After listening to Sofia's words, Peter's brows were still furrowed, as if he still couldn't forget his "Dream of Eastern Rome."

"Peter," Queen Sophia looked at her younger brother and said earnestly, "Constantinople's interests are too great. Unless Rakshasa becomes a powerful country that can compete with the Frank Empire, it will be impossible to own this Eastern Roman city.

The thousand-year imperial capital!”

Peter nodded and said: "Sofia, I also know the value of Constantinople, and I also believe that Louis the Great will not let it go easily... but Louis also asked us to impose trade sanctions on the Ming Dynasty!

Constantinople is a bargaining chip in exchange for us sending troops to attack Türkiye and participate in sanctioning the Ming Dynasty!

If we don’t want Constantinople…then how am I going to push for trade sanctions?”

"Trade sanctions?" Sophia was stunned, "To Ming Dynasty? Doesn't Louis need Ming Dynasty's perfume and garlic medicine anymore?"

Yinti on the side interjected: "Sou'eniang, Emperor Louis and Urban IX have been claiming during this time that Christians cannot make deals with countries that believe in the devil for money, as this will make them lose their souls in the end!"

"Hmph!" Sophia snorted, with disdain on her face.

"They also said that trade with the Ming Dynasty would make the Ming Dynasty richer and more powerful, but would not benefit Europe at all. Most of the goods that Europe now purchases from the Ming Dynasty can be produced by themselves or purchased from India.

to similar products…”

Sophia interrupted Yinti and asked: "Does anyone believe this kind of nonsense?"

Peter I replied for Yinti: "Even the Netherlands and England have expressed support for this...James II and William III both said that they cherish the soul more than money!"

"Yinti," Sofia asked Yinti again, "have you figured out what conspiracy the British and Dutch are engaged in?"

It seems that she doesn’t believe that the English and Dutch will not want money at all!

"Not yet..." Yinti said, "But I guess...Louis and Urban may want to use trade sanctions to monopolize trade with the Ming Dynasty."

"How to monopolize?"

Yinti said: "The Holy See can perform exorcisms on Ming Dynasty products... This kind of thing has been done several times!"

"What about England and Holland?"

"Firstly, they want to use their own inferior goods to fill the gap after the withdrawal of Ming Dynasty goods; secondly, they may be smuggling trade ideas."

"Smuggling?" Sophia asked, "How to get there?"

Yinti said: "Both countries have colonies in India... and both are located on the chokepoint of East-West trade.

Commodities shipped east of the Strait of Malacca, as well as commodities shipped from Bangladesh and Myanmar, are generally transited there. As long as the packaging of those commodities is changed, they can be shipped to Europe as Indian commodities."

"You are indeed a profiteer!" Sophia snorted, "Peter, you can do the same thing.

Just say that the white sugar produced in the Ming Dynasty is Mongolian white sugar, and I will ask Kangxi Khan to give you a certificate!"

...

Palace of Versailles, King's Suite, Drawing Room.

While Queen Sofia, Peter I, and Prince Zhijun were discussing how to get some tangible benefits from Louis the Great in the Trianon Palace, Louis the Great was talking to Pope Urban IX.

, Archbishop de la Magarra of Mexico City, Minister of State Leonardo, the Duke of Luxembourg and John Churchill, who had just been promoted to General of the English Army, were discussing the situation on the Mexican battlefield.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty the Pope, the Aztec rebels on the battlefield in Mexico are currently based at Lake Chapala near the city of Guadalajara, and are slowly but surely advancing towards Leon, northwest of Mexico City...

..."

The person who was pointing at a map of the situation in Mexico and introducing the situation on the Mexican battlefield to Louis the Great and Urban IX was John Churchill.

"What does slow and firm mean?" Churchill was interrupted by an old man with a sharp nose, a thin body, and a slight hunchback. This old man had a very long name, Francois-Henri de Monts.

Morency-Boutville. According to the basic rule of Europeans in this era, the longer the name, the better the person. This bad old man is also a good person. He is the "Short Big Condé" and after the death of the tall and powerful Marshal Dureny,

France's leading general, Marshal the Duke of Luxembourg. Like the Grand Condé, he is Europe's leading mobile warfare master. Not only did he follow his cousin "The Grand Condé" in the Franco-Dutch War and made great achievements, he also served in the war.

