Hearing Jian Chen's answer, the representative of Nanyang Company was overjoyed.

He didn't come to argue with Jian Chen about these meaningless conceptual issues, he just wanted to achieve his goals.

Hearing Chen Jian's hint that the Mexican Party would not oppose accepting such a condition, as far as Nanyang Company was concerned, the purpose had been achieved, and what they were most worried about was that the Mexican Party would oppose all the interests of Nanyang Company on the grounds of opposing the evil Nanyang Company.

As an ideological organization, even if the concept is not yet mature and internal factions have begun to emerge, the Mexican Party still has to uphold its world view in its work, and at least it must be able to justify itself and be logically consistent within the foundation.

Now that an explanation has been given, it at least proves that Chen Jian's faction in the Mexican Party supports Nanyang's expansion in trade, and the goal has been achieved.

As for what Chen Jian will do, Nanyang does not want to know, and there is no need to commit to even whether it can succeed at this time, what is needed is just an attempt.

After confirming that Chen Jian would not object, the representative of Nanyang Company got up and took his leave, and there was no need for him to say the rest.

understands the strength of the company, this person understands that Chen Jian is very clear, and there is no need to say more; As for how the company can make a profit, this person understands that Chen Jian is very clear and does not need to say more.

Since it is needless to say, it only needs a tacit promise, let alone a broken or unanswered answer.

Before leaving, he suddenly became very curious and asked, "Mr. Chen, how do you understand the company's trade expansion?" ”

Chen Jian sorted out his thoughts and replied succinctly: "Subjectively, you are here to make a profit. Objectively, the development of the world system promoted is integrated. Subjectively, you crave war in Europe for profit. Objectively, the essence of the war in Europe is monarchy and religion and dog-eat-dog, which can promote the awakening of the European people, make them realize the nature and hypocrisy of kings and religions and the harm they bring to them. Subjectively, you sell weapons for a profit. Objectively, you can let the people of Europe learn from the war, and use the weapons in your hands to resist feudalism and religion when needed. ”

"All in all, subjectively you are bastards, but you objectively accelerate the course of history. So, if in the future Europe awakens, they think you are bastards with unforgivable sins; If there is no awakening, you are good people in the eyes of those compradors. It depends on the worldview, but you certainly don't want the people there to awaken, so who you are determines whether you will be a bastard or a savior in the future. ”

The man laughed at the door and said, "In this way, even for the sake of future evaluation in the history books, it is impossible for us to make their worldview mainstream." This is what determines our evaluation in the future. You know, the Chinese people take the word 'history books' very seriously. In history, there must always be a cornerstone of evaluation, and the cornerstone of your evaluation is hated by many people. ”

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After reaching initial contact with the people of Nanyang, Chen Jian again invited the representative of the Netherlands and had a detailed discussion with him.

The Dutch sought out Chen Jian for many reasons, and even though the Netherlands had not yet formed a nation-state, contacts and negotiations with Chen Jian basically included most of the ruling class in the Netherlands.

Morris, the soul of the Orange faction, urgently needs to know Jian Chen's attitude.

King Henry IV of France was assassinated, and the Queen Mother of the Medici family, a woman who was extremely close to Spain, came to power. Last year, the Queen Mother of France had sent people to Spain, hoping to promote a marriage between Spain and France, so that her son Louis XIII would marry a Spanish princess.

At the same time, Henry IV converted from Protestant to Catholic in order to succeed him, and even though the Nantes amnesty was issued, France remained a Catholic country, while the Netherlands was a Protestant country.

Maurice was uneasy about the fact that it was already difficult to deal with Spain, and now that there was an additional queen mother and her favored retainers who were likely to give up the opportunity for France's rise in Europe.

Morris was sober-minded about the ten-year truce and knew that it would definitely be fought in the future, so he urgently needed an ally.

Without the emergence of the Chinese Republic, the Dutch India Company would have been obliged to cede a great deal of interest to Britain for political purposes, especially in the matter of spices, in order to monopolize Britain against Spain.

But now Morris has a new option, and if he can make a formal commitment or a formal covenant, he can make more flexible decisions.

Chen Jian's circumnavigation around the world in order to show off his muscles left a deep impression on Morris, and a lot of news that came to The Hague after that convinced Morris that this was an ally that could fight against Spain, but whether he would get involved in the quagmire of Europe Morris did not know whether he would be involved.

In addition to the overall interests of the Netherlands, Morris also hoped that Chen Jian would not get involved in power struggles and religious civil strife within the Netherlands, but at least be able to control it a little.

He had nothing to do with the theological differences between Arminians and Gomales, and he knew that he was not a theologian of theology, and he could not figure out whether salvation was predestined or could be approached by subjective efforts.

However, he understood that the Speaker was on the side of the Arminian faction, and was somewhat dissatisfied with some of his "dictatorial" methods, and that the Attorney General of the Dutch province, Grotius, was also on the side of the Arminian faction, much to Maurice's displeasure.

When the Spanish army was pressing, in the face of great pressure from Spain, the internal factional disputes could be temporarily united, all for victory.

However, when the truce was signed, these contradictions began to come to light.

The high-level provincial autonomy faction and the Dutch state faction are fighting; The Arminians and the Gomalians were fighting; The Presbyterian Church and the parish at the bottom are fighting......

