I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Zhu Ciran looked up at the night sky, not noticing that the girl was already leaning quietly on his shoulder at this moment, and said to himself:

"Sister Yun, do you believe in Buddhism?"

Because he walked too fast just now, Zhang Yun still had a slight pain in his lower abdomen, he was panting heavily, and his voice was trembling:

"If believing in Buddhism can avoid suffering in the world, then everyone can become a Buddha."

"That's right..." Zhu Ciran said, "I remember my father told me that Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, or anything else is just a tool of the emperor's family."

"Since then, I no longer believe in Buddha or Taoism."

"It's great to have such a father." Zhang Yun's eyes lightened, "It's like my father, the British Duke, who used to be a well-known playboy in the capital, the kind that everyone was afraid of."

Hearing this, Zhu Ciran burst out laughing.

"Sister Yun, I have something to tell you, don't be angry."

"what's up?"

"The queen mother and I whispered about this matter. The emperor likes to visit privately in micro-clothes, and has fun everywhere, but he doesn't want to ruin the reputation of the royal family."

"What should I do? So every time I go out, I use Uncle Zhang's name."

Zhang Yun was taken aback for a moment, his small mouth opened wide.

"Ah, is that so?"

"Yes, is it true what my mother said?" Before Zhu Ciran finished speaking, he suddenly yelled, "Don't pinch me!"

Zhang Yun pouted, snorted and did not speak.

Perhaps even Zhu Youxiao never thought that the "evil" he committed when he was young would eventually be reported to his son.

The two quarreled for a while, Zhu Ciran turned his head and met Zhang Yun's eyes, and said slightly: "I, can I call you Yun'er."

Zhang Yun lowered his head and said shyly, "Okay."

"I've heard a poem, shall I recite it to you?"

"You can also recite poems?" Zhang Yun covered his mouth and suppressed a smile, Zhu Ciran said displeased: "Why can't you recite poems? The most famous bachelors today are all teachers that my father found for me."

"Then I said it."

"You say it."

"A young man with a handsome and unrestrained face, as graceful as a jade tree before the wind..."

Zhang Yundao: "You are not reciting poetry, you are boasting that you are as chic and beautiful as a tree, and you are bullying me for not knowing poetry."

Both were amused.

Just at this moment, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes on the green brick floor under his feet, and a rider with a bright yellow scroll wrapped around his waist galloped out like the wind.

Zhang Yun was very worried, Zhu Ciran's face was also slightly solemn, and he narrowed his eyes.

"The horse is on the green bricks, the regulations set by the emperor, if it is not a major state matter, it will be a war again."

"Yun'er, I'm afraid you won't be able to see the sea of ​​flowers I promised you."

Chapter 974 One Foot Into Siberia

Apocalypse March 19.

After several months of intensive preparations, Zhu Youxiao formally declared war on Tsarist Russia in early March on the grounds of invading the Chechen Khanate.

Shortly thereafter, Chechen Khan Wang Shuolei also led the Northern Serbs who surrendered to Chechnya to declare war on Tsarist Russia, and initially adopted fast horse raid tactics to exhaust the Tsarist Russian army.

In the Ming Dynasty, the 34-year-old British Duke Zhang Shize was appointed as the general who conquered the captives. Chen Yanzuo, the Marquis of Taining, and Ma Yong, the commander-in-chief of Ningxia, were the left and right lieutenants.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao issued an edict ordering Wuliangha, Monan, Zuoyi, and Mobei Mongolian tribes to send cavalry to Beijing for conscripts.

By the end of March, 13 elite horsemen of the Ming army and 50 Mongolian cavalry had gathered at the foot of the capital, pretending to be an army of [-].

Zhu Youxiao personally set up an altar in the suburbs of Beijing to practice for the army.At the same time, the capital began to prepare for the promotion ceremony for meritorious service, which also greatly boosted the morale of the entire army.

On April [-], the Ming army's vanguard officer Ningxia's military headquarters first arrived at Xinbao on the border between Chechnya and Tsarist Russia.

The fort started construction seven years ago, and it is the largest military station of Tsarist Russia in the Far East, with as many as [-] Russian troops led by a duke.

But on this day, a war drum and thunder suddenly sounded in the distance, and a solid bullet came from nowhere and hit the head of Newcastle.

A Tsarist Russian soldier stepped forward curiously, wondering, suddenly there was a loud sound of breaking through the sky, followed by countless screams.

"Look at the sky!"

"what is this?"

Following several exclamations, densely packed projectiles appeared in front of them like raindrops, and then fell like hailstones.

On the distant plain, Zhang Shize held a binocular and said with a sneer, "This battle was fought so easily."

