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One Man's Time and Space Smuggling Empire VIP Volume Chapter 36 Going North

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    "But if we attack Taiwan, won't we be facing off against the Zheng family?"

    At the cabinet meeting in Manila, after listening to Li Zhe¡¯s speech, everyone¡¯s hearts were surging, and they didn¡¯t know how many thoughts were brewing!  Unexpectedly, after being stunned for a long time, Little Plum¡ª¡ªOh, no!  The Manila intelligence officer now known as Li Qi timidly said something, but it immediately aroused another trace of worry in everyone's hearts.

    Everyone looked at Li Zhe to see how he would answer.

    Yes, attacking Taiwan may be a good direction, but it will not only face the soldiers and horses of the Dutch garrison, but also have to face the resistance from the fierce tiger Zheng.  In fact, the Zheng family's power has now expanded to the point of being uncontrollable. In the surrounding area, only Liu Laoxiang, who is secretly supported by the Netherlands, can compete with it!

    It is Taiwan that has unified the northern seas, monopolized the merchant shipping trade, and continued to expand southward!  After passing Taiwan, its big hand will reach the border of Nanyang. This is a behemoth that is more difficult to resist than the Dutch, and it also carries an official status!  Don't you need to be scrupulous about doing something at someone's doorstep?

    Li Zhe paused:

    "Hmph! It is because of the Zheng family that Taiwan needs to be captured as soon as possible. This is the door for our Manila to extend its hand to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the springboard for the Zheng family to go south! Only by winning this place can we contain the Zheng family  Only by continuing to expand can Zheng Zhilong, the sea dragon, be truly locked in the north! Only in the future can the secret differentiation and control methods be implemented step by step!

    Taiwan!  The key to the ebb and flow of the situation between ourselves and the enemy!  No matter what kind of resistance you encounter, you must overcome it!  If the Zheng family is not satisfied, then you might as well come and stretch out your hand!  Huamei!  What do you say?  "

    From Li Zhe¡¯s words, everyone heard unprecedented determination and will!  He immediately realized that Li Zhe had made up his mind.  No matter what, this battle must be fought!  It¡¯s the same even when facing the Zheng family!

    "Hahahaha!" Li Huamei burst out with a hearty laugh, "Okay! Li Zhe! To tell you the truth, I have been waiting for this day, Zheng Zhilong! I have wanted to have a fight with him for a long time! Straight mother-in-law  You thief, you keep raking my water bill, and those who levy it are upset!"

    When the two said this, the crowd immediately became excited, and one by one they expressed their feelings. Whether it was the Dutch or Zheng Zhilong, they would fight them to the end together with the queen and the general!

    Although the giant ship Manila is just born, it already has some invincible momentum!

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    Manila in 1631 brought huge changes to Nanyang. It not only changed the political situation in Nanyang, but also changed the economic outlook of Nanyang in a deeper sense!

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????¡­  Countless small boats gathered from all directions and came to Manila to buy all kinds of novel goods. Excellent steel tools, exquisite glass products, convenient matches, a large number of No. 1 space-time and even a small amount of modern space-time products were sold to the world through Manila.  other areas.

    Under the temptation of huge profits, the Netherlands and Portugal knew that Manila was the backer of the Chinese separatist forces and provided arms to the Chinese armed forces in Nanyang.  They also had to compromise with Manila, forming a military confrontation on the surface, but secretly maintaining a strange phenomenon of busy trade smuggling routes. Even Spanish merchants had to lower their arrogant heads and pretend to be merchants of the East India Company.  Trade with Manila.

    The trade of these rare commodities has brought a huge amount of gold and silver wealth to Manila, prospered the market in Manila, and attracted countless people of all kinds to come here to make a living!  Manila's population trade soon gave birth to trade routes that transported slaves from various colonies in Southeast Asia to Manila. Soon Manila's population exceeded 100,000, and began to climb towards the height of 200,000!

    The Manila treasury has become a deep sea at the end of a river composed of huge amounts of gold and silver. In just over half a year, more than 400,000 taels of gold, more than 10 million taels of silver, and mountains of jewelry and diamonds have been accumulated, forming a rare treasure in history.  The "deep well of precious metals" phenomenon.  Almost all the hard currency reserves in Nanyang were drained, and even caused a currency shortage in Southeast Asia for a long period of time!  This allowed countries and regions rich in gold and silver to make huge profits for a time, and also made the monetary tightening in the Ming Empire even more serious.  The conditions for the implementation of all means have begun to take shape, but Li Zhe is still patient!

    March 1631, Manila port.

    The newly reorganized Manila Fleet has five Galen-modified sailing warships of over 600 tons, and 17 support ships of over 200 tons are waiting here to set sail north to Taiwan.  Li Zhe and Li Huamei were both on board the flagship Zhenhai.

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    ??At the same time, in an official residence in Quanzhou, Fujian, a group of burly men were divided into two rows. In the center was Fujian Navy Staff General Zheng Zhilong holding his seat high.

    "Let's all get moving and prepare for war! This time it's not a small scene in the countryside, it's a real sea battle! After so many years of comfortable life, I don't know what to do except with Liu Laoxiang.  Brothers who are fighting, how many others can fight!¡±

    "Brother! Are you really going to fight the Dutch? Let everyone go?"

    "Yeah!" Zheng Zhilong nodded: "We can't do it without fighting! There's a lot of trouble in Nanyang! As the head of the family, I, Zheng Zhilong, can't justify not fighting a war with the foreigners! Besides, the Dutch have been against us. I heard that even  Still want to go north to Penghu? Hum! I really have a big appetite, so I took care of them this time!"

    "Okay! That's right, brother! That's what you call being energetic! Otherwise, sitting in this remote place checking ships and patrolling the sea all day long would be boring to the core!"

    "Hey! Brothers, don't be so happy so early. This foreign barbarian is not easy to fight!" Guo Huaiyi, one of the Eighteen Zhizhi who was sworn to Zheng Zhilong in the past, and Zheng Zhilong's general Guo Huaiyi said.  "Back then in Penghu, the Dutch were just two ships, but they killed and injured hundreds of brothers before they could barely fight them off! These foreigners traveled thousands of miles on the sea to come to our Ming Dynasty to get food. That's not ordinary.  Goods!"

    "Third brother! Don't let other people's ambitions destroy your own brother's prestige! What you said was all back then. The foreigners' muskets and cannons were so powerful! But we are not bad either! Brothers, the cannons sold from Manila are not  Are you using it too? It¡¯s a bit more powerful than the foreign barbarians. Now we also have large ships with thousands of materials and dozens of cannons installed on them. Why can¡¯t we fight with the foreign barbarians!¡±

    Zheng Zhilong nodded,

    "Shi Laoqi is right. The foreign barbarians were powerful before, but we are no longer what we were back then! Now we have thousands of foreign guns and hundreds of cannons, and we always have to fight a war! When Taiwan is destroyed,  The Dutch foreign barbarians, we have completely blocked the route to the north. The number of ships going back and forth can be increased by at least 30 to 40%. Wouldn¡¯t it be another expense for the brothers¡¯ pockets? And by then  Maybe we can get involved in Nanyang¡¯s business, this is the long-term perspective!¡±

    "Oh! Put it this way, does the eldest brother have any plans to start in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty?"

    "Inland?" Zheng Zhilong smiled and shook his head, "No, although chaos has arisen in the Ming Dynasty, the centipede is still alive and the situation is still difficult to see! Now, it is not us brothers who are responsible for this.  Time!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to become a registered member of Piaotian Literature to recommend this work. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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