Chapter 459: The Great War Begins: A Generation Has a Generation's Mission (2)

The Great Yuan, the Great Zhao, the Great Shang, the Great Sui, and the Great Wei established a new system in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, West Asia, and Central Asia, called the Eurasian Community with a Shared Future.

At the same time, it is absorbing African countries and entering the Eurasian and African community with a shared future.

African countries are ready to move, after all, they give a lot.

However, the countries of Oceania and North and South America participated in the Shanghai Conference, which was regarded as reopening the market to the Ming Dynasty.

The main reason is that these countries have no intersection with the Ming Dynasty, and there will never be a possibility of war.

Unlike Eurasian countries, these countries are too close to the Ming Dynasty, just look at the Ming Dynasty's fight against India this time, you will know that if you are so close to the Ming Dynasty, you will either consume the Ming Dynasty or become the slaves of the Ming Dynasty.

Africa is pure and pure, and milk is a mother.

Europe co-opts them and needs to give benefits.

Daming has to win them over and give benefits.

Anyway, neither side of us can be offended, and both sides make money.

Zhu Jianyu used the war to open up the situation, alleviated the pressure of domestic public opinion and the financial crisis, and at the same time resolved the diplomatic dispute to a certain extent, and saved the Ming Dynasty's position as the world hegemon in time.

In fact, in today's world, the Ming Dynasty is too large, but it is controlled everywhere, let's fight the feudal states, and the other feudal states will deviate from morality, don't fight, these feudal states are becoming more and more excessive.

Far inferior to those small countries, they have the opportunity to surpass the Ming Dynasty and develop slowly.

Da Ming is a live target, standing here.

They wanted to maintain the vassal system, but the vassal kingdom did not agree.

If you don't maintain it, the vassal country kicked its nose and face, and had to tear off a piece of meat from Daming.

Zhu Jianyu flashed his sword in time.

It defeated the arrogance of the feudal state, and at the same time alleviated the food crisis, so that the Ming Dynasty could survive the financial crisis safely.

In the twelfth year of Chenghua, the economy of Daming is improving.

The Great Depression era has survived.

And the Ming Dynasty's fiscal deficit figures have also become huge.

Because, maintaining the false prosperity under the Great Depression requires the imperial court to spend money to maintain, although the imperial court did not directly send money to the people, in fact, it is equivalent to giving money.

In order to avoid starving to death, the imperial court also restricted the supply of food.

The past two years have also been interesting.

In addition to the lack of food, there are many other things that are frightening, all kinds of goods, colorful clothes, everywhere.

The price of goods has plummeted, and it is extremely cheap.

As long as you spend money, you can buy anything, except food.

However, the supply of grain is restricted, and every household receives grain and oil with their household registration book.

Grain is the lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty, in order to crack down on hoarding, so it is taken into public ownership, purchased by the imperial court and distributed uniformly.

In order to stabilize grain prices, the imperial court subsidized it with real money.

It is true that people starved to death, almost rarely, and there was no great famine.

From the ninth year of Chenghua to the end of the eleventh year of Chenghua, a total of three years, the average person lost 20 pounds, and there was no fat man in the whole world.

Because if there is a fat person, it will be reported.

Where did the fat man come from without food, he must have hidden food privately.

If you don't feed the animals to eat meat, you will definitely not go hungry, and every household can eat enough, and it is only limited to eating enough, and eating well must not even think about it.

In the ninth year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianyu took the lead in eating vegetarianism, and the Shangshi Bureau and Guanglu Temple were not allowed to eat meat, mainly marine fish.

In addition to raising necessary war horses, the Ming rarely saw living animals, because the Ming Dynasty banned grazing, and from the ninth year of Chenghua, it was forbidden to graze, and animal husbandry was not allowed.

In the name of protecting the ecology, in fact, I am worried that the powerful will take advantage of their positions to get meat for themselves.

Prohibition of grazing and support for sea fishing.

In the past two years, sea fishing has become the hottest industry.

The sea fish that no one wanted in the past few years are now on the dinner tables of people all over the world, and the sea fish in the Meitai region have been put on the table of Daming.

Relying on the sea fish, Daming spent the most difficult three years.

Reclamation projects are speeding up because of food shortages, and all coastal cities are reclaiming the sea, and arable land is urgently needed to grow food.

In the thirteenth year of Chenghua, Bohai Province was officially reclaimed successfully.

