Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Allies of the Ming Dynasty Are Like Wheat in the Field

In the British Isles, London House, the capital of the United Kingdom, at three o'clock in the morning, several middle-aged and elderly people got up overnight again for a meeting.

First of all, King George III, who is sixty-seven years old this year and is a little mentally ill like the other world line.

Britain did not copy the emperor's retirement model of the Ming Dynasty, and the king is still for life, so even if the king occasionally gets sick, he is still the king.

The United Kingdom is now officially known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and its own abbreviation is the United Kingdom.

The Hanover family, where the king belongs, has long been annexed by Prussia in the Hanover territory in Germany, so it has long lost the title of king of Hanover.

Then there's William Pitt Jr., the British Prime Minister or First Minister.

The Taisi tried to translate the prime minister into the first assistant, but the Ming did not approve of this, and still wrote the prime minister or the minister of state.

Pitt is the youngest British prime minister ever in another world, having first become prime minister at the age of 24.

He is also a "little cabinet elder", and his father, William Pitt Sr., also served as British Prime Minister.

The King of England was more in control of this world, and Pitt was forty years old when he became Prime Minister.

Pitt is forty-six years old and still the youngest of the cabinet ministers.

Historically, he died at the age of forty-seven, but he still looks very healthy.

William Pitt Jr. rushed to the Imperial Conference Room with several important cabinet ministers in the cold wind of the early hours of the morning in London.

After kneeling down on one knee to the yawning old king, Pitt took out a telegram and handed it to King George III opposite:

"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty has agreed to peace talks, but requires the Anti-Ming Alliance to withdraw from all occupied areas, and at the same time withdraw from the Three Kingdoms of Anxi."

The news had already been communicated to George III by telephone, and now George was only looking at the details when he looked at the telegram, and then still asked a rhetorical question in disbelief:

"Did Da Ming agree so easily? Is there a 'fraud' in this, and is it just a 'strategy' to regain the previously lost territory? ”

Pete nodded lightly and said:

"The cunning of the Ming people is 'well known', and many of them use 'soldiers are not tired of deceit' as a 'mantra'.

"The key is that they have begun to 'withdraw the feudal domain', and they have officially banned the six major industries, so they have more forces to put into the battlefield.

"And I received news last night that the Ming Dynasty was recruiting servant soldiers from the vassals that had withdrawn from the domain, and they were going to be sent to the battlefield of Great Food.

"So we have to be very careful......"

Pete knows Da Ming very well, and his mouth is full of Da Ming idioms and proper vocabulary.

If you are not a real "cultural person", you can't understand what he is saying at all, but fortunately there are cultural people all around.

And Pitt's point of view is also the general view of the British, who do not believe in the Ming Dynasty.

Although Britain was the most important ally of the Ming Dynasty for a long time.

The two sides once happily carved up Spain together, Yinzhou together, Tianzhu together, and Dashi together......

But the deeper the cooperation with the Ming Dynasty and the deeper the understanding of the Ming Dynasty, the more the British understood that the allies of the Ming Dynasty were like wheat in the field.

The Ming will cultivate allies, and when it matures, it will be harvested, and most of the harvested food will be eaten by the Ming himself, and a small part will be used to cultivate new allies.

In the eyes of the British, the Ming had already planted at least two crops of three allies, and the British would have been the fourth, almost being harvested.

The Ming Dynasty initially had a hot war with the Netherlands and Portugal, allowing the two countries to trade directly to the Ming mainland's ports.

The two countries also worked very hard to cooperate with the actions of the Ming Dynasty and helped Emperor Zhu Cihong subdue Zheng Zhilong, the overlord of the southeast sea.

Based on Zheng Zhilong's fleet, Emperor Zhu Cihong vigorously developed the navy of Jianjian and the Ming Dynasty.

After that, the Ming Dynasty used his navy as the main force, with the assistance of the Dutch and the Portuguese, provoked a war against the Spaniards and seized Dongfan Island and Luzon.

With these two cooperations, both the Dutch and the Portuguese felt that their friendship with the Ming was getting deeper and deeper, and they could be regarded as reliable allies.

But the good times didn't last long......

The Ming Dynasty suddenly gave the tamed Spaniards a foreign trade franchise, which in turn banned the eastern trade between the Netherlands and Portugal.

At the same time, let the Spanish people assist the Ming navy, and drive the Dutch and Portuguese throughout the South Seas until they are completely driven out of the South Seas and the Little West.

