I'm really not the carpenter emperor

"It will take at least three years to complete the construction of this fortress, and I heard that the army of the Ming Empire has already defeated the Kingdom of Jin and Mongolia and expanded to Hulun Lake."

The captain's eyes flickered with impatience, but he didn't say anything. He snorted coldly, "Since you think so, then report it to the chief patriarch and let him make a decision!"

The news quickly spread back to Moscow, and Patriarch Feratley was overjoyed when he heard about it.

Feratelli dreamed of conquering the Chukchi people and making them part of the Guangrou Tsarist Empire. The most important thing is that the northern mountainous area where the Chukchi people are located has extremely rich fur resources.

Now that the Little Ice Age is getting worse, the temperature is getting lower every day, Russia's demand for fur is increasing, and the existing domestic production is seriously insufficient.

If this continues, it will be difficult for them to even survive, so why are they talking about expansion?

Therefore, conquering the Chukchi people and taking down the northern mountains of Guangrou was the main direction of expansion for Tsarist Russia in the past ten years.

However, the Chukechi people in the northern mountainous area, as they were called in the Ming Dynasty, actually belonged to the Beishan Jurchen tribe, who originally belonged to Hewei, the capital of Nuergandu Siwu.

Now that Ming is actively restoring the territory of Nuer Gandusi, the northern mountainous area is naturally regarded as the inherent territory of Ming.

In this way, Tsarist Russia's eastward expansion route is bound to collide with Ming Dynasty.

Such a collision may not be imminent, but it will definitely happen within the next ten years. Feratelli doesn't understand this. He only knows that the northern mountainous area must be won.

Even if it's just for the fur there...

In fact, in addition to the furs that Tsarist Russia is in urgent need of, the northern mountainous area where the Chukchi people live is also an excellent industrial area.

After the exploration of Ivantov, the most famous geographer in the Russian Empire, the northern mountainous area is the natural origin of ivory, leather and fur.

The fur in the northern mountains can not only meet the large demand for fur in the Russian Empire now and for many years to come, it is also an important node for improving the empire's finances and exporting fur to Europe.

Therefore, an important stronghold integrating a fortress and a city must be built in the middle reaches of the Lena River.

There can be industries such as wood processing, coal mining, light industry, food and building materials, as well as ship repairing factories, building material factories, furniture factories, leather and shoe factories, clothing factories, dairy factories, breweries, sausage factories, Candy factory, macaroni factory, combined fish and meat processing factory.

Once this fortress is completed, it will be an important fulcrum for the expansion of the Russian Empire to the Far East. Supplies can be obtained locally, or planted here, and continuously sent to the front line.

Therefore, Feratelli did not discuss with Tsar Mikhail, but chose to make such an important decision directly by himself.

According to Firatley's description, the Russian Empire will build a large-scale city in the middle reaches of the Lena River. This city integrates industrial areas and fortresses, and will be an important transportation hub in the empire.

He named this unbuilt city - Yakutsk!

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Just as the Russian Empire was trying to build the fortress Yakutsk in order to expand eastward and conquer the Chukchi people, the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty, the Forbidden City in Beijing, was also conducting a meeting that had a decisive impact on the entire world structure.

In the winter of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the Spanish Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, the United Provinces of the Netherlands and the Holy Roman Empire sent envoys to the capital to meet with Zhu Youxiao.

The theme of the meeting is to establish a military alliance jointly led by five countries, which is called the "Holy Alliance of Eastern and Western Countries to Maintain Stability and Prosperity", and is now called the Five-Nation Alliance.

The leader of the Five Nations Alliance is naturally the Ming Empire where Zhu Youxiao belongs.

Secondly, it has four permanent deacons, the Spanish Empire, the United Provinces of the Netherlands, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania.

Three of these five countries are regional powers.

Although the Spanish Empire was declining under the leadership of Philip IV, and the Armada was repeatedly broken by the British Royal Navy, its colonies were still the most in the world, and its influence was still great.

