Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 129 Unfortunately, He Died

The agreement is signed, and the next step is to implement it.

After Jialong and others go back, they will send someone to send 250 million taels of silver, and then the new army will release the captives.

In order to confirm that the new army will not tamper with the captive issue, Garon must first make an exact statistics on the number of captives.

After thinking for a while, Tangning agreed to their request and sent someone to gather all the prisoners together.

Seeing the ragged and listless appearance of those Dutch prisoners, Jia Long and his party were very angry.

But they themselves knew that this was how captives were treated, and it was already very good that they were not directly sold as slaves.

After counting the quantity, it was not much different from the estimated quantity in their hearts. They were relatively satisfied with this, but they were not happy, but very angry.

Because they didn't see Le Maire, after asking about Tangning, Tangning replied, "Unfortunately, he died."

How can such a short answer not make them angry?
Le Maire is not an ordinary person. He is the governor of Formosa, the highest official of Formosa, and a person of extremely high status and status.

Can a simple sentence of death solve the problem?

"Mr. Maier has never worked before, so he is not used to it. Some time ago, when he was carrying a stone, he fell off the city wall and died."

Jia Long's face was ferocious, and he said angrily: "Mr. Tang, do you think a governor died like this, can you answer us with such an excuse?"

Tang Ning said with a serious expression, "You can't come back from the dead. Please feel sorry for me. I have severely punished the soldiers who guarded Mr. Maier that day, and held a grand funeral for Mr. Maier."

"I believe this funeral is worthy of Mr. Meyer's identity."

"If you want to take a look, I can take you there now."

Jia Long was obviously very dissatisfied with this answer, and he continued: "Mr. Tang, you didn't answer my doubts directly. I think there may be a conspiracy in it."

"Conspiracy?" Tangning's expression turned cold, and she said disdainfully, "Over a dozen people have died during this period. If those people can die, why can't Maier die? He is old and can't do things like others , I accidentally fell to my death, isn’t it normal?”

Jia Long took a step forward, tried his best to suppress his anger, and then asked in a low voice: "Did Le Maire leak something to you, and you killed him because you were afraid that we would find out."

Tangning didn't change her face, but sneered, "Hehe, I never expected that Mr. Maier would get such slander. You can make up any reason to frame me, I don't care."

"However, Mr. Meyer did his best for your Federal Republic of the Netherlands. He fought until the last moment before he was captured. He has my respect."

"Now that he is dead, he will be framed like this. I don't know if his soul can rest in peace."

Jia Long retorted: "I believe His Excellency Maier would rather die in Formosa, even if he died with his flagship at the bottom of the sea than he would die here."

"Of course, no one wants to die in a foreign land. If you don't want him to be buried here, I don't mind if you take his body away."

This is nonsense. On such a hot day, the corpses are rotten and smelly.Moreover, people have already been buried, and it is even more impossible to dig them out.

Jia Long just wanted to find out the real cause of Le Maire's death, but Tang Ning insisted that he accidentally fell to his death.

Jia Long himself knew that something had already happened. If Tang Ning didn't want to tell it, or made up a lie, he had no choice but to tear up the agreement just signed because of a dead Le Maire.

The group discussed hastily with extreme depression and anger, and then Jia Long came forward and said:
"In order to prevent the tragedy from happening again, I hope that Mr. Tang will not let them participate in dangerous labor from now on."

Tangning frowned slightly and pondered for a while before slowly nodding her head in agreement.

A dead senior officer can only be exchanged for such a preferential treatment.

In order to prevent any changes, Jialong immediately set off for Batavia to make the agreement come into effect as soon as possible, and then rescued the captives.

Tang Ning also stepped up his actions. He asked Cheng Gong to release the news to the Chaozhou Chamber of Commerce and the Huizhou Chamber of Commerce.

It means that the Chamber of Commerce has strengthened trade cooperation with the Portuguese and the Dutch, and a large amount of wood is needed to build large merchant ships.

There is a large amount of high-quality wood in Nanyang, and the door of Nanyang has been completely opened to the chamber of commerce. As long as you have a pass for the new army, you can go unimpeded.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a huge shock in Chaozhou Chamber of Commerce and Huizhou Chamber of Commerce.

Especially the Huizhou Chamber of Commerce, because it was established not long ago, it was very envious of the huge profits of the Chaozhou Chamber of Commerce, and now a big piece of cake is thrown at it, and some powerful members are immediately excited.

300 million taels of silver, this is 300 million taels of silver, even if the two chambers of commerce fight for it together, it will be very enviable.

Of course, members who do not have the strength to do timber business need not be discouraged.

Daming's products already have huge advantages, and now Mr. Tang has paved the way.

The Chamber of Commerce has launched in-depth cooperation with those Portuguese and Dutch, and the whole Nanyang and even further places have opened their doors to the Chaozhou Chamber of Commerce and the Huizhou Chamber of Commerce.

The volume of trade involved is unimaginable. As long as you have strength and product advantages, if you can't make money, you can only blame yourself for being too incompetent.

Although she was about to get 250 million taels from the Dutchman, Tangning still felt that the money was not enough and the expenses were too high.

Shipbuilding, gun-making, and cannon-making are all projects that require huge investment.

If you want to make money on your own, or support it through compensation, it will undoubtedly slow down the speed, and you will not be able to persist for a long time.

After all, it is impossible to find someone to fight a battle when you have no money to use, and let the other party pay compensation if you win. It is still impossible to be so arrogant.

Therefore, it was still necessary to think about other ways to make money. Tangning already had an idea from the moment she established the chamber of commerce.

Now that the chamber of commerce is booming, the time is ripe. Tangning thinks it's time to establish Daming's first stock exchange.

Not one, there should be two, namely Chaozhou Stock Exchange and Huizhou Stock Exchange.

The tradable shares came from Chaozhou Ocean Trading Company and Huizhou Ocean Trading Company, whose shares were officially issued to the public after the stock exchange was established.

In order to ensure the legality, fairness and safety of the transaction, only on-site transactions are supported now, that is, transactions can only be carried out on the stock exchange, and the stock exchange provides supervision and guarantee.

(End of this chapter)