Spain is too busy with things at home, how much spare energy can be used outside? It is impossible for Gao to organize an expeditionary force to conquer Spain, and it is equally impractical for Spain to organize an expeditionary force to force Gao to be pragmatic.

In the final analysis, in Europe during this period, frequent conflicts have become the norm, and the cost of conflict is an unbearable burden for every country. However, all other countries, whether France, England, Sweden, or even the Ottoman Empire, enjoyed a period of peace and recovery. Only the Habsburgs, and especially Spain, were always constantly moving from dealing with one enemy to another.

Having just made peace with France, then war with the Turks; The Mediterranean was followed by a widespread conflict in the Atlantic and the war in Northwest Europe. In some difficult times, the Spanish Empire even confronted enemies on three sides at once, and the enemies consciously supported each other diplomatically and commercially, even without military assistance.

In the words of Europeans at the time, Spain was like a bear in a pit, stronger than any dog that attacked it, but it was no match for all its opponents, and in the process it gradually became exhausted and bled dry.

How, then, could the Habsburgs escape this vicious circle? Gao Shishi felt that even if he was in the position of Philip II, it would be difficult to deal with such a long-term dispersion of forces, and perhaps he should set a priority for the enemy in all aspects, and clarify the priority defense plan. That is, some areas can be abandoned, but which ones can be abandoned? It's hard for him to say.

From a historical point of view, it can be said that Austria, and especially Ferdinand II, would not have advanced with the counter-Reformation forces in northern Germany if they had been wiser, because it would have outweighed the losses. However, the HRE emperor insisted on keeping a strong army in Germany to guard against the factional tendencies of the princes, the trickery of the French, and the ambitions of the Swedes; And as long as the Turks stood arrogantly in Hungary, 150 miles from Vienna, the Habsburg army could not be reduced.

For its part, the Spanish government could not allow the Austrian cousins to fall into the hands of the French and Lutherans, much less to the Turks, for it was also crucial for Spain's own position in Europe.

Ironically, Austria doesn't seem to think so. After the abdication of Charles V in 1556, Austria watched Spain fight against a large number of enemies in Western Europe and at sea, but did not feel obligated to help; On the contrary, Spain realized this higher interest and was always willing to help Austria.

Perhaps, Philip II was too obsessed with compliments from some: the world monarch.

And now, Gao Pragmatic intends to remind him - you don't have the capital to be a "world monarch", and the person who really has this capital is called Zhu Yijun, but he doesn't have this yùwàng.

In fact, of course, Zhu Yijun does not have this strength, unless he can completely subvert the social system of the Ming Dynasty, and even change the spiritual core of the people of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the Ming Dynasty from the Son of Heaven, officials to peddlers and pawns, in the treatment of the world outside the Ming Dynasty, is the same mentality: to govern all countries in China.

If most of the Chinese after the end of the Tatar Qing Dynasty have low spiritual self-esteem, then the people of the Daming in this period are too confident in spirit, and the whole country firmly believes that as long as "China" is well governed, it must be that all countries will come to congratulate in all directions, and no matter where the barbarians are, they should bow down to the Daming.

Fortunately, while insisting on this self-confidence, the Ming Dynasty did not follow its complacent path like the Tatar Qing, so after capturing the Portuguese artillery during the Jiajing period, the Ming Dynasty immediately discovered their advantages and immediately began to imitate them.

Even for the Wa Kingdom of the small country of Yuer, when they found that their bird guns were better than their own, famous generals such as Qi Jiguang did not hesitate to use them, and the "Descending Japanese Yi Ding" under the command of Liu Xian and his son not only used bird guns, but even proficient in Japanese swordsmanship.

On the whole, although the Ming Dynasty in this period is self-confident, it is still relatively pragmatic, and there is such a spirit of "accepting all rivers and rivers, and tolerance is great".

This is also one of the important reasons why Gao Pragmatic is confident that Daming can persist and not let Taqing replace him.

After all, he used to be a secretary for a long time, and he was a person who was more inclined to do practical things, if he was thrown to the end of the Qing Dynasty, he would be far more likely to become Zhang Jian than Sun Cannon, but he knew that Zhang Jian could not save China in that era.

However, this is not the case in Daming, he is confident that through "practical results", he can lead others to follow in his footsteps, and even eventually form a new trend.

His Jinghua Group now has imitators - some have followed in his footsteps into the ranks of the private military industry, such as Wang Chonggu's grandson Wang Qian; Someone quietly built a few wharves in Shanghai, and what is even more amazing is that the owner behind these wharves turned out to be Xu Yuanchun, the eldest grandson of Xu Jie; Some people quietly bought one or two ships to join Jinghua's fleet, such as Zhu Yingzhen, Zhang Yuangong and other nobles; Some people learned from Jinghua's practice and tried every means to control the transport fleet on the Yangtze River waterway, such as Li Zongcheng, the little marquis of Linhuai's mansion......

