When New England regards the war against Turkey as an opportunity, an opportunity to "get out the sheep", and to kill people with a knife and eliminate hidden dangers.

Zheng Sen, who was bathed in the bright sunshine of the Mediterranean on the sandbank of the Bayldevil Lagoon, obviously did not know all of this.

After returning from Chania or Crete in triumphal success, Zheng Sen took off his military uniform and put on a red official robe. He was originally a Confucian scholar and looked gentle and elegant, but he didn't look like the title of "Mediterranean Jackal" in the European population. This title was brought to Rumanet by merchants from various countries in recent days. The reason for this was because of his sneak attack on the Turkish fleet.

In fact, for Zheng Sen, it was just an episode. Compared with the surprise attack on the Chania Turkish fleet, he was more concerned about Venice and the choice there.

Long before he led the fleet to Venice, he sent officials to Venice and had secret talks with Bertuccio. Faced with Zheng Sen's request, both sides hit it off and surrendered to China. This will not only help Venice get rid of the threat from Turkey, but the construction of the Suez Canal in the future will also fundamentally solve the embarrassment of Venice's increasingly declining situation.

For Bertuccio, perhaps he was a Venetian noble, but he didn't care about "sovereignty" or "country". In fact, most of the Venetian nobles didn't care.

For the Venetian nobles, business was more important than sovereignty, and wealth was more important than the state.

Without business and wealth, does Venice still have the meaning of existence?

Therefore, Zheng Sen gave the Venetians another choice to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and then fundamentally solve a series of problems. In fact, Zheng Sen's original intention was not to add a vassal state to the Ming Dynasty, but to the Venetian merchant ships.

"Your Highness, look, there are a few more merchant ships entering the bay today."

Pointing at the merchant ship that was sailing into the bay, Zheng Sen turned his gaze to His Royal Highness the Prince beside him. Yesterday, the Prince and his party finally arrived in Rumanet.

"Rumanai has more than 500 merchant ships, which can probably support the 100,000 army of troops to attack Constantinople!"

"Uncle, it seems that he would rather call that city by Constantinople."

The reason why Zhu Heyu called Zheng Sen’s uncle was because Zheng Sen’s wife was the eldest princess of the late emperor. According to her generation, it was natural to call him uncle.

“Because Europeans like it.”

Zheng Sen smiled.

"We come from afar and always strive for the support of others as much as possible. Turkey is a green country. Every time they go to a place, they force local Christians to change their faith and bully Christians in every way. Your Majesty once said that the enemy's enemy is a friend. As long as we win their support, we will win three points in this battle. However, the key is whether we can defeat Constantinople!"

After a pause, Zheng Sen said.

"When Venice stands on our side, the army can be dispatched! We are not very familiar with the situation in the Dadani Strait, but the Venetians have sailed there for many years. Although they were defeated by the Turkish Navy a few years ago, it was because of their limited strength and the long-term war that damaged their naval strength, so the third Dadani Strait Battle was defeated. However, this does not hinder their understanding of the Dadani Strait environment. With their help, we can more easily grasp the Dadani Strait."

Before the war, we planned everything as well as possible. At this point, Zheng Sen did indeed plan ahead. This is not anything special about Zheng Sen. Everything he has done now is due to his understanding of Europe after coming to Europe, and of course, it is also due to His Majesty's guidance. Perhaps His Majesty did not speculate on Turkey's actions, but Turkey has long attracted His Majesty's attention.

"From the day Turkey occupied Constantinople, they were nightmares for the whole of Europe. They had been rampant for two hundred years and had almost never encountered an enemy in two hundred years. Their expansion had long aroused hostility in the whole of Europe. What we need now is to take advantage of the hostility of European countries towards Turkey and defeat him. Of course, Venice was just a casual move. Venice was just the first, and there were several countries on the Apennine Peninsula, and they all had the opportunity to become our vassal states."

What was the Ming Dynasty's ambition for Europe?

Of course, it is to let Europe accept the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Perhaps France, Spain and Habsburg will do everything possible to maintain independence, but the Ming Dynasty will penetrate its influence bit by bit and turn them into a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. In this era when the strong are supreme, who is unwilling to hold on to the golden thigh?

"Uncle, I finally know why my father chose you as the plenipotentiary minister in Europe! That is, you can do all this with ease."

Looking at Zheng Sen, Zhu Heyu smiled.

"By the way, uncle, I think you are the commander of the navy in this battle. I wonder what my uncle thinks?"

"ah!"

Looking at Your Highness in surprise, Zheng Sen was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a moment. He bowed and said a long time later.

"Your Highness trusts me so much, even if I am broken, I will never repay you!"

Navy chief!

This is clearly a way to give him military merits with both hands. After all, the Ming Navy had never encountered an enemy on the sea!

"Look at you, you and I are a family, why do you need this? You mentioned Venice just now. On the way I came, I discussed with the Spanish envoy about Constantine. He once mentioned that the Venetian Navy had blocked the Strait of Dadani, which led to the famine of Constantinople..."

Looking at Zheng Sen, Zhu Heyu said seriously.

"So can we get medicine according to the prescription, block the Dadadan Strait, and then put Constantinople in famine?"

"Put Constantinople into famine?"

Zheng Sen was stunned for a moment and looked at His Highness in confusion and said.

"Your Highness, in my opinion, we can mobilize heavy troops to conquer Constantinople."

"Constantinople must be defeated, but not now."

Zhu Heyu shook his head and said.

"What we need in this battle is not a lonely Constantinople, or in other words, just destroying the Turks' rule in Constantinople, we must focus on the future, such as the entire Ottoman Empire. If we only destroy Constantinople, then we must face a realistic problem, that is, there is a very likely insurrection in the provinces within the Ottoman Empire, and they will become independent one after another. What do we get in the end? Is it just an Anatolia and Constantinople? Of course not, Rumilia, Sylistra, Bogdan, Bosnia, Egypt, Memidamia, Erzurum, the Ottoman Empire must perish, and we must accept their land, Constantinople..."

Suddenly, Zhu Heyu smiled.

"Perhaps we can rebuild a Rome here, the Rome of the Ming Dynasty!"
Chapter completed!