107 The Emperor's Disaster Day: Paper Tigers Roar(2/2)
But the problem is that since there is no owner, a stronger colonial group will inevitably eliminate the loose colonial group. When the villagers of the two village clerks were clearing up land, they also talked about which village clerk would unite which village would benefit more. What's more, the colonial development of such a large land. The former is stronger, more efficient, and more aggressive. Just like the Americans killed the Indians.
The Chinese Lanfang Company faced the aggressiveness and repeated squeezes of the Dutch colonists.
But Lanfang's company was obviously not good. They didn't even dare to proclaim themselves emperor and establish a country: one was afraid that the country would be rebelled. The Qing Dynasty in China dug out their ancestral graves, and the other was afraid that there would be no one. After the founding of the country, the Dutch colonists destroyed them.
Of course, if Lan Fang had the ability to build guns and cannons in civilization, and had the courage and ruthlessness of cowboys from the west, like the early American colonists, perhaps their power was no longer the second-rate Dutch in the world.
But they are essentially just a big world, not a country. They adhere to the so-called virtues of the Chinese, so naturally they do not have this ruthlessness.
All they could do was seek help from the mother country of the Far East, but the Qing Dynasty simply believed that the ocean was a fucking disaster. Who would have been a country built by a foreign country? These people should be executed and searched if they were caught when they returned to their country, except for those who did not bribes.
At this time, a boat carried a ship of "piglets" and a "pseudo-Song" envoy to Lan Fang - Zhao Kuo, the rebel of the Far East motherland, hoped to "help" Lan Fang.
Zhao Kuo is a legendary figure. As long as he is on the South China Sea, even in West Borneo, the rulers of Lan Fang have heard of his name.
But he, like all successful rulers, is mixed with praise and criticism.
What Lan Fang knew was that he was a rebel of the Qing Dynasty and a larger rebel, the horse-boy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After occupying Guangdong, he kicked off Tianjing and founded the country to Song Dynasty;
It is always a good thing to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, because this is a group of hook-shaped worms with the upper brain; the heaven and earth will be anti-Qing and restored the Ming Dynasty, but this guy believes in foreign religions and first believes in Christianity. He soon baptized and believed in Catholicism again, and dared to be capricious before God;
His compatriots from Fujian loved him until death because he saved the Xiaodaohui uprising in Xiamen. He was really good;
But the pirates who were friends with Lan Fang gritted their teeth and called him Song Gou Shu on the ocean. After using them, they immediately turned against each other. They slaughtered their families on the shore, killed their brothers on the ocean, and colluded with foreigners to drive them into the ocean farther. This was a treacherous beast, and he was a foreigner's dog!
The merchants and the Guangdong Tiandihui praised this guy as a wise man, and said that the Qing Dynasty would soon die, either the Tianjing or the Haijing.
Lan Fang was afraid of the Netherlands and had to demand foreign aid, but any Chinese were concerned about success, king and defeat, and did not want to find a rebel unless he became the emperor.
However, Hai Song's strength, which was very aggressive in the ocean, did attract the attention of the beauty Lan Fang.
For any organization, from the country to the gang, diplomacy must depend on strength and interests.
It is definitely not about whether you are cool or not or whether you have moral integrity, but about whether you can cover it.
You can see---Li Bingkun as a plenipotentiary envoy. The order he received was to see if Hai Song's strength could help him fight against the Netherlands and continue to seek the Qing Dynasty.
The first stop was to Haisong. Under the moral civilization of the world and the world, he was grandly welcomed by the Guangdong court and gangs. Then Zhao Kuo escorted the navy according to his wishes to Shanghai and Beijing. When he came back, Guangxi of the Qing Dynasty was swept by the Song Dynasty. The Western warships and invincible foreign gun teams were not only ironclad for Zhao Kuo to collude with foreigners, but also proof of his strength. Although his strength was still very thin compared to the Netherlands and Britain, which were rampant in Southeast Asia, it was better than the Qing Dynasty.
Li Bingkun has confirmed that the long-haired emperor has a good relationship with Britain and France (or he is a dog). He decided to give it a try first. After thinking for a while, he smiled and said, "If you can convince the Netherlands to recognize our legal territory and give us the owner of Lanfang Company reasonable compensation, we are happy to enjoy West Borneo with the Song Dynasty."
"Open the offer, sign the contract." Zhao Kuo waved his hand.
Two hours later, Zhao Kuo met the Dutch consul in the Song Dynasty here.
