Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1008, A tooth for a tooth, blood for blood
"Your Majesty, Liu Jin, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, has arrived~"

Just as everyone was discussing with the map, Liu Jin also rushed over.

"Liu Jin, it's just in time for you to come, hurry up and take a look."

Seeing Liu Jin coming, Emperor Hongzhi also said hastily.

"Yes~"

Liu Jin nodded quickly, leaned over, and looked at the huge Central Asia region.

There is no way, the Hezhong area is too far away from Daming, nearly tens of thousands of miles, even though Daming is already building a concrete road leading to the Hezhong area, and has set up post stations along the way, relying on the accelerated speed of [-] miles, Hezhong It will take about half a month for what happened in the region to spread to the Daming capital.

Therefore, with regard to what happened in the Hezhong area, many of the decision makers of the Ming Dynasty who were far away from the capital of the Ming Dynasty could only talk by looking at the map.

Because apart from looking at the map and being able to know a little bit about the situation in the river area, there is really no other way.

"This is the [-] taels of urgent memorial received today, you can take a look."

Emperor Hongzhi handed another memorial to Liu Jin.

Liu Jin picked up the memorial and quickly read it. The memorial was written by Li Tian, ​​the governor of Hezhong, half a month ago.

The slogan they played was that the Ming Empire was arrogant and ignorant and humiliated the envoys of the Ottoman Empire. They wanted to seek justice for the humiliated envoys of the Ottoman Empire. The tribes attacked Daming together and resisted the invasion from the east together.

"[-] troops!"

After reading it, Liu Jin couldn't help but ponder.

The [-] army of the Ottoman Empire is obviously not an imaginary number, but a real [-] army. Given the current strength of the Ottoman Empire, they are capable of organizing [-] troops.

"Twenty armies, the army of the Ottoman Empire is still very powerful. I am afraid that apart from the army of Ming Dynasty, it is the army with the strongest combat effectiveness."

"Punching the Persian Safavid Empire, stepping on the Teutonic Knights and Hospitaller Knights in Europe, their navy monopolizes the seas in the east of the Mediterranean Sea, pirates often loot the coastal areas of the French and Spain, and the countries in the Middle East are the Ottoman Empire vassal state."

"If the army in the Hezhong area can't be stopped, our Daming's operations in the Hezhong area will be in vain."

Liu Jin thought quickly, Hezhong was really important to Daming, it was the bridgehead for Daming to continue westward, but he didn't expect to encounter such a huge challenge and test all of a sudden.

"Liu Jin, what do you think of this matter?"

Seeing that Liu Jin was contemplating, Emperor Hongzhi looked at Liu Jin and asked.

"Your Majesty, there will be a war between our Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire sooner or later."

"If our Ming Dynasty continues to expand westward, it will inevitably come into contact with the Ottoman Empire. At this time, the Ottoman Empire is powerful, ambitious, and has a strong desire to expand. It will inevitably have disputes with our Ming Dynasty. War is inevitable."

"This time they attacked the Hezhong area. On the one hand, they wanted to seize the opportunity to seize the Hezhong area and expand their power to Central Asia. On the other hand, they also wanted to curb the control of our Ming Dynasty, and at the same time kill chickens to scare monkeys. They want to deter them. Central Asian countries and tribes."

"However, it is clear that they picked the wrong opponent."

Liu Jin thought for a while and replied.

"Hmm~"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help nodding their heads.

"Fortunately, we have already made preparations in the Hezhong area last year. There are [-] troops stationed in the Hezhong area itself, and another [-] troops are stationed in the Western Regions, and we will expand the army by [-] in the future. It’s a challenge, I didn’t expect it to come in handy soon.”

Zhang Mao thought about it and said with a smile.

When the Ottoman Mission came to Daming last year, everyone had already discussed the relationship with the Ottoman Empire, and believed that there would inevitably be a war between Daming and the Ottoman Empire.

Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi said at that time that he would expand the army by [-], and then increase troops in the Western Regions and Hezhong.

"Let's talk about it, what to do."

Emperor Hongzhi glanced around and asked.

"Your Majesty, of course we have fought them. Since we have to fight sooner or later, let's fight them well and let them be as powerful as we are. As the saying goes, war ends with war. Only when we show our strength can they fight I dare not have any unrealistic ideas about our Ming Empire."

Liu Jian stood up and made a statement.

Well, civil servants are more belligerent than military generals nowadays, because winning a war benefits a lot, and losing a war also means that the generals will bleed. They already understand that there are fewer and fewer civil servants who oppose war.

As for the rise of the military commander Xungui Group, these are trivial matters, and they are nothing compared to everyone's interests.

What's more, here in the Hezhong area, who doesn't have a few cotton plantations?

