Lord of Ming Dynasty

Then the 43 wounded battleships of the enemy that had just been incorporated into the destroyer detachment and the frigate detachment were tasked with patrolling, reconnaissance, and transportation respectively. Zhang Siyuan returned with 21 battleships from the main fleet. After returning, he quickly divided half of the warships into the repair shop. , The repair shop is overcrowded, and the battleship is even more full.

I have been very busy these days, and I am very happy because I have gained a lot. The Spaniards’ port materials were almost completely destroyed last time. This time they have all moved back. These materials are enough for them to use for several years. .

For these reasons, even the construction of new main battleships has been stopped, and the captured warships have been repaired with all their strength, temporarily used to maintain the fleet size of the New China Kingdom, or else they will rely on 21 new main battleships when the British come next time Do you work?

In a week, twenty warships captured by the British were repaired and joined the destroyer squadron. The destroyer squadron now has a total of 26 warships. The frigate squadron uses the repaired enemy's main battleship as a battleship. It is also very useful, and sixteen ships have been repaired, plus the remaining four or five frigates, which are also the main battleships of the original Xinqin Kingdom. There are a total of about 22 of their frigates, although they are all simple repairs Passed, but it is still possible to patrol and take on combat missions, and the strength has recovered by one-third.

Half a month after the battle ended, the Spaniards and Portuguese reacted and raised their army forces to approach the port while sending people to negotiate.

Zhang Siyuan is very happy to negotiate, one is that they need time to recover their strength, and the other is that the Spaniards and Portuguese have been stripped of their strong coats.

The Portuguese sent General Grasse, an old friend of the new Qin State, the Portuguese major general back then, now he has become a duke, has become a high-ranking person, a nobleman, and an admiral.

In three days, a total of 9000 mercenary brigades and a 6000-strong Han Chinese brigade landed on the coast of the Strait of Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain, and at the same time transported back [-] captured enemy sailors and army wounded, and at the same time searched for all the supplies in the enemy's port went back.

Then the 43 wounded battleships of the enemy that had just been incorporated into the destroyer detachment and the frigate detachment were tasked with patrolling, reconnaissance, and transportation respectively. Zhang Siyuan returned with 21 battleships from the main fleet. After returning, he quickly divided half of the warships into the repair shop. , The repair shop is overcrowded, and the battleship is even more full.

I have been very busy these days, and I am very happy because I have gained a lot. The Spaniards’ port materials were almost completely destroyed last time. This time they have all moved back. These materials are enough for them to use for several years. .

For these reasons, even the construction of new main battleships has been stopped, and the captured warships have been repaired with all their strength, temporarily used to maintain the fleet size of the New China Kingdom, or else they will rely on 21 new main battleships when the British come next time Do you work?

In a week, twenty warships captured by the British were repaired and joined the destroyer squadron. The destroyer squadron now has a total of 26 warships. The frigate squadron uses the repaired enemy's main battleship as a battleship. It is also very useful, and sixteen ships have been repaired, plus the remaining four or five frigates, which are also the main battleships of the original Xinqin Kingdom. There are a total of about 22 of their frigates, although they are all simple repairs Passed, but it is still possible to patrol and take on combat missions, and the strength has recovered by one-third.

Half a month after the battle ended, the Spaniards and Portuguese reacted and raised their army forces to approach the port while sending people to negotiate.

Zhang Siyuan is very happy to negotiate, one is that they need time to recover their strength, and the other is that the Spaniards and Portuguese have been stripped of their strong coats.

The Portuguese sent General Grasse, an old friend of the new Qin State, the Portuguese major general back then, now he has become a duke, has become a high-ranking person, a nobleman, and an admiral.

The first thousand and 680 chapters of the eight land cede compensation 2

Seeing Admiral Grass chattering and playing with his lips, and at the same time strongly demanding that they withdraw from the occupied territories of Portugal, maybe they actively or passively helped the British, and felt guilty, so they didn’t mention any other compensation, maybe because they were afraid of the New China Kingdom’s navy and strength, so I dare not mention compensation. In a word, I hope that the previous situation can be restored. The navy and army of the Kingdom of New China withdrew from the port and land occupied by the Portuguese.

