My Daming New Empire

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On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Zhanji made up his mind with the European information from the Secretary of General Administration.

The 41-year Western Expedition opened up the connection between Daming and the Baltic Sea in September.

In this era, there is no St. Petersburg, Moscow has not occupied Novgorod, and the countries of Russia have not yet been unified.

The Ming Dynasty built a naval fortress and a trading market in the location of St. Petersburg in the later generations, Petrograd Island and Vasily Island.

The main function of this trade market is to trade with the eastern countries of the Hanseatic League, including the Nordic countries including Sweden.

In the large area west of the Ural Mountains, there are rich fur, cotton and various minerals.Through the Volga River, Neva River, Volkhov River and other rivers, trade channels between the two places can be opened up.

After Ming Dynasty occupied Moscow, the Nordic countries were already afraid.They sent a peace treaty to Ming through the Hanseatic League's trade relationship with Monte.

In the treaty, they promised to take Ming as the suzerain, allow Ming to trade freely within the scope of the Hanseatic League, pay a certain amount of goods to Daming every year, and obtain Ming's protection.

In the beginning, only the eastern countries of the Hanseatic League participated. Because of the fall of Novgorod and Pskov, Ming had actually controlled it.

But when the Ming soldiers forced the Principality of Kiev, and the coalition forces could only passively defend in front of the Ming Dynasty, more and more countries joined this range.

However, due to the backwardness of communication, the information was not sent to Daming territory until the end of the year.At this time, Ming had already occupied most of Ukraine.

Although the Ming Dynasty was powerful, it fought from the east of the Caspian Sea to Kiev, and from the Ural Mountains to the Baltic Sea.But in fact, Daming can't be regarded as occupying this place.

Because there are too few soldiers in Ming Dynasty.

Daming sent a total of more than 40 troops this time, but less than half of them were soldiers from various countries in the Western Regions, and Ming's soldiers were only 25.

But from the west of the Ural Mountains all the way to Ukraine, this is tens of millions of square kilometers of land.

This is equivalent to the area of ​​China, but there are only about 20 people there.

With only these 20 people, it is impossible to form a rule, only to maintain deterrence.

The number of people in Daming is still too small, and it can't be managed there at all.Therefore, Ming's strategy from the very beginning was to kill and deter, not to establish a ruling structure.

Now, the strategic goal has been achieved, and the Lithuanians, Poles, and Germans are all frightened and fled westward in a hurry.

And in Russia and Ukraine in later generations, the blood that has been killed has also flowed into rivers.

Everyone was already afraid of Daming, and now the number of people on such a large piece of land has decreased by nearly half.

Although there are still far more people hidden in the jungle than the Daming people, they have lost their ruling structure and constraints, and cannot pose a threat.

Daming can't do anything now, because there are only more than 20 people, and once they are dispersed, they may still fall into the sea of ​​people.

Ukraine and Russia have already been occupied, and the fruits of war today have already made Daming indigestible.

If the land here is to become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it may take hundreds of years and ten generations of hard work.

Therefore, most countries have already sued for peace. If Ming Dynasty continues to be aggressive and kill them all, it will cause ethnic conflicts, which will not be conducive to the subsequent digestion process.

It is no longer in the fundamental interests of Ming Dynasty to continue to expedite the Western Expedition when it has been able to maintain the suppression of the whole of Europe.

Stopping the pace of war now and adjusting the tilt of domestic resources will not cause too much dispute.

With an absolute advantage, stopping the Western Expedition will also prevent all ethnic groups from treating Ming Dynasty as the source of disaster.

Both internal and external influences are good.

Therefore, in the New Year's Daily on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the full text of Zhu Zhanji's imperial decree was published on the front page.The main meaning is to stop the westward expedition, consolidate the fruits of the war, and then encourage the people of Ming Dynasty to move westward. As long as they pass, they will distribute land and production materials, tax exemption for three years, and tax reduction for five years.

Although the imperial decree published in plain text had some effect, it was not very attractive to most Ming people.

Because everyone knows that it is a place of bitter cold, and instead of migrating to the extreme west, it is better to migrate to Dongzhou, which is a real granary and a treasure of heaven and earth.

Zhu Zhanji had no choice but to use the method of later generations, which is to establish production and construction corps in Russia and Ukraine.

The land over there is sparsely populated, and guards are established in areas with fertile land, and the guards are used to stabilize the rule.

Of course, there are still some differences, that is, the imperial court is going to bleed a lot and provide tractors and other farming tools for the production and construction corps over there.

No matter how much land there is, the production capacity of each household is limited. Only with tractors can each household plant more land and have more harvests.

In addition, Zhu Zhanji is also planning to implement the policy of returning farmland to forests in the country. All the land on both sides of the road and the river will not be allowed to be cultivated, and trees will be planted.

In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River region, once the conversion of farmland to forests is implemented, many farmers will lose their land, and they will have to migrate outside.

Especially in Shaanxi and Shanxi, where the desertification situation is not too serious, the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi is still a prairie, with green mountains and green waters everywhere.

If we continue to reclaim wasteland, it will become a wasteland for future generations. Now that there is abundant food, it will not cause too much shock if we implement the conversion of farmland to forest and accelerate the pace of industrialization.

However, the implementation of this policy is not so simple, because it involves the interests of thousands of households, even nobles and officials.Without comprehensive compensation measures, it will only make this policy impossible to implement.

However, if the farmland is converted to forests nationwide, the land in different regions is not the same, and the yields are not the same, so it is necessary to formulate corresponding and reasonable compensation measures.

Don't worry about scarcity but inequality. Any national policy needs to be evaluated and balanced by multiple parties before it can be formulated.

As for Tang Sai'er and Zheng Ying, if they don't have the support of the imperial court, they can't continue to attack westward at all.

In terms of firepower, the Ming army was unstoppable, but the number of these soldiers was too small.

It is impossible for several 10 people to occupy tens of millions of square kilometers of land.

Now they are fighting smoothly, but they are only fighting with the main force of the coalition forces, and they don't care about those small towns and cities at all.

In name, Daming occupied these areas, but if they couldn't even control the output of this land, it wouldn't be regarded as real occupation.

Therefore, after receiving the imperial order, they stayed safely in Moscow and Kiev to strengthen their local control.

Being able to enjoy the benefits of victory without having to work hard, even the army has no objection.

The only one who is a little bit unwilling is Guo Ang. He still doesn't know whether he can replace Cheng Anbo with Cheng Anhou due to his own merits.

After the 42nd year of orthodoxy, new policies were formulated.In addition to the necessary supply of ammunition, Zhu Zhanji asked Tang Saier and Zheng Ying to pay for food nearby, and no longer spend huge manpower and material resources to transport food to the west.

Only those merchants, after Daming had already occupied that area, began to provide various commodities there.

And when they come back, they often bring back the special products there. All kinds of fur are very popular in Daming.

The country of Ming Dynasty tends to be calm, but because this war is not yet over, Europe today is like a boiling oil pan.

Monte made another trip to Europe last spring, and it was time for him to go back in the summer.

But when a fight broke out in the East, Monte was stopped in Cologne by envoys from various countries.

Of course, these people didn't want to rob Monte, but wanted to get some information from him about what the Emperor of Ming wanted to do.

If there is another catastrophe 200 years ago, Ming Dynasty will be much stronger than the former Mongolian Yuan, and no country has the confidence to resist the army of Ming Dynasty.