Hearing Regerson's words, Krilov von Goins couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Concentrate the power of all Europe... It sounds like the words of Louis XIV, but we are a republic of the United Provinces. Citizens!
Why fight the Eighty Years' War with the Spaniards if we would approve of such a thing? Our merchant republic would rather close its eyes and pretend not to see the rise of Ming, a great Eastern empire, than agree to European unity. Because a Louis XIV Europe will make us sea coachmen lose the opportunity to dominate the ocean and seize high profits... Just look at what our East India Company has suffered in the Eastern Sea in recent years! "
In recent years, with the rise of the Ming Dynasty's maritime power, the Nanyang Trading Company supported by the Ming Dynasty is squeezing the Dutch East India Company's market share... The two have launched fierce competition in the maritime and coastal countries of the Nanyang and East Ocean!
This is not a simple business competition, but an all-round competition with gunboats coming out from time to time!
Although the Dutch East India Company relied on its advantage of controlling the route west of Malacca, it could barely sustain itself under the competition of the Nanyang Trading Company. However, the company's profits are getting smaller and smaller year by year, and its costs are getting higher and higher year by year.
If a "dominant country" similar to the New Ming Dynasty appears in Europe...whether this country is France or the Holy Roman Empire, it will inevitably support its own Indian trading company to squeeze the market of the Dutch East India Trading Company.
At that time, the Dutch East India Company will face the dilemma of being attacked from both sides, and bankruptcy is not certain! And it’s not just the Dutch East India Company that is unlucky, but the entire Dutch maritime industry chain. In the 17th century, maritime trade was a top industry chain. Who wouldn’t want to grab it?
The Netherlands itself was too small in size, and its army was completely defeated by Louis XIV's army in the Franco-Dutch War that just ended not long ago. It then relied on using water instead of troops to barely sustain itself. . Therefore, the opportunity to become the European hegemon was basically lost.
In this case, the Netherlands will of course oppose the emergence of a hegemonic country that can take over the entire Europe.
But Krilov von Goins could not ignore the imminent threat of the New Ming Dynasty... Thinking of this, Goins put down the telescope in his hand and walked around the room with his hands behind his back. pace. After walking around for a few steps, he suddenly thought of someone, and turned around to ask Lei Jason: "When I was in Europe, I heard that a man named Kangxi was the mortal enemy of the Ming Emperor. Where is he now? Can we further contact him? Provide support to curb the rise of Ming Dynasty?"
Lei Jason frowned when he heard this question. He didn't know what to say for a while.
"Is Mr. Kangxi worth supporting?" Goins waited for a while and didn't hear Lei Jason's reply, so he asked again.
Lei Jason replied: "Mr. Governor...not this Kangxi, but two Kangxis!"
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"Two people? Same name and surname?"
"It can't be considered as having the same name," Lei Jason said. "Maybe one of them is fake... and both of them are fake."
"What's going on?" Goins became more and more confused as he listened.
Regarding this issue, Lei Jason was actually confused, "Mr. Governor, what is certain now is that there are at least two Kangxis. One of them has surrendered to the Ming Emperor and was appointed as the governor of the northeastern part of the Ming Dynasty. Not long ago, he led troops We fought a battle with the army of the Rakshasa Kingdom."
"How did it turn out?" Goins asked. .
"This Kangxi won a great victory."
Goins was a little disappointed, "What about the other Kangxi?"
"Run to the west, I don't know where I went..." As soon as Lei Jason said this, a loud cheer suddenly sounded outside the window.
"Onboard! Onboard..."
Although Goins didn't understand what "onboard" meant, he knew it meant "cheering," so he stopped the discussion, walked quickly to the window, and looked out.
At this time, he discovered that large groups of cavalry in chain mail were lined up in four neat columns, passing through the street under the East India Company's business building. Those who cheered were the merchants of Osaka standing on both sides of the street to welcome the Ming army...
