Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 876 The Most Concerned Thing

The information Hong Chengchou received and the situation he analyzed were indeed correct.

At this time, the emperor of Tsarist Russia was Alexei Mikhailovich, the emperor who wanted to be.After the famous Khmelnytsky uprising in history, when it was about to be suppressed by Poland, Khmelnytsky thought of Tsarist Russia, wanted to embrace Tsarist Russia's thigh, and asked the Tsar to agree to Zabarozhye as the center Eastern Ukraine merged into Russian territory.

Of course Alexey was happy with this, and started negotiations with Poland for this, but the talks collapsed.Therefore, Alexei led the army to personally conquer, and began to attack Poland in May.

In Tsarist Russia, after the tsar led the army, Father Nikon, the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, became the actual power holder.As soon as he came to power, he immediately began to implement church reforms.The main direction of the reform is to reform the various rules and regulations of the Orthodox Church of the Holy See in Moscow according to the Byzantine method, and to unify the religious activities of churches in various places.

The Old Liturgy opposed the reform and broke away from the Moscow Orthodox Church.As a result, Patriarch Nikon began a large-scale persecution of these people, tried and executed the leaders of the Old Rites.But the believers of the old manners still did not obey Nikon. They fled from Moscow to various places to avoid persecution.

Of course, at this time, some things have not happened, or are happening.But one thing is certain, that is, Tsar Alexei is leading the army and fighting Poland in full swing.

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Hong Chengchou was very moved by this. In order to ensure the success of the westward march, he once again sent a large number of nights to the west to inquire about the news.At the same time, preparations for war began.

Regarding Hong Chengchou's situation, although Emperor Chongzhen was already on his way back to the capital, he grasped the situation immediately by eavesdropping on the seeds.

As he explained before leaving, as long as there is a chance, he doesn't mind Hong Chengchou acting immediately.

It was just the capture of the Caucasus. Emperor Chongzhen believed that this matter was not difficult for Hong Chengchou.However, the most difficult thing is whether Hong Chengchou can successfully block Tsarist Russia's counterattack after capturing the Caucasus region. This is the key.

As the Emperor Chongzhen who traveled through later generations, he certainly knew that Tsarist Russia was very difficult to fight in history. Including Napoleon and Germany, the most important reason why they failed to attack Tsarist Russia was the severe cold.

Therefore, after Emperor Chongzhen knew that Hong Chengchou had a plan to fight, he immediately ordered Shaanxi and Sichuan to sew a full set of military uniforms under severe cold. Choose from the clan to go to reinforcements.After all, as far as today is concerned, the most cold-resistant Ming soldiers are the Mongolian soldiers.

In addition, although Emperor Chongzhen had not been in the capital for almost three years, he knew the domestic affairs clearly, and he also had a clear grasp of the situation in America as far away.

As far as the Americas are concerned, Sun Chuanting drove away the remnants of Jianlu from the very beginning to expand the scope of the Ming army's strength, and recruited local Indians for his own use.However, after about half a year of this situation, Anders of Portugal finally couldn't bear it anymore and kept nagging all day long. In addition, at this time, the sphere of influence of the Ming army was already very large, and there was not enough manpower for further expansion, so he had to start He gave up chasing and killing the remnants of Jianlu, and turned to rectify the soldiers and horses. After training the Indians for a while, the army went south.

In fact, there were less than 1 Spaniards in the Gulf of Mexico. The Indians were led by more than 2 Ming troops. With the cooperation of the Portuguese, they quickly defeated the Spanish in Mexico.

To Sun Chuanting's surprise, he even found Ming people in the area ruled by the Spaniards.Although not too many, it is a good complement to his shortage of local manpower.

But after the coalition forces of Ming and Portugal drove the Spaniards from Mexico into the sea, they were a little helpless, because both the warships of Ming and Portugal were on the west coast of America.In the Gulf of Mexico, the Spanish warships were docked. With the help of the maneuvering of the warships, they counterattacked several times, which also caused some losses to the scattered coalition forces.

Therefore, in the end, Sun Chuanting led the troops to retreat dozens of kilometers from the coastline and abandoned these places, which is a bit similar to the strategy of blocking the sea area on the Ming side.Then, concentrate your forces and start fighting south along the land.

However, because the Ming army has divided troops to occupy the Mexican side, there are only more than [-] troops going south.On the Spanish side, troops were deployed from all over the Americas for reinforcements, and warships were also sent from South America to resist the attack of the coalition forces on land and water.In the end, there was a see-saw confrontation with the Spaniards on the Panama side, and the plan to capture South America was not completed as planned.

Earlier, Sun Chuanting had sent ironclad warships back to Daming, brought back news, and asked for reinforcements.But when it came to sending troops to the Americas, no one could make the decision in the absence of Emperor Chongzhen, so no reinforcements were sent.Emperor Chongzhen rushed back to the capital from the Mughal side this time, and one of the important things to deal with was to support the Americas.

