With the stabilization of Zhenwu's condition, inside and outside the Beijing Division, the government and the opposition all breathed a sigh of relief, Kangxi was also a lot more relaxed, and then lived in the West Garden, however, for the government affairs of the DPRK and China, he resolutely did not interfere, in addition to treatment and reading every day, it was to supervise and inspect the homework and studies of several emperors and grandchildren.

However, in the rest of the month, Zhenwu's condition gradually improved, he was able to get out of bed for a walk, review important notes, and the Qing Dynasty gradually resumed normal operation, because of this sudden serious illness, the matter of rectifying the administration of officials was delayed, and in a blink of an eye, the summer harvest was imminent, and Zhenwu did not dare to act rashly, one was worried that he was too tired, and the other was also worried that the local officials were not interested in affecting the summer harvest.

In addition to issuing an edict abolishing the levy of fire consumption, Zhenwu did not have any follow-up measures, in fact, with the large circulation of silver dollars, the abolition of fire consumption has not been abolished, and it has not caused much fluctuation, and the Qing Dynasty and the opposition are extremely calm.

The Qing Dynasty was calm, but Europe was in chaos at this time!

The Nanyang Fleet of the Qing Royal Navy joined forces with the Spanish fleet to annihilate the Portuguese-British combined fleet in one fell swoop in the Battle of Sagres, and then the Nanyang Fleet of the Qing Dynasty was stationed in the port of Tangier on the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar.

Under the encouragement and assurance of Prince Yong of the Qing Dynasty, Spain did not stop doing anything, gathered 8,000 army forces, and combined with more than 5,000 sea marines of the Nanyang Fleet of the Great Qing Dynasty to form a 13,000-strong Qingxi Coalition Army.

The Qingxi coalition army advanced all the way west from the city of Badajoz, attacking the city all the way, and attacked the Portuguese capital - Lisbon.

Portugal was shocked, and European countries were also in an uproar, and immediately turned their eyes to Portugal, and King João V of Portugal mobilized heavy troops to defend Lisbon, while recruiting a large number of troops and recruiting mercenaries. and immediately asked for help from the British, with whom he had signed an offensive and defensive alliance.

Britain was extremely dissatisfied with the island of Gibraltar, which had been lost before it could be warmed up. In addition, there was a treaty of offensive and defensive alliance with Portugal, and in any way, there was no reason to sit idly by, so he immediately sent a fleet and mobilized an army of 15,000 men to Lisbon.

On 12 June, the Qingxi coalition crossed the Tejo River and was intercepted by more than 30,000 Anglo-Portuguese troops at Mosh Kavedi, outside Lisbon.

Mosh Kavedi fights. Lin Wei and Fu Anding concentrated more than 200 artillery pieces to saturate the shelling, which taught the Europeans a very vivid lesson, and the status of artillery as the king of war was also established because of this war, but the British and Portugal paid the price of 12,000 men.

Two days later, Lisbon fell. King João V of Portugal and his ministers and nobles fled to England on British warships, and the Qingxi coalition army then sacked Lisbon.

In the first battle of Mosh Kavedi, the Qingxi coalition army defeated the strong with the weak, and completely defeated the Anglo-Portuguese coalition army with three times its own strength, and the news spread. The whole of Europe was shaken. France is even more abrupt, and even Sweden and Tsarist Russia, which are fighting in Northern Europe, are also sideways. Of course, Tsarist Russia was very pleased with this, and such a change in the situation of the war was very beneficial to him.

Infuriated and embarrassed, Britain once again rallied the Netherlands, the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Portugal, Brandenburg, Savoy and other countries to form an alliance to declare war on the Qing Empire, Spain, and France again.

The war between France and Charles VI and the Holy Spirit Roman Empire was not over, and there was no way back whether they were willing to fight or not, so they had to fight hard, and at the same time sent ministers to the port of Tangier, strongly requesting an alliance with the Qing Empire and requesting military assistance.

The Qing Nanyang Fleet not only played a great reputation in the battle of Mosh Kavedi, but also collected 600,000 taels of gold and more than 20 merchant ships, which can be described as a full return, for the alliance, Prince Yong Yinzhen naturally will not shirk, but for the landing assistance, it is to rest the troops, ammunition and food and other logistics supplies are insufficient, saying that he can not help at present, however, he still sent an officer observation group to France, of course, the huge Qing envoy group has been used at this time, and has been sent to the allies.

In addition, Yinzhen did not say nothing, signed a series of commercial and trade treaties with France, and said that in a critical moment, he would do his best to help, France naturally knew that this was waiting for the price to sell, so he had to patiently send envoys from Marseille to Tangier Port for detailed talks.

