Of course, Russia had previously swallowed the grasslands in the northern desert because of the Qing Dynasty, and over the years, Russia has been secretly supporting the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty in the north, especially the remnants of Korchin, which made the grassland unstable. It was not an exaggeration to send troops to attack Russia for this purpose, but now the Ming Dynasty's military operations have exceeded the level of teaching Russia a lesson. Not only should we recover the northern desert, but we should also further seize the Siberian region occupied by Russia.

If it is an ordinary small country, it would be fine, but Russia is a Western power, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is armed with millions in terms of its territory and population. Although the Ming Dynasty is strong and the national treasury is abundant, the military and financial resources of the Ming Dynasty are not bottomless. This time the troops to Russia can be called a national war. Regardless of the victory or defeat, the national strength consumes a lot, why did Zhu Yicheng insist on doing this?

In fact, this view is not only Zhu Bo. Many ministers in the court also have this idea, and even many middle and senior officers in the General Staff also have this view.

The ancients said that even if a country is big, war will perish.

The revival of the Ming Dynasty was built on war. From this point of view, it can be said that the Ming Dynasty was fought by Zhu Yicheng with one hand. Now, the Ming Dynasty has not only restored its hometown, but is even far beyond the previous dynasties.

Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, the country of North Korea has already belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and Ryukyu became a palace of the Ming Dynasty earlier. In addition, there are overseas places such as Xinming, Luzon, Johor, and the southern continent. These territories together, the current Ming Dynasty is unprecedentedly powerful in history.

Qin Emperor and Han Wu, Tang Emperor and Song Zu, no emperor could do this at the same time as Zhu Yicheng. From this point of view, it is not an exaggeration to see the territory of the Ming Dynasty wherever the sun, moon and rivers reach. Why did Zhu Yi feel so urgent under such circumstances? Why did he go to war with the powerful Russia?

"Is there any more?" Zhu Yicheng did not answer Zhu Bo's doubt immediately after hearing this, but continued to ask.

Zhu Bo? nodded and continued, "Father, my Ming and the Qing Dynasty are enemies. Here I understand that the Qing Dynasty is still entrenched in the Western Regions. As I see, since I want to start a war, why don't I directly attack the Western Regions and completely solve the Qing Dynasty's problem, but start a new war in the north? I really don't understand this matter. Father and my son think that the matter is prioritized. The battle in the north can be implemented after the Qing Dynasty is resolved. Why is the father and the emperor eager?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Bo?'s tone was quite dissatisfied. After hearing this, Zhu Yicheng was not angry, but instead laughed.

"You, you can't see Mount Tai, some things are not that simple."

"I would like to ask my father to explain to my son." Zhu Bo? was so angry that he heard Zhu Yicheng disagreed with this sentence.

Zhu Yicheng laughed loudly, and the laughter echoed in the empty side hall.

After laughing for a while, Zhu Yicheng then asked back: "In your opinion, the war against Russia should not be expanded? Should the national military strength solve the problem of the Qing Dynasty in the Western Regions first?"

"Isn't it?" Zhu Bo? raised his head and asked.

"What do you think of the Qing Dynasty? What kind of country is Russia?"

Uncle Zhu thought about it and commented on these two opponents in his own opinion. When Uncle Zhu finished speaking, Zhu Yicheng shook his head slowly.

"?Ah, I just said before that you are the prince and the crown prince of the country. You should look at the essence rather than the surface when looking at the problem. Now, whether you have a view of the Qing Dynasty or Russia, it is just a biased view, which is not possible."

"I'll ask my father to teach you." Zhu Bo said this, but his expression was filled with dissatisfaction.

Seeing him like this, Zhu Yicheng sighed in his heart, this child is still young, and he has not considered many things in full, so he is also clear about Zhu Bo? As he said, he also knows that no matter how strong the country is, if he keeps fighting, it will also weaken the national strength.

The so-called country is big, and war will lead to death. But there is another saying, that is, forgetting to fight will lead to danger.

How did the country fall into ruin in the Ming Dynasty? Of course, there were various reasons at that time, such as the rise of the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong, the sharp decline in grain output during the Little Ice Age, the drought in the northwest and Central Plains all year round, serious land annexation, the people's lives were in vain, bandits everywhere, etc.

In addition, there were party struggles in the court, coupled with Chongzhen's stubbornness and improper governance issues. But to be honest, the demise of the former Ming Dynasty actually laid the roots of disaster as early as the Wanli period. After a long period of fermentation, these disasters finally broke out decades later.

Zhu Yicheng thought for a while and first talked about the Western Regions.

Regarding the Western Regions, China controlled the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the Western Regions Protectorate was famous and the entire Western Regions were under the rule of the Tang Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also controlled part of the Western Regions territory, but later these territories gradually lost. What is the main reason?

