Chapter 950 Situation changes

However, Xiong Xin’s worries are actually a bit overblown. The Haihan Executive Committee currently has no plans to attack Guangzhou. In recent years, Haihan has invested most of its energy and resources on Qiongzhou Island, and various large-scale infrastructure projects have been carried out one after another.

Constantly, if the base area is to be moved to the mainland, it will be very time-consuming and costly, and most of the existing investment will be ineffective due to the relocation of the governing body. Moreover, the mass base in the mainland is far less than that of the government that has been operating for several years.

After moving to Qiongzhou Island, many tasks, including the grassroots civil affairs management system, will have to be restarted from scratch. This is not a situation the executive committee wants to see.

Haihan's current main expansion method is to occupy large islands in coastal areas in a leapfrog manner. The relatively closed social environment of the islands can greatly reduce the difficulty of Haihan's local governance, and the close distance to the mainland allows for more convenient access to population.

and resources, and by the way sell the industrial and agricultural commodities produced by Haihan to the mainland market. Based on the islands rather than occupying mainland cities, this clear development idea basically eliminates the possibility of large-scale armed conflict between Haihan and Ming Dynasty.

, which also leaves more buffer space in the diplomatic relations between the two sides.

Of course, Yan Chujie and Schneider would not explain these highly strategic decisions in detail to representatives of the Ming Dynasty, and even if they did, they might not be able to understand Haihan's intentions.

"We have prepared a handwritten letter to Xiong, Mr. Xu. The letter contains detailed instructions. Please take the letter back with you. I believe the adults will feel at ease after reading it." Schneider did not want to waste too much.

He slobbered, took out the letter he had prepared, and finally sent these two official representatives of the Ming Dynasty away.

"I'm so tired. I'm going to take a vacation for myself after returning to Sanya this time." After seeing the two off, Schneider slumped down on his seat and complained feebly: "For such a big project, at least one or two

We have been negotiating slowly over the years, and the executive committee has to rush to finish the matter in a month or two, which is costing me my life!"

"There is nothing we can do about it." Yan Chujie consoled him: "If we want to hold the founding ceremony in early April, we can only hurry up and complete the trade alliance. Then we can sign formal agreements with various countries. Fortunately, this task

It's basically completed. You can rest peacefully for two days when you go back. I'm really suffering. I've been out for a few months and I still can't go back for a while. I have to wait until the base on Star Island is formed.

Only then can I let go.”

Yan Chujie left Sanya in September last year and led the fleet south for military exercises. Three or four months have passed in a blink of an eye, most of which was spent drifting at sea. Naturally, life is far less comfortable than staying in Sanya. Now Roger

In Sing Tao, Mu Xiabai is in Cam Ranh Port, and the two generals are one in the south and one in the north. He can only take charge of the empty Ambu Na Island. And almost all the large infrastructure projects in Sing Tao and Ambu Na Island have been completed.

It has to be done simultaneously in the next few months, and no one can be separated from either side, and Yan Chujie will inevitably be tied here for a long time.

But thinking that the founding of the country is imminent and the great cause they dreamed of will be achieved, even if they are a little bit tired and tired, they are gritting their teeth and preparing to survive this period. After all, the day when the Haihan Kingdom was established is when they, the founding fathers, will be remembered in history, so they should pay more now

It's worth it. What's more, even on this isolated island in the South China Sea, the standard of living they enjoy is far incomparable to other people. There are special standards for food, accommodation, and transportation, and they are all good things specially provided in-house. All they need to do is

Just give him one sentence.

After the framework agreement of the South China Sea Trade Alliance was signed, representatives from all parties began to leave Amborna Island and return home. There are still a lot of provisions and written materials on the implementation details of the Trade Alliance that they need to digest after returning, and there are many specific measures.

It will also take a long time to implement the operation. Some specific bilateral and multilateral cooperation agreements need to be submitted to their respective domestic superiors for approval, and they have to wait until I go to Sanya to watch the ceremony in early April before signing.

The news of the establishment of the South China Sea Trade Alliance began to spread to various countries half a month later, and businessmen from various countries also had mixed feelings. Countries with close trade relations with Haihan, such as Ming Dynasty, Annan, and Portugal, naturally welcomed this, because

The previously signed framework agreement includes many reciprocal contents among member countries. In the future, cross-border ordering, transportation, sales, settlement, warehousing and other trade links will enjoy more convenient conditions, which will undoubtedly greatly promote these

Significant growth in trade volume between countries.

