But the scale was not large, and the impact was not great, especially when the Dongji people further evacuated from the edge of the Great Wall, and even the cavalry attack was reduced.

The war in Monan Mongolia has also calmed down. Many local tribes have surrendered to the Chu Empire. A few who have not surrendered have also begun to migrate far away to avoid the attack of the Chu army. In addition, it is also winter, so

During the winter assembly, the Chu army did not take any large-scale actions on the Mongolian front.

The western front is still the same, with no large-scale wars. The Yarkand Khanate and the Empire in the northwest are better. With the support of the Empire, the Yarkand Khanate is resisting the attack of the Jungar tribe.

The chieftains in the Qinghai and Kangzang areas are now unable to protect themselves from the attacks of the Heshuote tribe, and have no spare power to invade the border. Instead, the Chu army is finding various excuses to expand and infiltrate on a small scale every day, and at the same time, it is constantly moving towards

All kinds of weapons were imported into this area, and local chieftains and Heshuo special tribes were encouraged to fight to the death.

Generally speaking, the entire western region poses no threat to the current Great Chu Empire. In order to resist the Mongols in the desert, the various local khanates and chieftains basically chose to make good friends with the empire, and even took the initiative to send tribute and request canonization.

The Dachu Empire used diplomatic means to canonize a lot of so-called khans, living Buddhas, etc., and swore suzerainty in name to resist the eastward invasion of the Mongolian Mongols. Well, it also looked for opportunities to directly annex neighboring countries.

Some toast or something.

In just a few years, more than a dozen chieftains in areas such as Qinghai and Kangzang, which are close to the areas controlled by the Chu Empire, have been de facto directly controlled by the Chu Empire. Some of these chieftains have obtained official titles from the Great Chu Empire, and they have transformed into

Some became officials of the Great Chu Empire, and some directly became fertilizer for the earth... There are various endings.

How should I put it? As for the various local khans, chieftains, living Buddhas, etc., the Great Chu Empire is actually not much better than the Mongolian Mongols. It’s just that the food of the Great Chu Empire is more hidden and the methods are superficial.

It looks milder.

But in fact, in the end, it is all about controlling the vast Qinghai, snow areas and Xinjiang areas

At this point, the strategic goals of Mongolia and the Great Chu Empire are the same.

On the southern route, the barbarian regimes in Burma, Vietnam and other places have basically sent envoys to the Chu Empire to pay tribute, in exchange for peace and trade rights, and the Chu Empire has nothing to do with this bad place in the southern peninsula for the time being.

Interest... It's not that I don't want to, but I tried it and found that the cost is too high, that poor place is not suitable for people, and the non-combat casualties are too terrible.

Therefore, there is no war on the southern front!

On the sea, although the disputes between the Chu Empire and Spain, Portugal, and the Dutch still existed, their mutual interests were greater... Even if the empire was completely squeezed out of the Fuso trade route and the Dutch suffered a lot of losses, because of the

We have enjoyed great benefits from our trade with the Da Chu Empire. Now we don’t even mention the Fusang Route. We are discussing with the Da Chu Empire the peaceful transfer of the colonial stronghold on Da Yuan Island.

In the early years, the Da Chu Empire had great conflicts with the Dutch because of the foreign colonies on Da Yuan Island. However, in order to maintain maritime trade and ensure exports, they could not directly fall out, so they had been dragging their feet.

, focusing on negotiation.

It's just that, in fact, negotiation is of no use. If it can be won through negotiation, it would have been won long ago. The real reason for the Dutch and Spanish to give in and fully withdraw from Damuan Island was because the Dachu Empire opened the sea ban and

After opening many trading ports, they no longer need the colony on Dajuan Island to serve as a trade transit point with the Chinese region.

Why did the Dutch and Spanish establish colonial strongholds on Taiyuan Island in the first place?

The direct reason is that they wanted to trade with the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty imposed a sea ban and ignored them... The only people who could openly trade with the Ming Dynasty were the Portuguese in Haojingli, and the Portuguese wanted to monopolize the official trade with the Ming Dynasty.

, directly exclude the Spanish and Dutch, and do not allow merchant ships from other countries to enter Haojing at all.

Later, the Dutch and Spain unanimously set their sights on Damuan Island, because opposite to Damuan Island is Quanzhou, and nearby is the northern Zhejiang and Jiangnan areas, where there are a large number of raw silk porcelain and other commodities.

After they established a colony on Taiyuan Island, they could purchase raw silk and other goods from various Chinese maritime smugglers nearby.

To put it bluntly, they established a colony on Dayuan Island in order to make trade with China more convenient.

