Chapter Ninety-Three: Da Ming's Butterfly Wings
Ao Bai was helped up by the Jurchens, but this time they did not scold Ao Bai. They have seen Aobai's progress in the past two months, from the beginning of their secret ridicule to their current admiration, Aobai has faintly become the head of these dozen Jurchens in Liu Yifeng's team.
Kim Seung-woo was also cheered by his fellow Goryeo compatriots.
At this time, there was suddenly applause from above, and everyone looked up at Liu Yifeng, who was clapping at the height of the stern.
The shopkeeper Wang and many crew members beside him looked inexplicable, not knowing what Liu Yifeng was doing. And after Feng Shuo and the others saw Liu Yifeng applauding, they also applauded. In a round of applause, Kim Seungyou and Ao Bai, who stood up again, solemnly saluted Liu Yifeng at a high place.
The smart people in the crew are already guessing that this may be a ritual for Liu Yifeng's group, and Shopkeeper Wang is one of them. He looked at the excitement of Ao Bai and Jin Chengyou below, and the envious and affirmative glances that the other Liu Yifeng's team cast at the two while applauding, thinking that this should be a tradition of the Northern Army.
Not to mention, when there were more people applauding, it gave these crew members who saw the applause for the first time a different feeling.
Li Hongji began to use the battle between Ao Bai and Kim Seung-woo as a case study to explain the mistakes and good things that the two did, while Liu Yifeng turned back and continued to chat with Wang's shopkeeper.
Santos put down the strange feeling brought by everyone's applause just now, sneaked to the stern of the boat, and slipped near Liu Yifeng as if he was checking the canvas ropes.
"Shopkeeper Zhang, looking at the appearance of your sons, not all of them have been on the battlefield."
The shopkeeper Wang still knows the goods, Liu Yifeng didn't explain, and said with a smile: "Dongshan Prefecture is too far away, and some brothers have been out for too long and have returned to their hometowns." ”
The small talk between the two didn't have any nutritious content, but Santos's back was full of cold sweat.
It seems that the shopkeeper is a soldier, a Ming soldier went to Rome to see the Pope, and the things behind this have to be said to make him a little frightened.
Although he was a fruit-toothed man, he was with the Dutch people after he went to sea at the age of 13, but he was baptized by the Dutch religion, and believed in Christianity, which was gradually called Protestantism.
In addition, the Fruittooth people all wanted to be independent from the Francis, and Francie claimed to be the guardian of Catholicism and was very hostile to Protestantism, so his position was naturally on the side of Protestantism in this religious war that had been fought for several years.
So when he heard that Liu Yifeng's identity might be a soldier, and he was sure that this person had definitely seen the Pope, he was very anxious and returned to the cabin to find Ewens.
"What! He's still a soldier!? Euns jumped to his feet and rushed out of the cabin.
"What are you doing?" Santos quickly grabbed him.
"I'm going to beg him not to support the Holy See!"
"You are crazy, people are people who can see the Pope, you are a shipwright, how can you convince him?"
"What then?"
"I don't know, let me think again......"
The religious war in these two mouths was the war that later generations called the Thirty Years' War. It was a large-scale Europa state melee that evolved from the civil war of the Holy Roman Empire, and the first all-Europa melee in history.
Although the essence of the war was the contradiction between the countries of Europa competing for interests and establishing hegemony, the cause of the war was indeed the opposition between traditional Catholicism and Protestantism after the Reformation. Therefore, it is also called a religious war.
The war in official history began in 1618 and ended in 1648, but not all the major powers of Europa in the early and middle stages of the war ended, so the scale of the war in the previous years was controllable.
The real opportunity for the all-Europa melee was when France, the land power, personally entered the war.
After the end of France, the Protestant alliance gained momentum, and the Francois Empire, as the main force on the side of the Holy See, had to enter the war.
The result was a complete defeat of the Francois Empire from sea to land, and if it were not for the contradictions between the two Nordic powers, the Protestant Coalition would have almost been declared victorious.
The Thirty Years' War was fought by all the forces on both sides, and an armistice was finally decided.
As the first generation of the empire on which the sun never sets, it can be said that its decline began at this time, and Fruit Tooth also began to revolt in the late Thirty Years' War and finally succeeded in becoming independent.
But this is the history that Liu Yifeng knows.
But this is no longer the history he is familiar with.
The international politics of this era are Asia, Africa and Europe, and the Americas, which have been conquered and calmed down by the Franciscans, are not yet able to influence international politics for the time being.
And international politics is always linked.
The rise of the Ming Dynasty led to great changes in both land and sea, and these changes have successfully affected Europa through decades of fermentation.
The defeat of the Mongol descendants on land made the Ming powerful through merchants, through word of mouth of the kingdoms founded by all Mongol descendants, and crossed the Ural Mountains to Europa.
