The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 857 Nine Parts Alliance
Shuwaqi first handed over the letter of credence to Hong Xu, requesting to meet the emperor of the Dagan Empire.

Hong Xu said, then you have to go to the capital, which is still thousands of miles away.

Shuwazi and the others were dumbfounded, isn't this a big deal yet?We haven't done it yet.

Especially the accompanying French navy generals were extremely shocked.

At Saigon Wharf, they saw a huge and infinite port, densely packed ships, and they also used binoculars to see the huge third-tier battleship at the North Wharf, and countless artillery.

They knew that only such a powerful navy could defeat the majestic Spain.

And here, there are thousands of kilometers away from the capital of Dagan.

Shuwazi and the accompanying staff bowed their heads and whispered. Some people asked to continue to go to the capital, and some asked to return to the voyage. They just need to send the credentials, because this journey is too difficult, and several people died on the way.

Now there are still more than 4000 kilometers to go to Dagan Jingshi, plus the return journey, when will I be able to return to my hometown in Europe?
When Shuvazi heard it, it seemed to be the truth.

If this was during the reign of Louis XIV, they would definitely have to go to the capital.

But now France is a bit chaotic, the Fronde is preparing to seize power and riots, Mazaran is too busy to take care of himself, and can still count on these subordinates to work for him.

After discussing with the others, Schwarz decided to hand over the credentials to Hong Xu, so that they would not go to the capital, and they would send a batch of gifts from France, including red wine, brandy, and coffee.

When Schwarz offered the coffee, he also proudly introduced that in France, only the nobles can enjoy these things now, and the common people cannot afford to drink them at all.

Shuwazi was talking about their specialty coffee with joy, and suddenly he smelled a pleasant fragrance.

"Hiss..." He moved his nose a few times, and turned around to see some of Annan's little girls coming out with some plates.

The teacups on the plate were placed in front of them one by one, not coffee.

"..." Shuvazi's face flushed suddenly: "Is this---Spanish coffee?"

No, no, no, after Hong Xu finished speaking, the translator next to him immediately said, "This is our Dagan brand coffee."

After a while, Miss Annan brought over a beautiful cardboard box, which was ten packs of Dagan brand coffee.

On one side of the outer packaging, there is also a simple version of the map, standardizing the location of Dagan.

Olympus Messini picked up a box of coffee in surprise, and instantly felt that it was very high-grade, and it was more beautiful and delicate than their French coffee.

"Dear Governor Hong, can I have this box of coffee?" She asked in a nice voice.

Hong Xu nodded: "Of course, as a reward, when you leave Annan Province, we will send you a batch of gifts."

Hong Xu remembered Ding Yi's words, when a foreign envoy came over and accepted the gift, he had to return the gift, but the return gift could not exceed the gift given by the foreign envoy.

Ding Yi is not stingy, but he doesn't want to imitate the amusing behavior of the Chinese emperors of the Ming and previous dynasties.

China has always regarded itself as a kingdom of heaven, and when foreign countries give 100 taels of silver, they must return 1 taels of silver, or even return one hundred thousand taels of silver to others.

The Han, Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties all had the same virtue, so many barbarian small states once regarded the Chinese emperors as fools. Blockade, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions worth of rewards to others.

It's really stingy inside, generous and bold outside, which is outrageous.

Shuwazi was still full of expectations for a generous return from the great eastern country. Unexpectedly, Hong Xu finally gave him ten bags of ten catties of local Annan polished rice, five boxes of dry coffee, a bolt of silk, five catties of tea, and ten iron pots .

All these things are not worth much, are they?What about the countless pearls and countless gold and silver rewards from the legendary eastern power?
Shuvazi suddenly felt a loss of blood.

The things he gave were worth more than what Hong Xu gave.

But the loss is the loss, and there is no way now.

The next day, he begged to see Hong Xu again, asking to keep the clergy and preach here.

Hong Xu refused straight away, claiming that he could not make the decision, and you can send someone to the capital to ask Emperor Daqian.

Shuvazi took the next best thing and asked to do business with Dagan.

Ding Yi also wanted to do business with Europe, but before the invention of the steamship, it was still too far away and too dangerous.

He has built two huge shipyards in Annan, which is half the distance to Europe.

But Ding Yi still didn't plan to attack Europe now, because now the fleet of soldiers and horses passed by, there would be countless casualties.

Hong Xu said: "We can provide countless coffees, iron pots, and silk, but you need to get them yourself."

To put it simply, Annan would not send ships to Europe, only the French would send ships, and the risk would be entirely on the French themselves.

Shuwazi agreed without hesitation, and he made up his mind to open up this trade route and continuously transport things from the great eastern country to Europe.

They stayed in Annan for half a month. On the return journey, they used gold and silver coins to buy a lot of coffee and iron pots from Hong Xu.

It wasn't until their return ship sailed through the Straits of Malacca that it was discovered that Olympus Messini was not on board.

Shuvazi was shocked, and after asking other ships, he learned that there was no one.

At this time, a junior officer told Shuvazi that Olympus Messini wanted to stay here and planned to go to the capital of Daqian.

Mazarin ruined Olympus Messini's first love, she was very sad, and did not intend to return to France, this sad place.

After thinking about it, Shuwazi decided to continue the return journey.

After seeing off Shuvazi, Hong Xu came to Saigon Shipyard and Artillery Factory the next day.

It has been more than two years since the first year of Rende, and Dagan has built two shipyards in Annan.

One is in Saigon, Saigon Shipyard, and the other is in Honghe Chuanshan in Qianhai County, Taiping Province.

The latter mainly manufactures merchant ships and transport ships, mainly large ships of more than [-] shi.

The former mainly manufactures warships.

