The news of Louis's successful counterattack reached Nanking as quickly as possible through the wireless and wired telegraph system, and when a large number of munitions, ignored by the Ottomans and excitedly helped by the Mamluks, began to flow across Egypt to Alexandria, loaded onto the French merchant ships waiting there, and then transported to Toulon under the protection of the French fleet, the news was also placed on Emperor Yang's desk. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"That's really good news."

Emperor Yang said with satisfaction.

Of course, what he said was not that Louis had succeeded in counterattacking, but that the Dutch parliament had approved the results of the peace talks, completely abandoning all unrealistic illusions of the Dutch government, and would pay the first batch of five million guilders to the Ming Empire, and pay the remaining five percent annually for the next twenty years until the payment was completed.

Of course, five percent interest is included.

Roll back!

In exchange, the Ming opened up the trade of Dutch merchant ships in the East.

In addition, the Dutch government first batch of 30,000 black slaves in exchange, in exchange for 15,000 Dutch prisoners of war, these black slaves will be shipped with the first batch of Dutch merchant ships when they arrive in the Ming Dynasty, and the same Dutch prisoners of war will also be transported with the ship, this group of prisoners of war are mainly soldiers of the navy and land, including all the captured officers, it is obvious that the Netherlands is having a hard time on the European battlefield, and urgently needs to replenish blood.

Similarly, this also means that the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands has officially come to an end.

"Do you want warships?"

Emperor Yang said happily to the Dutch envoy.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

The latter looked at him in disbelief and said.

"It's very simple, we have too many British warships captured in the South Seas, so I don't need so many ships here, so I'm going to sell them to the outside world, if you want to, you can go and talk to the people in the military department, but you better hurry up, the French have already offered to buy all the warships, even the Swedes have proposed to buy them, if it's late, it is estimated that you will not have any share."

Yang Feng said.

In fact, the Dutch were the first to know that he was ready to sell those ships.

And he was actually not ready to sell all those battleships to the French, as for Charles XII, he did not have the money to buy so many battleships, the latter mainly focused on the war with Peter on land, the latest intelligence is that the Swedish expeditionary force and a large number of followers of the Cossacks have already defeated Orel, if it were not for the cold winter to stop their footsteps, they should have come to Moscow at this time, but Peter the Great, who should have swept through the whole of Eastern Europe at this time in history, can only hide in the Kremlin and curse the injustice of fate.

Fortunately, he can still curse, and the other one who is as famous as him in the east can only be placed as a specimen in the hall of enjoyment in front of the Chongzhen Mausoleum, raising his head full of preservatives, staring at his eyeballless eyes, and asking the sky speechlessly.

Buy, must buy!

The Dutch envoy retreated as quickly as possible and ran to the military headquarters to contact him to buy a warship.

Although he did not know the news of Louis's successful counterattack in Europe at this time, he also knew very well that if the French obtained these battleships, it would be a real disaster for the Netherlands, and if they wanted to prevent the disaster from happening, they had to buy it as quickly as possible, even if only partially.

"Next!"

Emperor Yang said with satisfaction.

"Also, get the news out there."

Immediately afterwards, he pushed the telegram to Yang Zhong and said.

The main target of his release of this news was not the Dutch, after all, he knew that the protagonist of the European battlefield was not the Netherlands, and what he really needed to know about the news was the next person he met.

"If you knew today, why bother?"

Emperor Yang sighed melancholy.

"I have said before that I cherish my friendship with you, after all, at the beginning of the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, many British people also fought side by side with me, but you have repeatedly hurt this friendship, when I fought against the Dutch, you helped the Dutch, when Duo Luo slandered me in Europe, even the French and Swedes, who did not know me, were able to uphold justice, and you were behind the scenes, and when I put down the rebellion in my own territory, you ran to help the rebels.

I am really sad, why did I give my friendship and reap your betrayal? ”

He chattered like a resentful woman.

