Chapter 513: The Gathering of Storms

After leaving Anhua, Emperor Yang's fleet sailed out of the Red Sea, and he was to inspect the royal bay, the province of Naturalization, which consisted of small colonies off the coast of India, with Colombo as the capital, and a series of subjects in the South Seas, and it would take him almost half a year to complete his voyage around the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After all, the empire is just too big.

Just by going around in such a circle, the time it takes can be calculated in years.

Just when Yang Feng inspected his own land, the vigorous French *** finally failed, those warriors who fought for freedom, equality and fraternity, after all, still could not resist the surging foreign intervention army, in Sweden, Austria and other more than a dozen monarchies under the escort of the coalition army, Philip V returned to Paris with pride and re-entered the Palace of Versailles, the French Republic retreated to the south and established a new government in the Alps, relying on the mountainous terrain of the French-Swiss and Savoy borders, Ready to continue the fight for their liberal democracy.

But it's clear that the big picture is decided, and they're just making a final stand.

This war, which made all the monarchs of all Europe tremble, caused the death of more than two million people in France, and it can be said that it exhausted the vitality of France, and the entire population of France plummeted to less than fifteen million, Paris was directly beaten into ruins, the economy collapsed completely, and there was dying starvation everywhere, and it is said that Philip V could not make a table in the Palace of Versailles to entertain the guests. Of course, what is even more tragic is that he is also in debt, in order to regain his country, he has borrowed 200 million dragon dollars from the Ming bankers, and the first loan is due soon, if he does not pay, the French part of the Spanish island as collateral for this loan, that is, the original historical Haiti will have to belong to the Ming Dynasty.

And he certainly can't afford to pay his debts.

Of course, it's not that scary.

After all, the French part of the Spanish island is not too valuable, and the real scary thing is that there are still five years to go before the second loan is due, and the collateral of this loan is the French colonies in northeastern North America, Quebec, Arcadia, and Newfoundland are all mortgaged by this loan with a total of 50 million dragon dollars.

In short, the next days of Philip V were difficult.

Fortunately, he is the victor after all.

He defended his royal dignity with the blood of more than two million Frenchmen, and soon he will also achieve the great cause of the Sun King like his grandfather, of course, he must first clean up the dead bodies and ruins all over France, and he must be wary of the eyes of civil hatred, the war is over, but the fire has not been extinguished, in fact, the French people are cursing their king in their hearts at this time.

And Yang Feng's goal was also achieved, he made the blood of Europe's most powerful country almost dry.

Together with the time of Louis XIV, the country lost almost a quarter of its population in less than thirty years, and the war also depleted the supplies that the French had previously stockpiled to defend against future Ming invasions, and they could not afford to reserve more, so it can be said that the main opponent of the Ming army when it marched into Europe was abandoned. Because of the people's hatred for the king, those common people will no longer fight to defend the king, and the next time the Ming army invades Europe, if they draw a big pie for them, maybe they will rise up to drive the king's division!

This is completely possible, even if Daming is still their beacon now.

For example, Voltaire and others, who now fled to the Alps to persist in the struggle, still fantasized that the Ming Dynasty could send troops to help him restore freedom and democracy, and as for Montesquieu being caught by Philip V and hanging on the gallows, in fact, now Voltaire is also marginalized in the republic, and the real power is a general. However, Voltaire still served as the speaker of parliament and the legal head of the republic, and at this time, with the help of some Ming volunteers, he was preparing to cross the enemy blockade line and board a ship to Daming to find his mentor, hoping that his mentor could exert his influence in the empire and prompt the Ming to send troops to help them.

Uh, I have to say he's so cute.

The end of the war in France also freed up the European monarchs to get down to business.

Port of Poti.

"When did it become so hot here?"

Lin Bin, a kerosene salesman at the Ming Imperial Oil Company, looked at the port outside the window and said with a sneer.

