Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 344 Wu Sangui, calm down, your chance has come! (Seeking a monthly pass, asking for a subscription)
Macao, Office of the Minister of Nanyang.

"Consul Bu, brother, what you pay attention to when you do things is to keep your word. My brother is an official who reads sage books. He knew from a young age that no one can stand without faith. If you promise others, you must do it, let alone Is there a contract in black and white? Besides, we are brothers who do business together and make a fortune together. How can I cheat you? If I cheat you, isn’t it the same as cheating my own brother? You say I can do it Is this kind of thing? Well, let me tell you clearly. There are indeed people behind me! Don’t think that I came here from the Qing Dynasty. I have no backer in Ming Dynasty. If I don’t have a backer, Can I become the co-organizer of the Minister of Trade and Commerce? You probably don’t know that I was in the Zhengbaiqi Han Army in the Qing Dynasty. Li Nanwang and Li Yingwang, you two, you go and ask, they are also in the Zhengbaiqi Han Army. That's my own! If you don't believe me, I'll take you to the provincial capital immediately to meet Princess Ying!"

The one who spoke was Cai Yurong, a big fool. This guy was a powerful official in the Kangxi Dynasty in the original history, and he also had a special relationship with Princess Wu Xiaotu. This time, by chance, he became Xiaotu's subordinate. Yes, but after meeting the celestial Wu Xiaotu at the King's Mansion, he immediately became full of energy. When he arrived in Macau, he solved most of the "Malacca Concession Issue" that Li Zhongzhen had been trying to solve for several years. Now It's almost my last breath.

And his method is actually Brouwer's method, which is very simple to say. It is to bypass the East India Company and the Ming court, and come up with a private-to-private, which is originally public-to-public, and involves sensitive leased land. a lot.

Now change it to private to private, then things will be easier to handle!
They can change the matter of leased land to Cai Yurong to buy (or lease) the land of Xiangshan Island from Xin'an County to build a port and commercial port, and Brouwer to buy (or lease) the land of Bintan Island to build a port and commercial port from the East India Company.

Then, Cai Yurong combined his business in Xiangshan Island and Brouwer's business in Bintan Island at the entrance of Malacca as a joint venture.

Now, the joint venture firm established by Cai Yurong and Brouwer has actually controlled two key commercial ports on Xiangshan Island and Bintan Island!

After the work is done, we will do a tax package to contract the taxation and management of Xiangshan and Bintan Islands. This is not all work.

For the senior executives of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia, this Bintan Island was originally abandoned there - it was originally an important sea trade transfer station and the territory of the Malacca Sultanate, which was taken over by the Portuguese more than 100 years ago. After it was shot down, it was abandoned and became a pirate's den.Later, the Dutch East India Company defeated the Portuguese and became the ruler of the Strait of Malacca, but Bintan Island was still deserted there.

Since it's abandoned there, why not sell it to an honest Dutch businessman from Amsterdam like Brouwer and develop it?
If it really develops, the Dutch East India Company can still collect taxes from Bintan Island, and can directly obtain silk, tea, porcelain, sugar and other commodities from China from Bintan Island. The most important thing is that Brouwer is still A sincere person. He will make all the senior executives of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia feel the real and heavy sincerity!
"Can I really see Princess Ying?" Brouwer immediately became energetic.

He has long heard that Princess Ying is a great beauty, and she is also a "queen". Before that, he assisted the son of Prince Li Xiuqing in governing the domains of Guangfu and Shaozhou for three years.

Although the Guangshao domain has been returned in name, the land transportation between Guangdong and Nanjing is intermittent, and Guangdong is in wartime, so it is not appropriate to make major changes to the Guangdong governance system that has always been effective.

Therefore, Li Zhongshan devised a method to temporarily take charge of the Guangdong military affairs in the British Palace and the Southern Palace, that is, Li Xiuqing, the son of the King of England, served as the general of Guangdong, Li Zhongzhen, the son of the Southern Prince, served as the governor of Guangdong, and Qu Dajun, a celebrity in Guangdong, served as the governor of Guangdong. In theory, the three of them preside over Guangdong's government affairs, military affairs and political affairs.

