Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 467 Conquering and Unifying the European Continent
As Zhu Chu ascended the throne, the reign title also transitioned from Hongwu to Yongchang, and later in the year it came to the second year of Yongchang.

The entire Ming Dynasty is undergoing comprehensive reforms in full swing.

Those policies were quickly promulgated and implemented.

There is no way, this is not some other minister who wants to change the law, this is the new emperor himself who is changing the law.

Even if someone wants to defy the odds, they have to think about whether their neck is strong enough and whether the heads of the nine tribes are strong enough.

As for making suggestions.

Zhu Ming is not an arbitrary emperor. You can mention it, but it is his choice whether to listen or not. At the same time, when you mention it, don't forget to do the work.

It's better not to mention it, because it's meaningless.

However, since the end of last year, it has been decided to implement a tax policy with a single whip. At least the people will have a good year at the end of the year and no longer have to worry about all kinds of messy taxes and corvee.

Gradually, the people first understood the benefits and naturally supported the New Deal.

Even military reform has begun to be expected.

According to Zhu Chu's regulations, the recruitment time in various places was set to start in May and end in July.

There are several considerations involved.

First of all, the busy work of spring plowing will not be delayed. After all, there are three months of May, June, and July, which is enough time to finish the spring plowing before deciding whether to join the army.

The second is Zhu Chu's imperial examination. Last year's imperial examination was completed in June.

It is equivalent to saying that if those children fail to pass the exam and become scholars, they can still choose to develop in the military.

This year is the first conscription plan after the military reform.

If all goes well, it will be fixed and become a tradition from now on.

And there is no need to worry about the situation where the army is too large and becomes a burden.

If one day there is no need for so many troops, they can also be laid off. Even if some soldiers are reinstated and returned to their places, they will also be given severance pay.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Ming is just copying those mature modern systems.

He even plans to provide literacy training to recruits after the military reform stabilizes, that is, to make them read and write. In addition to physical training, they also need to undergo ideological transformation.

At least they must be sensible and know how to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country. Otherwise, if something like Wu Sangui happens, a mere border general can cause the entire army to mutiny, defect to the Manchus and lure the Qing troops into the border, right?
Tens of thousands of border officers and soldiers chose to follow blindly.

This is one of the shortcomings of the ancient army. The soldiers only knew their immediate superiors, but did not know the emperor. For example, the Yue Family Army and the Qi Family Army only obeyed their own generals instead of obeying the emperor's orders.

Including Lan Yu's death, there was also a way to kill him. Lan Yu had adopted many adopted sons in the army and turned the Ming army into his private army.

Is it okay?
The entire army only knows Lan Yu but not Emperor Hongwu. Who will die if you don’t die?

However, the results will not be seen until these are implemented.

In March of the first year of Yongchang, with the arrival of spring, the western battlefield began to start again.

The first is Zhu Zhu. Zhu Zhu's seventh brother is also considered brave and resourceful, and he is really reckless.

I dare to believe that this guy, without a map, wiped out the Malay Peninsula after wiping out Annam, Nanjang, Siam, and the Angkor Dynasty (Cambodia) in its final stages.

This is where Malaysia and Singapore were later located.

Afterwards, he crossed the Strait of Malacca and led an army to invade Sumatra Island in one fell swoop, easily bulldozing the country of Sumatra.

This is not finished.

Because the island groups in the South China Sea are almost all close together, they don't even need big ships. I wish they could build a chain of bridges and go directly there.

So Zhu Su continued to lead his troops to the island of Java and crushed the Indonesia of later generations.

Then Zhu Shu pushed all the way to Bali, and even hit all the surrounding islands.

In the end, Zhu Shu discovered that according to the map he had seen from Lao Shiba, continuing south seemed to be the so-called Australian continent?
However, Zhu Shu did not rush to the so-called 'discovery of the New World'. Instead, he turned back, looked at the already surrounded Luzon Islands, and started fighting again.

Yongchang's good start in the second year was the good news that Zhu Shu was sent back to the capital.

In less than half a year, or even only three months, all the countries in the South China Sea Islands were wiped out.

