The focus of both sides of this peace negotiation is on the more than 20,000 captured soldiers, the Ming Dynasty wants to use 20,000 prisoners as a threat to demand compensation, and the Netherlands really can't afford to lose, more than 20,000 soldiers are already one-eighth of the combat strength of the entire country of the Netherlands, as long as there is a little hope, the Netherlands will find a way to go back.

Because the two sides had the same goal and the Netherlands had a lot of money, the two sides soon reached an agreement on the issue of more than 20,000 soldiers, and the Dutch East India Company would send 20 million taels of silver to the Nandaying Naval Division Base in Dongfan within two months, and the Ming Dynasty would also escort all the prisoners there to wait for the Dutch to ransom them.

It stands to reason that the two sides have reached an agreement on this key point of concern, and this peace talks should almost be successfully concluded, but in fact, after the war between the two countries, it is not the end of the matter if the two countries pay money to ransom the prisoners, and how to handle the relations between the two sides must also be discussed.

On the side of the Ming Empire, according to Zhu Cijiong's meaning, it is best for the two sides to live in peace without aggression against each other in the future.

Zheng Zhilong is quite puzzled by this, with the current development speed of the Ming Dynasty, within five years, it will definitely march to the South Seas, and the Netherlands is the current South Sea overlord, the two sides do not invade each other, so how to distribute the interests of the South Seas, will it be time to sit down and negotiate?

Where did he know that the Netherlands was strong, now the Netherlands is confronting Spain, after fighting Spain, they will fight with Britain again, Britain has not finished fighting, they are fighting with France again, although in the end the Netherlands declined, but after all, it has fought with the three major powers with the power of one country for nearly two hundred years, and it has won more and lost less, and in the end, if it is not for Britain and France to deal with it, the Netherlands is really likely to dominate the world. In the face of such a maritime power, it is best not to fight with it, anyway, in the end, Britain and France will clean it up, so why bother the Ming Dynasty.

The Dutch side has more ideas, first of all, they don't want to fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty, the reason why the Far East is called the Far East is because it is too far away from the European continent, and such a long distance to fight with such a powerful country is simply looking for death; Then they also want to continue to do business in Dongying and even Daming, such two large markets, accounting for more than one-third of the total trade volume of the Dutch East India Company, it is not that they can give up; In the end, they even wanted to redeem all fifty super battleships, although there were more than 10,000 large and small ships in the Netherlands, but most of them were armed merchant ships, there were not many super battleships, fifty super battleships were almost one-sixth of the combat power of the Dutch Navy, and it was naturally best to redeem them.

The peace talks continued, and Speke first raised the issue of redeeming the super battleship, anyway, the ransom for the soldiers had already been opened, and he was not afraid of Zheng Zhilong's jokes, so he directly proposed: "We still want to redeem the battleships of the Second Fleet in the East, one hundred thousand taels, how about it?" ”

100,000 taels is indeed a lot, if you want to talk about the cost, how much can those wood and iron ore be worth, and 10,000 taels can be sustained, but it is more time-consuming to build, but what Daming lacks is time. Now that Da Ming has renovated the fifty super battleships of the Netherlands, equipped them with the most advanced howitzers, and incorporated them into the Beiyang Naval Division, how can it be possible to let the Netherlands redeem them again, Zheng Zhilong shook his head without hesitation and said: "This is impossible, it would be good if the two countries were at war and could put the prisoners back, and the weapons would also be redeemed, do you think it is possible?" ”

Speke knew that it wasn't that simple, and he said calmly: "Two hundred thousand taels." ”

Zheng Zhilong is so angry, is this a problem that money can solve? He replied angrily: "Don't talk about it." ”

Speke didn't blink his eyes, and continued to increase the price: "Three hundred thousand taels." ”

Nima, don't understand Dutch or how to drop? Zheng Zhilong replied word by word: "I said don't talk about it." ”

Speke was unmoved, and continued to increase the price: "500,000 taels." ”

Why can't this thing understand people? Zheng Zhilong replied solemnly: "I said, this question is not to be discussed. ”

Speke was stunned, and he stared at Zheng Zhilong and said with the same seriousness: "One price, one million taels." ”

One million taels, fifty ships is fifty million taels, to be honest, Zheng Zhilong was a little moved, but did he dare to agree? If he dares to agree, the emperor is estimated to be able to give his Zhennan king, he shook his head firmly and said: "It's not a matter of money, we don't sell the battleship." ”

Speke was also a little angry, he coldly threatened: "You are forcing us to go to war, the battleship was originally ours, and now we are paying to redeem it, the concessions we have made are big enough, if we can't do it, then we can only go to war." ”

War? Zheng Zhilong was really not afraid of this, he asked lightly: "You have also seen our coastal defense line, how many warships do you think can be captured?" ”

Speke's eyelids jumped, and he said stubbornly: "In front of two hundred super battleships, no matter how strong the defense line is, it is useless. ”

