Western calendar, 1685, early morning of February 27, Constantinople.

By the time the melodious bells of Hagia Sophia rang, the melee in Constantinople had come to an end, and the whole city was now as silent as death, so that the not loud bells could float over the whole city in the early morning when the smoke had not yet cleared.

The once bustling streets are now mostly devastated after seven days of street fighting in the city. There were traces of smoke and fire everywhere, corpses and walls that had been beaten like honeycombs. Some forcibly mobilized Fanars, Armenians, and Jews were carrying corpses under the supervision of Rakshasa soldiers and going from house to house breaking down the closed doors of their houses to drive out the shivering Tianfang inhabitants inside.

The fate that awaits the city's former ruling people, certainly not merciless killings, but relatively mild expulsions. This is not because of how benevolent Chang Ning, Ba Hai, and Guanyin are to protect them, but because of the optimal solution after careful calculation.

There are hundreds of thousands of Celestial cultists in the city, mostly women, children and the elderly, who are the families of Chenieri officers and soldiers of the Ottoman Turkish Empire's "Baoyi ethnic group" and Chenieri bureaucrats.

Killing them all may relieve their anger. But it is very irrational, because it will completely anger the Chenieri fighters of the Sultan, and by the way, they will return to the state of "the barracks as their home, the Sultan as their father", it is better to expel them. But instead of crossing the strait and bombarding Asia Minor, they were driven westward to join the Sultan's army, which had withdrawn from the Vienna front.

In this way, the mourning teacher, who was eager to return to the division to avenge his family, suddenly became a "benevolent and righteous teacher" who "marched with the people". It was impossible for Mehmed IV to ignore these dependents who had escaped from Constantiniye, he had to settle them properly before considering a counterattack on Constantinier.

With such a delay, the Rakshasa Kingdom will have a chance to gain a foothold in Constantinople.

Because the "recovery" of Constantinople by the Rakshasa would certainly cause unrest in the Balkans, and the Holy Roman Empire and Poland would also be inspired by the success of the Rakshasas! Therefore, they will definitely try to slam the Ottoman Turkish Empire, this reservoir dog. If Mehmed IV could not immediately organize a major counteroffensive to retake Constantinople, he would have been entangled in the reaction of the Catholic and Orthodox princes of the HRE, Poland, and the Balkans who had been forced to submit to the Ottoman Empire.

With such entanglement, it is uncertain whether Mehmed IV will return to Adrianople alive (near Constantinople, which was also the capital of the Ottoman Empire). Even if his life is big, if he can escape from the hands of HRE, Poland and other countries, he will definitely be greatly injured.

At that time, the Rakshasa Kingdom's position in Constantinople will be stabilized, not only can it firmly control the city of Constantinople, but also take the territory on both sides of the Bosphorus, so as to open up the communication between Constantinople and the Black Sea. In this way, Junbao will really take it!

With the territory of Constantinople, the Aixin Jueluo family can also have a small piece of land to settle down, although this territory looks similar to the last years of the Eastern Roman Empire that was about to end in history, but only in such a precarious situation can the Aixin Jueluo family actually control Junbao.

Otherwise, the tsar of the Rakshasa Kingdom should come to the throne and become the emperor of the Roman Empire

Standing on the wall of the Second Military Gate of Constantinople, looking at the groups of Heavenly Cultists below, dragging their children and daughters, helping the old and the young, and being expelled from this castle that was easy to defend and difficult to attack to the extreme, Chang Ning sighed, then turned his head to look at the east again, and muttered: "Third brother, have you seen it?" My second brother and I have finally laid a piece of ground for the Aixin Jueluo family in the West! In the future, when my second brother and I gain a firm foothold in Constantinople, we will also bring the Manchurian children who are scattered all over the world, especially the people from the Aixin Jueluo family, and the family should be together."

Thinking of this, he turned his head to Bahai beside him and said, "Bahai, send someone to deliver a letter to my second brother and my sister-in-law, telling them that the Roman eagle flag has fluttered over Hagia Sophia!" ”

In the winter of the twelfth year of the Ming Republic, Nanjing, the General's Mansion.

When the news of the "Constantinople Incident" came back to the Ming Dynasty, Li Zhongshan had returned to Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, for several months, and it had been two full years since the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition was victorious.

Two years may seem like a short time, but for General Li Yat-sen, who wants to heal the "wounds of war" between the Yellow and Huai (control the overflowing Yellow River) and digest the fruits of the victory of the last Northern Expedition, including Shandong, Shanxi, Beizhili, Liaodong, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Southern Mongolia, eastern and central Henan, etc., and wants to prepare for the next round of the Western Expedition, it is really too short. Almost in the blink of an eye, two years have passed!

Fortunately, in the past two years, General Li has also accomplished a lot of things.

