"I'll give you enough time to think about it, come on, take him down!"

Yang Feng looked at the Dutch envoy and said proudly.

Immediately afterwards, an attendant stepped forward and took the Dutch envoy out with a chamberlain from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to consider. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, it is the next step of negotiations, but since His Majesty the Emperor said that the indemnity of 30 million guilders, then this number is absolutely not allowed to be changed, what is called Chrysostom, how can the emperor's words be changed, this Dutch fool may bargain if he negotiates with someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but since he is negotiating, then there is no bargaining power, but at this time the Netherlands does not have the ability to pay 30 million guilders, but this is not that it cannot be negotiated, because the payment period can also be negotiated, after all, for Yang Feng, The important thing is to receive compensation.

And he now needed the Dutch merchant ships to help him dump goods into Europe, otherwise he would not be able to have only the British East India Company as a partner, as for his and the Swedes' Universal Company......

Sweden had too few merchant ships.

Charles XII, despite his ambitions to join the ranks of the maritime trade, was still a newcomer, not to mention that he was busy with the war with Peter, and he actually did not have much money.

Even with the addition of Daming's ocean-going merchant ships, the size of this global company's fleet is still far from being comparable to that of the Netherlands.

The sea coachman is not blowing, at this time almost half of the merchant ships running on the sea are Dutch, and it really adds up to tens of thousands, at least in ten years, no one can shake their position, even the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty, this takes time to accumulate.

What's more, at this time, the maritime trade was almost all on the belt of the head, and when the Celestial Empire sent by Yang Feng to Europe arrived in Europe, one-tenth of the people had already died, and the mortality rate like the Zhuyuan did not need to be fussed at all. At least before the new propeller merchant ships were popularized and the trade bases along the route were established, it was still difficult for Ming merchants to have much interest in running Europe, after all, they had Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East, East Africa market, and there was no need to run to Europe.

In that case, it would be better to re-establish this trade route.

As for whether the Dutch will agree......

They have no bargaining power.

Almost all the sources of oriental trade are controlled by the Ming Dynasty, from China's silk tea industry to Southeast Asian spices, and even Ceylon coffee are all in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming said that if they don't sell to the Dutch, they don't want to touch these things, and without their merchant ships it is not a big deal for the Ming Dynasty, it is nothing more than to make less money, but without these trades it is a matter of life and death for them.

Thirty million dong is actually not much.

The Dutch East India Company had only made profits for more than a dozen years before, but they had been in business for a hundred years, and at the height of their time in Taiwan, they had made no less than a million dollars a year through various entrepot trades.

And now it's just a matter of letting them spit out a part.

Yang Feng guessed well.

Soon the Ming Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch envoy had a separate negotiation, telling him that it was impossible to change 30 million guilders, because this was the emperor's golden words, no matter what the circumstances could not be changed, the only thing that could be negotiated was the time to pay this indemnity, and the latter realized that he had made a very serious mistake, and he should not directly study this issue with Yang Feng, since this is the case, there is only time to negotiate and pay.

He hoped that it would be in thirty installments, with the first two million payments, but not interest.

However, this is not possible.

In the end, after continuous negotiations between the two sides, a plan acceptable to both parties was finally reached, the first batch of indemnity is five million guilders, or gold at the current exchange rate of the Ming Dynasty, in short, five million guilders, more than 30 grams of a large horse sword silver coin needs five million, when will the indemnity be sent to the Ming Ministry of Finance, when will the Ming and the Netherlands resume normal relations, that is to say, the Dutch merchant ships can go to the control area of the Ming Dynasty for trade.

As for the transfer of the colonies, this must also be done before that.

And the remaining 25 million dong must be paid within the next ten years, but the interest will be calculated!

However, in order to show Emperor Yang's generosity and benevolence, those captured Dutch can be released home, of course, they have to send their own ships to pick them up, and it is not really unconditional release, you must know that these Dutch prisoners of war are important labor on construction sites in the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch must be exchanged for twice the number of black slaves, and the prisoners of war who are still alive add up to about 40,000 people, which means that the Dutch must take 80,000 black slaves in exchange.

Good thing it's simple.

There is no shortage of this in Africa, in fact, black slaves are so cheap in East Africa that it is tearful, and the purchase of a strong adult male slave in Zanzibar is only a few dozen guilders, and the reason why the price is relatively high in Daming is only because the death rate by sea is too high.

But the Dutch won't care about that!

If it doesn't work, they can still catch it themselves, anyway, it is much more cost-effective than a ransom of two hundred dragon dollars to buy those prisoners of war.