Not to mention the Holy Roman Empire, which is equivalent to the top power in Europe, similar to the Spanish Empire. It sounds amazing, but it is actually declining, and its influence is decreasing year by year.

Especially after the start of the Thirty Years War, the influence of the Holy Roman Empire was not as great as before. Under such a situation, the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, who succeeded to the throne nine years ago, found that the Catholic League had already lost its power during the war. Being in a disadvantageous situation, he was naturally extremely unwilling. Hearing that the Spanish Empire had concluded a military alliance with the Eastern powers, he had been actively seeking to establish diplomatic relations with Ming Dynasty.

In the eighth year of Apocalypse, it was reunified under the hands of Zhu Youxiao, and the Ming Dynasty, which had almost recovered the territory of the Yongle Dynasty at its peak, had its political influence penetrated into Europe.

And Ferdinand II finally got his wish in the second year and signed a military alliance with Ming.

The five-nation alliance is very interesting. It is said to be an alliance of the Ming Dynasty, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, the Netherlands, and Poland. In fact, it is also a sign that the flames of the 30-year war have reached the east.

Four of the five nations were all supporters of the Catholic League in the Thirty Years War.

The Eighth Volume of Apocalypse

Chapter 943 I'm Not Here

The Forbidden City is full of the first snow in the ninth year of the apocalypse, and as the impact of the Little Ice Age has become more serious, it has become an icehouse.

Fortunately, the imperial court's finances improved a few years ago, and all the palaces were equipped with kangs. The air was bitingly cold, but the palace was still as warm as summer.

Accompanied by the sound of footsteps, four people dressed in strange costumes came out of Xinuange. They were envoys from the Holy Roman Empire, the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, the Spanish Empire and the United Provinces of the Netherlands.

These four people may never have dreamed that they would one day gather in the far east to meet an emperor together.

Walking on the road, all four of them showed satisfied smiles. Obviously, their trip was not in vain, and they all got what they wanted.

After they left, Zhu Youxiao came to the edge of the window eaves, greedily breathing the fresh air outside the window, and as the cold air entered his heart, his whole body became energetic.

"The charcoal-fired kang in the house is much warmer, but the charcoal-fired house always makes people feel chest tight."

As he said that, Zhu Youxiao looked out along the gap, only to see a vast expanse of whiteness outside the imperial garden, and as far as he could see, there were silver flakes falling from the sky, and the sound of birds was absolutely perfect.

The scenery of the imperial palace in winter can be regarded as pleasing to the eye, but he has no intention of appreciating it at all.

Just yesterday I received a report from Zhu Xieyuan, Governor of Liaodong, saying that although the large area of ​​Xinnuer Gandusi's territory has been recovered, it is in urgent need of various supplies.

Prior to this, the DPRK and China had been arguing endlessly over whether to recover all the territory of Nuergandusi, but it was Zhu Youxiao who set the tone for the current situation.

The point of controversy is the same as when Xuanzong abolished Nuergandusi more than 100 years ago. Some officials felt that Nuergandusi was a place of bitter cold, even more bitter than Liaodong.

This place can be taken back, and formalism is enough. It was taken back by Daming in name, but in fact it has to be handed over to the local tribal lord for management.

In this way, Zhu Youxiao can still get the halo of great unification, and the court also saves a lot of manpower and material resources.

Of course, the most important thing is that no one wants to be an official in that dilapidated place. It is cold and far away, and there is nothing. I have studied hard for so many years. Is it to do voluntary labor?

What Zhu Youxiao wanted to do was exactly the opposite of what the courtiers hoped. He wanted the court to form an effective rule in Nuergandusi.

That is, sending troops to station for a long time and governing with officials.

This way of ruling is very different from the imperial court's management of local prisons before the abolition of Nuer Gandusi.

In this regard, the courtiers naturally had to "struggle with reason."

It is of no benefit to the imperial court to really rule Nuer Gandusi, and it will even cause a greater drag.

