Early the next morning, Shi Lang returned home from the naval barracks, and reported to Fang Yuan, "Boss, the naval fleet can set off in three days, the boss has never seen the grandeur of the sea, let's go north with the fleet with me!" ”

Shi Lang's proposal was changed before yesterday, and Fang Yuan was very happy to accept it. But after last night's entanglement with the little bugs, Fang Yuan knew that if he stayed in Shifu, he didn't know what kind of mess he was going to cause. If Shi Lang saw the abnormality of the look between the two and became suspicious, then what else did he do?

Fang Yuan forcibly resisted the desire to visit the magnificent sea view, and said goodbye to Shi Lang, "Old Five, I want to rush to Quanzhou Port immediately to summon several presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, one step ahead, Old Five, you will immediately come to Quanzhou Port to meet." ”

Shi Lang obviously didn't notice the real reason why Fang Yuan was suddenly leaving, he just nodded, "Okay, I still have to rush to the barracks, and my wife will give the boss a ride." ”

Xu Ru Yingying came out, but she didn't dare to make eye contact with Fang Yuan, so the maid brought a big box and handed it to Fang Yuan, "Donkey, I saw you eat the most sauce fish for dinner yesterday, I made more than ten sauce fish overnight last night, take the horse to eat it on the road!" ”

Shi Lang was stunned and asked, "Is the sauce fish made overnight?" How did Madame know that the boss was leaving today? ”

Fang Yuan and Xu Ru were both stunned, Xu Ru said softly, "Husband, I said in the night dinner room last night that I was going to Quanzhou Port tonight, did you forget?!" ”

Shi Lang scratched the back of his head, he really couldn't remember if Fang Yuan said it, it was estimated that he was too careless to forget, so he smiled, "Hehe, look at my memory!" ”

Fang Yuan hesitated whether to accept Xu Ru's intentions, if he did, he still felt that he couldn't help Shi Lang, a man in the army with big nerves. But if you refuse in public, you want to cover it up, and it will show more traces and make people suspicious.

Fang Yuan hesitated, but still asked Hu Qi to take the box, and then arched his hand at Shi Lang and his wife, and then led the brocade guards to leave.

Xu Ru looked at Fang Yuan's departing back, her nose was sour again, and tears couldn't help but run down her cheeks.

Shi Lang saw her crying, and asked in amazement, "Madam, why are you crying?" ”

Xu Ru wiped away her tears and said softly, "I thought that I could go back to Jiangnan after this battle and see the princess again, so I wanted to cry with joy." ”

Shi Lang said guiltily, "Mrs. Hua'er and Shui'er are the same people, they should enjoy the glory and wealth in the gentle water town of Jiangnan, but they have to follow me to endure hardships in the army, I can't stand Mrs.!" ”

Xu Ru saw that he was in deep love, and after being married for one or two years, he still held himself like a goddess, lest he take care of him poorly, so he was moved to throw himself into his arms, and tears of shame gushed out.

The guilt in her heart was ten or a hundred times worse than Shi Lang's, and she was driven by lust last night and did something stupid. If it weren't for Fang Yuan's unruly sitting, which made her restrain from the precipice, how would she face Shi Lang today? It is estimated that he can only commit suicide by throwing himself into a well in shame.

Fang Yuan arrived at Quanzhou Port five days later, and when he traveled back and forth between Quanzhou Port and Zhenhaiwei, Qin Zhan, who stayed in Quanzhou Port, had already arranged everything.

Qin Zhan's communication skills are still first-class, and within a few days, he traveled all over the chambers of commerce of the countries of the Franco, ordering them to send a person who has the right to speak to negotiate with Fang Yuan, the trade between the countries of the Francophone and the Ming Dynasty, and the question of the ownership of Macao.

He even completed the secret task that Fang Yuan had confessed, that is, to seize the twenty merchant ships of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce involved in smuggling, the goods worth 800,000 taels of silver, and the crew of the Chamber of Commerce.

Fang Yuan's action this time was too big, not only to seize merchant ships and goods, but also to return the territory, and all countries felt the threat and urgency, and the presidents of the chambers of commerce of various countries all agreed to participate in this negotiation.

Because the Ming Dynasty only had trade relations with Western countries, there was no deeper diplomatic relations. These big chambers of commerce are nominally business organizations that do business, but in fact they are the spokesmen for the interests of various countries in the East, and the Oriental policies of various countries must be formulated according to the information fed back by these big chambers of commerce, and even have more say than those envoys sent by them.

