Emperor Chongzhen has always been full of confidence in these troublemakers of the Ming Dynasty.

While the whole world was still playing with a clamp gun, the Ming Dynasty's horns had already developed the flintlock gun and the three-eyed gun. If Jiannu had not interrupted the process by entering the pass, Gatlin might have appeared hundreds of years in advance.

While the whole world was still confused about what the steam engine was going on, the Ming Dynasty's warders had already used it on trains, warships, machine tools, and various places were thinking about whether they could install a steam engine first.

Although there is a factor in making cheats, Emperor Chongzhen could use Huang Taiji and Dorgon's human heads to swear that he was just a cheat without recharge, and there was still a big gap between him and the wild cheats of the Ming Dynasty.

But when Emperor Chongzhen thought of wild sluts, he suddenly thought of those sluts outside the Ming Dynasty.

What did you say before? Can you support a batch of firearms to the Holy Roman Empire first? By the way, sell them the blessing and longevity cream?

It is said that the Celestial Empire in later generations was a copycat power, but in fact, the real copycat power was the vest trumpet of the Holy Roman Empire at this time...

Being a programmer always has many benefits, such as climbing over the wall, and using search engines to find the information you want...

Later generations have been flooded with screens and washed away countless articles such as "Qingdao is not afraid of flooding because of the conscience of Germany" and "the tart cloth bags specially stored near the pipeline network" were all artificially fabricated for brainwashing.

The Qingdao underground pipeline network with a capacity of more than 3,000 kilometers is only more than two kilometers in normal use, accounting for less than one thousandth of the total pipeline network.

The parts in the tart cloth bags were also the remaining parts transported by the Germans when they built underground pipelines at that time, rather than being specially stored for spare, especially the small warehouses that store "the metal components wrapped in tart cloth are still as bright as new even after a hundred years." This is even more nonsense.

The sewers are generally made of ceramic, porcelain or cement. Are metal components used to prove that they are brainless or to prove that they are stupid and have more money?

"Made in Germany" sounds great, but in the second half of the 19th century, it was very famous and synonymous with cheapness and inferiority. "Shameless" was the hat that the British made German products at that time.

At that time, the British Empire was the first industrialized country, and its products represented the cutting-edge of technology and technology. "Buying British goods" was not only a fashionable language known to people at that time, but also a symbol of wealth.

After Germany achieved unification, it was ambitious to enter the world market and get a share of the pie. However, the world market was not just about entering, and the Germans who pursued the dream of a strong country in the cracks, imitated products from Britain, France, the United States and other countries, and relied on cheap sales to impact the market.

Theft design, copying products, forging manufacturer logos, and the products are very poor from materials, craftsmanship to quality, so German products are labeled with a disgraceful hat.

The Germans were naturally dissatisfied. A large number of economic spies began to appear in England, and those fluent English always had a Germanic accent.

For example, a gentleman who claimed to be a little interested in steel manufacturing was the later famous German steel Count and the armed giant Krubb.

The Germans used various means to obtain a large amount of economic information. Back in Germany, these information were studied and copied and imitated into products. Then, they were exported to the UK, and entered British families in a noble manner.

It was similar to the path that the later Celestial Empire had taken. At that time, Germany's labor was cheap, which made German products look cheap. For a time, in the British market, from pencils, toys, medicines, clocks, beer, textiles, tools, pianos and furniture, all of them were full of "Made in Germany".

The British gentlemen were naturally angry and simply wrote a bill that stipulated that all foreign imported products must be marked as the country of origin. The key target of this bill was "Made in Germany" from German.

The Germans who were slapped in the face by this bill naturally looked like the protagonist template. They knew shame and then bravely, no longer copied and imitated, but invented and created their own, veritable original "Made in Germany".

A lot of money has been spent on scientific research and industrial standard systems, and "Made in Germany" has also completed a gorgeous turn from counterfeit to synonymous with reliable quality.