It reaches the sea in the east, Sakhalin Island in the northeast, the Onan River in the west, the Tumen River in the south, and the Guangrou land in the Outer Xing'an Mountains in the north. If you want to form a stable and effective rule, you need more than millions of people. army and people.

Even if all these problems are solved, what will Nuer Gandusi bring to Daming?

Although the land of Nuergandusi is vast, its resources are pitifully scarce, most of which are wasteland, and the only things that are useful are a large amount of mink fur, wild ginseng, and deer antler.

These things cannot be used by ordinary people, and no country will need them very much if they are used for trade.

Whether Gan Gang is arbitrary or arbitrary, in a word, after Zhu Youxiao made the decision, the slave Gan Dusi was taken back again.

But the next question came again, how to manage it?

After so many years of wars, and the scourge of Jianzhou barbarians, even the Liaodong area has become sparsely populated and a waste of time, not to mention the far north of Nuergandusi.

The Liao army went up all the way, regardless of where the troops were headed, no matter the local aborigines or the escaped pseudo-gold personnel, they all feared surrender and changed their flags.

However, it is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to sit on the country.

The current Nuer Gandusi, apart from bringing Zhu Youxiao a so-called "restoration of great unification" achievement, can almost only serve as a drag on Daming.

Regarding the issue of Nuer Gandusi, Zhu Youxiao has been thinking for several days and nights, and finally feels that it still needs to spend a lot of effort to form a stable and effective rule in the local area.

This is focusing on the long-term, and Zhu Youxiao felt that if he didn't take back the place of Nuer Gandusi, it would be like this in the future.

After myself, it is difficult for anyone to spend energy to manage this place.

Zhu Youxiao is not reconciled to such a large territory, so Maozi is cheap for nothing, and he also has to consider the future of our country, right?

"Zhongxian, tell me, how do you manage the Nuer Gandusi?" Zhu Youxiao walked back to the side of the throne slowly with his hands behind his back, took a sip of the warm tea just poured by Gong'e, and said:

"I suddenly felt, did I make a mistake and shouldn't take it back?"

Wei Zhongxian immediately understood what the emperor meant, and said, "My lord, those ministers are all looking out for their own interests."

"You are thinking about the future of our Ming Dynasty. They are short-sighted, so naturally they can't see it."

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao became interested, and asked with a smile, "You know?"

Wei Zhongxian flattered: "In fact, it's easy to solve. Now the domestic famine is serious, and the land is not harvested. Even the imperial court can't make it up."

"It's better to let those homeless victims migrate to the northern part of Nuer Gandusi, where they will reclaim wasteland and rent farm tools from the imperial court."

"The more people there are, the more prosperous it will be."

This is why Zhu Youxiao likes to talk to Wei Zhongxian. The ministers often choose to contradict Shengyan either for the sake of fame or for their own interests.

But he won't, what he said is always what he wants to hear.

"That's right, what Daming lacks most now is people..." Zhu Youxiao sighed, feeling quite helpless.

Without the premise that the population of [-] million is about to be exceeded, Zhu Youxiao really wouldn't dare to accept the mess of Nuer Gandusi casually.

As for the army, it is easier to deal with it. It is transferred from the mainland and then recruited. Before meeting local needs, the quality of soldiers can be slowed down, and the living can be suffocated to death.

As for the method of management, you can learn from the later generations of the Qing Dynasty, who carried out a large-scale reform of the land in the Nuer Gandu Division, and changed the government to send officials to manage the place.

There is a ready-made plan for the time being, and the four hundred or so guards before the abolition are enough.

Anyway, the current policy says that there is only one big sky, and that wars cannot be fought in vain, and people cannot die in vain. Since Nuer Gandusi has been recovered, there can only be one who has the final say on this vast land.

Not only Nuer Gandusi, but also all provinces in the southwestern part of the country must carry out the mandatory reform of the land and return it to the local people. Now that there is no external threat, it is already possible to flex its muscles!

