The Rise of Iceland

When His Royal Highness Olaf, the godfather of the Swedish Empire, burned the third fire, the Ming Dynasty in the Far East had already become a pot of porridge.

The emperor Dashun accidentally killed him in Jiugong Mountain. Cheng Jiubo, who had robbed the dragon, didn't know that he had changed the general trend of the world and ruined Dashun's last bit of luck.

At the same time, Nanjing Yingtian Mansion was also conquered by the Qing army, and Emperor Hongguang Zhu Yousong, the first monarch of the Nanming court, had already become a prisoner of Prince Duoduo of Yu.

As the younger brother of the regent of the Qing emperor's uncle, in the case of Dorgon, as long as he does not die early, he can become Dorgon's successor and continue to serve as the regent of the emperor's uncle.

It is a pity that although Dudor was young in history, he did not live his brother Dorgon. Even though the far west has undergone earth-shaking changes due to the birth of Olaf and Iceland, it has not affected the Far East.

At least Dashun entered Beijing, Chongzhen hanged Meishan and Wu Sangui asked the Qing Dynasty to enter the customs, etc. The time and time exactly coincided with the time events that Olaf knew.

So beginning last summer, Olaf asked the Danish East India Company, the Swedish East India Company, and the Dutch East India Company to collect more information about the country and send it back with the ship.

So it was only after autumn that Olaf received the news that the Nanming Hongguang court and Dashun had been destroyed. It is estimated that the follow-up news should be on the way too. Olaf muttered to himself while looking at the same information in the Far East as he remembered. Said: "It is now 1645. The Qing Dynasty will sweep the entire celestial dynasty in the next ten years. When the last Emperor Yongli of Nanming is strangled to death outside Kunming, the Qing Dynasty will usher in the Qing Dynasty."

Olaf murmured a few words and felt that the current large-scale merchant ships in the United Principality of Iceland are no less than those of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Although the total number is less than that of the two countries or even Spain, the top large-scale warships have surpassed Spain and are about the same as the United Kingdom. NS.

Therefore, now that the Netherlands, Britain, and Spain have established colonies or strongholds in India, the Far East, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, they have colonized their fortunes in the era of great voyages, and at the same time possessed the best maritime Silk Road in the world, such as Iceland and Pomeranian. The national power of the United Principality of Nia was able to establish an East India Company, which took advantage of the opportunity of the Celestial War to sell arms and pour silk and porcelain to make money. What's more, the gap between gold and sulfur in Japan is also very low. Dozens of times the profit.

The Nanming court now controls the most prosperous South, and through Macao’s assistance from the West, Olaf is very clear that the strongest is the Qing Dynasty, and the one who is passively beaten is Nanming, but the richest is Nanming, so Olaf has already I have determined that I want to be friends with Nan Ming. As long as I can help Nan Ming support for more than a few decades, the money earned from the celestial circle may exceed the sum of running Wenlan in more than ten years.

Although there is no GDP data to support, but looking at the trade throughput and the amount of silver loss, European countries know in their hearts that the ancient civilization in the Far East with hundreds of millions of people is the richest country in the world, and their market is comparable to the entire Europe. Therefore, from Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands in the Ming Dynasty to Britain and France in the Qing Dynasty, leveraging the market openings of the Far Eastern dynasty has become the only obsession of all maritime powers in Europe.

The war in Europe has just stopped, and all countries are recuperating and licking their wounds. Olaf’s current status and power have reached the peak, and he is the only speaker in Northern Europe. His power status has been able to compete with the new French King Louis XIII and the protector of the British Republic. Remwell, Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand III and other European monarchs are on the same level.

Russia has not yet risen. It is regarded as a pseudo-emperor who claims to be the inheritance of Caesar behind closed doors. Poland was manipulated by Olaf in the southeastern hinterland and independent of the Cossacks. King Władysław IV also called Olaf to hang, since Since then, the largest country in Eastern Europe has collapsed, becoming a second-class country with Russia.

