The national strength of the Ming Dynasty has entered its peak, and its military, scientific and technological development, and even its energy reserves in grain and ore have been several times that of previous years.

The current Western fandoms are not the Western fandoms of later generations. They have a contempt for China. The Ming Dynasty is still an existence they admire and cannot be despised in Western fandoms.

The recent naval battle on Java also made them deeply realize that the Ming Dynasty was indeed an overlord that cannot be provoked.

Cromwell, who was determined to ban smoking, also knew that the Eastern beast of the Ming Dynasty could not be easily offended. Although with the rise of the British Empire's status in Europa, many short-sighted British nobles believed that the British Empire had the ability to challenge world hegemony and clamored to conquer the Ming Dynasty with the shame of failure in the naval battle of Snow Java, the Cromwell people, as a sensible person, knew what kind of existence the Ming Dynasty is today.

In the eyes of some Western nobles who were unwilling to admit the facts of failure, the failure was often attributed to the lack of strength of the commander of the Flangji and the inability to form a joint force among many countries. They even denounced the Flangji Invincible Fleet, which was responsible for the main combat mission, to have declined, which led to this failure. If the British Empire was held responsible, it would not be the ending, and completely ignored the absolute advantage of the Ming Dynasty in naval warfare, whether it was equipment or the quality of the fighter.

However, Cromwell, who had a certain strategic vision and was praised as the first person to look at the East in later British history, knew the real reason and understood the difference between his British Empire and the Ming Empire in the East.

Therefore, although Cromwell received the will of Charles I to launch a smoking ban campaign, he did not directly and arbitrarily arrest and expel all the opium trading companies of the Ming Dynasty.

Cromwell decided to adopt a polite approach, sending representatives to contact Meisheng Company and other opium companies run by the Ming Dynasty privately beaten in the distance, and informed them to hand over all opium within one month and evacuate the British Empire. Otherwise, all opium will be confiscated unconditionally and the subordinates will be punished, etc.

But the person in charge of contacting was Tom's British extreme nationalist. He looked down on the Ming Dynasty officials and businessmen who looked different from his skin. Therefore, after seeing Wang Guangting, a hundred households of Jinyiwei, who had a plenipotent representative of the Ming Dynasty, who contacted the local Stuart dynasty government in the British Empire, said arrogantly: "You must hand over the opium within three days, otherwise you, the idiots who do not believe in God, will go to hell!"

After hearing this, Wang Guangting couldn't help but sneer, ignoring the contact officer named Tom, and was still drinking his tea with great care.

This is Tom's English-English contact official, and he hopes that these Ming officials and businessmen will ignore him. He can go back and instigate Cromwell in front of him and then take tough measures directly.

Here, Wang Guangting did not want to escalate the matter easily, so he ordered someone to give a message to Prince Edward of England, hoping that the royal noble who had a close relationship with Meisheng Company could mediate from it and persuade the British King Charles I to change his mind, but he received a reply from Prince Edward saying that these matters were approved by Charles I himself, and it was the time when the king was in full swing that he, the royal noble, could not stop him.

After hearing this, Wang Guangting had no choice but to ask people to bring the news back to China. England was quite tough on the smoking ban and begged His Majesty to send a navy to Europe to protect its merchants.

In fact, there is no need for Wang Guangting to report the long journey across the ocean. Considering that the journey between Europe and Asia is long and the intelligence information remains unchanged, and the Meisheng Company has given a certain armed force, Zhu Youxiao ordered the Ming Ocean Fleet and carried the army officers and soldiers of a brigade of the former First Army, currently under the jurisdiction of the Neichang, led by Li Dingguo, the governor of the Neichang, to leave Manraga a year ago. If he had already gone to the Cape of Good Hope and was about to enter the Mediterranean, the Western wings did not dare to stop it.

This naval and army army is now nominally just an armed force hired by Meisheng Company, so it cannot be considered a regular army of the Ming Dynasty and does not represent the national action. It does not wear national flags, wear military uniforms, and still wears clothing from internal factories. This did not arouse the vigilance of the colonial companies in various Western colonies along the way, nor did it cause the vigilance of the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, this is also an extremely ironic thing. In China, the domestic factory is almost the pioneer in anti-drug and smoking bans in China, but once it leaves the Ming Dynasty, it becomes the mainstay of protecting the opium trade and defending the Ming Dynasty drug dealers.

Zhu Youxiao not only sent military forces to the Atlantic under the name of Meisheng Company, but also asked Wen Tiren, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to personally bring several Tongyi graduated from the Foreign Affairs Academy to rush to the Ottoman Empire with a lot of money, and hoped to obtain the right to lease the Suez Canal through purchases. Of course, if the Ottoman Empire was unwilling, it would have to forcefully occupy the area of ​​the Suez Canal area that had not been dug by force.

Today's Ottoman Empire can be regarded as a super empire across Europe and Asia, but it is a relatively conservative monarchical dictatorial empire. It has no intention of developing a global strategy, and it does not realize the great value of the digging of the Suez Canal to the global marine cause.

On the contrary, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to enter the Atlantic Ocean, especially the European market, if the Suez Canal was available, the voyage would be greatly shortened, and the economic and trade would reduce the cost of long-distance ocean transportation. In terms of military, once the Ming Dynasty wanted to launch a war against Europa, the Ming Dynasty could quickly open up the portal of attacking Europa and shorten the process of transporting troops, unlike now, which could only bypass the Cape of Good Hope, and almost only enter the Atlantic Ocean.

It is precisely because of this that the logistics supply problem must be taken into account that the Ming Dynasty could only send a small amount of military force, and it was unable to attack Europe on a large scale and destroy its country.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao can also attack by land, but it has to connect countless Western Region countries by land. It is not that the Ming Dynasty cannot sweep across the Western Regions, but that the military cost is not low, and all countries cannot be turned into enemies. When it is time to join the alliance, it has to join the alliance.
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