By the time Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Sichang and others arrived at the Gu Family Garden in Lushan, it was already late afternoon, and it was the time when the scorching sun was in the sky.

Fortunately, it was still very cool on the top of this Lu Mountain, and when Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang saw Zhu Youxiao in person, Zhu Youxiao, who was lying on the rocking chair, even covered it with a summer quilt.

"All here?" Zhu Youxiao squinted his eyes and asked, after staying in Lushan for a few days, he always thought about how to seize the treasure land of Europa, and how to go to Versailles to set a fire.

But the composure he had cultivated over the years had made his desires unpleasant.

Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang replied in unison: "It's all here." ”

"Then let's start", Zhu Youxiao straightened up directly from the rocking chair, put his legs on the ground, and jumped up directly.

Seeing that Zhu Youxiao's personal attendant Liu Ru was not there, Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly supported Zhu Youxiao, and Yang Sichang also ran over tremblingly and supported Zhu Youxiao's other arm: "Your Majesty, be careful." ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and walked towards the auditorium with the help of these two old guys who were much older than himself, along the way the green trees were like shade, the tall banyan trees almost blocked half of the dome, and the yellow leaves that fell from time to time fell on the road.

The road surface is the newly popularized asphalt road, which was originally only used for the national road of the Ming Dynasty, but because it is a concentration of magnates on this Lushan Mountain, asphalt roads are also used in this area.

Zhu Youxiao stepped on it only to feel soft and very steady, and under the green background of the brocade, it became more and more green like the stream of the new tent in March, which flowed directly to the root of the stone wall in front.

"Wen Weak, I remember that you are a Jinshi in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, right?"

Zhu Youxiao asked Yang Sichang, and the old man, who had already passed the age of ancient scarcity, staggered slightly and bowed to Zhu Youxiao: "Back to Your Majesty, the old minister is Gui who has been folded in the thirty and eighth years of the Chinese New Year's Eve. ”

"You are also an old minister of the Three Dynasties, Jiandou is the second year of the Apocalypse, and you have been an official for forty years, and the time is like smoke, it is not easy."

Zhu Youxiao continued to walk forward as he spoke, secretly thinking that if it hadn't changed the direction of the entire Ming Dynasty in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, these two people would not have today, Lu Xiangsheng would have died under the iron hooves of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Yang Sichang's strategy of opening the net on four fronts and six corners and ten sides would have completely failed, and he himself would have committed suicide and martyrdom.

In this world, the two have become their right-hand men, and directly expanded their territory to Siberia to Australia to the Caspian Sea coast.

Due to the difference of the emperor, the life trajectory of the minister has also changed.

When they arrived at the auditorium, the other important members of the military department had already sat down, and when Zhu Youxiao, Lu Xiangsheng, and Yang Sichang came, everyone stood up and saluted. ”

The ministers settled down and sat down, Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang served Zhu Youxiao and sat down at the top before they did themselves in the top position on the left and right, Lu Xiangsheng was on the left, and Yang Sichang was on the right.

"Europa, is the only region other than the Ottoman Empire that can now have a certain challenge to the unification of the world of our Ming Dynasty, and it is also the largest market at present, the richest place, but because of cultural differences and some regimes and churches in Europa deliberately resisted, so that our trade in Europa has not been fully opened, and in order to achieve the goal of the Ming Dynasty to dominate the world, this Europa must be conquered, and this will be included in the rule of my Ming Dynasty, so as to truly make this Europa our consumer market, Taxation will become the real income of my Ming court, otherwise no matter how developed Europa's commerce and trade are, it will also make a wedding dress for the countries of Europa, which will promote the development of other countries. ”

Yang Sichang personally briefed Zhu Youxiao and other military officials and senior generals on the necessity of conquering Europa.

In fact, everyone knows this, in the development of the empire to this day, basically no one is unwilling to expand the empire's territory, not to mention that the hawks in their military system, their interests lie in how much they can achieve on the battlefield.

Therefore, without waiting for Yang Sichang's detailed analysis, he unanimously passed the decision to destroy Europa.

Then the next step is to discuss how to play Europa.

Since the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty has never encountered any decent strong enemies, and basically every battle must be won, so although the soldiers are a little arrogant, they have never had any fear of the West.

Even when Lu Xiangsheng talked about the general situation of Europa, he did not pay much attention to the strength of the so-called Franc Invincible Armada and the red-haired ghosts.

"Now we have more than 1.2 million regular troops in the Ming Dynasty, of which more than 300,000 are deployed on the local border and important strategic places, more than 200,000 are in the Indochina Peninsula, and more than 400,000 Chen soldiers are confronting the Ottoman Empire and the Rakshasa army in the Caspian Sea area, that is to say, there are only more than 200,000 land forces that can be mobilized at present, and among the five fleets of the navy, in addition to the South China Sea Fleet, which is responsible for maintaining law and order in the South China Sea, the North Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the ocean-going four fleets, a total of more than 400,000 troops, can enter the Europa region from the Suez region and fight with Franco, the Netherlands, naval battles in France and other countries;

In other words, once the war for the conquest of Europa began, we would now only be able to mobilize about 600,000 troops, plus some of the newly formed air and artillery units, totaling about 700,000; Fortunately, the countries of Europa are already better at water warfare than land warfare, and now the majority of the armies that we can mobilize are the navy, so it is just right. “

After Lu Xiangsheng analyzed word by word, Zhu Youxiao asked the opinions of other military officers, and finally said: "Europa is going to fight, but the strength of the Europa countries is not weak, and the depth of defense is not weak, if we attack rashly, we are afraid that there will be a situation of vain, in my opinion, it is better to fight Italy first, this Italian Holy See is now the name of the entire Europa, Europa is different from my Ming, its Holy See is above the country, if I attack Europa in the future, If Europa wants to unite against my Ming, the most capable organizer must be the Pope, so we might as well capture the thief and capture the king first, once the Holy See is destroyed, it is equivalent to killing the opportunity for Western countries to unite against my Ming, what do you think? ”

As soon as they heard Zhu Youxiao say this, the officials of Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang hurriedly called His Majesty wise.

And Zhu Youxiao just smiled, because in fact, no matter how big it is, Europa will lose, and in the face of absolute strength, any strategy and tactics are vain, and now Zhu Youxiao wants to fight the Holy See first just to shorten the time to conquer Europa as much as possible.