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Leather goods stores, garment stores, drug stores, jewelry stores, jewelry stores, stationery stores and other commercial houses of various types have also sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, all of which have taken root in the border areas.

This made the border area, which was originally a poor and remote area, suddenly have a little more commercial atmosphere.

Continue with this momentum. In a few years, it will develop into an important land treaty port.

Although, at the official level, it has not yet been officially authorized. However, with the help of Heshen, in private, the Ming merchant goods have been unimpeded.

And according to the organizational scale of the White Lotus Sect, Daming Commercial Goods, there is a ready-made sales network. This is much more convenient than a blank slate and opening the sales market by yourself.

After all, the security of the Qing Kingdom is very worrisome. Don't talk about those heroes in the green forest, let's just say that those officials and officials set up customs and taxes one by one, and they took advantage of it. If there is no means, let alone doing business, it is a question mark whether even a small life can be saved.

In recent years, it has been so difficult for Ming merchants to open the Qing market, and there is this reason for public security.

In the end, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake!

No matter how powerful the Ming Dynasty is, on the territory of the Qing Kingdom, it must be leisurely. Because those bandits and officials who are closed to information and short-sighted will not care about the prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

But this has nothing to do with Lin Aofeng.

At this time, he was resting in the special lease market of Mumbai in the Maratha Union.

Since Xia Bing became the Minister of Finance, the position of the Foreign Affairs Department became vacant.

Therefore, Lin Aofeng, who served as the ambassador to France in Europe, successfully entered Zuo Peng's sight. After the proposal was made to President Yang Chong, none of the cabinet ministers expressed opposition. Lin Aofeng succeeded to the post of director of foreign affairs, and it was so logical to decide.

As soon as he heard the news, he hastened to take care of the affairs of Europe. And a month after Xia Bing took office, he hurriedly returned to China by boat. Even when a new ambassador takes office, there is no time to wait.

It is also the local side of the Ming Dynasty, which has been urging tightly. On weekdays, the foreign affairs department does have a lot of government affairs. Without a director who can make a decision, many government affairs cannot be carried out at all.

In Europe, countries are recovering from the flu. For the time being, there is no major matter, and someone needs to negotiate and deal with it. That's why Zuo Peng dared to be so bold to urge Lin Aofeng to return to China.

It's just that the route from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean is too far away. The fuel supply stations on the way are all British.

At this stage, the relationship between Ming and Britain is actually quite tense. Even if a peace treaty is signed, there will be very little economic and political exchanges between the two countries. In particular, the Atlantic-Indian Ocean route is one of the UK's most traditional commercial routes.

In the Far East route, after being bagged by Daming, the value of this route is even more important.

So whatever it is, Britain will not allow the Ming to get involved.

So that the steamships on this route can only be British merchant ships. Fuel supplies are not available to other countries.

Lin Aofeng, who is the ambassador to France, can only return to China by traditional sailboat.

This speed is also very slow!

Fortunately, when he first went to Europe, he was used to the long sea life. Therefore, the journey back to China is not so boring and difficult.

After sailing like this for nearly half a year, we finally arrived in Mumbai.

In its earliest days, Mumbai was just seven small islands in the Arabian Sea. In 1534, the islands were ceded to Portugal by the Sultan of Gujarat. Urban construction also started here. Later, in 1661, it was given to England by the Portuguese royal family as a wedding gift for the princess.

The seven small islands have also been dredged and filled by Portuguese and British colonists to become a complete peninsula. It is connected to the mainland by bridges and causeways.

Originally, this place was returned to the Federation of Maratas. But in order to curry favor with Daming, Maratha couldn't wait to transfer it to Daming after recovering this place.

Although at the official level, it is said that it is a lend-lease. But in fact, Da Ming didn't give a word. And the specific rent and lease period are not explained in black and white.

So to a certain extent, it can be regarded as a free gift to Daming.

Of course, there's a reason for that.

After the Ming and Ying wars, the Ming Navy visited the city. Although the city's infrastructure was not destroyed, the wealth of the entire city was deliberately looted by the Ming Dynasty. Like those rich British trading houses, they were all looted by the Ming Dynasty. Many of the Maratha princes' trading houses were also affected.

The economy of Mumbai as a whole was severely damaged in an instant.

Later, it encountered the continuous naval blockade of the Ming Dynasty, which made Mumbai's already hard-hit commercial trade even more on the verge of shock. The huge harbor was also empty all day.

Even if the Maratha Federation takes back Mumbai, it will be a while, and there will be no hope of returning to the prosperity of the past.

The entire city is still a dead city.

What's more, on the eve of the end of the Nanyang negotiations, the Ming Dynasty ordered the army to directly take over the city of Mumbai. That attitude, obviously, was an attempt to take Mumbai for himself.

The princes and nobles of the Maratha Federation are not blind or foolish. Naturally, I can see Daming's intentions clearly.

Then he pushed the boat along the river and gave Bombay to Daming as a gift.

Anyway, for more than 200 years, Mumbai has been controlled by Western colonizers. This history is even earlier than the rise of the Maratha Federation. Now it's not a matter of renting it out at all.

It is also due to the system of the Maratha Federation, so the princes and nobles have never cared about territorial sovereignty.

After all, the Maratha Confederation is made up of five independent feudal kingdoms, and there is a big gap between them. From the beginning of the eighteenth century, they were constantly attacking each other. This continuous internal friction has made the Maratha Federation unable to unify the Indian subcontinent for a long time.

In the face of Britain, a great foreign enemy, it is impossible to unite as one.

In the original history, the Maratha Federation, under the blow of British division, quickly changed from a grinning tiger with bared teeth to a sick cat helplessly waiting for death. In the entire Indian subcontinent, there were no armed forces that threatened British rule.

Speaking of which, it is really sad for the entire Indian people.

Fortunately, with the intervention of the Ming Dynasty, the original history was not repeated. However, this does not mean that the feudal kingdoms of the Maratha Federation can sit back and relax in infighting. Because the Ming helped them rebel against the British, they started from the position of safeguarding their own interests.

It's not that the top brass of the Ming Dynasty is fraternal and sympathetic to the tragic plight of the Indian people.

Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty frees up his energy, he will definitely send the princely kingdoms on the land of India into the garbage heap of history with his own hands.

In the end, the system of the Ming Dynasty has its own nature of colonial expansion.