John Churchill is indeed much smarter than Krampus of the Dutch East India Company!

This probably also reflects the difference in the level of the ruling elites between England and the Netherlands. Of course, the Dutch have a very capable consul William III. Because the level is too high, there is really no way to compete with a group of people who fall into the eyes of money.

He got along with the philistine councilors who ruined the country, and later he simply jumped ship and went to England to become the king...

Churchill looked at Campos and said word for word: "Our so-called free trade...is essentially the use of force to coerce trade in exchange for cheap goods! Sometimes we even directly seize the production of those goods.

Land! For example, the spices from the East Indies and Ceylon, as well as the control of the Straits of Malacca, weren’t they all taken by force?”

The East Indies are also called the Spice Islands, and the main spice producing areas are concentrated on several small islands east of Java. These spice islands were world-famous spice producing areas before the arrival of the Dutch! Now, the East Indies are world-famous spice producing areas.

The Indian Company owned those islands and controlled almost all the plantations. The island of Ceylon was rich in spices and gems and was now also a cash cow for the Dutch East India Company.

In addition, the Dutch East India Company has recently seized many ports and cities in the southernmost part of India and is preparing to turn them into new Java Island and Malacca.

John Churchill said slowly and word by word: "If we cannot stop the Ming Dynasty from advancing south... then the spices from the West Indies and Ceylon, the control of the Strait of Malacca, and the Dutch East Indies

Everything the company gained by force in southern India will eventually be lost!

So we have to win, even if it means spending the last penny in our pocket!"

Campos said to himself: "You, England, must win, even if you spend the last penny of our Dutch population, right?"

Thinking of this, Campos frowned and said to John Churchill: "If we use the method of interrupting trade to deal with the Ming Dynasty, is it possible for the Ming Dynasty to directly attack Batavia and Malacca? After they capture Batavia and Malacca

After that, is it possible to directly march into Ceylon? Can our troops in Batavia, Malacca and India stop the Ming army that previously attacked the Philippines? If not, not only will our colonies in Southeast Asia be lost, but also your English

The colonies in India that people finally robbed will all be lost!"

John Churchill shrugged, "We in England are prepared to sacrifice everything to defeat the devil who wants to conquer the world... A few colonies in India are nothing!"

Those colonies were not the property of John Churchill, but belonged to the British East India Trading Company. And John Churchill was not a shareholder of the British East India Company, so he was very willing to use the British East India Trading Company for the benefit of the Kingdom of England.

property to risk.

Of course, in his opinion, if the Ming Dynasty breaks through the Strait of Malacca and enters the Indian Ocean before the British Army completes its "high sugar reform", then the British East India Trading Company's colonies in India will not be preserved.

So now we must do everything we can to hold off Ming, and at the same time weaken Ming's financial resources as much as possible... But these two things must be done in sequence. Someone must hold off Ming first, and then we can start the trade war and

Financial war. Otherwise, if Ming Dynasty loses in the trade war and financial war, it will surely overturn the table!

Otherwise, if the Ming Dynasty really made an effort to seize Batavia, Malacca and the spice islands east of Java, and then threatened Ceylon, the Netherlands might choose to compromise.

And the one who can serve as a human shield for the Kingdom of England and use his own sacrifice to hold back the progress of the Ming Dynasty... It seems that the only one is Annan!

Thinking of this, he glanced at an Annan man in the living room who was in his thirties, short and thin, with dark skin, high cheekbones, and slightly bulging eyes. He looked a bit ugly.

"Your Majesty!"

Charlie Gough was sitting next to this Annan man. When he saw the look in Baron Churchill's eyes, he immediately called this Annan man "Shiziye" in Chinese. It seemed that this man was really an extraordinary person.

The man named "Shiziye" is named Zheng, Zheng Jing's Zheng!

However, Zheng Jing is not his father. His father's name has only one root character and has nothing to do with the Yanping Palace. He is the Dingnan King of Annan Kingdom.

At this time, the Houli dynasty of Annan Kingdom had been completely eliminated, and the people who actually controlled the power of the Shenglong court were the Zheng family of Dingnan king, known as the "Zheng Lord".

In addition, there is also the Ruan family of the King of Guangnan who controls the southern part of the Annan Kingdom, and they are fighting against Lord Zheng, and are known as "Lord Ruan".

