I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Listening to Sun Zhimao's words, Cheng Shijie fell into deep thought. From the perspective of Sun Zhimao, the prime minister, to deal with foreign affairs, one must first settle the internal affairs, and the Nanjing small court is an internal contradiction. Only after the internal contradictions are resolved, can all efforts be concentrated to solve the problem. external issues.

This is not right or wrong in itself, it is just a matter of timing.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Prime Minister Sun, what you said makes sense, but this statement is not consistent with your status as Prime Minister!"

Sun Zhiwan was slightly startled: "What the king means is..."

"Pattern, you have to open up the pattern. The problem of Nanjing's small court is our internal problem. The internal problem is the meat in the pot. The meat is rotten in the pot. If you eat it in one bite earlier, you will eat it later. The meat cannot fly or run away. No, but when it comes to external issues, there can’t be any hesitation!”

Cheng Shijie patted the table and said: "In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch occupied the southern part of Dajuan. In the following two years, the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Spanish occupied the northern part of the Dajuan. Our court was in many difficulties at that time and had no time to take care of the Dajuan. The Dutch and the The Spanish invaded Taiwan and massacred the people of the Ming Dynasty. In the 44th year of Jiajing, the Spanish occupied Luzon and massacred the people of the Ming Dynasty. For those Western barbarians, they have always feared power rather than virtue. If we, the Ming Dynasty, treated the Dutch If they give in with provocation, they will definitely massacre our people of the Ming Dynasty on a large scale. Do you mean that we have to sit back and watch the Dutch massacre our people of the Ming Dynasty without asking anything?"

"It's not that we don't care, but the problem is that we don't have the strength to fight on two fronts or even three fronts. If we fight with the Dutch now, the happiest people will probably be Nanming and Xiqin!"

Cheng Shijie's current attitude made the cabinet feel panicked for the first time, because Cheng Shijie's current attitude was very revealing.

Sun Zhiwan began to review his mistakes and said with a wry smile: "We have absolute military strength, but the problem is that we lack enough food to resettle those people. If there is no food to resettle the people in Jiangnan and Guanzhong and Guanxi, This will still cause big problems!”

"We can't afford this fight?"

Cheng Shijie asked in disbelief: "Have you asked the General Staff? Have you asked the Military Department?"

Sun Zhili now finally realizes where his problem lies. He has exceeded his authority. The prime minister manages the country's government affairs, but military affairs are not included in the government affairs. The issue of the Dutch invasion of the Beibu Gulf is obviously a military issue.

Sun Zhilan felt that he was indeed a little distracted, because Cheng Shijie had been delegating power to him in the past few months, including land reform, plague prevention and treatment in various places, including roads and people's livelihood construction in various places, and even officials at all levels. With his resignation and selection, the power of Sun Zhiyi, the prime minister, is obviously greater than that of the chief ministers of the cabinet before the Ming Dynasty.

With great power, he thought he could decide all issues.

Sun Zhiman looked at Zhou Ning and asked, "What does the General Staff think of this?"

Zhou Ning coughed and said softly: "So far, our Ming Royal Navy has four main fleets, namely the Lushun Fleet, the Daguan Fleet, the Luzon Fleet and the Yecheng Fleet. The four main fleets have six to ten Each squadron has at least twenty Seawolf-class battleships, twelve Sea Shark-class battleships, and at least eight Jusha-class warships. Our navy currently has 130 Jusha-class warships and four Jusha-class warships. Battleships, 460 Sea Shark-class battleships, and more than [-] Sea Wolf-class battleships..."

Only then did Sun Zhilan realize that the development of the navy had actually reached this point. Other countries had fewer ships and more people. However, in the past few years, Ning Haijun had just the opposite. It had more warships and fewer people. In fact, now The size of the navy has exceeded the original Zheng fleet.

Although there are only a thousand main battleships in the navy, the number of main battleships exceeds that of Zheng's fleet. More importantly, these main battleships have exceeded the total number of Spanish Armada, whether they are placed in the East or in Europe. You can defeat Spain.

