For some time afterward, the focus of the Joan navy shifted to negotiating with the Europeans. Professor Li Mingyuan, Pang Yu, Zhao Lide, dismissed -

He as a representative of Julì,

and Ling Ning and several other people formed a negotiation team began to negotiate with the Dutch and the Spaniards respectively.

The Committee attached great importance to this - in their view, it was an important milestone for the Joan Navy and its trading companies to open up the European market, out of Asia and into the world. Its importance is comparable to the original negotiations with the Ming Dynasty, and even surpassed. As a result, the Committee has paid great attention to this, and has even asked the negotiating team to make a routine daily report and provide the latest information at any time.

However, as Ling Ning had previously analyzed, this negotiation was actually much simpler than the original negotiation with the Ming Dynasty - although the Qiong navy at that time tried to create a sense of dominance on the scene, they actually had a request from the other party. After all, they want to build an independent kingdom on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, even if there is force to ensure this, but the other party has to pinch his nose and admit it, which can be regarded as a successful negotiation.

Besides, what kind of faction are the officials of the Ming Empire? If you want to say that you are arrogant and arrogant, there are no people in your eyes, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are much more powerful than the Europeans, although even big celebrities like Qian Qianyi were polite to them later, but when the two sides first came into contact, even a mere appeasement Si Jian Shi dared to call them to their faces, "Barbarians, this side can't turn their faces on the spot, although they can use some small means to trick each other, but in the end, they still have to rely on those people to deal with the Ming Dynasty."

In contrast, the negotiating team is much more calm when negotiating with the Europeans, and the key is to have confidence - the European side is not like the Central Plains continent, only the Ming Dynasty can cooperate with it, and there is no other semicolon. They had a lot of choice to work with - Ade went to great lengths to get the Spaniards over, precisely so that the Dutch would be fully aware of this and not make unrealistic plans.

The Dutch did appreciate his "kind reminder that the old Gorman commander withdrew all the terms of monopoly on trade the day after he saw the Spaniards, and began negotiations under the framework offered by the Joan navy." By the way, he no longer dared to call himself "Sir" in the conversation, - the East side may not understand much, but if the Spaniards, who attach great importance to such things as genealogy and blood, know that he calls himself a nobleman here, even if it is not his own business, they will certainly not mind embarrassing him and sabotage their negotiations by the way, so old Gorman does not dare to take risks.

And even if he was cautious and recklessly took the initiative to move closer to the terms of the Joan Navy, the negotiations would not be smooth sailing. For he was not just dealing with the Joan Navy - when the Dutch envoy led by Old Gorman first sat down at the negotiating table, there were three groups of men sitting opposite him!

Although everyone here knows that the Qiong Navy is the leader, they do not sit in the middle of the negotiation table, but sit in the front of the negotiation table, but a Ming Dynasty official wearing a gauze hat, wearing a robe, and a proud face - that's right, if they want to open the market in Southeast Asia, the main owner they need to find is the Ming Empire, even if the Qiong Navy is under the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

Any agreement reached between the Dutch East India Company and this side must be carried out in the name of the Ming Empire.

Realizing this made the old Gorman and the others quite embarrassed, after all, they were not really ready to deal with this big country in the East, if it was before, maybe they could take advantage of the fact that Da Ming did not understand the situation in Europe to pretend to be the "envoy of the king of the Netherlands" or something like that, but now they absolutely dare to know them to the bone, and playing swagger and deception is just to bring humiliation on themselves.

Fortunately, the Qiong Navy did not embarrass them too much in this regard, and in fact, the Qiong Navy did not want the Ming Dynasty to get too involved in this matter - any official of the current Ming Dynasty, even Wang Pu, who had been in contact with them for a long time, and was the most deeply influenced by them, and the most enlightened Jinshi official, still did not know anything about international affairs. It's okay to pull a Ming Dynasty official to make a signboard, but if you really want them to meddle in specific affairs, it will definitely only add to the chaos.

Therefore, the person they found to make the signboard this time was Cheng Yegao, the newly appointed prefect of Qiongzhou, and the one who had cooperated with them for the longest time and was the most "obedient". Cheng Yegao didn't stay long in the negotiation venue, he showed up a few days ago, and then he stopped appearing. The reason for the external claim is that the Netherlands is not an official country at present, and it is not qualified to communicate with the Ming Dynasty on an equal footing. Just a trading company, the Qionghai Trading Company can deal with it, and there is no need for the court officials to get too involved in it. At most, the first few days will start and the last few days will end.