The task of the Nanyang Fleet is to provoke war in Europe, and now that the war in Europe has started, Yinzhen does not want to spend his troops in Europe, and Shi Shibiao will not agree to a large-scale landing operation of the navy.

The bull's head is not the horse's mouth, naturally it is impossible to negotiate, but the detailed rules of commerce and trade were quickly finalized, France, Spain and other small countries recruited a large number of sailors, organized a huge fleet to converge with the Nanyang Fleet, a small fleet set sail at the end of the year and began to run to the Qing Dynasty.

However, at this moment, a fleet of eight warships and twelve merchant ships slowly sailed into Tangier Port, and the ships were all hoisted with the golden dragon flag of the Qing Navy.

The cheers of all the generals of the Nanyang Fleet came out, and when they docked and asked, they realized that it was the fleet sent by Liu Zhisheng, the commander of the expedition to West Africa, and that in addition to the supplies of cannon barrels, ammunition, tea, cloth, and medicinal herbs, there were a large number of naval soldiers on the merchant ships.

As soon as everyone saw it, they knew that Liu Zhisheng, this kid, had sent someone to receive their captured warship.

Hearing that Zhenwu sent a large army to conquer West Africa and South Africa, and began to divide West Africa, Yinzhen and Shi Shibiao strongly supported this, and replaced half of the recruits sent with veterans, and asked them to sail more than ten captured third- and fourth-class battleships to West Africa, and agreed that the small fleets would be exchanged with each other once a month.

When the war began in Europe, Africa opened up.

Liu Zhisheng originally planned to expand steadily and steadily, with Accra as the center and gradually expanding, and did not want to dominate West Africa in a short time, so as not to arouse public anger and attract a big report from the British and Dutch maritime powers.

Immediately began to command the fleet to clear all pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, whether real pirates or fake pirates, all of them were swept away, and all passing merchant ships were forced to pay tolls, hang the triangular green dragon flag, and when they encountered the warships of the Qing Navy, they must lower their flags and salute, stop the ships for inspection, otherwise they will be sacked.

Of course, he did not stop the conquest on land, over the years, he had already figured out the situation, the European countries in West Africa have few troops, basically mercenaries, now he has no scruples to be conservative, immediately divided into three ways, directly sent warships to attack the two ports of Lagos and Douala, and quickly controlled the entire coastal port of the Gulf of Guinea, and the slave fortresses built along the coast of European countries were simply vulnerable under the attack of land and sea, and by the end of the year, The entire coastal port of the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa was under the control of the Qing Dynasty.

Countless captured European slave catchers have now become slaves themselves, but Liu Zhisheng has no intention of selling them, but has organized them into countless small slave hunting teams, and let them continue their old job - slave hunting, slave hunting for the Qing Dynasty.

In South Africa, after finding that the local indigenous blacks were completely vulnerable, Furham immediately changed his methods, divided the brigade into several squads, and went deep into the interior separately, while hunting slaves, while exploring whether the local blacks had gold in hand.

After the Karopa brought in a second group of reinforcements and a large number of mineral exploration and smelting craftsmen from the Wa Kingdom, he opened a second landing point, establishing a stronghold in Matola, in the Gulf of Maputo on the east coast, and also adopted the method of going deep in small groups, mainly to capture slaves and visit the gold in the hands of local blacks.

However, his method did not work, and after more than half a year, no gold was found in the hands of the blacks in South Africa, until the spring of the following year, when news of the discovery of gold was finally reported from the Matola stronghold.

When he arrived in Matola a month later, he couldn't believe that he had found not a single gold mine, but four or five large gold mines in a hundred miles in a row!

The first thought in Fuhan's mind was to kill people and kill his mouth, and after a long period of silence, he gave up this unrealistic idea, and immediately gave an order, blocked the news, mobilized a large army to station at the gold mine discovery site, and after Pegasus inspected the field, he flew a pigeon to report to the Karopa, and sent a fleet back to the Karopa.

May of the third year of Zhenwu, summer, Forbidden City.

Zhenwu received a secret letter from the Karopa in the Heart Cultivation Temple, that a huge gold mine had been discovered in South Africa, and it was an unimaginably large gold mining complex! Putting down the pigeon letter, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that South Africa had large gold reserves, but he didn't know that South Africa's gold mines turned out to be a gold mining group, the largest gold reserves country, it seems that it really deserves its reputation.

I just don't know how much gold can be mined every year with the current mining technology, one ton is 32,000 taels, ten tons is no problem, right? This is only four million taels of silver, and it is necessary to mine twenty tons a year to be considered abundant, and the manpower mining is still too slow, and I don't know when the British steam engine improvement will come out, and now that Europe is constantly in war, I don't know if it will come out in advance, or whether it will come out in advance, or whether it will come out later, this is a tangled problem. (To be continued.) )