Specific to the depth of cooperation, that is, those technology transfers related to the purchase of equipment and equipment, which parts directly purchase finished products, and which key basic industries should be opened, the European and Western countries are divided into several distinct types.
The first is Britain and France. The cooperation between France and Ming Dynasty has been deep enough before this.
Therefore, the two countries will continue to refine the original cooperation plan and sign a new detailed additional clause, so that they can directly start the transfer of relevant technology at a relatively fair price.
So this time, the French side does not need special serious and formal negotiations. The relevant personnel originally stationed in France can just relax the corresponding technical support restrictions.
Before the signing of the naval treaty, the British side had already decided to accept the same level of cooperation plan as France because of Charlotte's pressure on the British Parliament and government.
Under Grenville's bluffing threat of war in the Ming Dynasty, the British cabinet and parliament made a decision at that time and sent the cooperation intention plan to Charlotte and the Ming Honglu Temple.
The two parties have actually completed cooperation negotiations, but have not yet signed a formal agreement.
So what the British representatives have to do now is to turn the determined cooperation convenience into a formal treaty document, and the two sides complete the actual signing procedures.
Then, while Zhu Jingyuan and Charlotte established their joint venture in the UK, the content of technology licensing and transfer was gradually released to the corresponding companies.
Technology transfer and business development of the joint venture will take time and will be a gradual process.
As long as this process is followed step by step, the British mainland will gradually integrate into the Ming Dynasty system.
All in all, in the case of Britain and France, there is actually no formal negotiation, or it can be said that the formal negotiation has been completed, so the progress is of course the fastest.
The clerical staff can sign the contract directly after completing the documents.
Then there are small countries such as the Netherlands and Denmark. Their countries have limited area and population, and their industrial autonomy is not high.
After the beginning of the second industrial revolution, the country was unable to maintain an independent industrial system.
Even if key industries are not opened to Ming Dynasty, they must be opened to European and Western countries.
It would be better to open up to the Ming Dynasty and improve the relationship with the Ming Dynasty, thereby enhancing its position in Taixi.
Their resistance to foreign capital and power is relatively low.
Therefore, the negotiation goal of these countries is actually to obtain as much support as possible.
The progress of the negotiations is naturally relatively fast.
Next are Prussia, Austria, and Lucia, countries that have had a certain degree of cooperation with the Grand Civil Service.
Now if they simply buy finished weapons and equipment and finished warships, there won't be many additional conditions.
Production and delivery can begin by directly signing a commercial order.
But if you want some or all technology transfer, you should refer to the UK's direction.
Since there are no special conditions like Charlotte or the special situation of the Anglo-French Yinzhou War, these countries have more independent choices in the way of cooperation.
The monarchs and ministers of most countries, as well as their own bourgeois, will not choose to cooperate with Britain and France in this special state.
Their final choice is basically partial cooperation, introducing the most lacking and backward technologies in the country, and opening up as few and unimportant industries as possible.
This process takes time to negotiate slowly, and the negotiation progress is of course very full.
Finally, there are Spain and Portugal. These countries still have certain strength and have not cooperated with Ming Dynasty before.
The two sides must first complete actual contacts and gain each other's trust through a series of means before they can start formal negotiations.
During the formal negotiation process, the vigilance and vigilance against the Ming Dynasty were also higher than those of Prussia and other countries.
Their negotiation progress is certainly the slowest.
However, based on their actual situation, Ming diplomats expected that the cooperation method they finally chose would be similar to that of Prussia and other countries.
In the end, most of them will adopt the shipbuilding plan provided by Ming Dynasty and purchase a large amount of equipment, weapons and technology.
But it’s not difficult to say when it will be completed.
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When Niu Jian led the team to Taixi, Zhu Jingyuan himself took his family to say goodbye to his grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother, and set off for Edo to take office.
When Niu Jian arrived in Paris, Zhu Jingyuan's family also arrived in Edo Castle.
Edo Castle is located on the Kanto Plain in the central part of Honshu Island, Japan.
The total area of this plain is only more than 16,000 square kilometers, which is no more than the size of a prefecture-level city, but it is already the largest plain in the Japanese archipelago.
After all, this is an archipelago of mountains and hills.
It was originally the seat of Tokugawa Ieyasu's Edo shogunate. After it was incorporated into the Ming Dynasty, it became the capital of the Edo Kingdom.
