"Your Excellency the Governor, you must have misheard, I am talking about reparations."

Mastaru also said in horror.

These three parties work together, there is no place for them on the entire sea, even if they add up the Portuguese and even Spanish warships in the East, they can't beat this alliance, and there are Dutch merchant ships, and the Ming don't have to worry about not being able to sell the goods, but then they Portuguese will really be finished.

It has been getting worse and worse over the years.

After all, their glory has long passed, the Dutch are now the bosses of the sea, and even the newly rising Britain is stronger than them, and the advantage of the Portuguese is only that they started early, especially with the special trading post of Macau, after all, they are the only Europeans who are allowed to trade legally by the Ming Dynasty. But if the governor had kicked them out and chose to cooperate with the Dutch, and then united with these pirates against them, the Portuguese would have to be expelled from the East within two years.

They don't even have the power to resist.

Together, these three parties are invincible on this sea.

He could only give in.

"Did I hear me wrong?"

Yang Xin asked Li Dan.

"The governor probably heard it wrong, and the old man also heard him say that it was compensation."

Li Dan hurriedly said with an affirmative face.

"Then I really misheard, let him go, since Mr. Mashida Luye said compensation, then let's seriously discuss the issue of this amount of compensation, considering the loss of my warship, the compensation for the death of soldiers, the treatment of wounded soldiers, the pension for disabled soldiers, the wear and tear in the course of the battle, and the mental losses of me and the coastal soldiers and civilians, the fines for your illegal acts, and so on.

Fixed price.

Two million taels won't make you very embarrassed, right? ”

Yang Dudu said very sincerely.

"Your Excellency the Governor, we don't have so much silver."

Mastaru also wanted to cry and said without tears.

"Don't lie to me, you have a total of five million pesos on board, which is enough to pay compensation, but since you still have to buy goods, I don't want to cut you off your livelihood, so you can pay two million pesos as compensation in the first installment, and pay the rest in the next ten years. Since this is the nature of your government, this indemnity is to be paid by the King of Portugal, and the remainder is to be added to future exports to Portugal in the form of a surtax, and it is your own business as to how your merchants settle this fine with your king. ”

Yang Xin said.

Of course, the main thing is that they still have to pay the previous two million.

If they were to be compensated at once, I am afraid that the Portuguese in the East would be bankrupt.

So this kind of meat cutting thing, it must be trickled down, first bring them the five million pesos out of two million, and the rest is slowly collected as a surtax, in fact, it should be a bank loan, but now the banking industry in Daming is too rudimentary, so I have to temporarily give up this promising way of playing.

"Your Excellency the Governor......"

Mashida Road is also dying.

"Drag him out and cut him down, immediately arrest all Portuguese sailors in Macao, cancel the Portuguese residency and trade rights in Macao, order the fleet to block the Taiwan Strait, and sink all Portuguese merchant ships passing through!"

Yang Xin shouted in Portuguese.

The soldiers in front of the door looked at him in bewilderment.

But Mastaru also collapsed directly on the ground, and then wailed there like a mourner.

"Cry, cry and give money!"

Yang Dudu said.

If you don't give two million, then grab the five million.

More than 5 million pesos, a 27 grams, adding up to more than 3 million taels, this huge amount of money was transported to the capital It is estimated that his uncle's face is full of old folds blooming, but it is not good to exhaust and fish, so that the Portuguese will go bankrupt in large numbers, and the exports of Guangzhou will also drop sharply this year, and those merchants will wait for the Portuguese to scatter silver, and it is not good to eat alone after all. Moreover, once the Portuguese are too bad to recover in the short term, then the Dutch will have no competitors, and they will definitely take the opportunity to press the Portuguese so that they cannot turn over, and the British will not be able to survive in the short term, so that the maritime trade will be controlled by the Dutch.

It's not good for Da Ming either.

The most taboo thing to do business is to have only one buyer.

With the Portuguese competing with the Dutch, it would be much easier for the Ming to operate.

When the Portuguese were gone, the British arrived to take over the baton, and then during this time, Daming's own maritime transport force grew.

Mastarlu also staggered away crying.

"Then General Gao Wenlu, it's time to talk about your compensation."

Yang Xin said to the remaining pig.

"Your Excellency the Governor, we are also victims."

Gao Wenlu hurriedly said.

"This does not change the fact that you have made mistakes, since you have made mistakes, it is a matter of course, you can pay less, and you can be more flexible, first of all, your total compensation is one million taels, but you are allowed to pay the first two hundred thousand ducats.

There are two ways to do the rest.

