Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 403 We should give Li Zhongshan and Zheng Jing a chance to kneel down and beg for mercy (please subscribe, please vote)

"Blockade. Trade?"

The Duke of Alva was dumbfounded when he heard about the Dutch way of governing. He looked at the Prince of Orange, who was eating Dutch, sleeping in England, and thinking about being the husband of England. He smiled bitterly and said: "Your Highness, You obviously don’t know enough about the Ming Empire. It was a giant country with a population of 6000 million! Moreover, this country also maintained close trade relations with the Zhou Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, North Korea, Annan, Japan and other countries. It was a country with more than 1 million people. The population's trading circle is as large as the entire Europe! In fact, even if they lose the European and American markets, they will only lose an inflow of 30 million pounds of silver a year, which is not unbearable. Besides, we don't It could completely interrupt trade, I assume you must know something about maritime smuggling?”

He seems to be talking about the Netherlands!The Dutch sea coachman was an ancestral smuggler. Spain worked hard to colonize the New World and scrape the land. The money they earned was either robbed by British pirates or cheated by Dutch profiteers. There was not enough money left to fight the mad king of Spain. .

The Dutch ruler smiled coldly: "Duke, of course I understand what smuggling is. In some areas of the world, the scale of smuggling trade can be ten times greater than legal trade!"

This place where smuggling trade is ten times more than legal trade is the Spanish American colony. I don’t know how it is governed!In short, all the governors of New Spain can make a lot of money, but the king's pockets are becoming increasingly empty!

The former governor of New Spain, the Duke of Alba, blushed, frowned, and looked at the Dutch government with burning eyes.

The Dutch ruler smiled and said: "Duke, our trade blockade cannot stop the export of goods from the Ming Dynasty. Even if we completely prevent the import of silver into the Ming Dynasty, the impact on them will be limited. But... if the target we want to attack is not the Ming Empire , but just the Nanyang Trading Company of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Attack the Nanyang Trading Company?" Duke Alva's eyes lit up, and he already understood what the evil Prince of Orange was planning!

Duke Alva asked: "Prince, do you mean that we can attack the Zheng family by blocking trade?"

"Yes!" The Dutch ruler nodded, raising the corners of his mouth slightly, showing a proud expression, "In fact, the overseas expansion of the Ming Empire mainly relied on the Zheng family and the Chinese business network throughout Southeast Asia controlled by the Zheng family. According to the East According to the Indian Company's report, the Nanyang Trading Company owns more than 12 tons of armed merchant ships capable of ocean trade, and the company also owns most of the Ming Dynasty's Galen ships and old lock ships. If the Nanyang Trading Company collapses, the Ming Dynasty It will lose most of its maritime combat power and ocean transportation capacity. By then, the Ming Dynasty’s strongholds in Acapulco and Malacca will be completely isolated!"

"Yes! Yes! You are right!" Duke Alva gritted his teeth and said, "As far as I know, the Zheng family's armed merchant ships have been providing support to the consul of Acapulco, General Geng Juyi, in the past two years. Last year, more than 6000 galenic ships and old lock ships arrived in Acapulco, delivering at least 10000 Chinese immigrants, a large number of weapons and ammunition, and a large number of daily necessities. This year, there may be more than [-] galenic ships. and the old lock ships arrived in Acapulco, the number of Chinese immigrants arriving in the New World on these ships is likely to exceed [-]!”

William III sneered: "Fifty armed merchant ships with a carrying capacity of about 500 tons do nothing but transport people to the New World. Only the Zheng family's Nanyang Trading Company in the world can do this, right? Duke, just imagine, if we We cannot stop the Zheng family’s actions, but sit back and watch as they continue to expand the size of their trans-Pacific fleet. In less than 20 years, the number of Chinese in America will probably exceed that of peninsular whites and native whites, right?”

Colonize!Whoever reproduces more and faster will be more competitive!
The so-called white people in the peninsula are those who have Spanish "hukou", but the white people living in the New World and in Spain's American colonies are the only ones who belong to the white flag of old Spain.Spain's rule in the New World colonies was mainly maintained by these hundreds of thousands of old Spanish flags.

And under them, there are the native "Tubai", which can be regarded as a white flag, right?They were also relatively loyal to Spain, but it was this group of people who later rebelled and fought for independence in the New World.

Further down, of course, are the white people, which are divided into two categories: "Indian people" and "black people". They are no longer under the flag, and of course they are even less loyal to Spain.

The next level down from the white people are the Indians who have converted to Heavenly Father. Well, they are still human beings, which is pretty good!It's just that they are not considered "sound humans", but humans who need "guardianship" by the Spanish master.

Of course, those at the bottom of the New World are the Indians and black slaves who do not believe in Heavenly Father. These are of course non-human beings!

Those below the white flag are basically those who long for and want republic.

Now Spain can still maintain the situation by relying on more than 100 million white flags and white flags.But if the number of Ming immigrants exceeds one million, Spain's rule in the New World will face a major crisis.

