Facing Chen Tingshu's last suggestion, Li Junhua shook his head slightly and said, "This is not within the scope of our discussion today. Prime Minister He, prepare a mission to Ottoman. Taking advantage of the north wind to go south to Penang, the envoy is the responsibility of Shen Jing. After arriving in Penang, he will expand it and invite some businessmen from Nanyang to join as representatives and set off as soon as possible to handle this kind of peace and war-promoting matter."

Although he said this, Li Junhua was still a little moved. The premise of opening the Pharaoh Canal was to implement actual control over the Egyptian region. However, if this goal was really achieved, it would be a great achievement in the history of the empire. However, Li Junhua had to consider the strength of the Ottomans. You must know that the distance from Penang and Eastern Africa to Egypt was very far away. There were no nomadic people on the grasslands, and various expenses would reach a very terrifying number, and it was more important. The Ottomans were a powerful power. With the alliance with it, the empire's understanding of the Ottoman became deeper. This was a powerful country that could gather 250,000 troops, otherwise they would not dare to be enemies across Europe. Because of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, the Ottomans' troops were under the coverage of the capital Istanbul in any direction. Li Junhua could only consider it from another direction, that is, he could force the Ottoman Empire to give up Egypt through a war in the Black Sea or continental direction.

But this is just an idea, very immature, so Li Junhua didn't want to discuss it at a higher meeting like the State Council. Egypt was the wallet of the Ottoman Empire and the granary, and it was the most important colony outside the Ottoman land. Li Junhua did not think that the Sudan would ced Egypt due to the failure of the war, unless there were two possibilities.

The first is that the Ottoman faces destruction. Only when Egypt can survive can it be cedeed, the Sultan naturally has no other choice. The second is that Egypt is no longer the Ottoman granary and money bag.

The former requires a huge war, and the power of the empire in Western Xinjiang and the Russian Empire Alliance, which had just experienced defeat and looting, did not have the strength to invade the Ottoman land, even the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth that might join the alliance. Perhaps another idea proposed by Li Junwei could be, that is, to join the other two European powers, France and the Habsburg dynasty, but these allies were also constantly dirty. It was possible to unite to fight the Ottoman, and there were huge difficulties in uniting to destroy the Ottoman.

The latter is not something that can be resolved by a war, but it requires a long period of political, economic and even religious evolution, which makes the local Egyptian forces separate from the Ottomans and actively break away from the Ottoman rule. However, this process may be fifty or one hundred years. Now the empire's hands have not yet penetrated into the Egyptian region, and there is no such thing in a short period of time.

In the winter of the eighteenth year of the empire, on the Ural River.

In Li Junwei's blue tent, the emissary of the empire met His Highness Yu. Seeing that King Yu was strong and even gained a little fat, the envoy was quite moved. He was quite moved. He was acquaintance of the two of them or classmates who came from the school at the beginning. Li Junwei even used the breaking of each other's nose to ridicule him, and the chat was very refreshing.

When talking about Chen Tingshu's plan to promote war and Shen Jing's dispatch of an envoy, Li Junwei hesitated at all and directly expressed his support, just like his other orders to Shen Jing, and then wrote a note to hand it to the envoy, saying, "This is the address of several Jewish merchants. After the envoy arrives in the Ottoman, you must contact them. They will tell me the results of the negotiations. I will save more than half of the Asian continent."

"Your Highness, Lord Fazou is coming down." A servant came in and interrupted the two of them.

Li Junwei said: "Then let's talk about it here, I still have to act."

After saying that, Li Junwei lay on the bed, and said oh, and felt that it was not like it again. So he asked someone to bring a wet towel to cover his head, and then he got up. When Fazuo came in, Li Junwei was already very sick. Fazuo was originally coming to ask for punishment, but seeing Li Junwei like this, he had to suppress his anger.

"Your Highness Yu, are you feeling uncomfortable?" Fazo asked coldly.

"It's cold. Oh, it's really cold here. I can't stand the cold anymore. I went out to ride a horse a few days ago and caught a cold. Lord Fazo, why are you here? Shouldn't you serve your Sultan in Istanbul now? I actually miss you a lot during your absence, especially my unscrupulous mouth. I often miss all kinds of delicious food you brought to me."

"Your Highness, if it weren't for your unilateral armistice in Moscow City, I wouldn't have come here bravely with the heavy snow and snow and the frozen harbor season. Maybe I could enjoy food and beauty in the manor in Istanbul." Fazo said lightly.

Li Junwei didn't care and asked, "You have heard the news of the truce. That would be great. Two of the missions I sent to the Ottoman were robbed by the Tatars, and one of them was missing. I guess they were killed by the Tatars, and I thought I could not inform you."

The first person to be hurt by the empire and Russia was the Tatars, because the Tatars were plundering the territory of the Cossacks at that time. After the armistice agreement was reached, the Russian nobles who were full of fire in the city spread all their anger on the Tatars, especially the shooting army from Moscow, who joined forces with the Cossacks to defeat the Tatars who had scattered the plunder and captured slaves in the autumn. When the Tatars reacted and gathered, it was already winter. When they were chased, they saw wooden stakes standing by the roadside, with Tatars tied or hung on them, with no wounds on them all, and even wearing stolen clothes. But everyone was dead. The cold night and the snow were intertwined. It was impossible to survive in Southern Russia by clothes alone. There were no tents or bonfires, and people were dead.

The Tatars had no choice but to accept the losses, but they extricated themselves from the empire and began to do all kinds of illegal things to the imperial corps or merchant groups serving the empire.

Of course, Fazo knew this and just said, "Maybe it was not done by the Tatars, but by the Cossacks or the Turguts. The possibility of Cossacks is greater."

