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Chapter 379: Your Majesty the Tsar, the Mongols are here again! (Seeking a monthly pass, asking for a subscription)

"General, about three or four years ago, there was a prince named Duruno on Madura Island, a small island next to Java, under the rule of the Matalan Sultanate, a large country that cooperated with the Dutch in the Java area. Zoyo's sudden attack, in the name of opposing the oppression of the Dutch and Matalan Sultan, raised a large number of volunteers.

Although this Duruno Zoyo is an indigenous prince who has lost his country, he is resolute and resolute, and he is proficient in the art of war, and is deeply loved by the people.Although there were few soldiers at the beginning, in just two years there was a sweeping momentum.Last year, he sent troops across the sea from his base of Madura to invade Java, defeating the new army trained by the Dutch to help Madura Sultan, and then besieged Surabaya, the second largest port on Java.

Because this Duruno Zojo is against the Netherlands, and the Dutch have reconciled with Matalam and become an ally after defeating Matalam decades ago.That's why Batavia's governor, Spielman, has personally led soldiers to support the Sultan of Matalan since last spring and fought against Durno Jojo.The war has continued to this day, and the outcome is still undecided. The Dutch's strength in Nanyang is actually very limited, and now they are largely restrained in Java, so it is impossible to take any major actions in the Malacca area. "

Li Jizhen's brother-in-law and Jia Hanfu's youngest son, Jia Liu Jia Guozhu, was explaining in detail the current situation of Java Island under the Batavia Governor's Mansion in the capital room of the General's Mansion.He made great contributions to Wu Guogui's entry into Guangdong last time, and was exceptionally promoted to be the co-organizer of Nanyang Commercial Affairs Minister in Macau.

The GDH Company founded by Cai Yurong and East India Company Consul Thor Brouwer in private name is now under the supervision of Jia Guozhu, the co-organizer. The GDH Company’s main business is Xiangshan Island and Bintan near Malacca. There is also a market in the port of the island.This is not an ordinary business. Ordinary businessmen can't operate it at all, so they must be managed by officials at the level of the co-organizer Nanyang Minister.

In addition, this Jia Liu is not an ordinary co-organizing minister. His brother-in-law is Li Jizhen, the governor of Guangdong and the eldest son of the Southern King. His father, Jia Hanfu, is now the governor of Guangxi. His family still has territory in Guiyang and Chenzhou in Hunan!The "Hunan Army" came out there.

He can get the full support of Li Fuchen, Li Jizhen, and Jia Hanfu as the co-organizer of Nanyang Minister!Therefore, Jia Liu, the co-organizer of Nanyang Minister, has much more real power than Cai Yurong, the genuine Nanyang Minister!
Cai Yurong, the Minister of Nanyang, is actually the Minister of Foreign Affairs, which is actually very important, but Jia Liu's co-organizer of the Nanyang Minister is actually the Minister of Colonial Affairs under the cover of diplomacy.

Now Li Zhongshan also plans to let him lead a group of mercenaries recruited from Guangxi and Chenzhou and Guiyang Prefectures in Hunan to station in Bintan Island and become the de facto governor of the Nanyang colony of Ming Dynasty.

"What's the situation on Bintan Island?" Li Zhongshan asked about the situation on Bintan Island after learning that the Batavia Governor's Mansion's mobile forces were trapped on Java Island.

"General, in the past two years, Nanyang Company's Southern Fleet has dispatched 53 Big Bird Ships and Old Lock Ships to transport building materials, food, labor, equipment, sundries, and mercenaries to Bintan Island. and weapons and equipment. Moreover, the Nanyang Company also helped the Guangdong Company recruit thousands of Chinese merchants, pirates and fishermen to settle on the island. It also built ports, towns, forts, fortresses, and opened Chinese language schools on the island."

The person who took over this question was He You, the chief executive of the Southern Fleet of the Nanyang Trading Company. This Nanyang Trading Company was a "franchised trading company" owned by Zheng Jing, which was a replica of the Dutch East India Company.

When Zheng Jing "handed over" Fujian Province, he played tricks and recorded all his fleet, towns and properties on Dayuan Island in the account of Nanyang Trading Company.

Therefore, in the ranking of sea power in terms of tonnage in today's world, Zheng Jing's Nanyang Trading Company can probably rank fourth in the world after the Dutch Navy, the English Navy, and the Dutch East India Trading Company!
As for the Great Ming Navy, it's not worth mentioning, probably similar to the Great Qing Navy controlled by Yang Qilong and Shi Lang.

Nanyang Trading Company not only owns the size of the fleet, but also firmly controls the network of Fujian merchants and Chaozhou merchants all over Nanyang—Zheng Jing and Li Jizhen control the hometowns of Fujian merchants and Chaozhou merchants, which is equivalent to controlling their "roots". ".The clan concept of Hokkien and Chaozhou people is quite strong in the 21st century, let alone in the 17th century?In addition, Zheng Jing, Li Zhongshan, and Chen Yonghua also control the three largest banks in East Asia today, which also controls the financing channels of Fujian and Chaozhou merchants and the channels for remittances back to China.

