Chapter 1556
After the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations
Chapter 1556 After the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations
Zhang Qu hurriedly got up to thank him, Shi Diwen waved his hands and said: "Boss Zhang, don't worry, you can listen to me before thanking you. If you want to join our country and stay in our country as an official in the future, you must You have to give up Daming's nationality first, and then join our country. I don't need to explain this truth, do I?"
Zhang Qu quickly responded: "I have admired your country for a long time, so I know this rule. I am willing to give up my citizenship of the Ming Dynasty, and I hope the general will make it happen."
"Since you are so persistent, let's follow the boat to Zhoushan tomorrow... But what about what you just talked about?" Shi Diwen did not forget the previous chapter and asked himself about the salt industry agent.
Zhang Qu already had a plan before he came, and he was prepared for it, so he responded immediately: "The state affairs come first, and I will not be greedy for such petty gains."
These words are righteous and awe-inspiring, people who don't know this may think that this chapter is some kind of patriotic loyal minister, but they don't know that this person just wants to hug Haihan's thigh.Shi Diwen was secretly funny, but he didn't think highly of Zhang Qu.Immediately, he was dispatched first, and he didn't want to verify whether the identity of this person was true.Although Zhang Qu did not achieve the original goal, at least he got the opportunity to go to Haihan for training, which was barely fulfilled.
Nowadays, as Haihan's national power is getting stronger and stronger, more and more people who take the initiative to join Haihan appear in the southern coastal provinces, and the proportion of scholars shows an increasing trend year by year.This is because the law and order situation in the southern coastal areas is improving year by year. Most of the farmers who are accustomed to relying on the land for survival are unwilling to leave their homes in peacetime and go to foreign countries with uncertain futures to make a living, and scholars are more knowledgeable than the peasant class. , they can come into contact with more information about Haihan. They know that after going to Haihan, they can get better prospects and opportunities, which is better than staying in Daming, so they choose to go to Haihan. There are more and more scholars, and there are naturally many official fans like Zhang Qu.
In fact, Shi Diwen didn't care what kind of treatment Zhang Qu could get in Haihan in the end, and he certainly wouldn't say hello to the HR department for such a person with not outstanding qualifications. He has no obsession with his business, so Shi Diwen naturally wouldn't lower himself to beg him.The loss of such a negotiating partner will not affect the future sales of the Xiangshan Salt Field. After all, salt is just in demand. As long as the production cost and price can be controlled, it is only a matter of time before the salt market in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is squeezed out.
There are still many business opportunities brought about by the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, such as salt. If the smuggling trade in the past opened up a gap in the Ming Dynasty, then the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries is equivalent to completely opening up to Haihan. In this environment, the technological and economic advantages of industrial society over farming civilization are becoming more and more obvious.
This change in the situation is of course within Haihan's calculations. In fact, Haihan has spent several years promoting the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The purpose is to benefit from it. It can be said that he is promoting this with a very strong purpose. thing.But Daming's understanding of this is obviously not that deep. Relevant departments, including the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households, hardly realize how much impact Haihan's trade methods will have on Daming society after opening the country. He believes that such international relations will help Haihan help his family fight against Houjin.
Only those few Ming officials who have really had in-depth contact with Haihan and have a clear understanding of Haihan's development method and the situation in the southeast of Ming Dynasty can understand what the change in the relationship between Haihan and Daming means.
At present, the entire coastline in the southeast of Ming Dynasty is almost under Haihan's control, but in the past Haihan obtained relatively limited economic benefits from it.The construction and transportation business of the two countries provides Haihan with the possibility of making this control public and transforming it into economic benefits.Once this kind of control is made public and a default situation is formed, if Da Ming wants to regain the control of these sea areas in the future, he can probably only count on Haihan to break up and destroy the Great Wall by himself—this is of course an absolutely impossible situation.
Taking Zhejiang as an example, the areas actually controlled by Haihan are concentrated in the coastal areas of Ningbo, but they have not publicly claimed sovereignty over the occupied areas. However, after the two countries announced the establishment of diplomatic relations, Haihan decisively included the Zhoushan Islands and Shipu Port. Even if Da Ming is not willing to accept his own territory, he can only swallow his teeth for the time being.Haihan will use Shipu Port and Zhoushan Dinghai Port as its trade centers in the southeast sea of Daming. Shi Diwen has recently promoted industrial construction in Zhejiang, one of the purposes of which is to contribute to the consolidation of the regional trade center.
