After listening to Sofia's words, Peter still frowned tightly, as if he still couldn't forget his "Dream of Eastern Rome."
"Peter," Queen Sophia looked at her brother and said earnestly, "Constantinople's interests are too great. Unless Rakshasa becomes a powerful country that can compete with the Frank Empire, it will be impossible to own this Eastern Roman city. The thousand-year imperial capital!”
Peter nodded and said: "Sophia, I also know the value of Constantinople, and I also believe that Emperor Louis the Great will not let it go easily... but Louis also asked us to impose trade sanctions on the Ming Dynasty!
Constantinople is a bargaining chip in exchange for us sending troops to attack Turkey and participate in sanctioning the Ming Dynasty!
If we don't want Constantinople...then how do I push for trade sanctions? "
"Trade sanctions?" Sophia was stunned, "To Ming? Doesn't Louis need Ming's perfume and garlic medicine anymore?"
Yinti on the side interjected: "Sou'er Niang, Emperor Louis and Urban IX have been claiming that Christians cannot make deals with countries that believe in the devil for money, as this will make them lose their souls in the end!"
"Hmph!" Sophia snorted, with disdain on her face.
"They also said that trade with the Ming Dynasty would make the Ming Dynasty richer and more powerful, but would not benefit Europe at all. Most of the goods that Europe now purchases from the Ming Dynasty can be produced by themselves or purchased from India. to similar products…”
Sophia interrupted Yinti and asked: "Does anyone believe this kind of nonsense?"
Peter I replied for Yinti: "Even the Netherlands and England have expressed support for this...James II and William III both said that they cherish the soul more than money!"
"Yinti," Sofia asked Yinti again, "have you figured out what conspiracy the British and Dutch are engaged in?"
It seems that she doesn't believe that the English and Dutch will not want money at all!
"Not yet..." Yinti said, "But I guess...Louis and Urban may want to use trade sanctions to monopolize trade with the Ming Dynasty."
"How to monopolize?"
Yinti said: "The Holy See can perform exorcisms on Ming Dynasty products... This kind of thing has been done several times!"
"What about England and Holland?"
"Firstly, they want to use their own inferior goods to fill the gap after the withdrawal of Ming Dynasty goods; secondly, they may be smuggling trade ideas."
"Smuggling?" Sophia asked, "How to get there?"
Yinti said: "Both countries have colonies in India... and both are located on the chokepoint of East-West trade.
Commodities shipped from the east of the Strait of Malacca, as well as commodities shipped from Bangladesh and Myanmar, are generally transited there. As long as the packaging of those goods is changed, they can be shipped to Europe as Indian goods. "
"He is indeed a profiteer!" Sophia snorted, "Peter, you can do the same thing.
Just say that the white sugar produced in Ming Dynasty is Mongolian white sugar. I will ask Kangxi Khan to give you a certificate! "
...
Palace of Versailles, King's Suite, Drawing Room.
While Queen Sofia, Peter I, and Prince Zhijun Yinti were discussing how to get some tangible benefits from Louis the Great in the Trianon Palace, Louis the Great was talking to Pope Urban IX. , Archbishop de la Magarra of Mexico City, Minister of State Leonardo, the Duke of Luxembourg and John Churchill, who had just been promoted to General of the English Army, were discussing the situation on the Mexican battlefield.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty the Pope, the Aztec rebels on the battlefield in Mexico are currently based at Lake Chapala near the city of Guadalajara, and are slowly but surely advancing towards Leon, northwest of Mexico City... ..."
It was John Churchill who was pointing at a map of the situation in Mexico and introducing the situation on the Mexican battlefield to Louis the Great and Urban IX.
"What does it mean to be slow and firm?" Churchill was interrupted by an old man with a sharp nose, a thin body, and a slight hunchback. This old man has a very long name, Francois Henri de Montmorency-Boutville. According to the basic rule of Europeans in this era, the longer the name, the better the person, this bad old man is also a good person. He is France's leading general, Marshal the Duke of Luxembourg, after the death of the "little Grand Condé" and the tall and mighty Marshal Durenne. Like Grande Kondai, he is Europe's leading master of maneuver warfare. Not only did he follow his cousin "Grand Condé" in the Franco-Dutch War and made great achievements, he also replaced "Grand Condé" at the end of the war and became the commander-in-chief of the French army. He also served in the later Franco-Turkish War. Served as commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.
