Starting in Saarhu, it is a bit difficult to make a comeback.

"Anyone who gets an inch of land in China will be destroyed and killed!"

These simple words made the Polish envoy tremble with fear and become speechless.

In the end I had to leave sadly.

The second prince's domineering response made Wu Sangui, Zheng Sen and others express appreciation.

Zheng Sen said angrily: "Is this Wladyslaw IV out of his mind and crazy?"

"You actually used such a poor excuse to ask for land from China, do you think we are fools?"

Li Shizu said: "In fact, some people really used such poor excuses to obtain large tracts of land."

"During the Hongwu period, North Korean envoys falsely claimed that large areas of Ping'an Road and Hamjing Road in North Korea were the homeland of North Korea and asked the Ming Emperor to grant them land."

"In fact, the Central Plains Dynasty and North Korea have always been bounded by the Datong River. The "Hometown of North Korea" that the North Koreans falsely claim has always been the territory of the Jurchens. As a result, Emperor Hongwu did not conduct a detailed investigation in order to win over North Korea against the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and actually placed The Jianzhou Zuowei south of the Yalu River was given to North Korea!"

"North Korea was also able to 'expand its territory' and pushed its border with the Central Plains Dynasty from the Datong River to the Yalu River in one fell swoop!"

"The Jurchens in Korea also moved to Liaodong, and this was how the Jianzhou Jurchen Rebellion began!"

Who would have thought that the Jianzhou Jurchens that caused so much headache to the Ming Dynasty actually originated from a deception by the Koreans.

Li Shizu said: "I'm afraid it's not that simple when the Poles come to Suocheng this time. The Intelligence Department must find out what is going on as soon as possible?"

"In addition, the front lines are notified to enter a state of combat readiness and closely monitor the movements of Poland, Sweden and the Ottomans."

Although the most accurate information has not yet been obtained, Li Shizu's intuition told him that there was something complicated behind the Polish people's abnormal behavior.

In Vilnius, the capital of Poland, the Sejm, the Polish parliament, is voting on whether to declare war on China.

The reason Wladyslaw IV came up with this idea was because he felt that in this carving up of Tsarist Russia, Poland and Sweden would pay the greatest casualties by confronting Tsarist Russia head-on.

The Chinese and the Ottomans took advantage of them and did not face many of the main forces of Tsarist Russia.

In particular, the Chinese army did not behave actively when they jointly attacked Novgorod.

This caused him to have a wrong estimate of China's military strength. He believed that the Chinese army's fighting will was not strong, but their muskets were more powerful.

Of course, these are not enough for him to make the decision to go to war with China.

What really gave him confidence was the military assistance from the Netherlands, Britain and France.

The rise of the Chinese Empire almost drove these old maritime powers out of Asia. Only the Netherlands still had a territory in the Dutch East Indies.

Fortunately, the Chinese have no plans to enter Africa further, and the most critical Cape of Good Hope is still in the hands of the Europeans.

This allows these European countries to still maintain business relationships with China. After all, China's products are still popular. Although profits have been compressed, they are still profitable.

But now Li Shizu actually occupied Moscow and entered Europe by land.

This aroused the fear of European countries.

Therefore, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom took the lead in forming an "anti-Chinese alliance" with France, Spain, and Portugal to prevent them from further penetrating into Europe.

On the one hand, the Netherlands and Britain are stepping up their efforts to build more sailing battleships in an attempt to defeat the Chinese navy at sea.

But they also understood that relying solely on the strength of the two countries would not be able to compete with China's powerful navy in a short period of time, so the five countries prepared to form a powerful European joint fleet to expedition to India.

However, compared to the sea, the threat from the land is more direct.

They were worried that once Li Shizu consolidated his rule in the Eastern European plains, he would further invade the hinterland of Europe like the Mongols did.

Originally, the Ottoman Empire had already caused a lot of headaches for Europeans, but now there was a Chinese Empire, and the two countries actually formed an alliance.

The fragmented Holy Roman Empire was always facing the threat of the Ottomans, and even Vienna was in danger. Naturally, it was no longer able to deal with the Chinese Empire.

At this time Poland became the front line against China.

So this "Anti-Chinese Alliance" provided Poland with 5 of the latest guns and more than 200 artillery pieces of various types on a half-sale, half-free basis.

