The guests from the Netherlands stayed in the Chinese Empire for three months, spent all their money and the goods they brought, and most of the money was used to buy the decommissioned sail warships of the Chinese Empire, these sail warships are still very powerful in their opinion, their hulls are still made of wood and iron, just primary sail ironclad battleships, and the tonnage is also around two thousand tons, but the iron of these warships of the Chinese Empire is very thick, and they are also wrapped with thick camphor wood, even if they are hundreds of tons of warships, they are also very powerful.

I have suffered the loss of this kind of battleship before, and I have seen the upgraded version of this kind of battleship, and it is a battleship that has been upgraded several levels, with a high mast, hanging inclined sails, and sails, and the keels inside are made of stainless steel, they can't create such a keel, without that technology, even the keels of Britain and Spain in the West are wooden keels with stiffeners tightened by iron rings, and the iron bones are also connected to support pillars that are at least arm thick, and the ribs are also arm thick steel, and steel armor is installed in many places, where to find such advanced warships.

So they bought more than 200 ships, ranging from a few hundred tons to more than 3,000 tons, but the Huaxia Empire did not provide their turret artillery, which looked very powerful.

It's not that the Dutch don't understand the European market, the development of European ships and warships, but now in Europe, except for Spain and Britain, no country is willing to spend so much money to make ironclad warships, especially ironclad warships with large tonnage.

At sea, only the Netherlands is still struggling desperately, Spain is slowly recovering its strength, and it is getting stronger and stronger, Britain is losing too much before, and there is no peace of mind at home, so the sea power is just catching up with Spain, the quality is there, but there is no Spanish quantity.

Spain was defeated once, gritting its teeth to catch up with the British, so it built a lot of huge ships, good-looking, strong, but it is too old, so it costs a lot of money, but the number looks quite scary, and after the defeat of the Chinese Empire in the Far East, Spain's warships have improved a lot, the second and third class battleships are ironclad battleships, as well as ironclad bones, ironclad warships, this time after the Spaniards went back, they bought a lot of steam engine samples from the Chinese Empire, as well as a lot of steam engine experimental warships, and the strength of the fleet was further improved, Moreover, they began to imitate, improve, and rebuild their own warships, and the thousands of steam engine samples ordered by the Chinese Empire were a magic weapon to improve the speed and performance of their warships.

Some of these things are known to the Netherlands, and some are not, but even if they do, for the budget-conscious merchant kingdom, they still don't want to buy such a huge, high-tonnage, and highly protective Spanish warship, this time they can pick up cheap in the Chinese Empire, and they can buy so many warships for a small amount of money At present, the West is very advanced warships, and they are very happy.

For businessmen, what they can buy will not be built by themselves, this is the nature of businessmen, and they have to study to build their own, so much research costs, and they don't want to invest in it in vain.

Commercially they were very capable, but in the affairs of their home country, the Dutch merchants were still very short-sighted, at least they did not see the development of the steam engine, and now they have entered the age of steam, at least with one foot in it.

The huge fleet, the fleet they thought was strong in combat power, stayed in the Chinese Empire for three months, and then returned home with fifty advanced warships that they thought were advanced, and it took three months to return to the Netherlands along the monsoon, and then they began to buy Dutch goods, so many caravans began to prepare, gathered a huge hundred merchant ships, and followed the thirty warships to return to the Chinese Empire again, and they were going to open that ancient market again.

The previous fifty ships allowed them to sell at a good price, and at least each of the merchants who went out this time made nearly a few million guilders, so in another three months, a high-ranking representative of the Dutch East India Company led the fleet back to the Chinese Empire, and after the delivery of the remaining one hundred and fifty warships, they received another five hundred steam paddle steamers, and they felt that such ships were very useful in the Netherlands, which was almost entirely waterways, Then he collected two hundred old sailboats that were stored in the ports and dockyards of the Imperial Coast Guard, which could be sold back to the fishermen and merchants who went to the North Sea to fish, and these ships were of great tonnage and well maintained, even if they were poorly maintained, better than the Dutch's own ships.

Then they sold Dutch goods here, making a profit of more than a billion guilders, and then made a lot of money, and bought the special goods of the Chinese Empire again, good-looking mirrors, very fragrant soaps, refined salt of white flowers, white sugar, luxurious carriages, antique oriental carriages, convenient oriental carriages, as well as various oriental farm tools, as well as oriental armor, armor was eliminated by the Chinese Empire a long time ago, but after the chamber of commerce returned to the furnace, polished, repainted and placed on the shelves, specifically for these Western merchants.

This is Zhang Qiang's idea, and now the West still has an inexplicable love for armor, collecting or using, they all like it, and then there is the endless treasury of weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire, arquebuses, flintlock pistols, arquebuses are not much, because they have long been used, and the nearly eight million soldiers who retired from the flintlock pistol unit have used them, at least five million have not been disposed of, and this time they sold 500,000 pieces to the Dutch at one time.