Because he is the only one who knows the situation in the Americas best, and the news brought back by the armored battleship is all long-delayed news.Of course, the most important thing is that even the crown prince cannot do things that involve large-scale army mobilization.

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In mid-July of the 27th year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen finally led more than 4000 hussar battalions back to the capital.This time, Emperor Chongzhen brought back the smallest proportion of soldiers during his triumphal return.But everyone knows that those people stayed on the newly laid map to enjoy their happiness.

There is no doubt that the emperor, who has been away for three years, has returned with the record of conquering a huge empire. It is conceivable how sensational the capital will be!

Even after the soldiers of the hussars battalion returned to the camp, they were warmly welcomed by the soldiers of the hussars battalion who stayed behind in the capital.A soldier was besieged by many soldiers and asked the returning soldiers to tell them what happened in that Mughal land!
How to win a war, it is enough to have heard it once, what they are most concerned about is, are the women in the Mughals beautiful?Who stayed there, how many wives did they marry?There are such questions as how many fields and so on.

Although the location of the Mughal Empire is thousands of miles away from Daming, Daming still knows something about it, because it is the legendary Western Paradise, the place where Xuanzang went to learn Buddhist scriptures, and the legendary Buddhist kingdom.

Although some soldiers said that the women in the Mughals were ugly, and they were not as good-looking as the women in the Ming Dynasty.However, the ones I have never seen, I always feel that they are the best.Many bachelor soldiers felt itchy, and felt that these soldiers could not stay there because they returned to China for various reasons, so they belittled the women there.

After the soldiers of the Ming army came back, the fact that the Mughals could marry many wives at a very low cost firmly occupied the number one topic in the military camps and on the streets.In particular, the first collective wedding presided over by Emperor Chongzhen was discussed countless times.

What Emperor Chongzhen didn't expect was that not only the lieutenant soldiers suddenly became enthusiastic about opening up territories.Even among ordinary people, more and more people wanted to sign up to join the army, which invisibly improved the status of Ming soldiers and made Ming soldiers more and more popular.

Unlike the soldiers who can enjoy relaxing things such as taking vacations after they come back, when Emperor Chongzhen came back, after experiencing the warmest welcome, he was busy with government affairs.

The imperial meetings in the Wenhua Palace were held one after another.The Sixth Ministry of the Cabinet, the eunuchs of the Supervisor of Rituals, etc., have hardly left the Wenhua Palace, reporting what they have done in the past three years, the implementation of the will, and so on.

Although Emperor Chongzhen had a wiretapping system to grasp the domestic situation, he still had to listen to his courtiers face to face and ask timely questions about some details in order to truly grasp them.Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen could not skip this kind of meeting.

The most important thing is the revenue and expenditure of the treasury in the past three years. This is related to the empire's finances and cannot be sloppy. It must be controlled by the emperor himself.Let the emperor make decisions on the future fiscal and taxation policies of the empire and provide the necessary basis.

The second thing is that in the past three years, the infrastructure construction of Daming, including the report on the construction of railways and roads, through the map, allows Emperor Chongzhen to understand the situation and grasp the details of the construction of each place, so that he Provide reference for future infrastructure planning.

The third matter is naturally related to the reorganization of the Ming army. This is military power, and of course the emperor must understand and give instructions.

The remaining things are technological achievements and the situation in America.

After five days of meetings, Emperor Chongzhen had roughly gone through the situation.He is still satisfied with what his subordinates have done during the three years when he was not in the capital.

Subsequently, he first made personnel transfers.

Cao Huachun, the eunuch in charge of the chief inspector of ceremonies, was too old to take charge of the affairs of the chief inspector of ceremonies, so he was allowed to retire and return to his hometown to take care of himself.Not surprisingly, Wang Chengen took over the post of eunuch in charge of seals from the supervisor of ceremonies.

The admiral of the East Factory was Chen Baoting, who was trained by Emperor Chongzhen himself, and the eunuch of the Royal Horse Supervisor was Lan Tianbao, who was trained by another Emperor Chongzhen himself.These are mainly personnel changes in the palace.

As for the outer court, Xue Guoguan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, also retired and returned to his hometown, and the chief assistant was replaced by Zhang Fu; as for Lu Xiangsheng, he was still in charge of the Minister of the Ministry of War, responsible for the military affairs of the whole country, including the navy.In this position, except for Lu Xiangsheng who led troops to fight, the Emperor Chongzhen was not at ease about the words of other people.

In addition, when Emperor Chongzhen was away, the transfer of officials above the fifth rank was all temporary.Now it has been reviewed by Emperor Chongzhen, and it has been made a regular.

After finishing all this work, Emperor Chongzhen sent an order to summon Zheng Zhilong.

(End of this chapter)