"You two, forget the pain of the scar, and have the kung fu to worry about me. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Carl's advice is a puddle of! Drives the tiger and eats the wolf, right? He wants to use the threat of the Golden River Empire to eliminate his own troubles. The ploy itself is fine, but you don't look at what kind of tiger you are recruiting. They are now a group of hungry tigers, and when they see that everyone is good, as long as it is not their place, they want to snatch it and turn it into their own merit. ”

"The most terrifying thing is that they not only have this idea, but also this strength. In terms of weapons and equipment, the empire can equip tens of thousands of army forces with firearms in half a year, and this speed will get faster and faster. They do not lack middle and low-level commanders, they only need each colony to send people to the place, and they can go to the battlefield with simple training, and their combat effectiveness is definitely not weak. ”

"Now they just regard the Arabian Peninsula as a commodity export place, and they don't know much about the situation in Europe, and they only think that the Great Song Dynasty is a piece of fat. Now you tell me to go back and tell them that the scenery is beautiful, come on. Think about it with your sea-filled head, after their army has pressed the border, after seeing the land and the population here, can they stop? With just your crusaders, can you stop the Imperial Army armed with muskets and cannons? Even if you exchange a life for a life, you will have to be consumed by the Imperial army. With the small countries around Java, Viet and Malacca, plus the populations of Karamba, Masca and Cape Town, how many troops do you think the empire can mobilize over, and can you change them? ”

"At that time, not only the Arabian Peninsula was an overseas colony of the empire, but Byzantium and the whole of Europe would be the territory of the empire. Your Karl Fort, your son's fiefdom in Tripoli, William's country, all are Imperial. You will be like Lao Wen, give yourself an idle job to play, the governor's hair can't stand it. If the power of the empire is allowed to develop to Europe, then Africa will be gone, such a large empire, do you think we can fight against it with just our small broken alliance? Do you think that the Royal Navy is just as idle as you, and you can stop them by relying on the Atlantic? At that time, the Royal Navy warships will be overwhelming, can you deal with it, or me? ”

Hong Tao seems to be ridiculing Carl's suggestion for being too naïve, but in fact he is criticizing Wen Nan. Karl doesn't understand the attributes of the Jinhe Empire, shouldn't you, the foreign minister, be so optimistic, thinking that just relying on the influence of his own outdated emperor can influence the imperial policy? Not to mention that Hong Jinhe has different political views with himself, even if the father and son join forces with the emperors, it will not play a big role. This set of rules itself does not regard the royal family as the maker and executor of national policy, at most half of the overseer, and does not have such rights and capabilities.

“…… That's not to blame you, who let you break the law like this, torture your own people all day long, you can't do anything, you can't do anything! "Carl is a little too anxious to make Hong Tao rush, it's not right to say it anyway, why!

"You put down my cigarettes and wine, you are my slave, hurry up and get to work!" Hong Tao suddenly stared at the beads and roared.

"Brother Hong...... No, no, no matter how difficult things are, we can discuss, don't hurt your feelings for this matter. Hong Tao's performance not only frightened Carl, but even Wen Nan was frightened, for fear that Hong Tao would be really anxious and Carl would be serious, so he hurriedly spoke out to persuade him.

"If I don't make this set of rules, you, and you, are slaves now! Or rather, slave chiefs. I'm happy, you're my subordinates, and if I'm not happy, you'll have to be beheaded. I'm going to ask you two, do you want to be a slave leader who can control the life and death of others, but you may be beheaded by me every day, or do you want to be a person whose power is controlled and checked, but who can live a carefree life? Hong Tao patted Wen Nan on the shoulder, signaling not to worry, listen to what he said. He wasn't in a hurry, he was just doing a demonstration with Carl, but he was acting too seriously.

“…… So what do you say to do? You can't fight it, and you can't borrow troops, so you just wait for death. You watched me die with William and Jiang Zhuyi! Carl asked Hong Tao to scare and slap him, and he was stunned for a long time before he remembered to return the favor.

