Chapter 1564
Chapter 1564
Chapter 1564
Foreigners who came to Sanya for the first time saw the mighty coastal defense fort outside the port, the huge iron ship docked at the mouth of the Tiandu River, the fast-moving train on the rails, the wide and flat landscape avenue, etc. The unique landscape of the series will inevitably be amazed by these things that break through common sense.Even some people with money and leisure will make a special trip to visit here from other countries.
In fact, it is not the first time that Luo Hong Langsang has come to Sanya, but he still can't help but be amazed by the prosperity of this city.It is said that it took less than ten years for the Haihan people to turn Sanya from a deserted beach into what it is today. It is really hard for him to imagine how this was done.It is no wonder that many Haihan civilians regard the rise of Sanya as a miracle, and pay homage to the hundreds of Haihan pioneers who first came here.
But this time when he came to Sanya, Luo Hong's purpose was not to travel. As the nephew of the Sultan of the Matalan Kingdom, Laden Langsan, the senior general of the Matalan Army is firmly in the third position. He came here this time to bring It is an extremely important task to discuss matters related to the arms trade with Haihan's high-level officials.
When Matalam fought the Dutch the hardest, the main weapon supplier was not Haihan, but the British who secretly sold a lot of arms to him.Of course, the purpose of the British in doing this is also very clear, that is to use Matalam to deal with the Dutch, weaken the control of the Netherlands in Java and Sumatra, and destroy the East India Company’s control of the Sunda Strait, a key waterway entering the South China Sea. .
However, the failure of the Battle of Batavia made Matalam realize that the weapons provided by the British could not meet its operational needs. Haihan, so Mata Languo managed to find some Ming people as middlemen, and successively purchased hundreds of artillery pieces and more than 2000 muskets from Haihan through middlemen.
The relevant departments of Haihan are naturally very clear about the flow of these weapons. If it hadn’t been for the establishment of the South China Sea Trade Alliance and the Dutch’s request for an arms ban, this kind of arms business disguised as private trade may continue. a long time.After all, Haihan can get huge profits from it, and can also use the power of Mata Lan to contain the Dutch. There is no reason not to do this kind of good thing that kills two birds with one stone.
The helpless people in Matalan could only repin their hopes on the British, but in 1635, the Haihan Army severely damaged the coalition forces of the British and Johor at Xingdao in the Strait of Malacca, forcing the British to temporarily abandon the area east of Sumatra. Activities, so that the Mata Lan people finally found this way to import arms was also forced to interrupt.
The Matalan people turned to the Spaniards. Before the two sides could reach a conclusion on the arms trade and military aid, the Spanish fleet was defeated in a battle with the Haihan Navy in the sea off Sanya in September of that year.The city of Manila suddenly fell into panic, and the people worried that Haihan would soon take military measures to retaliate, so all the arms sales plans were immediately stopped by Governor Aragones to consolidate the defense of Manila city, Mataram's The plan to buy arms naturally came to naught again.
The Matalan people finally realized that Haihan was a hurdle they couldn't get around on the road of military purchases. If they wanted to buy advanced weapons and equipment from other countries, they would eventually end up with Haihan.However, how to get Haihan to give up the arms sales restriction agreement signed with the Dutch originally made it very difficult for the Matalan people who lacked experience in international politics.In the end, Radon decided to send one of his most trusted subordinates, his nephew Luo Hong, to the capital of Haihan quietly to see if he could use some favorable conditions to make Haihan give up the arms sales restrictions and sell a batch of Warships and weapons.
Of course, this task is not easy. First of all, Haihan and Matalam have not concluded a military alliance agreement. At most, they can only be regarded as trading partners, and the relationship is not even as close as the Dutch East India Company and Haihan.At least the East India Company has already sent a minister in Sanya long ago, and also built a special embassy, which is an incomparable diplomatic advantage in Mataram.
