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Sofia glared at Yinti: "We are really on the border with Daming! So we must handle the issue of Mingming carefully. A little carelessness may trigger a war that we cannot bear! And... in Louis In the eyes of Urban IX, we too are devils!"

"Are we devils too?"

"Sister, you said they also want..."

Sofia did not answer Yinti's words, but looked at the young Peter I and asked, "Peter, what did Louis promise?"

"The land along the Black Sea and Constantinople!" Peter I said excitedly, "That's exactly what a powerful Rakshasa needs!"

Compared with Petersburg in history, the value of Constantinople is much higher!

When Constantinople became the center of European civilization, Petersburg was still a deserted swamp.

Moreover, the surface of the Baltic Sea near Petersburg is frozen in winter, so it is not an ice-free port.

Also, there aren't any great powers near Constantinople - not counting the Ottoman Empire, of course.Because the Ottoman Empire cannot be defeated, there will be no Constantinople, and with Constantinople, there will be no Ottoman Empire.

Therefore, Rakshasa who gets Constantinople can immediately become the master of West Asia and the Balkans!And Rakshasa, who got the mouth of the Neva River, has to face the obstacles of Sweden, Poland, and Prussia... It is really too difficult to go from the Baltic Sea to the world.

Moreover, going south to Constantinople can also take over the black land of southern Russia and Ukraine, as well as the rich and warm Balkans and Asia Minor... If Peter is allowed to do it between Constantinople and the mouth of the Neva River A multiple-choice question, he will undoubtedly choose Constantinople!

But Constantinople is an unattainable picture!Louis XIV was just using Constantinople to coax Peter I into giving him free work.

"No, you shouldn't want Constantinople!" Sofia immediately shook her head and said, "Peter, you should want the small piece of land belonging to Sweden at the entrance of the Neva River...we need to build a seaport leading to Europe there .”

"The mouth of the Neva River?" Peter I frowned. "What's good there? It's just a desolate swamp with nothing, and it still belongs to Sweden."

Sofia shook her head and said: "Peter, don't you understand? Constantinople will not give it to us! But the land on the Neva River, Louis has a way to ask the Swedes for it. Polish King Sobieski He will die soon, and Louis is likely to become the next Polish king, and as long as he supports the Swedish king to become the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sweden will be happy to hand over the land on the Neva River."

Chapter 887 Sanctions, Fraud and Marriage

Hearing Sofia's words, Peter still frowned tightly, as if he still couldn't forget his "Dream of Eastern Rome".

"Peter," Queen Sophia looked at her younger brother and said earnestly, "The interests of Constantinople are too great. Unless Rakshasa becomes a powerful country that can rival the Frankish Empire, it is impossible to own this Eastern Roman Empire." The Millennium Imperial Capital!"

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

Constantinople is a bargaining chip in exchange for us sending troops to attack Turkey and participating in the sanctions against Ming!

If we don't want Constantinople... then how do I push for trade sanctions? "

"Trade sanctions?" Sophia was taken aback, "For Daming? Doesn't Louis need Daming's perfume and garlic medicine?"

Yinti on the side interjected: "Suo'eniang, Emperor Louis and Urban IX have been declaring that Christians should not make deals with countries that believe in the devil for money. This will eventually make them lose their souls!"

"Hmph!" Sophia snorted, her face full of disdain.

"They also said that trade with Ming will make Ming richer and more powerful, but it will not benefit Europe at all. Now most of the goods that Europe purchases from Ming 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... Both James II and William III said that they cherish souls more than money!"

"Yinti," Sophia asked Yinti again, "Have you figured out what conspiracy the British and the Dutch are up to?"

It seemed that she did not believe that the English and the Dutch would not want money at all!

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

"How to monopolize?"

Yinti said: "The Holy See can exorcise the goods of Ming Dynasty... This kind of thing has been done several times!"

"What about England and Holland?"

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

"Smuggling?" Sophia asked, "How?"

Yinti said: "Both countries have colonies in India... and both are located at the choke point of trade between East and West.

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

"It really is a profiteer!" Sophia snorted, "Peter, you can do the same.

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

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Palace of Versailles, King's Suite, drawing room.

Just when Queen Sofia, Peter I, and Prince Yinti of Zhijun were discussing how to get some real benefits from Emperor Louis the Great in the Trianon Palace, Emperor Louis the Great was talking with Pope Urban IX , Archbishop de la Magala of Mexico City, Minister of State Leonor, and the Duke of Luxembourg and John Churchill, who had just been promoted to general of the English Army, were discussing the situation in the Mexican battlefield.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty the Pope, the Aztec rebels on the Mexican battlefield are now based on Lake Chapala near Guadalajara, slowly but firmly advancing towards Leon, northwest of Mexico City..."