And the inter-religious heretical strife has always been known for its ruthlessness. When the Protestants killed people in Geneva, the French Catholics closed the gates and sealed the swords for seven days; Witches are judged here, and burned at the stake there; Assassinate the king here, and blow up the council with dynamite over there......

Dutch merchants were representatives of mercenary commercial capitalists, who could transport grain and gunpowder to the ports besieged by the Dutch during the Dutch war because of the high profits, and they could also continue to lend money to Spain during the Spanish-Dutch war.

When the Arminian diocese began an armed uprising, the Dutch merchants immediately sold profitable flintlock pistols from the port of Amsterdam to the Arminian diocese, and some people called for the Arminian to form their own militia to protect themselves at the United Provincial Assembly.

The batch of guns at the time of the Mincheng Uprising was originally intended to be shipped to Amsterdam, but they were used in Mincheng in advance.

Morris was already quite dissatisfied with all kinds of circumstances, he had military power in his hands, so he wanted to solve it by force. But Grosius is also involved in the life-saving association established by Chen Jian in the Netherlands, even if Morris wants to do it, even if there are many people in China who support it, he needs to at least notify Chen Jian.

Because this involves the question of potential allies against Spain later, it is not an easy choice: Chen Jian has previously publicly expressed sympathy for Dutch independence, on the grounds that religious freedom in the Netherlands does not persecute heretics, at least for the time being.

Morris's army also has some high-priced mercenaries of the Republic, these people are the strength of artillery and reform instructors in the army, and these people have a very close relationship with the Society for the Rescue of the Wounded, Morris defaults to these people according to the Dutch model as "saleable and transferable" mercenaries organized by Chen Jian, which is a very popular model in Europe at this time, and the buyer will turn around and sell to the enemy with a high bid if he can't afford it.

The fact that the people who had been sent to Europe before the Republic talked about seemingly meaningless "international law" and the like all day long was, in Morris's view, the prototype of an anti-Habsburg alliance that the Chinese Republic had used to avoid strong opposition from the Habsburgs.

But the prototype is only a prototype, and even if the Chinese Republic does not go into battle shirtless, it will inevitably become a behind-the-scenes figure in this alliance - loans, guns, instructors, materials, blockades, etc., these are all things that can affect the outcome of the battle.

Morris had long hoped for an affirmative answer to these matters, but the official excuse given by the Republic for delay was that he would not be able to make a final decision until the round-the-world fleet had returned.

In Morris's view, Chen Jian is a key person, and at the same time, he hopes that Chen Jian is a key person.

Because of the tendencies that Jian Chen showed before, he hoped that Jian Chen could make the influence he hoped and exert enough influence.

The letters sent to Chen Jian by the Speaker and the Chief Prosecutor, who also belonged to the political struggle faction, were purely an attempt to gain moral support, to reason with Chen Jian, and to gain Chen Jian's sympathy.

Military power was in the hands of Morris, clerical power was in the hands of the Presbyterian Church, parliamentary power was in the hands of the powerful factions and big businessmen in the provinces, and the mournful Speaker and Attorney General could only obtain moral support.

Moreover, one can only hope to get moral support, and if it is revealed in the letter that Chen Jian is expected to provide some non-moral but material support, then this is "treason" for some people, which is a very serious excuse.

This is a political struggle and factional struggle in the Netherlands, and they are only part of the ruling class.

The other part of the ruling class also needs to reach a series of agreements with Chen Jian, such as the board of directors of the Dutch Indian Company.

Chen Jian killed the first group of Dutch Indian companies officially invited by Tokugawa Ieyasu to open trading houses in Japan, buying a year for the trading companies of Wangbei City and the Ming Empire.

One year, one year is slow.

The Dutch Indian Company had taken advantage of the increase in the price of copper caused by the minting of copper coins in Spain, and it was easy to get a batch of poor copper in Japan after a long time, and ship it back to Amsterdam to make a profit.

The Republic's Nanyang Company, on the other hand, seized the opportunity of the rising price of copper earlier than the Dutch Indian Company and shipped a shipment of copper to Amsterdam for sale, which was almost unprofitable when the Dutch Indian Company's ship carrying Japanese copper returned.

The Dutch Indian Company was in urgent need of a large number of handicraft products, which could be sold or exchanged for spices in the Spice Islands, and had reached an agreement with Chen Jian to trade directly across the Pacific from the Republic, but this matter was not done after Chen Jian returned to China.

The Dutch Indian Company wanted to obtain handicrafts from the Ming Empire and sell them in the Spice Islands, and save precious metals from abroad by bartering, but the interests of the Mexican forces in Wangbeicheng and the maritime merchants of the Ming Empire hindered it, and made it clear that they would not hesitate to turn their faces, because a large number of grassroots members of the Mexican Party immediately hardened after arriving in Wangbei City.

The Dutch Indian Company wanted to control rice and control the smuggling of rice that forced the people of the Spice Islands to exchange spices for the necessary rice, while the British smugglers and the Indian Company spared no effort to smuggle and revolt "for the survival of the people of the Spice Islands", to encourage revolt, and to unite with the local princes against the Dutch. The directors of the Dutch Indian Company urgently needed an accurate answer from another rising power in the South China Sea to decide what exactly was the attitude towards the British Indian Company.