In the Forbidden City Ganqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao was lying in front of a huge map. This map is the famous Kunyu Wanguo map, and the area Zhu Youxiao was focusing on at this time happened to be North Asia, that is, the entire area from the east of the Ural River and the Greater Caucasus to the Bering Strait.

According to Zhu Youxiao's plan, this time, the Ming Empire will no longer wait for the active invasion of foreign forces before carrying out passive resistance and expansion, just like any previous Central Plains dynasty.

This time, the Ming Dynasty was to challenge the world's powerful country for the first time before the Imperial Guards and the Cossack cavalry and launched an attack on the Ming Dynasty, and to achieve the most important step in the primitive accumulation and expansion of the imperial capital.

In original history, the Chinese dynasty was a fat cow slaughtered by these imperial swords, and at this moment, this giant bear from the north will become the most attractive prey in front of the Ming Empire.

Although most of the Rakshasa country are in Siberia in a cold place, and production and life are not very convenient, fortunately, the resources such as coal, iron ore, oil, and natural gas are extremely rich.

This undoubtedly has a huge temptation for the Ming Dynasty, which has entered the steaming era. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, resources were limited, and especially iron ore, the cost of refining good steel is always high due to its high sulfur content.

In addition, due to the large-scale use of steam engines, the scale of domestic coal mines has become larger and larger, and there are more and more coal mines of all sizes. Many local officials have reported that Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places have been filled with black fog for several consecutive days. Some officials even claimed that the large amount of coal mine mining has damaged the foundation, and the tombs of countless emperors and generals have been affected, and even affected the dragon veins and destroyed Feng Shui, etc.

Considering that it is necessary to vigorously develop the steam industry of the Ming Dynasty and maintain the original green mountains and waters of the Ming Dynasty, and from a strategic perspective, domestic resources do not need to rush to mine, Zhu Youxiao adopted the advice of most local officials, especially relatively conservative local officials, and stopped the mining of many coal mines, especially small coal mines, and issued a ban on mining to some so-called famous mountains that affect important dragon veins.

It was not that Zhu Youxiao was really ignorant and superstitious about these things, but that the ecological environment in the Ming Dynasty was irreversibly damaged by industrial development. It would undoubtedly be a huge disaster for a country and nation of poetry, and would cost a greater price to recover in the future. Instead of this, it would be better to migrate these extensive factories and mines with environmental destruction to the outside world from the beginning.

In this way, a sparsely populated place like Siberia is undoubtedly a good choice.

In fact, at this time, Zhu Youxiao ordered Jiao Lian's troops of the Second Imperial Guard Army to escort the Royal Industrial Company's explorers into the Siberian area in the name of pursuing the remnants of Lin Dankhan, and found the Kuzbas coalfield in the Tom River Basin in the present Kemerovo Prefecture. The second largest coal base of polar bears in later generations reached tens of billions of tons, and the coal was of high quality and was very easy to mine because most of them were open-pit coal mines.

Now, this coal field has been officially occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and a large amount of coal has been officially mined since the fall of the 16th year of the Apocalypse and transported back to the Ming Dynasty.

For this reason, Zhu Youxiao specially named this coalfield Tianci Coal Field to show that the coalfield was given by God, not by the Rakshasa Kingdom. Although the Rakshasa Kingdom now occupied this territory in a sense, it did not hinder the Ming Dynasty from developing this treasure land.

In order to more conveniently transport a large amount of mineral resources from Siberia to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao also specially ordered the Ministry of Works to build a highway between the Tianci Coalfield in Siberia and Lincheng, and prepare for the direct conversion to a railway in the future.

Several months later, not only the Tom River Basin in Siberia, but also other mining areas of the Ming Dynasty were successively established in other areas of Siberia, nor were they just mining coal mines. Almost all the minerals that could be easily mined were eroded by the advance teams of the Ming Dynasty one by one.

Whenever the Ming Dynasty established a mining area in these places, a large number of troops, governments, company employees, workers would enter here, and directly establish residential and commercial areas in these places, gradually forming some small towns. This was a way for the Ming Dynasty to gradually erode the Siberian territory of the Rakshasa Kingdom, just like the polar bears later erode the Outer Xing'an Mountains.

However, the thick black smoke from the coal-refining base in the coal mine area attracted the attention of the Rakshasa Kingdom. At first, these Rakshasa people thought that a forest fire had occurred, so they hurriedly ran over, but they did not expect that a large number of open space had been reclaimed in these jungles and so many fortresses and houses had been built.