Ma Yong, the general of the Ningxia army, also laughed: "The firearms of the Maozi are not as good as ours. They can't reach here, but we can easily penetrate their defense."

"This kind of battle for wealth was unthinkable ten years ago!"

Yes, this is the benefit of taking the lead in military science.

After cooperating with the West, Daming's Suppression Cannon has been updated again, and its range and power have been improved.

The latest Zhenlu Cannon is equipped with a crosshair and a rear sight, which not only greatly enhances the power, but also improves the accuracy to the limit.

Just as he was speaking, there was a burst of cheers from a distance.

"There is a gap in the city wall, General, should we rush?" Ma Yong asked with a smile.

Zhang Shize put down the binoculars and said with a smile: "Why charge, they can't hit us. I gave my order, and then fired the guns to press the formation. The cavalry is ready to attack at any time."

"Just keep bombarding them. Apart from surrendering, they have no choice but to come out and be beaten!"

Just as Zhang Shize expected, soon the Tsarist Russian defenders in the castle couldn't bear this style of play, and broke out one after another, wanting to fight a trapped beast.

However, Zhang Shize's calculation was just right, and they only rushed a few steps out of the fortress, when the Ming army lined up and shot them.

The volley of guns formed by the high-precision sudden-fire guns could not be resisted. After only one round, almost all the Tsarist Russian soldiers who rushed out fell into a pool of blood.

Not long after, a white flag appeared on Castle Hill.

Taining Marquis Chen Yanzuo sneered: "They surrendered!"

Zhang Shize turned around, "What did you say?"

A few days later, the Kremlin.

"It's not good, Your Majesty, Daming has captured our new castle on the border of Chechnya!" A close minister ran in hastily and shouted loudly.

The current Tsar Mikhail has been lying in bed for more than a month, and his health is not good. Hearing this, he seemed extremely surprised.

The New Castle is the largest fortress in the Far East that took the empire many years to build. It was stationed by [-] brave imperial guards led by the Duke of Monier.

Chechnya alone will never be able to shake such an important military town.

However, just a few days after the news of the declaration of war by the Ming Dynasty, the news of the fall of Newcastle followed closely behind. The fall was so fast, which made people worry about the current situation of the empire.

Three years ago, King Sigmund III of Poland died suddenly, and Mikhail immediately dispatched a large number of Far Eastern Legions to invade Poland, intending to regain the city lost many years ago.

However, the good times didn't last long. Although Sigmund IV was young, he inherited his father's bravery. This battle took three years, and Tsarist Russia invested a lot of military power, but it insisted on forming a stalemate.

That's why they invaded Chechnya in an attempt to develop resources in the Far East and deliver supplies for the continuation of the war.

It's a pity that the current Chechnya has formed a vassal relationship with Daming, and Mikhail never thought that Daming would go to war because of such a trivial matter.

Zhu Youxiao actually wanted to go to war with Tsarist Russia a long time ago, but he suffered from having no excuse.

The current Zhu Youxiao already pays great attention to his posthumous reputation. Some things that affect his reputation are too important to do, so he has never started a war.

After finally having an excuse, he went straight to work without saying a word.

The current life in Tsarist Russia is not easy. Although the debts have been basically cleared after the rectification of Archbishop Fiatley, and the Royal Army has basically improved its combat effectiveness, but Fiatley died suddenly a few years ago.

Originally, Mikhail, the tsar, didn't care about things, and he let the big nobles in the country do what he wanted, but Archbishop Filatelli paid more attention to the status of serfs and kept suppressing the nobles.

After the death of Feratelli, the great nobles revived, and this time the largest nobleman who supported the tsar, Duke Monier, died in the Far East, which shows that the court of Tsarist Russia is about to have civil strife again.

Now Tsarist Russia is really making enemies on all sides, and because of the death of Feratley in the country, the serfs set off a large-scale uprising.

Fighting everywhere, Mikhail was physically and mentally exhausted, and he was not in good health. Unexpectedly, after receiving the news of the fall of Newcastle, he died within a few days.

Upon Mikhail's death, his eldest son Alexei, who was only nine years old, succeeded to the Tsar's throne.

This Alexei was historically the enlightened monarch of the Romanov dynasty, but now he is still just a kid after all, and can only be controlled by the Queen Mother Marfa who supports the great nobles.

In this way, in order to avoid the danger of destroying the country, the great nobles manipulated the new Tsar Alexei to launch a two-year negotiation with Ming and Poland.

During the negotiation period, the war continued, the tsarist army continued to be defeated, and new uprisings continued to ignite in the country.

