New Shun 1730

The Englishman Fazak Clay, who was concerned with whether the Chinese insurrectionists in Batavia could obtain British firearms, started busy with the relocation of the business building soon after returning to Guangdong.

Guangdong is not a place that the British like very much. The goods they want are not produced in Guangdong.

When they were hanging out with the Netherlands in the late Ming Dynasty, the British were thinking about finding a leased land in the Zhoushan Islands. Because it is closer to China's economic center and it is easier to get more goods.

There was still some time before the mission returned to England. At this time, a storm was raging in the ocean. It might take two or three times to set sail to the Cape of Good Hope at this time. It was far better to wait until after winter in December.

Fazakle did not accompany the envoy in Guangzhou, but was going to Macau to discuss a big business, a big deal about arms.

On Dashun's side, the navy people passed through the merchants in the trading company and turned around seven or eight times. After completely avoiding the eyes of others, they found the British in the name of the "Batavia Rebel Army" and directly said About buying arms.

The meeting place was arranged to be in Macau. As the head of the East India Company in China, Fazaklai had always been very dissatisfied with the Netherlands.

During the special envoy's visit to China, he told the king's envoy that he would retaliate, an eye for an eye, and look for opportunities to trick the Dutch.

However, things are not going well for Dashun officials.

At least, after that banquet, in the eyes of Europeans, it was obvious that they acquiesced to the Dutch rule of Southeast Asia.

It seems that as long as the trade goes smoothly and goods can still be sold, Dashun does not want to conflict with several countries trading in the south.

While in the capital, the envoy paid Fazaklei to bribe Liu Yu. Liu Yu accepted the money but expressed his helplessness.

As for the reason, Fazaklei felt that it was indeed reasonable and impeccable.

Liu Yu said that he was quite dissatisfied with the Dutch because, on the one hand, they were robbing him of his business in Japan, and on the other hand, as a fanatical "patriot", he was deeply resentful of the Dutch occupation of Penghu and Taiwan.

However, the imperial court had its own plans.

Liu Yu said that the imperial court believed that when you fought the Thirty Years' War, trade shrank.

The Ming Empire had just completed the silver monetization reform, and the inflow of silver suddenly dropped sharply, leading to a silver crunch in the Ming Empire and eventually the economy collapsed.

And China is not a silver-producing country. Currency appeared long before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but it was not until the Ming Dynasty that silver became legal tender.

Therefore, Dashun hopes to maintain trade stability in the south.

Whether it is the Netherlands, the United Kingdom or Spain, Dashun does not want a conflict, because these are Dashun's "central banks" and control the amount of banknotes issued by Dashun.

Dashun is not paper money, it uses silver. Even though Dashun has swallowed nearly one-third of the world's silver over the years, the population and economic aggregate are so large that there is still not enough silver.

Dashun hopes to have a certain amount of inflation. Only in this way can the economy function. Once deflation occurs, everyone will hide silver in the cellar. Silver will become more and more valuable, and if a fool spends it now, he will definitely spend it in the future.

This reason is simply impeccable, and Fazaklei also thinks it makes sense, as if this is indeed the case.

Liu Yu even conveyed the imperial court's concerns about the war between Britain and Spain on his behalf, fearing that it would affect the trade volume between Dashun and Britain and Spain.

The reason is so clear that Fazaklei can also understand Dashun's worries and knows that Dashun cannot conflict with Holland.

The reason why he took the risk of conflict with the Netherlands to attack Japan, in Fazakle's opinion, was also because of the legend of Japan's "Treasure Island". Dashun did not want his "currency issuance" to be completely controlled by Westerners. Whether they were Protestants or Catholics, they could not trust it.

Even if it is credible, what if there is another major conflict similar to the Thirty Years War, resulting in a sharp decline in silver imports and deflation in Dashun? Therefore, we still need to get Japan, the origin of gold and silver, as a reassurance.

Since they took the risk and the Dutch continued to trade after the operation, Dashun would be even less likely to conflict with the Netherlands.

As the saying goes, officials always talk about people and ghosts. Dashun's diplomacy pursues this kind of policy, using different methods to deceive different people.