But Zhang Siyuan became impatient.

"In human terms, it is definitely not enough to give it back to you for nothing. If you want to fight a war, I will accompany you. I think it can destroy your country or kill us? Let's put it this way, you secretly help the British Hit us, how to compensate for this loss? How much are you prepared to pay?"

Zhang Siyuan said coldly.

He doesn't argue with him at all. Sometimes talking about interests is more realistic and can solve problems. Talking about justice and sentiment, morality or other things is a matter for politicians and philosophers.

If it is under the nuclear balance of later generations, you have to use some wrangling methods to occupy other people’s territory, and make up countless reasons. When is it now, occupy the land, if you need the population here, you need to obtain population dividends, and collect taxes, you can take it here The population, this is the colony, if you don’t need it, you need it to be your own country, just like the descendants of the British in the North American colonies, the Americans, just kill all the aborigines here, and other people, just emigrate their own nationals. .

And Zhang Qiang has always implemented a policy similar to this in the Huaxia Empire, immigration, naturalization, assimilation, and then send the naturalized population and the assimilated population to the wild land to open up wasteland, and send them to the battlefield to be consumed. Maybe not everyone can be consumed. But most people will definitely be consumed, and the remaining small number of people, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, will slowly die out, and the weak will survive, but their next generation will become assimilated people. After two generations of education, they will become Huaxia people.

"Compensation is impossible. You are invading. On behalf of our king, I hope that your country will immediately withdraw from our land, release the captured prisoners of war, and compensate our country for the losses caused by your fighting with the British."

Admiral Glass continued to speak stiffly.

Zhang Siyuan looked back and said coldly, "Seeing off the guests".

The soldiers of the Marine Corps behind immediately went up with their guns and made a gesture of invitation. Admiral Glass immediately shut up, and then raised his hand in a gesture of surrender, "General Zhang is easy to discuss, how about it, you guys Withdraw from our territory, release our captives, we will no longer provide help to the British, in addition, you have not obtained our consent, you have attacked our country's territory and ports, injured and sunk so many warships, you How much do you have to pay for it?"

"Hehe," Zhang Siyuan rubbed his fingers and continued to smile. General Glass looked at the sneering Zhang Siyuan, knowing that this guy was not as easy to fool as those from New Qin State, "Why don't General Zhang put forward your conditions?"

"Well, we can withdraw from your territory, but you need to compensate us for our losses and hand over all the British people in your country to us," Zhang Siyuan said.

This condition is not too harsh, and Zhang Siyuan does not want to get into a stalemate with the Portuguese now. There must be hatred, but now it is mainly the Spaniards and the British. The current New China Kingdom does not want to add an enemy on the surface, even if they retreat Well, they will still help the British, because they can’t beat the British, but they must be restricting the British’s activities in Portugal. The British don’t use Portuguese ports, they can only retreat hundreds of miles to use their own country’s ports, Then the farther the British retreated, the safer it would be for the New China Kingdom. The farther the warning distance was, the more prepared they would be when the enemy attacked.

Admiral Glass glanced at the Portuguese who accompanied him, and then said: "Compensation is impossible, it may be difficult for the British..." Zhang Siyuan stood up with a smile, "Then what are we talking about, let's go back, we Continue to fight, when we get enough benefits from you, we will withdraw our troops, as for how far we can fight, that is not something I can guarantee, and you will lose even more by then."

"Every person has five Spanish gold coins, and each officer has ten. We are willing to pay back every Portuguese warship with one hundred thousand Spanish gold coins." None of them are useful, and the price is very neat. He knows that only benefits can impress others, because they are also colonial countries.

