Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Chapter 1137

Having said this, Wei Wu couldn't help laughing, and it took him a long time to suppress the smile.

"The civil unrest in the Northern Yuan Dynasty will eventually stop. Even if they don't, Yao Guangxiao will find a way to stop it. Of course, so will I."

"After all, without the Northern Yuan taking the lead, those small countries would not dare to challenge our Ming Dynasty. However, the timing is determined by us."

"I estimate it will take a year. If the civil unrest lasts too long, it may cause the Northern Yuan Dynasty to fall apart, while if it is too short, it will not allow for sufficient development."

"A year is neither too long nor too short. It's just enough time for us to complete our plan, and at the same time, the Northern Yuan Dynasty won't completely split into several factions."

Throughout history, every time the nomadic people of the grasslands were defeated, they would become chaotic and split into various tribes.

Then wait for a man of great talent and strategy to appear, subdue all these tribes, and continue to move south to invade the Central Plains.

For example, after the collapse of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, it split into tribes such as Tatar and Oirat. They were the main enemies of the Yongle Dynasty in the later period.

Therefore, we must never allow the Northern Yuan Dynasty to split, otherwise if we want to deal with them later we will have to destroy them one tribe at a time.

The key point is that once the Northern Yuan Dynasty splits, it will not be able to take the lead for the surrounding small countries, and Wei Wu’s plan will fail.

Similarly, Yao Guangxiao would not sit idly by and watch the Northern Yuan Dynasty split. After all, without the Northern Yuan Dynasty, his own plan could not be successfully implemented.

Wei Wu was able to guess Yao Guangxiao's plan, not because he was smarter than Yao Guangxiao, but because Wei Wu had the upper hand.

The Ming Dynasty has now completed great victories in the southwest and Japan. If Yao Guangxiao wants to compete with the Ming Dynasty, he has to take this step.

What Wei Wu had to do was to go with the flow, watch Yao Guangxiao accomplish everything, and then defeat him completely in one fell swoop.

Although Yao Guangxiao was smart, he was limited by the times and could not understand the power and speed of development of science and technology.

You must know that the Ming Dynasty has already developed rifles and mortars in its military equipment. This is Wei Wu’s greatest confidence.

Even if Yao Guangxiao completed the alliance, the number of troops would not mean much in the face of weapons such as rifles and mortars.

Take a small country like Annan as an example. Even if Annan sent out 50,000 troops, the Ming Dynasty only needed to send out 2,000 soldiers.

The firing rate of the Type 93 Mauser rifle is approximately eight to ten rounds per minute, so we will calculate it here based on eight rounds per minute.

Two thousand soldiers can fire 16,000 bullets per minute, which can kill at least 10,000 enemy troops.

With more than 10,000 casualties every minute, in this era of cold weapons, which military general would dare to order a continued charge?

But this is just a Mauser rifle, not including the mortar. Once this thing fires, the enemy will be scared out of their wits.

This is the advantage of advanced weapons. As the American media later commented, a heavily armored combined brigade can easily sweep across any small or medium-sized country.

Wei Wu couldn't help laughing when he thought of the scene in the future where the enemy would be forced to flee in panic after being hit by rifles and mortars.

Then he immediately turned to look at Zhu Yuanzhang and said:

"By then, no matter how many enemies come to us, they will be slain by the Institute of Science and Technology's new weapons. We can then take advantage of the situation to expand our territory!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes narrowed, and he looked at Wei Wu seriously and said:

"Okay, let's do as you say and make the Ming Dynasty the most powerful dynasty in history!"

Expand territory!

This word is very tempting to any ambitious emperor, and Zhu Yuanzhang is no exception.

Although the new weapons Wei Wu mentioned had not been used on the battlefield, Zhu Yuanzhang believed not in the weapons but in Wei Wu as a person.

As long as Wei Wu is in the Ming Dynasty, it is not difficult to realize the vision just now. It is just a matter of time.

Moreover, Wei Wu, as a minister, had such ambitions. How could Zhu Yuanzhang, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, lag behind in vision!