When Mata Languo purchased arms from Haihan, Luo Hong once came to Sanya to inspect and accept the equipment, and this was one of the main reasons why he was selected to come to Sanya this time.Laden thought that Luo Hong had dealt with Haihan's high-level executives at any rate, and he had a little friendship, and it would be easier to speak during negotiations.Moreover, Luo Hong's mother is Han Chinese, and he has learned Chinese characters since he was a child, so he has no problem communicating with Hai Han people normally.
But when Luo Hong arrived here, he quickly discovered that the gap between him and the Haihan people was not a matter of language and writing, but a huge gap in ideology and the international political means he had mastered.The advantages of the Haihan people in these aspects made it impossible for him to use them. Even though he brought a lot of gold bricks during his trip to show his sincerity, the Haihan people seemed not even interested in talking about arms deals.
On the second day after Luo Hong arrived in Sanya, he began to apply for interviews with senior Haihan officials through the diplomatic staff of the Guest House.The process was quite smooth, and on the third and fourth day, he met with Minister Ning Qi and Minister Yan Chujie respectively.But when he tried to apply for arms purchases to the two of them separately, they were all rejected by the other party with various diplomatic rhetoric.
According to Ning Qi, Haihan has always been very cautious in the issue of foreign arms sales, so the arms purchase request proposed by Matalam must be submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Executive Committee for discussion before making relevant decisions.As for when the executive committee can start discussing this topic and when can it come up with a final decision, Ning Qi did not give a clear timetable, but only vaguely stated that the shortest timetable would be ten days and a half months, and the long term would not be long. It's easy to say.After all, the executive committee has to deal with the affairs of the entire country, and the military purchase request of Mata Lam is not an important matter for Haihan, and the discussion schedule will definitely be pushed back.
However, Yan Chujie's refusal was more straightforward. He directly pointed out to Luo Hong that Haihan had signed an arms ban agreement with the Dutch East India Company, and warships were also included in the agreement.Unless Haihan and the Netherlands terminate this agreement, it is temporarily impossible to sell the warships they need to Mata Ram.
Luo Hong still did not give up, and asked Yan Chujie if he could transfer the relevant shipbuilding technology to Matalan, so that Matalan could build the warship by itself, which would not be considered Haihan's sale of weapons and equipment in breach of contract.
Although Luo Hong's idea was good, he thought things too simply. Yan Chujie simply ordered someone to fetch the arms embargo agreement, and pointed out to him in person the relevant manufacturing of weapons and equipment in the "prohibited transfer and embargoed list". technology" content.After Luo Hong confirmed it, his heart sank. It seems that the Dutch are also shrewd enough. They took all these aspects into consideration when they signed the agreement. Now it is very difficult to find a loophole.
Luo Hong was originally a general, and he was not good at playing tricks with his brain, and half of the team he brought were military officers, and the other civil servants didn't know as much about Hai Han as he did. Can't come up with any useful ideas.As for asking for instructions in the country, it is even more impossible. The flight from Sanya to Matalam is more than five thousand miles, and it takes at least two months to go back and forth. Even if Luo Hong can wait, his uncle Laden may not have the patience.
Before Luo Hong could figure it out, he heard that the Dutch had already dispatched.This is thanks to the arrangements made by Luo Hong after he arrived in Sanya. He specially arranged for someone to monitor the movements of the Dutch Minister Su Keyi. His people can be regarded as diplomatic envoys. Registered in his name, confirmed that Su Keyi had gone to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then brought back the news.
At such a sensitive time, when the Dutch envoy visited the Haihan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Luo Hong would not guess whether the matter was related to him. As a general who leads troops to fight, he is used to thinking about the worst situation first.If the Dutch had learned of their arrival and had gone out of their way to lobby high-ranking officials in Haihan to thwart their mission, the situation would have deteriorated the longer they waited.And he has never been in the habit of waiting for a fighter to appear on the battlefield. From the day he held the saber for the first time, Uncle Raden's words have been firmly imprinted in his heart-the best fighter must be created by himself Yes, and the waiting fighter plane is very likely to be a trap for the enemy.
