"According to the principle of reciprocity, it will be fine."

Motoyoshi calmly recounted, "The terms of the war against a third country involve the part of the base. The military bases of the Qing Dynasty in the Netherlands and the bases of the Netherlands in Taiwan should be consistent in terms of specific restrictions on the conduct of war.

Even if the Qing Dynasty and the Netherlands entered a state of war, there was no question whether their respective base areas should be automatically turned into an undefended state, and whether they could be used for war purposes against each other, and whether they were allowed to be used in a war between the Qing Dynasty and the Netherlands and their allies, as long as we restrained and acted consistently.

It is a matter of the level of war that we win or lose, and it is enough to settle accounts according to our wins and losses after the war, and it is not necessarily necessary to confiscate each other's bases.

War is inevitable, and humanity always grows in eternal war and withers in eternal peace. Without war, we would all be degraded.

As long as we restrain some excesses in war, an appropriate amount of war will be of positive significance to each other helping each other to eliminate the weak, remove carrion, and maintain the vitality of our own bodies. ”

"Yes."

Casually glanced at Yuan Ji's cold eyes, Horn's eyes had a subconscious dodge, perhaps because he felt weak, he didn't reply to Yuan Ji head-on, but to Richard on his side. Rohr raised his chin, "Only the weak will be eliminated by the war." ”

Richard. Rohr frowned when he heard this, his cheeks bulged a few times, and he glanced at Horn calmly, and came to an English proverb: "Without suffering, it is rare to find a crown." ”

"yes."

The corners of Horn's lips lifted to reveal a hint of mockery, and he tapped his toes lightly, and replied with the same English proverb, "If you don't think you're smart, you're smart." ”

At this time, it was the most glorious years of the Dutch Navy!

Just last year, Kangxi was six years old.

In the "Four-Day Naval Battle" in the Strait of Dover with fireship tactics in the previous year, the Dutch admiral of the British Royal Navy, German Navy. Ruyt. Led a fleet of twenty-four battleships, twenty gunboats, and more than twenty arsonists, taking advantage of the high tide, to sail into the mouth of the Thames.

Morality. Ruyter led the Dutch fleet and launched a classic surprise attack in the history of human naval warfare: the Medway River Raid.

The Dutch fleet broke through the 10-ton chain of the Hengjiang River, blew up British dockyards and berthed British warships along the way, occupied coastal batteries, and plundered five tons of gold stored in the Hillness Battery.

What's more, it captured one of the symbols of the British Royal Navy, the world's first three-deck battleship "Royal Prince", also known as "Royal Charles".

All six British battleships of the first rank headed by the "Royal" were lost, two were captured, and the rest were burned.

The British Royal Navy's flagship HMS Prince, which had just been given the title of "royal" for only seven years, was brought back to China for exhibition by the Dutch.

When the ship launches and smashes champagne, the "Royal Prince" is launched, and the Prince of Wales picks up the gin glass and takes a sip, and then throws the gold cup into the sea.

Later, the British built more and more ships, and the gold cup could not be thrown away, so they changed the "throwing cup" to "throwing the bottle" and smashed the champagne.

The same ship, which had just been used as a sedan chair five years earlier, brought back from Portugal the bride of King Charles II of England, Princess Catherine of Portugal.

It was this Portuguese princess who taught the British the habit of drinking tea!

The three most famous battleships of the Royal Navy are the three-deck HMS Prince, which represents the origin of battleships in the 17th century. and the world's first battleship armed with 100 naval guns, the "King of the Seas", nicknamed the Golden Devil, and the "Victory" of Nelson in the 18th century.

The names of the first two ships were continued to be used by the Royal Navy's new battleships, and the battleship "Victory" remained anchored at Plymouth Military Harbour even into later generations.

For maritime countries, the rise and fall of a famous warship is almost equivalent to national fortune.

What is the concept of Zhen Yuan Dingyuan being pulled back to the exhibition, and how much damage did it to the national morale?

The symbol of the British Royal Navy, the first-class battleship "Prince of the Sea", was captured by the Dutch Navy and brought back to China for exhibition.

