Chen Quan is not a soldier, don't look at the military uniform on his body for half his life, he is still like a businessman more than a soldier, and what he believes in is two words - interests!

And just as Zhu Jingan expected, since Chen Quan decided to see him, he had already figured out everything and thought it through.

In the upper echelons of Chen Han, Chen Quan's connections are far stronger than Zhu Jingan.

When Zhu Jin was still worried about the task, Chen Quan had already received news from Chen Ming that in principle, Emperor Chen was in favor of the Japanese deal with Madurai. In other words, the emperor was willing to open a crack in India for the Japanese.

However, it seems that Japan has also been put into India's 'interests'. But Chen Ming thought that if he wanted to completely subdue Japan and make Japan completely become a loyal fierce dog, he had to feed it meat.

No good, where to open loyalty? It's no good, how can Japan, a small point, be 'fierce'?

As for saying that after Japan gets the slightest benefit from India, will it forget its righteousness and lose its mind without interests, and bite China back?

Isn't it afraid of being beaten to death by a stick?

Use one sentence to show Chen Ming's attitude towards Japan: What I give you is yours. If I don't give it to you, you can't rob it. Disobedience will be punished.

By the time he sat in the carriage back to the embassy, Zhu Jingan had completely calmed down, which is the basic quality of an excellent diplomat. Of course, it is uncertain whether he can be a 'good diplomat' to evaluate himself now. But he has this concentration.

There is really no contradiction between Japan and China right now.

This deal with Madurai seems to be a matter of not touching China's side, but in fact it is a question of whether China will let Japan tain India's interests.

Judging from the response Zhu Jingan got from Chen Quan, the development of things is definitely not bad, on the contrary, it is quite good. China really doesn't want to completely block Japan, they have left a gap for Japan in India.

Zhu Jin was very excited in his heart.

In his view, this was a moment in which Japan's destiny changed. In the future, Japan will also have 'colonial' interests, and even if it does not fall into the colony, as long as it can act as the eastern version of the Duke of Hesse-Kassel, it will also make a qualitative change in Japan's finances.

When the British hired Hessian mercenaries, the peasants, who had been gathered by the Duke of Hesse-Kassel from the countryside and the fields, were able to provide the Duke of Hesse with a fortune of one shilling a day, which was one and a half pounds a month, which was five silver dollars.

Although such a large profit was due to the fact that the Duke of Hesse took most of the mercenary money given by the British into his own pocket, and the Tokugawa shogunate would never do such a stupid thing, the commission of the Japanese samurai was definitely stronger than that of the Hessian mercenaries.

Most of the latter were bankrupt burghers, criminals, and destitute serfs, and only the officers were veterans who had lived through the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War, while the Japanese mercenaries were noble and brave samurai, and the officers would even be nobles or Chinese. Because the mercenaries of Toyo Security Company are cut directly from the army.

Madurai's business is the first business in Japan, and the Japanese will do their best to do it. Because they're going to make a sign!

[Chinese Japanese, refers to the daimyo of the high-ranking ministers and samurai; The Shi clan, composed of the original middle- and lower-level samurai and the middle- and lower-level officials in the court, belonged to the class of the original "civil servants". 】

The British offered the Hessian mercenaries five pieces of Eagle Ocean a month each, but the Madurai people offered the Japanese samurai 10 pieces of Eagle Ocean a month.

This is only the initial price of Madurai, and as long as the work in China is done, the Japanese samurai's commission can rise even more.

12 blocks per month, 15 blocks per month......

Not to mention that it is completely on par with the standing team, it will not be worse than the treatment of the Chinese security team.

The shogunate only needed to take a one-third commission from a Japanese samurai every month, and the remaining amount was enough for the samurai's family to live a happy and sufficient life in Japan. And 10,000 Japanese samurai can provide more than 40,000 yuan to the shogunate every month, plus the remuneration that the employer has to settle to the shogunate, the amount is not small.

This wealth was not worth mentioning for the huge Chinese people, but it was all the expenses for Japan to feed at least 5,000 new troops. What's more, Japan doesn't have only 10,000 samurai?

Even if Japan's domestic armed forces were to be secured, Japan could send at least 100,000 samurai abroad.

A fortune of more than 40,000 eagles is not a big number, but what if it is more than 10 40,000 eagles? Four or five hundred thousand eagles, which is definitely a lot of wealth for Japan. It will be beneficial to Japan's finances.

Let's look at the impact of this after this is done. The new army of the shogunate - here are all samurai, the new army of Japan is only qualified to enlist by samurai, countless poor samurai families - mercenaries in the future, tens of thousands of samurai families have benefited and lived a stable life, and the foundation of the samurai world will naturally be solid and thick. Those ministers who apply grease and powder on their faces, let's go as far as they can.

Zhu Jingan received a good response from Chen Quan, and his confidence in completing the task assigned by Edo suddenly skyrocketed. Even he began to think about the future happiness of Japan.

