Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 682 Signing of the Treaty of Gibraltar

Under the bombardment of howitzers.

Gothic churches symbolizing Western civilization were bombed into ruins.

Ming navy officers and soldiers began to enter the city of Gibraltar one after another.

There was a proud Frangji knight holding a knife to kill the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but he would be shot dead by the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty soon.

There are also Francobots hiding in the room of the marble building with flintlock guns and firing cold guns.

But a single burst from the rifled gun can send them falling from the room.

In less than half a day of fighting, the Ming Marine Corps occupied this small town on the Mediterranean coast.

"From here to here, from now on, it is an area exclusively for the first-class citizens of Ming Dynasty. All the Fulang robots will be expelled, and the property will be forcibly collected!"

Zheng Chenggong was not polite at all. He was a member of the military and could not learn the benevolent ways of the cabinet.

"As ordered!"

The naval officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty started to clean up the carpet with guns.

Even doing robber things seems so orderly.

A group of naval officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty directly broke into a manor, saw a vicious dog rushing, killed the vicious dog first, and at the same time pointed their guns at a group of Franc robots in the house: "Get out, everyone Commander to kill!"

"Why do you drive us away, you hateful oriental demons!"

A Sir Francois reprimanded the sailors, pointing at them.

"Obviously, these Frangji people don't know how to respect me, the Ming Han people!"

After speaking, a naval officer fired a single shot, killing Sir Franz directly, and all the servants behind him were also shot dead.

With the sound of gunfire.

The Frangbot in Gibraltar finally became more honest, and obediently came out of his house with his head in his arms, and left the city.

And in the area where the Frangji were driven away.

The naval officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty began to lay down stone tablets declaring sovereignty, and put up wooden signs, which read, "Fan people and dogs are not allowed to enter!"

At the same time, naval officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty began to pull barbed wire to form a barbed wire fence at the border, and even piled sandbags for shelter.

Gibraltar officially became Ming's first military port on the Mediterranean coast.

That night, Zheng Chenggong, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Navy, held a celebration banquet on the green grass in the garden of a mansion on the coast of Gibraltar.

The evening wind from the Mediterranean Sea made the tiredness of the naval officers and soldiers disappear, and the women brought from Japan became a tool for them to spend their energy at night.

It was also thought that some foreign officers and soldiers would pull in the Francine women from outside and make them pregnant with the seeds of the Han people.

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The authorities of the Frangji Kingdom have been shaken.

The Armada was directly destroyed by the Ming army!
The port of Gibraltar, which controls the entire Mediterranean estuary, is occupied by the Ming army!
King Frangji had to send his most powerful minister, Moxie, to Gibraltar to negotiate with Zheng Chenggong.

Moxie looked at the homeless Frangji who was sleeping outside Gibraltar like a refugee and shook his head helplessly, because he couldn't show his anger towards Daming either.

Today's Daming is so powerful that you don't even have the right to hate him.

When Moxie came to the base of the Ming Dynasty Navy here, entered the area surrounded by barbed wire, and saw the sign "Fan people and dogs are not allowed to enter", his mood was the same as that of the Manchurians when they went to the concession area.

But he can only greet the officers of Daming with a smile and the etiquette that a gentleman should have. Even if it is a low-ranking officer of the Ming Dynasty, he should treat it as warmly as if he saw an old friend.

"Respected Your Excellency the Governor-General of Ming Dynasty, we are sorry to have such a big conflict with your country. This is not our original intention. We can accept the debt issue raised by the empire, but we hope that your country can return our sovereignty over the port of Gibraltar , and exit the port of Gibraltar."

Moxie said to Zheng Chenggong as politely as possible.

"Gibraltar, we don't plan to leave. If you want to look good, you can say that you rented it to us, and the debt that the cabinet asked for. Now it should not be 5000 million, but [-] million silver dollars! There are Our Daming Navy’s hard work and loss, as well as the mental damage owed by you for humiliating my Ming officials.”

Zheng Chenggong said.

"Well, that's out of the question!" Moxie replied.

"Then you can choose not to talk about it. After we have enough rest, we will play Madrid in a month. It should not be difficult. I have seen your country's pike formation before. Frankly speaking, it is already behind this era."

As Zheng Chenggong said, he picked up a submachine gun newly manufactured by Ming Dynasty and started sweeping at a pool of fish. In a short while, hundreds of fish were killed and floated up.

"Sir Mo, I will treat you to braised fish tonight," Zheng Chenggong said with a smile.

And Moxie just nodded with an embarrassed smile.

At that moment just now, he had already realized that he didn't have any hole cards to bargain with the Ming commander in front of him.

then.

Soon, Daming signed the "Treaty of Gibraltar" with Moxie, the Duke of Francais.

The content of the treaty is:
First: Admit that you owe Macau 120 years’ rent and its interest, plus the military expenses and other expenses that Daming spent on this, and the interest accumulated during the ten-year repayment period, you need to repay Daming a total of [-] million silver dollars!

Second: Allow Ming Dynasty to lease the port of Gibraltar and its subsidiary straits, the rent is one silver dollar, and the lease period is 99 years!

Third: Ming citizens enjoy extraterritorial rights in Flangji.

Fourth: Franjiguo implements the most-favored-nation treatment system for Ming Dynasty.

Although the four treaties in total are not many, they are a huge economic benefit for Daming. Two hundred million silver dollars is enough for Daming to do many great things within ten years.

But for Frangji, it was equivalent to giving Daming the wealth accumulated by their colonization for hundreds of years.

The control of the Gibraltar port and navigation rights in the strait means that the entire Mediterranean trade is controlled by Da Ming, and Da Ming can collect taxes for 99 years on this navigation line.

As for the remaining two, they are only ancillary.

When Moxie brought back the treaty, the authorities of the entire Francois were naturally furious, calling him a traitor.

In order to appease the public anger, King Franchi deposed Moxie as duke.

But the treaty still gritted its teeth and admitted it, and sent the first sum of 2000 million silver dollars to Daming that year.

In Daming's country.

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian asked Yan Yingyuan to hand over the treaty to Zhang Huangyan:

"Your cabinet should thank the Generalissimo's Office. Look at him. Not only did he help you get back 5000 million debts, but he also helped you win a 99-year tax collection qualification for the Strait of Gibraltar. Zhang Aiqing, Mr. Zhang Ge, hurry up Prepare to send important officials to Gibraltar to set up customs, the environment there is suitable, just like Jiangnan, it is a fat post, don't make random arrangements."

"The minister understands, the minister understands, thank you Your Majesty, thank you Yan Gong."

Zhang Huangyan began to plan how to spend the 5000 million silver dollars.

Therefore, in addition to building the Lancheng, Kuncheng, and Baocheng railways, he added a construction plan to build a four-lane road in the direction of Uszang Tsariba, which is today's Lhasa area!
Yang Mingshen from the two chambers had no choice but to protest: "Cabinet, you can't spend money like this. After the money is spent, is it going to increase our taxes!"

Zhang Huangyan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, replied directly: "The protest is invalid! You didn't spend your money, what are you talking about?"

(End of this chapter)