Win the Ding 1617

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Soon, large-scale civil construction began again in the shipyard.

From Wang Quan to Galileo and Descartes lived and boarded here with their students and assistants, "The knowledge acquired in practice is much more profound than that obtained in classroom!" People all agree with Shou Han's this argument.

On one side is the construction factory and Nguyen Phuc Teng's Fengshun Lian, who is building roads, expanding roads, building slipways, and laying tracks on the ground with long wrought iron strips to facilitate transportation.

Ships of wrought iron, burnt ash, stones, and bluestone strips were transported to the shipyard from all directions, and a huge slipway was built in the open sea.

And in the remote Jiulongjiang area, along the river bank, huge hydraulic saws were placed by the river. The stable and abundant water flow provided a steady stream of power for these saws. After several years of natural After drying, under the sharp edge of these saws, it becomes a piece of wood.

Going west along the sea, at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River, countless people gather here to gather the trees felled from the mountains in northern Siam and prepare to ship them away.

On the mountain road in the port, Prince Bamo sat tall on the back of an elephant decorated with gold and emeralds, with a huge umbrella on his head, arrogantly reprimanding the people dressed as princes below.

"Don't think that you are relatives of Praba Somde (the honorific title for the king in Siam), Somde Papolong Rathini (the same, the honorific title for the queen), and you are also Chao Phraya, Phaya, Phra, The titles of Luan and Kun, but the things you send can’t be sloppy at all. Especially those big logs, my son-in-law bought them at a high price of ten taels of iron for a catty of wood. If you plan to buy these high-quality cooked Iron, just use more thought!" [

The titles of these people reprimanded by Bamo are roughly equivalent to Chinese Duke, Marquis, Bo, Zi, and Nan, and they have various kinship relationships with the King and Queen of Siam.However, in front of Bamo's money, everyone is submissive.

It stretches from northern Siam to Burma.People from the two countries who met each other in the old days shook hands and talked happily for a common goal of making money. came together for the benefit.

Countless slaves and untouchables were driven to the depths of the mountains and forests, looking for usable trees that met the requirements of the Han lords, and felling these trees to keep them as intact as possible.Because, for every extra piece of wood cut down, the wood price of a catty of wrought iron may be lost.

The trees felled by slaves and untouchables with knives, axes and lives are transported out of the forest by those lovely elephants as porters, and the slaves have to replant saplings in the felled forest area.

Not just because of primitive religious beliefs.It is believed that there are gods in the big trees and gods in the forest, but the owners of this forest have heard a saying. "Cut down one tree and replant three on the spot. At least one tree will grow in the future. Then, there will always be trees in this mountain forest that can be felled, which is the food and clothing you leave to future generations."

A large amount of money, food, and materials were used to build infrastructure such as slipways and roads in the shipyard.Used to purchase all kinds of materials for shipbuilding, from lumber to cotton cloth for making sails, from nails to cannons, from rigging to cables.Countless silver dollars flowed out like sea water.

Seeing the money being spent, Descartes and the others, who were immersed in the drawing in the clean environment provided by Shou Han, couldn't help but click their tongues, "Only our Eastern monarch can do this kind of spending. In Europe. Even if you own King Solomon's treasure, you will probably go bankrupt."

"Our king will not go bankrupt, on the contrary, he will increase his wealth." Frank, holding a pencil in his hand, refuted his old friend's opinion.

"Why?" Galileo also put down the triangular board and T-square in his hand, stretched lazily, picked up the purple sand teapot on the corner of the table, and took a sip of tea. They are all madly in love with this teapot now. A magical oriental foliage.

"Gentlemen, I have to admit that in the fields of science and philosophy, my attainments are far inferior to the two of you, but I can also proudly say that in the fields of business and finance, I am far better than you."

"Yes, you are a businessman!" Descartes could not hear the slightest contempt and ridicule in his tone. In Europe, businessman is not a lowly occupation. People express their pursuit and desire for wealth unabashedly, unlike in In the Ming Dynasty, the gentlemen of Donglin crazily plundered fertile land and pursued wealth, but at the same time they kept preventing others from competing for profit with the people, and they had to be ashamed of talking about profit.

"On the surface, it seems that Governor Li has spent huge financial and material resources to manufacture these ships, and to build related infrastructure and purchase raw materials. However, have you noticed that the silver coins spent are also taxed? Back in the treasury of Governor Li, in such a cycle, everyone has benefited."

"Let's set our sights a little farther and put it on the whole continent. Don't you think that General Li is actually the king and master of this continent? Through procurement, trade and other means, the local kings from all over the country Kings, nobles, and chiefs all gathered under his banner, and he issued a call, 'I need huge logs!' Under the influence of those shiny coins, kings from all over the country ran to the mountains and forests to log. A large number of farmers went to log If the trees are gone, the fields will be abandoned. What if there is no food? It doesn’t matter! I saw countless large ships on the pier, full of rice bags, heading west, to Siam, and to Burma. Swallow the rich food within."