Of course, Li Xiuqing is still a child and can only bear a name, so Wu Xiaotu has to continue to hang the curtain, and Li Zhongyi, He Tianran, Dai Zi, Luo Wenzao, Liang Peilan (he He is a famous scholar in Guangdong and the head of Guangdong Reform School) to assist the government together.

"Yes, I can see you!" Cai Yurong smiled, "Although there is a beaded curtain, I can still see you. Seeing Princess Ying, you can rest assured, right?"

Brouwer said with a smile: "If the Queen of England can guarantee it personally, I can rest assured that the purchase or lease of Bintan Island will be on my shoulders. But there is a group of pirates on Bintan Island, all of whom are members of your Ming Dynasty. .What do you think we should do?"

"This matter is easy to handle," Cai Yurong said with a smile, "Chen Shangchuan, the admiral of the Guangdong Navy, has friendship with those Han Chinese pirates, just ask him to come forward to recruit them. Let me tell you, in the future, when this Bintan Island is established, we will Guaranteed, the number of Chinese pirates in Malacca will also decrease by [-] to [-]%. By then, Malacca will be a golden waterway with calm waters!"

When Brouwer and Cai Yurong finally finalized the big deal, New Spain Consul Gonzalez was also in his office signing a deal with Yu Renying, a kind, sincere, and trustworthy man from Ryukyu Island, and Qingjiu from the mediation institute. Arms procurement contracts.

In fact, this Gonzalez has long wanted to make this arms deal a private business between him and his good friend, Philippine Governor Serrano!

The two of them can work together to get some weapons that are temporarily unused in Manila's Santiago Castle and sell them to Geng Zhengdong at a high price, and then wait for the war between Da Ming and Da Zhou to end and when the arsenal in Foshan Town is not so busy, they can sell them at a lower price It is enough to supplement the "Made in Milan" guns.

As for the ship to transport the goods, it is enough to directly borrow a warship from Manila to go to Ryukyu Island for "investigation". And the silk that Geng Zhengdong used to pay the bill can be transported back to Manila for storage until June next year When galleons (ships in the galleon trade) leave Manila, they are treated as Chinese-style sailboats and the goods transported to Manila are directly sent to galleons and sent to the New World.As for the silver used to buy silk, a batch was taken out to supplement the arms inventory, and the rest was the property of Gonzalez and Serrano!
It would be great if this Geng Zhengdong would really fight Japan next time. Not only would the Kingdom of Spain take the opportunity to pry open the gates of Japan and force the Japanese to convert to the Heavenly Father, but they could also take the opportunity to do more smuggling business. Gonzalez and Serrano's personal smuggling, of course!
As officials of the New Spain colonial authorities, they are all too familiar with smuggling!

Due to the isolation of New Spain, smuggling is the most popular business among New Spain officials and Spanish nobles. According to incomplete statistics, smuggling accounts for about 90% of the goods that have historically entered and exited New Spain. It is legal clearance.

That is to say, if smuggling can be eliminated, the Spanish King’s tariffs from New Spain can be increased by another nine times. Or the goods imported into New Spain from countries with highly developed capitalist workshops and handicrafts such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands will be reduced by [-]%!

It has to be said that this smuggling in New Spain really effectively promoted the Industrial Revolution!

Thinking of the possibility of more smuggling in the future, Gonzalez couldn't help asking Yu Renying and Kiyohisa in Spanish: "You two, does Ming have any plans to go to war with Japan? If the Tokugawa shogunate If we counterattack Ryukyu, will the war break out between Ming and Japan?"

Of course Yu Renying couldn't understand Spanish, but Tiaosuo Qingjiu could speak Spanish fluently, so he frowned immediately and said, "Of course General Zhengdong has a plan to go to Kyushu. Otherwise, he wouldn't have sent Spanish To purchase arms. If I remember correctly, Spain and Japan are hostile, right?"

As soon as Gonzalez heard it, he felt that the future was promising!

It seems that Daming is ready to go to war with Japan!

As long as they are prepared for this, it is good. If they are prepared, the Dutch will have the opportunity to fan the flames on the Japanese side, and the Spanish will be able to instigate war on the Ming side. It is not afraid that they will not be able to fight!

