Mo San has been very busy recently.\

In February, he had already held two rounds of negotiations with Mr. Balboa, the Secretary of the Spanish Council of Western India, who upholds the will of the king. Although it was just a general discussion, the two sides had already shown their bottom line to each other, which made the negotiations become much more frank, because they would no longer test each other with some unrealistic terms.

The originally scheduled negotiations began at the end of February, but the Navy Captain Guo Zili, who led the escort fleet to leave Europe, specially sent a letter to Mo San through the Doria family. In the letter, he asked Mo San to delay the negotiation opportunity so that the East Coast can achieve greater results of war. Guo Zili insisted that it is not the time for the East Coast to make peace with Spain. He mentioned that the whole country in the East Coast is currently boiling, and everyone's enthusiasm has increased a lot due to the continuous victory of the war. At this time, the diplomatic department should cooperate with the army's actions and wait until the army completely captures Chile and the navy enters the Caribbean before discussing peace. This is how the best interests can be guaranteed.

Regarding the opinions of Guo Zili, the few radicals in the navy, Mo San just glanced at it and put away the letter. It was pure nonsense! What was this person thinking about and what jokes were all day long? Now that the domestic inflation is so serious, even Mo San has heard about it. Moreover, this is what happened last year, and this must be even more serious this year! At this time, he was determined to fight. Mo San can only say that he was crazy! What is the use of fighting? Is it so much more money to snatch back and create inflation? He is really a crude person without economic consciousness.

Guo Zili is indeed a restless guy. He is currently competing for the second position of the navy with Wang Tiech and Li Yi, but based on his political tendency, Mo San would not agree to let such a person control the navy. It is simply a disaster! Perhaps this person has a strong ability to fight. A while ago, a main battleship and two galleys of the Spanish Mediterranean Fleet were sunk in the waters near Cartagena, and many were injured. Of course, there was also a frigate on his side who had no choice but to sink because his mast was interrupted. However, in general, the exchange ratio was still acceptable, which made the strength of Spain's fleet, which was already small, even worse. Perhaps the Spanish would not have the courage to fight when the East Coast escort fleet crossed the Strait of Gibraltar next year.

However, whether you can fight is not the main factor for officials at the level of the Navy Minister. To be able to be a Shanghai Army Minister, you must first be "political strong", which means that you cannot walk with the army's own people. At this point, Guo Zili is obviously unqualified, and Mo San still prefers Captain Li Yi. At that time, he will write letters to encourage some of his political allies to operate.

Mo San has been in Europe for a long time and has a clear understanding of the current trend of the Thirty Years' War. At present, Austria is obviously no longer willing to continue the war. Unfortunately, France and Sweden have rejected the request for a truce by the Holy Roman Emperor more than once. They are still excited to continue the war. Although the soldiers are suffering heavy casualties, although Sweden and many of France's territories have been ravaged (Sweden's Baltic Sea southern coast, northeastern France), and the social order has been severely damaged. Although the war military expenditure has reached more than one billion livres, they still decided to continue the war until they obtain the best interests.

Especially France has now captured dozens of towns in the Catholic settlement area of ​​the Southern Netherlands. The border line in the northeast has greatly expanded; at the same time, they have defeated the Holy Roman team many times in the east, occupied Metz, Tours, Verdun and most of the Alsace areas. In the southeast, they have also occupied many towns that were originally Spanish territory, and the territory of the entire country has been greatly expanded. At the same time, King Louis XIV of France also served as the Earl of Barcelona, ​​and the entire Catalonia region has completely turned to him. Many Spanish territories north of the Pyrenees were also captured one by one, and some lords who were originally dependent on Spain were also controlled by France.

In addition, Naples and Sicily in Italy were in danger. Even a rebellion broke out in Naples last year (1647). Although the Spanish quickly restored the order there, it was difficult to guarantee whether there would be any trouble in the future. In short, in Mosan's view, Spain's decline was very obvious in recent years, especially in the years after the Battle of Rocroix, and France's rise was quite obvious. France is currently on two fronts, fighting against Austria and Spain, and has won many victories. Austria has repeatedly asked for peace and was rejected because France has not yet gained enough benefits, and the Spanish Kingdom is in danger of a fragmented country.

