Macau, Nanyang Minister's Office.

"Consul Bu, brother does things, what is important is to be true to one's word. Brother is to read the sage book to be an official, when he is young, he knows that people do not stand without faith, everything that promises others, then it must be done, not to mention that there is a contract in black and white? Moreover, let's do business together, that is, brothers who have made a fortune together, can I still trap you? If I cheat you, isn't that equivalent to my own brother? Do you think I can do such a thing? Okay, I'll tell you about it. There is indeed someone behind me! Don't think that I defected from the Qing Dynasty, I have no backstage in Daming. If I don't have a backstage, can I be the co-organizer of the Minister of International Trade? You probably don't know yet, I'm from the White Flag Han Army in the Qing Dynasty, King Li Nan and King Li Ying, you go and inquire, they are also from the White Flag Han Army, and we are our own people! If you don't believe it again, I will take you to the provincial capital immediately to meet the British princess! ”

It was Cai Yurong who spoke, this guy was a powerful official of the Kangxi Dynasty in the original history, and he was particularly close to the British princess Wu Xiaosuo This time he became Xiaosuo's subordinate by chance, and he originally wanted to lie flat, but after meeting Wu Xiaosuo, who was like a fairy in the British Palace, he was immediately full of energy, and after arriving in Macau, he made most of the "Malacca Concession Problem" that Li Zhongzhen had not done for several years, and now he was about to take his last breath.

And his method, in fact, is also Brouwer's method, which is also very simple, that is, to bypass the East India Company and the Ming court, and to have a private-to-private private was originally public-to-public, and it involves sensitive leased land, which is a lot of trouble.

Now change to private to private, and things will be easy to do!

They could change the matter of leasing the land to Cai Yurong to buy (or lease) the land of Xiangshan Island from Xin'an County to build a port and commercial port, and Brouwer to buy (or lease) the land of Bintan Island from the East India Company to build a port and a commercial port.

Then, Chua Yuk Wing combined his own business on Xiangshan Island and Brouwer's business on Bintan Island at the entrance to Malacca.

Now, the joint venture firm opened by Cai Yurong and Blaweller actually controls the two key ports of Xiangshan Island and Bintan Island!

After the work is done, we will set up a tax package and contract the taxation and governance of Xiangshan and Bintan Islands.

For the executives of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia, the island of Bintan was abandoned in the first place, a major maritime trading staging point and the territory of the Sultanate of Malacca, which had been abandoned more than a hundred years ago after being defeated by the Portuguese and turned into a pirate den. Later, the Dutch East India Company defeated the Portuguese and became the ruler of the Strait of Malacca, but Bintan was still abandoned there.

If it's ruined, why not sell it to an honest Dutch businessman from Amsterdam like Brouwer?

If it really developed, the Dutch East India Company could also collect taxes from Bintan Island, and could also directly obtain silk, tea, porcelain, sugar and other goods from China from Bintan Island, and the most important thing is that Brouwer was still a sincere person. He will make all the executives of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia feel the sincerity and sincerity of the heart!

"Can I really meet the British princess?" Bruwer was in his spirits at once.

He had long heard that the British princess was a great beauty, and she was also a "queen", and had previously assisted Li Xiuqing, the prince of the British king, to take charge of the domains of Guangfu and Shaozhou for three years.

Although the Guangshao domain has now been nominally returned, the intermittent land communication between Guangdong and Nanjing, and the fact that Guangdong is in wartime, make it inappropriate to overhaul the long-standing effective governance system of Guangdong.

Therefore, Li Yat-sen devised a method for the British Prince's Mansion and the Southern Prince's Mansion to temporarily manage the military affairs of Guangdong, that is, Li Xiuqing, the son of the British king, was appointed as the general of Guangdong, and Li Zhongzhen, the son of the Southern Prince, was appointed as the governor of Guangdong.

Of course, Li Xiuqing is still a child, and he can only bear the name, so he has to let Wu Xiaosu continue to hang the curtain, and let the British Prince's Mansion and the former senior officers of the Guangdong Navy, Li Zhongyi, He Tianran, Dai Zi, Luo Wenzao, and Liang Peilan (he is a famous person in Guangdong, the head of the Guangdong Restoration School) to assist the government together.

