Valley Emperor

Datang Western Company purchased domestic goods at Banten Port, and then transported them to India, West Asia, Africa and other places for trade. At the same time, they transported the specialty goods from the above-mentioned places back here and sold them to domestic merchants.

Datang Western Trading Company is very large, and it is possible to maintain the prosperity of Banten Port only by relying on one Datang Western Trading Company.

Not to mention, a group of Spaniards' global fleets arrive at the port for trade basically every year. Since the Datang Empire and the Spaniards reached a certain cooperation agreement, the Spaniards' global fleet of treasure ships will set sail from Europe every year to go to the port. The Americas, then across the Pacific to the Port of Luzon, then the Port of Banten, and at these two ports and the merchants of Datang conducted an almost astronomical trade.

Then their global fleet will enter the Indian Ocean, and borrow some ports under the control of Datang Western Ocean Company for supplies, all the way back to Europe, thus completing a whole round-the-world voyage!

Now only the Spaniards can do this kind of voyage around the world, there is no way, who let people have a large number of colonies and supply ports all over the world, in the vacuum of their power in Asia and the Indian Ocean, there is also the Datang Empire to provide supplies port.

At the same time, although they have conflicts with the Portuguese, the conflict is also controlled within a certain range. They sail in the seas controlled by the Portuguese. As long as they don't pick things up, the Portuguese will not see it.

Well, after all, the Portuguese native land is on the edge of Spain, which angered the Spaniards, and they could directly wipe out the Portuguese native land!

However, the Tang Empire was too far away from the Portuguese homeland, and there was no way to threaten the Portuguese homeland.

Moreover, the two sides are now fighting for control in the Indian Ocean, and they have already played their brains. Therefore, even if the merchant ships of the Datang Empire can borrow Spanish-controlled ports for supplies, it is difficult for them to pass through the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa controlled by the Portuguese and West coast of Africa.

The Spaniards are also happy to see the Portuguese continue to block the Datang Empire's route to Europe, because in this way their global fleet can turn more money.

At present, the countries that run the European route already have Portugal and Spain. If a Datang Empire is added, they will not be able to share the profits equally. Therefore, although the Spaniards provide supply ports according to the agreement, they actually do not want to see it in their hearts. The merchant ships of the Tang Empire broke through the blockade of the Portuguese and entered the western coast of Africa and even the coast of Europe.

This situation is also the reason why it is difficult for the Datang Empire to completely open up European routes. It can only continue to rely on the Portuguese and Spaniards to export the empire's goods to Europe.

If you want to break this blockade, it is simple and easy to put the Portuguese on the ground, but it is easy to kill the Portuguese, but without the Portuguese, at least half of this overseas trade has to be cut off. The loss is not small.

Otherwise, the Empire knocked down Malacca many years ago!

Not fighting Malacca is not because it can't be beaten, but if it is beaten, it means a complete reversal with the Portuguese!

It's not a fight, it's not a fight, it's the embarrassment of the empire to the Portuguese at present!

But now, Li Xuan is ready to break this embarrassment!

The great Chinese Empire, a great empire destined to unify the world, can’t be kept under control by a small country like the Portuguese. In the past, it was not because the steamship technology was immature, and it was extremely difficult to independently open up global routes.

But now that there are steam ships, sea navigation has become simpler, and this also means that the Datang Empire will get rid of the Portuguese and even the Spanish, and the opportunity to control global trade alone has come.

Therefore, when the middle and upper classes in the country are still arguing about whether to go west or east, or go south, the Military Intelligence Division of the Privy Council has already received a secret order from Li Xuan: to establish public opinion for the military to attack Malacca Base!

This oral oracle may sound a little vague at first, but if it has changed, it is to ask the MIIT to find one, or simply create an excuse to go to war with the Portuguese and attack Malacca.

Why do you need an excuse?

Because the Datang Empire was regarded as a ceremonial state of benevolence and filial piety, and the Portuguese and Spaniards were also the only two countries in the world that had established formal diplomatic relations with the Datang Empire.

Both sides have also signed a series of various trade and cooperation agreements.

If this directly tore up many agreements and went to war, although it said that it would not have much practical impact, it would not be able to hang on face.

In addition, more importantly, it is impossible for Li Xuan to let the imperial officials or the military bear the burden of a war with Malacca, which will lead to the severance of trade with the Portuguese and cause significant economic losses.

No matter what era, people are short-sighted. They only see that the current cooperation between the empire and the Portuguese has brought huge economic benefits to the empire, so that many products of the empire can be continuously sold to India, West Asia, Africa and Europe.

But very few people can see that in the past ten years, the Portuguese have relied on the trade with the Tang Empire, and they are also full of oil. If compared with the Portuguese in the same time and space, the Portugal of this time and space People have gained more, or even several times, the benefits of trade in Asia.

The Portuguese, who have gained many benefits, are more powerful than in the original time and space, and they have deployed more troops in Asia and Africa.

The Portuguese in this time and space are actually a completely different group from the Portuguese in the original time and space.

First of all, the Portuguese also imitated the Datang Empire and established the Portuguese East India Trading Company for colonization and trade in Asia. Its model is basically the same as that of the Datang Western Trading Company, or it is simply a direct plagiarism. Tang Western Trading Co.

So now in Asia, the official power of the Portuguese is actually more accurate, it should be the Portuguese East India Trading Company!

