Chapter 626: Marching into Western Sichuan and planning for the plateau (please subscribe!)

Author: Linjiangjun

Chapter 626: Marching into Western Sichuan and planning for the plateau (please subscribe!)

"Rakshasa soldiers? Are you kidding me?"

Pedro II mocked on the spot, "What qualifications do you white-skinned Mongols have to join the Crusades?"

If not for the fact that Rakshasa had joined the Holy Alliance with Shinra, they would not have been allowed to participate in this meeting at all.

Queen Mother Maria also smiled and said: "Yes, this is a matter for us Europeans, you barbaric Mongols."

"Ahem, please let me say a few words!"

The Queen Mother of Spain was mercilessly interrupted. She was very angry and wanted to see that bastard who dared to interrupt her. She turned around and saw only an Oriental man wearing a weird robe, with a

Long braids look really ugly.

"Who is this rude Oriental?" Queen Mother Maria asked.

"I am a barbaric Mongolian!"

Of course this person is Suo Etu!

He could now speak Latin fluently, and he shouted loudly: "I am the ambassador of Kangxi Khan of the Holy Qing Mongol Empire!"

It turns out he is from Kangxi, so forget it.

The Qing Dynasty was the main force against the Ming Dynasty. Since they had a large number of troops in Tianzhu, stationing in southern Tianzhu would depend on their appearance.

In fact, Kangxi also wanted Nan Tianzhu, but felt that he could not defeat Zhu Kezang alone, so he lured the wolf into the house.

Suo'etu said: "In fact, five thousand Cossack cavalry and 10,000 Turgut cavalry from the Rakshasa Kingdom have entered Tianzhu. Although there are only 5,000 this time, the total is 20,000. Who of you is not convinced?

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It’s okay if you don’t accept it. If you don’t accept it, you can’t go to Nantianzhu to steal money!

Queen Mother Maria was so annoyed that those white-skinned Mongolians now had a backstage, so she could only hold her nose and admit it.

The Pope nodded helplessly, and then asked the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of Poland present: "His Majesty the Emperor, King Jan III, do you want to participate in the Crusade in the Southern Tianzhu expedition?"

"Of course the Holy Roman Empire will participate in the Crusades, but we have no time to send troops to the war in Southern Tianzhu."

Leopold I said worriedly, "The Germans must take up arms to defend their homeland, and we can only rely on ourselves!"

In his heart, Leopold cursed William III, Queen Mother Maria, and Pedro II to death, these unloyal guys.

Especially that William III, who had sworn to him a while ago, but then changed his face during the meeting, which was really shameless.

After being confused by these three guys, what was originally said to be defending Europa turned into going to grab territory in South Tianzhu.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Poles will always stand with the Germans!" Jan III Sobieski certainly supported the HRE.

The Holy Roman Empire is located in Central Europe, and the Kingdom of Poland is located in Eastern Europe. The two countries are neighboring countries.

Moreover, both the Kingdom of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire were the biggest obstacles to Ottoman expansion. Once the Holy Roman Empire was destroyed at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Poland would be in a critical situation.

Therefore, when the Holy Roman Empire faces a critical moment of life and death crisis, Poland will definitely take action.

Of course, after the Ottoman threat disappeared, the relationship became more delicate, so much so that Poland was partitioned three times in history.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, since you want to join the Crusade, if you don't have anyone else, then you can only contribute some military expenses or food?"

The Pope had no intention of letting the big cow go.

Emperor Leopold was too lazy to argue and nodded in agreement.

Pope Innocent XII felt that it was almost the same, and immediately wanted to end the meeting and said: "I now declare that for the sake of justice and justice, we, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, France, Rakshasa, the Holy Roman Empire, Poland and Lithuania, eight

The armies of these countries will form a coalition to jointly defeat God’s enemies—the evil Southern Tianzhu countries!”

The Eight-Nation Alliance was established, and the Ming Dynasty in the east also began to cause trouble.

After settling for a while, Ming Dynasty had a new war goal.

There is a piece of lost ground and it’s time to take it back.

"how?"

Zhu Kezang took the memorial handed over by old eunuch Li, looked at the cover and said, "It's from Western Sichuan?"

When I opened it, I saw that it was the document submitted by Qu Dajun, the governor of Sichuan, and Pan Aqiang, the first guard town.

Qu Dajun is one of the three great Lingnan poets who was previously awarded the title of True Confucian scholar by Zhu Kezang.

In addition to writing good poems, this man was an upright official and was sent to Sichuan, which was also a blessing.

The two of them jointly reported to Zhu Kezang this time: The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is progressing rapidly, has been advanced according to the scheduled project progress, and is expected to be partially accessible soon.

This highway is not simple. Currently, only the western Sichuan section is under construction, because the snowy plateau section does not yet belong to the Ming Dynasty.

Since taking over most of the eastern and central areas of Tianzhu, Zhu Kezang, the map controller, can no longer tolerate such a large area in the middle that does not belong to the Ming Dynasty!

Therefore, through the meeting of Zhen Confucian scholars, the Ming court made a plan to regain the snow-covered plateau.

Zhu Kezang also had a clear understanding of the need to regain the snow-covered plateau, believing that the biggest problem was not the enemy but the road.

Only by repairing the roads and making them look good can the snow-covered plateau be completely brought under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty reluctantly allocated 10 million silver dollars to Sichuan to recover the snow-covered plateau, including plateau troop training, road construction, and supply transportation.

The bulk of this is naturally road construction.

But Zhu Kezang was also bold and generous. He invested tens of millions of silver dollars in one investment. He was really rich.

It is normal to have money. In the Ming Dynasty, there are more and more house slaves in developed cities. Banks and government officials are making a lot of money, so they naturally have enough money to invest in the infrastructure industry.

In addition, selling scrap weapons to the Ottoman Empire was also a bloody profit.

The subsequent ammunition money can also earn Osman another sum.

The key to regaining the snowy plateau this time is western Sichuan.

The altitude of western Sichuan is over 4,000 meters, which is very suitable for the military to familiarize themselves with altitude sickness.

However, the loss is relatively large and it is easy to kill people.

The transportation line between Sichuan and Tibet is the Ancient Tea Horse Road, which is 1,958 kilometers from Ya'an in Sichuan to Lhasa in Tibet. It relies on yak transportation and can only go back and forth once a year. Traveling on horseback also takes more than half a year.

Tibetans regard tea as an indispensable necessity of daily life because "the food of Tibetans cannot be eaten without tea, and the heat of highland barley cannot be solved without tea."

However, the snow-covered plateau areas where Tibetans live have never produced tea.

In order to transport tea from Sichuan and Yunnan to the snowy areas, and at the same time import local specialties from the snowy areas into the Central Plains, transportation lines mainly focused on the tea trade were cut through by Tibetan and Han merchants, horsemen on their backs, pack teams, and caravans.

Under the thorns, it is opened out.

Since the Tang Dynasty, this trade relationship has mainly been in the form of the exchange of tea from the mainland and horses from the snowy areas, so it was historically called the "Tea-Horse Mutual Market" or "Tea-Horse Trade". Along with this trade, the

The business road was therefore called the “Ancient Tea-Horse Road”.

The Ming Dynasty's construction of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway was also based on the Tea Horse Road, not starting from scratch.

There were as many as 200,000 Ming soldiers and civilians stationed in western Sichuan this time, of which 50,000 were troops, including 10,000 Guardsmen and 40,000 National Defense Forces.

This time, no cannon fodder troops from the annexed countries and annexed areas were recruited, because only an elite force was needed to regain the snowy plateau.
Chapter completed!