And in the end, Zhu Shu successfully set foot on the Australian mainland.

It is a fertile, unexplored and undiscovered world.

Although there are aborigines on the Australian continent, those aborigines are still in primitive society, so how can they be the opponents of the Ming Dynasty's elite.

So Zhu Shu began to fully occupy the Australian continent without encountering any setbacks.

Zhu Chu also quickly discovered from the system that the Australian continent was also rapidly being dyed red.

Zhu Su's side has made great achievements, and Zhu Bai's side is naturally not far behind.

Led Fu Youde and other generals, and hundreds of thousands of troops, they set out directly from India, and then joined Wang Fu and Zhu Quan who had arrived on the battlefield in the Western Regions.

Zhu Quan brought Zhu Chu's strategic plan. Originally, Zhu Chu wanted Zhu Shu and Zhu Bai to advance simultaneously to the Middle East and the African continent.

But now that Zhu Shu has arrived on the Australian continent, his plan cannot keep up with the changes, so he can only develop the Australian continent first.

"It doesn't matter. I will bring my own army, and Ying Guogong (Fu Youde) will lead another army. We can also advance together," Zhu Bai said confidently.

He has also led troops to suppress bandits and put down rebellions. Now he has experienced several major battles, and he is full of confidence.

At this time, the Ming army not only had many soldiers and generals, but also had sufficient food and grass. It even had weapons that were lower-dimensional and strike-level than those of other countries at the same time.

If you don’t have confidence yet, don’t mess around.

Zhu Quan and Wang Fu also had a clear division of labor. Wang Fu took Cen Hua as his deputy general and prepared to use troops against the Golden Horde.

Zhu Quan, with Zhao Kuo as his deputy general, prepared to conquer the Ottoman Empire.

"Since they dare to provoke our Ming Dynasty, they must be mentally prepared and pay the price for it," Zhu Quan randomly found a reason.

In fact, even if the Ottoman Empire and the Golden Horde did not collude, the Ming Dynasty would continue to expand.

Now that we have reached this point, it is really unreasonable not to conquer the whole world once.

The atmosphere has been heightened. Everyone will be disappointed if Zhu Zhen does not become the leader of the global village.

At the same time, Zhu Fan and Zhu Gui had also begun to invade the European plains from the Western Siberian Plains. The first one to bear the brunt was the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

The Grand Duchy of Moscow was the predecessor of the Tsarist Empire, but today's Grand Duchy of Moscow is naturally not comparable to the later Tsarist Empire.

When the Ming army came to the city, Grand Duke Vasily I of Moscow was still lucky, thinking that he could get support from the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

However, today's Grand Duchy of Moscow is really just a small country, and the Ming army is coming fiercely. Under the baptism of continuous artillery, it did not even last for a day, and Lao Maozi surrendered.

Later, Zhu Fan and Zhu Gui divided their troops into two places. Zhu Fan led his army straight to Poland, while Zhu Gui went north to attack Finland.

Suddenly, the whole of Europe was shocked.

Originally, all European countries were staring at the Hundred Years War between England and France, but who would have thought that a fire would break out in the back garden.

In addition, the Ottoman Empire and the Golden Horde have also launched a full-scale war with the Ming army, and the war has swept around the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.

Even the Hundred Years War between Britain and France temporarily ceased due to Ming's strong invasion of the European battlefield.

European countries held emergency meetings.

Although there are dozens of countries on the European continent, the relationship between European countries is actually complicated and chaotic.

For example, there are many classes in Europe. It is impossible for nobles to marry commoners. The story of Cinderella is really just a fairy tale.

Especially the top nobles will only marry with nobles of the same level.

So it will happen that the royal family of this country will marry the royal family of another country.

You will find a very strange phenomenon. Although the war between Britain and France has been going on for a hundred years, the two royal families have actually been married more than once. The two royal families are even related.

Even almost all royal families in Europe are more or less related to each other.

Especially in the face of the pressure from the powerful and unrivaled Ming army, the European Union was almost born in advance.

Representatives of royal families from various European countries gathered together to discuss how to deal with this matter.

