Chapter 440: Go to the West and ask Cardinal Richelieu to come
The Tokugawa family's trip to Europe was unsuccessful.
Instead, he was borrowed by the Yin family to lay eggs and almost colluded with European powers to defeat himself. It also happened that Tokugawa Ieyasu died of illness before the mission returned, otherwise he would have died of anger when he heard the news.
Tokugawa Hidetada heard some rumors, but at that time, in order to stabilize the more "loyal" Yin Dajia, he regarded this incident as a rumor.
The merchants who returned from visiting the Americas were not taken seriously by the Tokugawa shogunate, and lost the opportunity to enter the Americas. Later, the invasion of backward China was very active, which shows what kind of vision the Japanese people had.
However, there are also some people who have been secretly bought by Yan Siqi, and now the map of the Americas has become the bag of coastal governors such as Wang Hongyu, Xiong Tingbi, and Nan Juyi.
In the future, when he opened up the Americas, he recruited cheap labor from Wajima.
Yin Da Masamune had his own small calculations, but he didn't want to be just a foreign daimyō, although he reached an agreement on economic exchanges with large European powers, but because the Sendai daimyo was too small, no big man took him seriously.
Now the opportunity has finally arrived.
The Sendai clan borrowed the power of the Later Golden Emperor Taiji to let the Shimazu family in the southwest rush to the front and pick peaches from behind. Then united with Houjin and European foreign aid to deal with Daming.
He, Yoon Da Masamune, will achieve feats that Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu can't think of, let alone do.
Tsunecho Zhikura, who deeply understood his plan, traveled to Hokkaido and held a conspiracy meeting with Fan Wencheng, who had crossed the sea.
Fan Wenchen, the envoy of Houjin, was resourceful, although he knew more about Daming and had confronted Wang Hongyu, a rising rookie in Daming, and now there was nothing he could do.
The result of the negotiation was that it could not be defeated at all, and the Netherlands was useless, and more powerful foreign aid had to be found.
The female cadres sent by Fan Wenchen often reported to him some information about the Ming court, but they never got clues about Wang Hongyu's major layout, and could only obtain some outdated information from the periphery, which was generally of little use.
The most valuable information recently is that Wang Hongyu is about to meet with Ace Duck to reach an agreement, and the Roman faction behind Ace Duck supports Da Ming.
At present, he can only look for support from the hostile forces of Rome in Europe, and he can only analyze the situation in Europe from what he learned about it in Europe seven years ago and the information provided by merchants in recent years.
Tsunecho Zhikura had been to Europe, and he knew that there was a country that was strong enough to deal with the Ming Dynasty.
Fan Wencheng guessed: "Could it be England, but I heard that England is about the same strength as the Netherlands, and it also has the intention of getting along with the Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid England can't do it, right?"
"Of course it's not England. England and the Japanese are both island countries, and their strength is just about the same. Now it is the second most powerful country in Europe, and it must be another power that can deal with the Ming Dynasty."
Fan Wencheng couldn't guess.
Tsunecho Zhikura said proudly, "Franca, the second most powerful country in Europe."
"Francha?"
França is the transliteration of France, which was recorded in the Ming Dynasty at that time.
Tsunecho Shikura said excitedly, "Francha's knights are super powerful, and there are a large number of excellent musketeers. Even more powerful is their king."
"Oh? How powerful is it?"
"Ten years ago in França, there was a king who gave his people one chicken a week."
"What!?" Fan Wencheng was shocked.
Tsuneko Zhikura saw his shock: "You heard it right, now Henry IV, the founder of the França Bourbon dynasty, has achieved one chicken per week in every house in the country.
And for a long time, in terms of military strength, it was only under the Ace Duck. If you don't count the navy, then it's definitely not weaker than the Ace Duck."
Oops!
Fan Wencheng thought to himself, this Francha feels much more powerful than Houjin, if I can hook up over there, I am willing to lead the way~
He hurriedly asked, "Who is Francha now the ruler of the country?"
"The lord of the kingdom doesn't care, but there is a prime minister, nicknamed Cardinal, named Richelieu, who can deal with Wang Hongyu."
Cardinal Richelieu, during his dominance, passed through the nobles
The extreme squeeze and control of the power of the clan and clerical classes, as well as the total centralization of power over the political system, the structure of government, the legal system, the building of the army and the development of the economy.
He succeeded in pooling Francha's forces and laid a very firm foundation for the continental hegemony of Louis XIV.
At the same time, Richelieu was one of the greatest diplomats on the European continent.
Through a series of wonderful diplomatic efforts, he led the Thirty Years' War that swept Europe, and thus ended the century-long hegemony of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg dynasty of Esbanya, and finally planned the balance of power on the European continent for the next nearly two hundred years at the diplomatic table.
There is no doubt that Richelieu is arguably one of the greatest diplomats, statesmen and strategists in European history, and a representative figure of the 17th century.
Fan Wencheng and Changchang Zhicang reached an agreement to go to the West to invite Cardinal Richelieu to deal with the terrible Wang Hongyu.
But Richelieu has only been in power for a year, and now he is pushing Sweden to fight a fierce war with the HRE on the one hand, and on the other hand, he is guarding against the Ace Duck. Thirty years of war in Europe have only been fought for one year, how can he have the energy to participate in the struggle for hegemony in the East?
At present, the cooperation between Daming and Ace Duck is mainly economic cooperation, Franc and Ace Duck fight for money, and Ace Duck's economic sources are mainly silver and trade in South America.
As long as Ace Duck can maintain in-depth economic cooperation with the world's largest economy, Daming, Ace Duck will be invincible. The premise is that the Ace Duck can no longer make enemies on all sides.
"Cardinal Richelieu, França, why would he help us?"
"Because of Ace Duck. The biggest enemy of França and Richelieu is the Aceban Duck, and the two countries have a war of national fortunes, and Richelieu and Esplate Duck's prime minister, Olivares, are on the rise for a while, and they will eventually be separated."
"I see~"
Huang Taiji knew that Da Ming was about to cooperate with Ace Plate Duck.
In order to deal with Ace Duck, Nafranca will definitely consider developing a potential ally with the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, the Houjin and the Wa Kingdom.
Fan Wenchen and Changchang Zhicang were not good at asking Li Selieu to deal with Wang Hongyu.
Even if their masters' masters, Huang Taiji and Yin Da Masamune, are not easy to do, but they can quickly go to the sea and cede a large area of land and wealth~
Didn't Francha envy the colonies and silver of the Plate Duck?
The Kansai Maori family of the Wa Kingdom has one-third of the world's silver, do you want Richelieu? With one-third, it can compete with half the silver of the Ace Plate Duck.
Didn't França envy Banya, Portugal and the Netherlands for engaging in oriental trade?
If Huang Taiji, the successor of the Later Jin, promised to give some southern land to França after the destruction of the Ming Kingdom, and directly produce porcelain and tea, wouldn't this directly surpass Portugal and the Netherlands?
Anyway, the Kansai of Wadao and the southern part of the Ming Kingdom are very far away from Yin Da Zhengzong and Huang Taiji, and they are all sent out.
It depends on what Wang Hongyu should do?