Those who refuse to accept it will be beaten to the end, and those who want to be hereditary and follow the chieftain's way will be wiped out by them, and then all will be sent to the whole country.

Now, Zhu Youxiao holds a knife in his hand, so naturally he has to prepare in advance, so that the king of future generations will also be the one who holds the knife.

Chapter 944 Developing the Navy

Since it is said that Ming Dynasty will participate in the political structure of the world in the future, in this era of great navigation, it is bound to vigorously develop the navy.

After the first day of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao began to pay attention to the combat effectiveness of the Daming Navy.

In the Great Court Meeting held on the first day, a change that would have a greater impact on the future was made.

The cabinet decided to reduce the annual 1000 million taels invested in the Armaments Department by 300 million taels. The 300 million taels should be used for research on firearms, and all of them were allocated to naval forces in various places.

This is only the first year, and in the second year, there should be an increase in the navy's military expenditure.

Daming's emphasis on the Navy quickly attracted the attention of neighboring countries, but they could only watch, after all, Daming in Zhu Youxiao's hands was not short of money.

Having said that, the Daming Navy has not undergone major changes for many years.

After Renxuan, the navy never won the favor of any emperor. Even in the first ten years of the Tianqi Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about the frontier wars.

In the past ten years, there have been only two major changes in the Ming Dynasty's navy.

First, in the second year of Tianqi, Zhu Youxiao appointed Yuan Keli as the governor of Denglai, and allocated 200 million taels of silver to the Denglai Navy every year as military expenses, allowing it to develop freely.

Second, expand the Fujian Navy to deal with the deteriorating coastal situation.But the main opponent is not the western fleet, but the pirates who often harass the Ming sea.

Other than that, there was no change in the Daming Navy in the next few years.

After setting the tone for the development of the navy this time, the whole world knew that Daming really started to pay attention to the development of navigation.

In the age of great voyages, whether a country has the right to speak or not largely determines whether its navy is strong or not. Unfortunately, apart from the Denglai Navy, the current Ming Dynasty does not have a second naval fleet that can be sold in the whole country.

And even for the Denglai Navy, the current main warship is just a three-masted gunboat that was replaced in the sixth year of the apocalypse. At this time, in the West, a large number of countries have begun to form fleets of battleships.

The development of naval power has reached the point of no delay!

The naval power mainly relies on the combat capabilities of warships and artillery.When it comes to warships, one must know that the largest shipyard in the country is Qingjiangdu Shipyard.

In Zhu Youxiao's eyes, Qingjiang Du Shipyard is not just a simple shipyard.

The general factory of Qingjiang Governor Shipbuilding is located in the area of ​​the famous Qingjiang Gate in the center of Huai'an today. It is located along the canal between Shanyang and Qinghe counties in Huai'an Prefecture. It is named after "Qingjiang" because it is close to the Huai River.

In addition, Qingjiang Du Shipyard has four major factories, Jingwei, Weihe, Zhongdu, and Zhili, and more than [-] branch factories.

Its factory area stretches along the canal, with a total length of more than [-] miles, which shows its grand scale.

Previously, the Fujian Navy had undergone a large-scale expansion. Within one month, it completed the manufacture of nearly a thousand warships, mainly sand ships and Cangshan ships.

The reason why there is such a strong mobilization force is due to the Qingjiang Governor Shipyard, but if you want to develop the navy, just a Qingjiang Shipyard that can manufacture inland water tank ships is not enough.

As we all know, one of Zhu Di's great feats after he came to power was to send Zheng He on seven voyages to the West.

Zheng He led hundreds of large sea-going ships under his command, went out and turned a punch, and established Yongle's maritime hegemony in Southeast Asia.

And these large sea-going ships with extremely deep water cannot be built by Qingjiang Du Shipyard at all. At first, they were built in Nanjing Longjiang Bao Shipyard and Fuzhou Changle Shipyard respectively.