion is that you must not be in your own country.
As for those who are outstanding, they continue to enter the court and local yamen, and little by little they compress and encroach on the power of civil officials.
The knowledge monopolized by the civil servants is broken, and this is the inevitable result.
Those children of poor families who were once unworthy of being the people in the eyes of civil officials have changed their fate by going to school.
There are all kinds of repetitions.
The civil servants fought back against the gentry behind them, and the newcomers who came out of school failed to resist the temptation.
These are all trivial matters, and they don't matter.
Li Yunze was extremely ruthless, with Jinyiwei and the East and West No. 2 Factory, he dug up the carrion directly, anyway, there are so many people waiting for the substitute in the back.
The entire ecology of Daming has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Li Yunze didn't dare to say how good he was, but at least he had done his best.
In order to avoid the recurrence of the cluster of civil officials and gentry who killed the Ming Dynasty and the people in the late Ming Dynasty, he tried his best to suppress it. BIquGe.biz
In these days, there are naturally actions against him.
For example, when I was sick, the decoction sent by the hospital contained chronic poisons.
There is also Warat, which has integrated the power of the grassland in the north, and has received material and intelligence support from unknown sources, and continues to harass the Ming Dynasty in the south.
For these, Li Yunze has never been merciful.
With the continuous weakening of the gentry's power, Li Yunze finally proposed to abolish the tax exemption for scholars and promote the gentry to pay food as a whole.
Facing the civil officials and gentry who chanted 'This is the ancestral teaching', Li Yunze wrote them down in a small notebook, and then cleaned them up directly.
Then, there was no then, and no one dared to oppose it anymore.
The Tartar knife is sharp, and my knife is not disadvantaged!
Finally, after gradually pressing the gentry who only cared about their own interests and did not care about their family and country into the sewer, Li Yunze finally started the military operation.
After a long period of preparation, Li Yunze had extremely sufficient material reserves in his hands.
All kinds of bad habits in the army have also been swept away.
After a long period of rigorous training, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, which was well supplied and fully paid, had already been greatly enhanced.
In addition, the use of troops in the south has come to an end, and even the Spice Islands and the Australian mainland have been included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, Li Yunze could finally move troops.
In August of the ninth year of Xuande, Li Yunze supervised the country as the crown prince, and Yu Qian assisted in the management of state affairs.
He himself personally led an army of 500,000 and a larger number of people out of the customs to the north to conquer Mobei.
Everyone thought that this was a military operation similar to Zhu Di, just to fight Warat.
But in fact, Li Yunze wants to fight all the way to the West Sea!
When the army came out of the fortress, the choice of the Warats was no different from that of the previous Tatars, they all avoided it in an all-round way, and tried to attack the logistics line of the Ming army.
But what they don't know is that the Ming army is no longer the Ming army of Zhu Di's period.
With the bumper harvest of soybeans year after year, the Ming army, which has a large amount of high-quality feed, has been able to support a large and very elite cavalry corps.
After this cavalry corps came out of the fortress, it didn't wait for the infantry at all, but under the personal leadership of Li Yunze, it went straight to the royal court of the Warat people.
Under the large-scale reconnaissance of drones, the so-called avoidance of the warats is a joke.
In the crisp autumn season, when the horses were fat and the grass was long, the terrifying Ming cavalry group suddenly killed near the royal court of the Warat people, and completely destroyed the main force of the Warat people in a battle.
Even Ye Xian couldn't escape, and was directly beheaded in his own royal court.
After that, the army divided up and began to sweep the tribes everywhere.
The Han herdsmen, who had been mobilized early, took over the pastures, cattle and sheep of various tribes, and began to multiply in this vast grassland.
The Ming army, which had achieved a brilliant victory, did not return to the dynasty with this division.
Even if the victory they achieved was enough to leave a strong mark in the history books, Li Yunze waved his army to the west and directly attacked the Western Regions.
As early as the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains had gradually lost the Western Regions.
Even the Hehuang Kaibian in the Northern Song Dynasty has passed hundreds of years.
Until this time, Li Yunze finally took the Han family's iron cavalry and regained the Western Regions again.
There is no doubt that this must be a glorious victory that will go down in the history books.
But Li Yunze still has no class teacher to return to the dynasty.
He mobilized the people and some of the sergeants, stationed them in various places in the Western Regions, set up a prefecture and a county, and spent a small year making local arrangements.
After that, it was already a small army that had been thinned and half of the army, crossing the plateau and entering the two rivers.
The people and some sergeants were left behind again, and immigrants migrated from the customs to settle down. Then he turned south and rushed directly into India.
With the cooperation of the fleet, it did not take much time and effort to successfully take this rich land.
After all, the local combat effectiveness is really not worth mentioning.
It is still the previous operation, leaving the minfu sergeant and moving the people from the pass.
After that, he took less than half of the remaining soldiers and horses, reflexively returned to Lianghe, and then followed the route that the Mongols had taken, all the way west and then west.
After a long battle, they finally came to the edge of the West Sea.
Looking at the blank sea in front of him, Li Yunze's heart was full of emotion.
Finally, it's finally here.
He met Zhu Gaosui on the seashore who was waiting to greet him here.
The uncle and nephew sat on the beach and drank freely, reminiscing about the eventful old days.
talked about Zhu Gaoxu again, saying that his current life is very good, and the fleet has sent nearly a million migrants to the past, sweeping the entire land.
The locals didn't even know how to smelt iron, and when they saw the Ming army with iron armor and firearms, they were all shocked.
And Zhu Gaoxu believed that the locals were all descendants of merchants, and he built a big business there.
After that, Li Yunze went to see the dug Zhenxi Canal.
Seeing the ships constantly passing through the canal, Li Yunze completely let go of his worries.
He can be regarded as completely changing the fate of the Ming Dynasty in this world.
If he continues to follow the steps he set, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably eat up the dividends of the Age of Discovery, and raise the Sun, Moon and Dragon Banner all over the world.
The territory is expanding, the population is increasing rapidly, and the level of science and technology is changing with each passing day.
The most important thing is that he completely broke up and crushed the civil gentry who destroyed the world and sucked away his backbone.
Standing on the shore of the West Sea, Li Yunze looked up to the sky and roared.
"I tried my best!!"
There is no doubt that he did his best.
After helping Zhu Gaosui sweep around, Li Yunze once again left a large number of civilian soldiers and returned to the court by the same route.
Clean up all the way and stabilize the situation. All the way back slowly.
By the time he returned to his loyal Suncheonfu, this miraculous expedition would finally come to an end.
Most of the 500,000 troops and millions of people who went out on the expedition have been settled in the steppes, the Western Regions, the Two Rivers, India and the Western Sea.
They are seeds, and as more and more immigrants migrate, the Ming Dynasty in a hundred years will be described as great.
As an emperor, he has done enough for the Ming Dynasty, and he has done it well enough.
It is completely worthy of the hard-earned money of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
After the process of worshiping the imperial tomb, offering victory in the Taimiao, etc., Li Yunze's heart was empty.
Now that everything needs to be done is done, what's next?
Do you have to recharge your batteries for a few more years, and then go on another expedition, this time directly to Europa?
Li Yunze, who was empty in his heart, called softly.
"System?"
'Yes, yes. The system understands his mind very well, and he appears again, "You did a great job, Da Ming can be proud of you." ’
'You can now end your journey to this world and start the next legend! ’
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