Zheng Zhilong pursed his lips and sneered: "Two hundred super battleships, a lot, just you have them in the Netherlands, don't we have them in the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Speke gritted his teeth and continued to threaten: "If you want to push us into a hurry, three hundred super battleships are not impossible to gather, can you stop it?" ”

Zheng Zhilong had already drafted this question, and he mocked: "What if you have gathered three hundred super battleships, do you dare to come to the Far East?" I guarantee that as soon as your battleships leave Europe, the Spanish Empire will go to your lair. ”

Speke's eyes were obviously flustered, he pretended to be calm, and asked coldly, "What do you mean?" ”

What do you mean? I have prepared a killer weapon for a long time, to give you meaning, Zheng Zhilong waved his hand, and a general on the far left walked over respectfully holding a sandalwood box. Zheng Zhilong took the sandalwood box, slowly opened the lid, turned around, pushed it to Speke, and said proudly: "I don't mean anything, it's just that the Spanish Empire is very interesting to you." ”

Speke looked down and saw that it was a contract, with Chinese characters and Spanish, the Netherlands was originally Spain's territory, and he naturally knew Spanish. This was an offensive and defensive alliance contract signed between the Ming Empire and the Spanish Empire, mainly against them the Netherlands:

What if the fleet of the Dutch Navy attacked the Spanish colonial headquarters in the Far East, Manila, the Ming Empire was obliged to send a navy to assist the Spanish Army in the defense;

If the Netherlands sent its main fleet of more than a hundred battleships to the European mainland to find trouble with the Ming Dynasty, Spain was obliged to send a combined naval and army force to attack the Dutch mainland;

What resolutely did not allow the Dutch merchant ships to enter the waters under the jurisdiction of both sides, and resolutely did not send merchant ships to the Dutch colonies to buy and sell goods.

It turned out that the Ming Empire had already prepared, and it seemed that the market of Daming and Dongying didn't have to think about it, Speke only felt a frustration, he slowly pushed the contract back, and said weakly: "Forget the problem of warships, the last question, our United Provincial Republic hopes to sign an armistice agreement with the Ming Empire, in the Far East, oh no, keep the peace all over the world, and no longer start the war lightly." ”

This is exactly what the emperor wants, Zheng Zhilong will naturally not object, but he still knows the skills of negotiation, and he can't be too anxious, otherwise it is easy to be led by others, so he replied in an official tone: "Our Ming Empire is peace-loving, if you hadn't forcibly occupied our east for more than ten years, we wouldn't have started a war lightly, we are very interested in your peace proposal, I don't know how many years you want to maintain peace?" ”

Peace-loving, you still build so many warships? What about liars! However, the official speech is so high-sounding, Speke doesn't care very much, he said directly: "Of course we want permanent peace, but this is a bit unlikely, at least ten years, what do you think?" ”

Ten years is enough, with the current development speed of the Ming Dynasty, it will be able to surpass the Dutch Navy in less than five years, so Zheng Zhilong nodded happily and said: "Okay, then ten years, within ten years, our two countries will not invade each other in the world, but you can't attack our allies in the Far East, after all, we have signed an offensive and defensive alliance contract with the Spanish Empire, and if you attack them in the Far East, we will have to participate in the war." ”

After the Second Fleet in the Far East was destroyed, the strength of the Netherlands in the Far East was not as good as before, and self-protection was a little reluctant, and there was still the idea of fighting Spain, Speke just wanted to end this humiliating negotiation as soon as possible, he quickly nodded and said: "You can rest assured that we will not start a war in the Far East." ”

The two sides negotiated the details of the treaty together, and the final agreement was as follows:

First, the Dutch East India Company paid 20 million taels of silver war indemnity, the Ming Empire released all the prisoners, and two months later the two sides handed over at the base of the naval division in the eastern fannan;

Second, the Netherlands withdrew from the Ming and Dongying markets, and without the permission of the Ming Empire, no Dutch ship was allowed to sail into the southeast seas;

Third, the Netherlands and the Ming Empire had a ten-year truce around the world, and both sides promised not to take the initiative to provoke war, and at the same time, the Netherlands was not allowed to attack the allies of the Ming Empire in the Far East.

The whole treaty is completely biased towards the Ming side, it is simply an unequal treaty for the Netherlands, there is no way, who called the Ming fist hard, as the victorious country, this is deserved. After the defeat of the Manchu Qing government, there were more unequal treaties signed, and the great powers oppressed the weak in this way, no matter who had a reason, they would lose money if they lost, this is the reason.

Based on this bandit logic, Speke didn't feel that the treaty was unreasonable, he signed his name very happily, of course, Zheng Zhilong signed more happily than him, 20 million taels, just move the matter of mouth, can it not be happy?

Since the place of signing the treaty is Macao, the treaty signed by the two sides was named the "Treaty of Macao", the signing of the "Treaty of Macao" formally established the status of the great powers of the Ming Empire, and since then there has been an additional heavyweight role on the stage of the great powers, the Ming Empire has entered the ranks of the great powers with a tough attitude, and has become a great power among the great powers as soon as it makes a move!