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The Russian Empire fell into political turmoil after the death of Peter the Great. First, Empress Yekaterina, who was humble from a background, was crowned emperor with the support of the powerful minister Meschkov! A few years later, Empress Yekaterina died of illness, and was replaced by Peter II.

Peter II died in 1730 shortly after he worked, the Russian throne was placed in front of Elizabeth Petrovna and Peter I's niece Anna Ivanovna.

Among them, Peter I's niece Anna Ivanovna was the duchess of Courland, while Elizabeth Petrovna had already become the crown princess of the Ming Dynasty as she wished (the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was already Zhu Yiyun).

In order to prevent the throne from falling into the hands of the Crown Princess of the Russian Empire, the Privy Council, the actual supreme ruling body of the Russian Empire, supported Anna Ivanovna, whose inheritance rights were not so reliable, and deprived Elizabeth Petrovna and her children of inheritance rights.

As a result, a war on the succession of the Russian throne inevitably broke out!

And this war is also seen as a prelude to "confusion with the barbarians and the Xia". If the son of the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty (Zhu Bolian and Elizabeth Petrovna gave birth to many children) can become the Tsar, then why can't the Ming Empire become the master of the world?

In order to make his wife the queen of Russia and at the same time realize his ideal of "confusing with the barbarians and Xia", Zhu Bolian and his wife Elizabeth Petrovna left Yingtian Mansion together and started a 12-year expedition. At the same time, Zhu Bolian also asked his father Zhu Yiyu to enthrone his eldest son Zhu Zhongtong as the crown prince. This long-term expedition had an unexpected consequence.

The era of feminism in the Ming Dynasty has begun!

Due to Zhu Bolian's long-term expedition and Zhu Yiyun's spoiling of his grandson Zhu Zhongtong, Zhu Zhongtong developed a weak and gentle personality. Because he was worried that his weak grandson would be bullied by Elizabeth Petrovna, the "madman" of Elizabeth Petrovna, Zhu Yiyun once again broke the "Crown Princess Examination System" (it had already been broken once before when Zhu Bolian married Elizabeth Petrovna), and directly selected a young lady from the Duke of Quan's Mansion as the official concubine for his grandson (a descendant of Zheng Sen), hoping to use the power of the Zheng family to protect his grandson Zhu Zhongtong.

This arrangement seems quite thoughtful, but it inadvertently kicked off the feminist era of the Ming Dynasty!

At the same time, Zhu Bolian, who was trapped in a long war, did another stupid thing. He broke the iron rule that Zhu Cilang set that "officials from Scouts are not allowed to serve in the Guards"! Let officers from Scouts serve as the so-called Scouts in the Guards for a long time, and they are the students of the Guards. They join the army in their teens and pass the assessment after six years of study and training.

After entering the Guards, they rely on their military merits to climb upwards. The best of them can enter the martial arts hall and then become officers of the Ming army. However, these officers promoted by the Scouts and Guards cannot return to the Guards to serve, and they can only command ordinary Ming army. The ones who command the Guards must be officers of aristocratic origin.

Such an arrangement is of course to prevent close groups and factions from appearing in the Guards, so as to avoid the Guards' interference in politics.

However, Zhu Bolian, who led tens of thousands of guards on a long expedition, found that the officers of the noble guards who were more likely to feel war-weary and were unwilling to follow him and Elizabeth. Petrovna used the method of "three points of politics and seven points of military" to slowly torment them, most of them were the young masters of Yingtian Mansion, and of course they were unwilling to fight such a protracted war.

So Zhu Bolian simply reported his father and transferred a group of officers from Scouts who were willing to fight protracted wars. Once this precedent was opened, the Guards would become more and more independent!

Moreover, the guards who followed Zhu Bolian to Russia for many years were closer, including Elizabeth Petrovna, and Zhu Zhongzhen, the son born to Zhu Bolian, who was more popular and more accompanies the concept of "confusion with the barbarians and the Xia". Of course, this group of poor guards was more warlike than the officers from Yingtian nobles.
Chapter completed!