Zhang Siyuan nodded very relieved and smiled happily. Westerners are good at this. They are very realistic in reality and are willing to admit defeat. Withdrawal, the mercenary brigade retreated by land to Spain, then attacked along the Portuguese border, and opened up about [-] kilometers of Spanish territory. Then the Han brigade took over the defense and landed from the port to take over the line of defense. A mercenary stationed in front The mercenary brigade pushed forward to take over the front line of defense, the mercenary brigade retreated to take over the defense line of another mercenary brigade, and then attacked from west to east, attacking Ceuta along the coastline, the Spanish port near the port of Bensu and The land, that prominent peninsula which directly extended the Spaniards and locked the strait, was occupied.

Only a newly formed Han Chinese regiment took over the defense there, and the expanded mercenary brigade of another mercenary regiment replaced the mercenary brigade that had been fighting for half a month to occupy the defense line and confront the Spaniards. The Spaniards retreated about 150 kilometers. They lost all their land at the junction of the Atlantic and Mediterranean Seas in the Strait of Gibraltar.

The Spaniards are very bitter, but there is no place to say bitterness. The British retreated and suffered a lot. This time, they lost a total of 200 warships and more than 1000 transport ships. Another loss of more than [-] ships, the British had a shortage of ships for the first time. They were very generous in the past, but now they have to mobilize ships from the colonies. If they mobilize the fleet from the coast of North America, can they not beat it? The point is that they will lose the force that threatens Xindingzhou and Xinqin, so it is still unknown whether Xinqin will be as obedient as it is now.

When the Portuguese delivered the ransom to the New China Kingdom in exchange for the captured people, soldiers, and officers, they also started negotiations with the New China Kingdom.

The Portuguese paid a total of more than 1000 million Spanish gold and silver coins in exchange for 23 merchant ships, 20 transport ships, and 1 main battleships they were disabled. There were about [-] captured Spanish civilians and [-] Thousands of Spanish sailors and army soldiers were captured, the wounded were redeemed, the port was smashed, and they could only land from another place to pick up their own personnel.

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After leaving these Portuguese people, wounded, and ships, the food burden of the New China Kingdom has been greatly reduced, and the port throughput and congestion have dropped a lot. A large amount of coins and materials obtained have been transported to the port of Bensu for storage. Now no country has the same They trade, and they can't turn these into resources, but these are yellow and white things such as gold and silver after all, and they will never become waste paper in any era.

Except for the original 8 people from Spain who were transferred back here, the remaining 30 to [-] people stayed with them, which is equivalent to centralized monitoring, and they were not brought back, and there were not so many brought back to Morocco Food to feed them, the food collected from Portugal and Spain is used to feed the Han Chinese and foreign people, mercenaries, local indigenous people, and captives throughout the New China Kingdom. There are too many captives, and the efficiency of work is not enough. There may not be so many valuable jobs for them to do, so more captives are a burden for the New China Kingdom.

After occupying the entire territory of Morocco, there were nearly 200 million more Moroccan natives and Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese immigrants and people from various ethnic groups who mixed with the natives. It can be said that the environment is quite complicated. , the burden is also heavy, and they do not receive much tax from these people. Instead, they need a lot of food to meet the market supply. Obtaining food from the outside world, the food they planted and the materials they created were simply not enough.

For this reason, under the instruction of Zhang Siyuan, Wei Yuanchao purposefully began to expel those Spaniards and Portuguese one by one, to the colonies of the French, to the colonies of the British, and at the same time, those tribes that helped them, The tribes loyal to the New China Kingdom were given the opportunity to attack and expel these people. After a few months, more than 200 million people were reduced to 130 million, and 80 million people left Morocco and donated their land. .

Then Wei Yuanchao began to arrange the Han people and foreign people who came during this period to cultivate and live on these lands. As for people from other Western countries, because the total population base of the New China Kingdom is only about 40 people, and Almost all of them are soldiers. Even with the several tribes they are loyal to, there are only nearly 50 people. It used to be more than [-] people. Now it has experienced a tragic war and consumed a large number of young and middle-aged people, mainly sailors, artillery On the other hand, as well as some elite soldiers and officers on the army side, the overall loss was about one hundred thousand people, so the population dropped to about three hundred thousand people.

But even so, Zhang Siyuan still immigrated 1 Han people, [-] foreign people, more than [-] British, and the Spaniards captured them, took over these port towns, and occupied them. He was not going to return them to the Spaniards.

