Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 496

At the same time when the Allied Forces of the Five Nations invaded Spain, drastic changes also took place in Eastern Europe.

In order to compete for Ukraine, Tsarist Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth waged the Russo-Polish War, and the Swedes who took advantage of the fire also entered Poland, resulting in the most famous Polish "Great Flood Era" in history.

Before undergoing profound reforms, Russia was a backward country in the East that European countries looked down on. The nobles and commoners here were ignorant and uneducated, and their strength was not strong.They live in a cold place, and there is not much to praise.

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is undoubtedly the eastern power.

Tsarist Russia and Sweden have joined forces and have acquired a large area of ​​territory. Tsarist Russia is preparing to reap a victory that will greatly increase its strength and gradually build itself into a European power.

It was just at this juncture that a major change occurred.

Xiqing is here.

Since mid-1665, Feyancourt led his already very large Eight Banners to the lower Volga River Basin and clashed with the Russians who had initially begun to colonize here.At first the Russians were alert to this and sent several armies to get rid of these Tatars.It is obvious that all these Russian troops were defeated.

Feiyanggu, with Chenglin as the commander-in-chief, led a total of 27000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, with a small number of new troops as the main force, and the Eight Banners of the Guards as the main force, and marched towards Moscow, the capital of Tsarist Russia.The keen Poles immediately discovered this favorable situation. King Jan Kazimierz (John II) immediately crossed the Dnieper River and met with Feyangu, the commander-in-chief of the Western Qing Dynasty, to establish the Qing-Polish alliance.

Chenglin led the Qing army, and with the cooperation of the Polish army and pro-Polish Cossacks, they repeatedly defeated the Russian army and successively captured many important Russian towns.And basically wherever they went, the Qing army slaughtered Russian nobles and robbed all kinds of supplies. After many failures, the Russian army did not even dare to take the initiative to fight the Qing army.

At the end of the war, even John II found out that this Tatar force, which was said to be driven out by Ming from the Far East, actually had a military force similar to that of Ming. Their new army had a very powerful force. Firepower, even with a large number of cavalry charging, it is difficult to achieve any obvious effect, not to mention that the Qing army has established its own huge cavalry unit, and it is difficult for Polish or Cossack cavalry to shake them.

John II was a little timid and did not continue to send troops to cooperate with the Qing army.So when Chenglin arrived at the gates of Moscow, they were alone.

But Cheng Lin was not worried at all about being taken by the enemy. The Qing army's combat mode was like locusts, and no grass grew in the crossing.The Qing army almost destroyed the towns and villages of the Russians all the way. All the nobles and lords were basically slaughtered, and the local people, mainly serfs, were incorporated into the Eight Banners.

Whether it is Russia or the Poles, they are very inhumane to the serfs. The life of the serfs is miserable. Now their master has been killed. Although the new master is very vicious, he relieved them.Wen He, Feiyangu's main strategist, also came up with an idea. Wen He believed that the Eight Banners had been implementing the feudal serfdom system for a long time, which was no problem when they migrated and nomadic, but now every inch of land they laid down would be destroyed. To become the territory of the new Qing Dynasty in the future, if you want to make every effort to govern, you must further reform the Eight Banners system.

After all, this civil official who had received the influence of capitalism directly proposed the idea of ​​transforming the Eight Banners into capitalism, that is, transforming the personal attachment of the feudal serf system into an implicit personal attachment similar to capitalist interest groups.The Eight Banners will achieve 100% "land nationalization", build large farms, and then let the original serfs sell their labor for production.By changing the way of distribution, to promote the production enthusiasm of these serfs.The other is to use the Eight Banners as the investor to invest in different industries and companies, and then reinvest the proceeds to expand production and distribute them to the banners as income.These ideas of Wenhe have actually been planned for several years, and his ambition is to help Fei Yanggu directly transition from a tribe to a modern capitalist country.

Therefore, Chenglin led his troops to fight in the front, while the Feiyanggu faction gently and continuously gathered Russian serfs from behind, and took over the land to form Eight Banner Farms, and filled it with original Banner slaves from Mongolia and Inner Asia, allowing them to farm and herd. .In fact, this so-called Eight Banners Farm has the shadow of learning from the agricultural cooperatives of the Ming Dynasty, but it does not give the land to the farmers, but allows the serfs to indirectly obtain the means of production, but uses the farm as an institution to completely monopolize the farmers' production results, thus forming a state levels of exploitation.

Even if the Russian army wants to take action against the Eight Banners, Feiyanggu has millions of people behind him and there are still a large number of troops. The Russian army cannot defeat them at all.

As many as 11 Russian troops have gathered in Moscow. Even Tsar Alexei did not even defend important towns such as Smolensk, which he had just captured a few years ago, and directly mobilized large armies to defend Moscow.Since the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the country has not faced such a crisis.

Outside the city, the army led by Cheng Lin was already in formation. His troops even had more cavalry than infantry. Most of the cavalry had been equipped with muskets. Although their technical levels were uneven, they were still quite lethal.The most powerful is the new army that Cheng Lin placed in the center, with more than 80 artillery pieces and all Hanyang-made rifles, which are very powerful.On the periphery of the position, the Cossack cavalry who had newly defected to Xiqing were active.

Beside Cheng Lin, there were also several officers with blond or brown braids.Among them were Georgians, Kazakhs, Kalmyks, Tatars, and Ukrainians.Compared with the Ming people who paid special attention to their own culture and clothes, these guys with a certain nomadic color did not care about dragging a big braid at all, as long as they were in the camp of the strong.

Chenglin held a telescope and could even clearly see the faces of the panicked Russians on the castle.He was always silent, as if waiting for the stormy attack to begin.

In the past two years in the Remnant Qing Dynasty, sometimes he would become confused, and sometimes he would not be able to distinguish whether he was an agent hiding from the enemy, or a bannerman who really shouldered the important task of revitalizing the Qing Dynasty.However, even if he didn't want to admit it, being able to personally participate in turning a country that was already at the end of the road from migrating nomadic tribes to what is now about to become a new empire is enough to be proud of.

Before he set off, Feyancourt held his hand and said to him enthusiastically: "Destroy Moscow, make you a ****, and you will be honored forever for generations to come!"

It's just that he didn't think about it, that the prison he wanted to seal was exactly the hidden stake that Bai Mingxiu placed beside him to control Xiqing's trend.

(End of this chapter)