To the east of Malacca, there is still a European colony called Luzon, and Yang Feng certainly cannot continue to tolerate the eye-catching cross erected under his nose. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

What's more, the Spanish governor of Luzon has declared allegiance to Archduke Charles of the Habsburgs, that is, the Spanish king supported by the anti-French alliance, so there is no need to worry about the blockade of the British navy, so Luzon's spices are constantly being shipped to Europe, which is also intolerable to Yang Feng, he has controlled almost the entire source of the spice trade, and of course will not allow this only one to be out of his control.

Now the spice trade on the islands of the South Seas is a source of wealth for many Ming merchants.

The Nanyang Economic and Strategic Embassy issued spice purchase licenses, merchants without a license were prohibited from purchasing spices on the islands of the Nanyang, and those who dared to trade illegally were arrested and exiled to Jinzhou, and this license was not allowed to be issued to merchants other than the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the British East India Company or merchant ships from other countries, they had to buy from these Ming merchants who held licenses, and the main strongholds of the Ming army such as Coconut City, Surabaya, Old Port, Malacca, etc. were also legal spice trading markets, and dared to trade outside these markets. Then just wait for the cannons of the Ming battleships!

This system not only guaranteed the income of the Ming merchants, but also the tax revenue of the Ming Empire government.

And it's not just spices.

The same goes for coffee, cane sugar, tobacco, etc.

Uh, this tobacco ......

Well, this tobacco actually contains a lot of things, just like later generations of British businessmen always like to call something tobacco, at this time the merchants of the Ming Dynasty also like to call something tobacco, or one of the tobacco, this kind of thing in the Ming Dynasty who dares to smoke a word......

Kill!

But it can be grown on the land of the subject land and then exported, in fact, this thing is very popular among feudal monarchs in the Middle East and even Africa, including the small sultans in the Ming colonies.

And these things, the Spaniards also cultivated in Luzon.

Therefore, whether it is emotionally or practically, Yang Feng will not allow the Spaniards to continue to control the Luzon Islands, but Louis XIV's nephew, Philip, Duke of Anjou, is also the king of Spain, and for the sake of his friendship with Louis, he still feels obliged to speak to the latter. Of course, it was just a statement, anyway, Louis promised whether to agree to Luzon or not was in his pocket, he actually told Louis XIV that if he wanted to ensure the friendship between the two sides, then he would completely withdraw from the East and concentrate on grabbing colonies on both sides of the Atlantic with the British, otherwise it would be difficult for the two sides to maintain a long-term friendship.

"Your Majesty, since the governor of Luzon does not recognize His Majesty Philip V, we are not obliged to provide him with protection."

DeVille said.

Louis XIV has been mentally prepared for this, Yang Feng has been rushing to dominate the East all these years, whether it is the war with the Netherlands or the conflict with Britain, it is just to compete for the hegemony of this region, and Luzon is naturally no exception, it can be said that Yang Feng will attack Luzon sooner or later, Louis XIV is not interested in offending the only ally who may help him win the war for a colony that does not necessarily belong to him, in fact, Philip V has long been driven out of Madrid at this time.

Although Luzon is a good place, whether it is Africa or the Americas, there are many good places to go, as long as Yang Feng can get the support of new weapons, it is a big deal for him to recover this loss from the British.

"I just like your pragmatic spirit."

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

That's it.

As for the arms for Louis XIV, this is very simple, now the Ming Dynasty's longitudinal steam merchant ships have begun to be put into use in large quantities, these fast merchant ships can basically get rid of the dependence on the monsoon, especially the establishment of a series of supply stations from the Ming Dynasty to Colombo, which has solved the problem of coal supply. With the exception of a section across the Arabian Sea, the vast majority of the voyages could be carried entirely by steam engines, and the duration of the voyage was greatly shortened, and the Middle East route, which used to take a round trip once a year at the earliest, was now shortened to five months at the earliest.

If Louis XIV was able to evade the interception of the British warships, it is estimated that he would be able to receive the arms in six months at most.

The first batch of ammunition finally determined by Deville was a hundred 20-pounder cast steel rifled guns, and it was not a monkey version, it was the same genuine version as used by the Ming army, which meant that the range exceeded that used by the British, and there were also 20,000 rifled musket guns, the British were old-fashioned flintlock guns, as for the shells and bullets, needless to say. There are also 20,000 white phosphorus shells, which are mainly prepared for the French naval warships, all of which are thirty-two pounds, that is, the twenty-four catties of naval guns of the Ming Dynasty, and in order to use these shells, Deville also purchased an additional twenty rifled naval guns.

The arms were to be transported to the port of Suez by the Ming merchant ships along with him.

