What Li Zhizao brought back from this trip was not only these things that collapsed the faith of Xu Guangqi and others, but also made European countries as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood......

Who wouldn't want a piece of the cake of maritime trade?

The envoys of the Ming Dynasty were able to sail from the East to Europe, so why did Europe have to let Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands control the maritime trade?

Isn't that shipload of sugar, spices, and tea to Europe fragrant?

Li Zhizao saw Richelieu, he admired this legendary figure quite a lot, and estimated that Richelieu's insidious cunning was in line with the aesthetics of the Ming elite, and the political system of the Ming Dynasty was also in line with Richelieu's aesthetics, and the two Eastern and Western political elites talked happily. Richelieu was full of yearning for the unified imperial system of the East, and the cabinet and the six-ministry system, the top-down way of rule, and the imperial examination system also opened the door to his new world.

He had just become prime minister, was at war with the Huguenots, and the siege of La Rochelle began next year, and the emissaries from the East strengthened his determination to sweep away the chaotic forces in France and to unite France from the old princes into a true empire.

And the five French warships will also follow Li Zhizao, who has returned, to escort the French envoys to Daming......

Nagon!

Li Zhizao has obviously not forgotten his duty.

However, for Richelieu, this fleet had come to the East to explore the way, and it was originally his successor Mazarin who had to carry out these things historically.

And it didn't work out either.

The first French ship to reach China was already in the late stage of Mago.

And Li Zhizao also went to London to meet Charlie, who was walking towards a date with the gallows.

However, Charlie has just ascended the throne and is ambitious and ready to show his ambitions, so he did not hesitate to take the outstretched hand of the Ming Emperor.

It was much easier for him to send an envoy to the Ming than Richelieu, because his father's grandfather's mother's brother's daughter had left him an English East India Company......

Well, it's Elizabeth I, actually.

The inheritance relationship between their family is indeed far from exaggerating, from this point of view, Elizabeth is indeed worthy of her historical evaluation, since England has never been able to conquer Scotland, let the King of Scotland be the King of England.

This was the beginning of the glory of the British Empire.

Of course, it is another thing that her coffin board will not be able to hold it down after four hundred years.

By this time, the British East India Company had already established a foothold in India, and had actually started large-scale trade with the South Seas Company, and even the first British merchant ship had arrived in Hong Kong, and the British East India Company had also leased a property of the Yang family in Hong Kong as an office.

Therefore, Charles also sent his envoys to Daming on the merchant ships of the East India Company.

The last stop of Li Zhizao's trip was Sweden, and Gu Erye, who was already ambitious to join the Thirty Years War, also sent a warship and messengers, who would also form a formation with Li Zhizao.

There was also Ferdinand II of the Habsburgs, but his envoys were on Portuguese merchant ships, so they had already arrived in Macao, and a cruiser of the Nanyang Naval Division was escorting them north, but first they got to Nanjing, after all, the north was at war. The King of Zhennan has been authorized by His Majesty the Emperor to handle the foreign affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and the official title is the Prime Minister's Minister of State Affairs, and the Lifan Yuan is responsible for the affairs of the vassals, that is, those who are clearly counted as vassals of the Ming Dynasty, such as Joseon, and the Prime Minister and the Minister of State Affairs are responsible for foreign countries, that is, those who are not real foreign countries.

And the yamen of the king of Zhennan is naturally located in Nanjing.

"This is really the coming of all nations!"

Yang Xin closed Li Zhizao's recital with satisfaction.

It is indeed a real country to come to the court, Li Zhizao's trip at least brought dozens of tributes to the apocalypse, there are a bunch of small countries in India alone, as well as East Africa, plus Europe.

His exploits are comparable to Zheng He.

And at this time, the war outside was still continuing, Sun Yuanhua and Hong Chengchou joined Dongchang, then turned to Jinan, and began the journey to sweep Shandong, while Wu Xiang and Luo on the west road entered Zelu from the north and south, Zu Dashou pursued Hongguang, but encountered stubborn resistance from the Shaanzhou regiment in Kunshan, although in the end he still fought in Kunshan, but did not conquer Shaanzhou, because a group of Shaanxi regimental training arrived for reinforcements.

Of course, the main thing is that he doesn't care about the real fight.

Sitting on the fat of Henan Mansion, he was leading his subordinates to scatter and loot the gentry in various places, and the thousands of people who really pursued Hongguang withdrew immediately after encountering resistance in Shaanzhou.

Grabbing money is more important than that.

And the subordinates of the South King of the Southern Front also joined the feast.

