Even if Li You repeatedly explained that the war game deduction was not a magic skill of divination, it was not the same for the officials and officials of the Governor's Mansion who were present.

In this era, even the so-called generals can only learn from childhood the art of fighting in battle formations and some explanations of battle examples. And even these self-cherished learnings have become obsolete due to the lack of communication and the changes adapted to the situation of war. Not to mention the pirate-turned-generals in the Governor's Mansion at the moment, who are basically fighting with bravery and intuition.

For this kind of generalization of the battle situation from the perspective of the overall situation, many people here are unheard of. But these generals who survived the actual battle are quite sensitive to such a general situation. It's like fighting a war in the past, and the vague victory or defeat is now suddenly enlightened, so that many nimble generals begin to realize how they won or lost in the past.

In addition, the wargame deduction also brought another effect, that is, the generals cleared a trace of the fog shrouded in the battle situation, and vaguely glimpsed the development and changes of the war situation, which was unimaginable for them in the past.

After all, all their combat plans in the past were completely based on their own imagination of the enemy army and based on their own subjective judgment of the enemy's actions. It's like playing Go with two players, no matter how good your Go skills and calculation skills are, your opponent will still be able to make moves that you didn't expect.

In wargames, your opponent is no longer your imaginary enemy, but an objective enemy built on the basis of intelligence gathering, although this hypothetical enemy judgment may not be the same as reality, but at least it is much more objective and real than your own subjective imagination.

What's more, wargames no longer include the enemy's reactions, but even the influence that allies and neutrals' attitudes can exert on the outcome of the battle.

Therefore, after deducing a small half of the changes in the battle situation, the Wenchen generals who observed it no longer thought about how different this game was from reality, but how they should make choices in this situation.

Due to the lack of sufficient information, Li You originally planned to spend most of the day deducing the changes in the Goa incident, and then discuss with the officials of the Governor's Office present that the Governor's Office would have several opinions on the Goa incident.

However, with the enthusiasm of the governor's palace to explore the principles of wargame deduction, this wargame deduction lasted from morning to midnight. The king of Tang also ordered the officers who deduced not to erase the calculations on the blackboards, and ordered the servants in the official residence to find a large number of blackboards for these officers to use. So at the end of the deduction, the corner of the room, which was originally quite empty, was already full of blackboards full of numbers.

Because the process of the deduction took longer than expected, the review meeting after the deduction was postponed to the next day. After Li Kuiqi, who was drowsy by a large number of numbers, walked out of the governor's mansion, he stood on the steps and glanced at the twinkling stars in the sky, and it happened that a cool night breeze blew through the square in front of the mansion, and he suddenly sighed as if he was a little sober: "Grandma, will you even rely on your brain to fight in the future?" Liu Laoxiang, what are you doing so fast, why don't you have a drink together and then go back. ”

"No, I have to get up early tomorrow, let's drink it next time." Liu Xiang, who had already walked more than a dozen steps, didn't even look back, just dropped a sentence angrily, and walked towards the exit of the square with a few subordinates, without the enthusiasm that he had with Li Kuiqi in the morning.

It wasn't until Liu Xiang got on the rickshaw waiting at the exit of the square that he said to the master of writing beside him: "Write a letter to the Saigon family and ask them to move back to Hong Kong... No, let's go to Guangzhou. By the way, send a few children to school, don't go to any private school, go to a new school, the kind that teaches math..."

In the conference room after everyone dispersed, Tang Wang and the two cronies and civil officials around him were still looking at the calculation process left on the blackboard. Su Guansheng looked at the blackboard and couldn't help but praise from the bottom of his heart: "Your Majesty's talent is really from God." ”

Gu Yan nodded in agreement, but couldn't help but say: "With these algorithms, we finally don't have to make every strategy like a gamble, and we can also make those soldiers believe that the development of things is in our hands, as long as they follow the strategy of the Governor's Palace." ”

Tang Wang and Su Guansheng also bowed slightly to Gu Yan's statement, and Tang Wang further thought that with this war game deduction, he could ease the relationship between the civil and military officials under his command a little. There is no longer a need to look at the position first when encountering things as before, civil officials stand for civil officials, and military ministers stand for military ministers, and in the end, the council of the governor's palace always becomes a civil and military dispute, or a chaotic fight between officials of the Zhao'an faction and officials of the establishment faction.

The two years of his overseas tenure were two years when Tang Wang was tormented by the infighting between these officials under him. He sometimes thinks that the Son of Heaven in Beijing is really not easy, so many people under his command have to fight to the death, and there are not many officials and factions under the Son of Heaven, but they can still maintain a stable and united situation, and the Son of Heaven probably has spent a lot of effort.

