The Ming Cabinet urgently convened an enlarged meeting of the Cabinet, and the Prime Minister, all the members of the Cabinet, the secretaries and servants of the Ministries, as well as the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the courts, including the directors and deputy directors of the provincial management committees, the generals of the Ming Royal Army Brigade and above, the generals of the naval detachment and above, the commanders of the garrison areas, and the Si'an Metropolitan Protector, all went to Beijing for a meeting.

Of course, because the Ming Dynasty is now too big, even if there is radio communication, it will take ten days and half a month to rush to Beijing from the farthest place, which is still the case of a complete post station, to say that the farthest must be Anbei Metropolitan Hulu Xiangsheng, although he is the farthest, but the problem is that because the first railway of the Ming Dynasty was built directly to Hanhai Province.

After two days and three nights of steam train, Lu Xiangsheng was the first to arrive in the capital, and in the capital, he saw the headline on the front page of the "Ming Empire Times", the signed article of the Ming Emperor Cheng Shijie "The Ming Empire officially declares war on the United Kingdom of the Netherlands"

"Just before yesterday, the Ming Empire Cabinet, as well as the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of International Trade, and the Customs, on the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Ming Empire to carry out friendly negotiations, although the process of negotiations is somewhat divided, but it is in the direction of the friendship between the people of the Ming and the Netherlands, but just when the Ming and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands are about to sign a friendship agreement, just yesterday, the Dutch East India Combined Fleet shamelessly launched a sneak attack on the Ming Empire's Coconut City Fleet......"

"As the emperor of the Ming Empire, I am very guilty, I was deceived by the shameful Dutch, they took advantage of my desire to end the war, seek peace psychology, take advantage of the Ming navy is defenseless, kill us, I am very sorry to tell your subjects, the Ming losses are very serious, sixteen warships, forty-three merchant ships, countless Ming soldiers and civilians have been shamefully attacked, the Ming is bleeding, the Ming suffered from the invasion of the Dutch......"

Lord Francisco de Mello did not read the full text, but he was very puzzled: "The Dutch have been kicked in the brain by a donkey, and they are attacking the Ming Empire at this time?" ”

"Your Excellency, this is in the interests of the Spanish Empire, and now the Ming Empire will definitely not swallow this breath, they will definitely retaliate against the Dutch!"

Lord Francisco de Mello said worriedly: "A small Netherlands, I'm afraid it won't be able to satisfy the appetite of the Ming Empire!" ”

Originally, the cabinet of the Ming Empire was not satisfied with Cheng Shijie's desire to intervene in the European battlefield, but the problem was that with the Dutch's sneak attack on Coconut City Port, of course, the so-called losses reported in the newspapers must have expanded, and they were also expanded dozens of times, in fact, the Dutch's sneak attack only caused heavy damage to the four Seawolf-class warships that were being overhauled, and there was almost no repair value.

Among them was the C giant shark, the first-class whale shark-class warship was slightly damaged, and as for the more than forty merchant ships that were sunk, this was the accident ship of the whole year in the sixth year of Dingxin, no matter where the accident occurred, the merchant ships were counted on the heads of the Dutch, on the contrary, Batavia, which the Dutch had operated for decades, has been completely turned into ruins.

More than 6,000 of the nearly 20,000 Dutch soldiers, businessmen and their families in Batavia were killed and more than 10,000 wounded, including the servants, and the rest were all captured by Li Weiluan.

Now the officials of the Ming Dynasty are almost one-sided, shouting: "Go to war!" War! ”

As a result, the proposal of the prime minister of the Ming cabinet to use troops against the Netherlands was passed with an absolute majority of votes, and the collision between the Netherlands and the Ming was inevitable.

At the same time as the proposal for the use of troops by the Netherlands, the cabinet also approved the proposal for arms sales to Venice and arms sales to the Spanish Empire, and to sell to Venice 100 Seawolf-class warships, which were equipped with 24 three-inch naval guns and not four-inch naval guns, which meant that this was a huge arms sale totaling 2,400 three-inch naval guns.

This moved Catherine to tears, how many years of waiting finally came to this end, of course, what Catherine didn't know was that this was a foreign trade version of the Wolf Sea-class battleship.

This kind of naval cannon is not the high manganese steel naval gun equipped by the Ming Dynasty, but is made of soft bronze casting, with four left group rotating rifling, no matter the power or range, and the Ming Dynasty's own version is not in the same dimension, of course, with a total of 160,000 shells.

