On the last day of April, Monte, which had become the Ming Dynasty Xichangbo, set off from Yingtianfu with three truckloads of goods and embarked on a journey to Europe again.

The Andaman Islands, which were originally in the world, are now officially named the Xichang Islands.

As a merchant, although he made "military achievements" and was made an earl, he was not able to enjoy the same fiefs as other generals.

Although his fiefdom is in the Xichang Islands, he does not have sovereignty, only the right to trade.

In fact, this is already satisfying for Monte.

He knew very well why he had been knighted, it was all an illusion, and he needed to contribute more if he wanted to make this count worthy of his name.

Being able to raise a large number of goods in less than two months after returning to Daming is not Monte's own credit.

In fact, he didn't think about how much silver he could earn from this trade, and all the profits from this batch of goods would belong to the General Administration.

Of course, the Secretary for Communications will also pay him a batch of remuneration to serve as the freight of his trade.

In fact, this is not the first time that the Department of Communications has done this. Because of Zhu Zhanji's permission, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will give the General Administration Department some trade shares every year.

These profits will be used as overseas funds for the Secretary for Communications and Administration, which will be used to develop downlines and carry out confidential operations.

It is not that the General Administration Department is without funds, but their funds are limited, and the imperial court can only issue them according to the list of registered officials, and it is impossible for them to reimburse all their expenses.

The reimbursement of all expenses will only make the amount of funds appear huge, which is not conducive to the balance of the various departments of the imperial court, and will also promote corruption.

Because no one knows how much money a particular operation will cost or how effective it will be, there is no quantifiable standard for all this.

However, espionage is a very money-consuming industry, and restricting funding is not conducive to development.

Therefore, the imperial court will give some trade shares, so that the silver earned can be used as funds.

With this small treasury within the General Administration, they can freely arrange some actions, and because they supervise each other internally, corruption is reduced, and outsiders do not know what they have done.

Naturally, there were his two sons, Meng Fang and Meng Zheng, who set off with Monte. The Mongolian side has confirmed that it will inherit the property of Monte, and the future development focus will also be on the development of the family.

And Meng Zheng will inherit Monte's title in the future, and as for his fate, it is no longer up to Monte to interfere.

Meng Zheng is a very smart person, if he wasn't smart, he wouldn't have been so valued by the General Administration Department and wholeheartedly supported him.

The plan for Europe is a long-term plan, and it will bear heavy responsibilities in the coming decades.

But in appearance, Meng Zheng has turned into a real playboy.

This time when he returned from Europa, in addition to preparing for the wedding, he had to participate in the wedding, and at other times, he was assigned a heavy task by the General Secretary.

In the Qinglou of Qinhuai River, he plays a nouveau riche who spends a lot of money.

But in fact, he has always been surrounded by experts from the Department of General Affairs, who taught him how to analyze intelligence, how to read words and feelings, and how to dress up as a deep and charming gentleman.

For his future development, he also studied poetry with the literati, and learned how to build a profitable team and how to promote football with the most successful football club today, Nancheng Football Team.

The Nancheng football team is not the most successful team of Daming, but it is the most successful civilian team of Daming. They didn't have the support of the aristocracy, they didn't have a lot of financial support, but they did well from the start and are now among the top teams.

Meng Zheng's European development plan was strongly supported by the General Administration, and in the past, they had been bothering to cultivate agents, but these agents could not completely side with the Ming.

Including the Medici family, they also have their own interests and positions in Europe, so even if the General Secretary has thousands of small role insiders, it is not of great use.

And Meng Zheng is completely different, he can be completely trustworthy and cultivated.

But Duan Renzhi was a little unhappy with Meng Zheng's changes. He married his granddaughter to Meng Zheng because Meng Zheng was safe and down-to-earth, and now he is helping the Secretary for Political Affairs to do things, a playboy, but not an ideal candidate for his grandson-in-law.

But the wood is already in the boat, and he is helpless now. However, for the sake of his granddaughter's future, and in order to satisfy his ideal of going out to see more while he is not dead, he decided to go to Europa with Meng Zheng.

Forty years ago, he had been to Europa, but at that time, he was still a naval commander.

Now, he is once again on a journey to Europe, and his identity has changed to that of a "football coach".

Because Duan Renzhi was also going to Europe, Xu Sheng, who was also Zhu Zhanji's son-in-law, was interested in strengthening the connection between the Institute of Technology and Europa, and simply sent a team of twelve student representatives to study in Europa.

After Zhu Zhanji learned about this plan, he asked Xu Sheng to remove the students with excellent grades and only send students who were not good at academics but had football expertise to Europa.

And they also have the task of finding the best people in the universities in Europa and reporting back.

