Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1797 Europa Universalis ([-])

Gao Wengang's negotiations with the Spaniards on the eastern part of the Pampa Plain lasted for two or three days.

King Carlos and Prince Don Juan showed up on the first day, and sent their subordinates to negotiate in the next two days. This may be because they are tired of this "boring war of words".But in any case, entrusting professional things to professional people is indeed the basic quality of the superiors, and the subordinates have indeed completed the tasks well.

First of all, the Spaniards finally succeeded in forcing the people on the east coast to agree to the clause that they should not cross the railway line westward within a specified time in the preliminary agreement reached, and this so-called "set time" was tentatively set at 20 years.It was a victory for the Spaniards, who had managed to keep the western half of the Pampa, with its mild climate, moderate rainfall, fertile, and flat terrain, away from the people of the east coast for 20 years.

Of course, their so-called "victory" is very sad, because they did not prevent the fall of the eastern half of the Pampa Plain, and finally agreed that the people on the east bank can go to these areas to operate various industries including agriculture. .Yes, that's right, it's not an exaggeration to use the word "occupied" to describe it. Gein, whether he is a Spaniard or a person from the east coast, knows in his heart that this is tantamount to abandoning the part east of the Yanbu Railway land up.

Just imagine, when tens of thousands of farmers, merchants, craftsmen, mercenaries, and exiled prisoners flocked to the east coast, who could drive them away?They reclaim land here, grow food, fruits, vegetables, graze cattle and sheep, fish and beekeeping, and the industry has formed a certain scale. If the East Bank government sends people to manage it, [-]% will not leave. !Everyone is not a fool, and this point can still be understood. The Mesopotamia area (ie Hejian) was a good example.

The Spaniards estimate that the people on the east coast now promise to pay about 15 pesos a year in "use fees" to the Spanish side, and they may also pay tens of thousands of pesos in so-called taxes.These fees, to put it bluntly, are appeasement fees for the Spanish side, which shows that we East Coast people still have a bottom line in doing things, there are rules, and we will not do things for nothing.But after ten or 20 years, I am afraid that the people on the east bank will take the opportunity to make trouble again, that is, find a way to get the land east of the Yanbu Railway into the hands of the East Coast Republic in black and white, and give the Spaniards at most 20 million The compensation in pesos is actually just a way of renting first and then buying, and the ultimate goal is to swallow the land.

But this is also very good!Don't you see, during the inheritance transfer war, the French robbed more than a dozen wealthy towns in the Southern Netherlands, such as Lille and Thiers, did they give money?Strasbourg Villefranche and many nearby towns still exchanged half of Hispaniola for the sake of the people on the east coast, but those in the southern Netherlands can provide a lot of tax revenue The city, but it was taken away directly without giving a peso, and the ally United Provinces and relatives Austria did not help Spain fight for interests in this, it is not as good as an outsider on the east coast!

What's more, the Buenos Aires Prosecutor's Court area is just a deserted place that has been temporarily fiddled with for a few years, and it has little benefit to the Kingdom of Spain.In fact, as long as several important cities including Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Santa Fe are preserved, and the people on the east coast promise that Spanish ships can freely navigate the Paraná and La Plata rivers, then Everything is easy to say, after all, La Plata's greatest significance to the Kingdom of Spain is the backup route for silver ships.

Therefore, after planning to get some money from people on the east coast and at the same time ensure that Buenos Aires and other places will not be lost in a short period of time, considering the turmoil in the domestic situation and the heavy pressure from abroad, Card King Loos and Prince Don Juan finally gave the nod to the East Coaster's request.At present, Gao Wengang has drawn up an agreement text with them, and plans to arrange a ship next month to send the agreement text and some other important diplomatic letters back to the mainland on a sailing fast liaison ship, and hand them over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the executive branch. Committee review and approval.

After finishing the work in Spain, Gao Wengang, the East Coast Plenipotentiary Envoy to Europe with a big stone in his heart, spent a few days touring Madrid and its surrounding areas, and then rode eastward on horseback, sailing to sea in Barcelona , headed east to the port of Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire, where he would stay for a long time and deal with some important business.