Moreover, they also promised Poland that once Poland was attacked by the Chinese, the "Anti-Chinese Alliance" would directly send troops to assist Poland.

It was with this support that the Poles dared to ask China for Vyazma.

Of course, Wladyslaw IV killed two birds with one stone.

It would be best if the Chinese could hand over Vyazma to Poland, even if he refuses, it would be a help for him to persuade the Sejm to pass the motion to declare war on China.

Sure enough, after the Polish envoy brought back the threat posed by the second prince Li Shizu to Poland, many Poles became angry.

Wladyslaw IV even put forward the inflammatory slogan of "recapture Moscow and make the Grand Duchy of Poland and Lithuania great again."

Many Sejm deputies also shouted: "Drive the Orientals out of Europe!"

Under constant incitement, the members of the Sejm gradually lost their minds, and finally passed Xia's proposal to declare war with 55% of the votes in favor.

Poland has also carried out a new round of conscription and mobilization. Wladyslaw IV will recruit 5 soldiers this time, and will gather troops to launch a new round of attack.

Of course, the recruitment and training of new recruits will take some time.

What Wladyslaw IV has to do now is to drag his neighbor, the "Northern Army" Sweden, into the water.

After all, China's national power is very powerful. There are nearly 200,000 Chinese troops and servants in Europe alone, which is almost an enhanced version of Tsarist Russia.

So Wladyslaw IV personally came to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, to persuade Sweden to send troops.

The Queen of Sweden is not yet in charge, but Prime Minister Ossinda Na is actually in charge.

Osinstadt flatly refused Władysław IV's proposal.

Sweden had lost nearly 20,000 elite troops in the previous battle against Tsarist Russia, and the newly conquered areas also required a large number of garrison troops.

Continuing to wage war against China is obviously militaristic.

However, in order to express his gratitude to Poland for its previous help, Ossindna said that Sweden could provide Poland with some military supplies.

With the armaments supported by the "Anti-China Alliance", Poland does not currently need these.

Without Sweden sending troops together, Poland would not dare to send troops hastily.

He had no choice but to turn to the "Anti-China Alliance".

So Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and France jointly put pressure on Sweden and asked Sweden to declare war with China.

Naturally, such a big move could not escape the eyes and ears of the Intelligence Department.

Soon this information was compiled to the East Ryukyu Company's headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Zheng Zhilong said worriedly: "I originally thought that the United Kingdom and the Netherlands would wait until more sailing battleships were launched before turning against us, but now it seems that they are preparing to take action in advance."

The third prince Li Xingzu, who was sent by Li Xianzhong to study at the Eastern Ryukyu Company, said: "The second brother's actions were really fast. In just over two years, he conquered so much land in India, Persia, the Kazakh Khanate and Tsarist Russia, and brought China's The power extended to Europe.”

"The Dutch and the British can't sit still!"

In fact, they started targeting China very early. The Dutch tried firing white porcelain themselves in an attempt to seize the Chinese porcelain market in Europe.

It is a pity that the white porcelain of the Dutch is not as exquisite as the porcelain of Jingdezhen in China. At best, it can only enter the homes of ordinary people. The upper class in Europe only recognizes porcelain from China.

Originally, the British tried to grow tea in India and Ceylon, and the Dutch paid for the Annamites to plant mulberry trees to produce silk.

Although the quality of these teas and raw silk is not on the same level as Chinese products, it is also an important means for them to try to break the monopoly of Chinese silk tea.

But it is a pity that in just a few years, these places were successively occupied by China.

Now they have to continue to import Chinese goods.

Moreover, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce is directly involved in European trade and has a clear understanding of the market conditions of these commodities in the European market.

They control the pricing power, which also greatly reduces the profits of these European "second-rate dealers".

In addition to traditional silk, tea, and porcelain, China also exported a large number of glass products to Europe.

Only China has mastered the method of making large pieces of transparent glass.

This made the Italian craftsmen who originally had a monopoly on glass technology almost unemployed.

Huaxia's glass has now completely occupied the European market.

In addition to large pieces of glass, Huaxia's glass products are also very popular.

The royal families of various European countries are popular in daily necessities such as glass vases and wine glasses made in China.

Especially Chinese perfumes are popular in Europe. It is said that these perfumes were designed by the Chinese Emperor Li Xianzhong for his queen Haqiya.

