Chapter 370 Hong Chengchou As European robbers, they have a keen perception of strength.This is also their consistent style, when they can rob, they will rob, when they can beat each other, they will fight, and when they can't beat, they will honestly reason with each other.If it weren't for that night, if it weren't for the fact that the other side only used one warship, if it weren't for the fact that the other side cleanly killed thirteen armed merchant ships in a very short period of time, these thirteen armed merchant ships were equipped with nearly five hundred guns of various types, but in front of one of the opponent's warships, they were powerless.This only shows one thing, the chief military officer in Liaodong definitely has the absolute strength to crush their Dutch.As a representative of the Dutch East India Company, Alfonso made one thing clear: "It is unwise for both sides to engage in armed conflict!"
”It is also true that when the Kingdom of Spain fell, they Dutch took the opportunity to rise up and become horsemen on the sea, dominating the seas.As early as the fourth year of the Apocalypse, they had already fought with the Ming army, although they were better than the same number of Ming troops, and their combat effectiveness was also strong, but in the face of ten or dozens of times the Ming army, there was no chance of victory, and although the naval battle was victorious, the Ming Dynasty was definitely not like other natives, who were frightened to raise their hands and surrender.In this case, the Dutch did not take the initiative to start a war with Da Ming, but tested Da Ming's bottom line step by step, until now, they were knocked with a big stick, and in the field they are best at, they are given a heavy blow.Although the Huayang Society wanted to use them to start a war with Quan Xu, the general soldier of Liaodong, so that Quan Xu would lose one thing and suffer the enemy on his back, the Dutch were unwilling to be guns.Of course, the premise is that that night, they were scared by Quan Xu with the frigate of the later generations.After determining this goal of unification, Alfonso continued: "This big country in the East is really too big, so big that they can be bigger than all the countries in Europe combined, although this big country in the East has too many problems, but they are just a governor, and the resources they have are bigger than our Kingdom of the Netherlands, especially now that they are developing Liaonan, this is a territory no less than the Indochina Peninsula, their demand for mineral resources and timber is unlimited, and what we have is mineral resources and timber!"
Just by forcing the natives of Batavia into the volcanic mountains to mine sulphur with a whip, we made more profit in a year than we did with Japan combined, and we hardly had to pay anything!
”Putmans continued: "The one in Liaonan is an oriental nobleman, a noble earl, his fief is said to be in the Central Plains, larger than a principality, and now this earl, with tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses, is a young and ambitious nobleman, he will definitely expand his territory, he not only needs a lot of minerals and resources, but also especially slaves, his hands are buying people everywhere. ”"Your Excellency the Governor, you mean that the population can also be sold?""
Of course!""
The Earl's demand for slaves is getting bigger and bigger, and the price he offers is impossible to refuse!"
Putmans shrugged and said, "Guess how much?"
”"The distance is close, the cost is low, the population of the East is large, the slave should not be worth much, three silver coins?
This is totally doable!
”"To make His Excellency the Governor feel that it is not cheap, it should be more than three silver coins, five?""
Eight?""
That's fifteen Dutch silver coins, and even a woman is worth eleven to twelve silver coins!""
Oh God, it's more profitable than selling to the Americas!""
And we rule over so many people, we are not God, there is no way to conjure up hundreds of thousands of laborers overnight!"
Putmans looked at Alfonsule and said: "I suggest that the company can send someone to Japan to catch it, a boat down is 20,000 silver coins, we don't need silver coins, we can exchange silk or porcelain of the same value with Lord Earl of the East!"
”Huayang Society is destined to be disappointed, the Dutch have suffered such a big loss, according to the high-flying and domineering character of the Dutch, they should immediately start a war against Quanxu, and I am afraid that the imperial court will be very passive at that time.Jiannu has made the imperial court overwhelmed, plus the Dutch, I'm afraid Chongzhen will also have to consider losing the car to protect the handsome.However, the thinking of Huayang Society is not the thinking of Europeans, Europeans advocate strength, when the strength is strong, Britain is the father of the Americans, after World War II, the Americans became the fathers of the United Kingdom, and the British are willing to be the sons of the Americans.This is the reality.Without absolute certainty of the victory over the battleships of the whole army, the choice of the Dutch was not confrontation, but cooperation.They saw very clearly, dispatched a warship, cleanly defeated thirteen armed merchant ships, this is the Earl of the East gave them a warning, according to the words of the Ming Dynasty, it is called killing chickens and monkeys.At the same time, it also shows that the Count of the East has no intention of tearing up his face with them, after all, if Quan Xu sends his powerful fleet to Taiwan or Luzon, they Dutch cannot be taken lightly.…… Xishan ......, Beijing Crash......
I don't know how many precious porcelains have been smashed into pieces, and I don't know how many people Huayang Club bigwigs are sitting there, like statues.The Dutch were not fooled, this time they lost thirteen armed merchant ships and thousands of men, they not only swallowed this breath, but also offered to make up for the losses of the Huayang Society, including one hundred and fifty artillery pieces.Although the Huayang Society was short of artillery, it did not want to get one hundred and fifty guns in this way."
