Satsuma Domain, Kagoshima Castle.

A draft text of the treaty was placed in front of Shimazu Hisamitsu, the main hall of the Satsuma domain (the honorific title of the reclusive lord).

The treaty was sent by the Spanish diplomat Caballero, and the name of the treaty was the Anti-Ming Covenant. The content of the covenant was that New Spain and the Satsuma clan formed an alliance against the Ming Celestial Order in East Asia and the Western Pacific!

Specifically, it is to oppose the Ming Dynasty's use of the "Treaty of Clans and Vassals" to turn all "free countries" in East Asia into their own vassal states or internal vassal towns.

In other words, it is necessary to defeat the imperial system of the Celestial Empire led and worked hard by the Ming Dynasty!

"Your Excellency, your Spanish country is tens of thousands of miles away from us...... Why are you so disgusted by the Celestial Empire's vassal system? Did this Heavenly Dynasty damage the interests of Spain? ”

It was Mitsuhisa Shimazu who spoke, and he did not speak Chinese, but was translated by the old man of the family, Kiyo Yu, in the presence of the family.

And the person he called "Mr. Ambassador" was, of course, the Spanish ambassador Caballero.

Caballero has been in the East for many years, not only as an Oriental expert, but also as a Chinese expert. It was precisely because he knew enough about China's national conditions and the suzerain-vassal order of the Eastern world that he introduced the concept of "anti-Celestial Order" in an attempt to cobble together an anti-Celestial Empire alliance when the Spanish Oriental Armada had no home to return.

Because Caballero saw the shadow of the European Habsburg Empire from the Celestial Empire!

The system of suzerainty that Emperor Zhu wanted to create was very similar to the great empire that Charles V of Habsburg wanted to create to lead Europe—at least in Caballero's view.

And Zhu Cihong's luck better than Charles V is that his basic plate is relatively large, with a population of 1340 million! The population that Charles V was able to control was never estimated to have reached 134 million......

However, Zhu also had a problem that Charles V did not encounter, and his Celestial Empire was inevitably disturbed and obstructed by the Western world.

Charles V's actions in Europe were less likely to be interfered with by external powers.

Hearing Shimazu Mitsuhisa's question relayed by Kiyo Hiroshi, Caballero laughed: "Your Excellency, of course we in Spain are going to oppose the Celestial Empire, because this world is far from being as big as you think, and the emergence of the Celestial Empire will pose a serious threat to the world hegemony of the Spanish Empire!" If this empire were fully formed, then east of the Strait of Malacca, up to the west coast of the Pacific Ocean...... Even as far as the west coast of the New World, it will be placed under the leadership of a powerful power!

This super-empire will have as much land as the Spanish World Empire, and it will probably have ten times the population of the Spanish World Empire!

By then...... His Majesty our King, Philip IV, will no longer be able to call him King of Earth!

Your Excellency, do you say that our Spanish State should take measures to contain it as much as possible before the Celestial Empire fully appears? ”

This is a battle for world domination!

Shimazu Mitsuhisa's eyes rolled and turned, thinking about how the Shimazu family should seek the greatest benefit from this collision between the two great powers of the East and the West. Of course, with such a small role as the Shimazu family, it's best to stay out of it! But the problem is that things have already come to you!

News has just come from Kyoto that the Tokugawa shogunate has gone to the imperial court to designate the Shimazu family and the Satsuma clan as enemies!

After pointing out as the enemy, it should be to send troops to fight...... It is likely that the shogunate has already become a lackey of the Celestial Empire, and will rely on the support of the Celestial Empire to slaughter the Shimazu family as a chicken, which is used to scare the feudal states in Japan that do not obey the shogunate, oh, not to scare the feudal kingdom, but to scare the feudal lords and ronin!

Shimazu Mitsu thought for a long time, and then asked: "Apart from the Shimazu family and New Spain, who else will join this "Anti-Ming Covenant"?" ”

Caballero said: "The Chechen Khanate, Tushetu Khan, and Zasaktu Khan of the Khalkha Mongols, and the Korqin Khan of the host Mongolia have formed an alliance against the Ming State. The Andong Prefecture of the Ming Kingdom was also considering whether to join the "Anti-Ming Covenant". It is also possible that the Kingdom of Joseon will join. The Shun Dynasty, known as Liukou by the Ming Dynasty, was also opposed to the Great Ming Dynasty, and they were now fighting against the Ming army.

