The signatories to the "Nanyang Four-Power Agreement" were the Ming Dynasty, the Netherlands, England, and Portugal, and all four countries did not deal with Spain.

Therefore, the Spanish fleet in the Philippines was not enough at all, that is, the fleet stationed in the Pacific direction of New Spain was fully sailed...... Surely they won't be able to beat the Dutch East India Company!

As for the transfer of the Navy from the Atlantic direction...... Will France take the opportunity to seize Spain's colonies in the Caribbean?

The war between France and Spain is still going on!

So Caballero, Garcia and Li Yufan, the three of them, suddenly found that their country was quite isolated in East Asia, and there was only one friend in the Great Mongolia.

And Spain's only friend in the East is being instigated to pull Spain into the water to help the war at this time!

Shengjing Imperial Palace, Qinzheng Palace.

Duoduo, the uncle of the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, is summoning Song Shilie, an envoy of the Korean Kingdom.

It was summoned alone, and no outsiders were present.

"Your Highness, as far as the minister knows, the combined fleet of the Japanese State that invaded Pusanpo is actually the combined fleet of Japan and the Ming Dynasty...... The ships were all provided by the Ming Dynasty, while the sailors were half Japanese and half Chinese, and the soldiers who landed were all Japanese and Chinese. And the purpose of their landing in Busan Po was not to invade how much Korean land, but to use Busan as a base to attack the shipping routes outside Vladivostok, cut off the trade between the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese Banian State, and prevent the Great Qing State from obtaining sharp Japanese Banian muskets. ”

It was Song Shilie who was wronging the Japanese - he was working very hard to bring the two disasters of the Qing Dynasty and Japan together.

Only when there is a fight between the Qing Dynasty and Japan, and both sides are defeated, can the Korean state be stable!

Duoduo frowned slightly, the Joseon State was an important vassal of the Great Qing State, and it had to provide at least 100,000 stone of rice to Vladivostok and Nuergan every year.

With these 100,000 stones, Duoduo was able to stabilize the situation in the Heilongjiang River valley and the Jingqili River, where about 20,000 or 30,000 families of Sauron and Balhu lived, and with food, cloth, and iron tools, the Qing Dynasty was able to control them, and get furs and dongzhu from them.

If the tribute rice of the Joseon State could not reach Nuergancheng, then the Qing Dynasty's rule in the Heilongjiang River valley and the Jingqili River would be in great trouble......

Song Shilie then said: "China has also heard the news that the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate is going to send Hyokhalin Island again...... In fact, they did not completely fail last time, and built a castle called Akasaka in the south of Sakhalin.

Now the Tokugawa shogunate was preparing to continue its offensive to the north of Sakhalin Island based on Akasaka Castle. ”

Sakhalin Island is very large, more than 70,000 square kilometers, and in order to defend it thoroughly, it is necessary to garrison at least 10,000 troops, but that is impossible. The troops brought by Ao Bai to Sakhalin were too small, and it was okay to fight a field battle, and it was not enough to attack the fortified city of the Japanese.

Therefore, after defeating Kusunoki Masayuki, Ao Bai did not attack the Japanese Akasaka Castle, but also built several castles on Sakhalin Island, moved the originally scattered Sakhalin natives into these castles, and armed them with captured Japanese weapons and armor.

However, because of the ensuing civil war between the two regents of the Qing Dynasty, Ao Bai himself and the Nine Banners of the Qing Dynasty did not stay on Sakhalin Island, and have now withdrawn to the Heilongjiang Valley.

Once the fighting on Sakhalin resumes, Duoduo will have to send troops there, which is a real headache!

"Your Highness," Song Shilie looked at Duoduo without a glance, and seemed to be in deep thought, so he suggested in a low voice, "On the way to Shengjing, the minister thought of a way for the other party to join forces tomorrow, but I don't know if to talk ......about it."

"Speak!" Dodor just said one word.

"Yes!" Song Shilie said, "I heard that the Great Qing Kingdom has the Pacific Fleet...... Why not let the Pacific Fleet attack Japan's Tsushima Island? As long as Tsushima Island was captured, the Japanese fleet in Pusanpo would naturally not be able to gain a foothold, and the Qing Dynasty could also use Tsushima Island as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Japan to withdraw them from Sakhalin. ”

"But......" said Dodd, "the so-called Pacific sailors are but empty shells, and there are not many ships in all!" ”

The Pacific Naval Division is just a "shell fleet", except for a shell, there are three or five merchant ships, all of which are second-hand ships from the Ming Dynasty. The firepower was even weaker to the extreme, with only cheap 3-pounder cast-iron cannons, and it took a lot of time to cool down with a single shot.

