Who is the strong man at the negotiating table?

Always be the one who is needed!

For the Dutch, they need Ming porcelain, silk, and even pig iron and other goods, compared to the demand for the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty does not need the Netherlands.

Because of this, even if it is unwilling, Anthony. Fan. Diemen still doesn't budge. What's more, through the judgment he made when he entered the port of Dalian, he found that the army of His Royal Highness the prince was stronger than Zheng Zhilong's army.

Zheng Zhilong can't beat him, let alone the prince of the Ming Dynasty!

Actually, from the very beginning, Anthony. Fan. Dimen and the others didn't figure out the identities of the feudal country, the king of Germany, the prince of the world, and so on, and he even felt that the one in front of him was the prince of the Ming Dynasty and the son of the king.

The city of Geranza?

It's just a place where there are only deerskins, and what the East India Company needs is to enter the Ming Dynasty, to really enter! After this understanding, the talks naturally went extremely smoothly, and soon the first result - the East India Company recognized the rule of the Ming Dynasty over the generals, and in order to avoid extraneous complications, Fan. Dimon didn't even mention the massacre, property, or anything like that, after all, war is war.

However, this did not mean that he did not have other gains, namely that the Ming would open up trade to the Dutch East India Company. The first step was to allow the merchant ships of the East India Company to enter and leave the Dalian commercial port freely, and to allow Dutch merchants to live and operate in the Dalian commercial port!

Moreover, the Dutch East India Company and the Daming Western Company - this is Zhu Guoqiang's instruction to set up a company, similar to the East India Company in European countries, that is, specializing in trade with the West, the two companies reached a commercial cooperation, the Dutch East India Company is responsible for selling the goods of the Western Company, and the port of the Dutch East India Company is open to the Western Company.

This agreement, and even authorizing the East India Company to sell the goods of Western companies, was not just for the freedom of navigation of Ming ships in the South Seas.

The reason why the East India Company's merchant ships were granted the right of freedom of navigation along the coast of the Ming Dynasty was in exchange for the right of freedom of navigation of the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty in the waters of the South Seas, and it was also to end the "misunderstanding" caused by the issue of the big man.

If you want to colonize in the South Seas, the East India Company's armed merchant ships are a crisis that must be faced, although Zhu Guoqiang is confident enough to defeat them in the big army, but if the battlefield is transferred to the South Seas, there is no chance of victory. Moreover, in history, after the Dutch were defeated by Zheng Chenggong, they had to withdraw from the South Seas by constantly attacking the Zheng family's merchant ships.

This kind of continuous skirmishes at sea was extremely detrimental to the Ming Dynasty's overseas colonization, especially in the Mekong Delta and other places.

What does Daming need now?

It's a colonization to the South Seas!

Under this premise, it was the best choice to negotiate with the Dutch East India Company to resolve the problems between the two sides, and the Netherlands was not the main opponent of the Ming Dynasty's expansion in the South Seas. The Netherlands was nothing more than a "coachman on the sea", a "big cart" transporting goods, and as a small country, the Netherlands did not have much power to expand overseas.

Even now, the power of European countries in Asia is also insignificant, and it is an important period for European countries to attack each other, and it is not yet time to carve up the world.

And their sphere of influence in Asia, to put it bluntly, is only to establish some stronghold colonies, like the Netherlands, that is, they occupy a relatively large territory on the island of Java and establish the city of Batavia. As for Portugal, it is just occupying Goa and leasing Macau. The center of gravity of Europeans is now ...... Still in Europe!

According to the history known to Zhu Guoqiang, after Cromwell came to power, Britain would launch a series of wars against the Netherlands in order to defeat its growing business rival, the Netherlands.

The Netherlands cannot pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty at all, and as for the East Indies, it is not within Zhu Guoqiang's consideration now, at most, it is just to consider the rice of Java Island, which is also the reason why the Dutch are required to open the port, and Java Island is also an important rice producing area.

"Rice,"

Zhu Guoqiangdao,

"In recent years, there have been many disasters in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the north, there is always a shortage of food, and the island of Java, where Batavia is located, is rich in rice, I heard that the rice of the local natives is too abundant and the price is low, so I hope that our trade can start with rice first, our merchant ships enter Batavia to buy rice, and the Dutch merchant ships can also transport rice over."

"Rice?"

Because the Netherlands itself was a "big cart driver", the Dutch merchant ships in Europe were themselves engaged in the grain trade. Dimon is no stranger, of course, but this distance is too far.

"That's too far, isn't it?"

Although rice is abundant in the natives of Java and other parts of Southeast Asia, and the price of rice is very cheap, the profit must be extremely limited when combined with the cost of long-distance sea transportation.

"Distance is not an issue."

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile.

"As long as you transport the grain over, I am willing to pay a price of one or two stones to buy it uniformly, and I will buy as much as I want!" What do you think! ”

Zhu Guoqiang's price is definitely high, through Quina and others, he has long learned that to buy rice in Batavia, one stone of rice only costs two dollars of silver, but considering the cost of long-distance shipping, the profit of 10,000 stone rice they shipped is about 4,000 taels, and the profit is absolutely considerable, but the Ming Dynasty needs these rice, of course, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty also need to enter Batavia through the rice trade and enter Java Island.

Just because Daming doesn't need Java now doesn't mean it won't need it in the future. First knock on the door of Batavia under the pretext of trade, and then the rest will be slowly figured out, and when the Anglo-Dutch war is a few years later, well, Java Island has also been the territory of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times!

At least 50% of the profit!

Almost instantaneously, not only Fan. In fact, although the profits of the eastern trade routes are amazing, the profits of a ship are also very limited, after all, it is impossible for a ship to be filled with lucrative goods, and the vast majority of commodities are ordinary commodities with average profits.

If it is a large ship with a load of 1,000 tons, the profit will be more than 10,000 taels!

In an instant, the profit of the rice trade was calculated, and Fan. Dimen and the others also made up their minds in their hearts, and this business has a head.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince,"

Like all cunning profiteers, Fan. Dimon didn't say yes. ，

"I will seriously consider your proposal, but now I cannot agree to you immediately because I have not engaged in similar trade, but please believe that when I return to Batavia, I will send someone to study the matter, and as for the price, I think we will be able to agree on the price only after the first rice ship arrives in Dalian."

I just want to raise the price!

Zhu Guoqiang, who knew it, smiled, of course he did not object.

"In addition, I hope to look further into Dalian to determine whether it is necessary for us to open a commercial hall here."

Zhu Cihong sneered a few times in his heart.

What's it packed in?

Can you profiteers really put a lot of money and not make money?

Perhaps for the Chinese people of this era, they don't know about these Westerners, but in another world, they have long studied these so-called adventurers. What drove them to come to the East at all kinds of risks?

To put it bluntly, it is driven by wealth.

The reason why they are here is to make money. For these people, as long as there are enough benefits. They will even sell everything at the cost of everything.

Moreover, this condition he put forward was simply holding the silver and giving it to them. How could they refuse?

Zhu Guoqiang, who was sure that they would not refuse to buy and sell, laughed.

"Feel free to visit, and we'll discuss this after you've made a decision."

Decision.

I don't know when you made this decision, but my decision has already been made.

The so-called rice is just a stepping stone. A stepping stone that knocked on the door of Batavia.

sneered in his heart, but Zhu Guoqiang's face showed an extremely sincere smile......