1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 1566
For media industries such as newspapers, good news is good if it catches readers' attention. As for whether the news content is a national event or folk gossip, that's secondary.Non-governmental newspapers such as "Sanya Express" basically publish whatever news is exciting, and it's not that there are goofy stories such as "Little San Poisons His Original Spouse" on the front page.If the news content is horrifying and exciting, if this issue of the newspaper sells [-] more copies, the income of the newspaper will naturally increase. Therefore, the editor-in-chief Xu Zhengye did not refuse Xun Pengcheng's request to increase the coverage of the report.

Although he didn't know what happened at the gate of Victory Fort, seeing Xun Pengcheng's excited face, Xu Zhengye thought that maybe there was something to be done about it.What's more, Xun Pengcheng's writing style is not bad, and giving him a room to develop may also be a surprise.

Xun Pengcheng returned to his seat, prepared paper, pen and ink, sorted out the manuscript he had typed earlier, and then began to write vigorously.Regarding the incident that he witnessed just now, Xun Pengcheng thought that it could be edited, and then it would be a popular article that could attract readers.

In Victory Fort, which is only one mile away from the newspaper office, Luo Hong, the emissary of Matalan, finally achieved the initial purpose of this risky move, and was jointly received by several senior officials of the Haihan Executive Committee, including Tao Dong. come inside.

"About the arms sales, the Executive Committee still needs to hold a meeting to study it. If you do this, you are embarrassing our country!" Tao Donglai sighed: "You have made such a big commotion, and the Dutch may hear the news soon. I'll be looking for it too."

Luo Hong was very calm, and did not panic because of Tao Donglai's complaint: "My lord, please forgive me. I can only think of this way to show the sincerity of our country. I also know that your country has relevant diplomatic relations with the Dutch. Agreements must be followed, but rules are dead and people are alive, agreements signed in the past may not be suitable for today's situation, if they have become outdated, then it is only natural to re-establish the rules."

Luo Hong chose this radical method in order to express his true thoughts after meeting the senior officials of Haihan. He believed that the root cause of Haihan's reluctance to sell weapons and equipment was the damn agreement, and only by letting Haihan take the initiative Only by canceling this sales restriction agreement will Mata Ram be able to achieve its goal of purchasing arms.As for whether Haihan will sell the same type of weapons and equipment to the Dutch after the cancellation of the agreement, Luo Hong is not very worried-the Mata blue army has an absolute advantage in terms of military strength, and its financial resources are not intimidating to the other side. The Dutch won't take advantage of Haihan's equipment.

"Negotiation and formulation of diplomatic agreements cannot be completed overnight. It takes time. Moreover, it is inconvenient for us to tear up the agreement unilaterally. Prepare to side with any side. Especially with the unresolvable hatred between you, we can't just watch the war break out." Tao Donglai's sympathetic tone made Luo Hong almost believe that this was Haihan's true position up.

But Luo Hong also understands that the Haihan people are not as peace-loving as they appear on the surface. Their history of external expansion is almost a history of war, and every step of external expansion is accompanied by war.And I heard that the war between Annan and Siam in recent years was also instigated by Haihan.The so-called "partners" like the East India Company who were also included in Haihan's armament sales embargo, and the relationship is not very harmonious, how could Haihan worry about the resumption of war between the Netherlands and Matalam.

Before coming to Sanya, his uncle Laden had specifically told him not to believe too much in the so-called kindness released by the Haihan people: "The Haihan people are not as kind as they seem. The countries that have passed have failed without exception. So what they are best at is not doing business, but fighting! They are not even afraid of participating in wars themselves, so how can they mind wars between other countries?"

Therefore, Luo Hong will not easily listen to Tao Donglai's statement: "My lord, since you can negotiate with the Dutch to ban the sale of weapons and equipment to our country, is it true that as long as our country can provide more favorable conditions than the Dutch?" conditions, you can consider rescinding the agreement signed with them before?"

