Facing the great powers in the East, all countries are wary, fearful and envious, especially the old empires such as the Mughals, Safis, Ottomans, Tsarist Russia, and HRE. They are declining day by day as the sun sets.
, but the great eastern country can actually revive again and become so prosperous.
The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty held great power, but the country was still prosperous in industry and commerce. Their sailing ships, artillery, and their merchants are now spread all over the Eastern and Western oceans, and their products can be seen in every corner of the world.
Who wouldn’t envy it.
However, many countries have suffered losses in front of this emerging empire, and now they do not dare to provoke contact easily. The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Tsarist Russia, etc. can only compromise step by step to maintain the current friendly relations, at least they can still
Doing business.
Full trade with the Ming Dynasty is now important to all countries.
Many of the goods of the Dutch sea coachmen now come from the Eastern Ming Dynasty, and even most of the profits of the East India Company come from the Ming Dynasty. This is not only their important commodity supplier, but also an important sales area.
No one dared to offend the Ming Dynasty easily, especially those sea coachmen in the Netherlands who were pro-business and profit-oriented.
Even the Spanish Habsburg royal family, which was once the richest, is now weak and facing bankruptcy. It is even more necessary to maintain trade with the Ming Dynasty.
Since this is a powerful and untouchable opponent, let's not be enemies and become relatives.
marriage.
The Austrian Habsburg dynasty, which holds the throne of the Holy Roman Empire, also rules Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, the Czech Republic and other places. Today's Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III's rule is almost related to the Thirty Years' War.
At the same time, his father was a war madman, and he was the unlucky one. He was forced to sign a peace treaty of defeat.
Now he is eager to marry into the Ming Dynasty. For this reason, he is willing to marry Princess Maria Anna, who was born to him and the second queen, to the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, he also wants to marry a Ming Dynasty princess for his prince Philip.
It is hoped that this alliance will be exchanged for an alliance with the Eastern Ming Empire.
The Thirty Years' War plunged the empire into a state of fragmentation among princes. However, the Thirty Years' War was not without success. At least the Protestants in Austria and Bohemia were purged and converted into Catholics.
Now after the war, the Austrian Habsburg dynasty is more eager to further strengthen its control over its territory. They hope to maintain a standing army of at least 50,000 people, and to establish military bases in Austria, Bohemia, Silesia and other places.
They have all established an absolute monarchy. This is their base camp and there is no room for failure.
It was just that the Austrian Habsburgs and their relatives the Spanish Habsburgs were almost bankrupt due to the war. Whether it was to expand the standing army or to strengthen the control of their own territories, they all needed money.
If they can strengthen trade with the Ming Dynasty, or even borrow money from the Ming Dynasty to buy arms, they can quickly expand their standing new army. They also have part of the coastline and ports on the Adriatic Sea in the Mediterranean, and they also hope to gain access to the Ming Dynasty.
help to build up its own maritime power.
These require both money and weapons.
They hope that they can use the power of the eastern powers to maintain their existing territories and not be able to lose their territory any longer. They also hope that Austria can continue to be elected as the emperor of the Holy Ra, although this emperor no longer has real power.
"Since the Austrian Habsburg dynasty is so sincere, we can have a good talk about it. The Thirty Years' War in Europe completely divided Germany among the princes. It was even divided by Protestantism and Catholicism, but it also left France, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
, becoming the three new overlords in Europe, they gained many territories, the Netherlands and Switzerland gained independence, and France gained a strategic channel to Germany, laying the foundation for their dominance in Europe.
Germany and Italy are still divided. Although the Habsburgs have suffered a major setback, Austria is still the most powerful country within a country in the Holy Roman Empire. They also control Hungary, Bohemia and the Czech Republic, and are in conflict with a country that has just experienced the Great War.
Marriage and cooperation between the defeated former European overlords is worth a try.
Talk to them in detail, focusing on trade."
A marriage alliance with the Austrian Habsburgs can also be formed with their relatives, the Spanish Habsburgs. Spain not only has colonies in Luzon in the South Sea, but also controls the Pacific American routes and has many territories in the Americas.
They even control Gibraltar, the important gateway into and out of the Mediterranean.
A few years ago, King Philip IV of Spain proposed to marry Anna, the daughter of Ferdinand III of Austria, for his heir, Prince Balthasar Carlos of Asturias. However, the prince passed away just three months after the engagement.
, Anna lost her fiancé, and the king had no male heir.
At this time, Philip IV's first wife Elizabeth had also passed away a few years ago, so the forty-four-year-old uncle simply married his late son's fiancée, his own niece, the fourteen-year-old Anna.
This time King Philip IV of Spain sent a princess. He had no prince, so he sent Don Juan José, the younger and more promising among his illegitimate sons without prince titles, who was the son of an actress.
, although he was an illegitimate son, he received the same education as a prince since he was a child. He started out as a guard officer, fought in Naples, Sicily and other places and became governor, and also participated in the wars with France and Portugal. He was an extraordinary illegitimate son.
The king sent him as an envoy to the Ming Dynasty and wanted to marry him to a Ming Dynasty princess. If he could succeed, he also planned to make him the governor of Manila in Luzon to comprehensively strengthen relations with the Ming Dynasty and increase trade.
The Spanish were also losers in the Thirty Years' War. Their long-term dominance of the Spanish Army in Europe was ended by the French Prince Condé, and their once invincible Armada, with more than a hundred battleships and thousands of cannons, was
The powerful fleet of Wan Haijun was defeated by the British long ago.