Of course, this is also much more cost-effective for Yang Feng, and it must be admitted that blacks are much better at work than whites, not to mention that he is still one for two, losing 40,000 laborers but can be exchanged for 80,000 better laborers, such an exchange is obviously more cost-effective for him, as for the problem of deepening the suffering of the African people......

Well, at this time, the Ming Dynasty's text description was the same as that of the Europeans, and they used it instead of him for these big animals.

In this way, the Ming and the Netherlands ended the war between the two sides that lasted for many years, and then the Dutch envoy needed to return to Europe to report to the Parliament, at this time the Netherlands actually had no consul, after William III died of illness in England, his sister-in-law Anne inherited the British throne, but she certainly did not have the right to rule the Netherlands like William, so the Netherlands abolished the consul again as a few decades ago, and ruled the country directly by the parliament, so this plan needs the approval of the Dutch parliament, if the Dutch parliament approves, They will send another envoy to formally sign.

Of course, they will approve it, and if they don't, then continue to rot.

"Your Majesty, a telegram has been sent from Nanjing, saying that the new furnace of the Wujin Iron and Steel Plant has produced steel, and the quality is not inferior to the previous one, and it can smelt a hundred tons of steel at a time."

Xiao Guizi said to His Majesty the Emperor with a smile on his face.

Emperor Yang, who was sitting in the newly built glass conservatory admiring the flowers, watching a group of palace maids in ****** and crop tops dancing there, or according to the standards of this era, should be said to be yin opera, nodded with satisfaction. This is his private entertainment time, so only eunuchs and palace maids can come in, and there is a swimming pool next to him, and there are more than a dozen sexy young palace maids swimming in bikinis at his feet, although it is snowing outside, but the dense radiators around him are enough to ensure that the temperature in this greenhouse is close to summer.

He's wearing dragon pants at this time!

As for the new furnace of Wujin Iron and Steel Plant, of course, it is the Martin open hearth, although the converter has been widely used in Daming, and even private steel plants have appeared in large numbers, but in the absence of a super-large oxygen converter, you have to rely on the open hearth, although the steel made by the open hearth may be of slightly worse quality, but the problem is that this thing can be made big at will! The converter can achieve a capacity of several tons with his current technical strength, and no matter how big it is, it will definitely not be able to do it, let alone hundreds of tons, so that a few hundred tons of things can be turned over at will, and the power required is very terrifying.

The open-hearth hearth, however, is fixed.

It's no problem for this thing to make hundreds of tons of capacity.

And he next wants to make steel ships such as large hydraulic presses, and so on, but also have to rely on this kind of thing, although the ton of Daming is 600 catties, but 100 tons is equivalent to 60 tons of modern steel, a furnace can smelt 60 tons of steel, just this furnace, a day can smelt more than 180 tons, three such furnaces a year of steel, is equivalent to the entire Wujin Iron and Steel Plant a year with converter smelting.

This is the real big steel industry.

"Send a report to Shao Tingcai that at least 20 such steelmaking furnaces will be built across the country by the end of next year."

He said with pride.

Lao Shao is now the secretary of his Ministry of Industry.

"Lord Shao said in the telegram that if we build too much, we won't be able to supply gas."

Xiao Guizi said.

"Then burn oil, burn heavy oil, tell Yang Zhong to go to Brunei immediately, go and buy all the pieces of land I told him before, and then start to get down the drilling rig to pump oil in the position marked on the map I gave him, and then go to the shipyard to order thirty oil tankers first, and then it will not be enough."

Yang Feng said without hesitation.

This problem is very easy to solve, how troublesome it is to burn gas, just burn heavy oil, anyway, there are no cars in Brunei now, basically the crude oil is mined and the kerosene is sold to light the lamp, and most of the remaining oil is sold cheaply to those steamship merchants to pour coal into the boiler, it is just right to make steel with this thing, the only problem is that it is just transported by sea, but in any case it is cheaper than using gas, which needs to be produced manually.

But then he needs to lay the pipeline.

Fortunately, the Changguo Iron and Steel Plant is close to the sea and the Wujin Iron and Steel Plant is on the edge of the Yangtze River, as for the Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant, there are Qinhuangdao Port, Tianjin Port and railway to transport, and Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant can also directly pull the oil pipeline from Haizhou Port.

In short, it's just a trifle.

In short, his age of great steel is about to begin!

Emperor Yang stood up excitedly.

In front of him, there seemed to be a spectacular scene of countless 10,000-ton ships riding the wind and waves on the sea, he seemed to see the majestic momentum of countless giant steel machinery running non-stop, and he seemed to see the magnificent pictures of countless railways intertwined like spider webs.

"This is my country!"

He opened his arms and yelled, and then threw himself into the middle of the bikini-wearing palace maids. (To be continued.) )