Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 560

More than ten miles north of New Amsterdam, west of Long Island Sound, there is a small harbor.

The Dutch built a temporary pier here, and Da Ming built a huge pergola about three miles away from the pier.

The two parties agreed that each side would send three negotiators, three translators and one hundred guards to negotiate in the permeable pergola all around.

This morning, the wind was sunny, the sky was cloudless, the breeze was blowing, the waves were softly ringing, and the flowers, plants and trees were swaying and dancing slowly with the breeze. It was really pleasant to sit in the pergola and enjoy the beautiful scenery.

However, Lu Xiangsheng, Zhang Zhiji, and Xu Yunzhen had just sat down at one side of the negotiating table, and before they had time to appreciate the beautiful scenery, Peter Minuit, the governor of the Dutch West India Company, began to spoil the scenery.

He stood up directly and said with a serious face: "On behalf of the Anti-Habsburg Alliance, I solemnly protest your country's invasion of our colonies in the Netherlands and England. We hope that you can immediately cease fighting and withdraw from all occupations immediately. colony."

Are you sick?

Who is the intruder? Aren't you a thief calling for a thief?

Lu Xiangsheng rolled his eyes directly after hearing the translation.

He had heard this once, and he was really too lazy to talk to these shameless people.

But Zhang Zhiji said seriously: "This is the territory of the Indian tribe, and the Indian tribe is the descendant of our Ming Dynasty. We are helping the Indian tribe to take back the territory, and you are the invaders."

European colonists have done this kind of shameless thing a lot, and they don't care what others say.

They never make sense, they only talk about the law of the jungle.

Minuit still had a serious face and said: "I'm afraid you don't know how powerful our anti-Habsburg alliance is? Tell you, France, England, Sweden, Denmark and more than a dozen European powers are our anti-Habsburg alliance. Members of the Habsburg League, if you do not withdraw from the occupied colonies, you are declaring war on our anti-Habsburg League."

Oh, oh, who are you scaring?
There are more than a dozen powerful European countries, how big is the place, and how many people are there?

We didn’t want to scare you, so we took out the map, in case you would pee your pants in fright, the territory of Ming Dynasty is several times that of Europe!
Xu Yunzhen couldn't help but replied: "Why declare war and not declare war? Are you here to declare war or to negotiate?"

As if he didn't hear what others said, Minuit suddenly pointed to the proud young man in the middle and introduced: "This is the Governor of New France, Prince Condé, Louis II, de Bourbon."

The prince is already a top aristocrat in Europe. If a European sees him, even if he doesn't show respect, he should show some respect.

Unfortunately, in the eyes of the people of the Ming Empire, a Prince of Europe is nothing.

Isn't he just a French prince? In the whole of France, we don't have the Nanyang government envoy. Do you know how big our British government is?
A little son of a vassal king, what a fart!

Zhang Zhiji did not scoff out of politeness.

Lu Xiangsheng's face was like a sculpture, he didn't react at all, and Xu Yunzhen acted as if he didn't hear.

Minuit then pointed to the middle-aged man with a pitted face at the end and introduced: "This is the Governor of New England, Earl Black."

This time, Lu Xiangsheng took a look at him.

What he meant probably was that you could run fast, otherwise, you would have already been digging coal in Dongqi country right now!

The pull of these two French and British bigwigs didn't have any effect?

I'm afraid these guys really don't know how powerful the anti-Habsburg alliance is.

Minuit then introduced arrogantly: "You really don't know how powerful our anti-Habsburg alliance is? Let me tell you, our anti-Habsburg alliance has hundreds of ships and gunboats." , thousands of warships, and millions of troops."

It's not illegal to brag, is it?

Who are you scaring?
Zhang Zhiji thought for a while, and simply took the opportunity to "reveal" and said: "You don't need to introduce these, we are allies with the Habsburg Dynasty, do you know the strength of your anti-Habsburg alliance?"

Uh, this is indeed true.

Because at the moment the king of Spain is bragging everywhere that they have formed an alliance with the Ming Empire in the Far East.

Well, it seems that just verbal intimidation is useless, and something else needs to be done.