It can be said that if he had not maintained such a large fleet, Cheng Shijie would not have been able to directly dispatch the navy to make small money when he found that he had no money.

"Any decision is based on our own strength. Our current strength does not depend on the face of the Dutch. If they dare to provoke, they must fight back forcefully. What's more, to solve the Nanjing issue in the future, we will not need the main force of the navy at all. !”

After receiving the answer from the military department, Sun Zhiyi naturally knew very well what he should do. As the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Zhizhen represented Fernan to the Dutch East India Company in Beijing regarding the Dutch East India Company's invasion of Nanyang during the Ming Dynasty. Expressing extreme anger, claiming that this was the most serious provocation against the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty court and the Ming Royal Navy would have the power to safeguard the interests of the Ming Empire.

Although they were just a few words, Fernand was a little frightened.If it were ten years ago, in the face of the war threat issued by the Ming court, Fernando and the Dutch East India Company would have laughed it off. This was just the incompetent rage of the Ming Dynasty. But the problem is that in the past few years, the Dutch East India Company has We can clearly see how terrifying the Ming Dynasty is now.

Just last year, their Royal Army won a national war, sweeping away the barbaric slaves from the north of the Ming Dynasty like a breeze.

To know the true strength of the slaves, the Dutch East India Company and the Spanish Empire are very clear. They even conducted an investigation on Huang Taiji and the 30 million troops under Huang Taiji. If the elite under Huang Taiji are , only needing to mobilize 5 troops to Europa, enough to easily sweep across the entire Europa countries.

When they supported Huang Taiji, they actually had limited support. Although it was partly due to Ning Haijun's blockade of the sea at that time, more importantly, they were afraid of raising tigers to cause trouble, and they were afraid of supporting the jackal of Jiannu, which would cause trouble. The jackal transformed into a man-eating tiger.

However, this army force that could sweep across Europe did not last for a few months in front of the Ming Dynasty's new army before being completely annihilated.As for it, Cheng Shijie sent out an army three years ago and was able to destroy all the little wealth Spain had saved in Asia over the past 100 years!
Although the Dutch are not weak now and have the responsibility to challenge the Spanish Empire, the problem is that they are only stronger than the Spanish Empire at sea. On land, they rely on multinational coalition forces and even the French army as the main force. The Netherlands is still far behind in this regard. Far from enough to see.

Fernan hurriedly said to Sun Zhiman: "The Dutch East India Company and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands have no intention of invading the Ming Dynasty. They just want to do good business with the Ming Dynasty. As for the invasion of the Beibu Gulf, that is Batavia." The Governor is confused, and the United King of the Netherlands will punish that fool severely.”

"It doesn't matter how you deal with Daming's affairs internally. Daming only needs an attitude. If you go to war with Daming, Daming will definitely accompany you to the end!"

Fernand now knows what a terrible mistake he has made. Naturally, he is very aware of the strength and strategic layout of the Dutch East India Company. The only way at present is to work hard to compensate.

Fernand proposed that they could use silver and gold to make up for their mistakes. In fact, although Cheng Shijie was short of money, he was also short of supplies. The silver could actually be obtained from somewhere in his childhood. If the Dutch were asked to compensate one million and eighty million taels. Silver has little impact on Ming Dynasty now.

Sun Zhilan asked the Dutch East India Company to bring out someone with equal status to talk to him. Fernan's level was too low. Fernan immediately thought that this was a signal that Ming was ready to take action. In fact, he was there Around the courtyard, it was learned through translators that Ming Dynasty was mobilizing the navy.

In fact, this is actually another version of Jiang Qian's stolen book. If the Ming Royal Navy was mobilized, how could Fernan know about it?But the problem is that Fernan has not read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and even if he has, it is useless, because he dare not bet whether the Ming Dynasty is intimidating him, or whether he is really planning to beat the Dutch East India Company.

