Why did Zhang Bin give Portugal such a colony on the Malabar coast that is larger than Ceylon for nothing, and what does it matter if it looks ugly? That's a colony bigger than Ceylon!

In fact, eating ugly is only one aspect, he is mainly for the overall strategic considerations, his colonial positioning of the Ming Dynasty is not arrogant and domineering, if the Ming Dynasty dominates the world, see the colony to rob, what is good to take away, then the future will be faced with endless war.

The so-called general trend of the world, divided for a long time, must be united, and the world cannot be in a state of war forever, nor can it be in a state of peace forever, and the idea of fighting and stopping and fighting is the norm, and the idea of vainly trying to dominate the whole world is absolutely wrong.

In history, there are many people who have had such thoughts, for example, when the Mengyuan across the whole of Europe and Asia, they had such an idea, how powerful the Mengyuan was at the beginning, and what was the result?

Zhang Bin is not a war maniac, on the contrary, he prefers to use his brain most of the time, since it is impossible to dominate the world, then he must find a way to make Daming pay the least price to obtain the greatest benefits.

Therefore, he behaved quite moderately and politely in front of Portugal as an ally, as long as he was arrogant, Ceylon would dare to say anything if he forcibly occupied Portugal, and what he would dare to say if the coast of Comanro and the coast of Malabar swallowed all of Portugal, but he did not do so.

What Da Ming needs is a friend, a real friend, powerful to the point of horror, but not a bully, people will want to be friends with you, to behave arrogantly and domineering, what people want in their hearts is definitely not to be friends with you, but to endure humiliation and burden, waiting for the opportunity to turn their faces with you!

Even against the anti-Habsburg coalition powers, he never thought of dying or even destroying the people who beat them hard, because there is always a time of peace in this world, and if you beat people hard, even in peacetime, people will not associate with you, and then the gains will outweigh the losses.

He didn't want Daming to be enemies everywhere at that time, so for his allies, he chose to be gentle and polite, and try to make people want to attach themselves to Daming.

Like this time, it's not bad to pick up a colony for nothing, if you swallow all two pieces, it will be too domineering, anyway, all Portuguese colonies are open to the Ming Dynasty, whether you occupy it or not, the benefits obtained are actually almost the same!

Kong Dede didn't know that Zhang Bin was making this calculation, he only thought that His Royal Highness the Duke was really polite to them, he thanked them a thousand times, and discussed with Zhang Bin the specific matters of jointly sending troops to the Malabar coast, and happily rushed back to Goa on a light ironclad ship to prepare, while Zhang Bin stayed in Colombo and began to arrange the capture of the Comanro coast and the Malabar coast.

There were not many garrisons in the Netherlands in these two places, and they both received a warning from Governor Spex, not to fight hard with the Ming Empire, and if it really didn't work, they would surrender!

Spex's also had no choice, because they didn't have time to send a fleet to fetch the garrisons of these two places, and at the speed of a sailing ship, it would take at least three or four days to pick up the garrisons of these two places without going smoothly, and if he did, I am afraid he would not have time to run away.

Although Zhang Bin knew that there were not many Dutch garrisons in these two places, he did not careless because of this, and after some discussion, he sent Yu Chenglong, Marquis of Jinjiang, with 50 Weiyuan battleships, 50 Zhenyuan cruisers, 100 light ironclad ships, and 20,000 Fuguang soldiers to capture the coast of Comero.

Immediately afterwards, he sent Nanyang Marquis Zheng Zhilong to lead 50 Weiyuan battleships, 50 Zhenyuan cruisers, 100 light ironclad ships, and 10,000 Fuguang soldiers to assist the Portuguese governor of Goa, Conde, to capture the Malabar coast.

He arranged this way for the sake of safety, and the three places, including Colombo, could maintain absolute superiority over the main fleet of the Dutch, and even if the Dutch received the news that the main fleet was sent to carry out a sneak attack somewhere, it would be for nothing.

However, the possibility of a sneak attack by the Dutch is not very high, Spex has gone to the Maldives, and naturally it is impossible to receive the news within a few days, and even if he receives the news, it is impossible to lead the main fleet to seek death.

This operation went quite smoothly, without the support of the fleet, in the face of such a terrifying Ming navy and army, the Dutch garrisons on the coast of Comanro and the coast of Malabar did not dare to make a move at all, Yu Chenglong and Zheng Zhilong just led the fleet to rush over, and they surrendered obediently!

In this way, the Ming Dynasty easily took the coast of Comanro, and Portugal also obtained the Malabar coast as desired, which can be described as a great joy, after five or six days of busy work, the two colonies were firmly in the hands of the Ming and Portugal, and Guo Huaiyi also led fifty newly built Weiyuan battleships to Colombo.

Zhang Bin explained in detail, and then took Zheng Zhilong and his son, and led 200 Zhenyuan cruisers, 200 Weiyuan battleships, 200 light ironclad ships, and 50,000 Fuguang soldiers to the European continent.

Along the way, he did not order all the warships to rush at full speed, on the contrary, every thousand miles or so, he would find a port to stop, and let Svera and Coqueira take his guards and representatives of the major merchant gangs to get off the ship to find out the local situation.

For example, what the prices are here, what goods are the best-selling, and which country or colony of which great power they belong to, etc., he has ordered people to make detailed records.

This guy, such a huge fleet, such a terrifying strength, can scare the forces in various ports along the way, whether it is Persia, Dashi, Amicil and other indigenous countries, or Britain, France, the Netherlands and other powers dare not make any hostile gestures, they can only honestly let people write and draw there, and they don't dare to go up to disturb at all, in the Far East, so many super battleships can indeed go sideways.

As for the Spanish or Portuguese colonies, it was even more warmly welcomed, and everywhere Zhang Bin went, they simply showed the etiquette of receiving the king, and desperately made a gesture of goodwill.

Zhang Bin led the fleet in this way, all the way through the Persian Safavid Empire, the Arab tribes, through the east coast and west coast of Africa, through Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, the Netherlands colonies and treaty ports, slowly towards the European continent, where he passed, he did not launch any attack, even if it was the stronghold and colony of the Dutch East India Company, he only sent people ashore to investigate the situation, and had no intention of starting a war at all.

He is a little incomprehensible to Schvera and Coqueira, what does this mean for His Royal Highness the Duke, the Far East and the European Anti-Habsburg Alliance actually did not invest much troops, among which the most powerful Dutch East India Company main fleet was forced to hide by him, there are many places that will surrender as long as he fights a little, why didn't he just take these places?

Of course, Zhang Bin won't tell them, it's your business to fight for life and death, I just have to sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman!

Most of these places will be captured, because the major merchant gangs need supply points to do business, and he must open up the sea road for them, but he doesn't want to start fighting at this time, and he won't necessarily really fight.