A small and inconspicuous port on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, belonging to the Ottoman Empire and with military fortifications, it used to be rare to see a few merchant ships docked in a year, but in recent times it has become an economic center like Istanbul, where merchant ships flying different flags can be seen docked almost every day, and then a large number of supplies are unloaded from these ships, and even a large number of young men in different clothes, especially many wearing crosses.

"Who is this?"

Wang Hao, the assistant next to him, looked at a merchant ship that had just docked at the dock, and a group of white soldiers wearing white military uniforms and black crosses embroidered on their chests who had stepped down from the ship.

"White clothes and black crosses, with the outer end of the cross, this is the Teutonic Knights, okay, all cats and dogs have jumped out."

Lin Bin said with a sneer.

Well, the reason for the sudden prosperity here is only because it is the nearest port that landed in the Caucasus and then crossed the Caspian Sea to Baku to Turkmenbashi, and these merchant ships from all over Europe, and even distant countries such as Sweden and Denmark, were loaded with supplies from various countries to support the Russian army and the Muslin allies in Central Asia, and even warriors organized by the church to participate in this war in Central Asia.

Not only the Teutonic Knights, but the Pope had ordered the Knights Templar to be reorganized, just like the Crusaders had rushed to Central Asia, only to invade the outside world, and this time to defend their faith.

By now the situation has become very clear, Yang Feng's goal is to annex the world, the reason why he has been so restrained all these years is only because his railway has not yet been completed, but the Longcheng railway is about to be completed, and even the railway from Longcheng to Broken Leaf is about to be completed, and soon the railway network of the Ming Dynasty will be extended to the hinterland of Central Asia, and at that time he will really embark on the road of conquering the West. Once he conquered Central Asia, he could build the railway directly to Turkmenbashi, and then build machine ships in Turkmenbashi to enter the Volga, at that time Russia would become his second target, the Ming army would stride on the vast Eastern European Plain, and the navigation of the Volga and Oka rivers would even guarantee that the Ming army could reach Moscow.

At that time, Russia will inevitably fall, and once Russia falls, it will be followed by Sweden and Poland.

The best way to avoid this is to stop him in Central Asia.

So now, the Isilan, Orthodox, Catholic, and even Protestant monarchs have all agreed to work together to defeat this terrifying enemy in Central Asia, of course, they can't come forward directly, after all, the Ming Mediterranean fleet is still there, and neither the European monarchs nor the Ottoman Empire want to see these giant ironclad ships appear in their own ports and bombard their cities.

So this is the only way to go.

Material aid and civil volunteers, such as those knights, anyway, they are all organized by the church, and have nothing to do with the monarchs of European countries, as for the church and Yang Feng are incompatible, until now the church defines him as a demon, and Yang Feng also defines Catholicism as a heretic, if the Ming army fleet bombards the coast of the Papal States because of this, then ......

Then go ahead!

"What a great animal!"

Lin Bin said as he looked at the Teutonic knights who stepped off the boat.

Obviously, he has seen the end of these people, saying that these people are tall and big, blonde and blue-eyed white people are extremely popular in the Ming Dynasty, although men are not women can raise warm beds, but those rich people go out with a few white family slaves are also very face-saving, the whiter the more face, obviously there is nothing whiter than these.

He was counting the heads there, when suddenly there was a commotion downstairs, and Wang Hao hurriedly ran out of the room to look down.

"Ottoman soldiers!"

Then he said to Lin Bin.

The latter put away the various intelligence records in his hand as quickly as possible, and then took the ledger again with the sound of the stairs and began to deal with the business, they are legitimate businessmen, protected by extraterritoriality, in fact, Imperial Oil salesmen like them are all over the world, after all, kerosene and kerosene lamps have been popularized all over the world after more than 20 years, not to mention the Ottoman Empire, even Russia, which is in a state of war with the Ming Dynasty, there are still Imperial Oil salesmen active.

A dozen Ottoman soldiers, led by an officer, quickly rushed in.

"Your Excellency, don't you know that there is a knock on the door?"

Lin Bin said dissatisfied.

