Last time, it was mentioned that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen "drove the expedition in person" and established the "Oriental Sea Capital Division" after pacifying the Wa Kingdom with absolute strength, but it made the West panic.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty's eastward expedition to Japan caused panic in the "Western world" was, on the one hand, mainly because the Ming army's weaponry, tactical system, tactical thinking, and comprehensive combat power far exceeded imagination, and it was simply extremely powerful; On the other hand, the people of the Ming Dynasty did not believe in Western "religions", but believed in "pragmatism", that is, whether it was "Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism", "monotheism", "polytheism" or any religion, as long as it could strengthen the monarchy's rule and bind the people.

At the same time, in the process of conquering the Japanese kingdom in the east, the Ming Dynasty more or less embarrassed and even punished the unpopular "Westerners", such as "missionaries", "Cossacks", "pirate groups", etc. After these "Westerners" hit their noses in the East and go back to the dust, they will definitely hype up that "something big has happened" in the East.

As a result, the "Ming Dynasty", which had originally gone through more than three years of "New Deal", gradually attracted the attention of Western forces such as the "Dutch East India Company", the "British East India Company", the "Spanish Navy", and the "Tsarist Cossacks" in its trade with overseas vassals. This makes it seem that the "Western powers", which are already full of contradictions and wars with each other, have decided to put aside their hatred first, and compromise with each other after reining in each other, in order to obtain huge profits in the East?

After all, the current Ming Dynasty, which is "sharp" and "like the sky", is not the previous Ming Dynasty that "the rivers are declining" and "stormy", which not only completely subdued the nomads in the north, but also completely wiped out the "Japanese Invaders" who had plagued China's coastal areas for three hundred years. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also restored the rule of the "Han and Tang dynasties" in the Western Regions and became the "leader of the Western Regions".

Time passes, time passes. The "Ming Dynasty" in this different time and space came to the "Chongzhen Ten Years" in a blink of an eye, that is, in 1637. However, just when the Ming Dynasty was marching eastward against Japan, the Dutch, known as the "sea coachman", took the opportunity to harass the coastal areas of Fujian in the "sixth year of Chongzhen", and used force to coerce the "Dayuan" (Taiwanese) natives to build cities for themselves, and at the same time maintained trade with Japan, and unprecedentedly asked the "Tokugawa Shogunate" to claim refuge in Nagong.

Emperor Chongzhen ordered that he should be severely punished because the "Hongmaoyi" (Dutch colonists) dared to cause trouble on their own territory! In the end, the "Admiral of Fujian" ("Zheng Zhilong") led the "Ming Dynasty Naval Division" ("Zheng Jiajun") to defeat the Dutch several times in a row, and completely controlled the entire East Asian sea and the South China Sea route.

As for the "Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan" that occurred in a different time and space, it did not appear in this time and space, because the Ming Dynasty had already leveled Japan at this time, and decided to start westward along the route of "Zheng He's voyage to the West", while preaching the "national prestige of the Ming Dynasty", while resuming "tributary trade".

At the same time, the "colonial strongholds" established by Western colonists in Southeast Asia, such as "Spain", "Portugal", "Dutch", "British", and "French", were forcibly requisitioned by the "Ming Dynasty sailors" with "strength".

The Ming Dynasty's move was extremely provocative, because at this time and space, Zhu Youzhen, the "Chongzhen Emperor", unexpectedly obtained all the memories and emotions of the "Nobel Prize", and knew that Europe would usher in the "Renaissance" after stepping out of the shadow of the Middle Ages, and the "British Empire" and "Tsarist Russia" must be the "Western colonizers" who caused the greatest harm to the ancient Chinese country. Therefore, in order to suppress the "Renaissance" that is about to emerge in the West, Emperor Chongzhen of this time and space decided to adopt "driving wolves and tigers".

The so-called "driving the wolf and the tiger" is to provoke a "European war" on the pretext of promising to help the "little henchman" of "Portugal" unify the "Christian world" by force and dominate the European market, so that the emerging British, French, German, Tsarist Russia and other forces will have a war with the old Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy due to the friction of interests, and promise to send the "navy" (Daming Navy) to help the war at a critical moment, but the condition is to let Europe return to the "Middle Ages".

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen also issued an edict to let the "Ministry of Rites" Xiaoyu and the countries of the Western Regions and the Mobei Steppe keep a close eye on the colonists of the "Rakshasa Country" (Russia), and anyone who found that the "Cossack" cavalry came to plunder the local nomadic tribes should immediately report to the imperial court and send troops to encircle and suppress them in time, and never tolerate the traitors.

The nomadic tribes who took refuge in "Tsarist Russia" were resolutely requisitioned, with the aim of forcing the "Cossacks" to retreat because they had not been given money for a long time. Therefore, whether it is the "Cossacks" of Tsarist Russia or the Mongolian "nomads", surrender without killing, and those who resist die, because the imperial court vows to drive Tsarist Russia back to Europe!

