"Free trade is a common interest of the whole world! It is the consensus of the whole world! It is a universal value, and whoever dares to violate it is the enemy of the world! ”

This was the slogan that Marquis Van Basten first put forward at the meeting, and it instantly became the consensus of everyone present. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Originally! Everyone's business is doing well, and the ship of Nanzhong and the ship of the Dutch are transporting everyone's goods, and they are making a fortune together without any trouble.

Even if you are a Habsburg house with gunpowder next to the swords, guns and armor purchased by French merchants, on the ship, the buyers on both sides will still live in harmony and be able to communicate with each other. You can even borrow goods from each other, so that you can go back to pay for it.

Not only that, but the procurement officers of the Spanish Imperial Army could also drink tea and eat meat with the nobles of the Ottoman Empire, and even enjoy slave girls from North Africa.

Under this system and system, the two sides of the war in full swing in Europe, the Protestant princes of Israel and Denmark, Sweden, and France (France believed in Roman Catholicism, that is, the Catholic religion familiar in the country, but sided with the Protestant countries in order to dominate Europe), as well as the Netherlands, England, and Russia who supported them; The Holy Roman Emperors of the Habsburgs, who agreed to the Catholic religion of Rome, the Catholic princes of Germany and the other side of Spain, as well as the Holy See and Poland who supported them, could all make a common fortune and reach a tacit agreement to keep the war going.

If it is better for those who believe in God to communicate with each other, then those who believe in God and Allah can also recruit mercenaries from the Japanese kingdom together and let them fight for their own interests on their own battlefields. What is even more surprising is that, as long as the price is right, the believers of God do not mind selling the Japanese mercenaries they have to the Ottoman envoys and let them use these dwarfs to slaughter the same God-believing peoples in the mountains of Albania.

"Everything we have now! It's all from the whole trade system that the Duke has built! From this stable order and security! If the traitors of England have introduced such a system that is the enemy of the whole world, then we might as well make them the enemy of the whole world! ”

Now, these descendants of the Albion pirates are actually going to smash the pot where we eat, drink and eat meat, is this worth it? It's really raw and cooked!

Under the leadership of Basten, the princes of Tianzhu, the Arab chieftains, the sultans, the Ottoman nobles, the counts of Spain, the envoys of the King of Portugal, and the representatives of France all spoke at the meeting with righteous indignation, criticizing the perverse behavior of the rebels in England.

The subtext is, "You all have monopolized your own country's trade, who will eat these people who specialize in international trade?" Where are we going to earn so many big coins?! ”

Li Shouhan was condescending, using the shadow of the lights to hide the sneer on his face, looking at these people performing in front of him. "Sure enough, the shamelessness of capital has been a virtue throughout the ages!"

"Let's make trouble! The bigger the fuss, the better! "At the first table on Li Shouhan's right, it was Li Peilin. As the former treasurer of Long's prevalent predecessor, he naturally has this honor. In his opinion, today's Nanyue Army has long mastered the right to speak on the trade system on this earth.

"We can do what we want to buy, and we have to reduce the price of what we want. What you want to sell, and the price of what you want is up to us! The currency of payment is minted by us, the ships that transport these goods are ours, and the ports of call are ours! Li Peilin's words also happened to be the voices of the officials of the Nanyue Army's commerce, trade, finance and taxation system at the scene.

In the textile industry, for example, the war in Tianzhu is still fierce, and the scimitar in the hands of the son of Timur the lame wolf slashed at the neck of the Sultan of Tianzhu, who also believed in Allah. The lord of the princely kingdom, who believed in Lord Shiva, opened fire on the soldiers of the Mughal Empire with a fire gun in his hand. However, in the midst of this continuous war, the land was changed from wheat to cotton. Without orders from the landlords, the humble peasants took the initiative to change to cotton. Because, in the eyes of the noble warriors of the upper castes, these peasants who belonged to talking cattle had just as many brain cells in their brains. They knew very well that no matter which force hit their homes, they would protect the cotton fields. These white long-staple cotton are not only crops that can be exchanged for food and rent to the old man, but also a patron saint that can protect the safety of the whole family.