From Jingtai to Chenghua, the per capita height fell by 0.1 cm.

Because nutrition can't keep up.

In the past, Daming was free to eat meat, pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, fish, eat as you like, seafood was free in coastal areas, and the price in inland areas was relatively expensive, but it was also affordable.

Suddenly, after three years of hard life, in the eleventh year of Chenghua, Indian grain appeared in the country, and every household was frantically stockpiling grain.

Grain control has just been lifted for a month, and the state of semi-control has been restored, and grain purchases have been restricted again.

No matter how noisy and noisy the people are, food restrictions just dare not be relaxed.

The three-year ban on grazing has also begun to be lifted gradually, but very slowly.

It was not until the 14th year of Chenghua that grain was finally removed from control and the market economy was restored.

Because in the thirteenth year of Chenghua, a major event occurred, the Great Sui Emperor Zhu Jianxi died, the sons of the Great Sui seized the heir, and the country fell into chaos.

Leads to the Eurasian quadrangular politics, one less corner.

The adjacent country of Iraq began to encroach on the territory of the Sui State, leading to chaos in West Asia and a further shortage of oil.

In the same year, the Emperor of Iraq, Zhu Youyu, ascended the throne and announced the change of Iraq to Persia and the establishment of the Persian Empire.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Wei Guo announced his ascension to the throne as emperor and changed the name of the country to the Babylonian Empire.

War in West Asia.

On the contrary, it gave Daming a chance to breathe, the most troublesome thing for Daming now is not oil, but a serious shortage of food, the entire Western world is like a box, put Daming in a frame, especially the United States does not supply food to Daming, but the main problem is in the West.

West Asia is in chaos, and the western defense line of the Ming Dynasty can be relaxed for a short time.

Draw forces and take control of the northern part of South Asia, the area south of the Hindu Kush Mountains.

This is the most important grain road in the Ming Dynasty, and it is precisely because of the war in West Asia that West Asia has no time to interfere with the grain route in the east, so as to ensure the safety of the grain route.

Although the whole of South Asia itself has a population of 1.6 billion, there is still enough grain to export to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in the fourteenth year of Chenghua, the Ming Dynasty lifted the control of grain.

Bohai Province has been successfully reclaimed, and another province has been added to its cultivated land.

In the same year, the Yenisei River diversion project was successful, turning the Tashkent Desert into a huge above-ground freshwater lake.

In the five provinces of the Western Regions, there are many lakes dotted around.

The drought problem in the northwest has been greatly alleviated.

In the next 10 years, the five provinces in the Western Regions will increase a lot of arable land.

The plan to raise the Qinghai Plateau has been carried out for 24 years, and it is expected that Chenghua will be successfully completed in 20 years.

Just wait for the climate to get warmer.

However, the issue of food security is still the biggest national policy of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu saw that he made a holy decree that he must hold the grain bag in his own hands, and the problem of food security is a problem that the Ming Dynasty must solve.

The coastal provinces of the country must speed up the reclamation of the sea.

It is imperative to expand cultivated land, improve planting technology, and innovate planting methods.

To solve the food problem, the energy problem is in front of us.

Daming is not an oil-poor country.

However, the old emperor had a strict decree at that time not to exploit the oil of his own country for the time being, that is, not to exploit our own and leave it to future generations.

Spend money to buy foreign oil, and the energy initiative will always be in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

This plan is very good.

But the vassal states were not fools either.

In the early days, in order to obtain Daming's technology and build quickly, he was willing to sell energy to Daming.

Now, the era of barbaric development has passed, and everyone has hardened their wings, and they all want to challenge the Ming Dynasty's clan system and establish themselves as kings.

Naturally, he is reluctant to sell energy to Daming.

And with the first Great Depression, countries have torn their faces with Daming, and after the Shanghai Conference, everyone also hid their hearts and refused to export energy to Daming on a large scale.

Daming once fell into an energy shortage.

Zhu Jianyu had to make an order to exploit domestic oil mines.

In the past ten years, Daming has used its own energy mines.

With the gradual isolation of countries in the world and their own systems, the various continents and regions are becoming more and more closely connected, and a wave of de-globalization has emerged.

Da Ming is already in the world, gradually isolated.

In front of the Ming court, there are only two paths: first, self-sufficiency, with its own energy and minerals, arm itself; Second, waging war against energy countries and using the method of military conquest.