Seeing the welcoming attitude of these Osaka businessmen towards the Ming army, Goins couldn't help but sigh deeply: "Prepare a gift... I want to go to Osaka Castle to meet the Ming Emperor!"
"Governor, what do you mean..." Regerson asked, looking at Goins.
Goins smiled bitterly: "Money... still has to be earned, even if it's a little less!"
"Ok, I see."
Jason Lei nodded, and just as he was about to arrange the gift-giving, Goins said again: "Jason Lei, don't forget Kangxi... the one who ran away, try your best to look for him. , maybe it will come in handy.”
"Yes, Your Excellency the Governor."
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When Zhu Heji led his 100,000 troops in an armed parade on the land of Japan with the attitude of a victor, he had almost forgotten his old enemy Kangxi Kang Mazi.
But Kangxi did not forget Zhu Heji, his mortal enemy who forced him to leave his hometown, travel thousands of miles, and almost fall into despair!
At this time, Kangxi had already led an expeditionary force of about 20,000 people to Shymkent, a famous Central Asian city near the Ugam Mountain. of armies confronting each other.
Just from analyzing the scale of the camps on both sides, we can know that Kangxi is in an extremely dangerous situation.
Under the darkness of late autumn in Central Asia, two brightly lit camps, one large and one small, are scattered on the grasslands north of Shymkent. The camp of the 20,000 Qing expeditionary troops led by Kangxi was in the north. The camp was small in size and had not many lights. The camp of the Kazakhs and Rakshasa people is in the south, and the wilderness is dotted with lights, like a sea of stars on the ground.
Comparing the two camps, we can see that the Kazakh and Rakshasa armies are much larger than Kangxi's army. The former had an army of at least 50,000, while the latter only had 20,000... and it was a tired army that had traveled nearly two thousand miles from the Ili grassland.
At this time, Kangxi was standing outside his Chinese army's tent, standing on a carriage transporting tents. He looked at the lights from the camp of the Kazakh-Rakshasa coalition army from a distance, and just murmured to himself: "Thank you, sir." During the expedition, the divisions and veterans were tired, outnumbered and outnumbered, the troops were short of rations, their minds were lost...and morale was low, I really committed a lot of taboos this time!"
"Your Majesty..."
Standing next to Kangxi and wanting to comfort him was Suo'etu. As soon as he spoke, he was interrupted by Kangxi, "Don't call me your Majesty now, call me Great Khan! I am still the Great Khan of Mongolia Kangxi!"
Kangxi did not allow people to call him Taishang, not because he was used to being an emperor, so he was not used to the title Taishang, but that "Kangxi Taishang" was still nominally in Xingqing Mansion to assist Tongzhi's young emperor Yinreng... ...The person who personally conquered the Kazakh steppes was Kangxi Khan of Great Mongolia.
"Great Khan," Suo'etu said, "if you feel unsure, we might as well negotiate a peace with the Rakshasa people and cede the Yamesh Lake area to them. As long as the Rakshasa soldiers leave, Tou Kehan's Those few men and horses are not worth mentioning."
The Yamesh Lake he was talking about is on the left bank of the Irtysh River and is the territory of the Junggar people. After Galdan moved eastward, no one looked at this territory. The Rakshasa Kingdom has always coveted there, because there is a salt mine there, and it is the only way to go deep into the hinterland of Junggar and the Yeerqiang Khanate. Therefore, after the Rakshasa people heard that the Junggar people had left Yamesh Lake, they wanted to occupy it, but unexpectedly they clashed with the Horqin people who followed Kangxi in his western expedition.
Seeing Kangxi's silence, Suo'etu continued his analysis: "Great Khan, as far as I know, there is nothing good in the north of the Western Regions. It's so cold that you can only herd sheep...it's really fat and oily." It is still in the south of the Western Region, which is the territory of Tianzhu Kingdom. I heard that brown sugar is also produced there! Although brown sugar is not as good as white sugar, it can get by."
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