In addition, a group of sailors brought by Robert this time were obviously screened by them, one of them named Schumann was actually the captain of a Dutch ship galleon, and once took the ship to the Americas, but then this guy had a problem with alcoholism, and he once drank at sea and made a mistake, and wrongly commanded the ship to enter the reef, causing the ship to run into the reef and sink, and the result was a loss of money, and finally returned to China. This guy was also arrested and locked up for a period of time because of drunken trouble, and after being released from prison, this guy was poor and almost died on the street, but this time I heard that the Chinese emperor was going to recruit a talent like him, so this guy decided to come to China to take an adventure, see if he could make a sum of money, and go back to China to buy a boat to make a comeback.

Xiao Tianjian was overjoyed when he learned that this guy had such qualifications, and immediately appointed Schumann as a navigation instructor in the Ningbo Navy Lecture Hall, and as for the other sailors, he also sent them all to the Ningbo Navy Lecture Hall as an instructor.

As for the remaining shipbuilders, Xiao Tianjian divided them into three batches, one was sent to the Nanjing Zhonghua Shipyard, one was sent to the Ningbo Shipyard, and the other batch was directly sent to the shipyard that had just been built in Dengzhou, so that they could start work together in the three shipyards to build Western-style sailing ships for the Great China and North Korea.

Of course, Xiao Tianjian can't rely on these foreign devil shipbuilders to build ships for him in the future, the most important thing is that he needs to train a large number of Chinese craftsmen for him in the future through these people, so after these people are ordained, everyone is also required to train at least three apprentices for the Great Middle Kingdom, and they can't hide it.

As for any of them, if they are indiscriminate, then I'm sorry, don't think about taking the salary, and they will be immediately expelled from the borders of Dazhong and North Korea.

In this regard, these shipbuilders also know that this high salary will not be taken in vain, and they are not like the Chinese craftsmen who have the so-called tradition of cherishing their skills and not teaching them, and it is not difficult for them to bring apprentices for the Great Middle Kingdom, but some people have proposed that they come to work here, and Robert did not propose to let them teach apprentices at the beginning, if they are now allowed to teach apprentices, they need to be paid more.

Xiao Tianjian suddenly laughed, these guys can be said to have gotten into the eyes of money, they estimate that they also want to work in China for a period of time, earn a sum of money, and return to Europe to settle down, now Xiao Tianjian, the Chinese emperor, proposed to ask them to bring apprentices, they feel that this Eastern emperor will still let the students they teach replace them in the future, so they naturally thought of the truth that the apprentices of the church starved to death of the master, so they took this opportunity to boldly want to blackmail and get more benefits.

But for Xiao Tianjian, this is not a problem, if it is a later generation, it will be difficult to pay a high patent fee, but now he only needs to start the construction money, he can obtain the construction technology of Western-style sail warships, spend a few more small money, and train China's own shipbuilding craftsmen, which is not a problem for him at all, so he immediately agreed, and signed a five-year work contract with these guys, in five years, they want to concentrate on the work of the Great China and North Korea, and in five years, At least ten apprentices were trained for each of them, ensuring that the apprentices could learn all their crafts, and in addition to paying them the original salary, the Great Middle Dynasty also increased their salaries by one-third as the cost of their apprenticeship training for the Great Middle Korea, so that both sides were very happy, and the guys were immediately sent to various places and began to work for the Great Middle Korea.

Xiao Tianjian obtained the talents he dreamed of, and through the systematic knowledge brought by these missionaries, he could transform the original education system that had ruled Chinese scholars for thousands of years, and also opened a door for the selection of talents in the future.

The other is to preliminarily solve the problem of the Chinese and the DPRK copying the Western sail warships, and at the same time, they have also obtained a group of instructors who are good at operating this kind of Western-style sailing ships; as long as they are put to good use, in a very short period of time in the future, the great China and the DPRK only need to invest sufficient financial support, then the great China and the DPRK can quickly obtain a relatively powerful maritime force.

The return of the missionaries to China had another impact on the European nations, whether the Dutch, who were now known as the coachmen of the sea, or the old maritime powers, but the Spaniards and Portuguese, who were now in decline, and the British, who were on the rise of their maritime power, realized that this might be good news for them.

These European countries have long wanted to get a bridgehead on the Chinese road like Portugal to carry out trade with China, so they have been fighting very fiercely over the years, and the Dutch are even occupying Taiwan, trying to entrench themselves for a long time, and also drive the Spaniards away from Taiwan's chicken coop, wanting to enjoy the big cake of trade with China exclusively.

However, in the past, the attitude of the Ming Dynasty was very unclear, and they pursued a policy of banning the sea, which made them salivate about it, but they were never able to open the situation.

Now China is facing great changes, the new emperor of the Great Chinese Dynasty has a much more enlightened attitude towards the missionaries than the previous Ming Dynasty, and through the news brought back by the missionaries, they also see that the new emperor of China does not want to continue the policy of the Ming Dynasty forbidding the sea, which gives them a hope, this time the missionaries returned, the Dutch took the initiative to transport these missionaries and shipbuilders, and sent them directly to Ningbo Mansion to land.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Dutch asked Robert to submit a letter to Xiao Tianjian on their behalf, in which he proposed that he wanted to trade with Dazhong and North Korea.

