Chapter 446: Peace Talks between the Parties (5) Treaty Ports
Figuring out the reason, Nan Feng rubbed Nancy's little head with love and pity, and said softly: "This is not impossible!" As long as you listen to your mother, the next time your father goes to Vietnam, he will take you to find Xiaofuzi, okay? ”。 Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Wang Yanran didn't even think about it, so she wanted to stop it. But Nan Feng shook his head firmly and comforted: "Both of them are children, it doesn't matter if they meet!" Besides, haven't you always wanted to go back to Yunnan to see? Vietnam and Yunnan are close to each other, so we can also go and see if we have time. ”。
Although Jinghong in Yunnan at this time was only a small village under the jurisdiction of the Cheli Division of Pu'er Prefecture. Compared with the famous Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in later generations, it is far from being able to reach it. But Wang Yanran has been there once and has a good memory. In addition, Nanfeng also promised to take them to see it.
So when I finish dealing with the peace talks, I'll take them to see by the way.
Anyway, on the Vietnamese side, the matter of immigration also needs to be resolved. For official business, he had long been preparing to go there. And neighboring Yunnan is also under the control of the White Lotus Sect. In the past, you don't need any customs clearance documents.
Therefore, he had already made a decision in his heart.
When Wang Yanran heard this, the corners of her eyes were a little moist. was obviously moved by Nanfeng's heart-warming move. He wiped his eyes and argued, "I'm just talking casually!" Although the scenery over there is indeed beautiful, it is now a matter of people. It doesn't matter if you go or not. ”。 As he spoke, the more tears he wiped, the more he wiped them. It's like a bead with a broken thread, constantly falling down.
Nan Feng knew that she was homesick, so he took her into his arms with a free hand. He said softly: "Now you have me, Nancy, the three of us, and we are also a family." ”。 As she spoke, little Nancy also obediently wiped her mother's tears, and vowed to listen to her mother in the future.
Under such a warm offensive, Wang Yanran finally smiled.
Next, Nan Feng said some intimate and secret words to the two of them, which allowed Wang Yanran to take Xiao Nancy away. When he returned to the table and spread out the papers, the smile on his face was swept away. Because although Britain made important concessions in Bangladesh, it was also conditional.
For example, local powers such as Arakan, Assam, and Manipur cannot keep their armies on the ceded Bengali land. In addition, the interests of British merchants in Bengal were to be preserved. With the most common tactic of the British, this is undoubtedly a delaying tactic.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not agree to local forces such as Arakan, Assam, and Manipur and agree to such conditions. However, the Ming Dynasty can't be too persecutive, because these three local forces, after they are consumed with the British, they are also losing their own troops.
And this is despite the fact that the British side did not have many troops on the ground. But the large number of Indians has always been an inexhaustible source of British soldiers. Therefore, the three local forces are not the opponents of Britain.
Earlier, the two states of Assam and Manipur had expressed their willingness to cease war to the Ming Dynasty. It's just that Nanfeng sent a batch of weapons and grain and grass in the form of loans and loans. This made them temporarily dismiss their thoughts.
And Kim Bin of Arakan, although he did not reveal the intention of an armistice. But the offensive in Bangladesh has slowed significantly. Take the important city of Calcutta, for example, after several months of attack, and now it has been stopped ten miles away from Kolkata.
So after a period of delay, Da Ming finally came forward to facilitate peace talks between the two sides. Otherwise, with Da Ming's temperament, they will definitely drag on as long as possible.
At present, under the condition of maintaining the friendly relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the local forces, making the results of the peace talks beneficial to the Ming Dynasty is the primary consideration of Nanfeng.
As for the terms of negotiations between the British side and the Mysore and Maratha alliances, the Intelligence Department has not yet obtained accurate information. So Nanfeng can't take care of it now. However, it is foreseeable that the negotiations between the British side and Mysore and Maratha will certainly not be much easier than that of Bangladesh.
When he had a headache, Magorny was escorted by the police and smoothly arrived at the No. 2 branch of the State Guest Hotel, which had been arranged in advance. This is the hotel with the highest specifications in the Ming Dynasty, and the objects of reception are also envoys, princes and other upper-class people from all over the world.
Although in terms of luxury, the No. 2 store here in Johor Bahru is not as good as the No. 1 store in Myeonggyo City. But it is in its location in Johor Bahru and is relatively secluded. And the surrounding green mountains and green waters, the scenery is pleasant. and the opposite island of Singapore, which is also only separated by the shallow Straits of Johor.
When there is no fog, you can still see merchant ships coming and going on the sea. Despite the previous war, the island of Singapore was deserted for a while. But with the signing of the armistice agreement between Ming and Ying, the island's commerce and trade became lively again.
At the end of the day, Singapore Island is the only duty-free zone in the Strait of Malacca. It is also the end point for merchant ships from all over the world to enter the South Seas. Therefore, the commercial goods from the south to the north are all transited on the island of Singapore. For example, the three major pieces of tea, silk and porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, cotton, jute and wheat from India, rice, rubber and sugar cane from Siam and Zhenla, and tobacco and liquor, cane sugar, clothes and hats from the Ming Dynasty are all sold in a concentrated manner on Singapore Island.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty drew on the experience of later generations to build a large-scale commodity trading center on Singapore Island. This is a bit like the future of the future! First, the seller pays a certain price in advance, signs a sales contract with the trading center, and lists it for sale. Wait for the buyer to come to the door, and then sign the purchase contract with the trading center.
At this point, the deal is struck. Both buyers and sellers pay a certain commission to CFETS in the form of contracts.
This is the most primitive futures trading, which is not as diverse as the contracts of later generations, due to different types and times.
Western merchant ships, if they want to buy Qing goods, Siam, Zhenla, and even Ming merchants, can only be on Singapore Island. Because in addition, there is no port in Daming that has such a complete range of commercial goods conditions while being tax-free.
Although the city of Manila is also in trade with the outside world. However, the objects of trade were limited to the Qing Kingdom, Korea, Japan, and Siam, Chenla, and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. Western merchant ships are not allowed to enter the South Seas.
However, this is the exception of Portugal.
Because Portugal has a trading base in Macau. In addition, in order to envelop Portugal and achieve the purpose of dumping Ming merchant goods to Europe, the Ming Dynasty allowed Portuguese merchant ships from the Qing Dynasty to trade in Manila and Singapore.
But it also clearly stipulated that the Portuguese merchant ships wanted to transport the tea, silk, porcelain and other commercial goods of the Qing Kingdom back to Europe. It is necessary to transit at two treaty ports in Manila and Singapore. That is, to sell the goods of the Qing Kingdom to the Ming Dynasty, and then spend money to buy them from the Ming Dynasty.
Perhaps the type and quantity of goods have not changed, but the price has at least doubled. This is still Daming's deliberate opening side! Merchant ships from countries such as Britain, Spain, and the Netherlands had to spend at least ten to twenty times the price to buy high-end commercial goods from the Ming Dynasty.