Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1603, world war is good

Liu Jin's mansion, in the study.

"Telegraph base stations covering every state capital must be established. In addition, telegraph base stations must be established in important areas overseas and outside customs, as well as in important cities and ports around the world."

Liu Jin is instructing his subordinates to build telegraph base stations covering the whole world.

Liu Jin, who came from later generations, is too aware of the importance of information. If you know something one step ahead of others, you will have an incomparably huge advantage, and you can dispatch it calmly, which is far beyond what money can measure.

As for making money, it's all trivial.

All rich people are not necessarily smarter and harder than ordinary people, but they must have more information or channels to make money than ordinary people. Relying on such poor information to make money naturally becomes a wealthy person. money man.

To build a telegraph base station covering the entire Ming Dynasty, making money is secondary. The most important thing is to be able to grasp the information of Ming Dynasty and even the whole world, so that timely deployment can be made.

"Yes~"

"Let's do it~"

Liu Jin waved his hand, and these people left respectfully and went to deal with the situation.

"Master, this is the latest letter from abroad~"

Liu Jin had just finished dealing with the establishment of a telegraph business, and the housekeeper at home brought over a stack of letters, all of which were sent back from abroad.

"Hmm~"

Liu Jin quickly began to see that Liu Jin never liked to procrastinate, so he dealt with things early, and then he could enjoy his own time, spend time with his family, read a book, or go to a football game and so on. .

"Egypt, Persia, and the Ottoman Empire are fighting in the Middle East around the Mesopotamia, and Egypt has joined hands with Persia~"

"The Spaniards are really robbers. They took the opportunity to colonize Egypt, but they didn't take advantage of it. As a result, they became angry and blocked the ports of Egypt's Mediterranean Sea, but they didn't dare to do anything to the Egyptian canal."

"France, England, Portugal, and the Netherlands officially declared war on Spain and Japan. Several wars broke out in succession between the two sides in the West African colonies, North Africa, and Western Europe, with each winning and losing."

"North Korea and Persia also formally declared war on Spain, attacking Spain's colonies in West Africa."

"And this Xingguo, what is it doing to join in the fun, and it has no brains to declare war on Spain and rob Spain's colonies. With your little arms and legs, Spain will destroy you in no time?"

Liu Jin quickly read each letter, and then took out the world regions and compared them carefully.

"It's really a mess, it's a mess."

The Middle East, West Africa, North Africa, and Western Europe are at war almost everywhere, and the two parties to the war are also different. In the Middle East, Egypt, Persia, and the Ottoman Empire are fighting in full swing. Both sides have used their most elite musket troops.

Naval battles broke out frequently in the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Spain, between France and Spain, as for West Africa and Western Europe, there were even more naval battles.

Both parties have torn off their pirate masks and began to act shamelessly.

Countries and regions such as France, England, Portugal, and the Netherlands originally only plundered Spanish merchant ships and colonial strongholds, but the Spanish and Japanese were even more ruthless. They directly robbed the coastal ports and cities of these countries and regions.

And every action is extremely ruthless, a place is ransacked clean at a time, at least tens of thousands of people, sometimes more than a hundred thousand people are ransacked clean by them at one time, trafficked as Slave, the ghost knows that I went to that corner of Daming to plant sugar cane.

For this reason, several countries also jointly issued a protest to the Ming Empire, demanding that the Ming Empire stop the dirty slave trade and trade, and send their citizens back.

Naturally, the Ming Empire doesn’t even bother to care about them, and I didn’t come to snatch them. I don’t care about my business, and the fleet of the Ming Empire will come to your house for dinner after beeping.

Power is the truth, and the truth is only within the range of the naval guns of the Ming Empire.

Each of these countries was suddenly speechless.

This matter really can't continue to provoke the Ming people, otherwise once the Ming people join the war, they won't be making trouble with you at that time, and the fleet of the Ming Empire will directly kill you in the capital.

You must know that the Ming Empire has powerful fleets in the Mediterranean Sea, in Hong Kong, and in West Africa, and its force value is beyond the charts, and it can easily crush them.

Don't mess with it!
The Japanese and Spaniards are really shameless and unscrupulous.

Of course, he was also full of hatred for these rogue robbers.

Spain originally enjoyed its own happy little days. The huge colony brought it a steady stream of wealth. In addition, it had a good relationship with the Ming Empire, and its trade boomed.

Not to mention how comfortable the small life is, the steady flow of wealth has been imported into Spain, and the whole of Spain is full of the smell of money.

But the bandits of France, England, Portugal, and the Netherlands, who were jealous of Spain's wealth and huge profits, failed to defeat Spain in two consecutive wars, so they came up with the despicable method of pretending to be pirates.

Pretending to be pirates and wantonly robbing Spain's treasure ships and colonies caused huge losses to Spain. The same is true for the Japanese country. It was originally ambitious in West Africa, and it was aimed at Spain.