During the reform that abolished the feudal domain seven years ago, it became the residence of the newly established Edo Chief Envoy.
Now it has become the provincial capital of the newly established Edo Province.
At the same time, it is also the capital of Japan where Zhu Jingyuan lived in his previous life.
Therefore, compared to other Ming Dynasty people, Zhu Jingyuan's mentality towards Edo City was more special.
As soon as I entered Edo Bay from the passenger ship I took, I paid close attention to the situation inside and outside Edo Castle.
After the passenger ship docked, Zhu Jingyuan greeted the main Edo officials who came to greet him, and then took the bus to the Edo Palace.
Since the Japanese Archipelago and the Korean Peninsula were both listed as Ming Dynasty's native provinces by Zhu Jianyan, the kingdom that had remained in name only after the vassal withdrawal seven years ago was completely abolished.
However, the palace of King Edo is still there.
The palaces of vassal princes across the Ming Dynasty were originally the first choice places to receive members of the royal family.
When Zhu Jingyuan arrived in Edo, of course he stayed directly in the palace.
After a day's rest, Zhu Jingyuan formally met with local Edo officials again and went through the handover and appointment procedures.
Then, just like when he was in the Lion City, Zhu Jingyuan did not directly do his job as chief envoy and counselor.
Instead, look at the data reports first to gain an overall understanding of the local situation.
Compared with when he was in the Lion City, Zhu Jingyuan went there specifically to visit.
After a week of continuous observation and understanding in Beijing, Zhu Jingyuan came to a conclusion:
"Japan is probably really gone..."
From outside the Edo Bay to the Edo Palace, from the Sansi Yamen of Edo Province to the private business halls, Zhu Jing did not feel any foreign customs here at all.
The cities and towns around Edo Bay, the residents and buildings of Edo City, the residents and pedestrians inside and outside the city are all completely indistinguishable from the cities in the Ming Dynasty.
Not to mention this palace, it is a mixture of gardens from the north and south of the Ming Dynasty.
There are large rock gardens, spacious and bright landscape pavilions, and magnificent pavilions and pavilions all around...
There are just no Japanese elements that Zhu Jingyuan was familiar with in his previous life.
And it's completely gone from the inside out.
Under normal circumstances, even in mainland China, there has always been a tradition of doing as the Romans do.
In the management of remote areas, the central imperial court usually considered and took into account the actual local conditions and made some targeted localized adjustments to policies and systems.
Therefore, the peripheral areas of the Ming Dynasty already have a certain exotic flavor.
In other words, even within the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, different provinces and even prefectures and counties may have completely different characteristic buildings and customs.
Officials or ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty would habitually look for special souvenirs when they took office or traveled and settled in other places, and they would also pay special attention to and adapt to local customs.
But there seems to be no such thing here in Edo. At least the Japanese elements that Zhu Jingyuan is familiar with cannot be seen here at all.
Japan, like other areas surrounding the Central Dynasty, had been under the cultural influence of the Central Dynasty for a long time.
But like other surrounding areas, Japan also has its own unique characteristics.
Even North Korea, which calls itself Little China, is obviously different from the Ming Dynasty in everything from official uniforms to civilian clothing and architecture.
Not to mention that Japan, as an island country, is more independent than other surrounding regions and has more local characteristics.
However, there is absolutely no trace of the "dry landscape", a typical Japanese garden design element, here.
Before the Jinwu Dynasty, the representative lacquerware and knives that had been exported to the Ming Dynasty for a long time are now completely invisible.
Japan's local culture and customs seem to have been completely washed away.
Zhu Jingyuan was actually mentally prepared for this.
Because this place in Japan was taken care of by Emperor Shizu.
Under normal circumstances, if the Japanese archipelago was originally part of the Ming Dynasty, then not to mention the folk architecture of Edo, even the Edo palace might have some "Edo style" designs.
Lacquerware and knives, which are already important export products, are even less likely to disappear out of thin air.
This is the case in Lion City and Coconut City in the south, Yingzhou and Tiannan overseas, and the northern and southern continents of the New World. There are many local special cultural elements.
Even in places that have been colonized by European and Western countries, the traces left by the Spanish colonists have only been diluted, not completely eliminated.
Zhu Jingyuan lived in a castle in Meng County (Mombasa), and he also wanted to build a world city in Xintianfu, and asked French architects to design Thai and Western-style palaces and gardens.
