Iron Dynasty

Your Majesty, I'm afraid that this is a tactic of alienation from the British.

In the imperial study, Cui Shangan presented the information from Nanyang to Xiao Ming. Although the information transmission in China is much faster now because of the emergence of telegrams, it has been half a month since the sudden incident when the General Staff received the thunderous battle report. , after all, there is a distance of three thousand miles from Indonesia to Guangzhou.

Xiao Ming snorted lightly and threw the battle report on the table, he said: This matter is better to be believed than not to be believed. I have always been worried about the Netherlands. After all, the Netherlands in Europe is small and the navy has declined. It is easy to compromise under the coercion of a powerful force.”

It's just that if we start a war with the Dutch, our rubber trade may be interrupted. Cui Shangan was a little worried. As rubber enters every node of the industry, the importance of rubber becomes more and more prominent.

In recent years, even the rubber trade with the Dutch could not meet the needs of the current empire, so the prices of rubber products in the empire remained high.

Speaking of this Xiao Ming was even more angry, he said to Cui Shangan; Don't believe that there is any friendship between countries, the Dutch know this better than us, they make a lot of money in the rubber trade, and the price is not good for us. If I were worried that the industrial development of the empire would be shackled by rubber, I would have stopped this trade that suffered.”

In contemporary times, a meal of rubber can be sold for about 15,000 yuan. In this era of rubber scarcity, the Dutch people are even blacker. The Dutch people sell one thousand dragon coins per ton of rubber, almost reaching the ratio of one gram of gold to one gram of rubber.

In the face of such a huge trade deficit, he has been dissatisfied for a long time, but now he has a solution, so he continued; I have already thought of a solution to this problem, after the fall of the golden tent, the grasslands are the assets of the empire, in the Tianshan Mountains. There is a small grass called rubber grass nearby. If the rubber trade is interrupted, it can be temporarily replaced with rubber grass. Moreover, the empire has been developing rubber tree plantations in recent years. Now the Hainan generation has a large rubber forest. Generally speaking, rubber is grown from It only took six years from planting to collecting, and now six years have passed, and it is ready to be collected. In this way, plus rubber grass, the rubber produced by the empire can already meet the current needs of the empire.”

Rubber grass. Cui Shangan looked surprised, and found that he knew too little.

Xiao Ming nodded and explained, This rubber grass is distributed in the Tianshan Mountains. It grows vigorously like pasture, and has a short cycle. It can be planted and rotated like pasture. It looks like a dandelion. After the surrender of the golden tent, I have already Some slaves were arranged to go to Tianshan to open up a rubber grass planting base, and it is estimated that the harvest will be seen that year.

Cui Shangan breathed a sigh of relief, and now all the worries in his heart vanished, he said with a smile: After being blackmailed by the Dutch for many years, now the empire can finally breathe a sigh of relief, since this is the case, the empire does not need to be afraid of them, as long as the evidence is conclusive, We drove the Dutch out of Asia completely.

Whether it's true or not, I now order the Ryukyu defenders to be on full alert. If the Dutch have any trouble, they will immediately annihilate them. Xiao Ming said coldly.

Cui Shangan's expression became serious, and he answered yes.

...

Greenland covers the city.

Eric was pacing restlessly in the Governor's Mansion, and the news of the capture of Newland City had reached him, which made him very uneasy.

Because while the Chinese Empire was spreading the news of victory, rumors of a mysterious letter found on Governor Newland's body were also flying around.

Regarding this rumor, he could not judge whether it was intentional or deliberately leaked.

Governor Eric, there is not much time left for us, although this is not what we want to see, but we are Dutch and must obey the decision of Congress.

Stephen looked at Eric, who had arrived in Geranza eighteen days earlier, and announced to him the new appointment of Congress to him.

A bunch of lunatics, you don't understand the horror of the Chinese Empire at all, the British and the French are forcing us to die! Eric was furious.

Stephen showed a helpless look, he said: Eric, as a Dutchman, you have to think about the safety of the Dutch nationals, if we continue to adhere to the policy of being close to the Chinese Empire, we will be blocked by the British at sea, and on land. Will be attacked by France, do you think we can resist the attack of France? The trade with the Chinese Empire is indeed lucrative, but the safety of the country is more important, now is the time for you to make a decision, I am sure they found The letter must be about the political situation in the Netherlands, and if you don’t act, it will be too late.”

Eric's expression changed again and again. According to the plan of the Congress, they first had to deal with the imperial soldiers in Geranja City, and then gathered the warships and soldiers from Manila and Malaysia to attack Singapore. After the capture of Malacca, the support of the United Kingdom and France was It will come to stop the westward advance of the Chinese Empire with Malacca as the boundary.

Stephen's series of words made Eric sigh deeply. He said, Stephen, you have to understand the consequences of making this decision. The Netherlands will completely lose the trade routes of Manila, Indonesia and Asia.

The British and the French agreed to give us part of the colonial market in Africa and part of the Americas to make up for our losses, Eric, think about it, Asia is too far away, and England and France are too close.

Turning around and looking at the blood-like sun falling outside the window, Eric nodded slightly. He hesitated for a long time about this matter, and now it seems that the time has come for him to make a decision. After all, the content of this letter is very May expose them, he cannot take that risk.

Before the Chinese Empire is ready, they must escape from the city of Geranja.

In this case, we will take action tonight, and may God bless us to return to the Netherlands alive. Eric's expression became firm, the Netherlands was his country, and his family was in Amsterdam, and he couldn't leave it all behind.

Stephen breathed a sigh of relief, he underestimated Eric's fear of the Chinese Empire when he just arrived, and now his task is finally complete.

At this time, Eric looked at the imperial garrison outside the Governor's Mansion, and continued: I am afraid it is impossible to evacuate from here intact, but our soldiers can't sacrifice in vain, at least we have to get the Han-style rifle of the Chinese Empire. and machine guns.

Stephen's eyes seemed to be flickering, Yes, this will sell for a good price in Europe, Eric, you will leave a strong mark in the history of the Netherlands.