The strategy of the Ming and British alliance to overthrow the Dutch's control of maritime trade was simple......

Elevate them.

The Ming merchant ships were responsible for supply, and the British merchant ships were responsible for sales in Europe, but both supply and sales were bound to face the naval attacks of the Dutch, and war was indispensable. The Ming Navy can currently guarantee control of the South China Sea, and has cruised as far as Ambuna Island, but the west of Ambuna Island is still outside the sphere of influence of the Ming Navy. The British were based in Madras, India, which is basically Chennai in the middle of the eastern part of the Indian peninsula, and to the east they could secure the Bay of Bengal, but to the east of the Andaman Islands they could not reach.

The right of passage through the Strait of Malacca cannot be guaranteed by either the Ming Dynasty or the United Kingdom.

Because the city of Malacca is Dutch.

If you want to pass the Straits of Malacca without the permission of the Dutch, you can either seize the city of Malacca and expel the Dutch, or build a new city outside the city of Malacca.

Then the fleet was stationed.

If the Dutch dared to block the passage of Ming and British merchant ships, the Ming and British fleets would prohibit them from passing.

However, it was not easy for Yang Qing to storm the city of Malacca, the battle of the city of Gelanza had proved the strength of the fortress, and the Ming navy did not have such a strong expeditionary ability at the moment, which could drop a brigade of marines thousands of kilometers away and maintain its continuous siege of a large fortress.

The city of Malacca is very strong.

At this time, it should be called Famosha Fort, which was built by the Portuguese, and was only captured by the Dutch and Johor forces in 1641, and is known as the first European-style fortress in Southeast Asia.

More importantly, the Dutch were not alone there, and the Ming army bombarded the city of Gelanza without any worries, because even if the Dutch had the opportunity to ask for help from Batavia, the reinforcements would not arrive within four months, and the distance was a natural advantage. But the city of Malacca is different, it is the territory of the Dutch, whether it is the old port on the island of Sumatra or Batavia to the south, there are many Dutch people. It only takes half a month for the Dutch in Old Port to reinforce Malacca, and the Dutch in Batavia to join the battle within a month, not to mention that they have the Sultan of Johor as an ally.

If you want to take Malacca, you have to commit at least one brigade, and it may not even be enough.

But the Ming Navy is not good yet.

However, Yang Qing can do one thing, which is to play a surprise landing on the name of Longya Gate on the map of Singapore or Daming, and then put down two battalions of marines to quickly deal with the Johoreans on the island. And to establish a small stronghold as quickly as possible, relying on the Johor Strait to defend it, even two battalions are enough, the Ming army is afraid of attacking the city, but there is really nothing to fear in the field, the first brigade of the Marine Corps under the Nanyang Naval Division has completed the flintlock pistol.

And then......

"You deal with the Dutch!"

Yang Qing patted the map and said.

Pushman nodded knowingly.

Yang Qing's meaning was simple, the fleet of the British East India Company set out from Madras and launched a feint attack on the city of Malacca, with the aim of making it impossible for the Dutch stationed there to support the Johoreans. The Ming army made an expedition to raid the Dragon's Tooth Gate and establish a stronghold in the Dragon's Tooth Gate, as long as they had a foothold, those Johoreans would definitely not be able to fight against the Ming army, and the latter would forcibly occupy the Dragon's Tooth Gate.

All that's left is naval warfare.

As long as the combined fleet of Ming and Ying defeated the Dutch going north, then all that remained was to continue to build the Dragon's Tooth Gate and fortify it.

"So whose is the Dragon's Tooth Gate?"

Pushman said cautiously.

"Of course it's Daming's, don't you know that Daming also had a consolation division in the old port? However, it will serve as a free port and be open to all British merchant ships. We will garrison troops there, including a fleet, to protect our common trade routes, so that the entire route from the Ming to India is under our protection. British merchants could live there and do business, and use it as a base to continue their trade east of the Dragon's Tooth Gate, where the Ming merchants would have shipped goods to Batavia and Manila to trade with you and from you to Europe.

So as long as you and we have enough merchant ships to use for shipping routes, what is the use of Malacca City? ”

Yang Qing said.

"Your Excellency Marquis, what if we want to establish a commercial port east of the Dragon's Tooth Gate?"

Pushman said with a smile.

"That's really a pity, do you want to hurt my feelings for you?"

Yang Qing said sadly.

"But if Da Ming expands his interests to the west of the Dragon Tooth Gate, it will also hurt our feelings."

Pushman said.

"In that case, then let's not hurt each other."

Yang Qing said.

"I also think good friends shouldn't hurt each other!"

Pushman said with a solemn face.

Well, they are actually just dividing up the sphere of interests, with the Dragon's Tooth Gate as the boundary, the west belongs to the British to invade, and the east belongs to the Ming Dynasty for expansion, anyway, the British have the whole India in front of them, and Yang Qing has almost the entire Spice Islands in front of them, and there is no need for conflict in twenty years.

