Pinching his nose is just admitting it, it is definitely not Fan Dimen's character, although he promised to pay compensation, it does not mean that he will be so easy to speak, and the two sides have to sit down for specific negotiations. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The responsibility for the negotiations fell to the embassy in Batavia, and the ambassador, Shi Wenchao, became the negotiator, and Van Dimen personally attended the talks with them, and the two sides agreed that there would be no misfire during the negotiations, which can be absolutely guaranteed.

After meeting, Van Dimen's face was obviously a little unsightly, after all, giving money to others to spend, where is there a good face, not to mention that he felt that he was not wrong at all, it was completely a trivial fuss by the Australians, the Australians did this just to get some compensation, or to attack Batavia, it was absolutely impossible for them to succeed in their plot, this was his idea, of course, Australia's real purpose was not so.

"Your Excellency, it is a great pleasure to see you, but I am very dissatisfied with what you have done, which is an act that seriously damages the relations between our two countries, especially since you and I are allies, and this is very unacceptable."

As soon as he opened his mouth, Shi Wenchao first asked, this is to take the initiative on his own side, after all, Australia actually knows about this matter, and it is impossible for Australia not to know that they sent spies, but they did not conduct such a systematic investigation.

After the investigation, this problem came out, there will be so many people, into various industries, this is the most dissatisfied with the Australian government, you send a few spies in no problem, but you infiltrate all aspects of various industries, this is a bit too much.

Although he knew that what he did was wrong, Van Dimen would never admit it, once he did, he would be convinced that this matter was directly related to him, and what he had to do now was to blame this on the local gang, after all, only in this way would the Viceroyalty of Batavia pay less.

Reducing their own losses is the most important thing, as for whether the Australians will pursue the problem of those local people, according to his guess, it should not, and the Australians who have been compensated should not be entangled in this issue, after all, this is not a big problem.

This is the compensation plan proposed by our side, the spy personnel sent by you have come to our side many times to steal and steal, which directly caused economic losses of up to 100,000 taels of silver, and at the same time caused certain damage to the production and equipment of the factory, so we hope to compensate for the cost.

100,000 taels, there is no lion in Australia, but this price is actually very large, this is not a small number, Van Diemen can really promise to give so much money to Australians.

Of course, as an additional compensation, the total amount has been as high as 150,000 taels, and as for whether it will be accepted, this still needs to be negotiated by the two parties.

However, according to the instructions of the locals, I feel that Van Dimen is very likely to accept this condition, after all, the most important thing for him to come now is to suppress this matter, and only after suppressing this matter can he have better cooperation with Australia.

If this matter is not suppressed, Australia may hold on, and then it will fall into a passive situation.

"Mr. Ambassador, I can assure you that this is definitely a misunderstanding, the Australian spies were not sent by Batavia, I think we should communicate more to reduce the misunderstanding between each other."

Van Dimen explained vigorously, and the most important thing for him now is to say that this matter has nothing to do with him.

It doesn't matter, but so much evidence is already very obvious, and it is not something he can shirk

"Your Excellency the Governor, we have testified that the prisoners have personally confessed, and they all point to you sending them to Batavia, and I am afraid that this matter is not a misunderstanding."

"Misunderstanding, absolute misunderstanding, you should know that this matter is not directly related to me, I can't interfere with the local decision, I just do things for them."

"Then do you have any problems with the compensation plan, if not, please sign it, our fleet still needs to go to Hong Kong, if you don't sign, they will definitely not leave."

Shi Wenchao's naked threat made Fan Dimen very unhappy, but there was no way, after all, the fleet parked at the door of the house was not a joke.

But he really couldn't accept the compensation of up to 150,000 taels of silver, so he looked embarrassed.

"This compensation is too high, and the entire Viceroyalty of Batavia can't afford to pay so much, Mr. Ambassador, see if you can reduce some of the costs. Or how about we deduct the expenses directly from the goods and the transportation of migrants. ”

The Dutch started out as a business, originally a country founded by a group of capitalists, and what they were best at was bargaining.

It is not impossible to pay for migrants and goods by transporting them, after all, Australia needs their transportation capacity, and they also need to pay a large amount of transportation costs to them every year.

This is a very high amount of money, accounting for one-third of the immigration funding, and the Executive Committee has been considering how to reduce this part of the expenditure in order to achieve cost savings.

But it's not as easy as you think, it's not so easy to save costs, this part of the cost is paid directly for transportation, if you want to reduce the cost, you have to negotiate with the Dutch, now it's okay to reduce the cost directly in this way, reduce the cost of transportation, and you can transport to more people.

For the Netherlands, it is very cost-effective to pay in this way, and the settlement of transportation costs is equivalent to a little less for them, but with real money, it is different, it is a real thing.

So they want to settle in this way, but for Australia, there is nothing bad about it, relatively speaking, it saves a fee, in fact, both parties earn.

"In this way, it only reduces your profits, but for Australia, you do lose some money, and if you do, you can't reduce expenses."

Shi Wenchao emphatically said that this method cannot reduce the cost, in fact, it is to force the other party not to bargain.

After some thought, Fan Dimen agreed, after all, he made a small part of the profits, and 150,000 taels of real money, of course he knew which was the best deal, this point is still very clear, otherwise how could he become a governor, before becoming an official, he was still a very good businessman, so he could naturally calculate the cost of this, and the most important thing was that he wanted to end this matter quickly and let everything return to normal.

(To be continued.) )