Early the next morning, Clive, the head of the delegation of the Dutch East India Company, arrived at the General's Mansion with a retinue, and the little nobleman who had been staring at Sophie yesterday was among them.

Fan Jinyan also heard Sophie say last night that the father of this young man named Mark was an executive of the East India Company and had a lot of influence in the Netherlands.

The implication is that Sophie means to let Fan Jinyan endure everything, and it's okay to say two words that don't hurt, but try to avoid conflicts.

Fan Jinyan is a person who is afraid of things?

If he had been afraid, he would not have achieved what he has today.

In fact, in Fan Jinyan's opinion, beauty! Everyone loves to watch it, but everything has to have a degree, once it exceeds that degree, no one cares what identity you are, what background you have, just turn your face.

As soon as he sat down, Fan Jinyan didn't have time to speak, but Mark, whose eyes had been on Sophie, ignored Fan Jinyan and said something to Sophie.

All of a sudden, the faces of the entire East India Company delegation were more ugly than pork liver. Clive trembled with anger, and scolded the boss who temporarily installed this troublemaker in his heart.

Sophie didn't pay attention to him, but turned her head and translated these words to Fan Jinyan, "Dear Sophie, we met again, where have you been in the past two years?" ”

After listening to this, Fan Jinyan nodded, looked up at the Dutch kid with a lewd expression on the opposite side, and said, "Boy, pay attention to the occasion before picking up girls." Also, if you want to figure out the object and don't want to be blind, it's best to remove your dog's eyes. ”

After hearing the translator translate Fan Jinyan's words, Mark snapped, pressed his hand on the table, stood up from the chair, and said to Fan Jinyan with a gloomy face: "You dare to insult a noble nobleman, you want to provoke a war between the two countries?" ”

Mark dared to say such a thing, in fact, it is not unreasonable.

Because of the recent naval battle, the Ming Dynasty lost a large number of warships, and now it is completely relying on the alliance with the Netherlands to barely keep the coast of the South China Sea from being raided by pirates. If the Dutch had deteriorated relations with the Ming at this time and no longer helped them deal with pirates, the Ming coastal defense would collapse in an instant.

But what Mark didn't know was that all of this was due to Fan's words.

Threatening him with a war between the two countries is simply a joke.

What's more, the alliance between the Ming and the Netherlands must have betrayed some interests, as the son of an executive of the East India Company, what right does he have to decide whether to go to war or not? Even Mark's father did not possess this ability, unless his father was a powerful director and a high-ranking Dutch official.

Fan Jinyan smiled nonchalantly, and did not pay attention to the mark that ate him, but looked at Clive, whose face was extremely ugly, and said: "I'm really sorry my friend, you may need to leave, I accept your declaration of war, let's see you on the battlefield!" ”

After saying that, he got up and was about to leave.

Before Clive came, his boss made it clear that the purpose of the trip was that he must get the agency of the entire Western route, even if he sacrificed some of his interests.

But the damned Mark provoked the other party again and again. Now the young general doesn't even seem to have the intention of negotiating, and actually wants to solve it directly with war.

Damn, can't young people be more mature now?

Seeing that Fan Jinyan had already left his seat, the distracted Clive reacted, and hurriedly stood up and said, "No, my friend, we are here with sincerity. ”

"Sincerity?" Fan Jinyan turned around, pointed at Mark, who was also obviously stunned, and sneered: "This is your sincerity, not only blaspheming General Ben's lover, but also threatening me with the relationship between the two countries." I will accept this sincerity and use your warships to talk about cooperation! ”

"No, no, no." Clive waved his hand repeatedly, "You misunderstood, Mark has no right to represent the Netherlands and represent the company in anything." ”

After saying that, he shouted to Mark: "Mark, don't apologize for your stupidity, if you mess up, your father won't be able to save you." ”

At this time, Mark suddenly came to his senses and remembered his father's imminent explanation, "Son, although I am the governor of the Java headquarters, if you don't have merit, I can't promote you at will, go!" Before the British East India Company, take the agency of the West, and in the future my place will be yours. ”

Casting a grateful look at Clive, Mark bowed his head to Fan Jinyan and admitted his mistake, "I'm sorry, please forgive me for my recklessness." ”

At this time, Fan Jinyan returned to his seat, but did not mention the matter of cooperation, but said to Mark: "Do you know what kind of punishment you will receive for your actions according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Without waiting for Mark to speak, he continued: "Threatening officials, blaspheming officials' families, and blaspheming serving officials are all capital crimes. I forgot to explain to you, Sophie is my fiancée, and she is also an instructor in the Qiongzhou Navy, and the Minister of Commerce is just helping to translate for General Ben this time."

Fan Jinyan blew nonsense for a while, and stunned Mark for a moment, and no longer dared to look directly at Sophie, whose eyes had been staying on Fan Jinyan.

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.

Sophie didn't expect Fan Jinyan to say that she was his fiancée in public, she was nervous and excited, indescribably excited, and her eyes were full of love when she saw Fan Jinyan.

But Clive is mostly excited, he doesn't care who Sophie is, but cares about Sophie's identity as Minister of Commerce, everyone is Dutch, so isn't this cooperation negotiation simpler?

The next step was to get straight to the point, Clive meant to buy out the agency rights of the entire South Seas to the West, and the goods of Qiongzhou would be sold by the Dutch East India Company.

Obviously, this is a pit.

On the surface, Qiongzhou was only responsible for production, and the sales were completely handed over to the East India Company, so there was no need to worry about sales.

But in reality, it's a huge pit. If he agrees, Fan Jinyan will be equivalent to putting his economic lifeline in their hands.

As soon as the contract was signed, the Dutch East India Company would lower the price if it wanted to. Invisibly, Fan Jinyan is equivalent to working for them.

Of course, if you raise the price and I will lower the price in the negotiation!

Fan Jinyan only agreed to sell the sales rights of the West, as for Nanyang! No need to talk, I sold it to you, Lao Tzu's caravan drank the northwest wind.

And not only is the price not preferential, but it is also higher than that of Qiongzhou merchants.

Of course, after some haggling, the two sides finally reached an agreement, and Fan Jinyan sold the Western sales rights of soap, soap and several other goods to the Dutch East India Company, and the ex-factory price was the same as that of the local merchants. However, the condition was that the Dutch East India Company was not allowed to sell in the South Seas, and that it was also required to pay an agency fee of 100,000 taels of silver to Qiongzhou every year.

Both sides were happy in the end, and it was not until the delegation of the Dutch East India Company left happily that Fan Jinyan sneered in his heart and bought it! Help me earn more money, accumulate funds, and soon you will know that you will regret it. (To be continued.) )