Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 453 Canal Plus Temptation

Carinho is a very witty and well-mannered man.

He is also very aware of Daming's strength.

If he can make decisions about everything, then everything will be easy to handle.

The problem is that it is not Carinho who can call the shots in the Spanish colonies, but the King of Spain.

It is hard to say whether the King of Spain will be on the road.

Taichang actually knew very well in his heart that those with a heart could still see the problem in his seemingly generous actions.

In fact, as long as you calm down and think about this kind of thing, you will find something is wrong.

Therefore, it is best for him to win this Carinho and let him spare no effort to do things for him.

If this guy can cooperate with him to fool the King of Spain, the King of Spain may really give him the entire Pacific Ocean and even the Atlantic Ocean in a daze!
He pretended to look at the map, and then pointed to the coasts of Vancouver, Panama, and Chile in the later generations: "If our fleet is to smoothly pick up and deliver goods between the Americas and the Far East, we must at least establish large supply points in these three places. Where to build a large port depends on where it is convenient for your goods to be transported, you can ask your majesty the king to confirm."

This seems to be no problem, Carinho nodded without hesitation and said: "Okay, I will definitely write a letter to ask His Majesty the King when I go back."

Everything seemed to be settled, and he couldn't wait to go back and write a letter to His Majesty the King to ask for credit.

But Taichang suddenly asked: "Have you ever thought about what you will do after you go back?"

Am I not thinking about this?
As long as I can promote the alliance between your Ming Empire and our Spain, I will definitely increase my rank and rank!

After I go back, I must write a letter as soon as possible, trying to find ways to form an alliance between the two parties!

Carinho said without hesitation: "Your Majesty, I will write a letter as soon as I go back and try my best to make an alliance between us."

Taichang smiled slightly and said, "It's another matter to form an alliance. I'm asking if you have thought about continuing to sell Ming's products in Europe."

Of course he thought about it too.

The problem is that the Luzon colony is gone, and he can no longer be the governor of Luzon. This business must not be possible.

He doesn't have any ocean-going merchant ships himself, and the goods he buys are brought back with the help of the Spanish Navy's ocean-going fleet.

If the Luzon colony is gone, there will be a Spanish ocean-going fleet passing by here, and he will not have the privileges of the governor. Could he organize his own fleet to buy goods in Daming?
This is impossible.

The current ocean routes are not safe. There are so many pirates on the sea, especially the English pirates and Dutch pirates. They will snatch Spanish merchant ships when they see them!
Without the protection of large ships and gunboats, armed merchant ships could not stop the plunder of English pirates and Dutch pirates at all.

He organizes the fleet to do business by himself, that's courting death!
Alas, no way.

He could only sigh helplessly: "I'm afraid I won't be able to do this business."

Originally, he thought that it would be good to use his privileges to make a fortune in the governorship. Now his term as governor actually has more than one year left. It's over.

In the end, he might pay less for it, but that's fine.

After all, with the credit this time, he can be promoted to a noble, which is even better than the ending he expected.

Moreover, he didn't expect to be able to do this business of selling Daming goods for a lifetime.

Taichang said temptingly: "Actually, your business can continue, even bigger than before."

is it possible?
The profit of this business is astonishingly high.

Hearing this, Carinho couldn't help but excitedly said: "Your Majesty, can I really continue this business?"

Hehe, this guy really has money in his eyes, and his eyes light up when he hears that he can continue to make money.

very good!

Taichang continued to seduce: "Think about it, if our more than two hundred merchant ships went to America to pick up the goods empty, wouldn't this be a waste?
Wouldn't it be possible to make a lot of money if you can sell the goods in the past?
Our Daming has a Western Company, which is similar to the East India Company. The merchant ships that go to America to pick up goods are also owned by the Western Company.

If you can help sell these goods, I will give you [-]% of the shares of Daming Western Company, and even let you become a director of Daming Western Company.

In this way, even if you are no longer an official, you can still make a lot of money, and even if you die, your family can continue to benefit from it.

How are you interested? "

Director of Daming Western Company!
That's about the same as the director of the Dutch East India Company!
No, it should be said that the directors of the Daming Western Company are much stronger than the directors of the Dutch East India Company.

Because at this moment, the Dutch East India Company was almost wiped out by the Ming Empire, while the Ming Dynasty Western Firms were developing rapidly.

Of course I want to be this kind of director!

Carinho trembled excitedly: "Your Majesty, can I really become the director of the Daming Western Company?"

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Of course, you just need to sell the goods shipped by Daming Western Company."

Uh, this one is very difficult!

To put it bluntly, the American colonies were where they plundered wealth, not where they consumed it.

If you pull a few shipments over there, relying on his relationship, you may be able to find a way to sell them. If you have a shipment of one or two hundred shipments, it will be impossible to sell them there, unless you can pull them to the mainland of Europe.

The problem is that it is impossible for him to mobilize so many armed merchant ships to go around the southern part of the Americas to the Governor of La Plata to bring the goods back to the European continent!

It can be said that the whole of Spain does not have this ability.

Because Spain does not have so many armed merchant ships at this moment.

This seems to be back to the original question, they don't have so many armed merchant ships!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but struggled: "It would be great if these goods can be brought to Europe. The problem is that we don't have so many armed merchant ships going around the governorate of La Plata to pick up goods!"

Do you still need to go around to Chile to pull goods?
Taichang pointed to Panama on the map and said, "Actually, as long as a canal is dug here to connect the east and west coasts of the Americas, you don't need to detour through the governorate of La Plata."

Dig a canal here!
Carinho was stunned when he heard this.

He was stunned for a while, and then reminded: "Your Majesty, don't look at the width of this place on the map, in fact, according to the calculation of your Ming Empire, this place is more than 100 miles wide!"

What is more than 100 miles wide?
Taichang pointed to the section from the capital city of Daming to Hangzhou on the map and said, "Don't you know, there is a Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Daming, with a total length of more than 3000 miles, and more than 100 miles is nothing to us in Daming! "

Buy cakes, more than 3000 miles long canal!

If this is the case, the 100-mile-long canal is really nothing.

When Carlinio heard this, he couldn't help but excitedly said: "Your Majesty, what do you mean, dig a canal here, and then the fleet of the Western Company can send the goods directly to the continent?"

You have a good idea.

Taichang shook his head slightly and sighed: "We can't send all the more than [-] merchant ships to the European continent, because the journey is too far away, and it will take too much time to go back and forth. Why don't you find a way to transfer some merchant ships to bring these goods from the east of the Americas?" Coast to Continental?"

what?
How can I have the right to mobilize so many ships!

Carinho couldn't help but anxiously said: "Your Majesty, can't you think of another way, I can't mobilize so many ships!"

Of course I know that you don't have the authority to mobilize so many ships.

Now, it depends on how good your kid is.

Taichang pointed to the islands in the Caribbean Sea on the map and said, "Ask your majesty the king if you can sell these islands to us. If your majesty the king can sell these islands to us, we can build port cities on them, Daming The Western Merchant Company can establish a transit base here, and at that time, as long as some warships are sent to protect dozens of merchant ships to transport them back and forth a few times, the goods will be transported to the European continent."

This!
Carinho couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this.

He understood that it was not easy to be the director of the Daming Western Company, and he had to pay a price.

The price was to help the Ming Empire acquire that island in the Caribbean Sea.

No, it's more than that!

What would happen if the Ming Empire established a base in this sea area?
The ambition of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire is too great!
What they mean is to ask him to help fool His Majesty the King!
What can you do with such a thing?
(End of this chapter)