Daming pirates

The greatest manifestation of the value of the Spanish presence in the Philippines is their trade with the Ming Dynasty. If this trade is cut off, then the Spanish presence in the Philippines will not be of much significance. However, over the years, the Spanish have cooperated with the Dutch

Differently, they rarely sailed to the Ming Dynasty for trade in person, but waited for the Ming merchants to deliver the goods to Manila. They then purchased them and re-exported them to Europe or America, so they had stronger requirements for the stability of the trade routes.

This is also the reason why they are willing to pay some money this time to make Sea Wolf give up blocking merchant ships heading to Manila for trading. Fifteen thousand pesos seems like a lot, but as long as they can still buy Daming's products, they will soon be able to buy them.

They can earn back the money.

Next, the two sides held negotiations on the issue of prisoners. In fact, only some of the Spanish sailors and soldiers captured by Sea Wolf this time were Spanish, and sailors in this era came from all over the world, including Europeans.

There are also some people from Southeast Asia, and some are Chinese. Even among Europeans, many are not Spanish, but Italians, Germans and even Danes.

Europe is currently at war, and the Thirty Years' War is going on back and forth. There are quite a few displaced Europeans, and they also need to find food to eat. Therefore, many people go to sea to find a way to survive, risking their lives to work as sailors for anyone.

Therefore, among the Spanish sailors and soldiers captured by Sea Wolf, only some are Spanish, and the rest are scum from all over the world. After all, sailors are almost synonymous with scum in this era, so Blanco is too lazy to spend money to redeem them.

These are not Spanish scum.

It just so happens that Sea Wolf still has demand for these scum, and they have already signed a five-year service agreement with Sea Wolf. If Blanco doesn't want them, Yu Xiaotian will naturally not let them go generously.

In the end, Blanco only ransomed about a hundred Spanish prisoners, but the condition was that he had to pay fifty pesos for each sailor, and thirty pesos for ordinary infantry. The rest of the officers were either on board the ship.

Important personnel such as the navigator and captain need to pay between 200 and 500 pesos. According to statistics, he will eventually have to pay 7,000 pesos to Sea Wolf.

Of course, before seeing these white pesos, these people have to stay in Sea Wolf's jurisdiction and continue to serve Yu Xiaotian. Taking advantage of this period, Yu Xiaotian can almost squeeze out their usefulness.

It's almost done.

As for those non-Spanish mercenary sailors or soldiers, Blanco was too lazy to spend money to redeem them, so these people could only continue to stay in Sea Wolf and serve Yu Xiaotian in accordance with the agreement.

As for the two captured boats, Blanco also tried to redeem them, but this was flatly rejected by Yu Xiaotian, because even if he had money, he couldn't buy such a large plywood boat. He finally captured two

How can the Spaniards redeem these two ships again, not to mention that he has already spent a lot of effort to repair these two ships, and they will soon be incorporated into his fleet and become his ships.

Naturally, it was impossible to return them to the Spaniards. If possible, he would like to get a few more to support the situation, at least until he can build better ships.

And Blanco did not continue to get entangled in this matter, because he knew very well that as a captured ship of the defeated, under normal circumstances, no one would return it to the defeated. Since Yu Xiaotian did not return it, he would not return it.

Nothing to complain about.

In addition to these, the two sides also talked about cooperation. First, after the Spanish paid the ransom and compensation, Sea Wolf first lifted the blockade of the Manila route.

Furthermore, Sea Wolf will send people to Manila to set up a commercial office. In a sense, it is regarded as Sea Wolf's consulate in Manila and enjoys a certain degree of immunity. When Sea Wolf's merchant ships enter and leave the Manila Port, they will receive tax-free treatment and no longer give it to Manila.

The main reason for the official payment of taxes is that the Spaniards want to continue to do business with Sea Wolf in the future. After all, Sea Wolf will buy many goods from them that Chinese merchants did not want in the past. If Sea Wolf does not trade with them, then they

Cloth, canvas, cotton and other materials cannot be sold.

Therefore, the Spanish are happy to use tax exemption to express their willingness to continue doing business with Sea Wolf in the future, which can be regarded as a gesture.

Of course, in exchange, their ships can also enter and exit Tamsui Port and Jilong Bay in the future, and they will also receive tax-free benefits. However, Yu Xiaotian added another condition to this condition, that is, if Spanish ships want to go to Sea Wolf's port

For trade, half of the goods on the ship must be their designated goods, and these goods are mainly raw materials, such as hardwood, grain, metal, cloth, saltpeter and other materials for shipbuilding.

Blanc immediately nodded and agreed to this. After all, they had lost the opportunity to continue to capture Taiwan Island. Now they also saw that although the Dutch wanted to help the Ming Dynasty officials deal with the Sea Wolf, the next step for the Sea Wolf was

The wolves and the Dutch would become enemies, but Yu Xiaotian had no intention of driving the Dutch away from Taiwan Island now.

