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The signing of the fire agreement was very smooth. Even Zhou Mubai had not made it before, and more than six European countries had booked twenty-three warships. Then Zhou Mubai immediately felt that his courtesy had reached a new level. Almost all the envoys became his "friends". Except for the Dutch, all European politicians could foresee the value of this envoy and also found that forming a navy was not as simple as imagined. As long as there were enough silver coins, you could buy a lot of warships. With enough warships, a powerful warship could appear in the waters of the country to exercise the rights of all maritime powers. Love/book/author

Of course, the training of sailors, gunners, helmsmen, sailors and naval officers is also indispensable. The naval talents of various countries are extremely precious, and it will take at least ten years of accumulation to train a group of experienced talents. However, it doesn’t matter, because Zhou Mubai has made a promise that he can send experienced Ming naval talents to guide the naval operations of various countries by consultant, and train officers for the navies of various countries for free. Military consultants are nothing to the Spaniards, British, and Portuguese. These countries are traditional maritime powers, and there is no shortage of experienced officers, but for emerging maritime countries such as France and Belgium, it is extremely important.

Zhou Mubai spent a total of half a month in the UK. The tea, silk and ceramics transported by hundreds of merchant ships were also sold out during this period and were snatched up. He made three million taels of silver after this item. Some Han merchants who came with the mission took advantage of this period of time to wander around the city of London to look for business opportunities. These people immediately became the targets of London merchants. In the eyes of Londoners, Daming was filled with silk and ceramics. How could they let it go easily when they saw Daming merchants looking for business opportunities in London? In half a month, they reached a deal in pushing cups.

After a series of visits, Zhou Mubai started returning with the three million taels of silver he earned and a large ticket of warship orders. A huge European mission followed closely. Although countries had sent envoys to Haidu to contact the Ming Dynasty, they were not deeply impressed by the Ming Dynasty. Although they learned from the special envoys that the Ming Dynasty was powerful and prosperous, for most members of the royal family, this empire was still too far away. However, when the Ming Dynasty's mission arrived in Britain, it immediately caused an uproar, especially the Ming Dynasty's proposal to sell warships shocked all countries. They were as ecstatic as the French, as happy as the British, as happy as the British.

Some people are worried that King William always had an ominous premonition recently. The British and Ming Dynasty signed an alliance, but it does not mean that the Ming Dynasty would not have reached the same alliance with its competitors in other places. Especially the Ming Dynasty promised to send military advisers to France and Belgium, it seems that the Ming Dynasty did not treat Britain in special terms. William used to dream of seizing the majesty of Europe, but with the change of the situation and the passage of time, his greatest ideal is to continuously deepen his relationship with the Ming Dynasty. It is best for Britain to be the agent of the Ming Dynasty in Europe. Only in this way can the British follow the strong and get a share of the pie, although it is just a piece of the leftovers.

The most feared was naturally the Netherlands. On the first day when the news of European countries rushing to buy Ming warships came to the Netherlands, the shaky East India Company finally announced its collapse. The Netherlands truly felt the approaching crisis. The reason why the Netherlands was able to gain the advantage was that they spent a hundred years using the silver earned from overseas expansion to build warships to protect the throne of the most powerful ocean country. However, now, weapons that originally required a lot of raw materials, a lot of silver coins, a lot of manpower and a lot of time suddenly became a commodity, a kind of goods that everyone only needed enough silver coins to buy. This could only lead to one result. Any mainland country that did not need accumulation could rise in clusters in the shortest time and become a maritime power that could compete with the Netherlands. Although the Dutch still maintained a leading position in sailing experience, they were all left.

A new era is approaching, and the Netherlands will become the first victim of the glorious foreign policy of the Ming Dynasty.

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In the northeast of Ceylon Island, ten thousand Indians were lazy to be transported to temporary ports. Ceylon Island has now been cut into two sections, the west is under the jurisdiction of the British, and the large area in the east belongs to the Ming colony. Here, a temporary barracks have been established, and hundreds of officers drawn from the Ming army have already prepared military boots and horse whips. Military boots are used to kick the butts of Indian recruits, and horse whips are also used to whip the butts of Indian recruits.