When a fight breaks out, Spain can fall back on Japan as long as Japan is willing to convert to God and serve as God's shield in East Asia!

"Of course!" The Spanish consul was indignant and crossed himself on his chest, "The Tokugawa shogunate in Japan treated Christians very cruelly, but our Kingdom of Spain is the defender of Christianity! If Ming Dynasty goes to war with Japan, our Spanish I will definitely stand by Daming's side!"

idiot!

Tiaosuo Qingjiu has already cursed in his heart, this Spaniard has a bad conscience, he is indeed a white-skinned ghost, and his heart is not dead!

No, I must write to the General, asking him to send troops to attack Dongdazhou together with Geng Zhengdong!
Although he wanted to cut people down, he still followed Gonzalez's face and said: "Then it's a deal, but I can't make decisions for General Zhengdong, why don't you personally take the ship that transports the arms to Ryukyu Island and meet the general?" Let's talk!"

"Okay!" Gonzalez nodded and said with a smile, "I will definitely come to Ryukyu by then!"

When he said this, he was thinking that his tricks were about to succeed. Although he was born as a stroller on the streets of Madrid, after all, he had worked hard in the yamen under the Governor's Palace of New Spain for many years, and developed colonial interests for Spain in the far east. .After many years of experience, he already knew that the key to the continuous expansion of European interests in these barbarian territories was to take advantage of the contradictions between them.

Therefore, East Asia, which is closed to the outside world, is indeed a headache for Western colonists-they closed the country and outsiders cannot enter, and they don't know how to use their internal conflicts to divide and disintegrate.

In addition, China, Japan, North Korea, and Annan have not had much conflict in the past few decades, so it is impossible for Western colonists to use the "East Asian international conflict" as a starting point.

But now, the opportunity to pry open the doors of East Asian countries has finally come!
Guangzhou, King's Mansion.

Tingzheng Palace.

Li Zhongshan's official wife, Princess Wu Xiaotu, was sitting behind a beaded curtain, holding a secret letter from Changsha in her hand, carefully reading it over and over again.

This letter was written by her father, Wu Guogui. The father and daughter belonged to two dynasties, and they became enemies, which is a bit embarrassing.

However, Wu Guogui repeatedly assured his daughter in the letter that he, as a father, would not embarrass his daughter!So he will not enter Guangdong anyway, as long as Guangdong can recall Jia Han who occupies Yongzhou and Guiyang Prefecture in Hunan, and give him these two states, and he can have an account with Wu Sangui.

To be honest, this request is not too much.After all, the biggest threat to Guangdong now is Sun Jiqing from Guangxi!This guy has already mobilized [-] Guangxi troops, posing as if he wants to come to Guangdong to grab money and land!
Although relying on Guangdong's force is enough to fight against Sun Jiqing, Wu Guogui is now in Hunan, Wu Sangui is in Jiangxi, Hunan and Jiangxi are both neighboring provinces of Guangdong, so Wu Xiaotu is under a lot of pressure.

It's a good thing that she is a tiger girl of the general family, and she is very resistant to pressure, otherwise she would have been fooled by her father Wu Guogui!
Thinking of this, she sneered and muttered in a low voice: "Oh, I'm cheating again, this time I must cheat back!"

Then she folded the letter Wu Guogui wrote to her and put it away.

She had just put away the letter when she heard a voice say: "Princess Wangfei, you are so wise. If we want to regain the lost land in Nanyang, we can't just rely on beatings, but also rely on deception! In fact, those foreigners can The market is so big, three points depend on fighting, and seven points rely on cheating!"

The one who was talking to Wu Xiaotu was Cai Yurong who had just arrived from Macau. He brought Brouwer with him, but at this moment Brouwer was not in the hall, but waiting outside.

Wu Xiaotu was amused by Cai Yurong's words: "Cai Co-Ban, you are really a talent, it seems that you are a co-organ minister."

Cai Yurong laughed and said: "Unyielding talents, unyielding talents who are dismissed from the government are ignorant of their talents, but those foreign devils are always uneasy and kind, and cannot handle things in an upright manner. In addition, I have a strong army, so they can't use strength. They can only use tricks. You will be taken as an official."