"We can't sit still. If we don't act immediately, the Dutch will probably take the lead and make the Haihan people reject our request again!" Luo Hong immediately called the other seven people who followed him into the guest house, and declared himself Decision: "We can't let the Dutch do what they want this time!"
"General, this is the capital of Haihan. If we fight the Dutch here, no matter the outcome, I don't think the Haihan people will have a good impression of us." A subordinate immediately reminded him cautiously.After all, the mission of this trip was to find the Haihan people to buy arms, not to fight desperately with the Dutch, and it was even more taboo to use force under the eyes of the Haihan people.Although they don't know much about Haihan, they also know how strict the law and order is in Sanya. Foreigners like them need to register wherever they go, and they don't want to hide it from Haihan. monitor.
Luo Hong shook his head and said, "No, I don't mean to fight the Dutch, but to try to get the Haihan people to agree to our request as soon as possible."
"But haven't the Haihan people already rejected it twice?"
"That's because I gave them a chance to refuse." Luo Hong said firmly: "So this time I don't intend to let them make a decision so easily, we have to fully demonstrate our determination."
It was almost noon that day, and the Landscape Boulevard in Victory Port was busy with traffic. A strange convoy came from the direction of the port, which attracted the attention of passers-by.It seems inaccurate to say that it is a convoy, because there are only two carriages in total, and the bodies are not big, but the things on the carts seem to be extremely heavy, so that the horses pulling the carts are full of muscles and seem to be very strenuous.And beside the two carriages, several dark-skinned men walked along with them, separating the pedestrians from the two carriages, obviously protecting the contents of the carriages.
The two carriages followed the avenue to the Victory Fort and stopped at the Victory Square outside the gate drawbridge.Then these men lifted the tarpaulin covering the car.
The onlookers, including the nearby sentinels, suddenly felt a burst of golden light in front of their eyes. They looked at the car again, and there was a pile of golden yellow and orange objects, which turned out to be palm-sized gold bricks!Looking at the volume of the carts, each cart contains at least a hundred or so gold bricks, weighing at least a thousand catties. No wonder the horses pulling the carts are struggling.
There are indeed a lot of rich people in Sanya, and a random tea drinker in a teahouse on the street may be a big businessman who is making money every day.Stories such as showing off wealth and fighting for wealth emerge in endlessly, and they are often used as talking points after dinner.But even the well-informed Sanya people have never seen someone pull two carts of gold bricks outside the Victory Fort to show off their wealth. Soon after hearing the news, a large number of people crowded over to watch the excitement.
However, although there are many people watching, the order is not chaotic. Everyone can see that the two carts of gold are not idle wealth. The sentinel of Fort Victory, who dares to make trouble at the gate of Fort Victory?
The Victory Square outside the Fort Victory seemed undefended, but as soon as something happened, police in black uniforms appeared nearby.Before the sentinel could take any action, a team of policemen rushed to the scene and separated the two carriages from the onlookers.
"What are you guys doing? Do you know where this is? Who is in the lead?" The police officer leading the team walked up to the convoy, glanced at the gold bricks on the car, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and began to reprimand them with a straight face. Help the guy who doesn't know what to do.No matter how rich these people were, if they dared to toss around outside Fort Victory, they would be killing themselves. Therefore, although the police officer was surprised by the wealth represented by the two carts of gold bricks, he still did not forget to perform his duties.
"Next is Luo Hong, the envoy of the Matalan Kingdom. The gold bricks on this carriage represent the sincerity of our country's friendship with Haihan! At the same time, I also hope that this sincerity can be witnessed by the people of Haihan. If the executive committee can agree my country's trade requirements, then these two cars of gold bricks will soon enter the Haihan treasury and become the common wealth of the Haihan people!"
The only way Luo Hong could think of was to go all out and fight. The object of this fight was not the Dutch, but the Haihan people who valued face.He ordered people to unload all the gold bricks brought in this time from the ship, and then transported them to Victory Fort in a horse-drawn carriage for display. He hoped that more people would understand the wishes of Matalam and use public opinion to force Haihan’s senior management to change. idea.
