When Castro faced Cortez's warning, it was difficult to make a choice.

In the imperial palace in the inner city of Nanjing, Zhu Guoqiang never expected that someone would disrupt his plans and intimidate the Spanish envoys there.

In fact, since receiving the news of the visit of the Spanish envoy, Zhu Guoqiang was considering one thing to break up with Spain!

The world in the 1650s was different from 1750. In this era, the expansion of the Ming Dynasty had only two real enemies, one was the Netherlands, the other was Spain, and the most powerful was Spain.

Even though the Spanish Empire is about to go to waste, the empire still controls the vastest colony in the world!

It was Spain that ushered in the colonial era in Europe, and this country was different from the Netherlands, which was known as the "sea coachman". The Netherlands was a merchant country. Although there was a conflict of interest with the Ming Dynasty, the two sides could basically cooperate. After all, merchants had to settle economic accounts when fighting. In profitable situations, they would not fight a war with the Ming Dynasty that was destined to lose money.

After all, once the war breaks out, it will be impossible for the Netherlands to earn money through trade with the Ming Dynasty. What is the relationship with the Netherlands?

As long as it is profitable, both sides will continue to be friendly.

But Spain is different. They can gain huge benefits through the gold and silver mountains of America. They do not need to obtain money through trade with the Ming Dynasty. Spain in this era is like a tyrant from the Middle East in another world. They rely on the gold and silver mountains of the colonies to fight wars without caring about money...

The country went bankrupt?

No problem, as long as there are gold and silver mountains of America, you don’t have to worry about it.

Even people went bankrupt several times!

What made Zhu Guoqiang even more powerful is that Spain may have been no longer a maritime overlord, but they still control the maritime power in the Pacific because the "Black Tide Route" between Asia and the Americas is controlled by Spain, one end is the Philippines and the other end is Mexico.

Moreover, they also have the vastest colonies in the world. They own almost the entire America, at least Latin America, and those colonies are still not open. Fortunately, the profits of ocean trade in this era were limited, otherwise such unopened colonies would definitely be intolerable to other countries.

But this must have affected the economic interests of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the Ming Dynasty is now a world factory. As long as Spain still controls the Pacific Ocean and excludes any competitors, it will inevitably affect the commercial interests of the Ming Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Guoqiang proposed Pacific trade negotiations to the Philippine Governor's Office in Spain. Now the visit of the special envoy is actually a kind of reply...

But what kind of response will they give?

If you want to fight, then fight?

Who gave you such courage?

At least for Castro, he absolutely did not have the courage to continue fighting, nor did he have the courage to sign a treaty to divide the new world with the Ming Dynasty. Not only because he did not have this power, but because he knew very well that Spain would absolutely not agree to this treaty unless he lost a war. Otherwise, this "traitor" behavior would make the person who signed the treaty become the public enemy of the entire Madrid.

Therefore, such a treaty is absolutely impossible to sign.

"That's it...I know."

Zhu Guoqiang nodded.

He already knew this answer. It seems that there is only one way, that is, to open a Pacific route by himself!

"It seems that I can only make direct requests to Madrid!"

Zhu Guoqiang nodded,

"I hope King Philip IV can regard the Ming Dynasty as a friend of Spain, not an opponent, nor an enemy."

Sending envoys to Europe was already in Zhu Guoqiang's plan, but it was still a question whether Philip IV would agree.

Castro said in surprise:

"His Majesty the Emperor wants to send envoys to the Kingdom of Spain?"

"Yes," Zhu Guoqiang smiled.

"I will send envoys to Europe at the right time, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, France, England, Sweden and the Rakshasa Kingdom. They will all be the subjects of their visit."

Zhu Guoqiang paused and said:

"I hope His Majesty Philip IV can understand that the Ming Dynasty has no intention of the Philippine colonies in Spain! There is no intention of the New Spain either. Moreover, I hope you can understand that the Ming Dynasty is not pursuing land, nor gold and silver mines. The Ming Dynasty owns its own gold and silver mines. We have the best factories and the best products in the world. All the Ming Dynasty needs is to produce these products and then transport them to all parts of the world through our fleet in exchange for gold and silver, free trade... I believe that this is the only option to avoid conflict."
Chapter completed!