I see!Unexpectedly, what was originally thought to be a waste of money and people created huge business opportunities, and by the way, other political forces were controlled by means of trade.If any of the local kings and chiefs of any family dared to question and oppose Governor Li’s various actions or orders, they would not need to send out a single soldier, but only need to stop their trade with him, and then tell his neighbors crookedly "Go, get rid of him, get rid of him, all his business will belong to you!" I'm afraid that this earth king who dared to challenge Governor Li's authority would be tied up by his subordinates and dedicated to the Governor up.

This shipbuilding plan is actually a trick to kill birds with one stone! [

First, it expanded the strength of the navy, second, it deterred potential opponents, and third, it spent the silver coins accumulated in the warehouse.Four, it controlled the two countries of Siam and Myanmar in the distance through huge trade means.

"This seems to be the same as those lowlanders in the Spice Islands!"

Galileo remembered the damned East India Company.In order to maximize their profits, these lowlanders not only forced each island in the Spice Islands to grow only one kind of spice, but also not to grow rice.The money they get from selling spices at a low price has to be used to buy the rice they sell at a high price.

"I think the Governor's next target may be these Netherlanders! They are right next to the Governor's mouth! A piece of fat roast beef is on the tiger's mouth. Excuse me. The tiger will resist Can you resist such a temptation?!"

The problem is that the barbecue is also afraid of being swallowed by the tiger.So, someone was sent to negotiate with the tiger.

When Mr. Van Basten, the peace envoy or negotiator of the Dutch East India Company, arrived at the Hue Palace, Shou Han was in his study reviewing the blueprints for building ships drawn by Descartes and others based on his original design and the entire project. The overall arrangement of the ten-year naval shipbuilding plan.

Under the "inspiration" of Shouhan, Descartes perfected his coordinate system theory and put it into practical application.Create drawn drawings with regular coordinates, clear dimensions, and unified standards.Before the eyes of people who are used to Impressionist drawings, everyone is amazed, no matter they are Easterners or Westerners.

As an old friend of Shou Han, Mr. Basten naturally received some courtesy that others did not have. After careful inspection, he was brought to Shou Han by Mo Yu, the commander of the guard battalion.

"Your Excellency, allow me to congratulate you on your glorious victory at sea!"

talking.Basten greeted the guard with open arms enthusiastically, as if he wanted to hug him, and kissed the guard with his furry cheeks.

stop!Shou Han waved his hand to stop his enthusiastic behavior.Damn it, let me figure out the situation first!It was my fleet that defeated your fleet, leaving only one dilapidated ship, the flagship Meadeburg, to allow the Governor of Taiwan, Putesman, to escape.But that's just to let him open the way for me in the Dayuan area, so that I can occupy Dayuan in the future.You came to congratulate me?What kind of logic is this? !

Moreover, according to the general habits of the Celestial Dynasty, for those who have close contacts with the enemy.During battles and hostilities, they are often regarded as spies. Not to mention being locked up, they have to behave honestly with their tails between their legs. But why is Basten not bullied or abused in the slightest? On the contrary, it seems that he has gained a lot of weight, and his face is covered with oily fat.

"Yes! Those colleagues of mine knew of my friendship with you, so the company's board of directors officially authorized me. I will conduct peace negotiations with you about the East India Company and the South Central Army."

This made Shou Han fall into the cloud and mist even more!

Seeing the confusion on Shou Han's face, our Mr. Basten had no choice but to start from the beginning.

"Your Excellency, when you commanded your powerful fleet to defeat Princeman's fleet, and very gentlemanly let him return to the chief officer. The company's senior management in Batavia received this unfortunate news. For this reason, The directors of the company were in panic. A large number of spices and goods were sold cheaply or even at a loss, because they were worried that you would take advantage of the victory to attack the Spice Islands and the city of Batavia, and completely drive the Dutch out of power. Get out of this area."

"Under this atmosphere of panic, many merchants in Batavia are willing to sell their spices at a loss or even at a loss, and take cash back to Europe. There are four hundred riyals per ton of cloves. It only costs [-] riyals, and in the Netherlands, it can be sold for guilders per pound! And the price of pepper is even lower, so low that it is almost impossible to pay the shipping fee to Europe!"

"However, even with such a low price, since you control the route to Europe, many people worry that ships flying the Dutch flag or transporting Dutch goods will be intercepted by your navy, seeing the price of these spices plummeting all the way Bottom. Cloves are only forty riyals per ton."

"Many people know about my friendship with you, so they come to beg me to accept their goods. I don't even have to pay for these goods in cash. I just need to sign a promissory note, and they leave thankfully!"

