Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 425 Being dishonest is a beating

Naturally, it was impossible for Taichang to be fooled by these colonial robbers.

Robbers also talk about etiquette, it's a joke, only a fool would believe it!

Of course, he didn't ask people to come over to discuss etiquette.

Seeing that Yan Kun had stopped talking, he immediately asked coldly: "Your East India Company has such a big business, why is there less than 100 million taels of silver in the silver treasury? Tell me, have you dug some secret cellar?" , and hid the gold and silver!"

you!
Isn't it enough that you robbed our treasury?

Yan Kun subconsciously wanted to call this guy shameless.

However, when he saw the ferocious Jin Yiwei on both sides, he swallowed the curse again.

Alas, no way.

These guys are more fierce than them!

He could only helplessly explain: "Your Majesty, it's not that we hid the gold and silver. It's our East India Company's board of directors that stipulates that the overseas headquarters must ship back to the mainland if the silver deposit exceeds [-] catties."

And this rule?
This guy doesn't want to cheat anymore, does he?

Taichang asked coldly: "Really?"

Yan Kun nodded quickly and said, "Really, Your Majesty, there are handover records for these, you can order someone to check them!"

Well, it looks like it's true.

This guy should know that if there is no evidence, it will be another violent beating.

Moreover, this guy doesn't seem like a person who likes to be beaten.

Since he dared to say that, there should be a handover record.

These directors of the East India Company are really thieves!
Taichang thought for a while, and then asked: "What about your merchant ships? According to Gao Wenlu and Verhofen, your East India Company has more than 150 merchant ships in the Far East. Why are there only more than 20 here? Where are the other merchant ships going? gone?"

Gao Wenlu, Verhofen, you two useless things have been captured by others, and you have recruited everything!

Yan Kun couldn't help cursing secretly in his heart.

However, he quickly reacted again.

Wasn't he also captured by others?

Does he dare not recruit?
If you don't move, you will be beaten!

No way, he could only helplessly explain: "Your Majesty, our East India Company has more than 30 strongholds from the Far East to the European continent. Our merchant ships must transport goods between the various strongholds, and even transport the goods back to the mainland." Going to mainland Europe, so there are basically twenty or thirty merchant ships here."

More than 30 strongholds?

Taichang thought for a while, then asked, "Where are these strongholds? Where's the map?"

Alas, I can't help it, I'm afraid of you, okay.

Yan Kun could only honestly point to the bookshelf behind and said, "The map is in there, the one tied with the red string."

Taichang winked, and Cao Huachun quickly took out a scroll tied with a red string from the bookcase, and unfolded it respectfully in front of him.

He looked down, and sure enough, there were many red dots marked on it, and even the route was clearly marked.

As for the words above, he naturally couldn't understand them.

However, it doesn't matter, he can still understand the picture.

There are indeed more than 30 red dots on this map, from Southeast Asia to Ceylon to the Mughal Empire to Persia to the east and west coasts of Africa, all the way.

Very good, these strongholds of the East India Company belong to Ming Dynasty!

In the future, when the Ming Dynasty Western Firms took over these strongholds, they would basically be able to do business in Europe.

Other places can be slowed down first, he can't reach it yet.

There are a few near Batavia, they seem to be very good, so I will accept them first!
Taichang pretended to be curious: "How come there is still your stronghold near Batavia, can the people here still afford your things?"

This is not a stronghold for sales, is it?

Yan Kun could only explain helplessly: "These are the manors where we grow spices, pepper, rice, sugar cane and other things and the places where we collect wood, not the places where we sell goods."

The things planted in these places are all valuable and good things, and they are harvested every year, and there are quite a lot of wood on these islands. These are good places!
These places will belong to Daming in the future!

Taichang thought for a while, and then said calmly: "You write a letter of surrender, just write that the East India Company surrendered to Daming, and all the strongholds of the East India Company belong to Daming."

Ah!
Want to write a letter of surrender?
Can this book be written?

