From Chief to Ball

Indian companies are not engaged in entrepot trade, and want to earn Spanish silver, they can’t compare with Nanyang Company. What they want are spice products and land rent, as well as safer routes and more convenient forward bases, not a Wangbei City The Spanish silver cash machine in the eyes of those Fujian maritime merchants united.

The old European navigation order dominated by the Pope's meridian has begun to disintegrate in Europe. In the eyes of these capital groups in the republic, the Pope is a fart and they don't even recognize it. However, the remnants of the old European navigation order have affected the pattern of the Pacific Ocean.

Manila is Spain's support point in Asia, and the only support point.If China's Indian company wants to achieve its goals, Manila must be unplugged.

Manila is Spain's support point in Asia, and the only support point.If Wangbeicheng wants to obtain a large amount of precious metals, Manila must be in the hands of Spain.

The contradiction between the two parties seems to be the contradiction between the Mexican Party and the Huaxia India Company, but in essence it is a contradiction between the handicraftsmen and maritime merchants of the Ming Empire who have not yet met across the Pacific Ocean and the capital group of the Huaxia Republic tens of thousands of miles away.

It's just that one side has already organized and has its own interests and demands and knows what it wants, while the other side needs to start accumulating strength to compete for dominance in the Asian region under the enlightenment of the Mexican Party.

Manila is not a separate problem. It is a family that involves the Nanyang Company, domestic monopoly smelting and mining groups, coastal industrial handicrafts, Huaxia Indian Company, Dutch Indian Company, Ming Empire maritime merchants and coastal handicrafts, and landowner groups that reformed rice and mulberry. issues among other forces.

Once Manila is captured, the Dutch Indian Company will immediately increase its vigilance.Once there is an intention to attack Manila, the Nanyang Company's smuggling business and the factory owners and capitalists behind it will also be greatly affected.

Manila is a transit point, a transit point for the monopoly trade of the Spanish royal family, and a transit point for sending Ming Empire and Asian goods to the colonies for forced trade to obtain royal benefits.

But for Huaxia India Company, there is no profit in transit trade, they will only choose to collect land rent and build bases.What can be shipped to China to make money?Shipping Asian goods to the Spanish colonies, without the royal monopoly, how could they compete with the Nanyang Company?Even with the monopoly power, most of Nanyang Company's goods are cheap, and Min County is already undergoing a revolution in capitalist production relations, so how can there be sales?

The combination of capital and power of China's Indian companies, the definition of Manila is very simple. As long as it can occasionally achieve a balance of payments and collect stable land rent, then this forward base is qualified and valuable.Even a part of the money is posted in it every year, as long as it goes well in India, this is not a problem, and the big deal is to make up for it with the land rent in India.

Under such contradictions, this gathering of internal interest groups, Chen Jian and some members of the Mexican Party, which had no prologue and pleasantries, started on this issue involving many contradictions.

"Mr. Chen, we are very happy that your Mexican party can borrow the conditions for us to use Wangbei City to park supplies and accumulate soldiers. You also know the name and purpose of the company, so I won't say much. The Strait of Malacca is in the hands of the Spanish Portuguese Republic. We also need to borrow trade winds and ocean currents, and we need a stable route, so Manila, Luzon and Malacca determine that there will be a battle between us and Spain in the future."

"We have read the "Global Insights" written by Mr. Chen, and we are convinced of Mr. Chen's analysis that there will be a major war in Europe within 20 years."

"It can be said that the Nanyang Company, Minjun Capital, our company, and the landowners and handicraftsmen who grow cotton and mulberry along the coast all hope to fight a war with Spain. If we fight in Spain, we will pay customs duties in the colonies, and we will be free, but other countries will not be allowed to fight. trade involved."

"However, today we don't want to talk about the Spanish issue, we want to talk about the Dutch. Mr. Chen, the foreign envoys you have contacted the most these days are Sweden and the Netherlands. We don't care about Sweden, but the standards of the Netherlands are too high. We Very dissatisfied."

Chen Jian was stunned for a moment, thinking that the other party would talk about Manila, Malacca, or cooperation with the North City of the Mexican Party, but he did not expect to talk about the Netherlands from Spain.

