Chapter 598: The Six-Nation Alliance
Odenbarnwalt has been at the helm of the Netherlands for a long time, but under their system, people are not very keen on power, and only value real money.
Odenbarnvelt's face was not good, and the purpose of this visit was very clear, that is, to unite against the Chinese.
The Chinese cut off all Dutch property in the Far East, which caused him serious losses, knowing that the Dutch East India Company was founded at the suggestion of Odenbarnwalt, and his family was one of the major shareholders.
He himself hated the Hua Dynasty and its emperors, and as the first country to establish diplomatic relations with the Hua Dynasty, the Dutch expressed full sincerity.
But this monarch of the East was so greedy that after squeezing out the skills of the Dutch, he backhanded the Dutch and completely withdrew from the Far East.
In particular, the change of ownership of the Java Islands caused the Dutch to suffer heavy losses, and they lost their spice voices, just as the British lost their opium business in later generations, and the results were disastrous.
Britain, France, and the Netherlands, three great powers with the same relationship, were the first to gather in the Palace of Versailles, and Charles II snorted coldly: "The Spaniards are already as weak as a dying old lady, but they are still so arrogant. ”
Spain had just been defeated by France, had lost its status as a military power on land, and was no longer able to stop France's eastward advance.
Louis XIV smiled and said, "Charlie, I hope you can say that later, give them some color and see." ”
Charles II's face turned red, and he turned his head away from speaking.
After a short while, the Spanish carriage finally came, and Philip IV, who was already in his fifties, had come to Paris, France.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Louis XIV, as the host, brought everyone to the restaurant.
"Today, we are sitting here for one purpose, which is to stop the Chinese from continuing to move westward.
Thanks to this group of Godless savage Orientals, it must be God's will that we Protestants and Catholics alike can sit together for lunch.
As you believe, the Chinese hired a large number of Africans to dig a canal in Egypt. ”
Speaking of this canal, the faces of the people here are different, if this canal is in the hands of any one of them, they can drive their own country to take off here.
Although Philip IV came late, he paid the most attention to this matter, after all, the direct purpose of the Chinese westward march was to destroy them and set up a governor's palace in Madrid.
When this slogan reached the West, the Spaniards laughed at the ignorance of the East, but now they feel the pressure.
Philip IV said slowly: "Charlie, you are an ally with the Chinese, do you have anything to say?" ”
Charles II coughed lightly, rolled his eyes to the left and right, and said: "The Chinese do not have a good relationship with us, they killed our soldiers in the Americas, and they are very arrogant and refuse to apologize. In fact, it was Cromwell's traitor who signed an alliance with the Chinese Dynasty, and he is now long dead. Britain has nothing to do with the Chinese, we will help you. ”
Philip IV snorted dissatisfiedly, and said for a long time that this kid still didn't say that he would send troops, but just wanted to push Spain out to fight, hoping that others would stop the terrible group of Orientals.
Charles II, of course, would not take a position to send troops on his own, and their British island was far from the European continent, and he was happy to watch the battle from afar.
The Netherlands and Spain have been fighting for so long, but this time is the most righteous, because the Dutch are pragmatic and know the Chinese best.
The Chinese army was coming, and this group of people was still here to argue, and Odenbarnwert said dissatisfiedly: "The cannonballs fired by the Chinese ships are not solid balls, but monsters that can explode. Their fire-breathing boats can easily burn down small boats they want to get close to, and their troop carriers can carry hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
Now is not the time to calculate small profits, our disaster is coming, and if we do not unite against this group of madmen, we will lose our land like Tsarist Russia. ”
Tsarist Russia was still in a state of fragmentation, the tsar was unable to recover the vast lands in the east, and the clay legs in the east, after their military victory over the west, themselves were divided because of the uneven distribution of the spoils.
Now Tsarist Russia is full of wars, and it is ridiculous that many forces are fighting each other, but their arms are purchased from the Chinese army on the other side of the Ob River.
Louis XIV was seeking hegemony in Europe for France, and when he heard this, he stood up and said: "I suggest that we should form an alliance and concentrate our armies to deal a fatal blow to the Chinese as they advance westward."
If we can stop the Chinese from moving west, we can even cooperate with the Ottoman Turks. ”
Ottoman Turkey was the Isilan, a group of continental powers, and because of a rising Chinese dynasty, it was even to the point where religious prejudice could be abandoned, which shows their fear.
These people all have a common characteristic, that is, they have all been bullied by the Chinese Dynasty, and even France has been severely beaten by the Chinese in their own colonies.
Ottoman Turkey originally occupied Egypt, and Yao Qisheng did not hesitate to declare war in order to dig a canal, and took away many port cities in Egypt.
Then he gradually encroached on the whole of Egypt, hired all the people, and dug a canal that made God blush. Since the day of its founding, Turkey has been encroaching on other people's land, and now it is being robbed, which is unacceptable to the whole country.
The Ottoman Turks once occupied the trade routes between the East and the West on land, but now they have been destroyed by the Chinese, and they are very jealous of this canal, so they have long intended to grab it with the Chinese.
Several countries have been discussing together for a long time, but they have not come up with a feasible plan, and there are too many cats and conflicts between them, which are difficult to reconcile.
And the threat of the Chinese is not very big now, after all, I have not seen the legendary fierce Chinese sailors, and several countries with their own ghosts have been discussing in Versailles for half a month.
The Grand Duke of the Netherlands had already left his seat in anger and returned home, and now he was replaced by the Dutch Foreign Minister. Charles II wandered around Paris every day, and Philip IV and Louis XIV did their best to plan and reconcile.
One of them is a country that is about to face the Chinese army, and the other is a careerist who wants to achieve a higher status, so he is willing to work hard for this loose alliance.
The turning point came in November, when an Ottoman emissary brought the news that a number of Chinese warships had arrived in Egypt.
In this year, the alliance of the six European powers was formally established, and a treaty of offensive and defensive mutual assistance was signed in Versailles, known as the alliance of six countries.
The six countries were France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Tsarist Russia, and Ottoman Turkey.
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