But for alliance members like the East India Company, it is not yet easy to judge whether the effects of the trade alliance will be good or bad. Although the East India Company was reluctant to accept it, Haihan still forced the Netherlands to

The scope of activity of merchant ships and designated trading ports that Dutch merchants can enter in Northeast Asia are Sanya, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung Port, and Zhoushan Dinghai Port. However, they can also go to Ryukyu, Japan, North Korea and other places for trade.

, all of them were included in the restricted area by Haihan. Of course the Dutch knew that this was Haihan's intention to gradually monopolize the foreign trade transactions in these areas, but the existing maritime armed forces were far from Haihan's opponents, and they had no choice but to swallow their anger.

There are other ways to think of it.

Of course, the East India Company can also violate these contents that have not been written into the alliance framework agreement for the time being, and continue to quietly do what it wants to do, but the risks of doing so are also obvious - the Haihan people have made their attitude clear and will not do anything to the Netherlands again.

Instead of warning merchant ships about possible violations, they will deal with them directly once discovered, seizing all people and ships, while retaining the power to expel the Dutch from Tai Muang Port. Such a huge risk is relatively high compared to the dozen or so ships shipped back from Northeast Asia every year.

For twenty ships of cargo, the gain is indeed not worth the loss.

Of course, in addition to the disadvantage of being limited in the scope of commercial activities, the Dutch do not get any benefits. For example, they can get more of the silk, porcelain, tea and other oriental specialties they yearn to purchase from the Ming Dynasty through Haihan.

Large supply - but the purchase price will also rise by two to three percent because of this. After all, Haihan people are not doing public welfare for free, and monopoly operations must have corresponding benefits to be reasonable.

But it is better to have something to buy than not to be able to buy it. Because of the bad relationship with the Ming Dynasty officials, the Dutch used to entrust comprador merchants like Xu Xinsu and Zheng Zhilong to make purchases. However, Xu Xinsu later defected to Haihan, and Shibazhi was expelled.

Having to hide in Tibet, they could no longer trade with the mainland, and these high-value goods became increasingly difficult to buy. After the Haihan people settled in Penghu and Kaohsiung, those smugglers who would originally transport goods to Taiyuan Port

All of them ceased under Heihan's warning. If Heihan did not open this channel for the East India Company, sooner or later the Dutch smuggling trade would be completely blocked.

In addition, during the voyage from Batavia to the distant Ming Dynasty, there were several more supply ports under the control of Haihan, which also greatly reduced the burden that Dutch merchant ships endured during this journey.

Risk. In the Far East of this era, a supply port with complete resources and good operation like the one controlled by Haihan is simply a life-saving straw in critical moments for Western maritime merchants who are unfamiliar with the place. At the time, the East India Company

They did not hesitate to send armed forces to Amborna Island to fight against the Haihan people, not because there is so much wealth on this island that they cannot give up, but purely because of the role of this place as a supply port during the long voyage. And now the Haihan people are willing to provide several places to be used.

The Dutch merchant ships docked at the port for supplies, which really took no effort at all.

The conditions and requirements put forward by Haihan had pros and cons. The East India Company weighed them again and again, and finally had no choice but to accept them. For the time being, it wanted to preserve its trade share in Northeast Asia, and could not let the Portuguese take over everything. As for what would happen in the future.

No matter how we do it, we can only take it one step at a time.

However, among the many countries in the Far East, the ones who were most negatively affected by the establishment of the South China Sea Trade Alliance were not the Dutch, but the Spanish, who were excluded from the whole thing from beginning to end.

Since the Spanish Legaspi led his troops to invade the Philippines in April 1565, the colonists have maintained their rule in the Philippine Islands centered on Luzon Island for nearly seventy years. During this period, the colonial authorities in Manila

The main trading partner is the Ming Dynasty across the sea.

For two and a half centuries starting in 1565, the Spanish colonial authorities in America would send several large sailing ships to and from the port of Acapulco in Mexico and Manila every year, transporting millions of pesos of American silver to Manila every year.

