Lord of Ming Dynasty

Especially the merchant ships that the French and the Spaniards came to trade, from the sneaky one or two in the past to the present, there are seven or eight ships every day. After a month, at least nearly [-] merchant ships come to trade.

There were even British manor owners in North America who came to buy slaves and some commodities. The New Qin Empire did not refuse any comers, and all businessmen took money and sold things.

After nearly half a year of naval battles, the mainland of the New Qin Empire has been cleared on land for a year, but the construction of the New Qin Empire is getting faster and faster day by day, and it has quickly become a small commercial port-type country.

The manor owners in the north of North America pulled their commodities by boat to this port to exchange commodities with French and Spanish local merchants, and the New Qin Empire collected some commodity transaction taxes here.

Port mooring fees, port wine is sold a lot, from Spain and France, as well as some British manor owners in North America, all drinks are sold in Xinxianju Town, mainly in Marin Port, which was developed as a commercial port Come out, because Xinxianju Town is also responsible for the center of the New Qin Empire and the responsibility of a military town, it will not be easy to make this place too prosperous.

Then there are the French towns of St. Lawrence and Grand Bank. These two port towns originally built by the French have achieved considerable development and prosperity, as well as some of the new treasure islands on the Avalan Peninsula. port.

This year, the New Qin Empire received a total of 470 million French francs and Spanish gold coins in taxes, but spent 430 million on buying basic building materials, coal, and various other materials that the New Qin Empire did not have. 3, and at the same time paid for the war 7000 lives and [-] wounded, but the captured and captured slaves, as well as the enemy's goods and ships of all kinds can make up for these losses, the best is to fight His majesty, taking food from the mouth of a tiger, proved the maritime strength of the new Qin Empire.

This made the French and Spaniards dare not underestimate the maritime capabilities of a small country with a population of only about 15, the rest of which are slaves, and a total population of only about 32.

Many French, Spaniards, and even Portuguese businessmen call it another Netherlands rising in the West, a maritime power.

The first thousand 380 chapters and five empires have concerns

Where did the New Qin Empire develop slowly, while the Huaxia Empire developed at a high speed? There are booming heavy industries everywhere, coke furnaces emitting black smoke, steelmaking plants with huge flames, and large factories and mines of hundreds of thousands of acres abound. , [-] mu of farms, mainly in Northeast China, Siberia, and Central Asia, as well as Australian pastures, iron mines, and commercial ports in the Governor-General of Indonesia. The raw materials gathered in various places are sent to the core area for processing, and then sold back to the Governor-General At the same time, a large number of products have been sold to the United Kingdom and Spain.

In response to this huge commercial prosperity, the Chinese Empire purposefully relocated the rich to Siberia to the Governor-General of the Western Regions, so that there were also many resources and businesses that could be created there, and many large consortiums and families of a group nature emerged.

After the reorganization of domestic soldiers and horses, the army is left. The field army is a specialized combat force, the police force, and the garrison.

The Navy is divided into eight fleets, three of which are in the Governor's District, the Australian Fleet, the South Seas Fleet, and the Outer Seas Fleet. The Outer Seas Fleet is close to the sea area of ​​the core area, and is responsible for protecting Penglai, Baodao, Qiongdao, and Annan. , Siam, these islands or the missions off the coast of states far away from the core area.

The core area fleet by the sea is the Sakhalin Fleet, which protects Siberia, the Northeast, and the Koryo Fleet in the cold area, and the Beijing Garrison Fleet stationed in Weihaiwei, which protects the sea area from the Northeast to Yantai, which is called the Garrison Fleet. Also, the Royal Fleet is in the Bohai Bay. This fleet is usually not dispatched. It is dispatched to escort the emperor. However, this fleet has recently been transferred to the crown prince, and the old emperor Zhang Qiang has almost handed over all the rights and power in his hands. Crown Prince.

Except for the Guards and the Palace Guards, even the Guards were handed over.