When businessmen in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions began to accept this reality and believed that trade cooperation with Haihan could bring them more economic benefits, Daming had to face internal pressure if it wanted to take back these places.You must know that the vested interests in trade with Haihan are not just those businessmen. As long as officials in coastal areas, large and small, do not stand up against Haihan, they will have their interests mixed in. This group is quite large. Haihan's support is even enough to resist the court's will.
The irony is that almost all of these Ming officials who really understand the current situation of the two countries are vested interests in the previous smuggling trade.They are very clear that the trade between the two countries can bring more benefits to themselves, so even though they know that this move will only make the national power of the two countries decline and make Ming more passive in this situation, they will still choose to stand at sea. Han here.Regardless of their official positions, they all believed in the two things that the Haihan people had promised them, one was not to start war against Ming, and the other was to guarantee their interests and future.As long as these two commitments can be guaranteed, they will not feel that there is any problem with their approach.
These officials knew very well that it would be very difficult for Da Ming to compete head-on with Hai Han in terms of force. The Hai Han army was much stronger than the Japanese pirates who also came from the sea. Once a war started, it would only be Da Ming who would suffer.As long as peace can be maintained, the interests of Daming are protected, and the various concessions made by the court today are also for the same reason and purpose in their view.Since the emperor and the court have similar views, these local officials will have no fear.This is why the prefect and the judge in Hangzhou are vying to cooperate with Haihan, even resorting to violence.
At the end of August, while the government offices in various places in Zhejiang successively posted notices about the establishment of transportation business between the two countries, Haihan and the local businessmen held talks for more than ten consecutive days and achieved fruitful results. Only the cooperation of industrial projects was negotiated. More than [-] items have been approved, and there are even more items that have opinions but need further negotiation.This is equivalent to Shi Diwen holding a business promotion meeting in Ningbo City by himself, and achieved quite good results.
After this short period of half a month, officials and businessmen in the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions knew that General Shi, who was sent by Haihan to Zhejiang, was not only capable of leading troops to fight, but also good at business negotiations.Some people even think that Shi Diwen's main business should be in business, and leading troops to fight is a part-time job, which shows his affirmation of his performance.
The progress made by Zhejiang can be said to be the most significant progress made by Haihan in the many control areas along the coast of Daming.Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian have long been infiltrated by Haihan, and trade and official exchanges have already been made public. To be honest, the establishment of diplomatic relations does not have much impact.The Shandong occupied area basically maintained its original status, and Haihan did not try to continue to expand the local occupation area, but only let Daming recognize Haihan's rights and interests in the local area.As for Liaodong, there is no need to mention it. Daming has already acquiesced in Haihan's occupied area in Jinzhou, but Haihan now has no spare power to further expand the scale of the war with Houjin, so the scope of Liaodong's controlled area has no substance. Sexual changes.
Only Zhejiang, not only clearly assigned the Zhoushan Islands and Shipu Port to the territory of Haihan, but also achieved a number of trade achievements, and completed the integration of several industries before that, as well as the acquisition of high-ranking officials in Zhejiang. It can be said that this is almost the limit achievement that the institutions in Zhejiang can achieve.Even if Schneider came to Zhejiang in person, he might not be able to do better than Shi Diwen.
So when Zhejiang's progress was sent back to Shengli Fort every three to five days, the members of the executive committee were all proud of Shi Diwen's achievements.Even Schneider, who has always been extremely demanding, praised Shi Diwen for his professional performance, and even half-jokingly asked the Ministry of National Defense to release people so that Shi Diwen's establishment could be transferred to the Ministry of Commerce.
Such a proposal was taken for granted by Minister of National Defense Yan Chujie as wishful thinking: "Shi Diwen's current position is the commander of the East China Sea Fleet. If you want to dig a corner, you can find me a qualified fleet commander first."
Schneider's subordinates are all civilian officials. Of course, it is impossible to have such talents, so it can only be regarded as a joke.But Shi Diwen's performance really touched him a lot. If someone can do business part-time to achieve such results, then shouldn't the full-time officials of the Ministry of Commerce have better performance?
Schneider has been busy with the affairs of the South China Sea Trade Alliance recently. Although it has been the third year since the establishment of this trade alliance, the formulation of rules for transnational trade has not yet been completed, and trade agreements between countries have been constantly negotiating. In the midst of changes and changes, even if Haihan is the initiator and leader of this alliance, it will be difficult for these Southeast Asian countries to obey their own arrangements on their own.
Although the members of this trade alliance are all in awe of Haihan, each country has its own national conditions, and it is impossible for Haihan to force all countries to follow their own pace. Therefore, although the South China Sea Trade Alliance has been established for so long, the actual There is no truly standardized trade agreement in the world.