"Lao Ka, don't worry, let's not figure out a way together. Even at the worst, Your Majesty will not die without help. Without Karl Fort, you still have Mya Fort, compared to the original, you are already a king, what is there not to be satisfied with? Wen Nan agrees with Hong Tao's explanation, he is a reasonable person, as long as the reason makes sense, no matter how much this person hates himself, he is willing to admit it. What's more, Hong Tao was not hated by him, so he also followed Hong Tao to educate Carl.

"I ...... Yes, I'm the king, I can take William into my country, give him a piece of land, and we'll both be kings! Let Wen Nan say this, Carl seems to realize that Hong Tao has given himself a lot of things.

"I don't care if you divide your kingdom into a hundred, but the alliance only recognizes one king, and the others are illegal......" Hong Tao had to remind Carl that his kingdom was not independent, but part of the alliance. Any approach that is harmful to the future of the alliance will not be supported.

"We'll talk about the alliance later, we haven't been defeated yet, even if we finally escape, we have to fight to know, and whoever loses and who wins is not certain!" When it comes to his own interests, Karl's bloody nature is back, whether he brags or not, anyway, he has the courage to confront the whole of Europe.

"Very well, since you have the courage, then I will fulfill you. Let's go against the whole of Europe once and see who can afford whom! As soon as Carl said this, Hong Tao slapped Carl on the leg, and issued a battle message with pride and categorical determination. It seems that he has really made up his mind to fight a big war with the Europeans.

"Shhh...... Don't, don't! That's what I said, can you not fight or not......" Carl grinned at the pain of being slapped by Hong Tao's slap, but he couldn't care about this pain anymore, if Hong Tao went crazy, his pain would be a fart.

"Brother Hong, do you really want to start a full-scale war with Europe and not save the Great Song Dynasty?" Wen Nan was not worried about Europe, but about the Great Song Dynasty, and he always believed that Hong Tao could save the Great Song Dynasty.

"If the Great Song Dynasty is saved, Europe can't be lost! They're not going to drag it out, okay, then I'll let them drag it out. Old Wen, you're not familiar with this place, let Carl tell you what is going on with the Saracens in the Iberian Peninsula, and you will know what I'm going to do. Faced with Carl and Wen Nan's questions, Hong Tao did not answer directly, but gave the right of interpretation to Carl.

"Oh God! You are going to let the Saracens into the peninsula! That...... That...... Then Europe is finished! Of course, Wen Nan would not understand, he had not been in Europe for two months in total, and he could not figure out who the Saracens were. But Carl instantly understood Hong Tao's method, and his eyes widened, as if he wanted to object, but in the end he leaned back in the chaise longue.

A few minutes later, after listening to Karl's brief account of the protracted war between the Saracens and the Europeans, he also roughly understood what Hong Tao was going to do. This murderous demon king wants to provoke a religious war on the Iberian Peninsula and plunge Europe into a quagmire of war, and in doing so, no fewer people will die than the Jinhe Empire's invasion of the Great Song Dynasty.

If the Jinhe Empire had the right strategy and tactics, defeated the most powerful resistance forces of the Great Song Dynasty in a short period of time, and did not let the scale of the war expand too much, maybe the war would not have ended with too many casualties. But the wars of religion are different, not for the land and the people, but for the faith. This thing is too deep, and it is difficult for one belief to erase another in a short period of time without killing a river of blood.

War is just the beginning, no matter who wins or loses, this deep hatred is added, after a few generations, the invaded country, land, and people may be assimilated, but faith will not, as long as there is an opportunity, it will jump out to make trouble. In particular, there is basically no possibility of reconciling such a religion as Islam and Christianity, which are very exclusive. In other words, once Hong Tao provokes a large-scale religious war, it will affect not only the deaths of dozens, hundreds, or tens of millions of people, but the hatred of hundreds or even thousands of years.

