Chapter 924: Selling Ships to Our Enemies?
Zheng Zhi actually knew that the ships in the little prince's hands were old goods that Hong Tiancang had bought, but he couldn't buy these old goods.
He can buy ships from the Dutch, the British, but those ships can't fight the Spaniards at all, the Tessians sometimes kill you to death, but sometimes they are unusually united, and they have imposed a certain blockade and embargo on him, and they want to ask the Dutch, the British buy warships and warships that can defeat the Spaniards, wake up and say, they want benefits, but they will not do anything to harm their own interests.
He has been planning for a long time, he must take down the Spaniards, although the alliance initiated by Zheng Jing this time looks very favorable, and if they don't unite these small forces, they will be destroyed by the Huaxia Kingdom, but he still tends to unite the Han people or the people in this sea area, the performance of the Dutch last time made him lose his appetite, the British are playing soy sauce, and they fled after a few hits, but the Spaniards did their part, more than a hundred warships and warships were mostly lost, and it took a long time to recover, but now everyone is standing on a piece of land, he represents the interests of the Nanyang Han people, so he can't walk with the Spaniards, maybe these Taisi people will sell him when they sit together.
So he still didn't trust the Spaniards very much, and thought of a way to toss the Spaniards, thinking of driving the Spaniards out of Luzon as soon as possible so that he could unify his kingdom.
At present, he only has eighty-nine warships, 1,000 tons and 800 tons, in fact, he thinks that 600 tons can also be called warships, or these can be collectively called warships.
But now everyone is using warships to transport goods on the one hand, and both at the same time, so it is reluctant to call a battleship, and it is not good to call it a warship, which is unprofessional.
He planned to wait for Hong Wenyi to come back, and then Wen Hong Wenyi bought some and filled up a hundred warships, so that when he faced the Spaniards, a large army would be dispatched to properly crush them, and he was ready to launch an attack on the Spaniards in the near future to completely destroy the Spaniards' sea power.
Zheng Zhi planned like this, after Hong Wenyi sent the remaining warships and warships, merchant ships, and let them return to New Zealand first, he turned around and took an armed merchant ship to escort two merchant ships and went to the Ryukyu Kingdom to find the Hongtian cannon again.
Back and forth, he delayed for more than half a month, and because Hong Tiancang was familiar with the way, it didn't take half a month for him to buy out all the warships and warships of the First Fleet, and the rest of the First Fleet was stationed on the island of Japan, the Ryukyu Kingdom, and all the remaining warships and warships in Jinling Prefecture, and there were all the outdated merchant ships and armed merchant ships that had been retired from the coast guard carried by the Huaxia Kingdom, as well as warships and warships, a total of more than 800 ships.
It cost him more than 30 million taels of silver, which was originally more than 30 million Huaxia yuan, but he proposed to ask for some new warships and warships, so the Huaxia Kingdom allocated the remaining warships and warships of his First Fleet, and suddenly turned the First Fleet of the Huaxia Kingdom into a fleet without old warships and warships.
The previous time he emptied the ships of the Yangtze River Naval Division's garrison, and the Yangtze River Naval Division's garrison was replaced by a newly built old inland river patrol boat, plus a new type of warship frigate, and this time he searched the first fleet.
30 million silver, 50 million Huaxia Yuan, he gritted his teeth and bought it, this time most of his efforts for half a year were in vain, and there was only a surplus of more than 20 million Huaxia Yuan, although it was still a surplus, he was still distressed.
If it weren't for the fact that there was a buy-one-get-one-free thing, he wouldn't have bought those old-fashioned old merchant ships.
After Hong Wenyi arrived, he heard that he was going to purchase again, saying that the family's silver had arrived, so he hurriedly met him, a good man, he was still thinking about how to pass on the cost, and Hong Wenyi came to the door again.
After some bargaining, in order to sell those old ships, he shouted vigorously, and also bought one and gave one free, but of course his buy one and get one free was not the same as that of the Huaxia Army to him, but only those who were the latest and spent a lot of money to give an old merchant ship, so that he sold the new merchant ships given by the Huaxia Army for money.
Hong Wenyi didn't discuss much with him, and bought his twenty warships, twenty warships, and at the same time bought all the merchant ships that were his, and ordered four hundred merchant ships, one hundred warships, and fifty warships from him.
Hong Wenyi held more than 10 million taels of silver given by Zheng Zhi in his hand, and half of it could be said that it was purchased for Zheng Zhi.
This time he bought a total of 600 merchant ships, 200 300-ton warships, 20 600-ton warships, and 20 800-ton warships, the reason why he only needed 800-ton warships was because he found that the 800-ton warships seemed to be relatively new, and the speed was so fast that it could reach two knots, and it could reach six knots, which could greatly improve the effectiveness of the operation.
They fought with Zheng Jing, not with the Huaxia army, let alone with the Spaniards.
Not to mention that Hong Tianpao made money is refreshing, and not to say where Hong Wenyi returned to Zheng Zhi, he earned Zheng Zhi another 10 million taels of silver, sold more than half of the merchant ships and warships to Zheng Zhi, and then used the extra money to buy a lot of goods in the Nanyang Kingdom that they urgently needed and returned to New Zealand with a huge fleet, let's just say that Zhang Qiang's side, the Huaxia Kingdom purchased ships twice through Hong Wenyi, which caused Hong Tiancang to buy warships and merchant ships twice, warships, and bought the First Fleet and the ships of the Yangtze River Navy Division Garrison short, Empty all the obsolete ships of the Coast Guard from the East China Sea to the Yellow Sea.
How could such a change not be noticed by the Military Intelligence Department and the Military Intelligence Department of the Huaxia Kingdom, Zhang Qiang and the others hurriedly convened people to discuss.
In Zhang Qiang's study, Jin Qi, Mi Lin, Huang Tao, Feng Quan, and Ruan Jin, the director of the water division, all gathered together and discussed.
"Let's take a look, Hong Tianpao has been rich recently, and has sent us 80 million taels of silver in a row, nearly 100 million Chinese dollars, the Ministry of Military Intelligence has noticed this situation, according to the investigation of intelligence officers, it is found that these friends of ours in Southeast Asian waters seem to be very restless, Xinlu and the Kingdom of Australia are fighting happily, Zheng Zhi's Nanyang Kingdom and the Spaniards are accumulating strength and preparing to fight.
The funny thing is that Zheng Jing has organized an anti-Chinese alliance, this alliance is still in contact, and has not yet been formally established, if they are all rested, we may be in the waters of Southeast Asia, and the South China Sea will be busy again.
As soon as the Manchus were driven out of the pass, and we were about to recuperate for a while, the enemy began to move again, and it seemed that if the enemy was not destroyed for a day, the enemy would not stop for a day. ”
Mi Lin touched the teacup, he hadn't come back for five years, he came back this year to report on his work, and he left the center of the court in five years, he was a little strange, but seeing Zhang Qiang's kind and smiling face, he still wanted to try whether he was still in the emperor's heart, and said with a smile: "Then you are still desperately selling ships to these enemies, aren't you afraid that they will become stronger, and we will not be easy to deal with?" ”
Jin Qimo held two fingers and didn't raise his eyes, "Your Majesty means, take advantage of this gap, let the enemy fight to the death first, the second prince was arranged by His Majesty, he hurt Zheng Jing first, at least dragged it down, and then provoked the Spaniards and Zheng Zhi to go to war, then this alliance will be an alliance full of contradictions, even if it is united, it will be easy to deal with at that time, just like window paper, it will rot if you stab it." ”
(End of chapter)