Beiyang new warlord

This anxiety lasted until the more than 8000 core troops under his command were also transported down the Yangtze River to the south of the Yangtze River by the Ministry of War, and he was issued a map of Tianhai Prefecture.

Good guy, although this place is not on the front line of Yunnan, it is not as good as Yunnan. Sun Houzi made a somersault of [-] miles. He was thrown [-] miles with one shot and thrown to the new continent far away from the sea. Go, his Tianhai State is located in the narrow strip of the Pacific coast of North America, hundreds of kilometers to the south is the Mexican colony of the Spaniards.

Fortunately, this era does not have such a superficial understanding of the New World as Beiju Luzhou is full of monsters. It is also the follow-up reports of the public opinion media that make a brand new North American continent appear in people's eyes. There are indeed fierce and tenacious indigenous savages here. There are huge black bears and wild boars, but there are also dense forests, clear rivers, fertile fields, and most importantly, there are many rich mineral deposits. There is a Dajin Mountain in Tianhai Prefecture where Li Dingguo went. It has been mined for hundreds of years and is still flowing without exhaustion, so it is named San Francisco.

The advantages and disadvantages coexist here. First of all, it is wild and uninhabited, so there is no need to run away, but a golden mountain is enough to maintain the military expenditure of thousands of people, eat and drink, and go to the New World. Li Dingguo will not be feared by the empire. On the contrary, he can enjoy the full support of the empire, and the scope of Haitian Prefecture has not been delineated by the Ministry of War. He only drew two arrows to the east and south for him. It depends on Li Dingguo's ability and how much he can expand. How big is it.

More than half a month has passed since the glorious offering of prisoners. Except for the four iron-clad ships that are still being repaired in the lock and attract people's attention from time to time, the life in Hangzhou City has returned to the normal and fast life in the past. Several galleons were blowing in the sea breeze, with bells jingling, mixed with a new military uniform, and the San Francisco Corps of Li Dingguo's Department, who were equipped with bayonets and flintlock guns, boarded the galleon in confusion and reluctantly.

The Chuang army has the family members of the old battalion, and the Daxi army also has them. One by one, they just came out of Sichuan, and the old, young, women and children with their burdens tremblingly boarded another boat. Recently, the government and army recovered Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi. But they are all poor areas, the land is barren, and the business is still dying. Along with the family members of the Daxi Army, there are many immigrants from these three provinces lined up there with new hope, adding a population of about 3. This is Li Dingguo of the capital.

Boarded the boat early, Li Dingguo himself was standing at the stern looking at the sea in a daze, his mind was completely occupied by another matter at this time, before leaving, Song Xiance, Minister of Rites, quietly reminded him In a word, the prince is also in the New World!

A wise man understood it right away. It was difficult for Li Dingguo to be reused in Mao Jue because he lacked the trust brought by loyalty and cooperation. But the crown prince is now a poor commander who is short of major generals. He will definitely be reused when Li Dingguo goes, and After serving the prince well, in the future when the prince ascends the throne as the new emperor, he will also support his close ministers and can make a big difference.

The more I thought about it, the warmer my heart became. I squeezed my fist hard, turned around, and Li Dingguo eagerly ran back to his cabin to plan. Coincidentally, he, the Marquis of Zhengdong, had just left, and there was something obviously wrong with the immigrants lining up below. little mess.

"Hey, who are you? Who asked you to jump in line?"

A few fellow Hakkas shouted angrily, but squeezed into the line. Two young scholars in brocade robes and carrying large suitcases on wheels smiled to accompany them, and actually grabbed a piece of paper from the package. Scattered the toffee.

"Uncles and uncles, please help me, Xiaosheng and his fellow countrymen are separated, so please stand in the front line, so we can find some more! Please be patient!"

The people of this era are still simple. Seeing his explanation, the anger of a few Hakka villagers dissipated. While eating candy, they also chatted with him. They also climbed onto the sailboat along the long boarding ladder, leaned on the deck, and looked at a carriage parked in the VIP area by the port. More than a dozen imperial guards were sweating profusely like headless flies. Turning around, the young man couldn't help showing a sly look in his big bright eyes.

