By the time Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Sichang and others arrived at the Gu Family Garden in Lushan, it was already late afternoon, and it was the time for the scorching sun in the sky.

Fortunately, the top of Mount Lu is still very cool. When Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang met Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao, who was lying on the rocking chair, even covered a layer of summer quilt.

"All have arrived?" Zhu Youxiao asked with his eyes narrowed. After staying in Lushan for several days, he always thought about how to seize the treasure land of Europa and how to go to Versailles to set off a fire.

But the calmness he has developed over the years has made his desires become ineffective.

Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang replied in unison: "We are all here."

"Then let's start." Zhu Youxiao suddenly straightened his waist from the rocking chair, put his legs on the ground, and jumped up.

Seeing that Zhu Youxiao’s personal attendant Liu Rushi was not present, Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly supported Zhu Youxiao. Yang Sichang also ran over tremblingly and held Zhu Youxiao’s other arm: “Your Majesty, be careful.”

Zhu Youxiao nodded and then let these two old guys who were much older than him walk towards the auditorium. The green trees along the way were as shade as the tall banyan trees almost blocked half of the dome, and the yellow leaves that fell from time to time fell on the road.

The road surface is the recently popular asphalt road. This kind of road was originally only used for national-level roads in the Ming Dynasty, but because it is a concentrated place for the powerful and powerful people on this Lushan Mountain, asphalt roads are used in this area.

Zhu Youxiao stepped on it and felt soft and solid. Against the background of the green, it looked more and more green like the stream in March, flowing directly under the stone wall in front.

"Wulnerable, I remember you were a Jinshi in the 38th year of Wanli, right?"

Zhu Youxiao asked Yang Sichang. The old man who was over 70 years old turned slightly and bowed to Zhu Youxiao, saying, "Go to your Majesty, the old minister is a gui that has been broken for thirty-eight years."

"You are considered an old minister of the three dynasties. Jiandou was the second year of Tianqi. He has been an official for forty years. Time passed like smoke, and it was not easy."

Zhu Youxiao continued to move forward as he said, thinking that if it weren't for the seventh year of the Tianqi revelation that the entire Ming Dynasty had changed, these two people would not have been today. Lu Xiangsheng died in the battle under the iron hoof of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Sichang's strategy of opening the four straights, six corners and ten sides would have completely failed, and he himself would have committed suicide and died for his country.

But in this world, the two became their right-hand men and directly expanded their territory to Siberia to Australia to the coast of the Caspian Sea.

Due to the differences between the emperor, the life trajectory of ministers has also changed.

When they arrived at the auditorium, other important officials from the Ministry of War had already sat in. When Zhu Youxiao, Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang came, everyone stood up to salute. Zhu Youxiao pressed his hands and shouted: "Flat."

The ministers settled down and sat down. After Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang served Zhu Youxiao, they sat in the top position before they were on the left and right positions. Lu Xiangsheng was on the left and Yang Sichang was on the right.

"Europa is the only region except the Ottoman Empire that can present certain challenges to the unification of the world of our Ming Dynasty. It is also the largest market and the richest place. However, due to different cultures and the deliberate resistance of some European regimes and churches, our trade in Europa has not been fully opened. Moreover, in order to achieve the goal of Ming Dynasty to unify the world, Europa must conquer it and make this income under our Ming rule, so that we can truly turn this Europa into our consumer market and tax revenue into the real income of our Ming court. Otherwise, no matter how developed Europa trade is, it will be a wedding dress for the country of Europa, which will promote the development of other countries."

Yang Sichang personally introduced the necessity of conquering Europe to Zhu Youxiao, other officials of the Ministry of War and senior generals present.

In fact, everyone knows this well. With the development of the empire to this day, basically no one is unwilling to expand the empire. What's more, the hawks in the military system have the benefits of the war. Once the horse is released and swords and guns are put into the warehouse, they can only save disasters in peacetime, and they are exhausted and exhausted for a drill, but they are not challenging.

Therefore, without waiting for Yang Sichang to carefully analyze, he passed the decision to destroy Europa unanimously.

Then, next, we discuss how to fight Europa.

Since the seventh year of the revelation of the Ming Dynasty, he has never encountered any decent powerful enemy. He basically wins every battle. Therefore, although the soldiers are a little arrogant, they have never had any fear of Western fans.

Even when Lu Xiangsheng talked about the Europa overview, he did not pay much attention to the so-called Florian Invincible Armada and the Red-haired Ghost.

"Now our Ming Dynasty has more than 1.2 million conventional troops, of which more than 300,000 are placed on the local borders and important strategic areas, more than 200,000 are on the Indochina Peninsula, and more than 400,000 soldiers are confronted by the Ottoman Empire and the Rakshasa Kingdom in the Caspian Sea. That is to say, there are only more than 200,000 troops currently available. In addition to the South China Sea Fleet responsible for maintaining public security in the South China Sea, the four fleets of the North Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the Oceania have a total of more than 400,000 troops from the Suez region to enter the European region to fight against the navies of Flangji, the Netherlands, France and other countries;

In other words, once the war to conquer Europa started, we can only mobilize about 600,000 troops now, plus some newly formed air force and artillery units, totaling about 700,000. Fortunately, the countries of Europe are good at water wars and shorter than land wars. Now the army that our Ming Dynasty can mobilize is mostly naval, which is just right.

After Lu Xiangsheng analyzed word by word, Zhu Youxiao asked other officials of the Ministry of War for their opinions, and finally said: "Europa is to fight, but the European countries are not weak in strength, and the defense is not weak. If we attack rashly, we may be afraid of a situation of returning without success. In my opinion, it is better to fight Italy first. This Italian Roman Holy See is still the leader of the entire Europa. Europa is different from our Ming Dynasty. The Holy See is above the country. If our Ming Dynasty attacks Europa, if Europa wants to jointly deal with our Ming Dynasty, the most capable organizer must be the pope. Therefore, we might as well capture the thief and capture the king first. Once the Roman Holy See is destroyed, it is equivalent to killing the opportunity for Western countries to jointly fight our Ming Dynasty. What do you think?"

When they heard Zhu Youxiao say this, officials of Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang hurriedly called His Majesty wise.
Chapter completed!