Chapter 1305 The plan to break the blockade
The Merchant Company sent three batches of merchant ships to Jinshan Port. After they unloaded their personnel and goods, they would take Jinzi from Jinshan County back to Dagan.
Now that June is coming, none of Yinzhou's ships have come back, and they must have encountered some trouble in the middle.
In this case, if the Merchant Shipping Company continues to send merchant ships, sheep will enter the tiger's mouth.
Therefore, Gao Huan stopped transportation, but he could not ignore the new merchant company.
After all, now Yinzhou is strong and we are weak, and the gap between Xinshang Company and the Spaniards is too big.
Now that the Allies Group has been established, the tribute system of Ganchao has been integrated, the confrontation between the two major groups in the East and West is inevitable.
They cannot stand it by letting Xinshang Company face the countries on the Yinzhou continent alone.
At night, in the Council, several political affairs were sitting and discussing in a low voice.
At this time, the guards outside the hall suddenly reminded: "Your Majesty is here."
Du Yinxi, Chen Zilong and others quickly stood up and said, "Welcome to Your Majesty."
Gao Huan walked in, waved his hand and said, "Don't give me a gift."
At this time, he walked straight to the central hall and sat down, looking at everyone, "Please sit down, please. I'd like to call you all so late. I really have something important to discuss with you."
Chen Zilong said: "Your Majesty, Du Lingzheng has already told us about supporting the new business company."
Gao Huan said: "Since everyone knows it, let me think of a solution."
In the past two years, Gao Huan has gotten along well with the ministers.
This is mainly because after no war, most of the claims and interests of the civil servant group were satisfied.
With the development of the domestic economy, a commodity fair will be held at the end of the year. Chen Zilong and other ministers all had their mouths broken to the back of their heads.
Although Southeast Capital prefers to open up mature markets like Southeast Asia and India, Yinzhou has a vast territory after all, and it will definitely form a huge market in decades.
Therefore, Chen Zilong and others who represent Southeast Capital in the Council also supported the process of tying Yinzhou.
For Du Yinxi, the land of Yinzhou was very attractive to him.
The southern region has been peaceful for many years, with a large population density and a small per capita arable land.
The economy has been good in recent years, and Gao Huan launched a sanitation campaign such as eliminating the four pests and drinking hot water. He also attached importance to training doctors and opening hospitals, which eliminated a variety of diseases that plague the people.
This has increased the average life expectancy of the people and reduced the rate of infant death. In the next twenty years, the population in the country may double.
This will be a huge pressure for Gan Chao. As the chief assistant, Du Yinxi must prepare for the future, so recently he has also changed his view on overseas expansion.
When discussing with Gao Huan about the issue of reincarnation in the Central Plains dynasty for hundreds of years, Gao Huan pointed out that this is actually an economic problem and a resource problem, which gave Du Yinxi a great inspiration.
Therefore, Du Yinxi is now supporting the construction of Yinzhou to alleviate the pressure brought by exponential population growth of the Ganchao.
As the chief assistant of Gan Chao, Li Yan, in the past, achieved nationalization of land and solved the livelihood problems of the people of Gan Chao. As a successor, he also needed to have his own political achievements and propositions.
Therefore, within the Council, all the Councillors actively consider solutions to the rare agreement to rescue new business companies.
Before Gao Huan came, everyone had already discussed it for a while.
Now Gao Huan asked, how many people had roughly a few plans in their minds.
Du Yinxi said: "Your Majesty, I have discussed with several cabinet ministers and thought of two solutions."
Gao Huan said: "Tell me!"
Du Yinxi immediately said: "Analysis from the current situation, the Spaniards should have blocked the route to Kingsoft. The new merchant company has no navy, nor the ability to build warships and repair sailboats, so relying on themselves, it is impossible to break the Spanish blockade. In this case, no matter how many merchant ships we send, we cannot reach Kingsoft!"
Gao Huan nodded slightly and listened carefully. Du Yinxi continued: "Now the court needs to continue to support, and I think there are only two ways. The first way is to form an escort fleet by the navy and guard the merchant ship to Jinshan. The second way is to open up a new route."
Gao Huan frowned, "If the navy was asked to form a fleet to escort, it would be equivalent to telling the Spaniards that Dagan would directly join the war. If the Spaniards still launched an attack after seeing our escort fleet, would the court have to go to great lengths of war with the Spaniards?"
Gan Chao's strength is definitely stronger than Spain now, but it does not have an overwhelming advantage.
If the war was located in East Asia or Southeast Asia, then Gao Huan would be confident that he would defeat him, but if the war was located in Yinzhou, the situation would be different.
At that time, the Spaniards would not give Gan Chao a face and attack Gan Chao's escort fleet. It would be fine if Gan Chao won.
If the warship is not won or the warship is lost, and the news is transmitted back to the big move, it will inevitably cause an uproar in public opinion.
In recent years, Gao Huan has been engaged in patriotic education. At that time, the people are angry and force the court to start a war, which will be difficult to deal with.
Du Yinxi said: "This method does have the risk of expanding the war, but when the new business company is in danger, even if there is a risk, it can only be done!"
Gao Huan pondered for a while, finally nodded slightly, and then said, "Tell me the second way!"
Du Yinxi immediately said: "The west coast of Yinzhou is long. No matter how powerful the Spanish fleet is, it is impossible to block the entire west coast of Yinzhou! Now the new merchant company is on the west coast, and there is only the stronghold of Kingsoft. The Spanish fleet can wait and see our merchant ships as long as they cruise outside Kingsoft, and intercept our merchant ships. Therefore, I mean that in addition to Kingsoft, new strongholds must be established. In this way, the Spanish warships must be dispersed. We will strengthen the firepower of the merchant ships, and there will always be ships that can deliver assistance to Yinzhou!"
Gao Huan nodded slightly when he heard the words, "This method can be tried. In addition, after listening to my beloved, I also have an idea. Please listen to it and see if it can be operated."
"Please give your Majesty the instructions!" Du Yinxi and others immediately said.
Gao Huan said in a deep voice: "Not long ago, the Fuso Kingdom defeated the Tokugawa family in Japan. Now the Tokugawa family sent envoys to the Dakan family to call me a vassal and requested me to mediate the war in Japan. At that time, the Spaniards had cooperated with the Tokugawa family. Can I secretly mediate, and then let the Tokugawa family establish a stronghold in Beiyinzhou, and then use the Tokugawa family as a cover to transport supplies to the Xinshang Company!"
At that time, the Spanish fleet once rented a Japanese port and formed a coalition with the Tokugawa family to rescue the Qing army.
Gao Huan wanted to use this relationship.
When Du Yinxi heard the words, he looked at several people discussing politics, "Your Majesty, I think you can give it a try."
Chapter completed!