Chapter 1243: Ban Portuguese tribute
Huang Qing took the comrade and other people back to the flight in a breezy manner. After returning to Guangzhou, he immediately went to the court, the Thai-Western Portuguese. The frog at the bottom of the well, ignorant of the greatness of Da Ming, wanted to sit on equal foot with my emperor!
This Feng Zhao Zuo was also in a hurry, and arrived in Beijing within a few days. Then, the old man Li Dongyang also scratched his head-what should he do if the other party does not give face? Waiting online, quite urgently ...
This is not to say that Li Dongyang dared not fight, but that Malacca is far away from overseas, and if he wants to send troops, he must first build a batch of large ships ...
According to the Manchurian Canadians, the Portuguese have good fighting strength and there are thousands of troops. If you want to defeat it, it is estimated that tens of thousands of troops.
If it is on land, it is no problem to mobilize tens of thousands of troops. The problem is that the thorns are farther overseas. If you want to transport tens of thousands of troops, you have to build a treasure ship fleet like Zheng He.
The problem is, the Manchu officials are definitely not willing to create a new treasure ship fleet. Because, to manufacture a batch of treasure ships capable of carrying tens of thousands of armies alone, the cost will be hundreds of thousands. The treasure ship needs a boatman and a sailor. The total cost is estimated to be several million.
Moreover, the drawings of the treasure ship and the sailing charts of the Western Ocean have been wiped out by Liu Daxia. Even the craftsmen of Longjiang Bao Shipyard gave it to Marin. Even if you want to make it, there is no condition.
What's more, even if the treasure fleet is re-made, it is useless. After this war is over, the fleet will be idle, which is very cost-effective ...
After intense discussions, the Manchu ministers thought that the expedition to Manchu was unrealistic. However, if you do n’t give the younger brother a face and no face ...
At this time, Yang Yiqing, who had always been resourceful, said:
"Everyone, I heard that the host of the Beihai Kingdom, Marin, said that the land of Taixi loves my silk and porcelain goods from Daming. Since the troops are not sent properly, we may wish to inform the Portuguese-if you do not return the full thorn plus People ’s land prohibits the Portuguese from coming! ”
"Forbid the Portuguese from coming to the DPRK?" When the civil officials heard it, it seemed very reasonable ... Looks like, if those vassals can't come to the DPRK, they must be sad ...
In fact, they guessed right. If the tribute trade is not allowed, those who have tasted sweetness will certainly be disappointed.
Then, Yang Yiqing said:
"In addition to threatening to prevent the Portuguese from coming to the North, we can also give tribute rewards to the Manchurians with a group of matchlock guns, Franc cannons, and corresponding ammunition to help them counterattack the Portuguese. It cost a lot of money to send troops overseas. "
The craftsmen brought by Marin have already taught the Ming artisans to make matchlock guns and Frang guns. Anyway, the Ming dynasty will also give back goods to the Manchurians. Just wait for the next full thorn and come to the tribute, and give back some matchlock guns, Frang guns and enough gunpowder. In this way, it can also enhance the fighting power of Manchu plus people.
Soon, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty agreed to Yang Yiqing's two plans and reported them to Emperor Zhengde.
The young and belligerent Zhengde was very dissatisfied. He believed that the imperial court should send troops to rescue the country's Manchuria and promote the Ming Dynasty's prestige.
However, Yang Yiqing reached out and said:
"Your Majesty, bring it!"
"What do you want?" Zhengde was a little dumbfounded.
"Twenty thousand silver for making a treasure ship!" Yang Yiqing bullied Zhengde not knowing shipbuilding, and directly said that the cost of shipbuilding was dozens of times higher ...
Zheng De immediately counseled, although tens of millions of silver were copied from Liu Jin's house. However, in the past two years, the suppression of the Liuliu Liuqi peasant uprising and the Jiangxi peasant uprising cost millions of dollars. Moreover, the Manchu civil servants had long been eyeing this money, and they all planned their uses. Besides, Zhengde still needs to take out some of them and form heavy armoured cavalry to deal with the Ming Dynasty ’s largest enemy, the Mongolian Ministry.
