The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 374 Empty Gloves White Wolf

Pereira's thoughts changed. Although these ships would enhance the strength of the Ming Dynasty's navy, Portugal was limited by its national power. After losing its stronghold in Macau, it no longer wanted to compete for hegemony in the Far East. It just wanted to do more business.

In addition, Portugal has signed a trade agreement with Daming, and the Helan people are their biggest obstacle right now. They monopolize the most lucrative trade in the southeast of Daming, and they send ships to plunder near Macau from time to time.

If the Ming Kingdom can defeat the Helan people, then Portugal will have the opportunity to trade in the southeast region, and even the air routes in the direction of North Korea and Japan will be connected accordingly.

Even if the Ming Dynasty could not beat the Helan people—after all, Batavia still had a powerful Helan fleet stationed there—it could still greatly restrain the power of the Helan people and reduce their plundering of merchant ships in Macau.

An enemy of an enemy is a friend.Pereira immediately smiled and said, "Boss Zhang, it happened that four merchant ships docked at Macau Port yesterday, and I can temporarily requisition them for you."

"Four are far from enough," Zhang Furui shook his head and said, "at least ten."

"Sorry, Mr. Zhang, I can only find so many right now..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Furui took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, and the title was "Supplementary Clauses of Ming-Buddha Commercial Agreement".

Pereira hurriedly asked the interpreter to read for him.There is not much content in the supplementary terms, the main thing is to confirm that after Daming solves the blockade of the Netherlands, the Portuguese can trade at the two ports in Fujing. Of course, the tariff is still [-]%.

Just selling a few small boats can be traded in Fujing, which is a huge profit!He immediately smiled and said, "There are still a few Esibana merchant ships arriving in the next few days. I'll help you get in touch."

"What about the price?"

Pereira made another embarrassment, "Franji's boat costs 3000 taels, but I can't make the decision for the Zibayana people. It is estimated to cost more than 2 taels."

It's like a lion opened its mouth. A 6-ton battleship costs only 2 taels. How dare these small boats of dozens of tons sell for [-] taels?

Zhang Furui said in his heart that it was good that His Royal Highness Fuzheng Wang had expected it, and immediately said: "All 2000 taels, at least ten." He smiled and handed out a piece of paper, the title is "Supplementary Clauses [-] of the Ming-Buddha Commercial Agreement" .

Pereira was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing and crying after hearing the interpreter read the second supplementary clause.It turned out that the content was that after Ming defeated Jianlu in Zhejiang, the Portuguese could trade at the port of Ningbo.

Orientals are so good at doing business, the ports in Fujing and Zhejiang are still "dismantled and sold"!Although Pereira was complaining in his heart, he couldn't refuse this supplementary clause-Zhejiang is the richest place in Ming Dynasty!Although it is still in the hands of the northern barbarians for the time being, the former governor Du Chen once talked to him about the strong fighting power of the Ming army. This matter is definitely worth a gamble.

He finally gritted his teeth and nodded, "Okay, just 2000 taels. I'm going to find the boat now, please Master Zhang to prepare the money in advance."

In fact, according to Zhu Linming's plan to vigorously develop maritime trade, Guangdong, Fujing, Zhejiang, including Nanzhili, Shandong and other places in the future will open their ports to foreign trade.You must know that the silk, tea, porcelain, fairy stone powder, crucible steel, etc. produced by Daming are all extremely high value-added commodities, and the profit is at least [-]%. The more you sell, the more you earn.

Why not use these must-dos to finally "squeeze" some benefits from Portugal?
Zhang Furui shook his head sullenly and said, "Representative Pei may have forgotten that your country still owes Daming more than 20 taels of war indemnity. According to His Royal Highness Fuzheng Wang's wishes, the ship purchase payment will be deducted from this."

Pereira's face turned green, you want to be an "empty glove white wolf"!He bargained again and again, and finally decided that the ten Galen merchant ships over 8000 feet would deduct a total of 3000 taels of war indemnity.On this basis, every time one more car is bought, another [-] taels can be deducted.

Based on Portugal's current financial situation, it will take at least four or five years to pay off these indemnities, which can be used in advance to exchange for urgently needed warships, and it is worthwhile to "give up" a little bit.

Then Pereira ordered the two supplementary agreements to be made into official documents in Chinese and Portuguese, and he and Zhang Furui handed them over to the governments of the two countries for signature.

After Zhang Furui left, Pereira immediately wrote a letter embellished with today's events, regarded it as his achievement of "fighting for the interests of the Far East trade", and sent someone back to King Joao IV together with the "Supplementary Terms of the Commercial Agreement".

Two days later, Zhang Furui personally escorted eleven Galen merchant ships to Fujing, with "Zhang" brand flags planted all over the ships, and they sailed close to the coast of Daming.Fortunately, they didn't encounter the fleet of the Helan people along the way, and the group arrived at the Mawei military port smoothly.

The craftsmen in Yongbeili had already made preparations and immediately loaded these ships with four-pound or six-pound cannons.

However, due to the small size of these ships, there is no special gun deck, and each ship can only be equipped with four to six red cannons and some small French cannons.

But even so, the firepower of these ships is not weaker than that of the nearly [-]-ton chasing ships of the Qing army, which is more than enough to deal with small arson ships.

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"Oh, someone reported back at noon that His Highness has left Yongbeili." The Yinli Sheren of the Assistant Government Prince's Mansion said, showing his hands to the side hall, "If you have something urgent, please stay here first, and your Highness will leave after returning to the mansion." The official will report immediately."

Yongbeili is near Tianxing Mansion, Gu Yanwu then nodded and said: "Then it will be troublesome."

When he entered the side hall of the palace, he found that the place was full of people. With a glance, Zheng Guangying, the left governor of Jinyiwei, Chen Hongmi, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, Xi Wang Laixian, the head teacher of the Longwei army, and others were sitting.There were also a few faces he was not very familiar with.

Several people stood up and exchanged salutes, Zheng Guangying said first: "Commander Gu is also here to meet His Highness?"

"Exactly, the subordinate has something important to report."

Although Jinyiwei's Nanbei Town is doing its own thing, but in name Gu Yanwu is under Zheng Guangying's command, so he claims to be his subordinate.

A few months ago, Wang Laixian helped train the fans of Beizhen, and he was quite familiar with Gu Yanwu, and he continued with a smile: "We were still arguing about who should see His Highness first, and we haven't decided yet, so there is one more person Come."

Gu Yanwu cupped his hands and said, "I do have urgent matters."

Chen Hongmi hurriedly said: "If you want to talk about urgency, I am afraid that the matter of dismissal is the worst."

Zheng Guangying smiled slightly, "Sir, what else can the Ritual Department do urgently, but I can't delay here."

Seeing that everyone refused to give in to each other, Gu Yanwu frowned and said, "How about this, let's play a game, and the winner will report to His Highness first."

Zheng Guangying was born in the army. Hearing this, he immediately touched his arms and said, "Good way, I'm bringing dice here."

Before he finished speaking, he attracted a few contemptuous glances.

Gu Yanwu said embarrassingly: "I'm afraid it would be indecent to throw dice in this palace. The lower official suggested that we guess when His Highness will return to the mansion, and the closest one is the winner."

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