William III added: "Duke, the total number of your Spaniards is only a few million. Even if no one is left in the mainland, that's all if they all go to the New World. And how many Chinese are there? Almost [-] million, right? If the Pacific Ocean cannot be cut off, The immigration routes on the Ming Dynasty. Ming Dynasty’s victory over Spain in the New World will be an unstoppable trend!”

The Duke of Avar looked at William III with a solemn expression: "Prince, what do you want to say?"

"Duke, our trade blockade will at most make the Zheng family's Nanyang Trading Company lose money and significantly weaken it, but it will not necessarily destroy it!" William III said in a cold tone, "If you want to completely destroy the Nanyang Trading Company, just Only... dispatch the Spanish Armada!"

The Duke of Avar was stunned, "Are you going to dispatch an invincible fleet to East Asia?"

"Yes!" William III said, "If I remember correctly, Philip II once planned to send his Invincible Fleet to transport [-] Spanish warriors and Japanese mercenaries to conquer the Ming Dynasty, right? Now, Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate has On our side, as long as we weaken the Zheng family's maritime power, the next step can be to send a fleet to Japan, and then use Japan as a base to give the Zheng family a final blow. When the Zheng family's maritime power completely collapses, the Ming Dynasty will Locked in the East Asian continent and never able to get out.”

"Will it really never come out?" The Duke of Alvar does not dare to underestimate this country with a population of 6000 million - they only sent a small general and thousands of soldiers, and they have already sent the governor of New Spain to him. Done!If it weren't for Juan Jose's close relationship with him, he might have been put in jail!
"Of course!" William III was very sure. "The Ming Dynasty did not unify China. As long as we kill the Zheng family's maritime power and station a fleet in Japan, we can provide support to the Qing Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty from the sea. By then, the Chinese The civil war will continue endlessly!"

"Okay!" Duke Alva waved his fist, "This is how we will deal with His Royal Highness. What should we do next? Should we declare a trade blockade immediately?"

"No, we should give Li Zhongshan and Zheng Jing a chance to kneel down and beg for mercy. One last chance! As long as they are willing to withdraw from the New World and Malacca, and destroy all the Galen ships, then we can firmly blockade them in East Asia. On the mainland!"

"General, general, good news, good news, Duke Sui's people have captured Ezo Island! Now the springboard to the New World has been obtained!"

On the sixth day of June in the sixth year of the Republic of Ming Dynasty, Li Zhongshan, who had just finished inspecting the construction site of the new channel of the Yellow River into the sea yesterday, returned to the General's Mansion in Nanjing. Early this morning, he had just sat down in his General's Palace, and started from Xing Zheng Jing, who rushed to the meeting, received good news.

"Okay!" When Li Zhongshan heard the news, he grinned and became happy, "Brother Yang is really nimble in doing things. Someone is here! Get the map of Ezo Island!"

When a chief clerk in the capital heard Li Zhongshan's words, he immediately found a rough map of Ezo Island from a row of bookshelves on the side and spread it on the desk in front of Li Zhongshan.

This map of Ezo Island was obtained by Zheng Jing from Japan through his uncle Tagawa Nanasemon. The drawing is very sloppy, the coastline is not accurate, and it is too large, but it still has a great reference. value.

Zheng Jing picked up a lead pole and drew some outlines on the map, and then said to Li Zhongshan: "This is the Dulai Peninsula, and it is now controlled by people named Sui Guogong. In addition, Sui Guogong also sent Sauron soldiers." By sweeping the East and West Ezo lands, I believe we will be able to completely control them soon. In the East Ezo lands, there are several places suitable for building ports and farms on the side facing the Pacific Ocean. The Matsumae family who originally ruled Ezo also approved some of these places. The market is specially used for trading with the Ezo people. It's all here!" As he spoke, Zheng Jing drew a few circles on the map where "market" was written.

Li Zhongshan looked at the place he drew a circle, and quickly selected a bay that seemed to have a large plain nearby. Then he pointed there and said to Zheng Jing: "Just choose this place. We must build the port, fort, and fort as soon as possible." , because there is not much time left for us!”

"Not much left?" Zheng Jing became a little nervous when he heard this, "General, have you heard anything?"

Li Zhongshan nodded, then took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Zheng Jing.Zheng Jing took the envelope and took out the letter paper inside. He glanced at it for a few times and was stunned. The handwriting was beautiful and neat. It seemed that it was written by a woman. On the top of his head, it read "Brother-in-law Shikai, eldest brother Junjian" and at the end it said "Ji Song, "Little sister Xiaomi Shu".

"This is..." Zheng Jing looked up at Li Zhongshan, "This was written by Sui Guogong's sister to you?"

Li Zhongshan said: "It's the queen from the north!"