Chapter 60 Imperialism ([-])

Looking at the representatives of these big capitalists present, it can be said that they include a group of people with the most imperialist and colonialist ideas in the country, and asked with a smile: "Is this the collective view of your group? What is the discussion between me and the Netherlands?" Everything is public, I don't think there is anything to make you angry?"

One person said: "We believe this, but we hope that Mr. Chen can consider more realistic things. We are a republic, and of course we think that the republic is a tradition and it is correct. I don't know that Mr. Chen's contact with the Netherlands is purely for profit. Or is it because the Netherlands is a republic, so you have to take a look at the Netherlands for this correctness and tradition?"

Chen Jian shook his head and said, "You always know our party's propaganda, we don't think that kind of republic is correct."

"That's the best. I'll just say something straight. Since Mr. Chen doesn't like him because the other party is a so-called republic, then we'll only talk about interests."

Chen Jian nodded and said: "Of course, don't you gather together for the sake of profit? When we talk about our ideas with you, we also play the piano against each other. But at least one thing, we all believe in the analysis of interests, but we use it to fight for Some things, you use them for profit."

This kind of tit-for-tat remark was not ridiculed, and the other party accepted it frankly. One of them thought for a while and said in very straightforward words: "Our internal opinions have been settled. Neither Nanyang Company nor our Indian company wants Mr. Chen and The Netherlands maintains a close relationship. It can be said that the Netherlands hinders the interests of our two companies, and our two companies are not only the company, but also the landlords and factory owners behind it."

"If Europe is going to be chaotic, we think this is an opportunity to establish a new order. Even if we don't want to admit it now, or don't want to admit it emotionally, emotionally, or in glory, we have to say that the world at this time The trade order is European-led, so we have to break the old and create the new."

"They have sailed around the world for more than 100 years. They have established strongholds in Asia, Africa, South Fusang and other places, leading trade, but there are many contradictions."

"So, if there is a war in Europe, it is our chance to dominate the world trade order. We don't want anyone to influence or hinder this matter, and for the sake of our ancestors, we will never allow it."

The corner of Chen Jian's mouth twitched, but he still nodded.

The order of world trade is not the same as the world order, but the world trade order is like a maggot, while the world order is like a fly.

Only after the world has been transformed from isolated islands into a truly spherical world due to trade can we be qualified to discuss the order of the world.

As far as the Mexican party is concerned, what they want is the order of the world, not the order of world trade.But for Chen Jian, he understood that in order to order the world, there must be a new world trade order.

Seeing Chen Jian nodding, the other party said, "Nanyang Company is very dissatisfied with the Dutch's sea control and trade monopoly in Europe. They have made too much money as second-hand dealers, and Nanyang Company is very dissatisfied. Four years ago, Nanyang Company needed a second-hand dealer to go deep into Europe." , but after the chaos in Europe more than ten years later, Nanyang Company no longer needs such a second-hand dealer.”

"We Indians want land rents, but we also want the spice trade, so we don't like the Portuguese or the Dutch. We don't need a Holland."

"I hope Mr. Chen realizes the fact that before you cooperated with the Dutch, it was because of your lack of strength."

"Indeed, your Mexican Party and Mr. Chen's factories and reputation are dubbed the No. 30 seven counties by the Chinese. But, Mr. Chen, you have to make it clear that your No. 30 seven counties need to cooperate with the Dutch because you The strength is insufficient, but... the Republic is still there, even if the classes of the Republic are divided as you said, the strength of the rest of the Republic is not absent."

"The No. 30 seven counties need to win over the Dutch to gain a firm foothold, but the 37 counties do not need to make false claims with the Dutch."

"If there is chaos in Europe, the Nanyang Company not only hopes that the decline of Spain will give the Nanyang Company more trading rights, but also hope that the Netherlands' maritime power advantage will come to an end, so that the Nanyang Company can bypass them and conduct direct trade in Europe."

"Similarly, we need a Spanish Portuguese Republic that has no strength to extend to Asia, India and spice producing areas, but we also don't want to see a Netherlands that replaces the Spanish Portuguese Republic to show off its power in Asia."

"You are the No.30 seven counties, not a country with the same power as the No.30 seven counties. You dare not say that there are 36 counties behind your back, but the strength of six or seven counties is still there. Money, no problem ;Man, no problem; so we hope that Mr. Chen can pave the way and set the tone for the future when negotiating with the Netherlands, Sweden or other European countries."

