Beiyang new warlord

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Zheng Zhilong who came with Mao Jue, his old face full of sea breeze wrinkles, was filled with joyful excitement, which made every sea merchant have hope. It made everyone sink down again as if a basin of cold water had been poured on their heads.

"The imperial court will not declare war on the Spaniards because of this!"

that's true!When did the imperial court take care of the life and death of these lowly merchants, as long as they handed over the money when necessary, it is a blessing to the regent to care about their merchants, what else do the big guys expect?

Seeing the dead silence, Mao Jue was also dull for a few seconds, and then he threw the revolver on the table with a bang.

"Do you still remember the company rights that I told you when you became a shareholder of the Indian Company? You have the right to pay dividends to merchants, and on the sea, you also have the right to declare war and negotiate peace! The Spaniards in Manila are also members of their East India Company. Killed our ship, killed our people, and even slaughtered the Chinese in Hong Kong like pigs and dogs. It is also the East India Company, why should we bear it?"

"As the chairman, I propose to take out a sum of money, organize a fleet, and fight back! We will kill our people no matter how the gang of Western barbarians kill us! Repay ten times more!"

"Organizing a private army and fighting against other countries, isn't that a rebellion?"

The merchants of Ming Dynasty are really too honest and responsible. As soon as Mao Jue finished speaking, someone uttered in shock, but the noise was short-lived. Immediately, someone stabbed the person who made the utterance hard. , everyone's eyes lit up again.

The Prince Regent promised it himself. This is more effective than the emperor's imperial decree. Worry about the wool?The old Jin merchant Kang Wanli was the first to jump up, knocking on the table and shouting: "Regent, I am willing to pay 50 taels of military pay, as long as I can pay with blood!"

"I'll pay 30 taels!"

"I'll pay 60 taels!"

"I don't need a tael of silver!"

The sound of Mao Jue knocking on the table interrupted everyone again. Pointing at the pistol, he said in a gloomy and hasty voice: "The company made a profit of 710 million taels this year. We are a whole. The people in the company were killed. Naturally, the company pays for revenge, if the money is not enough, it will be raised according to the shares, and this king will take the lead!"

"Furthermore, Manila has been conquered. The spoils and output there should also be distributed according to the shares! Now what the king needs is not silver, but everyone's determination. Since you are doing it, you don't have to hide behind and yell twice. If you want to do it, you have to rush At the forefront, follow these barbarians to the end! Let them know who is the master of the East China Sea!"

"As the chairman, I vote for war! What about you!"

"Declaration of war, I, Old Zheng, will be the vanguard!"

"Declaration of war! How can I, Ming, allow these barbarians to bully me?"

"Declaration of war!"

"Declaration of war!"

This time the company's declaration of war did not come from the anger of capitalists fighting for their own interests. Mao Jue played a large part in it, leaving the company with a strong feudal mark. But since the first shot has been fired, Mao Jue believes that Well, the generous dividends can arouse the greedy appetite of the people in front of them like the blood in front of the sharks. Next time, even if they don't charge forward, they will crazily invest in it.

To be honest, this kind of capitalist expansion is without justice, bloody, dark, and cruel, but this is the universal law of this era. Why is Daming missing from the wonderful stage of the Age of Discovery?Let the benevolence, righteousness and morality be left to the rich children and grandchildren!

His eyes were also scarlet from the flames of war, and Mao Jue sneered fiercely and cruelly as he looked at the roaring shareholders.

"Let's kill his chickens and dogs!"

Chapter 648. The sad third child

Nanming was busy with a small country with few people, while Beiming was busy fighting for power.

This year, Hangzhou is lucky or unlucky. Everything has something to do with it. Finally, in winter, the north is white and snow is falling, and the south of the Yangtze River is also shivering from the cold. Yes, this year, but it has not stopped until now.

There are actually quite a few wars launched by the people in China, such as the begging army in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Dashun Army in front of us, but they were launched by the people, and they fought foreign devils with their guns pointed outward. This is the first time, the first time, the Ming Dynasty Capitalism's foreign expansion wars are of trans-epochal significance!

In order to support the war, Mao Jue also gave the green light to various strategies. Yin Shu held a clearance sale at the shipyards in Tieshan, Lutun Island, and Lushun Dandong. The level is close to that of the Royal Navy of the Empire, which was unthinkable before. Many Jiangnan ship owners took the opportunity to change their shotguns.

During the Little Ice Age, it also snowed in Hangzhou, but the light snow here couldn’t keep falling, and it would only get an annoying layer of wetness on people’s bodies. It turned into sweat and evaporated, and the hot sweat even formed a cloud and mist in Hangzhou Bay.

Standing on the newly built concrete lighthouse at the port, wearing a fox fur hat wrapped around his head and this fluffy coat, Mao Jue looks like Guo Jing and Yang Kang in the [-] edition of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, gazing at the place as far as the eye can see. The sea of ​​boats under him.

There are three first-class battleships, 78 second-class sailboats, and one hundred and fifty or sixty third-class small gunboats. These are already comparable in size to the Spanish Armada.

More importantly, it didn't cost the court a penny!

What did the United Kingdom rely on?pirate!The No.1 Francis Drake who traveled around the world in Britain was born as a pirate, and the No.1 sailing James Lancaster of the East India Company was also born as a pirate. In the Victorian era, Britain obtained as many as 200 spoils through piracy. You must know that even now, the UK's gross national income is only 300 million pounds.

