At the beginning, when His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire asked him to go to Valencia to meet in person, he was already very unhappy, especially when he saw Joao IV and Svera, his mood can be said to have dropped directly to the freezing point.

However, as the peace talks deepened, his heart became more and more hot, and even later, he didn't care about Portugal's independence at all, and only thought about forming an alliance, why is this?

The reason why he thinks this way is actually not surprising at all, the problem that Spain is facing now is not the problem of Portuguese independence, but the endless threat of war of the anti-Habsburg alliance and the dilemma of an empty treasury with no money to spend.

Now Philip IV's attitude has really taken a 180-degree turn, and the atmosphere of the tripartite peace talks is naturally becoming more and more harmonious, and after nearly a day of negotiations, the three parties finally drew up and signed the famous "Treaty of the Valencia Alliance" in later generations, and a military and economic alliance with the Ming Empire, the Kingdom of Spain, and the Kingdom of Portugal as the core was formally formed.

On the economic front, the treaty stipulates that the homeland, colonies and vassal states of the three countries are fully open to merchants of the three countries, and merchants of the three countries can trade freely in any area under the jurisdiction of the three countries; The state-owned companies of the three countries cooperate in an all-round way, give priority to the procurement of each other's raw materials and goods, and regularly organize exchange and learning activities to coordinate the business activities of the three parties around the world, avoid disputes, and cooperate in development.

On the military side, the treaty first stipulated that any declaration of war by any country against any of the three countries would be deemed to be a declaration of war against the three countries at the same time, and that all three countries had the obligation to assist the allies in fighting the enemy.

The treaty also laid out detailed plans for the Nordic military operation:

Spain will send 40,000 troops to Dunkirk and Calais respectively, and send an invincible fleet to block the Strait of Dover, not allowing any enemy ships to pass!

Portugal will send 20,000 troops to Dover and be responsible for the supply of food and grass for the garrisons of Dover, Dunkirk and Calais.

The Ming Empire will send the North Sea Fleet to transport 100,000 laborers to build twelve fortresses in Dunkirk, Calais and Dover, and provide 3,600 guns to build a long-range firepower network for the fortresses.

The treaty also laid out the planning of the colonies of the three countries:

Spain will go all out to develop the American colonies, and in Luzon in the Far East, according to the original arms purchase contract, it will be transferred to the Ming Empire to compensate for the payment of 100 super battleships, and Spain will withdraw from the Far East and no longer open up colonies in the Far East.

Portugal, on the other hand, will make every effort to develop colonies in Africa, and its colonies in the Americas and the Far East will remain basically unchanged, and at the same time promise not to open up colonies in the Americas and the Far East, and all the colonial bases between Luzon and Batavia will be handed over to the Ming Empire to facilitate the Ming Empire's attack on Batavia.

The Ming Empire, for its part, would go all out to expand its colonies in the Far East, and at the same time promised to send fleets in due course to assist Spain and Portugal in defeating their colonial rivals in the Americas and Africa.

The treaty also proposes a plan for the joint construction of the Eurasian Canal:

After the battle against the anti-Habsburg coalition in the Far East is over, the Ming Empire and Portugal will send troops to occupy the junction of the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, and then the Ming Empire will provide labor, and Spain and Portugal will provide grain and grass to jointly dig a Grand Canal connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea!

After the canal was completed, it was jointly operated by the three countries, and tolls were collected from all ships passing through the canal, and the collected tolls were divided equally among the three countries.

In the end, the three countries also made a commitment to advance and retreat together militarily and never sign an armistice agreement with the enemy country alone!

After the signing of the Treaty of the Valencia League, the happiest person was Philip IV, first of all, he didn't have to worry about the battle against the Habsburg Alliance, according to the plan of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire, a fleet and laborers would be sent in a month to start building fortresses from Dunkirk, and in three months, the twelve fortresses in Dunkirk, Calais and Dover would be completed!

Each city has four connected fortresses, each fortress is garrisoned by 5,000 people, and it is also equipped with three hundred of the most advanced howitzers of the Ming Empire, what is this concept?

You must know that due to the large number of firepower points, many shooting dead angles, and the height advantage can increase the range of artillery, it is generally difficult to break through ten times the enemy's army, which means that this kind of steel defense line can resist the attack of at least 200,000 troops, and can the anti-Habsburg coalition gather more than 200,000 troops in one direction?

France has this ability, but the Spanish army on the border of Spain and France is not vegetarian, and they will never dare to attack Calais with all their might, so the direction of Calais is safe.

As for the Netherlands, he has a total of less than 200,000 troops, of course, if Denmark and Sweden are added, then he can make up 200,000 troops, but Denmark and Sweden will never dare to do their best to help the Netherlands, because they still have to face the Holy Roman Empire, so the Dunkirk direction is also safe.

As for the British, it would be good if they could have 100,000 troops, so Dover was safe.

That is to say, as long as the twelve bastions of Dunkirk, Calais and Dover are built, the anti-Habsburg coalition should cry, the Spanish Armada relies on the bastions of the three cities, it is the real invincibility, as long as the Strait of Dover is blocked, the countries on the North Sea coast want to go out, then they have to make a detour to the ice sea further north, can they stand it?

can't stand it and can't beat it, they can only choose peace talks in the end, and at that time, hehe.......

Not only don't you have to worry about the battle with the anti-Habsburg alliance, but you don't have to worry about the money, according to the development idea of the Ming Empire, at most five years, the annual income of the companies under the Spanish royal family can exceed 100 million taels of silver, plus the income of the colony, as well as the income of the Eurasian Grand Canal, will Spain still be short of money? Philip IV was laughing so hard that he couldn't close his mouth!

In fact, Zhu Cijiong was happier than Philip IV, building twelve fortresses was too simple for him, and the personnel were all ready-made, you must know that the 500,000 captives of the peasant rebel army had the experience of building more than 20 fortresses.

Of course, the twelve fortresses don't need to pull 500,000 people over, and the labor of the 500,000 captives is almost over, Zhu Cijiong originally planned to put them all back to their hometowns, allocate land to them, and let them live again, but among these 500,000 captives, there are many people who envy the treatment of the regular legion of the Ming Empire and want to join the regular legion!

This is naturally impossible, they have a precedent of rebellion, it is too unsafe for them to join the regular legion, and in the end, Zhu Cijiong simply decided to pick out 100,000 strong laborers from it to form a construction corps, specializing in building railways and cities, without fighting, and still give the treatment of the third-class legion!

The construction capacity of the construction corps composed of 100,000 strong laborers can be imagined, and building twelve fortresses in a month is not the same as drinking porridge, once the defense lines of Dunkirk, Calais and Dover are completed, the anti-Habsburg alliance will not let alone trouble him, and communication and going out will become a big problem!

Once the powers of the anti-Habsburg alliance were blockaded in Northern Europe by Spain, the Ming Dynasty could let go of its hands and feet to work with the Mughal Empire, and it was not impossible to take Batavia by the way, and at that time, the entire Far East would become the territory of the Ming Dynasty!

As for João IV, he purely came to accompany the two princes to study this time, and Spain is thankful that he didn't trouble him, and the rest of the benefits are all windfalls, pure unexpected surprises!