Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 587 Preparations Have Been Made Long Ago

The side hall of the Taiping Palace is actually the main residence of Bai Mingxiu's family. It is relatively private. Even if the servants want to enter, they have to ring the doorbell to say hello.

This side hall does not have a name, Bai Mingxiu is too lazy to afford it, and does not hang a plaque. From the layout point of view, it is a Chinese-style mansion with modern living functions. It is very large, with a construction area of ​​960 square meters. floor, and a basement.There are a total of 8 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms, with its own projection room, gym, bar room and other facilities.In the backyard of the side hall is a Chinese-style garden, with a lotus pond and a wooden terrace, and many horticultural flowers and plants are lushly planted.

Although the Taiping Palace is definitely not as grand and luxurious as the Forbidden City, and the side hall where Bai Mingxiu lived is not very grand, but this house is very much like a home, and it is very convenient and comfortable to live in.

At least when he was in his own home, Bai Mingxiu didn't have the burden of an emperor at all. He just comfortably wore home clothes and leaned on the sofa, read books, watched TV, and helped his children with their homework.

The doorbell rang, and the son called out, "I'll open the door."

Bai Mingxiu was wrapping wontons in the small kitchen, dipping his hands in flour.

The person who came to his house was the young confidential secretary Xu Renshu. Xu Renshu was very used to seeing the emperor look like this.After all, their emperor was different from the emperors of all dynasties. He didn't seem to have much majesty, and he still did things that ordinary people did, but no one doubted his ability, let alone his authority to control the empire.

"Your Majesty, I have brought urgent information from the European Division of Jinyiwei. Xiqing has invaded Prussia in an all-round way. half of the troops." Xu Renshu spoke quickly, a little hastily.

Listening to Xu Renshu's report, Bai Mingxiu carefully wrapped the wontons in his hand and pressed them firmly, then placed them on the chopping board, and obsessively arranged the last one neatly.

He splashed the flour on his hand on the apron, and said lightly: "It's almost time, I think Fei Yanggu originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to send troops when we were at war with the Mughal Empire, but he didn't expect us to It was done so fast, and it was finished in less than three months. Now it is the beginning of spring, and there is no benefit in procrastinating, so we have to do it quickly."

Xu Renshu said: "The Lizheng Yuan has also received the news, and it is estimated that there will be a call soon to invite you to a meeting."

Bai Mingxiu said, "I won't go to a meeting. The preparations that need to be made have already been made, and the cabinet can just follow suit. I made wontons at home today, so I won't go anywhere."

Xu Renshu also felt helpless after hearing the emperor's words.The emperor is undoubtedly wise and powerful, his intelligence and wrist are amazing, but this emperor is sometimes too maverick.Xu Renshu thought to himself, if it were anyone else, I am afraid that he would not be as calm as him, and would always have to intervene and intervene, what a sweet thing power is, but the uncle in front of him didn't seem to have any attachment to him , It's not even as good as the wontons he made with his own hands, and it's not as good as the dinner with his family.

It's not that Bai Mingxiu doesn't care about national affairs or the global situation, but it's true as he said. In fact, many years ago, the Ming Dynasty had been making preparations for the Western Qing to annex Europe.Even when Bai Mingxiu personally defeated Xi Qing at Uliasu Terrace and let the remnant Qing move westward, it became what it is now, just thinking about diverting disaster to the west and causing a little trouble for the Europeans.It's just that this tumor grows too fast and too big, so that Da Ming has to be vigilant.

Daming has now entered the quasi-wartime mechanism, and various previously designed systems have begun to operate.The military industry system has received a large number of orders, and the expansion of the local regular army is also in progress.This time, Daming really made up his mind to fight a super war with Xiqing.

However, the timing of dispatching troops is a delicate issue.Bai Mingxiu's earliest plan was to let the Western Qing harm Europe. According to the current situation, if the Qing army enters Western Europe, it will definitely destroy Western Europe.Bai Mingxiu felt that there was nothing wrong with destroying Europe, so Daming would choose to act when all the major powers in Europe were defeated.

Of course, there are still a few technical issues. Daming has its own territory in Europe, not to mention Gibraltar, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the Department of Consolation, and the three countries of Basque Country, Catalonia, and Italy. .If Xiqing had the audacity to attack Shenhe Kingdom in the Ming Confederation, then obviously Da Ming would be forced to get involved in the war earlier.

After Xu Renshu left, Bai Mingxiu started serving wontons.There is an extra woman in the house who didn't ring the doorbell and walked in from the backyard, Sister Lion.

"Auntie, auntie, you are here." Bai Mingxiu's children are very close to Sister Lion, their mother is sometimes busy, and Sister Lion will accompany them at home.

Sister Lion coaxed Tie Tou and came to the side of Bai Mingxiu in the kitchen.

"Your Majesty, you are really like a mountain collapsed in front of you without changing your color."

"Can this be considered a landslide?" Bai Mingxiu waved the colander with his face surrounded by the steam overflowing from the pot.

Sister Lion smiled and said: "When the 12th Army Group was preparing, the four Army Groups also started preparations at the same time. Now they are all on standby. They can be deployed to Asia Minor and Taiwan in just two months. Going to Europe, I heard that you approved the transfer of the vassal army to form a new army group a week ago. The Ministry of War is going to mobilize an Dongying army, a Korean army, two Indian armies, and a mixed Xuanwei Army army to Europe. You are right to not be in a hurry, anyway, the net has been put away."

Bai Mingxiu fished out a bowl of wontons, took out a spoon, and tasted one first.The ravioli was very hot, he blew on it, and said while eating: "Anyway, there will be no delay, Feiyangu will inevitably have an army of a million scale, and he has been waiting for a long time to prepare for this war. Don’t let this fool’s expectations fail, let him understand that our Ming army will mobilize an army of 100 million people—it’s just like playing.”

He put down the wonton bowl and said: "There is still some time to go before the war. The most important thing now is to evacuate overseas Chinese from Europe. These Tartars are mixed with old men, and they are very dirty. Our citizens must stay there. It’s a loss. I hope the military and Jinyiwei can handle the evacuation of overseas Chinese well, and there will be no mistakes.”

(End of this chapter)