As for whether Japan will be called a 'country of mercenaries' because of this, he doesn't care.

Zhu Jingan's every move did not escape Chen Ming's eyes, but Chen Ming allowed Japan to enter the Indian region.

After such a long time, why don't you want to give Japan a little benefit?

But he rejected Japan's request to send troops to the Americas. India, he can allow Japan to be contaminated, but the Americas do not have the share of the Japanese.

If the Tokugawa shogunate was smart, they had to know the meaning behind Chen Ming's actions.

Emperor Chen did not allow Japan to move one step closer to the Americas.

And in India, now the French have withdrawn from here, but the Chinese have walked in, and the British are still facing off against each other. It's just that how to get out the interests of Britain is still a difficult problem for Chen Ming.

Because of the huge economic and trade exchanges between China and Britain, Chen Ming has always been determined to break with the British. And how could Chen Han, who could not do this, get their territory in India from the British?

In Emperor Chen's plan in the future, India was to be divided into more than a dozen countries, large and small. We will not allow the geographical term India to become the name of the country. And to do so, the British are a mountain that must be moved.

And Chen Han is now laying out on the east coast of Africa, and in a few years, Chen Ming will attack South Africa.

Who told the British that the British had not yet dealt a ruthless attack on South Africa, which was still the territory of the Boers, descendants of the Dutch, who had been wiped out by the French three years earlier. Although the British sent a fleet into Cape Town, the Boers were still the masters of the area.

Chen Ming was unwilling to let go of such a great opportunity, could Chen Han reach an agreement with the British, and why not give Cape Town to the British?

Cape Town under the Boers was largely the Western Cape region of later South Africa, and the Boers of the Eastern Cape were not much involved, so China could not compete with the British for Cape Town, concentrate on the later East Cape area, and then advance north.

Whether it's the Orange River region [Diamond] or the later Johannesburg, it's quite far from Cape Town.

The British were unaware of the diamonds of the Orange River and the gold treasures of the upper Vaal River in the northeast, and they peeked into Cape Town only for its key location, and incidentally to accept the Dutch heritage.

Chen Ming is definitely unwilling to miss this great opportunity, and if he misses this opportunity now, Chen Han's Xiao Xiang of South Africa will have to be postponed for several years. The huge gold mine hidden under the soil of South Africa tempted Chen Ming all the time.

……

"The whole world is at war, and only China itself is peaceful."

In Nanjing, Newton lay on his desk and buried his head in his diary.

"Americas, Europe, Africa......"

"The French are completely crazy, they have launched an offensive against Egypt, they have no idea how close Egypt is with China. Not to mention the fall of a small fleet, even if ten such small fleets were lost, the Chinese would not allow the French to occupy Egypt. ”

"This is not because of their friendship with the Ottoman Empire, but because of their planning over the years. The heart of the Chinese emperor is the most incalculable existence in the world, and God cannot measure how big it will be. ”

"The Chinese are planning a canal, a canal that connects the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, a canal that connects the East and the West."

"This canal is even bigger than China's Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal."

"It runs through the Isthmus of Suez, connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, and provides the closest route from Europe to nearby lands in the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific. Once completed, it will be the most prosperous shipping route in the world. It is the most important channel between Asia and Europe. ”

"The Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town will be lost because of this."

"The Ottoman Empire will harvest a waterway made of gold."

……

Newton publicly disclosed the news of the Suez Canal in his diary, not because he was deliberately revealing secrets to the British, but because the Chinese court had officially established the project. He estimates that the bank will publicly release the Suez Canal bonds in a month at most.

At that time, Newton would have taken out half of his savings to buy bonds. This will be the best legacy he left to Niu Pu.

As an Englishman who had sailed through the stormy seas of the Cape of Good Hope and came to China in the East, Newton never imagined that he would be able to witness such a magnificent project that would change the political landscape of the world in his lifetime. What surprised him even more was that the Chinese had contributed money and effort (of course, the Ottomans also contributed money, but they contributed too little) to build this golden waterway, which fools knew its incomparable value, and surrendered sovereignty to the Ottomans.

The Chinese only retain a certain number of management rights, not all of them, and there is a limit on the number of years. The Chinese could garrison troops in the Suez Canal, but the total number of land and water troops could not exceed 2,000, and the only benefit China received was the acquisition of Djibouti.

The port of Aden has long been in China's hands, and Djibouti is the only benefit that the Chinese get.

Perhaps the Ottoman Empire will 'allow' China to expand its influence in Yemen and Oman, which is considered the sphere of influence of the Ottoman Empire, but ten years ago the British occupied the Yemeni island of Pirin, and they did not see Istanbul shouting 'John Bull get out'.

Maybe they will also 'allow' China to enter Somalia, but that's a place where birds don't lay eggs, and the benefits are really limited. But China has gotten more of these things from Istanbul.

And for these things, is the price paid by the Chinese too great? Newton felt that China had really lost a lot.