This made the army of the Rakshasa Kingdom, which was also armed and also expanding to the east, shocked and angry. Although they knew that there was a powerful Ming Empire in the east and would be an opponent that they had to pay attention to in their expansion process, they did not expect that they could meet these Oriental people in this hinterland.

"That's right, they are all Ming people!" A Rakshasa Cossack man named Guo Erlian said that, and then punched him on the thick forest leaves. As a Cossack cavalry who had recovered from the battle in the Outer Xing'an Mountains, he had a particularly deep impression of these Ming people, and his hatred was naturally deep. He still remembers the scene of his younger brother being burned to death by these Ming people's incendiary bombs.

"What are you waiting for? Let's continue to order and encircle them directly and eliminate all the hateful Ming people. They dare to enter the territory of our Rakshasa Kingdom without authorization, destroy the trees of our Rakshasa Kingdom, and build camps and mine ores without permission! It's simply the dignity of our Rakshasa Kingdom!"

The leader of the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa Kingdom said, then raised his sabers and rushed towards him. The cavalry behind him hurriedly followed him. The sound of horse hooves sounded in the sparse coniferous forest, which shocked the entire forest with rustling fallen leaves.

The sentry standing on the platform immediately beat the giant drum when they saw this. In an instant, the sound of the drums rang throughout the forest.

"The enemy is coming! Respond to the battle immediately!"

The Imperial Guard soldiers who were taking a lunch break in the camp immediately rushed over with full arms and quickly passed the factory and mining area. As soon as they saw that these long-haired cavalry had rushed into the mine belt, Jiao Lian shouted first: "Let it!"

In an instant, countless mines pulled by long lines suddenly exploded from the shallow soil layer. These long-haired cavalry were immediately blown up by people and horses, and their speed could not help but stagnate.

The cavalry of the Imperial Guards took advantage of this and jumped over directly to shoot and penetrate the Cossack cavalry in teams.

The cavalry of the Imperial Guards have long used rifled cavalry rifles, and their shooting accuracy has been greatly improved, their initial speed has been greatly improved, and their penetration has been greatly enhanced. These Cossack cavalry who still rely on bows and arrows or sabers are naturally no opponents. Before they meet, most of the Cossack cavalry rushing over were defeated.

The biggest advantage of the Cossack cavalry is that they are fast and tall and sharply chopped. However, at this time, their speed was obviously not as fast as the speed of the Guards' muskets. Therefore, when they charged at the Guards, they could only fall down in batches like cut wheat.

However, the Imperial Guards did not dare to directly throw away the industrial mining areas and pursue these Cossack cavalry who immediately retreated after suffering partial losses. After all, this was outside the country. Although the Imperial Guards of the Ming Dynasty were strong, they were not large in number. If other Cossack cavalry attacked the mining areas while the Imperial Guards were pursuing the remaining enemies, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Therefore, Jiao Lian of the Imperial Guard could only try to protect these mining areas with huge wealth. As for pursuing the remaining enemies and further attacking the Rakshasa Kingdom, he could only make plans for a long time. It would be possible to mobilize a large army to conquer the Rakshasa Kingdom again.

As Jiao Lian and other imperial guard officers expected, the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa Kingdom really took advantage of the maneuverability of their cavalry to choose to attack the mining area of ​​the Ming Dynasty under the command of their leaders.

Without any suspense, these Cossack cavalry were beaten back again.

As a result, the Cossack cavalry in the area had to choose to withdraw and told the administrative officials of the Siberian Federation that after knowing that the current force could not be used to expel the Ming army, these Siberian Federation officials sent people to Tsar Mikhail I, hoping that the founder of the Romanov dynasty could quickly mobilize more troops to drive away the Ming team, and sent envoys to negotiate with the people in the Ming people. The current Romanov dynasty is the dynasty first established by Tsar Mikhail. It was the time when the national strength was at its peak. The newly attached Tsarist Russia officials in Siberia had reason to believe that the Ming team would be intimidated by the country of their own Rakshasa.

However, what these officials of the Siberian Rakshasa state would not have thought was that just when they were about to send envoys to negotiate with Jiao Lian, the news that the Rakshasa state brazenly attacked the Ming Dynasty in the Siberian mining area was brought back to the capital at an accelerated speed of 800 miles.

