Every nation is a strange group, when the productive forces develop, people will desperately create wealth, and once the economy is stagnant, people will spontaneously or involuntarily fall into the struggle for existing wealth; It is almost human instinct to be willing to compete and neglect to create, but there are few people who understand this truth. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the world of great contention, if you don't fight, you will fight, and if you fight, you can't fight. Strive to create wealth, when productivity is improved, you don't have to fight for it, other people's things will naturally become yours; On the other hand, if you fight for the sake of fighting, you will only waste your national strength and consume your wealth in vain, and you may not be able to keep what you have stolen. The history of the world has repeatedly proved this truth, but few people have seen this truth.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Seven Kingdoms competed for hegemony and fought for territory and wealth. When the Qin State hid in the west and used the "Shang Dynasty Reform Law" to strive to develop the productive forces, the six countries that would only compete and disregard the people's livelihood were already destined to be unified by the Qin State in the future; The fundamental reason is that the development of productive forces and the creation of wealth are far more important than simply snatching wealth, because when your ability to create wealth is enhanced, the wealth of others is destined to become your wealth sooner or later.

Fu Ning has always adhered to the path of developing productive forces, and many territories that could have been expanded and plundered a long time ago have not been occupied; The Department of Military Affairs has long believed that the military strength of the East China Sea State can occupy the whole of East Asia and the South Seas, but Fu Ning has always suppressed the trend of domestic expansion, and has more than once instilled the principle of developing productive forces to the high-level officials of various departments and departments, and expounded and emphasized that "creating wealth is far more important than competing for wealth."

The current Donghae Kingdom is a vivid example, the first industrial revolution in Ryuqiu Island directly led to the "disappearance of the Wa Kingdom", and now the "Steam Engine Revolution" after the popularization of the Donghae Kingdom directly annexed the Goryeo Kingdom. When the powerful Third Fleet of the Navy was launched and cruised around the "Natuna Islands", the frightened Dutch had to resign themselves to the "Natuna Islands".

The growing strength of the Third Fleet of the East China Sea Navy, which forced the Dutch to cede the "Natuna Islands", is an example of how wealth creation is far more important than wealth competition.

The establishment of the Third Fleet of the Navy was originally aimed at guarding the oil mines in Bo Ni Hall, and when it was first established, there were only four offshore frigates used to clear and deter pirates around Bo Ni Hall, but the reason why the crazy Industrial Department attached great importance to the Bo Ni Oil Mine prompted the Industrial Department to promote the expansion of the Third Fleet construction plan, so that the construction of eight 8,000-ton capital warships was added to the construction process of the original ten offshore frigates, so that the strength of the Third Fleet jumped beyond the Second Fleet of the Navy. It has the armament of more than a dozen small frigates and eight main ships. When the commander of the Third Fleet, Cao Wenche, ordered the fleet to cruise in the South Seas and then specially conducted a live-fire exercise near the "Natuna Islands," the frightened Dutch put forward a proposal to exchange land for fleet.

A year ago, the East China Sea State negotiated the acquisition of Borneo from the Dutch, according to which the Dutch obtained the right to purchase steam-powered ships from the East China Sea State, but now the Dutch are no longer satisfied with buying only steam-powered transport ships and merchant ships, and after seeing the power of the Third Fleet, they have made an "offer" for land trading warships. On the one hand, the navy of the East China Sea was feared by the Dutch, and on the other hand, there was eagerness to acquire new warships, so in the face of the irresistible power of the East China Sea, the Dutch hoped to order six 8,000-ton steam warships from the East China Sea with the "Natuna Islands". The Department of Commerce and the Department of Foreign Affairs could not call the shots, so the Dutch began a month-long negotiation with Fourning in the chicken coop hall, and the result of the negotiations was that the Dutch handed over the ownership of the "Natuna Islands", "Moluccas" and Sulawesi to the East China Sea State in exchange for all the ships and equipment of the East China Sea State's First Fleet.

The First Fleet of the East China Sea Navy has 10 capital ships of 5,000 tons, 16 auxiliary transport ships and small frigates; Although the cabin design and equipment of the First Fleet are relatively old compared to the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet, the ships of the First Fleet are only a fleet of steam warships that have been used for a few years after all, and their strength is huge and powerful, and if they are placed in Europe, they are enough to dominate the Atlantic. Although the Dutch regretted the loss of the Spice Islands "Moluccas" and Sulawesi, they were glad that they had won the First Fleet of the East China Sea State; In fact, Fu Ning still wanted the Dutch colony of the "New Guinea Islands", but the Dutch resolutely did not want to.