"Brother Hong, if Da Song doesn't save it, he won't save it...... This black cauldron is too big, and after you carry it, several generations of the Hong family may be dragged down. The Great Song Dynasty fell into the hands of the Jinhe Empire, in fact, it was the best choice, as long as you can make the imperial government not be too brutal, you are the benefactor of the Great Song Dynasty, they will remember you for a long time, maybe your great favor will be written in the history books. Don't you often say that the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two outcomes, and it is already obvious which of the two endings is more important. The three of them sat in a half-circle, silent for a full half cigar, before Wen Nan spoke. expressed his final opinion, abandoning the Great Song Dynasty to keep Europe, which is a very rational choice. From the perspective of the Spring Alliance, it is also the choice with the least effort and the greatest profit.

"Indeed, knowing how to make trade-offs is a qualified politician. Unfortunately, I'm not, not before, not now, and I'm not at all about that. Lao Wen, don't look at you as a Song person, but you still don't know much about some things in the Great Song Dynasty. If they could be easily subdued, the Liao, Jin, and Mongolia would have won a long time ago, and it would not be the turn of the Jinhe Empire to fight. The country still has a spirit, weak, but not servile, and very dislikes foreign rule. This is a bit like the character of your literati, who have no power to restrain the chicken, but have a proud backbone, and would rather bend than bend. ”

"Although I have carried out a cultural invasion of the Great Song Dynasty for more than 20 years, I can only affect a few port cities on the southern coast, and I basically can't feel it in the inland. If the battle between the empire and the Great Song Dynasty broke out, there would definitely be no fewer deaths, because when there was absolute military superiority, the imperial army would not be soft on anyone. It's not that they're cold-blooded, it's that I've taught them since they were young to get the maximum benefit at the lowest cost. And they don't see foreigners as human beings at all, which is also influenced by me since I was a child. This situation is caused by me, whoever pulls the shit will wipe the ass, it's fair, I must go back to save Da Song. ”

"Then again, when the wars of religion began, many people died, but what does that have to do with me? I only knew Carl and William in Europe, and whoever died didn't count to me except for their family. Of course, I can start this big war, and of course I can control the scale of it. If I'm correct, this war won't last long, as the Saracens will soon face the threat of the Golden River Empire. The empire lost the goal of the Great Song Dynasty, so it could only choose another place to start, and once the war machine turned, it was ready to be fired. ”

"If you look at the map, you will know that if the Great Song Dynasty can't go, there are only two places to choose, one is the Indian Peninsula and the other is the Arabian Peninsula. If my students weren't too stupid, they would have chosen the Arabian Peninsula. Having control of the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Peninsula is in the bag, and the Arabian Peninsula is also a springboard for entering Africa from the north, killing three birds with one stone, why not? As long as the Arabian Peninsula was threatened by the Empire, the Saracens would no longer have the energy to fight the Europeans, and the preservation of their homeland was the top priority. Without the support of the Arabs in the eastern Mediterranean, relying on the Saracens of North Africa alone, it was a big problem for them to gain a foothold on the peninsula, and the war was naturally over, and the final victory was likely to be won by the European countries. ”

"Here I would like to remind Karl that once this war starts, you must remain neutral and then secretly support the European countries. It's an all-out war of faith, it's no longer a battle for territory, and you can't afford to sell weapons on both sides to make a fortune. The purpose of this was not only for the sake of fame, but once the Saracens withdrew from the peninsula, the military power on the peninsula was very empty. After this war, the Europeans will not have much power left to fully occupy the peninsula, and it is entirely possible that with William's support, you can take all the peninsulas, or at least gnaw the south. Philip's territory was too close to the Arabian Peninsula to be a big problem in the future, especially after all the countries knew that oil was a good thing, and it was impossible to settle that place. Instead of staying in a battle-ridden land, why not let him come back to inherit your kingdom of Karlburg and rule over a purely European country in the Iberian Peninsula? ”

Anyone with a cursory knowledge of the history of world wars who travels back hundreds of years will be a grand strategist. No matter how history changed at that time, he could roughly judge the direction clearly, because many things had already happened in his head, and there was a final answer. Changing a few roles and locations can't change too many results, and it can't be said that taking these results as the truth, and being a reference is also against the sky. Hong Tao is like this now, with his understanding of the development of Europe after the Middle Ages, as well as the rise and fall of the Arab world, he naturally formed a grand strategic direction.

(To be continued.) )