The agreement signed between Haihan and the Netherlands is not as simple as Luo Hong imagined. This is not an independent agreement, but a part of a series of cooperation agreements signed between Haihan and the Dutch East India Company.This package agreement included diplomacy, trade, politics and other aspects. Haihan made certain compromises and concessions to the East India Company in terms of arms sales, in exchange for the East India Company's commitment to the scope of activities in the Far East.Otherwise, the East India Company would not have honestly shrunk in the South China Sea in the past few years, and would not continue to develop colonies northward.

This kind of geopolitical quid pro quo cannot simply be calculated in terms of money. Haihan and the Netherlands are both countries that advocate maritime colonization. It is difficult for a third country to play a substitute role in this situation.Matalam is indeed a regional power in South Asia, but its influence on a wider scale is far inferior to that of the Netherlands, so when Haihan and the East India Company negotiated this agreement, there was no Considering the participation of Mata Lam.

Therefore, after Luo Hong proposed this condition, Tao Donglai and others looked at each other and smiled. Of course, they could not explain such a complicated international political transaction to Luo Hong, nor could they tell him about the transaction between Haihan and the Dutch East India Company. the entire content of .A few days ago, Yan Chujie showed Luo Hong the content of the agreement related to the general fire, which was already the limit of what he could do.But looking at the stubborn temper of the general Ma Dalan, it is obvious that if he does not get a satisfactory answer, it will be difficult to let this matter go.

"Of course the conditions can be renegotiated, but with all due respect, the content of the agreement signed between my country and the Netherlands is very complicated, and lifting the arms embargo will involve a lot of ramifications. Frankly speaking, this cannot be solved by the two loads of gold bricks shipped from your country. The problem." Tao Donglai said frankly to Luo Hong: "It's not a money problem, do you understand?"

At the same time, Dutch Minister Su Keyi also rushed to Fort Victory as quickly as possible after receiving the news.What he is most worried about now is not Haihan's cancellation of the arms sales ban, but his failure to take the initiative when the time comes.If you can't get ahead of Matalam, then the future security of Batavia will be in jeopardy again.

When the envoys of the two countries were discussing with the high-level officials of Haihan in Shengli Fort, the last article of this issue of "Sanya Express" was finally finalized. The original front page of the newspaper, and put his manuscript on top.

"Quickly typeset, let the printing factory print [-] more copies of this issue!" After Xu Zhengye ordered, the people in the newspaper office immediately became busy.

Printing [-] copies of newspapers is not a one-sentence matter, and immediately send someone to the printing factory to say hello first, so that the materials can be prepared in advance.The typesetting workers here have already arranged most of the layouts, and it will take another hour to arrange the last freshly baked front page article before sending it to printing.

"Editor-in-Chief, I have to count the reprint fee. It's fine if you forgot about the short article on Tofu Cube last time. This time it's the front page!" Xun Pengcheng, who was waiting beside him, hurriedly added.

"Do the math, haven't you written this down for you?" Xu Zhengye pointed to the memo pad in front of him. The latest item on it was indeed a record of Xun Pengcheng's front-page article on a certain day, month and year. Print five hundred copies.With just this typesetting, Xun Pengcheng will be able to earn about 30 yuan more when he settles the remuneration next time.

"Okay, then I'm off work if I'm free today!" Xun Pengcheng saw that this issue of the newspaper was going to be printed soon, and he thought he had nothing to do, so he planned to slip away early.

Xu Zhengye was also open-minded, waved his hands and said: "Go, go, remember to add two dishes for yourself tonight!"

At dinner that day, the latest issue of "Sanya Express" appeared in the hands of newsboys on the street, and the front-page news they yelled quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding people.

"Look, take a look, what is the reason why a certain country in Nanyang publicly sent two trucks of gold bricks today, the reporter of this newspaper revealed the secret!"

"Two carts of gold bricks fell from the sky, who will get it in the end, everyone, hurry up and buy a newspaper to read!"

"New ways to show off your wealth, gold bricks are here to block the way! Are you ready to pick up money?"