This consul is not like the high-ranking jazz who were specially dispatched by Britain and France. On the contrary, he was just elected by Dutch merchants in the Song Dynasty.
This is an important feature of the strength of the great powers. The stronger the strength, the stronger the diplomacy is, the more professional it is. The two met and shook hands and greeted each other, as if playing chess. Lan Fang established a country, and diplomatic interactions acknowledged each other, and they were false, hoarse, and bluffed each other for an hour.
Both of them were nervous.
Zhao Kuo was nervous because he definitely couldn't beat the Netherlands.
In essence, he was a farming country in the Song Dynasty. He had just begun to climb to commercial and industrial civilization. The Netherlands was commercial capital, and in the past, Zhao Kuo was definitely not a big deal in the navy and army.
But the Dutch consul was also so nervous that Zhao Kuo knew why he was nervous: because Kalimantan Island was too far from the Netherlands!
In Zhao Kuolai's time and space, the Netherlands did not dare to annex Lan Fang, a loose gang country, because they were afraid of offending the Qing Dynasty. They were delayed until the end of the 19th century to swallow Lan Fang. What's more, now there is a country with a similar territory than the Netherlands that claims to be responsible for Lan Fang's belongings.
In this era, distance will definitely determine your strength discount.
Just talk about how much military expenditure was spent on the First Opium War in Britain to cut off the Qing Dynasty?
There is also an Indian base in the UK, which cost 4.21 million pounds, or 12.63 million taels of silver!
The compensation for the Qing Dynasty was only 12 million yuan (paragraph 6 of the Sino-British Nanjing Treaty), equivalent to 8.52 million taels.
(The Qing Dynasty's military expenditure was about 28.71 million taels. The local war spent more than twice as much money as the enemy who came across half the earth. They were beaten to the ground and could not find their teeth. Of course, except for the poor Xianfeng, all the officials became rich.)
There is a qualitative difference between British and Dutch.
The difference between national strength.
The UK is industrial capital, while the Netherlands is commercial capital.
The British had money, and even the parliament said that the Qing Dynasty did not need to pay the military expenses, so that they could understand what we meant. But if you let the Netherlands run half of the earth and come to the Far East to fight an enemy of the Song Dynasty, their government could not afford such a battle even if they did not use foreign gun teams, they would use their spears and swords to build on Kalimantan Island. Regardless of winning or losing, the Dutch government would have to go bankrupt.
Of course, if you really admit it and go bankrupt, you will fight. Zhao Kuo might be killed by the Dutch Navy where he was killed by the small navy where he was blocked from the port and could not be sent out alone, but this is impossible unless the Dutch government goes crazy.
However, Zhao Kuo was also a paper tiger. This little rebel has been around for less than two years since he came out of the Far East. It was the limit for his armed fleet to sail to Kalimantan. When he fought, he would still have to spend all his money as his underwear and do military expenses, and he might be destroyed by the Qing Dynasty.
It was nonsense that he really sent troops to Lan Fang with all his might. He did not have so many troops and financial resources.
There were paper tigers on both sides, so Zhao Kuo and the Dutch consul later compared to whoever had a louder voice.
"Lan Fang is both Chinese, that is, land without a master, whoever takes over it will belong to it! Now I must protect the interests of my subjects!" Zhao Kuo was anxious, and no longer needed Xiao Zuye's poor translation, and shouted in English.
"The Chinese have no country at all! Lan Fang is just a company. Our country has invested more in Kalimantan than you Chinese!" The Dutch consul shouted.
"Is it great if you have too much money? You **ed Do you Netherlands want to use the Egyptians to enslave the Jews against us? We are all God's sheep! You hinder God from spreading His gospel! You hinder God from shining His light to the Far East! Are you Satan?" Zhao Kuo yelled with his fingers trembling.
"Nonsense! Lan Fang doesn't believe in Christianity at all! Besides, when we were traveling all over the world under the guidance of God, your Mr. Zheng Chenggong was still alive! You were not born yet!" The Dutch consul blushed and shouted.
OK, you are cruel, Lao Shu has sacrificed his magic weapon!
Zhao Kuo gritted his teeth and said with a sneer: "Now I have driven the pirates out of the South China Sea coast, but now pirates gather near Kalimantan Island, which seriously hinders the marine trade in the Far East! The British and French ministers, consuls, and business leaders from all countries unanimously asked me to expand my cruise range and maintain Far East trade! Lan Fang is my important marine stronghold! I must have Lan Fang to fight against Indian Ocean pirates! I think the British and French ministers will also act justly. You must know that the places I occupy have always been free faith and free trade!"