With the above mentioned items, the Fujian and Chaozhou merchants in Nanyang became the eyes, ears and business partners of the Nanyang Trading Company.

That's why He You was able to recruit so many sea merchants and pirates for the Bintan Island Commercial City, and his Nanyang Company became the general contractor for the development and construction of the Bintan Island Commercial City.

In addition, according to the plan, the home port of Nanyang Company's southern fleet will also be relocated to Bintan Island after the construction of Bintan Island takes shape.

In this way, Daming can inherit the shell of the commercial company and the Minghe joint venture company, and turn Bintan Island, an island blocked at the entrance of the Strait of Malacca, into the frontier stronghold of Ming in Southeast Asia.

And as long as this stronghold is not pulled out by the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch will not dare to tear themselves apart with Daming!
Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan ordered: "Okay! Brother Jia Liu, General He Zhen (although he works in the Nanyang Company, he still has the rank of the commander-in-chief of the Ming Navy), without further delay, you should station in Bintan Island as soon as possible." Right now! Now that the Dutch East India Company is trapped in the war on Java Island, and the Dutch mother country is still at war with France, we are stationed in Bintan Island at this time. Even if they know it is wrong, they can only swallow the loss first.

But you also have to seize the time to deploy defenses and stockpile supplies on Bintan Island, because Geng Juyi made too much trouble in the New World, and they will definitely be very vigilant against us.So once the Dutch free their hands, they will definitely attack Bintan Island! "

"General, do you think the Dutch will definitely break up with us?" He You couldn't believe it, "If they break up with us, how about the business?"

Li Zhongshan shook his head and said: "He Zongbing, the Dutch have never been well-behaved businessmen. They have always used strong ships and sharp guns to do business. If they do business honestly, can they gain a firm foothold in Nanyang? Our people are squeezed out. Dealing with this kind of people, we can’t have any fantasy of not going to war, we have to be ready to fight at any time! And we must win! Only if we win, the Dutch will swallow their anger and become our agent .”

"General, the Dutch East India Company has more than 100 galleons and gunboats." He You said, "If we want to fight a naval battle, we don't have much confidence."

There have been several real battles between the Zheng family and the Dutch East India Company!Although the probability of the Zheng family winning is not low, the price of winning is also not low!
"General He, don't worry. Their ships have many guns and powerful guns. It may be difficult for us to gain the upper hand at sea. But we still have a trump card in our hand, which the Dutch don't have!"

"General, the trump card you mentioned is..."

Li Zhongshan smiled: "It's the Mongolian East India Company!"

"Mongolian East India Company?" He You was stunned. "General, what threat does this company pose to the Dutch?"

Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "The Mongolian East India Company can open up commercial routes in the Western Regions, and transport Europeans' favorite spices and silk to the Raksha and Ottoman countries by land!
In addition, a re-emerging great Mongolian country can also help the Mongolian East India Company obtain trade privileges in India. After all, the Timurid State in India was also established by the Mongols.

For those Europeans, this Indian market is no less important than Ming Dynasty! "

If the 17th century is economically speaking, it is the Indian century!
Since the Ming Dynasty in East Asia fell into a devastating war, its population decreased by two-thirds or more, and its industrial and commercial production also shrank significantly. If you want to count GDP, it will definitely not rank first in the world.

And the world's largest GDP today must be the Timurid Empire that ruled most of India!

At the same time, Indian spices, cotton cloth, precious stones and saltpetre are high value-added commodities no less than Chinese silk, porcelain, sugar and tea!Moreover, Bangladesh in India also produces silk. Although it is not as good as Chinese silk, it is also popular in Europe.

Therefore, the competition among the great powers such as the Netherlands, France, and Britain in India is also quite fierce!

And now Aurangzeb of the Timur Dynasty who rules India is the last emperor of India!Although this great emperor is a bit strong on the outside, but it is not the European powers in the 17th century who can deal with him across the ocean.

Therefore, it is a bit difficult for European powers to obtain trade privileges from Aurangzeb. Without privileges, this European is not good at doing business.What they like is monopoly free trade!
Therefore, the Mongolian trading company that entered India with the Tianwei of the Great Mongolian Kingdom will definitely make the Dutch, French, British, Portuguese and other Western colonists who came from the Indian Ocean feel tremendous pressure.

And once they are expelled from India, it will be difficult to maintain the trade line in Southeast Asia. Coupled with the re-opening of the land Silk Road, perhaps the domination of East-West trade will fall to the Ottoman Empire, the Great Mongol Kingdom, Rakshasa In the hands of these land powers such as the United States—the trade routes dominated by land powers do not necessarily have to go by land, but can also go by sea, but maritime trade must rely on the land powers near the route.

In addition, there is a high probability that the route around Africa will be replaced by the "sea and land commercial route" from the Red Sea to the Sinai Peninsula and then into the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, the entire European pattern will undergo drastic changes!