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

"What does it mean to be slow and firm?" Churchill was interrupted by a very thin, crooked old man with a sharp nose.The old man had a very long name, François-Henry de Montmorency Butteville.According to the basic rule of this era that the longer the name of the Europeans, the better the man, this bad old man is also a man of power.He is the Duke and Marshal of Luxembourg, the leading general in France after the death of "Small Condé" and the tall and mighty Marshal Turenne.He, like Grand Condé, is Europe's leading mobile combat master.Not only did he follow his cousin "Grand Condé" in the Franco-Dutch War, he made great achievements, but also replaced "Grand Condé" as the commander-in-chief of the French army at the end of the war, and also made great achievements in the later Frankish-Turkish war. Served as the commander in chief of the coalition forces.

But even such a military master doesn't understand what "slow and firm advance" is?

"Duke," Churchill explained, "the so-called slow and firm means to build a fort while advancing, and at the same time use extremely barbaric means to destroy the social order near the fortified area!"

It turned out that the Indian Zhuge Liang Huang Feiyu of the Lufan Lun Towel adopted a step-by-step advancing method on the battlefield east of Lake Chapala. The advancing speed can only be described as a turtle speed. In the past few months, the average daily advancing method The distance was less than a quarter of a Spanish mile (two or three miles), and it took more than a hundred days before the army approached the city of Leon—of course it was not walking so slowly every day, but it was stopping and going, and when walking After walking less than ten miles, when you stop, you will build fortifications, build fortresses, divide the fields and rebel against God!

Although they walked slowly, the damage they caused was not small at all!

"How come they are extremely barbaric?" The Duke of Luxembourg has fought all his life and seen too many barbaric things, and he is barbaric himself!But as a barbaric old man, he didn't dare to say that he was "extremely barbaric", so he asked Churchill, what is it like to be extremely barbaric?

The foreign minister of the Frankish Empire, Leonard, quickly interjected and asked, "Are these evil Aztecs making blood sacrifices again? This is a rather appalling crime!"

"No, they didn't do that," said Admiral Churchill, "in fact they did it even more, more brutally!"

"What?" The Duke of Luxembourg was taken aback, and while making the cross on his chest, he asked tremblingly, "They, they don't know how to eat human flesh? This is really terrible!"

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

"Is it? More terrifying?"

"Then, what did they do?"

Although Leonard and the Duke of Luxembourg are not good people, and they have done things that should go to hell in this life-but the Pope has forgiven them on behalf of God!But they really can't imagine any more serious atrocities than blood sacrifice and cannibalism.

"They . He killed 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 he talked about these evil deeds, "Obviously, these evil deeds are not It may be that King Montezuma and the ignorant Indians could do it, and the Emperor of Ming must be standing behind them, because the route that King Montezuma implemented in Mexico is completely a copy of the equal-field system of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Oh my god! It's terrible! What does Da Ming's demon want to do?"

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

Both Leonor, the foreign minister, and the Duke of Luxembourg were horrified by the atrocities of the Aztecs—they were not afraid of being caught and eaten by the Indians, because it was impossible.Moreover, a barbaric regime that always sacrifices the blood of living people and slaughters a few living people from time to time to improve their lives will have no future. It will not threaten the rule of white Europeans in America at all.

As for the number of Chinese in North America, according to reliable information, including the merchants and the Yin family, there are only more than 100 million, and the number of Indians ruled by them is not many, and hundreds of thousands of them died because of smallpox!It is estimated that there are less than 200 million people from the Shang Dynasty and savages. With this amount, how much land can it occupy?Therefore, Leonard and the Duke of Luxembourg are not worried that the Shang Fang Kingdom will occupy the entire New World. It is already the limit for them to occupy the small half of North America (west) north of Mexico.If we want to expand...it will be very difficult to do it in a way that conforms to the principles of colonialism.

Because the core principle of colonialism is the slaughter, deprivation and enslavement of indigenous people!

It is to massacre first, kill all those who dare to resist, and then deprive the native subjugated slaves who obeyed the colonists in whole or in part, and finally let these aboriginal subjugated slaves become the colonists’ dog slaves or slaves.

Europeans have almost reached the "slavery stage" in New Spain and Peru, especially in New Spain and Peru, where they have established a hierarchy of one, two, three, four, five, six, etc. Orientation enslavement and control.

It can be said that it is quite well done!

In New France, the European colonists are still in the early stages of massacres...Because the number of French colonists is too small, and they have to get fur from a group of Indian safari people, the French did not even massacre , a little careless, but quite in line with the slow nature of the French.

In New England, of course, it's another state... The natives have basically disappeared, and the efficiency of Protestants and Puritans is high!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 cases where the massacre was too forceful and black labor had to be used.

