Count Castrumello, who launched a rebellion in Lisbon and seized control of Lisbon, sent people to the Chu army camp outside the city early the next morning.
This time the envoy sent by the Portuguese seemed very respectful and humble.
And he said from the beginning that in principle, the market can be opened to the Chu Empire. Not only the local market, but also the Brazilian market, their colony in South America, can also be opened to the Chu Empire.
On the premise of expressing their willingness to open the market, the representatives of Chu State are also willing to listen to their opinions.
In any case, the Chu Empire came to Portugal to do business, not to conquer cities and expand its territory, at least not at this stage.
Under such circumstances, the Chu Empire naturally needs some agents in Portugal. We cannot expect the Chu people to send people to rule Portugal just to sell goods...
Supporting several agents to sell goods and obtain maximum economic benefits is in line with the interests and needs of the Chu Empire in Europe at this stage.
Now that the Portuguese's new interest representative can make concessions on the general principle of opening the market, Chu will not care too much about other details.
Immediately, officials from the vassal affairs department in the delegation sent by the Chu State, accompanied by Louise and other translators, had preliminary discussions with the Portuguese.
Several preliminary cooperation intentions in principle were reached that morning.
First of all, the Portuguese will fully open the market to the Chu Empire. The Chu Empire can freely export goods to Portugal and limit the tariffs on many important goods.
The tariffs on textiles and iron products shall not exceed 5%, and the tariffs on several other important goods, such as tea, porcelain and other commodities, shall not exceed 7%.
The tariff on other types of goods shall not exceed a maximum of 10%.
The tariffs on specific goods will be subject to detailed negotiations between representatives of both parties to finalize the tariff ratio.
In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the limited tariffs, Portugal will set up customs under the guidance of Chu State, and the main customs officials will be served and responsible by Chu State people.
In addition to the customs duties collected being used to repay the indemnity of the Chu Empire, the remainder was transferred to Lisbon.
This compensation is naturally Portugal's compensation to the Chu Empire in this war. In order to supplement the losses and military expenses of the Chu Empire in the war, Portugal needs to compensate the Chu Empire with a one-time compensation of 8 million Chu Yuan.
Portugal was unable to come up with so much cash, so the Dachu Imperial Finance Bank provided a loan. The Portuguese would repay it in subsequent installments over many years, using customs revenue as a guarantee and subsequent installments.
These are economic matters.
In addition, Portugal will lease the mainland Port of Setubal to the Dachu Empire at an annual rent of 1,000 Chu yuan for a lease period of 999 years. The Dachu Empire has permanent lease rights.
In addition, all overseas colonies were sold to the Chu Empire, including Brazil in South America, the Azores in the hinterland of the Atlantic Ocean, the Madeira Islands on the coast of West Africa and other islands, for a total price of 2 million and 200,000 Chu yuan to the Chu Empire, and the land payment was will be deducted from the compensation.
Chu people have extra-legal jurisdiction in Portugal. If Chu people commit crimes in Portugal, Portugal can only arrest suspects, but they cannot conduct private trials. They must be tried by the court established by the Chu people.
Basically, it means opening up the market, limiting tariffs, governing outside the law, ceding a local port, and ceding all overseas colonies.
A serious loss of power and humiliation to the country!
The Portuguese have been bullied by Spain for so many years, and they have never been so miserable.
But the Portuguese had never been beaten so miserably before, and they were so desperate. The fleet in Lisbon Port was beaten in one day, and the coastal defense forts of later generations were beaten to pieces. The troops stationed in Lisbon were unable to resist for half a day. He was beaten by a servant army of less than a thousand people from the Chu army.
Now it seems that the Chu army is about to enter Lisbon and the country will be destroyed... To be honest, it is not easy to sign an alliance under the city at this time and protect the Portuguese state and the capital Lisbon from being destroyed and looted.
This is why the Chu people should not go too far for the sake of subsequent trade. Otherwise, if they change to the previous method, they will definitely rush into Lisbon first, eat and drink enough, and then negotiate slowly.
It's just that now the Chu Empire has little interest in these petty profits... It is much better to directly plunder the entire country's economy through trade than to rush in and grab some gold and silver.
How can you make more money from robbery than doing business?
Furthermore, we must also pay attention to the impact. The actions of the Portuguese are also related to a series of actions of the European Expeditionary Force of the Great Chu Empire in other European countries.
