I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

Chapter 658 Alliance with Ming Dynasty

Zhu Youxiao looked at Sun Yuanhua's introduction to India and secretly said that he had a unique vision and his predictions were very accurate.

India is indeed prone to being ruled by foreigners. Since ancient times, how many dynasties have come south from the northwest mountains and invaded India, even the current Womor Dynasty.

And as Sun Yuanhua said, after the Womor Empire was in turmoil, the British East India Company came and gradually turned India into their colony.

Zhu Youxiao, who thought about this, also felt that India was really pitiful and funny. According to his character, he also wanted to get a share of the pie.But as far as the current situation of Ming Dynasty is concerned, he has no ability to do anything to India now.

After all, the Womor Empire is now at its peak, and the Ming Dynasty is separated from India by the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Whether they want to attack upwards or the Ming Dynasty wants to attack downwards, it will be very troublesome.

In addition, the internal affairs of Ming Dynasty have not been dealt with yet, so they can only put it on hold for the time being.After the Ming Dynasty was internally stable, it would try to establish individual strongholds to compete with the East India Company, but that was a story for another day.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao put down Sun Yuanhua's letter about India and picked up another letter.

This letter is what Sun Yuanhua saw and heard after leaving India. After Zhu Youxiao opened it and read it, he found that there was nothing new.

It is written that after Sun Yuanhua left India, he went to the east coast of Africa, where there was a Portuguese colony.After further supplies here, they crossed the Cape of Good Hope and headed north along the west coast of Africa, preparing to head to Europe.

During this period, Sun Yuanhua had been taking the opportunity to observe the situation in Africa. He found that the people living in Africa had dark skin, and their appearance could not be seen even in the daytime.

The Portuguese who accompanied him told him that the people here were docile and physically strong.So they often hunted down these black people, loaded them on ships, and shipped them to America or Asia as slaves.

For this reason, the accompanying Portuguese also stopped at the Portuguese colony on the west coast of Africa, taking Sun Yuanhua to see the conditions of the colony and letting him see how black people were captured.

The method was cruel and inhumane. After reading it, Sun Yuanhua couldn't help but sigh to Zhu Youxiao that Westerners are not human.

However, this also solved Sun Yuanhua's doubts. It turns out that the Kunlun slaves during the Tang Dynasty and the black slave workers in Macau originated from this.

And taking this opportunity, he also discovered another benefit of Africa. Although it is backward and ignorant, it is rich in products, including gold, ivory, silver, wood, etc., especially the rare and exotic objects, birds and animals. It opened his eyes and was truly amazing.

After setting off from Africa, his next stop was to the West, but the content of the letter ended there.

At the end of Sun Yuanhua's letter, he said that he would arrive in the Western countries at the end of the second year of Tianqi.

At that time, he will first land in Portugal, and then travel to Western countries in the name of the Ming envoy.After traveling in the West for more than a year, he will choose an opportunity to return to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the emperor is asked to wait for good news, and he will definitely return successfully.

When Zhu Youxiao saw this, he immediately put the letters in his hand on the imperial case. He sighed in his heart that it was not easy for Sun Yuanhua. It can be said that he was like Zhang Qian in the Ming Dynasty. He must reward him well after he comes back.

Moreover, these letters of his were well written and were of great help to Ming Dynasty in understanding the situation in India and Africa.Thinking of this, he picked up the letter on the imperial case and handed it to Zhang Chang beside him.

"After keeping these two files, we took them to the General Affairs Department and asked the Ming Daily to publish the contents, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty could understand what Sun Yuanhua saw and heard."

"The slaves obey the orders!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chang immediately bowed and said yes, then picked up the letter and bowed out.Zhu Youxiao was left alone. He slowly looked to the west, thinking to himself that Sun Yuanhua was somewhere in Europe.
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Italy, outside Rome.

Several teams of carriages were parked on the north avenue of the city, with hundreds of papal guards guarding both sides of the carriages.

In the middle, there were three or four old men wearing white hats and red clothes, talking to a man in Ming Dynasty official uniform.

"Dear Ming Dynasty envoy, your stay in Rome was too short this time. The Pope feels very sorry. It would be better if you could stay for a few more days."

The man in the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty saw how polite the cardinals in front of him were, and replied without being humble or arrogant:
"Since last year, I have visited Portugal and Spain, and this month I visited Rome. I have benefited a lot from what I saw and heard along the way. It's a pity that I have the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to entrust me with him, so I can't stay here for a long time. I hope Bishops, please forgive me."

The person who said this was surprisingly the Ming envoy Sun Yuanhua who had arrived in Europe. In December last year, Sun Yuanhua arrived in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.When he arrived with a delegation of more than ten people from the Ming Dynasty, it instantly caused a sensation in Lisbon.

