A small boat rowed under the battleship Fuzhou with a white flag, and a Jia Lae Zhen boarded the Fuzhou with an interpreter. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Which of you wants to negotiate with our Zhenguo Gong?" The nail asked proudly.

"This official is Brigadier General Jiang Beiming, the head of the Beijing Officers' Training Corps, a member of the Yulin Bay Military Committee, and the supreme military commander of the Yulin Army. I negotiate with your Zhenguo Gong. Jiang Beiming came up and reported a series of titles.

That Ezhen was stunned for a moment: "I can't remember what you said so much." Our town has an order to let you enter the city to negotiate. ”

"Please go back and tell your Zhenguo Gong, I don't believe him. If you want the 500,000 silver, let him come to our ship, otherwise everything will not be discussed. After Jiang Beiming finished speaking, he turned his head and went back to the cabin.

Jia La's forehead was really helpless, so he could only row a small boat back to Lushun.

"This Jiang Beiming, are you still afraid that I will detain him?" Tao Min couldn't help but smile after listening to the report of the Jia La's real heart.

"Brother, we must not get on his boat." Tao Gong said eagerly.

"I know." Tao Min thought for a moment, and then instructed Jia La'e Zhen, "You go and tell them again, everyone take a step back, let him fly the white flag, no more than 30 people, and negotiate on the beach outside the city." ”

Jia Lae Zhen had no choice but to row a small boat to the Fuzhou again.

Half an hour later, Jiang Beiming came to the beach with 30 naval soldiers, and Tao Min and Tao Gong also took people to wait for Jiang Beiming on the beach.

"Sir Jiang, I haven't seen you for more than a year, don't come unharmed?" Tao Min clenched his fists and said.

"Love Xinjue Luo Taomin, love Xinjue Luo Taogong." Jiang Beiming didn't return the salute, and laughed coldly, "The two of you have gained a lot of weight this year, and your head is quite cool, right?" Is this boar skin still comfortable to wear? ”

"Jiang Beiming!" Tao Gong shouted angrily.

Tao Min raised his hand to stop his brother's anger: "Jiang Beiming, we are not here to quarrel. I must have read the letter I gave you in Yulin Bay, how is it, what do you think? ”

"Tao Min, I really admire you." Jiang Beiming pretended to be helpless, "You accurately caught our weakness, and you know that we can't help but agree." ”

"Sir Jiang, don't say that." Tao Min smiled, "I also served in the Yulin Army, and it is our belief that we will never give up any brother." ”

Jiang Beiming glared at Tao Min: "But we really can't take out 500,000 taels of cash now, so we can only use food and materials to cover the account." ”

"I know that." Tao Min softened his tone, "How much silver can you come up with, how many supplies?" ”

"We estimated that about 150,000 taels of silver, 2,000 tons of Vietnamese rice, and 100,000 pieces of white cloth." After Jiang Beiming finished speaking, he looked at Tao Min's eyes, "You want so much money to go to North Korea, North Korea is cold, I'll prepare some cloth for you, don't freeze your people." ”

Tao Min didn't care about Jiang Beiming's ridicule, lowered his head and thought for a while: "No, Jiang Beiming, these together are not enough for 500,000." ”

"That's all we can do." Jiang Beiming replied, "It's not as much as you want, we will give as much as you want." One Andreas costs 100,000, do you think that without Andreas Yulin Army there would be no cavalry? The remains of a martyr are 100 taels, how do we know if those are really the remains of martyrs, you won't just find some dead people's bones to pretend to be. ”

"Jiang Beiming, it's boring for you to say that." Tao Min looked around at the people around him, "I don't talk to you about the issue of position, but you also know very well when we came from, and we still recognize some of the rules of the game." ”

Jiang Beiming knew that his words were a little excessive, so he changed his tone: "Let's not talk about this issue, anyway, these silver and materials have almost hollowed out Yulin Bay, and we can only take out so much." ”

"No, it's too little." Tao Gong shouted.