"Your Highness," Song Shilie said, "there is no boat to rent!" ”

Duoduo frowned, "Rent? Who to rent from? ”

Song Shilie said: "You can rent it from the country of Sibania!" ”

Duoduo still shook his head: "It's useless to rent a ship from Zhisi Bania...... There are not many people in the Great Qing Kingdom who can operate a sea ship! ”

"You can rent a boat with a sailor!"

Can it still be like this?

Duoduo was stunned, the ship was rented, the sailors were also rented, and the artillery, muskets, and generals of the sailors must also be rented! So what happened to the Great Qing Kingdom?

"As long as the rented Zhisi Banian warship is hung with the flag of the Great Qing Kingdom, won't the Pacific Naval Division of the Great Qing Kingdom have warships?"

Oh, the Great Qing Kingdom will come forward to raise the flag? Duoduo said: This is easy, although the Pacific Sailors of the Great Qing Kingdom do not have a banner, but they can make some ...... Now it's up to the people of Zhisibania to be willing or not?

......

"Your Royal Highness, the matter of leasing naval warships must be approved by His Majesty the King of our country...... This Shengjing is too far away from Madrid, and it will only take more than a year to come and go! The war on the whale sea is tight, is your country in a hurry? ”

When Doldo summoned Caballero the next day, the other party did not say that he would not rent it, but only raised a fatal detail - the lease of the battleship must be approved by King Philip IV!

But Philip IV lived in Madrid, and in less than a year or two, there was no way to get a reply from the Qing Dynasty, and if you had to wait so long, the daylily was not cold, but rotten to slag!

This doesn't seem to be going to work......

"Your Highness," Caballero continued, "you might as well lease an armed merchant ship through the Pacific Trading Company of Zhispania.

Although the combat power of armed merchant ships is not as good as that of warships, the strength of the Japanese navy is not strong, and it is enough to deal with it. And as long as your warriors can reach Tsushima on these armed merchant ships, your country will have bargaining chips with Japan. ”

The Japanese navy did not exist, but the Ming naval fleet did not do well in previous battles to intercept armed Spanish merchant ships. According to Caballero's understanding, at that time, the Ming Navy dispatched seven Dutch-style Galen ships and divided them into two columns to pursue the "Pacific" and "New Oriental" respectively.

Among them, the pursuit of the "New Oriental" is four 600-ton Galen ships, although it has an absolute advantage in strength, but the "New Oriental" still relies on the crew's superb ship handling skills and the opponent's fighting, fighting while walking, until the night falls, only to get rid of the enemy with the help of night. After that, the two sides caught and hid in the whale sea for a few days before carefully sailing to Vladivostok.

Of course, if the four Dutch-style Galen ships engaged the "New Oriental" were commanded exclusively by Chinese captains and sailors, then the progress they have made in the past few years is still very great!

After all, they had never sailed a soft sailing ship or participated in a naval battle before.

However, Caballero still believed that relying on the armed merchant ships on lease, the Qing Dynasty, oh, should be the Pacific Fleet of the Great Mongolian Navy, would be enough to deal with the Ming Navy, which had not yet fully grown.

Duoduo pondered for a while, and then asked a series of questions: "How many armed merchant ships can your trading house lend for our dynasty?" When will they all arrive? Also, where is this Tsushima Island located? How far is it from the coast of North Korea? Is there a lot of wind and waves around? What is the strength of the Japanese soldiers defending the island? ”

Caballero said: "Your Highness, there are quite a few armed Western merchant ships currently operating in the East, and as long as the price is right, at least 10 can be rented...... As for when it will arrive, then it will be necessary to see where it is concentrated? If you go to Vladivostok to concentrate, it will take a long time, because the facilities of the port of Vladivostok are too poor to be used as a military port.

Therefore, I suggested leasing the port of Ulsan as the main port of the navy, and then the engineers of Žesbania would be responsible for the construction, and the land division of the Great Qing Kingdom would be stationed there. At most, a year will allow the leased armed merchant ships to arrive.

As for the location of Tsushima Island, it is only about 100 miles off the coast of Korea, and the surrounding sea is relatively calm for most of the year, and there are not many troops defending the island. I estimate that as long as we can dispatch about 2,000 elite firearms battalions, we will be able to successfully occupy Tsushima. ”