After hearing the news, Zhu Youxiao immediately convened the head of the Ministry of War Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang, preparing to discuss and draft a proclamation to launch a war against the Rakshasa Kingdom.

The Rakshasa Kingdom was the closed "Qing Dynasty" at this time. When he naively thought that his national power could make the Ming Dynasty afraid, he didn't know how long the Ming emperor Zhu Youxiao waited for such an excuse to launch a colonial war against the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Soon, Zhu Youxiao ordered Lu Xiangsheng to draft a proclamation of the destruction, with the general purpose of the Ming Dynasty's territory inheriting the Yuan Dynasty (in order to reasonably occupy the vast north, the historical view of the Ming court also changed), while Daur and Ewenki of Siberia were originally the people of the Ming Dynasty. Now the Errasha Kingdom is just a small country to the west, but taking advantage of the time when the Ming Dynasty had no time to take care of Siberia, it invaded Siberia and killed local people such as Daur and Ewenki of Siberia.

However, the Ming Dynasty thought that starting a war was not conducive to the exchanges between the two countries, so it was tolerant and allowed both sides to shelve the disputes and develop together. However, unexpectedly, the army of its country brazenly attacked the mining area of ​​the Ming Dynasty and attacked the civilians of the Ming Dynasty. In order to protect the people, it also followed the request of the local exploited serfs. In order to protect the people, it specially mobilized 100,000 troops to attack the Rakshasa Kingdom. If your country realizes its mistake, it should immediately surrender, and it will not deduct it. It will cede more than 70 cities including Siberia Tomex to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will stop the war!

As soon as the manifesto was released, Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered the Ministry of War to dispatch troops and organize the supply of money and grain. In addition, due to the principle of first rituals and then troops, Zhu Youxiao also sent a general interpreter to hand over the manifesto to the people of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

The officials of the Siberian state of Rakshasa Kingdom in Siberia thought that these Ming people were just making small fuss to mine minerals in their territory and deliberately provoked them. They did not think that a war would occur.

Therefore, they did not make any preparations before the war.

The two imperial guards, Qi Changguo and Jiao Lian, who had entered the Siberian mine protection mission, had been directly issued an order to capture the important strongholds of the two Rakshasa kingdoms, Tomex and Yurga, in Siberia.

The Imperial Guards of Qi Changguo were special forces composed of light chariots and rifles. They were well-equipped and grassroots soldiers were all top soldiers drawn from each army. They had strong combat power and strong comprehensive quality. In less than three days, they could touch the city of Tomex in elusive ways.

Jiao Lian's Third Cavalry Brigade participated in the hard battles of the Cossack cavalry in Northeast Asia in his early years, and had rich experience in fighting with the cavalry. Therefore, it only took a few days to quickly intersperse near Yurga.

It turned out that after the Rakshasa Kingdom expanded eastward and occupied Siberia, it forced the local residents to register as citizens of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and on the other hand, it built a large number of cities and strongholds. Tomex and Yurga are two important points and are also the transportation hub centers. It can be said that as long as these two places are occupied, the supply line of the Rakshasa Kingdom in Siberia can be cut off, so that the Ming Dynasty can easily develop control over Western Siberia.

At the same time, other armies began to march towards the Rakshasa Kingdom from the north, south and Liaodong one after another, and the order Zhu Youxiao gave them was "White the Ma Ural River!"

However, at this time, the Tsar Mikhail I of the Rakshasa Kingdom and the officials who appointed him to manage Siberia did not realize that there was a super empire in the far east that had already extended its clutches to him.

Officials in Siberia, the country of Rakshasa, still believed that the Ming people's minerals were just trying to make a fortune, and did not realize that the Ming Dynasty had already planned to swallow him directly.

Therefore, these officials from the Siberian country of Rakshasa still allowed his Cossack elite to continue to expand, and did not gather troops to prepare for the Ming Dynasty's attack.

It was not until Qi Chang's special forces had climbed up the city wall and used them to re-ramp to repel many long-haired ghosts that these officials from the Siberian country of Rakshasa realized that the war seemed to have arrived.

But after a loud bang, the city gate was directly knocked open by a chariot, and a large number of imperial guards had already rushed into Tomks. At this time, these administrative officials of the Rakshasa Kingdom surrendered, and some even ran away directly.
Chapter completed!