As for the Brazilian colony under Portuguese rule, slaughter, expropriation and slavery were inefficiently executed in chaos.In some places the slaughter was so complete that niggers were brought in to work!In other places, the native Indians were converted into Christians, and some even joined the pioneering organization of the white colonies to go to the inland to kill and set fire!In the vast interior of Brazil, colonial rule has not yet been established... What a mess!

But Portugal is in chaos even at home, so don't expect them to be much more organized in Brazil.However, the principles of the Portuguese colonists in Brazil still centered on massacre, expropriation and enslavement.

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

Moreover, not only the Indian nation was liberated, but also Indian serfs, farmers, and slaves!

The oppression of serfs and peasants by noble landlords did not only exist in the New World, but also widely existed in the Old World.Moreover, the degree of oppression will not be reduced in the slightest because of the skin color and religious beliefs of serfs and farmers in the Old World.

If the Indian serfs and farmers in the New World could get rid of the slavery of the feudal landlords...then why couldn’t the white serfs and farmers in the Old World divide the land of the noble landlords?Could it be that they are lower than Indian serfs and farmers?

Since Mexico was once a part of Catholic civilization, its connection with the European continent is much closer than that of Ming Dynasty with Europe.Europeans may not know what kind of social changes took place in Ming Dynasty, but they will know about the drastic changes in Mexico soon.

"The Aztecs must be destroyed!" Louis XIV said to the Archbishop de la Magala of Mexico City, "but I am now preparing to unite the Rakshasa, the Polish and German states, and the Italian states, together To attack the Ottoman Empire..." At this point, he turned around and asked the Duke of Luxembourg, "Duke, how many troops can we spare for the New World?"

The Duke of Luxembourg pretended to be thinking for a while, then stretched out a withered palm, "Five thousand... at most five thousand!"

Louis XIV nodded, "Okay, all of them are sent to support Leopold." He looked at De La Magala again, "Cardinal, besides war, does Leopold I have any other means to help him?" Stabilize the Shangfang Kingdom? Without the support of the Shangfang, the Aztecs would be vulnerable."

"Your Majesty, Emperor Leopold is indeed planning to negotiate peace with the merchant country. He is also planning to choose a noble lady in Europe who is both beautiful and intelligent and willing to dedicate himself to God. to marry the monarch of Shangfang Kingdom in exchange for a short-lived peace."

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

De La Magala shook his head: "It's true...there are no more Habsburgs now."

Louis XIV turned his head and gave Pope Urban IX a look, and the Pope immediately said: "Brother de la Magala, leave this matter to me... The Holy See will definitely find such a woman."

Chapter 888 God has a purpose, marry the devil

"Your Majesty, do you have any suitable candidates for marriage?"

The tall Pope Urban IX, wearing a white robe and a white crown, bowed and followed Louis XIV, walking step by step beside the cross-shaped artificial canal in the garden of the Palace of Versailles.Looking at his nose and nose and asking his heart, he didn't even look at the royal attendants, royal maids and royal mistresses who followed and served Emperor Louis the Great, with a look of high morality.

Louis the Great stepped on his high-heeled slippers and walked in front with his head held high. Hearing what Urban IX said, he immediately stood still and coughed.The group of attendants, maids, and royal mistresses who followed him immediately turned around and backed away.Then Louis the Great turned around, looked at the Pope who had always been loyal to France behind him, and asked with a smile: "Your Majesty the Pope, you can ask God now if my Sophie Magis can marry To the merchant king?"

"What? Your Sophie Maquis?" Urban IX was taken aback for a moment, and an image of a glamorous and captivating young woman immediately appeared in front of his eyes.This woman was not Louis's Sophie Maggies, but her mother, a dancer named Maggies from a country.

This Maggies was originally a vulgar dancer from the bottom of the world, relying on her angelic appearance and devil-like figure to go to Paris and become a "baby".Later, she was photographed by the famous playwright Molière and the poet Racine, and became the head of the Molière troupe, and got the opportunity to perform for King Louis XIV.Later, she became Louis' mistress as a matter of course, and gave birth to a daughter for Louis, named Sophie Maggies.But this Sophie Magis grew up a little too pretty and too tall, taller than all of Louie's daughters.That's why Louis suspected that Maggies had put on a cuckold for him... But at that time, Maggies, Molière, and Racine were all dead.Louis couldn't find out, and he couldn't drive out Sophie Maggies, who might be his own daughter, so he couldn't understand how to keep her.

However, the treatment of this Sophie Magis is much worse than that of Louis' other illegitimate children.Not only has she not been "legalized" (the pope has the right to declare illegitimate children to be legally born children), but she has also not been given any titles and annuities, and she has no way of getting married—her unknown status is really not easy to marry, everyone Nobles look down on her, and little nobles don't dare to think about it, even being a mistress to others is impossible!

