I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Among them, when Li Fugui, the head of the Jiangnan militia, was knocked to the ground by a frightened passing zebra while fleeing, he suffered multiple fractures and bleeding profusely.

This made Nantang clearly realize that the enemy is strong and he is weak.

Yingyi is fierce, and there is a reason why they can conquer the world.

If it wasn't for the Quanming Mechanical Army, there would be no way to confront Yingyi head-on.

So in the final analysis, Mingyuan is the most important thing that determines whether everyone can become a farmer in South Africa.

Whether this South Africa is a place of death or a place of treasure is completely in the mind of Da Ming's father.

Therefore, to restore contact with the mother country as soon as possible and resume paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty is the top priority of the Southern Tang Dynasty today.

But generally speaking, the heroic soldiers and civilians of the Southern Tang Dynasty withstood the violent attack of the evil British colonists and took a solid step towards restoring the glory of the Three Treasures.

At the same time, this strongest army in the southern hemisphere also created a miracle in human military history that sank more than ten enemy ships without firing a single shot.

The 80 warriors of Mingzi Battalion, who fought a bloody battle of [-] British barbarians at Cape Town Wharf, was also compiled into Huangmei Opera, which became a popular repertoire among the soldiers and civilians of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the future.

Later historians all pointed out that the Battle of Cape Town this time was the prelude to the protracted Quartet War in South Africa.

Chapter 741 Attempt to Contact

The nightmare of junior high school geography textbooks - where is the capital of South Africa?

The answer is: South Africa has three capitals, the administrative capital Pretoria, the legislative capital Cape Town, and the judicial capital Bloemfontein.

The reason why there is such a weird system that makes junior high school students angry is that it originated from the split and complicated situation in South Africa at the end of the [-]th century, as well as the subsequent political games and compromises.

Cape Town is an excellent port, which was obtained by the British government from blackmailing the Dutch government-in-exile living in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars.

They expelled the Dutch who had colonized South Africa for more than 200 years, and obtained large tracts of land in the south.

The expelled Dutch claimed to be Boers and fled northward.

They defeated the Zulus going south in the Battle of Blood River and established the Republic of Natalia.

In 1842, the British regarded themselves as the protectorate of the Zulu Emirate and asked the Boers to stop the evil slavery system, give blacks equal rights, and join the free trade system of the British Empire.

This is obviously unacceptable to the Boers.

At this time, the British tried to make a fool of themselves, landed in the port of Durban, and attacked the Boer Republic again.

In this war, the British successfully cut off all the coastal territories of the Boers and directly controlled the import and export channels of South Africa.

The capital of the Republic of Natalia was also captured.

The Boers who were unwilling to accept British rule continued to flee north and established what is now the Transvaal Republic.

However, some Boers succumbed to the British power and stayed in the area north of the Orange River and south of the Vaal River. They signed the "Bloemfontein Agreement" with the British Cape Town government and established an independent Oran. Govern the Free State.

The capital of the Transvaal Republic was later the administrative capital of South Africa, Pretoria.

The capital of the Orange Free State is Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.

After all, the modern history of South Africa is the result of a tripartite game between the British, the Boers, and the Zulus, and finally created three capitals.

But the San people, the true masters of South Africa, have long since disappeared in the long river of history.

But this time, I, Lord Li Jue, will become the blue sky once, and be the master of this Sang man, and by the way, recognize a father named Zheng He.

……

Pretonia, the Presidential Palace of the Transvaslan Republic.

Martinus Pretorius, known as Pretorius the Younger, was the son of Andreas Pretorius, the founding father of Transvasland.

Since the death of Pretorius the Elder in 1853, Pretorius the Younger has succeeded his father and continued to maintain this poor and difficult country.

Although they were all colonists, the Boers had a much worse time than the British.

After all the coastal territories were cut off by the British, the crops and minerals of the Transvaalsland Republic can only be sold cheaply to British middlemen.

This has led to the deteriorating fiscal revenue of Dewaziland day by day.

Moreover, the Zulu people, who were defeated by the old Pretorius, have become stronger and stronger in the past two years, constantly harassing the eastern border of Dewaziland.

It might be a bit embarrassing to say.