Did the Westerners take the wrong medicine?"
There is no one to answer the suzerain's questions.Now what?
Cao Huachun drank tea quietly.In the past, he took care of the people of Huayang Club in many ways, but now he also takes care of them.If you want to talk about yin people, eunuchs seem to be innate creatures.Cao Huachun found the exposed members of the Huayang Society, and casually asked people to find out the evidence of the other party's crimes, it was too easy to investigate these officials, and none of them had a clean bottom.Chongzhen relieved himself and began to liquidate Wei Zhongxian's remnants of the party, secretly raiding his family and making a fortune, who let Quan Xu give Chongzhen a good start?
Fan Yongdou's house was raided, and the floating wealth in his family was almost robbed by Cui Chengyou, so the valuable shops, fields, and factories that should be sold were sold, and those that should be realized were realized, and in the hands of the imperial court, there were still more than one million taels of silver.Chongzhen's eyes turned red.In fact, the money was deliberately leaked to Chongzhen by Quan Xu, and the people who bought Fan Yongdou's industry were Cui's firm, Liu's firm and Chen's firm on the surface, but in fact, there was only one real owner of them, and that was Quan Xu.Huayang Society's biggest source of wealth is to take advantage of the demand for Houjin, and now Houjin is there, not to mention silk, linen has risen to eight or nine taels of silver, as for noble goods such as silk and brocade, at least one hundred taels start.As long as the goods can be delivered to Houjin, the profit is greater than that of drug trafficking, but the key is that it cannot be transported."
Fair King!"
The sect master said coldly: "If you can't clean up Quan Xu for the time being, then take the Fair King to open the knife!"
”Under the manipulation of the Huayang Society, Hong Chengchou, the former right political counselor and deputy envoy of Shaanxi, was promoted to the governor of Yan'an, and then promoted to the governor of the three sides.In mid-April, Hong Chengchou, who had just been promoted to the governor of the three sides, led He Huchen, the general army of Ningxia, to pacify the pro-army with 3,000 governors and more than 20,000 Ningxia troops, and began to kill Huaiyuan Town.At this time, Huaiyuan Town is completely different from last year's Huaiyuan Town, the original Huaiyuan Town is thousands of miles of red land, with piles of white bones, not to mention that there are no people for thousands of miles, at least dozens of miles and hundreds of miles, and there is no figure in sight.Now Huaiyuan Town, a piece of fertile land, the spring wheat and corn planted at this time, the growth is gratifying.These hard-working farmers are reluctant to take a break.They began to clear the fields of weeds, which would attract nutrients from the fields and affect the harvest.The weeds that are beaten down can be used to feed pigs, cows, or horses.Even those barren fields have been planted with alfalfa grass, which is not only feed for cattle and sheep, but also can be eaten as vegetables, the key is high yield, and do not pick the land, even if the cattle, sheep and horses they feed can not be eaten, they can be sold to the fair army, and the forage of an acre of land can also be sold for a few dollars of silver, although it is not much, it is almost picked up for nothing.The wounds caused by the war seem to have been healed, and the people of this land are in the mood to think about what happened yesterday, only a few villages that are still scorched earth remind people that there have been terrible wars here."
Lao Zhang, how is it?""
Two more acres of land!"
Called Lao Zhang peasant smiled so much that his eyes were no longer visible, he was originally from Shanxi, suffered a military disaster, fled with his whole family, and finally escaped to Huaiyuan, but there was nothing left.Taking advantage of the opportunity to work in winter, he obtained the right to reclaim 16 acres of land, and under the introduction of the salesman, he borrowed 16 taels of silver from Chen Ji (i.e., Quanji) Bank at an annual interest rate of 20 percent, and bought a horse, a calf, hoes, ploughs and other agricultural tools and seeds.took his son and wife to plant sixteen acres of land, and then took advantage of the loopholes in the supervision of the fair palace to start planting grass on the wasteland."
This crop is growing well, how can you harvest more than 20 stones of grain in the autumn!""
More than twenty stones?""
You're wrong, I heard that this corn can harvest ten or eight stones per acre of land, and if you plant three acres yourself, how can you also harvest twenty or thirty acres of grain!""
How can there be such a miraculous crop!""
Didn't you listen to the bankers?
If it weren't for the corn and potatoes planted, we would have borrowed money if we wanted to, and they wouldn't have borrowed it!
”At this moment, there was a rhythmic sound of the road in the distance."
What's going on?""
There's an army from the south!""
Inform the King of Justice!""
That's the Imperial Army!""
The court of fart, when Lao Tzu is hungry, where is the court?"
Lao Zhang picked up the horsewhip and handed it to his son: "You ride a horse, run faster, it's too late, the fair king and his old man will suffer!"
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