Although most of the people here, except for Xu Yuanchun, are a group of people who are closely related to Gao Pragmatic, as long as there is such a trend, it can already make Gao Pragmatic feel excited, because this proves that his approach is effective.

As long as I can set an example and make people believe that what I do can be profitable and profitable, more and more people will follow suit. And when there are many such people to a certain extent, they will definitely make the whole country "turn"!

All politics throughout the ages is eternal interests!

Where the benefits are, the trend of people.

To put it mildly, if Zheng He hadn't mastered the Western Ocean back then, and the civilian-bureaucratic group couldn't intervene, how could he have given up halfway? Later generations of scholars proved that going to the West did not actually lose money, or that it could have not lost money. It was only because the civilian clique could not intervene from beginning to end that it was later said to be a useless act that cost the people and money, and was finally thrown into the garbage heap.

In other words, if going to the West is a civilian-led business, and the civil officials regard going to the West as a good thing to gain fame and career, what does the Ming fleet look like now? Maybe they all drove to Europe!

It is not so much that the civil official clique is suppressing the specific matter of the West, but that they are suppressing the eunuch clique, so as to take the opportunity to suppress the imperial power and strive for the interests of the civilian clique itself.

Why did Gao Pragmatic dare to do so many outrageous things? First, he has a close relationship with Zhu Yijun, and Zhu Yijun will not easily suspect him; The second is because he is a pragmatic civil official!

Therefore, when the civilian-bureaucratic group is faced with some novel practices of high pragmatism, the first thing that comes to mind is not "You are highly pragmatic and bold!" Rather, "Since you can do it with high pragmatism, then can't I do it too?" Wonderful! ”

This is the difference, and it is also the reason why Gao Pragmatism has to identify the "right path of the imperial examination".

With this identity, as long as he doesn't have zàofǎn, all his actions are actually creating new "profit points" for the civil official clique, how can the civil official clique jump out and look for trouble?

Why is it that in history, Wanli collected mining taxes, which caused the civil and official groups to scold and resist for decades, but now the high-arch commercial tax can be implemented?

Because although some merchants were the "investors" of the civil officials, and the emperor wanted to collect their money, the civil officials certainly had to speak for the investors; But if the money is collected and in the hands of the civil servants themselves, then ...... This can be discussed.

Therefore, the historical mining tax dispute is not because of how serious this tax is - that money is not even a fart for the rich Ming people - but the civil officials think that your emperor Lao Tzu can't collect all the taxes into his own pocket!

Well...... It is a great pity that the British did not ask the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty to help correct it.

Gao Pragmatic briefly described the various forms of Europe, and Father Luo Mingjian was already speechless - His Excellency Gao Qiuzhen was far away in Daming, but he actually knew a lot of major events that had happened in Europe in recent months!

His knowledge of Europe must have been unmatched in the entire Far East!

However, what made Father Luo Mingjian even more strange was that His Excellency Gao Qiuzhen seemed to be warning His Majesty Philip II not to provoke the Ming Dynasty in the Far East through his own mouth, but there seemed to be something like ...... in his words It's like you're coming up with ideas for Spain, why is that? Could it be that he has a crush on the Kingdom of Spain?

This is a complete misunderstanding, Gao pragmatic has little affection for the Europeans, and he pointed out that Spain has scattered its own forces too much, and in fact it is completely ill-intentioned - no matter what Spain does when it concentrates its forces, it will never let go of what is happening at its doorstep and use it to stir up trouble in East Asia.

This year, Spain is going to merge with Portugal – I can't remember the exact month, maybe it has already merged – and Portugal and Spain are now the biggest forces in the South Seas. Once Spain really listened to its words, contracted its strength, and struck it into a fist, it would be absolutely impossible for this punch to hit East Asia.

As for whether Philip II's punch was aimed at England, or at the Ottomans, or at France, or even at the Netherlands...... So what's the matter with his high pragmatism? What's the matter with Guan Daming?

The more chaotic you Europe fights, the better!

If England and France want to rise, they must first pass the Spanish level, so Spain's current war with Britain and France and even the Ottomans is only good for the Ming Dynasty, not bad!

Therefore, Gao pragmatic people don't mind doing some business with the Spaniards, so that their financial situation is a little better, and they can fight with Britain, France, the Netherlands and other countries more inextricably.

If you don't fight more fiercely, and the Spanish Portuguese Empire doesn't tilt its main force towards the country, won't my Nanyang strategy be much more troublesome?

So, Your Majesty Philip II, play as hard as you like, I'm ready to be this yellow sparrow.