, and about half of it flowed into China and was used to purchase raw silk, cotton, satin, porcelain and other commodities.

The booming commerce in the southeastern region of the Ming Dynasty in the 16th and 17th centuries was stimulated to a certain extent by the huge amount of silver capital injected into the market from Spain. This trade line across the Pacific brought huge profits to both sides during this period.

It is also one of the most important trade relations in the Far East.

However, this route, which was expected to gradually decline in the 19th century, began to decline nearly two hundred years earlier. This was because the Haihan people suddenly attacked two Spanish strongholds in the northern part of Taiwan Island in early 1633 and drove away the garrisoned ones.

The Spanish colonists in the area, and the trade relations with the Ming Dynasty were also greatly affected. Just a few months later, even the number of Ming Dynasty merchants going to Manila for transactions dropped sharply, which led to the departure from Manila Port in June.

The size of the fleet in America is directly halved.

Large sailing ships bound for America must set out in June to catch the "Kurotide" at 45° north latitude all the way east. Despite the help of natural ocean currents, this journey still exceeds tens of thousands of nautical miles and takes nearly six months.

It takes months to complete. And every year, the Spanish colonial areas in the Americas basically count on the goods shipped annually by the Manila fleet, so that the locally produced silver coins, silver ingots, cocoa, wool and other local products have the opportunity to be exported. And this

The decline in cargo carrying volume in 2018 will directly affect the other side of the ocean and even Europe in the long run. In the short run, the Governor of the Philippines and his subordinates will have to bear corresponding responsibilities for this. If the Spanish royal family is held accountable

Come down, these people all have to go back to Madrid to face trial.

The Spaniards were caught off guard and suffered a big loss. Gesman and Alcarazo, who were serving in Jilong and Danshui at the time, were imprisoned immediately after returning to Manila because the battle process they described was so ridiculous.

, how could the majestic Spanish army be defeated by a group of armed merchants in just a few days? You must know that even if the Dutch raised troops to attack the Taipei stronghold, they did not gain anything. The Spanish Governor in the Philippines believed that they had committed serious crimes.

You must take responsibility for your dereliction of duty and fear of war.

In addition, the Manila authorities were not prepared to just let the Haihan people occupy the stronghold they worked hard to occupy in vain, and were also preparing to launch a counterattack on the local area. However, out of caution, they still collected some information through various means.

Haihan's intelligence in order to be able to strike more targeted at this group of ignorant maritime merchants. But after all the information was gathered together, the Spaniards suddenly discovered what the imprisoned Tamsui Chief and Chicken Coop Chief had said.

It may not be entirely fabricated to shirk responsibility, but a situation that has actually happened.

The main purpose of the Spanish coming to the Far East was trade and colonization. The main competitors who also came with these two purposes were undoubtedly the Portuguese and the Dutch. Although Portugal was still one of the Spanish vassal states at this time,

First, the Portuguese and the Spaniards have always been distinct overseas, each doing its own thing, and the competitive relationship is very obvious. The Netherlands was Spain's deathbed on the European battlefield at this time, and the number of people on both sides who died in the war in the past few years was probably more than that of the Spanish.

There were several times more colonists in the Far East, and whenever they met, it was a fight to the death.

However, both opponents were defeated by the Haihan people one after another, and it is said that the Portuguese simply surrendered to Haihan and became one of his accomplices. The Manila authorities highly suspected that the Portuguese were among Haihan's attacks on the Taipei stronghold.

It played a disgraceful role, because according to the subsequent descriptions of two local officials, the artillery unit of the Haihan Army was extremely powerful and was definitely not at the level that the Far East Army should have. Even if it was placed on the European battlefield, it should be considered superior.

.The only explanation that seems more reasonable is that the Portuguese sent troops to participate in the war in Taipei and assisted Haihan in breaking through the local Spanish stronghold.

As for the Dutch, they didn't seem to be doing much better. It is said that the Dutch were blocked by the Haihan fleet at the local stronghold of Damuan Port, and their agent Zheng Zhilong in the Ming Dynasty was even expelled to an overseas island for refuge.

If the Haihan people had not been merciful out of some considerations, the Dutch East India Company's local stronghold would have probably changed hands.
Chapter completed!