As the son-in-law of the Otani family, the religious leader of Dongying Province, although Otani Mitsushi did not have the opportunity to serve as the leader of the sect, he could definitely be regarded as a member of the top society of the Ming Empire. Here in Macau, it belongs to the top socialite. Even with the Governor of the Atlantic and the Governor of Macau, Cao Wenyun. However, Mitsushi Otani would not introduce Napoleon to a member of Cao Wenyun's level. The current Napoleon is not qualified enough, and the highest-ranking Ming official he can meet is the director of the education department of the Atlantic Governor's Palace.

The newly appointed forty-year-old director of education is the earliest descendant of the Ming Eight Banners, which means that the ancestors are Tartars. But now it's been sinicized for hundreds of years.,There's no Tartar look like there's anything on the body.,A modified Confucian dress is worn on the body.,With a white and elegant face.,The whole is a middle-aged white-faced scholar.。 The original old Tartar surname has long been replaced by the Chinese surname "Lang", named Heshen, and the word Zhizhai.

Although he is the director of education of the Atlantic Governor's Office, he is a career officer, except for serving as an instructor in the Daming Naval Academy and the Naval University, he has no experience related to education. Of course, his current "director of education" is also a cover-up for him to carry out various espionage activities in Europa. His real identity is the general representative of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Ming Naval Staff in Europa.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the Education Department of the Daming Atlantic Governor's Office on the west bank of Macau Bay, Lang and Shen were looking at the scene outside with some confusion. The Mediterranean sun poured in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, casting his black hair shiny. He had just turned forty this year, had already received the rank of lieutenant colonel, and had been sent to Europa, the land of right and wrong, to stir up trouble.

From the first day of accepting this mission. He knew how important this appointment was to his career as a professional soldier. At the same time, he also knows that with his not outstanding family background and unsatisfactory results in the Naval Academy and Naval University (the Ming Army and Navy literacy "four tests determine life". The results of the entrance and graduation examinations of the Navy and Army Military Academy and the Navy and Army University are very important for the future of officers). Not only because of his first-class kung fu and won the appreciation of Vice Admiral Ji Yun, the intelligence chief of the Navy Staff, but also because this errand is easy to mess up!

The current Europa is an uncontrollable H medicine box, on the one hand, the old power of the Qing Dynasty is on the verge of collapse; On the one hand, the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom has risen strongly, and wants to "take the Qing and replace it"; At the same time, there was the rise of second- and third-rate powers such as England, Italy, and the Mamluk Sultanate, all of which were aggressive. As the chief representative of the Naval Intelligence Directorate, the weight of the burden on his shoulders can be imagined with his heels.

In case the errand is messed up, the situation in Europa will develop in a direction that is greatly unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty. As the first person responsible, he had to retire from active duty early! From the junior class of the Navy Military Academy (at present, the Ming Army and Navy emphasize cultivation and education, and most officers' careers start from the junior class) to today. Thirty years of hard work will be put to waste!

Therefore, the naval elite who really have a bright future are unwilling to take over this mission. They would rather be a senior staff officer of a stable fleet, and then take over as the captain of a battleship, and then they can be safely promoted to the rank of general and serve as the commander of the detachment.

Of course, high risk comes high reward! If Lang and Shen are really capable of doing a good job, then the future will be bright. The errand of the rank of marshal of the Navy and the secretary of the Admiralty or the Naval Staff is only a matter of time. After all, the naval officers of the Ming Empire rarely had the opportunity to make great achievements, and driving a 15,000-ton or 25,000-ton battleship to teach a small wrecked ship of several thousand tons a lesson, even if it was sunk, it was not a great achievement. Far from being able to serve as a senior intelligence officer. On par with what Europa can achieve, which is like an H medicine keg.

However, after spending a few months in Macau, Lang and Shen deeply felt how powerless the Ming Empire, which had dominated the world for hundreds of years, in the face of those emerging powers and the increasingly powerful Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom.

In particular, after the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom takes control of the Great Qing Banner Human Area, the actual population will be close to 80 million. Financial resources will also be greatly enhanced. It will also gain a key entry point from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean. Although the navy of the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom was not worth mentioning at the moment, the most advanced warships were nothing more than a few wooden-hulled gunboats. But who can guarantee that the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom will not develop a powerful Mediterranean fleet in the future? Once the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom enters the Mediterranean Sea strongly, then the Ming Empire must deploy a powerful fleet in the eastern Mediterranean to deal with the threat of the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom's navy.

