"Isn't this nonsense!" Shi Qinjie stood up suddenly and said loudly. He was so anxious to get up that he even accidentally knocked over the teacup in front of him, and the warm tea spilled on his pants, but he didn't realize it.

"The sincerity of the Ottomans was so sufficient, how could they be vetoed just because of a little Spanish neuropathy?" Shi Qinjie said anxiously, "The Ottomans promised to provide us with 4,000-5,000 women of working age at a preferential price every year, two, which will solve our big problems." Isn't it clear how many singles executive committees and princes are there in China today? It's just pushed out all at once, where are we going to find so many women to balance the gender ratio? Poland? It's only three or five hundred a year! Livonia region? There are still more men than women! At present, apart from asking the Muscat merchants who can buy some Persian and Baloch female slaves in extremely unstable quantities a year, only the Ottoman Empire can supply them in large quantities, right? Ladies and gentlemen, this is our core interest! Helping Ming immigrants solve practical difficulties is definitely the best way to win the hearts and minds of the people, how can it be vetoed like this? This is a fucking thief! ”

"You're yelling in front of me!" Jin Cola rolled his eyes at Shi Qinjie and said, "After going out to sit in the town for a few years, how can you learn the same virtue as those Qiu Ba now?" is full of national thieves and national thieves, but can you tell me which of the 11 members of the Executive Committee is a national thief? ”

Shi Qinjie was stunned, didn't say anything more, and then reluctantly sat back in the chair under Zheng Bin's pull.

In fact, there is a reason why Shi Qinjie is so anxious now. Once the Eastern Coast Republic reached a comprehensive cooperation agreement with the Ottoman Empire, it was naturally the domestic headquarters that would benefit the most. But the new Chinese colony will also have a God-given opportunity to accelerate its development. For example, if the railway is not mentioned after the agreement with the Ottomans, the construction of the road from Istanbul to Edirne will require a lot of building materials - mainly cement, sand and lime. At that time, no matter from what point of view, it was logical to expand the original cement kilns, lime kilns and other facilities in the New China Colony on the spot.

It is also said that the construction of port facilities, mainly Suez, Smyrna, Alexandria, Thessaloniki, Kaffa and other ports of the Red Sea, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, also requires a large amount of cement, lime, sand, wood and bricks. The profits in this are amazing, and Shi Qinjie feels that if he can't seize this opportunity, the development of New China may have to be delayed for many years.

As for these materials exported to the Ottoman Empire, the New China region can also be supplied nearby. After all, it won't take long to reach the Ottoman Red Sea port of Suez from Xinhua Port to the north. If the production base for various building materials supplying Ottoman is placed in Xinhua Port. Then the cost will be reduced to a very low cost. This was also of considerable benefit to the industrial development of the new Chinese colonies. Input in personnel, equipment, ships and other aspects will follow, and Xinhua Port will develop and grow rapidly in the process.

As the pioneer and founder of the New China Colony, Shi Qinjie's feelings for the New China Colony are beyond doubt. He was already displeased when the French and Dutch built bases on the southeast and west coasts of the island of New China (Madagascar), and he regarded the fourth largest island in the world as his own child and heart. No one else will be allowed to touch it. The same. He will never allow others to suppress the island's development space and deprive it of its development opportunities.

"Been out there for so many years. It's a little bit of a growth. Jin Cora smiled and held the teacup, looked at Shi Qinjie and said, "In addition to darkening the skin, the temper is also good. When you were in the Ministry of Agriculture, you were an honest guy. Hehe, it seems that the environment changes people, and it really makes sense. You're in such a hurry, Ottoman things are sooner or later. The terms they offered were so generous that there was no reason why the Executive Committee would not agree. It's just that the current shape is a bit chaotic, and the executive committee wants to wait and see. As you know, there are many enemies in our country nowadays, and the relationship between the Netherlands, Spain, England, France, and Venice is not very good, or even bad, so many things have to be cautious. ”

It is said that the East Coast Republic of China has been negotiating with the Dutch one after another for more than two years, and although there has been little progress, some consensus has finally been reached, which has eased the tension between the two sides. At least in the waters of New Huaxia Island, the Dutch also canceled hostilities against the people on the east coast in this area after seeing that the East and Portugal had formed a combined fleet to patrol regularly. Just kidding, the Dutch East India Company only had a total of 56 large ships, most of which were merchant ships with few weapons, and most of them were still busy making money at sea, while the combined fleet of the East Coast and the Portuguese already had seven or eight large ships, among which there were a considerable number of professional warships, and they were afraid that they would suffer losses in a fight, and it was not cost-effective economically.