Because of the increasingly serious threat of these black spears, a considerable number of Boers are considering accepting the rule and protection of the British.

Naturally, Pretorius the Younger strongly opposed this.

For a long time he had worked hard to fulfill his father's last wish to unite all Boers and reunite Dvasland and Orange.

However, under the obstruction of the British and the opposition of the interest groups within the Boers, the realization of this goal seems to be far away.

Despite this, Pretorius Jr. still did not give up spying on Cape Town and Orange.

But today, when he had just had breakfast served by black slaves, he suddenly received a shocking piece of news.

The Ming army attacked Cape Town, wiped out the army of the Cape Town authorities, and severely damaged the reinforcements sent by London. Even the new governor who was about to take office disappeared in the scuffle!

Because of the misrepresentation of some intelligence details, the word India for John Churchill, the governor of India, was missing.

This led Pretorius the Younger to think it was the new Cape Governor.

But irrelevant.

When he learned that tens of thousands of British troops had arrived in South Africa, Pretorius Jr. instinctively became alert.

He was not sure whether the presence of these British people was to guard against the raids of the Ming people, or to plot the newly discovered gold mines near Pretoria.

Anyway, they are now defeated by the Ming people, and a fourth force has emerged in the south.

Soon, Pretorius Jr. held a meeting to discuss how to deal with the new Ming people.

Is it to avoid contact?

Or try to communicate?

In fact, for these Boers who lived deep in the interior of Africa and could only raise cattle, sheep and slaves, the Ming people were almost as unfamiliar as the Javanese.

Well, Java is still a colony of the Netherlands, and they know a little bit about it. For the Ming people, they rely entirely on the British newspapers.

In the end, the MPs had to find a jeweler.

It is said that he once traveled to North America with a ship to participate in Richmond Fashion Week, so he must have heard about the Ming Dynasty.

Pretorius Jr. asked: "Andre, are those Ming people as described in the British newspapers, committing all kinds of crimes, being cruel and violent, and being more cruel than the Mongols and Huns?"

The jeweler named Andre couldn't figure it out. He couldn't figure out why Mr. President would be interested in that country thousands of miles away, so he had to answer truthfully:

"I have indeed heard rumors that some Ming people tortured Europeans cruelly. For example, they put captured French soldiers into mines, and gave them only potatoes and corn for each meal, and meat only two or three times a month at most. Get a medical checkup, enjoy free bloodletting therapy..."

"Wait, are you sure this is torturing them?"

The councilors from De Vasland doubted, "Instead of giving them recuperation? Even British soldiers can't enjoy such treatment, right? Shouldn't slaves be treated like Belgians treat Congolese?"

"Oh, Mr. Knapen, they just got plenty of food, clean water, free medical care..."

Andre waved his arms and said, "But they have lost their most precious freedom~! At the bottom of the mine hundreds of meters deep, they are engaged in the most dangerous work, but they don't even have the right to smoke a cigarette. What's the point of living!"

Senator Knapen still wanted to argue, but Pretorius Jr. waved his hand to stop him, saying:

"Okay, Mr. Knapen, let Mr. Andre get down to business first. What I want to know is whether the Ming people's national strength is really enough to compete with the British, and whether they treat Europeans equally cruelly, or , what is their policy towards European countries...

Forget it, you look at this first! "

Chapter 742

Pretorius Jr. gave Andre the information that the Ming people had captured Cape Town.

Although this is a piece of secret information, it must be known to all the forces in South Africa in a week, so there is nothing wrong with revealing it in advance.

"You asked if the Ming people could compete with the British. Let me tell you this. The French emperor and queen are now working as workers in the capital of the Ming country. I saw it in the newspaper with my own eyes. I can't be wrong..."

While talking, Andre received the information. A few seconds later, he jumped up like a monkey jumping up, "I respect the President the most, please be sure to let your loyal Andre be the envoy to the Ming Dynasty." envoys!"

"You mean we should contact Ming people?" Little Pretorius asked in surprise.

"Contact? Of course you have to touch! You need to have a big touch!"

Andre said excitedly, "Don't you know who is the country that is most keen on promoting free trade in the world today?"

"Not British?"

Little Pretorius said noncommittally, "When they attacked our country, didn't they just ask us to join their global free trade system?"

