In September 1655, the 28th year of Chongzhen, the peace between the Ming Empire and the European Christian world began, known as the Roman Peace Conference, which marked the formal expansion of the power of the Ming Empire to the distant European continent, and also marked that the Ming Dynasty had officially covered all the known civilization world with the influence of the empire.

The representatives of the Ming Dynasty who participated in the Rome Peace Conference included Emperor Chongzhen and Jiang Tianyi, chief of staff of the army, navy, and air force. Among the European representatives involved in the Rome Peace Conference were Pope Alexander VII, Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of France, Mazarin.

It's just that the first meeting of the peace talks was very unharmonious, and even a little tense. It doesn't matter how civilized the Europeans are, but their way of thinking is the same, that is, they always want to get good things at the negotiating table that they can't get on the battlefield.

One of the most speechless was Ferdinand III. The Holy Roman Empire was undoubtedly a magical country.

First of all, the emperor of the empire was actually elected by the seven electors. Secondly, the empire had a tradition of father-son emperors, such as Ferdinand III and Ferdinand IV.

However, Ferdinand IV was killed by the Ming army on the way out, and he became the head of state who died in the Second Crusade.

It may be that his son was killed by the Ming army, so Ferdinand III's conditions were extremely excessive. If it weren't for the large long table with a width of four meters in the middle, Chongzhen was really worried that Ferdinand III's saliva would spray on his face, and then it was said that various diseases were rampant in the European royal family in this era, including gonorrhea, syphilis, smallpox, etc., if Ferdinand III's saliva carried these viruses, it would be unlucky.

At that moment, Chongzhen turned around and said, "Ao Companion, bring a mask for me and the General Staff of the Heavens." A tall black eunuch immediately brought a mask to Chongzhen, Jiang Tianyi and others.

By the way, this black eunuch's name is Austin, and he entered the palace in the 20th year of Chongzhen.

Originally, Chongzhen wanted to completely abolish the eunuch system, but after returning to Beijing, he found that this thing could not be done at all, the reason is very simple, the royal family in China has too many people, if there are no strong eunuchs, just those flowery palace maids and concubines, they will not be able to finish the chores in the palace.

Moreover, some affairs are indeed not suitable for the queen concubine and palace maid to come forward. So in the end, Chongzhen still compromised and resumed the eunuch system.

However, in order to prevent the eunuch from interfering in politics or the eunuch's relatives from becoming bigger, Chongzhen also set a rule, that is, only the natives of overseas territories can enter the palace to serve as eunuchs.

The exception is Austin, who was trafficked to the Ming by Arab merchants and was purified by the Arabs before he was trafficked to the Ming, and Arab merchants have a long tradition of selling and castrating blacks, such as Kunlun slaves.

Getting back to the point, after putting on the mask, Chongzhen felt much more at ease, and said to Ferdinand III: "Ferdinand III, huh? I also regret that your son died on the battlefield, but there are no eyes on the battlefield, and since your son dares to go to the battlefield, he must have the consciousness of dying on the battlefield, which is not much to say. ”

"Don't be angry with us because of your son's death."

"As a mature politician, you shouldn't let the outside world sway your emotions." Speaking of this, Chongzhen said again: "So, please restate the conditions of the peace agreement." However, Chongzhen's gentle words were weak in the eyes of Ferdinand III, and at that moment Ferdinand III slapped the table and shouted: "Chongzhen, listen, it is your Ming who proposed peace, not our Holy Roman Empire, why did you Ming propose peace?" Isn't it because the supply lines are too long that your logistical supplies can't support it? ”

"In other words, this is your Ming Dynasty asking for peace with our European world."

"Since it is a request for peace, there should be a look of peace, and it must be sincere."

"So, please don't put on a winner's face, you Ming didn't win!" After a pause, Ferdinand III said sharply: "Our peace conditions are the three I just mentioned, the first is that the Ming army must unconditionally withdraw from Rome and all the cities occupied; second, to pay an indemnity of 100,000,000,000 silver taylors to all European countries, including the Papal States; The third and most important one, leaving the 20 big black ships of the Ming Dynasty Navy as punishment, if the above conditions cannot be met, then let this war continue, and see who can't hold on first. Jiang Tianyi, Zheng Sen, Zheng Hongkui, Wang Fuzhi and others who participated in the peace discussion were all happy.

After all, Zheng Sen was young and vigorous, and said to Chongzhen: "Shengshang, don't talk nonsense with this idiot, the minister has already investigated, the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, Vienna, is only seven or eight hundred miles away from the Adriatic coast, and the cavalry corps will march in three or four days, so let the minister take the air force and King Ding to take Vienna first, and then see what this dog emperor says." Wang Fuzhi also said angrily: "There is no need for the king to come out, our 4th Division of the Army can do it." Zheng Hongkui originally wanted to ask for war, but after thinking about it, no matter how powerful his warship was, he couldn't sail ashore, so he could only swallow the words back into his stomach sullenly.