After losing both land and sea, the Spanish hegemony was gone. The Armada had been fighting with the British for many years. In the end, five expeditions failed, and they had to give up their ambition to conquer Britain. Spain, which was once powerful, wealthy and arrogant, had to give up its ambition to conquer Britain.
The situation was deteriorating, and the Thirty Years' War gave them the final blow.
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How rich it was in the past, now it is so embarrassing.
After annexing Portugal for decades, they were forced to recognize the independence of the Portuguese more than ten years ago. Even after thirty years of defeat, they were forced to recognize the independence of the Netherlands. They were also the lords and lords of the Southern Netherlands.
Also serves as King of Portugal.
Their neighbor France has completely replaced their land hegemony, while their old rival the British has overwhelmed them at sea, and even the Dutch have suppressed their colonies overseas.
Austria, their most powerful ally, could not protect itself and could only turn its head to look at the eastern powers.
Although the Thirty Years' War is over, the French have no intention of ending the war with the Spanish. The Spanish can only accept the fight. Historically, they have continued to fight for more than ten years. Spain's performance is not bad. At least it can concentrate on following the war.
The French fought hard and even regained Naples and Catalonia in the past few years, but it was still difficult to change the fact that France, the new overlord, was stronger. Historically, the Spanish had to sign a peace treaty with France and cede it after a few years.
Much land was given to France.
Even the overseas territories of America and Luzon could not be taken into account at the same time. They could only focus on one side. In the end, they could only strengthen the American territories and let Luzon go on the defensive, not daring to fiercely confront the Dutch in Nanyang.
If it can form an alliance and marry with the Ming Dynasty, then Luzon can keep or even continue to maintain the Pacific route, and even borrow the power of the Ming Dynasty to join forces with the Ming Dynasty to suppress the Dutch.
The Spaniards still have a basis for cooperation with the Ming Emperor. Lunila cooperated to build a shipyard and trade silk, tea, porcelain, and silver. The Spaniards can no longer monopolize the Americas and are facing challenges from new forces. At this time, it is important for them to engage in distant relations and attack closely.
It is also the best choice.
Zhu Yihai discussed these international relations with the Minister of the Prime Minister's Office and the Prince, and set the tone. Although there is competition between the Spaniards and the Netherlands in Nanyang, cooperation must still be the main focus. After all, it is not yet the time for irreconcilability. Development first
, cooperation, and when we get to that point in the future, it will be a matter of course for us to fight each other again.
Zhu Yihai's long-term strategic goal for Ming Dynasty in Southeast Asia was to capture the Indochina Peninsula first, and then capture the Malay Peninsula. As for the Java Islands, Sumatra Island, and Borneo, there is no need to rush to move. Now that Ming Dynasty has captured Singapore, then
It will have the initiative and security to enter and exit the Strait of Malacca, and it will form mutual constraints with the Dutch, so they will not be in a hurry to start a war.
The same goes for Luzon. The Port of Manila does not need to be touched, and even the main island of Luzon is not in a hurry. We can establish strongholds on other islands first.
Trade cooperation with the Spanish will be a better choice in the long run.
Competition and cooperation are the themes of the future.
Except for Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, Zhu Yihai looked down upon him. Knowing that he was about to be defeated, he was too lazy to cooperate with them, and instead sent people to find the son of the King of England to burn the cold stove.
"Have a good talk with Tsarist Russia, Mughals, Persian Safis, and Ottomans, draw boundaries on the current actual spheres of influence of both sides, and then conclude a treaty. This will also avoid unnecessary conflicts."
Zhu Yihai was very satisfied with the current western boundary and did not intend to continue to expand by land. With the vassal states of Torgut, Nogai, Khiva, Dawan, Ladakh, and Siberia as strategic buffers, the western part of the Ming Dynasty was very safe.
If the emperor had not visited the West for three years and personally established this situation in the Western Regions, the imperial court would actually be more inclined to develop toward the ocean. The Yuanxuan faction is originally from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang factions. They all prefer the ocean. They all think that they can control the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions.
, further away areas are really out of reach and the returns are low.
But Zhu Yihai still had a few big axes to quickly conquer Qingkang, Weizang, the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, even the Hezhong area, the Kipchak grassland, and even the Caspian coast, and Siberia. He supported and conferred vassal states one after another, forming a valuable link.
Large buffer.
With this buffer zone, now that we can negotiate peace and treaty with those old empires, we can avoid having to fight bad wars again, and can focus on expanding in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty.
Although places like India and Persia also have beautiful mountains and rivers, it is too difficult and costly to expand overland from the Western Regions. Moreover, Mughal Persia and other places are also old empires, and their rotten ships still have three-pound nails. If it is really an endless war,
It will greatly hinder Ming Dynasty.
It would be better to make a peace treaty in the west, then reopen the Silk Road trade, focus on the southeastern coast, open up Myanmar's seaport, capture the Annan coast, and finally go all the way to capture the Malay Peninsula. That is what the Ming Dynasty needs to focus on.
Defend in the west and advance in the east, this is the basic national policy.
No matter how Europe gets involved, they can still do business and trade together, and even marry and become relatives.
"I'm tired, so let's talk about this first, and you can handle the specific things."
The prince stood up and helped the emperor, "My son, I send my father to the emperor."
He knew that it might be time for the emperor to use poppy flower milk again. Zhu Yihai held the dragon staff in one hand and supported the prince with the other as he left from behind.
The sky is overcast.
The first snow in Beijing is coming, and the time for his abdication is getting closer.
"There is no problem in marrying with other countries, but we must keep in mind that we cannot easily get involved in their disputes. The Ming Dynasty's army must not easily go to Europe to participate in the war. Let us focus on the East. Business is business, and relatives are relatives.