To be honest, the current level of science and technology in Europe is far from that of Daming, even if the students who are not good at school in Daming are probably ahead of them by an era when they arrive in Europe.

So now that the exchange is present, the Ming Dynasty is at a loss.

But Zhu Zhanji also knows that today's Europe is in the stage of the Renaissance, and there are still some outstanding talents in this era.

It is still necessary to use better conditions to attract outstanding talents to Daming and strengthen the influence of Daming at the cultural level.

Nowadays, all European countries are actively learning the Ming dialect, and in Crete, almost everyone can speak the Ming dialect with a strange tone, but this is only for the purpose of trading with the Ming people.

At the cultural level, in addition to Confucianism, in order to maintain scientific research capabilities, the Ming Dynasty has always been more reluctant to accept people of different races.

Just like Guozijian, there are now more than 3,000 students of different races, but in the Institute of Technology, only students from the Ming Dynasty can enter the study.

Zhu Zhanji wanted to maintain exchanges and maintain cultural influence, but he was unwilling to let Europeans learn more knowledge.

So I simply sent a bunch of scumbags and sports students to Europe.

Xu Sheng is the fourth generation of Xing'anbo, and the first-generation Xing'anbo Xu Xiang has passed away in the second year of Yongle, so the influence of the Xu family in the imperial court is not great.

When Xu Sheng's father Xu Xian broke his leg while riding a horse when he was a child, he became a lame man, and since then the family has lost ground in the army and turned to Xuewen.

Although Xu Sheng was born in Xing'an Bofu, he studied literature since he was a child, and in the 11th year of orthodoxy, he graduated from the Institute of Science and Technology with the first place in the school, and has been teaching in the school since then.

Because of his handsome appearance and gentleness, the thirteenth princess Yongning, who entered the Polytechnic Institute at that time, took a fancy to him at a glance when she was only sixteen years old. Faced with the active pursuit of a princess, Xu Sheng surrendered without much resistance.

This is the first case of teacher-student love in the Ming Dynasty, or free love, when Zhu Zhanji knew it, it had already caused a great sensation.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji disdains beating mandarin ducks with sticks, not to mention that Xu Sheng is already excellent, so he fulfilled them and gave them marriage.

As a result, over the years, the two of them have become a typical example of Daming's free love, and the drama based on the story of the two of them has always been very popular.

Thirty years have passed, and the relationship between the couple has been very good, and with the support of Zhu Zhanji, Xu Sheng has become the sacrificial wine of the Institute of Technology in the thirty-second year of orthodoxy.

As Zhu Zhanji's son-in-law, his contact with Zhu Zhanji is not limited to official business, and Zhu Zhanji can also say many things that are difficult to say to the minister.

Xu Sheng is very aware of Zhu Zhanji's mentality, and has always unswervingly implemented Zhu Zhanji's wishes.

Over the years, under the leadership of Xu Sheng, the Institute of Science and Technology has been stubbornly not recruiting any students who have not settled in the Ming Dynasty, even if they are princes.

After understanding what Zhu Zhanji meant, he immediately found Jinyiwei and asked this professional organization to list the confidentiality regulations, and list almost all the items involving confidentiality for these students to remember.

In the face of the treacherous and cunning Jinyiwei, these students who were not deeply involved in the world just made a fool of themselves, and they were beaten one by one like chicken blood, and with the glorious mission of serving the country, they got on the merchant ship to Europa.

Because of their following, not only the secretary of the government, but even Jinyiwei also sent two related households to travel at public expense on the grounds of teaching these students the confidentiality clause.

The General Administration Department has no opinion on this, and he is not afraid of Jinyiwei grabbing credit. When it comes to the confidentiality system in all aspects, the General Administration Department does not have a professional Jinyi Guard.

After the invention of the steam engine, ships no longer had to go to sea according to the time of day. Although ships are still affected by the monsoon, it is only a matter of speed and slowness, and even if the wind is headwinded, merchant ships can now travel at speeds of 60 miles per hour.

If you look at it from the perspective of future generations, the speed of only 15 kilometers in an hour can be described as amazingly slow.

But you know, most of the ships in Europe are not only much smaller, but when the wind is headwinded, they can run 10 kilometers an hour to be clippers.

Ten days later, the merchant ships arrived in Star City.

It was not only the administrative center of the Ming Dynasty in the Nanyang region, but also the center of trade.

The entire Indochina Peninsula is now all the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, including Borneo, Luzon, and Sumatra, all of which are the resources of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of the abundance of oil and rubber, some basic industries have also developed in the Nanyang region, the most famous of which are tire factories and rubber products factories.

The ship stayed in Star City for two days, and Meng Zheng didn't buy anything else, but bought more than 2,000 locally produced cheap soccer balls and hundreds of pumps at once.

