The senior management of Xinshang Company held a meeting in Yindu and roughly determined two things.

The first is to develop itself, and the second is to restrain the development of the New Spanish Governor's District and not allow the Spaniards to quickly organize another attack.

The reason for this is very simple. If the strength of both sides increases by 100% every year, and compared with the strength of the two sides, the Spaniards have a strength of 100 and the strength of the new merchant company is 100, even if the strength of the new merchant company surges by 20% per year, it will only reach 12. If Spain grows casually, it will be able to gain the strength of the new merchant company.

Therefore, for new business companies, the best strategy is to prevent the Spanish from developing.

This is like the Shu Han Dynasty back then, which was obviously weak, but he was going to continue to fight the northern expedition.

Because once the north is stable and Wei controls the north and solves internal problems, Shu is no match for the north at all.

After the meeting, Xinshang Company immediately started a new round of attracting people, reclaiming wasteland, and preparing for the spring plowing in the coming year.

Britain expanded on the east coast of America, and France colonized along the Mississippi River basin, forcing the native tribes to migrate to the western part of the North Yinzhou.

New business companies also need to expand their territory.

Although the strength of the new merchant companies is still quite weak compared to Spain, Britain, France, and Xinshang Company, on the west coast of Beiyinzhou, after the Spanish retreated south, they had no force to compete with it.

Jiang Jiaren believes that this is an opportunity for Xinshang Company. He continues to use his own set of methods to expand his territory, attract indigenous people to join Xinshang Company, strengthen the company's strength, and at the same time, he also conducts internal checks and balances to ensure his own power.

While refining the land, Yang Shuye led the elite merchant army to the south and actively entered the New Spanish colonies, attacked white slave owners, liberated black slaves and indigenous peoples, and attacked the New Spanish rule in the Northern Yinzhou, which shocked Mexico.

The Spanish colonies in the Americas had no threat before, so the colonial authorities did not maintain many armies.

After the destruction of the Spanish army in the 30,000 colonies, the Mexican authorities had no one to be available for a while, and they could only allow the merchant army to invade the northern part of the colony, which made many colonists have to give up their manors and flee back to Mexico in a hurry.

The incompetence of the colonial army aroused the dissatisfaction of the Spanish nobles and merchants. They wrote letters to complain to the Spanish king, which made the Spanish king furious.

Three months later, the Governor of New Spain, Grand Duke Philip, was dismissed. After the newly appointed Governor of the Colonial Don Juan Jose took office, he immediately made a response strategy. While sending a fleet to block the west coast of North America, cutting off the contact between the Xinshang Company and the Qian Dynasty, recruiting troops and drawing elite troops from South America, preparing to encircle and suppress the Xinshang Company again.

This also made the game between the Qian Dynasty and the Western powers in North America become fierce.

...

Autumn goes and winter comes, and time comes, and in 1660, the end of the tenth year of Longwu.

This was the tenth year that Gao Huan became emperor. Since the end of the Battle of Zhungeer in the West, the wars within and around Daqian have almost ended.

Now, except for Uszang, Gao Huan's father-in-law was fighting with Gushikhan of the Hoshuot Mongolia, and the world was finally peaceful.

Under this circumstance, Gao Huan began to pay attention to domestic internal affairs, as well as the integration and strengthening of the tribute system, and establish a large alliance of East Asian cultural circle with the Qian Dynasty as the core.

This year, the tenth year of Gao Huan's reign as emperor, began half a year ago, Gao Huan ordered the Lifan Academy to convey the decree of tribute to various countries, requiring the kings of various vassal states to personally or send important officials who can speak to come to Nanjing to participate in the conference and determine the new order in East Asia.

As the end of the year approaches, the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger. In Nanjing, users are busy cleaning houses, slaughtering New Year pigs, and preparing for the New Year with lights.

At this time, the palace was no exception. The palace was cleaned up and lanterns were hung everywhere, making it look joyous.

Although the New Year is approaching, it is not time for the dynasty to go down, and the government is becoming busy.

Because the New Year is about to be held, everything has to be handled before the New Year, all the officials of the previous dynasty, including Gao Huan, were busy almost every day.

Early this morning, before dawn, Gao Huan woke up the palace servants, washed and had food, and went to the Political Consultative Hall to ask about politics, discuss the New Year's Conference and establish a new order.

When Gao Huan came to the Hall of Political Affairs in a carriage, several officials of Political Affairs had been waiting in the hall for a long time.

Not long ago, the Council of Representatives changed its term, Li Yan retreated, and Du Yinxi successfully took office and became the second major in charge to lead the political discussion.

As the former chief minister, Gao Huan originally planned to send him to the local area as a senior official, but Li Yan suggested that if he was asked to be a chief official, it would probably affect the new chief minister's governance and cause a situation of party struggle.

Gao Huan was still exploring the system construction of Ganchao. After listening to Li Yan's words, he felt that what Li Yan said made sense.

The old chief minister has not left the political arena and is a senior official in the local area. So should the former central officials listen to the old leaders or the new chief minister?

How can the new prime minister use his original officials with confidence and focus on cultivating party members and causing some chaos.

Gao Huan immediately adopted Li Yan's suggestion and asked him to serve as a sacrificial tribute to Nanjing Government Affairs University. At the same time, he specially set up a private think tank for the emperor and hired Li Yan as his consultant.

"Your Majesty is here!" In the Hall of Constitution, several Constitutional Secretary were talking in a low voice, and the guards outside suddenly shouted loudly.

Du Yinxi and others quickly stood up and bowed to greet him, "I welcome your Majesty."

Gao Huan walked in and waved his hand, and sat in the middle hall, "Everyone is exempt from gifts!"

At Gao Huan's instructions, everyone sat down on both sides, and the guards presented refreshments, and the meeting began.

"What are you reporting today?" Gao Huan took a sip of tea and went straight to the point. "If not, then let's continue to talk about the issue of controlling vassal states. Over the years, the Central Plains' control over vassal states has been too weak. In this case, we must change our efforts to establish a deep binding and indivisible tribute system."

Now that Gan Chao's internal problems and external threats have been basically resolved, Gao Huan has time to deal with Gan Chao's relationship with surrounding vassal states.

This time, Gao Huan took the initiative to let the vassal states come to pay tribute, hoping to change the shortcomings of the past tribute system and allow the vassal states to rely deeply on the Gan Dynasty and cannot escape the control of the Gan Dynasty.

At this time, Gao Huan was about to start continuing the topic of the vassal state, but Du Yinxi bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to report."

"Oh?" Gao Huan was a little confused. He didn't seem to have heard of anything big recently, "What's going on?"

Du Yinxi said: "His Majesty sent an ambassador to Europe He Bin to send military officers from the embassy to Macau on Portuguese merchant ships, bringing back rubber and rubber tree species, as well as information about the countries of Europe."
Chapter completed!