Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 729
Because of the war agreement, the empire really entered a period of chaos. This chaos came from the recent awakening of national identity and national self-esteem. Since Song Qingshu ordered the French, Dutch, Sweden and Norway and other Protestant countries to be enemies of the Ming Dynasty, the entire civil society , All set off a huge response, quite a bit of the momentum of smashing Japanese cars in later generations.

However, in the eyes of Ming people, Western devils seem to be all the same. Even in later generations, almost Chinese people can't easily distinguish who is British, who is French, and who is Belgian. Foreign businessmen and expatriates are out of luck.

British merchants who bought tea and silk ran into obstacles everywhere. In Songjiang, Westerners could hardly find hotels. In Yingtian, the cathedral became empty. The grocery store for Indian goods was even smashed, and even the Spaniards who were new to the Ming chariot were unlucky, so that in the end, the Ming government had to issue tax payment certificates to these allied merchants, proving that they were approved by the Ming Dynasty Only then did the rampant xenophobic incidents cool down slightly.

But the foreign businessmen who have only recently flourished have been hit hard.

Yingtian, the central government office of the empire.

"Your Excellency, I want to make a serious protest! What you have done has violated the free trade promise you promised at the beginning. Our businessmen have been treated extremely unfairly in Ming Dynasty! This is not only a humiliation to the Kingdom of Great Britain, It is even more a blasphemy to the state of etiquette of the Ming Dynasty!"

Today, the former officials of the Forbidden Palace in Nanjing, and a series of buildings that Zhu Yuanzhang once presided over the unified empire have basically been pulled out, replaced by rows of three or four-story buildings, and the messy and procrastinated buildings of the Ming Dynasty’s officialdom were pulled out together. The stale, more efficient government bureaucracy is like bees in a hive rushing through various offices, quickly and methodically processing the things sent from all corners of the empire.

In the spacious corridor of the central building, a voice of angry protest with a somewhat weird tone is particularly eye-catching.

The most affected thing these days is the British East India Company. The British merchants who have encountered obstacles everywhere have even delayed the sending of merchant ships back to China for more than a month this season, and it is not known whether they can receive the goods as expected during this period. During this period, the East India Company lost no less than a few hundred thousand taels.

It's no wonder that William, who has always been slick, distorted the face of his handsome British guy angrily this time, standing in the central government office of the empire and roaring.

However, Song Qingshu obviously didn't have time to talk to him, and walked hurriedly with Li Xiangjun, the secretary-general of the cabinet, and a few guards holding a large stack of documents.

"The industrial and commercial subordinates of the Imperial Ministry of Industry have already begun to explain. In addition, the people's anger seems to be not without reason. The East India Company smuggled and evaded taxes as high as 60 taels. If you don't abide by Ming's rules, you deserve to be kicked out."

"But Ming's trade share was given to the Spaniards, and the East India Company's market was severely squeezed. Our British Empire is Ming's staunch ally. We have been supporting Ming. Is this how Ming treats allies?"

"It's the British East India Company!"

A few days ago, Little William corrected Song Qingshu, but he corrected him instead, and finally stopped in his tracks. Under the depressed expression of the British guy, Song Qingshu folded his arms with an ugly face.

"The Netherlands, Sweden, France, and Portugal are all allies of the British, especially France. They provoked the Mughals and violated the interests of our Ming businessmen. In the end, you still concealed it from your allies. Who betrayed your allies first?"

This remark made Little William speechless. There are so many fools in the world. The United Kingdom flirts with the Protestant League, and at the same time it is looking for a bargain here in Daming. So at least you should not complain when you are cold-hearted in Daming, and look at it. Little William was stunned, and Song Qingshu's fingers suddenly poked him on the chest.

"Besides, I doubt whether your Excellency is British or Dutch!"

Unable to help shivering, Little William watched in astonishment as Song Qingshu turned around and took Li Xiangjun and the others into the large conference room on the third floor. Several soldiers immediately stood up at the gate with rifles in their hands.

In the conference room, almost all the people in the imperial cabinet were already waiting in their seats, but in contrast, everyone's face showed a look of excitement, seeing that the big map on the wall was already in the outline of Tianzhu. A red line was heavily drawn on the ground, Song Qingshu didn't talk nonsense, and directly threw the document in his hand onto the table in front of him.