Since the Age of Discovery, the Portuguese and Spaniards have continued to travel to the East. Together with the various travel notes of various merchants who went to the Ming Dynasty to do business and the Jesuit missionaries who preached, Europeans have become more and more detailed about China. , but the impression is getting better and better.

For example, Matteo Ricci recorded in "Chinese Zhaji" that the Ming Dynasty was extremely rich in products, the sugar was whiter than Europe, and the cloth was more exquisite than Europe. The people were gorgeously dressed and elegant, and the people were in high spirits, polite, and spoke elegantly. .

He also praised China for not being bathed in our sacred Catholic faith. China is unparalleled in the world. China is not only a kingdom, China is actually a world.

There are countless books like this, which are constantly praised and described in such books.People in Portugal, Spain and even the whole of Europe have the impression that the Ming Dynasty is extremely noble and wealthy, with people living and working in peace and contentment, and the houses are magnificent, as beautiful as Plato's Utopia.

Therefore, when Sun Yuanhua and others appeared in the city of Lisbon wearing official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, the entire Lisbon was filled with people who wanted to see this envoy of the Eastern Empire.

The local nobles and officials in Lisbon also held a grand welcome banquet for Sun Yuanhua and others.And after they learned at the meeting that Sun Yuanhua was actually a Catholic, they showed great kindness to him.

As an envoy of the Ming Dynasty and a Catholic, Sun Yuanhua was very popular in Portugal.However, after he stayed in Lisbon for half a month, the envoys of the current King Felipe IV of Portugal and Spain rushed to Lisbon after hearing the news and invited Sun Yuanhua to Madrid.

Sun Yuanhua was naturally extremely happy with such a suggestion.What he saw and heard on the way here and in Lisbon already knew how powerful the Francons, oh no, should be the Spanish.

According to his understanding, after more than a hundred years of conquest and annexation, Spain now covers Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, central and southern Italy and other European lands. It occupies Luzon in Asia and occupies [-] acres in the Americas. Covering the vast land from North America to South America.

According to the introduction of the local Spanish nobles, wherever the sun shines, there is Spanish territory, and it is an empire on which the sun never sets.

Sun Yuanhua, who knew the emperor's plan to manage Nanyang and explore the New World, knew very well that if the Ming Dynasty wanted to enter Nanyang and the New World, Spain would not be able to get around it, so he immediately set off for Madrid.

After arriving in Madrid, he was grandly welcomed by King Felipe IV of Spain. As Spain's most important trading partner in the East, porcelain supplier, and the main source of Spanish luxury goods.

Everyone in Spain is proud to own a piece of Ming porcelain and silk. It can be said that in Spain, anything that has anything to do with the Ming Dynasty will be upgraded to a higher level and it will be a luxury product.

And now the Ming Empire actually sent envoys to visit, which aroused their curiosity even more.As a result, the scene of empty streets was once again staged in Madrid.

However, this scene had long made Sun Yuanhua, Xu Xiake and others numb. After arriving in Madrid, they quickly met with the King of Spain.

Sun Yuanhua first presented the long-prepared letter of credence. After all, Spain was one of the first countries that the Ming Dynasty came into contact with and understood. Now the Ming Dynasty still has a large number of artillery named after Spain's nickname, Franji.

King Felipe IV of Spain naturally accepted the goodwill of the Ming Dynasty envoy and had great goodwill, because he had received the latest information from the Philippines.

In April and May of last year, the hateful Dutch East India Company gathered a fleet and headed north, blockading Manila, and then attacked Macau.But after several failed attack attempts, they retreated to the Penghu Islands of the Ming Dynasty, but were destroyed by the Ming Dynasty's fleet. Several warships were destroyed or captured, and none of the soldiers returned.

As a result, the power and prestige of the entire Dutch East India Company in Southeast Asia was greatly affected. After receiving the good news, the Governor of Manila immediately wrote to Felipe IV to report the results.

Felipe IV was also a little excited after receiving the news, feeling that Spain finally no longer had to carry it alone in Asia.

Nowadays, those country bumpkins from the Netherlands are always competing with them for interests in Asia, and the Yamen can hardly breathe.Now Spain faces too many enemies and has no time to take care of the Philippines and other places. It can only watch the Dutch show off their power in Asia.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's great victory over the Dutch was crucial to Spain.This means that if Spain can form an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, not only can Spain and Portugal enjoy exclusive trade with the Ming Dynasty, but they can also use the Ming Dynasty to form a joint fleet to deal with the Dutch together and drive the Dutch out of Asia.

After Felipe IV thought of this plan, he immediately felt that it was feasible.

So after Sun Yuanhua came, he immediately told everything about the plan. Sun Yuanhua was stunned for a while, feeling that he didn't know how to reply.

(End of this chapter)