At the southern foot of Laoshan, it is a large campus shared by four military academies including Nanjing Jiangwu Hall, Nanjing Artillery School, Nanjing Jiangwu Middle School, and Nanjing Jiangwu Primary School. There are about 10,000 students in Jiangwu Hall, Laoshan Middle School and Jiujiang Military Academy.

The student soldiers of the Bian Youth Battalion have been divided into two armies, the East and West. Under the command of the instructors from the Lecture Hall, they have formed two large horizontal formations.

These two large horizontal formations are multi-arms coordinated formations composed of fusiliers, cavalry, artillery and other arms. Moreover, both teams set out from the campsite early in the morning and walked for a long time in the Laoshan Mountains.

After half a day, they drove into the school field in column, quickly unfolded and completed the formation. The whole process was completed in one go, without any sloppiness.

It is worth mentioning that the soldiers of the Eastern and Western armies participating in today's exercise are composed of cadets from the Jiubian Youth Battalion and first- and second-year non-commissioned officers from Laoshan Middle School and Jiangwu Hall. The battalions of the Eastern and Western armies

The third-level officers of the company and platoon are served by the third-year non-commissioned officers of the Jiangwu Hall. The instructors of the Jiangwu Hall serve as the commanders of the division and regiment.

In Zhu Cixiang's view, these two improvised armies performed as rigorously as the Xiaoling Guards. Moreover, after several days of drills, most of the people were still full of energy and had high morale. It seemed that there was a successor to the feudalism of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Cixiang himself was riding his Arabian horse, surrounded by a group of senior generals and several Western envoys, standing on a hill, watching the performance of the successors of Ming feudalism, showing a satisfied smile.

The English envoy Marvell and Ambassador Pitt, the Prince of Condé and the French envoy Colbert all stood beside Emperor Zhu on horseback. The four of them were notified early this morning to rush to Shannan University to wait for the Emperor of Tomorrow.

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Prince Condé and Henry Pitt had seen the military appearance of the Ming army many times, so they would not be surprised. However, it was the first time for Marvell and Colbert to see such an army outside Europe, where they fought every day on the European battlefield.

They are also top-notch elite soldiers.

If you only look at the equipment and military appearance, I am afraid that even the French and Spanish armies cannot compare with them. Probably only the British New Model Army, Turkey's Ganisari Corps, and the Swedish Army can compare with them. There is also a Dutch Army.

Not under the elite of the Ming Army, but now the Dutch Army has been dissolved by their parliament

And this army, which performed impeccably during marches and formations, was only composed of students from military schools, students from aristocratic schools, and some young soldiers from the Nine Sides who were still in training. They were not experienced in many battles at all.

Ming Dynasty elite.

They represent the future of the Celestial Empire, not the past!

After watching the rehearsal of the feudal successor of the Celestial Empire, it is time to discuss how to carve up the Spanish world empire.

In the lobby of the official office in Shannan Campus, there were the Ming Emperor, the Chief Minister of the Cabinet Lu Zhenfei, the Minister of Rites Qian Qianyi, the Foreign Affairs Minister and Shanghai Governor Luo Dagong, the Military Advisor of the Generalissimo's Office Wu Sanfu, the Naval Chief of the Generalissimo's Office Huang Binqing, and Prince Kong Dai.

Kirkbell, Marvell, Peter and others have already taken their seats separately. Everyone has a seat, sitting around a long conference table. There are also some general officers and record-keeping officials present, and they all have their own chairs and tables.

, which is a rather formal diplomatic meeting scene.

Today's talks are not intended to finalize the final peace treaty, but to set the general principles for the Ming Dynasty's entry into the treaty. As for the specific content of the treaty, Zhu Cixiang will not negotiate in person, but will leave it to Wu Sanfu.

Huang Binqing and Luo Dagong are in charge.

