The Lord worries about the humiliation of his ministers, and the Lord humiliates his ministers to death. Emperor Guangwu severely reprimanded Tsar Alexei in the edict, asking him to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and withdraw his army to the west of the Ural Mountains. This was naked in the eyes of the Tsarist Russian ministers
Humiliated. With tears in their eyes, they all requested that these two rude Ming envoys be cut into pieces.
Tsar Alexei has been in power for more than 20 years now. He is very calm and has a nickname: "The Quiet Man". But he only looks quiet, but he has great strategies in his heart. In these years, he promulgated the "1649"
"Code of the National Assembly", attacking Poland, supporting Nikon's religious reform, annexing Ukraine and Belarus?? All of them are major events.
"The two countries are fighting, and the envoys will not be killed. The Ming Dynasty is rude, and I don't bother to learn from it. Come, expel these two madmen who don't know the heights of heaven and earth."
The guards swarmed in and dragged Dong Xuan and Li Shouzhi out of the palace.
"Your Highness," Dong Xuan suddenly shouted: "I heard that the war between Oros and Poland has been going on for twelve years and is still not over; the relationship with Sweden and the Crimean Khanate is not good either.
How can the enemy fight against our Ming Dynasty? If you are willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and withdraw to the west of the Ural Mountains, then as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is willing to support your highness in heading westward."
These words were given to him by Emperor Guangwu before he came. The purpose was to take advantage of the conflicts between Tsarist Russia and Sweden, Poland, and the Crimean Khanate to force Tsarist Russia to give up the Siberian territory it had seized and withdraw to the west of the Ural Mountains.
The emperor still knew the art of war, and he was good at subduing his troops without fighting. As long as Tsarist Russia agreed to withdraw its troops to the west of the Ural Mountains, peace between Ming and Russia could indeed be achieved. After all, they swallowed tens of millions of square kilometers of Siberia.
After acquiring land, the Ming Dynasty was already too full and was unable to expand its territory into Europe in a short period of time. However, the so-called "Ming Dynasty is willing to support Tsarist Russia to go westward with all its strength" is a complete lie to deceive Tsar Alexei.
After hearing this, Tsar Alexei frowned, but still ordered the two men to be deported. How could a wise tsar be deceived by just saying a few words? The tsars of all dynasties have been running Siberia for more than 80 years.
Countless manpower and material resources have been invested. If you want "Yellow Russia", you can exchange it with your blood!
After driving away the two Ming envoys, he fell into deep thought. The Ming envoys were arrogant and rude, which made people angry, but sometimes, arrogance also represented self-confidence and was a sign of the country's strength. Until now, the war has begun.
Tsarist Russia lost troops and generals and suffered repeated defeats, which is enough to show that Ming Dynasty is a formidable opponent, and its strength is by no means weaker than its own.
Well, you have to clench your fists when you fight, and you have to concentrate your forces when fighting. It’s time to end the Russo-Persian War and show goodwill to Sweden and the Crimean Khanate. Only by concentrating on dealing with the Ming Dynasty can we possibly keep our
"Yellow Russia"!
Although Tsar Alexei was known as a "quiet man", he acted vigorously and resolutely.
He immediately ordered his imperial minister Nashokin to go to Warsaw to hold talks with the King of Poland and Grand Duke John II Casimir of Lithuania. He also instructed Nashokin to sign an armistice agreement on the condition that he and Poland carve up Ukraine and Belarus, so as to end the Russian war as soon as possible.
Wave War.
After the merger of Poland and Lithuania, Warsaw became the capital of the federation because it was located between Krakow, the capital of Poland, and Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.
This is a beautiful city with picturesque scenery, but Nashogin had no intention of visiting it. After meeting with John II, he finally succeeded in persuading John II to negotiate at Androsovo near Smolensk with his sharp tongue. Due to the butterfly effect from the east, the Russo-Persian War ended more than half a year ahead of schedule. After a heated exchange of words, the two sides signed an armistice agreement: parts of Ukraine and Belarus on the left bank of the Dnieper River and Smolensk and other provinces belonged to Russia; Ukraine and Belarus on the right bank of the Dnieper River
Part of it belongs to Poland.
