Several east coast merchant ships quietly sailed into the port of Cadiz. This is a ship that just arrived from the Black Sea Haji Port Merchant Station. It is affiliated to the South China Sea Transportation Company, a state-owned Nanhai Group. The group also has two wholly-owned subsidiaries, namely the Nanhai Liner Company and the Nanhai Fishery Company. In addition to carrying some raisins, wheat, spices, cocoa, coffee and other commodities imported from the Ottoman Empire, there are also a large number of special commodities purchased by the General Administration of Development: non-national labor workers, to be precise, Polish soldiers captured by the Ottomans, and of course more are ordinary people robbed by the Crimean Tatars in southern Poland.

The war between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had entered its third year. After the Turkish army conquered cities and territory in the fall of 1672, the Poles were unable to resist, so they signed the humiliating Treaty of Bucek with the Turks, ceded the Potolia region in the south, promised to pay tribute to the Ottoman Turkish Empire every year, and recognized the independence of Polish Ukraine (Western Ukraine) in order to gain a valuable respite.

This treaty undoubtedly aroused strong dissatisfaction among Poland, and the noble parliament was immediately filled with chaos and quarrels. As we all know, the system of the noble parliament in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was very strange. As long as one of the members voted against it, a proposal would not be passed. This made the parliament almost a decoration and the country became a mess. No wonder Prince Henry of France did not even want to do it in history. It was so frustrating.

Therefore, the Treaty of Buchachi was "shot" directly in the noble parliament because more than one member opposed the peace, considered it a great shame, and expressed his desire to fight the Turks to the end! Only the parliamentarians from southern Poland and eastern part expressed their disappointment because they were eager to achieve peace with the Turks so as not to spread to their territory, but they were also unable to reverse the direction of the parliament.

The Ottoman Empire's Great Vizifashir Ahmed Koprulu had returned to Istanbul because of something, but the 200,000 troops he had brought before were still stationed in southeastern Poland and adjacent Western Ukraine, and he fed in Moldavia, but did not return. Therefore, the extremely disappointed Great Vizi immediately ordered the frontline generals to continue attacking and punish the "untrustworthy" Polish pagans. Therefore, the Polish-Turkish War calmed for a while and then started another war. The Turkish army began to march from their respective garrisons to Poland. There was no way to go. There were too many troops of 200,000. If they were not dispersed, they would not be able to satisfy the military supplies and exchange fire with the Polish army slowly gathered.

In this battle, the lord Jan Sobesky, who performed well in the Khmelnikki Uprising, the PolyRussian War, the Popei War, and the Pope War stood out. This lord first summoned 40,000 infantry and cavalry with great prestige, and then used the advantages of inside combat to defeat the scattered Turkish army in one by one. The private soldiers of the Serbian lords, Arab tribal soldiers, Hungarian militias and the backward "ancient army" (almost all cold weapon troops) with the backward equipment of the Duke of Moldavia, finally achieved the accumulated results of annihilation of more than 10,000 enemies, greatly boosting the morale of the Poles.

Sobesky's emergence interrupted the smooth situation since the Ottoman Empire entered Poland. Although the loss of troops was not large, the morale of the increase and decrease of the other must be considered. The Crimean Tatars, who have always been known for plundering like the wind, had to shrink the front line and concentrate their limited troops (more than 15,000 cavalry, the main force has returned with the Khan) to prevent sudden attacks from the Poles. You must know that the Poles also have large cavalrymen. Although the Crimeans have always ridiculed them for being slow-moving "silly guys" and have won many victories in previous wars, they dare not bet that they would not encounter the other party's large team of troops, so they should withdraw. Anyway, there is not much population outside at this time, and the property can be robbed.

As the largest buyer of slaves robbed by the Crimeans, the East Coast people who had imported more than 10,000 Polish slaves from them over the past year, but their business would not be greatly affected, because the Crimean Tatars were really crazy last year (1673). At least tens of thousands of residents in southern Poland were taken back by these bandits from the grassland as "harvest". Then their property became the private property of the Tatar cavalry. Except for a small part of the people who stayed to grow grain and do handicrafts, most of the rest were hoarded in two major slave export ports, Haji and Kafa, waiting for the emergence of buyers. Among them, the East Coast people were naturally the largest buyers, and many times even the only buyers.

The slaves bought were basically entered major state-owned farms, forest farms, brick kilns, iron mines, coal mines and construction teams, which effectively supplemented the huge labor gap caused by the conversion of non-national labor workers or "loss" and greatly supported the development of the country, but the cost was not as large as expected. It could be said to be a great business.

Even after learning in the first half of this year that the United Province had stolenly terminated several procurement contracts with the East Coast Republic despite its commercial reputation, the Executive Committee's officials immediately ordered the temporary freezing of a batch of military funds and weapons that were originally intended to be sent to Amsterdam, and instead considered transferring them to the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate, which also urgently needed such war materials, and then exchanged them for various types of slaves. Both sides took the needs and were very happy.

It is reported that the plan has officially entered the implementation stage. The Ottoman Ambassador to the East Port also readily agreed to the plan and immediately submitted it to the country, asking the Great Vizi and His Majesty the Sultan to approve it. It can be said that it is basically no problem. Moreover, this move has greatly promoted the bilateral relations between the East and Austria. At least now, many people in the East Coast have recognised their old friend the friendship of the Ottoman Empire. The United Provinces, which have been very hot in recent years, seem a bit snobbish and are not worthy of continuing to invest more diplomatic resources.

