The right to trade at sea is very simple to say, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is just trading with each other, you buy me and you sell and I sell, there is nothing strange about it.

But in the eyes of Europeans, this is indeed a remarkable thing, to give a simple example, if you ask a person three or four hundred years from now, what business is the most profitable, they will definitely tell you in unison that it is a "monopoly"!

Yes, it's a monopoly, as long as you monopolize something, even if you sell cow dung, you can make a lot of money. After the beginning of the Age of Discovery, first Portugal, then Spain, the Netherlands, England and other countries appeared on the Obaro continent one after another, and they divided one sphere of influence after another in the world.

The colonists moved the world's resources and any luxury they could see to their own countries through maritime trade, wielding muskets and artillery to monopolize the sea trade routes, and frantically plundering everything they thought they needed. And all this, thanks to the so-called maritime trade.

Now that Pang Gang has proposed this maritime trade right, he is to tell these Dutch people led by Putsmann unmistakably that Brother will never do anything to watch a large amount of gold coins be earned by you, and Brother will also participate in this spoils sharing conference, and I will sell my things directly to the Obaro continent, and as compensation, I can say that a very advanced technology will be provided to you for free.

Now that the general of the East has made it clear that he will also be directly involved, there is no way for you to engage in monopoly. So Puttersman was embarrassed, if he agreed to the general's conditions, it would mean that in the future, there would be a steady stream of Ming merchant ships that would go directly to the Netherlands and the Obaro continent, and then the countries of the Obaro continent would have one more competitor and one more person to grab food.

Reason told Putsman that he should not agree to this request, but at the same time, he also knew very well that if he did not agree, his relationship with the Ming general would deteriorate rapidly, and the situation he had finally opened in Qingzhou would return to the original deadlock.

This is a two-choice multiple-choice question, but this multiple-choice question makes Putsman embarrassed, time passes little by little, and finally Putsman slowly raised his head and looked at Pang Gang and said slowly: "Your Excellency General, to be honest, your request makes me feel very embarrassed, you must know that maritime trade rights are a very cautious topic for any country, and I, as the governor of His Majesty the King stationed in Taiwan, do not have the right to agree to your conditions, that is the power of His Majesty the King, so I can't promise you anything."

Seeing that the other party's face gradually became ugly, Putsman hurriedly said: "But the only thing I can promise is that I can report your request to our King Majesty, and I think His Majesty will give you a satisfactory answer." ”

Pang Gang also knew that he couldn't push the other party too hard, and everything had to be done step by step, so he agreed: "I have seen your sincerity, but there is a proverb among our people, time is money." Taiwan and the Netherlands are thousands of miles apart, and it takes almost a year to make a round trip, so I have a compromise here, we can send a mission with your people to the Netherlands to meet your Majesty the King, what do you think? ”

"This" Putsman thought about it, this is also a way out of the way, he is just a governor, there are some things that should give His Majesty the King a headache.

"Alright then!" Putsman finally nodded, "I'll arrange for people as soon as possible, I don't know how large a mission you plan to send to my country?" ”

Hearing this, Pang Gang smiled slyly, and he stretched out two fingers: "It's not much, it's just a dozen ships, less than two thousand people." ”

"Two thousand!" Putsman crossed his mind for a moment, feeling that although the two-thousand-person mission was a bit larger, there must be a lot of businessmen mixed in it, but these were not problems, and after thinking about it, Putsman nodded in agreement, and finally asked: "Your Excellency General, since this is the case, do you plan to hand over my cement manufacturing materials to me now?" ”

"Hahaha" Pang Gang couldn't help laughing, these red-haired ghosts are just this bit virtuous, but Pang Gang didn't want to be so cheap for them, he continued: "I can give you these materials on how to make cement, but not now, we can't hand it over to your king until our mission arrives in your country, and you have to promise us that I don't care what you Dutch do in the Obarro continent, but you must not produce cement in the East, can you do it?" ”

"Oh, you're afraid we're going to disrupt your market!" Putsmann understood, and he understood this, after all, no fool would give someone else the manufacturing process of a thing and let someone else seize his own market, isn't that sick.

Putsman immediately nodded and said, "Your Excellency, you can rest assured, I can promise you this on behalf of His Majesty the King, and make a contract. ”

"That's good, in that case, let's go and prepare, and we'll be ready within half a month at the latest."