"We suspect that you are engaged in activities that do not match your identity, and we are now ordered to search this place."

The officer said in a tough tone.

"Well, please show the search warrant, and we are legal businessmen, protected by consular jurisdiction, and if you do not find the results of the search, we have the right to protest against your rude behavior, and you must compensate us for the damage caused to us by your disrespectful behavior."

Lin Bin said.

The officer's momentum was obviously a little weaker, he only got a secret report, in fact, he didn't have to receive a secret report, he knew that it was for sure, not only the Imperial oil salesman, but all the Ming merchants who operated around the world could be on spy duty, but so far it seems that he has not caught any of them. He motioned to his men, and the soldiers immediately began to search the room, but the result was only various business-related accounts, and nothing special was found, under the smiling gaze of Lin Bin and the others, these Ottomans searched for more than an hour, but they could not find what they were looking for.

"Your Excellency, if you are still interested, we will not accompany you, we will have to go out to dinner, and if we lose anything of value while we are away, then you will be responsible."

Lin Bin looked at the pocket watch and said.

The officer waved with a gloomy face, and walked away with the soldiers helplessly.

"A bunch of idiots, do you know what high-tech is?"

Lin Bin sat at the table with a sneer, picked up a stack of bills and a special pen from the desk very casually, and continued to record on the reverse side of the bill how many supplies and soldiers were sent by the merchant ships arriving in Hong Kong today, of course, the paper on which he had written was still blank. Beside him, Wang Hao lit a cigarette with his own lighter, and then pressed the button with the bottom of the lighter to the scene outside, and the merchant ships and Teutonic knights on the dock were immediately recorded on the negative.

Two days later, a merchant ship carrying kerosene arrived in Poj, taking with it the bills and negatives, which ended up in the barracks in the Ming Concession of Istanbul.

"In just one month, there were no less than 50,000 rifled guns, 50 rifled guns, more than 2,000 tons of ammunition, and 10,000 Europeans, including 5,000 Teutonic knights, not counting those who went south along the Volga River from Russia, and from Baku Port by land and directly from Ashgabat to Central Asia.

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

The information gathered by the Jinyi guard was sent directly to him by radio, and at this time he was in his own palace, like an Arab monarch in the Thousand and One Nights, sitting on the carpet under the date palm tree, holding a sand cat in his arms, beside him with all kinds of gold utensils filled with food and wine, and a large group of beautiful women kneeling around, and a large group of Persian dancers dancing in front of him.

Of course, his imperial garden was Basra.

Now it's called Xiyuan.

"Your Majesty, do you want to knock them out?"

The Two Rivers Passage made Yan Hu ask expectantly.

At present, the Ming Dynasty has a total of three economic envoys in the Middle East, with the Arabian Peninsula as the main combat area, with the Persian Gulf as the main combat area of the two rivers, and with Egypt as the main combat area of the Anhua Economic Strategy, and each of them corresponding to the next strategic targets, respectively, North Africa, Syria and Iraq, Yan Hu is now looking forward to fighting in Baghdad.

"Don't worry about him, anyway, he will send us slaves, and when the railway is opened, I will transfer ten troops into Central Asia to see how capable they are to confront my 300,000 army."

Yang Feng said.

He doesn't care about that kind of thing.

As long as the railway is repaired, everything is like a floating cloud for him, not to mention the transportation capacity of the Longcheng Railway, there is no pressure to maintain the operation of 300,000 troops, the whole 300,000 Ming army, not to mention this point of volunteers, it is to press the entire European army, it is difficult to say whether it can withstand it.

But it also gave him an excuse.

He could take Jerusalem down as well, the Knights of the Medicary were under the leadership of the Church, otherwise these guys would be stuck there and still have some trouble for the Ming army's actions, this time they just took the opportunity to take a piece of it, and then bulldoze the Wailing Wall and the Cathedral of the Holy Sepulchre, completely clean up this hellish place, expel everyone, and then raze Jerusalem and plant trees like Maca, so that time can completely bury everything there.