The Zhennan Wangbu, which was originally stationed in Huaibei, all crossed the demarcation line and swept the southern part of Henan, and they swept away the gentry who were still at a loss.

In a word......

All in all joyful.

As for His Majesty Emperor Hongguang......

He finally made it to Tongguan with difficulty.

Tongguan.

"Greetings to Your Majesty!"

Wang Zhicai, the governor of the three sides, bowed in front of Hongguang's shoulder and shouted solemnly.

He is currently the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi can be said to have the final say, born in a family of salt merchants in Puzhou, his grandfather is the governor of the three sides of the Jiajing Dynasty, the military department of the Wanli Dynasty Shangshu Wang Chonggu, the Wang family has controlled the salt industry in Hedong for generations, and the other Zhang Siwei family who controls the salt industry is each other's in-laws.

It is regarded as the head of the family in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces.

"Get up, I'm not in good health, and I can't get off my shoulders."

Hongguang said as if he was dying.

"The old minister's late rescue is the old minister's sin.

Your Majesty, please rest assured, the old minister brought back 30,000 elites from the three sides this time, all of whom can recruit soldiers who are accustomed to war, and most of them are enemies with Yang Wei, and this generation is like an iron bucket in this Tongguan! ”

Wang Zhicai said.

"Have a grudge against Yang Xin?"

Xiao Hongguang immediately stepped forward and asked suspiciously.

At this time, he was already in his early twenties, his body was much stronger than his father, and he had been canonized as the crown prince before, after all, the princes of Gon also had to guard against Hongguang's death, His Majesty the Emperor had reversed all the way, and he was really dying, and he tried to be a scoundrel many times, relying on his tonnage to lie there and refuse to go, in this case, he had to prepare a spare emperor, so Xiao Hongguang was hastily canonized as the prince in Shaanzhou.

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, Yang Shun was previously in the southern capital, in the capital, all of them slaughtered some of the people who refused to surrender within the rebellion, Shaanxi has quite a lot of its people, this generation is loyal to the righteous, and it lives in the border fortress land, many brave and good warriors, the old minister recruited a total of 20,000 new troops of this generation on the three sides, as long as the military salary is sufficient, you can get the death force of this generation, 20,000 is not enough to recruit again, hundreds of thousands of people of this generation, 100,000 elite soldiers can be obtained."

Wang Zhicai said confidently.

He didn't know that a Lich King was working day and night to copy his path.

"Hmph, all of them are good, and they all shout to defeat Yang Xin, but as a result, Yang Xin has never been out of the capital, and they are all."

Hongguang snorted coldly.

"Your Majesty, these people are really different."

Wang Zhicai said.

"You can do whatever you like, I don't care, one day I will be killed by you, I will be a hundred!"

Hongguang said.

Then he closed his eyes on his shoulder.

Wang Zhicai looked at both sides in embarrassment, and the officials and gentry all looked embarrassed.

"Let's go!"

Qiu Ge Lao hurriedly shouted.

A group of people hurriedly surrounded His Majesty the Emperor and walked towards the gate of Tongguan.

And at this moment, the bull head plain not far from them......

"Boss Gao, still don't do it?"

Wang Si, an employee of the Yang family in Tongguan, asked in a low voice with some impatience.

They were lying among the bushes and weeds, staring cautiously ahead.

In front is the tail of His Majesty the Emperor's Western Hunting team.

The Luoyang officials and gentry who fled with Hongguang, as well as their female dependents, their gold, silver and jewelry loaded in the car, the house slaves who guarded, and the soldiers who followed the escort, were all waiting there, although they actually ran a lot along the way, but the West Hunting team that came here still reached thousands of people. Including a batch of arms brought from Luoyang, they were all purchased from the south at a high price before, ready to be used to arm the new army, Tongguan is nothing more than the road by the Yellow River, His Majesty the Emperor in front of him received loyal ministers and righteous people, and these people had to wait.

"Wait!"

The tall boss he was talking about whispered.

There are two or three hundred people around them, most of these are employees of the Yang family in Tongguan, after the battle started, the Yang family's industries in Shaanxi were seized by the government, and the employees of the Yang family were caught and ran, and the Yang family's business name was also copied in Tongguan. However, it happened that a group of camel caravans from here to northern Shaanxi were also there, and the boss Gao led by him was very righteous, and he was also good at martial arts, and together with a group of brothers and their employees, he escaped from Tongguan and hid in the mountains.

And then......

Guerrilla, of course.