On April 1679, 4, the ship that Gao Wengang and others took arrived at Smyrna, the largest port of the Ottoman Empire. As soon as they arrived, they received a report from the person in charge of the local trading station. Rushing to Moldavia, Kara Mustafaaga, who was stationed there with the orthodox army, called urgently.

Originally, for a person of Gao Wengang's status, even the Grand Vizikoprulu of the Ottoman Empire would have to be polite when he saw him, so he wouldn't be summoned by a Qiu Ba who said so.Especially now that the Ottoman Empire has been fighting for years and the money shortage is reappearing (the country has experienced many money shortages in the past five years, each time bringing great difficulties to trade), the people on the east coast are doing business in this country. Too much momentum moving around.But who made Gao Wengang want to do something when he took office as a new official, and he hadn't visited the commercial stations in Kaffa, Haji, and Burgas for many times, so he finally planned to go north to the Black Sea.

While sailing northward by boat to Moldavia, Gao Wengang also brought the ambassador to Istanbul, Malati, and asked him many questions along the way, mainly about the current situation in Ottoman and the Black Sea.

"The economy of the Ottoman Empire is on the verge of collapse." Marathi has worked in Ottoman for more than ten or twenty years, and Gawain was startled when he opened his mouth. At present, it seems that countries with a population of more than 20 million and more than 20 million such as France and Ottoman can afford it. France has a developed handicraft industry and a population of 2000 million. After so many years, it cannot sustain it. Although Ottoman has It has a population of 3000 million, but its industrial base is weak, internal friction is also high, the government's tax base is small, and it has been fighting with Poland, Russia, and Ukrainian Cossacks for years, which consumes a lot of money, and now it has shown serious fatigue."

"Why hasn't it ended with Poland yet? Now the Russian troops in Eastern Ukraine have increased again and again, from 4 to 7, right? No matter how many Ottoman soldiers are, they can't withstand the situation of being attacked by the enemy. What do you think? ?” Gao Wengang was really helpless. Before he left Istanbul for Amsterdam to take up his post, Ottoman and Poland were fighting to death. After he went there, he once heard that the fighting had subsided, but why does it sound like it’s not over yet?

"It has basically subsided, but the small-scale war has never stopped, because the Ottomans not only occupy the Podolia region of Poland, but also control most of Western Ukraine. These two places were originally the territory of the Poles. Who would change them? You have to be in a hurry, let alone an ambitious king like Sobieski." Malati spread his hands and said helplessly: "Koprulu is too greedy, he took Podolia himself back then, The Poles also signed the land cession treaty, which is an important achievement of his, so he can’t let it go anyway. Doroshenko was also the one who advocated taking in Doroshenko and named him Hetman of West Ukraine. Now he is disheartened and cold, West Ukraine The capital was occupied by Samoilovich's people, so you can't just sit idly by. So, you see, the Ottomans are fighting on two fronts, at the same time fighting with Poland and Russia in two directions, and the West Ukraine The Cossacks are actually not stable, and they are more hostile to the Ottomans, which can be seen from the fact that Khmelnytsky was unable to recruit anyone since he was a child."

In other words, the Cossacks in Western Ukraine are also Christians after all, and they naturally distrust the Ottomans extremely.Although it is currently ruled by the Ottomans due to the situation, there should not be too much contact with Samoilovich in Eastern Ukraine in private. Several battles have been directly released, as evidenced by the loss of its capital Chijilin without a war. .

The Ottomans had no choice but to release Yuri Khmelnytsky (son of the old Khmelnytsky, leader of the Cossack uprising) who was imprisoned by Doroshenko from prison, and then gave him some troops and supplies, Sealed the title of "Little Rose and the Duke of Ukraine", let him be a puppet of Western Ukraine, and regained Chijilin.