Britain and France were originally hostile to each other, but in the end they had to pinch their noses and shake hands to make peace. The war was temporarily mediated, and they were ready to unite with the outside world. As a result, it was rare for European countries to form a large army. This was larger than the Crusades, with a total of 200,000 troops.

Well, it is said that the largest number of troops in the Crusades was about 100,000.

However, these are knights, the so-called aristocratic class, and believers with firm beliefs. Naturally, they are different from the 'ordinary people' who often number dozens or millions.

I just don’t know if the God they believe in can protect them from being killed.

As the European Union's 200,000 troops quickly entered the frontline battlefield, Zhu Fan felt the pressure.

But don't forget that Zhu Fan and Zhu Gui each commanded 500,000 Mongolian steppe soldiers, and a total of 1 million lions were committed to the European battlefield. This was a force intended to sweep across Europe.

Although Zhu Fan only led an army of 500,000 tiles, he was not afraid of 200,000 European cavalry.

On the contrary, it was the first time that the Europeans saw the riding and shooting capabilities of the Mongolian cavalry, and they were caught off guard at first.

In the eyes of Europeans, they are nobles, and a duel between knights is naturally fair and just. Everyone forms a formation, then holds a spear, rides against each other on horseback, and assassinates each other.

But how could Zhu Fan and the Mongolian cavalry care about this? Do they want to throw you a white glove?

So when the Mongolian cavalry charged, they first fired a volley of bows and arrows, and then shot and killed countless European knights.

It was the European knights' heavy armor that prevented them from being wiped out in one fell swoop.

Then when the two sides fought head-on, the European knights discovered that they were all heavily armored cavalry. Although they were protected by thick armor, they lost the flexibility and maneuverability of the cavalry.

On the contrary, the Mongolian cavalry went into battle lightly and usually left with one blow, giving full play to the performance of the cavalry.

They were both cavalry troops, but the European knights were extremely clumsy. They were quickly surrounded by the Mongolian cavalry and were led around.

This is not an exaggeration. In fact, Genghis Khan led the Mongolian cavalry all the way to Eastern and Central Europe. In fact, looking at the territories of the Golden Horde and Timur Empire in the later period, you can already feel the terrifying strength of the Mongol Empire at that time. .

Even in the later stages, the Ottoman Empire, which could suppress the Byzantine Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire, was almost destroyed by Timur.

Therefore, the Mongolian cavalry did have many advantages when facing European knights.

The first is the riding and shooting ability of the Mongolian cavalry, and the second is that the Mongolian cavalry is better at this, and the huge gap in the strength of the two sides must also be considered.

This made Zhu Fan simply overwhelmed. He quickly grasped the situation and opened the encirclement net to eat up the 200,000 knights formed by the European Union.

These knights were worthy of being nobles, and they did not surrender until the end.

It's not that they were so bloody, it was because the two sides couldn't understand each other's language. Even if someone shouted to surrender, Zhu Fan and the Mongolian cavalry didn't understand.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Fan can't even understand the Mongolian spoken by many Mongolians. If you tell him the 'dialects' of several European countries, who can understand him?

What's more, French and German are considered to be the more difficult languages ​​in the world to learn.

The battle lasted for three days and three nights. Even if the European knights huddled together and defended in formation, they were still completely wiped out by the Mongolian cavalry led by Zhu Fan.

This also symbolizes that Europe has almost lost its power to resist.

Zhu Gui's side also went well.

In fact, Finland at this time should belong to Sweden, and Sweden was in an alliance with the three kingdoms of Norway and Denmark.

It is equivalent to saying that Zhu Gui is fighting with three countries at the same time.

But Zhu Gui and Zhu Fan had equal military strength, and their ability to lead troops in battle was not inferior to that of his third brother.

Since Zhu Fan can defeat 200,000 knights from all over the EU on another battlefield, why would Zhu Gui care about the 'merely' three European kingdoms?

So the war was about to break out, and Zhu Gui set up dozens of artillery pieces to bombard the European kingdom's Western-style castles indiscriminately.

Such fire-covering suppression and strikes quickly shattered the morale of the Europeans. Then hundreds of thousands of Mongolian cavalry were used to charge, and the three kingdoms surrendered one after another.

