Almost five minutes later, the shocking firing of the Tianwu Army was over.

After a long time, the governor of Shikoku was still in a daze, and his ears were still ringing.

Captain Weddell, the representative of England, only felt that his heart was beating violently and had not recovered well, although he knew that this was Da Ming trying to scare them foreigners, but this movement was too exaggerated!

Weddell pretended to be calm and calm, and asked Wang Fuzhi: "What's going on, why is your country firing guns and cannons on the seaside?" ”

Wang Fuzhi replied: "Mr. Weddell, please don't worry, this is the etiquette for my Ming Dynasty to greet the envoys from afar. ”

"I see......"

Da Ming's good partner, Mr. Weddell, who sold the blueprints of the battleship to Da Ming, didn't say anything more.

The Portuguese governor in Macao, Shrobao, was not fooled, he lived in the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, and had many contacts with officials in Guangdong, and knew a lot about the Ming Dynasty, knowing that the Ming Dynasty did not have such a welcome etiquette.

He knew very well that this should be a deliberate demonstration by the crown prince, a show of force, hoping to achieve some benefits at the negotiating table.

Looking at Mr. Sabi, the Governor of Manila, his face was already pale, and he and the interpreter's entourage around him glanced at each other, and his voice couldn't help but change his tone a little.

Although they have not seen with their own eyes the combat capability of the Chinese army, they have so many artillery and muskets, and the military appearance is so neat, from all aspects, the combat effectiveness will never be worse there.

Antony, the governor of Batavia, smiled bitterly and said to Paul, the governor of Taiwan who was also the Dutch East India Company: "I take back what I just said, even if all the troops of our East India Company in Asia are transferred, it is useless, this Chinese army is indeed very strong, no wonder Zheng Zhilong is defeated by them." ”

Paul nodded and said, "Your Excellency the Governor, you are right, this Chinese army is the most powerful army I have ever seen, and perhaps no European country can compete with them. ”

Anthony's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "You have been in the army for a long time, do you know their navy, is it as powerful as the army?" ”

Paul smiled slightly and said, "You don't have to worry, if his navy is as strong as his army, will he invite you to negotiate?" I'm afraid that we will directly drive the fleet to the big crew and launch an attack directly on our company's castle. ”

Anthony finally breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the Ming army is not without weaknesses, and the company also has the capital to bargain with them.

Anthony asked, "Paul, what do you think the Chinese crown prince is hoping to gain from us by putting on such a big formation?" ”

Paul laughs: "It's nothing more than the company's control over the big guys, and the right to trade with Manila." ”

The two exchanged a look, and both smiled knowingly.

Anthony smiled at the corner of his mouth and said, "Alright, we should take a good look at this particular port." ”

Shanghai County is located in Songjiang Mansion in the south of Zhili, since the Yuan Dynasty has been set up county, the county is set in Shanghai Town (South City), the county government is located in Shanghai Town Laichang (now called Sixteen Pu), and then moved to Qujiawan.

It has been more than half a year since Zhu Cihong opened Shanghai as a commercial port, and the construction of the port has been completed and trade has begun.

Zhu Cihong is full of confidence in the port of Shanghai, which is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, with a wide port, deep water, sheltered from the wind, and is located in the economic hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, which is prosperous in commerce, and has a broad market, which is most suitable for carrying out maritime trade.

Representatives of the four countries have been trading all over the world for many years, and after walking around the port and the newly renovated city of Shanghai, they also realized the superiority of this port.

For the first time, the old thoughts of the European colonists flashed in the minds of several governors, rob!

However, looking at the Tianwu Army camp not far away, as well as the Ming Navy warships not far from the port, he had to forcibly press this thought.

Although the naval strength of the Ming army was slightly inferior, judging from the thirty or forty warships docked on the shore, it was not far behind.

The Netherlands only had twelve warships in Dongfan, and the maximum displacement was only 1,200 tons, unless the fleet was transferred from Batavia, it would be difficult to defeat the Ming navy at sea, even if it was a defeat with the Zheng family's naval division.