As the person in charge of commercial affairs of Haihan, Schneider naturally hopes to promote the implementation of this standard.However, trade alliances tend to be looser than political alliances and military alliances. It is almost an impossible task for Haihan to make these small countries that are still in a backward social form act as their own.In the past year, Schneider has been traveling almost non-stop to the countries in the trade alliance to discuss trade standards with political leaders of various countries, but to be honest, the results are not obvious.
For these small countries, even small policy changes can easily cause social unrest, and the adjustment of trade standards will directly affect the benefits of vested interests, so Schneider wants to promote new standards in these countries , the difficulty is naturally extremely great.People listened to Schneider's suggestion, but they didn't follow through on it.Some countries even think that what he said is superfluous and troublesome. In such a situation, Schneider can only laugh at himself and cannot educate these primitive people.
However, Shi Diwen's achievements in Zhejiang also gave Schneider some inspiration, what kind of attitude and measures should be taken towards trading partner countries, so as to make them accept Haihan's industry standards in international trade.
This kind of standard should not be underestimated. At the beginning, Haihan worked hard to organize the South China Sea Trade Alliance, and his ultimate goal was to control the standard-setting authority in international trade.And these industry standards cover a wide range, such as ship standards, relevant laws and regulations, settlement methods, freight price calculations, etc., which are common to member countries of the alliance. Haihan can promote its own advantageous industries by formulating these industry standards , such as convenient financial settlement methods and reliable institutions.
Although Haihan Bank has offices in every country in the South China Sea Trade Union, the actual business it conducts is far less than that in the coastal areas of Daming, especially the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, which are famous for their affluence. The annual turnover of Han Bank in the member states of the South China Sea Trade Alliance is even greater.
Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions have provided excellent successful experiences on how to bring Haihan Bank's business into overseas markets.The last time Schneider sent Cai Jinmei to Zhejiang to participate in negotiations, on the one hand, he asked Cai Jinmei to standardize the local operating procedures, and on the other hand, he also collected information to sort out the gains and losses of Haihan Bank's work in the local area.These sorted out experiences will be promoted and implemented after making corresponding adjustments according to the specific conditions of Southeast Asian countries.
Now, in the South China Sea Trade Alliance, only Annan, the Netherlands and Portugal have relatively frequent trade exchanges and considerable trade volume. For sure, it's still far from enough.So at the end of the summer of 1636, Schneider proposed a new plan for the current situation of the South China Sea Trade Alliance.
(End of this chapter)
Zhang Qu hurriedly got up to thank him, Shi Diwen waved his hands and said: "Boss Zhang, don't worry, you can listen to me before thanking you. If you want to join our country and stay in our country as an official in the future, you must You have to give up Daming's nationality first, and then join our country. I don't need to explain this truth, do I?"
Zhang Qu quickly responded: "I have admired your country for a long time, so I know this rule. I am willing to give up my citizenship of the Ming Dynasty, and I hope the general will make it happen."
"Since you are so persistent, let's follow the boat to Zhoushan tomorrow... But what about what you just talked about?" Shi Diwen did not forget the previous chapter and asked himself about the salt industry agent.
Zhang Qu already had a plan before he came, and he was prepared for it, so he responded immediately: "The state affairs come first, and I will not be greedy for such petty gains."
These words are righteous and awe-inspiring, people who don't know this may think that this chapter is some kind of patriotic loyal minister, but they don't know that this person just wants to hug Haihan's thigh.Shi Diwen was secretly funny, but he didn't think highly of Zhang Qu.Immediately, he was dispatched first, and he didn't want to verify whether the identity of this person was true.Although Zhang Qu did not achieve the original goal, at least he got the opportunity to go to Haihan for training, which was barely fulfilled.
Nowadays, as Haihan's national power is getting stronger and stronger, more and more people who take the initiative to join Haihan appear in the southern coastal provinces, and the proportion of scholars shows an increasing trend year by year.This is because the law and order situation in the southern coastal areas is improving year by year. Most of the farmers who are accustomed to relying on the land for survival are unwilling to leave their homes in peacetime and go to foreign countries with uncertain futures to make a living, and scholars are more knowledgeable than the peasant class. , they can come into contact with more information about Haihan. They know that after going to Haihan, they can get better prospects and opportunities, which is better than staying in Daming, so they choose to go to Haihan. There are more and more scholars, and there are naturally many official fans like Zhang Qu.
In fact, Shi Diwen didn't care what kind of treatment Zhang Qu could get in Haihan in the end, and he certainly wouldn't say hello to the HR department for such a person with not outstanding qualifications. He has no obsession with his business, so Shi Diwen naturally wouldn't lower himself to beg him.The loss of such a negotiating partner will not affect the future sales of the Xiangshan Salt Field. After all, salt is just in demand. As long as the production cost and price can be controlled, it is only a matter of time before the salt market in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is squeezed out.
