Chapter 761: European Cities Are Too Bad (Three More!) )
The European continent was turbulent, and the Song Empire of the Americas, which stirred up this turmoil, has not been involved in the outside world.
On the contrary, he took advantage of the opportunity of the great turmoil in Europe to develop himself wholeheartedly.
In order to seek to dominate the sea in the future.
It is only when it rises on the ocean that the empire can be said to be completely powerful and has the ability to defend itself from the enemy.
Don't look at Zhao Hongyu has a plug-in, but even if he has a plug-in, if you want to develop a huge empire into a strong one, you don't do it overnight.
Especially many things, you can't just give up.
For example, hegemony in the oceans.
If Zhao Hongyu does not think about this issue in advance and allows the Europeans to seize the opportunity, then even after the empire becomes strong, it will pay a great price when seizing maritime supremacy.
Rather than that, it would be better to take this opportunity to lay an ambush.
Besides, now that Europe is in turmoil, in fact, the Song Empire has not actually lost anything.
What's more, you don't have to get involved in it yourself.
By now, the Empire had gained far more from the European continent than it had paid.
At the same time, Portugal and France were also in front, and the empire only symbolically sent more than 8,000 volunteers.
You must know that it is impossible not to send these 8,000-strong volunteers.
At the very least, it is necessary to let Portugal and France see the strength of the empire and the 'sincerity' of the empire.
Only in this way can the alliance become stronger.
At the same time, let Portugal and France really settle down and deal with the allied forces of the vassal states of the church.
If the Empire had only given some aid without actual action, Portugal and France would not have been able to trust the Empire so much, and things would not have turned out like this.
For all this, Zhao Hongyu and them at the beginning. There are very detailed considerations.
But now, the turmoil on the European continent is at least in Zhao Hongyu's plans.
It can be said that everything is relatively smooth.
As long as the current situation continues, there will be no special accidents or strong inertia of history.
Then, the empire can get a long period of development, and as long as there are a few years of effort, then the imperial fleet can be formed.
After all, he wants to be the hegemon on the sea, so the number of sea warships needed by the empire will definitely not be less.
Know the way. In this era, the Europeans had more than 30,000 warships of various countries combined.
And this is far from the number of sea vessels that the Europeans had at their peak.
According to normal history, after the Thirty Years' War, the Dutch would rise to the sea and begin to play an important historical role as a coachman on the sea.
Before the Dutch were defeated by the British, they built more than 50,000 warships with the national strength of a small country.
The coachman of the sea is actually in vain.
It's just that these sea vessels are due to natural factors. There are also some natural and man-made disasters and pirates watching, which is slowly decreasing.
Especially during the decades of the struggle with the British, the Dutch eventually declined and their glory was gone.
Therefore. According to Zhao Hongyu's idea, the empire must build a large number of warships in order to complete the goal of dominating the sea.
Although the warships built under the command of the Empire are very combat-ready, there are not a certain number of them. Domination of the seas is bound to be an empty phrase.
After all, the stakes on the ocean are just too great.
As long as the empire shows a little bit of meaning, then the European countries will definitely attack it en masse.
Even if Portugal and France don't do it well, they will turn their faces.
Know the way. There is no eternal friendship between countries, only eternal interests.
The present bond between the Empire and Portugal and France is bound by this unconflicting interest.
But if there was a conflict of interests one day, the bond between the empire and Portugal and France would be easily severed.
It's not impossible for a friend to turn into an enemy.
At the same time, the empire did not have enough warships to defend its maritime frontiers, which was also a very troublesome thing.
When the time comes, won't the enemy be able to easily harass the coastal cities of the empire?
This must be prepared.
Now that history has forked in the road, it depends on how to develop in the future.
As long as the empire makes good use of this opportunity, then it is definitely not unrealistic for the empire to rise in such an era when it is still relatively ignorant.
At that time, Zhao Hongyu can completely lead the empire and the Chinese ethnic groups in the empire to stand at the top of the world and become the top of the pyramid.
As for those in other countries, that's a stepping stone to the empire.
The empire can suck their blood and sweat to fatten themselves.
It's cruel to do, but that's the truth of the world.
The law of the jungle has been around since ancient times.
Besides, even if Zhao Hongyu doesn't do this, won't they do it when it's the turn of other countries to rise?
Obviously, this is a certainty.
If you think about what happened in the long history of another time and space, you can understand this truth very clearly.
The Europeans took control of the seas and made the country strong.
With the strength of the ship and the strength of the artillery, as well as the black opium, the East was in a mess.
So, on the other hand, in this time and space, why can't Zhao Hongyu do this.
The upper echelons of the empire are not those who are full of benevolence and morality, they know very well what they want to do and how to do it.
Of course, this is not to say that they are all cold-blooded beasts, and they are insensitive by nature.
It's just that their benevolence and morality should depend on who the target is, rather than on who they should pay attention to.
If they do, they are real idiots.
As for the plans of the American Empire, the Europeans are still in the dark.
Even Portugal and France, which reached an alliance agreement with the Song Empire in the Americas, regarded the Song Empire as the main culprit.
Don't you know that all the countries of Europe have been calculated?
It's just that no one will be able to wake up to this calculation in a short period of time.
Jenny and her friends took out the money from the check in Paris, France, and quickly left Paris.
After leaving Paris, none of them looked very good.
