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    The governor of the Netherlands, Van Diemen, fell ill during the rainy season and received the "Manila Five Agreement" in his hospital bed.

    Van Diemen immediately held a meeting and called all the members of the council.  He dragged his sick body and smiled and announced: "Gentlemen, we have fully achieved our expected goal in this year's Manila campaign. Although Busuanga Island is barren, its location is very important. It is located between the three powers of China, Spain, and Sulu.  The crossroads of trade. Now that this island belongs to us, we should immediately mobilize manpower and supplies to build castles and ports on the island!"

    Then, Van Diemen continued: "Although the southern part of Mindanao is full of barbaric natives, there is a bay there, which is a natural safe haven, and ports and cities can be built in the bay. As long as we gain a firm foothold in America, here  It is the first stop from the Americas to the Far East! This place can become the second Manila!"

    "Crack, clap, clap!"

    Lawmakers applauded immediately, but without much excitement.

    In the southern region of Mindanao, it will take at least ten years of operation and cooperate with the influence of the Netherlands in the Americas before it can truly be realized as a rolling silver.

    Although Busuanga Island's geographical location is very important, there are several large ports around it, which will attract trading ships, and it is difficult to make profits in the short term.

    The Netherlands won these two places. If it is compared to playing Go, it is to play in two key positions.  Long-term thinking is definitely a good hand, but at this stage it doesn't have much effect, and congressmen who focus on short-term interests always feel that they are at a loss.

    Fortunately, the Netherlands has obtained the right to trade, and together with China, can monopolize the spice gems of Brunei and Sulu.

    In Van Diemen's eyes, this trading right was incidental to the negotiations, but the congressmen regarded the trading right as a real war dividend.

    Excited Van Diemen, it seems that his condition has improved a lot, and when he returned home, he asked his servants to open a bottle of wine to celebrate

    Banten Port.

    A senior employee of a trading post is writing to the top of the British East India Company:

    "Gentlemen, I just received an amazing news. The Dutch East India Company, together with the Emperor of China, defeated Spain on land and sea. The Emperor of China got Luzon Island, and the Dutch East India Company got two key sites.  The two sultanates of Brunei and Sulu have returned to the embrace of the Chinese emperor By the way, the Dutch East India Company has joined forces with China to monopolize the spices and gems of Brunei and Sulu."

    "Gentlemen, we need a war. Britain and the Netherlands will go to war directly. Only war can win commercial interests. If this continues, the British East India Company will find it difficult to gain a foothold in the Far East"

    Teddy Holland at sea is making troubles all over the world, so naturally he won't have a good relationship with Britain.

    Both countries have the East India Company, and it is normal to compete with each other for business.

    More than 20 years ago, Britain was doing a good job in the spice business on Java Island, and the Dutch fleet suddenly came.  After a fierce beating, the Netherlands forced Britain to sign an agreement: the Oriental spice trade was divided into three, and the Netherlands monopolized the second.

    The matter is not over yet, only a few years later, the Netherlands killed all the British in the Magguru Islands because of the spice trade, which is known as the "Ambriana Massacre" in history.

    In the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and West Africa, the Netherlands is also competing with the UK for business everywhere.  He even went to catch herring off the coast of the UK and sold them to the British.

    If the British want to get tough, they have to wait for Lord Protector Cromwell. The current British king has no intention of engaging in a trade war.

    Of course, the British, who had a hard time, are now doing well in India.

    Portugal had a bad relationship with the Mughal emperor of India. The British fleet defeated the Portuguese fleet, and the Mughal emperor was very happy.  The British then acted like licking dogs, frantically kneeling and licking the Indian emperor. The British king also sent a mission to coax the Indian emperor into great joy in a way that was almost flattering.

    Therefore, the Indian emperor ordered that officials from all over the country should protect the British well.

    There are no restrictions on the British doing business in India, and officials from all over the country are not allowed to harass British factories.  Even in some areas, the British are directly exempted from business tax!

    What a great Indian emperor, the British are very grateful for this, and they will do their best to repay the emperor's love

    Nanjing.

    The people standing in front of Zhao Han were all important cabinet ministers of the Datong court.

    Zuo Xiaoliang said: "It is definitely impossible to set up prefectures and counties in Luzon. We can set up a Xuanfu Division to rule over them."

    Ouyang Zheng said: "The land outside Huawai should be like this. Just like the Xuanweisi of Laos, set up a Luzon Xuanweisi to let the local chieftain manage the jurisdiction."

    &??Zhao Han pretended not to see it at all.

    After all, immigrating to Luzon is also risky, and one who is not acclimatized may die.

    It's a pity that everyone in the countryside has land, and those who don't have land have already immigrated to the north, and even the encouragement of development cannot be encouraged.

    Two brothers, Lin Yingwen and Lin Congwen, came to their hometown and called their elders.

    They offer extremely favorable conditions, provide travel expenses, provide seeds, and you can divide the fields when you go to Luzon, and as long as you can grow it, it doesn't matter how much you plant, and you can also recruit indigenous people to become big landlords.  However, few responded.

    "I know Luzon, that place is far away."

    "I heard that there is miasma in Luzon, and if you enter the forest, you will die."

    "My family's land is enough, and we can earn some income by weaving. It's not bad to buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar."

    ""

    After several days of tossing, the brothers only recruited three villagers.

    When they returned to the city, they saw a large number of citizens arguing in front of the imperial edict.

    Many of these citizens do not know how to farm, and they work in the city to make a living.  At this moment, many people are tempted. Even if they don't know how to farm, they can recruit native tenants and landlords!

    Ninety-nine percent of the first batch of civilian immigrants to Luzon were urbanites!

    Especially those idlers, Zhao Han ordered local officials to crack down on gangsters.  They were cut off from their sources of income and refused to work honestly. Now they finally have a chance to go out and make a living.
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