In addition to the two "lords" of "Nuan Ruan and Bei Zheng", there are two minor masters in Annan, one with the surname Wu and the other with the surname Mo. However, these two minor masters are not very good at fighting, and they all became "Bei Zheng"

His subordinates were defeated. Among them, Mo Dengyong, the entrepreneurial leader of the Mo family, once forced Emperor Li Gong to abdicate and proclaimed himself emperor. Later, the Mo family was attacked by the Ming Dynasty and had no choice but to surrender and seek a title. Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty followed suit and surrendered.

The Kingdom of Annan was the Commander-in-Chief of the Annan Capital, and Mo Dengyong was granted the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Annan Capital. Therefore, Annan legally became a vassal town within the Ming Dynasty.

However, Mo Dengyong still calls himself the emperor internally and acts as his ninth-five emperor behind closed doors!

But after the death of Mo Dengyong, the Mo Dynasty began to go downhill. The Zheng family captured Shenglong and their hometown Gaoping. Later, they relied on the protection of the Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, and Wu Zhou to survive. After Wu Zhou left Yunnan and Guizhou for Burma

After struggling, the head of the Mo family, Mo Jingyu, defected to the Ming Dynasty court again.

In addition, there is another "Martial Lord" in Annan Kingdom, who is also a minor lord. His ancestor was a general of the Later Li Dynasty, and he was given the title of Duke Kuan to guard Xuanguang for generations. More than ten years ago, Wu Gongjun, the head of the Xuanguang Wu family, took advantage of the opportunity.

When Lord Zheng Zheng Gen kidnapped the Emperor of Li Dynasty and conquered the Nguyen family in the south, he raised an army to rebel. However, he was defeated by Lord Zheng not long after he was free. Then, like Mo, he fled to China to find a big brother. In history, he found

However, this time he relied on the "free and loyal minister" Zu Zeqing.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty had two Annan leading parties, and the Ruan Lord, who was huddled in the south of Annan, was separated from the Ming Dynasty by the territory of the Zheng Lord, so he still had room to join the Ming Dynasty as a hawk.

Only the Zheng family is the most unlucky. Not only do they have to face the Great Ming Dynasty and the two leading parties, but there are people named Ruan behind them who can stab them at any time... What's even worse is that the Zheng family also has the Li Emperor Li Weiji in their hands. The Zheng family has been holding the emperor and ordering the princes for several generations. Now they can't just hand over or kill the emperor of the Li family because of the pressure exerted by the Ming court, right?

If the Zheng family really does this, their subordinates will know that they are completely cowarded! Who else will be willing to follow them?

When the time comes when the subordinates become disloyal, Nanruan, Mo, and Wu all send troops to attack Zheng, and Ming casually intervenes, the Zheng regime will be over! Gu Shu

Therefore, Zheng Li, who was sent to Guangzhou by Zheng Gen, the king of Dingnan in Annan, to contact the Ming court. After several contacts with the people of the Ming court, he had already guessed from the indifferent attitude of the Ming Dynasty that the Zheng family and Emperor Li were both members of the Ming Dynasty. This is unacceptable - this is actually a matter of course. The Zheng family occupies the largest and best land in the Annan Kingdom. If the Zheng family, Mo family, and Wu family are destroyed, they will all get enough rewards, and the Ming Dynasty can also arrange a vassal When the king takes over Thang Long and accepts Nan Ruan as a dog, everyone will be happy.

But if we accept the Zheng family, the Mo family, and the Wu family, how will we arrange it? What are the benefits of the Ming Dynasty?

Knowing that the Ming Dynasty was about to attack him, Zheng Li simply went to find the foreign devils who were about to break with the Ming Dynasty. Although he also knew that most of these foreign devils could not defeat the Ming Dynasty, and they might not necessarily help Annan to fight against the Ming Dynasty. .But we can still provide some external support to some extent!

Annan has defeated the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, and Ming Dynasty in history! If they want to find a country that can resist the Ming Dynasty and take advantage of it, Annan is the only one!

In addition, these foreign devils can also arrange for the Zheng family and Emperor Li to escape when Annan Kingdom is really unable to withstand it...

Thinking of this, Zheng Lu nodded towards John Churchill, and then said in a very blunt Chinese: "General Qiu, as long as England, the Netherlands, and France can give me enough artillery and muskets for Vietnam, We, the army and people of Vietnam, will definitely fight to the death... Although the Northern Dynasty is powerful, the Southern Kingdom of Mountains and Rivers, where the Emperor lives, our army and people of Dai Viet have repelled the powerful Northern Dynasties three times. If Zhu Hejie dares to come, he will definitely be defeated! "

Charlie Gough immediately translated Zheng Li's words into a language that John Churchill could understand: "Baron, Crown Prince Annan said that as long as we Westerners are willing to support him with artillery and muskets, he is willing to lead the Annan people to resist to the end... .even if every last drop of blood is shed!"