Before this major diplomatic negotiation, the Chinese side originally arranged a wonderful program, that is, Shi Lang's artillery carrier formation first conducted a naval military exercise outside Quanzhou Port, and invited personnel from various countries and chambers of commerce to watch it from the high-rise buildings in Quanzhou Port.

At the climax of the military exercise, hundreds of guns of the main ship of the artillery carrier were fired in unison, and the sound shook the sky, and the whole earth trembled, and in an instant, a mountain forest in the military theater area on the shore was leveled.

This terrifying artillery carrier formation is still an unattainable behemoth in the eyes of the Franc aircraft countries that boast of naval warfare. The artillery carrier formation, whether it was the tonnage of the main ship, the iron armor of the defense, the number of guns equipped, or the excellent equipment of the battleship and the marines, all shocked these Franc machine merchants, and the seven souls were missing.

Before, they also thought that the Wanli Sea Frontier was the barrier of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise they would have been able to invade the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty and encroach on the territory of the Ming Dynasty. At this moment, seeing the jaw-dropping firepower of the artillery carrier formation, everyone was secretly glad that they were fortunate to have a sea border of thousands of miles as a barrier, otherwise, the Xuanjia Army Naval Division would be enough to defeat the navy of any country, including the naval powers of the Netherlands, Spain, and Britain. It is estimated that only by uniting the Western countries can it be possible to fight with them.

Fang Yuan laboriously put up this military exercise, the purpose was simple and clear, that is, to deter the countries of the Franc Machine, so that they put away the wishful thinking that they still wanted to use the navy to take advantage of the Ming Dynasty, and honestly return to the negotiating table.

At the end of the military exercise, an important negotiation related to the future direction of Daming's diplomacy has finally begun.

Fang Yuan, who was running back and forth, was already as tired as a dog, and handed over the heavy responsibility of the negotiation to Qin Zhan, who only participated in this negotiation as an observer.

In accordance with Fang Yuan's will, Qin Zhan announced the latest foreign trade policy in the south of the Yangtze River in public, and if the countries of Francois wanted to do business with Fang Yuan again, there were only two conditions attached.

First, the occupied territory of the Ming Dynasty must be returned first, and those who are unwilling to return it will immediately cut off the trade with the country from now on and send troops to recover it.

Second, they must not participate in any smuggling acts, and they will be investigated and dealt with together, regardless of the merchant ships of any country, including all the goods and merchant ships, and the personnel will be punished according to the crime of smuggling and the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

The first was against the Portuguese occupation of Macao, and the second was against the Spanish and Dutch people involved in smuggling. The only thing that doesn't matter to them, and who are ready to come and bargain for something, are the Britons.

Portugal, the British Chamber of Commerce and Fang Yuan are still allies, the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce Bruce first said, "Governor Fang, we Portuguese are the first to arrive in the Ming Dynasty, for more than a hundred years, we have exported muskets, artillery, astronomy and other technologies to the Ming Dynasty, as a thug for the Ming Dynasty to resist the Netherlands and Spain, and also hand over a lot of rent to the Ming government every year, and Macao was originally leased to us." ”

Fang Yuan had already inquired with the merchants of Quanzhou Port about the origin of Portugal's lease of Macao.

Bruce's words are five points true and five points false, before the Portuguese were indeed the first Western countries to arrive in the Ming Dynasty, but they were still rushing to plunder, and they were defeated by the Ming Dynasty a few times, so they died of the idea of plundering, and began to pretend to be cute, and began to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty.

Objectively speaking, no matter what the purpose of the Portuguese, it was true that they fought with the Ming Dynasty against the invasion of Spain, the Netherlands and other countries that later arrived in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the improvement of musket and artillery technology of the Ming Dynasty, the participation of the Portuguese is still meritorious, otherwise it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to imitate a large number of arquebuses and Hongyi cannons.

As for the issue of the lease of Macao, it was first occupied by the Portuguese under the pretext of drying the goods, and later it was through bribes to the officials of the Guangdong Political Division, who did not report the knowledge of the Guangdong, so that the Portuguese secretly seized Macao. The 'rent' in Bruce's mouth was the silver that was bribed to the officials of Guangdong, and the imperial court did not get half a tael of silver.

The Portuguese could be regarded as Fang Yuan's nominal allies, and there was no Portugal in the Eight-Nation Coalition that invaded China later. Fang Yuan didn't want to be too embarrassed by these Portuguese who were already sunset, so he glanced at Qin Zhan.