"If you think it's less, then we can wait, and we'll go back and get ready." Jiang Beiming said slowly, "Otherwise, let Andreas dig for a few more days first, and then exercise with you." ”

"Oh, that's right." Jiang Beiming suddenly smiled again, "Where did you hide them?" Last time, Xu Lang and I searched for a long time and didn't find it. You have seen the signs that Xu Lang left for you, don't say it, the words he carved are quite good-looking, and he has practiced before. ”

"Jiang Beiming." Tao Gongqi's handle pressed to the handle of the knife.

"Tao Gong." Tao Min called out to his younger brother, and stretched out two fingers at Jiang Beiming, "The grain and cloth are as you said, but the silver, 200,000, this is also our bottom line." ”

"I can't call the shots about this." Jiang Beiming said, "You also know the operation mode of Yulin Bay, which needs to be decided by the General Assembly. ”

"Hehe, you're sure to call the shots." Tao Min smiled, "If you can't be the master, you won't come to negotiate with me alone, 200,000, don't talk about it if you don't have one point less." ”

Jiang Beiming thought for a while: "Okay, it's 200,000, but I also have the conditions." ”

"What conditions do you have?"

"I can give you all the money and things, but they must be traded at sea, and we will never enter Arthur City, I can't trust you."

"Hahahaha." Tao Min laughed, "Jiang Beiming, you think we are stupid." Maritime trading? After the transaction, you have blown us down with another cannon, and we can't trust you either. ”

"What then?" Jiang Beiming asked, "If we don't trust each other, then just don't trade." ”

"We trade on land." Tao Min said, "Aren't you already garrisoning Datong Town and Xuanfu Town now, let's go to Xuanfu Town to trade." I'm not afraid of any tricks you play on land-based trading. ”

"It's impossible." Jiang Beiming pointed at the two people, "Use your brains, what is our trading with you in the Ming Dynasty, do you know that this is a capital enemy?" With so much silver and supplies sent overland from Yulin Bay to Xuanfu Town, do you think the Ming Dynasty government can let us pass? ”

"yes, brother." Tao Gong was stopped by Jiang Beiming, "It seems that I can't send it over." ”

Tao Min didn't have an idea for a while: "Then what should I do?" ”

"I think it's still like this." Jiang Beiming said Xu Lang's plan, "We won't go to the city, and you won't go to sea, just like now, let's trade on the beach." One hand of money, one hand of people, each of them is counted clearly, and the delivery is completed, and they are not responsible. ”

"Okay, just trade on the beach." Tao Min agreed to Jiang Beiming's proposal, "When are you going to trade?" ”

Jiang Beiming snapped his fingers and calculated: "It's the end of September now, and it will take more than one month for us to prepare these things, and it will take more than a month to transport them." In this way, at the end of the year, December 20th, we are still here, I will bring things, and you will bring people, and I will be cut at one time. ”

"Okay, it's December 20th, let's see you there." "But I warn you, don't play any tricks. ”

Jiang Beiming glanced at Tao Min and Tao Gong, didn't say anything, and led the people back to the Fuzhou.

"How's it going, have you negotiated?" Gu Yunkun came up and asked.

"It's settled." Jiang Beiming replied with three words, and then shouted, "Fernandez, set sail for Tianjin." ”

Tao Min and Tao Gong watched the Fuzhou gradually disappear into the sea, and also led the people back to Lushun City.

"Enlighten the master, someone asked to see the master." The day after Tao Min returned to Lushun City, his subordinates came to report.

"Who, what's it called?"

"Hui Yu master, is a Han man dressed as a Ming Dynasty." The servant replied, "He said that his surname is Xie, and he also brought 2 Hongyi people. ”

"You let them go to the side room and wait." After Tao Min finished instructing, he said to Tao Gong, "Let's go and see, it should be Xie Tian back." ”

Xie Tian and the two Westerners waited in the side room for a while, and Tao Min and Tao Gong walked in one after the other.