"Your Majesty, all this is caused by Duoluo's manipulation, you also know that our Queen is a devout disciple of the Lord, and Duoluo's various slanders against you have caused her to have a certain misunderstanding of you, and now our Majesty has woken up, and she regrets what happened before, and entrusts the contemptible person to convey to you her sincere apologies, hoping to obtain your understanding."

Howard said cautiously as he lay on the ground.

Britain can't hold on, in fact, it can't hold on, all the East India Company's colonies in Asia have been captured by the Ming army, and the navy has no warships east of the Cape of Good Hope to use, so what's the point of fighting this battle? Are two countries thousands of miles apart spitting at each other's inaudible voices? Britain still has a strong enough naval fleet, in fact, their navy still surpasses the Ming navy in terms of the number of battleships alone, but the problem is that those warships must be used to maintain the war against France, and it is impossible to send them to Asia.

In other words, you can't fight.

And this state of affairs was tantamount to chronic suicide for the British, the Dutch depended on the maritime trade of the East, and the British also depended on this trade! Just as the Dutch merchant ships rotted in the harbor, the British merchant ships also rotted in the harbor!

Since you can't fight, it's better to just admit defeat.

Anyway, if you don't admit defeat, there is no other choice, the entire Asian ocean is under Yang Feng's control, this guy can't say that the British East India Company will do business in Asia, then the British East India Company can only decay day by day, this is not a company, this is almost the entire United Kingdom, if the East India Company rots, basically Britain will lose half a life.

"So what is the way Anne wants to express her apologies?"

Yang Feng said coldly.

"The ......"

Howard was gloomy for a moment.

He knows the tragedy of the Dutch, this guy Chrysostom said that once the conditions are offered, they cannot be changed, and if they want to end the war, Britain will definitely have to pay reparations, in case he is not satisfied with the price, he will directly offer another 30 million, then there is really no place to cry.

"Your Majesty, our Majesty the Queen has written you a letter of apology, and has prepared some gifts to express my apologies to you, including a hand-embroidered embroidery of her and a portrait of herself, as well as some jewels for the Queen and the concubines, and as for the British Parliament and the East India Company, we are willing to negotiate with your government in some details on the restoration of peace between the two sides, and on the issue of reparations in the war."

Howard said.

What he means is that you are kings to kings, our queen apologizes to you, gives you gifts, and the rest of the intergovernmental negotiations can be carried out by our people.

"No need, I am the country, I am the government, I am the representative of the Ming people, even if I say it, you will compensate according to the standards of the Dutch! The indemnity of 30,000,000 guilders, or the equivalent of Sovereign gold coins, as for how many years to pay, negotiate with the people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then exchange twice as many black slaves for those prisoners of war, and of course all those colonies east of the Cape of Good Hope are ceded to the Ming Dynasty. ”

Yang Feng said unconsciously.

"Huh?!"

Howard was dumbfounded.

What about your imperial status? An emperor of the empire, you are embarrassed to talk to us about money in person?

He couldn't help but sneer.

However, he also knows very well that since Yang Feng has spoken, then this condition cannot be changed, in China for so many years, he knows very well what Chrysostom Yuyan is, what the emperor said is impossible to bargain, at most it is to talk about the time to pay the indemnity, and there is an example of the Netherlands, it is normal for Yang Feng to offer the same conditions.

"Your Majesty, but we also have a request."

He gritted his teeth and said.

"Say."

Yang Feng said.

"Your country stops arms exports to France."

Howard said.

"No, trade is free, I want to sell to whomever I want to sell my freedom, no one has the right to interfere, and you have no right to negotiate terms with me, I want to sell arms to France, I want to sell arms to France, and it is not your turn to dictate, just as I want to sell arms to you, I will sell you arms, and the French have no right to dictate either."

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty can let go of the arms sales to us?"

Howard said in surprise.

"As long as your first indemnity is paid and relations between our two countries return to normal, then you can buy what the French can buy, and in view of Anne's good attitude of admitting her mistakes, I can also give you a special preferential treatment, you can redeem your captured warships, and as for the price, you can negotiate with the Ministry of War yourself."