First of all, with his support, Jin Fu, the governor of the river, finally brought the flooded Yellow River under control, and the water of the Yellow River once again "obediently" flowed into the sea and was never returned.

Secondly, Li Yat-sen successfully presided over the "republican reform" of eight northern provinces in Beijing: Shandong Province, Shanxi Province, Beizhili Province, Liaodong Province, Jilin Province, Heilongjiang Province, Monan Province, and Henan Province!

The main contents of the reform are: 1. The establishment of governors' offices with great powers in these eight provinces, the establishment of provincial people's councils, and the governors and provincial people's councils to appoint the following state and county officials.

2. Beginning to take stock of the land and population of the eight provinces, and in accordance with the "Tianchao Tianmu System," the "Measures for Equalizing and Limiting Farmland in the Eight Northern Provinces" have been drawn up, and the method has also begun to be implemented on a trial basis in a small number of counties that have already completed the clearing of fields and household surveys.

3. Appoint the countrymen and scholars from the eight northern provinces, and select local officials from among them—the methods of selection are mainly examinations, conscriptions, inspections, and so on.

Fourth, part of the wasteland and confiscated "reverse property" in the eight northern provinces should be distributed to the meritorious officials of the Ming Dynasty - the meritorious officials of the Ming Dynasty, including Li Yat-sen himself, should be given the corresponding lord and lord land according to the size of the merit. However, the southeastern provinces controlled by the Ming Dynasty were relatively narrow and populated, so only the middle and lower classes of meritorious soldiers who had no land and little land were allocated land, and the upper class or the middle-class meritorious men who already owned more land did not get enough land.

This time, I won the eight northern provinces with few people and wide land, and I can finally cash in the Lord Zhuangjue Field! In addition, 800,000 people participated in this Northern Expedition, and after a battle, there were more than 400,000 more Chinese people alone! So many Chinese people have divided their fields!

Don't underestimate this wave of land division, this must be divided, and the Ming Dynasty will have a foothold in the eight northern provinces!

The third major event that Li Yat-sen has accomplished in the past two years is to preside over the "Beijing Peace Conference." The Beijing Peace Conference was divided into two parts, the Peace Conference with Japan and the Peace Conference with Britain and the Netherlands, of which the Peace Conference with Japan was the "Eight Articles with Japan", which determined the "principle of limited interference" in Japan's internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty - that is, to intervene, but not to intervene deeply, to ensure that there was a confrontation between the Kyoto Imperial Court and the Edo Shogunate in Japan, as well as the division of the princes.

And for the Anglo-Dutch Peace Conference, it is to fight and talk at the same time!

After the Battle of Da Nang, the Spanish Armada lost the ability to continue to compete with the Ming in the western Pacific and had to retreat to the Indian Ocean.

Subsequently, due to the Ottoman Turkish Empire's march to Vienna and the recovery of southern New Spain by the Aztec Republic, Spain had to withdraw from the war, and asked France, the Ming Dynasty, and the Aztec Republic to make peace, and recognized the occupation of California and other northern regions of New Spain by the "Western American Empire" supported by the Ming Dynasty, and also recognized the Aztec recovery of southern New Spain, and also recognized the recovery of the Ming Dynasty to Spain's Philippine colony!

Negotiations with the Netherlands and England (which now share a leader) were carried out at the same time as the Ming Dynasty's strategy for the Dutch East Indies and Malacca!

After the Spanish Armada (in fact, the Anglo-Dutch combined fleet) suffered a heavy loss, the Dutch East India Company was no longer able to fight against the Ming in the Western Pacific, and had to abandon the Spice Islands, Batavia and Malacca strongholds in early 1685, withdraw to Ceylon, and go all out to manage the Indian Ocean!

Due to the withdrawal of the Dutch East India Company from the South Seas region, there was no irreconcilable contradiction between the Ming Dynasty and the British and Dutch.

After all, Li Yat-sen had little interest in enslaving the Indian people - his Ming Dynasty did not need the Indian market at all, as long as there was gold and silver in the New World and Oceania, the Ming Dynasty would have a large enough market.

India's population is simply dispensable.

Of course, even if he wanted to take India now, he didn't have that much spare power...... If Wu Yingqi is interested in India, he will be happy to see it.

And in order to promote Wu Yingqi's westward development, Li Yat-sen's fourth major attack in the past two years was to prepare for a westward expedition aimed at unifying China!

Although when the Ming Dynasty won the Northern Expedition, Li Yat-sen had reached a tacit understanding with Wu Yingqi - the Ming Dynasty marched westward, Wu Zhou moved westward, and at the same time, Wu Zhou left a group of noble children as surrender factions, and the Ming Dynasty would give them the title of marquis and uncle, and let them "go ashore".