If the Portuguese go too far, it will easily provoke a full-scale resistance from other countries, especially larger countries such as France and Spain.
So once the goal is achieved, that's pretty much it. It doesn't have to smash the capital city to pieces.
On the same day, after the two sides negotiated a preliminary agreement, in the afternoon and evening of the same day, a group of Portuguese dignitaries in Lisbon naturally quarreled again, and even triggered another civil strife among them, with the sound of fighting lasting until midnight.
It was not until the next day that Lisbon sent a clear reply. Their domestic dignitaries had agreed to the negotiation conditions and the two parties could formally sign the contract.
Without further ado, at about four o'clock in the afternoon that day, more than 20 nobles from Lisbon left the city and arrived outside the Chu army camp. They signed a formal agreement with the delegation from the Chu Empire. The agreement was also called "Chu Lisbon" treaty".
After the treaty was reached, Commodore Song Yuanlong was contented to evacuate with his men, but he did not go too far, but ran to Setubal not far to the south.
This place is already a concession of the Dachu Empire, and it is said to be a concession. However, because of the permanent lease, it is actually no different from a formal cession. However, the Portuguese firmly disagree with the use of cession for the sake of their own face. The term "territory" refers to "lease" and "permanent lease".
The entire concession area is not big, in fact, it is only more than ten square kilometers. After all, the Chu people did not want this place for farming or immigration, but purely for it to be a trading port and supply port.
A series of subsequent import and export trades with Portugal will basically be carried out in this port.
Considering that Portugal had just fought with itself, and their domestic opinions were not very unified, two wars broke out in Lisbon in just two days. In order to ensure the safety of this port, Song Yuanlong discussed with the Army Finally, I plan to stay here for a while.
As long as their squadron stays here, Lisbon next door will not be able to overturn the situation.
Since we plan to stay here for a while, the related construction of the port will also begin.
Regarding the construction of ports in overseas colonies, the Chu people had rich experience in this aspect. They first went to the surrounding areas to recruit indigenous young people.
There is no need to worry about the surrounding natives not being able to come. Anyway, the Portuguese officials dare not stop them, and the young and strong natives at the bottom have no concept of family and country. As long as the Chu people pay them wages, they will be happy to work for the Chu people.
With the young and strong indigenous people, we can first build a simple wooden camp, which will save more than a thousand people from the army. People on the army side have to live in tents, and a large amount of army supplies can only be placed in the open air.
Then the small local wharf will be expanded, and a temporary deep-water berth will be built to berth the transport ship to facilitate unloading.
Then slowly build large ports, port warehouses, shore defenses and other infrastructure, and these will need to be done slowly in the future.
While Song Yuanlong was leading the second formation to engage in construction, news of the squadron's successful operation against the Portuguese, including the text of the signed treaty, was also sent to Tangier along with the communication ship.
At this time, the urban area of Tangier is still in ruins - it was fun to fight at first, but it is really troublesome to clean up now. There are only a few intact houses left in the city. Nowadays, these ruins are not only used as a supply of building materials, It's really useless.
Therefore, a large number of European expeditionary forces and an equally large number of prisoners of war who came to land one after another could only stay temporarily in the large number of military tents and temporary simple wooden houses on the edge of the old city.
A large number of prisoners of war are collecting some wood, stones and other materials from the ruins to the open space outside the city to build port terminals and necessary preliminary buildings.
Because of the chaos on the shore, a group of important figures in the European Expeditionary Force basically did not disembark, and they all stayed on the battleship Guiyang moored in the port.
The Guiyang battleship is the second Yingtian-class battleship currently in service in the Chu Empire. The ship is only nine years old. It is not a very cutting-edge battleship, but it is still in its prime.
The Yingtian-class battleships were originally the first batch of battleships equipped with the three advanced technologies of the Chu Empire: front-loaded rifled guns, combined steam engines, and wrought iron armor.
The full load displacement can reach 6,100 tons, and taking into account the stability of the combined steam engine and the larger amount of coal brought by the larger hull, this class of ships also abandoned sails for the first time and used pure steam engine power for propulsion.
This is also the Chu Empire's first purely steam-powered ocean-going battleship.
It's just that the cruising range is a bit poor. At an economical cruising speed of eight knots, the cruising range is only 2,500 nautical miles, which is not as far as the Jinzhou-class cruiser.