What Zhu Jianyu used was to sow discord between the vassal states, so that the vassal states would fight each other, and the Ming fishermen would benefit.

He is too familiar with Eastern Europe and West Asia.

What kind of character is King Sui, it is estimated that he knows more than Emperor Shizu, especially the few unconscious people in King Sui's family, he knows too well.

Back then, he predicted that as soon as King Sui died, there would inevitably be sons who would seize the heir.

Sure enough.

As soon as Emperor Zhu of Sui saw that Xi was dead, his sons raised an army to fight.

If he provokes the defense of the country and the country of Iraq to take advantage of the fire, West Asia will naturally be in chaos.

Wei Guo transformed into the Babylonian Empire, and Iraq transformed into the Persian Empire, and the center approved it.

The Ming Dynasty wants to befriend these two countries, dismember the Great Sui, and at least make the Great Sui no longer the foundation of the Great Empire.

At the same time, access to oil from the West Asian region.

The military-strategic islands laid out by Emperor Shizu in the Persian Gulf played a decisive role.

Zhu Jianyu appeared in West Asia as a mediator to mediate relations between countries, and at this time, the Shang Emperor was also sending people to mediate the relations between countries.

What can be given by the business country, the Ming Dynasty can give.

What Shang Guo can't give, so can Daming.

At the same time, the Shang State could not threaten these two countries, but the Ming could.

Zhu Jianyu deployed heavy troops on the strategic island, put on a posture of picking the fruits of victory, and forced all countries to agree to the Ming Dynasty's adjustment.

But will Da Ming really mediate?

Only a fool would mediate.

It's good for them to break the dog's brain, and the more they fight, the more they benefit.

Da Ming not only did not mediate, but also frantically sold them weapons and supported them to fight.

At the same time, hold the strategic island and regain control of the Persian Gulf.

The import and export of oil must be approved by the Ming Dynasty.

Even though these energies may not be able to enter the pocket of the Ming Dynasty, the status of the Ming Yuan as the world's currency can be regarded as preserved.

Guaranteeing the world currency of the Ming and Yuan dynasties is the core political goal of this separatist struggle.

This is also Zhu Jianxi's strategic layout for doing this.

In recent years, Daming has been relieved from the financial crisis and restored seventy percent of the economic level before the crisis.

By the fifteenth year of Chenghua, the Indian states began to seek to free themselves from the control of the Ming Dynasty.

In Dhaka, the province of Bangladesh, the Dhaka Conference was held.

Zhu Jianyu must control India in the palm of his hand.

He showed that the Ming did not covet Indian territory and had the right to protect the Indian states by nature.

It must be ensured that the Indian states, forever vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, will always be unshakable; Always use the big next year, use the Ming Yuan, unshakable.

The Ming Dynasty was an enlightened suzerainty and allowed the vassal states to trade freely, but the Ming had the right of first refusal to purchase all goods from the South Asian countries.

In return for the same economy, South Asian countries have the right of first refusal to purchase goods exported by the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, during the Dhaka peace talks, the Ming Dynasty signed a new agreement with the South Asian countries, and in the sixteenth year of Chenghua, the Ming withdrew its troops from South Asia.

This is Zhu Jianxi's political wisdom.

He doesn't want the territory of South Asia, he wants a right of first refusal.

Actually, a play on words was played.

South Asia has the right of first refusal to buy Daming goods, Mao Yong does not, because whoever sells Daming is selling, and South Asia's purchasing power for Daming goods is not so great.

Like the Qin and Jin dynasties, both countries already have a complete industrial base.

Xu Guo already has the name of a factory in South Asia, and his dependence on general goods of the Ming Dynasty is not high, but the degree of dependence on luxury goods of the Ming Dynasty is relatively high.

On the contrary, the food of South Asia is indispensable for the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty had to rely on food from South Asia in order to maintain its governance.

But don't forget, the countries of South Asia are defeated.

As a victorious country, Zhu Jianyu could ask for more things, but Zhu Jianyu didn't, he showed the mind and courage of the suzerain, and also showed the tolerance of the head of the clan.

In the fifteenth year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianyu was already the only person in the clan who saw the characters and fruits.

Zhu Qiyu has forty-one sons, and he is still alive.

When the South Asian War is won, he only needs a right of first refusal, and that's it.