For example, Sweden wants to lie about the conflict between Dashun and Russia, lie to the Netherlands that Dashun wants to develop to the northwest and become the hegemon of Central Asia, and directly talks about economy, money, and monetary policy with the United Kingdom.

In short, they all make sense and deceive people.

The essence of lies is nine truths and one falsehood. Anyway, most of what Liu Yu told was the truth. It was similar to deceiving Tokugawa Yoshimune. He told the truth but hid his true purpose.

Fazaklei was convinced. Although he was heartbroken that such a good opportunity did not affect the trade between Holland and Dashun, he could only accept it.

Not long after returning to Guangdong, he heard about the Chinese uprising in Batavia, and he was gloating about the misfortune.

Now these rebels actually sent people to Macau, preparing to buy ordnance from the British East India Company, and they really gave them pillows when they were sleepy.

Fazaklei's ship was sailing slowly along the Pearl River Estuary towards Macau. The ships of Dashun Southern Squadron were patrolling on the sea. Looking at these fleets, Fazaklei felt a little depressed.

Of course he was eager to get Zhoushan, but after going to the capital and finding that it was impossible, he could only settle for the next best thing. He hoped to imitate the Portuguese and rent a piece of land near Guangdong for building warehouses and storing goods.

The chosen place is not far from Guangzhou, the Kowloon Peninsula and the islands below it, which are across the sea from Macau. The British have been active in Guangzhou for many years. Although they did not have the opportunity like the French, they drew all the domestic maps of Dashun in the name of helping Dashun draw maps. The British did not have such an opportunity, but they were not idle.

The British had already surveyed the vicinity of the Kowloon Peninsula. It is a natural harbor with excellent water depth. If Zhoushan cannot be obtained, this place is also the second choice.

Unfortunately, as early as when Dashun sent Russian prisoners of war from Junggar to Sweden, people from the Dashun Navy came here.

Now, this is the port of Dashun's southern fleet. It was also the base that the emperor said at the banquet that day to unite Portugal and the Netherlands to fight against South China Sea pirates.

And... If the British attacked Spanish warships and needed supplies, they could only dock under the artillery near the military port and pay Dashun to provide supplies.

Fazakle knew that there was a lot of construction going on there and artillery was being built.

He just felt that China's naval construction was indeed based on France, and its docks and artillery platforms were indeed first-class, and it was obvious that it attached great importance to coastal defense artillery platforms.

But what he didn't know was that Dashun, or Liu Yu, was clearly taking Fazakle's motherland as a lesson, fearing that the Dutch would repeat the "Shame of the Royal Navy in London", being blocked and burned clean by the Dutch in the naval port, stealing the flagship in the naval port, and bombarding London.

In contrast to the large-scale construction of the naval port across the sea, Macau was demolishing the city wall of Macau under the supervision of Dashun.

This city wall once blocked the invasion of Britain and the Netherlands during the Tianqi period, and also witnessed during the Chongzhen period that hundreds of Portuguese mercenaries tried to embark on the journey to serve the Ming Dynasty to eliminate the Eastern Tartars.

Even in those days, they used a "spirit" like a mantis arm trying to stop a chariot to try to keep Macau in front of the founding army of Dashun.

But now, it is to be demolished.

The reason for the demolition is simple. In order to keep Macau, Portugal claimed to be a distant people coming to serve. In this case, there is no need for any reason to demolish or not, only a word from the Dashun court, without too much explanation.

If it is not demolished, what is the point of submission?

As for the reason, Dashun did not give it at all, and directly issued an order.

However, demolition can save money. The county magistrate conveyed to the Governor of Macau - now renamed the President of the Portuguese Macau Chamber of Commerce in Dashun's official exchanges, and cannot be called the Governor - the resolution of the governor on the implementation of the court's request to demolish the Macau city wall, and ordered the people to take the demolished bricks and stones back to build houses and pig pens.

Of course, it didn't cost a few cents, and it was soon demolished.

There was no reaction from Macau.

First, this is the "sacrifice" to keep Macau.

