Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 696 Why Curse Me
For Xu Da, the first thing that came to his mind was, could it be that Mongolia had produced a figure like Ming?

But this thought was immediately extinguished by him because he saw the vast country with a strange name.

Mongolia is like a... pimple sandwiched between the Soviet Union and China.

However, although the light curtain was magical, what Xu Da saw was only for a moment.

Therefore, although he was trying hard to think about the situation in the future intellectually, he still had a huge sense of alienation instinctively. For example, Li Shanchang next to him had his brows almost twisted into a knot, and he was obviously trying hard to understand the huge colorful map in front of him.

Xu Da thought for a moment, then looked at His Majesty, who was obviously the most familiar with the light curtain among the people present.

Zhu Yuanzhang had stood up again. This was the first time he had seen the distribution of national borders in the future. However, seeing the confusion in Xu Da's eyes and the bewildered faces of other ministers, he pondered for a moment and told the emperor what he knew:
"The country of Portugal, which is located on the far west coast and is well versed in maritime affairs."

The dissemination route of "Xi Yuan Ji Lu" was clearly shown on the maps of later generations, and after being pointed out by Emperor Ming, everyone also saw the inconspicuous country of Portugal.

"Guangmu once said that 30 years after Temujin died of illness, a Portuguese envoy came to China. After returning home, he said that Temujin was also killed by lightning. This was known to later generations."

"Wu Hou also informed me that it took no more than 300 years from the time Portugal sent envoys to the time the navy invaded the East."

"Three hundred years? Wouldn't that mean two hundred years from now for our Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Biao made the same exclamation as Zhu Yuanzhang did when he heard the news, and the news was told to him by Wu Hou, so he did not have any doubts.

"No wonder Dad ordered to collect the sea charts of the Hu Yuan Dynasty, and also to search for and organize shipbuilding workshops and shipbuilders in various places. I thought it was to deal with the Japanese threat, but I didn't expect it to be a precautionary measure."

Tomorrow, Zizi smiled a little more and nodded.

"The Hu Yuan must be destroyed, and the navy must also be managed. Only in this way can we suppress the Japanese threat and guard against the pirates from the far west."

He even felt a little relieved. After all, it seemed that Portugal did not have as strong ships and powerful guns as he had worried.

After all, if the navy was truly unmatched, they could have just invaded the country and done whatever they wanted. Why would they have to take a roundabout way and collude with Japanese pirates like Toyotomi Hideyoshi?
And seeing that Japan was able to achieve a great victory with the firearm bird gun provided by the Portuguese, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of urgency in his heart.

While Emperor Ming was still in deep thought, Li Wenzhong had already jumped out impatiently:
"Your Majesty is wise! I am willing to take on the responsibility and help the Ming Dynasty spread its power abroad and eliminate the invaders on the border!"

Looking at this nephew carefully, I remembered the sense of urgency I had just felt, and a rudimentary idea emerged:
"The matter of pacifying the sea cannot be accomplished overnight."

"If Baoer wants to achieve this goal, he might as well learn firearms first, so that he can..."

Thinking of the future scene of hundreds of cannons blasting at the same time, setting the sky ablaze and overturning the earth, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that this was a bit too much to hope for, so he shook his head and said:

"If it can make it more suitable for placing ships and more conducive to naval warfare, that will be enough."

……

"You mean, what is shown on this light curtain is the appearance of the world?"

Cao Cao wanted to dismiss what he saw on the light curtain as nonsense, but the way Liu Bei and his handsome adviser frowned as they discussed, the way Yun Chang stroked his beard as he watched carefully, and the few pages of "Xi Yuan Ji Lu" he had just seen, all showed that this thing was extraordinary.

So Cao Cao shook his head and asked a different question:
"Is this what you guys discuss in secret every three months?"

"The powerful crossbow and all the unspeakable things were all obtained from here?"

Zhang Fei shook his head very honestly:

"Some of them were directly observed, and some were researched by military advisors."

"But the content of the light curtain is much more than that... We have seen your afterlife before."

"Funeral?"

Cao Cao's heart moved. If Zhang Fei had said this before, he would probably have thought it was an insult, but now that he said this, he was really curious.