However, the firepower is much stronger. There is a double-mounted open-air rotating turret in front and behind the central axis. It is equipped with a total of four 200 mm 25 times caliber front-loading rifled guns. The maximum range of the gun can reach nine km.
Of course, the effective range is not that high. It is limited by conditions such as sighting and turbulence of the waves. Even for land artillery, the effective range is generally only more than 5,000 meters. The naval battle distance is even closer, basically 2,000 meters. There's no point in being accurate at a distance.
However, the same type of artillery is also deployed on land to serve as shore defense artillery. It relies on the ground for bombardment and hot air balloons for observation. The maximum effective range of most battleships can reach eight thousand meters. This is a very terrifying data.
So despite the fact that the Guiyang currently in the port has been in service for many years and is not considered a cutting-edge warship, its combat effectiveness is still strong and it is a first-class warship currently in service in the Da Chu Empire Navy.
Among the four battleships sent to Europe this time, there are two Yingtian-class battleships, namely Guiyang and Kunming. In addition, there are two old Suzhou-class battleships Suzhou and Fuzhou. The Suzhou-class battleships are the real old ones. They have been in service for more than ten years. When they were in service, they were even equipped with front-loading smoothbore cannons at the beginning, and later they were gradually replaced with front-loading rifled cannons.
Because the hull is old and small, only about 4,000 tons, the design is not adaptable and other problems. Even after modification, the firepower is relatively poor. It is only equipped with six 170mm front-loading rifled guns and no wrought iron armor. It still uses an old antique wooden hull, and its protective capabilities are not even as good as the Jinzhou-class cruiser. After all, the Jinzhou-class cruiser has wrought iron armor and a side coal bunker.
According to the current standards of the Navy, this thing is not actually a battleship, but at most an unprotected cruiser... or a large frigate.
However, this class of ships is really old. The hull has been severely deteriorated, and the early steam engines installed also had many problems. The Navy has begun to retire this class of ships one after another, and naturally it is too lazy to modify and reclassify them.
If nothing else happens, the Suzhou-class battleship will be completely withdrawn from active service in three to five years at most.
Today, for the Dachu Empire Navy, the most cutting-edge active battleships are six Taiyuan-class battleships with a full load of 7,000 tons, equipped with breech-mounted rifled guns, and the 10,000-ton new Jinling-class battleships under construction.
The other old guys basically looked down upon him.
However, even the Suzhou-class battleships, which are old and entering the retirement phase, are still very intimidating overseas. With a body of more than 4,000 tons placed there, everyone in Europe will be afraid of them.
Not to mention the larger Guiyang, which weighs more than 6,000 tons.
As the flagship of the European Expeditionary Fleet, the Guiyang, the commander of the expeditionary force, Imperial Baron, Vice Admiral Liu Yongxin, established his headquarters here.
At this time, in the large conference room in the Guiyang, Vice Admiral Liu Yongxin and other senior generals of the expeditionary force gathered together and were discussing the follow-up war arrangements.
Vice Admiral Liu Yongxin, as the Superintendent of the European Expeditionary Force Headquarters and also the Commander of the European Expeditionary Fleet of the Great Chu Empire Navy, naturally occupies a high position.
The European Expeditionary Force Headquarters is not a simple combat command organization. It not only has the Army, Navy, and Western Trading Companies, but also has a deputy director responsible for European feudal affairs sent by the Domain Affairs Department of the Ministry of Etiquette and Education. The Supervisory Authority has very wide authority, and has a series of powers such as declaring war, negotiating, signing treaties, commanding operations, etc. In other words, all affairs in Europe, regardless of whether they are military affairs or vassal affairs, are temporarily under the jurisdiction of this expeditionary force headquarters. jurisdiction.
It's somewhat similar to the European Governor's Palace.
Therefore, Liu Yongxin's naval title is not the commander of the European Expeditionary Force, but the governor...the full name is: "he is ordered to supervise the European military, political, vassal and other affairs."
This is a very special title. That is, Europe is too far away from the mainland. In order to allow the civil and military officials on the front line to have sufficient power to make temporary decisions, this is a special title specially created.
This situation has occurred in Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and the Americas before. Names such as governor, supervisor, commander, etc. are used, but the names are different, but the authority is basically the same.