Amidst the creaking and rubbing sounds of the rigging, the heavy soft and hard sails were pulled up high by the sailors yelling. Facing the sea breeze just in time in the morning, fifteen galleons formed a long formation, sailing forward in a mighty manner. Headed to the north and started this journey to the New World.

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A red sun is rising in the east, but to the west, it is nothing more than a low dusk.

From its establishment to its voyage around the hemisphere, the Western United Fleet set off from Lisbon, Spain, and sailed around the coast of Africa for half a year before arriving in Southeast Asia. However, while the kings and popes of various countries were waiting, what came back was an entire army The bad news of the defeat, there were [-] capital ships and nearly a thousand support ships when they set off, but only one-fifth of them returned. For a while, Europe was also boiling.

It is rare that a group of kings and bishops who could not even agree on the appetizers were so efficient. In September [-], the Pope of Rome personally appeared. It was an unprecedented meeting of the European Union. Marseilles was held, and the Catholic Holy Roman Empire, the Principality of Austria, the Principality of Hungary, Spain and Portugal, many Italian states, the Protestant Sweden and Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium, the Holy Roman Empire's Saxon and Armenian territories, and so on almost all gathered together.

In the Palace of Marseilles, the romance and luxury of the French are brought into full play. The walls are carved with mosaics into various bright patterns, and there are nude portraits from ancient Greece in the corners, and beautiful glass flower lamps hang high above the head. On the banquet table, all the large banquet tables are covered with high-quality white silk, fresh seafood from the Mediterranean Sea and grain-fed beef from local farms. Delicious delicacies are served one after another, but the people in this luxurious banquet The protagonists, however, are less interested than the other.

At this time, the French court minister Richelieu had passed away for several years. Although the succeeding court minister, Cardinal Mazarin, was not mediocre, he was obviously not as strong as Richelieu. To save his own domestic interests, watching a group of guys eating with knives and forks in the Marseille tune, I couldn't help it. The new palace minister was the first to stand up with a wine glass.

"Gentlemen! The United Fleet has suffered a devastating blow in the Far East. It has become a foregone conclusion. However, the matter is not over. Many relatives and nobles of you here have fallen into the hands of barbaric Westerners. Nobles should not bear the humiliation , France proposed that a joint mission should be quickly formed and headed to the east to discuss peace talks with the easterners!"

The captured French Prince Condé is the uncle of the young French King Louis XIV, the backbone of the royal family to suppress the nobility. Without him, the Queen Mother Anne from Austria and his palace minister himself are in shambles. Departure, he is urgently needed to welcome back Condé.

But before he could finish his words, the Duke of Palamizon, who was negotiating on behalf of Spain, threw his fork in anger, slapped the table and jumped up, pointing at Mazarin's hooked nose and growling.

"Initiated by my father himself, how could the crusade against the heretics end with a compromise with the heretics? This time the duke came, thinking that he was going to continue preparing for the war, but he didn't expect to hear your blasphemous words, you They should be thrown into the Hell of the Inquisition!"

With an appearance of being dedicated to the Father, the expression of the Duke of Paramethasone is simply a representative of contemporary fanatics. However, his words attracted the contempt of representatives of several other Catholic countries, and caused an uproar among representatives of Protestant countries. .

Who doesn't know that the rise of the Ming Dynasty, the Spaniards were the biggest victims, lost Luzon, let its Asian trade shrink first, and had to spend a lot of money to borrow from the Netherlands, and go to Batavia so that the gold and silver in the Americas can be exported In exchange for enough goods from India and Central Asia, they returned to Europe to sell, and now Batavia in the Netherlands is also lost. According to the bad relationship between Spain and Ming Dynasty, they are almost completely excluded from the big pie of Eastern trade, even if Spain After a big defeat, the whole country is still full of battles and interests are at stake!

But for the Catholic territories of the Holy Roman Empire, they don't even have ports, and navigation and trade are nothing to them, so it's nothing to do with themselves.