Yang Feng said.

"Captured battleship?"

Howard exclaimed, a little out of shape.

"Yes, the captured battleship."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

There were quite a few battleships in this batch.

Because the unprotected cruisers of the Ming army are sailing out of the docks in batches in the form of dumplings, the old sail battleships of the Ming Navy are gradually being decommissioned, especially those battleships below the third level, which are basically useless, why not sell them?

His unprotected cruisers were not wooden, not even iron-ribbed wooden ships, but serious steel, with shells of hot-rolled steel more than an inch thick, which were not at all the thirty-two-pound and twenty-pound guns of European battleships that could be pierced by solid pig iron shells at a distance of a thousand meters. What's more, his cruiser also has watertight compartments, as well as complex internal compartment designs, even if these shells penetrate the shell, at most they will make a big hole in the steel plate, which will not cause substantial damage at all. Moreover, the firepower of these unprotected cruisers could not let such an enemy get close to within a thousand meters, and the terrifying eighty-pound cannon in the front and rear and five twin forty-pound ear guns on each side made them full of the smell of Bao Li.

Even more terrifying is that they also have a speed of more than eighteen knots and a displacement of more than a second-class battleship.

In fact, with a speed of eighteen knots alone, they can already be said to be invincible.

Well, this cruiser is called the Invincible class.

And twelve such cruisers have already been launched, and more than thirty more are under construction in the dockyard.

With them, does Yang Feng still need sail battleships?

Not only the captured battleships, but also the sail battleships of the original Ming Navy were also packaged and sold, and in the future, Yang Feng will only retain the original and add new prisoners in the navy, a total of twelve sail battleships, all of which are three-deck, and at least seventy-four guns, and the main task of these battleships is not to fight, but to serve as training ships to train sailors.

As for the rest......

Sell them all!

Both battleships and cruisers were sold.

Anyway, it's hundreds of warships.

Britain alone can't eat it, even if it adds the Netherlands, France, Sweden, and Spain are all in his customer list, and the Ministry of War now has a special office responsible for the sale of these warships, and he wants to stuff this huge sea force to European countries at once, so that these guys will compete more fiercely in the Atlantic.

His frenzied frenzy of selling ships quickly caused a sensation in various countries.

It's really madness.

Who has ever seen the sale of almost the entire naval fleet as if it were a self-defeating martial arts?

At this time, European countries in the Ming Dynasty have their own diplomatic or commercial institutions, even if there is nothing, there are also their own intelligence personnel, after the news of the Ming warship auction spread in the newspapers, people from all walks of life immediately began to send news to their own countries in various ways. Even the Ottoman Empire and Oman were shocked, they also had their own sources of intelligence in the Ming Dynasty, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty sailed to all parts of the world at the same time, the merchant ships from all over the world also sailed to the Ming Dynasty, which has actually become the center of the world, and the prosperity of Yingtian City has long been praised in the world.

And now, the center of this world is once again releasing a strong wave like an earthquake, and the news of the sale of almost 80% of the warships of the Ming Navy is spreading at the fastest speed.

This includes twenty-four pounds, which can be called terrifying at sea, that is, thirty-two pounds of front-loading rifled guns.

Anyway, the British bombed the French Navy so much that they didn't dare to leave the port before, what did they rely on? Isn't it the twenty-pounder rifled gun purchased from Daming?

And that's thirty-two pounds.

It can be said that whoever owns these warships can immediately become the well-deserved hegemon of the European seas, especially at this time the news of Louis's successful counterattack has spread, no matter who is in Europe at this time, even if it is only in terms of quantity, no country can have the same number of battleships, although there are no large ones, but those medium battleships equipped with thirty-two-pounder rifled guns are fully capable of fighting any European second-class battleship.

And this batch of Yang Feng sold a full seventy such battleships.

It's fair to say that the whole world is crazy. (To be continued.) )