Last year, those who grew cotton in Hezhong made a lot of money. The climate in Hezhong is very suitable for cotton planting, with high yield and good quality. Everyone’s cotton plantations in Hezhong have achieved high economic benefits.

Naturally, it is impossible to watch one's wealth being taken away by the Ottomans in this way. It must be beaten, and it must be beaten severely.

"Yes, we must fight hard and teach them a hard lesson. If we can win, we can take the opportunity to expand our Daming territory to the west coast of the Caspian Sea, and even expand to the Black Sea region."

"It is said that in the north of the Black Sea, this place used to be the seat of the Mongolian Golden Horde Khanate. The land here is the same as the land in the Liaodong area. It is very fertile. It is all black land, and the pastures here are very vast."

"If we can capture these areas, our Ming Dynasty will almost be able to open up the land route to Europe."

Li Dongyang also nodded, pointing to the Black Sea and Caspian Sea areas on the map and drawing circles.

It is still very inconvenient for Daming to communicate with Europe at present. They all communicate by sea route. One route is to go east, first transport the goods to the Golden Continent, and then transfer them to Europe for sale.

There is also the route to the west, taking the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and bypassing the southernmost tip of Africa to Europe. These two routes are very far away, and they are all sea routes. The risk is very high. You can hear news of ship accidents every month. .

If the traffic road on the road can be opened, the safety can be greatly increased, and it must be closer to walking than to walking by sea.

This is still very important for Daming who has already embarked on the road of capitalism.

In terms of cloth, the Daming factory, which uses new spinning machines and looms, produces a huge amount of cloth. Although the internal market of Daming is very large, it is becoming more and more difficult to digest the huge output. It is necessary to find external market to absorb the excess cloth.

The European market is obviously a very important market.

"Your Majesty, I think you should mobilize the troops from the Western Regions to the Hezhong region, concentrate the troops from the Western Regions and the Hezhong region, and be commanded by the Duke of Australia, Yang Yun. The total strength exceeds [-], which is enough to deal with the Ottoman Empire's army."

Zhang Mao thought for a while and came up with his own suggestion. He was in charge of the Five Armies Commander's Mansion, and he had the most say in military matters.

"However, the Western Regions are not stable. There are many tribes, large and small, and many of them are nomadic tribes. Once all the troops from the Western Regions are transferred to the river, the Western Regions may also become turbulent."

Li Dongyang thought about it and said.

"We can then deploy troops from Gansu, Qinghai, and grasslands to supplement the Western Regions, stabilize the Western Regions, and then deploy troops from the two capitals and thirteen provinces to fill the three regions."

Zhang Mao thought for a while and added.

"There's nothing wrong with that."

When the others heard it, they nodded slightly.

Now the Ming Dynasty has millions of soldiers stationed in different parts of the Ming Dynasty. There are a large number of troops stationed in the Western Regions, Hezhong, Grassland, Gansu, and Qinghai. They can be quickly mobilized to guard one side. Even if they are infantry, they are now human Everyone is equipped with horses.

This is the current Daming, with strong financial resources. Of course, what is more important is that Daming has occupied many grasslands, and has produced a large number of war horses, enough to arm the army of Daming.

In the past, not to mention that Da Ming did not have enough financial resources to equip such a huge war horse, even if he had enough money, there would probably be nowhere to buy so many war horses.

"Eight hundred li urgent ~ eight hundred li urgent~"

Just as everyone was discussing how to deploy troops to deal with the Ottoman Empire's attack, another eight hundred miles rushed over.

Xiao Jing, who was beside Emperor Hongzhi, didn't dare to delay at all when he heard the voice, and immediately asked Xiao Huangmen to fetch it quickly.

Soon, You Xiaohuangmen presented the urgent memorial of Babaili.

Emperor Hongzhi took the memorabilia, looked at ten lines at a glance, and read it very quickly. Then he couldn't help throwing the memorabilia in his hand, and said angrily: "They are courting death!"

"Your Majesty, what happened?"

Seeing that Emperor Hongzhi was so angry, all the ministers asked quickly, and Liu Jian even picked up the memorial and read it.

"The army of the Ottoman Empire smashed through five towns in the Hezhong area, and carried out inhumane massacres in the five towns. In the five towns of Hezhong, a total of [-] Ming people were killed!"

Liu Jian read it quickly, and then told the contents.

After everyone listened, they fell silent immediately, and immediately understood why Emperor Hongzhi was so angry. Emperor Hongzhi, who had always loved the people like a son, would naturally be extremely angry when he saw this memorial.

"Your Majesty, we must use an eye for an eye, and blood for blood. If they kill the people of our five towns, we will kill the people of ten, fifty, or one hundred towns."

Liu Jin's eyes were bloodshot, and he could imagine the tragic scene in the Hezhong area in his mind, so he stood up and said angrily.

(End of this chapter)