"Your Majesty!" Bruce Van Diemen shook his head repeatedly, "You are wrong... When did our two countries go to Tianzhu to steal money? We went to help the people of Tianzhu!"
help?
Li Jicheng said sincerely: Is it to help Tianzhu people spend money? People in Tianzhu have too much money to spend on their own, so do they want Dashun and the Netherlands to help spend some of it?
Bruce added: "The Ming Emperor Naaurangzeb's daughter becoming a noble concubine shows that he has huge ambitions for the rich Tianzhu... His marriage to Princess Nisha of Tianzhu is very important. It may become a bridge for him to invade Tianzhu. If Tianzhu falls into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, the entire world may be dominated by the Ming Dynasty.
When the time comes, your Majesty, will your Dashun country still be able to compete with the Ming Dynasty? If the Ming Dynasty's naval fleet gained a stronghold in Tianzhu, and if the Timurid Empire of Tianzhu became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, would your army still be able to freely enter and exit Tianzhu to help the people there? "
Li Jicheng felt the seriousness of the problem!
His Dashun Kingdom has lost the Land of Abundance in Sichuan, and Yunnan doesn't know how long it can hold it? Only Myanmar seems more reliable.
But Myanmar is just a place where you can barely fill your belly. If you want to make a fortune, you have to rely on Tianzhu!
After plundering Tianzhu twice, Li Jicheng also figured out Tianzhu's strength... This place has weak soldiers and plenty of money!
Although the Timurid State has some strength, the Timurid State has a large territory and many enemies, so it cannot concentrate its forces to defend the coastline of Bengal and Orissa in the east. Dashun wants to grab a handful and leave, there are plenty of opportunities. As for Golconda, Coromandel (next to Windwind Fort) and Malabar in the south of Orissa Province, Dashun and the Dutch can enter and exit at will.
But once the Ming Dynasty formed an alliance with the Timurid Empire and sent its naval fleet to Bangladesh, would Dashun still have a good life?
The pain that was suffocated in Sichuan and Yunnan in the past will have to be endured again in Myanmar?
"Mr. Fan is right!" Li Jicheng did not dare to take it lightly and said quickly, "Um, Dashun really cannot let Can Ming and Tianzhu Timurid collude together... They are not good birds, so they collude together. I will definitely eat up all the people from Tianzhu!"
Bruce Van Diemen breathed out, turned to the French envoy Nicolas Fouquet, and said in French: "Mr. Ambassador, His Majesty the Emperor of the Dashun Empire said that like King Louis, he is very concerned about the well-being of the Indian people. We do not want to see the evil and greedy Ming Empire and the cruel and brutal Timur Empire collude to enslave the Indian people."
Nicolas Fouquet was once sent as an envoy to the Ming Dynasty by Bishop Mazarin, and spent a lot of time in the Ming Dynasty. During this period, he also learned a little Chinese, but he could not understand Shaanxi dialect... so he could only rely on this Bruce Van Diemen is seriously talking nonsense.
But even if he could understand it, he was very happy to let Bruce Van Diemen act as the translator... The level of this translator was still very high, and it was also conducive to his mission.
Nicolas Fouquet did not want to stay in Kunming for too long, otherwise Colbert's conspiracy would succeed. After the death of Bishop Mazarin, the villain Jean-Baptiste Colbert began to He was "maliciously slandered" as Mazarin's successor.
If Fouquet had not been "very familiar" with Eastern affairs and was a China expert in King Louis' mind, he might have been thrown into prison by King Louis!
But even if King Louis still had use for Fouquet, his position was precarious and he might be finished at any time.
Therefore, he must achieve something as soon as possible, and at the same time return to France and His Majesty the King as soon as possible...
"Your Majesty the Emperor!" Fouquet made a French-style bow to Li Jicheng, "King Louis hopes that the Dashun Empire can fight with France and the Netherlands to jointly stop the Ming Empire's invasion of Tianzhu, and put Tianzhu before us Under the joint protection of the three countries.”
