In short, it is a sentence "I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to cross this road, leave the money to buy the road!" ”

Really!

The officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs thought that this minister was worthy of the true character of an old pirate, and listened to him say chiguo: "Just give money!" ”

When the southeast country was still the southeast province, it controlled the waters of Taiwan, and this excellent position, coupled with the fleet of the southeast province, forced all the red-haired countries to pay the "water guide" when they passed by, and the big ship was 3,000 taels of silver a year, that is, the annual fee, road money, and sea tax.

This is also the blood capital of the southeast!

After the southeastern country took control of Southeast Asia, the Hongmaofan merchant ships in the waters east of the Strait of Malacca were properly diverted.

Now, after the southeast country entered the Indian Ocean, Yang Tiansheng waved his hand and said: "We are a reasonable country, we do not charge any fees for merchant ships in African waters, but we have to hand over the waters of the Indian Ocean north of Somalia to the water!" ”

"One less child won't work!" Yang Tiansheng ignored those red-haired fans and looked devouring, and didn't care about the authenticity!

"Scared!"

If the waters east of the Strait of Malacca are the world of the Chinese, it is barely reasonable, and many countries west of the Strait of Malacca are at most trading partners of the southeast, but the red-haired boats have to pay taxes on the sea route to those countries!

"What? Not convinced? Yang Tiansheng said hesitantly: "If you are not convinced, you will fight!" ”

Mr. Karl, the Dutchman, blushed with anger and tried to say something hard, but he stopped abruptly.

That's right, Hongmaofan's maritime strength is very strong, but after an Africa, the labor expedition, the previous big war, can not be won, and can no longer be continued.

Mr. John Lonsdale, an Englishman, argued with him: "We Englishmen have always cooperated with you and have been friendly with you, and we have exported to you a great quantity of goods that you urgently need, and we have been working well with you! ”

He is playing the friendship card, Yang Tiansheng said indifferently: "It was good before, but you bombarded our Rising Sun City, and this relationship was cut off by your own hands!" ”

His hard-nosed attitude and arrogance of coming to war if he is not convinced cannot be talked about at all.

Mr. Paul Mister, a Portuguese, gave everyone a look and said, "Minister Yang, let us retire and discuss!" ”

"Well said!" Yang Tiansheng said lazily: "The deadline is one week, everyone can talk about it, and if they can't talk about it, they will pull it down!" ”

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Those red-haired fans left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and immediately went around looking for connections to try to settle the matter.

The trick is to make a way with silver!

Most of them are Ming Guotong, and they know that Ming officials like silver very much, as long as they have silver, everything is easy to talk about, and the southeast country and the Ming country are both Chinese, and they should have the same nature.

After the contact with them, officials from all walks of life shook their heads, and no one dared to accept their money or their requests, and went to Guan to talk about the matter.

"Now that our southeast country has set up a National Supervision Commission, which is in charge of officials, the director is the Prime Minister Chen Xinji, this master is the sixth family who does not recognize it, no one is afraid, even the leader gives him three points, who dares to take your silver!" A familiar official said.

Another official said: "Then Yang Tiansheng is a hob meat, a pirate head, who dares to provoke him?!" ”

The red-haired fans don't believe that there are cats in this world that don't eat fish, and they want to use money to smash Yang Tiansheng, but after inquiring, His Excellency Minister Yang is actually a model of clean government!

He used to be the Minister of Construction, you know, the project is shiny, and it is best to get tired, but Chen Zhen checks him every year, and he really can't find out the problem at all, Yang Tiansheng pays for everything, and he drinks tea, office furniture, food, and official attendance...... It's all out by himself, he hasn't made reimbursements, and he never eats invitations, he invites others, and no one else invites him!

There are such officials in this world!

Hongmaofan was active for three days, but found nothing, and finally returned to the negotiating table.

This time, I won't say anything, only bargaining.

"A boat costs six thousand silver dollars a year, which is too expensive!"

"Yes, yes, it's so expensive, and you have to pay taxes when you enter the port, how can such a business be done?"

"If you can't do business, if you don't have a ship, you won't have any income, everyone is not good!"

"Win-win, win-win!"

"Price reduction! Price! ”

"Two thousand silver dollars a year for a boat is the most suitable!"

……

The red-haired fans made their demands, and Yang Tiansheng laughed and said: "One price, 6,000 silver dollars!" ”

To put it mildly, Hongmao Fan even put out strong evidence, Mr. Carl and Yang Tiansheng calculated, the annual fee was 6000, 5000, 4000, 3000, 2000 silver dollars when everyone's gains and losses, after his calculation, he thought it was better to set at 3000 silver dollars.

"It's not that the higher the income, the better, we are now the main transporter, the fee is too high, we will lose money, we can only transport the most valuable goods, we can only give ......up the other goods," said Mr. Carr.

It involves a problem of marginal cost, and also involves the problem of our transportation capacity, but it is said to Yang Tiansheng's heart.

The southeastern country has developed shipping, but the population is still small, and the policy set by the state is that we will not engage in ocean trade, that is, we will not transport to the West, nor will we conquer the Americas.

In a word, the ocean is too big, and shipping is too slow.

As long as Europe is captured by the Chinese, the Americas are also the dishes in the Chinese pot, and they can't escape!

The negotiations between the two sides continued, with the participation of officials from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and finally reached an agreement, the "Friendly Trade Agreement between the Southeast and the East India Company of the Other Countries", which mainly stipulates:

1. Charging an annual fee of 3,500 silver dollars, the southeastern country gets a piece of land in Mogadishu, Somalia, where various countries handle water diversion, pay annual fees, get the order flag, and unimpeded in the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, and Daming;

The countries here refer to the Netherlands, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, and later the East India Company of the Holy Roman Empire, Sweden, Denmark, and other countries.

2. Ships of various countries carrying goods entering the port shall be subject to customs duties in accordance with the law;

3. When the ships of the law-abiding and tax-paying countries are in the relevant sea areas, the southeast country and the Ming Dynasty shall give national treatment.

This is very important, for example, when a ship arrives at the port, there is no question of who has priority, otherwise the ships of various countries will be ballasted or cannot enter the port to load and unload, and there may be losses.

For the sake of money, we should give people national treatment.

Fourth, the southeastern countries, the Ming Dynasty and their trading countries all open their ports, and each country sets up consulates in the Rising Sun City, which is responsible for dealing with diplomatic and commercial matters, and exercises territorial jurisdiction, that is, obeys local laws.

Each country may set up a merchant house in an open port, but shall not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, otherwise compensation will be given and the merchant house shall be cancelled.

5. All countries respect the sphere of influence of the Chinese in the East, including the Ming Dynasty, Southeast Asia, India, Persia and other places.

In the same way, the Chinese should respect the interests of Europeans in Africa.

The two sides agreed to non-aggression against each other!

6. All countries may set up churches in the southeastern country and in the city where the consulate of the Ming Dynasty is located, but religion is not allowed to leave the church, and it is not allowed to go to the street to solicit people, that is, it is not allowed to spread freely.

7. The southeastern country and other countries jointly crack down on piracy and ensure the safety of maritime routes.

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There is also a supplementary agreement, the International Convention on Maritime Salvage.