Yongshengbo Zheng Cai learned that the Hantang Group had really blown up the sky to get water, and it had to use the canonized silver, so he sighed to the stationmaster of Heyang: "God, it is only after receiving the silver that I am willing to send down the grace, I will know it earlier." I'm going to do ten more. ”

He Yang stationmaster said: "Lao Zheng, don't talk nonsense, silver iodide powder is not silver, it is ground into a very fine powder, which is the size of one percent of your hair - and other fine processing aspects are too laborious, it is impossible to want as much as you want, this is not a matter of silver at all." ”

Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai nodded, if you want as many artifacts that can be blown up from the sky, how can it still be called an artifact.

But the next sentence of the stationmaster He Yang startled Yongshengbo Zheng Cai again.

"Lao Zheng, sooner or later, we will develop a missile that will hit the Tartars' lair from here at once, and with a bang, everything will be solved."

"-Can you hit thousands of miles away?"

"Of course, it's all trivial."

“——”

Yongshengbo Zheng Cai lowered his head and thought, doesn't that mean that it is even more trivial to hit my Xiamen Zheng family from Taiwan? !

"Stationmaster He, is this what you often talk about science and technology?"

He Yang said: "Yes, it's a pity that I don't understand this major, but maybe I can help in circuit design." ”

"-That guide-bullet Hantang Group is there now?"

"Nope! That's a project for later—"

"If it is the day of the fight, can you tell me Lao Zheng first, I will celebrate with the Hantang Group."

The stationmaster of He Yang hesitated for a moment, thinking to himself, calculate the time, this middle-aged uncle may not be able to catch up.

Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai saw that his face was hesitant, so he pretended to be hearty and said, "Of course I, Lao Zheng, will not say that it was you who sued me." ”

He Yang stationmaster nodded and agreed, he thought, wait until the day he goes to the grave, burn the paper to sue him, of course he can't tell who sued him, but can I catch up myself?

The stationmaster of He Yang suddenly found that his relationship with Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai had become closer.

Sometimes this middle-aged uncle is so enthusiastic that people can't stand it, but after a long time, he gets used to it-

Throughout the early summer of 1651, everyone on the Ming Continent was busy with their own business.

Yongshengbo Zheng Cai was busy digesting the whole of Fujian, implementing various new policies, and confronting Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces.

The Tartar bandit group is also digesting its gains, and the north has basically stabilized, especially the rebellion in Shanxi has been completely quelled, and the internal Dolgon forces have been cleared.

The puppet emperor Shunzhi is also rectifying the post government, announcing various etiquette laws, and giving meritorious Han people large and small hereditary military positions, all of which are used by Luan Yiwei and foreign guards, according to the example of the new officials of the Eight Banners, giving hereditary edicts, and determining the rank of Han names.

This point is an important step in Shunzhi's implementation of the integration of the Manchus and the Han Dynasty, and it is also an important step in rectifying the overall combat effectiveness.

The Sichuan region was in a state of stalemate on the battlefield, and the forces of all sides and the Tatar army won and lost each other.

There is no controversy about whether it is Zhang Xianzhong Tuchuan or Tatar Tuchuan, and there will be no more from now on, if it is Zhang Xianzhong Tuchuan, then where are the various resistance forces now? It's 1651, and I've heard that the confrontation is quite fierce.

The southwestern side of the Ming Continent is also in a state of confrontation. Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo were confronting Kong Youde, Wu Sangui and other Tartar forces.

The Guangzhou area is now the most intense and balanced battlefield, and the offensive and defensive postures of both sides are clear, but no one can see the results.

Zheng Chenggong's department in the Chaozhou area has been planning something, but the whole has not moved.

The rest of the continent is a sporadic war of resistance, like the Thirteen Armies of Kuidong.

Elsewhere on this plane.

On January 1, 1651, Charles II was crowned King of Scotland, and on September 3 he was defeated by Cromwell and fled to France.

England was about to usher in the Cromwell era, and then the British Parliament, organized by Cromwell, enacted the Navigation Regulations, stipulating that British imports could only be transported by British ships or ships of the country of origin, and exports were only allowed to be shipped by British ships.

This hit the Netherlands hard and sowed the seeds of conflict.

In this year, Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Edo shogunate of Japan, died, and his successor, Tokugawa Ietsuna, inherited his policy of closing the country to the country.

However, all the things in this year were not as important as the safe return of the Hantang Group's ocean-going caravans, and their return made the whole of Taiwan boil.

Also last year, in November 1650, the Han Tang Group's ocean-going caravan officially set off, and their first stop was to Macao.

This time, the end point of the Hantang Group's ocean-going caravan was Goa, India.

The history of India is a history of colonization, a continent that has been colonized by foreigners 90 percent of the time.

The Portuguese were the first to arrive on the Indian continent in the early 16th century.

King Manuel I of Portugal appointed Vasco 61 to 61 Gamma and commissioned him to lead a vast fleet of 21 ships to India.

The fleet departed in February 1502 with 15 ships armed with cannons. It was a bloody voyage that led to the formation of the Portuguese colonial empire.

Da61 Gamma came to Calicut and demanded that the earth king Samarin expel all the Muslims from this port. While Shamalin hesitated, the Portuguese brutally killed 38 Indian fishermen, then bombarded the city of Calicut, and sent ships to blockade Calicut, plundering and looting spices in its vicinity.