At the same time, the Tsar also sent envoys to meet King Karl XI of Sweden and Khan Adil Glei of Crimea, bringing his sincere greetings to the two monarchs.
After several operations, the Tsar managed to change the unfavorable situation of being surrounded by enemies on all sides, and planned to concentrate his forces to deal with the Ming Dynasty in the east.
However, before sending reinforcements, he still had to do one thing, or rather get rid of one person.
"Your Majesty, the high priest of Avakum is here." Report from left and right.
"Let him in," he breathed a sigh of relief.
Avakum calmly saluted the Tsar. This was a well-known conservative in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was exiled for opposing the religious reform of Patriarch Nikon. He was a tough guy. Tsar Alexei and Nikon had a falling out.
Later, he called him back again.
"High Priest, do you know why I want to see you?"
"I don't know, Your Majesty, I am just a servant of God, not a god. I have no ability to predict the future."
"I want you to serve as Patriarch of the Moscow Orthodox Church."
"This is not in accordance with the procedures. Patriarch Nikon is still alive and the religious meeting will not pass it," Avakum said sternly.
"No, High Priest, Patriarch Nikon will soon return to the arms of the Lord," Tsar Alexei said sadly.
His feelings for Nikon were very complicated. At first, in order to enhance the national power of Tsarist Russia, he fully supported Nikon's religious reform and gave Nikon almost unconditional trust. But when Nikon showed political ambitions, he wanted to put religious power above imperial power.
At that time, he put this person under house arrest mercilessly, and now, he wants to take his life.
Originally, Nikon did not have to die. In another time and space, he received an amnesty from Alexei's eldest son Fedor III. But because Zhu Hengjia, a little butterfly, flapped its wings randomly, in order to maintain the internal stability of Tsarist Russia during the war, he was placed under house arrest.
The Patriarch of Firabotov Monastery had to die sadly.
After Nikon was executed and the new Patriarch was replaced, Tsar Alexei sent Duma Secretary Kister to suppress the uprisings of various ethnic groups in the middle reaches of the Volga River and the western Ural piedmont. "Code of the National Assembly of 1649"
》While consolidating the centralized rule of the Tsar, it also aroused the resistance of the majority of serfs and oppressed ethnic groups, and many uprisings such as the Bashkir and Vasily Us broke out. The Ming army pressed on the border, and Tsarist Russia must not
Chaos! He felt that Kister was a ruthless person and should be able to help him stabilize the middle reaches of the Volga River and the western Ural piedmont area.
Then, after scraping together some military expenditures, the tsar finally appointed his father-in-law, Grand Duke Miloslavsky, as the commander-in-chief, and two veterans Begedov and Kabelov as deputy commanders, leading 10,000 taels of troops.
The Qianxin Regiment jumped over the Ural Mountains and rushed to the aid of Siberia. This was the regular army of Tsarist Russia, and he had high hopes for this army.
Finally, the tsar called his teacher, Morozov, who was left to him by his father to entrust him. "Teacher, you are old, please forgive me for having to send you to lead the army. Moreover, because we have to guard against Sweden and the
Poland, I can only give you 1,500 new formations and 8,000 shooting troops."
Morozov said approvingly: "Your Majesty, you are right. To defeat a behemoth like the Ming Dynasty, we must use all the power we can mobilize! I am willing to go to Siberia to reinforce Grand Duke Miloslavsky."
"No, teacher", Tsar Alexei said solemnly: "I am asking you to command this army, not to reinforce Siberia, but to build a line of defense in the Ural Mountains. If, I mean if, our army
Having lost Siberia, you must defend the Ural Mountains and prevent the Ming army from threatening the great Moscow."