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The New World must go to the route and find it. As for whether to open up a new route and compete for the new continent, you have to make a good calculation... After all, fighting for the new continent and opening a new route requires a lot of capital and great determination to make a big decision.

Not to mention the risk of war with the Ming Dynasty, the world empire, but the investment required to set up a trading station and build a trade market in the New World is just astronomical. How could the merchants in Venice and Genoa rashly throw money into it? In history, Queen Isabella of Spain could not settle accounts at all, so she was deceived by Columbus to invest in the adventure activities of discovering the New World, and turned the pauper Spain into a rich man. In the same period, in Venice, the accountants made a small plan and fought again and again, but in the end they still felt that it was unpaid. It was more safe to cooperate with the Sultans of the Tianfang Cult to reduce the cost of the old routes...

Well, this is the matter of the accounting and parliament, and the two young ambassadors cannot control it. Today they brought Nicolopolo and there are other things to ask.

"What's going on invading the West in Mongolia?" Clement Doria changed the subject and asked about the Mongolian invading the West.

It turned out that just before Pope Clemon IV was on the spot, King Alfonso X of Castile, King Alfonso III of Portugal and Archbishop Ataleon of Lisbon jointly wrote a letter to the Holy See, reporting that the Great Mongolian Kingdom suffered a crushing defeat in the East and is now planning a full-scale western expedition and invading Europa.

However, when the letter was sent to Rome, Pope Clemon IV was almost out of control and could not control these matters. He just ordered the Holy See to copy dozens of letters and send them to the monarchs of various countries in Europe. Although Venice and Genoa did not have monarchs, they were also important members of the European political stage today, so they naturally obtained a copy of the "Church of the Grand Duke".

The reaction of the top leaders of Venice and Genoa to this was... very happy!

Happy?

Yes, the Mongolians are coming, and the merchants are very happy! Their reaction is as big as Liang Chongru and others expected.

Of course, the Venetians and Genoa were not in a hurry to be fourth-class Europeans. Instead, they realized the huge business opportunities that Mongolia's invasion to the west would bring!

War is always inseparable from money.

The reason why Venice and Genoa have today's prosperity is actually due to the Crusades.

The Crusaders were mainly transported from the two countries to the East. They provided loans to the Crusaders to purchase their spoils and slaves. They provided weapons, equipment and even mercenaries, which were all big deals.

In addition, the various troubles in East-West trade caused by the Crusades also helped city-state republics like Venice and Genoa to block many rival Popes from ordering bans on trade with the Tianfang Cult, which had no binding force on trade republics like Venice and Genoa.

And now, an unprecedented world war is about to affect Europe! And an unprecedented war may mean an unprecedented opportunity to make a fortune!

If Mongolia's massive invasion is true, then the whole of Europe will be mobilized to participate in the war. What a huge demand this means! Moreover, the Cyris Kingdom in the East is now in Europe and is attracting Europeans to board their warships. There are many opportunities here, right?

"Mongols' invasion of the West is definitely true. Even if the Mongol Khan did not have the idea of ​​invasion of the West, the Cyris emperor would launch a western expedition and drive the Mongols to Europa!"

To be honest, Nicolopolo always thought he was an honest businessman... as honest as most Venetian businessmen.

"The Mongol Khan... can't beat the Seris?" Doria asked. "I seem to hear that the Mongols almost conquered Seris."

"Yes, it's just a little bit." Nicolo Polo nodded, "It's like the Crusaders almost liberated the holy land... The Seris also produced a hero like Saladin. His name is Chen Dexing! Now the emperor of the Ming Empire, the leader of the Tiandao Sect!"

"Heavenly...Cult?" Clement Doria frowned, "What kind of teaching?"

"Worship Taiyi God, believe in science..."

"science?"

"It's mathematics, chemistry, biology, geometry, etc. Cyrius's Heavenly Taoists believe that the truth of the universe is contained in it. As long as you can fully master these truths, human beings will open the door to heaven, human beings will become omnipotent like gods, and the world can be like heaven."

"A little blasphemous." Doria shook his head. He believed in God more than the Venetians... the kind of act of coaxing the crusaders to attack Christian compatriots. The devout Genoese Christians could not do it. They sold a thousand or hundreds of child crusaders to Egypt as slaves.

"It's okay," Pietor Gdenniko had read the translation of the three sutras of the Tiandaoism. He said, "It's just that the ambition is too great. If you want to conquer the world, it's a bit like the Tianfang Sect..."

