Zhu Jie's army had just entered Mobei and the capital, and it also welcomed back a special envoy, Zheng Chenggong.

This mission, originally went very smoothly, with the help of the Ming Fleet military power, completely deterred the Dutch, the Governor of the East India Company, Earl Cohen, because of the bloody Ordnance Department Yamen matter, consciously responsible for the loss, in the face of the persecution of the Ming Fleet, the waist pole really has no way to harden up, although the Ming Empire's step by step is extremely angry, but also has to accompany the smiling face, false and wrong, as much as possible to bargain, anyway, how to lose silver in the end, just look at how much silver to lose.

Zheng Chenggong went all out, and in the end, the amount of compensation to be paid was close to being determined, 1.2 million taels of silver, one hundred and two hundred and ten thousand taels of silver, although the distance from the number said by Cha Zhu was too big, but it had been delayed for two or three months, and the war in Dongying was basically coming to an end, so there was no need to insist anymore, after all, the purpose of Zheng Chenggong's trip was to attract and contain the Dutch, so that they could not make another moth when the Ming army attacked Dongying.

However, at this juncture, the hapless Rijkaard ran back!

When he heard that Earl Cohen was going to promise an indemnity of 1,200,000 taels of silver, he was anxious.

"What? Compensation of 1,200,000 taels of silver? Are you insane, Lord Count? ”

Rijkaard roared indignantly: "Van der Vaart's ransacking of the Ming Ordnance Division has only killed dozens of people, even if you add the Ming navy killed and wounded in the battle, it is only a hundred and ten people, but we have already paid the price of hundreds of deaths!" Enough is enough, right? As for the loss of Daming's property, they only lost less than 10,000 muskets, and we Dutch lost more than a dozen merchant ships, and even dozens of lives and even all the goods on board! Our losses are far greater than the losses of the Ming Empire! The worst thing is that the Ming fleet is still under the banner of our Dutch, raiding Dongying Edo Bay, this Ming fleet is too special fucked! We will never compensate them for a tael of silver! ”

Count Cohen was completely shocked by Rijkaard, and hurriedly asked what was going on, and Rijkaard hurriedly recounted the changes that happened in Dongying and the domineering attitude of the Ming monarchs.

"Your Excellency! They went too far, I was the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and they threw me out of the room twice! Is it tolerable or unbearable, the Ming Empire did not take our Kingdom of Holland in its eyes at all! ”

Rijkaard exclaimed.

Earl Cohen's face suddenly turned cold, compensation? It's a fart! After compensating your Ming Empire, who will bear the losses of our Dutch Kingdom? Is your silver silver, and ours not silver?

"And that's not all!"

Rijkaard continued, "Lord Earl, you still don't know, the puppet government supported by the Ming army has announced that it will take back the trade rights of Western countries in Dongying, and in the future, Dongying's trade will be monopolized by the Ming Dynasty, the exclusive monopoly, one-fifth of our East India Company's income comes from Dongying, once there is no such income, the company's income will fall sharply, how do we explain to the domestic shareholders?" ”

If Rijkaard's words just now only made Count Cohen dissatisfied, this sentence has already caused Earl Cohen to be angry.

If you don't play like this, Dongying's trade is monopolized by your Ming Dynasty, so what are we going to play? No, absolutely not! Fight for the sake of profit!

Earl Cohen looked at Zheng Chenggong coldly, and said coldly: "Your Excellency, you need to give me an explanation for this matter!" ”

Zheng Chenggong's heart was also shocked, but at this time, he must not weaken the prestige of the Ming court......

Zheng Chenggong said indifferently: "Your Excellency, if you express your indignation at the accidental injury of Dongying's Dutch merchant ships, and if you have any objections to Dongying's Zheng Mansion entrusting the trade rights to Daming, you can send envoys to Daming and Dongying to negotiate, I think the Zheng Mansions of the two countries will give you a satisfactory answer, but this is not the matter that the envoy is responsible for, the envoy is now only responsible for solving the matter of the Dutch bloodbath of the Ordnance Division, this is the authorization given to me by His Majesty the Emperor, as for other things, there is no authorization from the Emperor, You want the envoy to explain, and the envoy has no right to explain to you, the compensation of 1.2 million taels of silver, this is already a pretty friendly number, and our Ming court has made enough concessions! If you're still not satisfied, you'll have to fight each other! ”

Cohen's heart was shocked, this Zheng Sen's attitude was resolute. Is it really possible to use force like this? But after all, this is at the door of Daming's house, and if you really use force, the Dutch have no chance of winning!

"Your Excellency, this matter needs to be discussed again by the Governor and his colleagues, and the original consensus can only be nullified temporarily!"

Cohen said slowly.

"I'm waiting for news from Mr. Earl!"

Zheng Chenggong arched his hand towards Cohen and retreated straight out.

When Zheng Chenggong retreated, Cohen also calmed down, the compensation affairs of the Yamen of the Bloody Ordnance Division were easy to handle, and the losses caused by the destruction of the Dutch merchant ships could also be ignored, but only this Ming monopolized the Dongying trade, which was absolutely unacceptable, and the profits harvested by the East India Company from the East Ying every year were as high as two million taels of silver, or even higher, once the trade was monopolized by the Ming Dynasty, the annual losses to the East India Company were too great, at least the profits of the Dongying trade would be reduced by half, one million taels a year, Three years is three million taels of silver, ten years is tens of millions of taels of silver, don't say that you don't agree, even if you agree, those domestic shareholders will never give up.

What to do?

An all-out war to drive the Ming fleet back to the Ming Dynasty?

However, now the fleet of the East India Company has no certainty of defeating the Ming fleet in Dongying, even if it can defeat the Ming fleet, the army of the Ming Dynasty is not given in vain, as long as it controls several strategic places such as Nagasaki, Satsuma and Edo, the Dutch fleet can only look at the ocean and sigh, there is no way, people just don't sell things to you Dutch, people just don't buy your Dutch things, what temper can you have?

What's more, once the war starts, the strength of the Ming fleet has increased greatly, far better than the Zheng family fleet back then, and if you want to defeat the Ming fleet, it is not so easy, it is not good, and it will be defeated and lost, but not to mention regaining the trade rights of Dongying, maybe the dominant position in the South Seas will be lost!

"No, you can't start a war rashly, think of other ideas first!"

(End of chapter)