On November 5, in the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam, Peter Brown. Natz was witnessing the two envoys of the Ming Dynasty enter into a secret agreement with the company's seventeen directors.

The experience of following Song Xiance and Zhang Guoji in the past few months made him feel like a fool. Under his eyes, the two Chinese envoys, Song Xiance and Zhang Guoji, worked seamlessly together to applaud the members of the Helan Provincial Assembly, the directors of the Commercial Bank of Amsterdam, the directors of the East India Company, and the directors of the West India Company.

Under the operation of the two, of course, there is also him, Peter. For the first time, the credit for Natz's running around to carry out, supporting the Prince's West India Company and supporting the Republican East India Company, was agreed on the same thing. When this agreement is signed, it is obvious that the shares of the Dutch East India Company, which had plummeted in the past few months, will usher in a wave of rise, and the parliamentarians and directors involved in this agreement will make a big profit.

At the beginning, under the persuasion of Song Xiance, Peter. Natz forcibly persuaded the fleet to return, much to the displeasure of many captains. After all, every colonial war means loot income, although the Jinghai City established by the Chinese at the southern tip of Africa is not long, but with the wealth of the Chinese, they are likely to get a large amount of ransom, which is why many captains have taken the initiative to apply to participate in this fleet.

Until he returned to Amsterdam, Peter. Natz's heart was uneasy. Having disobeyed the orders of the company's board of directors and offended so many captains at once, he was actually very worried about whether Song Xiance would be able to redeem the company's hostility towards China, so that he would become a victim of the hostility between the two sides.

However, he did not expect that Song Xiance only let him let out the wind among the citizens of Amsterdam and inform the citizens that the Dutch East India Company had lost the Spice Islands, which caused a storm of stock plummeting, and put the seventeen-member board of directors in a great predicament, so that it was too late to ask him why he led the fleet back without authorization.

However, this action only delayed the time for him to be settled by the board of directors, and looking at the board of directors of the company that was besieged by the citizens, he felt that if the board found out that he had spread the news, he would probably have to choose to flee the republic.

But soon things took a turn for the better, and the Chinese mission, which had not traveled much for more than a month in Amsterdam, had studied all the information he had provided about the Republic, and the Chinese banker Zhang Guoji asked Peter to do so. Natz took him to visit the Commercial Bank of Amsterdam and the Dutch West India Company.

Zhang Guoji asked to visit the Amsterdam Commercial Bank. Natz wasn't surprised at all. After all, the Amsterdam Commercial Bank is now negotiating exchange cooperation with the Chinese, and it is inconceivable that the representatives of several Chinese banks do not visit the directors of the Amsterdam Commercial Bank.

But Zhang Guoji also asked to visit the directors of the Dutch West India Company. Natz was a little puzzled. There was no trade between the Chinese and the West India Company, and since the West India Company and the East India Company had always been very strong, he did not think that the Chinese befriended the West India Company would make the directors of the East India Company change their hostility towards China.

In fact, the West India Company has been doing poorly, although with the support of the Prince, the West India Company has launched an offensive against the sugar producing regions of northeastern Brazil, and has largely achieved its goal. But the region's sugar industry was also devastated by the war, and the West India Company not only failed to make a fortune from the war, but also needed shareholders to continue to invest in the recovery of the region's sugar industry.

The war between the Dutch and the Portuguese for Brazil also caused the price of sugar in Europe to rise, so that the Dutch East India Company took the opportunity to ship a large amount of cane sugar from Southeast Asia, mainly from Taiwan and Guangzhou, China, and made a lot of money.

The shareholders of the West India Company invested in the war and made a lot of money for their competitors, which undoubtedly made the shareholders extremely unhappy and put the directors of the West India Company under considerable pressure. Of course, this also makes the relationship between the directors of the two companies even worse.

Peter. Natz once wanted to persuade Zhang Guoji to dispel this idea, but in the end he couldn't resist the other party's persistence. So Peter. Natz almost gave up on himself, thinking about how to sell the property in Amsterdam.

But what he didn't expect was that since Zhang Guoji went to visit the directors of the Commercial Bank of Amsterdam and the Dutch West India Company, these two companies actually began to buy shares of the Dutch East India Company, helping the company stabilize its stock price. This strange situation once made the directors of the East India Company suspect that they had some kind of conspiracy.

It was only at this time that Song Xiance and Zhang Guoji visited the board of directors of the East India Company on behalf of Daming and showed their cards to the seventeen directors.

Zhang Guoji and the directors of the Amsterdam Commercial Bank talked about the exchange business, but it was not a simple exchange of funds on the Asia-Europe trade route. The exchange of funds on this route is, in fact, a one-sided exchange. After all, Asia exports a wide variety of goods, while Europe exports very few goods, coupled with the price revolution that Europe has completed, so that the trade between the two sides has become a one-sided surplus, and without the continuous flow of silver from the Americas, such trade is simply not sustainable.

Then the exchange business will benefit the most will be the Daming Bank, which lends to European merchants, and the Amsterdam Commercial Bank can only become a subordinate of the Daming Bank, which is why the Amsterdam Commercial Bank is unwilling to cooperate further with the Daming Bank and the Four Seas Trading Company, they want to share a part of the benefits belonging to the Daming Bank.

