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Chapter 481 It’s time to kick the Dutch out

After the war in the Monan Grassland was over, the tribes in Monan and the Heilongjiang Dusi were completely settled.

Monan and Heilongjiang are stable, and Khalkha Mongolia in Mobei is no longer a concern.

To put it bluntly, the Khalkha Mongols are just a bunch of unfed wolves. Regardless of their honesty now, it was all due to the pressure of Tsarist Russia. During the Huangtaiji period, they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and then quickly surrendered and rebelled again.

Zhu Yijiong didn't believe that Mobei could surrender obediently just because he defeated the Manchus.

Moreover, once the grassland problem is solved, Ming Dynasty will be free to deal with Sichuan and Tibet.

The Ancient Tea Horse Road here has been completely blocked because of the Tatars fleeing into Kangzang.The loss of the Tea Horse Road will not only have a great impact on Sichuan, but also Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan and Guizhou will be implicated.

Fortunately, Zhu Yijiong opened up a way to buy horses by sea, specifically buying horses from India, otherwise even the central hub would be affected.

Of course, it was still affected.

Because the Ancient Tea Horse Road is gone, the central government has to spend money here to restore civil administration.

If this year's focus had not been on northern Xinjiang, the Mobei War would have ended too quickly. In addition, the war in Monan broke out, and the Ming Dynasty had no choice but to solve the grassland problem first. Anyway, Sichuan and Tibet should not be a big problem in a short time, and the population there is also small. not much.

By the way, the outbreak of the war in Monan was also due to the pressure from Mobei. The tribes in Monan did not want Mobei to interfere with the Monan grassland, so they suddenly provoked a melee with the intention of unifying Monan so that they could fight against Mobei.

The six cabinet ministers had dispersed. There were a lot of government affairs discussed just now, and there were more details to be dealt with. Zhu Yijiong sat on the soft couch and closed his eyes to rest.

Not long after, the British envoy was introduced into the hall.

"Meet Your Majesty the Emperor!"

"Free, get up!"

Zhu Yijiong got up from the soft couch. The British envoy arrived half a month ago. In the past half month, Honglu Temple has been receiving and discussing, and it was only today that he was allowed to summon them. This also means that Honglu Temple has almost finished the discussion.

Zhu Yijiong said: "The United Kingdom broke the Sino-Dutch monopoly agreement and secretly smuggled porcelain, cigars, and even cinchona trees with Dutch businessmen. I need an explanation from the United Kingdom."

The envoy was still the same Henry as last time, and he quickly explained: "Your Majesty, the UK did not intentionally break the monopoly agreement between China and the Netherlands. The UK was also deceived by the Dutch. Not only did these Dutch sell Chinese porcelain and cigars to the monopoly area at high prices, They traded it to us and deliberately failed to explain to the British businessmen that cinchona trees were monopoly goods. They made the British businessmen think that cinchona trees were also tradable goods and earned the gold and silver in their hands."

It was all an excuse. Although porcelain and cigars were monopolized goods, Zhu Yijiong did not prohibit the British from buying and selling them from the Dutch.It's just that the British and Dutch went to smuggle it. Many British businessmen cooperated with Dutch businessmen, or even hired them, and used their identities to directly import these two monopoly goods from China.

That's the problem!
There is also the cinchona tree, which is a medicine monopolized by Spain. In order to colonize the Far East, the British had been deliberately trying to get it from the Spanish, and they actually succeeded in stealing it later.Therefore, it is impossible for them not to know the cinchona tree, let alone the monopoly value of the cinchona tree.

Zhu Yijiong was too lazy to talk nonsense: "You don't need to deliberately deceive and explain. I can forgive your previous behavior and even share porcelain, cigars, and cinchona trees with the UK. But if the UK wants these, it has to pay a price."

Henry had already talked with Honglu Temple in advance, and he was already convinced. At this moment, he said: "Your Majesty, the Dutch are despicable, violated the monopoly agreement with China, and invaded China's Malacca in Southeast Asia, which seems to have been China's The Sherwin Division of Old Port. The British are now willing to help His Majesty, drive out those Dutch, and regain the Malacca colony that belongs to China for Your Majesty."

Henry definitely didn't know what the Xuanwei Division in Old Port was before he came. This was obviously Zhu Yijiong's instruction to discuss it with the British at Honglu Temple.

The Dutch ally was so greedy that in order to make a small profit, they did not hesitate to violate the monopoly trade agreement between China and the Netherlands, and even smuggled goods to each other with the British.

In a country with a businessman government like this, you never know what outrageous things they can do.In addition, the Netherlands is already in decline, not to mention the mainland, and its colonies in the Far East are just hanging on.

Moreover, the most important thing is that the Netherlands has lost its strategic value to China. Originally, China was pulling the Netherlands to fight Spain and needed the Dutch maritime power.As a result, the expeditionary force found that these Dutch were extremely weak and had to rely on the Chinese navy to provide their own efforts, even using explosive bombs to achieve a surprise victory.

Now, China's own naval fleet has been officially established. The first batch of Ming-style Galen ships have already been launched in Fujian. Although the wood used is not the best teak, it is also the best wood left over from the previous official warehouses, and the quality must be acceptable.

