Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 923 Carve up the Netherlands

Liu Hongjian's eyes lit up instantly, and he thought to himself, look at them, just say what you want, how do I know you want it if you don't tell me?What's there to be ashamed of!

In fact, it is quite difficult to take this huge fleet across the Indian Ocean, across the Cape of Good Hope, and then from the Atlantic to the North Sea.

Time is still a small matter, and the most obvious problem is replenishment. With the current fleet's oil inventory, the fleet will run out of oil at the Cape of Good Hope at most.

It is as difficult to transport diesel from the mainland of Ming Dynasty to Europa as it is to transport supplies from the capital to Moscow. In addition to diesel, ammunition, firearms, artillery and Dutch food, the route is also a problem.

The current scope of activities of the Daming Navy is only in the South China Sea. It has never been to the Cape of Good Hope route. It is not clear where there are many storms and where there are many reefs.

The Europeans would not easily send such a large fleet to the North Sea in the hinterland of Europa, even if Liu Hongjian's reasons were high-sounding, even if Liu Hongjian was not afraid of going to war with many countries at the same time.

It’s just that all the problems come down to one point, or the cost of the war. With the current strength of the fleet, it may be a protracted tug-of-war. Compared with the land area of ​​the Netherlands, isn’t it good to develop the Americas or Australia? ?
But there is no doubt that the Netherlands must be destroyed. Whether it is Ming Dynasty or the Europeans, the result is the same. No one wants the Netherlands to rise again.

With Bart at the beginning, other Europa envoys immediately began to verbally criticize and criticize. The words basically said that the Netherlands had robbed their merchant ships, used dirty tricks in the colonies, and so on.

Liu Hongjian saw that everyone was basically unified and stood up.

"Everyone stop, the Dutch must be a heinous sinner, the existence of the Dutch state is simply a disgrace to the Europa people, there is no doubt about it.

But there is one question that I want to ask clearly, is your opinion the opinion of the country behind you?Or, can you guys promise to convince your royal family to go to war? "

Liu Hongjian's buttocks hurt from sitting, so he got up and picked up the teapot and began to pour tea for the governors. If things go well, maybe the fleet will return to Daming soon, and he is in a good mood.

"England is not a big problem. I will go back and explain my interests to His Majesty Charles I, and His Majesty the King will agree." Nigel was the first to say.

After the rise of England, the most fearful thing is the emergence of a powerful country in Europe. In fact, England has been working hard for this for hundreds of years. The specific measures are to fight and sanction whoever is strong.

"Why does this king trust you? Just rely on your simple words?" Liu Hongjian smiled slightly, his words were gentle and questioning.

"I am the nephew of His Majesty the King, Your Highness." Nigel seemed a little embarrassed after speaking.

"Oh, so that's the case, I understand." Liu Hongjian said in a long voice, thinking that he could become a major general and serve as a governor in his twenties.

"Little Frankie is fine, Your Highness." Aldous followed.

"Oh, Your Highness, I am the nephew of His Majesty Philip IV." Seeing Liu Hongjian looking at him, Aldous would rush to answer.

Liu Hongjian also nodded, and said to himself that with your pig-headed appearance, the Habsburg family is probably not very handsome.

"Your Highness, there is no problem with Austria. If you know what Austria has experienced in the past 30 years, you will believe it." The governor of Austria, Lumfield, said sincerely.

The 30-year war destroyed the hegemony of Habsburg, Spain declined, the Holy Roman Empire was completely divided, the Italian countries, Switzerland, and the Netherlands became independent, and the emperor of Austria was emptied. Austria wants to rise, and the Netherlands is just the beginning .

All the governors here say one sentence to another, either talking about their relatives, or talking about the unresolved conflicts in the 30-year war. In short, they all vowed to show that they can completely promote the royal family to launch a war.

Liu Hongjian sat in the main seat and listened to their assurances one by one, but remained silent until someone couldn't help but speak again.