There is no inch to be gained.

That's political wisdom.

Zhu Jianyu wants to ask for it, and if he can ask for it, the South Asian countries will definitely give it, but this will only deepen the hatred of the South Asian countries towards the Ming Dynasty.

Don't forget, the emperor is the same clan, and the people are compatriots.

The old emperor's inheritance can be clearly written, the people of the world are eligible to share his inheritance, and the old emperor can pretend to be the people of the world in his heart.

If Zhu Jianyu asks for war reparations.

The people of South Asia will be separated from Germany.

Don't forget, the Ming Dynasty is the suzerain, the world hegemon, and the world hegemon must have the heart and courage to be the leader.

We should not only look at the immediate interests, but also take a long-term view, and lay out the world pattern for the next few hundred years.

Really.

The successful passage of a series of treaties in the Dhaka peace talks has aroused cheers among the people of South Asia, and the people's perception of the suzerainty has gradually risen.

In the sixteenth year of Chenghua, the Ming Dynasty placed the largest grain orders for South Asian countries, and the price given was better than the market price.

Zhu Jianyu obviously won the battle, but he didn't pay any compensation, but gave benefits to South Asian countries, which made it clear that he was buying people's hearts.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Jianyu was too old, others would suspect that Zhu Jianyu coveted the land of South Asia.

But it is also understandable that Daming is too short of food.

The population of 5.3 billion is all mouths, and they can eat no amount of food.

It's too hard to feed such a huge empire.

In the seventeenth year of Chenghua, Guixu Province was formally established, becoming a nail wedged into South Asia and Central Asia.

In the same year, the imperial court announced that the construction of the railway from Guixu to Beijing was expected to be successful in 15 years.

The main purpose is to control South Asia!

The Ming Dynasty must not lose South Asia, without South Asia would have to starve, this is a strategic issue, it is a national policy.

Wei, the overlord of Central Asia, was the first to raise his dissatisfaction.

It is believed that the Ming Dynasty is suspected of annexing the territory of other countries.

The Hindu Kush Mountains can be said to be under the control of the Ming Dynasty, and should not belong to the Ming Dynasty in legal theory, believing that this is the common property of all countries, and the Ming Emperor stole the common property as his own property, which is really a shame for the face of the international family.

The European life body supported the Wei state.

The Ming Dynasty wants to take it back, the permafrost of the Wei State on the east bank of the Ob River, which was given to the Wei State during the Jingtai period, and now the Ming Dynasty wants to take it back.

If you don't agree with us to set up Guixu Province, then we will take back the territory that we have given you.

This can make the new Wei Emperor angry, this is obviously given to his father by his grandfather, you are too picky to be an uncle, right? Is this going back?

The old Wei Emperor Zhu Jianjun died in the fourteenth year of Chenghua, and was succeeded by his second son Zhu Youhuan.

After Zhu Youhuan ascended the throne, he imprisoned his cousin.

He is the third.

Because of the early death of his eldest son, according to the succession, he should inherit the throne, but his brother is quite virtuous and famous, and he is more favored by his father.

Wei also made a good show of winning the heir, and in the end Zhu Youhuan won, Zhu Jianjun just died, so he found a gimmick and imprisoned his eldest brother.

Zhu Youhuan had just ascended the throne and officially needed to establish power, but at this time, Zhu Jianyu asked for frozen soil, and he definitely disagreed.

In the middle of the seventeenth year of Chenghua, the Ming Dynasty declared war on the Wei State.

Zhu Jianyu once again drove the expedition.

The timing he chose was very good, if his brother Zhu Jianjun was still alive, he wouldn't dare to declare war so casually.

And after Zhu Jianjun died, Zhu Youhuan imprisoned his brother, and his political prestige reached its lowest point.

With a precedent, no one dares to look down on Zhu Jianjun, Zhu Youhuan can stand out among Zhu Jianjun's many sons, he is definitely not a fool, he immediately asked for help from Shangguo.

Zhu Youchang sent an army of 100,000 to help the Wei State.

Dayuan Zhu Youzhu sent 60,000 troops to the Wei State.

Zhu Jianyu's personal expedition this time has great hopes in China.

Moreover, the uncle against the nephew is also the biggest attraction.

Uncle and nephew of Daming are feuds, as we all know.

