Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 138 I am a Qing Dynasty person with a lot of money, come quickly!

"Master Li, you are too impatient!" Parker Zeng shook his hand, preventing Li Xiangen from continuing to speak.

Seeing that his words were interrupted, Li Xiangen frowned slightly, feeling very upset in his heart. The two devils in front of him are fighting against the odds!
But it was a dog of the Dutchman who dared to interrupt him.

That's all, peace is the most important thing, Li Xiangen endured it.

"Hehehe, Mr. Li, as the saying goes, food is the most important thing for the people. Chinese people often say that there is no problem that cannot be solved at the dinner table. Our Lord Governor, in order to wait for you, we haven't had lunch yet!" Parker Zeng was full Said arrogantly.

In the diplomatic arena, if you are strong, he will be weak. Li Xiangen, who asked for help from the Dutch, could not harden his temper for the time being.

"So that's it, it's Li Menglang!" Li Xiangen said with a look of embarrassment, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

According to Zheng Kezang's instructions, Julio would babble from time to time, since the Ta-Qing mission couldn't understand Spanish anyway.

Even if someone understands it, Parker Zeng, played by Zheng Kezang, will say that the Netherlands was once ruled by Spain, so what's wrong with speaking Spanish?
"Master Li, the governor said that the banquet is ready, and we just wait for everyone to sit down, let's go!" Parker Zeng made a gesture of invitation, and the white slave maids hurried over to lead the way.

This banquet adopts a meal-sharing system. Of course, the meal-sharing system is also one of the Chinese food traditions. It is not unique to Western food. It is just that after the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the increase in food types and the diversity of cooking methods, the meal-sharing system gradually replaced the meal-sharing system. .

Affected by the popular science of Helicobacter pylori in later generations, Zheng Kezang did not want to stir chopsticks with people of unknown origin like Da Qing, who knows if they carry any germs on their bodies.

Li Xiangen and the others ate and ate with the sailors on the boat. The food on the boat was very ordinary. Today, the dinner was suddenly opened, so they naturally had a big appetite.

Before eating, for some unknown reason, Zheng Kezang ordered the kitchen to serve a dessert that is usually hard to eat, that is ice cream.

The allusion of Li Hongzhang eating ice cream is well known to everyone, and Zheng Kezang wanted to see how Li Xiangen would react.

Sure enough, when this gaudy cup of dessert was served, Li Xiangen didn't know what it was, only that it was steaming.

He thought the ice cream was hot, so he accidentally blew on it with his mouth, intending to eat it after cooling down, but after blowing it, he took a spoonful and put it in his mouth, only to find that it was cold. arrive.

Only then did Li Xiangen realize that the white air from the ice cream was not hot, but cold like ice cream.

puff...

Julio couldn't help laughing. Ice cream is only available to the nobles, and his background as a soldier must not understand it, but Zheng Kezang already gave him a popular science yesterday.

Blowing cold on the iced food by myself is a bit ridiculous and generous, the old man inevitably blushed, and laughed at himself: "I never thought that the iced food in the Netherlands is so exquisite, but the old man is blind!"

After speaking, he ate the ice cream slowly, as if nothing happened.

At this time, he was also an advanced white slave who had been tutored by Dongning Military Academy. Influenced by China's thought of respecting the old and loving the young, Julio felt that mocking the old man was a bit too much, so he explained in Spanish: "The Qing people on the opposite side, I am not laughing You, I just remembered happy things."

Parker Zeng was very dedicated, and he didn't forget to translate while eating, put down the delicious ice cream, and relayed: "Lord Li, the Governor-General said, in view of your ridiculous behavior, when we talk about the warship business, Qing Dynasty, you have to pay more! "

Li Xiangen: "..."

Julio: "..."

As an advanced white slave, Julio could understand and speak Chinese, but he was harassed by Zheng Kezang's translator on the spot.

In fact, this is just a difference in food culture, and Li Xiangen didn't take it seriously, but he felt humiliated when he asked for more money. Unfortunately, this is a foreign country, and he can't use traditional Chinese food like Li Hongzhang. .

Of course, if he spends more time in "Batavia", he will find that this place is not like a foreign country at all. They are all bloody rebels, and they all have no braids, so they have to be arrested and beheaded!

You have to buy it for extra money!Otherwise Mingzheng Haibandits will have to go to heaven.

With this sentence, Li Xiangen naturally shifted the topic to cooperation with the Dutch East India Company.

"Mr. Governor, I am very sincere in coming here. I believe that you also hate the Mingzheng people in Yizhou Island. Why don't we work together to eliminate this unstable factor for the peaceful development of Nanyang." Li Xiangen talked eloquently, as if he was thinking of the Dutch.

According to the script, Julio grunted at the right time and patted the dining table, pretending to be unhappy.

"Master Li, the Governor-General will get angry as soon as you mention Zheng. For more than ten years, our East India Company has cooperated with the Qing Dynasty, but we have gained nothing and suffered heavy losses. The Governor-General thinks that your Qing Dynasty is very dishonest!" Parker Zeng translated with cadence.

Hey, this is really true. Before the Qing Dynasty, what they did was unethical. They prostituted their fleet for nothing. As a result, they never attacked Yizhou Island, and even banned it completely. This made them disheartened, and they completely gave up competing for Yizhou with Ming Zheng. island.

Treacherous Tartars, this wave of the Dutch is a disgrace to imperialism.

"Zeng Tongyi, please tell Mr. Governor, my Qing Dynasty is very sincere this time, as long as it sells us the warship, the Qing Dynasty will completely form an alliance with the Netherlands to deal with the Ming and Zheng sea bandits together, and my Qing Dynasty is rich all over the world, if the Netherlands and us With the alliance of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty will open Guangzhou to trade with you, the Netherlands."

This is a trump card. In this era, it is even more difficult to become a business partner of Qing Dynasty!
In the words of the old man Qianlong later, it is: "The products of the Celestial Dynasty are abundant, and there is everything. It was originally not foreign goods to communicate." The Qing Dynasty had everything and did not need to trade with the outside world.

Luxuries such as silk, pottery, and tea from the Qing Dynasty were in short supply in the West, and were very popular with Western aristocrats, and they were very valuable.

The reason why the Dutch always want Yizhou Island is because Yizhou Island is close to the Qing Dynasty and has a natural trade advantage.

Therefore, the Qing Dynasty has no equal trading partners at all, and the only way to do business with the Qing Dynasty is to pay tribute, just like the "Kingdom of Makassar".

As the saying goes, there are three, six, nine grades of people, and wood is divided into rosewood and red sandalwood. Countries also have grades in the tribute system.

Goryeo, Japan, Siam, Myanmar and other countries are in the first echelon, and the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom and other countries are in the second echelon.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the official tribute time of each country was set as: Koryo once a year, Siam once every three years, the Netherlands every eight years, and so on.

And these tribute periods are also the intervals for trade in China stipulated by the emperor for various countries.

But doing business like this doesn’t make any money at all.

If you can have a stable trade relationship with the Qing Dynasty, you will be really rich.

Therefore, under Zheng Kezang's instructions, Julio pretended to be a little interested.

"Is this true?"

(End of this chapter)