The emperor is over 90 years old, and he no longer cares about anything else. The crown prince is the emperor, and now the Chinese Empire thinks so. Although the word "emperor" is still on the top of his head, the old emperor's orders are almost out of the palace.

Most of the ministers of the Council of Advisors who followed the old emperor to fight the world have passed away, and even those who are still alive are in their [-]s and [-]s. Basically, they are as indifferent to world affairs as the old emperor.

Now everyone knows that this is the era when the crown prince is in power. The other princes are calm and at ease to be their princes. Yongwu is also very generous to his younger brothers. Generous subsidies, no other rights, except for the second and third children who already have official positions, other little princes, princesses, live and live, but only a basic royal subsidy to guarantee life, other Everything is done by themselves.

Now Zhang Qiang’s youngest sons have graduated from imperial studies and went to Australia to study and travel on a ship. They will live on their own, and they will be their own examiners. Ask them to take the exam by themselves, even if you cheat or use other methods, it is your ability, the royal family will not take care of it, but if you are reported by the people below, you will be punished, the reason is that you can't even cheat, you can't even hide yourself Neither will.

Zhang Qiang's eldest son, Yongwu, is the crown prince, already in his 70s, his second son, Yongwen, is in his 60s, his third son, Yongbing, is also in his 47s, and his fourth son is only [-], so he and his older brothers Not very close, and the youngest son is only in his twenties.

Although he has lost all his rights, the influence of the old emperor is still there. Those old heroes who followed Zhang Qiang at a young age, or the confidant heroes who were promoted after the founding of the country are now only the same age as Yongwu and others. Some have retired, some have not retired, and the younger guard officers and civil servants of the guard regiment are also the pillar-level ministers in the government, so no one can shake the influence of the old emperor now.

He was the one who created this empire. After decades of propaganda, the founder of the Huaxia Empire, as long as he survives, the people of the Huaxia Empire are his loyal subjects. It can't disappear completely, because the dynasties of the two people overlap. Maybe the influence of the imperial dynasty will be reduced when the next generation or the next generation changes.

Sitting in the palace, looking bravely at his aging father, the years have ruthlessly left many scars on his face, and there are mountains, but his eyes are still hale and hearty, and his mind is still clear. According to the guards , Sometimes he would go to ride a horse, return to the horse and whip, and still make a not-so-hearty laugh, but more often he just sat in the sunset and reminisced about the past.

This old man who created the Huaxia Empire, who is close to a hundred years old, still seems to be unconvinced.

He is over 70, and he has to consider letting his son succeed him. His son is five years older than his fourth uncle, and he is over 50.

"Is there still no news about the fourth child?" After talking about things for a while, Zhang Qiang asked while sitting up straight and looking at the setting sun in the distance.

"The third brother has sent a lot of people to look for the fourth brother, but the sea storm wiped out all the evidence in favor of the fourth brother. We can't find any evidence to indicate whether the Spaniards or the British targeted the fourth brother. Their fleet attacked or robbed, and they were silenced, just from the rumors of some scattered ship owners. At that time, a fierce battle broke out in the fleet, and it happened to catch up with the storm. The storm lasted for seven days, and after seven days, it spread across thousands of miles. No British, no Spaniards, let alone the fleet of the fourth brother."

Yongwu said cautiously, Zhang Qiang glanced at him, "The Spaniards don't have the guts to deal with us, if they do, it's not what they want to do, it must be the British, the British are very good at this kind of thing. Things, they will definitely instigate the silly Spaniards to attack us, and then hide behind and laugh, and when we fight with others, we will show a hideous face and kill us, even if they have losses, they will It’s enough for some people to get benefits. Go check and see who in the British country became rich during this period, or disappeared suddenly. Check them one by one. against the whole of Europe."

"Father, we mainly focus on construction and development now, and we can no longer go to war with foreign countries. Besides, Britain is so far away, and their warships are all over the world. It is difficult for us to destroy them. Most of our warships have no experience in long-distance voyages. Familiar with the situation outside, rashly dispatching a large army may lose our prestige. We just need to maintain our advantage in the East. Now the Europeans and Westerners are in the West, and we are in the East. Everyone is safe and sound. We are very big. A part of the income needs the British and the Spaniards."