He then returned to France alone.

After meeting Louis XIV and getting the payment, he returned and paid the money to the Ming merchant ships waiting in Suez Port, as for how he bought Mamluk to send these things to Alexandria, and then how to transport them from Alexandria to France, this is none of Yang Feng's business, anyway, he received the payment and finished his life.

In fact, if they had acted quickly, the British would not have known about it.

For example, Deville immediately went south, and at the same time sent a telegram to Changkook to load all the goods onto the ship and wait, and Deville sailed as fast as he could as soon as he arrived, which was estimated to be two months away from the port of Suez. And even if the British knew the news of the Ming Dynasty's arms sales to France, they could only report to Bombay through their own merchant ships, and the actual speed of the sailing ships was only four or five knots, and the Ming merchant ships had arrived in Suez, and their news had probably not yet been delivered to Mumbai, and it would take a month for Deville to return to Paris......

Provided, of course, that he was not caught by the British battleship.

It is estimated that he returned from Paris, and the two sides completed the deal, and the British had just arrived at the port of Suez, and it was not necessarily possible, because the Ottomans forbade European merchant ships from entering the Red Sea on the grounds of preventing disturbance of the Holy Land, so the British had to take some trouble to convey the news to Europe in time.

In short, this is what Louie needs to have a headache.

"Earl, you need to go to Changguo immediately."

Yang Feng said to Deville.

The latter also understood that speed was his most important weapon, and then left in a hurry after saluting Yang Feng, and took a train directly to Tianjin Port to board a Ming army communication ship and head south.

Looking at his departing back, Yang Feng showed a hint of a smile.

The little lion of the Swedes has already embarked on his journey, half a year ago Charles XII led 50,000 Swedish troops, with a full set of Ming rifled guns and rifled guns, has begun to move south from Lithuania, all the way to the ground. He had planned to attack Moscow directly to the east, but Peter I was fortified, and the cold winter and lack of supplies forced him to go south, hoping to get the help of the Cossacks in Ukraine. And it was true that there was a Cossack leader under his command, but unfortunately they were stopped in Poltava, and when Peter gathered up his superior forces, he was finally defeated in the decisive battle of Poltava.

Completely annihilated, Charles XII had to flee south to the territory of the Ottomans, and the battle eventually laid the foundation for the hegemony of the Russian Empire.

I don't know what the outcome will be this time.

In fact, the anti-French alliance gave up the Spanish throne because Joseph I of the Habsburg family died of a sudden illness, and his younger brother, Archduke Charles, a contender for the Spanish throne, inherited the thrones of Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and the throne of the Holy Lorio. If he won the Spanish throne again, it would be a rejection of the tiger at the front door for England and the Netherlands, so he turned to Philip no longer against Philip when Louis XIV promised France and Spain never to merge and surrender large tracts of land. Although Louis XIV achieved part of his goal, the war destroyed France, not only lost two million people but also almost exhausted its financial resources, ending Louis XIV's hegemony on the land of Western Europe, and France has been in dire condition ever since, until the Anglo-French global war, especially the selfless aid to the United States, brought the Bourbon royal family to the brink of bankruptcy, and then ended the Bourbon dynasty in a *** game.

And the starting point of the fall of the Bourbon dynasty was this war for the Spanish throne.

This is also the starting point of Britain's global hegemony.

But what if Louie wins?

What if France and Spain merged, if the North American colonies had not been ceded to the British, if the British had been driven out of Gibraltar, if Louis had received most of Italy belonging to the Spanish crown, had received the Spanish Netherlands, and even annexed Portugal by the way, and Savoy had achieved hegemony?

What about the British?

A vast empire nearly ten times the size of England, a population nearly ten times that of Great Britain, and a vast empire close to industrial power, and an ambitious monarch, were only a few hundred miles away......

The British are expected to have nightmares.

It's worth looking forward to!

But all this depends on the will of God, after all, the distance is too far, Yang Feng's real strength to contribute to these two-stirring sticks is actually very limited, Charles XII is really not defeated on the battlefield, he is the same as Na Na mustache is defeated by the cold winter and vast territory of Russia. Of course, the main thing is that Peter I is strong, otherwise he could have gone straight to Moscow from Belarus, instead of going south to Ukraine to go around a terrible triangular route to Moscow, and ended up falling at the apex of this triangle. Therefore, even if he had weapons far superior to those of Peter I, it was still difficult to say whether he would be able to win the battle, and that place in Russia was a nightmare for all attackers.

It is also unknown whether Louis will be able to guarantee the transportation route from Alexandria to Marseille, considering that the British now have absolute superiority at sea.

In short, everything is unknown. (To be continued.) )