Since he has decided to drive the development of football in Europe and establish his own image of the second generation, there are also different types of gentlemen.

He's an elegant gentleman, a gentleman with depth, but not the kind of loser.

If it is really a loser, it is impossible to gain the trust of the upper echelons of European countries.

On 16 May, the ship arrived at the Sichang Islands, a deserted island covered in primeval forests in what would become the Andaman Islands.

Although there are thousands of natives on the island, most of them have been killed by the Mu family, and some of the remaining natives have also surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

The Mongolian side stayed here this time, and he was already preparing to build this place as his family fiefdom and build it into a maritime trading point.

Here, they met the fleet sent by the Mu family to patrol the sea, and got the news that the three cities in the extreme west had defeated the white coalition.

There is no communication between here and the three cities in the extreme west, but there are telegraph lines between Tanglin City and Yingtianfu, and there are also telegraph lines between Yingtianfu and here, so the news about Tanglin City can be reached soon.

When the Secretary General got the news, he summoned the Monte father and son for another consultation, and in response to the changes in the current situation, they will make small adjustments to their plans for action in Europe and the goals they want to achieve.

When the twenty guns of Black Rock City were transported along the Kama River to the encirclement position on the front line, these twenty guns were actually not worth mentioning to the more than 200,000 troops.

However, the strategic change brought about by these 20 guns directly affected the morale of 200,000 people.

They believed that the strong front was simply vulnerable in front of the artillery, and although the Ming soldiers did not break through directly into the line, in the hearts of the allied soldiers, this position was no longer safe.

At this time, not to mention those Polish and Lithuanian soldiers, even the soldiers of Kiev, Moscow, and the Novgorod principality, they no longer have the urge to fight to the death with the Ming soldiers.

After a few days of bickering and compromise with a group of generals, they made plans to retreat.

In terms of numbers, they have an absolute advantage, but whether it is gunpowder or bullets, they are not many. And today's flintlock pistols are as useless as burning sticks in the face of Daming's repeating guns.

The gap in this weapon is not something that morale can resist, and the Ming soldiers have always refused to engage in contact battles with them, and although their numbers are large, they cannot make up for the gap between the two sides.

This battle, a month ago, was already doomed.

The enemy's breakthrough seemed to be going well, and they did not encounter stubborn resistance from the Ming soldiers.

But when their battle line was stretched and their numbers gradually dispersed, the Ming soldiers turned into hunters, ruthlessly reaping their lives from a distance.

From the banks of the Kama River to Kazan, and from Kazan to Nizhny Novgorod, these hundreds of miles of lush pastures have become a hell for the coalition forces.

They watched as their companions fell, one by one, but there was nothing they could do.

Especially on the eighth day of the fifth month, it rained heavily. The white coalition's flintlock pistols were not waterproof, so on the way to escape, their muskets turned into burning sticks.

And on this day, 30,000 Ming soldiers broke directly into their camp, and the gunfire that rang out in the rain became a nightmare for all coalition soldiers.

On this day alone, on the north bank of the Volga River, coalition soldiers left more than 50,000 corpses and 50,000 wounded.

They dropped their baggage and began to run frantically. In the minds of all the soldiers, they just want to run faster than the others.

When their army finally withdrew to Nizhny Novgorod, less than 200,000 of the nearly 500,000 soldiers who had been in high spirits at the beginning remained.

More than 200,000 people were lost in a single war, which has never been seen before in the entire history of Europe.

The loss of more than 200,000 young people is unbearable compared to the Europeans with a total population of less than 15 million.

All the people were depressed, and they only wanted to return to their hometowns and never come to the East to fight against the Ming people again.

At this time, all the allied forces also understood why the Hungarians, who were the richest in Europe, resolutely refused to form an alliance with them this time to go east.

More than a thousand years ago, they were driven from the East to Europe by the Han Empire before the Ming Dynasty, and they never dared to return to the East.

It turns out that the empire of the East, which is really something that all their countries combined, cannot resist.

This is just a small local force in the huge empire in the east, and they have already beaten their heads. And what if it was the regular army of that empire?

No one dared to imagine it.

The rout continued, and all the coalition soldiers who had lost their food and grass turned into hungry wolves fighting for their lives.

They are no longer saviors, but have become disaster makers. From east to west, they burned and looted all the way, and the entire Yaroslav principality, the common people of Muscovy became victims.

Their grain was snatched, their cattle and sheep were slaughtered, and their women were raped.

The escape of these soldiers has become a personal hell on earth.

Don Sayer led the soldiers, and when they pursued outside Yaroslavl, they finally stopped the pursuit.