But the problem was that relations between the Ming Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate, a regional power in the eastern Mediterranean, were not warm. There was even some hostility. This is because the Ming Empire has been firmly in control of the Suez Canal Zone for hundreds of years, and has also been supporting the Great Stone Kingdom, which occupies the middle and lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates.

This Great Stone Kingdom is now on the front line of the conflict between the Heavenly Daoist Sect and the Heavenly Fang Sect. The vast majority of its people in China are Han Chinese who believe in Tiandao (both sacred and scientific). But the surrounding area. But they are all the world of Heavenly Sectists...... Not only were the small states of the Celestial Sect to the west and south subject to the Mamluk Sultanate, but even the two Persians to the north (the two Persians were vassals of the Divine Heavenly Dao State and the Great Qing Kingdom) were now overwhelmingly dominated by the Celestial Cultists. The only remaining remnants of the Han dynasty were the Taoli Temple and the vicinity of Isfahan, which were the capitals of the two Persias!

Moreover, even in Taoli Temple and Isfahan, the numerical superiority of the Han Chinese is gradually being lost. On the one hand, the constant sectarian conflict forced some Han Chinese to leave for Dashiguo or Dakang to the north; On the one hand, the poor people who believed in the Heavenly Sect moved in in large numbers. It seems that the Celestial Cultists will soon "occupy" Taoli Temple and Isfahan. At that time, only God knows whether the two Persians will survive.

And this Mamluk Sultanate, although it is also a large country for hundreds of years, has not completely lost its vitality as it has in history. The population of the Mamluk Sultanate has always been significant due to the large number of immigrants who had moved from Persia, Asia Minor, and the middle and lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates. Today, more than 60 million!

Moreover, the Mamluk Sultanate also sent students to the Ming Empire. I learned a lot of advanced knowledge and technology. For centuries, there were wars with Christian countries on the northern shores of the Mediterranean. It has also undergone several dynastic changes. It also maintained considerable vitality and expanded its territory to the south. The occupation of Sudan and Abynesia established hegemony in northern East Africa.

However, the biggest headache for the politicians of the Ming Empire was the gradual decline of the Qing Empire. The most important banner area in this country has been controlled by the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom for more than thirty years! Moreover, the so-called New Deal of the Qing Dynasty for more than 20 years has actually reached a dead end in the eyes of the politicians of the Ming Empire.

Regardless of the value of the military factories and shipyards opened by the Qing Dynasty and the Beiyang Naval Division.

Let's talk about the hundreds of thousands of bannermen new army - according to the report of the Daming Army Intelligence Bureau, a new army of the Qing bannermen in eight towns (equivalent to divisions) is still very good. The compilation is based entirely on the Ming Army. The middle and high-ranking officers were all trained by the branches of the Daming Army Military Academy in Macao and Hong Kong. The guns and ammunition are either enough to buy the guys in active service in the Ming Dynasty, or they are imitated with the help of the Ming engineers, all of which meet the procurement standards of the Ming Army.

But none of the elite staff officers of the Ming Army thought that the Qing Army could defeat the Army of the Divine Heavenly Dao Country! The reason is very simple, the Qing Army can only be fought by the new army of the Eight Towns Banner People! Moreover, the hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers in these eight towns are for the two million bannermen that the Great Qing State can currently control. A ceiling for mobilization has been reached.

Although the Divine Heavenly Dao Country is not a so-called citizen country, this country has been confronting the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and there is a strong military tradition up and down. Moreover, the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom only distinguishes relatives and relatives by religion, as long as they are members of the Divine Sect of the Heavenly Dao Sect, they are equal to each other. There is no distinction between Han and Europeans in China.

In fact, after hundreds of years of mixed blood, there were no pure-blooded Han or Europeans in the Divine Heavenly Dao for a long time, but a new nation was formed. And because of the existence of the peasant commune system - this is a kind of combination of peasants and noble landlords and the state (the land of the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom belongs to the state, but can be granted to the nobility for "administration". However, the aristocracy could only collect rent, not buy and sell it), which not only restricted the freedom of the peasants and made them close to serfs (according to the theory of the later revolutionary Ulyanov of the Divine Heavenly Dao State, they were serfs), but also protected the interests of the peasants to a certain extent, which made the class contradictions in the Divine Heavenly Dao country relatively relaxed. The state also had a strong control over the peasants and could mobilize a large number of troops in wartime.