"Tianfang Sect..." Doria frowned, "I almost forgot the Mamruks." He looked at Pietorgdenig, "Do you know the news about Egypt?"

Pieto Gdenniko nodded, "The Mamruks surrendered to the Mongols, and the Hakim Cali issued a religious decree for the Holy War and declared war on the Ming Empire. However, this is just an attitude. It is impossible for the Sultan of Baibls to really launch a war on Macau... There are 12,000 Swiss and Black Forest mercenaries, as well as at least 5,000 Aztec musketeers. And they will also receive support from Castile and Portugal."

"This is a good thing!" said Doria.

Pietor Gdennico nodded, "Yes, it's a good thing for Venice and Genoa, for the time being..."

"Yes, it's just temporary."

The words of the two profiteers are obscure, but Nicolopolo can still understand them. He is also a Venetian.

The Mamruks surrendered to Mongolia, which meant that their war with the Ili Khanate had ended. In the eyes of merchants, it also meant that the trade route from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean could become safer. Venice and Genoa could obtain security guarantees and more reasonable low tariffs through secret negotiations with the Mamruk Sultan. Venice and Genoa have always maintained quite close exchanges with the Ayubic dynasty and the Mamruk dynasty.

In this way, spices, silks and porcelain from the East can be shipped to the Mediterranean at a lower cost. In this way, they can compete with the sailing ships of the Ming Empire and maintain their market share as much as possible.

Even Venice and Genoa could trade with the Mongols through the Mamruks and make their business to Ross and Persia.

For Venice and Genoa, the "money prospect" still looks very bright, at least it is still the case now!

...

"This house has been over a thousand years?"

"Yes, this was built during the Roman Republic 27 years before the birth of Christ. It was called the Pantheon. It was only converted into a church 609 after the birth of Christ. It is now called the "Church of the Virgin and the Martyrs."

"Oh, that's nearly 1300 years!"

"Don't say, this stone house is just reliable, it will not collapse in 1300 years... We were in the Han Dynasty at that time, so where can the Han Dynasty houses be left?"

While the Venetians and Genoese were making their little calculations, Liang Chongru was traveling with Wen Tianxiang, Jiudeng and Yongxin, accompanied by Archbishop Pontalion. He had just visited the Arc de Triomphe in the morning and visited the Pantheon again in the afternoon. After watching, there were still people to entertain dinner, and in the Palace of Rutland, several Archbishops in the clothes in the Chancellery who were in charge of the daily affairs of the Holy See.

At the dinner, Liang Chongru also discussed with the cardinal archbishops of the Roman Catholic Church about opening an embassy in Rome.

The concept of an embassy was not available in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was also introduced by Chen Dexing to China. Now the Ming Empire and Japan, Goryeo, Annan and other countries set up embassies on each other. However, the names are not all embassies. Because Goryeo and Annan are vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, their embassy in the Ming Dynasty called the "Quan Embassy", and the embassy in the Ming Dynasty in these two countries was the "Xuanfu Embassy". Japan during the civil war did not surrender to the Ming Dynasty, so the two embassies in the Ming Dynasty (now there are two Japanese) and the two Japanese embassies in the Ming Dynasty were called the embassy.

Regarding European diplomacy, of course, it is mainly based on equal national diplomacy. Although Chen Dexing had the ambition to establish the Chinese world, he still emphasized practicality on diplomatic issues. Diplomacy still needs to serve national interests, rather than exchange national interests for the status of a worthless sovereign ruler.

However, the Ming Dynasty cannot establish ambassador-level diplomatic relations with any European country now. First, opening too many embassies tens of thousands of miles away is a huge expense and is unpaid; second, there are too many European countries nowadays, including empires, kingdoms, principalities, republics, but also a large number of marquis and kingdoms. In many places, the vast territory is also a country. Of course, the Ming Dynasty was not interested in establishing diplomatic relations with them.

So the targets for establishing diplomatic relations at present are the Holy Roman Empire (the current Vatican is not the Vatican), the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Castile, the Kingdom of France, the Eastern Roman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Kingdom of Serbia, the Kingdom of England, and other nine countries. There was also a Polish Kingdom that also wanted to establish diplomatic relations. This was Chen Dexing's instructions, because Poland was the first line of defense to resist the Mongol invasion. However, Liang Chongru found that Chawu's country had disbanded into a bunch of principalities, and it was estimated that it would soon become a fourth-class European country, and there was no need to establish diplomatic relations!
Chapter completed!