Just as Zhu Cijiong arrived in Siam, there was a huge fleet rushing to the direction of Malacca through the sea outside the port of Goa, this fleet had about 50 super battleships, and more than 200 other medium-sized warships.

Such a large fleet naturally could not escape the eyes of those who cared, and soon, the secret agents of the Jinyi Guard, the outposts of the expeditionary force, and even the ships of the Portuguese adventurers and pirates sent warnings to the base of Star City Harbor, and the fleets of the great powers were heading in the direction of Malacca, and their intentions were unknown.

Zheng Zhilong received the news, and was stunned, it was definitely not the Dutch Navy in Batavia, and it could not even be the fleet of the Dutch East India Company, since that time they detained their merchant ships, Fan Mendi was much more honest, and the size of the fleet sent each time would not exceed a hundred, although there were also many medium-sized warships in the middle, Zheng Zhilong didn't care much, the seeds of mutual suspicion had been planted, and it was better to take over the British and French merchant ships, as for the Dutch merchant ships, it didn't matter if they didn't rob them, they brought so many warships to escort each time, Shipping costs increase exponentially, see what else they can earn!

Since it could not be the fleet sent by Batavia, it could only be from the European continent, this problem is a bit serious, fortunately, Siam is not far from the port of Star City, he hurriedly sent a fast ship to Siam, ask the emperor, see how to deal with this matter.

And what about this fleet?

It turned out that after Zhu Cijiong left the European continent, Spain, in order to paralyze the anti-Habsburg alliance powers, did not refuse the demands of various countries for peace talks, and as long as the powers put forward a request for peace talks, he immediately sent a mission to negotiate, back and forth, bargaining, and it seemed that he was really going to surrender.

The great powers did not doubt it, because the Habsburgs really couldn't bear it, the Holy Roman Empire was about to split, and the Spanish army suffered heavy losses, and they were already at an absolute disadvantage on land, not to mention at sea, Spain was no longer able to form an invincible armada, as long as the great powers launched, they would really not even be able to get out.

Under these circumstances, the great powers gathered in Amsterdam, the most prosperous city on the continent at the time, to discuss the future.

What they discussed was not how to deal with the Habsburgs, because Spain's attitude had proved that the Habsburgs were really going to admit it this time, and the rest was just negotiations, and they were discussing the issue of overseas colonial expansion in the future, and the focus of this problem was the Ming Empire.

The rise of the Ming Empire can be called terrifying, ten years ago was still closed to the country, ignoring the world, in recent years, it suddenly burst out of amazing power, all kinds of weapons emerge in an endless stream, the number of various warships has soared, has defeated Spain and the Netherlands to recover Formosa, and then control the trade of Dongying, Korea and even the entire Far East, like a fierce awakening hero, shocked the whole world.

The European powers have been fighting with the Habsburg Dynasty for nearly 30 years in order to compete for hegemony, but they didn't expect the Habsburg Dynasty to just suppress and come out with a Ming Empire, which is absolutely not allowed by the European powers, and now the rich places in Africa and the Americas are almost all occupied, only the Far East is a big cake waiting for them to share, if the Ming Empire is allowed to develop like this, where is their share in the Far East, so we must find a way to curb or even overturn the Ming Empire.

Just as their deliberations were in full swing, Van Mendi's report arrived, followed by a detailed plan to deal with the Ming Empire.

The following forces have exploded, shooting, the Ming Empire has begun to expand outward, how can this work, it must be stopped immediately, so the anti-Habsburg alliance quickly transformed into the anti-Ming Empire alliance, and the powers that should have scattered to rob the colonies united again, and the spearhead was directed at the Ming Empire!

They still used the old methods of dealing with the Habsburgs, those who had money to pay, and those who made powerful contributions, this time mainly the Netherlands, but Britain and France, Sweden and Denmark were the main ones.

The shipbuilding capacity of the Netherlands is also quite terrifying, in less than fifty years they have built 15,000 large ships that can sail to the sea, that is to say, they can build at least more than 300 large ships a year, they never lack ships, but lack of people, like super battleships, and hundreds of them have not been assembled, put them there, it's not that they can't do it, but no one can control it, as for medium-sized warships, they are not lacking, more than 10,000 merchant ships, most of them are armed merchant ships, and a little transformation is a battleship, It's still a matter of personnel, they have a total population of just over one million, and they have to be converted into battleships, and the newborn children have to be gunners, otherwise they won't be able to get together the people who fire the guns.

Now the combination of several powers is more terrifying, Britain, France, Sweden and Denmark are gradually in place, a huge fleet is gradually taking shape, this fleet originally had a hundred super battleships, four or five hundred medium warships, they are ready to fight with the Ming Empire, not to mention the Ming Empire mainland, at least to drive them out of the South Seas region.

This idea seems a bit naïve, even if this huge fleet is all completed, it may not be too much for the Ming Dynasty in the South Seas, and even they can't even take the Star City Port base, but if such a huge fleet drives over, it is still a threat to the Ming Dynasty, because there is also the Dutch Navy and the East India Company fleet in Batavia, and the two fleets together are not much to catch up with the strength of the Ming Navy, if the two sides start fighting, it will definitely be a shocking war.

Fortunately, just as they were about to march to the Far East, the first batch of fifty super battleships sold by the Ming Dynasty to Spain arrived, and the powers were suddenly startled, what does it mean, what does this Ming Empire mean, and what does Spain mean?

They sent an envoy to ask Spain, but naturally they could not get an accurate answer, and Philip IV went so far as to say that he did not know what the Ming Empire meant.

Well, no matter what it means, the fleets left by the great powers on the mainland are not enough to deal with Spain, which has more than fifty super battleships, they have to leave half of the combined fleet to prevent Spain from turning the other cheek, and the other half will continue to be sent to the Far East, but their goal has also changed, this strength is not enough to fight with the Ming Empire, they retreated to the second, the goal became to threaten the Ming Empire, keep Donghu, and first curb the expansion momentum of the Ming Empire.

When Zhu Cijiong received the news, he was immediately furious, the great powers clearly didn't want the Ming Dynasty to develop well, and they were about to unify the South Seas, so they actually sent a combined fleet to make trouble, is it really easy for the Ming Dynasty to bully!

He really doesn't pay much attention to this point of battleship, but if they are allowed to merge with the Dutch fleet in Batavia, the threat will be great, and the scale of the combined fleet will exceed any fleet of the Ming Dynasty.