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- Chapter 538: Battle from all sides
As soon as the new chief of government came to power, there was a huge change in the policies of the Chinese Empire. Transform from accumulating national strength to active external expansion.
In fact, in the five years after the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the war between the Chinese Empire and neighboring countries did not stop. It was just that the scale was smaller and the pace of expansion was not that big.
You know, there are so many countries bordering the Chinese Empire.
In the northwest, after the army of the Chinese Empire occupied Gansu, they had huge conflicts with the countries in the Western Regions.
Although it was under the rule of the Central Dynasty during the Han and Tang Dynasties, during the Ming Dynasty, there was a relatively unified country, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, which was the Turfan Kingdom.
When the Chinese Empire¡¯s army was chasing part of the peasant army, they encountered its army near Jiuquan in northwest Gansu. After a great battle, no one on the side of the Chinese Empire died, while the other side fled in panic after leaving more than 3,000 corpses behind.
However, it is precisely for this reason that for the sake of military strength and logistics, the Chinese Imperial Army was temporarily stationed in Jiuquan.
But the Chinese Empire could not bear it, but the other side could not. They only knew that the Ming Dynasty had been destroyed, but they did not have much fear of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Empire's army.
Therefore, at the beginning of May 5th, they continued to provoke the Chinese Empire garrison in Jiuquan, which resulted in hundreds of casualties among the Chinese Empire garrison.
After receiving the news, Xiao Mingqian could not bear it, so he asked Xiong Wujin, Lu Leilei and others to lead two army divisions and three cavalry divisions north to Gansu to launch a retaliatory attack.
This war lasted four months. The nearly 40,000 Chinese Imperial Army advanced steadily, annihilating 270,000 people on the other side, occupying the entire territory of Gansu and northern Qinghai Province, and going 500 miles deep into the Hami region of Xinjiang.
The main army of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate was wiped out, which directly led to the split of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate into the Turfan State, and also the Li State and the Yarkand State.
In the following years, as the logistics problems were solved, the armies of the Chinese Empire continued to advance northwestward, and successively destroyed the Turpan and Yarkand Kingdoms. But after that, the harsh natural conditions blocked the Chinese imperial army here, allowing Yili to temporarily retain the country until 60 years.
Of course, such little troubles not only exist in the Western Regions, but also on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
During the Ming Dynasty, the Tibetans and other ethnic minorities on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau nominally accepted the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
But when they learned that the Ming Dynasty had been destroyed, the Tibetan chieftains began to think about it and re-established the name of Tubo.
However, this new Tubo state only existed for two months before it was destroyed by Qin Keren and others leading an army of 40,000.
It is easy to destroy those ambitious chieftains, but it is not so easy to completely pacify the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. There were a lot of headaches during this period, including the abolition of serfdom, Buddhism, and even Tibetan traditions, which all became huge obstacles.
In addition, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is so large and sparsely populated that it is difficult for rebels to find any place to hide.
Therefore, Xiao Mingqian had no choice but to respect the traditional beliefs of the Tibetan people and canonized a large number of living Buddhas to stabilize people's hearts. But Xiao Mingqian was very determined to abolish the serfdom system.
Because as long as such a system exists, there will be chieftains who control a large amount of resources and rebel. Only by distributing land and other means of production into the hands of ordinary Tibetans can we not only gain the support of ordinary Tibetans, but also prevent those who are rebellious from having enough resources to support them in building an army.
Apart from these two places, the most intense war is in Myanmar.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Myanmar invaded Yunnan several times, and it can be said that it has always been ambitious towards the land of China.
Before the Chinese Empire entered Yunnan, Myanmar sent troops to Yunnan after receiving the news, occupying the Jinghong area and Lancang area, and even once attacked the Pu'er area.
At this time, Mu Tianbo of the Mu Palace in Yunnan led an army to resist in Pu'er City, making it impossible for Myanmar to move forward. Until the Chinese Empire's army attacked Pu'er City, Myanmar was still ambitious to compete with the Chinese Empire.
But in the final battle fifty miles south of Pu'er City, the Burmese army that entered Yunnan was almost completely wiped out.
Seeing the powerful combat effectiveness of the Chinese Imperial Army, and the fact that Pu'er was exhausted in the face of the continuous attacks by the Burmese army, Mu Tianbo finally chose to surrender.
Of course, Xiao Mingqian still valued Mu Tianbo very much. In addition, he was in the Ming Dynasty.After being destroyed for several months, he still insisted on protecting the country, and Xiao Mingqian gave him very generous care.
Although he was not allowed to continue to be the prince, he was appointed governor of the newly occupied Guizhou Province, and at the same time, he was allocated 100,000 acres of pasture on the Australian mainland for the Mu family.
After that, the Chinese Empire marched in, not only regaining the occupied Yunnan area, but also invaded Myanmar, occupying nearly 100,000 square kilometers of land in northern Myanmar.
"However, it is regrettable that under Myanmar's full resistance, Xiao Mingqian never got what he dreamed of, the Indian Ocean outlet in the southeast of the mainland.
So in this large-scale military expansion plan, Xiao Mingqian specifically mentioned it and mentioned its importance above the capture of Japan.
In fact, it¡¯s not surprising that Xiao Mingqian set this goal so high. The reason is that once this goal is achieved, the Chinese Empire¡¯s control over the Indian subcontinent will be greatly enhanced.
And the southwest region will also completely get rid of the disadvantageous position of inland provinces, which will greatly promote the development of southwest provinces.
Of course, among these military targets, Japan was the first to start.
Today's Japan is no longer the Japan it used to be. Seven years ago, Japan's Tokugawa Iemitsu first ascended the throne of the Emperor after being canonized by the Ming Dynasty. Later, Toyotomi Hideyori also eagerly ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.
Of course, Tokugawa Iemitsu¡¯s emperor had real power, and Toyotomi Hideyori was somewhat similar to previous emperors.
The appearance of the two emperors left the Japanese at a loss. For a while, many Japanese even cursed both sides for being shameless.
Whether it is Tokugawa Iemitsu or Toyotomi Hideyori, they are surprisingly consistent in their treatment of those who oppose them. and their brutal methods of hunting down those who oppose them.
After seven years of repeated cleaning up, there are basically no people in Japan who question the legitimacy of their emperor's position, but the Japanese's attitude towards the emperor has also changed.
The Emperor is no longer a god living in the world, but just the ruler of a place like those daimyo. Such changes can be clearly felt by anyone living in Japan, and they have even caused huge changes in the thinking of Japanese people.
It is naturally impossible for the Chinese Empire to remain unaware, and this is exactly what Xiao Mingqian has always wanted to see.
So while the two sides in Japan were still fighting fiercely, the armies of the Chinese Empire began to land on Nagasaki.
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