Chapter 1396 - The Asking Price The lion spoke
"General Shu, you also know that in the entire Oriental world, most of the maritime trade is done through our East India Company, and this Taiwan is the center of our East India Company in the East, the goods transported from Daming, the goods transported from Dongying, and the goods transported to Daming and Dongying from all over the world, almost sixty percent of them have to be transferred from here, or the transaction is completed here, it can be said that this is where the core interests of our East India Company lie, and it is unrealistic to withdraw all the Dutch garrisons here. If General Shu has any requirements, he can also put them forward, and we will discuss them together, and everyone will value peace, how about it? ”
It's not stupid to fall down, the lesser of two evils, and the loss of some silver is nothing, but if you lose the base in Tainan, you won't be able to explain to Governor Cohen, this is related to the profit of millions of taels of silver or even tens of millions of taels of silver every year, once something happens, then Governor Cohen will tear himself apart!
Shu Xinchen snorted coldly: "If we really want to wipe out the city of Relanza, then I won't come to Tainan, our two fleets can all rush to Tainan within three days, and the 30,000 elite infantry of the amphibious battalion will raze your fortress in the shortest possible time!" However, my Emperor Ming has the virtue of a good life, and he is unwilling to fight with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is cheaper for you! Three conditions: first, in the future, you Dutch people will have to carry out activities within a radius of 100 miles with Luermen as the center, and you must not re-enter other areas, and those who have already entered other areas must all withdraw; Second, the Dutch are not allowed to rob the land and property of the local aborigines and Han Chinese again, and it is strictly forbidden to kill civilians, if we know that you have killed people again, you kill one, we will take off the three heads of the Dutch as compensation, don't think that General Ben is alarmist, when General Cha Bolt lit more than 200 people in Batavia in one go, you don't know, right? ”
Hiss......
A sudden cold war, special mother, those generals of the Ming Dynasty have always been murderous without blinking, until now the seamen and employees of the East India Company mentioned the naval inspector of the Ming Dynasty, and they still felt a cold breath in their necks, that was in front of Governor Cohen, more than 200 East India Company people were lit with sky lanterns, including many soldiers of the Kingdom of the Netherlands! If you annoy Da Ming, these generals really don't want to come back to such a show, these people can do anything!
"Third, compensate the Ming Empire with one million taels of silver, as compensation for the casualties of all the previous Ming people, and at the same time pay the Ming Empire a lease fee of one million taels of silver every year!"
"General Shu!"
Yu Yi was really taken aback, and shouted loudly, "Are you Daming poor and crazy?" Isn't it just the death of some untouchables? He even asked us to compensate one million taels of silver, where is there such a good thing? General Ben will go to Nanyang to bring 10,000 people over for you, let you cut enough, a life, you just give me fifty taels of silver! There is also the lease fee, one million taels a year, what is the special thing, it was only 150,000 taels of silver in the previous year, and you gave us more than six times the price at once, and we can't live anymore? ”
"As long as you guarantee that the 10,000 people you pull over, each of them is Dutch, don't say 10,000, even if it is 100,000, this deal, General Ben will also play with it! As many as I come, I will kill as much as I want! Wu Bai is ten thousand taels of silver, Lao Tzu has a lot of copper plates for you! ”
Shu Xinchen did not show weakness, and shouted coldly, "How about it, let's take a gamble, do you dare to bring 100,000 Dutch people over?" ”
A cool breath rose in his heart, and he pulled over 100,000 Dutch people to let the people of the Ming Empire kill? It's a joke, even if it's a thousand people, it's not good, you will definitely be cut by the domestic nobles with a thousand knives! Don't say fifty taels, it's five hundred taels, and you don't dare to do such a thing......
"Well, do you dare or don't dare?"
He said in a sullen voice: "General Shu, I absolutely can't agree to this condition, the compensation of one million taels of silver is too much, forgive us for not accepting it, and the cost of the lease, we agree to raise the fee, and even double the cost to 300,000 taels of silver, which is already our biggest concession!" ”
"Dreaming!"
Shu Xinchen sneered: "General Yi, General Ben only gives you five days, give me an answer within five days, and after five days, if you don't give me an answer, the Ming Empire's naval fleet will pour out, and then it won't be silver that can solve this matter!" ”
In five days, it is obvious that Shu Xinchen is going to catch you off guard one by one, and if you don't give you time to ask the East India Company for instructions, you will either compensate or tear your face and say that you have all slaughtered and fed Wang Ba!
In five days, my heart is already full of bitter water, how can five days be enough, where can I make decisions about such a big thing?
"General Shu, don't deceive people too much, you have also seen that our Kingdom of the Netherlands has an army of more than 5,000 people stationed here, and at the same time there is a small fleet, and the two cities are even more impregnable, if you want to take it down, there is no three or five months, it is impossible, our East India Company's fleet will sail here from Batavia, it will only take less than a month, and when the time comes, it will be a dead fish!"
Gritted his teeth and said, you can't give in easily, once you show weakness at this time, then you will completely hold it to the opponent.
However, what winds and waves has Shu Xinchen never seen? He doesn't understand negotiation, but he is an expert in war!
"Hey, really? Do you really think that this city of Geranza is impregnable? Even if it's an impregnable wall, how many cannons do you think you can hold off the attack? A hundred? Two hundred? What if the fleet of the Kingdom of the Netherlands came over? You said that the big deal is that the fish die and the net is broken! Do you really think that in the East, our Ming Empire will still be afraid of your small East India Company? Joke! Big joke! Again, five days, only give you five days, either agree to the conditions of this general, or, then go to war, and see how long your two fortresses can hold out under the siege of the two Ming fleets! If you can hold out for more than half a month, then General Ben will be the master and give you this Tainan! ”
The corners of your mouth twitched, and you insisted on it for half a month? It's not that you don't have the confidence to persist for half a month, but what is the use of persisting for half a month? What is the use of the East India Company's fleet coming to the aid of the East India Company? It is only a few dozen miles away from Quanzhou Port, and it only takes three or four hours for the Ming fleet to arrive at the port of Luermen and launch an attack on Luermen, but can you keep the main fleet of the East India Company here?
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