In the late period, he replaced "Grand Condé" as the commander-in-chief of the French army, and also served as the commander-in-chief of the allied forces in the later Frankish-Turkish War.

But even such a great military expert doesn’t understand what “slowly but firmly advance” means?

"Duke," Churchill explained, "the so-called slow and steady means to advance while building fortifications, and at the same time use extremely barbaric means to destroy the social order near the fortification area!"

It turned out that the Indian Zhuge Liang and Huang Feiyu, who had a feather fan and turban, adopted a step-by-step advancement method on the battlefield east of Lake Chapala. The advancement speed can only be described as a tortoise speed. In the past few months, the average daily advancement

The distance was less than a quarter of a Spanish mile (two to three miles), and after walking for more than a hundred days, the army approached the city of Leon - so slowly, of course, it did not mean walking every day, but walking in stops and starts.

After walking less than ten miles, when they stopped, they built forts and divided the fields against God!

Even though they move slowly, the damage they cause is not small at all!

"How come they are extremely barbaric?" The Duke of Luxembourg has been fighting for a lifetime and has seen too many barbaric things, and he is also very barbaric! But even a barbaric old man like him dare not say that he is "extremely barbaric", so he

Just ask Churchill, what does this extreme barbarity look like?

Leonard, the Frankish Minister of Foreign Affairs, quickly interjected and asked: "Are these evil Aztecs sacrificing human blood again? This is a quite appalling crime!"

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "No, they did not do that," Admiral Churchill said, "In fact, they did something even more excessive and barbaric!"

"What?" The Duke of Luxembourg was taken aback. He crossed himself on his chest and asked with a trembling voice, "They, they don't eat human flesh, do they? This is really terrible!"

"No!" Churchill still shook his head, "It's even more terrifying!"

"Isn't it? More terrifying?"

"Then, what did they do?"

Although Leonardo and the Duke of Luxembourg are not good people, and they have done many things that deserve to go to hell in their lives - but the Pope has forgiven them on behalf of God! But they really can't imagine anything worse than blood sacrifice to human beings and feasting.

There are more serious atrocities against living people.

"They... confiscated all the land and other property belonging to the church, Spanish nobles, white and mulatto white landowners, and then divided the land equally among the poor Indians, and at the same time declared that all debts of these poor people were forgiven! In addition,

, they also expelled all Catholic priests, banned Catholicism, and blatantly promoted an evil religion that worshiped the devil and taught people to go to hell!" John Churchill gritted his teeth when talking about these evil deeds, "Obviously,

These evil deeds cannot be committed by King Montezuma and the ignorant Indians. Behind them must be the Ming Emperor, because the route implemented by King Montezuma in Mexico is a complete replica of the Ming Dynasty's land equalization system!"

"Oh God! It's terrible! What do the demons of Ming Dynasty want to do?"

"Does that need to be said? This devil must want to subvert the world created by God. He wants to turn the world into hell!"

Foreign Minister Leonhard and the Duke of Luxembourg were both frightened by the atrocities of the Aztecs - they were not afraid of being captured and eaten by the Indians, because this was impossible. And one always sacrificed human blood,

A barbaric regime that kills a few people from time to time to improve their lives has no future and cannot threaten the rule of white Europeans in the Americas.

According to reliable information, the number of Chinese in North America, including the Shang people and the Yin family, is only over one million, and the number of Indians ruled by them is not large, and hundreds of thousands died of smallpox.

! The Yin Shang people and savages together are estimated to be less than two million. With this number, how much land can they occupy? Therefore, Leonardo and the Duke of Luxembourg are not worried about the Shang country occupying the entire New World. They can occupy the north of Mexico

The small half of North America (the west) is already at its limit. Further expansion... will be difficult to achieve using methods consistent with the principles of colonialism.

Because the core principle of colonialism is the slaughter, dispossession and enslavement of indigenous residents!