In the end, they got into a fight with Portugal, and several colonies were targeted by Portuguese pirate ships, and they were robbed every three to five times, and the treasure ships were frequently robbed.

This made the Spaniards and the Wa people finally come together and hated them deeply, so they also came up with a way to treat them in their own way.

Don't you want to pretend to be pirates and deny your piracy.

Very good, I will play the role of a pirate too, and I will be more ruthless and fierce than you. I will directly rob your homeland and plunder your population, just like nomads raiding grass valleys.

Finally, a war broke out between the two sides.

From the Gold Coast of West Africa to North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and then to the coastal areas of Western Europe, from the land border between France and Spain to the border between Portugal and tin, the war between the two sides is constantly escalating, and the conflict is intensifying.

"It's a world war~"

Liu Jin watched and analyzed carefully, and soon couldn't help laughing.

This is indeed the First World War. There are enough countries and regions involved in it. Except for the behemoth of the Ming Empire, which was not involved, all major countries and regions in the world were involved.

North Korea and Japan in the east are all joining in the fun. This is not what a world war is.

"World War is good, World War is good~"

"Now the arms and weapons can be sold again, and the orders from the shipyard can be softened again."

Then Liu Jin laughed happily.

Although this world war was not promoted and planned by himself, it is also inextricably linked with Daming behind it.

If the Ming Empire hadn't seized all the colonies in the world, there would only be a large number of colonies left on the Gold Coast of West Africa for everyone to snatch.

These countries in Europe will not turn against each other and use force against each other.

Historically, these European countries have always maintained a tacit agreement in overseas colonization. Spain colonized the Americas to the west, and Portugal colonized Africa and India to the east.

Until the rise of the two bandits, England and France, as the late colonial empire, they began to snatch the colonies from Spain and Portugal by all means.

Greedy robbers, for which a hundred years of colonial war broke out between them, but relatively speaking, they still maintain a tacit understanding with each other and will not escalate the conflict to the local area.

It wasn't until the First World War that Germany rose and seized colonies around the world. The conflict with Britain and France became more and more acute, and finally the First World War broke out.

The current situation is somewhat similar.

Because the Ming Empire seized too many colonies, the key point is that the Ming Empire is too powerful, and their competition and snatching of the remaining colonies will naturally become more intense.

Portugal originally had a large number of colonies and colonial strongholds on the golden coastline of West Africa, and lived a good life.

But the two wars with Spain ended in failure. In the end, almost all the colonies were lost, and then Sao Tome was robbed by the Japanese.

This also completely angered Portugal, causing Portugal to contact the two bandits of France and England, and pretended to be pirates, which led to the current conflict.

In the final analysis, it is because there are too few cakes for them to share, and they have to fight for the remaining cakes, so there is a conflict.

If there are enough cakes, everyone can get a few pieces, and naturally there is no need to compete with each other.

In the end, the Ming Empire was to be blamed. The size of the Ming Empire was too large, and its appetite was too great. The territory occupied by a single Daming Empire was already very large.

Monopolizing the Golden Continent and Australia, the Pacific Ocean is the inland sea of ​​the Ming Empire.

The huge Asia was almost completely occupied by the Ming Empire, leaving only the Middle East, Persia, and the Ottoman Empire, and the rest of the territory was the territory of the Ming Empire.

The huge Africa is almost occupied by the Ming people. The vassal kings and colonial firms of the Ming people are also extremely greedy. They colonized East Africa very early. Yu can compete with the powerful Spain and France.

Ningguo, Chuguo, Western United Commercial Bank, South African United Commercial Bank, etc. are all huge, powerful, and have powerful sea power. They are no worse than European powers.

The key is that the Ming Empire is too strong and occupies a huge territory. No one dares to attack the Ming Empire, and they can only entangle each other.

Wars and conflicts between each other are inevitable, but this time, the scale is larger than before, the scope is wider, and more countries are involved.

"My lord, Spanish Minister Torres is asking to see you~"

Just when Liu Jin was happy and thinking about buying and selling arms and weapons, customers came to his door.

"Please~"

As soon as Liu Jin heard it, he immediately knew that the business was coming.

In the living room, Torres was waiting anxiously. He had just received news from Spain that His Majesty the King asked him to seek more support and cooperation from Daming. It would be best if he could persuade the Ming Empire to form an alliance with the Spanish Empire.

Torres, who has been in the Ming Empire for several years, the first person he thought of was Liu Jin. As long as he is willing to help Spain, everything will be fine.

If you want weapons, you need weapons, if you need warships, you need warships, and if you want support, you need support, but Liu Jin feels that it is not so easy to persuade.

"Mr. Torres~"

Soon, Liu Jin walked in with a smile on his face.

"Liu Gong~"

Torres's Da Ming spoke very well, and he was even proficient in Da Ming's culture and etiquette.

