Chapter 960: Embarrassment
Master is a person who understands, he knows that it is impossible to serve such a master for a long time, and no one knows, in fact, his identity is a sleeper in Milin's newly established Military Intelligence Department.
After letting Zheng Jing's guards pass on the information again, the master took a few family members and took an armed merchant ship to Leyte Island.
On the way, the clipper boat, which met the patrol of the British, was intercepted to the island of Cebu.
In the face of the British Governor, the master is concerned, his family was originally a Han merchant in the Nanyang Kingdom, and he followed his father to do business since he was a child, whether it is British India, or the Dutch Indonesia, or the Spanish Manila Island, so whether it is Dutch, English, or Spanish, basically some, especially Spanish, because most of the Nanyang merchants are people from Indonesia and Luzon, indigenous languages, Dutch and Spanish, born in Manila, grew up in Sumatra, Therefore, he can be said to be equivalent to his native language in Spanish, but he is not very proficient in Chinese.
Because he is not very proficient in Chinese, big and naughty, so his father, not very fond of him, so he has wandered in these places since he was a child, familiar with these places, and then his eldest brother was in charge of the family business, he went back to help his eldest brother, and then there was a chaotic war, and when the Spaniards raised their butcher's knives against the Han again, he fled, and followed the Zheng family to Australia.
His family was torn apart and annihilated in the battle for supremacy.
The British governor listened to his words, thought about it for two days, and then sent someone to invite the Dutch governor Ike, and the two discussed for a long time, feeling that in such an environment, only by joining forces with the Zheng family, who was still strong, could they continue to maintain their dominance and status in the South China Sea and the South Seas, and gain a firm foothold.
At this time, he was not thinking about the colonies but their trade in the East, these twenty or thirty years, because of Zhang Qiang's rise in China, hated them as Westerners, so they almost cut off their trade with China, and now they have lost all their colonies in the West, and now even the Governor's Palace has been lost, and they can only survive on the territory of the newly occupied Spaniards who originally belonged to Luzon, if they don't agree to Zheng Jing's proposal, maybe Zheng Jing has no way to do it to them now, but as time goes by, Their role in the East is dispensable, and it is better to return to the West.
Then their East India Company would go bankrupt.
Now relying on Zheng Jing, he may be able to do business.
If Zheng Jing's dream can be realized, then seize the Ryukyu Kingdom, and communicate with the Qing Dynasty and Japan, then their business channel will be convenient, and although the business will not recover from the original plundering profits, it will definitely not lose money.
The two pondered for a long time and finally made up their minds to cooperate with Zheng Jing.
However, the Dutch governor Ike remembered something at this time, and grabbed the British governor and said: "The territory of our two families is still small, even if we go to help Zheng Jing, we can't do without a request, right?" Otherwise, who would have believed that we would selflessly help Zheng Jing? ”
The British Governor thought about it, too, "Ike, what do you think we should offer?" ”
Ike said: "Now we go to fight the Ryukyu Kingdom will definitely encounter most of the main fleet of the Huaxia Army, with us plus Zheng Jing's family, we will definitely not be able to fight, it is better for us to pick up Zheng Jing to fight the Xinlu country, destroy the Xinlu country, we want New Zealand Island, you want Papua New Guinea Island, such conditions seem harsh, but we still have room for bargaining, if he does not agree, we will naturally want Mindanao, although now Mindanao is under our control, but after all, we have few people, and now the control is insufficient, After asking him to get a name, we sent a small number of people to occupy it and jointly develop it as a trading place for our two families. Then we lose Malacca, but we can still get these islands in the South China Sea, is it good? ”
The master returned to Manila Island and told Zheng Jing what the Dutch and the British thought, Zheng Jing touched the beard on his chin and said to the master: "You mean not to fight the Ryukyu Kingdom, but to fight the Xinlu Kingdom?" ”
The master said: "Yes, Lord, what they said is right, if the Ryukyu Kingdom provokes the Chinese Empire, we can't eat and walk around, but it is different to fight the Xinlu country, now we have Manila Island, and there is a territory as big as Australia, and the Dutch and British help in the Xinlu country. ”
Zheng Jing always felt bad when he thought about it, and he said to his master worriedly: "The Dutch and the British are different races after all, can you believe their words?" And they want the islands of the new Lu country, and the new Lu country to occupy our island of Papua New Guinea, and Mindanao, although we do not control Mindanao, but it is still our island, is it too generous, don't drive the wolf and lead the tiger.
Xinlu originally relied on the support of Zheng Zhi, but now that they have no support, do we still need to rely on the British and Dutch to fight them? And we have newly acquired Manila, our territory is larger than theirs, the population is larger than theirs, and the soldiers of naval warfare are more experienced than theirs, no matter how you look at it, we don't need the Dutch and the British. ”
The master said: "Destroy the Xinlu Kingdom to get rid of the henchmen, the Dutch and the British are only asking for business, if the Xinlu Kingdom is not removed, they will want your life, although the Dutch and the British are also more greedy, but we can lead the army of the Ryukyu Kingdom to destroy them at that time, their current strength is not as good as before, the Ryukyu Kingdom may not be moved, but the Dutch and the British are in their twilight years, and a little push can be destroyed."
Although they still have some soldiers and horses and powerful ships, they are also rootless. It is not too late for us to go back and clean them up, and when the time comes, we can propose that the Dutch be brought to New Zealand, and the British will be allowed to come together, and they will not be allowed to gather together.
Separated, they won't be great. ”
"Okay, just do as you say, after the war, New Zealand will be promised to the Dutch, and Mindanao will be promised to the British, with a distance of five or six thousand kilometers between the two places, and it will take two months to go back and forth, and then we will concentrate our forces to destroy the Dutch, and the British may not know yet, and we will concentrate our forces to destroy the British, very good, in this way, once our great enemy is eliminated, the whole of Australia to Luzon Island will be ours."
The master brought his words to the Dutch and the British, and the two governors felt that it was safer to destroy the Xinlu Kingdom than to fight the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the Dutch could get the island of New Guinea and New Zealand, although it was not as good as Australia, but with the foundation of the Hong family's management, they could gain a lot wherever they went, so they were very tempted by the proposal, although the British did not have much benefit, but they also felt that it was good to destroy the Xinlu Kingdom first, and then try to plot Luzon and the Ryukyu Kingdom.
So the agreement was reached, and no one knew that there were so many curves and curves, and the situation was changing so quickly.
And Hong Hongxiu and Hong Wenyi didn't know that a catastrophe was coming, and they were still happy, capturing a lot of Dutch and British ships, and the population of Leyte Island increased their own strength.
(End of chapter)