"What? Merchants of the British East India Company and the Qing Kingdom of the North...... Didn't you say that the Qing Kingdom was poor? How could the English possibly ......"

Caballero was a little skeptical of Fan. Dimon's words.

The civil war in England is not over yet! Both the parliament and the royal party were so busy killing each other that they simply had no extra energy to interfere in the internal affairs of a great Eastern empire. Therefore, the actions of the British East India Company in the Far East should be, and can only be, the pursuit of short-term interests.

And to pursue short-term interests, it is natural to deal with Daming.

The Ming Dynasty not only had silver, but also large trade items such as silk and porcelain. And the Qing state in the north...... How much silver do they have? And what can be sold to Europe?

With nothing, how could the people of the British East India Company have a close relationship with the Qing court? Aren't you afraid of offending the Ming court?

Also, the rivalry of the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company...... If they have secret dealings with the Qing State, they will definitely have to hide it from Fan. Dimen, otherwise he would have gone to expose it to the Ming Dynasty.

Fan. Diemen also knows that the Manila justices are not so easy to fool - how can they be justices if they are so easy to deceive? How to try a case?

But profiteers Fan. Diemen is not at all afraid of being seen through by the Manila justices...... What can you do if you see through it? The Spaniards will still pick up Bruce's class - Bruce. Fan. Dimon recently had a new place to go, and the new governor of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia felt that it was unprofitable to maintain secret contacts with the Qing Kingdom. Fan. Dimon and his team sent Daming as a military adviser!

So Fan. Diemen is now looking for a receiver for the situation he has opened up in the Qing Kingdom, and the Spaniard, who doesn't care much about profits, is obviously a very suitable receiver.

And the contradictions between them and Daming are irreconcilable...... So I can only bite the bullet and pick up the plate!

Fan. Dimon did not and did not bother to explain why the English wanted to be friendly with the Great Qing Dynasty, but directly talked about the Great Qing Dynasty's plates.

"The Qing had a population of 10 million and a standing army of about 200,000 men, and their cavalry was very strong, and they also had a small number of 3-pounder guns...... All were high-quality guns produced in England, and the gunners were well trained. In the Mongol War of 1648, a prince of the Qing kingdom commanded an army of 50,000 and defeated the Khalkha Mongol alliance at a very small cost. And it caused extremely heavy casualties to the Mongols, and now the whole of Mongolia is bowing at the feet of the Qing State! ”

Fan. Dimon is talking about the battle between the Qing army under the command of Duoduo and the Khalkha-Mongol alliance in support of the Sunits, and as in history, Duoduo won a great victory! And the victory was all the more brilliant, for there were thirty or forty 3-pounder bronze cannons in Dodor's army.

In the battle of Oakt Mountain, more than 30 3-pounder guns concentrated on the vicinity and opened fire, causing heavy casualties and chaos in the formation of the Mongol coalition army. Duoduo took the opportunity to send cavalry to attack, and easily defeated the Mongols, killing the Mongol coalition army for dozens of miles.

At this time, the Khalkha Mongol tribes knew the power of the Qing Dynasty, and cried to the emperor Amadorgon to ask for mercy.

However, Dolgon, who had defeated the Mongols, did not regain his ambition to go south, but instead shifted his efforts to the Jingqili River valley and the Yaksa region, where the Daur tribe reported to Ningguta that they had discovered the presence of Rakshasa bandits!

With the help of the "English Military Advisors", Dorgon already knew that this Rakshasa country was a vast Western power, and he could no longer afford to ignore it.

And now that the Qing Dynasty is hopeless to go south, if the hometown in the northeast is taken away by the Rakshasa country, won't there even be a place to run away?

So he didn't dare to take it lightly now, and was considering whether to fight the Rakshasas...... And this is exactly the opportunity for the "English" to withdraw and the Spaniards to enter the market to take over!

......

Dolgon's eyes turned to the north, and when he wanted to protect the retreat of the children of the Ten Banners (including the two green flags), the Ming side was busy going south to eat - the territory of the Jin Ou Army and the Jing Navy was not small, although it was not too fat, but it was also an extremely humid plain, and it was developed, and it was not a problem to transport tens of millions of stone of rice home every year.

