This small parlor gathering group of potential imperialists, colonialists, and foreign expansion interests did not attract Chen Jian to join, but they could not get around it and had to invite Chen Jian. 、

Now that the power of capital is just beginning, the power of the twins born at the same time is still very weak, and they even have to deal with the counterattack of the reactionary guilds, tenants, and other old forces. Except in places such as Nan'an Mining Area and Mincheng, it is difficult to be regarded as a political force that can influence the pattern.

But after all, there were individuals who betrayed the class, with the support of an anti-capitalist capitalist like Chen Jian, and the early layout at no cost and not for short-term profits, the first thing this small group did after its low-key establishment was to invite Chen Jian to discuss something.

Chen Jian is not too wary of this low-key organization for the time being, the huge domestic market can accommodate the interests of a part of the conservative class, and overseas expansion is unlikely to appear in the case of insufficient productivity of the conservative class to become a whole group of foreign expansion.

At the party where Jian Chen was invited, there was not much entertainment.

The newly formed, power-monopoly rent-seeking Indian company hopes to reach a final mutually acceptable agreement with Chen Jian.

If they want to collect land rent in India and make a profit, they must pass through the city of Wangbei, which is tacitly approved by the Mexican Party.

But the contradictions between the two sides still exist.

For the Mexicans, Wangbei is a base for trying to establish a new order and a new worldview in Asia, and in the absence of power, it needs to maintain the acquiescence of the domestic power-capital coalition.

However, the issue of Luzon Manila became a nail in the coffin for this acquiescence.

Whether it is Fujian or the capital, the mouth of the sea faces the Pacific Ocean.

Manila was a transit point for the merchant group of the Ming Empire. The existence of Manila, and the fact that Luzon was still in Spanish possession, gave it access to a steady stream of the precious metal silver that Spain had shipped from Potosí.

For the merchant group, silver was an eternal temptation. The wedge of Wangbeicheng, which is wedged into Asia, requires the small triangular trade of Manila, Japan, Wangbeicheng, and the Ming Empire to accumulate strength, and Manila must be in the hands of Spain and the Spaniards will not make the determination to give up.

For the Chinese Indian Company, which was bent on obtaining spice trade and Indian land rent, Manila was a thorn.

The Nanyang Company used all kinds of legal and "illegal" smuggling to import raw silk, cotton cloth, mercury, ironware and other products into Spain's South American colonies, and Manila's status with Spain had begun to decline.

Manila's position was extremely important to the Indian company in that it wanted a safer shipping route that could take advantage of ocean currents, trade winds and the Earth's rotation, and that it wanted to compete with the Dutch for the spice trade.

The Indian companies were not engaged in entrepot trade, and they wanted to make no more money than the Nanyang companies, they wanted spice products and land rents, as well as safer shipping routes and more convenient forward bases, not a Spanish silver cash machine in the eyes of those Fujian maritime merchants who looked to the northern city to unite.

The old European nautical order dominated by the papal meridian has begun to collapse in Europe, and these capital groups of the republics do not recognize the pope as a fart in the eyes of these capital groups, while the remnants of the old European nautical order affect the pattern of the Pacific.

Manila is Spain's support point in Asia, and it is the only one. If the Indian company in China wants to achieve its goal, Manila must be unplugged.

Manila is Spain's support point in Asia, and it is the only one. If Wangbei wants to get a lot of precious metals, Manila must be in Spanish hands.

The contradiction between the two sides seems to be the contradiction between the Mexican Party and the Huaxia India Company, but in essence, it is a contradiction between the craftsmen and maritime merchants of the Ming Empire, who have not yet met across the Pacific Ocean, and the capital group of the Huaxia Republic, which is tens of thousands of miles away.

It's just that one side has already organized itself and has its own interests and knows what it wants, and the other side needs to start accumulating strength to compete for dominance in Asia under the enlightenment of the Mexican Party.

Manila was not a separate issue, but a matter involving the Nanyang Company, the families that monopolized the smelting and mining groups in China, the coastal industrial handicrafts, the Huaxia India Company, the Dutch Indian Company, the Ming Empire's maritime merchants and the coastal handicraft industry and the landlord groups that changed rice and mulberry cultivation, and so on.

As soon as Manila was captured, Dutch India would be on the alert. Once there is any intention to take action against Manila, the smuggling business of Nanyang Company and the factory owners and capitalists behind it will also be greatly affected.

Manila was a transit point, a transit point for the Spanish royal family to monopolize trade, sending Ming Empire and Asian goods to the colonies for forced trade to obtain royal benefits.

But for Huaxia India, the transit trade was not profitable, and they would only choose to collect land rent and build a base. What can you make money by shipping it to China? Transporting Asian goods to the Spanish colonies, how could they fight for the Nanyang Company without the royal monopoly? Even if there was a monopoly, most of the goods of the Nanyang Company were cheap, and the revolution of capitalist production relations was already taking place in Minjun, how could there be a market?

The combination of capital and power of the Chinese Indian Company defines Manila as simple: as long as it can occasionally break even and collect stable rent, then this forward base is qualified and valuable. Even if you put a part of the money into it every year, as long as it can go smoothly in India, this is not a problem, and it is a big deal to use India's land rent to make up for it.

Under this contradiction, this gathering of internal interest groups, Chen Jian and some members of the Mexican Party, without opening remarks or greetings, opened on this issue involving many contradictions.

"Mr. Chen, we are glad that you Mo Party can borrow the conditions for us to anchor in Wangbei City and accumulate soldiers. You also know the name and purpose of the company, so you won't say much. The Strait of Malacca is in the hands of the Spanish Portuguese Republic, we still need to borrow trade winds and ocean currents, and we need a stable shipping route, so Manila-Luzon plus Malacca determines that there will definitely be a battle between us and Spain in the future. ”

"We have read Mr. Chen's "Global Experience" and are convinced of Mr. Chen's analysis that there will be a major war in Europe within 20 years."

"It can be said that the Nanyang Company, the Minjun Capital, our company, and the landlords and handicraftsmen who grow cotton and mulberry along the coast all want to fight a war with Spain, and fight the trade in which Spain allows us to pay customs duties in the colonies, and we are free but the rest of the countries are not allowed to participate."

"However, today we don't want to talk about Spain, we want to talk about the Dutch. Mr. Chen, the foreign envoys you have come into contact with the most these days are Sweden and the Netherlands. We don't care about Sweden, but the Dutch spec is too high and we are not satisfied. ”

Chen Jian was stunned for a moment, thinking that the other party would talk about Manila and Malacca, or the issue of cooperation with the Mexican Party's Wangbei City, but he didn't expect to talk about the Netherlands from Spain.