The Malay Peninsula with a tropical rainforest climate is often called the Dragon's Tooth Peninsula in ancient Chinese books, and the ancient name of the Dragon's Tooth is now revived here - as the news of the Spanish Armada's defeat at the hands of England spread to the Indian Peninsula in South Asia, the Portuguese Governor of Goa no longer hesitated
, fully accept the Malacca City handover agreement proposed by Huang Zhiting.
At the same time, under the auspices of Huang Zhiting, the two sides signed the "Trade Cooperation Agreement between Siam, Annam, Cambodia, Nanjang, Bago, Luzon and the Kingdom of Portugal", referred to as the "Seven-Country Agreement".
The Agreement stipulates that the contracting parties are each other's most-favored nation in trade, and tariffs and customs duties will be maintained between 5% and 15% in accordance with the detailed agreement, with the highest tax rate of 15% being limited to luxury goods tariffs.
Considering that the "Group of Six" is actually just making white gloves for Jinghua, silk and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty still account for a considerable share of Jinghua's goods.
Both types of products are classified as luxury goods, so Portugal theoretically benefits more. Therefore, the two parties also agreed that the Kingdom of Portugal would open its strongholds in India to allow Jinghua ships to use them, and all rights during use would be in accordance with the Kingdom of Portugal's
Calculation of domestic ships.
The Kingdom of Portugal successfully obtained a commitment from the "Group of Six" to allow it to preach freely, and its so-called "protection rights" of Catholicism were recognized by the "Group of Six" under Gao Pragmatic's instructions because the Pope had no actual influence in the East.
What was exchanged for these two items was Portugal's statement that it "understands and abides by the Navigation System of the Aralia Strait" and reiterated its stance of "respecting the Ming Empire's suzerainty and inviolable sovereignty over Southeast Asian countries and regions". It also added these two sentences.
The words were written into the Seven-Nation Agreement.
Then Huang Zhiting personally led the army to Malacca City, and on that day announced on behalf of her husband Gao Pragmatic: Malacca City was renamed Aralia City, the peninsula where it is located was officially named Aralia Peninsula, and the strait adjacent to it was officially named Aralia Strait.
The entire Aralia Peninsula was taken over by the Kingdom of Siam in terms of ownership, but an edict from King Maha Tamaraja of Siam had been brought with the army. In the edict, it was announced that the Kingdom of Siam would set up the entire Aralia Peninsula as an "escrow territory"
, is fully managed by the Jinghua Group, and all political, military and other matters are determined by Jinghua itself.
Immediately afterwards, Huang Zhiting announced Gao Pragmatic's appointment certificate: Gao Ruichu was appointed as the first patrol envoy of the Dragon Ya trusteeship, and Musali was appointed as the first guarding envoy of the Dragon Ya trusteeship. Johor and other sultanates that existed on the original Aralia Peninsula,
Suluoge and other city-states were either puppet states of Portugal or buffer states. At this moment, as Beijing's army moved south, they were all naturally withdrawn and declared dead.
Due to their high pragmatism, Huang Zhiting and his wife successfully used a three-pronged combination of economic temptation, political coercion, and military threats. Jinghua Group completed a feat of taking over approximately 240,000 square kilometers of territory without any bloodshed!
Dragon's tooth, dragon's tooth, dragon's tooth!
To the south of this tooth is the later Indonesian Islands, and to the west is the Indian Peninsula.
However, Gao Pragmatic always does not fight unprepared wars. Although the small countries in Nanyang should not be difficult to conquer militarily, if they start directly without saying anything, the cost of future governance may be very high and not cost-effective. In addition,
He had been warned by the emperor recently, and the two of them had checked each other out. For the time being, it was best not to make too big a military move in southern Xinjiang, so as not to irritate the emperor.
As for India, we should not be anxious. Although the Mughals conquered northern India as a "nomadic remnant", it is now the early days of the founding of the country, and the upward trend is obvious, but the nomads...after that short period of the founding of the country
, as we all know, that’s all.
So there is no rush on this matter. We might as well wait until they have exhausted all their momentum. Of course, Jinghua does not mean to just ignore PepsiCo. If it is really indifferent, what is Jinghua doing asking Portugal to gain the right to station itself in Hong Kong?
Let's take our time. First send people to start doing business in the Indian peninsula. At the same time, we can find out the situation of various Indian countries (especially the many small countries in the south), whether political, military, economic, geographical, customs and history. In short, we should first spread out the intelligence network, and then
About the rest.
In short, for the time being, Gao Pragmatic's main target is still Nanyang, because in his eyes, the basic base of Southern Xinjiang in the future will almost be the Southern Xinjiang and Nanyang regions of later generations.
According to the "Overview of Resources in the Southern Xinjiang and Nanyang Regions" that Liu Xin, as the Secretary-General of the Jinghua Secretariat, recently took the time to write to Gao Pragmatic, this basic plan is still very important.
The South Xinjiang and Nanyang areas are located at the intersection of the Eurasian plate moving southeast and east, the Indian-Australian plate moving northeast and the Philippine plate moving northwest and west. From the Proterozoic to the present, it has experienced the formation of continental cores, plate activities, and intraplate activities.
It has multiple evolutionary stages such as movement, intracontinental convergence, etc. It is one of the areas with the strongest plate activity in the world.
Due to the complex geological structure and strong magmatic activity, the Nanyang area in southern Xinjiang has superior mineralization conditions and rich mineral resources. It is one of the most important resource treasures in the world. Its dominant minerals are copper, lead, zinc, gold, iron, tin, and chromium.
, nickel, bauxite and potassium salts, among which mineral resources such as copper, chromium, nickel, bauxite and potassium salts were in short supply in later generations of the Red Dynasty. In other words, they were highly complementary to the Ming Dynasty.
Later ASEAN had a territory of about 4.5 million square kilometers, but Gao Pragmatic did not intend to separate Papua New Guinea and other places separately, so the area of the Southern Xinjiang and Nanyang regions in his mind would be expanded further, already exceeding 5 million square kilometers.
In addition to resources and area, this area is also at the crossroads of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and its location advantage is also very important. For Gao Pragmatic, this advantage is not only conducive to trade, but also helps the Ming Dynasty, or China in a broad sense, to shield the West
The negative impact of colonialism.
Leaving aside the fact that Nanyang has not been obtained yet, looking at the southern Xinjiang that now encompasses the entire southeastern peninsula, Gao pragmatically believes that the early implementation of integration can already be started.
There is no doubt that political integration still needs to be done slowly since the so-called "Dingnan Protectorate" has not been truly established, but economic integration can go first.
However, thanks to Liu Xin, Gao Jingshi did not need to do it from scratch this time. Liu Xin took the lead in the early planning and came up with a draft, and Gao Jingshi only needed to be responsible for the final revisions and decisions.
The two military secretaries of the Secretariat, Erdemutu and Ruan Fuyuan, compiled a draft in advance and handed it over to Secretary-General Liu Xin for review. Liu Xin then contacted Huang Zhiting, and finally Gao Pragmatic
Decide.
Basically speaking, the Yongya Garrison will definitely be newly established, and the land division will definitely be based on the original Siam Independent Garrison Division. The main debate at present is the establishment of the Yongya Garrison, that is, what is the need for it.
several towns.
As for the naval issue, it is more complicated, especially since the original Malacca City has been acquired, and given its key geographical location, does the Nanyang Fleet need to set its home port at Aralia City?
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