The Ming court represented by Cheng Yegao did not make any trouble for the Dutch, but there was still a force at the negotiation table, and it was not so easy for them to raise their noble hands - the people of the Zheng family.

Although Zheng Zhilong came to Hainan in person this time, of course he could not personally bargain at the negotiation table, and it was still his brother Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Cai's think tank that came forward to represent the Zheng family. But the first thing the two did when they got to the table was to roar - yelling at the Dutchman, and if it weren't for the fact that they didn't have weapons on them, they might have just done it.

In fact, Zheng Zhihu had already clenched his fists and rushed towards the Dutchman, but I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, he was passing by Xie Xi when he rushed, and then as a matter of course, he was hugged by Lao Xie and stopped his brute movement.

Although the behavior of the Zheng family representatives is not very reasonable, it is very reasonable - the Dutch attacked the port of Xiamen, killed and wounded countless Zheng family sailors, and caused heavy losses to their fleet, although the culprit who caused this qiē has been annihilated at the mouth of the Tamsui River, but since the people in front of them are also from the East India Company, they will definitely be regarded as enemies by the Zheng family. At the very least, this attitude should be put on display.

Since the Zheng family put on a posture of singing black face at the beginning, then Qiong Haijun had no choice but to sing red face - to put it mildly, it was considered to persuade the two Zheng family, but the other party also made a request - it is okay to negotiate, and the matter in front of you will be resolved first. Your East India Company inexplicably attacked my Ming territory, destroyed and plundered property, killed and injured a large number of soldiers and civilians, this account is not clear, what to talk about, the two sides can only continue to fight one way!

This is a good reason, and the Zheng family's request is not just a private person - Zheng Zhilong has an official rank, and he has also been entrusted by the governor of Fujian to seek justice from the Dutch. The Dutch bullied the weak and feared the hard, and did not dare to harass the Qiongzhou side, but they did a lot of bad things in Fujian, and now that they are soft, they will definitely have to pay the price for their previous actions.

Old Gorman shouted loudly, saying that you have already dealt with all the attackers? But the Zheng side was resolute - eliminate the attackers, that's our business. Those people are employees of your company, and as the boss behind the scenes, how can you not have an explanation for this?

said a righteous and stern word, but the other party was speechless.

It surprised Pang Yu and the others a little - Zheng Zhihu has always felt like a big boss, when did he have such a sharp tongue? It seems that his eldest brother is behind the scenes, and it is really not ordinary.

Regarding Zheng's request, Qiong Haijun also agreed. Whether in terms of national righteousness or moral rules, the East India Company will definitely have to give an account of this -- both sides have met each other in arms, and if they can still be so lightly mixed up, then in the future, anyone can come to our Daming coast to burn and loot, and then turn into a self-proclaimed trading merchant, do we all have to pinch our noses and admit it?

Therefore, Professor Li quickly set the tone in the early stage of the negotiation - let's not talk about any trade issues first, you should first talk about compensation with the Ming side, when the Ming court, as well as the Zheng family's losses and compensation issues are negotiated, and then we will continue to talk about business cooperation.

Old Gorman and the others were very helpless about this, but they could only go down according to this step-not to say that this request was completely reasonable, even if Qiong Haijun put forward other more excessive demands, they could only accept it, because at the moment they had a request from the other party.

However, the Dutch were apparently prepared for this, and the so-called confession was nothing more than two things: punishing the attackers who caused the incident, and compensating for the damages. Compensation had to be determined after negotiation between the two sides, and for those attackers who had fallen into the hands of the Chinese, the Dutch East India Company gave an explanation: the operation was not approved by the company, and it was entirely the initiative of a few people such as Putmans. Moreover, with the exception of Putmans and a few others, most of the other attackers were not official employees of the Dutch East India Company, but only private soldiers hired by Putmans temporarily, and their actions did not represent the company.

The company expressed great regret and apologies for such an incident, the company has officially fired Putmans and his subordinates, and their punishment will also be completely handed over to the Chinese government, and the company will no longer care......

As soon as this statement came out, Pang Yu and the others were shocked on the spot, not that there was anything clever about the Dutch's statement -- it was nothing more than shirking responsibility and avoiding the important and trivial. However, his tone made Pang Yu and the others immediately think of the afterlife...... All the bad things are done by temporary workers!

What a reason!

It's just that the Dutch apparently hadn't learned the essence of the matter, and had not been able to describe the Putmans men as temporary workers, otherwise they might have been able to completely remove the responsibility of the East India Company from the East India Company, which was often done by the later government, whether others believed it or not, but he himself believed it.