Major General Black is really speechless!
He is a staunch republican! In order to chop off the head of the British King, he carried a rifle and went to the battlefield with his father when he was a teenager... After struggling for so many years, he finally turned the Stuart Kingdom into Cromwellian Kingdom. The republic of the Er family. Now he has gone to the east to conquer the world for the son of another absolute monarch.
Moreover, he had to take on all the dirty and tiring work, and finally let a prince from the Ming Empire become a ready-made monarch!
This is a bit like finding a master for yourself!
If Major General Blake wanted a monarch so badly, then he had one more than twenty years ago. Why would he want a republican revolution?
"If we can complete the preliminary exploration of the southern continent and establish a colonial stronghold, then why should we accept a Chinese as the monarch there?" Major General Black expressed his feelings, "Why can't we turn it into the Republic of England? colony?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the two captains of the East India Company starting to shake their heads at the same time.
"What? Am I right?" Blake asked.
"Major General," Beckett said, "According to the information currently available, the Southern Continent is located east of the Strait of Malacca and south of the East Indies, within the sphere of influence of the Ming Empire."
Blake shook his head and said: "We can take the westerly belt and sail directly eastward from the Indian Ocean. It may be easier than passing through the equatorial windless belt."
He is right. It is indeed more advantageous to take the westerly wind belt of the Indian Ocean to the southern continent than to take the equatorial windless belt. Because you can reach the northern part of the southern continent by taking the windless belt, but most of them are savannahs and wastelands with little development value (there is a small amount of tropical rainforest in the northeast of the Australian mainland, but it is far away from Timor and Java islands). There are only A small amount of wetlands.
Taking the westerly belt of the Indian Ocean can reach the southwest and south of the relatively humid southern continent, which is of greater value for colonial development.
But the problem is that there are not many British people in this era who can colonize overseas!
Worster looked at the Major General who had a somewhat weird idea, shook his head and said: "Major General, even if we can find a passage from the Indian Ocean to the Southern Continent, we still have no way to transport enough labor to the Southern Continent... According to the Dutch explorations decades ago, there were no civilized people there.
As for the UK mainland, there are currently only a few million people, and they are getting fewer and fewer every year! And we have recently colonized Hudson Bay and the Caribbean, where immigration is much easier than to the southern continent. "
The British colony of Hudson Bay was founded because of the fur trade, and Cromwell was planning to establish a chartered trading company specializing in the areas around Hudson Bay.
The British colonies in the Caribbean included the islands of Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas. On the map, these small islands are not very eye-catching, but because the special climate there is very suitable for using black slaves to grow sugar cane, those small islands have become the most profitable British colonies.
In addition, it was also profitable for the British to establish small colonies in Gambia, the Gold Coast, and the coastal areas of India.
But what really attracts the residents of the British Isles is the Kingdom of New England. Every year, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of English Catholics, Scots, Irish and some Anglicans who were persecuted by the Republic of England leave their homes and travel overseas. Cross the sea and go to the Kingdom of New England, which occupied the land of the thirteen states in North America in history.
In a sense, while the British Isles were moving toward complete reunification, the residents of the British Isles were split into two... Most people either voluntarily or forcibly converted to Puritan Christianity and became A small number of people from the Republic of England went to the New World and became subjects of the new Kingdom of England that believed in the Roman Catholic Church.
In this process, the population of the British Isles has continued to decline, and it has lost the ability to export a large number of people.
Without a population, what ability did the British East India Company have to develop the southern continent?
"Perhaps we can attract other Europeans to go to the southern continent." As soon as Major General Blake said these words, the two East India Company executives couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Who would take the initiative to immigrate to a Puritan-dominated colony? Unless there is gold to be mined, how is it any different from being exiled?
Blake also knew that the Puritan rules were not very palatable, so he could only sigh: "It seems that this land was left by God to the Ming Emperor... But we can't go and replace the Ming Emperor just for a little money. The emperor builds a kingdom!”
The two captains of the East India Company nodded vigorously.
Of course you can't do that kind of thing just for a little money...it has to be a lot of money!
Blake was still a bit idealistic. He said firmly: "For the benefit of the Republic of England, we have to serve the Ming Emperor. But we must insist that the colonies discovered by the East India Company must be completely autonomous..."
He looked at the two East India Company executives and said seriously: "Moreover, we should also spread the Puritan beliefs and republican ideas in the colonies in the southern continent!"
Spread republican ideas? What do you want to do?
Vorster and Beckett, the two chief executives of the East India Company, were dumbfounded. They were not real Puritans, nor were they republicans. They were both doing business in India when there was a revolution in Britain. Spending all day hanging out with corrupt Indian princes, I have long forgotten all the teachings of Jesus. And they still don’t understand the difference between the hereditary Lord Protector of the Cromwell family and the hereditary king of the Stuart family?
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Just when the Dutch planned to maintain their position in the Eastern trade with the big business of exploring and building the southern continent, and the British were preparing to use the same opportunity to spread dangerous republican ideas, the governor of the Australia-New Zealand Company, run by Portuguese merchants, Anthony Robert and chief executive Alfonso Lopez were already sitting in the living room of Zuoyuan holding Mancini milk tea.
The Zuoyuan is Zhu Cihong's newly built residence for Marie Mancini. It is within the palace wall of Laoshan Palace and also has a door leading to the outside of the palace.
The reason why this Western-style garden house was built was to make Mancini look not to lose too much to Princess Nessa—Princess Nessa also owns a magnificent red castle in Laoshan Palace. Mancini If there are no new houses, the price will drop a bit. Mancini's new house is called "Zuo Yuan" because the surname Mancini means "left-handed", so Mary Mancini's Chinese name is Zuo Mary, and Zuo Yuan is Zuo Mary's garden.
Like Mary Mancini, Anthony Robb and Alfonso Lopez both have Chinese names, the former is called Rodoni and the latter is called Luo Afang.
Zuo Mari, Luo Dongni, and Luo Afang are not Chinese names that are spoken casually, but are official names written on the imperial edict.
Of course these three are all Ming nobles with titles!
After giving birth to Zhu Henry for Zhu Cihong, Zuo Mary received the imperial title of first-grade imperial concubine. Luo Dongni was originally the governor of the Portuguese people in Macau. After joining the Ming Dynasty, he granted the title of Hao Aobo. Luo Afang's qualifications were even older. He was a Portuguese businessman from Macau who came to open an arsenal when Shanghai opened as a port. He was awarded the title of Ke Nangchuan Sha for his merits in supplying arms.
The Australian and New Zealand Company in which the three of them hold large shares is also a shipping company engaged in East-West trade. It is called a "Ming-Portuguese joint venture" and is actually a local licensed trading house in the Ming Dynasty. It cooperates with the Royal Chamber of Commerce, Yiguandang Trading Company, There is no essential difference between Shachuanbang Trading Company and Jiale Trading Company. However, under the name of Portugal, it also hired a large number of Portuguese sailors living in the East (Portugal itself had been ruled by Spain for decades, so it had poor control over the colony. Many Portuguese who had lived overseas for many years simply followed The feudal lords of other countries were mixed together), it was easier to enter and exit the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean (there were many Portuguese colonies there), and it was also possible to run European routes.