Across the Volga River, she could not attack a fortified city with tens of thousands of soldiers. Moreover, now that she has been chasing all the way, she has been very satisfied with the results she has obtained.

In this land, the relationship between the Han and the Slavs has greatly weakened the living force of the other party, and it has been able to ensure that they will not dare to go east for twenty years.

In 20 years, she believes that the population of the three cities of Tanglin can increase by more than 500,000.

Only people can occupy more land, and their current population is still too small.

And the land they occupy now is no longer in need of people to reclaim it.

So, hit it so far, it's enough.

The fleet from Dongju followed the counterclockwise current in the southern Atlantic Ocean and arrived at Jinju Castle at the southernmost tip of Xiju at the end of April.

Jinju City is the capital of Jinju Province and the current third largest city in Seoju, after Hanju Fortress on the east coast and Cairo on the Nile River north of Seoju.

This is what became Cape Town, South Africa, and there are large areas of fertile land on the east and west sides of Cape Town, and the climate here is very suitable for wheat cultivation.

Most of South Africa's land is unsuitable for growing food, and it relies heavily on livestock and mineral resources.

The Jin and Han kings occupied the southern part of Africa, and their interests were also in the slave trade and mining, and there was little exploitation of agriculture.

But after all, they also have to eat, so the fertile fields on both sides of Jinju City have become the largest agricultural development area in Xiju at present.

Here, the Han people are the kings here, and only some light-skinned blacks can be appreciated by the Han people and become slaves of the Han people.

And the vast majority of those disobedient blacks have been exterminated and turned into slaves in the mines.

When Zhang Han and the others arrived here, they saw heaven on one side and hell on the other.

Here, as a large buyer of slaves in Xizhou, he was warmly welcomed by the Jin Palace.

Moreover, here he also met a fleet of the Ministry of Internal Affairs transporting gold back to Daming, and the other party invited them to return to Daming together.

If they follow the ship of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they will be able to return to Daming in a month.

But he declined the invitation, wanting to see the country where his grandmother once lived.

He did not forget his original intention, nor did he want to be the savior of the Europeans, but just wanted to do what he could.

From here, they began their journey north, and after a half-month voyage, they finally arrived in Gibraltar.

The chief military officer here is Yang Zhihe, who and his father Yang Dao are both highly valued commanders by the nobles, and Yang Dao is now the governor of Dongzhou.

And Yang Zhihe's wife is the thirty-second princess Yongheng, so after Zhang Han arrived here, he took his sisters to visit Yang Zhihe's family as sons and nephews.

Today, His Majesty has many children, one hundred and forty-nine children, and when it comes to grandchildren, the number is even more numerous.

Most of the princes are married to noble daughters, and most princesses are also nobles. Therefore, the current Ming court, almost as long as it is a little famous, has something to do with the royal family.

Although Zhang Han is the grandson of the emperor, this identity is actually not valued by the real nobles, on the contrary, his grandfather Zhang Wu's title of Duke of Liang and the position of the governor of the South Continent of Dongzhou are more important.

In the Admiral's Palace, he also heard for the first time the news that the white coalition army was defeated and that Tang Sayer and Guo Ang had killed a total of nearly 300,000.

"Three hundred thousand!" Zhang Han was dumbfounded when he heard this, after decades of development, Nanhua City has less than 300,000 people now, but Tang Sai'er and the others killed 300,000 people at one time. "I'm afraid this move will hurt the heavens and ......."

Yang Zhihe shook his head and smiled: "As long as it's not my Ming people, of course, the more people who die, the better." The virtuous nephew is compassionate and hearted, I am afraid that he is the wrong object of sympathy. ”

"Uncle Shi? Aren't white people human? ”

"Of course they are people, but as long as they don't share the same heart with me, they will die innocently. They even wanted to form a coalition to fight against my Da Ming, but I regret that Tang Sanjie didn't be able to kill them all at once. ”

Zhang Han was silent, because he knew very well that there were many generals like Yang Zhihe in the Ming Dynasty, but there were very few people who had compassion for white people like him.

He's the other.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Yang Zhihe reminded him again: "Now the entire north of Europa is wailing, and many small countries hate me to the bone. I have no objection to traveling to Europe, but don't go to the north, otherwise there is no guarantee of safety. ”

Zhang Han also knew that Da Ming had just killed 300,000 people in Europe, and he wanted to look around and hope, but he was afraid that it would not work.

However, in the southern coastal zone, these countries were deterred by the Ming Dynasty and did not participate in the coalition forces, and it was not a big problem to travel in these places.

He nodded, but heard Yang Zhihe say again: "By the way, if you want to travel in Europa, you can go with your uncle." If you're with him, you'll be able to go to most places. ”

"Uncle?"