Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1766, making money is enough
In the study room of the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Hongzhi and the ministers were discussing state affairs.

"Your Majesty, news has just come that Spain has won a great victory over France and has already entered France. King Louis XII of France has chosen to hold peace talks with Spain."

Zhu Fu reported to Emperor Hongzhi about the great war on the European side. The Spanish and French wars that had lasted for several years had exhausted Spain and France.

In the end, Spain was able to win because of the continuous supply of loans, arms and weapons from Ming Dynasty to Spain. It persisted until France could no longer persist, and finally ended with a big victory. of the Western French War.

Spain established its status as the big brother of Europe through this war, and France completely lost its status as a land hegemon.

The long-term war and the raging Japanese pirates have caused wars to break out everywhere in France, and the people are in dire straits. In fact, Louis XII gritted his teeth and insisted on it, but finally failed.

Even if there is no peace talks, it is no longer possible, because the army in his hands has been completely lost, and the remaining power will be reserved to suppress the internal peasant uprising. Once the peasant uprising overthrows his rule, Louis XII will not know when the time comes. How to die.

Of course, for Spain, they are also eager to end the long war with France and get out of the quagmire of war.

In order to win this war, Spain invested hundreds of thousands of troops back and forth, and the number of dead soldiers exceeded [-]. This is almost a tenth of the loss for a Spain with a population of only a few million. population of one.

In addition to the loss of population, the economic loss is even greater.

The long-term war has seriously hindered Spain's economic development, and more importantly, it owed a huge war debt of [-] million taels of silver to the Ming Empire.

With the principal and interest, Spain will slowly pay back some of them in the future.

Therefore, Spain is also eager to get out of the war. In this way, Spain will have the strength to compete with the Persian Empire and North Korea for the colonies of West Africa on the sea and the West African colonies.

The benefits of the colonies are the benefits that Spain is most interested in now. The benefits of the war with the French are too small.

Of course, now that France has been won, the Spanish army rushed into the territory of France, looting everywhere like bandits.

All the things that can be seen are robbed, not to mention property, even people are the most valuable things. A white slave can be sold for 20 taels of silver if sold to a Ming Dynasty, and 20 taels of silver if 200 people are caught. , catching [-] people is worth [-] million taels of silver.

If it can earn 100 million people, almost half of Spain's debts to the Ming people can be cleared.

The Spaniards, who are well versed in the huge profits of the slave trade, are now indulging the army to plunder the population in the territory of the French. The more they catch, the better, so that they can quickly make up for their economic losses.

As for the negotiation, don't expect how much silver the poor Frenchman can have to compensate you. Their silver has already been in the hands of the Ming people. Louis XII wanted to sell his wife to The people of Ming Dynasty have come to exchange money, you can count on how much oil and water they will have left.

Fortunately, the population of France is large enough, and it is a huge wealth to grab a large number of people, and it can also slightly make up for the loss of the Spaniards.

The most important thing now is the golden coastline in West Africa. The colonies here can no longer be lost. If they are lost, Spain will not have many colonies left.

Without the colony, God knows it will be a matter of the year of the monkey if he wants to pay off the debts owed by the Ming people.

I owe more than [-] million taels of silver to the Ming people, and the current population of Spain is only a few million, which means that everyone owes the Ming people ten taels of silver. This is not a small number. Spain needs to rely on colonial plunder to be able to Pay off this debt quickly.

After defeating the French, the Persian Empire and the Koreans will be much easier to deal with. At sea, the Spaniards have never been afraid of anyone. As for the Persian Empire, it is only at the end of its strength.

In the Middle East, the army of the Ottoman Empire is enough to cause headaches for the Persians. If one is not careful, the army of the Ottoman Empire may directly kill the Persians.

Although the Koreans are a vassal state of the Ming people, the situation in North Korea is actually similar to that of Spain, and the national strength is similar. The key is that the Koreans are far away from West Africa, and Spain has a natural advantage.

The land war was accepted, and the Spaniards would no longer have to go to war on multiple fronts, but could concentrate their efforts to seize the colonies.