The purpose of what Yu Dangjia did was to retain the Dutch to compete with the Spaniards, so that the Spaniards would not take the initiative in trade in the future, in order to obtain greater profits from it, so the next conflict between the Sea Wolf and the Dutch,

will be restricted to a certain range, and sooner or later they will have to resume trade with the Dutch.

The Dutch have unique and convenient conditions on the island of Taiwan. If they don't offer high enough conditions, then the Sea Wolf can just trade with the Dutch. There is no need to go to Manila to trade with the Spaniards.

trade, so in order to attract Sea Wolf to maintain trade relations with them, they must offer good enough conditions.

In addition, the Spaniards did not often go to China's coast for active trading activities for a long time. Instead, they waited in Manila for Chinese merchants to come to trade. Now it seems that they are going to change. In the future, they will have to send several ships to the sea every year.

Trade can only be carried out at Wolf's port, otherwise, they will also lose many opportunities.

The reason why Yu Xiaotian was able to obtain such conditions in the negotiations with Blanco was because he had enough cards to play. Don't look at the Fujian official's grand campaign to launch a campaign against him, but this time the government

He is not worried about the counterinsurgency campaign, and he is confident that after this war is over, he will be able to control the entire Fujian coast in one fell swoop.

Fujian itself is the most important re-export base for Ming merchants to trade with Japan, North Korea, and the Philippines. Most of the Ming merchants who go to these places every year must set out from the coastal areas of Fujian, while Jiangxi, Zhejiang,

Important export products such as tea, raw silk, satin, and porcelain produced in southern Zhili and Huguang are also gathered nearby in Fujian, where they are shipped out to sea from the coast of Fujian.

Although China has a long history of navigation and was far ahead of other countries in the world. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Chinese ships even sailed to Africa, and could use their own technology to sail directly to Japan for trade. However, after the Ming Dynasty, China's

Not only did navigation technology not continue to flourish, it actually suffered a serious setback.

Although China invented the compass very early and used it in navigation very early, and also invented the art of star-finding as an important technology in navigation, after this era, China's navigation technology has stalled and has never created longitude and latitude, so

After the Ming Dynasty, Chinese sea-going ships not only did not retain the previous transoceanic navigation technology, but also retreated to the point where they could only sail along the coastline and use shore landmarks as markers. Even if it was better, there must be islands along the way.

A long voyage can only be carried out with reference objects.

So much so that after this era, when Ming merchants went to Japan for trade, they had to strictly follow the needle route, starting from Fujian and going around the Ryukyu Islands in a circle before sailing to Japan. There was no way to take direct flights from other places.

The method is to sail directly to Japan. Depending on the season, you must also wait for the trade winds. Set sail in October and return before May of the next year. One ship can make one trip to Japan a year.

So at this time, whoever controls the coast of Fujian will control the trade with Japan. Many ships must also depart from Fujian and go to Manila for trade.

This is also the reason why Zheng Yiguan did not hesitate to turn against Yan Siqi when he first gained power, and he did not hesitate to make enemies of Hailang and Chu Cai, but also wanted to seize the coastal areas of Zhangquan and other places as his territory. Because of Zheng Yiguan's roots

In Japan, he also took over Li Dan's legacy. Li Dan's business mainly

It is the Sino-Japanese trade. If he does not control the Zhangquan land, he will not be able to continue the trade with Japan. Unfortunately, he met Yu Xiaotian in this time and space, so that in the end he failed. Not only was he unable to control the Zhangquan land

, but was driven out of the Taiwan Strait by Yu Xiaotian and ran to Guangdong.

So although Zheng Yiguan is still alive, after losing his foothold in Fujian, he has also lost the conditions to continue to trade with Japan and lost important financial resources. Even if Yu Xiaotian no longer wants to

If he pursues and fights fiercely, sooner or later he will

Due to lack of financial resources, he gradually lost blood until he was finished. Unless he resolutely gave up trade with Japan after arriving in Guangdong and reopened a trade route to Nanyang to obtain financial resources, otherwise his destruction would be a matter of time.

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Now Yu Xiaotian has begun to send people to take over the trade route to Japan, and has sent people and ships to go to sea first to open up the trade route to Japan, gradually squeezing Zheng Yiguan's power out of this route, and it takes less than two days.

In a few years, Yu Xiaotian could take his place and completely control Sino-Japanese trade.

So in this era, whoever controls the coast of Fujian is equivalent to owning a golden mountain and controls most of China's maritime trade. Blanco can certainly see this. This is why he dares to make the decision and promised Yu Xiaotian

these conditions.