The "leased land" was no stranger to every country in this era, with Britain, the United States, and France all having leased land in the Qing Dynasty, and the Netherlands having occupied leased land in many countries.

Leasing one's own country's land to another country is not only a serious loss of actual interests, but also a huge blow to the country's image and national dignity.

When Williamson heard that Lin Fei was going to lease land in Sulawesi, he was furious, waved his hand and knocked out the contract text in Lin Fei's hand, and said angrily: "I want our Dutch Kingdom to lease land to you, don't dream." ”

Lin Fei shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Mr. Williamson, if you don't agree to my rent-seeking request, then I'm sorry, I will retaliate against the merchant ships of the Kingdom of the Netherlands." ”

Williamson was furious, "Lin Fei, why did you take revenge on our merchant ships?" ”

Lin Fei smiled and said: "There is no reason, who let the - excellent - excellent - small - say - more - new - the most - fastest-www.uuxs.cc - you sank my transport ship, causing me heavy losses, I have no other choice but to seek a lease in the south of Sulawesi Island as compensation, but you do not agree to lease me land, I have no choice but to retaliate against the merchant ships." ”

It is said that "a weak country has no diplomacy", Williamson really realized this time, they are either natives or Chinese on weekdays, they are all guys who are slaughtered by others, so they never know what it feels like to be a "weak country", and today in front of the Chinese Empire, they are an out-and-out weak country.

Williamson sighed helplessly and said, "Mr. Lin Fei, I am not an administrative official regarding the lease of land, and I have no authority to decide ......."

"Shut up..."Lin Fei suddenly rolled his face and scolded sharply, "Since you don't have the power to decide, then what do I have to say to you?" Get out of here for me and find someone who counts. Lin Fei's sudden anger was actually a tactic to create psychological deterrence on the other side, and the Western powers had also used this tactic many times when they were negotiating with the Qing government, and many times they frightened the Qing court's negotiation envoys.

Williamson was really taken aback, his face changed even more, and after a while he relented, and said carefully: "Mr. Lin Fei, I will report this matter to the Governor of Makassar, but he is in the city of Makassar, please come into the city with me." ”

"Coming into town with you? Are you kidding? I only have a few hundred army guards in total, and I don't know how many Dutch soldiers are in the city, if I enter the city with you, will I still be alive? I will not enter the city, let your governor come out and negotiate with me. Lin Fei's tone was extremely resolute, and there was no room for a trace of doubt.

If Williamson dared not agree, their merchant ships would suffer, he had no choice but to agree, Lin Fei raised his watch, pointed to the dial and said to Williamson: "I will only give you an hour, and when an hour is over, if I still don't see the Governor of Makassar, then I will sink the largest merchant ship." ”

Lin Fei raised his hand as he said and pointed to the largest cargo ship in the distance, and Williamson hurriedly said, "I'll go back to find the Governor of Kassar." Williamson hurriedly got off the boat, got on the steam gunboat and returned to the shore, and after half an hour had passed, he saw a cruise ship coming from a distance, with a flag calling for negotiations, anchored and stopped not far from the Draco.

A dinghy came down from the cruise ship, when it was not very close to the Tianlong ship, Williamson was on the dinghy and invited Lin Fei to negotiate on the cruise ship, Lin Fei couldn't believe the Dutch, so he categorically refused, Williamson was very helpless, so he could only go back and bring a dozen people to Lin Fei's Tianlong ship.

To Lin Fei's surprise, only half of these people looked like Dutch, and the other half had blonde hair, obviously British, but Lin Fei wasn't sure that they were British, because the French, Germans, and Russians all looked like this, and there were also people like this in the Dutch.

Williamson introduced Lin Fei one by one: "This is the Governor of Makassar, Mr. Aridero, this is the ......translator of Mr. Governor-General" Lin Fei politely stretched out his hand and shook hands with them one by one, and soon the red-haired Dutchman finished the introduction, it was time to introduce those blond-haired people, Williamson pointed to a middle-aged fat man with blond hair and blue eyes and said to Lin Fei: "This is ......"

Without waiting for Williamson to finish speaking, the middle-aged fat man rudely "hey", interrupting Williamson's words, Lin Fei frowned slightly, he was full of disgust for this middle-aged fat man, the middle-aged fat man hugged his hands to his chest, and said to Lin Fei in a cold voice: "Mr. Lin Fei, your warship of the Huaxia Empire damaged our ship, you must compensate us..."