"Your Highness, what do you think?" Herman waved his hand to stop the noise of the crowd and asked.

Now that he has made up his mind to carve up the Netherlands, he must first obtain the guarantee of the Ming Empire, that is, the fleet of the Ming Empire cannot go to Europa and cannot intervene in this carve-up operation.

"Well, my king believes in your guarantee, but there is still a problem. The Netherlands has been prosperous for decades. As far as I know, the wealth plundered by the Netherlands is immeasurable. It took great effort for the Ming Dynasty to bring the Dutch fleet to the sea. rout.

Now it's time to go to the Netherlands to harvest the fruits, but the king returns with the fleet. How can the king explain to the emperor and His Majesty? "Liu Hongjian pretended to be embarrassed.

How else could he explain it? Even if he went back and told Xiao Zhu that he stopped beating and was tired from beating, what could Xiao Zhu say?
But we still have to pretend, and we still have to say what should be said. In fact, on many diplomatic issues, even later generations are not very high-end.

"This..." The envoys from various countries were in a dilemma again.

Yes, what the young prince in front of him said is not unreasonable, let them pick the fruit, what is the Ming Empire going to do?
There is not a mediocre person who can sit here. Everyone looked at each other and immediately knew that this young man wanted to get a share of it.

How can there be such a cheap thing if you want to get a share of the pie without sending troops?wrong!Aren't they sitting here just to prevent the Ming Empire's fleet from entering the mainland of Europa?
This is simply a pair of contradictions, how can this be fixed?Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, but no one could say anything. In the end, Liu Hongjian took the initiative to speak.

"Why don't you do it this way, if you have money to contribute money, how about if you don't have money to contribute land?" Liu Hongjian said conclusively.

The problem is actually very simple. All the conflicts come down to the origin of gold and silver. The Dutch are like this, other countries in Europe are like this, and so is Ming Dynasty.

Since they don't want Da Ming's fleet to get involved in Europa, all countries can only pool money to get Da Ming's share first, and then join forces to carve up the Netherlands.

It’s just that this matter made the governors of the countries here feel very uncomfortable. Melaka is gone, and the property of the Netherlands has not been acquired, but they have to pay first. Who doesn’t feel useless?
But the governors of all the countries understood that perhaps this was the best solution, so the governors of the various countries in the cabin began to discuss again, asking how much Ming wanted, and discussing how much they could pay.

The noisy discussion lasted for an hour, so that Liu Hongjian was very hungry, so he ordered the cook to cook. Because Liu Hongjian was in a good mood, the governors were honored to eat authentic big food on the Invincible. Ming dish.

After drinking and eating, everyone began to bargain in various ways, and finally decided that the compensation from various countries to Daming was equivalent to 380 million taels of Da Ming silver.

Countries can directly send silver, or convert goods into silver taels for payment, and the Ming Fleet will stop attacking the Netherlands after taking over the port city of Malacca and receiving full compensation.

"What a pleasant negotiation, everyone should be proud of this negotiation, because we have resolved a war together!
Come on, let's toast to peace! "Liu Hongjian was the first to raise the wine glass.

The governors of various countries also raised their glasses of wine happily. It is indeed worth celebrating to resolve a war, but they all know that it may be difficult for the Europeans to gain a foothold in Nanyang in the future.

"Oh, this king remembered something, such an important negotiation, don't you all think we should sign a treaty?" Liu Hongjian put down his wine glass and said.

Liu Hongjian originally thought that these Europa people would take the initiative, but they didn't say anything after waiting for a long time, which made Liu Hongjian a little impatient.

Although the treaty is to bind both parties, it is more to bind the weak. The real strong will not be bound by a piece of paper at all, but the governors of Europa who are present obviously do not have this awareness.

"Yes, Your Highness, there is no basis for empty words. We should indeed sign the treaty." Barth, the Prussian governor of Nanyang, got up and said bluntly.

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(End of this chapter)