"Mr. Torres is here, what can I do?"

After exchanging pleasantries with the other party, Liu Jin also asked about things.

"Mr. Liu must have known that bandits such as France, England, and Portugal once again united to target our Spanish Empire, and the flames of war ignited again."

"We in Spain have always had a good relationship with Daming, and I came here specifically to seek support."

"Our great Fernando and His Majesty Isabella hope to form an alliance with the Ming Empire again and jointly defend world order and peace!"

"I know that Mr. Liu is the most influential person in the Ming Empire, and I also know that Mr. Liu has always supported us in Spain, so I came here to find Mr. Liu first, hoping that Mr. Liu can come forward and facilitate this matter."

Torres thought for a while, and also explained his intentions.

"Mr. Torres, you think too highly of me~"

"I can't be the master of this matter~"

"However, Spain has always been an important friend of our Ming Dynasty. We have always had good cooperation and exchanges. We also deeply sympathize with your country's current situation. In addition to the alliance, we are also willing to do our best in other aspects support you."

Of course, it is impossible to form an alliance, and we will only sell arms and weapons to get by.

"Liu Gong, is it really impossible to form an alliance?"

When Torres heard this, although he had already guessed that it was impossible for Ming to form an alliance with Spain, he still wanted to try his best to win it.

"I don't know about that. The key is to get the meaning of the Holy Majesty and the court princes."

Liu Jin replied with a smile.

"That's a pity~"

Torreston immediately understood that although the words were very euphemistic, the Ming Empire was gloriously isolated, and the policy of non-alignment would definitely not change.

"Liu Gong, we in Spain want to buy a batch of munitions, weapons and warships. I don't know if they can be shipped to us as soon as possible?"

"Of course there is no problem with this. With the relationship between our two countries, I can still help with this. After all, our relationship has always been very good."

"Thank you so much!"

"The quantity of arms and weapons we purchased this time is very large, do you know if we can offer some discounts?"

"Of course, the more you buy, the greater the discount, and there are also gifts~"

"..."

An hour later, Liu Jin sent Torres away with a smile on his face. This time, Spain also made a big move, directly placing orders for arms, weapons and warships up to [-] million taels of silver from Liu Jin.

Such a huge order is enough to make Daming's military enterprises and shipbuilding enterprises full of food.

The sale of arms and weapons has extremely high profits. A huge order of [-] million taels of silver is like a pie in the world. It can support the Miyun Arsenal, and it can also bring these shipyards in Daming Come for a profitable order.

It was only then that the Spanish Minister Torres was sent away, and then the ministers from Korea, Japan, Persia, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire came to the door again.

Almost all of them, like Spanish Minister Torres, came to Liu Jin to buy arms and weapons.

Everyone knows that Liu Jin is the owner behind Miyun Arsenal, the largest arsenal in Ming Dynasty, and at the same time controls the arsenal for the emperor. The Tianjin Shipyard under his command is the largest and most powerful shipyard in Ming Dynasty.

Whether it's buying arms or warships, it's true to find Liu Jin. It's not easy to find other people, only Liu Jin is useful.

"Mr. Yanshan of North Korea seems to be planning to gamble on his underwear this time. He even bought arms, weapons and warships worth tens of millions of taels of silver at one time. Some hit."

"The Japanese King Dongfang Shengren of the Japanese Kingdom, where did they get the silver, and even bought tens of millions of taels of silver arms and weapons at one time, did they reach a settlement with the shogun?"

"This is not good news. There must be a balance between the Japanese king and the shogun in the Japanese country, and they cannot be unified. Well, let people investigate carefully later."

"The Ottoman Empire is preparing to make trouble again. In the war with Egypt, I finally found out that my Ming's weapons and weapons are better. This time, I placed a big order. From now on, I will be more diligent in catching slaves."

"The Persians are now swollen and fat. The colonies in West Africa can't compete. Tens of thousands of new troops have yet to come back. Here they are fighting the Ottoman Empire again. It seems that they are in a hurry, but the Persians Now I’m really poor, I don’t have any money, and I still need a loan, what kind of mortgage do you use?”

"Egypt is rich. The Egyptian canal is making a lot of money. This ambition has also grown. They even want to buy warships. It is estimated that they were made angry by the Spaniards."

Liu Jin sent away the ministers of each country. Without exception, they all came to Liu Jin to buy arms and weapons. The situation of each country is different, and Liu Jin also balances it appropriately according to the situation of each country.

For the Ming Empire, their long and continuous war is the most beneficial.

In this way, the Ming Empire can gain time and opportunities to develop, and at the same time, it can continue to buy and sell arms and weapons on both sides, and the business is done by thieves.

Therefore, we must maintain a balance, let people continue to fight, support the weak, and suppress the strong. In short, no country that can threaten the status of the Ming Empire should be allowed to continue conflicts and wars.

PS: Today is a chapter of [-] words~
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