Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 898 Don't think about the account of the Ming Empire

In the royal palace of Madrid, Felipe IV couldn't help but look gloomy after reading Taichang's bilingual urgent letter.

The emperor of the Ming Empire thought him a fool!

He doesn't know if there are millions of rebels, but he is very aware of Portugal's man-made guns and cannons.

If the Portuguese can manufacture muskets and cannons equipped with millions of troops in less than a year or two or three years, then why don't they turn Spain to the ground and beat them violently!

Obviously, the emperor of the Ming Empire was lying to him.

The Portuguese could not have produced so many muskets and artillery in such a short period of time.

Only the Ming Empire has this ability in this world!
The emperor of the Ming Empire wanted to use this to blackmail all his colonies in South America.

It is a colony nearly twice the size of the European continent. Moreover, the four governorships in South America are rich in resources, whether it is gold, silver, copper, iron ore, timber, saltpeter, and other strategic resources. .

Can he let the Ming Empire corrupt these four rich colonies for nothing?
Of course that is impossible!

These four colonies will be taken back no matter what.

He frowned and pondered for a while, then got up and turned out the map of the South American colonies, already having an idea in his mind.

No matter how many rebels there are, it is impossible to have warships, and as for the fleet, it is even more impossible to have one.

In other words, as long as the Ming Empire doesn't tear itself apart, their fleet will be invincible to the rebels.

He can take advantage of this and let Oquendo lead the fleet to take the army to the Governor's Administration of Peru or Brazil or the Governor's Administration of La Plata to launch raids everywhere.

If the rebels support them from land, they must run away.

Unless the Ming Empire is shameless and directly sends a fleet to help the rebels transfer their troops.

He believed that the Ming Empire did not dare to turn against them right now.

Because of the last war, the Ming Empire actually had more than 20 troops at most, and the rest were either Indian tribal coalition forces or mercenaries composed of black slaves.

If they hadn't assembled all the armies to launch a fierce attack in southern France, holding back the main force of the French army, the Ming Empire probably wouldn't even be able to defeat France.

As for the Netherlands, they don't have much army, and they rely on the navy. It just so happens that the ironclad warships of the Ming Empire are invincible, directly suppressing the only advantage of the Dutch, so the Dutch were beaten so badly.

In other words, the Ming Empire simply didn't have enough army to fight against them, so it could only pull the Indian tribe's coalition forces, which were mercenaries composed of black slaves, to make up the numbers.

If they hadn't spent all their wealth to attack frantically, the Ming Empire might not have been able to defeat France.

Under such circumstances, would the Ming Empire dare to tear itself apart from them?

If it is tearing apart, it is clearly pushing them into the anti-Habsburg alliance.

The anti-Habsburg alliance originally had nearly 200 million troops, and if you add the 100 million of their Habsburg dynasty, it would be nearly 300 million, and the Ming Empire estimated that it would be difficult to transfer 30 troops.

The Ming Empire used their Habsburg dynasty to deal with the army of the anti-Habsburg alliance. If they were pushed back to the anti-Habsburg alliance, the Ming Empire would be defeated on land.

Therefore, he concluded that the Ming Empire did not dare to tear themselves apart from them.

It has to be said that there is still a little truth in his analysis.

At this moment, Taichang is indeed not strong enough.

However, it is impossible to defeat the Ming Empire Army with their two 300 million troops.

The reason why Taichang didn't want to tear his face apart was because he couldn't spare enough manpower right now.

What can't be won doesn't exist.

He just didn't want to fight a battle he wasn't prepared for.

If he were to tear his face apart right now, he would probably be beaten badly, and even if he won in the end, he would have to pay a huge price.

Why bother?
He can wait for the North Camp, West Camp, and South Camp to be ready, and then mobilize the army to clean up the European Union.

At this moment, he only needs to arrange for the army of the Indian Tribal Alliance and the Black God Army to fight the resource war with the European Union.

As a result, the European Continental League is in a state of desperation, but Ming can prepare for the battle in an orderly manner.

To put it bluntly, this is a game, whoever can't help it first will be stupid.

Felipe IV obviously couldn't bear it anymore.

There is no way, they are almost robbing their American colonies.

If there were no American colonies, they would not have enough resources. If they did not have enough resources, how could they frantically build ironclad warships?
He had to fight this kind of resource war, but if he didn't fight, the resources would be gone.

He stared at the map again, frowning and thinking for a while, then took out the quill and letter paper and began to write.

If you want to take advantage of the combined fleet to launch raids everywhere in South America, 20 people are definitely not enough, at least you have to pull over 20.

The problem is that Spain has only recruited 50 horses in total. If they send out another 20, there will be [-] left.

With this little force, France can easily deal with them.

Naturally, he couldn't do such a stupid thing and draw out all the local troops.

The anti-Habsburg coalition is not a good thing.

At this moment, the anti-Habsburg alliance really couldn't handle them and the coalition forces of the Ming Empire, so they begged for perfection and bowed their heads to them.

If he withdraws all the troops in the mainland, people will probably seize the opportunity to occupy their mainland!
At that time, the wealth and materials they have accumulated through hard work, including the shipyards for building ironclad battleships, will all become theirs. They will even form an alliance with the Ming Empire and carve up their Spanish overseas colonies!

This kind of thing can definitely be done by the anti-Habsburg alliance. In the face of interests, everyone is not as good as an animal, and he knows this very well.

Therefore, he can't relax his vigilance just because the anti-Habsburg alliance begged to form an alliance with them, and he can't transfer all the local troops to the Americas.

He could only write a letter asking the Holy Roman Empire to send 20 troops to help him regain the colonies in South America.

In addition, he had to write separate superstition letters to Oquendo and Wallenstein, so that the two were ready to sneak around.

