Chapter 216: Rich
When the majority of the people, who owned a small number of shares, understood what was really going on, the pro-English people polished the shares of the East India Company, and the United States government retained only five per cent of the shares, the whole Dutch were outraged, and the hateful politicians and merchants betrayed them, abandoned the people, and they became scapegoats for the war. Citizens who lost their minds began to storm the provincial government, officials were almost afraid to go out, and government buildings were burned down by impulsive citizens, and some officials were even burned to death in the buildings.
It's messy, it's completely messy, the whole of Holland is in chaos, full of bankrupt families, wandering citizens. The Dutch completely lost faith in the provincial government and hated the businessmen who controlled it, and in the following days, many people committed suicide, the former government officials were killed, and the whole province was in shambles.
Just when the Dutch were completely losing hope of survival, the great King Philip IV brought them the gospel. From the Spanish newspapers, Philip IV gave his opinion on the aftermath of the war. Philip IV the Good declared: This war was waged by a group of people with different motives, they were pro-English forces, they did not care about the life and death of the vast majority of the Dutch people, they brazenly launched the war of blockade of Lisbon, but they failed shamefully, they betrayed the interests of the majority of the Dutch for their own interests, this is the scum and garbage of a group of merchants. They shamelessly blocked the news of the failure, and the majority of the small shareholders of the East India Company suffered undue losses. For the sake of the interests of the broad masses of the people, the king himself is willing to give up a part of the war reparations and reorganize the East India Company, so that the entire East India Company's business in the East Indies will not be affected and will continue to operate, and he hopes that the existing shareholders will reconstitute the board of directors and send representatives to Madrid for negotiations, and the shareholders will be given a month and a half to re-elect the directors. In order to compensate the interests of the Dutch people, the king himself decided that after expelling the influence of the English East India Company in Asia, he would give all the commercial rights in this area to the Dutch East India Company, and the specific matters would be negotiated with the new board of directors of the Dutch East India Company, hoping that the general people would not lose faith in life, and that the king himself would always stand with his people.
Philip IV's tear-jerking proclamation immediately made the Dutch rejoice, and the Dutch East India Company would not only not go bankrupt, but would grow stronger, and the Dutch people would not only not suffer losses, but would also receive more benefits. What a great King this is! Those hateful businessmen and politicians are all well-dressed, how can they be all beasts? Your Majesty!
The stock exchanges in Amsterdam were crowded, and Huntel, the former consul of the company, who had not had time to sell his shares, was re-elected as consul by the shareholders, and even the consuls of the provincial government were removed by the public, because they were bankrupt, and now there was no federal provincial government, and some were only managers of city affairs, equivalent to mayors, who had returned to the bosom of the Kingdom of Spain.
The stock was trading so hotly that Theodosio's butler had scarcely a full meal, had sold off copies of his share certificates, received piles of gold and silver, and had only ten percent of the East India Company shares left in his hands when the board of directors was re-elected to send representatives to the negotiations. The average price of the sale reached 80 percent of the pre-war level, and the wealth of the whole of Amsterdam was looted by him for nearly a third, and the gold, silver and jewels were shipped back to Portugal by ship, which were the wealth of Philip IV, Theodosio, and Sun Yuzhi, of course. Theodosio would also pay him a large commission as a reward for him.
Genius design, perfect plan, rich returns, so that Philip IV and Theodosio simply have a sense of admiration for Sun Yuzhi, this time it will definitely not be a boatload of wine, Sun Yuzhi got a full two million taels of silver, and there are also five percent of the shares of the East India Company, but the silver is Sun Yuzhi's, but the shares belong to the Ming Empire. In addition to the 10 percent of the shares left by Theodosio's steward, 5 percent of the shares belonging to the United Provincial Government also went to the Kingdom of Spain, so that the Ming, Spain, and Portugal each had 5 percent of the shares of the East India Company, which was a happy result.
The name of the Dutch East India Company has not changed, the shareholder structure has changed dramatically, it is now part of the Kingdom of Spain, the negotiations between the company and the kingdom are naturally simple, the East India Company still has all its interests in Asia, and continues to carry out its business, because it is no longer restricted by the blockade of shipping routes, and there is the protection of warships, its profits are higher than before, the majority of shareholders have obtained more benefits than before, and the power of England in the Netherlands has basically disappeared through this blow.
At the instigation of Philip IV and Theodosio, the fleet took them around the English harbor of Plymouth, where they bombarded the English shipbuilding base with a burst of mortars, and then went ashore and looted. The pirates in England are used to robbing, but they didn't expect Sun Yuzhi to rob them once this time.
King Charles I of England thought that England had always robbed others, how could there be a reason for himself to be robbed, and angrily asked the Royal Navy to take revenge on Spain, but the reply of the commander of the Royal Navy startled him, England had no soldiers to go to sea, and now there was only one fleet to guard London, and the others had lost contact, especially the largest fleet, the main fleet with one hundred and fifty warships of all sizes, had gone to sea since the last time, and there was no news, No one knew how to go missing, this is the second fleet of England that has disappeared.
Returning to the port of Viana do Castelo again, the traces of the last battle have been cleared, more than eighty second-class warships are moored in the harbor, and a large number of craftsmen are repairing. Because Sun Yuzhi used mortars when attacking the warships in the port, most of the warship superstructures were damaged, but the main body of the ship basically did not suffer much damage, and most of them could continue to be used after repairs. As for the more than thirty supply ships, Sun Yuzhi did not attack at all, and left them intact to Portugal, who were going to immigrate to South America next, and no matter how many cargo ships there were, it would not be too many. In addition, they had to carry out a lot of maritime trade in the future, and they needed countless merchant ships, so all these supply ships were sent to Theodosio.
After the end of the trip to Europe, Sun Yuzhi returned to Ming Island with the fleet, and let the queen send the wine and gold and silver of the big ship to the Ming Dynasty.
Two months later, Zhu Youxiao's will arrived with more than 30 armed merchant ships, with more than 2,000 people on board and a lot of iron supplies, but these merchants were in the minority, and most of them were young people such as craftsmen. Looking at the will, Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied with his trip to Europe, and was very happy that he showed the power of mortars and hid the power of cannons, and Zhu Youxiao decided to give him one percent of the five percent of the shares of the East India Company, which should be regarded as a reward. Sun Yuzhi was very surprised to see that Zhu Youxiao actually rewarded him with one percent of the shares of the East India Company, which was too much, I don't know if the old father knew about this matter, so he asked people to send a letter to ask for his father's opinion, like this kind of thing involving too much property, he himself would not dare to call the shots anyway.
The next meaning is the matter of these more than 30 merchant ships, Zhu Youxiao means to let him work hard and go to South America again, because Niu Venus went to the West Coast from the Pacific Ocean to the Americas, and he went to North America first, and it is unlikely that he will reach the East Coast of the Americas this time, let him go on a trip to comfort Qian Shoulian and Gao Nian of New Chang'an.