The surrender of the St. Philip and St. Carlos to the Ming Dynasty naval division marked the complete withdrawal of Dutch and Spanish forces from the South Seas, and the Ming Dynasty regained maritime supremacy in East Asia.

This nearly two years of maritime tug-of-war finally came to an end temporarily, and Nanyang was included in the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty, becoming a monopoly on trade, and striving for a broad space for the development of the Ming Dynasty.

In this battle, Luzon suffered a lot of losses, but it also captured more than a dozen large ships, which lifted the Spanish threat to Luzon, and Luzon's merchant ships could go to sea with confidence.

The Ming Dynasty captured twelve Spanish warships, and after the war, some of them returned to Surabaya to protect the surrounding Han settlements, deter the natives, and maintain the local spice trade, while some returned to Guangzhou and sent the captured Duke Alva and others to Nanjing as prisoners.

From the ban on the sea in the Ming Dynasty to Liu Daxia's burning of charts and archives, the Ming Dynasty's exploration of the sea has stopped and gradually lagged behind the world, and this war with the Dutch and Spaniards is undoubtedly after the Ming Dynasty set foot in the sea, and has stood on the same starting line with the West since then.

From the fifteenth century to modern times, the rise of the Western world probably went through the Age of Discovery from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century, that is, the era of geographical discoveries, then the era of mercantilist colonization from the seventeenth century to the eighteenth century, and finally the era of imperialist economic colonization that began in the nineteenth century.

From the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century, during the Age of Discovery, various seafaring expeditions led to the great geographical discoveries, the correct understanding of the earth, the discovery of the route to India, and the discovery of the Americas, which made the entire human understanding of the world and the earth a leap.

This phase was dominated mainly by Spain and Portugal, who made great fortunes through their great voyages and savage the Americas.

At this stage, the Western colonizers colonized in a simple and crude way, for silver mines, gold, spices, and to find China, which was the driving force for Westerners to sail.

Nearly two hundred years later, the silver mines of the Americas gradually withered, Spain and Portugal began to decline, and from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, the West entered the era of mercantilist colonization.

Because of the depletion of silver mines, and because the latecomer countries did not occupy any silver and gold mines, their colonization began to be refined, and they began to focus on the expansion of land and the development of trade.

During this period, the main representatives were the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

At that time, countries believed that in world trade, it was impossible for all countries to have trade surpluses at the same time, and it was impossible for all exports to be greater than imports.

Theoretically, at any point in time, the total amount of gold and silver is fixed, so if one country gains more and becomes rich, then the other country must pay the price of poverty, which is an important idea of mercantilism.

During this period, the strength of the state depended on its surplus in trade, that is, the amount of exports was greater than the amount of imports, and the more gold and silver the country accumulated, the richer and stronger it became.

In order to accumulate wealth, countries developed foreign trade monopolies, protected their domestic markets by raising tariffs and other trade restrictions, and used colonies to provide raw materials and markets for manufacturing in their home countries.

During this period, for the sake of the primitive accumulation of capital, most of the Western countries adopted such means as armed occupation, overseas immigration, pirate plunder, fraudulent trade, and bloody slave trade to complete the accumulation and transformation of capitalism.

In the nineteenth century, the colonies had been carved up, the Western countries began to fight in the nest, imperialist economic colonization and liberal capitalism came into being, on the one hand, they retained some characteristics of mercantilism, continued to plunder the colonies and semi-colonies, and turned the colonies and semi-colonies into their own commodity markets and raw material production areas, on the other hand, they advocated free trade and demanded that all countries open their markets in pursuit of the greatest interests and unique world hegemony.

At this time, it was already the middle of the seventeenth century, the magnificent era of navigation has come to an end, the West has been soaring for more than two hundred years, fortunately, the Ming Dynasty has a strong heritage, although it was dropped for nearly two hundred years, but still barely caught the last train.

Although the Ming Dynasty missed the great discovery of the great era, but the gap is not big, the West spent nearly two hundred years to complete this matter, mainly because they were exploring step by step, so it took a lot of time, and the Ming Dynasty to complete the cognition of the world, with the experience of Westerners in the front, it does not have to take another two hundred years, or only a few short years, only need the success of the round-the-world trial, can change the Ming Dynasty's perception of the world and the earth, and complete the West in two hundred years.

This is just like the industrialization and modernization of China in later generations, there is already a way to be found, the technology is there, and the speed is bound to be much faster than the pioneers, and even overtaking in corners.

At present, the Ming Dynasty has unconsciously entered the era of mercantilism, and according to the theory of mercantilism, at any point in time, the total amount of gold and silver and other currencies in the world is fixed, so it is impossible for countries participating in trade to achieve trade surpluses at the same time, that is to say, there is no reason for everyone to make money, and if one country makes a profit, there will inevitably be a country loss.