In addition, the Rakshasa State, the Uzbek Khanate, and the Kazakh Khanate in the West also unanimously opposed the Ming Dynasty.

Your Excellency, please don't hesitate to join the Anti-Ming Covenant!

As soon as you sign the Covenant, Spanish artillery and artillery will be in place at once! ”

Mitsuhisa Shimazu and Kiyo Hiroshi looked at each other, and they were a little helpless, so they could only sign...... The current situation is clear, joining the "Anti-Ming National Covenant" is nine deaths, and not joining is ten deaths!

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It turns out that there are still many enemies in the Great Tomorrow Dynasty!

It's all the Celestial Empire, how can there be no enemies?

And the enemies all know that the Celestial Empire is quite capable of fighting now, so they all learn to be obedient, and they will not be stupidly sent up to beg for a fight like Emperor Shunzhi - the enemies of the Ming Dynasty miss Chongzhen Mingjun, and Zhu Cihong will miss the little emperor of Shunzhi.

Because the enemy became cunning, Emperor Zhu's Khalkha Mongol conquest and Korqin Mongol conquest failed to win quickly.

What a territory in the Mobei grassland and the Mongolian eastern grassland!

At least more than 2 million square kilometers!

Where is it so easy to chase the swimming Mongolian country in such a vast expanse of grassland and boundless desert? In particular, the Chechen Khan, Tushetu Khan, Zasaktu Khan, and Korqin all adopted the strategy of avoiding war, and went north as much as possible to avoid fighting with the model army of the Ming Dynasty (lineage) and the Fangzhen army (Shuofang, Anbei, Beiping, and Daning towns), and at the same time concentrated their forces on attacking the Mongols of Chahar and Tumut.

Although the Chahar and Tumut tribes received firearms (mainly arquebuses), armor, and good bows from the Ming Dynasty, they did not change the tribal system that was not conducive to warfare, and they were controlled by the Qing Dynasty for too long and had partially lost their nomadic ability. They looked good when they were in the Monan grassland, but once they entered Mobei, they also fell into the road of the three Khalkha tribes.

The latter first set fire to the grassland in the southern part of the Mobei grassland, and then polluted the water source with dead horses and sheep, causing great difficulties to the Chahar and Tumut tribes that advanced north......

Therefore, the battle between the Khalkha Mongols and the host Mongols, which began in the ninth year of Hongxing, was not won as quickly as expected, but fell into a protracted one.

In the Mongolian steppe of the host, Huang Degong was not in a hurry to start a war with the Horqin Tribe, but led the Daning army from afar to gain a firm foothold in the northeast of the Yanshan Mountains and the Mameng Mountains.

The Daning Army first rebuilt the Daning Acropolis in the hilly area southwest of Mameng Mountain, as the base place of the Daning Army, and then found a valley suitable for reclamation in the northeast of the Yanshan Mountains and Mameng Mountain, and established 14 tun cities to house the generals and families of the Daning Army who moved from Huaibei.

At the same time, Huang Degong also sent troops to crusade against the Mongol tribes of the Zhuo Suotu League, which originally belonged to the Qing Dynasty, forcing them to move north or submit to the Daning army. For the Mongol tribes of the Zhuo Suotu League, Huang Degong used the Qing Dynasty to govern the inner Mongolia, and set up the Daning Six Guards (the original Karaqin Three Banners), which were divided into pastures and made them habitual and pastoral.

On the Khalkha side, the Tumut and Chahar tribes, supported by the three towns of Anbei, Beiping, and Shuofang, were somewhat rash and resolutely advanced northward despite the burning of the grasslands and the pollution of water sources.

As a result, the Chahar tribe encountered the combined forces of the Chechen Khan and the Korqin tribe and the Rakshasa state at the foot of the Urzasekan Mountain north of the Khulun River!

The two sides fought for a day and a night, and although the army of the Chahar Department beat the army of the Chechen Khan and the Korqin Department to the brink of collapse, 1,000 "Santa Claus" soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom suddenly appeared on the battlefield, using heavy arquebuses to carry out a fierce salvo, and the cavalry of the Chahar Department was defeated in one fell swoop!