The ocean-going fleet, which had been gradually developed before the Ming Dynasty, took over the colonies and trade routes of the Dutch and Portuguese.

At the same time, the Ming colony of Yinzhou was established in the border areas that had not yet been controlled by the European colonial forces, mainly the northwest coast of North Yinzhou and the southern area of South Yinzhou.

After the Dutch and Portuguese were driven out, Spain began to enjoy the dividends of European trade to the Ming Dynasty.

The silver of Yinzhou poured into the Ming Dynasty more rapidly, and the Ming tea, silk, and porcelain were also continuously shipped to Europe by Spain.

Under the advice and instigation of the Ming Dynasty, Spain continued to fight against the Dutch "anti-thieves" in the Atlantic region that the Ming Dynasty could not influence.

The continuous seizure of the Dutch colonies, and even the reoccupation of the Netherlands proper, led directly to the collapse of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.

Spain regarded it as a major achievement of its worldwide cooperation with the Ming Dynasty, and considered itself to be the most important ally and trading partner of the Ming Dynasty.

But the good times were also short-lived......

The Ming Dynasty continued to expand in the north and south of Yinzhou, and finally bordered directly with the Spanish colony of Yinzhou.

As a result, Da Ming suddenly cut off Spain's trade license and turned to support the British, who were holding back their efforts to replace Spain.

Spain lost the support of the Ming trade dividend, and its national strength took a sharp turn for the worse, and it was soon no match for the Mingying Alliance.

The Ming Dynasty cooperated with the British to gradually empty Spain's influence in the Great Ming Ocean and the Lesser Western Ocean, and at the same time forbade the British to dye the Metropolitan Ocean and Tiannan region.

The Ming Dynasty began to completely dominate the Nanyang, Tiannan, and Daming Ocean regions, gradually found out the situation in the southern continent, and began to migrate on a large scale through steam sailing ships.

The British also continued to fight the Spaniards in the Atlantic, and even occupied the Gibraltar region of Spain proper, while also gaining a foothold in Northern Yinzhou and southern Tianzhu.

The cooperation between the two sides is very tacit, and Britain also feels that it is the most important ally of the Ming Dynasty.

But it didn't last long......

The Ming Dynasty expanded in the Lesser Western Ocean, opening up colonies in the North Tianzhu, East Mozhou, South Mozhou, and North and South Yinzhou, and the British also developed in these places.

After Tianzhu was divided between the north and south ends by the two sides, the contradictions between the two sides gradually emerged.

When the Ming Dynasty took control of the Sinai Peninsula and built the West Sea Canal, trying to completely monopolize the trade between the East and the West, the contradictions between the Ming and the British reached a critical point.

The Ming Dynasty was originally planning to repeat the old trick and try to cooperate with the French to clean up the British power in the Dashi and Tianzhu regions.

But the British, who had a greater sense of crisis than their predecessors, completed the layout one step earlier than the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty and the French were at odds with each other in the central and northern parts of Northern Yinzhou and the colonial development of Mozhou.

The Ming Dynasty and the Ottomans had the most direct territorial wars in the Great Food region.

There is a contradiction between the Ming and Lucia in the demarcation of continental borders and the influence of cultural infiltration.

The Ming Dynasty had deep historical contradictions with the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal, and there were practical contradictions in the ownership of the colonies of Yinzhou in the north and south.

There was a competitive contradiction between the Ming Dynasty and Austria, Sardinia, and Prussia in the development of new colonies in Mexico.

The intention of the Ming Dynasty to completely control the trade routes between the East and the West also contradicted all the countries of Taixi.

The British took advantage of these contradictions, gave full play to their long-sleeved ability to dance, and successfully organized the "Anti-Ming Alliance."

Under the threat of the giant enemy of Da Ming, the entire Tessie was reluctantly united for the first time.

After the outbreak of this world-class war, both sides fought with great difficulty, and basically did not achieve obvious practical results.

However, the Taixi people were a little surprised, and found that as long as they worked together, they could also fight with Daming, which contributed to the rise of the Taixi national ideology.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long......

After the war turned into a war of attrition, the Tessie people found themselves weak in succession, while the Ming obviously still had the strength to use it.

So, the anti-Ming alliance led by the British made a decision to try to negotiate peace.

In the face of an enemy like Daming, a tie is considered a victory!

Now that the Ming Dynasty has agreed to negotiate peace, the British are a little unbelievable, after all, they were almost sold.

At the same time, I am worried that the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain will not believe that this is really sold.