"What does Jose mean?" Philip IV asked with a deep groan.

Li Yufan did not go around Africa and the Atlantic Ocean to Spain through the Indian Ocean, but took the Pacific Ocean through Mexico and then the Caribbean and Atlantic routes to Spain, so he had already met Don in Mexico City. Huang. Jose up.

"Your Majesty, the Duke of Florida thinks that if the Ming Kingdom is unwilling to withdraw from the Gulf of Americas, then we should march there as soon as possible. Because the result of the delay will be the continuous strengthening of the Ming country's presence in the Americas. Where will they surely send their strongest elite infantry and cavalry...... At that point, the situation will become extremely unfavorable. ”

Tang Dynasty. Huang. Jose now has a duke title and corresponding domain, but not in Europe, but in the Florida Peninsula. The Spaniards discovered the island, jutting out of the American continent into the Caribbean Sea as early as 1513, and in 1565 established St. Augustinburg as a large stronghold in a bay on the eastern coast of the Florida peninsula.

However, because the Spaniards were too large in the Americas, their native population was too small. So until 1659, the rich Florida Peninsula was largely unexplored.

Don, who arrived in the Americas a year and a half ago. Huang. José's first stop on the American continent was St. Augustinburg, where he was still fascinated by the climate and the views of the nearby beaches, so he asked King Philip to own Florida.

And his request was quickly approved by King Philip, and a few months earlier, Don. Huang. Jose was made Duke of Florida.

The Duke of Florida's military ability rests on France, England, the Holy Roman Empire, and Sweden, which are full of famous generals, and it is simply not worthy of the number. But now the Spanish star is withering, and Don. Huang. Jose can be considered a fighter. is also because he can still fight, so he has been busy fighting all these years, and he has fought a lot of defeats and victories, and his vision and means have indeed improved. After studying the report on the fall of Dhoni Khan that Li Yufan had brought to Mexico City (there were still a small number of Spanish advisers in the Dhoni army), he immediately realized that this young guard army of the Ming Dynasty would become his fierce rival. Because of the long distance across the Pacific Ocean, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to have numerical superiority in the Americas for twenty years.

Since quantity does not prevail, then we can only rely on quality superiority to win. So the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was bound to send the strongest army units to the Americas!

"Your Majesty, the Duke of Florida hopes that you will give the highest priority to supporting the preparations of the Kingdom of New Spain." Li Yufan said, "He hopes that you will soon provide the New World with a batch of new flintlock pistols and wooden cartridges, because the Ming expeditionary force will definitely be equipped with these two sharp weapons."

In addition, the Duke needed a fleet that could transport at least 5,000 troops to land in the Gulf of the Americas. ”

"Does he know where the Chinese castle is?" The king asked.

"I don't know yet." Li Yufan replied, "But the reconnaissance ships of the Kingdom of New Spain have already discovered the Gulf of America, and in addition, the Duke of Florida has also sent an Indian caravan to the Gulf of the Americas, and I believe that the specific location of Chinatown will be discovered soon." The Duke would then hire Indian tribes from the Great Plains to march west to engage the Ming army, and then launch a surprise attack from the sea after their main force had left Chinatown and marched eastward. ”

Another advantage of the Spaniards in North America was the fact that they had established ties with many powerful Great Plains Indian tribes, although this connection was often done by killing each other. However, the Indian tribes on the Great Plains of North America were numerous and had long been hostile to each other, so there was no unified leadership. There was also a lack of unity in the fight against the white colonists, and it was not uncommon for some tribes and whites to join forces against other Indian tribes.

Therefore, the authorities of New Spain always had some way of driving the Indian tribes of the Great Plains.

And because these Great Plains tribes have been fighting for a long time, their combat effectiveness is still very strong. Even New Spain, with a white population of hundreds of thousands, could only defend its colonial strongholds in New Mexico, Texas, and Florida.

If Don. Huang. Jose can successfully drive one or two of these tribes to attack the Gulf of America, and the Ming Dynasty will probably have to be in a hurry for a while......