There are still many business opportunities brought about by the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, such as salt. If the smuggling trade in the past opened up a gap in the Ming Dynasty, then the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries is equivalent to completely opening up to Haihan. In this environment, the technological and economic advantages of industrial society over farming civilization are becoming more and more obvious.
This change in the situation is of course within Haihan's calculations. In fact, Haihan has spent several years promoting the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The purpose is to benefit from it. It can be said that he is promoting this with a very strong purpose. thing.But Daming's understanding of this is obviously not that deep. Relevant departments, including the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households, hardly realize how much impact Haihan's trade methods will have on Daming society after opening the country. He believes that such international relations will help Haihan help his family fight against Houjin.
Only those few Ming officials who have really had in-depth contact with Haihan and have a clear understanding of Haihan's development method and the situation in the southeast of Ming Dynasty can understand what the change in the relationship between Haihan and Daming means.
At present, the entire coastline in the southeast of Ming Dynasty is almost under Haihan's control, but in the past Haihan obtained relatively limited economic benefits from it.The construction and transportation business of the two countries provides Haihan with the possibility of making this control public and transforming it into economic benefits.Once this kind of control is made public and a default situation is formed, if Da Ming wants to regain the control of these sea areas in the future, he can probably only count on Haihan to break up and destroy the Great Wall by himself—this is of course an absolutely impossible situation.
Taking Zhejiang as an example, the areas actually controlled by Haihan are concentrated in the coastal areas of Ningbo, but they have not publicly claimed sovereignty over the occupied areas. However, after the two countries announced the establishment of diplomatic relations, Haihan decisively included the Zhoushan Islands and Shipu Port. Even if Da Ming is not willing to accept his own territory, he can only swallow his teeth for the time being.Haihan will use Shipu Port and Zhoushan Dinghai Port as its trade centers in the southeast sea of Daming. Shi Diwen has recently promoted industrial construction in Zhejiang, one of the purposes of which is to contribute to the consolidation of the regional trade center.
When businessmen in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions began to accept this reality and believed that trade cooperation with Haihan could bring them more economic benefits, Daming had to face internal pressure if it wanted to take back these places.You must know that the vested interests in trade with Haihan are not just those businessmen. As long as officials in coastal areas, large and small, do not stand up against Haihan, they will have their interests mixed in. This group is quite large. Haihan's support is even enough to resist the court's will.
The irony is that almost all of these Ming officials who really understand the current situation of the two countries are vested interests in the previous smuggling trade.They are very clear that the trade between the two countries can bring more benefits to themselves, so even though they know that this move will only make the national power of the two countries decline and make Ming more passive in this situation, they will still choose to stand at sea. Han here.Regardless of their official positions, they all believed in the two things that the Haihan people had promised them, one was not to start war against Ming, and the other was to guarantee their interests and future.As long as these two commitments can be guaranteed, they will not feel that there is any problem with their approach.
These officials knew very well that it would be very difficult for Da Ming to compete head-on with Hai Han in terms of force. The Hai Han army was much stronger than the Japanese pirates who also came from the sea. Once a war started, it would only be Da Ming who would suffer.As long as peace can be maintained, the interests of Daming are protected, and the various concessions made by the court today are also for the same reason and purpose in their view.Since the emperor and the court have similar views, these local officials will have no fear.This is why the prefect and the judge in Hangzhou are vying to cooperate with Haihan, even resorting to violence.
At the end of August, while the government offices in various places in Zhejiang successively posted notices about the establishment of transportation business between the two countries, Haihan and the local businessmen held talks for more than ten consecutive days and achieved fruitful results. Only the cooperation of industrial projects was negotiated. More than [-] items have been approved, and there are even more items that have opinions but need further negotiation.This is equivalent to Shi Diwen holding a business promotion meeting in Ningbo City by himself, and achieved quite good results.
After this short period of half a month, officials and businessmen in the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions knew that General Shi, who was sent by Haihan to Zhejiang, was not only capable of leading troops to fight, but also good at business negotiations.Some people even think that Shi Diwen's main business should be in business, and leading troops to fight is a part-time job, which shows his affirmation of his performance.
The progress made by Zhejiang can be said to be the most significant progress made by Haihan in the many control areas along the coast of Daming.Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian have long been infiltrated by Haihan, and trade and official exchanges have already been made public. To be honest, the establishment of diplomatic relations does not have much impact.The Shandong occupied area basically maintained its original status, and Haihan did not try to continue to expand the local occupation area, but only let Daming recognize Haihan's rights and interests in the local area.As for Liaodong, there is no need to mention it. Daming has already acquiesced in Haihan's occupied area in Jinzhou, but Haihan now has no spare power to further expand the scale of the war with Houjin, so the scope of Liaodong's controlled area has no substance. Sexual changes.