To be honest, he was already a little suspicious of Oquendo, because Oquendo seemed to be very close to the Ming Empire, and he seemed to be the second Carinho.

The problem, he still had to use Oquendo.

Because he really didn't have any good generals under him, and Ocundo was the only one who could do it.

If he doesn't push Ocundo out, there will be no suitable person to control the combined fleet.

No way, he can only use Oquendo.

Of course, he couldn't be completely defenseless against this guy.

He explained in detail the superstition he gave to Wallenstein, telling Wallenstein to guard against Oquendo, and if there is any change in this guy, he should be taken directly, or even executed on the spot!
If Oquendo saw the secret letter written by Felipe IV to Wallenstein, he wondered what he would think.

He may never have imagined in his dreams that he had fought hard for Spain for decades, and after several life and death, their majesty the king wanted his life just like the enemy!
Of course, he is unlikely to see this letter. Felipe IV will definitely send his cronies to take a boat to the governorship of New Spain to deliver the secret letter to Wallenstein.

Felipe IV was racking his brains on how to regain the colonies in South America, but Taichang was checking the gold and silver mined from South America in the mint in the capital city of Xiyin.

Because the time for the anti-Habsburg alliance to pay the indemnity is approaching, he has to hurry up and send 5000 million taels of silver to others.

It seems silly for them to do so.

People only pay them 200 million taels of silver a year, but they lend 5000 million taels of silver to others every year. Doesn't this mean a net loss of 800 million taels a year?

If the anti-Habsburg alliance can renege on their debts, they will lose 800 million taels of silver every year.

However, people also have to rely on the ability to rely on accounts!
These guys want to rely on the Daming Empire, is it possible?

They couldn't afford to lose the account of the Ming Empire.

This Taichang is very confident, so he came up with the trick of borrowing money.

This move is quite ruthless. Once people can't get rid of this debt, they will never be able to pay it off.

A loan of 5000 million taels a year will be 100 billion taels in 50 years!
For the 50 billion taels, even if the interest is 5000% per year, the interest is [-] million taels per year. People can't pay off the interest alone, let alone the principal!
It's no wonder that people can develop with such a heavy debt burden!
It can be said that this trick alone can play the European colonial robbers to death.

Of course, people will definitely resist, and will definitely try their best to renege on their debts.

They want to renege on their debts, and the only way is to defeat the Ming Empire.

This can also be regarded as an incentive to the Ming Empire.

"Mencius" has a cloud, invincible to foreign patients, the country perishes forever.

This means that if a country does not have any foreign enemies and is used to being at ease, it will not fight wars, and it will perish sooner or later.

What he did was to create a foreign enemy who wanted to defeat the Ming Empire all the time, so that the Ming Empire would be prepared for danger in times of peace and continue to develop.

If Daming is really invincible, and it seems that no country dares to fight against Daming, then the Ming Empire will definitely relax, and once it relaxes, it will be in danger of perishing.

Because the European gang of colonial bandits will try their best to defeat Da Ming and seize control of the entire world, regardless of whether they owe Da Ming money or not.

By doing this, he can also make future generations vigilant. These European colonial robbers are always thinking about how to defeat the Ming Empire, pay off the huge debts they owe, and even rob the Ming Empire of its wealth. You guys Dare not to work hard to develop?
In short, there would be no disadvantage in lending 5000 million taels to the anti-Habsburg alliance every year. As long as the Ming Empire continued to be strong, people would never want to renege on their debts.

If the Ming Empire did not have this foreign aggression, it might still be stepped on because of its slack.

Besides, the 5000 million taels did not need to be paid by Daming at all, because the gold and silver output of the South American colonies alone was more than this amount.

At this moment, the officials of the Ministry of Industry have detected almost all the gold and silver mines on the west coast of the Governor's District of Peru and the Governor's District of La Plata, and the new Liaoyang City is also constantly building large mining machines.

After these mining machines were pulled over, the gold and silver production in South America doubled and went up.

At this moment, the production of gold in the Governorate of Peru and the Governorate of La Plata has reached millions of taels per month, and the output of silver has reached a terrifying 2000 million taels.

In other words, they only need to go all out to mine for two months, not only can they mine 5000 million taels of silver, but they can also earn more than two million taels of gold.

After one year, that is more than 2 million taels of silver and tens of millions of taels of gold.

Of course, half of the money had to be given to Carinho, and in the future, they would only get a quarter.

Moreover, these gold and silver mines cannot be endless, and they will not be exhausted after hundreds of years of crazy mining.

However, it doesn't matter, what they borrowed were all Ming-style gold ingots, silver ingots, gold coins, and silver coins.

If the Anti-Habsburg Alliance and the Habsburg Dynasty use these gold ingots, silver ingots, gold coins, and silver coins, then the currency system in continental Europe will be controlled by Ming in a few years.

If they don't use it directly, they have to melt all these gold ingots, silver ingots, gold coins and silver coins and recast them.

Moreover, even if they melted all these gold ingots, silver ingots, gold coins, and silver coins and recast them, they would still be earned back by the Daming Western Firms and cast into Ming-style gold ingots, silver ingots, gold coins, and silver coins.

Will people be so boring?

Even if they are so boring, they must have this capacity.

Comparing production capacity with Daming, they are rubbish!
Taichang watched row after row of steam punching machines rapidly punching gold ingots, silver ingots, gold coins, and silver coins, and couldn't help showing a smug smile on his face.

Hey, if things go on like this, the Continental Alliance will not have enough materials to build ironclad warships. Do they still have extra resources to make steam punches?

If you don't have enough steam presses and cast it by hand, then you won't be able to compare the output with Daming.

In short, sooner or later, the currency system of Continental Europe will be controlled by Daming. At that time, even if it is printing banknotes and lending to others, they will have to accept it!

(End of this chapter)