Lin Fei laughed coldly, my warship soldiers are approaching the city, even the commander of the Dutch fleet and the governor of Makassar have to be respectful to me, bow their heads to me, what are you to dare to speak to me with such an attitude? Lin Fei suppressed his anger, "Who are you?" ”

The middle-aged fat man straightened his chest, and two lumps of fat on his chest appeared, and he said proudly: "My name is Adriano Johannes, and I am the general representative of the Standard Oil Company of the United States of America to the Dutch East Indias. ”

"Standard Oil?" Lin Fei was shocked when he heard this name, this company was extremely famous in Lin Fei's time, it was ...... by American oil tycoons John Rockefeller single-handedly founded the largest oil company in the world in this era, how big is it? It's scary to say...

In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and should be dissolved, so Standard Oil was split into 37 regional oil companies, of which the former Standard Oil of New York was renamed Mobil Oil Company; The former Standard Oil of New Jersey was renamed Exxon Petroleum Company; The original Standard Oil of California was renamed Chevron Oil Company, and the three companies newly spun off, any of which can be among the top five oil companies in the world...

Standard Oil is so large that it is enough to influence the decision-making of the US government, so to speak, provoking Standard Oil is more troublesome than provoking the US government...

Lin Fei heard that Johannes was from Standard Oil Company, his face showed an extraordinarily stern sù, he stretched out his hand and said "hello" in English, Johannes looked at Lin Fei's hand, the hand held in front of his chest had no intention of putting it down, and smiled disdainfully, Lin Fei could only withdraw his hand in disdain.

Liu Daming, who was behind Lin Fei, was furious, and was about to make a move, but Lin Fei stopped him, lowered his voice and said, "He is from the Standard Oil Company of the United States, don't provoke him." ”

Liu Daming said disdainfully: "Isn't it just a broken company? What's the big deal? ”

Lin Fei said: "Standard Oil is very large, and the US government is behind it, and we can't afford to mess with it." Lin Fei pushed Liu Daming away, didn't look at Johannes, but looked at Alidro, and said with a smile: "Welcome to my warship, Your Excellency, let's come to the reception room for a detailed discussion." ”

Lin Fei spoke in English, because the Governor of Makassar did not have a Chinese translator, he could only translate English into Dutch, Johannes naturally understood Lin Fei's words, he stepped forward and said angrily: "Mr. Lin Fei, can I think that you are deliberately perfunctory to our Standard Oil Company?" Behind our company is the United States of America, and our fleet will not allow the dignity of the people of the United States to be challenged. ”

The United States in this era is the country with the fastest development of science and technology, it also has a strong fleet, in the eight-year Spanish-American War in the era of Lin Fei, the American fleet expeditioned to the Philippines, defeated the Spanish fleet, and captured the Philippines.

When Lin Fei heard that Johannes had brought out the American fleet as a threat, he had to treat Johannes strictly, he signaled his subordinates to take the Dutch to the reception room first, and then walked up to Johannes and asked: "You said that our battleship damaged your ship, this is absolutely impossible, our battleship only launched an attack on the Dutch warship, and there will definitely be no accidental damage." ”

Johannes snorted, "Mr. Lin Fei, you still don't want to admit it, okay, I'll show you our injured ship now." Johannes said, gesturing at the ship with his hand and saying, "Do you see the charred black at the stern?" It was your shells..."

Lin Fei looked at the position pointed by Johannes, and a wave of anger suddenly rose in his heart, the position at the stern of the ship was indeed scorched black, but it was not a cannonball at all, but a fire, and the Americans were shamelessly blackmailing...

Lin Fei sneered, "Mr. Johannes, I've seen people who can slander people, I haven't seen you guys so good at slandering, that piece of charred black is obviously burned out, if my shell really hits it, the explosion point must be a big hole, and the hull around the explosion point will be beaten into a honeycomb..."

Johannes spread out his hands in front of his chest, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Mr. Lin Fei, those stupid donkeys in Congress don't have the military literacy of yours, they can't tell whether it was a fire or a shell." ”

An ominous premonition rose in Lin Fei's heart, and he asked in a deep voice, "What are you doing when you mention the US Congress?" ”

Johannes said with a smile: "I can tell you the truth, Mr. Lin Fei, you seized the Philippines and Taiwan, the stupid donkeys in the Congress are so distressed that they want to live and die, they have long wanted to set foot in the South Seas, but unfortunately they have never had a chance, the Determination Ship incident some time ago, the Congress had already formulated an intervention bill, but later the establishment of the Lanfang Republic, this ended hastily." ”

Johannes said and pointed to the cruise ship and said with a smile: "That ship is called the Liberty, you don't think it's like watching the Liberty incident evolve into another Resolve incident, right?" ”

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