This led directly to Europa rookies: the Romanov dynasty dismissed plans to colonize the east.
Historically, Siberia was developed by order of the Romanov dynasty, because to the west of it was the powerful Polish-Lithuanian kingdom at its peak. With the more powerful Ottoman Empire to the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north, he could only develop to the east.
But the appearance of the Ming Dynasty stopped him from colonizing Siberia.
At the time of the first Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, the territory of the Romanov Dynasty was already bordering Warat. The fall of the Tatars, the defeat of Warat, and the khanates established by the descendants of the Mongols in Central Asia were all panicked, and the first tsar suddenly hesitated, not knowing whether to continue to colonize the east.
The psychological shadow of the Mongols on them was still there, and at this time the khanates established by several Mongol descendants in Central Asia were still very militant, and it was only at the end of the 17th century that the Russian Tsardom began to deal with these Mongol descendants.
Reality is not a game, and the national focus cannot be determined in a day, but the hesitation of the first tsar did make them pay more attention to the West, so the pressure of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania came.
In the official history, these two countries were divided into two sides in the Thirty Years' War, but they only supported verbally and were responsible for fighting and waving the flag and shouting.
But here, because of the existence of the Ming Dynasty, there were constant contradictions between the Romanov Dynasty and the Polish-Lithuanian Dynasty, and in this religious war that had begun to appear, the two sides still chose one side. But this time, it's not a war of words.
Both countries began to mobilize silently, and the noble lords accordingly called on the knights in the assembled territories, and the ministers urgently visited the surrounding countries to seek support and stability in the rear.
The whole Europa knows that these two countries are just one Mars away from ignition, and now that Europa is in chaos, Mars is the most important thing to do.
The reason why the scale of the entire Europa chaos is even larger than in the official history is caused by the rise of the Ming Dynasty, but this time it is because of the sea.
Zhang Juzheng's reforms in this dynasty allowed the Ming to open the sea ban, and the result was that the expansion of the Ming in the direction of the South Seas was unstoppable, including the first generation of the empire on which the sun never sets.
In the Battle of Luzon, although the Franconians relied on the navy to save their last face, it interrupted the pace of the Francos's colonization of the South Seas. Not only was the pace interrupted, but even the ambition was gone.
In fact, the Francois once wanted to conquer the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the official history or this time and space, but in the official history, their pace of conquering the Ming Dynasty was stopped by the English, and this time and space was stopped by themselves.
At that time, the strength of the Ming Dynasty had already let the Franz people know that it was completely impossible to conquer the Ming Dynasty.
Later, after the Battle of Luzon, Franc knew that in the entire South Seas, he had to act according to the face of the Ming Dynasty.
Although they won the battle on the sea, so what?
Thousands of merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty in the entire South Seas, even if the entire Invincible Fleet is moved to the South Seas, they will not be able to block the coastline of the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty will always be able to rely on merchant ships to send troops ashore sporadically. On land, Da Ming has proven that the Fran machine is not an opponent.
In this case, the sea control will not be controlled, the port will be lost because of the land direction, and in the end, even if the invincible fleet is really moved to the South Seas, it will be consumed little by little because there is no supply port.
Therefore, after the Battle of Luzon, after carefully investigating the situation in Nanyang, Francis chose to abandon Nanyang and only keep Manila, a transit station.
Abandoning the South Seas does not only mean giving up the South Seas, but also the Indian Ocean region and southern Africa. Anyway, there are colonies of the Fruit Tooth people in this area, so they put all their thoughts on the mainland and the Americas.
When the Wars of Religion began, the Francis Empire, the self-proclaimed guardian of the Catholic religion, naturally supported the Holy See and hated the Protestant Alliance.
And because of the retreat of the Francois in Asia, the countries of Europa began to look down on the Francois Empire, which directly caused the Francose Empire to be annoyed and angry. Although it is still not directly ended, the strength of support seems to be more than just verbal support.
Materials, personnel, diplomacy, all kinds of support made the Protestant Union miserable.
This also led to the idea of the Kingdom of France entering the war much earlier than in history.
According to the time, it is now 1625 AD, and the Thirty Years' War is still in the early civil war stage of the Holy Roman Empire, and the various European powers have not yet ended.
But at this time, the two great powers to the east of Europa are already gearing up, and the two great powers to the west are also beginning to stare at each other. The three great powers to the north also began to study when and how they should enter the country to maximize their interests in this religious war of the Holy Roman Empire.
In the past two or three years, the whole of Europa has been filled with an unbreathable depression, feeling that all sides are about to fight at any moment, and all countries are crazy to send ministers and nobles to test each other, promise each other, and betray each other.
This big melee recorded in history is likely to be even more chaotic, because a certain big country in the East instigated its butterfly wings, causing ripples in time and space, and many things changed.