(End of this chapter)
Foreigners who came to Sanya for the first time saw the mighty coastal defense fort outside the port, the huge iron ship docked at the mouth of the Tiandu River, the fast-moving train on the rails, the wide and flat landscape avenue, etc. The unique landscape of the series will inevitably be amazed by these things that break through common sense.Even some people with money and leisure will make a special trip to visit here from other countries.
In fact, it is not the first time that Luo Hong Langsang has come to Sanya, but he still can't help but be amazed by the prosperity of this city.It is said that it took less than ten years for the Haihan people to turn Sanya from a deserted beach into what it is today. It is really hard for him to imagine how this was done.It is no wonder that many Haihan civilians regard the rise of Sanya as a miracle, and pay homage to the hundreds of Haihan pioneers who first came here.
But this time when he came to Sanya, Luo Hong's purpose was not to travel. As the nephew of the Sultan of the Matalan Kingdom, Laden Langsan, the senior general of the Matalan Army is firmly in the third position. He came here this time to bring It is an extremely important task to discuss matters related to the arms trade with Haihan's high-level officials.
When Matalam fought the Dutch the hardest, the main weapon supplier was not Haihan, but the British who secretly sold a lot of arms to him.Of course, the purpose of the British in doing this is also very clear, that is to use Matalam to deal with the Dutch, weaken the control of the Netherlands in Java and Sumatra, and destroy the East India Company’s control of the Sunda Strait, a key waterway entering the South China Sea. .
However, the failure of the Battle of Batavia made Matalam realize that the weapons provided by the British could not meet its operational needs. Haihan, so Mata Languo managed to find some Ming people as middlemen, and successively purchased hundreds of artillery pieces and more than 2000 muskets from Haihan through middlemen.
The relevant departments of Haihan are naturally very clear about the flow of these weapons. If it hadn’t been for the establishment of the South China Sea Trade Alliance and the Dutch’s request for an arms ban, this kind of arms business disguised as private trade may continue. a long time.After all, Haihan can get huge profits from it, and can also use the power of Mata Lan to contain the Dutch. There is no reason not to do this kind of good thing that kills two birds with one stone.
The helpless people in Matalan could only repin their hopes on the British, but in 1635, the Haihan Army severely damaged the coalition forces of the British and Johor at Xingdao in the Strait of Malacca, forcing the British to temporarily abandon the area east of Sumatra. Activities, so that the Mata Lan people finally found this way to import arms was also forced to interrupt.
The Matalan people turned to the Spaniards. Before the two sides could reach a conclusion on the arms trade and military aid, the Spanish fleet was defeated in a battle with the Haihan Navy in the sea off Sanya in September of that year.The city of Manila suddenly fell into panic, and the people worried that Haihan would soon take military measures to retaliate, so all the arms sales plans were immediately stopped by Governor Aragones to consolidate the defense of Manila city, Mataram's The plan to buy arms naturally came to naught again.
The Matalan people finally realized that Haihan was a hurdle they couldn't get around on the road of military purchases. If they wanted to buy advanced weapons and equipment from other countries, they would eventually end up with Haihan.However, how to get Haihan to give up the arms sales restriction agreement signed with the Dutch originally made it very difficult for the Matalan people who lacked experience in international politics.In the end, Radon decided to send one of his most trusted subordinates, his nephew Luo Hong, to the capital of Haihan quietly to see if he could use some favorable conditions to make Haihan give up the arms sales restrictions and sell a batch of Warships and weapons.
Of course, this task is not easy. First of all, Haihan and Matalam have not concluded a military alliance agreement. At most, they can only be regarded as trading partners, and the relationship is not even as close as the Dutch East India Company and Haihan.At least the East India Company has already sent a minister in Sanya long ago, and also built a special embassy, which is an incomparable diplomatic advantage in Mataram.