Moreover, after many years of operation, silently, the Nanyue Army has occupied thousands of miles of land in Tianzhu, on the endless plains, and when it comes to the cotton harvest season, it is a white expanse, as if it is on the snowy glaciers in the north. These lands were either ceded by the sultan and the princes to offset the payment for arms, or the defeated princes used the seals in their hands to stamp cinnabar on the title deeds before they stepped down and fled, adding a little security to their public life in Nanzhong, in exchange for a little pension and settling-in allowance.

Cotton, in the South Asian subcontinent, has become a talisman and umbrella for the princes of the sultans and the low-class untouchables. A large number of high-quality long-staple quilts were transported to the seashore and shipped away. In exchange, it was a boatload of rice and a shipload of swords, guns and gunpowder.

The same harvest was seen in Egypt under the Ottoman Empire, on the fertile Nile Delta,

Under the vigorous promotion of Kopluluan, the Egyptian region, which has always been known as the country of cotton, has become a plantation of long-staple cotton. Although not as spectacular as the Indian subcontinent, the chiefs who lived in the land known as "Misr" were threatened and lured by Lord Kopluru to turn their farmland into patches of cotton. Out of the finest staple cotton becomes a sword of iron and steel, into fine armor, into fine firearms. However, they did not know that this cotton, in the hands of Master Koplulu, could be turned into a terrifying and brutal army.

The cost of recruiting mercenaries from the Japanese kingdom was also paid for by Lord Koplulu.

Boatloads of long-staple cotton entered the Mediterranean Sea along the Nile River, then transferred to the Red Sea by horse-drawn carts, transferred to the Indian Ocean, and connected to the large ships of the Nanyue Army through the Sinai Peninsula, in exchange for thousands of wolf-like Japanese mercenaries, which became the long knives and sharp blades in the hands of the Kopluru family.

This method of using industrial scissors helped the Nanyue army to control most of the cotton-producing areas of the known agricultural world, and put an end to the way for others to make a fortune through the development of the textile industry. "Go the way of others, so that others have no way out."

Like schools of fish, they shuttle back and forth in Africa and India, laden with fine cotton and transported to various ports in the south and central China, and use these snow-white plant fibers to fill the bloody mouths of thousands of fruit textile machines that seem to grow a bottomless appetite.

It is the consensus of civilized society that even those black people in black Africa should wear two brightly colored cotton cloths around their waists to cover their shame. These ships carrying cotton to various parts of the south and central parts of the country naturally returned with cotton cloth of various colors in their cabins. From white natural cloth, to dyed cloth of various colors, and flower cloths of various colors, there are all kinds of flowers, piled up in the cabin.

If it was not for the need for safety and fire prevention, these merchants would transport gunpowder weapons and cloth and silk together to save space as much as possible.

Like cotton, silk and other textiles, gunpowder, firearms, knives, guns, and armor are also the bulk of the exports of various factories in Nanzhong.

The carbonization of corn straw replaced willow charcoal, and the large amount of sulfur brought from the Wa Kingdom was even more readily available under the Tokugawa shogunate, and the high-quality nitrate produced by nitrification fields and other facilities reduced the cost of gunpowder production in Nanchu to an outrageous level. Even if you add the profit and sell it to the buyers of the European turtles, they add the freight and their own conscience profits, and ship them back to Europe, which is much more cost-effective than the ones they make themselves. Moreover, the quality is absolutely good!

Relying on the export of raw materials for cotton, the import of textiles such as cotton cloth and silk, and the purchase of all kinds of arms and materials, these merchants relied on these large trades, as well as the trade of tea, spices, porcelain, medicines and other commodities, one by one to live like princes. Some people have even begun to lend money to the kings of various countries, or through marriages, debts, etc., to obtain fiefs and titles.