Now the Dutch East India Company was concentrating on conquering the island of Ceylon and digesting the city of Malacca and some of the islands of the East Indies, which had not been occupied for long. As for fighting, they had this impulse, because both the Hezhong Port of the people on the east coast and the Xinhua Port of Xinhuaxia Island posed a serious threat to the Dutch shipping routes. But they were businessmen, and businessmen were always sensible, and they were always very strict about unnecessary war expenditures, not to mention that the Dutch East India Company was not so financially well-off at the moment. The islands of Ceylon, the kingdom of Mataran and the Sultan of Johor cost the East India Company a great deal of money, and the company's shareholders have been cautious about going to war with the East Coasters in order not to turn their annual cash dividends into spice dividends.

The entire East India Company may have been strongly hostile to the East Coasters by Governor Van Diemen alone. The man had been puzzled as to why the Easterners had appeared in the lands of the Parliament and the Companies in the north (the islands of Capture and Defu), so he sent the Tasman on two expeditions to the south, eventually discovering the mystery. It turned out that they crossed the strait between New Netherland (Australia) and Van Diemendi (Tasmania), and then took a detour and crossed the equator to the north. Although Governor Van Dimen had no direct evidence, and he did not find any strongholds or ports of the East coast on the coast of New Holland in the south, his intuition told him that this was the case, and that there was nothing wrong with that!

To this end, he specially strengthened the Dutch fleet in the Formosa (Taiwan Island) area last year, and instructed them to lead the fleet north if the time was right, and then check the situation near the Capitol. It's a pity that the public opinion of the entire company does not support him to fight, and some of his subordinates are also very hesitant to start a full-scale war with the people on the east coast, after all, if the main fleet of the other party is not fished out at the beginning of the war, but his spice ship is sunk on the sea, this loss will be great.

All in all, after the East Coasters had given up their coveting of the Strait of Malacca and the Banda Sea, the Dutch had eased their attitude considerably, and they had agreed to continue negotiations with the East Coasters at Fort Good Hope and Fort River, in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings between the two sides.

After temporarily stabilizing the Dutch, the current diplomatic efforts of the East Coasters were mainly focused on comprehensive and in-depth cooperation with the Ottoman Empire, as well as on textile disputes with the French. Especially in the French textile market, the sales of calico cloth on the east coast are declining step by step, and the shape is worrying. The French government didn't even bother to communicate with the East Coast government in this regard, and it was clear that they were not taking the East Coasters into account. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is still trying to make a final effort, and if it doesn't work, maybe the East Coasters will have to take other measures, such as a trade war. As for deepening cooperation with the Ottoman Empire, this would inevitably provoke a direct backlash from the Venetians, as well as offend the Habsburgs (Spain, Austria), who regarded themselves as the guardians of the Catholic world, and there would be a lot of trouble.

To sum up, in fact, the current East Coast people are not having a good time. The decline in the sales of foreign trade goods, the reduction of government revenues, the purchase of a large amount of materials, the repayment of debts of more than 700,000 yuan in principal and interest, the construction of new ships and settlements, and the war in the Far East are still not very optimistic. Now that the Spaniards have come to their door to inquire about the cross-border reclamation and religious persecution of the East Coasters, it is easy to understand that the Executive Committee has become less emboldened. After all, no one wants war to break out, and what the country needs most now is time for development, and the most precious thing is a relaxed environment for development. Leaving aside whether the Spaniards would start a new war with the Spaniards before another war was over, or whether the Spanish government, which was already in fact financially bankrupt, had the money to fight the war, judging from the grim external environment that the Republic of the East Coast was currently facing, it was clear that one contradiction could be alleviated, and the contradiction with the Spaniards was obviously what needed to be eased at present.

The sale of battleships to the Ottoman Empire, a strategic weapon, would have greatly irritated the fragile and sensitive nerves of the Austrian Habsburgs, and Austria's trousers-wearing Spain would inevitably have a strong reaction. When the time comes, seeing that the people on the east coast are in a wolf situation, maybe the Dutch will tear off their current hypocrisy and pounce on the people on the east coast, which is unacceptable to the people on the east coast.

"The cooperation with the Ottoman has been put on hold for the time being, but that does not mean that it will not be continued. On the contrary, the Executive Committee was very interested in this, and was already already discussing the details of cooperation with the Ottomans. It's just that the current time period is more sensitive, and there is another Spaniard, and the policy needs to be fine-tuned, so everyone in the executive committee thinks that it would be better to wait a little longer. Jincola put down the porcelain cup and said the real consideration of the executive committee. (To be continued......)