Just when Fernand was at a loss, a new neighbor came next door, Francisco de Melo, the representative of the Spanish Emperor. This was an old nobleman of the Spanish Empire. As early as 400 years ago, this was a family of counts.

Francisco came to the Ming Dynasty to hand over the ownership of the La Plata Plain to the Ming Dynasty. This was a letter of credence signed by the Spanish Emperor Philip IV. The official document written in Spanish and Chinese clearly stated that for Spain In friendship with the Ming Empire, the Spanish Empire donated the La Plata Plain to the Ming Empire free of charge. The Ming Empire has the legal right to rule over the La Plata Plain. No one or country may infringe upon the Ming Empire's rights in the La Plata Plain. Benefit.Faced with the sincerity of the Spanish Empire, the Ming Empire gave Francisco de Mello extremely high courtesy, and accompanied by Cheng Shijie, visited the military parade of the Ming Royal Army, and allowed Francisco de Mello to attend the Ming Dynasty Delivered a speech at the enlarged cabinet meeting.

During this speech, Francisco de Mello complained about the Ming Dynasty’s maritime ban policy, believing that this policy caused a lot of inconvenience to the trade between the two countries. It was difficult for Spanish merchants to obtain the goods they wanted through normal channels. The Ming Dynasty’s maritime policy Businessmen also don’t respect their rights, which is wrong.

Cheng Shijie followed suit and immediately said: "The regent has decided to lift the maritime ban and establish a customs department to specifically manage import and export trade to ensure the smooth flow of maritime trade channels. As for those maritime merchants who are running rampant and illegal, the navy will be sent to destroy them," he said. We’ll do it. But should you take care of those European pirates? If you don’t, then I’ll take care of it for you!”

Francisco de Mello shrugged and said helplessly: "Our Spanish Empire is trapped in the quagmire of war in Europe, and the navy is really..."

"I heard that the treasure ships of your Majesty Philip IV are often robbed by pirates?"

"Those despicable pirates..."

Cheng Shijie naturally knew what these pirates were about. In fact, Great Britain's navy relied on robbing the treasure ships of the Spanish Empire. Using the stolen silver and gold, it quickly developed into the largest navy in the world, creating the empire on which the sun never sets. of glory.

"I have an idea. Regarding the fight against piracy, our two countries, Ming and Xi, can have in-depth exchanges or in-depth cooperation!"

Francisco de Mello said repeatedly: "Your Majesty, the great Emperor, thank you so much. I think that through cooperation between our two countries, we will definitely destroy those damn European pirates and will not let them destroy the maritime trade between the two countries! "

"I hope so!!"

Cheng Shijie said: "We are not familiar with the La Plata Plains yet. I hope that your Spanish Empire can send a sea ship to lead the Ming Dynasty fleet to take over the La Plata Plains. We will return those thousands of prisoners of war to you. This matter That’s it.”

Francisco de Mello breathed a sigh of relief. Thank God, after more than half a year of hard work, he finally got these prisoners of war back!He did not dare to neglect and quickly took out a document and handed it to Cheng Shijie.

After Cheng Shijie read it, he picked up the pen and signed his name on it, stamped it, and returned it to Francisco de Mello. He had to take this document back to Spain and archive it. From then on, the La Plata Plain was basically Say goodbye to Spain.

Francisco de Melo did not feel any distress at selling the La Plata Plain, which was several times larger than the whole of Spain, in one fell swoop. In his opinion, although the La Plata Plain was large, it was useless. Land, land that does not produce gold, silver, or spices, no matter how big it is, what use is it?

Taking it out to trade with the Ming Dynasty, in exchange for establishing diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty, and in exchange for the Ming Dynasty opening the port to them and allowing them to do business freely, is much better than letting it rot in their hands. The former has nothing but hares and grass mud horses. The latter allows Spain to obtain countless silks, teas, porcelain, and spices. These are all luxuries that are worth as much as gold!In addition, it can be exchanged for the Ming Dynasty's promise not to attack their colonies in Asia, which is a huge profit!

