"On what terms?" Matthew asked, hoping for his own survival.

"First, I also have a company called Huaxia West India Company, if you want to do business with Huaxia, you can only do business with West India Company." Li Guo said nonsense.

Nie Xin, Liu Tichun and the others looked at each other and thought, how can there be!

Li Guo pretended not to see the expressions of Nie Xin and the others, and then said, "Second, your Dutch ships are not allowed to cross Malacca. ”

"This." Matthew was only a mid-level officer in the East India Company's army, so he hesitated.

Li Guo understood, and said with a smile, "I'm not letting you call the shots, and you can't be the masters!" I'll write to the managers of your East India Company, you stay here first, and I'll send you back when the arrangements are ready. ”

"Thank you, thank you!" Matthew kowtowed to Li Guo.

Li Guo waved his hand, and Matthew stepped back.

"Master Tiger? You just said, what do we have? West Stomach Company? Nie Xin and Liu Tichun asked with wide eyes.

"It's the West India Company!" Li Guo corrected, "This company is doing business with those foreign devils, doing maritime trade, you don't know, maritime trade is a trade that can make a lot of money!" ”

Nie Xin, Liu Tichun and the others were ignorant, so Nie Xin said to Li Guo, "Master Tiger, you just said that you want to do business with these Dutch? We can't see it properly, these foreigners have yellow hair and green eyes, it's not a good thing! Those who are not of my race are unpredictable. If we want to do business, we will do it ourselves, why bother to fake others? ”

Li Guo shook his head and scolded with a smile, "What words!" It's not my race, it's unpredictable. The Tarina that Lao Tzu married today is also not of my race. Could it be that she also has bad intentions? Open your eyes a little. ”

"Master Tiger, I also feel inappropriate. Let's do business with the Dutch. Don't lose money. I mean let's do our own business, and the Dutch dare to let it go. Fuck it! Liu Tichun also agreed with Nie Xin's thoughts.

"No! We don't know much about maritime trade, so we can learn by doing business with the Dutch. Besides, I would love to control the maritime trade myself, but we should now make the pacification of the Central Plains and the unification of China our first priority, so I do not want to start a naval war at this time. Li Guo said.

"But even if you are trading with the Dutch, who will you send? We can't do it without reliable people! Nie Xin saw that Li Guo had already made a decision. There are some worries.

Li Guo nodded, this is a problem, it is necessary to choose a suitable candidate. Although the time is ripe to operate like a real joint-stock company, this is not the right time.

Just thinking about it, someone suddenly came to report that the money from trading in Zhangjiakou had returned.

"What? Old money? How did he get back? Call him. Li Guo commanded.

Qian Duoduo had been waiting outside for a long time, and when he walked into the house, Li Guo asked him to sit down and drink.

Qian Duoduo smiled bitterly at Li Guo, "Master Tiger." I was doing business outside the customs, but my identity was still exposed. Fortunately, I am familiar with people, so I escaped the capture of the Tartars outside the Guanwai and the Ming Army in the Guannai. Fortunately, I had already prevented this and sent someone to set up a new business. It doesn't affect our business, but I couldn't stay in Zhangjiakou, so I came to Guangxi. ”

Li Guo, Nie Xin and the others laughed unconsciously.

Nie Xin said, "Tiger Master." But whenever you do something, it is always like God's help. I was worried that there was no one to do business, but this person who did business came. ”

Li Guo also smiled and said, "Old money." Just when you came, you can't shirk your hard work, and you have to do a deal for me, but this time you have to make a big deal! ”

"Big deal?" Qian Duoduo's eyes lit up.

"Not bad." Li Guo told him his plans to do business with the Dutch at sea.

Qian Duoduo is a businessman, and he immediately realized that this business is really not small. "Good! Master Tiger, if you don't worry about me, I'll do this! ”

"Don't worry, let's plan this matter well." Li Guo said.

To set up a so-called West India Company, it was not enough to have more people than one person, and it required a lot of staff. However, Li Guo thought about it, and the personnel themselves had it.

The first group of people, the Portuguese who occupied Macau and Malacca at that time, were recruited from among them with a few hundred clever men to enrich the West India Company.

The second type of people are the people that Li Guo has been recruiting and who came to Li Guo from Europe. Now, there are quite a few of these people, but all the things they did in the past have been transferred to the business.

The third type of people are the people that Li Guo has been cultivating. In the halls of Xihai University, thousands of children and soldiers have begun to learn various subjects, including European languages. Li Guo will also select people from here to serve as the backbone of the West India Company.

So, where was the West India Company located? Malacca, of course. Li Guo is determined to build Malacca into a world-class and ultra-prosperous political, cultural and military center.

Just do it! Li Guo took Qian Duoduo and others and began to get busy. After a busy few months, the West India Company was officially established in Malacca.

The West India Company had as many as 2,000 traders, which was quite a few, but Li Guo had his own idea, that is, to cooperate with the Dutch for the time being, and to expand his trade routes when he had the opportunity to expand his trade routes in the future. In addition, a special department of economics has been set up in Seohi University Hall, all of which are designed to train future trade talents.

Since he wanted to regard Malacca as an important trading capital, Li Guo emigrated many people there, including people who fled from the Central Plains to Guangxi, and many immigrants from Annam. To put it bluntly, these people are laborers. After all, there has to be a job.

Entertainment venues have also been established. Including casinos, brothels, snacks, restaurants, hotels, cloth shops, salt shops, grain and oil stores, etc. The West India Company had ownership of the facilities, but Li Guo ordered the operation of the entertainment venue to be subcontracted, and the West India Company charged a certain operating fee. Don't underestimate these industries, they will make more and more money.

Of course, at the beginning, no one dared to charter those shops, so Li Guo wrote down a paperwork, so that the people who chartered the shops would not need any money within three years, and those who could not maintain it for the time being could also enjoy subsidies. Under the instigation of Li Guo, some wounded soldiers and elderly veterans who fought with Li Guo and were injured on the battlefield began to get involved in this industry.

So, if you want Malacca to become unusually prosperous, you need to have the strength to maintain this prosperity. Li Guo allocated another 10,000 tiger troops to Ma Shiyao.

Since it is a sea communication artery, warships are indispensable. Fortunately, Li Guo's navy developed rapidly. In the Beihai Sea of Guangxi, nearly thirty large warships have been built. Of course, this cost a lot of silver, which is why Li Guo has always wanted to carry out all kinds of trade.

Li Guo transferred ten of them to Ma Shiyao, and Ma Shiyao's strength is now getting bigger and bigger, which is enough to protect the safety of Malacca.

After doing this, Li Guo ordered someone to find the captured Dutch officer Matthew. (To be continued......)