The Ordnance Bureau is currently building artillery and explosive shells for Ming-style Galen ships. Even the sailors of this navy are using Fujian and Guangdong coastal ships. Tang Tongjiang has been transferred to be the commander of the navy, specifically responsible for commanding and training these ships. A new navy.

Now that the Dutch are useless, it's time to kick them out and find a new ally to take over.And it’s not completely eliminated, it just lost the Spice Islands in Malacca.

The Netherlands also had Sulawesi and South Philippine colonies, which happened to allow them to transfer their energy to the Philippines.

Otherwise, when China annexes the Philippines, it will have to spend time cleaning up the indigenous Filipinos.

Zhu Yijiong frowned: "It is unreasonable for the Netherlands to hide from China and invade Xuanwei Division of Old Port without authorization. Since Xuanwei Division of Old Port is our Ming Dynasty territory, Ming China should recover it. Since Britain wants to send troops to assist, it seems that before It is indeed a deception for the Dutch. If the Netherlands deviates from the Sino-Dutch monopoly agreement, it will no longer be eligible to participate in the Sino-Dutch monopoly trade. The positions vacated by Dutch merchants will be filled by British merchants from now on!"

In a few words, the Dutch were kicked out of the monopoly trade.

This is the benefit of the Celestial Kingdom. With enamel and cigars in hand, it can completely achieve commercial monopoly on today's European countries.European countries cannot resist if they want to, because they will definitely not be able to do business with the Chinese, and goods will have to be imported from them, and they will definitely not be able to defeat the Chinese army with mysterious firearms in a war.

Henry was also very happy. After talking for more than half a month, the Chinese emperor finally nodded: "Your Majesty, the great emperor, Britain will be China's eternal ally."

As for helping China fight against the Dutch Malacca colony, it doesn't matter. Today's Netherlands is already dead. There is still some combat effectiveness in the Far East, but it is definitely not enough to face the British.

In the previous three Anglo-Dutch naval battles on the mainland, the Dutch lost miserably, and now there is a Chinese fleet joining forces.

Two against one, the advantage is mine.

Zhu Yijiong asked: "How much strength the Dutch have in Malacca now, the British should know in Bencoolen, right?"

Henry nodded: "Your Majesty, please rest assured. Since the Dutch divided the South Philippines with China, they have dispatched nearly half of their navy to the north to station in the South Philippines and establish a new colony. Today in Malacca, the Dutch fleet has Less than half of the original number, the army has less than a thousand men. However, the Netherlands has strong control over Malacca and should be able to recruit thousands of indigenous servants during the war, but it is not a cause for concern."

In this way, it is almost the same as Spain, or even worse than Spain, because the Dutch's strongest navy has been weakened by half.

Zhu Yijiong nodded: "In that case, then the matter is settled. When next summer comes, I will send troops together with the British to conquer the Dutch."

Although it is still early in the year, it would take several months for Henry to make a round trip, and it would definitely not be possible to rely solely on the manpower from the Bencoolen colony. He would also have to mobilize troops from the East India Company in the Bombay and Chennai colonies in India.

After this, and the rainy season climate in Java Island, we can only send troops in the summer next year.

Henry also wanted to continue discussing the distribution of benefits after the war, but was dismissed by Zhu Yijiong casually. He could only think of going back and asking several Chinese adults at Honglu Temple.

However, this guy is probably destined to be unable to talk about anything useful.

Because the British wanted Batavia, and the Ming Dynasty also wanted Batavia.Not only Batavia, but also the entire Dutch colony, and the British colony of Bencoolen, the Ming Dynasty wanted them all.

Therefore, if we talk about this, we will definitely not be able to reach an agreement. It is better not to talk about it now and wait until the fight is over. In the worst case, we will use monopoly trade and the French to threaten Britain.

　In the 41st year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1702), a tea pass was established in Dajianlu (Kangding).After that, the Luding Bridge was built on the Dadu River and the "Wasigou Road" was opened directly to Dajianlu.The original tea route from Diaomen (Tianquan) through Lianghekou, Angzhou River, Lan'an, Pengba and Dajianlu was changed to Tianquan-Lianglukou-Menkanshan-Ma'anshan-Luding Bridge-Dajianlu-line.Lan'an Port declined as a result, and Dajianlu became a distribution center for Sichuan tea exported to Tibet and a transportation hub on the Sichuan-Tibet Avenue.In the Qing Dynasty, the two tea-horse roads in the south and north from Dajianlu to Qamdo were the South Road Avenue: from Dajianlu through Litang, Batang, Jiangka (Mangkang), Chaya to Qamdo.Since this road is mainly used by officers and soldiers stationed in Tibet and transporting grain and wages to Tibet, it is customarily called the "Sichuan-Tibet Official Road"; North Road Avenue: from Dajianlu through Daofu, Ganzi, Dege, Jiangda to Qamdo .This road was originally the main road of the Sichuan-Tibet Tea Horse Road in the Ming Dynasty. It was the main road for tea transport teams, so it was customarily called the Sichuan-Tibet Trade Road. After the two roads merged in Qamdo, they were further divided into the "Cao Cao Road" from Qamdu. " and "Shuoda Luosong Avenue" will converge to Lhasa.

　　
　
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