From Taizong and Emperor Jianwen, Xuanzong and King Han, Shizu and King Xiang, the hatred of uncles and nephews has continued to this generation, Zhu Jianyu to Zhu Youhuan, so wonderful.

It has become the greatest joy of Daming.

Zhu Jianyu is seventy-nine years old this year, and he is the longest-lived one of his generation, and he will definitely be able to deal with his nephew.

Moreover, against the war against Wei, he began to plan as early as the eleventh year of Chenghua.

It's just that the time wasn't ripe at the time.

He is the sharpest sword in the world, and he needs to fulfill his responsibilities before he dies, and all the neighbors around him are afraid.

At this point, he finally understood the meaning of his father's hard work.

Finally understood.

His father lived hard, not to survive on his own, but to help him move forward.

Now, he is also helping his son to move forward.

His son Zhu Youjun has the ability, but in his eyes, he is still relatively mediocre, and he has to help his son stabilize the country while he is alive.

War, he will fight!

It would be good for my son to be a master of success.

And Zhu Jianjun's cunning also reflects one point, he doesn't have a hard time with the twentieth, because the twentieth Zhu Jianjun is not easy to deal with.

His father commented: Among my sons, the best is the fourth, and the second is the twentieth.

When he was in Shangguo, he never competed with Lao 20.

But he has watched the old twenty fight, and he is absolutely the top handsome.

He is old and refined, and he is unwilling to fight hard, after all, he does not dare to gamble with the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty, but when the throne of Wei is in the hands of his nephew, he is not afraid.

He can call Zhu Youhuan Dad, Dad is a bit cheap, let's call it Sibo.

The war lasted only three months.

The defense line of the Ebi River of Wei fell for thousands of miles, and Zhu Jianyu personally led a large army to go deep into Wei and attack the capital of Wei.

He was all too familiar with it.

He's been to all of these places.

Even if the current Shang Emperor is Zhu Youchang, he is far less familiar with the Shang State than him, whether it is the Shang State or the Wei State, he has walked through every inch of rivers and mountains.

In September of the seventeenth year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianyu was stationed in the capital of Wei.

The Wei State closed the city gates and did not dare to open the door to face the battle.

And Zhu saw that he was encircling the point to help, and he knew that Shang Guo would definitely come to help.

In the sixty-fifth year of Jingtai, Zhu Youyu changed from the grandson to the vassal king, retired to the Shang country, and still had huge ambitions for the throne, he must be very unwilling, he will definitely come.

Zhu Jianyu is not in a hurry at all, the older he gets, the more stable he becomes.

Now I finally understand, why does his father always say that the minister is stable, and the minister can't accept new things, but he is very good at dealing with these government affairs.

He was now, with his eyes closed, the whole battlefield in his mind, and he could bring a war to life.

If it were placed in ancient wars, he would have suffered at this age.

Because in ancient times, the commander of the war wanted to be near the battlefield, and when the soldiers were close to each other, the commander had to rush forward, or when he ran for his life, the old man's physical strength would definitely not be able to keep up.

Not now.

He sits in the command room, everything depends on the telephone, he only needs to command, not to mention that he is seventy-nine, even if he is one hundred and nine, his head is not confused, he can command the war.

Finally, in the spring of the eighteenth year of Chenghua.

The merchant army appeared.

Zhu Youyu wanted to use a winter to break the will of the Ming army.

As a result, he still miscalculated, and under the command of Zhu Jianyu, the will of the Ming army did not collapse, but became more and more courageous.

It also played away as a home game.

The people of the nearby villages are not afraid of war here at all, and they even go here to sell things, and some people even marry their daughters to the Ming soldiers.

The Ming army was in the capital of the Great Shang Kingdom, like a fish in water.

The main reason is that the people in this vicinity are all descendants of the expeditionary force, and their ancestors also came in this way, they have heard their grandparents and grandfathers tell these stories since they were children, and their ears have heard calluses, so they are naturally not strangers.

Moreover, the military discipline under Zhu Jianxi's rule was good, and the military discipline of the Ming army was originally very good, because the military salary was sufficient and the subsidies were much more.

Military discipline is strict, and once discovered, severe punishment will not be granted.

There's no need to grab it, just spend money to buy it.

Therefore, the Ming army forcibly turned the capital of Wei into its home turf, as if it was the capital of the Ming Kingdom.

The merchant army was stunned.

There's another one, the time is uncertain

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