But even such a great military expert doesn’t understand what “slowly but firmly advance” means?
"Duke," Churchill explained, "the so-called slow and steady means to advance while building fortifications, and at the same time use extremely barbaric means to destroy the social order near the fortification area!"
It turned out that the Indian Zhuge Liang and Huang Feiyu, who was wearing a feather fan and turban, adopted a step-by-step advancement method on the battlefield east of Lake Chapala. The advancement speed can only be described as a tortoise speed. In the past few months, the average daily advancement The distance was less than a quarter of a Spanish mile (two to three miles), and after walking for more than a hundred days, the army approached the city of Leon - so slowly, of course, it did not mean walking every day, but stopping and going, when walking After walking less than ten miles, when they stopped, they built forts and divided the fields against God!
Even though they walked slowly, the damage they caused was not small at all!
"Why are they so barbaric?" The Duke of Luxembourg has been fighting all his life and has seen too many barbaric things. Moreover, he is also very barbaric! However, even he, a savage old man, did not dare to say that he was "extremely savage", so he asked Churchill, what does extreme savagery look like?
Frank Empire Foreign Minister Leonard hurriedly interjected and asked: "Are these evil Aztecs sacrificing human blood again? This is a quite appalling crime!"
"No, they didn't do that," Admiral Churchill said. "In fact, they did something even more outrageous and barbaric!"
"What?" The Duke of Luxembourg was taken aback. He crossed himself on his chest and asked with a trembling voice, "They, they don't eat human flesh, do they? This is really terrible!"
"No!" Churchill still shook his head, "It's even more terrifying!"
"Really? More terrifying?"
"Then, what did they do?"
Although Leonardo and the Duke of Luxembourg are not good people, and they have done many things that deserve to go to hell in their lives - but the Pope has forgiven them on behalf of God! But they really can't imagine any more serious atrocities than blood sacrifice and cannibalism.
"They... confiscated all the lands and other property belonging to the church, Spanish nobles, white and mulatto white landowners, and then divided these lands equally among the poor Indians, and at the same time declared that all debts of these poor people were forgiven! Also! , they also expelled all Catholic priests, banned Catholicism, and blatantly promoted an evil religion that worshiped the devil and taught people to go to hell!" John Churchill gritted his teeth when talking about these evil deeds, "Obviously, These evil deeds cannot be committed by King Montezuma and the ignorant Indians. Behind them must be the Ming Emperor, because the route implemented by King Montezuma in Mexico is a complete replica of the Ming Dynasty's land equalization system!"
"Oh God! It's terrible! What do the demons of Ming Dynasty want to do?"
"Does that need to be said? This devil must want to subvert the world created by God. He wants to turn the world into hell!"
Foreign Minister Leonhard and the Duke of Luxembourg were both frightened by the atrocities of the Aztecs - they were not afraid of being captured and eaten by the Indians, because this was impossible. Moreover, a barbaric regime that always sacrifices human blood and kills a few human beings from time to time to improve their lives has no future and cannot threaten the rule of white Europeans in the Americas.
According to reliable information, the number of Chinese in North America, including the Shang people and the Yin family, is only over one million, and the number of Indians ruled by them is not large, and hundreds of thousands died of smallpox. ! The Yin Shang people and savages together are estimated to be less than two million. How much land can this number occupy? Therefore, Leonardo and the Duke of Luxembourg are not worried about the Shang Kingdom occupying the entire New World. Their ability to occupy the small half of North America (western) north of Mexico is already the limit. If we want to expand again... it will be difficult to achieve it using methods consistent with the principles of colonialism.
Because the core principle of colonialism is the slaughter, dispossession and enslavement of indigenous people!