This special position that combines civil and military power is temporary and will be revoked after the war. Then the empire will establish formal agencies such as governors and garrison headquarters, and dispatch civilian governors and military officers to guard.
The Navy's European Expeditionary Fleet, the Army's European Expeditionary Force, and the Guards' European Expeditionary Force are the military command structures in the conventional sense.
Opposite Vice Admiral Liu Yongxin is Army Lieutenant General Bo Jianan, the commander of the European Expeditionary Force of the Dachu Imperial Army, co-organizer of the European Expeditionary Force, the 27th Army of the Dachu Empire, and the commander of the European Expeditionary Force of the Dachu Imperial Army... This person was last year, Senior generals directly transferred from the mainland have full command of all land forces in the European Expeditionary Force, including the Guards.
When fighting overseas, although the Guards actually fight independently, for the sake of safety and convenience, they are basically integrated into a higher-level army organization. Therefore, Lieutenant General Bo Jian'an also has the Guards who go to fight in Europe. power of command.
Of course, a large-scale mixed battalion of the Guards that is preparing to go to Europe to participate in the war is still in South Africa, and it is estimated that it will take several months to arrive by ship.
In addition to these two lieutenant generals, also attending the meeting was Dai Yu, co-organizer of the European Expeditionary Force of the Great Chu Empire and deputy director of the vassal affairs department of the Ministry of Ethnic Education. This man was gentle and elegant and was only forty years old.
He looks young, but he is actually a rising star in the political arena in the Ministry of Ethnic Affairs... In the 23rd year of Chengshun, he entered the imperial examination with the top scorer and first joined the Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy. After working at the grassroots level, he rose to the rank of fourth-rank governor in just a few years, and then He was transferred to Gyeonggi Province to serve as the director of a certain department in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and was later transferred to the director of the Southeast Division of the Imperial Examination Department of the Ministry of Ethnic Education, responsible for supervising and organizing the rural examinations in the southeastern provinces... This position is noble and powerful. If it were replaced by Qianming Nahui, that would be The super university in charge of the southeastern provinces is.
At the beginning of last year, he was transferred to the position of deputy director of the Domain Affairs Department of the Ministry of Etiquette... This position is only for transition. I am afraid that it will not take long for him to become a third-rank official.
In his thirties, he became a third-grade deputy director. Everyone knew that this man had a bright future.
In fact, this is indeed the case. If nothing else happens, when the war in Europe is initially calmed down and the situation is resolved, the Chu Empire will definitely set up a European governor here to handle colonial affairs and vassal affairs.
According to some unspoken rules of the imperial officialdom, if promising officials are transferred to serve in difficult places overseas, their promotions will be faster, and they can be promoted beyond the next level.
Looking at it this way, the future position of European Governor is basically created for the promotion of this political supernova.
Otherwise, why didn't the empire's higher-ups send someone with an appropriate grade, instead of sending someone from the third grade to take up the post?
Seeing that this person is not yet forty years old, but he has already stepped into the ranks of high-ranking officials in the empire. In a few years, he will become a minister, a local governor, and a high-ranking official. In the future, he will be able to become a real cabinet minister. , even the two military bosses, Vice Admiral Liu Yongxin and Lieutenant General Bo Jianan, couldn't help but be envious!
Although both of them have high military ranks, they are also older. Liu Yongxin is in his fifties, and Bo Jian'an is in his sixties. They have basically no career prospects. After this battle, Bo Jian'an will Gotta retire from active duty!
The reason why he was able to obtain the position of commander of the Army's European Expeditionary Force and commander of the 27th Army was because of the retirement gift arranged by the military bosses for him...
Although Liu Yongxin is younger, he basically has no hope. After finishing this battle at the age of fifty-eight, he will have to return to his hometown to take up a casual position to make way for those who come after him.
The same battle to conquer Europe was a step forward for the civil servant Dai Yu, a fast track to overtaking in a curve and leading directly to the cabinet.
But for the two generals, this was their final battle.
After fighting this battle, you have to go back to your hometown to take care of your old age and take care of your children!
If it weren't for giving them a decent final battle, the military brass wouldn't have let them come.
When it comes to ability and talent, the army commanders are better than their generals. Why should they be the ones?
But, after all, he is still a lieutenant general. Regardless of other aspects, as he is about to retire, he still has to give him the dignity he deserves...