This "zero-sum game" view has great limitations in itself, but it is undoubtedly applicable in the current era of capital accumulation.

For more than 1,000 years, China has only entered but not exited this kind of trade, it is a big gold cellar and a big silver cellar, and it has always been the winner of world trade, and China has indeed been the center of the world for thousands of years.

At present, the rise of the West and the rise of mercantilism will undoubtedly pose a challenge to the Ming Dynasty, and in world trade, who is the profit-making party and who can complete the accumulation of capital depends on who can continue to maintain the trade surplus for more than 100 years in the future.

Looking at it, there are not many countries that can play in this game and land on the chessboard except for the Ming Dynasty, only the rising Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Ottoman Turkey, and the Mughals.

If we add a few more, perhaps Holy Rome and Japan, which have not yet completed unification, can barely be counted as one.

In this game, the Ming Dynasty will continue to maintain its position as the center of the world and maintain its surplus in trade.

So in addition to maintaining the advantages of traditional industries such as tea, porcelain, silk, etc., and continuing to export to earn silver for the Ming Dynasty, more means are needed, and spices and sugar in the South Seas can also become the main commodities of the Ming Dynasty, and with commodities, a huge market is also needed.

To do this, the Ming Dynasty needed a large navy to protect the spices and sugar cane production areas, to guard the routes of merchant ships, to expand the market and sphere of influence, and to maintain its own advantages in order to win from the competition.

The merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty have already arrived in India, and the sailors of the Ming Dynasty also need to get there.

Just as Zheng Chenggong expected, after the 1,200-ton St. Philip and another 1,000-ton St. Carlos surrendered to the Ming army, the Ming army's sailors did not give Luzon the meaning of assigning, but directly towed to the Qiongzhou shipyard.

There was an experience in the dismantling of Dutch merchant ships a few years ago, and this time after the sailors reported to the imperial court, the Ministry of Industry immediately sent master craftsmen and officials over.

If this ship is in the hands of Luzon, it will only increase the power of the Luzon sailors for a while, but in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, it will be different.

At the end of December, Song Yingsheng, the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry, rushed to the Qiongzhou Shipyard from Nanjing with a large number of craftsmen and officials of the Ministry of Industry.

This is one of the largest shipbuilding workshops in the Ming Dynasty, nearly 100 sea ships are launched every year, and most of them are imitations of the Dutch merchant ships, there are very few Fu ships, and the orders placed by Guangnan merchants can not be done in the shipyard.

In December, the north has been covered with a layer of snow, but Qiongzhou is still warm as autumn.

After ten years of development, although there are still many problems, such as the contradictions between Li and Han, on the whole, great changes have taken place.

Some of the Yangzhou people who were originally settled here have moved back to Yangzhou, but most of them have taken root here.

"Lord Song, the two giant ships have already been put on the slipway, and the craftsmen will disassemble the ships, draw the drawings, and then put them back!" Accompanying Song Yingsheng was Feng Yingsheng, a salt merchant from Yangzhou, who is now one of the leaders of the Guangnan Chamber of Commerce.

The shipyard was only part of the Sihai's industry, and he was now mainly engaged in overseas trade, and he specially came to Qiongzhou from Guangzhou to accompany Song Shilang to inspect the shipyard.

Song Yingsheng led a group of people to stand next to two large boats that had been dragged to dry land, and the hull of the ships was covered by a dock that had been erected to shelter from the wind and rain.

He listened to Feng Yingchang's explanation, and saw that the hull of the ship was crawling with many craftsmen, who were removing the planks on the big ship piece by piece, and then piling them up everywhere, looking orderly, but when he saw the mountains of wood, he couldn't help but ask: "With so much wood piled up together, it is difficult to reinstall it back!" ”

"That's true, but Lord Song can rest assured, before dismantling, every time the wooden board is marked with a number, not a part of it, there are strict records by the painter, it is a wooden nail, there will be no mistakes, as long as there is information, and then put it back, there is absolutely no problem!" Feng Yingchang said confidently.

They had disassembled a Dutch ship in this way, and had piled up a whole room in order to figure out the structure inside, the files and drawings that had been recorded.

Song Yingsheng nodded, and picked up a big nail next to him, which was indeed numbered. If the information is complete, it is true that you can know where it should be nailed to the ship by the number.

"Good! The records should be as detailed as possible, and after the drawings are drawn, they should be copied and kept in multiple copies, one to be sent to the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, and one to the Guangzhou Ordnance Supervision to avoid accidents. Song Yingsheng nodded with satisfaction.

The whole process of dismembering and reorganizing the ships can be said to be very complicated and costly, but with the support of the imperial court, it is not a problem.

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