Volume 15 Chapter 36 A New Alliance
On the fourth day, the talks on the expansion of the alliance finally began, but the mentality of the representatives of the diplomatic missions of various countries was very different from that when they first arrived in Daming.
When they first arrived in Daming, almost all of them thought that their country was equal to Daming, on the same level, and that they should take equality and mutual benefit as the principle when talking, and try to fight for more rights and interests for their country.
However, after three days of study, they finally understood that the Ming Empire was far ahead of them in terms of military, economy, technology, and even culture, and the concepts put forward by the Ming Empire were extremely forward-looking, and several decisions of the Ming Empire were greatly beneficial to them, of course, the premise was that they must accept the dominance of the Ming Empire!
Do you accept it or not? This is not a land reparation, loss of power and humiliation of the country, and these concepts and decisions are of great help to their country's development, why not accept it!
Therefore, the talks went extremely smoothly, and there were almost no objections to the terms proposed by the Ming Empire, a representative team of various countries.
For example, Chinese should be taken as the common language of the five-nation alliance and the teaching of Chinese should be promoted in various countries to facilitate exchanges and communication between countries and promote cooperation in the military, economic, and technological fields.
Okay, no problem, go back and vigorously promote it, the Ming Empire can establish Chinese schools in the major cities of the allies, and the students don't need you to recruit, all the official faction!
For example, the dragon coin is used as the standard currency for trade settlement between countries to facilitate economic exchanges between countries.
Well, as long as the Ming Dynasty guarantees not to issue dragon coins indiscriminately, it can consider gradually adopting dragon coins as the standard currency for transactions between countries.
In this regard, Daming immediately made a commitment in the form of additional terms, Daming will never issue dragon coins indiscriminately, but strictly according to the Ming gold and silver reserves, that is, Daming's treasury will issue as many dragon coins as there is gold and silver, and ensure that it can be recovered with the same amount of gold and silver at any time according to the face value of the dragon coin.
There seems to be no problem with this promise, but it is nonsense, how many gold and silver reserves in the Ming Dynasty may be able to go to see with their own eyes and see a rough idea, but how many dragon coins issued by the Ming Dynasty How to count them, the dragon coins are circulating in the market at any time, you have to count, is it possible to take back all the dragon coins in everyone's hands, it is impossible at all, with such a huge economic aggregate of the Five Nations Alliance, the Ming Dynasty will not be aware of the dragon coins that issue hundreds of millions of taels.
This is actually a boiled frog in warm water, which was done by a certain dollar in later generations, and at the beginning it seemed to be issued according to gold and silver reserves, but after all countries were accustomed to settling with a certain dollar, they began to issue more frantically, and the wealth plundered in it was simply incalculable.
Of course, Daming will not necessarily play this hooligan, the key is to look at the future development, if the development of Daming is smooth, there is no need to do this kind of thing that Qianfu refers to, if the development is not smooth, then say it separately, these are all later words, here will be skipped for the time being.
The delegates of various countries could accept such a thing as a unified language and a unified currency, not to mention the subsequent establishment of a telegraph network and the construction of a Eurasian railway.
In these two points, the Ming Empire also showed great generosity, all the construction of telegraph networks and railways did not even require a penny from various countries, and all the costs were borne by the Ming Empire!
Is Zhu Cijiong being stupid? Of course not, the Qian Ming Empire is out, but, this laying of the telegraph network needs copper, the construction of railways to build trains need iron and sleepers, the train needs coal, such a huge project, how much copper is needed, how much iron is needed, how many sleepers are needed, and how much coal will be consumed after the completion of the railway, these must not let the Ming Empire bear it, right?
Therefore, in various countries, there are copper mines out of copper mines, iron ore out of iron mines, coal mines out of coal, and timber supply for timber, and the materials are actually apportioned to the heads of various countries, and the Ming Dynasty is just a processing fee.
In fact, Daming did not suffer at all, because the processing was carried out within Daming, and the money was not made by Daming Royal Machinery Group and Daming Construction Corps, the left hand out, the right hand and then been, Daming was equal to not spending much money, but the operating income behind this was all owned by Daming, this profit, it is simply not too rich!
As for the sale of machine tools, it is purely up to the Ming Empire to have the final say, the asking price of the Ming Dynasty is not high, but the quantity is strictly controlled, Zhu Cijiong's instructions are very simple, let the four European countries withstand the anti-Habsburg alliance, more than not sell!
For this, the four countries of the European continent naturally dare not have any opinions, the Ming Empire can sell them machine tools, and they also promise to teach you how to use, to ensure that you can make advanced muskets and artillery, if you still put forward any quantitative requirements, it will be too insatiable.
In the end, the five countries signed an alliance treaty in a friendly and harmonious atmosphere, and this alliance treaty added several articles to the "Valencia Alliance Treaty" treaty, all of which were dominated by the Ming Dynasty and required the active cooperation of all countries.
Judging from the content of the treaty, it seems that the European countries suffered a loss, because they recognized the dominance of the Ming Empire, but, in a practical sense, the European countries actually earned.
Whether it is laying a telegraph network or building a railway, it is a good thing for them to have a hundred benefits and no harm, and the sale of machine tools by Daming to help them build a military industrial system is a good thing that they can't think of.
As for the promotion of the Chinese language, the implementation of the dragon coin, is not the Ming forced them to do, according to the trend of world development, the international common language and the international currency are bound to appear, in addition to the Chinese language and the dragon coin, it seems that they have no more options, let the Ming dominate what, in fact, at this time, they just need the guidance and help of the Ming Dynasty.
So far, the Ming Empire, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire have formed a new alliance, aiming at the name of the anti-Habsburg alliance of Britain, France, the Netherlands and other countries, and the five-nation alliance was finally named the Ming Habsburg League after consultation.
Zhu Cijiong's painstaking preparation of the three-day course achieved a successful result, and the Ming Empire achieved a dominant position in the Ming Habsburg League, and a new world pattern began to slowly take shape.
In the history of later generations, these years are also the beginning of the change of the world pattern, it is in these years that the Ming Dynasty collapsed, and the center of the world began to shift to the European continent.
It was also in the past few years that Spain was defeated by the anti-Habsburg coalition, and since then it has cedicated the position of lord of the earth, allowing the Netherlands, France, and Britain to take turns in the bank.
In the end, Britain became the biggest winner of the Age of Discovery and the Colonial Age, becoming a vast empire on which the sun never sets.
However, in the Chongzheng Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty led by Zhu Cijiong did not fall, but was full of vitality, and the pattern of the world changed because of this, so what will the world evolve into? See more on that below.