Volume 15 Chapter 22 The Great Powers Seek Peace
What is it good to take from the Persian Empire? Zhu Cijiong really tried his best to deal with this question, because the Persian Empire is not a small country that is weak and can be bullied, if you really count the overall strength, it is even stronger than the Ottoman Empire!
Of course, Zhu Cijiong will not abandon the alliance between the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire for this reason, it is very simple, he can influence the foreign strategy of the Ottoman Empire through Su Yiman, and the Persian Empire, no matter how he is, can not affect the decision-making of Abbas II.
Now that the Persian Empire is sent to the door to be slaughtered, there is no doubt that it can get benefits, but this scale must be grasped.
Let the family cut the land? That's sick, and if you ask someone to cut the land, doesn't this force people to go to war with you!
Do you want the family to pay compensation? That's also sick, and I haven't paid any compensation for the fight, which is purely nothing to do!
You can't let people cut the land, and you can't let people pay compensation, so how can you get benefits?
This is actually an example, the history of the great powers bullying the Manchu Qing Dynasty told Zhu Cijiong that there is another way to obtain greater benefits, that is, to ask them to open a commercial port, the more they open, the more they earn, you can ask for a maximum of one or two million taels in compensation, but if you open a commercial port, it is only a matter of time before you earn hundreds of millions of taels.
Zhu Cijiong's performance when he met with the Persian envoys was wonderful, he pretended to be very embarrassed, as if he didn't want to break the contract to attack the Persian Empire with the Ottoman Empire, and he seemed to be hesitating to start a war with the Persian Empire, which scared the envoys of the Persian Empire into a cold sweat.
Therefore, when he proposed to open all the ports along the Persian Gulf coast to the Ming Dynasty, the envoys of the Persian Empire agreed without hesitation.
This is actually nothing to the envoys of the Persian Empire, the Persian Empire during this period was not a closed country, they actually had trade contacts with all countries in Europe, just opened a few treaty ports, and gave the Ming Empire a little privilege, which was not a big deal.
You know, when he came, Abbas II confessed that in exchange for the peace of the Ming Empire, the Persian Empire could even consider withdrawing troops from the Kandahar region, which was a disguised cession of tens of thousands of square kilometers of land!
In the end, the two sides signed a cooperation agreement in a friendly atmosphere, which probably means that the merchants of the Ming Dynasty can freely buy land in the ports along the Persian Gulf coast, open shops, and do business freely, it seems that the Persian Empire did not suffer any losses, but with the convenience of the treaty port, the cheap and high-quality goods of the Ming Dynasty quickly occupied the market of the entire Persian ditch, and at that time, it was not a matter of tens of millions of taels.
In fact, the Persian market has always been monopolized by the Netherlands and the British, and the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company both have branches in Persia, but the Netherlands and Britain can't play anymore, and a Nordic iron chain is like a rope around their necks, making them almost breathless.
Therefore, even if the Ming annihilated the combined fleet of the anti-Habsburg coalition and occupied Batavia, they would not be able to react at all.
Why? Quite simply, because the Strait of Dover was choked off.
It can be said that the Strait of Dover was the choke point of the anti-Habsburg alliance, and it was not only a passage connecting the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Britain and France, but also a passage connecting Northern Europe and the colonies of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Originally, it only took a few days from the Netherlands to the west coast of France and England, but now it is okay, the Strait of Dover is not passable, and if you want to go to the west coast of France and England, you have to go around at least three or four thousand miles, and the northern seas of Britain are not so easy to walk, at least half a year is wind and rain, and there are three months of wind and snow, so it can be said that the weather there is like a nervous disease, and it is simply unpredictable under the conditions at that time!
In this case, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Sweden, and Denmark had to organize a combined fleet to attack the Strait of Dover, but the Spanish Armada plus the fortresses and turrets of Dunkirk, Dover, and Calais were simply invincible, and unless they organized more than three times as many warships, they would not want to penetrate the Strait of Dover.
What is the concept of triple, that is, more than 300 super battleships and more than 3,000 warships of various types, if it is in the case of the smooth passage of Dover, the Netherlands may be able to accumulate so many warships in a few years, but now that the Strait of Dover is cut off, many materials cannot be transported, and it is impossible to accumulate such a huge fleet at all.
So, after several trials, the anti-Habsburg coalition finally conceded and they had to send emissaries to Spain for peace!
For the request for peace, Philip IV laughed off his front teeth by mistake, he should have asked for peace from others, but now that he has sued for peace with him, he naturally can't ask for it, but, thinking of the alliance agreement of the Three Kingdoms, thinking of the assistance of the Ming Dynasty and Portugal, he finally has a little conscience, and did not make his own claims, unilaterally negotiated peace with the powers, but notified Portugal and the Ming Empire.
Zhu Cijiong was also overjoyed about the peace of the great powers, the peace talks are good, Batavia still holds 100,000 prisoners, and it's all money!
However, this time he did not go to the European continent in person, because the Ming Dynasty was in a critical period of development, he really couldn't leave, and in the end, he simply asked Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan, to go to the European peace talks on his behalf, and there was only one requirement for him, that is, to blackmail money, to blackmail money, and to blackmail as much as he could!
After receiving Zhu Cijiong's will, Zheng Zhilong immediately rushed to Europe with the Nanyang Naval Division, the current Nanyang Naval Division is incredible, all the same, two hundred super battleships, and the one hundred super battleships produced by Dongda Construction Shipyard in the first half of the year were all allocated to the Nanyang Naval Division, and the Ming Dynasty finally had a fleet of pure battleships.
Of course, the Beiyang Naval Division is also coming soon, and hundreds of super battleships captured from the combined fleets of the great powers are stepping up to transform into ships, and soon after, the Beiyang Naval Division will also become a fleet of pure battleships.
The arrival of two hundred super battleships almost made the anti-Habsburg coalition lose the desire to bargain, they just wanted to quickly unblock the blockade of the Strait of Dover, develop quickly, and get this field back as soon as possible.