"Subordinates, see your lordship." Xie Tian still practiced the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty.

"Xie Tian, hard work." After Tao Min finished speaking, he looked at the two Westerners behind him, "This is what you brought back from the trench mirror?" ”

"Lord Hui, exactly." Xie Tian pointed to a tall man next to him, "This is Van der Vaart." ”

He pointed to another short man: "This is Peters." Both are Dutch, have worked in Dutch shipyards, and speak Chinese to some extent. ”

After Xie Tian finished introducing him, Peters bowed to Tao Min: "Honorable lord, we are all from the Netherlands, and it has been almost 3 years since we came to the Far East, so we have also learned your words. ”

"That's not our words, that's the Ming Dynasty." Tao Min corrected Peters.

"Honorable lord, aren't you from the Ming Dynasty?" Both Peters and Van der Vaart are weird.

"We are not from the Ming Dynasty, we are the Great Golden Kingdom." Tao Min waved his hand, "It doesn't matter. I am honored to have the two of you come to us, what will you do after you two come, and your treatment, I think our Mr. Xie has already made it clear to you, right? ”

"Yes, we are very grateful to the Lord for being able to offer us such generous conditions." Peters replied, "But Mr. Xie said that he was from the Ming Dynasty, but your Excellency said that you were from the Great Jin Kingdom. We don't understand this. ”

"Hehe, you don't need to understand so much, our Oriental thinking is very complicated." Tao Min smiled, "I want to ask you two a question first, what did you come to the Far East for?" ”

"Your Excellency." Van der Vaart bowed, "We are here to get rich, and we don't care about the affairs of the Orientals." ”

"Good." Tao Min clapped his hands, "I can assure you two that as long as you can work hard, there is money for you to earn here." ”

Tao Min asked a few more casual questions, and then asked Tao Gong to take the two Dutchmen down, and there were only two people left in the room, Tao Min and Xie Tian.

"Xie Tian, did you find anything on this trip to the trench mirror?"

"Back to my lord." Xie Tian replied, "My subordinates sent back a piece of information a few days ago, and Yulin Bay is now discussing arms business with the Portuguese. ”

"Did you hear the quantity?"

"I haven't heard the exact number, but it should be about the same. Yulin Bay will sell 7 or 8 warships and more than 200 artillery pieces to the Portuguese this time, but the transaction volume is not very large. ”

"Not a lot of trades?" Tao Min raised his head, "How many in total?" ”

"The total amount of inquiries from subordinates is about 1,230,000 taels of silver."

"7 or 8 warships, more than 200 artillery pieces, only more than 1 million taels." Tao Min said to himself, "According to the price given to Zheng Zhilong, it will be 2 million less." Yulin Bay is short of silver, but it will not be sold at such a low price, why are they in such a hurry to sell arms to the Portuguese? ”

Xie Tian looked at Tao Min's expression and didn't dare to answer.

"Westerners, Zheng Zhilong? Hehe. Tao Min suddenly seemed to figure it out, "Xie Tian, you still have to work hard." You immediately go to Xiamen and find a way to let Zheng Zhilong know about the sale of Yulin Bay to the Portuguese warships and artillery. ”

"Yes, the subordinates will go immediately." Xie Tian turned around and was about to leave.

"Xie Tian, don't worry." Tao Min stopped Xie Tian, "Do you know why Yulin Bay sold warships and artillery to Westerners?" ”

"Yulin Bay is short of silver."

"Hehe, not exactly."

"The subordinates are stupid, and I hope that the adults will teach me."

"Xie Tian." Tao Min stood up and analyzed the situation for Xie Tian, "You also know the situation in Taiwan now, Zheng Zhilong and Westerners share the world equally. The 20 warships originally sold to Zheng Zhilong in Yulin Bay should have been delivered, so that Taiwan's balance of power has changed. ”

"My lord means that Zheng Zhilong may start a war against the Westerners and seize Taiwan?"