After the negotiation was completed, the Spanish envoy tactfully expressed his hope to establish diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty. Cheng Shijie agreed without thinking, which surprised Francisco de Mello.

The emperor of the East was good at everything, but he was too arrogant and looked down on the small Western countries. He had no intention of interacting with them on an equal footing. In the eyes of the Eastern Emperor, the small Western countries could only have one relationship with the Ming Dynasty, which was to pay tribute and become vassals. diplomatic relations?Give it to your grandma!This person immediately agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Spain and allow Spanish businessmen to do business in the Ming Dynasty. What an unexpected surprise!
Francisco de Mello said: "If Ming Dynasty can send a delegation to visit Spain, the whole country of Spain will be excited!"

Cheng Shijie nodded and said very cheerfully: "I will send a mission to accompany the fleet to receive the land, pass through Spain, and pay a state visit to Spain. I also hope that the king of Spain can come to Daming as a guest."

Francisco de Mello was overjoyed: "I will definitely convey His Majesty's goodwill on your behalf. I believe the King will be very happy to come to the East as a guest!"

Francisco de Melo was very excited. The ancient East had opened its door to Spain, and countless wealth and interests were waving to Spain. He was elated and overjoyed. He seemed to have seen the wonderful scene of the king conferring honors on him... He didn't notice at all that Cheng Shijie looked at him like he was looking at a retarded person.

Although the Ming Dynasty has only half-stepped into the industrial age, the Ming Dynasty originally had a trade surplus, and the surplus was several times higher. Since it is not a national-level trade behavior, it is only a maritime and private trade behavior. If we consider With this trade volume increased to the national level, it can be predicted that Ming Dynasty will dump a large number of industrial products into the huge market of the Spanish Empire.

It is also foreseeable that the Spanish Habsburg Empire, which was beaten to paralysis by the entire Europa and could no longer hold on for long, will gain a lot of power within a certain period of time and use the wealth they have colonized more than 200 countries to transform into huge combat power. In this way, , whether it is the Dutch or the British, they will withstand the dying counterattack of a wounded tiger.

Thinking about that situation, Cheng Shijie would feel very wonderful.

With Cheng Shijie's agreement, the Ming Empire and the Spanish Empire reached a reconciliation, established diplomatic relations at the same time, opened the port to the Spanish and allowed Spanish merchants to settle and do business in the Ming Dynasty. This big piece of pie falling from the sky almost knocked the Spaniards unconscious!
They were so excited that they all agreed to Ming's long list of conditions one by one. As for the trivial matter that the two sides fought a fierce battle and killed thousands of people, they were completely ignored.

The Spanish obtained their coveted right to do business freely in the Ming Dynasty and established diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty. While the Ming Dynasty obtained a large area of ​​land, it also found a promising overseas market.

It's so sad,

"This is the ambition of us Ming people. I call this a win-win situation!"

It's a win-win situation.Europeans who are enjoying the fruits of the Age of Discovery have simply not realized what it means for a backward country to trade freely with a behemoth whose national power and culture are several blocks ahead of their own.
At this time, Europe was not the Europe with colonies all over the world and outstanding industrial strength. The colonies had not been developed in depth at all, and Europe as a whole could not produce anything that could be exported to make money. The Ming Dynasty's silk, tea, porcelain, Spices and so on are luxury goods that fascinate the whole of Europe, and demand exceeds supply. This means that the so-called bilateral trade is actually unilateral dumping!

The miserable Spanish Empire has been reduced to a product dumping ground, but it is still enjoying it, like a beggar picking up a gold ingot. Such a fool is really hard to find.

Cheng Shijie is very happy. You must know that the development of Liaodong has gradually entered a bottleneck period. Many commodities cannot be sold at all because the people of Ming Dynasty are too poor. Because they cannot sell and there are not enough profits, the enterprise cannot develop. , going out is the only way for Ming Dynasty at present.

This is an opportunity for Ming Dynasty and a challenge for Ming Dynasty. (End of chapter)