As for the trumpets of the Holy Roman Empire, the German Empire can be regarded as the second generation trumpet, the Third German Empire, that is, the third generation trumpet.

Now that the Ming Dynasty sold the firearms to the Holy Roman Empire, would they suddenly light up the copycat skill tree and then light up the German-made skill tree?

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly felt a little worried.

However, Emperor Chongzhen was worried that there was no use for birds. Li Chengyan had already set off when Emperor Chongzhen decided to support the Holy Roman Empire.

Originally, Li Chengyan planned to go directly to the old guy Cohen to study it, and see if he could use Cohen's path to open up the path of the Holy Roman Empire and contact the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

However, when Li Chengyan studied some information provided by the Jinyiwei, he gave up this plan.

Theoretically, although the Netherlands and other vassal states were also biting dogs, the goals of these guys were generally the same, and they all planned to kill the Holy Roman Empire first. No matter how much Cohen made money, it would be impossible for him to help the Holy Roman Empire.

It was not Cohen's problem, but the entire Netherlands could not agree, including the Dutch East India Company, which also made a fortune in the war, and a large part of the laborers they sold to the Ming Dynasty came from the Holy Roman Empire.

Once the Holy Roman Empire, which is retreating, will not only affect the entire Europe, but also the labor business of the East India Company using silver coins and blessed cream will be affected, which is something the entire East India Company does not want to see.

Since it is not convenient to contact the Holy Roman Empire through Cohen and others, go by yourself!

The Ministry of Rites prepared everything for Li Chengyan, or in other words, it combined with the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of War, and the Governor's Office of the Five Army to prepare a small fleet for Li Chengyan. There was not a lot of supply materials on it. Anyway, starting from Tianjin Port and until the Ottoman side, there was no need to worry about supply issues.

Because until the Ottomans, most of the territory was from the Ming Dynasty, so there was no need to worry about supply issues, so the above were loaded with various cannons and muskets.

In order to get the European pit back to my grandma's house at one time, Emperor Chongzhen spent a lot of money. The fixed-fitting flintlock guns and the latest cannons that the Ming Dynasty had not completely replaced were stuffed into it.

There was no thrilling along the way, it was just that he spent more time. What really made Li Chengyan’s headache was how he found the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, or he might soon become the emperor.

Parked on the Mugudushi mission fleet, Li Chengyan was facing a difficult choice.

Should we follow the arrangements of Xinlehou Liu Wenbing and be the first to eat crabs, take the risk of passing through the Suez Canal, or follow Zheng Zhilong's arrangements and walk around the Cape of Good Hope to the ocean to the west?

Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.

From the 13th year of Chongzhen to the present, the Suez Canal, which had been dug for six years, has finally been dug, and the Xinlehou Liu Wenbing sang happily.

But what made Liu Wenbing unhappy was that there was no large fleet here to test the actual effect of the canal.

The Ottoman navy was the same as that of the Mughals. The Mughals didn’t even have a fleet. The other merchant ships themselves didn’t like it. The only thing they could like was the South China Sea Fleet of Zheng Zhilong’s troops.

The problem is that the South China Sea Fleet is now busy catching laborers on the prairie south of the wood bones. It has no time to do this test, or it has no time to kill the barbarians in England.

Therefore, the risk of the fleet passing through the Suez Canal is unknown. After all, the small sampan and the large fleet are not on the same level, and the draft and risks they face are not on the same level at all.

If you want to talk about the benefits, it is probably that after passing the Suez Canal, you can go directly to Ljubljana through the port of Albania, and then take land to Austria to visit the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

The risk of bypassing the Cape of Good Hope is also obvious. If you are unlucky and encounter a hurricane, the entire fleet may be at risk of being a complete storm and will face attacks that may be encountered at any time.

For example, Spain and England have absolutely no good relationship with the Ming Dynasty. Having the opportunity to kill a Ming fleet is equivalent to a good thing for these two families. Even if they can't kill them, it's good to be disgusted with the Ming Dynasty.

