Zhao Ming and the British envoy soon reached a consensus to sign an alliance.

However, for Zhao Ming, this convoy is definitely only temporary. After Donghai Town obtains the South Ocean, it will definitely enter the Indian Ocean westward.

Now, Donghai Town is surrounded by enemies. In order to gain the support of the British, Zhao Ming did not get it and gave India to Britain.

Of course, India is actually the territory of the Mughal Empire now. Zhao Ming is completely generous to others and has no losses to himself. It can be said that he is quite shameless.

This act of promising other countries' interests and territory to other countries without others' knowledge, or dividing them up, made Zhao Ming once find the feeling of the imperial powers and made him feel a sense of pleasure.

At the same time, he was also alert in advance that if Donghai Town was not strong and China was not strong, then China would be divided in a few hundred years.

Zhao Ming absolutely did not allow this situation, and this situation would appear again.

At this moment, Zhao Ming ordered Gu Yanwu to discuss with British envoys and signed a detailed treaty requiring the British to attack Dutch merchant ships on the Indian Ocean and seize the Dutch strongholds in India.

The British were originally pirates, so they naturally responded to Zhao Ming's request. The two sides happily signed a treaty. Zhao Ming generously gave the British some tea and porcelain. Smith left Taiwan and returned to Mumbai.

After the British left, Zhao Ming continued to siege Rezilan while training on attacking the bastion.

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By February 1654, the Dutch in Rezhelanburg showed no sign of surrender. Due to the harassment of the Dutch and Spain, Donghai Town had lost several merchant ships at sea, and trade was greatly affected.

For a time, Jiangdong's various routes overseas were threatened by the Dutch.

The warships of the Western Yi were like rangers on the sea, attacking Jiangdong merchant ships, making Jiangdong unpredictable.

Compared with the destructive battles between the Netherlands and Spain, the navy heading south from Donghai Town achieved minimal results.

This is related to the number of ships going to sea on both sides. Jiangdong has ten or hundreds of merchant ships every day, shuttled through routes to Liaodong, North Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. The warships from the Netherlands and Spain are easy to meet Jiangdong merchant ships, while the warships in Donghai Town rarely encounter Dutch and Spanish merchant ships.

At the same time, news came from the north that under Yue Le's fierce attack, Xie Qian deployed the Nanguan Wall defense line north of Lushun. The Northern Qing army broke through, and the Lushun defenders were forced to shrink to Lushun Fort and several forts around the fortress.

Previously, the climate in Liaodong was cold, and water splashed into ice. Qing army cannons repeatedly destroyed the walls. The soldiers of Donghai Town in each Ye were filled with weeds and stones, and then poured them on water. Another day, the city wall was intact again.

However, as spring began and the weather became warmer, it became difficult for Donghai Town to repair the city wall. The Nanguan Wall was eventually broken through by the Qing army. Yue Le led a large army and approached the city of Lushun.

This indicates that all the Tunzhuang near Lushun will fall into the hands of the Qing army, and the defenders can only come to the east of the Yangtze River to provide supplies.

Although Lushun Fort was built in the style of a prism, it was not a real prism after all, so when Zhao Ming learned that Yue Le broke through the Nanguan Wall and was approaching Lushun Fort, he still felt great pressure.

In March, under the urging of Zhao Ming, the mortars made by Huaxing Company and the supporting flowering bullets were finally delivered to the senior officer.

Zhao Ming asked someone to conduct a drill. After the test shooting, many generals were extremely shocked and said that with this weapon, it was no problem to capture the bastion.

Seeing this, Zhao Ming finally assembled a team of 3,000 troops and ten warships, stayed at Chikan Fort, cooperated with nearly 10,000 troops to continue to siege Rezhalan Fort, while Zhao Ming led more than 13,000 people to take advantage of the high tide, leaving Dayuan Bay and running to Luzon in a mighty manner.

Luzon was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. After that, the Spanish destroyed Luzon and occupied Luzon.

Before going to the expedition, in order to reduce resistance, Zhao Ming issued a manifesto to denounce the Spanish, saying that this southern expedition was to restore countries such as Luzon that were destroyed by the Netherlands and Spain, drive away Spain, rescue the people under the colonial rule of Spain and the Netherlands, and end the colonial rule of the Western Barbarians.

Many tribes and countries in the South China Sea naturally have a reputation for the Ming Dynasty and the Western Barbarians.

Before the arrival of Western Yi, many countries and tribes within the tribute system were not worried that the Ming Dynasty would interfere in their internal affairs, force and oppress them, and even pay for tribute.

The Spanish and the Dutch were different. After they arrived in Nanyang, they immediately began to kill, destroy the country, enslave and oppress the locals.

This has made many countries in Southeast Asia be wary of the Netherlands and Spain, and even conflicts continue.

This time, Zhao Ming issued a manifesto, exerting the power of Donghai Town and dispatched hundreds of warships to expedition in the south. Even if the news did not respond, the countries in the South China Sea remained on the side of the Western Barbarians. There was almost no such thing as standing on the side of the Western Barbarians.

At the end of March, Zhao Ming led the fleet to leave the generals. The fleet did not directly pounce on Batavia, but headed towards Luzon, which was closer to Taiwan.

The reason for this is that Luzon happened to jump over Luzon to fight Batavia, just between Taiwan and Batavia. Not only did the journey be long, but it could also be cut off from supply by Luzon's Spaniards and even attacked Taiwan.

On the sea, warships were raised all over the sails, and the sailors on the Zhenhai flagship were quickly manipulating the sails. Zhao Ming stood on the boat building and looked into the distance. There was a blue sea in front of him. The surrounding warships were walking through the waves, leaving behind a series of trails, facing the sun, which was very spectacular.

Zhao Ming stood on the boat building, with the sea and sky connecting in front of him, surrounded by warships advancing with him. He was among a hundred warships, looking at the huge fleet and sails covering the sky, his heart couldn't help but feel excited.

This is a great era, an era of great voyage, and with him here, this time I will definitely not miss this era.

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Nanjing, the capital of the Longwu imperial court.

After more than a year of peace talks between the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the Qing Dynasty re-arranged the Xuzhou defense line, rectified the north, and consolidated the Qing Dynasty's rule in the north, the Longwu court also made great progress in consolidating the central government and strengthening control over the local area.

Within more than a year, Du Yinxi, who had great prestige in the army, squeezed out the court, personally controlled the military power, and then implemented a series of measures to strengthen centralization.

In the name of the emperor, Longwu used both kindness and power, and differentiated and disintegrated. High officials bribed them with a large sum of money. Some generals in the Zhejiang clan fell to the court under the temptation of high officials and generous titles, which allowed Longwu to make certain progress in reducing the vassals.
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