In the early years, the Dutch also took the Fuso route, but the Fuso people ignored them. Before, they only traded with Zheng Zhilong. After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Chu Empire, the Fuso people currently only trade with the Da Chu Empire, and no other trade is allowed at all.

National ships enter Fuso Port.

The role of Da Yuan Island lies in trade. Once the Chu Empire directly opened many commercial ports along the coast and welcomed ships from any country to trade with China, Da Yuan Island also lost its most important trade transfer station in the contemporary era.

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In addition to the Fusang route that also passes through Taiyuan Island, maritime trade from the South China Sea to China no longer has to pass through Taiyuan Island.

In addition, the Fuso route is the exclusive route of the Chu Empire, and there is no need for the Dutch or Spanish.

Under such circumstances, it was natural for the Dutch and Spanish to abandon their strongholds on Taiyuan Island. In the colonial era, there was no benefit, and colonial strongholds that had to be maintained at a constant loss were worthless.

Besides, they definitely wouldn’t be able to defend themselves if a fight broke out.

A few years ago, the Dutch had simply withdrew the troops from the colonial stronghold on Taiyuan Island, leaving only a few dozen symbolic soldiers to maintain security there...

You must know that when the Chu Empire first took control of the coastal areas and landed on Daiyu Island, the Dutch were particularly nervous. They mobilized a lot of troops from their Southeast Asian colonies to garrison on Daiyu Island. At one time, their maximum number of troops reached two thousand.

Multiple people.

But now... there are only a few dozen people left, and these few dozen people are only used to maintain public order.

The Dachu Empire is currently in contact with the Netherlands, and is preparing to peacefully accept the Dutch-controlled colonial stronghold on Dajuan Island. It has entered the final stage. Just waiting for the Dutch to move their own people back, then the Dachu Empire will

You can go directly to take over, and it is expected that all handovers will be completed in May this year.

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As for the colonies controlled by the Spanish, they were peacefully handed over to the Chu Empire long ago.

In other words, in May of the eighth year of Chengshun, the last colony on Dayu Island, a colonial stronghold controlled by the Dutch, will return to the Dachu Empire.

After things are settled on Damuan Island, there will be no obstacles to maritime trade between the Chu Empire and the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and England.

At least, there will be no obstacles before the Chu Empire expands to the Southeast Asia region on a large scale.

This is of great benefit to the import and export trade of the Da Chu Empire. The silk, porcelain, tea, cloth, ironware and other products of the Da Chu Empire will continue to flow through the Da Chu Empire’s own merchant ships and merchant ships from various countries.

It is transported to various places in Southeast Asia and Fuso for sale, and then transported to India, West Asia, North Africa and even Europe through Western maritime merchants.

The export trade is still of great benefit to the primitive industrial system of the Da Chu Empire, which is currently in the stage of development and is still in the hydrodynamic period.

Although the market within the Dachu Empire is also very large, who would object to a larger market?

Furthermore, despite the fact that the Chu Empire had a population of 70 to 80 million, the consumer goods market was actually not as big as imagined.

Take cloth as an example!

China has been a typical small-scale peasant economy for thousands of years. In the vast rural areas, it is normal for men to farm and women to weave. Therefore, for the rural population, they will not buy a piece of cloth for ten taels of silver or one tael of silver.

cloth, because they themselves have...

Well, if the purchase price is expensive, they will also weave and sell it to you...

In the original time and space, the British had entered the mature period of the industrial revolution. Their cloth was cheap enough, but they still could not open up the Chinese market... because this was not a matter of whether it was cheap or not, but that the vast majority of the Chinese population did not buy cloth at all.

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If you take something they don’t need and tell them how cheap it is, they won’t even bother to look at you!

Cloth could not be sold, and other industrial products were basically useless. Finally, in order to balance the trade deficit, the East India Company began to sell large amounts of tobacco to the Chinese region, which eventually led to the outbreak of the Opium War.

What happened to the British cloth merchants in the original time and space was also encountered by the cloth merchants in the contemporary Da Chu Empire.

Their cheap machine-made fabrics swept the urban market... squeezing out the living space of a large number of homespun cloths. However, their cheap machine-made fabrics still cannot enter the rural market.

Hantian Textile Company feels this the most. They have tried many ways to sell cloth in rural areas in the past few years, but they cannot sell it.

At this time, although the export market is still relatively small for the time being, it can continue to be cultivated.

Moreover, when selling cloth in other countries, you don’t have to worry about the life and death of rural families like you did in China. You can engage in various dumping and forced trade.
Chapter completed!