Moreover, the Duke of Paramethosone's sentence of the Inquisition even slapped those Protestant countries in the face. The offspring of the grumpy Vikings, the Duke of Salz in Sweden simply smashed the cup on the face of the Duke of Spain. The lion was so angry. roared: "The hypocritical and ugly guy, stealing God's right to enslave others, you Spain and the Spanish Inquisition are the ones who deserve to go to Hell! In the name of God, I will fight you!"

Don't think that the nobles are so educated. After being splashed with wine, the Duke of Salamizon, who was also from the army, also blushed and threw the plate over with a thick neck. Duel, the duke is afraid that you will fail!"

The two of them tugged at their collars, and in the French palace, Ding Ding Dang Bang started to work first. This scene was really strange. Some envoys from various countries representing various interests followed suit loudly, some cautiously fought, and some It also made the stumbling block out, adding fuel to the flames. It was originally a meeting to discuss how to deal with the Ming Empire, but the West took the lead in making a mess of it.

However, no one noticed that the Dutch envoy, who was the most active in the organization, was not present at this conference.

And this time the envoy of the Dutch was actually Mao Jue's old acquaintance, Sir Curt of the bankrupt Dutch East India Company!

The old guy is really legendary, he was released from Batavia, and was entrusted by the Dutch Metropolitan Council to represent the Netherlands in negotiations with other countries.

However, at this time, Curt was not in Marseille at all, but actually appeared in Paris, France.

In the dark night of the Paris Grand Opera House, the British dramatist Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear" was singing loudly, but the French nobles in the box were obviously absent-minded. Even if the heroine was executed by the British army for the tragic scene, Several luxuriously dressed guys were also expressionless, until the door creaked and was suddenly pushed open, and two French nobles with swords on their waists suddenly grabbed their hands on the handles of their pistols and looked over vigilantly.

Seeing Curt's old face under the faint stage light, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately sat in the innermost corner. An old French man with a particularly long beard closed it hastily, and welcomed him in. After sitting down, another young and reckless French aristocrat with a sword in his hand asked impatiently.

"What is Holland's opinion?"

Chapter 886. Conspiracy Consortium

The quarrel in Marseille was still in full swing. For three days, the content of the debate between the two sides even went from how to continue to fight against Ming Dynasty, to the cause of the 30-year war and whether Martin Luther’s Protestantism was legal. One of the reasons why a unified empire cannot be formed is that there are many countries, and different peoples have too many different habits. Even the same God is interpreted into different images, and everyone has their own little things hidden in their hearts.

The Palace of Marseilles has been smashed to a point where it is no longer as glamorous and luxurious as it was three days ago. The large imported lanterns from Daming were more than half broken by the plates and cups left behind, hung crookedly on the wall, and the silk tablecloths were torn to pieces. Looking at the Protestant nobles and Catholic nobles who were strangling each other's necks on both sides of the table, the blue veins on the forehead of the always good-tempered Palace Minister Mazarin couldn't help but pop out. Whether Spain and the Netherlands initiated this Western Union Conference was right or wrong.

With this effort, the French envoys are enough to lead the fleet to set off, right?

What makes him even more troublesome is how to report all the damage to the Marseille Palace. His Queen Mother Anne is a woman who loves life. Lin could even imagine the ugly face of Queen Mother Anne.

There is a law in the world called Murphy's Law. If things go bad again, no matter how small the chances are, they will still develop in the bad way!While the cardinal was still lamenting the corruption of the matter, the worse thing had already hit his face. With a bang, the door of the banquet hall of the Marseille Palace was rudely knocked open. He was wearing an iron helmet and a gorgeous cloth on his body. De Neil, the leader of the King's Guards of A, broke in sweating profusely. For a moment, the nobles from all over the world who had been making a noise just now fell silent, and turned their heads to look at the past.

Seeing De Neil going straight to the Prime Minister, full of anxiety, he quickly narrated in his ear, just two words, this high-ranking cardinal also turned pale, and left the guards behind. Long, he rushed to Pope Urban III, who had been watching the excitement in strides, and bowed down with a mournful face.