Therefore, the current situation in Europe is that there is no power in Eastern Europe, and the Shenluo in Central Europe has not been unified. It is still empty and has no strength. The Spanish army in Western Europe is not as good as France, and the navy is not as good as England. So the strongest country in Europe is really true. It is the Swedish empire, the overlord of Northern Europe, followed by Britain and France, the navy first and the army, who beat their neighbors.

Now, in countries including Sweden, no one has the strength to start a war again. Therefore, Europe has fallen into a temporary peace. In recent years, overseas colonization has become the mainstream of various maritime powers.

Sweden started the latest. During the Uxenschena period, it only seized a small island in the West Indies to grow sugar cane. Olaf now uses the Privy Council to ship ten Galen ships to the Vinland Shipyard and the Iceland Shipyard. Orders. At present, Iceland and the United Grand Duchy of Pomerania already have shipbuilding technology and equipment comparable to those of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. At the same price, any power under the Swedish empire system can only place orders from the shipyards of the Grand Duchy, including Denmark. In the past few years, I bought five Galen ships and ten creek ships. Thanks to the expansion of the Indian colony, I got a lot of jute and grain, so that the East India Company and Christensen I made a lot of money. Very happy.

Olaf has lived in the palace two days a week since he became the godfather regent. In addition to teaching Christina about military affairs and handling government affairs, the rest of the time is to watch Christina exchange philosophy and literature with Descartes, Song Qinghe and other Chinese and Western academic masters. He also occasionally participated in the translation of Eastern scriptures and poems in person.

This time after an afternoon tea exchange, Olaf also told Christina that he was going to let the Privy Council and the Congress support private capital to participate, set up the stock exchange and the East India Company in Stockholm, and planned to find colonial sites in India and Southeast Asia. The acquisition of wealth is also to obtain territories and supply points in the Far East and the Middle East, and to rectify the name of the maritime power, and also to bind the power of the United Grand Duchy and Sweden through colonial activities.

In the future, we must not only consider colonization, but also participate in the civilized circles of the Far East. Only in this way is the only choice for the poor land, cold climate, and sparsely populated northern Europe to maintain a strong national power.

Naked plundering and interoperability under the business model are the road to a strong country. It is definitely not a way to work behind closed doors. Now the entire Western development model is colonial plundering of backward areas and commerce in civilized areas. Viking culture is even more robbing with a knife in one hand. ~www.readwn.com~ Doing business with a bag in one hand, so Olaf feels that now is the time to expand, colonize, and develop international commerce.

When the Little Ice Age is over more than ten years later, sweet potato potatoes will become popular all over the world, even if Wenlan has always tried to prevent foreign countries from knowing that Wenlan relies on potatoes and sweet potatoes as the raw materials and main rations of starch and caramel. Feed, etc., but the consumption of potatoes and sweet potatoes by the people has gradually spread. Therefore, the general planting and breeding improvements will be unstoppable in the second half of this century. In the future, the hunger problem that plagues Eastern and Western civilizations will be unstoppable. Alleviated, the population will also usher in a wave of expansion.

Kangqian's sweet potato flourish can turn more than 100 million people into 40,000, and Europe will also change from about 100 million to more than 300 million thanks to potatoes.

However, the most full-bodied in this wave of dividends is Russia, which occupies the black lands of Eastern Europe. Therefore, relying on the population, Russia defeated Sweden and blasted Poland in the early 18th century, becoming the strongest country in Eastern Europe. Since then, Northern Europe has also enjoyed great prosperity Not anymore.

Olaf knew that even if the Nordic countries were unified into one country, in the future, facing a rapidly increasing population of Russia, it would be good to be able to keep it from being crushed. It is inevitable to be overthrown, so he will now start to integrate the Viking system with the Nordic countries. Bundled, through overseas colonization and trade exchanges with the Far East to embark on a road that never sets empire, so as to ensure that there is blood transfusion from all over the world, so that Russia can be completely suppressed and his arrangements can be properly arranged.