Minuit thought for a while, and then threatened: "We have sent the fleet back to Europe to gather reinforcements. If you don't withdraw from all the colonies you have occupied, you will face the wrath of the anti-Habsburg alliance. Tell you , the French Lu family alone has more than 30, and the equipment is much better than yours, if you don't retreat, you may not be able to bear the consequences."

At this time, Prince Kong Dai nodded his proud head a little, as a cooperation.

You fucker, just hit and hit, bluffing, who are you scaring?
30 horses are nothing!
Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help snorting coldly: "You can come and try."

Uh, stay calm, stay calm, stay calm.

Zhang Zhiji hurriedly gestured to Lu Xiangsheng, then pretended to hesitate for a while, and then pretended to be embarrassed: "Well, it's not that we don't want to retreat, the main reason is that Spain paid me a big price. If we retreat, The loss is too great."

Minuit couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this.

It seems that the King of Spain is not bragging!
The Ming Empire was really invited to help.

Some kind of agreement must have been signed between the Ming Empire and Spain, and Spain must have paid a high price to invite him here.

What to do now?
Minuit didn't know who gave money to whom and who gave who to whom in the Ming Empire or Spain.

He only knew that Spain ruled by the Habsburg dynasty was their main opponent, otherwise, how could they call the anti-Habsburg alliance.

They are not an anti-Ming Empire alliance.

It's better for them not to provoke this powerful force in the Far East.

Of course he knew what happened to the East India Company. The strength of the Ming Empire was not ordinary, and it was really not wise to provoke such a powerful enemy.

Didn’t Spain invite the Ming Empire here because they hoped that they would fight against the Habsburg alliance and fight the Ming Empire so as to gain profits?

No, you can't be fooled by Spain, you have to find a way to fool the Ming Empire back.

Thinking of this, Minuit sat down slowly and whispered to Prince Condé beside him.

The official of the Ministry of Rites really doesn't know which language they are talking about.

Of course, even if they knew which language it was, they would not be able to hear it clearly if they deliberately lowered their voices.

The two discussed in low voices for a while, and then Minuit calmly said: "It seems that we have misunderstood, you have been fooled by Spain, you know? We can't work hard here to benefit Spain!"

Hahahaha, this idiot was fooled.

Can we be fooled by Spain?
Spain is right to be fooled by us.

Now, you too are fooled!
Zhang Zhiji and Xu Yunzhen looked at each other, and they were both happy.

On the surface, Zhang Zhiji was still full of doubts: "We can't do anything about it, the price offered by Spain is too high, and His Majesty the Emperor agrees to send troops to help. It is very unlikely to retreat."

How much did Spain pay for it? It even fooled the Ming Empire from the Far East.

When Minuit heard this, he couldn't help asking curiously: "What price did they offer, can you reveal it?"

Zhang Zhiji looked at Xu Yunzhen pretending to be embarrassed,
This means, I said tired, it's your turn.

Xu Yunzhen pretended to hesitate for a while, and then made a confession: "We have signed an agreement with Spain, and they will provide us with 1000 million catties of rubber, 1000 million catties of pure copper, 1000 million catties of iron ore, 2000 million stones of grain, and 200 million taels of food every year. Silver and two million taels of gold."

After listening to the translation, Minuit couldn't help asking: "What is rubber, what does catty mean, what does stone mean, and what does two mean?"

The translator thought for a while, and then explained: "The soles of the shoes they wear are made of rubber, which are said to be very expensive. Jin is a unit of weight in the Ming Empire, which is similar to a pound. A catty can be a little more than a pound. Shi is also a Ming A unit of weight in the empire, one stone is equivalent to about two hundred pounds. Two seems to be a unit of weight below the catty, like ten taels or 16 taels per catty."

When Minuit heard that, his eyes almost popped out.

Ten million pounds of rubber, 1000 million pounds of pure copper, 1000 million pounds of iron ore, 20 million pounds of grain, 200 million pounds of silver, and 20 pounds of gold every year!

Buying cakes, Spain paid such a high price to ask the Ming Empire to take action!

No wonder the emperor of the Ming Empire couldn't resist this temptation.

No one can resist such a big temptation!
How did he know that the first seven points of Xu Yunzhen's words were true, and the last three points were false!

(End of this chapter)