Now that Ding Yi is here, there are three shipyards in Dayuan, one in Luzon, two in Tai O, two in Annan, two in Fujian, and two in Guangdong.

The ones in Tai O Province are relatively far away, and they are basically used and repaired by Tai O Province.

Among the many other shipyards, five are dedicated to the manufacture of Tier [-] battleships.

According to Ding Yi and Hong Xu's previous research and discussion, the old shipbuilding method will still be used. There will be no new third-tier battleships in the next three years, but after three years, fifteen or six ships will be produced at once.

Coupled with the expansion of other shipyards, Ding Yi will have at least [-] new third-tier battleships in three years' time.

At that time, all the countries along the coast of Southeast Asia will be baptized with artillery fire.

In the past three years, what Hong Xu has to do is to continue to immigrate here, consolidate the local Han foundation, stockpile food and medicine, manufacture artillery factories, gun factories, and stockpile military firearms.

At the same time, build a third shipyard in the newly occupied Annan Port.

When Hong Xu came to Saigon Shipyard to watch the manufacture of the third-tier battleship, the person in charge of the shipyard, Xu Donghai, reported to Hong Xu: "Recently, there seems to be suspicious people around the shipyard. They couldn't get in and we suspect Siamese."

Hong Xu nodded: "We conquered the Kingdom of Cambodia and have already connected with Siam. It is normal for Siam to be afraid."

"We have to step up and build more artillery, and it is estimated that we will start fighting next year."

Since Hong Xu occupied all the territory in Cambodia, Dagan's territory has been closely connected with Siam.

Siam in the west felt the pressure from the east deeply.

They sent envoys to present gifts to Hong Xu more than once to express their friendship.

Hong Xu also kindly used it to return the gift, and patted his chest more than once to express that we are a state of etiquette and will not mess around. We beat Cambodia because they did not respect our emperor. You Siamese don’t worry, we won’t mess around here.

He has learned Ding Yi's shameless trick. The Siamese really believed it in the early stage, but soon they realized that something was wrong.

Dagan people are different from the previous Ming Dynasty. Daming never immigrated easily, and he didn't do that when he beat Annan back then.

Of course, there were no such conditions at that time.

Ding Yi now has tens of thousands of ships in his hands, and the operation of the entire empire is still terrifying.

He continuously moved the Han people to Annan, and then to Cambodia, the Lancang Dynasty, and moved all the noble and high-ranking officials of the original two dynasties to Dayuan and even Taiao.

All the rich people in the country also moved away, leaving only the poor, and then replaced the original officials and rich people with Han people.

Hong Xu also followed what Ding Yi said, to destroy a country's civilization, first of all, to destroy their writing and culture.

Hong Xu fully promoted Chinese characters and Chinese books in the two places, making it clear that he wanted to occupy these two countries forever.

The Siamese are not fools, and they immediately knew that if Dagan was allowed to consolidate these territories, the next one would have to take them down.

At this time, the Siamese sent envoys to the Taungoo Dynasty to ask for an alliance, and at the same time sent envoys to Aceh and Johor in the south to warn them that the powerful and domineering Dagan was creating fear along the southeast coast.

The Aceh and Johor dynasties on the opposite coast of Annan received messages from the Siamese one after another, but they had no time to take care of them.

The Kingdom of Aceh is on the Indonesian territory of later generations.

The full name of the Aceh State is the Aceh Sultanate, and the official name is the Aceh Darussalam State, a Christian kingdom located in the northern part of Sumatra, Indonesia (about 1500-1873).

In 1641, the Netherlands occupied Malacca, Aceh lost control of the port and the Strait of Malacca, and inevitably declined.

Now the Strait of Malacca is being controlled by the Dutch, Aceh has lost its port, and there are frequent civil wars, so it is impossible to take care of it.

Instead, the Dutch East India Company, which controls Malacca, is trembling, fearing Ding Yi's warships and cannons.

As mentioned earlier, after the defeat of the East India Company, the sugar production base was relocated to Batavia, Java (now Jakarta, Indonesia). (Aceh is in North Sumatra)

After Ding Yi occupied Luzon, he originally wanted to take advantage of the situation to drive out the East India Company, but in order to seize the world and occupy Annan, he delayed again and again.

And the East India Company is also very smart. Seeing that Ding Yi is getting stronger and stronger, and the sugar production in Batavia has dropped again and again, they intend to show their favor to Ding Yi.

After Hong Xu arrived, according to Ding Yi's intention, he also sent someone to visit the person in charge here and expressed his goodwill to them.

The Dutch are still quite simple, and they believe it again.

Then the two sides have been living in peace, and even trade with each other.

But as Hong Xu built shipyards and artillery factories in Annan, trained sailors, infantry, and a large number of immigrants, the Dutch suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Ding Yi did not build an artillery factory in Luzon, but he did so in Annan, which was obviously for fighting.

At this time, from Annan Saigon Port to Batavia, it only takes six or seven days with a tailwind.

Cornelis van der Leyen, governor of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia, came to Batavia in 1645 as governor.

He already sensed that Mingren (Qianren) were going to attack them.

Even if you don't call now, you will call sooner or later.

Lien soon started contacting the Kingdom of Johor and Aceh.

But Malacca in Aceh's hands was snatched by them, so naturally they ignored them.

Instead, the Kingdom of Johor agreed to form an ally with the Dutch to fight against the powerful Dagan.

In September of that year, the Siamese, Toungoo Kingdom, Johor Kingdom, Dutch, and various forces near Malacca, Jambi, Bugis, Minangkabau and other ethnic groups formed an alliance in Johor. Called the Nine Alliances.

Agreed to jointly fight against the Dagan Dynasty from the East.

If Dagan attacks any side, the other eight forces are obliged to help.

(End of this chapter)