Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 534 Cromwell's Note to Jin Yiwei

The national power of the Ming Dynasty has entered the beginning of its heyday, and the armaments, technological development, and even food and ore energy reserves of various places have been several times that of previous years.

And today's Western Zhufans are not the Western Zhufans of later generations, and they have a contemptuous attitude towards China. Today's Ming Dynasty is still an existence they admire and cannot be underestimated by the Western Zhufans.

The recent Java Island naval battle also made them deeply realize that Ming Dynasty is indeed an overlord that cannot be provoked.

Cromwell, who was determined to ban smoking, also knew that Ming Dynasty, an oriental giant, could not be offended easily, although with the rising status of the British Empire in Europa, many short-sighted British nobles believed that the British Empire already had the ability to challenge world hegemony And they clamored to devote all their efforts to conquering Ming Dynasty, taking the shame of failure in the sea battle of Snow Java Island, but the Cromwells, as a sensible person, knew what kind of existence Da Ming was like today.

In the eyes of some Western aristocrats who were unwilling to admit the fact of the failure, the failure of the combined fleet in the Java Island naval battle often attributed the failure to the lack of strength of the commander of Frangji and the inability to form a joint force among the multinationals, and even reprimanded the main The failure of the Francine Armada of the combat mission was already on the verge of decline. If the British Empire were to be held responsible, it would definitely not have ended like this, while completely ignoring the absolute advantage that Ming had in naval battles, both in terms of equipment and the quality of its fighters.

However, Cromwell, who had a certain strategic foresight and was praised as No. 1 in the later British history to see the East with his eyes open, knew the real reason, and also understood the gap between his British Empire and the Ming Empire in the East .

Therefore, although Cromwell obtained the will of Charles I to launch an anti-smoking campaign, he did not directly and arbitrarily arrest and deport all opium trading companies in Ming Dynasty.

Cromwell decided to adopt the method of courtesy first and soldiers first, and first sent representatives to contact the Meisheng Company and other opium companies run by Ming privates in Yuanbai, and notified them to hand over all opium within one month and withdraw from the British Empire. Otherwise, all the smoke and soil will be confiscated unconditionally and the subordinates will be punished.

But the person who was in charge of the contact was a British ultra-nationalist named Tom. He looked down on the officials and merchants of Ming Dynasty who looked different from his own skin color. Wang Guangting, who was contacted by the government of the dynasty, said arrogantly: "You must hand over the opium within three days, otherwise you bunch of godless idiots will be sent to hell!"

After hearing this, Wang Guangting couldn't help but sneered, ignored the liaison officer named Tom, and continued to drink his tea politely.

And this English liaison officer named Tom wished that these Ming officials and businessmen would ignore him, so that he could go back and instigate in front of Cromwell even more, and then directly take tough measures.

Here, Wang Guangting didn't want to escalate the matter easily, so he ordered someone to send a note to Prince Edward of England, hoping that this royal nobleman who had a close relationship with Meisheng Company could mediate and persuade King Charles I of England to change his mind. Prince Edward wrote back and said that Charles I personally approved these things, and it was the time when the king was rising, and he, a royal nobleman, could not stop him.

After hearing this, Wang Guangting had no choice but to let it go, and at the same time ordered someone to bring the news back to the country. Yingjili was quite tough on the smoking ban, and begged His Majesty to send a navy to Europe to protect the country's businessmen.

In fact, there is no need for Wang Guangting's voyage across the oceans. Considering the distance between Europe and Asia, the intelligence information will not change, and the Meisheng Company will be given a certain amount of armed force. Li Dingguo, the governor of Changzhen, led the officers and soldiers of a certain brigade of the former First Army Army under the jurisdiction of Neichang, who had left Manga as early as a year ago. If they had already passed the Cape of Good Hope, they were about to enter the Mediterranean Sea. But Fan didn't dare to stop him.

This navy and army army is now nominally just an armed force hired by Meisheng Company, so it cannot be regarded as a regular army of Ming Dynasty, and does not act on behalf of the country, so it does not display the national flag, and wears military uniforms, which are still the clothes of the internal factory. It did not arouse the vigilance of the colonial companies in the western colonies along the way, nor did it arouse the vigilance of the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, this can be regarded as an extremely ironic thing. The inner factory is almost the vanguard of anti-drug and smoking ban in China, but as soon as it leaves Daming, it becomes the mainstay of protecting the opium trade and defending Daming drug dealers.

Zhu Youxiao not only sent military forces to the Atlantic Ocean under the guise of the Meisheng Company, but also asked Minister Wen Tiren of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to personally bring several interpreters who graduated from the Foreign Affairs School to the Ottoman Empire with a lot of money, and hoped to obtain them through purchase. The lease of the Suez Canal area, of course, if the Ottoman Empire is unwilling, it can only use force to forcibly occupy the area around the Suez Canal that has not yet been dug.

Today's Ottoman Empire can be regarded as a super empire spanning Eurasia, but it is a relatively conservative and dictatorial empire, and has no intention of developing a global strategy, and it does not realize that the construction of the Suez Canal is of great importance to the global ocean industry. value.

On the contrary, if Ming wants to enter the Atlantic Ocean, especially the Europa market, if there is the Suez Canal, the voyage will be greatly shortened, and the cost of long-distance ocean transportation will be reduced in terms of economics and trade. In war, Ming can open up the gateway to attack Europa more quickly and shorten the process of transporting troops, instead of only going around the Cape of Good Hope like now, almost a large circle to enter the Atlantic Ocean.

It is precisely because of this that the logistics supply problem must be considered, so Ming can only send a small amount of military force, and it is still unable to attack Europa on a large scale and destroy its country.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao can also attack by land. However, countless countries in the Western Regions have to be opened up on land. It is not that Ming cannot sweep the Western Regions, but the military cost is not low, and all countries cannot be turned into enemies. When you combine vertical and horizontal, you have to combine vertical and horizontal.

But if the Suez Canal is opened, it will be different. Ming can directly enter the Mediterranean Sea from the Red Sea, and can quickly reach Franji, and if the land-based Eurasian communication line is opened, it will be able to advance both sea and land, precisely because of the huge strategic significance. Zhu Youxiao had high hopes for Wen Tiren, and he even asked Wen Tiren that no matter what Osman wanted, Dou could agree, as long as he leased the Isthmus of Suez area to Daming permanently.

(End of this chapter)