"The British global free trade system? My God, Your Excellency, you are old!"

Andre shook his head and said, "As early as several years ago, the British formed the Western European Customs Union with the French and the Spaniards to protect their own industrial products.

This time the Ming Dynasty and the Germans went to war with them. It is said that a large part of the reason is to ask them to open the door and allow free trade! "

"This……"

Little Pretorius said in disbelief, "the Ming people have so many people, as long as everyone's shirt sleeves are lengthened by an inch, the British textile workers can work overtime for a whole year, are the British crazy? Do Chinese people do business?"

"It's all old stuff!"

Andre explained, "Leaving aside the issue of whether people wear shirts or not, even if people wear shirts, they only want British wool and cotton, not their shirts.

Today, Ming people's shirts are of high quality and cheap, and they are sold back to the European continent, causing British textile factories to close down one after another.

Moreover, Ming people’s clothes are not only low-end brands. The Richmond Fashion Week dominated by Ming people has long replaced Paris and become the vane of fashion clothing. Jewelry and clothes of brands such as Han Yun and Tang Feng are popular among European ladies. My favorite!

Not to mention people's industrial products, which are better than British products, I don't know why. You see, I have a rich gold watch brought back from Richmond...

And more importantly, the free trade of the Ming people is different from the free trade of the British. They have a large enough volume and are a huge consumer goods market, rather than just dumping industrial products to the colonies...

If we can join their trade circle, ore, cheese, and grain will be sold easily! "

"But……"

Little Pretorius, who was devastated by the financial crisis, was obviously moved. No matter how despicable the Ming people are, they can't be more despicable than the British, but he still hesitated:

"I heard that the demons still retain the barbaric corporal punishment. These heretics will certainly not be kind to us Boers. It is too dangerous to contact them, and we should not be too hasty..."

"This... I don't think you need to worry too much..."

At this moment, Andre is simply Su Qin and Zhang Yi alive. In order to facilitate the trade with the Ming Dynasty and let his business make a little money by the way, he scratched his head.

"Ming has several vassal states, all of which are formed by European immigrants, such as the Principality of Seattle and the Marquis of America, and the Ming Emperor has guaranteed their safety and full autonomy.

In addition, we Boers have a unique advantage in communicating with Ming people! "

"What advantage?" asked Pretorius the younger.

Andre pointed to the red hair on his head, and said, "We are Boers and descendants of the Netherlands. We Dutch are neutral in the dispute between Ming and Britain, and the pride of our Dutch, the Vanderbilt Consortium Miss Vanderbilt Julie is the Emperor Ming's mistress! We Dutch have already had the most direct and candid contacts with the Emperor Ming!"

Andre puffed out his chest, looking as proud as a god of war.

……

When Li Shaoquan got the letter of credence from De Vaslan, and the letter called him the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he was almost scared to pee.

This is not to roast him on the fire, but to throw him directly into the charcoal oven!

The Dutch came to recognize Concubine Fan's family, how could he, Li Shaoquan, make the decision.

The only thing in his hands that has anything to do with Concubine Fan is the tripartite contract signed with her father back then.

It was also many years later that he discovered that the name signed by the other party on this contract was "Fanwenchen".

In addition, he, Mr. Li, is a foreign minister, how dare he talk to Concubine Fan!

He is not Zuo Jigao, and he has worshiped the father-in-law of the country, and his curves match the empress's line.

It's not appropriate for an Anhui native to take the line of the Dutch Empress!

What's more, loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely not loyal.

The global Huaguo is playing a game of chess, and the next direction of the Southern Tang Dynasty must be decided by the Holy One!

Li Shaoquan knew very well that he had to be simple in the emperor's heart, otherwise, in such a place where the four wars were fought, there would be no way to survive with the help of these gentry and servants.

Fortunately, after conquering Cape Town, Nantang finally obtained sufficient supplies to repair the damaged long-wave radio station.

So Zhu Fugui, who was far away in Yangon, learned that a group of red-haired ghosts in South Africa demanded tribute to him as Zhu Li's mother's family.

Of course, paying tribute is what Brother Li said, and Hongmaoyi's original words are business partners.

Lord Li said that he would definitely teach these foreigners a lesson and make them pay attention to their words.