Daming Military Empire

Chapter 431
What is there to extort from the Persian Empire?Zhu Cijiong really tried his best on this question, because the Persian Empire is not a small country that can be bullied. In terms of overall strength, it is even stronger than the Ottoman Empire!
Of course, Zhu Cijiong will not abandon the alliance between the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire because of this reason. It is very simple. He can control the foreign strategy of the Ottoman Empire through Suyman, and the Persian Empire, no matter how he can influence Abbas II world decisions.

There is no doubt that the Persian Empire will benefit from being sent to the door to be slaughtered, but this measure must be grasped.

Let others cede land?That's a sickness, if you ask someone to cede land for nothing, doesn't this force them to go to war with you!

Make people pay compensation?That's also sick, and I haven't paid any compensation for the fight, it's just looking for trouble for nothing!
You can't let people cede land, and you can't let people pay compensation, so how can you get benefits?
This is actually an example. The history of the great powers bullying the Manchus told Zhu Cijiong that there is another way to get more benefits, and that is to ask them to open commercial ports. The more they open, the more they earn. You ask people to pay the most. You can ask for 2000 million taels, but if you open a commercial port, it is only a matter of time before you can earn hundreds of millions of taels.

Zhu Cijiong’s performance when he received the Persian envoys was wonderful. He pretended to be very embarrassed, as if he didn’t want to violate the contract with the Ottoman Empire to attack the Persian Empire, and he seemed to be still hesitating whether to go to war with the Persian Empire , The envoys of the Persian Empire were frightened into a cold sweat.

Therefore, when he proposed to open all ports along the Persian Gulf to Daming, the envoys of the Persian Empire agreed without hesitation.

This is actually nothing to the envoys of the Persian Empire. The Persian Empire during this period was not a closed country. They actually had trade relations with European countries, so they opened a few trading ports to give the Ming Empire some It's just a privilege, not a big deal.

You know, when he came, Abbas II confessed that in exchange for the peace of the Ming Empire, the Persian Empire could even consider withdrawing troops from the Kandahar area. That would be a disguised cession of tens of thousands of square kilometers of land!

In the end, the two sides signed a cooperation agreement in a friendly atmosphere, which roughly means that merchants in Ming Dynasty can freely buy land in the ports along the Persian Gulf, open shops, and do business freely. It seems that the Persian Empire did not suffer any losses. With the convenience, the cheap and high-quality goods of Ming Dynasty quickly occupied the entire Persian trench market. By then, it would not be a matter of tens of millions of taels.

In fact, the Persian market has been monopolized by the Netherlands and the United Kingdom for a long time. Both the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company have established branches in Persia. It was like a rope around their necks, making them almost out of breath.

Therefore, even if Ming Dynasty annihilated the joint fleet of the anti-Habsburg alliance and occupied Batavia, they would not be able to respond at all.

This is why?Simple, because the Strait of Dover was cut off.

It can be said that the Strait of Dover is the throat of the anti-Habsburg alliance. It is not only a channel connecting the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Britain and France, but also a channel connecting Northern Europe and the colonies of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Originally, it only took a few days to travel from the Netherlands to the west coast of France and the UK, but now it’s fine. The Strait of Dover is impassable. If you want to go to the west coast of France and the UK, you have to go around at least three or four thousand miles. Moreover, the northern seas of the UK are not so easy to travel. There are at least half a year of wind and rain, and three months of wind and snow. It can be said that the weather there is like crazy, and it is impossible to predict under the conditions at that time!

In this case, the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden, and Denmark had to organize a joint fleet to attack the Strait of Dover. However, the Spanish Armada, together with the bastions and turrets of Dunkirk, Dover, and Calais, would It is simply invincible. Unless you organize more than three times the number of warships, you will never want to penetrate the Strait of Dover.

What is the concept of triple, that is, more than 300 super battleships and more than 3000 warships of various types. If the Strait of Dover is unobstructed, the Netherlands may accumulate so many warships in a few years, but now Dover The Seoul Strait was cut off, and many supplies could not be transported. It was simply impossible to accumulate such a huge fleet.

Therefore, after several trials, the anti-Habsburg alliance finally gave up, and they had to send envoys to seek peace with Spain!

Regarding the request for peace, Philip IV laughed out his front teeth at the wrong point. He was supposed to ask for peace from others, but now he was asked to make peace with him. Naturally, he couldn't ask for it. However, thinking of the alliance of the three countries Agreement, remembering the assistance of Daming and Portugal, he finally had a bit of conscience, and did not make his own claim and unilaterally negotiate with the big powers, but notified Portugal and the Ming Empire.

Zhu Cijiong was equally delighted with the great powers' peace proposal. The peace talks are good. Batavia still has hundreds of thousands of captives, and that's all money!
However, this time he did not go to Europe in person, because Daming was in a critical period of development, and he really couldn't leave. In the end, he simply asked Zhennan Wang Zheng Zhilong to go to Europe for peace talks on his behalf. There was only one request for him, that It's just extorting money, extorting money hard, as much as you can!

After receiving Zhu Cijiong's order, Zheng Zhilong immediately rushed to Europe with the Nanyang Navy. The current Nanyang Navy is amazing, all of them have [-] super battleships, and the [-] super battleships produced by Dongda Shipyard in the first half of the year are all Allocated to the Nanyang Navy, Daming finally had a fleet of pure battleships.

Of course, the Beiyang Navy is coming soon. The hundreds of super battleships captured from the United Fleet of the Great Powers are being transformed into ships. Soon, the Beiyang Navy will also become a fleet of pure battleships.

The arrival of two hundred super battleships almost made the anti-Habsburg alliance lose the desire to bargain. They don't have to think about any threats or intimidation. They just want to quickly unblock the Strait of Dover, develop quickly, and Get this place back!

Since the Ming Empire was separated by vast oceans, Zheng Zhilong rushed to Dunkirk for more than 20 days, so when he arrived, negotiators from other countries had already arrived.

In other words, the peace talks can begin immediately.

Of course, although the big powers were in a hurry, they were not in a hurry for a day or two, so they politely let Zheng Zhilong rest for a day, and the peace talks officially started the next day.

What Zheng Zhilong didn't expect was that he became the person in charge of the peace talks of the Triple Alliance.

No way, the Spanish peace negotiator is Admiral Oquendo, while the Portuguese negotiator is the Prime Minister Count Shvela. He is the highest rank among the three. He is the prince who is in charge of the entire Nanyang land. It is equivalent to a king!
(End of this chapter)