The newsboys came up with unique tricks to attract customers by yelling, and the incident that happened outside the Fort Victory this morning was quickly spread through the newspapers.Some teahouses with storytellers stationed here specially bought newspapers and arranged for the storytellers to tell the new news first.

Victory Fort got the news not much later than the outside world. Tao Donglai and others had just sent Luo Hong and Su Keyi away after exhausting their words, when someone sent this newspaper that published the incident.

"These paparazzi have a very keen sense of smell!" Tao Donglai quickly glanced at the article on the front page, and couldn't help sighing: "Look, this article says that the Mata blue people came to Sanya with a large amount of gold just to pay their respects. It is no secret that our country wants to buy weapons, and the arms business is now really no secret."

The attitude shown in this article in the newspaper is obviously supportive of arms export, thinking that since there is an extremely strong market demand and people are coming to their door with gold bricks, then Haihan should seize this opportunity and take advantage of it. The arms trade earns revenue to fill the treasury.But why this kind of appeal was not approved by Haihan? The author of the article guessed that it was a problem with the coordination of interests between various official departments. Some people did not want this arms deal to be negotiated, so they forced Ma Dalan The gold bricks can only be transported to the gate of Fort Victory to show their sincerity in purchasing arms and equipment.

"How did this reporter find out about it? Could it be that Luo Hong let the news out before he came today, deliberately wanting to take us into the army?" Yan Chujie was a little unhappy after reading the newspaper, although the report in the newspaper did not There is not enough power to influence the decision of the Executive Committee, but it is unpleasant to have this kind of national political affairs exposed by a gossip newspaper. Yan Chujie first thought of the possibility that Luo Hong would actively hype it up.

"It shouldn't be possible." Ning Qi retorted: "I think Luo Hong is straightforward when he speaks and does things. He may not be able to have such a mind. Moreover, he has only been in Sanya for a few days, and he can talk to the local newspaper so quickly. Take the line, unless he has planned this step before he comes. But you have all seen him, do you think he is as deep as the city?"

"He may not be able to figure out such an idea, but the people under him may not be. In this kind of mission, there will always be a few think tanks full of bad ideas." Yan Chujie still insisted that this matter might have something to do with it. Luo Hong related: "Besides, this kind of tabloids are always interested in money. People in Matalan throw some money over, and here they write a gun article to promote them. Isn't this a very reasonable situation?"

Schneider, who was sitting next to him, ended the debate: "Is it not easy to be behind the Matalan people? Call He Xi immediately and ask him to check the newspaper and the reporter who wrote the article. Is it over?"

Indeed, it would be unwise to waste time guessing the truth at such a time. If the Ministry of Security dispatches personnel to investigate the matter, the results will be available in an hour or two at most.Immediately, Tao Donglai called He Xi, explained the situation to him, and asked him to investigate immediately.

He Xi didn't expect that after investigating the leakage case related to the Dutch a few days ago, there would be another case related to the Dutch to be investigated so soon, and it was Tao Donglai who personally called to arrange the work.He Xi didn't dare to neglect, so Dang even called Xu Shiqi over and asked him to go to the newspaper office of "Sanya Express" immediately to investigate what was going on with today's front page article.

Xu Shiqi had never read the newspaper that He Xi mentioned at all. After accepting the task, he went to the street to buy a newspaper and read it. Only then did he realize that there was such a good show outside Victory Fort today.As for whether the articles in the newspapers are based on the advantages of the Matalan people to create momentum for them, or whether the reporters really have a good sense of smell, that can only be known by checking first.

Of course, Xu Shiqi would not rashly take radical measures such as closing down the newspaper, as that would not be of any benefit to the direction of public opinion in the future, and the superior did not explain his likes and dislikes of such remarks in the newspaper.So Xu Shiqi chose a very responsible investigation method, went to the location of the newspaper to find the editor-in-chief Xu Zhengye, and then revealed his identity and asked the other party to cooperate with the investigation.

Although they were all from the same family with the surname Xu, after Xu Zhengye saw the other party's ID card, he didn't have the slightest idea of ​​marrying, but felt a chill down his back.

(End of this chapter)