After the news of the King of Han's orders for the Western Expedition came out, the court was in an uproar for a while, and even Yang Shicong and others were caught off guard.

I thought that the emperor was favoring the King of Han and wanted to learn from Emperor Wanli to become the King of Fu. Now it seems that it is not the case at all!

After Ming issued the imperial edict, Aoshi Ming buried his head in analyses.

In the end, they concluded that the emperor was still testing his two sons and gave them a target, two empires with equal strength, to see who destroyed the target first, which means "those who enter Hanzhong first are kings."

If you guess further, this should be the first battle for Emperor Tianwu to open the world, using his two sons as pioneers and examples.

If the prince and the Han King successfully destroyed the two empires, then the Ming Dynasty would have the strength to unify the world, and the global strategy of opening up Xinjiang would be irreversible!

Emperor Tianwu has the ambitions of Genghis Khan. He has to constantly train his descendants through war, so that the descendants of the Zhu family can grow up all over the world and leave legends!

As for why we attack the Mughal Empire and the Safi Empire?

That's what they should fight!

It’s all the blame for their borders with the Ming Dynasty and making closer to the West!

Moreover, they were extremely dissatisfied with the expansion of the Ming Dynasty and had long been planning to roll up their sleeves and gesture.

There are basically no small countries in the whole of Asia. Most of them were annexed by the Ming Dynasty, leaving only the Ming Empire, the Mughal Empire, and the Safi Empire, forming a three-legged tripod.

Of course, the thighs of the Ming Empire were too thick, and the other two were not as thick as him when tied together.

Even so, we cannot underestimate these two empires.

People who overthrow their father's regime with their own abilities are often very awesome. For example, the current Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, under his rule, the territory of the Mughal Empire reached the largest in the 140 years since its founding!

From Kabul to Chittagong, from Kashmir to the Kaveri River, the entire subcontinent except for the extreme southern end of the peninsula are all territory of the Mughal Empire, which is 1.5 times larger than India's land area in the 21st century.

The Safi Empire, also known as the Third Persian Empire, was the dynasty established by the Persians to rule Iran. It was the third dynasty to completely unify the eastern and western Iran since the Achaemenid dynasty and the Sassanid dynasty.

The territory of the Safi Empire starts from Khorasan in the east, ends at the Euphrates River in the west, reaches the Karakum Desert and the Aral Sea in the north, and reaches the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea in the south, covering the entire territory of Iran in later generations, most of Iraq, western Afghanistan, and some Caucasus regions.

During the reign of Emperor Abbas, the territory even reached eastern Türkiye, with a land area equal to India in the 20th century.

Speaking of Emperor Abbas, Zhu Cilang also learned about it personally, lamented the glory of his life, and at the same time realized a lot from this emperor.

Abbas I was the fifth Shah of the Persian Safi Dynasty, and the title of Emperor of the Persian Empire was translated as a Chinese translation. The year he died, Zhu Cilang happened to be born.

All great emperors attached great importance to consolidating centralization and developing economic power, and Abbas I was no exception.

After ascending the throne, he directly admitted his war to the neighboring Ottoman Empire and the Bukhara Khanate. He cessed his land and paid compensation with one wave of his hand. He was very generous. His purpose was to calm down internal turmoil, eliminate powerful ministers, and implement the famous Abbas I reform.

After ten years of hard development, Abbas showed his fangs, picked up his weapons, and led his "modernized" army to fight against each other. He first beat the Bukhara Khanate, then attacked the Ottoman Empire, and collected the land that had been ceded and profit-making, and then asked the other party to cede land and pay compensation.

Especially for the Ottoman Empire, Abbas I conquered three times in a row, not only recovering lost territory, but also gaining power over the entire Transcaucasus.

In the subsequent war with the Mughal Empire, the Safi Empire won a great victory, captured Kandahar, an important eastern city, and expanded the territory of the Safi Dynasty to the Indus River, making Safi Persian country reach its peak.

Abbas I not only beat the old neighbors around, but also the foreigners, but also colluded with foreigners and learned from the best skills of the foreigners to control the foreigners.

During the reign of Abbas, it was in the era of great geographical discoveries and Western European navigators came one after another.

After colluding with the British to defeat the Portuguese, Abbas regained the Strait of Hormuz and began to open up to the outside world. He sent missions to visit Western European countries and Tsarist Russia to establish diplomatic relations, with the main purpose of finding allies to attack the Ottoman Empire.

During his reign, Spain, Portugal, Britain and France all sent ambassadors to the Safi Empire. Abbas I used the mainland port of the Port of Abbas as the main external window to strengthen contact with the British British East India Company in order to repay the British and help beat the Portuguese.

After that, Emperor Abbas seemed to have no grudge. He relaxed his hatred for his old enemy Portugal and allowed two teeth to own a house in the Persian Gulf to win over Spain and Portugal, hoping to avoid being isolated and helpless when he was hostile to Britain.

In the eyes of European powers, it is very rare for Eastern monarchs like him to be proactive in the exchanges between the East and the West.

What made Zhu Cilang sighed was the later years of Abbas I.

The emperor was cruel and cruel. He once massacred in Georgia. Any official who was at slightest fault would be killed by him.

The most ruthless thing is that Abbas is also cruel and suspicious in his private life. He does not regard his son as his own son. He often imprisons the princes in the harem and kills one by one every now and then.

He had four sons, the eldest son was the crown prince. Due to rumors of rumor, Abbas I believed that the eldest son was preparing to rebel and intended to replace him. So he ordered people to kill the crown prince in the bathhouse. It is estimated that the assassin took action during the massage.

A few years later, Abbas killed the second son separately and blinded the youngest son...

Before his death, he had no choice but to make his grandson the heir.

Zhu Cilang could imagine that Emperor Abbas was in a miserable mood in his later years, and there was no son beside him. The wounded and the broken ones were all in the situation of the Taohua Island lineage.

Zhu Cilang never thought that killing a child was such awesome thing.

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The Ming Dynasty of the Tianwu Dynasty was in a very subtle historical stage. Looking at the same period, all countries in the world were basically in the strongest period in a thousand years.

For example, the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan was baptized by the Warring States Period in Japan, and the Tokugawa Iegami period was the time when the Tokugawa Iegami had the strongest control over the shogunate.

The Tohyu Dynasty in Myanmar was the strongest period in Myanmar's history; the Mughal Empire Aurangzeb was the greatest emperor of the Mughal Empire;

The Russian Empire, the second Tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Alexey, was characterized by the consolidation of Russia's international status and further strengthening. In a period of rising national strength, his son Peter was hailed as the greatest emperor in Russian history!

France, King Louis XIV of the Bourbon Dynasty, made France the most powerful in Western Europe with his great talent and civil and military skills. People at that time respectfully called the "Sun King".

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Comrade Zhu Cixuan is catching up with a good era to be able to compete with so many big names on the same stage.

However, he seemed to look down on his opponents and did not want to take action easily. He wanted his sons to "fight for his father"!
Chapter completed!