To some extent, the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom is a militaristic country! The country could easily mobilize a huge army of a million and a few hundred thousand people. Ten times the numerical advantage. It is simply something that the new army of the Qing Banner people cannot fight against. Moreover, the level of heavy industry in the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom far exceeded that of the Great Qing Kingdom......

The Qing side also seems to have realized this, after the Ming Empire helped them train and equip the Eight Towns New Army and the Beiyang Naval Division. The Empress Dowager Catherine, who was in control of the great politics of the Qing Dynasty, began to seek reconciliation with the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom - this Empress Dowager was before the Great Qing Kingdom and the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom turned their faces. married from the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom to the Qing Dynasty, and before she got married, she was a purple-clothed Daogu. She is also the little junior sister of Chen Jialuo, the left envoy of light, and she is close to the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom in her bones.

And as a European with more than 80% blood (such a bloodline could not have been married into the Qing imperial family, but he couldn't stand the Qing Emperor's request for help from the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom at that time, so he could only pinch his nose and marry Chen Jialuo's little sister, and Catherine had a belly and was angry, and gave birth to the only son of the first emperor), and at the same time a top student of the Department of International Politics of the Ballenburg Theological Seminary, the Empress Dowager Catherine knew very well where the death knot of the Qing Kingdom was. So she didn't dare to ask for the revival of the Qing Dynasty, but just hoped to maintain the immortality of the Qing Dynasty. And the way to maintain the Qing Dynasty is nothing more than to hug the thicker thighs.

And Daming's thick leg, in Catherina's opinion, has become less and less powerful over the years. The country is becoming more and more chaotic, and various kinds of Datong Party (the Datong Party has undergone many splits and evolved into various factions over the past 300 years) are making trouble in their own ways. Votes, welfare, the scale is getting bigger and bigger, and there are even radical Datong people shouting slogans to overthrow the Chen Ming Dynasty!

Externally, first of all, the two great feudal domains of Mingzhou are becoming more and more difficult to control, and the population of North America is about to exceed 200 million! Within both the Chinese Empire and the United Kingdom of China, the Chinese United Party emerged to seek the reunification of the two Chinas. Secondly, the Old Continent powers, such as the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom, the Mamluk Sultanate, the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Spain, and the Kingdom of England, rose one after another, all challenging the hegemony of the Ming Empire in their respective regions.

Moreover, the Ming Empire has such a small army, and the number of troops that can be invested in Europa is almost negligible. Where can it be compared to the Divine Heavenly Dao Country, which has millions of troops and is eyeing the Great Qing Kingdom?

Therefore, falling to the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom seems to be the best way to maintain the Great Qing Kingdom for a long time...... Even if Bulgaria, Constantinople and Asia Minor were ceded!

Under such circumstances, the Ming Empire had to take countermeasures - to support the emerging Kingdom of England in waging war against the Qing Dynasty and the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom!

However, it is easy to start a war, but it is difficult to end a war that could lead to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. The upper echelons of the Ming Empire had already realized that once the Kingdom of England invaded the Qing Dynasty, the rule of the Qing Empire would collapse—and if the New Army of the Eight Banners of the Great Qing Dynasty was destroyed in the war, the collapse could come in a very short time!

The fall of the Qing Dynasty is only a matter of time, and it is irretrievable!

So how to clean up the mess after the fall of the Qing Dynasty is a difficult problem in front of the Ming Empire.

And Lang Heshen, the representative of the Ming Naval Intelligence Bureau in Europa, one of the most important tasks now is to find and support the Europa political force that can take over after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty.

Lang and Shen muttered to themselves: "...... If the Qing Dynasty collapses, it will probably be the Europeans who will be able to replace it! There can't be only one regime, otherwise it won't be many years before a powerful Europa nation-state is going to give us a headache......" His expression slowly hardened in the Mediterranean spring sun.

Finally, he turned around sharply, walked to the desk, picked up the rattle and shook it, and immediately outside the office came a very pleasant-looking European female secretary. Lang Heshen smiled and said, "Sophia, go and invite Mr. Otani and Mr. Bonaparte to come in." (To be continued.) )