"It seems that everyone knows through the Tang newspaper that our fleet has arrived in the Bay of Bengal. Today's meeting is to specify a combat target in detail. How far will we fight!"

"Of course it hit Delhi, and killed him and the Mughals!"

Before Song Qingshu could finish speaking, Liu Zongmin was already buzzing loudly.

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While the meeting was in full swing, an extremely large fleet in the South Asian subcontinent finally docked in the warm bay of Bangladesh.

Calcutta, the three earliest strongholds in the UK, Fort St. George has become very lively. The huge Haidayu-class transport ship is docked in the deep sea port. Countless soldiers in small boats carrying things to the shore are as busy as ants. Battleships are constantly patrolling around the fleet.

The size of the fleet this time far exceeds that of Zheng He's voyage to Nanyang. There are four to five hundred battleships and merchant ships. It is much larger than Napoleon's conquest of Egypt. It has 2 troops, [-] sailors and merchant ships. More than [-] fellows formed a huge expeditionary force, and set foot on the hot land of the subcontinent aggressively.

It's really a hot land. It's already May now, and a heat wave hits us as soon as we land, but even so, the sergeants who landed still let out loud cheers.

Departing from Songjiang, along the way Taiwan, Hainan, Annan, Myanmar, and the Malay Peninsula, there are Ming trading houses and colonial sites along the way. You can eat anywhere near the sea.

But except for Li Dingguo's three divisions, the rest of the army does not belong to the regular army of the Ming Empire, and the nature of the mercenaries is even larger. After all, its main members are all prisoners after previous battles with the Wu army and the Manchus. They took the West India Commissions provided by the company and many big capitalists, these people have never been on such a long boat.

Standing on the deck, watching the army camp in Calcutta, even Li Dingguo and Wang Fuchen, the two commanders and deputy commanders this time, couldn't help stretching their waists, looking at the line between the sea and the sky, and looking at the Indians from a distance. Wang Fuchen couldn't help sighing sincerely.

"In the past, I always thought that the kingdom of heaven was the kingdom of heaven, and the world was so big. I didn't expect that there were people beyond the people, and there was a sky beyond the sky. Not to mention the continent in front of me, I just came here together. Although the sea is a little hotter, it is also so rich. I knew it earlier." The world is so big, what are we fighting for in the Central Plains! Get out early, and every place can accommodate tens of thousands of people."

"It's not too late to fight now!"

Hearing that there was some compliment in Wang Fuchen's words, Li Dingguo was very useful. Facing the hot sun, he shook his arms comfortably and lay on the deck railing. Li Dingguo looked into the distance quite fascinated.

"Although the title is not as valuable as it used to be, if you can get a duke and earl, it is a great honor. The honor of the ancestors, the future generations will follow the waist, and the commander is going to be stable for a while to deal with Jianu. At this time, the title of the duke The only chance lies with the two of us, and there are not so many rules for killing Tianzhu here, if you do well, you can earn a fortune here, brother, we two should encourage each other!"

After all, Wang Fuchen was also a surrendered general, so he had to give him some sweetness when he brought him so far to fight for the interests of the empire. Li Dingguo has been a lot more slick now after he has been in the army for a long time.

Hearing what Li Dingguo said, Wang Fuchen, a veteran soldier, immediately lit up with a pair of goldfish eyes. This is allowed to grab it. No wonder, there are more than 2 merchant sailors behind him, what are they doing?Traffickers of spoils, wars have always been a lucrative business. On the one hand, the interests are damaged, and on the other hand, they are expected to recover the losses through wars. The bourgeoisie promotes expansion. Now the Ming Empire has truly entered the imperial era.

But when the two senior generals were thinking about the future, the battleship in the distance suddenly called a semaphore, and when he turned his head to look over, Li Dingguo suddenly sneered.

"This Mughal is truly hospitable. Our brothers came here to welcome us as soon as we arrived!"

"Line up! Stand at attention!"

The urgent whistle rang violently, and on the shore, the expeditionary force of the Ming army, who were still carrying goods, immediately threw things away and gathered...

(End of this chapter)