With the help of Emperor Ferdinand III of the Holy Roman Empire, Gikun and Gurju were finally able to leave for a visit to France. Li Shaoyou was left in Vienna and served as the temporary ambassador of the Ming Empire to the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

The reason why it was temporary was because Zhu Cihong did not intend to have deep friendships with the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. Therefore, no credentials were prepared for these two countries, nor was there a decree issued to appoint so-and-so (name blank) as ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

Therefore, Li Shaoyou can only be a temporary ambassador, and he does not have the authority to be a "Qincha".

Ji Kun went on the road with a handwritten letter from Emperor Zhu to Louis XIV, a letter from the Ming Dynasty to the Kingdom of France, and a holy decree appointing him as the ambassador of the Ming Dynasty to France and the Netherlands.

In Zhu Cihong's plan, France is the object that must be wooed by deep friendship!

England is the one that must be guarded against and restricted!

In other words, Zhu Cihong's world plan is to "win over France and suppress Britain", and as for the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal, they are not big players.

Portugal's highlight is behind us, and now it is contracting, and there is no need for the Ming to hasten its collapse. This would lead to a sharp decline in Portuguese power in the Indian Ocean, and the Timurid Empire in Hindustan would likely fill the void.

Although the Netherlands was very beautiful, when Louis XIV repaired the Netherlands, it was greatly damaged, and he no longer had the strength to compete with the Ming for territory in the East.

If Louis XIV of this time and space can complete the plan of destroying the Netherlands, the little assets of the Netherlands in the East still have to be surnamed "Ming"?

What's wrong with letting the Dutch go about building it now? If the East India Company was brought down for the sake of the small actions of the Dutch profiteers, would the Heavenly Monarchs of Java and Malacca take the opportunity to revive?

If they collude with the Timurid Empire in India, the Ming Empire will have a big head!

As for the "nervous Spain", it was a bit of a prick, and it would have to wait many years before it would be repaired by Louis XIV...... But the general trend is also downward.

So Zhu Cihong didn't plan to develop any friendly relations with Spain, but he didn't want to take the initiative to provoke a war with Spain - this is a neurotic country, and in order to fight for God in history, it has gone bankrupt nine times!

Who knows if it will go bankrupt one more time in order to fight Daming?

Anyway, nine bankruptcies are no different from ten bankruptcies, and the unlucky ones are the financial markets of Spain and Italy!

This is where the Spanish world empire is more advantageous than the Ming Dynasty, and the Spaniards have a more mature financial market behind them that can withstand financial crises. Once the Ming Empire fell into a financial crisis, it could only be deferred downward, that is, the crisis was transferred to the bottom and borne by the soldiers and officials at the bottom.

Therefore, Zhu must work hard to establish a financial market while carefully maintaining fiscal balance. You can't rush into a war that will bankrupt the Ming Dynasty again......

However, Emperor Zhu's plan couldn't catch up with the changes made by Ji Kun's mission!

Because Ji Kun delayed time in Siam, and then borrowed the Ottoman Empire, he also signed a "good friend treaty" with the Ottoman Empire, which greatly deepened the "Ming-Austrian friendship", and the Ottoman Empire's Foreign Minister Gurju followed Ji Kun all the way to France, obviously also had a special diplomatic mission.

A great alliance composed of the Ming Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the King of France is quietly taking shape!

At the same time, the envoys of the Great Mongols (Qing Dynasty) had completed their mission to the Timurid Empire in Hindustan and were rushing to Europe at full speed on the Spanish sailboats.

A grand alliance of Great Mongolia, Indo-Mongolia, and Spain is also beginning to take shape!

As long as two major military alliances begin to take shape, war will not be avoidable!

Little Louis, who waited for victory or defeat in the Château Saint-Germain outside Paris, had no idea that he was taking center stage in the world race.

He is now very unsuccessful, compared with Emperor Chongzhen at the beginning of the seventeenth century!

In France, because the red-clothed prime minister Mazarin wanted to collect taxes to pay for the Thirty Years' War, there was a revolt of the slingers, and this was not only a poor man who had not enough to eat! There were a large number of nobles involved, and there were many veterans who had just finished the Thirty Years' War.

And abroad, "Nervous Spain" refused to stop the war and continued to fight with France.

What is even worse is that the domestic slingers actually colluded with the Spaniards to attack the king regardless of national interests.

Internal and external troubles collude together, how can the royal party of France withstand it?

So Louis XIV fled Paris with his mother more than two years ago, hiding in the Saint-Germain fortress on the outskirts of Paris, and every night he either had nightmares or secretly shed tears.

His nightmares were always related to losing his head, either dreaming of the tragic situation of Charles I next door when his head was cut off, or dreaming that he was caught by the crazy slingers and fell to the ground in a huge square to the cheers of the frenzied rebel crowd......

Is this your fate?

What did you do wrong? Why don't the people of Paris and the nobles of the country love their own king anymore?

I don't think I've done anything!

The King of France, who had just finished praying to God and was waiting in his study for the governess to come and teach him, suddenly heard the sound of a platoon of guns and the fire of artillery. But the little king was frightened, could it be that the armies of the Slingers and Spaniards had already reached the Château de Saint-Germain?

No, it won't be so fast, it must be the people of Paris who are revolting again!

Just when the little Louis King wondered if he was going to move again, there was a message from outside the door that Mazarin's right-hand man, the deputy director of finance, Nicholas. Fouquet's voice: "Your Majesty, General Schaumberg personally escorted the Chinese mission to the Château de Saint-Germain. ”

It turned out that the guns and cannons were fired to greet the Chinese mission!

Chinese Mission? Little Louis immediately remembered that a few days ago, Mazarin had reported this incident to the Queen Mother and himself as a good sign that France was about to get out of the predicament!

"Shall I go and meet it myself?" The little king asked.

Nicholas who has entered the door. Fouquet bowed to the little king, and then said: "The Queen Mother wishes to hold a formal welcoming ceremony tomorrow morning, when many nobles and diplomats will arrive from Paris, and the Prince of Condé will also come, and His Majesty will need to be dressed up for the occasion." ”

Paris was recovered in 1649 by the young French general, Prince Condé, but the Prince of Condé, who had conquered Paris, considered himself a great merit and deserved to be prime minister. However, the red-clothed prime minister Mazarin had a good relationship with the Empress Dowager Anna, and the backstage was hard, so he refused to give way, and he also arrested Prince Condé on fabricated charges.

As a result, Prince Condé's brother Conte and sister Anne made a fuss again, contacted a group of nobles and veterans to rebel, and also pulled Viscount Tierrene, a famous general second only to Prince Condé in France at that time, as commander-in-chief, and colluded with the Spanish army to rebel together.

And the Prince of Condé himself was detained in Paris and placed under house arrest.

"What? Prince Condé is also coming? The little king asked, "Are the Queen Mother and Mazarin ready to release him?" ”

The imprisonment of Prince Condé was not only the trigger for the second phase of the Fronde movement, but also an excuse for the Frondes to make trouble. If Prince Condé is released, some of the Slingers may defect to the king's side.

That way, little Louie's head will be safe!

Fouquet replied: "If he is willing to go to China as an envoy of His Majesty, the Queen Mother and the Prime Minister will release him." ”

"Is he willing to go to China?" Louis Jr. asked, "China is too far away." ”

Fu Kai smiled: "Your Majesty, as long as you take the initiative, His Royal Highness the Prince has to go...... The establishment of special friendly relations with China is particularly important for the interests of the Kingdom of France! ”