As for wanting more shells, in fact, there is no need, the bronze cast barrel, after an average of eighty shells, the barrel will be scrapped.

For Spain's arms sales, it includes 160,000 large-caliber or 26-millimeter muskets, and the tap fire muskets are more advanced than the arquebuses that Spain is now equipped with, in addition to 160,000 muskets, it also includes 600 one-foot caliber flying thunder guns.

The improved flying thunder cannon uniformly adopts a one-foot caliber, that is, 315 millimeters, and is fired from a front-loading gun, with a firing range of 500 to 800 meters, and half a company can be wiped out with a single shot.

The power was quite amazing, which took the Spanish Empire by surprise, and it was a big hit......

Although it was decided to declare war on the Netherlands, Cheng Shijie considered that the distance from Daming to the Netherlands was too far, and Daming did not dare to send too many troops.

The first is to choose to attack the Dutch-controlled East Indies, under the suggestion of Cheng Shijie, Zhou Ning formulated another set of plans, in this set of plans, the Ming Dynasty will concentrate the Luzon fleet, the Zhanzhou fleet, and the coconut city fleet, and pull all the three newly established marine brigades to the East Indies, and at the same time recruit 30,000 soldiers from Xiao Benchang, and then transfer more than 60,000 prisoners of war from the Tusi Army and the Annan Army stationed in Annam.

formed the Southeast Asian Legion of the Ming Dynasty, and the Southeast Asian Legion was established, including the army and navy of the Ming Empire, and received the order, Emperor Daming; The entire war machine of the country rumbled and turned.

After more than four months of fighting, the Ming Empire fully occupied the entire territory of the Dutch East India Company, of course, this was only the East Indies.

Although he occupied the whole territory, he did not have direct control, 60,000 Annam prisoners of war and more than 30,000 people served as killing machines, massacring the natives of East India, Cheng Shijie had no good impression of the Indians, and adopted the same strategy as Luzon, leaving land but not people.

Not to mention, the little devils are still with another time and space, there is no humanity at all, they are very cruel, but thinking about the tragedy of another time and space, Cheng Shijie did not change the policy, relying on the implementation of land retention and no people.

Eight months later, that is, in December of the sixth year of Dingxin, Cheng Shijie and Empress Xiang Hui, Zhu Weiyuan, Yang Yunniang, Cheng Jiayue, Cheng Jiayi, Cheng Jiale, Cheng Jiayao, Cheng Jiaheng boarded the mountain train together and went to Terling Province in Northeast Asia for a vacation.

Leaving the prince Cheng Jialong alone to supervise the regent of the country, the fire ox car at this time has been officially called a train, the fire ox car refers to a steam-type four-wheeled truck, although the internal combustion engine has not been successful, but now the steam engine has been quite mature, and the power is getting bigger and bigger, just like this train now.

Cheng Shijie obtained the information from later generations, completely imitating the upstream steam locomotive of later generations, with a vehicle weight of 140 tons, a maximum design speed of 80 kilometers per hour, a maximum power of 3,000 horsepower, and can tow 20 carriages at a time.

Cheng Shizhuo traveled lightly, naturally it was impossible to travel lightly, but followed the Ming Royal Army Guards Brigade, in which four regiments of infantry and artillery, respectively took the lead car Beijing and the guard carriage Tianjin, respectively, and the two cavalry regiments of the Guards Brigade followed the left and right flanks of the railway.

When tens of thousands of Ming troops were still clearing the natives of the East Indies, Cheng Shijie took his wife and children to travel to the ice and snow of Northeast Asia, even if Cheng Shijie left Beijing, the war machine of the Ming Dynasty was rumbling and running, in the reckless yellow sand of Central Asia, in the rainforest that covered the sky and the sun in Southeast Asia, and between the thousands of blue waves in the South China Sea, war flags were fluttering everywhere, and everywhere were the figures of the Ming army and armed immigrants expelling and slaughtering the natives who refused to obey the king.

Looking at the guards cavalry with their heads standing tall and galloping, Cheng Shijie said lightly: "I...... I seem to have opened Pandora's box and unleashed a terrible monster! ”

Xiang Hui said: "I don't know you yet, your mouth is about to crack to the back of your ear, otherwise close this magic box?" Anyway, it's still time. ”

"Shut up? It's impossible! ”

Cheng Shijie said with a complicated expression: "Ai Gong is right, aggression is wrong, and those who say that aggression is right are exterminating human nature, but external expansion is the inevitable way for every country and nation to rise, the sin is in the contemporary, the merit is in the future, now all our positions belong to the Ming Dynasty, and they will always belong to the Ming Dynasty, they don't want the Ming Dynasty to have a good time, I will let them die!" ”

At this time, Cheng Shijie no longer has the calmness and calmness of the past, and he has become ruthless and resolute, and he is decisive in killing.