The Dutch fleet even blockaded the Thames for several months, shelling London continuously.

Two months later, a fire broke out in London, burning down most of the city at once, and the plague was rampant, just like the fortune of the country.

This was something that neither Napoleon nor Hitler could do, and the Dutch did it.

England, France, Spain, and Portugal were unable to defeat the flying Dutch at sea during this period.

According to the original history, it was not until more than ten years later that the British palace coup, that is, the "Glorious Revolution", broke out, and William III, Prince of Orange of the Netherlands, was invited by the British Parliament to lead 20,000 Dutch troops to land in Britain and be crowned King of England.

Thus, the British Empire, which dominates the global oceans, has officially begun!

The Dutch fleet that sailed to Penghu that year was all the latest large and medium-sized Galen, which was the main fleet of the Dutch East India Company.

As a result, the heroic pirate Zheng Zhilong was abused.

Originally, the Netherlands did not use fireships, and Drake once let go of unmanned fireships for the Spanish fleet, but the effect was not good.

It was only after the Battle of the Bay of Holland that the Dutch converted a large number of man-operated fireships. Ruyt, who is famous for his use of fireboats, is an arsonist.

It was also as a result of a series of naval battles with the Dutch fleet that the British eliminated large-caliber naval guns on battleships that could fire 60-pound projectiles, and all capital ships abandoned plywood guns with more than 42 pounds.

Because the caliber of the naval guns of the Dutch three-layer plywood battleships was 32-pounder guns on the bottom deck, 24-pounder guns on the second deck, and 18-pounder guns on the top plywood.

The results of the naval battle showed that the guns of the Dutch warships were better configured, and the bigger the guns, the better.

As with the defeat of the Spanish fleet, it was actually the pirate Drake, a group of Caribbean, European and Moorish pirates who were summoned, and it was Zheng Zhilong who issued the "Green Forest Order" and issued a reward to summon a group of Ming, Japanese, and Nanyang pirates.

The navy is a branch of the armed forces that is always on the offensive, and it will never lose its sharpness and will always improve when it is always in a state of war.

This is true of the army, and the same is true of weapons and equipment, the more artillery is fired, the better artillery tactics can be developed, and the more ferocious artillery can be created.

"Can your differences change our common yearning for money?"

Facing the discordant Rohr and Horn, Yuan Ji asked expressionlessly.

"I can't."

Horn shook his head and spread his hands again, "But our difference is in money, we are all poor and have to wear wooden shoes, but Cromwell, the monarchicide, actually stipulated that even wooden shoes must be shipped by British merchant ships." British talent is the problem, money is not the problem. ”

"Yes, money is not a problem, the problem is that there is no money."

Rohr glanced at Horn coldly, "We even have to use bills to ensure the business of transporting wooden shoes." ”

They were referring to the British Navigation Act against the Netherlands, which stipulated that goods destined for Britain and its colonies must be transported by British merchant ships, which was the beginning of trade barrier policy.

Britain's closed-door bill had a far-reaching impact and directly ushered in the era of Great Colonization.

The large-scale export of tea in the Qing Dynasty was the collateral effect of this bill.

Before the Qing Dynasty, China did not export tea, only porcelain, silk and handicrafts, only the Silk Road.

Tea was only drunk in areas covered by the Chinese civilization, and like silkworms, tea trees were introduced in both Japan and the DPRK.

Before the Qing Dynasty, the gap between the tea demand between the surrounding countries and the grasslands was only through the land, with horse gangs, and camel teams exported a small amount outward, taking the northern grasslands, the camel teams in the Qingtang Qiang in the Western Regions, and the horse gangs taking the ancient tea horse road in the south.

Before the Qing Dynasty, there was no demand for Chinese tea abroad, but there was an external demand for rhubarb fruit. Historically, the Qing Dynasty also launched an embargo on rhubarb against Tsarist Russia, and in addition to opium in the Opium War, there was also a variety of rhubarb.

The export of Chinese tea from the sea trade is completely stirred up by Britain, which follows the principle of monopoly capitalism and monopolizes it as a "tobacco monopoly". It is a tax function, a tool for shearing sheep, not just a commodity.