"Yes, I can see it!" Cai Yurong smiled, "Although there is a bead curtain, you can still see it. Seeing the British Princess, you can always rest assured, right? ”

Brouwer smiled: "If there is a personal guarantee from the British Princess, I can rest assured that the purchase or lease of Bintan Island will be on my own." However, there is a group of pirates on Bintan Island, and they are all your Ming people. What do you think? ”

"This is easy to do," Cai Yurong said with a smile, "Chen Shangchuan, the commander of the Guangdong Navy Division, has a relationship with those Han pirates, so I just ask him to come forward to recruit An." I tell you that in the future, when this Bintan Island is started, I guarantee that the number of Han pirates in the Malacca area will also be reduced by eighty or ninety. When the time comes, Malacca will be a golden waterway with calm waves! ”

When Brouwer and Cai Yurong finally finalized the big deal, Gonzalez, the consul of New Spain, was also signing an arms purchase contract with Yu Renying, a kind, sincere, and trustworthy good man from Ryukyu Island, and Kiyohisa of the Investigation Center, in his office.

In fact, this Gonzalez had long wanted to make this arms deal a private business for him and his good friend, the Governor of the Philippines, Serrano!

The two of them can join forces to get a little bit of the weapons in the San Diego castle in Manila and sell them to that Geng Zhengdong at a high price, and then when the war between the Ming and the Great Zhou is over and the arsenal in Foshan Town is not so busy, they can just buy the "Milan-made" guns at a low price.

As for the ship carrying the cargo, it is enough to borrow a warship from Manila to go to Ryukyu Island for "investigation". The silk that Geng Zhengdong used to settle the account could be transported back to Manila for storage, and when the galleon (the ship of the galleon trade) left Manila in June next year, it would be transported to Manila as a Chinese-style sailing ship, and it could be directly sent to the galleon and sent to the New World. A portion of the silver used to buy silk was used to replenish the arsenal, and the rest was Gonzalez and Serrano's property!

If this Geng Zhengdong really fights with the Japanese National Congress in the future, it would be great, not only can the Kingdom of Spain take the opportunity to pry open the door of Japan and force the Japanese to convert to the Heavenly Father, but also take the opportunity to do more smuggling business. Gonzalez and Serrano's private smuggling, of course!

As officials of the colonial authorities of New Spain, they were all too familiar with smuggling!

Due to the seclusion of New Spain, smuggling was one of the most popular transactions among New Spanish officials and Spanish aristocrats. According to incomplete statistics, about 90% of the goods that have traditionally entered and exited New Spain have gone through smuggling channels, and the rest have been cleared legally.

That is, if smuggling could be eradicated, the customs duties that the King of Spain received from New Spain could be increased by a factor of nine. Or the import of goods into New Spain from England and the Netherlands, countries where capitalist workshops and handicrafts are very developed, will be reduced by ninety!

I have to say that the smuggling of this new Spain really gave a powerful impetus to the Industrial Revolution!

Thinking that there might be more smuggling in the future, Gonzalez couldn't help but ask Yu Renying and the investigation office Kiyohisa in Spanish: "Two, does the Ming Dynasty have any plans to start a war with Japan?" If the Tokugawa shogunate counterattacked the Ryukyus, would war break out in full force between the Ming and Japan? ”

Of course, Yu Renying couldn't understand Spanish, but Qingjiu could speak fluent Spanish, so he frowned at the moment and said, "Of course, General Zhengdong has a plan to expedition to Kyushu. Otherwise, he would not have procured arms from the Spanish side. If I'm not mistaken, Spain and Japan were hostile, right? ”

As soon as Gonzalez heard this, he felt that the future was promising!

It seems that the Ming Dynasty is ready to go to war with Japan!

As long as they are prepared for this. If they are prepared, then the Dutch will have the opportunity to fan the flames on the side of the Japanese, and the Spanish can instigate war on the side of the Ming Dynasty, so they are not afraid that they will not be able to fight!

When the war breaks out, Spain can turn to Japan again, as long as Japan is willing to convert to God and act as God's shield in East Asia!