It means first massacring all those who dare to resist, then depriving the indigenous subjugated slaves who obeyed the colonizers of all or part of their property, and finally making these indigenous subjugated slaves into dog minions or slaves of the colonizers.

The Europeans have almost reached the "slavery stage" in New Spain and Peru. Especially in New Spain and Peru, they have now established a hierarchical system of first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades, and have completed the entire process from spiritual to economic.

Orientation slavery and control.

It can be said that it was done quite well!

In New France, the European colonists were still in the early stages of massacre... Because the number of French colonists was too small, and they had to obtain furs from a group of Indian safari people, the French did not even massacre.

It's not done on a large scale, it's a bit careless, but it's quite in line with the slowness of the French.

In New England, of course, it was a different situation...the indigenous people basically disappeared, and the Protestants and Puritans were very efficient in doing things! So the white colonists there had to import a large number of black slaves for agricultural production.

. Of course, in the early Spanish colonies in the Caribbean, there were also situations where the massacre was too violent and black labor had to be used.

As for the Brazilian colonies under Portuguese rule, massacre, dispossession and enslavement were carried out in a chaotic and inefficient manner. In some places, the massacre was so thorough that black slaves were brought in to work! In other places, Indians

The indigenous people were converted into Christians, and some even joined the Vanguard Flag Team, the pioneering organization of the white colony, and went to the interior to kill people and set fires! In the vast interior of Brazil, colonial rule has not yet been established...yet

What a mess!

However, Portugal is in chaos even in its homeland, so don't expect them to be more orderly in Brazil. However, the principles of the Portuguese colonists in Brazil are still based on massacre, dispossession and enslavement.

However, in the New World, the Ming Dynasty was pursuing a route that seriously challenged the existing colonial order and international zero-dollar purchase rules... What they did in Mexico cannot even be called colonization, but should be called liberation!

And it was not only the Indian nation that was liberated, but also Indian serfs, farmers, and slaves!

The oppression of serfs and peasants by aristocratic landowners not only existed in the New World, but also widely existed in the Old World. Moreover, the degree of oppression was not at all reduced because of the skin color and religious beliefs of the serfs and peasants in the Old World.

If the Indian serfs and farmers in the New World can get rid of the enslavement of feudal landlords... then why can't the white serfs and farmers in the Old World also divide the land of the noble landlords? Is it possible that they are lower than the Indian serfs and farmers?

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Since Mexico was once a part of the Catholic civilization, its connection with the European continent is much closer than the Ming Dynasty's connection with Europe. Europeans may not necessarily know what kind of social changes occurred in the Ming Dynasty, but they will soon know what happened in the Ming Dynasty.

Upheaval in Mexico.

"The Aztecs must be destroyed!" Louis XIV said to Archbishop de la Magarra of Mexico City, "but I am now preparing to unite with the Rakshasa, the Polish and German states, and the Italian states.

Go attack the Ottoman Empire..." At this point, he turned back and asked the Duke of Luxembourg, "Duke, how many troops can we spare for the New World?"

The Duke of Luxembourg pretended to calculate for a while, then stretched out a dry palm and said, "Five thousand...up to five thousand!"

Louis XIV nodded, "Okay, send everyone to support Leopold." He looked at de La Magarra again, "Cardinal, besides war, does Leopold I have any other means?

Stabilize the Shang Dynasty? Without the support of the Shang Dynasty, the Aztecs would be vulnerable."

"Your Majesty, Emperor Leopold does intend to negotiate peace with the Shang Kingdom. He is also planning to select a noble lady in Europe who is both beautiful and intelligent, and is willing to devote herself to God. Among them is the emperor's adopted daughter, Countess Maria Elizabeth.

Marry the monarch of the Shang Kingdom in exchange for a short period of peace."

Louis XIV nodded and said: "Have you made your selection? There should be no such person in the Habsburg family, right?"

De La Magala shook his head: "Indeed... there is no Habsburg anymore."

Louis XIV turned around and glanced at Pope Urban IX. The Pope immediately said: "Brother de la Magala, leave this matter to me... The Holy See will definitely find someone like this."
Chapter completed!