Daming Military Empire

Chapter 445 A Brand New Alliance

On the fourth day, the talks to expand the alliance finally started. However, the mentality of the representatives of the diplomatic corps from various countries is quite different from when they first arrived in Ming Dynasty.

When they first arrived in Ming Dynasty, they almost all believed that their country and Ming Dynasty were equal and on the same level, and that they should use the principle of equality and mutual benefit when negotiating, and strive for more rights and interests for their own country.

However, after three days of study, they finally understood that the Ming Empire was far ahead of them in terms of military, economics, technology, and even culture. Forward-looking, several decisions of the Ming Empire are of great benefit to them, of course, the premise is that they must accept the dominant position of the Ming Empire!
Do you accept it or not?This is not cession of land and compensation, loss of power and humiliation of the country, and these concepts and decisions are of great help to the development of their country, why not accept it!

Therefore, the talks went extremely smoothly, and there was almost no objection to the terms proposed by the Ming Empire from various countries.

For example, Chinese is the common language of the five-nation alliance, and Chinese teaching is promoted in various countries to facilitate exchanges and communication among countries and promote cooperation in military, economic, technological and other fields.

Okay, no problem, I will vigorously promote it when I go back. The Ming Empire can set up Chinese schools in major cities of allied countries, and you don’t need to recruit students, all officials send them!

For example, Dragon Coin is used as the standard currency for trade settlement among countries to facilitate economic exchanges among countries.

Well, as long as Daming promises not to issue Dragon Coins indiscriminately, it can consider gradually accepting Dragon Coins as the standard currency for transactions between countries.

Regarding this, Daming immediately made a promise in the form of additional clauses. Daming will never issue dragon coins indiscriminately, but will issue them strictly according to the reserves of Daming gold and silver. Dragon Coins are guaranteed to be recovered at any time with the same amount of gold and silver according to the face value of Dragon Coins.

There seems to be no problem with this promise, but it is nonsense. The countries may go to see how many gold and silver reserves Daming has, and get a rough idea. However, how many Dragon Coins have been issued by Daming? It is circulated in the market at any time. If you want to calculate it, it is impossible to recover all the dragon coins in the hands of everyone. With such a huge economic aggregate of the five-nation alliance, Daming will issue hundreds of millions more dragon coins. Coins will not be noticed.

This is actually boiling frogs in warm water. This is what a certain yuan did in later generations. At the beginning, it seemed that it was issued according to the reserves of gold and silver. However, after all countries got used to using certain yuan for settlement, they began to issue more crazily. Among them The looted wealth is simply incalculable.

Of course, Daming may not be able to play this hooligan, the key still depends on the future development. If Da Ming develops smoothly, there is no need to do such things that people criticize. If so, I will skip it here for the time being.

Representatives of various countries can even accept such things as a unified language and a unified currency, let alone the establishment of a telegraph network and the construction of the Eurasian Railway.

On these two points, the Ming Empire was particularly generous. The construction of all telegraph networks and railways did not even require a penny from other countries, and all costs were borne by the Ming Empire!
Is Zhu Cijiong acting stupid?Of course not, the Qian Daming Empire came out, but copper is needed to lay the telegraph network, iron and sleepers are needed to build railways and trains, coal is needed to drive trains, how much copper and iron are needed for such a huge project, How many sleepers are needed, and how much coal will be consumed after the railway is completed, these can't be borne by the Ming Empire alone, right?

Therefore, countries that have copper mines produce copper mines, iron mines produce iron mines, coal mines produce coal, and wood supply timber, the materials are actually shared among the countries, and Ming only pays a processing fee.

In fact, Daming did not suffer at all, because the processing was carried out inside Daming, and the money was not earned by the Daming Royal Machinery Group and the Daming Construction Corps. The left hand went out, and the right hand went in. Daming did not spend much money, but, The subsequent operating income is all owned by Daming, this profit is simply not too rich!

As for the sale of machine tools, it is purely up to the Ming Empire. The asking price of Ming Dynasty is not high, but the quantity is strictly controlled. The instructions given by Zhu Cijiong are very simple, so that the four European countries can withstand the anti-Habs Fort Alliance is enough, if there are too many, they will not sell!
Regarding this point, the four European countries naturally dare not have any opinions. It would be good if the Ming Empire could sell them machine tools, and they also promised to teach you how to use them to ensure that you can make advanced muskets and artillery. It would be too greedy to meet the requirements of the government.

In the end, the five countries signed an alliance treaty in a friendly and harmonious atmosphere. This alliance treaty added a few more clauses to the treaty of the "Valencia Alliance Treaty". cooperative.

Judging from the content of the treaty, it seems that the European countries have suffered because they have recognized the dominance of the Ming Empire. However, in a practical sense, the European countries have actually gained.

Whether it was laying telegraph networks or building railways, it was all beneficial and harmless to them, and Daming sold machine tools to help them build military industrial systems, which was an unexpected good thing.

As for the promotion of Chinese language and dragon coins, Ming Dynasty did not force them to do so. According to the development trend of the world, internationally accepted languages ​​and currencies are bound to appear. Apart from Chinese language and dragon coins, it seems that they do not have more options, so what if Da Ming takes the dominant position? In fact, at this time, they just need Da Ming's guidance and help.

So far, the Ming Empire, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire have formed a brand-new alliance. In response to the name of the anti-Habsburg alliance of Britain, France, the Netherlands and other countries, the five-nation alliance was finally named the Daming Habsburg after negotiations. alliance.

Zhu Cijiong's painstakingly prepared three-day course has achieved satisfactory results. The Ming Empire has gained a dominant position in the Daming Habsburg League, and a brand new world structure has gradually begun to take shape.

In the history of later generations, these few years were also the beginning of changes in the world structure. It was during these few years that the Ming Dynasty collapsed, and the center of the world began to shift to the European continent.

It was also in the past few years that Spain was defeated by the anti-Habsburg alliance. Since then, it has given up its position as the master of the earth, allowing the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom to take turns.

In the end, Britain became the biggest winner in the Age of Discovery and the Colonial Age, and became a huge empire on which the sun never sets.

However, in the Chongzheng Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty led by Zhu Cijiong did not fall, but was full of vitality, and the pattern of the world changed because of this. So what will the world evolve into?Please see the details later.

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