"Sounds good, so let's do it!" King Philip nodded lightly, "Jose won't let me down...... He was my best child, but unfortunately he didn't have the right to inherit. ”

While the King of Spain was lamenting that his wisest son had no right to inherit, one of his attendants knocked at the door: "Your Majesty, I have just received a report that the former Lord Protector of England, Oliver. Cromwell is dead! ”

Philip drew a cross on his chest, "May the Lord forgive that sinful soul!" ”

Then he said to Li Yufan: "Bishop, I think I will soon be able to send a fleet to New Spain!" ”

......

Don, the wisest son of King Philip of Spain. Huang. Jose guessed correctly, Zhu Cihong, who was fortunate in Wuhan under the banner of the Western Expedition, was preparing to send his baby boy army to the other side of the ocean.

Of course, not all of them were sent over, because there are now several wars in front of Emperor Zhu!

First of all, of course, it was a protracted battle to besiege Dashun.

Zhu Cihong mobilized 350,000 troops, from Shaanxi, Huguang, Guizhou and other directions, divided into six routes (the road to attack Burma has not yet started), and began to be on the front line of Badong in Jingzhou Prefecture; the Junju frontier of Xiangyang Province; the Zunyi frontier of Xichuan Town; the frontier areas of Chishui, Bijie and Pu'an of the Guizhou Army; Guanzhong Baoji, Yixian frontier; At the front of Qishan Mountain in Gongchang Mansion and other places, forts were built and approached step by step.

The second is the war in the northern steppes.

After the rebellion of Doni was quickly crushed, the resistance of the three Khalkha Mongols and the Korqin tribes, who had been resisting the combined forces of the Ming and Tumut and Chahar forces with the covert support of Manchuria, also quickly collapsed. Now that Manchuria itself has been completely recovered by the Ming Dynasty, how can Khalkha and Korqin continue to fight?

However, the collapse of the Khalkha III and Korqin did not mean that the northern steppes would be peaceful from now on. The biggest difference between the Mongol tribes and Manchuria is that the latter has a cohesive core! Therefore, the power will be brought together, and at the same time, it will be completely conquered because this core is destroyed. The former is a loose association composed of many large and small tribes, and the collapse of the Four Royal Banners does not mean that all tribes submit to the Ming Dynasty. Rather, it means that the three tribes of Tumut, Chahar and Dzungar can start competing for the four inheritances.

And the powerful Jungar Ministry is in a very good position in this battle for the legacy!

There is meat to eat with Jungar!

Therefore, from the twelfth year of Hongxing, a whirlwind of westward expansion was set off in the Mongolian steppe, and hundreds of thousands of Mongols left their steppe and migrated westward to the east and west sides of the Altai Mountains, joining the Jungar Department.

The population of Mongolia under the control of the Dzungar Ministry has also increased from 6 or 700,000 to about one million at once!

The strength of the quasi-department means, of course, war!

The question is with whom?

And the third war that required Emperor Zhu's nerves was the war with the Toyotomi family of Japan.

Japan's civil war had been going on for several years, and the Tokugawa shogunate, supported by the Ming dynasty, had not only been victorious, but had been locked in bitter battles.

Of course, Tokugawa Mitsukuni and Hoshina Masayuki, who are now in charge of the shogunate, have too many Tokugawa Yoshiki and Matsudaira Yoshiro in the history of the late Edo era.

Under their leadership, the shogunate was able to fight again and again, and maintained the battle line on the territory of the Hiroshima and Fukuyama domains.

The fourth war was with the Sultanate of Pattani...... Originally, the Sultanate of Pattani was originally from Siam, because Siam borrowed troops from the Ming to attack Lanna (independence from Burma controlled by Dashun), so they ceded Songkhla, Jala, Satun, Bodalen, Trang, Krabi and Luo Kun to the Ming Dynasty - originally Emperor Zhu didn't want that much, but Zhu Cizhao personally went to the Golden City to persuade King Nalei to ask for more land. Of course, the whole process is quite friendly and harmonious, and there is no coercion or inducement......

Now that the Ming army was stationed in Songkhla and Nakhon, the Phaya in Jala, Satun, Bodalun, Trang and other places all expressed their submission to the king of Ninam, and only the Pattani Sultanate refused to submit. This country is only a vassal of Siam, and it has basically become independent after Siam was invaded by Dashun, how can it obey Zhu Cizhao now?

So the little young elite soldiers that Emperor Zhu has on hand are very busy!