Clone then signed a loan agreement with the Daming Bank, and then signed an agreement with the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau to purchase warships.As the Governor of Manila, Spain, he had the power to make decisions on behalf of the King of Spain in matters of overseas trade.Therefore, Da Ming doesn't have to worry that Clone will not admit it.After these agreements were signed, Clone officially presented himself to the Ming Emperor in the name of the Spanish governor of Manila, saying that Manila would send 25 warships and 800 local soldiers to assist the Ming in recovering Goa.Soon, the content of Clone's performance was learned by the Dutch Eurasian governor Abuqua through the Di Bao.Abukui was shocked when he learned about it.Because of the size of the 25 warships and more than 800 national soldiers, it does not seem that Spain's military strength in Manila was much worse than that of the Netherlands in Batavia.Moreover, the Dutch themselves knew that the Spanish soldiers were undoubtedly more effective because of their colonial combat experience than their own Dutch soldiers, so the 800 Spanish soldiers actually surpassed the 1,000 soldiers of the Dutch in terms of combat effectiveness.It can be said that the military strength now shown by Spain is not only sufficient to counter the military threat of the Netherlands, but also slightly stronger than the military strength of the Netherlands in the east."
It's not going to be to transfer all your troops in Manila, besides, even if you send so many troops, do you have so many warships in Manila?"
Aboukui asked in his heart, very suspicious.Soon, Aboukui also learned that Clone had taken out a loan from Daming Bank to buy a warship.It dawned on Abuche that he had come to his senses."
What a clone, really as cunning as a fox, even thinking of borrowing money to buy a warship to strengthen his strength!
Vile!
Shameless!
”Abukui was greatly annoyed by this, and he also consciously opened his eyes, he did not expect that Clone would play like this, and that it could be done between countries.The Dutch are no strangers to buying and selling transactions, and even the best at buying and selling transactions.Therefore, Abukui did not want his Dutch military strength in the east to lag behind Spain, so he decided to also apply for a loan from the Ming Bank, and asked the Ming Emperor to allow him to buy the Ming warships on the grounds that he could teach Portugal a greater lesson.Zhu Youxiao did not refuse.Now the Daming Ship Administration has overcapacity, and the sailing ships built are updated relatively quickly, so it is necessary to increase foreign warship orders to increase the income of the Ship Administration, and then feed most of the ordinary craftsmen of the Ship Administration.As a result, Abukui ordered seven Apocalypse two-year galleons from the Ming Ship Administration, and also told the Ming court that they would increase to the scale of dispatching 27 warships and 1,500 national soldiers.After learning about it, Kronal did not dare to lag behind, and also increased the loan again, increased the order of warships, and said that he would send 30 warships and 1,000 national soldiers to assist the Ming to recover Goa.The two sides are in such an arms race, adding loans to Daming Bank and additional orders to Daming Shipbuilding Bureau.No one wants to give up the cake of the Oriental trade.The competition ended until the two sides had no room to mortgage and make profits, and finally both sides increased to the size of fifty warships.But the strength of the two sides is still in a state of equilibrium, and no one has pressed anyone for a day, the same as before the loan from Daming.However, it is Da Ming who really profits.The Ming Dynasty reaped a portion of the trade profits between the two sides in the following decades through loans, and also succeeded in turning the shipyard bureau, which had been making the imperial court pay for money, by selling inferior sailing ships, and had more funds to develop new warships.Zhu Youxiao successfully used the strategy of killing three soldiers with two peaches to get the Netherlands and Spain to take the initiative to cede many benefits to the Ming Dynasty.Moreover, Zhu Youxiao is a yang scheme.Neither Spain nor the Netherlands had a choice.Even, in the future, in order to repay the loan of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, they are even more urgent than the Ming to attack Goa and seize Portugal's share of trade.For the troops sent to Goa, the Ming Dynasty did not dispatch too large troops, but only sent a fleet of the third battalion of the Guards Naval Division stationed in Haojing, that is, a first-class sail battleship, two second-class sail battleships, and three third-class sail battleships, a total of six warships, and a total of more than 500 officers and men.Naturally, this will not consume much military supplies.Because the main combat missions were carried out by the Spanish and Dutch fleets.It is worth mentioning that whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Western Fanguo, it seems that the number of troops sent is only a thousand or hundreds of people, not that it is really such a small number of people.It is because in this era, only the soldiers of their own country are considered people, and the black slaves and Japanese slaves accompanying them are not considered people, but can only be counted as slaves, even if all the deaths are not counted as war damage, so they are not included in the scope of statistics.It also looks like dozens of warships have been dispatched, but it doesn't seem to have many troops.Unlike the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch and the Spanish each had their own satraps leading fifty warships and sent almost all of their forces to Goa.And the Ming sent a fleet to just suppress the array.The Portuguese such as Castro, the Portuguese governor of Goa, had been preparing for the attack of the Ming Navy.But what Castro didn't expect was that he got the news that the Netherlands and Spain had joined forces with the Ming to attack his Goa."
What's going on, why are the Dutch and Spaniards coming?"
Castro asked, stunned.Pesso also replied in astonishment: "According to our reconnaissance, it seems that they have sent quite a few warships!"
My God, they sent no less than a hundred ships together, when did Spain and the Netherlands have such strength!
”Pesso's voice trembled as she spoke."
How did the people of this Ming Kingdom do it, and let them send troops to attack us."
Castro also continued to ask.The Western Fan of this era is still very primitive and barbaric in civilization, and it is not like the Ming Dynasty, which has long had 5,000 civilization accumulation, knows the means of combining vertical and horizontal, and knows the means of killing three soldiers with two peaches.And this kind of high-end gameplay of big countries, Western countries will have to wait until hundreds of years later.In this era, the way they get along with each other in the West is still very primitive and barbaric, and the way they get along with each other is Haikou-style, you rob me, I rob yours.Therefore, Castro not only did not expect that the Ming would unite Spain and the Netherlands at first, because he had a deep contradiction between Portugal and the Netherlands, and even more so with Spain, and now he didn't understand why Spain and the Netherlands still cleaned up for the Ming Dynasty, and also sent so many troops.Castro couldn't comprehend this high-end gameplay for a while, so he had to continue: "I really can't figure it out, God, can you give me an answer, what's going on." ”"Maybe Spain and the Netherlands wanted to seize our shipping routes and took the initiative to find the Ming Kingdom."
Pesso understood a little at this time, replied, and said: "We obviously can't hold Goa." ”