The Ming-Russian War, the life-and-death war between the two empires, attracted the attention of the whole world.

As early as June, when the Ottoman Empire learned that the Ming Emperor had personally led the expedition to Russia, Vizier, who held the imperial seal, immediately summoned all Vizier to participate in state affairs and held a meeting in Kubarti, located in Tokabi Palace, to discuss solutions.

Thirty years ago, the young Muhammad IV ascended the throne, and the Ottoman Empire entered the period of feminism in the Sultan. Government affairs were handed over to the imperial harem and the empress dowager was in power.

It is not new to women in power, but the Queen Mother Ottoman was also very poor in his ability. During the regent, he offended people everywhere and was eventually killed because of his political enemies.

The young queen, who survived, saw her mother-in-law killing with her own eyes, was so scared that she quickly promised that the harem would no longer interfere in the government affairs of the empire. The next step was to bully the orphans and widows.

Since then, the Ottoman Empire has entered the period of the Kopruri family rule. The empire was manipulated by the Great Vizier (equivalent to the prime minister). The sultan (emperor) lost power and created a constitutional monarchy. The meetings were held in the palace.

The helmsman of the Koplulu family was a radical conservative law enforcement officer who restored the central power of the Ottoman Empire and the military power of the empire. His son and family heirs followed his father's route, developed in a lewd manner, and strengthened the army and the country.

This is also the main reason why the Ottoman Empire remained neutral in the face of the Ming Dynasty's advance westward and annexed the Bukhara Khanate and the Safi Empire. They were unwilling to provoke powerful empires and only took advantage of the weak.

The Koprulu family's strategy of revitalizing military power has been quite fruitful. In the past decade, the Ottoman Empire's army has successively won foreign expansion, recapturing Transylvania and conquering the Crete region, and expanding to southern Ukraine.

In June, Vizier sent a secret envoy to France and asked him to ask Louis XIV if he was interested in discussing the issue of the Ming-Russian War.

What surprised Vizier was that Louis XIV's reply was not just "interested", but could be said to be very positive and so aggressive.

He actually proposed to establish an "anti-Ming alliance" to unite the entire Europe and jointly fight against the Ming Empire that was advancing westward!

The senior officials of the Ottoman Empire immediately understood that Louis XIV is very ambitious. Not only do they want to be the eldest brother of the European continent, but they also want to defeat the powerful Eastern Empire!

However, the Ottoman Empire is just trying to do this!

In the past, the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Yarkand Khanate, annexed the Junggar Khanate, destroyed the Kazakh Khanate and the Bukhara Khanate, and then cleaned up the Safi Empire, which had pushed its territory to the Caspian Sea and bordered Europe!

Now they are going to destroy Russia again, what’s next?

In East and South Asia, the Ming Dynasty had destroyed the Qing countries, Japan, Annan, Myanmar, and the Mughal Empire, unified Asia. At present, there is no force in the East that can check and balance them. The Ming Dynasty is likely to expand to Europe!

After Russia, the first ones to be affected may be the Polish and Lithuanian Kingdom, the Swedish Empire, and the Holy Roman Empire.

Of course, no matter where they fight next, the probability of the Ottoman Empire, which borders the Ming Dynasty, is quite high. In the following days, it will definitely be like a stunning person, and I have to be careful.

At this time, the battle between Ming and Russia was a god-given opportunity. If you don’t seize it, the Ottoman will be in danger!

The demise of several empires is vivid in my mind, and the senior officials of the Ottoman Empire do not think that their army is much stronger than the Ming army.

France was the overlord of Europe and a strategic ally of the Ottoman Empire.

More importantly, this kind of loss of national strength must be brought to France, and it is best to bring the whole of Europe!

At that time, France used its rest and diplomatic operations during the Thirty Years' War to become the strongest country in Western Europe.

Especially after Louis XIV was crowned, he studied the "Tianwu New Deal" of the Ming Dynasty, vigorously developed the economy and navy with mercantilism, and cultivated the most "modern" French army with wealth under the control of the absolute monarch.

At this time, France's number of standing troops was already the best in the continental region. If they were allowed to develop on the side, it would be a great threat to the Ottoman Empire.