The frosted glass perfume bottle and gold-plated spray nozzle highlight the nobility of these perfumes.

Today, nine out of ten Bibles on the market in Europe are printed in China.

But apart from the Bible, the Chinese refused to print other books.

The Chinese people established contact with the Holy See through the Bible.

The Pope even made a lot of money by selling Bibles. When he learned that China advocates religious freedom and that there are also a large number of Catholics in China, he even stated in public that the Chinese people are also the people of God. Europe must not discriminate against Chinese people.

Although Protestantism broke away from the Holy See and had a hostile relationship with Catholicism. But they also recognized the Bible, and those archbishops who believed in Protestantism also made huge profits through cooperation with China.

Although Europeans also mastered movable type printing technology, they were not as advanced as China's.

They couldn't stand the Chinese people's loss of money and provided Bibles to the church at a price lower than the cost, half sold and half given away.

The Pope of Rome and the Protestant archbishops everywhere are not willing to see cheap Bibles entering the market. Those who privately print Bibles in Europe will be hanged.

Relying on its relationship with the church, the East Ryukyu Company is even more prosperous in various European countries.

Zheng Zhilong even bought a large piece of land on the outskirts of Amsterdam through church connections, built a huge bastion here and stationed three thousand troops.

Even if the "Anti-Chinese Alliance" wants to fight against itself, the East Ryukyu Company is definitely not a lamb to be slaughtered.

Li Xingzu said: "The core of this 'anti-China alliance' is actually the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and other countries are following suit."

"Military they rely on Britain, but economically they rely more on the Netherlands."

"As long as we destroy the Dutch economy, the 'Anti-China Alliance', which has exhausted its financial resources, will be unable to cause trouble to China."

Although this third prince is young, his vision is indeed very unique.

Zheng Zhilong also had to admire the education of the Chinese royal family.

Prince Li Shengzu has several years of experience in supervising the country. He is a good hand in governing the country and has inherited His Majesty's excellent political genes.

The second prince, Li Shizu, opened up a large territory for China at a young age. He completely inherited His Majesty's military talent and even had the tendency to excel in his own right.

His eldest son Zheng Sen will have a bright future following the second prince.

In his opinion, although the second prince will not inherit the throne of China, he has a wife who is a Mughal empress. In the future, India will sooner or later be the fiefdom of the second prince.

The third prince Li Xingzu is a business wizard. Although he has not been with him for a long time, he has completely inherited his majesty's characteristic of being good at "making money".

And just like His Majesty, he doesn't like to play his cards according to routines.

It was he who came up with the idea of ​​cooperating with European churches to sell Bibles at a loss.

It loses hundreds of thousands of silver dollars every year, but it can quickly open up the European market through the support of the church.

This young man's mind just works so fast, I can't help but accept it!

Because of this suggestion, His Majesty actually directly awarded the third prince the title of county prince, breaking the Chinese convention that princes under the age of 15 were not allowed to be crowned kings.

After all, even the second prince who had made great military exploits for China was not promoted to prince until he turned 15.

I originally thought that the third prince was perverted enough, but I just got the news that the fourth prince Li Yaozu, who had just turned 13, was also made the county king by your majesty.

The Fourth Prince is as interested in those "wonderful skills and tricks" as His Majesty.

The scientific research team of Liaodong University led by the Fourth Prince created China's first "steam engine". This thing was first proposed by His Majesty, but it has troubled Chinese engineers for many years.

His Majesty was so happy that he directly made him the county king.

However, these princes are not as good as the fifth prince of China. The fifth prince Li Fengzu, who was born in Kyoto of Japan, just turned one year old and took over the throne of Japan Emperor from His Majesty, which is equivalent to a prince title.

The Netherlands is a real commercial empire. Although the world's earliest bank was established in Venice, Italy, the Bank of Amsterdam, established in 1609, was the world's first real commercial bank.

The Dutch East India Company was the first joint-stock company.

The Dutch established the world's first stock exchange and issued the first bonds.

In fact, the commercial measures implemented by Li Xianzhong in China had already existed in the Netherlands at this time.

It is precisely because the Netherlands has the most commercial market in the world that it gave Zheng Zhilong and Li Xingzu the opportunity.

They decided to destroy the Dutch business system in order to empty the money bags of the "Anti-China Alliance".

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