The Dutch who signed the "Land-for-Fleet Agreement" with Fourning were the "Governor of the United East India Company of the Netherlands" and "Geert Francis", and signed not only the "Land-for-Fleet Agreement", but also the "Perpetual Peace Agreement" between the two countries.

"Geert Francis" had many direct exchanges with Fournings during the negotiations, and to be honest, Fournings did not understand the situation in Europe, and Fournings only understood that there was "chaotic cooperation and hostility" between Europeans. There was both cooperation and war between Britain and the Netherlands, and the relationship was a mess, and Fu Ning couldn't understand it anyway; During the period of "Anglo-Dutch co-lordship" and "William III", Britain and the Netherlands were both cooperative and at war, and they were cooperative in the struggle for naval supremacy, and there were often conflicts between the Netherlands and Britain in the struggle for maritime supremacy; And now the Dutch and the English are cooperating more than confronting, and the English are the hegemon of the sea. The relationship between European countries is a mess, and Fu Ning can't understand it anyway; However, although they did not understand the relations between the Europeans, they did not hinder the exchange and cooperation between the East China Sea and the Netherlands.

Direct communication with "Geert Francis" made Fourning know for the first time that the total number of Dutch merchant ships in the world exceeded 20,000, and also for the first time that the total number of merchant warships in Asia now exceeded 5,000 as the "sea coachman". "Geert Francis" was not only the "Governor of the United East India Company of the Netherlands", but also a member of the "Nassau family", the ruling power of the "United Republic of the Netherlands", and also had great influence in the country; In recent years, the biggest beneficiary of the industrial diffusion of the East China Sea is the Netherlands, and the surge of maritime trade between Asia and Europe has prompted the Netherlands to become stronger, and the sailing ships and iron ships purchased by the Netherlands from the East China Sea have been widely active in the Eurasian routes, restoring the European hegemony of the Netherlands in maritime trade and transportation. The "Dutch United East India Company" ruled by "Geert Francis" had many colonies in the South Seas, Oceania, and South Asia, and now Sumatra and Java in the South Seas have been influenced by the spread of industrial civilization in the East China Sea, and a large number of steam engine industries have appeared; Under the influence of the enlightened Governor "Geert Francis", there were a large number of steam engine ship construction sites in Malacca and Batavia.

The surge of trade between Asia and Europe, and the emergence and diffusion of the steam industry in Malacca and Batavia, led to the migration of a large number of Dutch people from Europe with financial wealth to the South Seas; Dutch merchants, sailors, craftsmen, lawyers, bankers, etc., have flocked to Asia in a frenzy, and Dutch banks have long appeared in chicken coops, Manila, etc., and it is not uncommon for Dutch people to have a quill in one hand and an abacus in the other.

Fournings didn't understand why the English would quickly launch the steam engine revolution, Fourning's prediction, the technology diffusion of Nimi bullets and breech guns should be rapid, because the Europeans were fighting every day, so the spread of arms technology was understandable, but the rapid development of the steam engine revolution in England made Fourning underestimate the speed of the spread of industrial civilization. Perhaps it was the Dutch and English who brought samples of the steam engine to England, or perhaps it was the demand of the English textile industry that led to the spread of the steam engine, or perhaps it was the nascent capitalist system in England that prompted the spread of the steam revolution; In short, the speed at which the English promoted the steam engine was incredible to Fu Ning, who did not expect that the English not only vigorously popularized the Nimi bullet, but also equipped the rear gun, imitating the speed of the East China Sea Kingdom, which surprised Fu Ning.

The Intelligence Department suspected that there were a large number of British spies in the industrial and scientific research fields of the East China Sea Kingdom, but without Fu Ning's instructions, the Intelligence Department would not dare to make great efforts to investigate the Scientific Research Department. And a variety of reasons also led to Fu Ning's reluctance to fully investigate the leaks of industrial technology.

There are three main reasons why Fourning and the Dutch signed the "Land-for-Fleet Agreement" and the "Perpetual Peace Agreement", one of which is that in the past two years, England has gradually expanded in the South Seas and controlled Tianzhu, the main source of cotton in the East China Sea, so Fourning needs the Dutch to jump out and add to the blockage of the English. The alliance between the Europeans was chaotic and uncertain, but now the Dutch had twice as much maritime trade as England and eight times as many as the Francois, and "one mountain could not tolerate two tigers", and it was foreseeable that the rising England and the Netherlands would not be friendly for long; Moreover, Ingie used Nimi bullets to drive the Franciscans out of North America in two years, and the next step must be to deal with the Netherlands, which has recovered its strength; It is also likely that the Netherlands will go to war with England again in order to regain maritime trade supremacy and overturn the restrictions imposed on Dutch trade by the Anglo-Dutch Peace of Westminster.