A large part of Europe has been fighting for more than a thousand years, a plate of scattered sand, there are countless hatreds and grievances between countries, and there is no overall interest, in another time and space, Europa's damage to China is too heavy, and now there are more than 26,000 precious cultural relics in the museum of Great Britain.

After three nights and two days of driving, Cheng Shijie finally arrived in Terin Province, which is the location of the original Daming Nuer Gandu Division, Cheng Jialong is still the first time to go out, so happy, on the ice field of Terling Province, learn to build a snowman and have a snowball fight, and have a very good time with Xiang Hui.

Cheng Shijie climbed the mountain to Sakhalin Island......

By this time, all their overseas colonies in Southeast Asia had been lost, the Dutch had lost even the colony of East Bengal, and of course, they had retained their colonies in Africa and the Americas, and the Dutch could not find allies in Europe, but had to make allies with the Ottoman Empire.

The Dutch sold shipbuilding technology to the Ottoman Empire, and with the population and financial resources of the Ottoman Empire, the Dutch and the Ottoman Empire organized a joint fleet of more than 650 large ships, almost the size of the three Spanish Empire armadas.

On the day of the establishment of the Dutch-Austrian Combined Fleet, they began to show off their might in the Mediterranean, and even pressed directly on Madrid, crushing the Spanish Armada in the harbor and unable to get out, and the Dutch threatened the Spanish Empire that they must recognize their independent status in the Netherlands, otherwise they would destroy the Spanish Armada.

At this time, the Mediterranean fleet of the Ming Dynasty in Venice appeared off the coast of Madrid, and more than 60 Ming and Venetian warships pounced on the Ottoman fleet.

Seeing that the Ming Navy was so self-conscious, the Ottoman admiral shouted excitedly: "It's a good time!" ”

The Spaniards were very happy to see the appearance of Daming, an ally, but the problem was that they were very disappointed when they saw that there were only a few dozen Daming warships, less than one-tenth of the combined fleet of the Netherlands and Austria.

It's just that in the stunned eyes of the Spaniards, small warships appeared in the Ming fleet, these warships seemed to be as slender as canoes, but the tail was spewing flames, and there was only one soldier on it.

The earth-shattering explosion mercilessly tore apart the hull of the Dutch-Austrian Combined Fleet battleship, tearing the Dutch-Austrian Combined Fleet battleship apart if it was not hit. The hail of shells sent a fireball into a battle of the Dutch-Austrian Combined Fleet, which was not hit by the suicide ship.

Two hours later, more than 500 Ottoman warships and more than 100 Dutch warships were reduced to burning garbage, and 31,000 Ottomans and more than 600 Dutch officers were killed.

The Spaniards were amused, and for months after the war they were cooking with the wreckage of the battleship that had washed ashore.

After solving the problem that the Ottoman Empire had finally established to see the Mediterranean fleet, the Ottoman fleet, which was unwilling to fail, directly sent 100,000 troops to attack Crete with the help of the Dutch, preparing to kill the Ming army.

It's just a pity that the artillery of the Ming Army is not much weaker than the navy, and the roaring artillery, the plate armor that the Ottoman warriors are proud of, is no different from the paper paste in front of the artillery, and the gorgeous helmet is thrown high by the explosion wave, and at the same time it is the remains of the Ottoman soldiers......

Such a tragic scene frightened the Dutch-Austrian army, and countless Ottoman warriors, who were known for their bravery, threw away their weapons and ran away, and suffered countless casualties under their own trampling, and the Ming army took the opportunity to attack, and the fields of Crete were full of blood.

The day was black for the Ottoman Empire, with more than 60,000 elite soldiers killed and more than 20,000 taken prisoner, a frightening number.

It is rare for a war between European nations to have such a heavy number of casualties, and the combined Dutch and Ottoman forces, which had been hit hard, hurriedly retreated.

With the defeat of the Ottomans and the Netherlands, everyone now knows that they are in big trouble.

The French commander exclaimed: "Four hundred years later, the terrible Mongols have once again come to Europe, a terrible catastrophe has struck, and Europe is about to shed rivers of blood again!" ”

It's just a pity that the French mistook the identity of the comer, but it's no wonder that in the eyes of Europeans, the yellow race is Mongolian.

