What Yang Zhao said is also true, the gem and spice business on the island of Ceylon is monopolized by the Middle East and Persians, and all the gem trading needs to go through them.

Some merchants of the Ming Dynasty wanted to buy gems at a lower price and came to the Koti Kingdom, but not only did they not receive due courtesy, but they were also maliciously blackmailed and blackmailed by the people of the Koti Kingdom.

This made the Ming merchant very angry.

The Middle Easterners and Persians were all merchants, and they were very shrewd, knowing that the Ming people liked the gems here in Ceylon, so when the things that were originally worthless came into their hands, and when they were sold to the Ming people, the price increased many times.

Although there are still very considerable profits from bringing back Daming, they are all businessmen, who doesn't want to make high profits?

What's more, the really top quality gems are in the hands of Persians and Middle Easterners, and they will not be sold to you easily, and even if they are sold to you, the price is very high.

This has seriously damaged the interests of Ming merchants.

This is also an important reason why Hu Xian chose Ceylon as the first target.

On the Western side, the interests of the Ming merchants are not guaranteed, and people from many countries maliciously extort the Ming merchants, they feel that the Ming people are easy to bully, and they have always been afraid of right and wrong, plus this is far away from the Ming Dynasty, and the merchant ships of the Ming merchants lack strong armed forces.

On the Western side, Ming merchants are synonymous with being rich and easy to bully.

The Middle Easterners and Persians, because they have always been open and clawed, few people dare to trouble them.

"This..."

Hearing Yang Zhao's words, Vero suddenly didn't know how to answer.

He knew that.

The Ming people are weak and can be bullied, which is also everyone's consistent impression.

When Zhenghe arrived on the island of Ceylon from the Western Ocean, the Sinhalese coveted the wealth on the treasure ship and sent people to attack Zheng He's fleet, but Zheng He's 2,000 men broke through the royal capital and captured the king and many concubines and princes to the Ming Dynasty.

It stands to reason that this should let them know how powerful the Ming is, so that they don't dare to embarrass and snub the Ming people.

But in fact, on the contrary, because Emperor Yongle took pity on the king, not only did he not kill the king and his family, but also fed and drank well, and finally returned to Ceylon with the fleet.

It's simply incredible.

Because logically speaking, for such a person, it should be killed cleanly.

However, the Ming people repaid their grievances with virtue, and they did not kill them, but waited for them to come back with good food and drink, which made the Sinhalese people on the island of Ceylon think that although the Ming was powerful, they were like elephants.

It's very gentle, as long as they don't really anger the elephant, they are fine, but they can ride on the elephant's head and make a threat.

In the final analysis, it is actually that simple truth, fear of power but not virtue!

If they hadn't been beaten hard, they wouldn't have known what they were afraid of.

Even they will think that you are a good person, and good people are the object of bullying, even though you are very big and powerful.

But elephants are also big and powerful, but people are not afraid of elephants, only tigers and wolves.

On the one hand, the people of the West and Nanyang are in awe of the Ming court, and tribute is also a common thing, but on the other hand, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty often try their best to extort.

Because they know very well that the Ming court will not stand out for businessmen, and the Ming people are so happy, which can be seen from the tribute.

Who knows, now there is a Daming Western United Commercial Bank that has come out, and it is so arrogant to come over and question himself.

If it weren't for the ease with which you swept away the cities of the Middle Easterners and Persians, Vero would have wanted to kill the Ming man in front of him right now.

"It's not that we don't want to sell gems to you Ming merchants, but that the Middle Easterners and Persians have united to force us not to sell gems and spices to anyone but them."

"As for the extortion of the Ming merchants, this must be a misunderstanding, and I will definitely find out and severely punish them."

After thinking about it, Vero also replied.

This Ming person is not good, so it's better not to provoke it first.

They can easily capture the Lion City and Dharan City, and naturally they can easily capture the Galle City, the Ming people are strong, and he has already heard of it.

I heard that on the side of Nanyang, the army of the Ming court destroyed several countries one after another, and even a powerful country like Siam was conquered by the Ming army and had to cede land and pay compensation.

"Your Majesty, you can understand it without doing it so simply."

