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Chapter 1672 Forming the Holy Alliance
In Edinburgh, the Scottish Covenant Army has been disbanded after the death of Charles I, and the militia is still here to maintain law and order.

Earl Leven, who once served as the commander of the Covenant Army, was recruited by the Scottish Presbyterian Church.

"Her Majesty the Queen intends to form a Holy Alliance to fight against the Roman Holy See system on the mainland. If it can win, it will be an excellent thing for maintaining our faith and obtaining commercial benefits for our Scotland. Therefore, our Presbyterian Church I plan to send you to represent our interests and participate in the Holy Alliance." The dignitaries of the Presbyterian Church told Earl Levin about their plans.

"Holy alliance..." Earl Levin's expression was a little dignified when he heard the news. "Usually establishing an alliance is a signal of war. Joining an alliance may drag our Scotland into the quagmire of war."

"The queen has given us a lot of concessions in Scotland. This is the preferential treatment that King Charles has never given us. The queen will bring the little prince back to our Scotland for inspection every two or three years. The queen is our queen of Scotland first, and then the queen of Scotland. The queen of England. We should follow the queen's decision. Besides, the fate of Scotland is now tied to England, and unless there is another King Charles in the royal family, we will rise up to resist." The dignitaries of the Presbyterian Church said.

"Is it okay to go to war with Spain, the Netherlands and other kingdoms?" Earl Levin confirmed to them.

"Spain and the Netherlands have monopolized the sea. If we can defeat them, we, Scotland, can also get a share of the sea." The Presbyterian said.

"I understand. I'm going to the city of London to represent the interests of the Scots in the Holy Alliance." Earl Leven replied.

The Holy Alliance of Windsor proposed by Chu Yun is taking shape. On the surface, the Holy Alliance is based on the England-Portugal Treaty of Windsor, but its essence has changed from an Anglo-Portuguese alliance to a military police organization presided over by Chu Yun to control the West.

Earl Levin came to the city of London to agree to Queen Sophia's Holy Alliance Treaty on behalf of Scotland, and Scotland joined the Holy Alliance.

Now the members of the Holy Alliance are China, England, Scotland and the United Kingdom of Ireland, the Kingdom of Portugal, Denmark and the United Kingdom of Norway.

As for Venice in the Mediterranean Sea, although China and China had sent troops twice to deal with the Ottoman Empire, Chu Yun was not at ease with the Venetian merchants who were more mercenary, and did not draw them into the Holy Alliance Treaty.

This time he was dealing with the Atlantic kingdoms, and the galleys of the Republic of Venice were of little help.

As for Portugal and Denmark, there are still plenty of ships and skilled sailors at their disposal.

The establishment of the Holy Alliance at Windsor informed the skeptical ambassadors of the Netherlands, France, and Sweden, who were shocked by the presence of the Portuguese and Danish royal families in England.

Portugal has enmity with Spain, Denmark has enmity with Sweden and the Netherlands, and although France seems to have the least enmity with members of the Holy Alliance, what France wants is European hegemony. The establishment of the Holy Alliance has made France feel a great threat .

The reason is very simple. The Holy Alliance established by Chu Yun only brought together countries with maritime powers to establish a grand navigation order. The navies of England, Portugal, and Denmark were all stronger than the army, which made France, a land power, quite uncomfortable.

Once the Holy Alliance controls the sea, how can France break through the current deadlock and go to the sea?
Ambassadors from the Netherlands, the Sea Coachman, Sweden, the Nordic Lion, and France, the Continental Hegemony, began to meet in private.

These three kingdoms stood on the same side in the Thirty Years War on the Continent against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, and they had a basis for cooperation.These ambassadors did not want to see the Atlantic being blocked by the Holy Alliance, nor did they want to see England, the pirate kingdom that had always been looked down upon by the European continent, climb over their heads.

As for the Spanish colonial empire, the ambassador had long been withdrawn from the city of London. Spain and England were at odds, and both sides withdrew their ambassadors and residents.

"Has the contract not been signed? Why is the progress of the peace talks so slow? The Chinese and the English have begun to organize the Holy Alliance. Their intention is obviously to target our other kingdoms. England has taken Haiti and Jamaica in the West Indies, They are targeting the Spaniards, and the next target may be our Netherlands or your France. The Habsburg family is no longer our main enemy, our enemy is the Holy Alliance hosted by the Chinese!" said the Ambassador of the Netherlands.

The face of the Swedish ambassador was uncertain. When he heard that the recently defeated Kingdom of Denmark had joined the Holy Alliance, he always had a bad feeling: "Although Sweden has achieved great victories one after another, the years of war have left our treasury in a deficit. We want to End the war with the Holy Roman Empire, as long as the Holy Roman Empire gives us part of the German territory."

"Our request in the Netherlands is even simpler, as long as Spain recognizes the United Provinces of the Netherlands as an independent sovereign state. I don't understand why the European continent has delayed so long for such a simple matter." Ambassador Teresa said.

When the ambassadors of the Netherlands and Sweden expressed their dissatisfaction, the French ambassador was more aware of the progress of the peace talks: "Ambassadors from various countries have gone to the city of Münster in the German region for peace talks. In addition to ending the war in Europe, we also need to form an alliance that excludes Chinese people. , the alliance of the English. This time it is not only the peace talks between our France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire, but also convened the Tsarist Russia in Eastern Europe, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and agreed to the outside world. Therefore, the time for this negotiation is longer than expected take longer."

"Even the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Tsarist Russia have to come to make up for it? What can they do with second-rate kingdoms?" The Netherlands and Sweden look down on kingdoms like the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Tsarist Russia that travel around the core of Europe .

"The Polish hussars and Cossack cavalry still have certain combat effectiveness. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Tsarist Russia also bought a lot of muskets from France, which can provide a lot of cannon fodder. Not only that, we have also won a powerful ally in this alliance." said the French ambassador.

"What powerful ally?" The ambassadors of the Netherlands and Sweden wondered.

"Grand Vizier Koprulu of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Constantinople was captured by the Chinese. Although they temporarily succumbed, they were still unwilling to be ceded to Greece and Egypt, and always wanted revenge. This time it was The crisis in the entire European continent, in order to resist the threat from the Far East, it is time to temporarily put down the faith." The French ambassador said.

(End of this chapter)