Just as Vizier was about to send another envoy to France, Louis XIV took the initiative to send people and solemnly invited Ottoman to send special envoys to Paris, France to discuss "the issue of the situation in Europe".

Louis XIV not only invited the Ottoman Empire, but also the Kingdom of England, the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, the Kingdom of Lithuania, and the Swedish Empire...

Except for the Ottoman Empire, several other countries hesitated after receiving invitations.

To be honest, the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of England, far away from the Ming Dynasty, did not understand the "situation" of Europa.

They unanimously agreed that even if Russia was destroyed, the Ming army would be severely damaged and should not move westward again.

At that time, when the main force of the Ming army retreats, they can still grab a share of the pie.

Faced with these short-sighted teammates, Louis XIV had to send special envoys to lobby.

This envoy was no other person, but Xuanye, who ran to Wu Sangui as a strategist and sold Wu Sangui to the French.

After Xuanye ran to France, he met with Louis XIV under the name of "the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty's refugee abroad."

As the saying goes, awesome people can do whatever they go, while Xuanye's two or five boys can do whatever they go.

Louis XIV felt that this young man had good abilities and had made great contributions to France. The most important thing was that he was the "anti-government leader" of the Ming Dynasty. If he made good use of it, he would have a great effect in the future.

So Louis XIV took Xuanye in, named him the Grand Duke of France's Qing Dynasty, and married his illegitimate daughter, "Miss Bruy", to him.

(Zhu Ciyang is nine years older than Louis XIV, and in the book, he is twenty-eight years older than Kang Mazi, and in history he is twenty-five years older)

Xuanye is very eloquent and works very seriously in his work with the new master. Louis XIV's "Anti-Ming Alliance" planned by Louis XIV has many suggestions.

Xuanye first took the train and secretly arrived at the Kingdom of Lithuania in Poland and lobbled for King John III.

The Kingdom of Lithuania in Poland was a confederacy formed by the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was also the largest and most populous country in Europe from the 16th to the 17th centuries.

John III was the king of Poland and served as the Grand Duke of Lithuania. This guy fought with the Swedish army in his early years. Later, he seemed to be unable to defeat him and joined. He became the leader of Poland's expelling the Swedish Empire. He was also appointed as the Grand Marshal and later served as the commander-in-chief of the Polish army.

Later, with the support of Louis XIV of France, John III carried out activities to seize the throne. He was just elected as the King of Poland last year and implemented a pro-French policy during his reign.

It can be said that John III was a dog raised by Louis XIV, which is also the reason why Xuanye chose Poland for the first time.

Without surprise, after learning about Louis XIV's strategic goals, John III made a decision on the spot and formed an "anti-Ming Alliance" with France.

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Xuanye's second stop was the Holy Roman Empire, a European royal family similar to the Eastern Zhou royal family.

The Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Empire had no direct and legal relationship, so they just borrowed the title of the Western Roman Empire.

(Western Roman Empire: 395 AD-476 AD; Eastern Roman Empire: 395 AD-1453 AD)

The Holy Roman Empire was established in 962. King Otto I of the Eastern Frank Kingdom was crowned as the Emperor of the Roman Empire by Pope John XII in Rome.

Out of political influence, the Holy Roman Empire was recognized as the successor of the Western Roman Empire, and later the Eastern Roman Empire also recognized this status.

In fact, the two Roman empires have existed together for five hundred years.

The territory map of the Holy Roman Empire is centered on the German region, roughly equivalent to the entire territory of Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein in the 21st century, Denmark, Czech Republic, Slovakia and most of Hungary, eastern France, western Poland and northern Italy.

The Holy Roman Empire was a great country in medieval Europe with the title of emperor. It was originally the most hopeful to complete the great cause of unification like the Great Qin Empire in the East, but they did not.

The reason for missing this opportunity was entirely due to Emperor Charles IV.

In 1356, Charles IV, who was confused about the destiny of the empire, thought of a wonderful law of inheritance of the throne, so he issued a golden seal edict confirming that the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire must be elected by the seven electoral emperors.

The emperor was elected by a nobleman at a meeting, and this idea is really awesome!