"My lord father! You want to be the master of the French royal family! The nobles in Paris ignored God's right to rule the king of France and rebelled suddenly!"

At this moment, the Marseille Palace became lively again. A large group of princes and nobles were either gloating or worried, and competed with each other one after another.

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Unlike the unified China, France is a completely feudal country, with layers of feudal class status. The French king canonized princes and sons, and then the nobles canonized their own retainers and knights. Most of the knights have their own feudal manors. The king of France is not just like the Chinese emperor, but a great feudal lord representing the country.

This situation has been greatly improved during the previous generation of French King Louis XIII and Palace Chancellor Richelieu. The iron-blooded Prime Minister Richelieu drastically reduced the rights of nobles, built a guard army loyal to the royal family, and implemented a centralized system. France stands out in the West, and other countries are in awe of Louis XIII as the Sun King.

But today's Louis XIV is only a few years old, and he is a minor king. Cardinal Mazarin, who succeeded Richelieu in the palace, is still a soft-spoken person. The ruthless Richelieu is simply a nice gentleman, and the regent Queen Anne is a extravagant woman, and the money spent on luxury goods and banquets every year is like running water.

A pastry guarded the door, and the queen mother took money out of everyone's pockets when nothing happened. The arrogance and dissatisfaction of the French aristocrats naturally followed the noise. This time Mazarin was eager to redeem Prince Condé, also to take advantage of the old prince Prestige and territorial forces, to suppress these robed nobles and sword-wielding nobles who are about to move!

However, the humble cardinal overestimated the influence of France and at the same time forgot his most dangerous ally, the Netherlands!

Just when Mazarin was asking the Pope for help at the Palace of Marseilles, asking all countries to intervene in the Paris citizen uprising instigated by the French nobles, at this time the old Sir Cotes was already sitting comfortably in a four-wheeled carriage, and walked briskly from the Avenue des Champs in Paris. Running towards Marseilles.

The situation seems to have suddenly become favorable to the Ming side. Before the anti-Ming alliance can be discussed, France, the strongest internal ally, started a civil war. During this period, the streets of Paris were piled up with more than 5000 stone fortresses by rioting citizens. Those butcher shops, blacksmith shops, and weapon shops were also robbed by these citizens. The luxury of the Queen Mother Anne these years, the low-level people have also been complained by tax collectors In no time, with a little incitement from the nobles, tens of thousands of people were armed like this.

However, although Mazarin is humble, he is not easy to provoke. After the Palace of Versailles welcomed the fleeing Queen Mother Anne and King Louis XIV of France, he began to gather the Guards and the Royalist Corps in the suburbs of Paris, and began to prepare to counterattack the peace. Rebel.

Moreover, in this special historical period, there are still many foreign supporters of Mazarin!

The British bourgeois revolution just pushed the king to the execution ground, which caused a great shock in the whole feudal Europe, and Mao Jue made a mess. Princess Mary, who was originally married to Prince William of the Netherlands, is now married to the East. She became the daughter-in-law of the Ming royal family, and now the Lord Protector Cromwell is in charge of the British government. This is simply a challenge to the entire Western feudal system.

The meaning of the existence of the Holy Roman Empire is to maintain the feudal system of the West. It’s fine if the Brits can’t fight across the sea, but you, France, still want to learn from the British Barbarians?As the Marseille messenger ran all the way, the armies of several principalities including Prussia began to gather towards the north of the French border.

On the other side, on the side of the Duke of Palamizon, don’t look at the disagreement between Mazarin and Spain, but the Spaniards are not stupid. Don’t look at the huge rebellion of the Parisian nobles. The initiative is still in the hands of Mazarin. After all, the Guards are loyal to For his master, Empress Anne, an Austrian princess, the Holy Roman Empire would help Mazarin no matter what.

Help him, you can also gain political points, and rely on the exchange of some benefits in exchange for him to change his words, but if you help the rebels, then you will have a feud with France, and even if the real Spanish tanks assist the rebel nobles, they will really defeat Massa Lin, it will take at least a few years, especially with the losses in the war, the chances of the declining Spanish Empire defeating Ming will be even slimmer.