Chapter 153: Misfortune Leads to the East
The Spaniards are just looking for a helper, but for Australia, this is indeed a good opportunity, a good opportunity to enter Southeast Asia, and in the future, this land will become the object of fierce competition between Australia and the Spanish Dutch. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, having a colony of their own is equivalent to having a base for advancement, and the domestic bigwigs have agreed to approve the acceptance plan, but the premise is that there is no harm to Australia's interests.
Australia cannot prematurely participate in the struggle between Spain and the Dutch, which will greatly consume Australia's existing national strength and capital, and at the same time, it is likely to cause many factors such as lagging development.
The Spaniards want the Australians to fight the Dutch together, their purpose is very simple, once the Australians participate, the Netherlands may not be their opponent, but he underestimated the Australian think tank, they will definitely not accept it so easily.
"On behalf of my Government, Mr. Christie, I accept your gift, and for the friendly attitude of Spain, my Government has decided to give you an additional fifty 26-pounder guns."
Fifty guns, which was not much for Spain, but having fifty new guns could be a big blow to the Dutch.
"Thank you for the gift from your government, we can sign this contract now, but before signing, I would like to remind Minister Wu that this land has recently been targeted by the Netherlands, and I hope that your government will send someone there as soon as possible, otherwise I am afraid there will be changes."
The land given by the Spaniards was the Bicol Peninsula, which is located in the southern part of Luzon Island, about 12,070 square kilometers, but this is still a later statistical figure, and it may be larger now, because the Spaniards did not accurately measure the size of the land, but only standardized an area on the map.
Now it seems that they are not just trying to pull Australia against the Dutch, but have put them in the forefront, and it seems that Zhou Yang's intelligence work will have to penetrate into Southeast Asia.
Wu Zhengdao thought so in his heart, I am afraid that the Dutch have already known the news, and now they may be making the latest plan on how to deal with this sudden change.
However, this problem is not big, the Dutch also need to consider the victory or defeat with Australia, they know Australia best, especially Nick, a soldier who has been to Australia, he knows how strong Australia is, and it is needless to say what it means once the war starts.
Christie is still waiting for Wu Zhengdao's answer, after all, this plan was formulated by him, and if the Australians do not sign this contract, his plan will not be implemented well.
"The Dutch, I don't think they are our enemies, and anyone and country that wants to seize Australian territory by force and unjustified means will be subject to severe sanctions, and I can assure them that our warships and artillery will negotiate with them."
Australia's warships and artillery are indeed very powerful, this is the result that Christie wants to see the most, as long as the Australians and the Dutch fight, then Spain has a chance to breathe.
After Christie left, Fu Helin said with an indignant face: "The Spaniards are trying to bring disaster to the east, and want us to fight with the Dutch first, this plan is really poisonous, but we don't need to be afraid, the Dutch and the Spaniards are not our opponents." ”
"Your military has wanted to fight for a long time, but I can tell you clearly, Lao Fu, this war can't be fought at all, the executive committee will not approve it, and the Dutch are not so stupid, at this time to start a war with us, their cooperation projects will all be terminated, and they may also be attacked by the Spaniards."
The Dutch will not be stupid to go to war with Australia, not to mention that they want Australia to cooperate and buy steamships, once the war is not only gone, but even the weapons they buy will be in vain.
Nick was well aware of the power of Australian weapons, and once the Spaniards got better weapons, they would deal a major blow to the Dutch on the battlefield.
However, the Spaniards' misfortune is indeed a little disgusting, and it is not good to use Australia as a gun.
Since the Spaniards want to find something for us to do, we don't mind helping them find some, I heard that the Zheng family has always been meaningful to the Spanish power on Dayuan Island, we can sell some weapons to the Zheng family and let them go to trouble the Spaniards.
The power of Dayuan Island is complicated, there are mainly three largest forces here, the Spanish and Dutch have a lot of power here, and the Zheng family also has a lot of strongholds and personnel arranged here, but according to the development of history, the Spaniards should be about to be completely driven away by the Dutch, and then the Dutch started the era of dominating Dayuan Island.
"Dayuan Island is a good place, I think we can take it, for the future of Australia and our children and grandchildren, I think the location of Dayuan Island is quite important."
Fu and Lin put forward their own point of view at one time, this point of view is completely from the perspective of Australians, although the Ming Dynasty is Australia's grandmother country, but the future development of this time and space is difficult to say, once the Ming Dynasty is strong, it is likely to become a competitor with Australia, no one can say about this.
Isn't this the case with the United States in later generations, in the early years it was just a British colony, but later it became the hegemon of the leading mother country from a hillbilly, and such a thing cannot be guarded against.
According to Fu Helin's statement, he planned to establish the first island chain and establish the first island chain for Daming, and once he found out that something was wrong in the future, he would shrink rapidly.
"Lao Fu, your remarks will be attacked, you must know that the reason why many people support your military's expansion is to save that nation from being trampled on barbarically, but now you have said that you want to defend it in the island chain, which will make some people unacceptable in their hearts."
Wu Zhengdao is not wrong, after all, it will make people feel uncomfortable to blockade the former home country, but at the same time, Fu and Lin are also right, everything must be based on the interests of Australia, which is very important.
"I don't think so, if the military action against the Ming Dynasty is not beneficial to Australia at all, I don't think there is any need to carry it out at all, the reason why they agree to the military intervention of the Ming Dynasty is because they have interests in it, so they will agree."
"Of course you're right, interests are very important to us, I think you can try to convince the Executive Committee to make them work out a strategy plan for Dayuan Island, so that you can directly carry out your deployment." Wu Zhengdao said seriously, and he didn't know if he really supported it or just ridiculed.
(To be continued.) )