However, his prophecy was fulfilled.

The Ming Expeditionary Force Navy arrived in the Mediterranean Sea three months later, and this fleet gathered the Ming Empire's Arthur Fleet, Dayuan Fleet, Luzon Fleet, and Coconut City Fleet, as well as the Pacific Fleet, Atlantic Fleet, and Indian Ocean Fleet, a total of more than 1,000 main warships, and more than 2,000 large armed merchant ships.

The Ming expeditionary fleet and the Spanish allies and the army of Venice, a vassal state, took the lead in attacking the Ottoman Empire, and in just a few months, the Ottoman Empire lost all its colonies, Hungary, Vienna, and Nice During this critical period, there was also a rebellion within the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire ushered in the Sultan of Woman, the most famous of whom was the Sultan of Khosem and his daughter-in-law, Duham Khattijie, who was killed in 1651 by his political enemies for his regency due to the inability of Ibrahim I to govern the country and the accession of the young Muhammad IV to the throne in 1646.

With the loss of overseas colonies, the Ming began to attack the Ottoman Empire from the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, Central Asia, and Africa, and at the same time, the Spanish Empire and the Venetian alliance also launched an attack on the Netherlands itself.

Cities in the Netherlands collapsed under the terrible bombardment of artillery, and black-clad soldiers from the east rushed into the cities with rifles armed with daggers, and those who did not want to surrender found their home under bullets and bayonets.

It took only a month and a half, Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, to announce its surrender, and the whole Netherlands was divided into two, one part belonged to the Spanish Empire, and one part belonged to the Ming Empire.

At this time, France and Britain began to panic, they organized smartly, and pulled the goose into the field, the goose was already very unhappy that the Ming Empire repelled their expansion road, and even hit all the way to the Volga River, they naturally had no reason to object.

So, the world war began, one side was the Spanish Empire and the Ming Empire, of course, Venice and New Netherland, naturally not a country, they were only vassals of the Great Empire, just like Portugal, at this time Portugal saw that the momentum was not right, and no longer pursued independence, and returned to the banner of the Spanish Empire.

On the other side of the battle were the rest of Europe, and with the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, the Ming fleet and the Venetian navy poured out of the harbor and headed for France.

In Normandy, in Toulunburg, they easily crushed the French, known as the first army in Europe, in front of the Ming army was simply vulnerable, and the powerful marines landed in Toulunbao and began to attack the city.

The Spanish fleet rested for a moment before rushing to the British mainland. At this time, Britain still had no real navy, and in a hurry, it could only organize pirates and armed merchant ships, and cobble together more than 200 warships to resist to the death. For such an opponent, Daming and the Spanish fleet were also vulnerable in front of them, and it was at this critical moment.

Originally attached to the British East India Fleet, he broke through the defense line of the British fleet, went straight to London along the Thames, and dumped more than 4,000 shells of naval guns in one breath from London......

Ten years later, Cheng Shijie officially stepped down from the throne and passed the throne to the crown prince Cheng Jialong, Cheng Shijie served as the emperor, after he stepped down as emperor, he took the first ironclad steamship Huang An of the Ming Empire, passed through the base of the Ming Navy, and came to Europe smoothly.

The era of Cheng Shijie has ended, and the era of Cheng Jialong has officially begun, and Cheng Jialong's first task as emperor is to abolish the agricultural tax of more than 2,000 years.

Everyone in the whole world praises Cheng Jialong as a holy monarch and a virtuous monarch.

In fact, at this time, the Ming Dynasty did not need the grain in the hands of the Ming farmers, and the grain production in Xinming was suddenly 70 million tons, even if the Ming Dynasty did not produce any grain, the 200 million people of the Ming Dynasty would not lack food to eat.

After Cheng Jialong announced the exemption of agricultural taxes, the first generation of internal combustion engines of the Royal Institute of Technology of the Ming Dynasty began to be produced, of course, the power is still very small, but it can indicate that the Ming Dynasty has entered the real industrial age......

Ten years have passed, and this European version of the world war has become more and more fierce. The flames of war are raging, countless cities have been razed to the ground, countless young and strong people have fought bloody fields, countless old and old women and children have filled the trenches, new and old hatreds between countries, religious conflicts, ethnic hatreds, territorial disputes......

Thousands of things broke out together, making the war more and more tragic, and in the end, everyone forgot why the war broke out, only knowing that the war was over! (End of chapter)