His words were still translated by Bruce. Bruce turned to Li Jicheng and said: "Your Majesty, France is the largest in Europe now, but they are only strong on land. When they reach the sea, they have to rely on the Netherlands! But that King Louis has a brain He thinks he is a Catholic leader or a Sun King. He wants to be the sun of Europe and lead European countries to resist the Ming Dynasty's westward expansion. That's why he wants to get involved in Tianzhu. In fact, he doesn't really want to fight against the Ming Dynasty. It's just that. Earn some face. The benefits of Tianzhu should be shared equally between our two families."
How could Bruce, a profiteer, know that Louis XIV was competing with the Ming Dynasty for India from a strategic height!
This account is actually very easy to calculate. Now the world is almost divided into three major sectors, one is China, the other is Tianfang Sect, and the other is Christianity. Among them, China and Christianity are far away from each other, and they are equally powerful. Neither one can touch the other's basic base. All you can do is develop yourself and contain your opponents!
Therefore, if we want to contain the other party and develop ourselves, we can only seize territory outside our respective bases.
There are two large pieces of territory that can be fought for, one is the New World, and the other is the Tianfang Sect's territory.
In the New World, Christianity temporarily gained the upper hand, but it expanded to its limit. This limit was determined by the population base of Europe. Compared with the vast New World, the population of Europe was too small, and the number of immigrants that could be exported every year was only Quite limited. Therefore, it was difficult for them to completely occupy North and South America, and they were unable to prevent the Ming Empire from exporting people to the northwest of North America.
Therefore, in the New World, the Christian world, led by France, was actually on the strategic defensive.
In terms of competing for the civilized territory of the Tianfang Sect, Christianity currently has no advantage over the Ming Dynasty. Because the Ming Dynasty had already captured the Strait of Malacca and opened up the sea route to the west. On the other side of the Christian civilization, they were facing an aggressive Tianfang religious power, the Ottoman Empire!
In the direction of Southern Europe, Christian civilization is still on the defensive, so it is impossible to go eastward through the Middle East to reach India, which is the richest and easiest to invade among the Tianfang religion. We can only go in a big circle and go around Africa.
But once the circle goes around, the amount of energy Europeans can invest is limited. Even if France and the Netherlands join forces, they can invest thousands of troops in India. Facing Aurangzeb's two to three hundred thousand troops, what use could a few thousand men do?
Aurangzeb's empire is still difficult to deal with!
In addition, even if Aurangzeb is defeated, he may still receive military aid from the Ottoman Empire... The Ottomans are a powerful country that can overpower the Holy Roman Empire. They can rely on the thousands of European expeditionary forces that circle around the Indian Ocean. Defeat them? Moreover, European Christians have to consider the consequences of the combination of Indian money and Ottoman force!
Now Aurangzeb has also roped in the Ming Empire, the giant in East Asia!
After the news of the marriage between the Timur Empire and the Ming Empire in India spread to Europe, the Netherlands, Britain, and Portugal all felt great concern about their interests in India.
Of course, the dog-eat-dog fight between the three countries will not end with the marriage of the Ming Dynasty and the Timurid Empire.
Because the relationship between them and the Timur Empire is relatively complicated and their ambitions are different, it is difficult to say whether they are united or not.
Otherwise, the Dutch would not have used Dashun to seize the British colony of Fort St. George...
The British were very angry about the Dutch joining forces with Dashun to seize their territory, but the Franco-Dutch alliance did not dare to retaliate publicly, so they had to vent their anger on the Portuguese, who participated in the attack on Fort St. George. For this reason, they seized several Portuguese islands (Bombay) on the western coast of India.
The Portuguese, who had been bullied by the British, went to the French to cry out and wanted to ask the European leader to come out and seek justice.
And Louis XIV was not stupid enough to fight with Britain over Portugal, a weakling. Those Puritan madmen are still very capable of fighting!
But he also wanted to show off as a European leader and wanted to use this opportunity to intervene in Indian affairs, so he came up with this idea to unite all parties to intervene in India, force the Timur Empire to "open the market", and prevent the Ming Dynasty from intervening in Indian affairs. plan.
In Louis XIV's plan, there was also the role of the Dashun Empire, the mortal enemy of the Ming Dynasty!
