The process of tribute or negotiation was boring, and the only thing worthy of praise was that when Chen Jian proposed to let the officers of the Beijing camp and the ministers of the military department watch the military drill and salvo performance of the flintlock pistol, he did not get an answer of "it is okay to watch it, it is okay not to watch it", but received praise from the people.

After visiting Ye Xianggao, the leader of Donglin at this time, Chen Jian talked about topics such as morality, tax supervision, and returning to the government, and won the welcome of this friend to the point. Anyway, these people have never considered solving the crisis at this time from the institutional and technical level, and Chen Jian likes to talk about the heart and morality.

At this time, it was the time of the competition between Donglin and Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, and around the matter of Li Sancai's entry into the cabinet, it was a Beijing inspection more than a year later, and Beijing was in the hands of Donglin; Nanjing was in the hands of the Qichu and Zhejiang parties, and the two sides were working hard to find evidence of each other's crimes, and they did not care about the possible impact of Chen Jian and others' trade, nor did they think about the consequences.

After the final negotiations, Chen Jian was given the coveted treaty.

The Republic recognized the legitimacy of the Emperor of Chixian Shenzhou and the jurisprudence of the tributary system, and must not interfere in the internal affairs of the state within the tributary system; It was not possible to trade with several tributary vassals without permission.

Merchants of the Republic were allowed to reside in Quanzhou, Fuzhou, and Zhangzhou, but they were subject to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, except that they enjoyed two less and one lenient treatment as outsiders, and at most they were deported and returned to their hometowns.

Taiwan was allowed to be temporarily borrowed as a transit point for goods for a period of 20 years, and the rent was waived but 2,000 flintlock pistols and eight long-barreled cannons were to be used as tribute, and they were to enter Beijing as tribute within three years. The rest of the tribute was paid every ten years, but trade was allowed in Fujian and Guangdong outside of the tribute.

The quota of five people was allowed to enter the Nanjing Guozijian to study, and some people were allowed to travel around the country, and Chen Jian and others were allowed to choose a place to live in Beijing, buy a house or build a school.

appointed a person as a naturalized citizen, joined the Qin Tianjian as the five official calendars of the nine products, and asked the Ministry of Rites to compile a new almanac, in fact, Donglin took the opportunity to attack the Qichu Zhejiang party faction.

In his capacity as the envoy of the Western Domain, Chen Jian nominally had the qualifications to comfort Taiwan, and paid 1,500 taels of silver every year. This position is not hereditary, but the specific official position is decided by Chen Jian's side, and after it is decided, it is reported to the Ming court and officially licensed and certified.

Chen Jian was allowed to trade in the port of Yue, and the import and export goods on board were taxed at about three percent of the appraised value. An eight-percent tax is levied on goods entering inland waterways, which are recorded as stamps, and the rest of the taxes and fees are no longer required along the way.

Each trading ship returning to Yuegang had to carry fifty stone of rice, which was tax-free and tax-free.

Trade with Japan is prohibited. They are not allowed to employ Japanese as private soldiers or slaves.

Chen Jian was allowed to cruise between Ryukyu and Taiwan, and he had the obligation to send troops if he encountered a raid by the Japanese invaders. At the same time, a eunuch was sent to follow Chen Jian, who was responsible for inspecting the ships that were smuggling to Japan, and once discovered, they were immediately seized, all the goods were confiscated, and the ship's owner and crew were sent back to Fujian for disposal.

In case of emergency, such as typhoon, etc., it is possible to anchor at a coastal port, but it is not allowed to carry weapons ashore when entering the port.

Because Ryukyu had just experienced the war, the Ryukyus were exempted from paying tribute, and the tribute was changed from one tribute every three years to one tribute every ten years.

Chen Jian was allowed to send people to Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and other places to promote sweet potato cultivation and corn cultivation as a low-level official of the Ming court.

Chen Jian is allowed to explore for minerals in remote places such as Qiongzhou, and if he wants to mine, he needs to report it, and if he gets permission, he needs to pay a mining tax.

Twelve people were selected to be stationed in the Beijing camp to teach the method of fire drilling. A new-style school was opened in Fujian to train those who could operate guns.

…… Basically, this treaty was quite beneficial to Chen Jian's plan, and the most coveted name was settled.

As for the question of whether or not to trade with Japan, it is just on paper, and no one can control it.

Cruising around the Ryukyus to combat smuggling can firmly grasp the opportunity to monopolize the smuggling trade. Although it will arouse the opposition of some smuggling interest groups, it can also take this opportunity to attract some maritime merchants to participate in monopolistic trade.

The purpose of the contract is only to make some actions legal and in accordance with the general righteousness, such as anti-smuggling. In the case of complete decay of customs and taxes, the anti-smuggling thing means that only the state officials are allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps.

If the hand is stretched out a little longer, after a few years the joint-stock company grows and the fleet is formed, the smuggling business will basically be cut off: either join the company or be seized.

This is not something that can be solved by a word or a treaty, this is something that can be solved by dozens of warships.