"It's unimaginable. We used to live in environments like Europe. If we hadn't gone to the Song Empire in the Americas and learned about the urban environment of the Song Empire, it would have been impossible for us to know the Tao and such a clean and tidy city. After a long time, Ruth finally couldn't help but express his opinion. Paris is a big city, but I felt like I was in a public toilet, and the environment was terrible. ”
Ruth's words won the approval of many of his companions.
Even Jenny thinks so.
Although Jenny and the others had only seen it in Manhattan City, they also knew the environmental conditions of Manhattan.
In Manhattan, there are a lot of cleaners who are busy from morning to night to keep the city clean and tidy.
That's what it is. There were many jobs for Europeans who came to the Americas to earn a living, so that they could support their families.
And the city of Manhattan, because of the efforts of these people, the whole city is very tidy.
Every day's household garbage, as well as daily garbage, will be cleaned up, and it will not be littered everywhere like in European cities.
As a result, the city of Manhattan in the Americas, although it was a trading city with a large population, was also very tidy.
There is no sewage flowing everywhere like in European cities. The streets were full of feces and urine and stinking.
They had previously learned the meaning of the phrase "floating" in dung in Paris.
It may be that she was accustomed to that kind of clean and tidy urban environment on the American continent, so after returning to Europe this time, Jenny and some of her European companions. I became a little uncomfortable.
You must know that when these Europeans did not go to the Song Empire, they lived in such a city all the time.
At that time, they didn't complain much.
Instead, now he went to the Song Empire in the Americas. After living for more than a year, these people have become very uncomfortable when they return to Europe.
It has to be said that people can accept some comfortable environments. But after they have accepted the comfortable environment, there is no way to accept it when they return to the previous difficult environment.
This is called from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift.
Now Jenny and the others have that mentality.
However, it was precisely this comparison that they discovered that the advanced nature of the Song Empire in the Americas was more than half the way to Europe.
Among Jeanne's companions on this trip were several Indians.
These Indians were also people who believed in the Sectarianism.
The Indians had always believed in gods, so it was not surprising that after they saw those magical 'artifacts', some fanatical believers emerged.
Who let Zhao Hongyu fool them.
And these Indians basically joined the Song Empire when Zhao Hongyu was rising.
It can be said that they have experienced the city of Manhattan from scratch, and it is precisely because of this that they are very familiar with the city of Manhattan. I also thought that all the cities in the world were the same as the city of Manhattan.
However, when they follow Jeanne into Paris, they realize that the reality is completely different from what they think.
The stench of the city of Paris almost knocked them to the ground.
At the same time, after entering the city of Paris, the feces and garbage on the streets opened their eyes.
And at this moment, they realized that the environment of Manhattan City was better.
It would be absolutely unacceptable to let them live in such a city.
Even if Manhattan wasn't built and they were still living in tribal tents, they wouldn't have put all their feces in the tribe.
Because the Indians still pay more attention to hygiene.
It was an eye-opener, it was an eye-opener.
Looking at the faces of her companions, Jenny didn't know what to say.
However, she knew that such a situation in Paris actually existed in cities in various European countries.
Even the small towns around the city are not immune to such things.
The only difference is that the city is worse, while the surrounding towns are slightly better, after all, the towns can be buried, right?
At this point, the Indians in the team began to have some contempt for whites in their hearts.
Originally, they thought that white people were also very powerful, but now it seems that this is far from the case.
The faces of the European companions were red, and although they were now citizens of the Empire, they would still feel embarrassed and even embarrassed by it.
After all, who let them live and grow up here before?
There is no way to change this.
Fortunately, Jenny didn't want to dwell too much on this issue, so she opened her mouth to divert everyone's attention.
"Now that we have the money, let's start our mission."
Jenny's words shook the bodies of her companions sitting on their horses, and then the expressions on their faces became serious.
"Head, you command, what are we going to do next?"
Ruth spoke to Jenny on behalf of his companions.
Jenny's gaze flashed across the faces of her companions, and she also had a grim expression.
Because Jenny is very clear about the mission of this trip, and also knows that the mission of the road is very dangerous.
She also became more aware of how important this task was to the Empire and the Sect.
"We have two missions this time, one is to assassinate the top of the church, so that their rights will create some vacuum, and they have no ability to spy on us in America, but we can't go forward to assassinate so recklessly, we need to find out the trajectory of some people, as well as their schedule, which will take time."
Jenny had been an assassin after all, so he knew all about it.
This is not the case with her companions, who are basically unaware of this.
It is precisely because of this that since then, when I came to Europe, I will lead everyone with Jenny as the leader.
At the same time, because Jenny has experience in this area, everyone is willing to follow her leadership and arrangement.
"Okay, everybody listens to you, you have experience in this area. We haven't done this before, so we don't have any experience in this area, and if we mess around, it will probably lead to the failure of the mission, so you can lead us to make reasonable arrangements, and I don't think you will have any opinions. ”
Ruth spoke to Jenny again after Jenny's words landed.
As Ruth spoke, his companions nodded their heads.
Because what Ruth said was true, they really had no experience in this area before they left for the Song Empire in the Americas.
They used to be just ordinary people.
Therefore, everyone agreed with what Ruth said, and listened to Jenny's arrangement and leadership.
Because you don't want to fail your mission because of yourself.
"Well, since everyone trusts me so much, then I'll take on this burden. Now I'm going to talk about the second mission......", Jenny said with a pleased glance at her companions. (To be continued......)