On the morning of the next day, Zhu Daolin invited the Spaniards, who were about to return to Manila with nothing, to have breakfast and hold talks on the future trade between the two sides and the Ming expatriates who had settled in Luzon.

In the name of the general of the Ming Empire, Zhu Daolin handed over an official letter to Asnar, who succeeded Sanchez, to "ensure the safety of the personal and property and legitimate interests of the expatriates of the Ming Empire".

After the Spaniards lost the trade routes with Japan, trade with the Ming Empire became more important, and in the embarrassing situation of silver shortage, Zhu Daolin gave Spain a preferential policy of bartering and a 2% trade tariff at the port of Tamsui, and the proposal of the two sides to set up commercial pavilions in the port of Tamsui and the Port of Manila to deepen contacts and resolve disputes between them, which was immediately agreed by the Spaniards.

The preferential policies and goodwill expressed by Zhu Daolin were undoubtedly a relief to the colonial authorities in Manila and the Spanish East India Company, and even the two Catholic priests, who had always been arrogant, could not help but put down their shelves, expressed their gratitude to Zhu Daolin for his open-mindedness and generosity, and kindly expressed their desire to deepen ties and cooperate with each other.

Subsequently, Asnar and Feng Shengtai signed a two-year trade contract on behalf of both parties.

The two sides will set up merchant pavilions in the ports of Tamsui and Manila respectively, and the merchant ships of the two sides will travel freely, and the Spanish East India Company will sell all kinds of timber, copper and iron, cotton, livestock, rice, sumac, spices, plant seeds, and American rubber for a long time to the Great Tomorrow Industrial and Commercial Trading Co., Ltd. or all the merchants who have opened trading points in the Tamsui port, in exchange for ceramics, silk, tea, mirrors, and various handicrafts produced by the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing off the Spaniards who had left in a hurry, Wang Zhaohuan, Feng Shengtai, and the generals all showed knowing smiles, believing that they had achieved diplomatic and trade victories, and that they would have a safe and stable development environment for at least the next two years.

Only Zhu Daolin did not show any smile on his face.

Knowing that the Spaniards in the twilight of the sun had made a big bargain again, Zhu Daolin couldn't say anything.

In order to deal with the ambitious Dutch, in order to curb the rapid development and growth of the Zheng family in Fujian. He had to continue to make the Spaniards cheap, otherwise he would probably make enemies on all sides, and in the end he would not be able to hold even the hundreds of square kilometers of Tamsui Port and Hsinchu, which had been quietly settled.

Therefore, Zhu Daolin made up his mind that he could not take the initiative to anger the Spaniards for at least the next two years, and could only drive away the Dutch who occupied the southern part of Yingzhou Island. Only by completely controlling Yingzhou Island in his own hands can he have the ability to go toe-to-toe with the Spaniards.

Just when Zhu Daolin decided to return to modern time and space as soon as possible, went to Duan Deming in Guizhou Province to order the machinery and equipment needed by the Longtan Machinery Factory and the two ammunition factories, and by the way brought back the weapons and equipment that had been backlogged for several months, the cargo fleet from Baoshanwei sent a top-secret urgent report:

More than a dozen squires in Shanghai County, Jiading County, and Taicang Prefecture used the excuse that Baoshanwei immigrants crossed the border to reclaim the land, and they raised a group of people to stir up difficulties and encourage villagers in various counties, towns, and villages. The destruction of water conservancy facilities in settlements and the beating of migrants in settlements resulted in the tragic death of 14 migrants and the serious injury of hundreds of people in six settlements.

At the same time, more than 100 pirates of unknown origin suddenly attacked Chongming Middle Island, and Du Bailian, a hundred households on Chongming Middle Island, and more than 60 officers and soldiers under his command were killed or missing, and the two newly issued 80-ton patrol clippers and most of the weapons and equipment were all robbed!