Although Shamalin was extremely angry, he had no choice but to agree to the request of 61 gamma. The deterrence policy of 61 gamma against India has begun to bear fruit.

In February 1503, a fleet of 61 gamma sailed home laden with plundered spices, returning to Portugal eight months later. Da 61 Gamma was awarded the title of Count by the King for the "success" of this voyage. By the time of his second trip to India at 61 Gamma, the Portuguese had largely taken control of the Indian Ocean and disrupted trade between Arabia and India.

In 1510, the second Indian governor, Albuquerque, captured Goa and ordered the execution of all Arabs in the city.

From then on, Goa became the center of Portuguese colonization activities in the East.

But it was not enough to occupy this one city, and Albuquerque established a series of additional forts on the west coast of India, establishing his rule over many of the major port cities in the region.

For a long time, the main shipping lanes to the coasts of India were under the control of the Portuguese army, and no merchant ships were allowed to sail in the Indian Ocean without the permission of the Portuguese. Ships that sailed in Portuguese-controlled areas without permission were mercilessly sunk or ransacked. The crews of these ships were punished as harshly by the Portuguese as pirates. Portugal also imposed that Arab cities in East Africa must pay tribute.

The Portuguese colonies in India had been stable for less than a hundred years, and they ushered in a period of harassment or occupation by the Dutch.

In 1640, the Dutch East India Company occupied Galle, Sri Lanka, driving out the Portuguese, thus breaking the Portuguese monopoly on cinnamon trade, if it was not for the emergence of the Han and Tang groups at this time, then by 1658 the Dutch East India Company would immediately occupy Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, and by 1659, the Portuguese coastal stronghold in India, except for Goa, which the Portuguese desperately kept, would be taken by the Dutch.

The unexpected rise of the Hantang Group broke the situation of the Dutch being dominant and aggressive.

The Dutch East India Company's death in Asia with the Han Tang Group destroyed most of their strength in Asia.

In Asia, it is no longer the age of the Dutch who fly, but the age of the Dutch, who are waiting to die.

The Portuguese have mixed feelings for the Han Tang group. This has nothing to do with race, only trade.

On the one hand, the Portuguese were pleased that the Han and Tang cliques had cleared most of the Dutch power.

The Han Tang clique directly or indirectly eliminated the Dutch in India and other Southeast Asian influences, and shipping on the seas was far safer than before.

The Hantang Group allowed them to trade freely in Taiwan, and even Xiamen opened its doors.

At the same time, they welcomed the Han Tang clique to allow the Catholic Church to carry out missionary work in Taiwan.

On the other hand, they don't like the Hantang Group's open team-up to go to India to do business directly.

As early as the late Spring and Autumn Period of the Ming Dynasty, it was in Magadha in northern Bengal, when it unified Yangga in the area of today's Dhaka, as the world's largest intercontinental distribution center and the center of the cotton textile industry at that time, Bengal was already one of the richest regions in the world.

The area from South India to Ceylon was also wealthy, but only as a sea route between Rome and Bengal.

In addition to the rich cultural exchanges and the religious influence of Buddhism, the trade between the two sides was frequent, and the end point of the Maritime Silk Road of the westward trade of the Ming continent was not Rome in Europe, but Bengal in India.

After arriving in Bangladesh via Malacca, the products of the Ming Continent were sold in bulk to the Indian market, and after being repackaged with Bangladeshi exports in small amounts, they arrived along the coast to the Kerala area of South India, waiting for the annual monsoon, and then transported to Rome, to Adulis in East Africa, and then to Egypt through the Mere Kingdom of Ethiopia, a vassal of Rome, and through the Nile River to Egypt.

The affluence of India is different from that of the Ming Continent, which is the affluence of agricultural civilization and the affluence of industry and commerce.

But with the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty and the centuries-old blockade of maritime trade, such a maritime trade was replaced by the Arabs at first, and later by the Portuguese.

The profits from such a trade are huge, and the Portuguese themselves really don't want the Hantang Group to get involved.

However, the Han Tang clique even organized itself with great fanfare, and even came to ask the Jesuits and councils in Macao to provide reciprocal convenience.

That is, we in Taiwan allow you Portuguese merchants to trade freely in Taiwan, so we Taiwanese merchants can also trade freely in your sphere of influence.

At that time, the Macau Council and the Society of Jesus had to pinch their noses to help.

After all, compared with the Dutch, this Hantang Group seems to abide by the contract more and cooperates more in business, and it is not clear that they will have any adverse impact on the future.

The cabin of Sun Yu, captain of the Haian Brigade of Hantang Group.

Captain Sun Yu was seriously looking at the nautical charts hanging on the wooden wall, there was nothing important to this stop in Macao, the next stop was the focus, they were going to go from Macao to Yazhou in Sanya, Hainan.

Judging from the nautical chart, this sea distance is not far, and there are also some sea ships and maritime merchants in the fleet who have been there a few times, and there are ready-made leaders and parties.

However, Captain Sun Yu didn't know much about the sea conditions there, and their practical ability was not as good as that of Ming Shang, so he had to carefully estimate the various situations he might encounter.

Captain Sun Yu had high hopes for this voyage, and his two warships and a supply ship escorted the caravan, or rather, after the caravan accompanied his warship to Macao, he, like the sailors on the battleship, did not disembark, but only replenished some water.

Along the way, they showed their handling skills under the farewell of the northeast monsoon, and the Taiwan-class schooner showed its own advantages, with fast speed and light turns.

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