The fox is pretending to be a tiger? You are a lackey of French and British people!
The Dutch minister cursed in his heart, but there was nothing to refute. The French had some influence in the Indochina Peninsula, which was nothing, but the British directly competed with the Netherlands in the South China Islands. Moreover, the bastard in front of him sold the tariffs, missionary and prospecting, and mining rights of the Qing Dynasty to Britain and France like giants, and became the cane and lighthouse for Britain and France to enter the Qing Dynasty. If this dog had to intervene in the South China Sea, maybe those shameless and treacherous British and hypocritical Napoleon III would really have him.
"It is reasonable and legal for our country to possess Kalimantan Island." The Dutch consul said: "Lan Fang has never heard of your relationship. And they do not believe in God. They are just a group of Chinese labor."
"Now they are no longer labor service. But the country of Lanfang, a subsidiary of our country. I don't know what the relationship between Lanfang's territory and you, the Netherlands?" Zhao Kuo snorted coldly with a hooligan saying that expression, "You must know that I have saved thousands of compatriots from Xiaodao and the "Far East France" sailors. Now Lanfang has hundreds of thousands of Chinese brothers. Their interests are the interests of our country, and I will not give up."
"I have to say goodbye. My mission is just to inform our country's position." The Dutch consul stood up and picked up his hat and said coldly.
"This is the 19th century, an era when the strong prey on the weak." Zhao Kuo also stood up and said coldly: "I will let your country understand my position. My position is the position of the Far East trade!"
Seeing the Dutch consul walking out of the reception room with guilt, Zhao Kuo cursed: "Damn it, it seems that I have to invite the British and French brothers to come! If you don't believe me, you dare to challenge us. This is not football!"
Zhao Kuo's position is actually to find a place to prepare to transport refugees who cannot be accepted. Nothing is more suitable for accepting a large number of agricultural populations than Lanfang, a place with a large land and a sparse population and a developed mining and planting industry.
And if it is built, it can be used as a back garden. If you escape, the first step is to settle in Lanfang.
Zhao Kuo thought this was actually not difficult. The weak Dutch had no control over the territory of Kalimantan Lanfang, so he relied on their army and the Chinese "Kabidan" to push the territory of Lanfang. Once he gained international power, it would be easier to separate from the Netherlands. He thought that the difficult thing was to eliminate Lanfang Tiandi and would control the territory and replace it with his own rule. The chief of the Tang Dynasty was ready to cross the river and destroy the bridge before he had obtained it.
Of course, the tough attitude of the Dutch consul made the underworld very unhappy. Since he held the British and French thighs and trained a little bit of foreign gun teams, he thought he was the third boss in the Far East and didn't even take this little American slut seriously, so he returned to the office cursingly, and didn't seem to be in a good mood.
"Damn it, in the Far East, the Netherlands is nothing, even Spain is not as good as! Lao Xiao, go to the British and French ministers and make an appointment with me separately. I want to meet them in the afternoon to talk about Lan Fang, first Bourbron and then Sir Wenhan." Zhao Kuo gave orders angrily as he walked.
The Prime Minister's office was opposite the corridor of the emperor's office. A middle-aged man wearing a Chinese robe and a schoolboy and a headscarf stood in front of the open door. He looked at the cursing emperor and Xiao Zuye and walked into his office together. He held a stack of information and turned his head toward Huan Zhuguo behind the desk and smiled: "Prime Minister, the emperor has finished his talk. Didn't you have something to ask him for? Go quickly."
"Ah!" Huan Zhuguo put down the "History of Song" in his hand, raised his head, looked at his several subordinates, and smiled and said, "Old Bai, I'm not in a hurry. You go first. Aren't you going to report the situation in Guangxi's Qingxiang? Your business is important, go."
Seeing the guy leave the office, a secretary curled his lips and said, "Old Bai is so awesome. We are all wearing costumes, just like His Majesty, wearing robes, schoolbags and headscarves."
"Hey, I just got through the exam. The article is good. I know it's the same as my boss." Another secretary sneered.
"Work, work." Huan Zhuguo laughed, pulled out his pocket watch and looked at it, lowered his head to prepare his own materials, but gritted his teeth and sneered in his heart: Do you want to please Your Majesty? Have you not realized why he can only wear robes and books? Do you treat us as idiots? You shit! In 10 minutes, Old Shu kills you!
Chapter completed!