Based on the yield of three stones per mu, tens of millions of stones are only three or four million mu.

On the territory of the Jing Navy alone, there are no less than 1.5 million acres of cultivated land (which originally belonged to Zhanren) that has been abandoned!

It is much easier to re-cultivate than to open up new farmland...... Therefore, in the eyes of Yao Daqiao and Ye Jiaxin, who really know how to farm, Jing Haijun is a treasure land to make a fortune!

Outside the Shanghai Shiliupu Wharf.

At this time, it was a noisy and chaotic scene, and the dock was crowded with people, some waiting in line to get on the boat, and some were here to see off their loved ones.

Preparing to go to sea are three bird boats with a load of five or six thousand stones, belonging to a Huizhou gang boat company - now there are six maritime groups in the southeast sea of the Ming Dynasty, the largest is of course the Minnan Gang headed by the Zheng family, followed by the Haisha Gang headed by Shen Tingyang's Shen family, these two groups of maritime merchants are half-official and half-civilian, very powerful, but they cannot monopolize maritime trade. In addition to them, there are also four maritime gangs, including the Huizhou Gang, the Ningbo Gang, the Guangfu Gang, and the Hakka Gang.

The reason why they want to form a gang is to keep warm.

There is no royal law on the sea, and even if there is an order in the North and South Seas established by Zheng Zhilong and Shen Tingyang, it cannot guarantee 100% safety.

Moreover, the current Daming maritime merchants are running farther and farther, and have done business outside China's coastal waters. There, the influence of the Zheng and Shen families was not so great. Therefore, the other maritime merchants formed four major gangs according to their respective origins.

The big profiteers from Hubei, Yao Daqiao, who lost only half a street in the feudal debt turmoil, had business dealings with several big Hui merchants, so he chose this medium-sized bird boat belonging to the Hui gang under their recommendation.

"Boss Yao, don't worry, my boat can't be safer, no matter how big the waves are, it can't be overturned, and there are 6 3-pounder guns on the ship, or 3 bird boats go together, not afraid of pirates' ......"

It is said that he is a member of the Wufeng boat owner Wang Zhi, who was rampant along the coast of China and Japan, and is more than Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, and has been running the sea for fifteen years, and he looks like an African.

Yao Daqiao is also a bit wealthy, so he has a deck to transport not only people, but also goods and livestock.

He was an old profiteer, and he knew that he should investigate before placing a heavy bet - he was too anxious to investigate the debts of the feudal clan last time, so he lost only half a street.

But this time he learned his lesson, and instead of killing Jin Oujun at the first time, he sent Ye Jiaxin to go first - it's not cheap to go for a trip, and the boat fare alone is hundreds of taels! If you don't have the capital, you borrowed a loan shark to buy a ticket and get on the ship, and went to the Jinou Army and the Jing Navy to be a coolie......

And Ye Jiaxin did not run in vain this trip, and found out the situation of the Jinou Army and the Jing Navy. Knowing that the Jin Ou army can't go, you have to go to the Jing Navy - the Jin Ou army is a boundless forest, and it is not easy to develop, unless you want to cut down trees and sell wood.

On the Jing Navy side, there are large areas of abandoned paddy fields, and those who know how to do it know that it is not difficult to restore the farmland that has not been abandoned for a long time.

In addition, it was difficult for the Jing Navy to sell livestock and farm tools - the agriculture of the Cham and Annam people was not very advanced, there was a lack of high-quality farm tools, and the number of buffalo was small. If you really have hundreds or thousands of acres of land, you can't grow it at all without cattle and good farm tools.

So Yao Daqiao took out his wallet and bought 30 buffaloes (both male and female) and a large number of "Shen Gang" farm tools (not Shenyang Iron and Steel, but Shenjia Iron and Steel), and transported them to Jing Navy together.

In addition to buffalo and farm tools, Yao Daqiao also bought some sweet potatoes and taro to take on the road - farming is risky, so you can't just plant one variety, you have to have a variety of varieties to ensure that you don't colonize and starve.