Now, these English pirates are actually trying to destroy the already well-run trade system, isn't it a matter of not going with our big guys? Absolutely intolerable!

As a result, the hall was full of scolding and swearing, and various languages were intertwined.

"Cancel all trade with the barbarians of England!"

"Support Charles I in exterminating the traitors!"

"Ask His Royal Highness the Duke to grant a privateer permit, so that we can all intercept all ships flying the flag of England at sea! Just like the shameless things they did in the Caribbean and beyond! ”

At this time, the flag of the Kingdom of England was still the flag established on April 12, 1606, which was formed by the cross and merger of the St. George Cross flag of England and the St. Andrew's flag of Scotland. St. Patrick's red "X" cross flag on white ground, Ireland, was originally the flag of the Fitznod family in Ireland; In 1801, when Ireland and Great Britain united to form the Kingdom, this flag overlapped with the flag of Great Britain, and finally formed the curiously composed "rice flag" of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Li Peilin and several officers of the naval division followed the prestige, and sure enough, the person who made this suggestion was the trade representative of the Spanish Empire in South China. It is thought that the pirates of the Spanish Empire who were raised by England countless times, and those "sea knights" who held privateer licenses issued by the Queen of England robbed gold and silver goods from the Americas, and because of the participation of these pirates, they lost a huge armada. With such an opportunity, of course, we must make good use of it, and it can be regarded as giving back to the other in the other way.

Everyone was noisy for a while, and they also felt that this approach had no results, so they gradually suppressed their voices and turned their eyes to Li Shouhan, who was sitting on a high seat. The so-called family has a thousand families, and one person is in charge. Everyone has a thousand ideas, and His Royal Highness the Duke and his old man don't speak, so it's in vain.

"Your Highness!" In the hall that gradually fell silent, someone suddenly spoke, which seemed very abrupt. Everyone looked intently, but saw a young man wearing a crown of three-grade robes. In terms of facial features, it is no different from the officials and generals of the Southern Yue Army, and unlike the envoys of the Japanese State, the style of the bun on his head is very different from that of the Central Plains. He also pulled up his hair in a bun and pinned it with a golden hairpin. If it is a stranger, it must be thought that this person is an official under Li Shouhan, the Duke of Liang, and some people will even speculate from this person's age and appearance that he may be a son of the Duke of Liang.

However, everyone knows that this is the son of the lord of the Ryukyus country, and he is known as Shang Gongzi. He was a role that existed as the plenipotentiary envoy of the Ryukyus in the Southern Cantonese Army.

"Up and down the Ryukyus, the monarchs and the common people, all regard China as the state of their parents, and regard His Royal Highness as a reborn parent. As long as His Highness has instructions, the Ryukyus will definitely look at the horse. Although the country is small and poor, even a drop of water, a grain of rice and a vegetable will not be given to the English! ”

Oh, my God! Is this the rhythm of a blockade of the English and a ban on entering the port of the Ryukyus to replenish the anchorage?!

"The same is true of the contempt! As long as the lord gives an order, the soldiers and civilians above and below will definitely let the English ship not enter a single port, and not a drop of water or vegetables will be supplied!" The one who spoke had a completely different appearance from Shang Gongzi. Although he is also dressed in robes and clothes, he dresses up in the Central Plains style. However, his dark skin, flat and wide nose, and thick lips all silently indicate his identity.

This person is an official of a place in Tianzhu that was attached last year.

The name of this place is Mysore, and Li Shouhan set up an official post of governor of military affairs here, and deployed more than 10,000 marine and land troops to station here.

Of course, it is also to maintain local law and order, and to ensure the territorial and sovereign integrity of the Vijayanagar Kingdom here, and not to be bullied and invaded by the surrounding Muslim regimes.

This Vijayanagar Kingdom is a bit awkward to say, but if his other name is mentioned, friends who are familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty and Zheng He's Western history will suddenly understand. In ancient Chinese historical materials, he is known as the Guli Kingdom. Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, went to the West, and Zheng He arrived in Guli twice in the third and fifth years of Yongle, and when he went to the West for the last time in the Xuande period, Zheng He died of illness in Guli at the age of 62.