Only black tea can be transported over long distances, and drinking black tea must be accompanied by sucrose, which is operated by the United Kingdom, which most people will not understand in later generations, let alone this era.

The United States is all due to the evolution of this bill, Boston poured tea, independent.

Grantor of Yale University, Ill Hu. Yale, the British tea comprador, relied on the British East India Company to make a fortune, and the tea tax collected in the British American colonies was too ruthless, which directly led to the Boston tea dumping incident.

Yuanji is to use the lever of demand, with the invisible hand of the market, to enlighten the great initiative of the British "tea tax" and accelerate this process. It is not by snatching the original markets and channels of European countries.

In the same way, he wants to use demand and treaties to manipulate, standardize, and offset Britain's desire to introduce tea plants and build its own tea supply base similar to Assam. Instead of using what broom to cherish, it is strictly forbidden to use silkworm cocoons, the way of tea tree export.

This is determined by the market operation structure and distribution chain.

The size of the Qing Dynasty was too large, but its influence on Europe, the Americas, Central and Western Asia, and Africa was very small, and in order to create large external demand, it was necessary to bring together the leading parties of all parties to make the cake bigger.

In the process of finding external demand, it is the next policy to seize the traditional market of Spain, Portugal, England and the Netherlands and adopt a competitive approach to it.

If you don't have the foundation of a global base chain, and you don't have the conditions for a world navy, you don't have this qualification. Without the continuous cultivation of the external market, there is no external demand for continuous expansion, and it is meaningless to treasure what silkworm tea trees to hide.

At this time, the European countries were in full competition, the shipping industry did not have a traditional market, and the external demand was only the dividend brought by the great geographical discovery: the new world.

It was at the end of the Age of Discovery, and the colonies were not just patches, they were all scattered points along the coast, and there were only one colonial settlement, trading posts, and all turrets.

Manhattan, New Amsterdam, New York, New York at the mouth of the Hudson River are just a few settlements. The Indians are all around, the British to the north, the Dutch to the south, and the French next to them.

One place, several camps, and the flags of several different countries, and the forces are intertwined, and one New York changes hands several times.

As a result, the shipping routes also overlapped, the vicious competition in the maritime trade was extremely fierce, and privateering was permitted. Britain, Sweden, France, Spain, Portugal and other countries will sink each other's ships when they see them.

This cheapened the Netherlands, because it had earlier been a Spanish-ruled area and had been resisting Spain, which caused countries hostile to Spain not to fight it.

But the Netherlands is a civil fight, and it has fought with Spain for more than 80 years, which is equivalent to Scotland opposing England, so Spain is just tired, but it does not fight Dutch merchant ships.

This made the Netherlands essentially the Switzerland of the sea, and it rode out of the dust while everyone was fighting. Coachmen at sea, helping both warring sides to transport goods.

There are more than 15,000 merchant ships flying the Dutch flag, many of which are "flags of convenience," which are twice the total number of merchant ships of the European continent combined, and they have a monopoly on the world's maritime trade.

Britain's Cromwell buried his head in the country, looked up and looked out, good guy, the Netherlands wants to monopolize world trade? Immediately expanding its armaments, the number of British capital ships increased from 40 to 120, and the number of ship-borne heavy guns alone was 10,000.

The Netherlands did not show weakness, did not pretend to be a grandson, and also frantically built artillery and expanded its armaments.

It was in this context that Spain did not want to be forced by the Netherlands to form a team and be forced to get involved in this inevitable war, which it was very much looking forward to, and it was better for the two British and Dutch bastards to die together.

So, in 1648, Spain allowed the Netherlands to become independent, moved a small bench to sit in the outer circle, and prepared to watch the play.

In the same year, the British Navigation Ordinance was introduced, which was amended again in 1651 into the official Navigation Act.

The following year, in 1652, the English fleet took the initiative to intercept Dutch merchant ships in the Strait of Dover and blockade the English Channel, and the Dutch gathered armed merchant ships to counter the blockade.

The First Anglo-Dutch War officially broke out.