But at present, it seems that the effect is still very limited. First of all, his appeal is not as strong as that of his father. Secondly, Western Ukraine has been almost turned into a white ground, with heavy losses. Even the temporary capital of Nemirov City is in ruins. May I ask how to support the army under such circumstances, how to counterattack and regain lost ground?As a last resort, the Ottomans still had to go into battle in person, and transferred horses from the army stationed in Moldavia to guard against the Poles into Ukraine, and together with Khmelnytsky's troops, besieged Samoilovich. Cossack and Russian armies.

The Ottoman army fought hard against the Russians throughout 1678 and 1679, finally retaking Chigirin, which had been razed to the ground, last year.In this war, Eastern Ukraine and the Russian army suffered heavy losses, but the losses of the Ottomans were not light at all. In the two-year-long tug-of-war, the Ottoman Empire killed and injured tens of thousands of soldiers and consumed countless money and supplies. Coupled with the domestic economic difficulties, the lost equipment cannot be purchased in time to replenish, so we can only try to produce it ourselves again. This is simply a vicious circle.

Moreover, although Samoilovich of Eastern Ukraine was expelled from the West Bank, he has been sending people to sneak into the West Bank. With the support of the Leading Party, he has been easily capturing one town after another, and then forced the population to the East, destroying the The local fortress, fields and houses, the area around Kiev, which used to be called the elite area, has become a deserted wilderness. I have not seen a single person for two days, which shows that Samoilovich acted fiercely and thoroughly.

Compared with this tyrannical leader of Eastern Ukraine, besides constantly imposing heavy taxes on the few remaining people, Khmelnytsky can only suppress the successive rebellions in various places.Moreover, this feeling of being exhausted and extremely depressed atmosphere also crushed the poor man's heart. He became irritable, sensitive, suspicious and impulsive. , As a result, the whole of Western Ukraine was even more alienated from Germany. Almost every month, the Cossack leader led his troops across the river to defect to Samoilovich.

"In this way, Western Ukraine is now a paper house, which is maintained entirely by the Ottoman garrison. Once they withdraw, the Russian army of Duke Romodanovsky may not be dispatched, and only Samoilo Vichi himself can probably rule the two banks of the Dnieper River." Gawain patted his thigh and said somewhat sadly.

Although he had a rough understanding of the current situation in Ukraine from some official documents before, after a careful chat with Malati, he found that the situation was far more complicated and serious than he had imagined.It can be said that the Ottomans have really fallen into this big pit now, at least partially. They have been dragging forty to fifty thousand elite troops here all the year round, and it is very difficult to do anything.You know, although the Ottomans dispatched 20 troops at every turn, at least more than half of them were made up. These servants from the Arabian Peninsula, the Balkans, and the Caucasus have different ideas, and it’s okay to fight with the wind However, if the war is unfavorable and there is a turmoil, I am afraid that it will be scattered like the 80 Jin army of the former Qin Fujian in Chinese history.

Therefore, the Ottoman Empire did not have as many troops as imagined, and the country would not exceed 10 people. As a result, half of them were trapped in Ukraine. At the same time, they had to face the pressure of the Poles. If the treaty is signed and it has not yet expired, the coalition forces from Germany are estimated to have already entered Serbia.

"We must 'lighten' the Ottomans." Malati said: "First let them stop the war with the Poles, withdraw the troops stationed in Podolia and Moldavia, and then find a way Peace talks with the Russians, the two countries each restrain the Cossacks in their own territory, and each secures the border. Speaking of which, the two countries have already signed a treaty and are in peace, but Doroshenko and Samoilovich are too annoying. It actually forcibly moved the situation, involving Russia, Ottoman, and Crimea, and fought for a whole year. What is the purpose of this? Is the country united?"

"The war in Ukraine really must be calmed down, otherwise our Black Sea trade will be completely ruined, although the current trade volume has dropped to a very pitiful level." Gao Wengang nodded, and said with emphasis: "The Dnieper River, the Don River , The Danube cannot be caught in endless war!"

(End of this chapter)