How will Cao Cao be evaluated by later generations?

"Yes, about my afterlife." Zhang Fei nodded and counted them one by one on his fingers:
"For example, Meng De, your head was taken away for research, your grave was dug up, and your descendants even went to your grave to read the anti-traitor manifesto."

Cao Cao:......

"Then, your son was sick, your grandson died early, your great-grandson was killed in the street by the Sima family, and then your Cao family was..."

Zhang Fei's enthusiastic finger-breaking was interrupted by Cao Cao's wave of his hand:

"Now that Cao is a prisoner, why are you cursing me, Zhang Fei?"

Scratching his head, Zhang Fei's eyes were full of sincerity:

"Where did I curse you?"

But Cao Cao was no longer fooled by this. He sneered and simply stopped dwelling on it. Instead, he looked up at the huge country and sighed:
"This Su country, the territory is so vast..."

Cao Cao didn't understand the map, but the territory of the Soviet Union was too conspicuous, occupying almost 40% of his field of vision.

But before Cao Cao could finish his words, he saw this vast territory torn apart.

[The unbreakable alliance wrote a book and a biography for Song Ci, but it eventually fell apart.

Then, the flames of war, which burned even wider, returned to this world and continue to burn to this day. 】

Cao Cao stopped talking and watched the huge country disappear into thin air.

Icons representing soldiers also began to frequently enter the map from outside the map's borders and enter one country after another.

In several countries with larger territories, there are arrows with various meanings pointing outside the borders.

As the numbers in the upper left corner continue to advance, wars rise and fall, but as time slows down, the western map of the once huge country sees war reignited.

[The conflicts among the Slavs can be simply attributed to external and internal factors. The external factors are both well-known and complex, involving the intervention of other countries, color changes, oligarchs' selling out their country, etc., which is not what we are going to talk about.

What we are going to briefly review today is naturally the internal cause, that is, the contradictions among the Slavs, and this contradiction can also be traced back to the era when Song Ci lived. 】

Cao Cao watched as the number in the upper left corner of the map began to shrink again. As the number decreased, the huge country on the map came back and then suddenly disappeared. Hundreds of countries rose and fell, and finally time stopped again. What appeared before him was a "Mongol Empire" whose territory was no less than that of the Soviet Union.

[We have said before that the rise of Genghis Khan was accompanied by the unification of the tribes on the Mongolian Plateau, and the most twists and turns in the conquest process were the tribes of Western Mongolia.

When conquering the Naiman tribe, the Merkit tribe, which had originally surrendered, suddenly rebelled, but in the end the two allied forces were still defeated by Temujin.

The prince of the Naiman tribe fled westward to the Western Liao Kingdom, eventually became a royal consort and successfully usurped the throne, but was ultimately crushed by the Mongolian iron hoofs.

The Merkit tribe was even more capable of running away. After their chief Tokhtoa was killed in battle, his son Hudu led the remaining tribesmen to flee westward across the Caucasus Mountains, entered the territory of the Russians to seek refuge, and were eventually taken in by the Uriankhatai family of the Cumans.

Subutai, who followed closely behind, led his army all the way to the Ural River basin and tried to negotiate with the Mongols to hand over Huodu. However, Yinasi, the ruler of the Cumans, thought that the Mongols were aggressive and advised Temujin to be magnanimous, which led to the war between Subutai and the Cumans.

Later, because Temujin achieved the goal of annihilating Khwarezm, the First Western Expedition ended. Subutai was ordered to return after achieving partial victory, but the feud between the two sides had already been formed.

After Temujin's death and Ogedei's succession to the throne, at the second kurultai, the Mongolian nobles "discussed the eradication and elimination of the remaining rebels", which obviously referred to the Golden Horde.

As a result, the second Mongol invasion of the West began in 1235.

Because the army was led by Temujin's grandson Batu, the eldest sons of the kings joined the expedition, and those below the rank of Ten Thousand Households also sent their eldest sons to lead the army to participate.

Therefore, this Western Expedition is also called the "Eldest Son's Western Expedition."

　I came back late after a long trip, so I’ll post one chapter first. The second chapter will be coming soon.

　　
　
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