As a last resort, in the 21st year of the apocalypse, a "Newcastle Treaty" was signed with Ming Dynasty and Poland, which was humiliating and humiliating.

The content of the treaty stipulates:

Tsarist Russia returned five cities including Novgorod and Pskov to Poland, and ceded cities such as Yam and Ivan surrounding the Gulf of Finland to Poland.

But in exchange, Poland promised to terminate the military alliance contract with Ming Dynasty and not sign any more in the next five years, and recognized the late Tsar Mikhail's tsar status.

In fact, the five cities requested by Poland are equivalent to cutting off Tsarist Russia's passage to the Baltic Sea, completely putting an end to Tsarist Russia's ambition to expand to Western Europe.

Forced by the situation, Queen Mother Marfa had no choice but to sign this treaty, which made Tsarist Russia lose its access to the Baltic Sea.

As for the Ming Dynasty, Tsarist Russia promised to defeat the war and remove the duke succession of the family of Duke Monier, the commander of the Far East, and erected several monuments outside the Kremlin to commemorate the slaughtered [-] Chechen tribesmen.

Since the Ming Dynasty occupied a dominant position in this war, and had the ability to directly fight to the demise of Moscow and the emerging Romanov Dynasty, the demand was also very exaggerated.

Even during the negotiation period, the Ming army led by Zhang Shize attacked from all directions, and the farthest cavalry vanguard even advanced several hundred miles.

The Ming army was in full swing all the way, so the tone was also very loud.

What Zhu Youxiao asked for was far from just putting an end to Tsarist Russia's expansion ambitions like Poland did. He was determined to completely eliminate Tsarist Russia, a powerful country in the Far East, during his reign.

Zhu Youxiao first asked Tsarist Russia to release the annexed Kazan Khanate, forming a further buffer zone before Chechnya and Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Ming's army can also use the name of helping Kazan to enter Siberia grandiosely and set up artillery here.

The reason why Tsarist Russia expanded its territories in Siberia was mainly because of the rich hardwoods and furs here, so as to enrich the treasury.

The former Patriarch Felatley also relied on the large amount of fur and hardwood resources to give the Tsarist Russian army a lot of funding.

In order to achieve the purpose of boiling frogs in warm water, Zhu Youxiao clearly requested that the Tsarist Russian army no longer enter Siberia through Kazan.

Of course, in return, Zhu Youxiao promised that once the apocalypse came, the Ming army would not occupy Siberia as its own territory.

In this way, Tsarist Russia's expansion to the west and east was contained.

The Ming Dynasty completely cut off the hands and feet of Tsarist Russia. Although the current Tsarist Russia still has a vast territory, in fact, it is already a situation of collapse sooner or later.

Chapter 975 Regaining Annan

Recently, the vassal states around Daming have been jumping a bit.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away. This sentence applies not only to the current Daming territory, but also to those vassal states that are too far away.

In Annan's place, Zhu Youxiao had troubles just a few years after he took the throne. At that time, he was busy cutting down the Donglin Party and couldn't take care of it, so he sent a word to the past.

The follow-up situation proved that Annan no longer took Daming's words seriously, and they did a lot of such things.

But what broke Zhu Youxiao's bottom line the most was the fact that Lord Zheng became emperor on his own.

Before the elimination of Jiannu, Zhu Youxiao had issued an edict to Annan during the period before and after the Liaodong War, telling them clearly that there can only be one emperor in this world.

The popes and Roman emperors in the West can't be controlled by the messy Daming, but what is Annan?

Without Liaodong Da, a small country that is a bit bigger, dare to call it emperor?

As early as more than ten years ago, the Mo Dynasty supported by the Ming Dynasty had become the puppet emperor, the Lord Zheng was the Cao Cao, and Sun Quan and Liu Bei in the south were the Lord Ruan.

In addition to these two regimes, there is also a descendant of the former Le Dynasty who occupies the mountain as king, which can barely be called "three parts of the world".

At that time, Lord Zheng was only secretly doing these things that he claimed to be the emperor's secret poking, and Zhu Youxiao didn't have time to pay attention to him, but fortunately, Quan Dang didn't watch.

But after the previous Lord Zheng died, the young man who succeeded him directly abolished the Li Dynasty Commander who was enshrined by the Ming Dynasty!

After being abolished, the new Lord Zheng, Zheng Xiang, proclaimed himself emperor!

When the news spread to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the entire court was completely condemned. At today's court meeting, seven ministers presented the same topic in a row—conquering Annan again!

The rhetoric is also very lofty. Since the pre-Qin period, Annan has been the territory of China, and it has remained the same until the Chengzu Dynasty.