Second, sooner or later, the industrial civilization of the East China Sea will spread to the world, and it is better to "take out" something to exchange land with the Dutch than to "can't hold it", so that the East China Sea will have a stable "free iron ore miner capture land" within four or five years.

Thirdly, and most importantly, the East China Sea now needs the financial and commercial capabilities of the Dutch to expand the export of the East China Sea's industrial products to Europe, and at the same time to flow in and hoard precious metals, and realize full paper money as soon as possible; Therefore, it is not appropriate for the East China Sea Kingdom to have a large-scale war with the Dutch in the near future.

Because of these three points, Fourning signed the "Land for Fleet Agreement" and the "Perpetual Peace Agreement" with the Dutch. Fu Ning believed that the signing of the two agreements was cost-effective, but the Military Affairs Department had a great opinion on this, and was reluctant to hand over the ships of the First Fleet to the Dutch, and it was not until he saw the reconstruction plan of the First Fleet of the Navy issued by the General Staff that he happily handed over the ships to the Dutch.

After the Navy's First Fleet was handed over to the Dutch, the General Staff of the East China Sea State issued a plan for the reconstruction of the Navy's First Fleet, which planned to spend two years building better, state-of-the-art 80,000-ton warships and 40 auxiliary ships; The huge construction plan drove the Department of Industry and the Department of Military Affairs into a frenzy, and the time had already been pushed to July 1725.

"Governor of the United East India Company of the Netherlands" "Geert Francis" was an enlightened gentleman and a shrewd visionary, who was the one who prompted the Dutch colonists in the South Seas to imitate the industries of the East China Sea, capture the indigenous mining mines in Malacca, Sumatra, and Java and build steel mills and steam engine shipyards, and in a few years he built Batavia and Malacca prosperous and powerful, but he did not have the national socialism, planned economy and market economy mixed governance methods of the East China Sea. You can't build large-tonnage steel ships, you can only build small-tonnage iron ships and transport ships.

The prosperity of Malacca and Batavia, as well as the influence of the "Nassau" family to which "Geert Francis" belonged, attracted a large number of Dutch people to move to the South Seas, and the policies of "Geert Francis" were in conflict with the local policies, which led to the tendency of the "Dutch United East India Company" to separate from the mainland, and there was quite a bit of "Oriental wisdom" that "listened to the seals and did not listen to the tune"! As a result, the difficult European Dutch merchants preferred the open Asian colonial policy, and the shipwand of people moved to the South Seas colonies, and in fact began to shift commerce and trade to industry and mining. Geert Francis then liberalized his policies and increased his support for the shipbuilding industry in Malacca and Batavia; In order to make steel for shipbuilding, the Dutch began to imitate the Tokai Kingdom and capture a large number of indigenous elites for the mining of iron ore and coal mines. As for the "Palembang Oil Mine" found by the Dutch through the craftsmen of the East China Sea in the "Borneo Trade", it became the "chicken ribs" in the hands of the Dutch, and the Dutch, who imitated the East China Sea to extract oil but did not have an internal combustion engine or oil refining industry, had to seal the oil mine again.

The Dutch's specialty is finance, shipbuilding, and commerce, so the Dutch, who are geographically closest to the East China Sea, quickly imitate the trend of the East China Sea Kingdom to develop the steel and shipbuilding industry, Fu Ning is easy to understand, but for England to quickly imitate the East China Sea country's steam industry, Fu Ning is puzzled. The power of the English people is in the Atlantic Ocean and North America, and in the past few years, there were only a few small colonies on the coast of Tianzhu in Asia, but in recent years, they have imitated and quickly imitated and promoted the technologies of the East China Sea such as Nimi bullets, breech guns, and steam engines, and this imitation speed made Fu Ning feel extremely incredible! There is no reason for distant English people to imitate so quickly?!

England is a new, constitutional monarchical capitalist country, with the textile industry, shipbuilding industry, arms industry and the consciousness of a great power that it already has, but these reasons are not enough to explain why the English people imitated the "steam engine revolution" of the East China Sea so quickly. In July 1725, the latest telegram sent by the Intelligence Department from the intelligence point in Malacca showed that the English had basically popularized the Nimi bullet and swallowed North America and Tianzhu, and that the Dutch merchant said that the suspected English had begun to have a rear gun; It's only been a few years? It has only been three or four years since the East China Sea was heavily equipped with guns! How did the English imitate technology? And who is pushing in the middle?! There must be some unknown factors in this that Fu Ning couldn't imagine! So Fu Ning once again ordered the Intelligence Department to speed up the collection of intelligence in Europe; However, the Intelligence Department also suffered, because it was indeed very difficult to carry out European intelligence, and it was indeed very laborious to collect European intelligence due to the constraints of distance and cognition.