And Sophie Maggies, who had been raised in Louis's court until her early twenties and had grown into a stunner in the world, suddenly became a hot beauty in Louis' hands - because outsiders who saw her regarded her as a Louis' royal mistress!This is really unfair to Louis. Although Louis is lustful, he will not attack his daughter or adopted daughter.

Therefore, Emperor Louis the Great wondered whether he wanted to send this stunner to Notre Dame de Paris to lead him to practice...

Louis said to Urban IX with a serious face: "Your Majesty, I have decided to dedicate Sophie Magis to God. And at this time, Emperor Leopold wanted to find someone willing to serve God. The young and beautiful lady who dedicated herself to the cause of the devil to marry the devil's son... Isn't this God implying that I will send Sophie Maggies to marry the devil's son? You have to ask God if this is the case It means that Sophie Magis is definitely willing to sacrifice!"

Urban IX already understood what Emperor Louis meant—he meant to confront the devil on the surface and marry the devil in private, so that the intensity of the confrontation could be controlled so as not to trigger conflicts between the Frankish Empire and the Ming Empire. Total War.

Once a full-scale war breaks out, the Frankish Empire will not be able to concentrate its power to establish hegemony in Europe, and France's colonies in North America may also be annexed by the merchant country.

After all, there were only [-] to [-] colonists in New France, and it was impossible to defend it in a real fight.

It has to be said that Emperor Louis's calculations were really good. While pushing Leopold and Kangxi Khan to the front line against Ming Dynasty, he also threw an unknown illegitimate daughter into marriage with Daming... To be able to maintain the relationship with Daming, gain benefits from it, and also do Leopold a big favor, really serves multiple purposes!

Louis let ask, and of course Urban IX dared not stop asking.So instead of going to the church, I knelt down on the side of the cross-shaped Grand Canal, put my hands together, faced the sky, and prayed and asked questions silently in my heart-it is still the old rule, silence is an answer!

"God...Louis the Great of Frank wanted to send his adopted daughter Sophie Magis to marry the king of Shang Fang and the son of the devil, and said that was your intention. If this is really your will, then you Just don't say anything."

After asking, Urban IX waited patiently for another 10 minutes... God still didn't say anything.

Silence is consent!

It seems that this is really God's will!

Urban IX thought to himself: "It turns out that God can also use beauty tricks. It seems that the strength of the Ming devil is very powerful!"

Thinking of this, he stood up and said to Louis: "Your Majesty, God has agreed... God also said that Daming's devil is very powerful, let us deal with it carefully."

When Louis XIV heard this, he quickly crossed his chest, and said to Urban: "Your Majesty, let's go to the chapel together. At this time, Sophie is probably there praying to God... We just happened to God's will communicated to her."

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"I want to marry, I don't want to be a nun, Amen! I want to marry, I don't want to be a nun, Amen!"

When Louis and Urban IX arrived at the chapel in the Palace of Versailles together, the enchanting girl Sophie Magis, who wholeheartedly served God, was kneeling in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary and praying sincerely!

This girl with doubtful identity is undoubtedly the most beautiful scenery in the Palace of Versailles. Every gesture, every frown and smile has the charm that makes all living beings fascinated by it.When she appears in front of everyone, she always attracts the admiring eyes of many men and the jealous eyes of women... But her special status makes her a woman who can only be seen from a distance, but cannot be kissed.

But her "father" Louis has never allowed her to call herself the "daughter of the king", let alone "legalize".He didn't even want to arrange a marriage for her, and was going to send her to Notre Dame de Paris to become a nun!

It's so reactionary!

This girl who was persecuted by the reactionary French monarchy has no power to resist at all, she can only pray to God... But can God satisfy her request?

Before, she had prayed to God to become the legal daughter of Louis the Great, and also wanted to be a duchess, and then marry a handsome king-this request is really a bit high!

Not to mention the first two, the handsome king alone is wishful thinking... European kings are mostly crooked people married by close relatives, and there are no handsome ones at all!Peter I and William III were handsome, but they were not kings, nor did they fit the bill.

But this time she has rectified her views on marriage and love, she doesn't want to be a king, and she doesn't want to be handsome, as long as she is a man.In short, don't let her go to Notre Dame de Paris to face the legendary clock tower geek every day...

"Dear Sophie, what are you praying to God for?"

The voice of Emperor Louis the Great suddenly rang in Sophie's ears, and she quickly looked back, only to see Emperor Louis the Great and Urban IX coming in together.And that adoptive father, Louis, who had never shown her a good face since he was a child, actually smiled at her this time, and called her "Dear Sophie"... This attitude made Sophie Maggies terrified. .

"Your Majesty," Sophie quickly got up and curtseyed, "I'm asking God to give me a chance to serve..."

She didn't say who she served...