The first thousand and 380 chapters and seven discussions

"The silk products of the Chinese Empire have occupied most of our British market, which we can't help, but their cotton products have also occupied 50.00% of our market, and our wool products can barely compete with it. Expand the pastures and raise sheep, but our looms are not as refined as those of the Han people in the Chinese Empire, and the quality is not as good as theirs. We see that the wool products of the Chinese Empire are gradually invading our market."

The parliament controlled by the British aristocrats is in session. At this time, the British are on their way to prosperity, and they have basically established their strong hegemony. A lot of interference, they will develop rapidly in the history line of later generations, steam engine, water conservancy textile machine, steam engine, steelmaking technology flourishes, although they still can't get rid of what the French call thief, human trafficker, thief, old-fashioned people, but they were at the forefront in industrial and commercial reforms, in the struggle for royal power, and in France, which is still in the midst of luxury.

France has the best artists of the Renaissance, the most famous writers, various scientists, a powerful army, and a strong economy, but they still don't know that they have begun to decline, from their peak to their decline.

On the other hand, the Spanish royal family went downhill faster, and was even suppressed by the British, becoming an old woman, faltering, but weak and weak.

"We should completely prohibit the goods of the Chinese Empire from invading our market, and completely prohibit the importation of various technologies of the Chinese Empire to our country. This is the destruction of our commercial trade. Instead, we should increase the import of goods to the Chinese Empire. Now we The goods and our merchants are still competitive in the Chinese Empire, such as pepper, pepper, some novel agricultural products, and a large number of steel products. Although our steel products are not as high as the Chinese Empire, the market of the Chinese Empire is really too big. Big. We can’t ignore this market.”

This is another MP's speech.

"How should we deal with the commercial trade of the Chinese Empire? According to the news that came back earlier, the Chinese Empire has begun to restrict our merchants' commercial trade in the Chinese Empire. Many of our merchants have been arrested. Our merchants have put a lot of them in their market. It is an insult to our British Empire, and we should send troops to prevent the Chinese Empire from doing this."

Another nobleman roared.

A duke sitting on the top laughed and said, "Then, Your Excellency, how should we defeat them? We fought against them decades ago and in the past few decades. We have never won a single victory in the East. Every time the soldiers are lost, the loss is huge, how many people go bankrupt because of this, how many expeditionary soldiers are captured until they are exhausted, or killed, the Chinese Empire is not so easy to conquer, they have endless armies, this is our discord Land borders, if we border land, we may be conquered by them. They have too many people, and they are terrible. The population of hundreds of millions is hundreds of thousands of times that of ours.

Although we also have a population of nearly tens of millions or even [-] million in India, those people are too weak, and our army can't beat their strength in a governorship. If we just provoke, then they will send a large army to conquer India, our last oriental origin of raw materials and dumping of goods, plucks the greatest jewel in the crown of His Majesty the King. "

"Don't we resist? Our merchants have lost too much. They have already imposed an export tax of 50.00% on the tea we bought, and they have imposed a tax of 150 on the tea we sold from India. This is simply putting All our profits stayed in the Chinese Empire, which cost British merchants a lot in the tea trade.

The tea they sell to us is only taxed at 30.00%. Even if we adjust the tax, it is only 80.00%. Such a tax is also a loss to our businessmen. , but also let them make money.What's more, this expropriation is also aimed at our own merchants.

War, war, if the Chinese Empire does not change this policy of discrimination against us, we will give them war, if not on land, we will launch a sea war, blast them away with our giant ships and cannons, just like we once conquered .

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Everyone was thinking and weighing, but no one continued to speak.