Then, this matter was handled in accordance with Yang Yiqing's opinion-while the Ming court threatened Portugal not to pay tribute, while the craftsmen asked the craftsmen to build a group of matchlock guns and Franc cannons, in order to give Manchuria next time, let them fight Portugal go with.
In this way, without knowing it, the princes of the Kingdom of Portugal were arrogantly deprived by Albuquerque's stubborn head of opportunities to start trade with Daming.
In fact, when Albuquerque was negotiating with Huang Qinghe, Manuel I was already considering pretending to pay tribute to obtain the qualification to purchase silk and porcelain from Daming. Only, he thought for nothing. Because, Albuquerque, his men, had been provoked in the secret of Kong Tai, breaking the possibility of peaceful exchanges with Daming ...
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On the Keelung side, Kong Tai, who was back, was also writing a report. He would use the Chinese characters in the report to secretly make the trip during the negotiations in Malacca, and send people back to the country.
It should be pointed out that because there are skilled shipbuilding craftsmen sent from Daming Longjiang Bao Shipyard, and later Liu Daxia and others sent thousands of shipbuilding craftsmen.
Under the guidance of the marine craftsmen left by Marin, Kong Tai let thousands of Mingming shipbuilding craftsmen use the wood, tung oil, raw lacquer, copper nails and other shipbuilding materials purchased from Fuzhou to have built 5 250 Armed merchant ship. Moreover, the bottom of the ship is very luxurious, using the iron wood that the ship maggots can't move.
As it happens, this time, the ship sent a letter to Panama City, and Conte sent three of them (the sailor and the captain were not enough for 5 ships), and sent the letter to Panama City. At the same time, it also sent a batch of silk and porcelain purchased from Daming, as well as finished tung oil and lacquer urgently needed by the Long Island Shipyard in New York, North America.
Although Marin had planted tung oil and lacquer in Savannah and the Pampas grasslands in Argentina, these two trees have to grow for several years to produce. Therefore, in the past few years of shipbuilding, we still count on tung oil and lacquer purchased from Daming.
In addition, Marin also instructed to open the route from Panama City to Keelung as early as possible to facilitate the circulation of goods. In addition to the urgently needed materials such as tung oil and lacquer that need to be shipped to the Americas, Daming's silk and porcelain are also very welcome in the European market. At the same time, it can bring huge profits to Marin.
Marin did not expect ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Keelung shipbuilding so smooth here. In fact, the shipbuilding conditions in the Ming Dynasty were very good. Because, whether it is wood or tung oil, as well as lacquer and copper nails, you can easily buy it in Daming. Moreover, the price is very cheap.
In addition, Keelung also gathered thousands of skilled shipbuilding craftsmen from Daming. Although Marin brought a group to Long Island, New York, the number of artisans was still more in Keelung.
If it were not the first time to make a Western-style sailing boat, the craftsmen were not familiar with it and wasted a lot of time to explore it. In the year after Marin left, these thousands of craftsmen would not only build five 250-class sailboats. If it is "full firepower", there are no problems for thousands of skilled daimiao shipbuilding craftsmen to build a dozen 250-class armed merchant ships a year.
Although the wood used for shipbuilding is everywhere in North America, the lack of materials such as tung oil, lacquer and copper nails makes it difficult to sing. Therefore, the speed of shipbuilding is not as good as that of Keelung. Because there must be enough materials such as tung oil, lacquer, etc. in order to achieve "full firepower".
However, with this time Conte ordered the opening of the Panama route, once the route stabilized, Daming's cheap tung oil would be continuously shipped to the Americas to supply New York's Long Island shipyard. By then, Marin's idea of a large number of ship explosions will be realized ...