Looking at these big sharks about to go to sea, Mao Jue seemed to see the next Caribbean Sea, the next Blackbeard, the next pirate prince Black Sam, the next Captain Jack Sparrow, uh...

Forget it, I don't want that teaser, anyway, Mao Jue is ambitious and plans to issue a privateer certificate, and turn Malacca, the crossroads of the world, into a pirate's paradise first.

However, compared to his ambition, even Song Xiance, the Minister of Rites who has always supported him, is still a bit sad at this time.

"General, you have really played a big game! The capital is already boiling, Mr. Fan, Mr. Shen Ge, and Mr. Sun Ge couldn't help but write a letter, asking the minister to bring it to you."

"These are all pirates! You gave them all the equipment of the Daming Navy, and I feel that you have been too thoughtless this time. If there is a repetition in the future, it will be a repeat of the Japanese invasion during the Jiajing period! No! Japanese pirates There are no cannons yet, if these guys turn against each other, they will be much more terrifying than Japanese pirates!"

"And I heard that you want to give them the right to establish government offices overseas! Isn't this the source of rebellion?"

Why was Zheng He's voyage to the West called off?It's not a labor of labor, but a check and balance of power!Tens of thousands of large fleets are floating on the sea, like a country, and the court is powerless to check and balance. Even Zheng He, a bastard eunuch, is so suspicious by the scholar-bureaucrats, not to mention that Mao Jue actually gave the most important power to a group of pirates, as he said, At the same time, Song Xiance showed a palpitation expression.

However, when it came to this, Mao Jue asked indifferently.

"Why are they rebelling?"

"This group of guys are doing business, and I ship them goods. These bastards rob, and I help them sell their stolen goods. Even when these guys establish a country overseas, I welcome them with all their hands. I have to beat gongs and drums to be knighted. They are giants, if they dare to betray Da Ming, he doesn't even have a place to spend money to enjoy himself, so why should they rebel?"

"Actually, what makes you uncomfortable is not the rebellion against security, but a group of thieves who are better than you and climbed onto the heads of the officials!"

"General, minister..."

"It shouldn't be distinguished. Even if you guys are unhappy, I still have to continue to do this. Lao Song, let me ask you, since the Tang Kaiyuan prosperity, how many years have I not really expanded my territory in China? Even if I I walked thousands of kilometers to the north, but still did not exceed the territory of the Beiyuan Dynasty. Now we have a registered population of more than 5000 million in Beiming, plus more than 3000 million in Jiangnan. Some towns in Jiangnan are already crowded. There is no place for them to stand, and the chaos is like this now, and in more than 100 years, when the population reaches [-] million, [-] million, [-] million, what should we do?"

"I kicked out a lot of Li Zichengs. I spent a little effort to let the people expand their living space. I am far-sighted. You are all short-sighted."

"General..., what you said is right!"

After Sun Chuanting, Song Xiance was the second to be defeated by Mao Jue's lips, but this guy was not as upright as Sun Chuanting, after being choked for a few seconds, his big head showed a sly smile again : "However, General, you said to move your ministers, but there are still thousands of civil and military numbers in the Manchu Dynasty! Everyone is waiting to persuade Your Highness with memorials, and even the enlightened little emperor is a little bit ready to move, secretly with a few Hanlin It means the Regent is really screwing up."

"How to clean up the situation, Prince Regent, you have to make up your own mind!"

Not to mention, Mao Jue's scalp tingled when he thought of the dense crowd of courtiers kowtowing with their heads on the ground and their buttocks in the sky. He sent Song Xiance away, and watched Adelaine come up with her round waist , he asked sadly: "Where are Le'er and Qiandaiji? I need it urgently!"

However, looking at Mao Jue's eager look, Adelaina obviously got it wrong, she couldn't help but rolled her eyes, and hummed sourly: "This concubine has only been pregnant for a few days and I can't hold it back." Living?"

"Lustful and smelly man!"

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There is a strange phenomenon in later generations, the eldest and the second are at war, and the third is unlucky, just like Jia Duobao and Wang Laoji are at war, and it is cold, Pepsi and Coca-Cola are at war, very Coke is yellow, at the end of September, in Manila, Luzon The Spaniards lost their minds and slaughtered more than 2 local Chinese. They also seized several cargo ships from the East India Company and killed more than 500 shopkeepers. The shareholders meeting, already furious, raised 6 million taels Military pay, formed a joint army of more than [-] people, but the first target was not Luzon, but Taiwan.

The Dutch in Zeelandia City, Tainan were unlucky first.

The reason is also very simple. Even ships and naval battles also need supplies. Qiongzhou, Hainan, ceded by Mao Jue, is still further south of Taiwan. It is still notoriously barren and a place where prisoners are exiled. Knowing that, if you use it as a springboard to attack Manila, Luzon, and take the Zheng He line in the Indochina Peninsula, the front will have to be fully extended.

But if Taiwan Treasure Island in the outer island chain is taken back, it is not far to go south, just go out.

And it's not just the Dutch family here, the Spaniards also built a trading base in Keelung, Taipei.

However, compared with the overwhelming East India Company fleet, how dare the Spaniards in the Keelung stronghold of only four or five hundred resist, and flee to the sea when they heard the news. After arriving in Taipei, the troops were divided into two groups immediately, and one of them took over the place and occupied the main road. On December [-], the water army came from the Luermen Bay and blocked the city of Zeelandia, the residence of the Governor of Taiwan in the Netherlands.