Tabora followed Zheng Zhilong to Jingshi, and he had been waiting to meet Zhu Youzhen, but Zhu Youzhen did not intend to summon him immediately.

Because of the suddenness of the incident and the fact that Spain was the first country to rise in Europe, Zhu Youzhen had to be cautious, he had to come up with a complete set of policies towards the West first, and then summon Tabora.

The West now represents the most advanced scientific and technological and military level in the world today, and the appropriate political system in the future was also born in the West, with the current strength of the Ming Dynasty, if it relies on its huge size, it can barely compete with them, in case of war, if the place of war is in the inland of the Ming Dynasty, or near the sea, there is still a certain certainty of victory.

If the place of the war is in the West, or in a neutral area far away from the Ming Dynasty, no one can predict the direction of the war, Zhu Youzhen estimates, even if the war can be won, it will be a tragic victory, not only the national strength of the Ming Dynasty will be damaged, the ongoing reform may be forced to interrupt, and the Ming Dynasty's dominance over the frontier will also decline, and if these regions are not good, there will be independence, so Zhu Youzhen believes that for the time being, he cannot become enemies with all Western countries.

It is necessary to take different countermeasures against different Western countries and make full use of the contradictions between them.

Some countries must suppress, some countries can form alliances, and some countries must coexist peacefully, unite the weak and suppress the strong, and strike at countries with outstanding ambitions.

According to the experience of later generations, among the Western countries, in addition to Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands, which have already entered the South Seas, there will also be Britain, France, Germany, and Russia in the future.

Portugal and Spain, is already Wang Xiaoer's New Year, a year is not as good as a year, can no longer turn over any big waves, although the shipbuilding industry and commerce in the Netherlands are developed, but the territory is too small, lack of development stamina, destined to be just a flash of inspiration.

Germany has not yet completed the reunification of the country, and is still surviving in the cracks of other countries for the time being, and is also facing an unfavorable geopolitical situation, it has a powerful Poland in the east, a more powerful Russia in the future, France in the southwest, and a powerful British navy on the northern coast, no matter when, it will face the threat of Britain, France, Poland (or Russia) from three sides, and it will be difficult to get out of the encirclement for a while ◎∮dǐng ◎∮diǎn ◎ ∮ small ◎ ∮ said, .2 △ 3.o ■ s_ (); Prominently, there will be no intersection with Daming for the time being.

Although Russia is not as developed as the Western European countries, the Russian state is still martial, their blood is full of aggression and expansion factors, and they occupy the grain producing areas of the Eastern European Plain, some like the nomads outside the Guan, but they have entered the agricultural era, and they are more difficult to deal with than the nomads.

In the process of France's rise, it is later than Britain, and it has always been contained by Britain, and it is difficult to develop into a superpower in the true sense, unless Zhu Youzhen can remove the threat and suppression of Britain for France.

However, Britain, with the advantage of the island, it is easy to embark on the road of development, in, they can integrate the European continent, retreat, can retract the island, preserve their own vitality, although the current Britain has not invaded the east, but they are also feathering, the bourgeois revolution # life and industrial revolution # life, it is from the United Kingdom, they will soon shine in the world, and gradually form an empire on which the sun never sets.

After analyzing Western countries, Zhu Youzhen began to formulate national policies for Western countries.

Of the three current Western powers, it is allied with Portugal and friendly with Spain, while the target of the attack is the emerging Netherlands.

Portugal was in sharp decline, and the Ming wanted to slow its decline and use Portugal to contain the Netherlands.

After the decline of Spain, its interest in the East has completely turned to the Americas, and it has lost the Southern Ryukyu Islands, and they no longer have a large base in the East, only a trade route left, and there is no capital and interest in colliding with the Ming Dynasty.

Among the three current Western countries, the Netherlands has the greatest ambition and the most powerful country to collide with the Ming Dynasty, but the Netherlands' land and population are strictly insufficient, and its own foundation is thin.

This is just Zhu Youzhen's wishful thinking, whether the three Western countries can maintain relations with the Ming Dynasty as Zhu Youzhen expects, and the South China Sea Fleet needs to make contributions, and without absolute strength, there will be no absolute right to speak.

For example, the Ming Dynasty is preparing to form an alliance with Portugal, and the two sides are not completely equal allies, but with the Ming Dynasty as the core, Portugal has become the core member of the Ming interest group, and Spain is a peripheral friend.

The Ming Dynasty must demonstrate its absolute strength to the Three Western Kingdoms, as well as its determination to use it.

Including Portugal, the Ming Dynasty must first complete a round of reshuffle in the South Seas, and then re-establish a new order, and then become the dominant country in the South Seas.

For Britain, France, and Russia in the future, Zhu Youzhen also established strategic goals as early as possible, won over France and even developed it into an ally, and then relied on the strength of Portugal, Spain, and France to contain Britain and limit Britain's ambition of expansion in the East.

Britain and Russia must resolutely crack down.

However, the national conditions and geopolitical and international relations between Britain and Russia are different, and the means of suppression are also different.

