The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Cabinet sent the franc confidential debt to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Saiyo Shiro Nakatani Tenga, who supports the tax reduction initiative of the two houses.

The reason why Zhang Huangyan sent Gu Tianhe was because he didn't mean to disgust Gu Tianhe if he failed to pay the debt.

After all, Gu Tianhe always opposes him, the head of the cabinet.

Of course, if Gu Tianhe succeeds in repaying his debts, it will only be a successful completion of the task.

If it didn't succeed, it naturally gave Zhang Huangyan a reason to want domestic capitalists to ask for money.

And Gu Tianhe also wants to succeed in debt.

After all, before leaving, he had already received Wang Jiaqin's entrustment.

Even Yang Mingshen had great expectations for him, and even in order to relieve Gu Tianhe's loneliness on the sea, Yang Mingshen even personally arranged for a top ten stunning Oiran in Dongying to come to the West with him.

"Brother Gu, if you can't get this debt back and let the cabinet use it to build the railway from Chengdu to Kunming and prepare for the recovery of Jiaozhi's military expenses, the cabinet will ask you and me for money from rich businessmen who do business, so your task this time is arduous!"

Every time he saw the Dongying beauties around him befriending him under his knees, Gu Tianhe could always remember Yang Mingshen saying this to him.

But Gu Tianhe also knew that the debt of hundreds of millions of silver dollars was not a small amount, and it was very difficult for the Francophone to repay this debt.

After all, this was equivalent to sixty or seventy million taels of silver in the past, and the income of the Ming treasury for decades before Chongzhen's seventeenth year.

Moreover, the debt itself was created out of nothing, and it was instructed by Wang Jiaqin, a cabinet scholar and a member of the two chambers, to fabricate the figure at the behest of the Ministry of Finance, in order to divert the way for the cabinet to make money.

Gu Tianhe didn't even know if the Franc authorities would agree to the debt.

But Gu Tianhe knew that he still had to fight for it, after all, it was about the interests of the entire capital group behind him, and it was also about the interests of Daming.

Gu Tianhe first arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, which was already a colony of the Ming Dynasty, and there was also a vassal state in the Cape Town area by Zhu Youzhi, the king of Jingjiang of the Ming Dynasty.

This vassal state is called the Sixth Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhu Youzhen divided the overseas fiefdoms of the vassal kings, in order to attract them to establish Han states overseas, he allowed them to establish their own national titles and even establish armies overseas.

And this Zhu Youzhi is the vassal king who came to Africa with the Ming Ocean Fleet to establish the Sixth Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.

Many Ming vassal kings and noble heroes still habitually start with the Ming Dynasty when they build their countries overseas.

And the vassal kings directly named their ancestors as the first sons of the Ming Emperor in that year.

As for the princes and uncles, it is simpler to build a country overseas, directly adding the word Daming and their own surnames.

For example, the Ming Huang Principality, which was founded in India with 300 rifled guns, and the Linchuan Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, which was founded in the Black Sea region, etc.

Therefore, in the entire world, there are not many Ming Sixth Kingdoms.

But at least on the continent of Africa, there is only one sixth kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.

The Sixth Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty is now the most civilized independent country on the African continent.

The Sixth Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty now survives mainly by trading with the Cape of Good Hope, a colony of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Dingguo also served here as the governor of Africa, ruling the Ming colony at the Cape of Good Hope.

In addition, the Ming Navy also has its own African fleet here to guard the routes in this area.

In recent years, due to the implementation of the Tui'en Order, Zhu Youzhi, the king of the Sixth Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty, intends to divide his sons Tui'en to North Africa.

But Li Dingguo was against it, he didn't want the Sixth Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty to go to North Africa to build a few principalities, so that someone would probably open a route there, so that his trade income at the Cape of Good Hope would be drastically reduced.

Therefore, the Sixth Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty could only seek the support of the central court of the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Youzhi, the king of the Sixth Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty, learned that there was someone in the central court, that is, Gu Tianhe appeared in Africa, he also came to meet him in person, hoping that he could know his thoughts through the Gu Tianhe and the central court of the Ming Dynasty.

Gu Tianhe knew that there were many places in North Africa that were colonies of Franco.

And he didn't want to cause the Francophile to be unhappy because of the Han forces of the Ming Dynasty in North Africa, so that he would affect himself to ask for debts, so he did not promise King Zhu Youzhi.

Even, after Gu Tianhe hurriedly met Zhu Youzhi's envoys at the Cape of Good Hope, he immediately set off north on the second day.

After several months of wandering at sea, Gu Tianhe arrived in Gibraltar, where Franc Machine.

But what Gu Tianhe didn't know was that because the matter of Daming's repossession of Macao had already been known to the Franc authorities, the Franc authorities had begun to be dissatisfied with Daming.

In the eyes of Franc Machine, Macau seems to be their territory.

And the Ming Dynasty is tantamount to encroaching on their territory.

Therefore, when Gu Tianhe appeared, they were not welcome, although Gu Tianhe just wanted to get back the debt of more than 100 million silver dollars in an amicable way.

Of course, Francois didn't want to make enemies with the Ming Empire like this, and still chose to meet with the Western Silang Nakatani Tianhe of the Ming Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Gu Tianhe saw King Franco, and read out his intention: "Your country has been illegally stealing our Macao since the beginning of Jiajing's Gui Chou, and it has been more than 100 years now, although it has been forcibly taken back by our Ming Dynasty, but your country has borrowed my Macao and nearby routes for hundreds of years, and has never repaid a penny of rent, and there is no record of my Ming Dynasty's financial archives over the years.

According to the average market price of the leased land over the past 100 years, as well as the basic lease interest rate of the Central Bank of China and the added value of land in Macao over the years, you should repay the debt of 150 million silver dollars to my Ming Dynasty.

Now all the citizens of your country in Macao can repay 20 million of them after ten years of service, and the remaining 130 million can be repaid in five years, plus interest, 30 million silver dollars should be repaid every year, and the total is still 150 million silver dollars, of course, you can choose to pay it off all at once, then only 130 million silver dollars need to be repaid! ”

When Gu Tianhe reported this debt list, King Franco was angry on the spot: "Bastard, you are blackmailing!" You have destroyed our warships, forcibly occupied our base in the Far East, Macao, and killed our officers and men, and now you are still looking for us for silver, you are simply robbers, unreasonable bandits, can't you fight the invincible armada that bullies us, detain his ships, and beat him out of the country! ”

Gu Tianhe didn't want to pay back this sky-high debt in the end, and was beaten and humiliated, even the merchant ships he brought were looted, and even the Dongying women were taken away.

When Gu Tianhe returned to China in a miserable manner, it was not Zhang Huangyan, the first assistant of the cabinet, who was furious, but Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

"Bastard! The little Franc Machine also dared to humiliate our Ming officials like this, and immediately convened a meeting of the Generalissimo's Office, ready to teach the Franc Machinery a heavy lesson, since the cabinet will not return the debt of 150 million, it will be up to our military to ask for it from the Generalissimo's Office, but if we want it, it will be more than 150 million! ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen gave his order, he immediately convened a meeting of the Generalissimo's Palace, and the Admiralty issued a military order on the same day, and Zheng Chenggong went north to attack the Francophone Kingdom.

(End of chapter)