What finally prompted Peter Nuiz to make up his mind to negotiate with the Crossing Crowd was the formation of sand boats that passed by the Slotten on the afternoon of the 25th. For when the Walkman arrived on the Slotten in a dinghy on the morning of the 26th, they accurately reported the amount of raw silk and porcelain that had been unloaded from the three sand boats.

In the face of the huge interests that can be seen, Nuiz had to forcibly endure the great discomfort caused by the change of host and guest on Dayuan Island, and began to seriously evaluate and negotiate with the cross-forces.

In fact, aside from negotiating with the strange short-headed inventors who occupied Oyuan Island, Nouz couldn't make any more threatening moves. After all, the Slotten had been out of the coast for three days, and it had neither left here and headed straight for Batavia, nor had it tried to retake it with the poor 100 or so sailors on board...... The embarrassing situation is exposed - you can't beat it, if you leave, how can you explain it when you go back?

Finally, on the morning of the 26th, Mr. Van der Hagen, who had been busy running between the port and the open sea for the past two days, and had almost transformed into a "traitor", returned to the port and announced the good news: Chief Nuiz would come to Dayuan Port at noon today to negotiate with the crossers!

This is indeed good news, after all, the crossing force is still very weak and needs a lot of manpower and raw materials to grow. The Dutch were able to collect a lot of resources in Batavia, and the important thing was that they had ships, a lot of ships, and a lot of empty tonnage when they went north to the Ming Dynasty, which were urgently needed by the crossers at the moment.

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At noon on the same day, Mr. Peter Nuiz, the third/last governor of Dayuan, accompanied by the low-ranking merchant Mao Zheer, took a small boat piloted by the walking quartet and officially set foot on the port of Dayuan Island, returning to the place where he had ruled for a short time.

In this era, it is very common for both sides of the sea trade to send hostages to each other. Whether it is Zheng Zhilong or Dutch businessmen, including big businessmen like Xu Xinsu, they have all had the experience of being hostages; Therefore, compared to the huge disaster of losing the Dayuan Merchant Mansion, Nuiz is not worried about his own safety, after all, he is just a senior employee of the VOC, the kind that can be fired at any time.

When Nuiz stepped on the dock, Cai Feiming and two assistants who were waiting on the side greeted him, and the Dutch, who had already been prepared, shook hands with Cai Feiming briefly, and the two sides greeted each other cordially in Dutch, as if they were old friends.

Despite being mentally prepared, after meeting the real people, Nuiz was still curious about these strange Mingren: these three men were tall, neat-skinned, and had short hair, just like the Buddhists in South Asia. They wore short blouses of different colors, but similar styles, trousers, and peculiar shiny black leather boots on their feet.

"At least the children of a well-educated and noble man with a good dinner." Nuiz secretly commented at this moment: the white teeth that show neatly when smiling, the generally tall figure, and some inadvertent small physical etiquette, these Ming nobles and robbers and those Ming coolies on the dock are completely different people......

"Perhaps Van der Hagen's guess is correct: the guardian knights of an ancient dynasty trying to restore." At this moment, Mr. Nuiz secretly made an assessment of the Travelers.

Cai Feiming, who was greeting guests to the merchant house, naturally didn't expect that the Dutch had so many speculations; He wasn't interested in what Nuiz was wearing, except for the sassy red sucarina, the rest of the outfit was common.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the Netherlands, the earliest capitalist country, was thriving. With the acceleration of the pace of production and life, economy and convenience have become recognized virtues.

The Dutch were the first to abandon the "raff" that was worn around the neck, and the padding in the clothes was removed in favor of light lace. All this can be seen today on the Nuiz: a gray tweed bolero with lace sewn on the neckline and cuffs, white stockings and boat-shaped wooden shoes, the most popular in the Low Countries.

In the Netherlands, a country of low land, there was a lot of rain and wet land, so the wood was carved out to make boat-shaped shoes with thick bottoms and upturned toes. These shoes are moisture-resistant and durable, and can also be filled with straw cotton to keep out the cold. Until later generations, wooden shoes were still the most famous specialty of the Netherlands, along with windmills.

After crossing the trestle, Nuiz soon saw the half-pounder cannon erected on the northeast corner fort, unique to the Ming bandits, and unanimously claimed by everyone: "devil's cannon".

This small cannon has an elongated barrel and a distinctive square barrel that reflects a blue metallic sheen in the midday sun. From Noyz's current vantage point, you can clearly see the elongated brass-colored cannonballs, hanging from the cannon like a string of bundled mice.

In short, it was hard to imagine that such a slender cannon killed 50 soldiers in an instant—it was more like a toy than some kind of murder weapon.

There were two or three men in blue homespun coats on the fort, holding a kind of black binoculars, and they were on guard within the angle they were responsible for. In the cracks in the battlement wall, a figure dressed in colorful colors flashed before Nuiz's eyes, as if sitting in a chair, and the next moment he was out of sight.

"If all goes well, there's a display of firepower before you leave, Mr. Noiz." Seeing that the Dutch were trying their best to observe the heavy machine gun, Cai Feiming said empathetically at this time.

"Is this some kind of threat?" Nouz was a little upset when she heard this.

"The threat will only happen before the negotiations." Cai Feiming's face was still full of a gentle smile: "The performance after everything is over is a small price that has to be paid to avoid real conflicts in the future; Believe me, it's well-intentioned. After all, lions don't make friends with sheep, you say? ”

“...... Well, unique Oriental thinking. Nouz shrugged and muttered a few words.

The group soon came to the front of the merchant house.

When he came here, Mr. Nuiz, who had been paying attention to other places all the way, suddenly realized that the dirty bamboo huts that had been distributed outside the merchant hall were gone. Of course, the rammed earth walls of the merchant house are still there, and they look a little more dilapidated: two hastily filled gaps of different colors have greatly reduced the defensive function of the wall.

Standing in front of the merchant hall and taking off the boat-shaped hat on his head, Nuiz slowly turned around and took in the surrounding scene.

Some Ming coolies were transporting goods in small wooden carts, which were single-wheeled and had three or four wheels. Some of the goods on the trolley were sent to the merchant house, and more were red bricks, which were stacked in neat square stacks and extended towards the center of Dayuan Island.