"Of course!" The Spanish consul looked indignant and drew a cross on his chest, "The Tokugawa shogunate in Japan was very cruel to Christians, and our Kingdom of Spain is the defender of Christianity!" If the Ming and Japan go to war, we Spain will definitely stand on the side of the Ming! ”

Yaga!

Qingjiu has already scolded in his heart, this Spaniard, his conscience is very bad, he is really a white-skinned ghost animal, and his heart will not die!

No, I must write to the general and ask him to send troops to attack the Eastern Continent with Geng Zhengdong!

Although he hated to cut people in his heart, he still followed Gonzalez and said: "Then it is a matter of words, but the lower officials can't make decisions for General Zhengdong, so it is better for Your Excellency to personally take the ship transporting arms to Ryukyu Island to talk to the general!" ”

"Good!" Gonzalez nodded and said with a smile, "I will definitely rush to the Ryukyus myself when the time comes!" ”

When he said this, he had a little thought that his plot was about to succeed. Although he was born as a street walker in Madrid, he worked hard for many years in the yamen under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and developed colonial interests for Spain in the far east. Over the years, he had learned that the key to the expansion of Europeans' interests in the territory of these barbarians was to exploit their contradictions.

Therefore, East Asia, which is closed to the outside world, is indeed a headache for Western colonizers - they are closed off from the country, and outsiders cannot enter, so they do not know how to take advantage of their internal conflicts to divide and disintegrate.

In addition, there has not been much conflict between China, Japan, Korea, and Annan in the past few decades, so it is impossible for Western colonizers to take the "international conflict in East Asia" as a starting point.

And now, the opportunity to pry open the door to East Asian countries has finally come!

Guangzhou, British Palace.

Listen to the Throne Palace.

Li Yat-sen's wife, Princess Wu Xiaosu, was sitting behind a beaded curtain, holding a secret letter sent from Changsha in her hand, looking at it carefully over and over again.

This letter is a handwritten letter from her father, Wu Guogui. This father and daughter, now belonging to the two dynasties, have become enemies, which is really a little embarrassing.

However, Wu Guogui repeatedly assured his daughter in the letter that he, as a father, would not embarrass his daughter! Therefore, he will not enter Guangdong under any circumstances, as long as the Guangdong side can recall Jia Han, who occupies Yongzhou and Guiyang Prefecture in Hunan, and give him these two states, he can have an explanation on Wu Sangui's side.

Truth be told, this is not an over-the-top request. After all, the biggest threat to Guangdong now is Sun Jiqing in Guangxi! This guy has mobilized 50,000 Gui troops, and he has put on a posture of coming to Guangdong to grab money and land!

Although Guangdong's force is enough to fight against Sun Jiqing, but now Wu Guogui is in Hunan, Wu Sangui is in Jiangxi, and Hunan and Jiangxi are both neighboring provinces of Guangdong, so Wu Xiaosuo's pressure is not small.

Fortunately, she is a tiger girl with strong pressure resistance, otherwise she would have been fooled by her father Wu Guogui!

Thinking of this, I saw her sneering and muttered in a low voice: "Alas, I must cheat back this time when I come to cheat again!" ”

Then she folded the letter that Wu Guogui wrote to her and put it away.

She had just put the letter away when she heard a voice say, "Princess, you are so holy. If we want to recover the lost territory in the South Seas, we can't just rely on fighting, we also have to rely on deception! In fact, those foreigners can make the market so big, and they also rely on three points to fight and seven points to cheat! ”

The person who was talking to Wu Xiaosu was Cai Yurong, who had just arrived from Macau, and he came with Brouwer, but Brouwer was not in the main hall at this time, but was waiting outside.

Wu Xiaowu was amused by Cai Yurong's words: "Cai Co-organizer, you are really a talent, it seems that you are a talent to let you be the co-organizer." ”

Cai Yurong said with a smile: "Unyielding talents, unyielding talents are only shallow in their studies, but those foreign devils are always uneasy and kind, and they can't do things in a dignified manner, plus my big soldiers are strong, so they can't use strength, they can only use tricks, so they will fall into the hands of subordinates." ”

Wu Xiaosu said with a smile: "That's also Cai Co-organized, you are doing things honestly, if all the officials of the Ming Dynasty can be as attentive as you, why worry that the world cannot be unified and the Quartet cannot be submissive?" ”

"Don't worry, the princess, I am governed by the general, and the officials of the Chinese people will definitely be more attentive."