"Its country goes to China for more than 100,000 miles, the people and things are salty, the bustle is the same wind, the stone is carved in the place, and it will be shown forever." This is the monument erected by Zheng He in Guli, but unfortunately it was buried by the British Maozi as a roadbed in the 18th century. Otherwise, according to their legal standard principle of "whoever discovers first owns the property rights", this stone tablet is ironclad proof that this large piece of land facing the Indian Ocean has been a sacred and inalienable part of China's territory since ancient times! Just like the inscription of Yongning Temple!

In the third, fifth, and seventh years of Yongle, King Guli (Vijayanagal) sent envoys to China three times to pay tribute, contributing precious stones, gold belts, coral beads, pepper, wood incense, etc.; The gold belt is a treasure belt made by the king to order craftsmen to use 50 taels of gold to draw filaments into pieces and inlay them with multi-colored gems and pearls.

In addition to these, sandalwood, cotton, pepper, cane sugar, and gold are the rich products of the ancient country. In particular, cotton, pepper, cane sugar and other things, after the Nanyue army set their sights on India, they coveted their existence. The gold mines here are second to none in India. There are many varieties of crops, such as rice and wheat, among which coffee production is the largest among all states. The cotton here is within the scope of India's major cotton producing regions.

In the process of supporting Portugal's restoration @ army and striving for national independence, the Portuguese, in addition to selling all the Spanish colonies in the Americas to Li Shouhan, sold all the lands they owned such as Goa, Guli, and Mysore to Liang Guogong.

Ma Huan of the Ming Dynasty of China described the life of coastal fishermen as miserable in Yingya Shenglan. The caste system was very strict, and the sati system prevailed. The development of the late Vishnu sect of Krishna in South India was associated with the promotion of the Vijayanagar monarchs. The Kingdom of Vijayanagal united several important local linguistic areas of South India politically for more than two centuries, making it a golden age in South Indian history. It was the last bastion of Hinduism against the expansion of Islamic political and religious-cultural forces into South India. The Kingdom of Vijayanagar is a major maritime trading power in the Indian Ocean, with close trade relations with Southeast Asia, China, and the countries bordering the Mediterranean. The bulk export commodities include Indian muslin, fine yarn, printed and dyed textiles, indigo, pepper, and cane sugar, and the main imports are gold, war horses, and Chinese silk. The flourishing of Portuguese maritime trade relied heavily on trade relations with Vijayanaghar.

However, the puppet is not guilty. It is because of the wealth of this land and the importance of its geographical location that it has become the target of countless people. (Generals of the Nanyue Army: Damn, who are you insinuating there?) We're not that kind of people! Invasion and plunder are the work of the Red-haired people and the sons of Timur, the lame wolf who believed in Allah! ）

The Kingdom of Vijayanagar is a Hindu state in southern India, which has been besieged by a large number of surrounding Muslim countries since the 16th century. Raya was captured, the city of Vijayanagar was sacked, Hindus were slaughtered, and the glorious cultural and artistic center was reduced to rubble. Since then, the governors of Nayak provinces in Tanjor, Madurai, Mysore and other places have become independent, and the kingdom has collapsed.

That is, when the war in the eastern Liaodong direction was raging, and Inspector Hong staged a great drama in Shenyang, the Nanyue army wanted to ensure that its cotton producing areas would not be harassed by the Mughal Empire, lest this important source of raw materials be controlled by this group of people who believed in Allah and forgot whose ancestors were really under their control. He sent troops to fight a big battle with the Mughal imperial army. Mysore and other places were saved from being annexed by the Mughal Empire.

As a result, the governors and princes of Mysore and other places wept and came to Hue and other places to ask for a meeting, "We were originally vassals of the Celestial Empire, and today we finally see the banner of the state of our parents!" ”

As a result, Mysore became the seat of the Governor of Guri.