The national strength of the Ming Dynasty has entered its heyday, and the development of armaments, science and technology, and even food and mineral energy reserves have been several times that of previous years.

And today's Western Zhufan is not the Western Zhufan of later generations, and has a contemptuous attitude towards China, and today's Ming Dynasty is still their admiration and non-contemptuous existence in Western Zhufan.

The recent naval battle on Java Island also made them deeply aware that the Ming Dynasty was indeed an unprovoked overlord.

Cromwell, who is bent on banning smoking, also knows that the Ming is an oriental monster that cannot be easily offended, although with the rise of the British Empire's status in Europa, many short-sighted British aristocrats think that the British Empire has the ability to challenge the world hegemony and clamore for the whole country to conquer the Ming Dynasty, and the shame of the defeat in the naval battle of Snow Java Island, but Cromwell, as a clear person, knows what kind of existence the Ming is today.

In the eyes of some Western nobles who are unwilling to admit the fact of defeat, the failure of the combined fleet of the Java Island Naval Battle is often attributed to the lack of strength of the commander of the Franc Aircraft and the reason why many countries cannot form a joint force, and even reprimands the Franc Aircraft Invincible Fleet, which is the main combat mission, has gone into decline to lead to this defeat.

However, Cromwell, who had a certain strategic vision and was later praised in British history as the first person to open his eyes to the East, knew the real reason, and also understood the gap between his British Empire and the Ming Empire in the East.

Therefore, although Cromwell said that Charles I had the will to launch an anti-smoking campaign, he did not directly and arbitrarily arrest and expel all the opium trading companies of the Ming Dynasty.

Cromwell decided to take the form of salute before soldier, and first sent representatives to contact the Meisheng Company and other opium companies run by the Ming private people in Yuanjiao, and informed them to surrender all opium within a month, and to evacuate the British Empire, otherwise all tobacco and soil would be unconditionally confiscated and their subordinates would be punished, and so on.

But the person in charge of the contact was a British ultra-nationalist of Tom, who looked down on the Ming officials and businessmen who looked different from him, so he said arrogantly after seeing Wang Guangting, a hundred households of Jinyi Wei, who represented many opium companies in the British Empire and the local Stuart Dynasty government, and said very arrogantly: "You must hand over the opium within three days, otherwise you fools who don't believe in God will go to hell!" ”

Wang Guangting couldn't help but sneer after hearing this, and ignored the liaison officer named Tom, who was still drinking his tea with a lot of self-cultivation.

And the English liaison officer called Tom wished that these Ming officials and businessmen would ignore him, so he could go back and intensify his provocation in front of Cromwell, and then directly take strong measures.

Here, Wang Guangting didn't want to escalate the situation easily, so he ordered someone to send a note to Prince Edward of England, hoping that the royal nobleman who had a close relationship with the Meisheng company could mediate and persuade the English king Charles I to change his mind, but Prince Edward replied that these things were personally approved by Charles I, and it was when the king was rising, and he, a royal nobleman, could not stop it.

Wang Guangting had no choice but to give up, and at the same time ordered someone to bring the news back to China, England was quite tough on the smoking ban, and implored His Majesty to send a navy to Europa to protect its merchants.

In fact, there is no need for Wang Guangting's resonance of traveling across the ocean, because considering that the distance between Europe and Asia is far away, the intelligence information is much unchanged, and the Meisheng Company has been given a certain amount of armed force, Zhu Youxiao has ordered the Ming Ocean Fleet and carried the envoy Li Dingguo to lead the officers and men of a brigade of the former First Army of the First Army that is now under the jurisdiction of the Inner Factory, and they have already left the Cape of Good Hope and are about to enter the Mediterranean, but the Western Zhufan does not dare to stop them.

This naval and land army is now nominally only an armed force hired by the Meisheng Company, so it is not a regular army of the Ming Dynasty, and it does not act on behalf of the country, so it does not fly the national flag, wears military uniforms, and is still the clothing of the inner factory, so it does not arouse the vigilance of the colonial companies in the Western colonies along the way, nor does it arouse the vigilance of the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, this is also an extremely ironic thing, the inner factory is almost the vanguard of anti-drug and anti-smoking in China, but as soon as it leaves Daming, it has become the mainstay of protecting the opium trade and defending Daming drug dealers.

Zhu Youxiao not only sent military forces to the Atlantic Ocean in the name of the Meisheng Company, but also asked Wen Tiren, a scholar of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to personally rush to the Ottoman Empire with several interpreters who had graduated from the Foreign Affairs School and brought a lot of money along the way, hoping to obtain the lease right along the Suez Canal by way of purchase, of course, if the Ottoman Empire was unwilling, it could only forcibly occupy the area around the Suez Canal that had not yet been dug by force.

Today, the Ottoman Empire can be regarded as a super-empire across Europe and Asia, but it is a relatively conservative monarchy and dictatorship, which has no intention of pursuing a global strategy, and therefore does not realize the great value of the construction of the Suez Canal for the global maritime cause.

On the contrary, if the Ming wants to enter the Atlantic, especially the Europa market, if there is the Suez Canal, the voyage will be greatly shortened, and the cost of long-distance ocean transportation will be reduced in terms of economy and trade, and militarily speaking, once the Ming wants to launch a war against Europa, the Ming can open up the gateway to attack Europa more quickly, and shorten the process of transporting troops, unlike now, you can only bypass the Cape of Good Hope, almost a big circle to enter the Atlantic Ocean.

It is precisely because of this that the logistical supply problem must be taken into account, so that the Ming can only send a small number of military forces, and it is not yet possible to attack Europa on a large scale and destroy its country.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao can also attack by land, but there are still countless countries in the Western Regions that have to be opened up on the land, and it is not that the Ming Dynasty cannot sweep the Western Regions, but the military cost is not low, and it cannot turn all countries into enemies.

And if the Suez Canal is opened, it will be different, Daming can directly enter the Mediterranean Sea in the Red Sea, and can quickly approach the Franco, and if the land Eurasian communication line is opened up, it can also advance by sea and land, it is precisely because of the huge strategic significance that Zhu Youxiao placed high hopes on Wen Tiren, and he even asked Wen Tiren that no matter what the Ottomans wanted, Dou could agree, as long as the Suez Isthmus area was permanently leased to Daming.