Wu Xiaowu nodded: "Cai co-organized, you say, how do you want me to talk to Brouwer?" ”

"The princess just needs to tell him that Xia Guan is a helper in your business."

"Good!" Wu Xiaowu nodded, "Then call him in!" ”

"Yes, sissy."

Jiangxi, Lushan, Wu Sangui Palace.

"Whoa!"

Wu Sangui smashed a teacup hard, as if he was still angry, and picked up another pen wash and was about to smash it on the ground. The ground was already full of porcelain slag, and several of his advisers and generals were standing aside with their hands and shoulders down, and they didn't dare to come out.

It makes Wu Sangui so angry. Of course, Li Zicheng!

This Li Zicheng is an "old strongman" who can't be killed, he can't be killed, and he won't stop! These days, one by one, he attacked from the Shogunate Mountain to touch the Wuchang Mansion City, and almost touched it, so shocked that Zhang Guozhu, the defender of the Wuchang Mansion City, closed all the city gates, and let Li Zicheng bring down the army from the Shogunbu Mountain, and sang the "Round Song" outside the Wuchang Mansion City for half an hour. Li Zicheng's people are embarrassed to sing "Round Song"!

Is this Li Zicheng shameless?

If Wu Sangui is angry at the crown and is red-faced, then what is he Li Zicheng?

However, this is not the most unbearable for Wu Sangui, the most unbearable thing for Wu Sangui is that Li Zicheng also keeps sending troops to harass Wu Sangui's grain route!

Although Wu Sangui transported grain via the Yangtze River, he directly transferred grain from the Dongting Lake Plain and the Jianghan Plain, which are rich in grain, and transported grain to the east, the logistics line was very reliable. But this Li Zicheng still found a loophole, he kept sending people to blackmail the boatmen on the Yangtze River, saying that they would not let them run the boat in the future (after defeating Wu Sangui), so as to coerce them to cooperate, and set fire to many Wu Sangui's grain ships!

In addition, in the villages of Wuchang, Hanyang, De'an, Anlu, and Huangzhou, Li Zicheng's armed forces were also very active, constantly killing the "gentry of the returning regiment" and encouraging the peasants to regain the land!

Wu Sangui, who was provoked a little by Li Zicheng, hated to ignore Li Fuchen first, and transferred troops to fight Li Zicheng.

However, reason still told him that there is a high probability that he will not be able to catch Li Zicheng if he turns around and goes back now, so he will have to comprehensively encircle and suppress Mubu Mountain!

But how big is Makubu Mountain? Without an army of two or three hundred thousand, it is difficult to encircle and suppress. And now Li Zicheng will run the territory, and the valley of Makubu Mountain is Li Zicheng's Fubing Grange.

So Li Zicheng is very safe to shrink inside, and that place is the turtle shell of "Li Lao Turtle"!

When Wu Sangui was angry, Wu Yingxiong's voice suddenly came from outside: "Father, father, look who I brought to you. Ouch, are you angry with Li Zicheng again? ”

It turned out that Wu Yingxiong walked into the lobby where Wu Sangui was, and there was also Shang Shuying who came in with him.

Wu Sangui snorted: "That Li Zicheng is really hateful!" I, as soon as I think of him forcing the first emperor to death, I can't get angry! ”

Shang Shuying smiled: "Father, don't be angry, it's not worth it to be angry, besides, your chance to defeat Daming has also come, as long as Daming is defeated, just one Li Zicheng, can you still sustain it?" ”

"Da Ming. By the way, Shuying, I heard that you were arrested by Li Yat-sen, and he also put you to death. Wu Sangui suddenly thought of a very terrifying question, and stared at his goddaughter.

"Li Zhongshan is just talking," Shang Shuying waved his hand, "not only did he not kill his daughter, but he also took her back to Nanjing, let her watch his navy and land division, and let her come back to have a message with her father!" ”

"What?"

"He's about to come to Poyang Lake to fight you to the death!"

(End of chapter)