Chapter 532: Successful Negotiations
In fact, the Holy See has already begun to emigrate to the New World!
And it was long before Zhu Houzhao led the army to land in Western Europe!
However, the scale of immigration is not large, after all, for the Holy See, Western Europe is fundamental.
As for the New World, it can only be regarded as a pioneer!
But now the situation has changed, and the emergence of the Dawu Dynasty has put tremendous pressure on the Holy See, forcing the Holy See to find a way out for itself.
Therefore, after the defeat in the Battle of Andorra, the Holy See began to actively prepare for the migration affairs, the first plan was to send the elderly, children and weak women to the past, while the men and women in the prime of life stayed behind to prepare for the holy war!
However, because the combined fleet was annihilated, the Holy See could not muster a large number of sea ships for immigration, and now Amideo heard what Hou Si said, and immediately thought about it.
"Honorable Ambassador Hou, Amideo wants to make a deal with you."
"What deal?"
"I hope to charter the ships of the Dawu Empire to transport immigrants to the New World for Europe."
Hou Si said with a smile: "Dawu does not have a fleet, and the invincible fleet that annihilated the European fleet is the ocean-going sailor of the Ming Dynasty."
"The emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the emperor of the Great Wu are brothers, and Amideo feels that this little matter between brothers is not worth mentioning."
"How to rent?"
"How about an immigrant for a tael of silver?" With a smile on his face, Amideo looked less like a holy bishop and more like a living profiteer.
"How strong is Daming, is the Bishop humiliating Daming?"
Amideo's face was a little unpleasant and said, "Then how many people does Ambassador Hou think is more suitable?"
Hou Si was speechless and said: "Your Excellency, we are negotiating now, these matters are not within the scope of negotiations, if Your Excellency Bishop is interested, we will discuss them after the negotiations are over."
"What Ambassador Hou said is, then how can your country be willing to release Charles V and two bishops."
Hou Si shook his head and said: "Emperor Xuanwu appointed this envoy to the Holy See, and once told the envoy that there is no need to discuss the matter of the prisoners, for Dawu, whether it is Charles V or the two bishops, it is not of any use to Dawu, the Holy See will redeem it if it is willing to redeem it, if it is unwilling, Emperor Xuanwu will send them to Daming, send them to a military court in the name of war crimes, and sentence them to hard labor, imprisonment and even death, with the war crimes of Charles V, this envoy feels that he is very likely to be beheaded."
Charles V was the king of Spain or the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and if he was tried by the pagans of the East and finally sentenced to death, the face of the whole of Western Europe would be disgraced, not to mention the two bishops among them!
"If the Holy See wants to redeem people, it can." Hou Si patted the negotiating table with his palm and said: "Charles V, 10 million taels, Francis, 5 million taels, the two bishops have a total of 5 million taels, four people are 20 million taels, no bargaining, if the Holy See accepts, then take 20 million taels of silver to ransom, if you don't want or feel expensive, then there is no need to talk about it, they will be sent to Daming for trial, whether it is Daming or Dawu, there is no shortage of 20 million taels of silver."
Amideo consulted with the negotiators for a while, and finally said: "The Holy See accepts your country's conditions and is willing to pay 20 million taels of silver to ransom people."
"Happy!" Hou Si said with a smile on his face: "Then you can move on to the next negotiation."
Amityo nodded.
The third negotiation was land, which meant that the French territories captured by the Great Military Generals and the occupied lands of the Roman Empire would be returned to Western Europe, and Andorra would no longer be established as a buffer zone between Western Europe and the Great Wu Dynasty.
But Hou Si knew very well that if the final negotiation result was reached according to the Holy See's wishes, then he might be chopped alive by Zhu Houzhao in the name of losing power and humiliating the country after he returned......
Therefore, the requirements of the Holy See are typically dreaming, but the Holy See itself does not think so, including the Pope and Amideo and other high-ranking clergy believe that the biggest weakness of the Dawu Dynasty is the population, there is no sufficient population to talk about colonization, and there is no population to talk about what to stand firm!
But the arrival of emigrants into Western Europe made the Holy See feel an unprecedented crisis, so it summoned all the countries of Western Europe in the name of God at all costs to launch the Battle of Andorra, which was defeated......
The result of the defeat was to force the Holy See, which was confident that it would be able to expel the pagans from the East, to the negotiating table, and the core of the negotiations was land.
The demands of the Holy See, both of the Pope and all the clergy present today, are well aware that it is almost impossible to get the Great Warrior to spit out the land he has already occupied.
It's like a piece of fat that falls into the mouth of an evil tiger, and if you want the evil tiger to spit out this piece of meat, you may be bitten to death by the evil tiger.
Therefore, the real intention of the Holy See is to contain, completely curb the pace of Dawu's offensive, and seek nothing else, only to maintain the status quo, so as to win time for a turnaround.
Of course, the Holy See doesn't know what Dawu's bottom line for land is, if Dawu wants the Holy See to cede land, such as the entire Holy Roman Empire or Italy or something, then the Holy See will never accept it, that will also touch the bottom line of the Holy See, if Dawu's bottom line is to cede land, then obviously, this negotiation will inevitably break down!
Negotiations broke down, and Dawu either fought steadily or continued to attack, and the only option for the Holy See was holy war, even at the expense of huge sums of money to find reinforcements from countries outside Western Europe.
Reinforcements, including the Ottoman Empire!
Western Europe and the Ottoman pagans were indeed rivals, but the Holy See felt that as long as they paid a sufficient price, then even if they had different beliefs, the poor Ottomans would definitely send a large army to help Western Europe defeat the evil enemies in the East!
The Holy See has existed for thousands of years, and the wealth it has accumulated can be called terrifying, if it can spend gold and silver treasures to kill the evil tigers of the East, the Holy See will definitely not be stingy!
The two sides were at loggerheads, and they did not reach an agreement from morning to noon, so they made a truce, and continued to talk three days later, but there was still no agreement, and after a few more days, an agreement was finally reached.
The final result of the negotiations was simple, the Holy See paid a war indemnity of 160,000,000 taels to Dawu, which also included four important figures including the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, as well as the nobles who were not captured and not killed, for which the Holy See paid a ransom of 20 million taels.
Land...... Dawu returned the territory of the Holy Roman Empire, which had already occupied the garrison, to the Holy See, which in itself was a sign from Zhu Houzhao, because of the lack of troops, his defensive front was already full of loopholes, and it was naturally more in the interests of Dawu to return Sancheng of the Holy Rome's territory and ask for actual benefits.
Land, when the time is right, tear up the covenant and grab it......
Believing that he had won a great victory through his unremitting efforts, Amideo was willing to pay a ransom of 50 million taels of silver to redeem the lost territory of the Holy Roman Empire after consulting the Pope!
In other words, in this negotiation, Dawu obtained the benefits of 230 million taels of silver from the Holy See, and paid it within three months!
And the immigrants requested by the Holy See, Hou Si also agreed, and one person, regardless of the old or young, all threes and twos......
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