When Mata Languo purchased arms from Haihan, Luo Hong once came to Sanya to inspect and accept the equipment, and this was one of the main reasons why he was selected to come to Sanya this time.Laden thought that Luo Hong had dealt with Haihan's high-level executives at any rate, and he had a little friendship, and it would be easier to speak during negotiations.Moreover, Luo Hong's mother is Han Chinese, and he has learned Chinese characters since he was a child, so he has no problem communicating with Hai Han people normally.
But when Luo Hong arrived here, he quickly discovered that the gap between him and the Haihan people was not a matter of language and writing, but a huge gap in ideology and the international political means he had mastered.The advantages of the Haihan people in these aspects made it impossible for him to use them. Even though he brought a lot of gold bricks during his trip to show his sincerity, the Haihan people seemed not even interested in talking about arms deals.
On the second day after Luo Hong arrived in Sanya, he began to apply for interviews with senior Haihan officials through the diplomatic staff of the Guest House.The process was quite smooth, and on the third and fourth day, he met with Minister Ning Qi and Minister Yan Chujie respectively.But when he tried to apply for arms purchases to the two of them separately, they were all rejected by the other party with various diplomatic rhetoric.
According to Ning Qi, Haihan has always been very cautious in the issue of foreign arms sales, so the arms purchase request proposed by Matalam must be submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Executive Committee for discussion before making relevant decisions.As for when the executive committee can start discussing this topic and when can it come up with a final decision, Ning Qi did not give a clear timetable, but only vaguely stated that the shortest timetable would be ten days and a half months, and the long term would not be long. It's easy to say.After all, the executive committee has to deal with the affairs of the entire country, and the military purchase request of Mata Lam is not an important matter for Haihan, and the discussion schedule will definitely be pushed back.
However, Yan Chujie's refusal was more straightforward. He directly pointed out to Luo Hong that Haihan had signed an arms ban agreement with the Dutch East India Company, and warships were also included in the agreement.Unless Haihan and the Netherlands terminate this agreement, it is temporarily impossible to sell the warships they need to Mata Ram.
Luo Hong still did not give up, and asked Yan Chujie if he could transfer the relevant shipbuilding technology to Matalan, so that Matalan could build the warship by itself, which would not be considered Haihan's sale of weapons and equipment in breach of contract.
Although Luo Hong's idea was good, he thought things too simply. Yan Chujie simply ordered someone to fetch the arms embargo agreement, and pointed out to him in person the relevant manufacturing of weapons and equipment in the "prohibited transfer and embargoed list". technology" content.After Luo Hong confirmed it, his heart sank. It seems that the Dutch are also shrewd enough. They took all these aspects into consideration when they signed the agreement. Now it is very difficult to find a loophole.
Luo Hong was originally a general, and he was not good at playing tricks with his brain, and half of the team he brought were military officers, and the other civil servants didn't know as much about Hai Han as he did. Can't come up with any useful ideas.As for asking for instructions in the country, it is even more impossible. The flight from Sanya to Matalam is more than five thousand miles, and it takes at least two months to go back and forth. Even if Luo Hong can wait, his uncle Laden may not have the patience.
Before Luo Hong could figure it out, he heard that the Dutch had already dispatched.This is thanks to the arrangements made by Luo Hong after he arrived in Sanya. He specially arranged for someone to monitor the movements of the Dutch Minister Su Keyi. His people can be regarded as diplomatic envoys. Registered in his name, confirmed that Su Keyi had gone to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then brought back the news.
At such a sensitive time, when the Dutch envoy visited the Haihan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Luo Hong would not guess whether the matter was related to him. As a general who leads troops to fight, he is used to thinking about the worst situation first.If the Dutch had learned of their arrival and had gone out of their way to lobby high-ranking officials in Haihan to thwart their mission, the situation would have deteriorated the longer they waited.And he has never been in the habit of waiting for a fighter to appear on the battlefield. From the day he held the saber for the first time, Uncle Raden's words have been firmly imprinted in his heart-the best fighter must be created by himself Yes, and the waiting fighter plane is very likely to be a trap for the enemy.