Due to the urgent need to deal with many incidents in Baoshanwei, Zhu Daolin could not stay at Tamsui Port to bid farewell to the fleet leaving for Europe. The only way to do this is to convene a military and political meeting again to discuss countermeasures.

This time, the Portuguese paid the balance of 1,840,000 taels of silver after deducting the payment for the warship. Zhu Daolin stayed in Yingzhou, of which 800,000 taels were given to the garrison for military expenses, and the remaining 1.04 million taels were used for infrastructure construction in Taipei County and Hsinchu County.

After the meeting, Zhu Daolin left Feng Shengtai, Li Changlong, and Bargas, the heads of the visiting mission, to make final adjustments to the affairs of the visit to Europe.

Zhu Daolin asked that the visiting fleet pass through Malacca, Goa, and major ports in southern Africa. As much as possible, get in touch with the merchant offices or diplomats of various countries, and then sail directly to Lisbon, Portugal, which belonged to the Spanish Empire, and dock at Lisbon, where they submitted diplomatic letters and gifts to the King of Spain, requesting that the place of trade be set up in Lisbon, and striving for the establishment of the Ming Empire's permanent general commercial office in Europe. He then traveled to England and France, where he presented diplomatic letters and gifts to the royal family.

Zhu Daolin specifically advised that if the Swedes could not be contacted, the letters and gifts submitted to the Swedish royal family would be requested to be handed over by the British royal family as originally planned.

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In the sixth year of Chongzhen, March 11, midnight, Hushan main courtyard.

Ye Liangchen put away a few documents on the table, rubbed his sour and swollen eyes, set up a stack of letterheads, picked up the brush and was about to write, when the dog Huzi who was crawling at his feet suddenly jumped up and ran out of the door, and after a while, there was a low voice of excitement.

Ye Liangchen immediately put down the brush, put on a thin cotton coat, and hurriedly came to the door of the main hall, and saw Zhu Daolin happily holding the big head of the tiger at a glance, constantly rubbing, and the male dog that followed the porter Gu Laobo, couldn't help grinning.

Zhu Daolin put down the tiger who shook his head and tail, entered the main hall, nodded to the two maids who bent down to salute, and helped Ye Liangchen to walk to the study: "Time flies so fast, in a blink of an eye, the two puppies have grown into big dogs, and a year has passed." ”

Ye Liangchen smiled: "Ten months to be exact, haha!" The general just returned, right? ”

"Hmm."

Zhu Daolin nodded and did not continue to respond.

Four days ago, Zhu Daolin left Tamsui Port to return to modern time and space. He rushed to his good brother Duan Deming and stayed for three days and three nights, spent one day counting the number of goods in stock, settling all the payments, and gathered the engineers and technicians in the factory with Duan Deming for the remaining two days and two nights to demonstrate and revise the construction plans and equipment procurement of the two machinery factories, and re-listed a series of steam engine power processing equipment and two sets of small smelting and forging equipment required by the two machinery factories, for which Zhu Daolin paid Duan Deming a one-time advance payment of 35 million yuan.

Half a month ago, Zhu Daolin put 17 obsolete containers full of weapons and equipment into the C-shaped warehouse of the military warehouse, and piled up 25,000 square meters of metal fabrics for making chain mail, 300 tons of medium-carbon steel, and 500 tons of tool steel accumulated over the past few months into the empty B-shaped warehouse.

THE 17 CONTAINERS RETURNED CONTAINED THE FINAL DELIVERIES OF 28,700 FLINTLOCK GUNS, 11,000 MORTAR BARRELS IN THREE SIZES, 36 STEAM ENGINES IN TWO MODELS, AND 50,000 PARTS AND PARTS OF 11MM BOLT-ACTION SINGLE-SHOT RIFLES AND SPARE PARTS.

After this huge batch of weapons and equipment is shipped back, Duan Deming's side will no longer manufacture all kinds of weapons and equipment for Zhu Daolin in batches, and it will be convenient to concentrate on manufacturing a series of steam powered machinery and equipment for Zhu Daolin.

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