Seeing that the other party had the intention of expelling the guest, Putsman also stood up, "Okay, Your Excellency General, then we will take our leave first." ”

"You're good to go, don't send it!"

Looking at Puttersman, who was a little stupid, Hua Yan, who had been silent beside Pang Gang, couldn't help but ask: "My lord, do you really want to pass on the method of making cement to those Yi people?" This is our cash cow! ”

Pang Gang sighed lightly, turned his head to Hua Yan and said, "Hua Experience, do you think that even if we don't pass on the secret of cement to Yiren, how long can we keep this secret?" The production method of cement is not a profound and difficult thing to understand, any person only needs to work in the cement factory for a few months to figure it out, if these people really want to spy on these secrets as long as a little heart can figure it out, rather than being stolen by someone at that time, it is better to sell it generously in exchange for some things, do you say this reason? ”

"That's right, but I'm still a little unhappy to give them something for nothing." Hua Yan still couldn't figure it out.

"Governor Lin, do you think so too?" Pang Gang asked Lin Feng, who had been pondering.

Lin Feng shook his head slowly, "I don't think so, I think that if I can exchange this recipe for the right to trade with the Yi people, it will be a big profit, the only thing that makes the low position puzzled is why those Yi people agreed to our request to send a mission to their country, you must know that if our trade route with the Yi people is unblocked, their interests will definitely be affected, are they so stupid?" ”

"You guys, you still haven't figured out one thing." Pang Gang sighed and said, "No one in this world is a fool, and the same is true for that Yiren, don't they know that we will share their interests?" No, they knew, and they knew it very clearly, but they still agreed, not for other reasons, but because he saw our strength. ”

"Strength?"

"Yes, it's strength." Pang Gang said affirmatively: "The scale of our Qingzhou sailors is getting bigger and bigger, so far we have six Spanish galleons and twenty Dafu ships, as for those ships of about 1,000 materials, there are as many as seventy or eighty, such strength is already a force that cannot be ignored by Obarro, let alone a few warships in Taiwan, if it really provokes us, they will have no good fruit to eat, and then they should have a headache about how to keep Taiwan. In the final analysis, it's still the strength that is at work! ”

After Pang Gang's explanation, Hua Yan and Lin Feng suddenly realized that their adult was fighting with that Yiren just now. The reason why the adults handed over the cement formula so happily just now, and asked the Yiren to allow themselves to do business on the other party's territory, relied on their own warship cannons, and the other party had to pinch their noses and endure it because of their own strength, it turned out that strength is the basis of cooperation between the two sides!

"My lord, let's do this business with those Yi people, okay?" Although after Pang Gang's explanation, Hua Yan still hesitated, the gentleman does not speak for profit, and if the adult is so naked to do business with the Yi people, he is afraid that it will damage his reputation.

Hua Yan's concerns Pang Gang naturally saw it in his eyes, he sighed slightly and said nothing, there were some things he didn't say clearly, so he could only leave them to let them understand slowly.

Some historians in later generations believe that the fall of the Ming Dynasty was triggered by the overexploitation of gold and silver, so there is a saying that "the death of the Ming Dynasty is a sign here".

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang inherited the standard of silver currency, but what made it difficult for him was the lack of silver.

Huaxia has never been a place rich in gold, silver and copper, and the Chinese people have a very bad hobby in Pang Gang's opinion, that is, they are keen on the collection of precious metals, and countless merchants and rural landlords like to put countless hard-earned gold and silver in the jar, and then bury it deep in the ground, in order to prepare for the need or leave it to future generations.

However, the prosperity of commerce in the Ming Dynasty put forward more demand for gold and silver, and the material development of the people was enriched, but there was no corresponding precious metals and currency to support this system.

In the late Ming Dynasty, in order to mine gold and silver, the Wanli Emperor actually made a state of "no land is opened, and the middle envoys are out", and the trouble was that "the group of small people took advantage of the situation to extort money, which is tantamount to doubling the situation, and the people are not able to make a living", so that the official Tian Dayi said in the sparse music: "The emperor is greedy for profit, full of wolves and tigers, flying and eating people, so that the people peel off their skin and suck the marrow, rip off the flesh and bones, and lose their families."

(To be continued)