But this is just a tacit understanding, Wu Yingqi verbally agreed very well, but when it really comes to the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ming Dynasty, whether he will change his mind and try to resist the heavenly soldiers, no one seems to know.

Therefore, Li Zhongshan is still ready to fight in the northwest.

However, in the past two years, Wu Yingqi has indeed been preparing to run away, first of all, he has sealed a large number of princes in Shaanxi and Gansu - this is to "divide the family" for the people below, leave a part, go a part, and don't suffer anywhere!

At the same time, in the name of crusading against the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he conquered the land in the river on a large scale! He also ate the Taiping Valley and Tianjing City, which Kangxi had painstakingly managed.

He also brought out the remnants of the Qing Dynasty from Shanxi, Beijing, and Shangjing to the river and filled the Taiping Valley.

It is said that there are now more than 2 million remnants of the Central Plains and the remnants of the Western Regions (Sima Yi Khan's people) in the river...... It accounts for almost one-third of the population of all ethnic groups in the river and the Mughal grassland.

If we can move a little more, it is possible that the immigrants from the Central Plains and the Western Regions will account for half of the population of the Hezhong and Mughal grasslands!

At that time, Wu Zhou will probably be able to occupy several million square kilometers of land in Central Asia.

I'm afraid that a bunch of stans is about to turn into a big Western Zhou!

Seeing that Wu Yingqi was running very actively, Li Zhongshan planned to "help" him a few more times!

On the one hand, through the Mongolian East India Trading Company, it issued loans to Wu Yingqi's Great Zhou to provide armaments; On the other hand, they are actively preparing for a western expedition with the participation of 400,000 people!

At the very least, one million migrants will have to be sent to the river......

Just as preparations for the Western Expedition were about to be completed, news of the occupation of Constantinople by Fuquan and Chang Ning.

This is a bit of a surprise...... They can run so well!

And the number of gases is not exhausted......

"Could it be that the qi of this Qing Dynasty was brought to the Rakshasa Kingdom by Fuquan and Chang Ning?" Li Zhongshan took over the reports sent by Jia Guozhu, the Ming ambassador to various European countries, from Yao Qisheng, and after reading it, he couldn't help but mumble in a low voice.

"General," Yao Qisheng, the head of the Jinyi Guard, said with a smile, "how many more qi can there be in this Qing Dynasty?"

The so-called luck of Hu Wu for a hundred years...... It has been more than 50 years since the Qing Dynasty was reformed from Huang Taiji to become the emperor, and it is almost over. ”

Almost?

Li Zhongshan looked at the old man Yao Qisheng, and said in his heart: If it weren't for me, you would still be a slave of the Qing Dynasty!

This Yao Qisheng is now the title of the county duke!

When he comes back from the west with Li Yat-sen (he will serve as the military advisor of the Western Expedition), he will be able to do the whole country!

"Xi Zhi," Li Zhongshan pulled his mind back again, "Is the summary of the Western Expedition plan ready?" ”

"Alright, it's all already." Yao Qisheng said, "Do you want to enter the palace now?" ”

The Western Expedition is a great expedition of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the success or failure is directly related to the unification of the world!

According to Li Zhongshan's plan, in this westward expedition, the Ming Dynasty will fight westward until the banks of the Ili River!

It is necessary not only to recover Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou and western Henan, but also to recover the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and the snowy plateau!

Therefore, the scale of the troops sent is very large, and the time for using them is also very long.

And after this great campaign, the territory of the Ming Dynasty was basically established.

There should be no large-scale conquests for a long time to come.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to this western expedition. Not only the General's Palace, Shangshu Province, and the National People's Council made this matter a top priority.

Even Zhu Cijiong, who ruled by the arch, was very concerned about this matter, and sent someone to invite Li Zhongshan into the palace every once in a while to inquire about the progress.

"Let's go!" Li Zhongshan nodded, "Bring Jia Guozhu's report with you...... This is also a strange thing, the emperor stays in the palace all day, and it is quite boring, so it is good to let him know a little about the outside world. ”

"It's still the general's thoughtfulness." Yao Qisheng replied with a smile, "General, wait until this battle is over...... The world should be peaceful, right? ”

Li Zhongshan turned his head, set his eyes on a globe in his capital hall, looked at it for a while, and then pointed to the globe and said, "Xizhi, that is the real world!"

Even if we can successfully complete the strategy of the Western Expedition, we will only take down half of the Divine Continent. How dare you say that the world is peaceful? This world ...... In another 100 years, I'm afraid it won't be too peaceful! ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly stood up from his chair and beckoned to Yao Qisheng: "Let's go...... Let's enter the palace together and talk to Emperor Zhu about how to divide the world after the victory of the Western Expedition......"

(End of chapter)