No one expected that the Hundred Years War between Britain and France would be successfully stopped by the Ming Dynasty, which also broke the separatist situation in Europe. Dozens of countries, dozens of kings and royal families became prisoners one after another.

Nowadays, there is no difference between them. They are all provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

Later, Wang Fu and Zhu Quan also pacified the Golden Horde and the Ottoman Empire, and two huge Ming armies entered Europe, shocking all Europeans.

Why does this mysterious Eastern country have such terrifying strength?

In fact, there are many differences caused by cultural and other factors.

For example, just over thirty years ago, a large-scale plague epidemic broke out across Europe, also known as the Black Death.

It is said that 25 million people died in Europe, accounting for one-third of the total population of Europe.

It can be called a tragedy for mankind.

If Zhu Chu were here, he would probably say that 25 million force points were wasted.

Aside from this terrible plague, the build-up of troops in Europe was also different.

In fact, in the Central Plains dynasties, the practice of recruiting young men has been practiced in all dynasties.

In Europe, it is generally believed that even ordinary soldiers are superior and not something that ordinary people can become casually, especially knights, which are the lowest noble class. How can anyone be a knight?
Therefore, even though there are militiamen in Europe, in terms of military quality, ordinary European soldiers are absolutely incomparable to the Ming and Mongolian soldiers.

The only ones who can really be regarded as fighting prowess are those knights.

And these 200,000 knights are already the strength gathered by all of Europe.

As a result, they were completely crushed by the Ming army.

Next comes the full takeover of the continent.

The first thing to do is to change the situation and return to the current situation.

Through Zhu Fan and other brothers, Zhu Chu infected the land of Europe with red. The aristocracy was liquidated and bloodbathed. In addition to the wealth of the royal families of various countries being preserved, Europe was undergoing a huge land, reform, and movement (a few words are enough). split).

In fact, the common people in Europe are no different, they are all being squeezed by the nobles.

Many people think that European people will be very happy.

But in fact, European people also eat black bread mixed with wood chips, small stones, sand and other debris.

Even many people do not have their own stoves, or stoves, at home.

They did not have the tools to bake bread at home, so they could only eat hard black bread.

As for soup?

Do you still drink soup?

It would be nice to drink some water.

In addition, European people did not have the opportunity to read and read. That was the power only the aristocrats had. Even aristocratic families had to donate a certain amount of money to the church before they could send their children to study in the church.

Speaking of this church, the first thing Zhu Fan, Zhu Gui, and Zhu Quan brothers had to do after they got together was to completely abolish it.

Divine right of kings? The power of the church and the pope were even more powerful than the emperor at one time?
So much so that the king of a certain country wanted to divorce his wife and was almost deposed.

The three brothers laughed, so when the contemporary pope went to the toilet one day, he accidentally fell and drowned in the toilet.

That scene was daunting.

Later, countless so-called red archbishops also died mysteriously. In addition, the Mongols under the Ming army recklessly demolished many churches, which once caused panic and resistance among the people.

Finally, in order to appease the European people, the three kings of the Zhu family announced that if you must believe, then believe in Confucianism and Taoism.

Taoism emphasizes governance by doing nothing, and Confucianism emphasizes benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom, and trust. How wonderful this is.

Later, when this incident was reported back to the Central Plains, the Confucian scholars couldn't believe it. They co-authored Zhu Zhen to suppress Confucianism in the court, and instead went abroad to promote Confucianism, right?

In fact, what Zhu Zhen was targeting was not Confucianism, but the dross of Confucianism.

If you are benevolent, righteous, propriety, wisdom and trustworthy, then of course you are worthy of praise.

But you insist on using the Zhou rites of establishing a direct descendant to point fingers at me, the emperor. Good guy, how many heads do you have that you are not afraid of me cutting off?

Isn’t that what you said, Lord of Heaven and Earth, Master?

Therefore, many things cannot be generalized, but are multi-faceted.

At this point, Europe was conquered and unified.

(PS: One million words skipped.)
(End of this chapter)