Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 693 You are going to ruin England (please subscribe!)

Bentinck looked at the governor of the British East India Company seriously, "One is to do everything possible to support the brave and freedom-loving people who are willing to resist Ming Dynasty, such as the Indians and Mongols!"

Thomas nodded, it's up to you, it has nothing to do with my East India Company anyway.

"The second is to do everything possible to fight a trade war with Ming!"

"Trade war?? Ambassador, our East India Company doesn't know how to fight it?"

Governor Thomas frowned upon hearing this.

If you beat yourselves, the British East India Company will continue to do business with Daming.
A trade war with Daming?
Never died?

You Bentinck are going to ruin England!
Thomas' face changed suddenly, obviously not happy.

Bentinck took a look at Thomas, who only cared about the interests of the company and shareholders, and didn't care about the interests of the country, and he knew what he was thinking.

Because Dutch capitalists and businessmen were even more disregarding of national interests than Thomas, he was used to.

Bentinck said with a faint smile: "The trade war is very simple, but it requires the cooperation of the East India Company."

Regardless of whether he is willing to cooperate or not, Bentinck continued: "The purpose of the trade war is to prevent the Ming country from exporting goods to Europe in large quantities to earn silver and gold, and at the same time, it is impossible to obtain cheap raw materials from Europe and the Americas!"

"The purpose of this is to prevent silver from flowing into the Ming Dynasty!"

Thomas' face turned from black to maroon. It was hard to imagine that he was a white man.

Thomas cursed inwardly: This bastard Dutchman, this is not attacking Daming, this is attacking the British East India Company.

He fully suspected that his old rival, the Dutch East India Company, had stuffed him with money!
"As long as the trade embargo is imposed on Ming, the Ming country's porcelain, tea, silk, glass, ironware, wine industry, matches and other industries can be fully hit. At the same time, we can also support the cotton cloth, Sugar and other industries replaced Ming people’s related industries to export commodities to Europe.”

After hearing this, Thomas smiled wryly and said, "Ambassador, we Europeans cannot live without perfume, cigarettes, and spices from Nanyang!"

"That's why I didn't say that perfumes, cigarettes and spices should be embargoed. Anyway, fragrant things are not banned!"

Bentinck waved his hand and said as a matter of course.

Thomas is dumbfounded, what kind of trade war is this? When you are a Daming person, you are a Kaizi, right?
"Ambassador Bentinck, Sir Ben can assure you that once the trade war breaks out, Ming will not buy you anything. Besides, do you know how much money we earn from Ming's trade every year?"

"Ambassador Bentinck, the principle of our East India Company is free trade, and this principle will not be changed because of the war!"

"Only the principle of free trade can guarantee the friendly coexistence of the East India Company and Ming!"

Thomas speaks righteously.

What does it have to do with my East India Company if Britain wants to confront Ming Dynasty?
Bentinck shook his head and looked at Thomas with contempt, "Mr. Governor, I think you are mistaken. Free trade did not bring profits to the East India Company, nor did free trade make the company friendly with the Ming Dynasty. coexist!"

"The real reason is British force!"

What Bentinck said is also correct. The so-called free trade of Thomas the British, except for the normal friendship with Daming, and other Tianzhu forces are another face.

In fact, it is to use force to coerce trade in exchange for cheap goods!

Those who can be beaten are robbers, and those who cannot be beaten are gentlemen.

Bentinck paused word by word and said slowly: "If the Eight-Nation Allied Forces cannot stop Ming's southward advance, everything that the British East India Company has gained by force in southern Tianzhu will eventually be lost!"

"So we have to win, even if it costs every last penny in our pockets!"

"Then why do we have to confront Daming? If we don't confront, nothing will happen?"

Thomas slammed the table and roared angrily.

He doesn't hide it anymore, he just wants to make money and get ahead, what does the national interest have to do with him?
Bentinck is very well-mannered. He wiped the drool on his face with a silk handkerchief, and said calmly: "Calm down, sir, do you think that Britain will live in South India for the rest of its life? Although I am Dutch, I stand on the From the position of the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom still needs Nanyang and the Strait of Malacca, otherwise it will be stuck by the Ming people for hundreds of years in the future!"

Originally, Bentinck wanted to use the combined fleet of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces to suppress the Ming Dynasty, but it turned out that the current fleet of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces is far inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty. For the current plan, there is only one trade war.

"I am the commander-in-chief of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and I am also the plenipotentiary ambassador of King William III. The East India Company must listen to me!"

After the ceremony, Bentinck threw the cup as a sign, and a few swordsmen suddenly walked in from the side door, which was prepared for him by Suo'etu.

There is another old saying in Ming Dynasty: Those who know current affairs are brilliant.

A good man doesn't suffer from immediate losses, so Thomas had to accept his fate first, and later he passed the news to his old friend His Majesty Zhu Kezang, and asked him to send someone to help him by the way, this Dutchman doesn't talk about martial arts!
It must be because I have been with those Mongolians for a long time, and I have become this kind of virtue.

Thomas sighed secretly: I only hope that after this dispute, his East India Company can still exist.

"Trade war? Hahahaha... James II and his good son-in-law William actually want to start a trade war with Ming!"

In the Yuexiu Palace, Zhu Kezang was amused by passing a letter to Thomas' flying pigeon.

If it was Britain in the [-]th century, he might have to be a little nervous. Britain in this era is still rotten!

What about the Eight-Nation Allied Forces?

It's all stuff with their own ulterior motives. The ambassador, who can't even unite the East India Company, actually wants to fight a trade war.

This is the best joke Zhu Kezang has heard in recent years.

"Let Jin Yiwei appease my old friend Thomas and wrong him to be a spy over there. When the time is right, I will send someone to rescue him. Let's prepare for the meeting now!"

An hour later, the Great Ming Yuexiu Palace, the Great Conference Hall.

On the hillside of Yuexiu Mountain, where birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, a large conference hall was specially built for Zhu Kezang to work, summon ministers, foreign envoys, and civil representatives.

Today, this conference hall is crowded with people, and it is almost as noisy as a duck pond.

There are representatives of merchants, gentry, and chambers of commerce from all over Guangdong.

Today is the representative meeting of Guangdong University Scholars, and there is a gossip that His Majesty Zhu Kezang will come to attend the meeting.

This is the honor of Guangdong!
This is the first time that the emperor has never participated in a local-level academician congress.

Most of the people here are members of the Dongning faction, the Southern Fujian faction, and the Cantonese faction who fought with the new Ming Dynasty.

He held a meeting here to discuss the international situation and deal with the Eight-Power Allied Forces!
(End of this chapter)