Chongzhen didn't move at all. Because Chongzhen knows that these countries in Europe are not civilized in nature.

The enlightenment of Chinese civilization was in the pre-Qin period, when a hundred schools of thought contended and then founded a philosophical system, and then there was Chinese civilization, and so far China has bathed in civilization for nearly two thousand years.

There are doubts about the exact age of the civilizational enlightenment of Western Christendom. But even in the ancient Greek period, a philosophical system was created, civilization enlightenment, this civilization was destroyed in the war, and did not continue, and the interrupted civilization cannot be called a civilization.

Therefore, the enlightenment of Western Christendom was after the Renaissance. From the Renaissance to the present, it has only been more than 300 years, and it is no different from being uncivilized.

So thinking like Ferdinand III is no different from a barbarian in Chongzhen's eyes, a barbarian, what are you angry with him?

Don't you become a barbarian if you are angry with him? At that moment, Chongzhen smiled and said, "In this case, there is no need to talk about it anymore, let's stop here today." After speaking, Chongzhen stood up and left the venue without hesitation, Jiang Tianyi and the others also got up and left the venue, and soon, there were only a dozen people left in the hall of St. Peter's Church such as Ferdinand III.

Mazaran began to complain to Ferdinand III: "You shouldn't have made such harsh conditions. Alexander VII also echoed: "Yes, although this peace agreement was first proposed by the Ming Dynasty, but the peace agreement is only good for us in Europe, and there is no harm, why not promote it as soon as possible?" ”

"I also want to bring about peace talks as soon as possible." Ferdinand III was furious,

"But we can't afford to lose in vain, can we? This Eastern Crusade cost so much money and food, and so many people died, is it too much to ask the Ming Kingdom to make up for it? ”

"It's okay to ask for compensation, but there has to be a degree." Mazaran said,

"You can't overdo it."

"yes, you can't go too far." King Felipe IV of Spain also said,

"Forget about other conditions, you let the Ming Dynasty compensate us for 20 big black ships, isn't this, how can the Ming Dynasty agree."

"Eh, why are you all coming for me?" Ferdinand III was immediately furious. When more than a dozen heads were arguing fiercely, a monk hurriedly came in and reported: "Your Majesty the Pope, as well as His Majesty the King, Prime Ministers, and Dukes, something is wrong, the Ming army has sent troops." ”

"Sending troops?" The king, the prime minister, and the duke present were taken aback,

"Where did you go?"

"Heading north." The monk said in amazement,

"Three cavalry divisions were dispatched, saying that they were going to Vienna."

"What, to Vienna?" Ferdinand III jumped to his feet in shock and said angrily,

"It's so shameless, I said that I was going to make peace in Rome, why did I send troops to fight Vienna, the people of the Ming Dynasty didn't pay attention to faith." After a pause, Ferdinand III said angrily: "Don't talk about it, don't talk to the Ming Dynasty people, continue to fight, and fight until the Ming Dynasty kneels on the ground and begs for mercy!" Ferdinand was indignant when he spoke, but no one responded.

Including Pope Alexander VII, everyone has the same idea, let the Holy Roman Empire fight a battle with the Ming army first, if you win, you can pay less price, even if you lose, the unlucky one is only the Holy Roman Empire, and it has nothing to do with us.

"What do you say, do you dare to go to war with the Ming Dynasty?" Ferdinand III asked angrily. Mazarin, Felipe III, and Alexander VII were just talking about him.

Ferdinand III could not ride the tiger, so he could only say angrily with a dark face: "Okay, if you don't dare to start a war with the Ming Dynasty, then let our Holy Roman Empire fire the first shot, but you listen to me, if we win, you can only drink some soup when we divide the spoils, only our Holy Roman Empire is qualified to eat meat!" With that, Ferdinand III flicked his cloak and turned away.

"Idiot." Mazaran spat at Ferdinand III's back. A week later, Ferdinand III returned to Vienna and began to deploy troops.

After almost half a month, the Ming army was in the Kingdom of Venice

In the "farewell", he entered the southern border of the Duchy of Austria, and immediately launched a burning, killing, and plundering of Austria to feed the war.

Ferdinand III originally wanted to meet the Ming army in Vienna. But after half a month, he couldn't bear it anymore and chose to take the initiative to attack.

Eventually, the two armies met at Graz in the east-central part of the Duchy of Austria. This time, Ferdinand III really did his best and gathered an army of 200,000.

If you count the reinforcements and militia sent by several small principalities, the total strength is as high as more than 500,000.

However, this was of no use at all, although the Ming army on the opposite side only had 3 cavalry divisions of 60,000 people, but a single exchange of fire easily defeated the Austrian army of more than 500,000.