On the other hand, the two sides did not have to use force, and now the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty had opened several commercial ports for overseas trade, and had the same goals as the Dutch.

If you can't fight it, you can talk about cooperation, and the Dutch are more flexible than other people in this regard.

The Dutch East India Company, a commercial company established by the Netherlands with state functions, colonial plundering to the East and monopolizing Oriental trade, was the first multinational company in the world and the first company to issue shares.

The Dutch East Indies had only seventeen real powers, known as the Board of Seventeen, but the Dutch government also held shares, and the company had the right to support the war effort, sign treaties with foreign countries, mint currency, establish colonies, etc., with an average of 25,000 employees and 12,000 sailors per overseas base.

In 1619, the year of the Battle of Salhu between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin, the Dutch East India Company established its Asian regional headquarters in Batavia (Jakarta, Indonesia), establishing a trade system for Asian countries and extending its trade footprint to Japan, Korea, China and other places.

Four years ago, Japan closed off the country, the Portuguese were driven out by Japan, and the Dutch East India Company monopolized trade with Japan.

Two years earlier, the Dutch East India Company had seized Galle in Sri Lanka and driven out the Portuguese, thus breaking the Portuguese monopoly on the cinnamon trade.

Last year, the Dutch East India Company again drove out the Portuguese and occupied the Strait of Malacca.

The Dutch were not the only ones in the East India Company, Britain and Denmark, and later Sweden, formed their own East India Companies.

The British East India Company was the first to be founded, two years before the Dutch East India Company, and King Elizabeth I granted the company a royal warrant, giving it the privilege of trading in India.

While the British East India Company established itself in India, British merchants often engaged in armed conflicts with Dutch and Portuguese competitors in the Indian Ocean, eventually defeating the Portuguese in India, receiving the blue eye of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, and establishing base camps in Surat and Chennai.

At present, among several East India companies, the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company are the most powerful, Denmark is only following the British to drink soup, Sweden has not yet been established, and Portugal will always be beaten.

The Dutch and British East India Companies were both worldwide organizations with a similar scope of activity, operating between East and West, and also established in the primitive stage of capitalist accumulation.

However, the fundamental nature of the two was different: the Dutch East India Company was mainly engaged in commercial activities, while the British East India Company was mainly engaged in plundering and colonization.

As the world's first joint-stock company, the Dutch East India Company has a strong capital power with the government as the largest shareholder and raising funds from all the people.

The British East India Company was a privileged organization of the British king, and was a joint-stock company established after the British king granted the London Merchants' Association the right to monopolize Indian trade, which was the embodiment of the strong British royal power;

The Dutch East India Company had its main base in the South Sea Islands, and the Governor General was located in Batavia, monopolizing the main production base of spices, the Moluccas, and its main sphere of influence was in the South Seas.

The British East India Company was established in Calcutta, India, and its main sphere of influence was in India, but now Britain was in turmoil, and a bourgeois revolution broke out.

Just last month, the Scottish Parliament presented a "Great Protest" to King Charles I, and the Stuart king was about to go to war with Parliament, and the head of the old Charles was about to be cut off by the Lord Cromwell.

Zhu Cihong's initial plan for the establishment of the Royal Group was to develop it into a large multinational group like the East India Company, not only to squeeze out foreign devils in Asia, but also to monopolize in Europe.

Now that the Royal Group has temporarily taken over the Zheng family's maritime trade fleet, it can be regarded as expanding the scope of business to maritime trade.

Although the Royal Group has swallowed the industries of the eight major Jin merchants and many wealthy merchants in Jiangnan, has a market value of hundreds of millions of taels of silver, has ships, and has formed a special armed force, its current strength is far inferior to that of the Dutch East India Company.

According to the peak of the famous bubble, the Dutch tulip bubble, the market capitalization of the Dutch East India Company is converted into today's US dollars at the peak of the Dutch tulip bubble.

In today's stock market, that's a combination of 20 of the world's top companies, more than the $5.22 trillion GDP of Japan, the world's third-largest economy.