Chen Jian asked: "What tone? Or what kind of Europe do you want?"

The other side was silent for a while, and said slowly: "We need a strong France, not a strong Netherlands. I hope that Mr. Chen can focus on this aspect."

From Manila, Malacca to Spain, from Spain to the Netherlands, and finally to France, which was not mentioned before, the people on the opposite side were not surprised, and said calmly: "We may not understand the situation in Europe as well as Mr. Chen, However, as Mr. Chen said inductively, there are always similarities in this era of many countries. For example, in Mr. Chen's "Global Experience Records", China's Spring and Autumn and Warring States, Japan's first few decades, our The situation before the unification war...was pretty much the same."

"Our grandparents participated in the unification war, and that generation of scheming people has not died out, their thoughts have not been frozen, and our minds are very clear."

"Just like the powerful Marquis of Wei a hundred years ago, when Ji Xia divided it, it was doomed that Marquis of Wei needed a strong army if they wanted to stay strong. Just like the Puppet Qi Kingdom now, they needed a strong navy if they wanted to establish their country. .”

"We need Spain to decline, and we don't want the navy of the Netherlands to continue to dominate Europe, so we need a strong France. Strong enough to threaten Spain, forcing Spain to continue to maintain an army; strong enough to threaten the Netherlands, strong enough to Those states that threaten the north, in turn, force France to focus on the army, and cannot build a navy that can threaten us."

"Europe's land and people are meaningless to us. What we need is sea power, trade power, and overseas. No matter what the differences between us and your party are, there is one point. Great Wilderness is far from Europe. It's not far away, and your party doesn't want your paradise to be threatened by Europe."

"Let France be the dog on the chain and bite Spain and Holland. Then all problems will be no problem, whether it is the Indian company or the Nanyang company, the problems considered are not problems, this is the root cause."

"Manila, India, African slave trade, Spanish colonial smuggling trade, European direct trade, and your party's Great Desert City plan, all these can be resolved."

"Treat the root cause, the symptom will be cured naturally. And if you only focus on a single problem, it will treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Of course, if Mr. Chen's operation can make Sweden stronger, and thus establish a northern religious German alliance to fight against France , that's the best. In the long run, we don't want to see a single strong France that may block tariffs, but this is a surprise."

It is not necessarily wrong to close the country and close the country. If France is the only one as these people say, it is the only correct choice to close the country and develop the internal market. Otherwise, there will be no tariff protection that is as strong as the closed country.

These people have said so much, and some questions have become interesting.

In the eyes of these people, Britain is just a worthless small country.

The representative of the new sea power is the Netherlands at this time, the king of the old European colonial system is Spain, and it is France that needs to be supported as a mad dog biting people everywhere, and the status of the United Kingdom has almost no sense of existence at this time.

These people's ambitions are too great, but their ambitions are not so great as to so-called world domination, because that would be unprofitable.Their ambition is only to become the leader of world trade, in other words, to put it more bluntly, the leader of the world colonial order.

This is not difficult, the dream looks scary, but in fact there are not many enemies to face.

A Dutch Indian company with more than 2000 people in Asia and [-] armed merchant ships; a Spanish colonial governor who can't even eliminate pirates by himself and needs to sign the "Anti-Piracy Convention" with the Republic; Portugal, which has been in decline in Asia for ten years, is dissatisfied with the Spanish republic; and France, which provides loans and arms support when necessary.

The first three need to go into battle shirtless, and even the most powerful Netherlands has no more than twenty people and twenty armed merchant ships at this time.The so-called No.30 seven counties need to deal with it, but capital and power groups with common interests in the country don’t need to deal with it. As long as the Mexican party no longer reaches out behind, and has the advantage of intercepting trade winds, ocean currents and the ends of the earth, the Dutch are in Asia. That power is really not enough.

The latter one needs to display the shit-stirring spirit of the unification wars of the year, and combine vertically and horizontally to dig out a big hole that makes it impossible for Europe to be stable. A new order of checks and balances.

Just like the issue of France, it seems that it has no direct connection with the Spice Islands of Manila, Luzon and Malacca, but it can fundamentally leverage these places.

Hearing the demands of these people, Chen Jian understood that he could stay away from these people in the future. They had already begun to learn how to be a qualified imperialist and colonialist, and this stage of teaching was completed.