That is to first massacre all those who dare to resist, then deprive the indigenous subjugated slaves who obeyed the colonizers of all or part of their property, and finally make these indigenous subjugated slaves become the colonizers' dog minions or slaves.
The Europeans have almost reached the "slavery stage" in New Spain and Peru. Especially in New Spain and Peru, they have now established a hierarchical system of first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades, and have completed the entire process from spiritual to economic. Orientation slavery and control.
It can be said that it was done quite well!
In New France, the European colonists were still in the early stages of massacre... Because the number of French colonists was too small, and they had to obtain furs from a group of Indian safari people, the French did not even massacre. It's not done on a large scale, it's a bit careless, but it's quite in line with the slowness of the French.
In New England, of course, it is a different situation...the natives have basically disappeared, and the Protestants and Puritans are very efficient! Therefore, the white colonists there had to import a large number of black slaves for agricultural production. Of course, in the early Spanish colonies in the Caribbean, there were also situations where the massacre was too violent and black labor had to be used.
As for the Brazilian colony under Portuguese rule, massacre, dispossession and enslavement were inefficiently carried out in chaos. In some places the killing was so complete that black slaves were brought in to work! In other places, the native Indians were converted into Christians, and some even joined the Pioneer Flag Troops, the pioneering organization of the white colonies, and went to the interior to kill people and set fires! In the vast interior of Brazil, colonial rule has not yet been established...it is really a mess!
But Portugal is in chaos at home, so don't expect them to be more organized in Brazil. However, the principles of Portuguese colonists in Brazil still centered on massacre, dispossession and enslavement.
However, in the New World, the Ming Dynasty was pursuing a route that seriously challenged the existing colonial order and international zero-dollar purchase rules... What they did in Mexico cannot even be called colonization, but should be called liberation!
And it was not only the Indian nation that was liberated, but also Indian serfs, farmers, and slaves!
The oppression of serfs and peasants by aristocratic landowners not only existed in the New World, but also widely existed in the Old World. Moreover, the degree of oppression will not be reduced at all because of the skin color and religious beliefs of serfs and farmers in the Old World.
If the Indian serfs and farmers in the New World could get rid of the enslavement of feudal landlords... then why couldn't the white serfs and farmers in the Old World also divide the land of the noble landlords? Is it possible that they are lower than the Indian serfs and farmers?
Since Mexico was once a part of the Catholic civilization, its connection with the European continent was much closer than the Ming Dynasty's connection with Europe. Europeans may not necessarily know what kind of social changes took place in the Ming Dynasty, but they will soon know about the drastic changes that took place in Mexico.
"The Aztecs must be destroyed!" Louis XIV said to Archbishop de la Magarra of Mexico City, "but I am now preparing to unite with the Rakshasa, the Polish and German states, and the Italian states. Go attack the Ottoman Empire..." At this point, he turned back and asked the Duke of Luxembourg, "Duke, how many troops can we spare for the New World?"
The Duke of Luxembourg pretended to calculate for a while, then stretched out a dry palm and said, "Five thousand...five thousand at most!"
Louis XIV nodded, "Okay, send everyone to support Leopold." He looked at de la Magala again, "Cardinal, besides war, does Leopold I have any other means? Stabilize the Shang Kingdom? Without the support of the Shang Dynasty, the Aztecs would be vulnerable."
"Your Majesty, Emperor Leopold does intend to negotiate peace with the Shang Kingdom. He is also planning to select a noble lady in Europe who is both beautiful and intelligent, and who is willing to devote herself to God. Among them is the emperor's adopted daughter, Countess Maria Elizabeth. Marry the monarch of Shang Fang Kingdom in exchange for a short period of peace."
Louis XIV nodded and said: "Have you made your selection? There should be no such person in the Habsburg family, right?"
De La Magala shook his head: "Indeed... there is no Habsburg anymore."
Louis XIV turned around and glanced at Pope Urban IX. The Pope immediately said: "Brother de la Magala, leave this matter to me... The Holy See will definitely find someone like this." woman."
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