The new colonial corps general Xu Dachang has been stolen from the bottom of his mind at this moment

The Indian recruits who wore the uniform of the general of the Ming Dynasty and swept with their blade-like eyes, Xu Dachang was the former general of the Zhejiang Green Camp. Now the entire Jiangnan has been divided into three military regions. One is the Chengdu Military Region led by Wang Qiu, the former General of the Central Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference, which governs the four provinces of Yunnan, Chengdu, Guizhou and Guangxi. One is Mu Jianming's Wuhan Military Region, which governs Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Guangdong. The other is the Nanjing Military Region, which Li Xiao is the governor, and governs Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian. Li Dingguo was transferred to Zhu Jun's newly formed General Staff as Chief of Staff, and he was arbitrarily responsible for strategic dispatch.

Because the training of the new recruits is separated from the generals, all recruits must be transported to the sea for training first, and then split into various military regions. After five years, veterans can choose to retire. In this way, the Ming army has no generals and no soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the situation of the generals and the situation of the generals. They are not afraid of the rebellion of the military region. Otherwise, the first one who does not agree will probably be the subordinates of the middle and lower-level military academy officers and soldiers who have received ideological education.

Xu Dachang, the Ming army, was transferred to Ceylon Island because of his great military achievements in the Jiangnan battle. He was ordered to be the general of the colonial army. The governor of East India was Zhang Youde who held military and political power.

At this time, Xu Dachang was very energetic. He was not from a good background. He was a surrendered general. He finally got a good position with his military merits and was very powerful. Naturally, he felt that the emperor trusted him and should have done something more. Therefore, he went to the Haidu recruit training camp to observe and started taking office in a hurry.

The recruits in the recruited Indian recruits dissipated their eyes. They all stood in front of Xu Dachang with chicken soup. No one cared about it. In fact, as early as the Mughal dynasty, the Indian native legion had been established. But soon, the Mongolian princes were impressed by this group of Indian natives. Because these guys were apart from scrambling to die, you had no way to make him form a combat power. Then there was a local legion during the Dutch rule. A few years later, the Dutch had to give up this challenging legion. Because these guys didn't even eat slowly, and even had to pray on time every day. A local officer would be slapped in front of the crowd and dared not fight back. It was just because the native officer was a low-caste untouchable. The soldier slapped in the face came from a dilapidated high caste family.

Now it's the turn. Xu Dachang was not ignorant before coming here. He had been instructed by the emperor and had specially developed a set of effective training methods.

"Go. Let them circle around here." Xu Dachang from the school stage conveyed the order to the translator around him.

The general interpreter stood a team of officers rushing into the crowd with whips like wolves and tigers, whipping them while conveying the general's orders.

The recruits finally started running with a whip. No, there is a professional term in later generations called race walk. The more correct statement is that the recruits began to race.

Xu Dachang was speechless. When he met a group of lazy men, his anger immediately burned: "Tell them that those who did not run on time are not allowed to eat."

Four hours later, the running field next to the school was full of devastation, and recruits were lying everywhere, allowing the officers to wield their whips to whip hard. Few people were willing to get up. There were only more than 200 people who were truly qualified, all of them were Sikh soldiers.

The Sikhs can be regarded as an alien in the entire Indian subcontinent. The name of Sikh men generally has the word "Singh", which means "liu". During the Muslim rule, at that time, the Muslim rulers who had the habit of Baotou did not allow other believers to show that they were different from those conquered. However, the fierce and martial Sikhs did their own thing and instead all Baotou protested. They continued to resist all kinds of rulers, but because the number of people in India was not large, they repeatedly recruited suppression and cultivated the Sikh tradition of being more martial.

There were only 200 qualified people, which made Xu Dachang's nose turn into anger. He tried hard to restrain the anger in his heart, curled his lips with disdain, and whispered to the officer behind him: "All qualified people will be promoted to commanders, and you will get three times the salary. Immediately, I will make a sumptuous meal for them."

Xu Dachang paused and glanced at the recruits who were "pretending to be dead" on the field in disgust: "There is no need to arrange for them, and the salary for three days is deducted."

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Chapter completed!