After a long time, the Duke said: "We captured many people from the Chinese Empire a few years ago. Because of the storm, they suffered heavy losses, but some of them escaped and are still being pursued by us. They are hiding in South America. I heard that among those people are the fourth princes of the Huaxia Empire, if we catch them, we can force the Huaxia Empire to change this policy."

A congressman said cautiously: "We were wrong about that matter, and if the Chinese Empire knew that we had taken the opportunity to attack their prince who was caught in a storm, it would be a blow to us, a blow from a violent storm. At least India is not guaranteed, we do not have a strong sea power to fight against the Chinese Empire in the east, and even their other country, the New Qin Empire, cannot be defeated, and they have confronted us several times."

A congressman raised his hand, "We have tens of thousands of people arrested by Xinqin. We hope to redeem our people. We have arrested at least 1 of them. I think we should be the same as Xinqin." Contact the country to redeem our personnel, their family members have mentioned the above many times, how to deal with this matter?"

The earl roared, "We must let them release our people back unconditionally, otherwise we will send these people and the tens of thousands of captured Chinese Empire to the manor in South America."

The Duke rolled his eyes. This guy is too arrogant, but the New Qin Empire is really a headache. With the progress of the naval battle, more and more people from the other side were taken prisoner by both sides. Britain could hardly bear this kind of thing.

Two super fleets were defeated in the Atlantic Ocean, losing at least one of the main battleships of the super fleet, hundreds of merchant ships and warships, which greatly weakened Britain's strength in the Atlantic Ocean, and it was almost impossible to send ships to many places. , Spain is becoming more and more arrogant in the Caribbean Sea, not because the Caribbean Sea also lost at least half of a super fleet of warships, nearly 100 merchant ships, nearly [-] merchant ships dare not trade in the Caribbean Sea, where is the battle It has reached a fever pitch.

The first thousand and 380 eight chapters against the blockade

"I think it is not appropriate for us to go to war with the New Qin Empire now. We must first solve the Spanish, French, and Dutch scrambling for our colonies in the Caribbean. We must defeat them before we can consider the threat of the New Qin Empire. Their threat is now It's nothing for us right now.

Almost all of their warships were destroyed by us, and a few powerful ships were also scarred. According to where we are, they are now stepping up repairs. There are not a hundred ships in the whole country, and their patrol fleet has almost no combat effectiveness. , They are all small boats, merchant ships, without much combat effectiveness.

But their ships need to trade and go to France and Spain to do business, and the ships of Spain and France also need to do business. We only need to block their trade routes. "

"Well, that's all there is now. The New Qin Empire is still a small country, and all their trade comes from France and Spain, as well as the assistance of the Chinese Empire. I think we can contact Russia to cause trouble for the Chinese Empire, and Turkey, As long as these passages are cut off, we can strangle the New Qin Empire with our hands. It is a joke that a small place with a population of tens of thousands dares to call itself an empire. After more than 100 years, our British Empire has defeated the Netherlands, defeated the Spain, a maritime power, surpassed France only after decades of war with France at home, what do they have, they actually talk about an empire."

Following the discussion of the British, an invisible net shrouded the newly-born New Qin Empire, but the New Qin Empire didn't know that a few days ago, the British blockade weakened, and the New Qin Empire's business was good. During the British conflict in the Caribbean Sea, the Spaniards approached the New Qin Empire nearby and bought all the patrol fleet ships of the New Qin Empire for merchant shipping, and also bought almost all the large-tonnage steamships and sailing warships. Of course, except for those steam engine warships that Wu Nan took away.

The New Qin Empire has decided to develop ironclad ships, so what is needed are steam engine boilers and steam engines, as well as more coal and iron materials, so all merchant ships are ready to be sold one after another.

France generally doesn’t need it. Don’t look at France’s decline, but a lean camel is bigger than a horse. France still has a lot of ships and doesn’t need to buy them from the New Qin Empire. Spain has spent a lot of money since its decline and lost the Far East. The market in the Caribbean Sea was targeted by France, the Netherlands, and the British, so it was retreating steadily, so it was necessary to introduce some ships from the New Qin Empire.