"Prince, two ambassadors, two special envoys," Zhu Cihong was the first to speak. His time was precious, so he did not say any polite words and went straight to the point. "Before our three countries can establish a military alliance, we must

Find out what enemies this military alliance is targeting? Which of you will be the first to tell?"

This question sounds a bit strange. Isn’t the enemy Spain? Isn’t the Triple Alliance of Ming, Britain, and France opposing the Spanish world empire?

But the actual situation is much more complicated. Although history books say that the "Peace of Westphalia" established the norms of international relations based on equality and sovereignty in Europe. However, Philip IV, Louis XIV, Clerk

Renwell and the others have not read such history books, so they do not know what sovereign countries are. Therefore, in this war between Britain and France jointly against Spain, the camps of the two warring parties were not divided based on sovereign countries.

British Special Envoy Marvell first took over the question and said: "Your Majesty, let me say it first! The biggest enemy of our three countries is the Spanish Habsburg dynasty. All countries and territories loyal to the Spanish Habsburg dynasty are

Our enemy!

In addition, the Royal Party of England is also our common enemy!"

The Royal Party of England was a group of exiled English nobles who supported the restoration of Charles II. They were originally protected by the French royal family, but they also received funding from Spain. So after the outbreak of the Anglo-Spanish War, they joined the Spanish camp. And this

The war between France and Spain has not yet ended, and they have formed an alliance with the Cromwellian regime in England, so the Royal Party of England has naturally become the enemy of France. This group of people has now withdrawn from France to Dunkirk, which belongs to Spain.

Kirk was part of the "Heritage of Burgundy" by marriage to the Spanish Habsburg dynasty, and is still part of the Spanish Netherlands (which roughly included what would become Belgium, Luxembourg and

A small part of France and Germany).

After Marvell finished speaking, the French envoy Kirk Bell glanced at Prince Condé again and said lightly: "The French Fronde rebels are also our common enemies. These traitors retreated to the Spanish Netherlands together with the British royalists.

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"Then how is Portugal's status determined?" Grand Duke Luo, the Ming Dynasty's diplomatic envoy, asked when he saw that the British and French envoys had finished speaking.

This problem is more complicated!

The English and French people present frowned.

They all know that there is a traditional friendship between the Ming Dynasty and Portugal, and there is also a Macau issue. John IV of Portugal wants to join the military alliance against Spain. Because Portugal and Spain are at war, and once John IV

By joining the EU, you can gain independent status recognized by all Europe in the peace talks to end the war.

However, neither Britain nor France are willing to bring Portugal with them because Portugal's overseas assets are too attractive. If they don't bring Portugal, they can regard these overseas assets as part of the Spanish world empire when needed!

Once the Portuguese knew that Ming Dynasty was about to join the anti-Spanish alliance, they would probably exchange Macao for Ming Dynasty's support in order to join the alliance.

Of course, it was not difficult for the Ming Empire to capture Macau, but what Zhu Cixi wanted was definitely not a Macau destroyed by artillery fire, otherwise he would have taken action long ago

Luo Dagong said in fluent French: "If the goal of the war is only to expand the colonies of our three countries in the New World, then we do not need to involve Portugal, but if we want more, then Portugal, a friendly country, is still welcome to join.

It’s very necessary!”

"Foreign Minister," Marvell was not sure whether Archduke Luo was the mayor of Shanghai or the Foreign Minister, so he called him the Foreign Minister. "If we win over Portugal, then the Netherlands will be able to join the Spanish side!"

Portugal had many colonies in the Indian Ocean and South America, which were coveted not only by England and France, but also by the Netherlands.

Moreover, in the Indian Ocean, the competition between the Dutch and the Portuguese has been going on. In addition, there are also conflicts between the Netherlands, Britain and France.

The First Anglo-Dutch War had just ended. The Dutch had suffered a lot in this war and were thinking of regaining their ground.

And France is coveting the territory of the Spanish Netherlands controlled by Spain. Once it belongs to France, the Netherlands and France will become neighbors, which is not what the Netherlands wants to see.
Chapter completed!