Write it and not be scolded to death!
Yan Kun hesitated for a moment, and then said cautiously: "It's useless if you write it down, few people will recognize it."

Oops, not being honest?

Taichang said coldly: "Whether it is useful or not is my business, you can just write it. If you write it, I will spare you from death. If you don't write it, I will order someone to drag you out and chop it up!"

There is still a chance of survival?
Yan Kun thought he was doomed.

Because they are too fierce, from the emperor to the generals are so fierce, dishonesty is a violent beating.

Can such a fierce person let him go, the governor?
He really didn't expect that he would still have a chance to survive.

real or fake?

He couldn't help but said hopefully, "Your Majesty, you won't lie to me, will you?"

Why did I lie to you?
You have been caught, can you still turn the world upside down?
Taichang said indifferently: "You are not joking."

Are you kidding me?

What do you mean?
Yan Kun couldn't help but looked at Tong Tong next to him with a puzzled face.

Natong immediately explained: "Our emperor said that he would not kill you if he said he would not kill you. This is just a joke."

Well, I can only believe it.

It's better to have hope than no hope.

Yan Kun gritted his teeth, then nodded and said, "Okay, I'll write, I hope His Majesty the Emperor will not lie to me."

Hearing this, Taichang pointed to the quill pen, ink bottle and letter paper on the desk, then pointed to the small table opposite, and confessed: "Take them and let him write right away."

Jin Yiwei next to him quickly moved the things on the desk to the small table.

Yan Kun bent down, picked up the quill, thought for a while, and simply asked, "Your Majesty, how do you write this letter of surrender?"

Taichang said indifferently: "How to write as simple as possible, you don't need to write too complicated, and you don't need to write too specific, don't you know this?"

Well, that's what you said.

Yan Kun is also unambiguous, picking up a pen is just brushing and writing.

Taichang waited for him to finish writing, then pouted at the Tongshi next to him, and said flatly: "Read."

The officer next to him quickly stepped forward to pick up the letter of surrender written by Yan Kun, and read aloud: "The letter of surrender, the Dutch East India Company surrendered to the Ming Empire, and all overseas strongholds of the Dutch East India Company belonged to the Ming Empire. Governor, Yan Kun. Peterson Quinn."

Is such a simple book useful?
If it is in the hands of others, it is naturally a joke, and it is useless at all.

This thing is different in the hands of the Ming Emperor.

Because he has powerful force in his hands!

When this thing is in his hands, it is a voucher, a voucher for receiving all overseas strongholds of the Dutch East India Company!

Of course, he can forcefully "accept" even without a certificate.

However, in that case, not only would the people of the Dutch East India Company resist, but the ownership of those strongholds would also be disputed in the future.

It would be troublesome if the local indigenous countries insisted that these strongholds were originally their territory.

In particular, there are many indigenous countries in the Far East that were originally vassal states of Ming Dynasty.

If the Ming Dynasty robbed the territories of the vassal states, it would be even worse to hear the news.

This thing is a certificate. Daming snatched these strongholds back from the Dutch East India Company, and these strongholds will belong to Daming in the future!

In short, it doesn't matter whether people recognize it or not, all he needs is a certificate.

It proves that Ming defeated the Dutch East India Company and snatched these strongholds. It was not some kind of bullying the weak, or even robbing its own country.

Sometimes, this reputation still needs to be paid attention to.

Anyway, it doesn't take much effort to drop the letter, so don't let it go for nothing!
Taichang accepted the letter of surrender, and couldn't help but smile slightly: "Well, it's good that you know how to cooperate."

Do I dare not cooperate?

If you don't cooperate, you will be beaten!

Yan Kun said helplessly: "Your Majesty, what you just said, I wrote it, so you won't kill me, won't you lie to me?"

Do I have to lie to you?
Taichang waved his hand directly and said: "Okay, put him down first, so that he can take care of him, and give him some delicious food, maybe, we will need it later."

(End of this chapter)