Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 871 Harvest the Colony

In the late afternoon, negotiations resumed.

As soon as the negotiators of the two parties sat down, Zhang Zhiji asked directly: "How is it? How is your negotiation going?"

These guys even drank at noon!

The Duke of Richelieu smelled the strong smell of alcohol, looked at the blushing faces of these guys, and couldn't help but snorted secretly: "Hmph, you're already celebrating, okay, there will be a day for us to celebrate! "

However, on the surface, he pretended to hesitate and said: "We can pay compensation, but 650 million pounds of silver per year is a bit much, even if we can borrow 500 million pounds of silver from you every year, some countries cannot share such compensation.

For example, Bohemia, they simply can't afford nearly 20 pounds of silver, let alone nearly 20 pounds of silver per year.

Therefore, we hope that you can reduce the amount a little. 140 million pounds of silver a year is the limit we can make up. "

Hey, it's time to pretend to bargain.

If you want to buy more, the bargain price is less than half, which proves that you don't want to pay at all!
Alright, let's see what tricks you can come up with.

Zhang Zhiji pretended to ask, "General Oquindo, what do you think?"

What do you think?
Before I came, His Majesty the King didn't ask me to extort so much money, okay?

640 million pounds of silver a year, even if it is divided in half, it is 320 million pounds!
In 100 years, that would be [-] pounds of silver, which is worse than stealing money.

Our Majesty the King is probably overjoyed.

Oquindo nodded without hesitation and said, "I think it's okay."

Zhang Zhiji asked falsely again: "Yunzhen, what about you?"

Xu Yunzhen pretended to hesitate for a while, then nodded slightly and said: "All right, as long as they can pay the compensation on time."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhiji said solemnly: "Yes, you must pay the compensation on time every year.

Let's set a date, when do you think we can collect the first payment? "

Hey, you guys are really not ordinary fools, you still lend us 500 million pounds of silver a year.

At that time, as long as we convince the King of Spain, we will not pay 140 million pounds of silver every year, and earn more than 100 million pounds or even more than 200 million pounds of silver!

The Duke of Richelieu still pretended to hesitate and said: "It depends on when you can send us the 500 million pounds of silver on loan."

Oh, what does this mean, are you still eyeing the money we borrowed from the Daming Bank?

Very good, let's see how you have to ask for this ten thousand year account!
Zhang Zhiji pretended to estimate: "It will take time for us to raise money, half a year should be about the same."

You need time, we need time even more!

The Duke of Richelieu took advantage of the situation and said: "Don't be in such a hurry, it will take time for us to raise money.

Or we can postpone it a bit and set the date of compensation at the end of the year, that is, in December every year.

This way everyone has enough time to raise money, what do you think? "

This guy is obviously trying to delay time, this time actually doesn't matter, but I'm going to disgust you.

Zhang Zhiji pretended to frown and said, "No, December is too late, it's November every year."

Ugh, another month less.

Okay, I don't want to talk to you anymore.

Duke Richelieu pretended to hesitate for a moment, then gritted his teeth and nodded, "Okay, every November."

Zhang Zhiji pretended to ask Ao Kundo and Xu Yunzhen for their opinions, then slowly nodded and said: "That's fine, we can make an agreement, every November, if you dare to overdue, don't blame me We're welcome."

The Duke of Richelieu pretended to promise: "Don't worry, as long as your Daming Bank can deliver the loaned money on time, we will definitely pay you on time."

Okay, it seems that you think you can overthrow our Ming Empire, so it doesn't matter.

It's useless to say anything at this time, when the time comes, just one word, do it!

Do it until you take it.

Zhang Zhiji nodded slowly and said: "Okay, let's settle the matter of compensation first.

Next, let's talk about land cession. "

You really think that we are settled, and you have to cede the land after asking for so much compensation!
The Duke of Richelieu was quite reluctant and said: "Let's forget about the cession of the land. The money we paid is enough to buy half of the earth. You still want us to cede the land?"

Zhang Zhiji shook his head again and again and said, "Ceding land and paying compensation are two different things.

The indemnity is that you pay us for our losses, not a punishment for defeat.

Land cession is the punishment for defeat.

Do you think that you don't have to pay a price for starting a war casually? "

Haven't we paid enough on the surface?
There is no way, I can't do it now, so I can only swallow my anger first.

The Duke of Richelieu said helplessly: "You first talk about what land you want us to cede, and we can discuss it later, okay?"

Zhang Zhiji looked at Xu Yunzhen straightforwardly, as if Xu Yunzhen was responsible for the land cession.

In fact, what he meant was that when I said I was tired, it was your turn.

Xu Yunzhen could only pretend to be serious, and said solemnly: "First of all, all your overseas colonies must be ceded to us."

You are the first!

The Duke of Richelieu was so angry that he didn't want to speak.

He looked at Moritz very simply.

Because the anti-Habsburg alliance has the most overseas colonies in the Netherlands at this moment, like them France and the United Kingdom, they have just begun to develop overseas colonies.

Moreover, the North American colonies they opened up have been taken away by the Ming Empire, and now they don't have many colonies overseas, and only so many are ceded out.

The Netherlands is different. They are the overlords of the sea, and they are frantically expanding their colonies right now.

Although the colonies in the Far East and North America were taken over by the Ming Empire, they made up for it in Africa. At this moment, the Netherlands has many colonies in Africa.

Moritz actually didn't care about the African colonies at the moment, because their land was occupied by the Ming Empire.