For Britain, on the one hand, the power of Portugal, Spain, and France was used to contain Britain in Europe, so that Britain had a sense of insecurity at home, and prevented Britain from investing a large number of navies overseas; On the other hand, from the area of Malacca and Ceylon, cut off or restrict the British trade routes to the East, and prevent the British from accumulating wealth and completing the original capital accumulation in the Oriental trade.

In addition, if there is an opportunity, it is necessary to strike at the British colonies in the Americas, in case Britain is blocked in the East, and then invest all its remaining forces in the Americas, and then dominate the Americas.

As for Russia, because it is far away from Western Europe, it is difficult to contain the countries of Western Europe, and Russia and Daming have land passages, and Daming mainly uses its own forces to limit Russia to the west of the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea, so that Russia can develop its domestic energy in two directions: west and south.

Russia has strong enemies in the west and south, the unshakable Ottoman Empire in the south, and Poland and Sweden in the west, both of which can be called Russia's opponents.

If the Ming Dynasty can smoothly block Russia to the west of the Ural Mountains, with the character of the Russians who like to expand, they will inevitably fight to the death with strong enemies in the west and south, and the Ming Dynasty will have enough time to complete the feathering, and then lay out in the world.

Zhu Youzhen finally summoned Tabora.

"See Majesty." Tabora touched her chest with her right hand and bowed slightly, practicing Catholic etiquette.

This kind of etiquette, Zhu Youzhen has seen on TV, he did not ask Tabora to bow down, Tabora is not his subject, besides, Zhu Youzhen is also ready to abolish the bow in China.

"Your Excellency the Governor, you haven't been wronged these days, have you?" For Tabora, Zhu Youzhen was quite kind.

"No, no, thank you for your concern." Hearing the words from the translator, Tabora was full of joy, it turned out that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was so kind that he looked like a polite European, it seemed that there was hope for the two sides to sign a peace treaty, and if he could return to Madrid with a peace treaty, the responsibility for losing the Southern Ryukyu Islands would be much smaller, at least he would ensure Spain's commercial interests in the East.

"Your Excellency the Governor, can you tell me about the current state of affairs in Spain? There are other countries in Europe. Zhu Youzhen seemed to be meeting an old friend, and did not despise this key figure in the slightest because Tabora was a prisoner of war.

"Your Majesty, the current king of Spain is Felipe IV...... Tabora began with Spain and gave a brief introduction to the other major countries in Europe.

However, Zhu Youzhen noticed that when Tabora introduced Britain and the Netherlands, there was obviously a wave of envy, jealousy, and hatred in his eyes, although it was only for a short moment, it was still captured by Zhu Youzhen from Taborah's cloudy and distracted blue pupils, and Zhu Youzhen was overjoyed.

"Your Excellency the Governor, what are the advantages of Europe compared to the Ming Dynasty? What are the disadvantages? ”

"Your Majesty, Daming is really too big," Tabora went north by sea and landed at Dagu Port in Tianjin Prefecture, but did not see the true face of Daming, "Daming's cement road is wide and flat, and there is no such road in Europe." ”

"Haha," Zhu Youzhen said in his heart, it is strange that Europe has such a path, "Your Excellency the Governor, there are many things in Spain that are worth learning from the Ming Dynasty, but we don't know for the time being." ”

"Your Majesty, if Da Ming cooperates with Spain, we will have the opportunity to learn from each other's strengths." Tabora couldn't wait, he had a desire to cooperate, but Zhu Youzhen was only showing his interest in Spain and Europe, and he already felt that Zhu Youzhen's interest was not in Spain, but in the whole of Europe.

"Your Excellency the Governor, how can we work together?" Zhu Youzhen kicked the ball to Tabora first, he was only ready to cooperate with Spain, as for how to cooperate, he did not have a detailed plan.

"Trade, Spain used white flowers to buy the goods of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming sold the goods in his hands and earned the silver, and Spain got the goods of the Ming Dynasty, which is a cooperation acceptable to both parties and beneficial to both sides."

"Your Excellency the Governor is right, this is indeed a win-win cooperation," Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly, "but I don't understand, where is the place where the two sides deliver the goods?" Also, doesn't Spain have goods that are eye-catching? ”

"陛xià, the place of delivery diǎn of course in Daming, Spain has a large number of sea vessels that can transport these goods back to Spain." Tabora said in his heart, don't deliver goods in Spain, once the merchants of the Ming Dynasty know the huge profit of the goods, they will definitely increase the price, maybe they will use merchant ships to send the goods to Spain.

"There is no shortage of ships in Daming, and we can also send goods to Spain, and we can also sell them to other countries in Europe." Zhu Youzhen was still calm and breezy, and seemed to be tasting Spanish red wine with Tabora at the bar, while talking about the cooperation between the two sides.

"Your Majesty xià ......" Tabora was shocked, if the merchants of the Ming Dynasty traveled to Europe, then Spain lost the priority in the cooperation with the Ming Dynasty, there was only one Ming Dynasty, and there were many countries in Europe, "from the Ming Dynasty to Europe, not only separated by tens of thousands of miles, but also pirates, Dutch ships along the way, ......"