"Well, they are finally finished fighting. This war has been fought for several years, and it is finally over."

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he couldn't help laughing immediately.

They fought wars, and the Ming Empire sold arms, weapons and housing loans on both sides. It was so quick that they made a lot of money, and almost took out the Spanish king's underpants.

Of course, the one who benefited the most from this was naturally Emperor Hongzhi.

He is a shareholder of the First Bank of Ming Dynasty and a major shareholder of Miyun Armory Factory. This shipload of silver has filled Emperor Hongzhi's internal funds, and he has already expanded an unknown number of internal treasuries. up.

"Your Majesty, there will be no more wars in Europe for a while, but there may be another wave of wars in the West African colonies."

Upon hearing this, Liu Jin thought for a while and said.

In the past, Spain fought on multiple fronts, and the pressure was too great, so its power in the West African colonies has not been very strong. Now that there is no war on the mainland, the Spaniards can fight for the colonies in West Africa with all their strength. This is the only one that has no A colony occupied by the Ming people.

Spain has no reason to let these places go, not to mention that this place has always been a Spanish colony, and the Spaniards are very clear about the benefits.

Gold, silver, ivory, gems, diamonds, slaves, land, precious wood, etc., any colonial stronghold can contribute millions of taels of silver to Spain every year.

This is also the reason why Spain dared to borrow a lot of money from the Ming Empire. The debt of [-] million taels of silver, as long as there is no war in Spain, relying on the plunder of the colonies, Spain may be able to pay off the debt in two or three years.

Of course, this is why Daming is willing to lend so much money to Spain, because they have the ability to repay the debt, the big deal is that Spain will use the colonies to repay it.

As for France, they don't lend money to them because they don't have colonies, they're poor, they just sell wine, God knows when they can pay off their debts, so they can't lend money to them.

"Hmm~"

"West Africa is now on the side of Spain and Japan, the Persian Empire and North Korea. The competition for colonies between the two sides is already very fierce."

"Spain is separated from the war. I am afraid that the Persians and Koreans will be under great pressure in the future."

He Zhong also nodded and said.

"Then it doesn't matter what happens to us in Ming Dynasty. If they want to rob or fight, that's their business. We Da Ming can just watch the fire from the other side."

Han Wen also said with a smile.

Now everyone can also appreciate the benefits of being a war dealer.

Arms and weapons are very easy to sell, which can support their own military industry. A large number of people have jobs and food, and it also allows Daming to have enough funds to research new arms and weapons.

Grain is also very easy to sell. When they fight back and forth, the grain has to be transported by Daming's business, and they can make a fortune. You must know that the colonies and vassal states are producing so much food that they can't finish it. It's worthless, and it's a big price to ship it over.

Then they can make a fortune by transporting gold, silver, ivory, gems, diamonds and slaves back from their colonies. This has made a lot of money for many businesses, and they have made a lot of money by doing business in West Africa. Know how much silver.

By the way, it also led to the development of the colonies and vassal states in West Africa, turning many colonies and vassal states into fertile fields and fertile soil. Large-scale and large-scale plantations sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Wherever the Ming people went, they would The talent of farming has been brought into full play.

"Ha ha!"

When everyone heard it, they immediately laughed in unison.

If this was in the past, it would be inevitable for some civil servants who are dignified and full of benevolence and morality to stand up and say that they must conquer people with virtue and the world with benevolence and righteousness, saying that Daming cannot do these unjust things and earn money from these unjust things. fiscal.

But now, everyone has no guilt about this, and earns every penny that should be earned, because every tael of silver earned from outside can drive the economic development of Ming Dynasty.

It can also increase the income of the people of Ming Dynasty and make the national power of Ming Dynasty stronger.

Therefore, benevolence, righteousness and morality is to be benevolent and righteous to one's own people. To the outside world, in the final analysis, the interests of the Ming Dynasty should be the highest code of conduct, and the interests of the Ming Empire are above all else!
(End of this chapter)