At the moment, he is only thinking about how to take back the mainland.

He thought for a while, then simply gritted his teeth and said, "As long as your Ming Empire can return the Netherlands to us, we are willing to cede all the overseas colonies to you."

You think well.

The Netherlands is still very useful. This is the bargaining chip we exchanged with Spain for Lisbon, and it is also a chess piece that creates a gap between you and Spain. Can we return it to you?

Xu Yunzhen shook her head without hesitation and said: "No, the Netherlands was originally the territory of Spain. Our emperor decided to return it to Spain and you. That is impossible."

You are too much!

When Moritz heard this, the grief and indignation in his heart could not be expressed in words.

This is the land they depend on for survival, and the Ming Empire wants to return it to Spain!

He couldn't help but angrily said: "You Ming Empire wants to kill them all, right?
Without land, how will our five or six million people live? "

Xu Yunzhen replied coldly: "Pay attention to your tone of voice.

How do you live, does it have anything to do with us?
When you colonized the world, did you ever think about how the people in the countries you colonized lived?
Also, when you were madly selling black slaves, did you ever think about how those black people lived?
This time you took the initiative to provoke us, okay?
If you lose, you ask how we live?
If you win, will you care how we live? "

This!
Moritz was so stunned that he was speechless.

Oh, don't be angry.

After these few years, we won everything back. Why are you angry with others?
If you piss people off, you will be in big trouble.

Seeing this, Richelieu quickly reconciled politely: "Everyone, don't get excited, everything is easy to discuss, right?
Your Great Ming Empire has won the battle, but there must be a way for people to survive, right?

If the Dutch are dead, how will you pay your indemnity?

Or, you can set aside a piece of land for them, so that they can make money to pay compensation, do you think it will work? "

All right, the rabbit is going to bite people in a hurry, and it can't drive people to a corner right now.

Hearing this, Xu Yunzhen pretended to ask for opinions from Ao Kundo and Zhang Zhiji, then nodded slightly and said: "Our Ming Empire is a state of benevolence and righteousness, so naturally we will not send people to extremities like you gang of colonial bandits. Forced on the road.

All right, we'll set aside a space for them to come out.

Come on, get on the map. "

Soon, a general of the Shenji Battalion came over with a roll of maps and spread them out on the negotiating table.

My goodness, what a beautiful map!

When the representatives of the anti-Habsburg alliance saw the map drawn by the Ming Empire, they couldn't help but secretly marvel.

Although they can't understand the square text on it, they can understand the rivers, mountains, islands, etc. on this map, as well as the countries with interlaced colors, which look really beautiful.

In fact, this map is printed. If it is hand-painted, the words on it will not be so regular.

This is the latest version of the world map printed by Daming, which is sold by Daming Western Company, and there is no secret on it, so Xu Yunzhen did not hesitate to ask people to take it out.

He pretended to stare at the map for a while, then pointed to the southernmost tip of Africa and said, "This place seems to be called Cape Town Colony, and its area may be ten times larger than your mainland Netherlands.

How about leaving this colony to you? "

We want to go back to the Netherlands!

The problem is that people will not give it.

All right, this Cape Town colony still has gold mines anyway, and the geographical location is quite good. Let's take people there to develop well and wait for the counterattack.

Moritz could only nod helplessly and said, "Okay."

He didn't want to say a word.

Xu Yunzhen continued to ask: "The other colonies are ceded to us, do you have any opinions?"

We have opinions, but we are too lazy to talk to you now.

Duke Richelieu nodded slowly and said, "Okay, that's all about the land cession, is there nothing else?"

There is more to come.

Xu Yunzhen pointed to the map again and said: "Also, you Tsarist Russia secretly invaded the land of our Ming Empire, do you think we don't know?"

Uh, how to say it came to us.

Tsarist Russia is not good at the moment, and at the moment they are only at the second-rate level in continental Europe, not comparable to traditional European powers such as Britain and France, they are about the same strength as Denmark, and not comparable to Sweden.

In front of the mighty Ming Empire, they are at the level of little ones!
The representative of Tsarist Russia couldn't help asking cautiously after hearing the words: "It seems that we didn't hit your Ming Empire?"

Xu Yunzhen said coldly: "You don't have any?

The Northern Yuan Empire was defeated by our Ming Dynasty, and their territory is naturally our territory.

Right now we are clearing up the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. If you go to seize their land, isn't it equivalent to seizing the territory of our Ming Empire? "

Uh, can this be counted like this?

There is no way, the Ming Empire is too powerful, if it really provokes people, Tsarist Russia will be in danger of subjugation.

The representative of Tsarist Russia could only swallow his anger and said: "We don't know this, we really have no intention of offending the Ming Empire."

You don't mean to offend the Ming Empire, right? That's fine.

Pointing at the map, Xu Yunzhen said solemnly: "If you don't want to start a war with the Ming Empire, you should just retreat to the west of the Ural Mountains. If you dare to expand eastward secretly, then don't blame us for being rude."

Alas, well, in fact, they have established some strongholds east of the Ural Mountains at this moment, and they have not completely annexed these places.

Besides, they only need to endure it for a few years. When the time comes to defeat the Ming Empire, they will even go to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. It is nothing to withdraw a few colonial strongholds.

The representative of Tsarist Russia hesitated for a moment, but still gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay, let's retreat to the west of the Ural Mountains as soon as possible."

It's almost there!
(End of this chapter)