It's just a message sent by Hongyan. It's fair and square, and there's nothing to hide!
"She's really Queen Yang!" Zheng Jing glanced at "Little Husband Lu Bu" again and said to himself: Being good-looking really takes advantage!Also, what is the relationship between you two?Have you ever met?Have you ever been
Then he read the letter carefully again. After reading it for a while, his expression changed and he whispered: "Eleven countries. Netherlands - Spain - Portugal - England - Holy Roman Empire - Great Mongolia - Chagatai Khanate - India. The Murrian Empire-Persian Kingdom-Japan-Sweden, this brings together all the great powers of the East and the West!"

It turned out that this letter was from Yang Xiaomi informing Li Zhongshan that "eleven countries from the East and the West are about to form a grand alliance against the Ming Dynasty."

Although she also belongs to the anti-Ming camp, she still needs to leave a way out. What if the eleven-nation coalition cannot defeat Li Zhongshan together? What should she do?You can't die for the Qing Dynasty, right?
In addition, her brother Yang Qilong is now "the heart of the Duke of Sui, and everyone knows it"!

Maybe one day, she will use Li Zhongshan's power to restrain her brother!

So after learning that Li Zhongshan wanted to be a "pen pal" with her, he readily agreed.This time, it was even more interesting to bring the matter of the Eleven-Nation Grand Alliance under discussion to Li Zhongshan.
"Are you done?" Li Zhongshan snorted, "There are still four more to go!"

"What four are missing?" Zheng Jing asked.

Still missing China, the United States, Russia and France!

Oh, there is no "Beauty" yet, there is only "Akka City", I don't know if there will be a "Gengsheng" in the future.

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan said to Zheng Jing: "We still have the Ming Dynasty, France, the Rakshasa Kingdom, and the Ottoman Empire!"

If there is no "beauty", let "earth" take the top spot!

It is still the 17th century, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire is still one of the Western powers. In a few years, they will attack Vienna again!

"But we have no contact with France, the Rakshasa Kingdom, or the Ottoman Empire!"

The new Ming Dynasty under the leadership of Li Zhongshan actually did not pay much attention to diplomacy - because Li Zhongshan was not willing to interfere in the historical process of Europe, and it was not easy to do it!On the one hand, Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal are the great powers that own large overseas colonies and even have branch bases at the doorstep of the Ming Dynasty. They must be opposed!

On the other hand, the France ruled by Louis XIV, who is my country, is now "full of vitality and everything is competing". The European powers will not fall behind in history. If the Ming Dynasty gives him more strength, he will If they unintentionally unified Europe, wouldn't the Ming Dynasty just gain a powerful enemy?

As for the Rakshasa Kingdom, it will soon be the era of Peter the Great
"There is no need to be too proactive," Li Zhongshan frowned, "They will come to us. If the Qing Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty allied with the Netherlands, England, and Spain, then France and Rakshasa would definitely come to us."

He paused and said, "The world today is just like our Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. Great powers stand side by side, and it is inevitable to unite vertically and horizontally. But the most important thing is our own strength! King Yi, your shipyard can still only build heavy-duty buildings. An 8000-stone Galen ship?”

The load capacity of 8000 stone is about 500 tons. The load capacity of Western-style sailing ships in this era is about two-thirds of the displacement, which means that the displacement of this class of Galen ships is less than 1000 tons.Compared with the 2000-ton, 100-gun first-class battleships of Western naval powers, it is really far behind.

"A large ship with a load of 10000 stones can also be built!" Zheng Jing said solemnly, "According to their classification, it is almost a fourth-level ship, which can be equipped with 50-54 cannons and has a crew of about 350 people."

The progress of Ming Dynasty’s maritime power is still very rapid!

Although Li Zhongshan didn't spend much money on the navy, he let Zheng Jing and Jia Guozhu do it.Among them, Jia Guozhu was weak, and Li Zhongshan had to inject resources into him.Zheng Jing has already achieved substantial profits. His merchant ships have more tonnage than the British Navy and the Dutch Navy, and the net profit he earns every year far exceeds that of the Dutch East India Company!

Therefore, Zheng Jing had enough money to develop the shipbuilding industry and build a stronger fleet.Li Zhongshan, on the other hand, only tried to suppress Zheng Jing's development in the Ming Dynasty. Through army reorganization, he had almost integrated the Zheng family's army.But overseas, Zheng Jing can do it as he pleases, no matter how big it is.

However, developing the navy does not mean that the cost of building a 1000-ton fourth-level ship is at least 2 taels of silver!

Going further up, the increase in tonnage and cost are not directly proportional. The cost of a 2000-ton first-class battleship is 10,000+ taels. If you are more relaxed, you can spend 20.If we built 10 or 20 of these, millions of taels would be gone!

Moreover, Zheng Jing's engineers are not that capable. They have never seriously built warships before, and it is not easy to build a fourth-level ship now.

What is a century-old navy?To develop a navy, we need to accumulate slowly, and what matters is accumulation.If you don’t have accumulation, you won’t be able to build a ship, and you still want to develop a navy. It’s just a dream!
But now, it seems that Ming Dynasty did not have 100 years to develop slowly.
(End of this chapter)