After Xiao Tianjian considered this, he convened the ministers to discuss again, and did not immediately agree to the request of the Dutch, but in the name of the Chinese emperor, he put forward a request to the Dutch, that is, if the Dutch want to trade with the Dazhong Dynasty in the future, they can, but the premise is that they must stop all trade activities with the Zheng family and the Southern Ming court, otherwise the Dutch will be hostile to the Dazhong Dynasty, so once the Dazhong Dynasty destroys the Zheng family group and the Nanming group in the future, they will be punished for this Dutch. Cut off all trade with the Dutch.

Of course, this kind of thing is not only for the Dutch, Xiao Tianjian also sent people to Manila in Luzon on a Dutch ship by the way, and presented his credentials to the Spanish governor in Manila, and also made such a request, including Portugal, which is now ruled by the Spanish king, and of course, the British who have now extended their tentacles to Nanyang, told them to immediately stop all commercial activities with the Zheng group and the Nanming group, and if they agree, then in the future, the Great China and North Korea can allow them to trade. They also opened ports along the coast and allowed their ships to berth for trade, otherwise, once the Zheng and Nanming cliques were settled, Chinese merchants would be banned from trading with them as punishment.

Originally, Xiao Tianjian also wanted to raise the issue of Taiwan's ownership and make the Dutch withdraw from Taiwan unconditionally, but after careful consideration, their maritime power in Dazhong-DPRK is still very weak, and they cannot immediately recover Taiwan by force, and doing so is likely to force the Dutch to form a group with the Zheng clique and the Nanming clique to oppose Dazhong-DPRK at sea.

At present, his most critical issue is to solve the problem of the Zheng clique and Nanming first, and only after unifying China's maritime forces and integrating a powerful navy can he formally put the settlement of the Taiwan issue on the agenda.

The Dutch's request for trade was not met by the Great Chinese Dynasty for the time being, but for them, it could not be regarded as nothing, through this transportation of missionaries to Ningbo Province, they officially came into contact with the Great Middle Dynasty, and also received a reply from the Great Middle Dynasty, which made them see that the new Chinese emperor did not refuse the matter of trade, which gave them hope.

However, they are also very embarrassed by the conditions put forward by the Great China and the DPRK, because they can't see when the Great China and the DPRK will be able to eliminate the Zheng clique and the Nanming clique in the future, if the time is short, this is acceptable to them, but if the time is long, they will be tantamount to giving up too many interests.

However, there is one point that the Dutch have a unified understanding of the recent political situation in China, that is, the Zheng Group and the Nanming Group are now impossible to recover the Ming Dynasty, for these two forces, under the front of the Great Chinese and North Koreans, they can only survive for a while, and it is only a matter of time before they are destroyed by the Great Chinese Dynasty.

Besides, the Zheng family has been against them at sea in recent years, charging tolls, which also makes them very unhappy, and the goose plucking style of the commission also makes them unacceptable, but after all, the Zheng family's sailors are strong, although they are strong and powerful, but the number cannot be compared with the Zheng family's sailors, and the ants bite the elephant to death, and the Zheng family relies on the advantage of numbers to control the sea route, forcing them to do what the Zheng family commands.

Another point is that in the past one or two years, because after the Great China and North Korea controlled the rich Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, as well as Nanzhili, Huguang and Jiangxi, the number of goods obtained by the Zheng family in these places has plummeted, and it has also made these foreigners unable to obtain a large number of Chinese products as before, especially the number of Chinese silk sought after by European countries has declined very much, and the number of porcelain has also fallen sharply, which is not a good thing for them foreigners in the long run.

Dazhong and North Korea controlled the goods to go south to the sea, which caused their interests to suffer a great loss, and even if the Zheng family could hold on for a while longer, it would not be possible for them to wait.

Therefore, after internal discussions, the Dutch and the Spaniards, for the sake of long-term interests in the future, decided to temporarily suspend trade activities with the Zheng family for a period of time, especially the weapons and gunpowder that the Zheng family and Nanming urgently need now, they all restricted them, and no longer supplied the Zheng family and Nanming for various reasons and excuses, of course, secretly they still continued to trade with the Zheng family, purchasing some goods sold by the Zheng family, so as to maintain their trade activities in the East.

In this way, the blow to the Zheng family and the Nanming group is very big, originally their finances were stretched thin because of the persecution of the Great China and North Korea, so they urgently needed to obtain military salaries and weapons through trade with foreigners, and recruit generals, and suddenly the Dutch, Portuguese and Spaniards have greatly reduced their trade activities with them, which is equivalent to choking their necks, which is a very big blow to the Zheng family who rely on maritime trade to obtain funds.

And the military operations of the Great Chinese Army on Fujian during this period are also very frequent, the Great Chinese Army captured Funing Prefecture before the end of April, and then began to pose a huge military pressure on Fuzhou, although in May, the Great Chinese Army for some reason, temporarily stopped continuing to attack Fuzhou, but did not withdraw the troops, so that the Zheng family had to invest a large number of troops in Fuzhou to fortify, which was very financial pressure on the Zheng family, so that Zheng Zhilong was a little panicked all day long.

What exactly is he going to do next? Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but feel a headache and cracked.

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