After arranging these things, Emperor Chongzhen still felt that it was not satisfactory, so he ordered the six Shangshu to do a good job in drought relief and disaster relief, encourage production, help the poor, punish evil and promote good, and appease the people, especially the "Ministry of Industry" and "Ministry of War" to manage the construction of water conservancy, roads, bridges, recruit troops, buy horses, and manufacture weapons, because through the Eastern Expedition to the Wa Kingdom, Emperor Chongzhen found that plundering the resources and wealth of other countries is far more cost-effective than his own production.

After all, it is the sum of the social wealth accumulated by Japanese society for thousands of years, just gold, silver, jewelry, utensils, tombs, palaces, houses, weapons, ammunition, ships, chariots and horses, population, grain, silk, cloth, agricultural tools, acres of land, minerals, forests, etc., the value is enough to be as much as 1.4 billion taels of silver!

The "cash" such as gold, silver, and treasures exceeded 100 million yuan, which was just transported back to the national treasury as a "reserve" so as not to have no money to buy grain in the year of famine. Of course, Emperor Chongzhen felt that this huge amount of money could actually be distributed to the "Daming Qianzhuang" and "Daming Pawn" semicolons set up in various places, and used to deal with the "fake money" (official silver) issued in large quantities in the early years, because these "fake money" were all made of "barite" spells, and the validity period was only ten years, and they must be recycled for scrapping!

At this time, the "Chongzhen Emperor" was like a fish in water in dealing with internal affairs and foreign affairs, and soon received the "good news", because the "European powers" really fought one after another because they seized each other's "colonies", and Portugal took the opportunity to launch a war to "unify Christendom with the eradication of heretics" in the name of the "Holy See", and with the support of "strong foreign aid", before the "powers" could react, they had already subdued all the countries bordering the Mediterranean.

As a result, the navies of Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Italy and other countries, which were in the ascendant of capitalism, were crushed by the "incomparably powerful" attack power of the Portuguese navy. As a result, these countries were forced to sign a series of "unequal treaties" with Portugal that humiliated the country. The Treaty stipulated that these countries must completely renounce all their colonies overseas and that they would regard Portugal as their "suzerain" in their faith.

At the same time, after a series of wars and getting richer and richer, Portugal actually had the courage to go to the east coast of the "Mediterranean" to "play the field", you know, it was the territory of the "Ottoman Empire", a world power spanning the three continents of "Europe, Asia and Africa", and the other side was powerful.

However, the originally imagined "world war" did not happen, because the "Ottoman Empire" had to start weighing whether to fight this war after learning that the "big brother" standing behind Portugal was the "Ming Empire" in the east. If you win, it's fine, but if you lose, you will not only have to cede the land and pay compensation, but your "international status" will eventually be lost. However, the "Islamic gene" in the blood of the Turks played a role, fighting!

This battle lasted for three years, and in many cases, it was the Ming Dynasty sailors who personally fought for the Portuguese, and relied on their own strong strength to defeat the arrogant Turks, and finally firmly occupied the Red Sea coast and Egypt's "Alexandria".

At this time, the "Balkan Peninsula" in southeastern Europe and Egypt in northeastern Africa, which were originally controlled by the "Ottoman Turk" Empire, were also taken by force by the Portuguese, and the power of the "Ottoman Turkish Empire" is now limited to "Asia Minor" on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty and the Portuguese brothers decided to build a "canal" in the part of Egypt that connects the mainland with Asia, which is used to connect the "Mediterranean" and the "Red Sea". From then on, the "Western powers" set off from the east coast of the "Atlantic", passed through the "Mediterranean" and crossed this "canal", they could enter the "Red Sea" and sail into the "Arabian Sea" in the "Indian Ocean", and then follow the navigation route of "Zheng He's voyage to the Western Ocean" through the "Strait of Malacca" to reach the Ming Dynasty.

This is the fastest water passage for the Ming Dynasty ships to sail into Europe, which is more than half of the previous voyage along the African coast around the "Cape of Good Hope", which is not only conducive to the Ming Dynasty's various handicraft products sold to European countries in large quantities in exchange for gold and silver, but also monopolizes this trade route with "Portugal" and sets up checkpoints everywhere to collect "tolls", suffocating the "industrial capitalism" of the West in the bud, and allowing the world to enter the era of "Xiuzhen civilization"!

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I'm sorry, as the original author of "this book", I regret to tell you that because I am too busy with work, I don't have enough rest time to write for hobbies, so it seriously affects the update speed of this book. In addition, the book almost did not achieve the expected goals in terms of conception, layout, logical reasoning, writing style, character portrayal, scene description, and how to highlight the theme idea, so I had to give up.

However, before giving up on "this book" completely, I will try my best to condense the subsequent "outline" and use the method of "dragonfly and water" to pass it through, so as not to be banned for being suspected of too many sensitive topics, and I will not have to spend too much time quoting materials to "decorate the façade", which makes people feel nondescript.

But in this way, the "book" will be pressed the "fast forward button", the number of chapters will be greatly reduced, and the regrets left behind can only be filled by time. However, if the conditions permit in the future, I think I will still take the time to try to continue to create the "Heaven and Earth Let Me Go" series" book, so that all "Taoist friends" will not have regrets!

Of course, as a "resident work", you must abide by the rules of the "website platform", do not write those things that are not allowed to be written, and try not to cause trouble to others!