Of course, the main reason was that the strong national strength of the Central Plains court in the early stages reached its weakening in the middle and late stages, which made the Central Plains court unable to have more power to maintain the rule of the Western Regions. In desperation, it shrank its strength and gave up the remote Western Regions.

In addition, more importantly, the ethnic structure of the Western Regions is different from that of the Central Plains. The Western Regions have always been a state of multi-ethnic living. In the history of the Western Regions, hundreds of countries and ethnic groups have appeared in this place, and over thousands of years, most of these countries and ethnic groups have disappeared in the long river of history, but even so, there are still some of them.

Back then, Zhu Yicheng allowed the Qing Dynasty to make trouble in the Western Regions, and even secretly funded the Qing Dynasty to provoke the Qing Dynasty to establish itself in the Western Regions. First, because Zhu Yicheng's main energy was to place it in the Central Plains and Liaodong, and second, he also wanted to use the Qing Dynasty to clean up the Western Regions and lay a solid foundation for the Ming Dynasty to recover the Western Regions in the future.

From this point of view, the Qing Dynasty did a good job. In the past decade, the Qing Dynasty has destroyed countless countries in the Western Regions, and there is no idea how many of the alien races died under the Qing Dynasty's butcher's knife. It is also because of this that after the Ming Dynasty took over Hami, it was able to successfully rule and farm the local area in the form of a corps. Without these foundations, the Ming Dynasty would not have been able to implement such a policy.

Now, the Qing Dynasty still maintains its power in the Western Regions, that is, farther from the western part of Hami. The Ming Dynasty's long-term front has not yet arrived. In addition, the Junggar tribe was also a trouble in Tibet. Zhu Yicheng not only wanted to recover the Western Regions, but also took down the entire Tibet together. Therefore, it is not a good opportunity to continue to start a war in the Western Regions. Zhu Yicheng felt that it would be more appropriate to put the remaining Qing dynasties and instigate the two enemies of the Qing Dynasty and the Junggar tribe torture the Western Regions for a few more years.

"The Qing Dynasty will be destroyed, but not now." Zhu Yicheng finally concluded: "The court had been talking to the Qing Dynasty for several months before, and the ultimate goal was to give the Qing Dynasty an illusion. The current situation in the Western Regions is complicated, making it more appropriate for the Qing Dynasty and Juan Geldo to struggle for two years. By then, the results of the construction of the Corps have also come out. My Ming Dynasty can not only win the Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop, but also annex the entire Tibet. "Son, whether in the Western Regions or Tibet, if you want long-term stability, you must use this method, otherwise even if you take down the two places, you will be trouble for the court in the future."

Uncle Zhu was a little stunned. These words were the first time Zhu Yicheng said this to him, and it was the first time he knew what Zhu Yicheng really thought.

Zhu Bo? He never thought that the father, whom he had always admired, had such a plan in his heart. In order to achieve his goal, he would let those people from the Western Regions and even Tibet kill each other under the intention of the Ming Dynasty. Such a thing seemed too cruel. But after thinking about it carefully, he had to admit that Zhu Yicheng's arrangement was not wrong. If he did not do this, the Ming Dynasty would raise the butcher knife with his own hands to want long-term stability in the Western Regions and Tibet. Now the butcher knife is in the Qing Dynasty and the Zhungeer's hands, which is better than the Ming Dynasty.

"You know too little about Russia." After talking about the Western Regions and Tibet, Zhu Yicheng talked about Russia.

Although Zhu Bo received a good education and served in the South China Sea Fleet, he is not unfamiliar with Western countries. However, Zhu Bo still understands Russia too simply.

Russia is a highly aggressive country. Since the founding of the Russian Grand Duke of Moscow, it has been continuously annexing territory in just a few hundred years and has become a major European power.

Especially after Peter succeeded to the throne and took power, Russia began all-round reforms, conquering east and west to defeat neighboring countries and further expanded its territory.

In Zhu Yicheng's view, Russia is different from other Western countries. Other Western countries have taken colonial measures for overseas territories, while Russia is just the opposite. Perhaps because of mainland countries, every expansion of Russia aims to annex the territory, which is somewhat similar to the Ming Dynasty.

As early as the Ming Dynasty took over Beijing, Zhu Yicheng had already begun to notice this neighbor in the north, and all the actions of Russia later made Zhu Yi even more vigilant.

The Qing Dynasty in the Western Regions was not destroyed. On the one hand, Zhu Yicheng's overall plan for the Western Regions and Tibet, and on the other hand, he also had Russia's problems. In the fight against Russia, Zhu Yicheng wanted to take advantage of the weak opportunity of Russia's domestic situation after Peter's death to solve the northern problem, and at the same time, he also made preparations for the complete annexation of the Western Regions and Tibet in the future.

Compared with the Western Regions and Tibet, the northern territory is wider and sparsely populated. In addition, Russia has not had a large population and military power in the Far East Governor's Office, so it is more conducive to the overall planning to attack Russia in the north first.
Chapter completed!