Many of the surrounding people know them, and the Yang family's business has been promoting new crops over the years, and the sweet potatoes and corn planted by the people around Tongguan are all brought by them, and they are willing to help them.

As for this time it was to grab arms.

Boss Gao is ready to take them to make it bigger, and the guerrillas of a few hundred people are not fun.

Boss Gao......

Well, it's actually Gao Yingxiang.

Over the years, he has been taking a camel team to northern Shaanxi to transport the goods of the Yang family.

Gao Yingxiang raised his head and looked back, and at this moment, the original top of the bull's head above their heads suddenly flashed.

"Up!"

Without hesitation, he raised his bow and arrows and shouted.

It was the observation post above, and the reflection of the glass mirror informed him that the army that had come out to meet him had entered the city.

After giving the order, Gao Yingxiang shot the arrow in his hand without hesitation, and the sharp arrow flew out more than a dozen zhang in an instant, hitting a soldier on a horse, who immediately fell off the horse, and at the same time, all those guerrillas with bows and arrows and bamboo crossbows shot arrows one after another, and those who did not have long-range weapons rushed to the road below with all kinds of cold weapons.

There was chaos on the road ahead of them.

Originally, there were few soldiers behind, all of them were fleeing gentry and even female dependents, and then there were the people who were captured to transport munitions, and after a few soldiers were shot, they all screamed and rushed to the front like headless flies, and the few soldiers and gentry fled instinctively after being suddenly attacked, and only a few chose to resist. But Gao Yingxiang was like a legendary marksman, and the bow fired five arrows in a row with great speed, and all five arrows hit, and just as he was aiming at the sixth arrow, a soldier on the opposite side also raised a flintlock pistol......

Gao Yingxiang aimed at him steadily.

The soldier shuddered and pointed his gun at him, but then screamed, threw the expensive flintlock pistol on the ground, and joined the fleeing himself.

Gao Yingxiang changed his target with disdain.

At this time, his subordinates had already rushed onto the road, and those people who had no time to escape simply squatted next to the car with their heads in their hands, and ran to the beach of the Yellow River in a panic......

"Muskets, flintlock pistols!"

He shouted excitedly.

Then he took out a flintlock pistol from the box.

And there was a small box next to it, after opening it, it was full of wrapped bullets, he took out a bullet as quickly as he could, bit it open, poured some into the medicine pool first, and then poured the rest from the muzzle, stuffed the projectiles that were also wrapped in it with paper packets, and pulled out the whole strip and tamped it. The employees of the Yang family were all trained in this area, and even their business names originally had them, but because of the suddenness of the incident, they were all copied by the government, and at this moment he immediately found his sense with the musket in his hand.

He quickly turned his head with his gun in hand.

The new army in Tongguan has arrived in the distance, but the terrain of Tongguan is strange, a distant ditch is crossed, the depth is more than 100 meters, except for the main road on the bank of the Yellow River, there is no place to pass, and those fleeing officials and gentry are crowded to block the road, and the elites of the new army brought by Wang Zhicai can't walk at all.

They were so angry that they were even whipping with horsewhips, but the more they smoked, the more chaotic they became.

Wang Si aimed at a cavalryman and without hesitation pulled the trigger, which fell on horseback.

The other cavalry even had bows and arrows, and these soldiers from the three sides were the worst equipped, they were originally far away in the northwest, and even if the imperial court changed their clothes, it was their turn in the end.

"Quick, pick up the guns!"

Wang Si urged while reloading.

The cavalry on the opposite side fired arrows at them in confusion in the crowd.

His companions, who poured into the road, divided the flintlock pistols and found the bullets to be loaded.

Gao Yingxiang didn't understand this new musket, and the original camel caravan men under his command didn't understand the poor people who had joined these days, but these people also knew what they had to do, so they carried all the extra flintlock pistols on their backs, and then carried the bullets away box by box. Wang Si's sensible ones lined up on the narrow road like line infantry, constantly reloading and firing at the opposite side, and those unlucky cavalrymen kept falling under the sound of gunfire.

But this place is so weird.

They have the Yellow River on one side and the Niutouyuan on the other, which is almost forty-five degrees upward.

There was no way to go around, the bow and arrow could not shoot the flintlock pistol, and if I wanted to rush forward, I was crowded by the fleeing officials and gentry and could not walk an inch, and finally I could only be bulleted there, and soon the dozens of horsemen in front all fell off their horses, and the reinforcements behind did not dare to step forward anymore......

"I knew, I knew you guys were bragging again!"

In front of the Tongguan City Gate in the distance, Hongguang, who was enjoying this scene, said sadly.