The first is a tax increase, which will be paid through a tax increase over the next decade.

Second, with rice.

You ship rice from Southeast Asia, and we discount it according to the market price of Guangdong, but at least 100,000 stones of Daming capacity are shipped every year. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Of course we're transporting paddy."

Gao Wenlu said without hesitation.

Rice is not worth much in Java at all, there are at least three crops a year, and they don't need to buy, just force the natives to hand it over to them, and they only have a small number of merchant ships from Java to the north to transport spices and other goods, where a dozen Chinese merchant ships pass every year, these merchant ships are loaded with spices, and most of the ships they go north are only silver, and then they are nothing more than loading these ships with rice.

"Yes, but the first payment must be made."

Yang Xin said.

"And our trade?"

Gao Wenlu said tentatively.

"It will take a few days for the Holy Decree to take place, after all, this is too far from the capital, if you are in a hurry to trade, then my centipede fleet will carry you to Xin'an for trading, and then these centipede fleets will be transported to Boliao Island for you, if Your Majesty can approve you to live on Hong Kong Island, then I will lease it to you." The rent of 10,000 taels of silver a year, how you like to build and how to build, it is mine, as long as Your Majesty agrees, I will decide the rest, of course, you have to pay taxes for business, everything is according to the Macau side. ”

Yang Xin said.

"No problem, but we still need to hire locals."

Gao Wenlu said.

"That's up to you, as long as you honestly abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, we welcome any foreign merchants, it just so happens that my men are too crowded in Macau, and then I am going to move to part of Hong Kong Island."

Yang Xin said.

The two of them settled everything in this way.

The rest will be left to the Emperor's decree, but this will definitely be fine.

"As for Li Gong......"

Yang Xin looked at Li Dan.

The latter hurriedly got up and waited for Yang Du's instructions.

Yang Dudu pressed his hand and motioned for him to sit.

"Li Gong, whether it is Hong Kong, Macau, including Guangzhou, you can all come to trade, but I still suggest that you go to Macau and Hong Kong, after all, you don't have to worry about the officials in these two places, your tax rate is calculated according to your own merchants, which is slightly lower than them, but I don't want to see people with you smuggling again. In addition, if you are interested, you can bring one of your sons or grandsons over, and I will find him a brocade guard official position in the capital to serve the emperor. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Thank you for your help."

Li Dan hurriedly saluted and said with gratitude.

This is actually a hostage, but this is not a bad thing for him, after all, he is still very eager for his descendants to have someone to be an official, he is now in his sixties, and he can't always be like this, his son Li Guozhu can take over his class to do business, but if there is another official in the capital, it will definitely be a great good thing for the Li family.

Hostages are hostages, and being able to be taken hostages by the emperor's descendants means that the emperor really takes a fancy to the Li family.

"Also, if possible, I hope that your merchant ships will load as much rice as possible when they come back, and it would be better if they could transport it to the north, and my customs in Tianjin, like Dengzhou, will give you tax exemptions for the merchant ships that transported rice in the past."

Yang Xin said.

"I'm afraid it's not easy to sell rice from the Japanese country, and there is not much grain in the Japanese country."

Li Dan said cautiously.

"Then I have a good suggestion, since you are from Fujian, and you also operate Taiwan routes, why don't you hire Fujianese to go to Taiwan to cultivate rice? Even if the freshwater area is enough for two seasons a year, in the freshwater reclamation to grow rice and then transport it north, in Dengzhou, I buy it according to the market price, just selling rice is not low, not to mention the profit of tax reduction and return transportation of other goods? ”

Yang Xin said.

Li Dan can really do this job.

At present, the Li family's business is mainly managed by his son Li Guozhu, Li Guozhu's smuggling base is in Chiayi, and their pirate fleet may still come from there, that is to say, the Li family already has their base in Taiwan, and as Fujianese, they can easily recruit poor people, and their fleet can also provide transportation routes across the strait. It can be said that all the conditions are in place, it is just a matter of whether to do it or not, as long as Li Dan is willing to do it, he will be able to transport Taiwan-made rice to Tianjin along the Kuroshio route next year, and the price of rice in the north will definitely continue to be above one tael in the future, which can also ensure that this trade will be profitable enough.

In the final analysis, Yang Dudu is now not letting go of any possibility of increasing the food supply in the country, especially in the north.

Silver doesn't matter.

Silver is not to be eaten, and in the famine there are many who starve to death with gold and silver, and no amount of silver is as good as a bowl of rice.

"It's a good policy for the governor, so I'll go back and arrange it."

Li Dan said.

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