Sailing warships to the South Seas for training, and by the way, bringing Ming merchants to Goa to open up overseas markets, these are of course the ideas of our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong. Someone wants to ask, what kind of training are you practicing after the warships have been built, what kind of business are you doing, why don't you hurry up and drive to the treasure island to clean up the Dutch!

Fighting is naturally to be fought, but the war between countries is not a hot brain, it is said that the fight will start, Sun Tzu has a cloud in the art of war: soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored.

Wars between countries can be said to be related to the life and death of a country, of course, we must consider everything before starting to fight, if nothing else, there is one thing that must be clarified:

Before Zheng Zhilong joined the Ming Dynasty, he was strong and strong, more than twice as strong as the men and horses inherited by Zheng Chenggong later, the Ming Sailors were not his opponents, and he could only be appeased again and again, why didn't he go to occupy the treasure island as the emperor of the soil, but instead ran back to rely on the Ming Dynasty?

Also, Zheng Chenggong raised troops in Xiaojinmen to resist the Qing Dynasty in the fourth year of Shunzhi (1647 AD), why did he not run to recover the treasure island until the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661 AD)?

Zhu Cijiong has always felt very strange about this question, he tested Zheng Zhilong during the Chinese New Year, but Zheng Zhilong was drunk in a daze, and when he was complacent, he only said: "The Dutch on the southeast coast are afraid of him." ”

The meaning of this sentence depends on how to understand it, people with hot heads and crazy people will understand that the Dutch are a bird, even Zheng Zhilong is afraid, and now that the super battleships have been built, it is not easy to clean them up.

If people who are thoughtful will think, Zheng Zhilong is bragging and only dares to say that the Dutch are afraid of him in the southeast coast for three points, what are the three points, that is just a polite statement, to put it bluntly, people will not take the initiative to provoke him, but people are not afraid of him, it is like this in the southeast coast, so overseas, in the South Seas, how strong are the Dutch!

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing that the other side will not be defeated in a hundred battles, and now he has not even figured out what the situation of the Dutch is, Zhu Cijiong naturally does not dare to rashly run up to fight with others, in fact, he drove the warship to the Nanyang to practice this time, and it is only incidental to take the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to open up overseas markets, mainly to find out how much strength the Dutch have in the Nanyang region.

How strong were the Dutch in this period? It would not be an exaggeration to say that they have 10,000 ships on the sea, but to be precise: the Dutch now have more than 15,000 warships and merchant ships! During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, it was the time when the Dutch were at their strongest, and any Spaniards, Portuguese, and even Britons in the Nanyang region were beaten by him.

For unknown reasons, the Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese, and British did not have a detailed record of the battle for the South Seas during this time, but simply the Dutch defeated the Spanish navy and occupied a certain place in a certain year; In a certain year, the Netherlands defeated the Portuguese navy and occupied a certain place; In a certain year, the Netherlands defeated the British navy and occupied a certain place.

The Spaniards, Portuguese, and British have no detailed records to understand, and they are beaten by people, ugly!

But as the victorious side of the Dutch did not have a detailed record is a bit puzzling, if you combine the Anglo-Dutch war and the Franco-Dutch war can probably guess a little clue, compared to the two wars, the skirmishes here are simply not worth sprinkling, maybe the Dutch feel that this little thing is not worth mentioning, so they don't bother to record!

Why? Because the Anglo-Dutch War and the Franco-Dutch War were the key battles that really determined the supremacy at sea, in the South Seas, it was purely the Netherlands bullying Spain, Portugal and Britain!

Why was Zheng Chenggong able to recover the treasure island in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661 AD)? Because at that time, almost all the warships of the Netherlands went back to compete with Britain and France for supremacy at sea.

From 1652 to 1780, the Netherlands and England fought for maritime supremacy for more than a hundred years, during which they experienced four Anglo-Dutch wars, and France also participated in the third Anglo-Dutch war.

You must know that Britain had 120 super battleships in 1652, and other warships and armed merchant ships were not counted as if the Netherlands could fight with them for more than 100 years, and there was France in the middle of it, and from time to time it pounced on the Netherlands and bit the Netherlands a few times.

The period from 1580 to 1670 is known as the golden age of the Netherlands, especially during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty (1627 to 1644 AD), the Netherlands was recognized as the world's maritime hegemon at that time, at this time to start a war with the Netherlands, and really look at the right time, a bad one, it will attract the Dutch Invincible Armada, at that time, even if the Ming Dynasty wins, it is estimated that the naval power is almost consumed, the overseas colonies do not need to think, the sea overlord does not have to think, the speed of the rise of Britain and France will definitely far exceed the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, Zhu Cijiong didn't know that the Netherlands was so fierce, he just had a cautious mentality and acted carefully, after all, it is definitely not an ordinary character to be called the overlord of the sea, and he will fight directly without looking at it, that is a second-cargo act, as a person with a normal mind, Zhu Cijiong will naturally not commit two.

If he doesn't commit two, will the Dutch make two?

