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Chapter 784 The first unequal treaty (four more)
In the fifth year of Hongguang, that is, in the last ten days of the old calendar month in 1649 AD, the capital of the Ming Dynasty ushered in a group of special guests.They came from Amsterdam, the headquarter of the Dutch East India Company, headed by His Excellency Fan Xifan, Assistant Governor of the Dutch East India Company.

This middle-aged man wearing a top hat, a white suit and leather shoes, and leaning on a civilized cane, looks a bit like an overseas Chinese except for a little red hair.

Because a few months ago, the Minister of Maritime Defense of the Netherlands, Admiral Proseus, led a powerful Dutch navy fleet, and came to the coast of Daming aggressively, intending to launch an army to question the crime, but was once again defeated by the Daming navy. Only 2 of the 8000 navy remained. The remnant soldiers were defeated and fled back to Amsterdam.

Even after losing battles, the colonies in Taiwan, together with their precious more than 1 troops and thousands of ships, lost all their money. This time, they suffered such a miserable defeat. This time, the Dutch East India Company really has nothing to do. They have to admit , Powerless in front of this rising Eastern Ming Empire.

Next, the 17-member board meeting of the East India Company headquarters was held in Amsterdam, the headquarters of the company. The meeting was presided over by the Governor. The result of the discussion was to conduct the most sincere peace talks with Ming Dynasty, end the state of hostility, continue overseas trade, and operate in Taiwan. Colonies for decades may not even be necessary.

After the plan was drawn up, it was sent to William II.Now the full-blooded Dutch real power figure William II has nothing to do now. When he heard the news of another disastrous defeat on the Eastern battlefield, he also had to admit defeat when he was shocked, and discussed with his speaker Augusten. After that, fully agree with the East India Company's decision.

That's why the trip to the Ming Dynasty was made by His Excellency Fan Xifan, the assistant to the Governor of the Dutch East India Company.

This is the real negotiation between China and the Netherlands. The previous few times were just out of the needs of the war, but this time it is the product of the result of the war.

Due to Zhu Yousong's decree, welcome this negotiation.Therefore, those special guests abandoned their boats and landed in Macau, Guangdong. Governor Shi Lang of Guangdong received them and sent special personnel to escort them to Beijing along the way.

When they arrived in the capital of Ming Dynasty, the Dutch guests were arranged in a post house.

The next day, Wang Duo, the second assistant of Ming's cabinet, sat at the negotiating table with Fan Xifan, who represented the Dutch East India Company.

Although the Dutch East India Company was a commercial trade organization.But it is not a non-governmental organization, but a government-run institution with national functions. Therefore, in this negotiation, Assistant Fan actually represents the Dutch government.

There is a famous saying that a weak country has no diplomacy. The position of the victorious country and the defeated country on the negotiating table are absolutely different in the momentum of the conversation.

In the past, when the Dutch colonists saw the officials of Ming Dynasty, they were arrogant, arrogant, and arrogant. In fact, they did not only see officials of Ming Dynasty, but also officials of any other country.Because this is determined by their sea overlord, or world dominance.

But this time it was different, they became the defeated nation.As a defeated country, it finds the home of the victorious country to negotiate, and of course the agreement reached must be beneficial to the victorious country.

Wang Duo, as a scholar of the palace and the second assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, was knowledgeable and experienced. He firmly grasped the negotiation principles entrusted to him by Zhu Yousong, and performed very well at the negotiating table with ease.

In a friendly atmosphere, after two days of exchanging conditions and bargaining, the two sides finally reached a series of terms, and then the first unequal treaty of the Ming Dynasty was born.

There are eight main ones:
Article 8000: The Dutch East India Company compensated Ming Dynasty for war losses, equivalent to [-] million taels of silver, to be paid off in ten years.

Article [-]: All the colonies of the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan shall be returned to Ming Dynasty.As a friendly trading country, the Ming government no longer appeals to the Dutch government for compensation for decades of colonial aggression.

Article 50: The Ming government will repatriate all the colonial captives after five years.However, the Dutch government must pay the Qing colonial captives living expenses, repatriation fees and other expenses totaling [-] taels of silver to the Ming government, otherwise, the Ming government has the right to refuse the repatriation.

Article 800: The Dutch East India Company can come to Daming to conduct fair trade by sea and land, but it needs to pay the Ming government [-] million taels of navigation fees every year.

Article [-], the Ming government has the obligation to protect fair and legal trade between the two parties.

Article [-]: The Ming government will be exempted from all charges and will not be detained for any reason when merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company pass through the Taiwan Strait without any prohibited items.

Article [-]: Merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty can conduct legitimate trade in the Netherlands and its colonies. The East India Company and the Dutch government are obliged to protect the legal transactions between the two parties.

Article [-], Ming's ships can pass freely at sea.

When the copy of these eight articles was presented to Zhu Yousong's Longshu case, Zhu Yousong couldn't help clapping his hands and laughing, "Wang Aiqing lived up to my expectations and was granted the post of Doctor Guanglu."

The reason why Zhu Yousong is so happy is that in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, China signed unequal treaties with others, ceded land and paid compensation, and was bullied by foreign powers, humiliating for more than 100 years.

Today, the Chinese have finally stood up and signed the first unequal treaty with the world hegemon that is beneficial to the Ming government.

Several of these are overlord clauses. For example, the East India Company has to pay huge tolls every year when it comes to Ming Dynasty for trade. This is actually equivalent to paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty every year. You do not need to pay any fees.

There are also thousands of war prisoners of red-haired children who have to spend five years in labor reform on Taiwan Island. During these five years, they will work for nothing without paying any wages and labor fees. That means they have to work here for a lifetime.

As usual, these terms are simply unthinkable.

But now, Assistant Fan actually signed the contract.This means that the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch government agreed to this unequal treaty.

For this unequal treaty, the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch government must have a stomach ache, but the reason why they have to sign it is because they are defeated countries, and to protect the eastern trade market, including trade with Japan .Otherwise, their losses will only be greater. From this point of view, Hong Maozi is not stupid.

Wang Duo gracefully signed his name on the contract, and then both parties signed the contract, and the contract came into effect.

Zhu Yousong immediately delivered an order to let the Ministry of Rites, together with the Imperial Academy, print the contract and publicize it extensively.

Under Wang Cifu's warm hospitality and gracious retention, Assistant Fan and his party stayed in the capital for five days, and then Wang Cifu respectfully sent them out of the capital.

The several naval battles between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands have already caused a sensation in the world. This time the negotiations and the signing of the unequal treaty caused an uproar in the public opinion of all countries in the world, and they took actions one after another.

(End of this chapter)