Of course, the East Coast people bought Polish slaves with such a big fanfare, and there was no doubt that in the East, which had just eased in the past two years, another knife was inserted into the Polish-Polish relations, which once again ruined the possibility of reconciliation between the two countries in a short period of time. You should know that almost twenty years ago, the East Coast people took advantage of the Polish Russo War. The Polish-Russian War was a good opportunity to buy a batch of Polish slaves. At that time, it even caused a strong backlash from the Polish Kingdom and condemnation from some Catholic countries, which directly led to the East Coast goods losing the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth market with a population of 11 million.

But now it seems that the East Coast people obviously have no "memory of rising". The relationship between the two countries was greatly eased with the mediation of the three-level parliament of the provincial parliament. As a result, after the outbreak of the turmoil battle formation, the East Coast people acted as a big buyer of Polish slaves. This undoubtedly indirectly stimulated the Crimean Tatars to grab the special robbery in Poland, deepening the suffering of the people in southern Poland. Faced with such a situation, even if the Poles were useless, they could not ignore it and could only completely terminate all diplomatic negotiations and commercial exchanges between the two countries, and bilateral relations fell into freezing again.

Of course, the East Coast people currently don’t care much about their relationship with Poland. The Dutch regards this country as a treasure, but the East Coast does not seek the Poles’ rye and their wood, how can it be like the Dutch who swears about this country? Of course, how is it beneficial to the East Coast? Who cares what Poles or Catholics think?

Therefore, when these merchant ships arrived at the port of Cadiz, although some Spanish priests in the port expressed their objections, the leading captain was not afraid and rejected them all! Even when a priest used church assets to purchase some Polish slaves in advance, they were rejected "contemptuously" by the captain of the East Coast, who seemed extremely "arrogant" in their opinion, which was really angry.

Lan Fei and Yang Liang were interesting to watch, and at the same time they also had some new understanding of the relationship between Catholic countries, that is, religion is indeed very appealing, but whether it is enough to let the Spaniards, who are also Catholics, help Polish believers at the risk of their country falling into war, and whether it is enough to let them give up doing business with the East Coast to help Polish believers. The answer is actually very obvious, that is, most Spaniards are actually "parents". This can be seen from the food, raisins, spices, cocoa, coffee and other goods brought by these East Coast merchant ships, and it took only one or two days to sell them in the Port of Cadiz.

"Damn, Polish labor workers have ships back to their homeland. We who are almost forgotten will not leave until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month!" Major Yang Liang, who has always liked to complain, spoke again, and only heard him say: "This time some local people are so brave that they dare to send troops to capture the entire Dutch South African colony. This style is a bit radical! But although this is in line with my taste, it also pushed Special Envoy Li Qing and us into dangerous situations. Alas, we are pretty good, but Special Envoy Li Qing could only leave in shame. The Amsterdam shopping station is probably going to be closed. This is a pity."

"It's a pity. It's a pity. You can't have both fish and bear's paw. Taking South Africa is our grand strategy. Although losing the commercial interests of the Netherlands will make our domestic industry and commerce extremely uncomfortable, and the pace of technological progress will be greatly delayed, these are not insurmountable difficulties. Compared with them, the real precious thing is always land. Although South Africa is far from being rich, it is definitely vast enough and its geographical location is important enough. There is nothing to complain about when it comes to it." Major Lan Fei said: "But I estimate that it is not feasible to completely lose South Africa in the old continent. The resistance faced is too great and the image will appear worse. Then, it is highly likely that Cape Town will be set as a top in the future and open to people or ships from all civilized countries in the world."

"Haha, I think so too. I really want to return to my hometown as soon as possible. I really want to go to South Africa to see how it is going there. If possible, I still want to implement my ideas back then, break through the east and west coasts of South Africa, completely eliminate the Kama Kingdom for many years, and continue to expand territory for the country." Major Yang Liang said with a smile.

On November 20, 1674, just when Yang Liang and Lan Fei and the other two were waiting a little impatiently in the port of Cadiz, several flute-shaped ships affiliated to the South China Sea Transportation Company also quietly sailed into Spain. They were here to pick up the ships that Lan Fei and others returned to China. At the same time as them, there were two merchant ships carrying Li Qing, the plenipotentiary of the East Coast Republic of China to Europe and a large number of escorts. They had just been expelled from Amsterdam by the Dutch, but the reason was not given, but Li Qing knew it was because the Dutch South Africa was attacked by the East Coast people, so he did not say much nonsense. He silently directed his subordinates to pack up the documents and items, and then boarded the ship and left the Netherlands, and came to Cadiz, Spain in a hurry.

"In the future, this city will be the office of our country's plenipotentiary envoy to Europe." After living in a relatively spacious and luxurious villa in the city, Li Qing, who looked a little poor, smiled bitterly and said to Lan. Yang and the other two: "Originally, I planned to move my lair to Smyrna or Istanbul in Ottoman, but it was too far and too far, so I set up my office to the Spaniards. However, the Dutch market has been lost, even if some of them were originally from the same place.

Our Republican merchants, who had a pretty good relationship, did not dare to trade openly after we sent troops to attack Poe Town, and could only live in secret, which undoubtedly greatly affected the trade. What was even more depressing is that after losing Dutch merchants, our markets in Sweden, North Germany, Brandenburg-Prussia and other places were basically out of reach. Even the markets in Livornia were abandoned because our merchant ships were inconvenient to enter. This loss was too great."
Chapter completed!