Iron Dynasty

Royal study.

After hanging a map of the Great Yu Kingdom on the east wall, Xiao Ming hung another world map on the west wall.

These two maps are brand new, and they were drawn by the best painters in Qingzhou City.

Compared with his own graffiti works, these two paintings are of a very high level, and it can be said that there is almost no difference between them and contemporary sophisticated maps.

On the map, minerals, mountains, and rivers are readily available. On the world map, Xiao Ming also marked the information about the world colonies that he currently has.

In general, almost all of Southeast Asia is currently occupied by Western powers. Among them, the Netherlands occupies Luzon, which is the contemporary Philippines. However, due to the exhaustion of national strength, the Dutch only own a small part of Luzon, and most of the area is still dominated by Spain. Occupy, in general Spain is the ruler of Luzon.

The southwest of Luzon, that is, Indonesia, is the largest colony of the Dutch in Southeast Asia. The Dutch occupied Jakarta two centuries ago.

Malaysia, west of Indonesia, was once a Dutch colony, but was ceded to Britain after losing the naval war.

In addition, the United Kingdom also has two colonies in India and Myanmar, while France has the so-called Indochina, which is contemporary Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The current Da Yu country is called Annan, Vientiane, Chenla respectively .

Looking at the map, Xiao Ming looked at Australia again. According to the information provided by the Dutch, this place also belonged to the United Kingdom. Similar to history, it was also a place where prisoners were exiled.

Moving his gaze from the southeast corner of the Great Yu Kingdom to the north, Xiao Ming looked at the three cities that were still in the hands of the barbarians.

For him, after the loss of Jinzhou, the barbarians have been severely damaged, and it is impossible for him to be able to carry out a large-scale war with him.

The reason is very simple. The barbarians have lost the supply of food and grass. At this time, sending cavalry to attack the occupied cities is an idiot behavior.

At present, the smartest way for the barbarians is to return to the grasslands, and after recovery, they will live on the robbers again, but he obviously won't give the barbarians this chance.

He will not give the barbarians a chance to breathe, and now he has issued a ban, no merchants are allowed to sell any commodities to the barbarians.

He would rather lose some money to make it impossible for the barbarians to live on the grasslands. At the same time, Qi Guangyi will also be stationed in Raozhou, leading the cavalry to continuously reduce the living area of ​​the barbarians.

Sweeping Raozhou City, Xiao Ming looked at Yingzhou, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Compared with Raozhou, Xiao Ming paid more attention to Yingzhou this time, because this place has always been a pain for the family and the country in future generations. Maybe many people do not know where Yingzhou is, but they will definitely understand the meaning of the Tumen River going out to sea.

It can be said that in the northeastern part of the Kanto region, this location is the only outlet to the sea. From Yingzhou, you can reach the Sea of ​​Japan in later generations along the Tumen River for fifteen miles.

As long as a naval port is established in this place, he can use the navy to attack the Japanese mainland at any time.

In contemporary times, the Sino-Russian Aigun Treaty signed by the Qing Dynasty in 1858 and the Beijing Treaty signed in 1860 ceded the adjacent territory between the Northeast Kanto and the Sea of ​​Japan to Tsarist Russia. return.

After World War II, in order to restrain his country from using the seaport, Russia even joined North Korea to build a so-called Russia-DPRK Friendship Bridge on the Tumen River.

This bridge spans the Tumen River, and its piers are so low that it can be said that no large freighter can pass through, thus completely cutting off his country's road from the Tumen River to the sea.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming picked up a pen and drew a circle in Yingzhou.

After the Northern Expedition Army occupied the city, he would carefully manage the city. Now the east of Yingju is the land of Goryeo. After this war, he will forcibly occupy the land from Yingju to the sea, and establish a large area here. Yu State's second navy.

Looking up, Xiao Ming saw Jianzhou. The Jianzhou of the Great Yu Kingdom is equivalent to the contemporary Harbin. The north of Jianzhou is the later Heilongjiang region, and further north is the Siberian snowfield.

According to the information provided by the Dutch, the current European Principality of Muscovy established a monarchical Russian Empire forty-seven years ago. After the first Tsarist Emperor Alexander the Great, the current ruler of Tsarist Russia is a generation of Empress Ekarina.

It is said that the Russian empress and the British empress are about the same age. They took over the country at the age of eighteen and twenty, respectively, and have now ruled the country for four or five years.

Although these two monarchs were sisters, Xiao Ming did not mean to despise them at all, because modern history has proved that the queens in Europe are very powerful, and often the time when the queen is on the throne is the most powerful time of national expansion.

Needless to say, Elizabeth and Victoria of the United Kingdom, when Catherine the Great of Tsarist Russia was on the throne, was the time to seize Siberia and Alaska.

Although the Catherine the Great of this era and the Great Catherine the Great are only one word apart, their abilities do not seem to be weaker than the Great Catherine of the contemporary age.

Now she has extended the Tsarist Russia's tentacles to Siberia and Alaska, but fortunately, the current Tsarist Russia still focuses on Europe.

This conquest of Siberia and Alaska was just a spontaneous act of the people, just like the British used armed merchant ships to expand their sphere of influence at sea, and Tsarist Russia pursued the use of civilian power to expand on land.

I can't give polar bears a chance to grow. Xiao Ming pondered with his arms crossed.

Whether it is in this era or in the contemporary era, this country is extremely dangerous and capricious. Once it grows, it will be a nightmare for the Great Yu Kingdom, so it is impossible for him to let Tsarist Russia take in the land around him.

However, even though he thought so, Xiao Ming understood that he was not capable of extending his sphere of influence to Siberia yet. There was only chicken feathers in Kanto. He could not provide food and grass for the army from Qingzhou to Siberia. This route was too long.

Before marching into Siberia, he had to at least stabilize Kanto.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming's eyes turned to Central Asia, then to Europe, Africa and the Americas. On this huge world map, the area he now controls is only a small area, and Europe has already expanded its sphere of influence to the entire world. world.

It has to be stepped up.

Xiao Ming turned around, how could he be absent in this most glorious era of great sailing? Now steam warships are under construction, and shipyards are undergoing industrial transformation.

His ultimate aim was to build ironclads, so that his navy would run the seas with a generational advantage, and his fleet would then be able to bury them in the sea, no matter how experienced the British warships were.