The various armed conflicts between the Datang Empire and Portugal were actually armed conflicts between the Datang Western Ocean Trading Company and the Portuguese Indian Ocean Trading Company.

At least, that's what it looks like!

Of course, these two trading companies are not pure trading companies, they both have a strong official background, or simply say that they represent their respective officials in certain regions.

However, the competition and conflict between the above two companies are basically confined to the Indian Ocean waters and some coastal areas.

In the South China Sea, the Portuguese people do business honestly, and even in order to maintain the apparent peace, the Portuguese people often make certain concessions.

For example, to fully recognize the special interests of the Tang Dynasty in the Southeast Asian Peninsula, and to acquiesce that the Tang Dynasty provoked and gradually eroded Annan and Burma, not to mention other islands in the South China Sea.

They simply admitted that many islands in the South China Sea belonged to the territory of the Tang Empire.

Of course, they also insisted on some of their own principles, such as the colonial ports they had built on the islands of the South China Sea, etc., and they were resolutely unwilling to withdraw.

They admit that these islands are the territory of the Tang Empire, but they also believe that the colonial ports they established before are land acquired through legal means, and the sovereignty can be given to you, but they have to continue to control the ports and business stations.

This is also a tacit understanding that the two sides have achieved in the Southeast Asia region!

This tacit understanding, everything is based on the fact that the trade volume between the two sides is too huge, and it will have a profound impact on the economy of the two countries!

In this case, if the official of the empire took the initiative to tear up various agreements, then attacked Malacca, and completely ripped apart the face of Portugal, I am afraid that many people in the country would be affected, and then accuse the empire’s disciples of causing trouble, attacking allies and so on.

To avoid this kind of trouble, the empire needs an excuse, an excuse that can make the empire legitimate and that the people support.

Even those businessmen whose interests have suffered under the severance of trade have to shut their mouths obediently, and then support the war like everyone else!

Li Xuan can rest assured that this kind of thing is handed over to the Ministry of Military Intelligence. Although the Ministry of Military Intelligence has a lot of messy departments, and occasionally messes up, even the professional is not right, but they are still very proficient in their own business.

Assassinations overseas, instigation of civil wars, etc., have always been the specialties of the MI Division.

The status quo in Annan, Burma and Fusang is the proud work of the Ministry of Military Intelligence. Even on the Tatar side, the Ministry of Military Intelligence is doing things every three days, but the Tartars are relatively large and occupy a large area. A little conspiracy can at most cause them some small damage, and it is impossible to have a big effect.

Now it is not easy to ask the Ministry of Military Intelligence to create an excuse to start a war!

However, although the matter is simple, the Ministry of Military Intelligence still attaches great importance to it. In the Ministry of Military Intelligence, a deputy director who mainly assists the director in charge of European affairs soon took the official rapid communication ship to secretly arrived at the location near dawn one day. In an ordinary small port dozens of kilometers north of Malacca, and then quickly return to the north!

Today, the rapid communication ships of the Tang Empire, with the development of the steam plan, are also steamed early. When the clipper ship is combined with multi-mast rigging and high-power steam engines.

It is enough to make this kind of fast communication ship of the Tang Empire with a tonnage of only more than 200 tons to become the fastest ship on the planet on average!

The deputy director of European affairs of the Ministry of Military Intelligence maintained an average speed of up to 20 knots on the way on the fast communication ship!

After arriving at this small ordinary port, which is only tens of kilometers away from Malacca, the deputy director is no longer human. At the port, I almost died of seasickness.

This ultra-high-speed fast communication ship is not for people to sit on at all. The naval sailors serving on it are all selected from thousands of choices. The most important criterion is only one, which is to adapt to the severe turbulence under such high-speed sailing. To put it simply, it is necessary to not get seasick, and it is not enough that ordinary people are not seasick.

On weekdays, such ships are basically used to transport letters!

There are occasionally transport passengers, but if there is no emergency, few people are willing to take this kind of ship, because one trip will basically kill half of their lives.

But the people of the Ministry of Intelligence have always taken unusual paths. In order to quickly arrive at the deployment work, it is normal for them to lose half their lives on the road.

What was even more unusual was that the deputy director just took a quick rest for one night. The next day, he dressed up as an ordinary crew member, and then took his two elite men on a small merchant ship to Malacca.

On the same day, they arrived at the port of Malacca, and then got in touch with the local secret site of the Ministry of Military Intelligence!

In the evening of the third day after the MIIT arrived at the port of Malacca, when the night was gradually leading, an unflagged merchant ship entered Malacca and closed the gun doors and lowered some of the sails in accordance with the relevant regulations!

But suddenly ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the merchant ship suddenly raised its sails, lifted the cannons of the naval guns on the deck, and rushed towards the port quickly!

Seeing this, the Portuguese warship on the alert mission next to it, naturally issued a warning immediately!

But the merchant ship did not stop, but continued onward, and someone on their deck could be seen reloading and firing first, while others began to fly pirate skull and crossbones flags.

When the Portuguese warship on duty saw this, the officer immediately decided that it was a pirate ship and did not know why he wanted to rush into the port, but as a soldier, and the enemy had already fired first, he did not hesitate to order fire to intercept!

After the Portuguese opened fire, many crew members of the ship began to jump into the sea to escape. Then, they heard a few fireballs from the ship, and then saw that the ship sank quickly, and finally sat in the port. Only The next solitary mainmast towers over the sea!

As the smoke dissipated, it could be seen that there was a Datang dragon flag fluttering in the wind on the mast!

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