The seven elected emperors, that is, seven people, three were archbishops of the church, four secular feudal lords, namely the Duke of Saxony, the Earl of the Rhine Palace), the Marquis of Brandenburg, and the King of Bohemia (Czech Republic).

These seven electoral emperors have great power. The electoral emperors are politically independent in their territory and have national sovereignty such as judicial (independent, highest judicial judgment power that does not allow subjects to appeal), coins, mining, taxation, etc.

It was also true that the imperial power of the Holy Roman Empire was severely weakened, and the empire began to be divided.

The advantage is that anyone can be an emperor, and as long as you have the strength or money, you can make bribes.

The Habsburg dynasty in Austria was the most powerful, so the throne was basically occupied by their family for a long time. The so-called Holy Roman Empire gradually became a political combination with nothing but a false reputation.

Several emperors wanted to revive the empire or pass the throne to their sons, but they all failed and they could not defeat these nobles.

After the Thirty Years' War, the Holy Roman Empire was divided into more than 300 states and more than 1,400 knight manor territories.

The Holy Roman Emperor was only known, and even the leader of the German state could not be called the emperor. People's impression of the emperor was more the ruler of the Habsburg monarchy centered on Austria, rather than the highest monarch of the First German Empire.

The current emperor is Leopold I, who serves as the king of Hungary and Bohemia, and his mother is a Spanish princess.

This guy has some ability and flexibly uses his remaining power to strengthen the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor. He transferred the imperial contradictions to the powerful threat of the Ottoman Empire and France, which made the princes show unprecedented unity and cooperation.

Opold I flexibly used the emperor's authority to allow the princes to obtain the title they wanted, thereby achieving the emperor's military and diplomatic goals, and also making him the most influential Holy Roman Emperor in the Holy Roman Empire that had been on the princes for hundreds of years.

Xuanye's visit made Opold I full of interest.

The Anti-Ming Alliance is good. European countries want to form a coalition force, so the emperor has the opportunity to issue orders.

If you lose the war, it will be able to greatly weaken the strength of the countries.

However, Xuanye's request made Opold I very unhappy.

"His grand duke." Opold frowned: "What you mean by 'Ottomans', this 'meaning' means..."

Xuanye paused and said bluntly: "For example, the Holy Roman Empire ceded Kodin, Kamenets, Podolisky and Potory to the Ottoman Empire to promote the restoration of normal exchanges between the two countries and form an anti-Ming alliance."

Opold was shocked and shouted directly: "Why do you want us to cede territory when you are in an anti-Ming alliance? No! It is absolutely impossible!"

Xuanye had already expected that Opold would react, and he continued to say: "This is the best strategy. As long as His Majesty the Emperor is willing to do this, we France can guarantee that the Ottomans will not go north to invade one of your land, and will not even be economic sanctions!"

The Ottoman Empire was undead of expanding. They did not dare to attack the Ming Dynasty in the east, so they had to go north to fight the loose Holy Roman Empire.

Moreover, the Ottomans, through the instigation of the French and the invitation of the Hungarian Protestants, named Sokori the king of "Upper Hungary".

This move split Austria and its neighboring Holy Roman Empire territory, and when the Sunra army entered Hungary, the Ottoman Empire had an excuse to declare war on the Holy Roman Empire.

It can be said that the split Holy Roman Empire has been bullied by the Ottomans, and the French have been watching there, and come to take advantage of it from time to time.

After listening to the translation, Opold pondered for a moment, and asked again: "What about this 'best strategy'?"

Xuanye said seriously: "That is the Zhongshou. Your country wants to demolish some border fortifications, withdraw some defenders, and invite France and Spain to send long-term observers to your borders. This is more reassuring than any paper treaty and agreement."

"We are victims, and to demolish the Ottomans' defense line!" Opold almost yelled.

Xuanye smiled and said, "To put it bluntly, weak countries have no diplomacy. In this world where the strong prey on the weak, the weak will not be sympathized with. We France can do this, which is already giving us enough face.

If you insist on not joining the Anti-Ming Alliance, then the Ming army will be in the forefront, and it will be unfavorable if the country destroys its king."

Opold I smiled coldly: "Is it like your Qing Dynasty?"

Before the translation could be completed hesitantly, Xuanye's face darkened. He had been in European countries for several years and could understand German.
To be continued...