"We can't sit still. If we don't act immediately, the Dutch will probably take the lead and make the Haihan people reject our request again!" Luo Hong immediately called the other seven people who followed him into the guest house, and declared himself Decision: "We can't let the Dutch do what they want this time!"
"General, this is the capital of Haihan. If we fight the Dutch here, no matter the outcome, I don't think the Haihan people will have a good impression of us." A subordinate immediately reminded him cautiously.After all, the mission of this trip was to find the Haihan people to buy arms, not to fight desperately with the Dutch, and it was even more taboo to use force under the eyes of the Haihan people.Although they don't know much about Haihan, they also know how strict the law and order is in Sanya. Foreigners like them need to register wherever they go, and they don't want to hide it from Haihan. monitor.
Luo Hong shook his head and said, "No, I don't mean to fight the Dutch, but to try to get the Haihan people to agree to our request as soon as possible."
"But haven't the Haihan people already rejected it twice?"
"That's because I gave them a chance to refuse." Luo Hong said firmly: "So this time I don't intend to let them make a decision so easily, we have to fully demonstrate our determination."
It was almost noon that day, and the Landscape Boulevard in Victory Port was busy with traffic. A strange convoy came from the direction of the port, which attracted the attention of passers-by.It seems inaccurate to say that it is a convoy, because there are only two carriages in total, and the bodies are not big, but the things on the carts seem to be extremely heavy, so that the horses pulling the carts are full of muscles and seem to be very strenuous.And beside the two carriages, several dark-skinned men walked along with them, separating the pedestrians from the two carriages, obviously protecting the contents of the carriages.
The two carriages followed the avenue to the Victory Fort and stopped at the Victory Square outside the gate drawbridge.Then these men lifted the tarpaulin covering the car.
The onlookers, including the nearby sentinels, suddenly felt a burst of golden light in front of their eyes. They looked at the car again, and there was a pile of golden yellow and orange objects, which turned out to be palm-sized gold bricks!Looking at the volume of the carts, each cart contains at least a hundred or so gold bricks, weighing at least a thousand catties. No wonder the horses pulling the carts are struggling.
There are indeed a lot of rich people in Sanya, and a random tea drinker in a teahouse on the street may be a big businessman who is making money every day.Stories such as showing off wealth and fighting for wealth emerge in endlessly, and they are often used as talking points after dinner.But even the well-informed Sanya people have never seen someone pull two carts of gold bricks outside the Victory Fort to show off their wealth. Soon after hearing the news, a large number of people crowded over to watch the excitement.
However, although there are many people watching, the order is not chaotic. Everyone can see that the two carts of gold are not idle wealth. The sentinel of Fort Victory, who dares to make trouble at the gate of Fort Victory?
The Victory Square outside the Fort Victory seemed undefended, but as soon as something happened, police in black uniforms appeared nearby.Before the sentinel could take any action, a team of policemen rushed to the scene and separated the two carriages from the onlookers.
"What are you guys doing? Do you know where this is? Who is in the lead?" The police officer leading the team walked up to the convoy, glanced at the gold bricks on the car, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and began to reprimand them with a straight face. Help the guy who doesn't know what to do.No matter how rich these people were, if they dared to toss around outside Fort Victory, they would be killing themselves. Therefore, although the police officer was surprised by the wealth represented by the two carts of gold bricks, he still did not forget to perform his duties.
"Next is Luo Hong, the envoy of the Matalan Kingdom. The gold bricks on this carriage represent the sincerity of our country's friendship with Haihan! At the same time, I also hope that this sincerity can be witnessed by the people of Haihan. If the executive committee can agree my country's trade requirements, then these two cars of gold bricks will soon enter the Haihan treasury and become the common wealth of the Haihan people!"
The only way Luo Hong could think of was to go all out and fight. The object of this fight was not the Dutch, but the Haihan people who valued face.He ordered people to unload all the gold bricks brought in this time from the ship, and then transported them to Victory Fort in a horse-drawn carriage for display. He hoped that more people would understand the wishes of Matalam and use public opinion to force Haihan’s senior management to change. idea.
(End of this chapter)