Outside Colombo, in the military camp of the Fuguang Army, Kong Dede looked at the dense military tents and neat artillery on both sides, and his heart was shocked or shocked.

Although he had long heard that the Ming Empire was extremely powerful, he never thought that the army of the Ming Empire was so terrifying, not to mention the navy for the time being, he had already heard Shi Weila's introduction, but he didn't expect this army equipment to be so strong!

At this time, there was no field artillery in Europe, and the general artillery was either on the battleship or in the fortress, even if he wanted to attack the enemy with artillery, or bombard the enemy's fortress, it was also pulled over by a carriage at zero hour, and even the artillery base was pulled over together, like the Ming Empire, all the gun carriages, he had never seen them.

If you encounter such an army equipped with artillery trucks in the field, who of the European powers can withstand it!

At first, he just pretended to be humble in order for His Royal Highness the Duke of the Ming Empire to use his connections to help him transfer a little warship to defend Colombo, but at this time, after seeing the strong lineup of the Ming Empire's army, his humility was no longer pretending, but really, such a powerful Ming Empire deserved his respect.

Everyone entered the tent and sat down, and Conde got up and respectfully stroked his chest and saluted: "Your Royal Highness, I have already learned about the situation in Ceylon with Schvera, and we really can't compete with the fleet of the Dutch hidden in the nearby seas, and I ask His Royal Highness the Duke to help me think of a way to send troops from your country to help us garrison Colombo, thank you." ”

This guy is really direct!

However, this is also good, saving you from being verbose.

Although Zhang Bin was a little proud in his heart, he pretended to be embarrassed on the surface: "This, the Dutch have run away, and we are also in danger in Malacca and Batavia, what if my father sends troops over, what if they run to attack Malacca or Batavia?" ”

Just kidding, the Dutch didn't take the wrong medicine, Batavia won't talk about it, the defense there The Dutch themselves know that they will definitely not dare to take risks with their little strength, and Malacca is even more terrible, the steel jungle-like artillery group, the Dutch are looking for death!

Kong Dede thought that His Royal Highness the Duke was hinting that he wanted to give some benefits, and he said without hesitation: "Your Royal Highness, we also know that your country needs military expenses to send troops, otherwise we will take out the income from the cinnamon and other outputs of Ceylon as military expenses, what do you think?" ”

What he meant by this was to give up all the benefits of Ceylon to Zhang Bin, and Shi Vera was taken aback, what does His Excellency the Earl mean, didn't he say that he would only give half of the cinnamon income?

Of course, the reason why Kong Dede did this was for a purpose, anyway, he couldn't pump much oil and water from Ceylon's income, and most of it still had to be handed over, so it was better to give it all to His Royal Highness the Duke, in order to win his favor, sometimes, people should also plan appropriately for themselves, and befriending such a powerful minister of the Ming Empire is much more important to him than Ceylon.

Zhang Bin originally just twisted it, but he never thought that Kong Dede would give him such a "big gift", Ceylon's cinnamon is indeed very famous, but he doesn't pay much attention to the income of this million two years, if it is for this income and betrays the interests of Daming, he will definitely not do it, but this is originally his strategy, Daming will not only not suffer, but also get cheap, this benefit, he naturally laughed.

He pretended to hesitate for a moment, then nodded slowly and said: "Okay, then leave 30,000 foot soldiers and hundreds of warships, these are what my duke originally wanted to bring to the European continent to escort them, but if Ceylon is lost, our back road is also in danger of being cut off, and now we can only leave them on top, and this guild will transfer some super battleships to strengthen the defense as soon as possible." ”

When Conde heard this, he said excitedly: "Thank you, Your Royal Highness, with the Ming Empire garrisoning troops in Ceylon, we don't have to worry about the Dutch counterattack!" ”

Zhang Bin smiled in his heart, but pretended to be helpless on the surface: "Alas, this is not a way for my father, after all, the continent is tens of thousands of miles away from here, and we don't know what the situation is when we come back after a trip, if we want the Dutch to take Ceylon back, our return may be dangerous." ”

Kong Dede nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, it is still Zhou Xiang that His Royal Highness the Duke considers." By the way, I would like to take the liberty of asking, does the Ming Empire intend to open up overseas colonies? ”

Aren't you talking nonsense, if you don't open up overseas colonies, I'll go to the trouble to help you, it's boring.

Zhang Bin pretended to be curious and said, "Your Excellency the Earl, what do you mean, is there a colony to pick it up?" ”

Kong Dede smiled and said: "Of course this colony has not been picked up, but if His Royal Highness the Duke is interested, some colonies are similar to those picked up." ”

And this kind of place, haven't all these easy-to-get colonies been robbed by you?

At this time, Zhang Bin was really curious: "Oh, where is the Earl talking about?" ”

Comde hurriedly explained: "That's the case, Your Royal Highness the Duke, didn't you scare the main fleet of the Dutch into hiding, in this way, their colonies in the Far East will be equivalent to no protection, as long as you send some troops over, it will be easy to take over, for example, the Comanro coast and the Malabar coast in the north of Ceylon Island, there are only a few thousand Dutch garrisoned there, as long as His Royal Highness the Duke is interested, we can easily take it down if we work together." There are also Dragoa Bay off the coast of Africa, Cape Town, the Gold Coast, etc., His Royal Highness the Duke has to lead a large army to pass by anyway, and in the face of hundreds of super battleships, the Dutch will definitely not be able to resist, and these places are also at his disposal for His Royal Highness the Duke! ”

Let's not talk about the African coast for the time being, Zhang Bin doesn't want to start a full-scale war with the anti-Habsburg alliance, and he doesn't want to beat the Netherlands too hard, and cheapen Britain and France for nothing, but this peninsula in the north of Ceylon is not taken for nothing, anyway, the Dutch will definitely not be able to stay in the Far East, and this colony is better to take it yourself than to leave it to others!

Thinking of this, he immediately got up and took out a map of the vicinity of Ceylon from the box on the side, spread it on the handsome case, and then beckoned: "Your Excellency, please take a look, where do you mean by the coast of Comanro and the coast of Malabar?" ”

When Conde heard this, he hurriedly got up and walked to Zhang Bin, pointed to the two large coasts on the peninsula north of Ceylon and said: "This is the Comanro coast, the Malabar coast here, the Dutch have been frantically expanding their colonies near Ceylon since they were driven out of Batavia, and in the past two years, the natives of these two places have been subdued by them. ”

, these are two colonies comparable to Ceylon, of which the area of the Malabar coast is even larger than Ceylon, so such two large colonies naturally have to be taken.

However, Zhang Bin didn't want to swallow it domineeringly, it was enough to pick up a colony for nothing, if he swallowed all two pieces, it would be a little ugly to eat.

He thought for a while, and even pointed to the Malabar coast and said: "Otherwise, this Coroman Coast will be taken down by our Ming alone, and it will belong to our Daming, and this Malabar Coast can send troops to help you take it, and it will belong to you Portugal, what do you think?" ”

This is what Comde originally meant, he thought that he would have to waste his tongue and even give up some of his interests to get the Malabar coast, but he didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Patriotic Duke would be so bold that he would directly row the Malabar coast to them with a wave of his hand!

He hurriedly stroked his chest and saluted: "Okay, good, thank you Your Royal Highness." ”