Second, since Dashun has set up a naval base on the Kowloon Peninsula, Macau no longer needs to worry about the threat of pirates or threats such as the Dutch attack.

The Portuguese knew that they had stood on the wrong side at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and they were lucky to be able to keep Macau.

At the beginning, not to mention the city wall, even Macau was almost taken back by Dashun. Now it is a blessing to be able to keep Macau.

Some people say that a butterfly may set off a hurricane.

The situation of Macau after Dashun can be compared with this story.

At that time, Li Guo used the method of "Zheng Bo Ke Duan Yu Yan" to destroy the Southern Ming but not destroy it, forcing the Southern Ming to seek help from Japan and the Pope.

Dashun raised the banner of "protecting the world" and created its own ideological legitimacy, forcing the desperate Southern Ming to borrow troops from Japan and ask for the Crusades from the Catholic Church, laying the foundation for the establishment of the country after Dashun and disintegrating the legitimacy of the Southern Ming.

The Southern Ming was not without strongmen. Later, it was also seen that this was the method of "Zheng Bo Ke Duan Yu Yan", but what else could be done?

There was no way out, so desperately seeking help and dying horses as living horses were the only way.

After receiving the guarantee that all descendants of the Ming royal family would convert to Catholicism and that all of them were baptized except for the pseudo-emperor himself who was reluctant to give up because of monogamy and could not take concubines, the missionary Boym set off with a mission and a sense of responsibility as a lone loyal overseas.

Macau was on the wrong side at that time.

After Dashun proposed the slogan of "protecting the world", the then Governor of Macau asked the Chinese what these three words meant?

There are those who lose the country and those who lose the world.

This is not the future, and it will not be taken literally. The two words "world" naturally contain the Confucian tradition.

Based on these three words and the suppression of the Shimabara Catholic Uprising in Japan, Macau came to a conclusion: the Dashun regime is an extreme regime with both ethnic and religious attributes. If they were allowed to gain the world, they would probably be extremely opposed to the spread of Catholicism like the Tokugawa family.

This is not Macau looking for trouble, but there is indeed a precedent. Once the banner of protecting the world was raised, Japan strictly banned religion. It is hard to say that Dashun will not recover Macau and ban Catholicism in the future.

Moreover, Macau had previously sent troops to help the Southern Ming and fought against the Dashun.

The feud had already been established, and this very likely conclusion had been reached, so naturally they hoped to either side with the Eastern Tartars or the Southern Ming, and it was impossible for them to side with the Dashun.

Originally, Boymig's experience was an epic. Boymig didn't believe that Spain and Portugal would send troops. He hoped to go to Rome to find the Pope and organize a crusade against China to save his fellow believers. However, in history, he had just reached Goa when he got the news from Macau that the wife of Tong Yangjia, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty, was basically half a Catholic. The Qing Dynasty might allow the spread of Catholicism, so the news was decisively sent to Goa, and Boymig was arrested.

But he then escaped from prison and went to Saphiboa. Through the Jesuits in Saphiboa, he found the Governor of Venice and asked for troops.

The Venetian Consul thought that this was not the Fourth Crusade, and Beijing was not Constantinople, so he decisively refused.

When he returned to Rome, the Pope said, "Are you crazy? Do you think this is the Middle Ages? How can I have the ability to organize a crusade now?" Boymig also hoped to find the "Spear of God" Great Poland to send troops. I guess he wanted the Spear of God to pierce Eastern Russia and then destroy the Qing Dynasty? But he also failed.

Originally, Boyim was considered a "scholar" in history. After learning that the Qing Dynasty agreed to spread Catholicism, Boyim returned to China alone, which was also the standard of the Spring and Autumn period: being entrusted by others and being loyal to others.

At that time, Macau had already taken sides and did not allow him to go ashore. He found pirates to take a ship to Vietnam, hoping to return to China from Vietnam, hoping to tell Emperor Yongli in person that he had not done what he asked him to do. But he fell ill on the way and died near Zhennan Pass.

In this time and space, Macau combined the slogan of "protecting the world" with the trend of banning religion in Japan and came to the conclusion that Dashun was definitely anti-Catholic, so it always supported Boyim.