Just like Panama's New Qin State and New Dingyang Prefecture, they have people on both sides of Gatun Lake and completely control the Panama Canal. This is what Zhang Siyuan wants to do, completely control the Strait of Gibraltar. As long as the Strait of Gibraltar is in his hands, he will not be afraid If you can't make money in the future, a toll will make other countries lose their temper.

The Mediterranean is the cradle of Europe. It is impossible for Europeans to abandon the Mediterranean. Therefore, businessmen passing by from various countries always do business. This is money, this is wealth, and this is the basis for the survival of the New China Kingdom.

Negotiations with the Spaniards were not smooth, the Spaniards were too deep, Zhang Siyuan and the others occupied too much Spaniard land, destroyed too many ports, and the hatred between the two sides was too deep, but this is also their own fault, because they Helped the British, over there the Caribbean defended against each other, and the other colonies were still fighting with pirates, and here they united to fight the New China Kingdom, but they didn't want to be pushed back. Westerners really don't understand.

So Spain was all driven to their side. Zhang Siyuan did not support the people for the Spaniards, and became the territory of the New China Kingdom within a radius of 150 kilometers.

In order to minimize the consumption of the Spanish captives on their own side, the wounded and some old and weak in Spain were released. Most of the people captured before were also released, and all the young and strong were left to build fortifications.

Within half a month, another 41 warships entered service after repairs, including three new main battleships, three frigates, and the others were auxiliary warships that captured the British and Spaniards. Incorporated into the destroyer squadron, the destroyer squadron expanded to [-] ships, almost returning to the level before the war.

The warships took turns to enter the port repair shop for maintenance, intensive repairs, and a large number of parts were replaced. Basically, [-]% of the previous performance was restored, and the fleet of the New China Kingdom returned to [-]% of the pre-war level.

In addition to leaving the necessary elite troops to guard the ports, borders, and coastlines, two mercenary brigades and one Han Chinese brigade were formed. One Han Chinese brigade was placed in the rear. A mercenary brigade was replaced on the Portuguese border and the Spanish border to prevent the British from invading through the Portuguese border, and a mercenary brigade was placed on the border with Romania to prevent other Eastern European countries from invading, but they were all resting , and at the same time fought against the Spaniards in order to strengthen the frontier pushed to the interior of Spain.

The two sides have developed from a naval battle to a land battle.

Spaniards are gathering troops from all over the place.

The factories and ports of the Spaniards are used here to continuously improve their industrial facilities and combat effectiveness. Many weapons and equipment discarded by the Spaniards are equipped to the newly recruited Moroccan tribal soldiers. That set has been moved over. He wants to consume the enemy's troops through cannon fodder, and then dispatch the Han Chinese brigade to give the enemy a final blow. Besides, because these mercenary brigades are newly formed, they cannot grow without going through the fire of war, and they can be consumed. Many foreigners, why not do it.

There are about [-] transport ships and armed merchant ships in the Spanish port that have been received, just to replenish the coast guard and rebuild the coast guard. In the previous war, almost all the coast guard’s strength and warships were lost. Ten ships in the fleet are used to transport supplies and serve as early warning. It is not bad to train more sailors and officers. It can also provide disabled officers and soldiers with a living job. It is good to arrange for retired soldiers and officers.

The real patrols and reconnaissance were taken over by the gradually recovering destroyer squadron. The destroyer squadron was repaired almost every three days, and now there are 45 ships.

It may be impossible for Spain to surrender at once, but the places they have already occupied can make the Spaniards bow their heads. If they want to return to these places, unless Spain surrenders, they will not be able to defeat the New China Kingdom with sufficient manpower and cannon fodder.

The first thousand and 690 chapters post-war situation

As Spain was unable to counterattack and the negotiations reached a stalemate, the New China Kingdom certainly could not be hanged here. It could only follow its own ideas and make this place a long-term occupation of its own land, bringing in immigrants and captives. There are at least 50 captives in their custody, which is enough for development workers on both sides.