Moscow, Kremlin.

Now in Western Europe and East Asia, it is only mild autumn, and South Asia under the rule of Aurangzeb is even hot summer, but in the third generation of the Romanov dynasty, Fyodor III Alexey The land of Rakshasa ruled by Vicki is already covered with snow and rain, while in the farther north, it has long been covered with white snow.

Compared with the extremely cold winter, the muddy and cold autumn is more annoying.Because in winter, people can still brave the severe cold and travel on hard ice and snow.But in the cold and muddy autumn, the entire Rakshasa seemed to be stuck in the mud, unable to move at all.Even the war between Ukraine and the Turks was suspended because of the damn weather-this is an out-and-out melee, if you want to go back, the origin of this war can be traced back to 1667 The 13-year Polish-Russian War ended. Through this war, the Raksha State took Ukraine on the left bank east of the Dnieper River and Smolensk further north. However, the peace treaty concluded between Rakshasa and Poland did not Bring peace to Ukraine.The Cossacks’ war against Poland and Rakshasa continued on Ukrainian land (mainly west of the Dnieper River), and several of the Cossack leaders, in order to defeat Poland and Rakshasa, these two powerful enemies, took the initiative to attract Ottoman Empire and Crimean Khanate!
Of course, the Ottoman and Crimean Khanates can't wait for it-these two countries have a continuous and strong demand for Ukraine's "blond horses with long legs"!So the Ottoman sultan went to war in 1672 and intervened in the melee in Ukraine. After four years of bad battles, he finally helped the people of Ukraine on the right bank to get rid of Polish rule. They are now the slaves of the Ottoman sultan!
The Raksha State ended up joining the war in 1676 at the invitation of another faction of Ukrainian Cossacks who were unwilling to serve the Ottomans as slaves.
In other words, the bad war in Ukraine has been going on for almost 20 years since the last Polish-Russian war, and we still don’t know when it will end?

Looking at the gray city of Moscow outside the window, Fyodor III, who was weak and sick since childhood, sighed softly, and wanted to give up a little bit—or let them be slaves of the Turks!
At the moment when Tsar Fyodor's heart was shaken, outside the door of the study where the Tsar was, his grandfather Ilya Danilovich Miloslavsky suddenly heard a terrified voice: "Your Majesty! , My Majesty, it’s not good, they’re here again!”

"Who? Who is here again?" Tsar Feodor was stunned, "Ilya Danilovich, come in quickly."

Then there was a creak, and the door of the Tsar's study was pushed open. He was tall and fat, and looked at the great nobleman Miloslavsky who was carved out of the same mold as the Tsar's dear sister, Princess Sofia, and walked out of the door. came in, and saluted the Tsar again.

"Who is coming? It can't be the Poles?" The Tsar asked worriedly.

Poland and Rakshasa are feuds!
Before the last "13 Years' War", Poland had invaded Rakshasa many times, and even captured Moscow. The Polish king almost became the Rakshasa tsar!

Although the Poles are relatively devout to their Heavenly Father, they are unlikely to join forces with the Turks. But who knows?Didn’t France, the “adopted father” of the Poles, maintain good relations with the Ottoman Empire?
Perhaps under the mediation of Louis XIV, Poland and Turkey will deal with the Rakshasa Kingdom together!
"Not Poles, but Mongols!" Miloslawski's answer made the young tsar feel fooled.

"Grandfather!" the Tsar said in a reproachful tone, "are you kidding me? Today is the Orthodox Church's April Fool's Day? It is the 17th century, not the 13th century. The era of the Mongols has long passed.

What we need to worry about now is the alliance between the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Kingdom of Poland. Louis XIV of France is likely to prompt them to unite, so that the Holy Roman Empire will feel tremendous pressure and may withdraw from the ongoing war. "

The elder brother of Peter the Great is quite good at thinking!

"No, no, there is no such possibility." Miloslawski shook his head again and again, "The parliament of the Kingdom of Poland will veto all resolutions that may improve the external environment of Poland. The loyalty of the emperor will allow Poland to work for the Holy Roman Empire for nothing."

Not only does Poland have a ridiculously powerful nobles' parliament, but the country also has many multinational nobles - many of whom are members of both the Polish parliament and the German Reichstag.Don't know where to stand when voting?

"Your Majesty," Miloslavsky continued, "Although it is not the 13th century, the Great Mongol Kingdom, which has been silent for more than 200 years, must have been revived. The Kazakhs suffered a devastating blow from the Mongols from the East this summer. The land of Sanyuzi is being ravaged, and the Kazakh herdsmen are fleeing everywhere.

The nomadic Turghuts on the lower reaches of the Volga also began to move east this summer.It is said that they went to meet the three great Mongolian conquerors, including the Mongolian Great Khan, the Golden Horde Khan and the Chagatai Khan!

Your Majesty the Tsar, we must not take the Mongols from the East lightly!In addition, I also recommend that you end the war with the Ottoman Empire on the grounds of jointly defending Mongolia! "

(End of this chapter)