Regardless of how many people could not sleep due to the war games on this day, and how many people opened the door to a new world, at the review meeting on the second day, the civil and military attaches of the Governor's Mansion became rare and rational, and discussed for a long time whether to interfere in the political situation in Goa.

With yesterday's war games, everyone has abandoned the option of interfering in Goa's political situation with a tough attitude, even at the cost of triggering a conflict with the Dutch.

At the same time, everyone also understood that it is actually quite undesirable to directly and publicly renounce interference in the political situation in Goa. This is likely to make other powers, including the Dutch, aware of the weakness of the Ming in the Indian Ocean, and thus spur other parties to further challenge the Ming interests in the Indian Ocean.

As former pirates such as Li Kuiqi and Liu Xiang said, even if the Ming Dynasty did nothing to interfere in the political situation in Goa, it was necessary to let others know that the affairs of the Indian Ocean could not be bypassed by the Governor's Palace. It's like a young tiger that can't hunt an adult wolf or bull should let out its own roar to show whose territory the forest is. Cowardice and retreat will only allow wolves and bulls to destroy the mountains and forests with impunity, thus depriving the tiger cubs of their living space.

How to make the Dutch peacefully accept the measures of the Ming Dynasty to interfere in the political situation in Goa, Gu Yan and Li You both put forward a proposition. The former thought that the situation on the Indian continent was actually like that of the Warring States, and that the most powerful country on the continent was the Mughal Empire, and that all forces, including the Ming Dynasty, could be regarded as the six Kwantung states.

Compared with the territory and interests of the Indian mainland held by the Portuguese, it was far from comparable to the territory and wealth of the Mughal Empire. Therefore, if the Ming wants to interfere in the situation in Goa, it is better to condone. That is, the Dutch, British, Portuguese, and princely states of South India were united against the Mughal Empire, and once the situation was achieved, the Dutch could no longer prevent the Ming from helping the Restoration Committee in Goa to settle the internal strife.

As for the latter, it was proposed that it would be better to unite with the Netherlands and Britain to carry out common colonization activities on the Indian mainland. The mainland colonies of India occupied by various countries implemented a policy of open doors and equal interests, allowing the Portuguese to give some of the colonies to the Dutch and the British, while placing other colonies under the protection of the Ming Dynasty, so that the threat of external forces in Goa could be resolved first, so that they could concentrate on dealing with Goa's internal problems.

Whether it is a policy of convergence or an open door, the content is much the same, but for the civil and military officials of the Governor's Palace, this is the closest they have reached in this time.

With this foundation, the Tang king finally made the decision without hesitation, that is, to seek a coalition with the Dutch and the British, and then decide how to intervene in Goa's internal problems. Just as the Tang King was selecting personnel to contact the British and Dutch, Li You proposed to him again.

"There are some eyebrows on how to deal with Goa's external forces, but we still know too little about what the situation is in Goa. Even the news that the Restoration Committee had brought back from Goa was old news 10 days ago.

Therefore, the Lower Officials hope to be able to go to Goa with some personnel, and before the Governor's Palace has finished its negotiations with the Dutch and the British, he will first go to know the internal situation in Goa, and if there are any new changes, he will have time to send someone back to inform him, lest the Governor's Palace have lost the opportunity to interfere in Goa's internal affairs after completing the negotiations..."

King Tang only thought for a moment, then agreed to Li You's request, and let a Ming merchant ship carry Li You and some selected midshipmen to Goa, more than 2,000 miles away. The voyage was a smooth one, and in just seven days, they saw the lush vegetation of Isla Isla and the estuary of the North Emandube River, and of course the Dutch warships cruising nearby.

The city of Goa is located in the northeastern part of the island of Iaz, where the Portuguese built many Portuguese buildings, including churches, monasteries, palaces, public squares, fortress castles and other European-style buildings. When Li You stood on the pier, he felt that it was more like Europe than Colombo, and he couldn't even see a bit of the Indian continent.

However, the outbreak of war with the Dutch had almost destroyed the first trading city where the Portuguese had settled in India, and the wharves were crowded with Portuguese merchant ships that could not leave, and the square in front of the wharf was empty, and there were no outsiders to be seen except for those who had just arrived.

Even the brokers, who were hiding under the pergola on one side of the square, saw them coming, and only one or two people walked over to them and accosted them a few words, and after hearing that there was neither food nor ammunition on board, except for one who had left, the others quickly turned around and walked back.

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