After careful consideration, Li Chengyan decided to walk the Suez Canal.

Although walking on the Suez Canal, which has not been tested for passing through a large ship, is an adventure, but adventure is also an opportunity, an opportunity to quickly meet the Holy Roman Emperor.

As for the route after passing the Suez Canal, Li Chengyan was not worried that as early as Luzon and Java, the Ming Dynasty had already obtained all the charts through Sanchez and Cohen's hands, and also marked the parts after the Suez Canal.

Fortunately, the Suez Canal, which consumed unknown amount of manpower and material resources, was quite powerful. Although it was frightened, it finally passed safely.

After waving farewell to the Xinlehou Liu Wenbing who was standing on the shore with a smile, Li Chengyan's face became a little gloomy again.

After crossing the Suez Canal, there is no way to rely on any power of the Ming Dynasty. Everything must be handled with one's own carefulness, especially when he knows nothing about the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Perhaps it cannot be said that he knows nothing. After all, some of the information provided by the Jinyiwei still mentioned, but it is still too difficult to infer the preferences and behavior of the Holy Roman Emperor based on the news that he had just a little bit of claws.

By the vigorous publicity of England, Spain and the Netherlands, the reputation of the Ming Dynasty's belligerent may have spread throughout Europe.

Now all countries in Europe know that there is a country named Ming in the Far East that often likes to provoke wars, cut off people's heads and pile them into hills. If there is no need, don't provoke the Ming country.

The so-called pirates in Europe are actually mostly part-time jobs in the national navy, or have been incorporated, and very few are not formally organized.

It is precisely because of this that Li Chengyan and his party were surprisingly smooth, so smooth that Li Chengyan himself couldn't believe it until he set foot on the land of Ljubljana.

After unloading most of the supplies on the ship and loading them onto the carriage, Li Chengyan took a group toward Austria.

That's right, the so-called Habsburg emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was actually Ferdinand III, the King of Hungary and Bohemia, and the Grand Duke of Austria, known as Ferdinand IV.

Faced with such complex relationships and many titles, Li Chengyan, who thinks he has a certain understanding of the West, has to say he is impressed!

If this were the Ming Dynasty, it would probably be the only one who proclaimed himself as the "Governor General's General of Military Affairs" and the "Duke of Zhenguo" could be compared with the other emperors. The title of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty.

What made Li Chengyan even more incredible was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand III, whose second wife was his cousin, Maria Leopoldin's female grandfather.

According to rumors in the martial arts world, the female grandfather's health seems not very good. She feels that she has lived for a while and wants to stop the war. It is actually related to this, not just because of the decline of the people's strength.

In fact, it is normal to think about it. People's power is in decline but not in decline, and they have little to do with these grand dukes or lords, and even emperors. They will not charge a single child's cap tax because of the decline of people's power.

At this point, the emperor Dan of the Central Plains, who had a little brain, would choose a famous type of tax and tax exemption in exchange for the people's hearts, but these Western bigwigs did not need it.

With churches and priests, taxes can always be guaranteed. Because if you don’t pay taxes, your sins cannot be cleared, and if you don’t clear your sins, you cannot go to heaven, especially the tithes that the church has to collect, which is the most important.

In Li Chengyan's opinion, this is not a titanium tax, this thing is more like an IQ tax.

Because the Bible mentions that one-tenth of agricultural and pastoral products belong to God, European civilians must pay tithes taxes.

The specific physical items levied are divided into large tithe tax (grain), small tithe tax (vegetables, fruits), blood tithe tax (livestock), etc. According to the nature of the product, the tax amount often exceeds one-tenth of the taxpayer's income, and the burden mainly falls on farmers.

If that's all, Li Chengyan wouldn't call it an IQ tax. At most, he sighed that the previous sentence was fiercer than the tiger, and then what should I do or what should I do if I have the rest.

The point is that these European civilians revolt and rebel, and then chose to negotiate? Did they forget their minds in their mother's stomach when they were born?
Chapter completed!