Zhang Guoji put forward a new proposal to the directors of the Amsterdam Commercial Bank, that is, to add the Americas to this trade route, and form a trade finance exchange business in Asia, Europe and the United States.

The core idea of this business was that American silver should not be shipped back to Europe, but directly across the Pacific Ocean to the Ming Dynasty, and then the Asia-Europe trade route would bring goods from Asia to Europe, and the merchants would throw the goods back and deposit the currency into the Amsterdam Commercial Bank, which would then send the currency everywhere.

The advantage of this concept is that the Commercial Bank of Amsterdam will not only be the financial center of Western Europe, but also part of the world's financial center. The Amsterdam Commercial Bank's current simple lending business to European countries will further become a control over the financial order of various countries.

For Daming Bank, Daming banknotes will be circulated throughout Europe through the Commercial Bank of Amsterdam, becoming the same currency as gold and silver. As a result, Daming Bank will become the world's financial center, and the trade exchange between countries will depend on the internal settlement of Daming Bank.

Naturally, the directors of the Commercial Bank of Amsterdam will not reject the suggestions of the Chinese, after all, in the new world that Zhang Guoji describes, they and the Chinese bankers are the masters of this financial world.

In order to build such a new world, the Commercial Bank of Amsterdam and the Bank of Daming are indispensable, and if you want to change the flow of American silver, you need to subdue the Spaniards first. Although the Spaniards were fighting against the Republic, the Commercial Bank of Amsterdam was the largest creditor of the Kingdom of Spain, and without their loans, the Kingdom of Spain could not even pay the salaries of its army. Therefore, only the Commercial Bank of Amsterdam was able to get the King of Spain to make concessions and order the diversion of American silver.

In fact, this was also beneficial for the Kingdom of Spain, as the desolate Pacific coast was clearly safer for the Treasure fleet than the increasingly large pirates of the Caribbean. What's more, this route will be protected by the Ming Dynasty in the future, which will allow the Spanish king to greatly reduce the cost of guarding the treasure fleet.

In the same way, only the Ming Dynasty can provide goods that are always in short supply in Europe. The huge amount of silver in the Americas can still provide goods of equal value without difficulty for the huge Ming Dynasty, so as to convert this huge wealth into capital and become part of the world economy.

Dutch bankers and Chinese bankers each took what they needed, and naturally they hit it off. As for the directors of the Dutch West India Company, they were troubled by the company's loss-making situation, but they were soon attracted by a new industry proposed by Zhang Guoji.

If there is any most valuable product in the Americas of this era besides gold and silver, it is naturally the rubber that has been rediscovered by the Chinese. Although the Europeans discovered this strange substance when they first landed in the Americas, the rapid aging of rubber made it only possible to make some novel toys.

When the Chinese changed the characteristics of rubber products in a special way, tires, raincoats, rain boots and other products made of rubber soon became a new industry. Among them, all kinds of rubber tires and rain boots, raincoats are the most popular among European armies, for the European armies that are fighting, these rubber products not only greatly speed up the marching speed of the army, but also reduce the proportion of soldiers infected with diseases, which can be regarded as strategic materials.

However, under the development of Mexico by Spanish ranchers, there are not many wild rubber forests in Mexico, and most of the rubber forests in Peru are in mountainous areas, which are inconvenient to transport. The British captains hired by the Ming found large numbers of wild rubber trees in the Amazon jungle, but now the export of this area is occupied by the Dutch West India Company.

Daming's industry needed more sources of rubber, and the Dutch West India Company wanted to find a profit growth point that satisfied its shareholders, so it was only natural that the two sides had a common language.

With the support of the Commercial Bank of Amsterdam and the Dutch West India Company, the directors of the Dutch East India Company found their position in the Republic extremely precarious. The Dutch provincial councillors behind these two companies were enough to replace all the members of the board of directors of the Dutch East India Company.

Even the members of the Dutch provincial council who supported them suggested that the 17-member board of directors should have a good relationship with the Chinese emissaries, so that they could clarify the incident about the Spice Islands and stabilize the company's stock price, otherwise they would be powerless to prevent other councillors from proposing a change in the board of directors.

Under this kind of internal and external oppression, Song Xiance and Zhang Guoji, who took the initiative to come to the door, naturally received a warm reception from the seventeen-member board of directors. The two sides not only reaffirmed the draft peace agreement from Batavia in a friendly manner, but also reached a number of new trade agreements.

The Dutch East India Company joined the Asian, European and American trade and financial order proposed by the Chinese, and gained a decade of monopoly power in Western European trade in rubber products (except for the British), and the Chinese mission will also clarify false rumors in public on the Amsterdam stock exchange that China has seized the company's spice islands.

In return, the 17-member board of directors presented 2 shares and 1 share of the company shares to Song Xiance and Zhang Guoji. Even after months of plunge, the market price of each company's share is 17,680 guilders. If the company's shares can then return to normal, the basic market value per share should be more than 25,000 guilders.

Come to think of this, Peter. Natz felt that his heart was dripping blood, why he had done such a great thing to save the relationship between the company and China, and the board of directors had not even given him a hair, which was simply too much.