Mo San knew that Spain had not destroyed its country in history, but he did not know whether Spain in this time and space would destroy its country. Although the East Coast people caused some losses to Spain, most of the Peruvian gold and silver, which was most important to Spain, were transported back (the intercepted by the East Coast were basically local officials and merchants' private remittances, including Genoese money...), so its strength was weakened very limited.

Of course, that's what Mo San said, but he didn't dare to guarantee that Spain would be able to hold on, because the French could no longer stop at this time. Austria's request for sum was rejected, and Spain would naturally not humiliate themselves. They could only squeeze out every part of their energy to fight against the French, otherwise it would be the end of the country's destruction. At this time, for long-term interests, the East Coast should end the war with Spain in a timely manner. While stably digesting the new territory, they continued to transfusion blood to Spain by selling cheap industrial products and war materials to Spain, so that they could consume more of the French energy.

Other countries on the European continent have seen France's rise and have even begun partial connections. For example, Britain and the Netherlands are very anxious, especially the Netherlands. They have actually been in arbitrage with Spain for several years and are now very concerned about France's gradual encroachment on the territory of the Spanish Southern Netherlands and regard this as a threat to their own national defense.

Spain had long acknowledged the independence of the Netherlands, and was also preparing to ced some of the territory of the Flanders, Limburg and Brabant in the South Netherlands occupied by the Netherlands to the Dutch. In addition, it is said that it would also close the foreign trade of the Schelder River - which will inevitably damage Antwerp's economy and form a major benefit to Amsterdam. The Spaniards made so many concessions just to exchange for the Netherlands' economic support, and the Netherlands was of course happy to do so, because now their biggest enemy is no longer Spain, but the rising France.

Even after Mosan postponed negotiations with the Spaniards at the end of February for some reason, several representatives of the Dutch West India Company came to Valladolid through the Basque Country and had a secret negotiation with Mosan. The core content of the negotiations was to advise the East Coast people to reach a peace agreement with Spain as soon as possible.

They were worried that the continued combat operations of the East Coast people in Peru would cause the fall of Spain's silver minerals, which would undoubtedly cause a comprehensive collapse of Spain's fiscal system. The consequences of the fiscal collapse would be disastrous for Spain, which was on the verge of life and death at this time. The Dutch warned that once the Spanish government collapsed, the East Coast people would probably not find a negotiable object, and many subsequent interests might not be negotiated.

After the Spanish, the Genoese came to Valladolid without any surprise. Alesandro of the Doria family solemnly proposed to Mo San that the government of the Republic of Genoa would mediate the war between the Kingdom of Spain and the East Coast of China to end the tragic war as soon as possible. Because the war has now evolved into a long war of attrition, this is undoubtedly very unfavorable to both sides, and the only one who laughs about this may be the French. Therefore, he suggested that Mosan and the Secretary of Barboa reopen the negotiations as soon as possible, and both sides sat down more frankly and discuss a solution together.

Alesandro's words touched Mo San a little. Yes, there will be no benefit in the war. Could it be that the East Coast people can really control the entire South America? With the current population of only 150,000 in the East Coast, it is already good to control the entire Uruguay and Rio Grande, southern Brazil. As for the vast La Plata area, it is better not to daydream for the time being. It is better to be realistic.

It was only at this time that Mo San vaguely realized how unreliable it was to find Paris rashly to discuss with the French how unreliable it was to attack Spain together. Not to mention that he didn't find the right person at that time, even if he found the right person, France would only treat the East Coast as a gunman and would not make any alliance with the East Coast. The French were arrogant, and they could not afford to lose that person. After all, the image of the East Coast was not as high as that of now, and it was a completely weak country. What qualifications did he have to be on par with the great Kingdom of France?

March was in exchange for the Dutch envoys with Genoa and Dutch. By early April, even the British bourgeois government, which had just controlled the domestic situation, sent a representative to visit Mosan. His purpose was similar to that of the Dutch and Genoese, which was to persuade the Spaniards and the East Coast people.

Spain was indeed much more pragmatic at this time. Not long after the British Civil War ended, they first recognized the "Republic of the Regidist" - Britain, and then tried their best to win over the British to fight against the French. The British, who had always been very concerned about the situation in the European continent, agreed with this and began to gradually move closer to Spain and engage in various anti-French activities.
Chapter completed!