The rest is simple.

It's nothing more than an appointment at a time, and the two sides act together.

However, the British East India Company still needed domestic approval, which would not be a problem, because it was originally a major war between Britain and the Netherlands four years later, and the British ended the Dutch maritime supremacy with three Anglo-Dutch wars, and the next was the first. Yang Qing asked them if they were Charlie's messengers before purely to save face, but in fact, at this time, Charlie said that it didn't matter, he should still be locked up in prison, and it was Cromwell who really had the final say. But it was around this time that Charles escaped from prison and quickly organized the Royalist Army to start a second round of the English Civil War with Cromwell, in which he was completely defeated and guillotined.

Cromwell emerged victorious.

He, who had long been unable to tolerate the Dutch being hegemonic, had just cut off Charlie's head, and then went to war against the Netherlands.

"A personal question, are you loyal to Charlie or Cromwell?"

Yang Qing said suddenly.

Pushman was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect this guy to know a lot.

"Your Excellency the Marquis, I am loyal to England!"

He said.

Yang Qing nodded.

This is a parliamentary party, but it is also a wallgrass, so it is better, they report to Britain just when the civil war is also over, Charlie's rebellion only lasts half a year, they can only report to Cromwell, who is the most enthusiastic about expansion, and Cromwell, who has just won a decisive victory, will certainly not refuse such a good thing.

He will be in power for another ten years.

It was just the time to use this decade to partner with him to flank the Dutch.

Immediately afterwards Pushman was taken to the inn.

"The head travels thousands of miles, and the prince of the country is lost!"

Looking at the back of him leaving, Yang Qing sighed for a moment Hero, who was 20,000 miles away, and then grabbed the bag of cocoa beans casually.

The amount of this thing is actually not much, only about thirty catties, at this time, even in Europe, chocolate is also the top luxury, the Spanish royal family has kept the secret of this thing for hundreds of years, even if it is planted on an isolated island in West Africa. It was a monk who processed cocoa beans and eventually gave away his secret when someone else bought him, and Italy was the first to grow a cacao tree outside of Spain, but the first chocolate house in Britain didn't appear until a decade later. It was already rare for the East India Company to get these for him, and in terms of time, he should have traveled overland to Italy in Egypt to buy them.

But even if the British don't give the seeds, it's not a big deal, as long as the Ming merchant ships cross the Pacific Ocean, are you afraid that you won't be able to get this?

However, there are some troubles in planting.

This thing can't be grown in the territory of Daming.

In the future, you can only go to Southeast Asia, such as the Longyamen colony, and then add rubber, this time Yang Qing did not ask the British for rubber, because at this time, even the British did not know this thing. Columbus first discovered the Indians playing with rubber balls, but only as an anecdote until the early 18th century, when French botanists actually introduced the thing to Europe.

Since then, there have been some applications, but they have no use.

Until Goodyear's vulcanization technology was born.

Now Yang Qing is not in a hurry about this, just go to the Americas to find it yourself, the Amazon estuary has this, if you want to play the rubber industry, then he first has to solve the industrialization of sulfuric acid, and now he has not even solved the lead room method of sulfuric acid!

"Master Hou, what is this?"

Yang Yong asked curiously.

The British sealed the thirty catties of cocoa beans layer by layer, and when the bag was opened, the aroma accumulated inside was immediately released.

"Something that grabs a woman's heart!"

Yang Qing said.

"Uh, isn't it combat power that grabs a woman's heart?"

Yang Yong said.

"Vulgar, though you're right, that one is more effective than this! Also, send this bag of oil palm seeds to my Zhuangzi in Qiongzhou immediately, and let the people there plant them according to what I taught before! ”

Yang Qing pointed to the bag of oil palm seeds and said.

At present, this can only be planted in Hainan, and he has set up a separate plantation in Hainan, where all the oil palm seeds purchased by the British will be planted there, and of course in Southeast Asia in the future. The world's leading oil palm producers are on the coastal plains on both sides of the Straits of Malacca, and Malaysia is the world's largest palm oil producer. Then plant oil and various cash crops in the colony, as for those natives to eat less food, it is not a big deal, if they dare to resist, they will kill a batch, so that the food will be enough, and the obedient will be able to earn some money from starvation as obedient people on the plantation......

That's what the Europeans did.

Poor Bengalis did not delay the British from selling rice when they were starving all over the country, and continued to expand the indigo and yingsu cultivation areas!

As a result, during the great famine in which 10 million people starved to death in Bengal, the revenues of the British East India Company continued to grow at all, because they increased the taxes of the living Bengalis by 60 percent, and in return the East India Company gave a total of 9,000 pounds to the relief of 30 million starving people......

After all, starving too much also affects their indigo and yingsu production.

By the way, the maintenance of the stables of the British prince in the same period was thirty thousand pounds a year.