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One Person's Time and Space Smuggling Empire VIP Volume Chapter 23 Moon Harbor

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    "Dear gentlemen! We must admit that we underestimated the strength and determination of this group of Chinese pirates. Our once great motherland, the Spanish Empire, actually fell under the attack of such a group of pirates! Haha! Our great  Your Majesty, will you cry to his greedy relatives in Italy? Hahahaha!"

    Southwest of Luzon, the Dutch East India Company's station in Southeast Asia, Jakarta in Batavia, the commander of the Dutch garrison, General Soren, said to his colleagues, which immediately caused the room full of people to burst into laughter. Now  This news has almost become the repertoire of the officers of the Dutch Garrison Command.

    In October 1630, the news of the fall of Manila was carried here by merchant ships. At first hearing, the big shots of the East India Company simply couldn't believe their ears. Those Chinese were the Chinese who were rowing the boats on the sea.  Can it actually capture Manila?

    It is the strongest fortress in the entire Far East. Even the powerful East India Company does not dare to use their crooked ideas easily, although I have to admit that such an idea is really tempting!

    Although the Spanish Empire has obviously become a stranger, it is still a behemoth in Europe and the entire world that the new Netherlands is unwilling to provoke.  The Netherlands had enough of the unruly and arrogant Spanish bullfighters during the Anti-Japanese War!

    "Now for the great sea coachman, the Dutch, the world is at its most beautiful moment, the time to make money, isn't it?"  The whole world is full of gold, so why bother with all the entangled troubles.  Just like the land under your feet, it is as rich as milk and honey. Countless spices and gold are shipped from here in ships and transported all the way back to Europe along the South African route.  The Dutch brought untold wealth.

    Here, there are countless hard-working Chinese, Indians and Muslims who have worked tirelessly to develop this place, earning huge amounts of wealth for the Dutch!  The Dutch are not as impenitent and arrogant as Spain!

    The news that came next, from the mouths of the Chinese proudly bragging on the streets, revealed that the Dutch knew part of the war process. In order to attack Manila, the Chinese pirates even mobilized thousands of ships and tens of thousands of people to attack.  After that, the Dutch finally believed it!

    oh!  Although the possibility is very small, the number of Chinese is indeed large, isn't it?  As long as 10,000 pirates can land, they can gnaw at the walls of Manila!  In this world, I am afraid that only the Chinese have the capital to engage in this kind of human flesh offensive regardless of the cost!  Who makes people have more families?

    It seems that no matter how decadent and backward the government of the Ming Dynasty is, the smart and rational Dutch people had better restrain themselves and not wake up this giant!  Otherwise, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty would really become angry, and once this human wave strategy was used, it would really be impossible to deal with it!  If this is the case, do the colonial strongholds in Taiwan also need to make some adjustments?

    After confirming the authenticity of this news, the Dutch began to have to increase their measurement of the strength of the Chinese forces again!

    The employees of the colonial administration also became a little nervous, and their attitude towards the Chinese under their rule improved significantly.  The guys in the Governor's Mansion were furious and clamored all day long to make the Chinese pirates pay with blood. After a period of fear for the Chinese people under their rule, everything returned to normal, but the officers of the Nanyang Fleet  But from beginning to end, they didn¡¯t take it seriously!

    ??Is it necessary to make military adjustments to the newly rising power of the Chinese?  If you ask any officers in the military, the answer is no!

    Can the Chinese continue to row boats across thousands of miles of the South China Sea to threaten Batavia?  oh!  No!  This is so ridiculous!

    Look!  That's what happened. The military and political teams in the company had serious disagreements. The final result was to declare an embargo on Manila, severely condemn the Chinese pirates, and attack the legitimate government of Manila. Civilization will be preserved.  The world has no right to hold this barbaric act accountable!

    In fact, essentially the entire East India Company still did not take Li Huamei's naval strength into account!

    After all, nothing is as important as the shareholders in the company making money!

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    Fujian Province, Yuegang.

    Two months after the Battle of Manila, Manila¡¯s trade fleet, a total of more than a dozen sea-going ships of several hundred tons, arrived at the Moon Harbor under the escort of the Manila fleet composed of three warships of Li Huamei.

    The arrival of the Manila fleet, the huge warships and merchant ships, naturally caused a sensation among the officials and people of the Ming Dynasty. The naval officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty drove small boats and shouted a few times from a distance.After retreating in embarrassment, the Manila fleet entered Moon Harbor unimpeded!

    The Manila fleet entering the Moon Harbor was warmly welcomed by the merchants and pirates who crowded the place!  When local merchants in the Ming Dynasty learned that the Manila fleet was all Chinese and they were not here to attack, but just to trade, they rushed to recommend themselves to be pilots of the fleet and led the big ships in!

    At this time, the commercial atmosphere in the south of the Ming Dynasty was extremely strong. The developed handicraft industry and convenient sea trade conditions made people in many places in the Ming Dynasty almost every household either a weaver or a hawker. Most of the population was invested in overseas trade belts.  The Ming Dynasty's maritime ban policy, which violated the laws of historical development, was almost in name only!

    "This is the first time for the Manila fleet to engage in collective trade on such a large scale. It means huge business opportunities for the merchants of Yuegang.

    This time to Yuegang, what Manila will bring to the late Ming Dynasty are tons of matches, nails, glass products, and artillery and ammunition to be secretly traded to Zheng Yiguan.

    These trading items are the industrial products carefully selected by Li Zhe from the time and space of the Three Kingdoms. All of them are the real flagship products of this era.

    After a period of development, the chemical industry of the Three Kingdoms began to officially enter industrial production. However, the civilian industrial products that first formed industrial capabilities in the early stage were surprisingly not other soaps and other things, but matches.

    Due to the physical properties of phosphorus, the production and processing of phosphorus is the simplest. It was first popularized in the Three Kingdoms time and space. A large number of white phosphorus, red phosphorus and various oxidized phosphorus products were first produced.  Safety matches, the most convenient fire-starting tool in modern times, were produced ahead of schedule and became a new popular civilian product in the Three Kingdoms time and space!

    According to records, iron nails have always been one of the scarcest iron raw materials in the late Ming Dynasty. There was a huge gap between the huge demand in the lives of ordinary people and the production capacity of the poor steel industry in the Ming Dynasty.  This situation even lasted into the 20th century. Even during the Republic of China, iron nails had always been one of the most important imported commodities that China needed from Western countries.

    As for glass, there is no need to mention it. The history of China from ancient times to modern times has always been a history of extremely longing for legendary things like colored glaze. Any glass product, even if it is a muddy and opaque defective product,  Even in the Ming Dynasty, it could be sold at a good price, not to mention that the products of the Three Kingdoms Time and Space were already developing and almost mature in the primary glass industry.

    Various styles of small mirrors, full-length mirrors, transparent lenses and other gadgets were completely profitable in this era. The European colonists and the glass families from Venice and Florence made an unknown amount of money by holding inferior glass products.  Money towards the people!  Hundreds of years later, this kind of transaction is still flourishing!  Li Zhe's Three Kingdoms Time and Space industrial products made their first appearance in the Ming Dynasty market. Of course, he wanted something like this to suppress the market!

    The arrival of the Manila fleet with a large amount of scarce commodities caused a huge sensation in Yuegang!  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (this site) to subscribe and reward. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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