"Good! The Annamites are indeed glorious members of the civilized world!"

John Churchill smiled and nodded, and then said to Ji Dabao: "Nicholas, you and the Ming Emperor are old friends, right?"

Ji Dabao nodded and said with a smile: "We are not old friends either, we just exchange letters frequently."

Zhu Heji and Ji Dabao both disliked each other in their early years, so Zhu Heji never thought of recruiting this fake foreign devil. Ji Dabao, on the other hand, looked down upon Zhu Heji, thinking that he was just a bandit who could not achieve greatness. , a pirate, and also likes to pretend to be a ghost, but at first glance, he will not be a great weapon - who knew that Emperor Zhu's "magic" was not just pretending, but real!

Later, he went to Europe with Charles Gough, became acquainted with an Orientalist expert at the University of Cambridge, and collaborated with Newton on the issue of natural magic in the East, so he began to try to write to Zhu Heji for advice.

In fact, Zhu Heji didn't like him as a fake foreign devil, but he also needed someone to help him get some Western news and philosophy, including books on natural philosophy, both original and "chronic translations"!

So after receiving Ji Dabao's letter, Zhu Heji began to send him money to "purchase" books on his behalf. At the same time, he also sent him a lot of the essence of Eastern philosophy and political science knowledge, such as "Anti-Jing", "Anti-Jing" and "Anti-Jing".

"Ming Yidai Imitation", "Tao Fa Zi Zi" (Zhu Heji's masterpiece), etc., let him translate it into various foreign languages. This became the beginning of Ji Dabao's piracy business. Later, he also became famous for translating and publishing Chinese

The classics "Jin Ping Mei", "R Futon", and "Journey to the West" (all illustrated versions) made a fortune...

And Ji Dabao, who had prospered in Europe relying on his relationship with Zhu Heji, also knew that once the Europeans and the Ming Dynasty launched a "comprehensive competition", both sides would need a middleman who could talk to both sides.

, so he had to highlight his relationship with Zhu Heji.

"Nicholas, please send a message to the Ming Emperor in the name of the king's special envoy."

Sir John Churchill smiled and said: "Please tell the Ming Emperor that England and the Netherlands will compete with the Ming Dynasty in all aspects of trade... However, no one hopes that this competition will eventually turn into a war without a winner.

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"Okay, I understand." Ji Dabao smiled and nodded, "The purpose of King James and William's rule is to have a trade war with Ming Dynasty, right?"

Sir John Churchill nodded, "Yes, it is a trade war!"

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"Trade war? Hahahaha...James II and his good son-in-law William actually want to start a trade war with me! Lao Ji, didn't you tell him that I know the best about trade wars?"

In the Yuexiu Palace, Zheng Tian shamelessly said that he knew best about trade wars, and of course it was the Ming Emperor Zhu Heji.

However, his "knowing best" is indeed not bragging.

Because he personally experienced a trade war in his later life! Moreover, his high imitation business in his previous life did not suffer any losses in this trade war, but achieved good growth.

Moreover, Zhu Heji had already seen a variety of methods in that trade war, and the impact of those methods on Ming Dynasty was actually very limited.

"Your Majesty is wise, your Majesty knows so much... Your Majesty will definitely win the trade war this time and pocket the money of the Dutch and English people." Ji Dabao first complimented Emperor Zhu Da, and then said kindly.

Kindly reminded, "Holy Lord, England is now promoting a gold standard currency, just to make gold more valuable and silver more cheap.

At the same time, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, and the Papal States obtained a large territory in India. In addition, the land in northwest India captured by Qingyao Kangxi Khan was enough to supply cotton, sugar, porcelain, and silk.

We can barely produce. If we are really cruel, we may not use silk, cotton, sugar, and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty. By then, the silk, cotton, sugar, and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty will not be able to go out, and the money in the Ming Dynasty will probably be in short supply.

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"Hahaha..." Zhu Heji suddenly laughed, as if he had heard some joke. After laughing for a while, he stopped talking and said to Ji Dabao, "Professor Ji, go back and tell the English people.
Chapter completed!