"So you ate all the spices?" Shou Han gradually understood that Basten's method, in Chinese, is "to take advantage of the fire to loot!" "to make a fortune!" Oh!It seems that the Dutch don't take their country very seriously.

"Not only did they eat thousands of tons of spices, but also the sugar, deerskin, antlers, amber, cotton cloth, cotton, opium, tin, lead in their hands. Chinese silk, pottery, porcelain, silk, etc. Within the scope of my acquisition, I also took the opportunity to absorb some company shares, and now my shares should rank third among the 17-member board of directors."

"Then I congratulate you!" Only then did Shou Han understand why Van Basten's face was full of pride. It turned out that he was promoted and made a fortune! "How much profit have you made from this crisis?"

"As you know, thousands of tons of pepper, cloves, cardamom, and cinnamon are exported to Europe every year. At this time, the European continent is worried that the source of spices will be cut off, so the price has skyrocketed. I agree with Several big merchants agreed, and sold the cloves in their hands to them at a price of 650 riyals per ton. The profit is not too much, more than ten times! From this spice transaction alone, I will The profits from the registered capital of the East India Company are no less than [-] million Dutch guilders! I am richer than the actual controller of the company, the Dutch ruler William V!"

Looking at Van Basten's triumphant face.Shou Han suddenly had an urge to slap him, but Ji Ji was stopped by himself. In the opposing camps, if they only cared about making money, no matter how many people there were in the team, wouldn't such a team become less effective?

Looking at Van Basten's fat face, Shou Han suddenly felt.This guy who helped him poach the corner of the Dutchman was so cute. In his eyes, there were only those shiny yellow things, and everything else could be forgotten.Rather than saying that he believes in Jesus, it is better to say that he believes in Marshal Zhao Gong.

"How about I also come to add icing on the cake?"

Shou Han threw out an extremely tempting pie.

"If you want to buy the cotton in my hands, don't mention it. I'm ready to give you [-] bales of cotton in return to express your support for my smooth passage through the Managa Strait. As long as You can promise to sell me these cotton cloths at [-]% off! Oh, my God, your tax collectors are worse than the Jews! If it weren't for them, my profit would be almost as good as I've raised an army in Europe!"

"Speaking of the army, I would like to know what happened to the war in your hometown?" Shou Han asked knowingly. If the Thirty Years War could end soon, it would not be a matter of changing the political map of Europe and determining history. Towards a historical event.

"Oh! Damn the war! Let people see no sign of the end, but both sides have to fight! Because, once you can't support it, you will face a very tragic ending!"

"So! For a serious businessman, such a time of war is also a good opportunity to expand business. I can sell gunpowder to the French, wheat to the Danes, and spears to the Swedes. Armor Sell ​​it to the British." Mr. Basten is very proud of his ability to move around and move around.

Facing such a man with no integrity, what else can Shou Han say?He silently looked at the fat face of Mr. Van Basten, and silently filled his stomach for those who were using the spears and sharp swords provided by Mr. Basten in their hands and wearing the armor Mr. Basten sold them. The bread is made of wheat brought by Basten, and the artillery fire is fired with the gunpowder Basten sold them. The European soldiers prayed silently, hoping that they would not drag this guy into hell prematurely, because, I still want to use him!

"There are two things I think your European nobles and their armies need."

The guard ordered the people to take the samples.

"This is the first-aid kit equipped in my army. The soldiers call it a life-saving kit! It is composed of hemostatic medicine, alcohol, gauze, cotton cloth, and cotton. It is absolutely the best kit for knights and nobles fighting on the battlefield. vital life-preserving items."

Shouhan seemed to be the devil who seduced Faust, and introduced this product to Mr. Basten in a seductive tone and words, the product costing no more than one silver coin.

"Anyone who is injured, whether stabbed by a sword or a spear, or hit by a musket ball, as long as the injury is not too serious, you can use this life-saving kit. First clean the wound with alcohol to clean the dirt on the wound surface Clean, such as grass clippings, soil, or gunpowder residues, metal fragments of pills, etc. Then sprinkle this hemostatic medicine, I can assure your God, after sprinkled on the wound, it will soon be Stop the bleeding! Then, apply such cotton to the wound, wrap it with gauze, and wrap cotton on top. Believe me, a knight, officer, nobleman's life will be saved, and after a period of recuperation, he Still can continue to fight for his emperor."

Shou Han consciously ignored those front-line soldiers who were fighting on the battlefield. You must know that in wars, especially in the European battlefields of this era, nobles would not kill each other when fighting.Many of those who died were civilians.

As long as the war can continue, the lives and health of those officers and nobles must be preserved. As for the soldiers who are composed of civilians, I'm sorry, the guards don't know them.