Only Zhejiang, not only clearly assigned the Zhoushan Islands and Shipu Port to the territory of Haihan, but also achieved a number of trade achievements, and completed the integration of several industries before that, as well as the acquisition of high-ranking officials in Zhejiang. It can be said that this is almost the limit achievement that the institutions in Zhejiang can achieve.Even if Schneider came to Zhejiang in person, he might not be able to do better than Shi Diwen.
So when Zhejiang's progress was sent back to Shengli Fort every three to five days, the members of the executive committee were all proud of Shi Diwen's achievements.Even Schneider, who has always been extremely demanding, praised Shi Diwen for his professional performance, and even half-jokingly asked the Ministry of National Defense to release people so that Shi Diwen's establishment could be transferred to the Ministry of Commerce.
Such a proposal was taken for granted by Minister of National Defense Yan Chujie as wishful thinking: "Shi Diwen's current position is the commander of the East China Sea Fleet. If you want to dig a corner, you can find me a qualified fleet commander first."
Schneider's subordinates are all civilian officials. Of course, it is impossible to have such talents, so it can only be regarded as a joke.But Shi Diwen's performance really touched him a lot. If someone can do business part-time to achieve such results, then shouldn't the full-time officials of the Ministry of Commerce have better performance?
Schneider has been busy with the affairs of the South China Sea Trade Alliance recently. Although it has been the third year since the establishment of this trade alliance, the formulation of rules for transnational trade has not yet been completed, and trade agreements between countries have been constantly negotiating. In the midst of changes and changes, even if Haihan is the initiator and leader of this alliance, it will be difficult for these Southeast Asian countries to obey their own arrangements on their own.
Although the members of this trade alliance are all in awe of Haihan, each country has its own national conditions, and it is impossible for Haihan to force all countries to follow their own pace. Therefore, although the South China Sea Trade Alliance has been established for so long, the actual There is no truly standardized trade agreement in the world.
As the person in charge of commercial affairs of Haihan, Schneider naturally hopes to promote the implementation of this standard.However, trade alliances tend to be looser than political alliances and military alliances. It is almost an impossible task for Haihan to make these small countries that are still in a backward social form act as their own.In the past year, Schneider has been traveling almost non-stop to the countries in the trade alliance to discuss trade standards with political leaders of various countries, but to be honest, the results are not obvious.
For these small countries, even small policy changes can easily cause social unrest, and the adjustment of trade standards will directly affect the benefits of vested interests, so Schneider wants to promote new standards in these countries , the difficulty is naturally extremely great.People listened to Schneider's suggestion, but they didn't follow through on it.Some countries even think that what he said is superfluous and troublesome. In such a situation, Schneider can only laugh at himself and cannot educate these primitive people.
However, Shi Diwen's achievements in Zhejiang also gave Schneider some inspiration, what kind of attitude and measures should be taken towards trading partner countries, so as to make them accept Haihan's industry standards in international trade.
This kind of standard should not be underestimated. At the beginning, Haihan worked hard to organize the South China Sea Trade Alliance, and his ultimate goal was to control the standard-setting authority in international trade.And these industry standards cover a wide range, such as ship standards, relevant laws and regulations, settlement methods, freight price calculations, etc., which are common to member countries of the alliance. Haihan can promote its own advantageous industries by formulating these industry standards , such as convenient financial settlement methods and reliable institutions.
Although Haihan Bank has offices in every country in the South China Sea Trade Union, the actual business it conducts is far less than that in the coastal areas of Daming, especially the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, which are famous for their affluence. The annual turnover of Han Bank in the member states of the South China Sea Trade Alliance is even greater.
Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions have provided excellent successful experiences on how to bring Haihan Bank's business into overseas markets.The last time Schneider sent Cai Jinmei to Zhejiang to participate in negotiations, on the one hand, he asked Cai Jinmei to standardize the local operating procedures, and on the other hand, he also collected information to sort out the gains and losses of Haihan Bank's work in the local area.These sorted out experiences will be promoted and implemented after making corresponding adjustments according to the specific conditions of Southeast Asian countries.
Now, in the South China Sea Trade Alliance, only Annan, the Netherlands and Portugal have relatively frequent trade exchanges and considerable trade volume. For sure, it's still far from enough.So at the end of the summer of 1636, Schneider proposed a new plan for the current situation of the South China Sea Trade Alliance.
(End of this chapter)