"Your Majesty the Count!! I guarantee with my own personality! The ransom you want is sky-high even in Europe! It is impossible for our parliament to pass it!! Please reconsider the amount! I will write to me immediately
Country! Let them redeem us at an acceptable price! But... twenty-two pounds... is really unacceptable!"
Then Pai Lei Yuesheng was extremely excited and foamed at the mouth. After all, the ransom and the contract were closely related to his own personal freedom...
All the Dutch citizens and soldiers nodded again and again. This price is indeed unacceptable...
When the translator conveyed these words to Zhao Kaixuan, he smiled...
What started as a small sneer turned into a hearty laugh, but this laughter was full of murderous intent...
"Unacceptable!?? Then when you invaded our Jilong Mountain in Liang! Did you ever ask us if we accepted it or not?? What a joke!!"
When the translator translated the original words of "Count" to everyone, the other parties fell into silence...
Zhao Kaixuan was too lazy to talk nonsense with them anymore. He turned around and ordered the two thousand households: "Detain all these school officers and soldiers! The people will rush back to the town and keep a close watch on them! If one person escapes and is lost..."
The money will be paid by the two of you!! I will also give each of you an additional 20 big boards!! Do you understand!!"
"yes!!"
"Your Majesty, take your orders!!"
The two newly promoted Qianhus hurriedly bowed their hands. Although the navy also followed the previous reward and punishment system of the Tongshun Army, the "pirate" business for more than a year also made the two of them a lot of money, but no one had any money.
It wasn't brought by the strong wind, let alone twenty big boards? So in the following days, these soldiers stared at the Dutch colonists as if they were staring at the treasury, and did not dare to relax for a moment...
After sending Lei Yuesheng to beg to no avail, he had no choice but to pick up a quill and write down the letter tremblingly. The person to send the letter... That would be easy to do... Find a Dutch businessman whose wife and children are under house arrest in the town. First,
He was dragged to Macau. As for how to return to the Netherlands to report the news... that was his own business. If it was too late... he would never see his family again... Bayi Chinese Website
After all, notices for the public auction of Dutch slaves four months later have been plastered all over the city...Many local wealthy businessmen and foreign businessmen from other countries have shown strong interest...
But no one knows that the last thing that wants the Dutch government to make concessions at this moment is...
It is Yan Bing himself...
Twenty-two pounds of silver per person is here to complain?
ridiculous……
Four thousand men...twenty-two pounds each...
After conversion, the total is only one million taels of silver...
For Yan Bing, it is completely dispensable!
Her ultimate goal! is to completely corner the Dutch government, which regards wealth as life!
In the past, the naval force had always been hidden under the identity of "pirate", but now, she used the name of Daliang Navy!
So let’s talk!
Still fighting!!
The only two options left before the Dutch government are these two! There is no other choice!
If we talk!
I don’t need that much money! But I want the land! I want the seaports of all your overseas colonies! Make them the cornerstone for our navy to set foot in Europe!
If it’s a fight!
That's better!
Defeating the Netherlands, one of the three major powers in Europe! This is the first step for our navy to become world-famous!!
And the identity of the enemy! Just allows the navy to capture all the overseas ports of the Netherlands without any worries!! Until it reaches Europe! It hits the door of the Netherlands! When the Netherlands returns to the negotiating table again! What I want is nothing.
Overseas ports...
I want your capital port! Port of Amsterdam!
But don’t get me wrong…
I want this...
Not because of how prosperous it is...
How rich...
Just because...it is only separated from London, England...by a gorge!!
……………………
When Lei Yuesen's letter was sent to the Dutch parliament hall by businessmen, a group of Dutch parliamentarians were still arguing over the matter...
However, Yan Bing held Zhao Kaixuan's battle report and had already imagined the next third and fourth steps...
so……
The efficiency of cooking...
It really can't be compared to Yiyantang.
Because you never know how stupid those people opposite you who have the same status and the same say as you... will be...
"We absolutely cannot start a war! Didn't you see it!? The letter clearly stated! Twelve super first-class battleships! They are several times more powerful than Spain at its peak! We can't possibly win this.
war!"
"Then what do you think we should do!? Are we going to watch our citizens being auctioned off as slaves? If this matter is spread into the country! The citizens may once again set off a revolutionary wave! The republic we have worked so hard to establish may not be restored.
exist!"
"I can give you money!"
"One hundred thousand pounds of silver! How to give it! Every Dutch dollar in the national treasury is a tax paid to the country by citizens! Do you want to accept such naked blackmail!! This is traitorous!!"
"Waging a war that is bound to lose is also a betrayal of the country!!"
"Britain once defeated the Spanish Armada! Why can't we!!"
"Britain won! Because the war happened in the English Channel! At Britain's doorstep! We had to travel thousands of miles! Go to other people's doorsteps! And then defeat the most powerful fleet in the world! What do you think?
Is this possible?!"
"Then just wait and be finished together! Wait for our citizens! Send us all to the guillotine!!"
"In addition to declaring war and giving money...why...can't you send someone to negotiate with them first and find out the other party's true intentions...?"
As the youngest member of Parliament in the history of the Netherlands, John de Wit, said these words, the members of the House of Representatives who were arguing just now fell silent...
And John de Wit also took advantage of this opportunity and continued to say loudly: "We, the Netherlands, are a country of merchants! We Dutch! We are the best negotiators in the world! Why... can't we use our best traditions to end this?
What about a war that is completely unnecessary and has no suspense!? Save our greatest interests with minimal losses! Isn’t this always our purpose in doing things?”
………………
quiet……
The whole place was silent...
After the silence, the rustling sounds of the crowd gradually resounded in the venue, and finally it changed from rustling discussions to standing applause...
Obviously...
It’s that simple answer…
But these "senior politicians" turned a blind eye...
John DeWitt glanced at everyone with great disappointment, and did not feel the slightest joy at being praised by everyone...
Could it be that except for me...this whole room...are all idiots!??
John DeWitt, who was only twenty-one years old, fell into deep meditation