This is simply dumping, but it is not useless, because it has brought nearly 10 billion Chinese yuan of income to the Chinese Empire, and many of the yellow and clear Spanish gold coins, the silver guilder silver coins, have been included in the treasury and silver treasury of the money number, and then immediately exchanged for the gold and silver stored by the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire can issue more Chinese Yuan banknotes to plunder the wealth of the world.

Soon, the Dutch returned with a full load, and in order to show their friendliness, the Third Fleet of the Chinese Naval Fleet escorted them all the way to the Horn of Africa in the Indian Ocean, before returning to the Strait of Malacca, where the Chinese Imperial Fleet was stationed.

And some merchant delegations of the Chinese Empire followed them back to Holland with their goods, where to establish the trading post of the Chinese Empire.

Over the past year, the Chinese Empire's trade volume with Spain, Britain, and the Netherlands has been rising, and the goods of the Chinese Empire have begun to sell well in Europe and the West through them, and even reach South and North America, Africa and other places.

This year has increased the Chinese Empire's fiscal revenue by 100 billion Chinese dollars, and the Chinese Empire's fiscal revenue this year is 500 billion Chinese dollars, and then repaid part of the previous arrears, 120 billion Chinese dollars, the Chinese Empire's arrears have fallen from hundreds of trillions to only 100 trillion debts, and finally the previous occupation of Siberia, the operation of Siberia, the occupation of Central Asia, the Western Regions, Southeast Asia, and some mountains, deserts, plains, grasslands, immigrants from all over the country, and subsidized the satrapy because of the occupation of Siberia, the operation of Siberia, the occupation of Central Asia, the Western Regions, Southeast Asia, and some mountains, deserts, plains, grasslands, immigrants from all over the country, and subsidized the satrapy. The cost of building the core area of the Chinese Empire and so on is almost wiped out little by little.

The cost paid is not only that, but also the subsidies for agriculture in various parts of the Chinese Empire, subsidies for immigrants, subsidies for scientific and technological research and development, the replacement of weapons and equipment in various years, the reduction of armies, the construction of new warships, and the costs of wars with various surrounding forces.

There are also tens of billions of Chinese dollars lent to Turkey, billions of Chinese dollars loaned to the Arshav Dynasty, tens of billions of Chinese dollars loaned to the Qing Empire, hundreds of billions of Chinese dollars loaned to Turkey, and the largest loan customer, Russia, hundreds of billions of Chinese dollars.

Russia's hundreds of billions of Chinese dollars, through ten years of continuous loan support, recovered from Russia is just a few hundred million dollars a year, and later Russia directly used the materials looted by various countries to pay, as well as the mineral resources of various countries, gold, silver, jewelry, population, and tens of billions of grains to support Russia every year are paid, Russia is directly responsible for repaying debts in the first ten years, that is, it has not repaid much every year, and it still owes hundreds of millions of money and materials to the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire has those mines, you have to invest and build yourself, and then give Russia taxes, and then take interest and a certain amount of money every year from the taxes you have mastered, and then give the rest to Russia.

It can be said that until now, Russia has been built up by the Chinese Empire, but Russia has actually sold the entire country, and selling a hundred of them is not enough to repay the arrears of the Chinese Empire.

The payment of this arrears has to be carried by the Chinese Empire's finances, which is equivalent to the Chinese Empire helping Russia to owe the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire has to pay back this part of the money for them every year, and the loss is very large, but this market is slowly being cultivated, at least Russia's raw materials, manpower, material resources, and even the army are working on the Chinese Empire, which is equivalent to cultivating a market.

In the past, the Chinese Empire was dominated by one family, and there was no exchange with other countries, and the goods could only be exchanged within itself, and there was no external income, which was very sad, but now it has taken great efforts to cultivate a market, and in the future, it can slowly pay off the arrears of the Chinese Empire, and then this market is the cash machine of the Chinese Empire.

This is equivalent to the price of the Chinese Empire to build a viceroyalty like Central Asia, the Chinese Empire is to require the core area of the state to demand this market, build and care for this market, now with the Netherlands, the merchant country, their family trading volume is equivalent to Britain and Spain, the Arshav Dynasty, Turkey, Sweden several countries combined with the market is much larger, many times the market, it is equivalent to finding a general agent of the export of materials of the Chinese Empire, and, following them, Merchants of the Chinese Empire also found a market for their goods to export.

Through the Netherlands, the goods of the Chinese Empire will be sold all over Africa, Europe, South America, North America and other markets, and the Chinese Empire does not need to open up.

Of course, the merchants don't think so, they still have to go where to establish their own market.

(End of chapter)