Also in February, the fleet of the envoys of the British, Western and Dutch countries finally returned to Europe after more than half a year of sailing, and informed the rulers of the three countries of the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.

The Emperor of the Spanish Empire was furious, gritted his teeth, and said in a very cold voice: "So, then the Eastern Empire doesn't completely ignore our three kingdoms and doesn't mind a war with our three kingdoms?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The Spanish emissary replied to the Spanish Emperor.

"Arrogance! What arrogance! The armada of our Spanish Empire will surely set foot on the Eastern Empire! The Spanish Emperor roared with great rage.

In recent years, although the Spanish Empire has declined, and even its performance in the world has lagged far behind that of Britain, France and the Netherlands, the Spanish Emperor has spoken the loudest among all the countries in Europe, always as if his Spanish Empire was still the first naval empire with an invincible armada.

This may be one of the reasons why the UK and the Netherlands have not looked at Spain for a long time.

In the past, even if they were at war with each other, Britain and the Netherlands would not have disdained to be with the arrogant Spain, but this time, both Britain and the Netherlands and Spain had common enemies, so they took the initiative to contact Spain for many years.

Unlike the Emperor of the Spanish Empire, who realized the news when he learned about it, the King of the Netherlands had only one sentence.

"Then let's go to war!"

The Dutch king's tone was cold, and the Dutch envoy was shocked when he heard it.

"Yes, my great majesty!" A Dutch naval marshal of the rank of duke on the side said.

In fact, since the Netherlands lost the Indonesian archipelago more than eight years ago, it has been preparing to start a new war with the Ming Dynasty, defeat the Ming Dynasty, and recapture the Indonesian Islands, but two naval battles were lost, and the Indonesian Islands were quickly occupied, the strength of the Ming Dynasty made the Netherlands very jealous, and the Netherlands also had to deal with the sea challenges of France and Britain, etc., the pressure was very great, and he could not even go all out with the strength of his country, so he did not dare to order the fleet to send troops to the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has provoked Britain and the arrogant Spain in a row, with the union of Britain and Spain, the Dutch king is full of confidence, and the intention of sending troops to the Ming Dynasty is extremely firm.

After Queen Mary II got the news, the will to send troops to the Ming Dynasty was also firm.

"Where has the last of my British fleets arrived?" Queen Mary II closed her eyes for a while, and when she opened them, she asked directly.

"Your Majesty, the last of the British fleets to return has docked in the harbor of London, ready to be ordered by Her Majesty!" An English minister on the side replied.

When sending envoys to the Ming Dynasty, not only England, but also the Netherlands and Spain were ready to send troops to the Ming Dynasty if the negotiations failed, and issued an edict to the fleets around the world, and all the fleets that could be returned were returned.

After more than a year of summoning, the vast majority of the fleets of the three countries returned to their homeland.

In order to prevent the withdrawal of the fleets of the three countries and the attack of other European countries on their colonies around the world due to the lack of fleet strength, the three countries also signed a mutual treaty stipulating that when the fleets of the three countries retreat to their homeland, if an external force takes the opportunity to invade the colonies of the three countries in the world, they will suffer a joint blow from the three countries.

If there is no country to be guarded against, it is obvious that it is France and Portugal.

After all, in today's world, it is the five countries of Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal that are vying for colonies all over the world, and the British, Spanish and Dutch want to withdraw their fleets to deal with the Ming Dynasty together, so naturally they cannot let France and Portugal, which are also rivals, take advantage, especially France.

In the whole of Europe, the Dutch fleet is undoubtedly the most powerful, followed by England, not much worse than the Netherlands, basically at the level of half a catty, followed by France, although Spain has declined, but it still has a certain strength, ranking behind France, Portugal is at the bottom.

Anglo-Spanish and Dutch formed a temporary alliance, and neither France nor Portugal dared to take the opportunity to seize the colonies of the three countries at this time.

Seeing that it was impossible to take advantage of the fire, and hearing that the fleets of the Three Kingdoms were withdrawn to the mainland to stand by in order to jointly attack the Ming Dynasty of the Far Eastern Empire, I don't know what in my heart, when the Three Kingdoms ordered to recall fleets from all over the world to assemble and return to the mainland, it didn't take long for France and Portugal to issue such an order.

So in the past year or so, the world's oceans can see this scene, and the five countries that were originally competing all over the world suddenly gathered their fleets back to their homeland.

With the confirmation of the Queen of England and the King of West and Holland, the news that the combined fleet of the three countries was preparing to send troops to the Ming Empire in the East soon spread throughout Europe.

The whole of Europe was in an uproar.

The Eastern Ming Empire in the Far East! There is a lot of mystery throughout Europe!

A large number of silk, porcelain, tea and other luxury goods were imported from the Eastern Ming Empire, why the Netherlands was able to become a sea coachman, a strong fleet to deter the whole of Europe, is because the Netherlands for a long time almost monopolized the import of trade from the Eastern Ming Empire.

The Silk Road, nearly 2,000 years ago, the luxurious silk of the Eastern Empire came to Europe for the first time, and it conquered the high-ranking nobles of the Roman Empire and even the Roman Emperor in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, exquisite porcelain and fragrant tea are all the best luxury goods that high-level executives from all over the world are vying for.

In order to be able to obtain these things, countries racked their brains, and the crusades of that year were largely aimed at opening the way to the Eastern Empire.

However, alas, they have not been able to do this.

Three hundred years ago, the rising Ottoman Empire directly cut off the Silk Road, not only intercepting all the silk, porcelain, tea, etc. from the Eastern Empire, but also very few of them could flow to European countries, and the price was extremely high, and even the kings of some smaller countries could not afford it.

This was infuriating, but the Ottoman Empire was so powerful that even a coalition of European nations could not defeat it.

In order to reopen the trade routes with the Eastern Empire and regain their coveted silk, porcelain, tea, etc., the European countries began to explore the seas first, with Spain and Portugal as the pioneers.

It was only after nearly a hundred years that they finally started to open up the trade route to the Eastern Empire from the sea, and at the same time, sea power, sea trade, and colonial competition appeared one after another. But at the same time, the Eastern Empire symbolized wealth, and monopolizing trade with the Eastern Empire was equivalent to obtaining countless amounts of money from afar, which was also the consensus of European countries.

In the past one or two hundred years, European countries have opened up colonies all over the world and plundered wealth, no matter how hard they fight and fight, no country has ever dared to really do anything to the Eastern Ming Empire, and the exchanges with the Eastern Ming Empire have always been only manifested in trade.

Well, now that the three countries of Britain and the Netherlands are preparing to send troops to the ocean at the same time to wage war against the Ming Empire in the East, this is unprecedented, how can it not shock the whole of Europe!

When the fleets of Britain, Spain and the Netherlands were massing on a large scale and were preparing to sail to the Far East, representatives of France and Portugal suddenly visited the three countries, and they brought orders from the emperors of the two countries, claiming that the two countries should also participate in the combined fleet of the three countries of Britain, Spain and the Netherlands, and the five countries together formed a joint fleet to send troops to the Ming Dynasty.