The painless identity of a consolation envoy also gave Chen Jian the legitimacy to interfere in major events such as the establishment of a chieftain in Liaodi in the future. It may not be that he came forward in person, anyway, this name is similar to Toast.

When this treaty was signed, it was already the end of the year, and seeing that this year was about to pass, Chen Jian was about to usher in his tenth year in this world.

It was not an exceptional year, but it was a good year for the signing of treaties. While Chen Jian was busy with treaties in Beijing, the other side of the world also signed many treaties and sent many envoys that year.

Under the various treaties, the whole world ushered in a temporary calm, but behind these fragile treaties, even greater chaos is brewing.

In The Hague, the nobles of various countries and the Ministry of Rites of the Republic sent the first envoys to Europe to witness the signing of the Ten-Year Truce between Spain and the Netherlands.

This agreement has a great deal to do with the Republic.

In last year's battle, Spinola was keenly aware of a gap during the attack on Maurice, but the four Dutch companies equipped with new flintlock pistols blocked the gap with the rapid mobility of horizontal columns rather than phalanxes, and the two field guns in the form of mercenaries quickly moved to the vicinity of the gap under the pull of the horses, and the shelling and the rapid salvo of flintlock muskets caused Spinola to suffer heavy losses and did not break through the gap.

This was the first appearance of flintlock pistols and rapid-mobility field guns in the European theater, and it was also the first time that the cousin of the Swedish **** Gustav II after serving in Maurice's army witnessed a system that was different from the previous tactics, which deeply affected the nobleman.

At the same time, this victory also made Morris more prestigious, and aroused the vigilance of the supporters of the Grand Speaker, and the debate over war or peace planted the seeds of political and religious chaos in the Netherlands in the future.

Spain is exhausted and in dire need of rest. The existence of the Republic had been exposed to the existence of the Republic three years earlier, and the Spaniards were afraid that an alliance between the Republic and the Netherlands, if not an alliance, would cause panic in the provinces of the southern Netherlands, if not an alliance, but only by providing loans, weapons and even mercenaries.

Spain, with unprecedented speed of response, contacted the Republic's envoys to Europe. As a result of the pre-established policy and the report submitted by Jian Chen to the repatriation of the form, the Republic soon signed a strange convention and a treaty of trade and a secret treaty with Spain.

The name of the convention is the "Anti-Piracy Convention", and there are only two signatories to this convention, the Republic and Spain, and no other countries agree to this convention.

According to this treaty, any privateer was considered piracy and was not treated as a prisoner of war if discovered, but was charged with piracy. Spain and the Republic will not finance privateers of any kind.

In fact, Spain had no interest in privateers, and only begged others not to rob him. The Nanyang Trading Company hated pirates, which severely affected much of their trade; The developed handicraft industry in the country needs an export market, and the workshop owners and industrial capital are eager to open up free trade everywhere; Because of the development of the handicraft industry and the revolution of handicraft machinery, the ideology gradually leaned in the direction of free trade.

This pitiful convention, signed by only two countries, does not govern European affairs, but only the archipelago and the Viceroyalty of Spain. Although Ying and Dutch were angry, they were helpless because their hands could not reach there.

Behind this convention is a trade agreement and a secret treaty between the Republic and Spain, which go hand in hand.

The trade agreement allowed the Nanyang Trading Company to buy a ship with a royal monopoly on trade for a certain amount of pesos per year, while allowing two legal ships per year to travel to the Spanish Viceroyalty for the trade of certain goods.

This made the Spanish royal family extremely painful, and they also knew that two trading ships with legal specific commodities and one ship with a monopoly on trade meant at least ten or even a hundred times the smuggling, but there was no way. Because they urgently need to sign a secret treaty with the Republic.

At the cost of the trade treaty, the treaty hoped that the republic would not support the Netherlands, send military personnel, not provide loans to the Netherlands, and maintain absolute neutrality in the war between the Netherlands and Spain, otherwise the trade treaty would be canceled.

The ink on the treaty had not yet dried, and the first people of the European republics to go to the world took advantage of this opportunity to hold a seminar in The Hague on "sovereignty, territory, territorial sea, colonial ownership, island naming rights, and the difference between nominal and actual control in visual discovery, landing and discovery."

All parties rushed to tell each other, each with its own purpose, and actively participated in this seminar. However, contrary to the Anti-Piracy Convention, it was the British, French and Dutch who were extremely active in this matter, and Spain solemnly protested against this and was extremely dissatisfied.

I didn't say anything, but the participating countries agreed that the Pope's right to belong to the meridian and the New World was bullshit, illegal and unreasonable. Not only do we not admit it, but we also need to make it clear that it is wrong.

As for how it is legal and reasonable, these countries in the second group of countries participating in the Great Voyage are highly consistent on some issues. There is no absolute legitimacy and reasonableness in this thing, but if anyone is not legal and reasonable, let him understand what is legal and reasonable, so after a long time, it will be absolutely legal and reasonable.

Clearly, it's a group of idle scholars, aristocrats, or politicians who are talking nonsense.

In fact, it was the prototype of an "anti-Habsburg alliance".