But the Japanese stuff is completely gone now.
According to the historical records that Zhu Jingyuan has learned, the process of Emperor Shizu's conquest of the Japanese Islands was completely different from the way he conquered other areas.
The first is to completely eliminate the aristocracy, surrender at most to avoid death, and not accept any other conditions.
Japan's traditional feudal lords and samurai, even if they surrendered directly to the Ming camp from the beginning of the war, would be forcibly relocated from Japan.
After abolishing the original status privileges and changing their names and surnames, they were sent to Nanyang, Tiannan and Yinzhou to open up wasteland.
Then came the deep transformation of the institutions and culture that followed the conquest.
Burning books, demolishing temples, and leveling graves.
Nowadays, there are no buildings over 200 years old in the entire Japanese archipelago.
All the original shrines were converted into temples and Taoist temples, and the monks and Taoist priests were specially moved here from the Ming Dynasty.
Japan's original Shintoists and monks were forcibly returned to secular life and sent overseas to open up wasteland.
Japan's original so-called emperors and ministers, those who refused to surrender were of course directly killed on the battlefield, and those who were willing to surrender had all their identities revoked, just like the local daimyo and samurai.
I moved overseas to open up wasteland and farm, and their courtyards, shrines, and tombs were all demolished and leveled.
Finally, there is the immigration blood tax and freeing the cage for a bird.
Recruit young Japanese men as soldiers to develop overseas colonies, and purchase Japanese women as slaves to replace the local slaves of the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, the Ming court officials continued to migrate Ming people from the Ming mainland to the Japanese Islands.
Before the industrial age, the culture and history of various ethnic groups were mostly the history of princes and generals.
Before the rise of the Enlightenment, changes in imperial courts in various countries had little to do with ordinary people.
In that historical environment, after the original aristocratic class collapsed, if the original commoners obtained aristocratic status, they would still have a certain chance to inherit the original culture.
If the force or culture of the foreign conquerors is not strong enough, they will be influenced by the local culture after conquering a certain place, and then the local culture will be retained.
But in turn, the local aristocratic class was eliminated as a whole, and the foreign conquerors were extremely powerful in terms of force and culture.
The key point is that if this ruler still consciously "cleans up" the local culture at the cultural level, then future generations will have to rely on archeology to find the culture of this ethnic group.
During the Qing Dynasty, there were still costumes and Taoist robes from the Ming Dynasty, but even these things are no longer available in the Japanese archipelago.
In Zhu Jingyuan's view, Emperor Shizu was probably a liberal arts student, so he was more sensitive to civilized and cultural matters than himself, so he was very thorough in his work.
The policies against the Japanese archipelago were not temporary, but long-term actions that lasted for more than a hundred years.
Emperor Sejo apparently left his last words, asking future emperors to continue to transform Japan in accordance with his requirements.
The last one, the last transformation so far, was actually directly participated by Zhu Jingyuan.
The new round of semi-official large-scale immigration is directly participated in by the Food Country.
For the large-scale development of the eastern part of Mozhou and the industrialization construction of the Great Food Country, people from all the surrounding vassal states of the Ming Dynasty were recruited.
However, the Koreans and He people, who are closest to the Ming people, are the key recruitment targets.
Even ordinary people can understand the Koreans and He tribesmen. They are the groups that are most likely to obtain higher status and income after arriving in the Dashi Country.
When Zhu Jingyuan checked the local data, he paid special attention to the relevant information.
At present, the purely indigenous Japanese population in Edo is only over one million.
The entire Japanese Archipelago is estimated to have no more than three million people, accounting for only one-tenth of the total population of the entire Japanese Archipelago.
Moreover, these three million people are all fully enlightened.
They are businessmen, officials, translators, etc. who emerged from ordinary people after the Ming Dynasty conquered the Japanese Islands.
They are highly bound to the existing Ming people and are also the richest among the local indigenous people. There is no way to move them all away by recruiting workers.
To get them all to leave completely, official coercion would have to be used.
However, in Zhu Jingyuan's view, these people are no different from the Ming Dynasty people now.
The two generations before them have no nostalgia for the past at all, because it was only after the Ming Dynasty that they lived like individuals.
Later generations have no idea what an emperor and a general are. They only know that they are from the Japanese archipelago of the Ming Dynasty.