Yang Zhao seemed to have been prepared for a long time, smiled and said: "We have a few requirements from the Western United Commercial Bank, if you can do it, everything is easy to say." ”

"If you can't do it, then we'll heal the soldiers."

Hearing Yang Zhao's words, Wei Luo couldn't help frowning, starting a war with the Ming people?

This is something he has never thought about before, the strength of the Ming people, there is no doubt about it, their army is still on this side of the South Seas, and when the time comes, it will be enough to destroy the Koti Kingdom by sending a large army casually.

"Please."

Vero's face was ugly, he was threatened like this, if he was young, he would definitely kill the person in front of him immediately.

"First, we are to take the place of the Persians and the Middle Easterners, and henceforth the precious stones and spices on the island of Ceylon can only be sold to us."

Yang Zhao nodded with satisfaction and said.

"There is no problem with this, anyway, whoever we sell our gems and spices to is also sold, since you have won the battle against the Middle Easterners and Persians, you can naturally take their place."

Regarding this article, Vero agreed very cheerfully.

"Article 2, with the Lion City and Dhahran City as the center, and the surrounding area within a hundred miles belongs to the territory of our Western United Trading Company."

"Impossible, we must not agree to this!"

As soon as Yang Zhao's words fell, Vero immediately loudly objected.

What are you kidding, within a hundred miles, you think this is Daming, Ceylon Island is very small, okay?

The longest length from north to south is only more than 800 miles, and the widest from east to west is only 400 miles.

In the past, the Persians and Middle Easterners only occupied a small amount of coastal land, and they would never say how much land they would occupy all at once.

The appetite of this Ming people is too big, and as soon as they open their mouths, they will have to have as much land, so how will they survive in the future.

"I suggest you think carefully before answering."

"Third, your Koti Kingdom must compensate us with 10 million taels of silver to cover the losses of our Ming merchants."

Yang Zhao smiled, it's good if you don't agree, it's good to do things later if you don't agree, if you really want to agree, it's really hard to do it to you for a while.

"The loss of ten million taels of silver?"

When Vero heard this, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, this is still a Ming person?

I'm afraid that this person in front of me is not crazy, a few people came to their own capital, and they opened their mouths to ask for their own land and gold and silver, this is funny, right?

"Are you crazy?"

Vero smiled, literally.

Are these Ming people crazy?

"Looks like you're not going to accede to our request?"

Yang Zhao looked at Vero very seriously and said.

"Do you believe I'm going to kill you right now?"

Vero was immediately angry, looked at Yang Zhao and said coldly.

"You can kill me now, but soon the army of our Western United Trading House will come, and when the time comes, you will definitely have the entire city of Galle to bury me, do you believe it or not?"

"To tell you the truth, the Persians of the Lion City and the Middle Easterners of Dharan have sent us to the South Seas as slaves, and if you do not agree to our request, we will also send you to the South Seas as slaves."

Yang Zhao said very domineeringly, not afraid at all.

"Good, good~"

"I wonder if you're a Ming person now."

"The Ming people have always been humble and polite, but you are like tigers and wolves."

"I'd love to see how you turned us into slaves and sent us to the South Seas."

When Vero heard this, he immediately laughed.

Wouldn't these Ming people really think that if they beat the Persians and the Middle Easterners, they could win against the Sinhalese?

The Sinhalese people on the island are dozens of times more numerous than the Persians and Middle Easterners, and their Koti Kingdom also has a strong army, which is definitely not intimidating.

"That's good~"

"I'm going to say goodbye next, I hope that the next time I come, you'll be as tough as you are now."

When Yang Zhao saw it, he immediately smiled, and after thinking about it, he brushed his sleeves and left.

These Sinhalese people, if they don't see the coffin, they don't cry, and they don't beat them hard, how will they know that they are afraid, and they will obediently listen to you?

Watching Yang Zhao and the others leave, Vero's face was very ugly.

The Ming people came, but they had a different face, a face that made them feel extremely frightened.

They asked for land, they wanted silver, they wanted their precious stones and spices, and they were like robbers, and they came to rob them directly, and even if they robbed them, this man had not yet beaten them.

Isn't it too confident to send someone over and open your mouth to make demands on yourself?

PS: Well, our people are almost like this in the international community now~