Zhu Youxiao did not plan to achieve anything that could be achieved by advancing westward. He knew that this could only be considered a military operation with a political purpose greater than a military purpose.

The most suitable political purpose is to march westward and this advance westward and be defeated directly or even annihilated.

This is the first time Zhu Youxiao has done this to allow the forces that do not belong to his own interest group to be eliminated in this way.

Doing this may be considered a cruel conspiracy, but Zhu Youxiao had to choose to do so, just as Zhu Youjian chose to end his career as an emperor early.

However, for the current Ming Dynasty, the focus of military strategy was on the south side. Zhu Youxiao was not very concerned about the march westward. Even the Ministry of War still transferred a large amount of war resources to the south according to Zhu Youxiao's instructions.

There were warships gathering in the south, and movements began to occur in the west, while it was very calm outside the northern border.

However, it is not peaceful in the outer Xing'anling and Miaotun, which are further north of the desert and Liaodong.

Mao Wenlong and the Third Brigade of the First Guards Army of the Imperial Guards soon began to reopen the garrison system of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and re-finished some Han people who were still here and wiped out the Rakshasa people who occupied the magpie's nest, so as to achieve the purpose of restoring the Ming Dynasty's ruling order in this area.

Not long after, Zhu Youxiao simply asked Mao Wenlong to be the general officer of Miaotun, responsible for military rule over the vast soil from Siberia to Miaotun Island.

But in fact, so far, all he, as a general, can control is only a few garrisons close to the outer Xing'anling and Miaotun.

Of course, Mao Wenlong was not satisfied with this. His purpose was to achieve Zhu Youxiao's grand goal of erecting the boundary monument of the Ming Dynasty west of the Ural Mountains. So while he stepped up the consolidation of the existing strongholds and requested the court to immigrate immediately, he also sent a small number of elite troops to go further to explore the situation when the weather was good, hoping to occupy these places before the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa Kingdom occupied more territory.

But what Mao Wenlong did not expect was that the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa Kingdom was indeed progressing very quickly. They had actually arrived in the East and West Siberia area and even fought with the Ming Dynasty's whistle cavalry.

And no one expected that the combat effectiveness of these Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa Kingdom was too strong. Except for a few of these whistle cavalry who were lucky enough to escape back, most of them were deceased under the swords of the Cossack cavalry.

According to the original historical trajectory, the Rakshasa Kingdom had a territorial conflict with China after completely occupying the Siberian area and its power had already reached the Outer Xing'an Mountains.

But now, the Ming Dynasty has intervened in this territorial dispute in advance, and this dispute extends to the East and West Siberia. Not only that, the Ming army led by Mao Wenlong has killed all the Rakshasa civilians in this area because they want to regain the interests of the Han people. Therefore, now they have encountered the main force of the Cossack cavalry, and a war is inevitable.

However, the fact is that the Ming Dynasty does not have much control in this area now. A large number of people are immigrants who have been continuously migrating from 66. However, the army is still the Ming army with Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang soldiers as the main body. They are good at guerrilla and raids, but they are not good at dealing with the most powerful cavalry unit in the world.

Mao Wenlong had no choice but to immediately retract the forces of some parts of East and West Siberia that he had occupied before the Cossack cavalry reached the Outer Xing'anling and Miaotun areas, and immediately rushed into Beijing overnight to inform Zhu Youxiao of the news that a large number of cavalry appeared in the East and West Siberia area, and asked Zhu Youxiao to mobilize heavy troops to strengthen the Ming Dynasty's control in this area at least in the Outer Xing'anling area. Otherwise, the purpose of establishing a ruling order in the Outer Xing'anling area and then forming an encirclement of Jiannu.

However, the distance from Outer Xing'anling to Beijing City is very far away, so Zhu Youxiao is not aware of the changes in the situation in Outer Xing'anling. He is now busy planning a maritime decisive battle with the Zheng Group.

The Ming Dynasty has now officially confirmed the strategy of first south and then north, that is, to solve the problem of the Zheng Pirate Group as soon as possible, thus allowing the entire Ming Dynasty to fully develop maritime trade, and allowing the Ming Dynasty, especially the advanced productivity represented by the Royal Weaving Bureau and the Royal Industrial Company to completely create amazing wealth.

As long as the sea trade problem is completely solved, the Ming Dynasty can obtain the early capital for expansion and be able to re-eliminate Jiannu. The reason why it is not to eradicate Jiannu now is that the Ming Dynasty was still very nervous before the sea trade was decided by its own court, so if it wants to have enough military power to solve the problem, it must have enough financial resources.

The main fleet of the North Sea Fleet has also moved south, and the East Sea Fleet has also begun to conduct frequent exercises in the Zhoushan area. Gu Sanmazi of the South Sea Fleet was also ordered to lead some ships to advance east along the coastline.

The imperial guards stationed in Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang also began to gather in Fujian and Zhejiang to prevent the Zheng Group from robbing coastal villages and towns to obtain strategic resources.

In fact, such a thing has already happened. The frequency of pirate plunders in Fujian and Zhejiang is rising rapidly. Although Zhu Youxiao had already ordered local officials in Fujian and Zhejiang to be on guard in advance, there was still no way to avoid some places being robbed by pirates who were wandering.

After the Imperial Guards and 66 continued to enter the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang, they immediately organized patrols, and arranged to be scattered in counties at all levels in Fujian and Zhejiang, and established mobile troops to fight pirates at any time.

Not only the Imperial Guards, but other guards were also passive. They were mainly responsible for guarding and guarding some villages and towns.

But the discipline of these garrison soldiers was really poor. I had expected that they could help deal with frequent pirate incidents, but I didn't expect that these garrison soldiers were even more powerful than pirates in terms of robbing villages.

In order not to lead to civil rebellion, Lu Xiangsheng, who had been transferred to the position of the five provinces, had to send out an imperial guards to deal with violations of discipline in the military and bandits. Whenever he encountered a war room and a disaster in the village, he would directly wipe out the pirates.

The military discipline of the garrison's corruption was suppressed, but it also affected the Imperial Guards' inability to concentrate their power to deal with the plunder of pirates.

Therefore, the incident of pirate robbery became more and more rampant. Even Japanese pirates who had disappeared in the Jiajing Dynasty began to appear on the coast, and there was an additional force, namely the Western pirates.

Zhu Youxiao did not expect that the true power of the Zheng group was not just how powerful he had at sea, but that it could inspire all maritime forces to participate in the plunder of the Ming coast.
Chapter completed!