Wu Xiaotu said with a smile: "That's Cai Xieban, you put your heart into things. If all the officials in my Ming Dynasty can be as hardworking as you, why worry that the world can't be unified, and the four sides can't submit?"

"Don't worry, my lord, my Ming Dynasty will be ruled by a great general, and the officials of the country will definitely be more attentive."

Wu Xiaotu nodded: "Assistant Cai, tell me, what do you want me to tell Brouwer?"

"My lord concubine just needs to tell him that the next official is your helper in doing business."

"Okay!" Wu Xiaotu nodded, "Then let him come in!"

"Yes, ma'am."

Jiangxi, Mount Lu, Wu Sangui Palace.

"Crash!"

Wu Sangui smashed a teacup violently, as if he was still angry, he picked up a brush and was about to smash it on the ground.The ground was already covered with porcelain scum, and several of his counselors and generals stood aside with their hands down, not daring to show their breath.

What made Wu Sangui so angry. Of course it was Li Zicheng!
This Li Zicheng is an "old strong" who can't be beaten to death, he can't be beaten to death, and he won't stop!These days, I kept attacking from Mubu Mountain to touch Wuchang Fucheng, and almost got in. I was so surprised that Zhang Guozhu, the guard of Wuchang Fucheng, closed all the city gates, and let the army brought down from Mubu Mountain by Li Zicheng, The "Yuanyuanqu" was sung outside Wuchang Prefecture for half an hour. Li Zicheng's people had the nerve to sing "Yuanyuanqu"!
Does Li Zicheng want to be ashamed?
If Wu Sangui became a confidante in anger, then what is Li Zicheng?
But this is not the most unbearable thing for Wu Sangui. The most unbearable thing for Wu Sangui is that Li Zicheng keeps sending troops to harass Wu Sangui's grain road!
Although Wu Sangui used the Yangtze River to transport grain, he directly transported grain eastward from the Dongting Lake Plain and Jianghan Plain, which are rich in grain, and the logistics line was very reliable.But this Li Zicheng still found a loophole. He kept sending people to threaten the boatmen on the Yangtze River, saying that they would not let them go on the boat in the future (after defeating Wu Sangui), in order to coerce them to cooperate, and set fire to many of Wu Sangui's grain ships!
In addition, in the villages of Wuchang, Hanyang, De'an, Anlu, and Huangzhou, Li Zicheng's armed forces were also very active, constantly killing the gentry of the "Returning Homeland Mission" and encouraging farmers to take back their land!

Wu Sangui, who was a little furious by Li Zicheng, wished he could leave Li Fuchen alone and send troops back to beat Li Zicheng.

But reason still tells him that if he turns around now, there is a high probability that he will not be able to catch Li Zicheng and catch Li Zicheng, so he has to encircle Mubu Mountain in an all-round way!

But how big is Mubu Mountain?It is difficult to encircle and suppress without an army of 30 to [-].And now Li Zicheng will manage the territory, and the valley of Mubu Mountain is full of Li Zicheng's military farm.

So it is very safe for Li Zicheng to shrink inside, that place is the tortoise shell of "Old Li tortoise"!
When Wu Sangui was getting angry, Wu Yingxiong's voice suddenly came from outside: "Father, Father, look who I brought you. Oh, are you angry with Li Zicheng again?"

It turned out that Wu Yingxiong walked into the lobby where Wu Sangui was, and Shang Shuying came in with him.

Wu Sangui snorted: "That Li Zicheng is so hateful! I, I can't get angry when I think of him forcing the late emperor to death!"

Shang Shuying said with a smile: "Father, don't be angry. It's not worth it to be angry. Besides, your chance to defeat Daming has come. As long as Daming loses, Li Zicheng can survive?"

"Da Ming, by the way, Shuying, I heard that you were arrested by Li Zhongshan, and he executed you Ling Chi, you..." Wu Sangui suddenly thought of a very scary question, and stared at his goddaughter.

"Li Zhongshan is just talking," Shang Shuying said with a wave of his hand, "not only did he not kill his daughter, but he also brought her back to Nanjing, let her watch his navy and land division, and let her come back to pass on a message to her father." talk!"

"What?"

"He's coming to Poyang Lake to fight you to the death!"

(End of this chapter)