"Whatever you say, I think it was the Tatars anyway." Li Junwei covered his quilt with a blushing face and said without breathing: "I don't know why you came to raise an army to ask for punishment, because I have completed the agreement between us very beautifully, and fight the war against Russia until the first snow falls."

"But the agreement did not allow you to truce with the Russians." Fazo said, waving his arm.

Li Junwei shook his head and said, "What should I do if I don't stop fighting? Lord Fazou, we agreed at the beginning that the empire's troops took the heart of Russia, and you Ottomans wiped out the main force of Russia and the Cossacks in the Dnieper River, and the two sides met under the city of Moscow. But I didn't wait until I didn't dare to pee in the wild, nor did I wait for the Ottoman army!"

Fazo had no objection to this and could only say: "We did not expect the Poles to join the war so soon."

The actual situation is more complicated than the Poles' participation in the war, because the agreement between the two sides was reached by Fazor, Vizier and Li Junwei, rather than by the Greater Vizier Mustafa and Li Junwei who were in charge of the war. At first, Mustafa led his army to advance wildly on the Dnieper River, but with the participation of the Poles, he immediately lost the passion for attack because he received an important news that in this summer, the army of allies had already arrived at the city of Moscow.

This brought two changes. The first was that the Crimean Tatars lacked interest in the war on the main battlefield of the Dnieper River. Compared to fighting in this meat grinder, the Tatars thought of weak Russian looting, so the Tatars' army was decreasing and fewer. Another change was that Mustafa felt that there was no need to be so anxious about the war.

The Chinese conquered Moscow city, which was enough to declare victory in the war. Next, Mustafa could enter Russia without bloodshed and discuss the division of this powerful enemy with the empire. Even if the Chinese could not defeat Moscow, they would rob the Russian area into white land. How long can they last if they had lost Russia for a whole year? And can the Cossacks sit and watch the rear be robbed and remain indifferent?

But Mustafa, the idiot, had no idea that the initiative in this war against Russia was controlled by Li Junwei. He neither wanted to destroy Russia nor made the Ottoman bigger, so he just besieged the city without siege, and left the battlefield before the winter came.

"Yes, you didn't expect the Poles to join the war so quickly, nor did we expect the reinforcements to come. Do you know, we swept Russia for a full half year, how many animals and wealth have been won? So many things, like mountains and seas, and if we don't have a truce with Russia, may they watch us transport things back to the grassland? Then there will be Cossack cavalry behind our butts. Only after the truce will we return to Western Xinjiang to spend the winter safely." Li Junwei said proudly.

Fazo's face turned cold. The Imperial Expeditionary Force retreated, but left the Russian army, which was full of anger, to the most important ally of the Ottomans and the Crimean Tatars. He caused a blow to his side for no reason. Li Junwei still refused to argue about this, and even asked the Tatars in turn that the attack on their caravans. Fazo was really annoyed, but what could he do? Now it was still the first time he came. He came to ask for help and could not show any arrogant attitude.

After sitting down, Fazo asked, "Your Highness, what I need to know now is whether our agreement is still effective. The 100,000 Ottoman soldiers and the entire Crimean Tatar tribe were thrown on the battlefield in the snow and ice. We need a reliable answer."

Li Junwei pointed to his head and said, "I am like this. You still ask me, why are you like the incompetent generals under my command? No, Lord Fazo, no, although you Ottomans and Crimean Tatars are our allies, it seems that your army does not obey my Li Junwei's command. Ask me what I do. Isn't that Mustafadavizi on the front line? He will come to command your army."

Fazo really couldn't stand Li Junwei's cynicism and the act of treating war as a joke. He took away the wet cloth on Li Junwei's head and said, "Your Highness, we are discussing serious things, please be serious. We are allies, so of course we have to discuss how to carry out war next year. If you withdraw from the war, what is the meaning of our persistence on the main battlefield, but if your agreement under Moscow is just a kind of peace that is forced by the situation, then please continue to attack after the spring of next year. If you attack, we can only attack."

Li Junwei said: "It's very difficult, my Lord Fazou. You know, the main forces of the troops under my command are nomadic barbarians. This year, the entire attack relies on them for such a relaxed attack. There is no military expenditure to get them to join the army. They only need to give them a target of robbery. But most of Russia has been looted by them. Letting them go next year will definitely be a loss-making business. How could they go?

This spring, at least 150,000 soldiers rushed into Russia with me, but next year, I don’t think there are even 50,000 people.”

"It's okay to have fifty thousand people, as long as you attack, but this time it's different. We hope you can go around the territory of the Cossacks, cross the Don River, attack the Russian, Cossacks and Poles from behind, and join us in the enemy. How about assisting us in the victory of the main battlefield?" Fazo said.

Li Junwei shook his head: "No, no, definitely not! Lord Fazo, you should know that the Cossacks are all wolves, and they are very difficult to deal with. During this year's war, my people were particularly damaged by the place where the Cossacks gathered. Isn't it skinned by them by passing through the land of the Cossacks? Isn't it true that I can reach the battlefield as agreed?

If you want, I will bring the regular army to Russia to loot again next year. Even if you support you, can you force them to truce up!”

Fazo refused to agree and said, "No, our strength alone may not be able to open up the situation on the main battlefield. We need your professional army, especially the firearms army."

Li Junwei said: "Then I'll take people from the land of Turguts and Tatars."

Fazo was stunned for a moment. He could not decide this. Although the Tatars were vassals of the Ottomans, they were not even Vizier who could send him at will. Fazo said, "Then I need to ask His Majesty the Sultan."

"Okay, then you can go and ask for instructions." Li Junwei said.
Chapter completed!