More than 500 large ships shuttled around the South Seas, and the Dutch naturally couldn't see it, but they also didn't want to start a war with the Ming Dynasty lightly, and it didn't exist between countries to start fighting without a word, not to mention that the two sides didn't disagree now, and before there was no direct conflict of interest, they just waited and watched, and did not take any action.

In this case, all the ocean-going ships of the Ming Nanyang Fleet arrived in Goa smoothly, Hou Shilu and Luo Siwei were naturally overjoyed, and even Comde and Shivela personally ran to Goa to greet them.

Why are Kondde and Schvera so positive? Shi Vela actively said a little bit in the past, after all, his family still acts as an agent for the luxury goods trade of the Ming Dynasty, as long as it is a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, he wants to stammer.

It is a little strange that Comde is so active, he is the dignified viceroy of India, and now the colonies under his rule have reached nearly a million square kilometers, it can be said that he is already one of the largest feudal officials of Portugal, and the fleet of an allied country is coming, is it necessary for him to be so active?

In fact, he can't help it, the place he occupies is large, but basically it is a backward indigenous and fledgling feudal dynasty, the industry can be said to be a blank, and his main source of income is farming and mining.

There is nothing to say about mining, gold mining is directly gold, no need to sell, it is already money; If it weren't for Svera's repayment, he wouldn't have bothered to dig it.

Therefore, now the only things that his colony can sell for money are grain and spices, and spices are easy to say, just sell them directly to Europe, which are in great demand. Food is in trouble, the European powers are colonies everywhere, who will be short of food, and no one wants to transport it to Europe, what should I do?

He seemed to have heard that the Ming Empire was relatively short of food, and now that the Ming fleet came, he naturally hurried over to see if there was a chance to sell the mountains of grain.

Although Svera was not the governor of India and had no ownership of the land he had built, after all, he contributed more than half of his efforts, so the income of this colony was half of his, so he was naturally more active.

Shi Weila personally served as the person in charge of translation and reception, and after a long period of communication with the merchants of Daming, he figured out that these merchants are not mainly here to buy things, but to sell things, but the things they sell are good, they are all daily necessities that are lacking here, and the price is very cheap, as long as the plate is down, there is no worry about not making money.

It's all good things, you must know that a piece of cloth can be sold for nearly one or two silver here, and it is also a coarse cloth produced here, the cloth of the Ming Dynasty is called a soft and smooth ah, it can definitely be sold at a higher price, and even he can organize a caravan to sell the Mughal Empire, so the profit will be higher.

There are also porcelain and knives that are in demand here, and they are not sold at all. But the problem is that there is too much money needed, that is nearly five hundred ships of goods, even if each large ship is loaded with dozens of tons of goods, it is tens of thousands of tons, at least a few million taels of silver, let him take out so much silver at once, it is naturally impossible, he believes that Kong Dede is reluctant to spend so much money to stock up on goods.

What to do? He tentatively put forward a proposal to exchange grain for commodities, but he didn't expect most of the merchants to readily agree, Daming is really short of food, like rice, the capital is prescribed to be one tael of silver and one stone, but a little west, to Shanxi will rise to two taels, and then go west to a higher price, as long as they are not afraid of death.

The deal was reached in this way, almost a piece of cloth for a stone of rice, Comde and Shi Weila couldn't close their mouths with a smile, and the businessmen from the Ming Dynasty couldn't close their mouths with a smile, I don't know who made more money, anyway, the profits were more than doubled.

Hu Xianzong is a long insight, he didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty still has such a great prestige overseas, as soon as the ship docked, the governors of the two allied countries came to greet him in person, that is the governor, the governor of the Ming Dynasty is a super-first-class official, I believe that the position of the governor of this allied country is not low.

Even more exaggerated things are still to come, one of the two allied governors actually spoke Chinese, and even spoke so secretly that he even came to talk to them about business. Talking to the Governor about business, this kind of thing is really, really...... It's so face-saving.

He originally thought that he would have to find buyers everywhere for 10,000 pieces of cloth, and it would be good to sell them in a month, but the governor of the people took all the goods of everyone in one go, and although in the end it was agreed that they would be exchanged for grain, but the profit was actually doubled compared to the exchange of cash!

Looking at a cart of grain being loaded onto the ship, he didn't want to be so excited, he could only sell two thousand five hundred taels of silver in Daming, and it turned into ten thousand stone of grain as soon as it changed hands here, which was ten thousand taels of silver, his old father had never made so much money in his busy life, and he earned it once!

This Nanyang business is simply too good to do, Hu Xianzong decided to come often in the future, and when he is ready, he will come here directly to open a factory, as long as he earns more than ten years, his old Hu family will be developed!

This time can be said to be the starting point of the Ming Dynasty's monopoly on Nanyang trade, the Nanyang Ming merchants began to develop slowly from this time, and decades later, there were countless rich and powerful people among them, and the reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to become the richest and strongest country in the world, they made great contributions. Of course, these are all later words, so I won't talk about them here.