Dai Weier immediately ordered people to invite Chen Jiarong to his governor's mansion.
Although Chen Jiarong has some money in Manila, his status is not high. This is his first time entering the Governor's Palace.
However, Chen Jiarong was a cunning person after all, and with his bangs supporting him behind his back, he did not feel any discomfort or depression. He calmly walked into the living room, and sure enough he saw the Governor sitting there.
When Dai Weier saw Chen Jiarong coming, he immediately stood up and said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, we haven't seen you for many days. Are you in good health?"
When Chen Jiarong saw the other party, he was very polite and did not hesitate. He quickly said with a smile: "Governor Lao, please note that my old body is still strong."
Then both sides took their seats, and then Governor Davel said: "A few days ago, the indigenous people rioted, and our city of Manila suffered very heavy losses. Thanks to the help of the Qing Dynasty's Admiral Liu Hai fleet, the situation has calmed down now. I would like to ask
Mr. Chen, help me go to Liu Hai and ask him, when will Admiral Liu leave Manila? Then I can go to the dock to see him off."
After hearing what the Governor said, Chen Jiarong's heart began to change. It seemed that the President wanted his cheap son-in-law to leave Manila as soon as possible.
"Sir Governor, I can help you ask, but I can't guarantee that I will get any information."
Governor David thought for a moment, and then said: "This time, Admiral Liu Hai helped us suppress the indigenous rebellion and consumed a lot of artillery shells. I want to provide them with some money as some compensation."
Chen Jiarong finally understood that the Governor wanted to lose money and avoid disaster, but when he thought about it, there was such a powerful fleet hanging around in front of his house. Who could feel at ease?
"Then how much money are you prepared to provide? I might as well talk to my son-in-law."
"Now the city of Manila has just suffered from turmoil, and we also need a lot of funds for post-war recovery, so this time we don't have much money. I can probably come up with 50,000 silver dollars."
Chen Jiarong heard that it was only such a small amount of money, and he thought that this small amount of money might not be enough for the shells. What do you want me to tell my son-in-law?
"My Lord Governor, I'm afraid this money is not enough to compensate the other party for the shells. You might as well add a little more."
Governor David thought for a while and realized that this was indeed the case. Finally he gritted his teeth and said, "Well, let me add another 50,000 silver dollars, for a total of 100,000 silver dollars."
Seeing the way the governor gritted his teeth, Chen Jiarong knew that this was his bottom line, so he could only acquiesce.
That night, Chen Jiarong drove to the pier and sent his servants in a small boat to notify Liu Hai on the sea.
Liu Hai knew that his advantageous father-in-law was here, so he quickly dispatched a transportation boat to welcome Chen Jiarong to his flagship ironclad Jiangxi.
Later, Liu Hai met his father-in-law in the conference room of the Jiangxi ship.
The two sides exchanged pleasantries, and Chen Jiarong immediately got into the topic, "Mr. Liu, this time I am here to represent the Governor of Manila."
After hearing this, Liu Hai understood in his heart that he was letting the cheap father-in-law in front of him act as a lobbyist.
"Oh, I wonder what the Governor of Manila has to say?"
"Well, he wants you to leave Manila as soon as possible. I see that he has trouble sleeping and eating now."
After hearing this, Liu Hai's smile widened, "Then what conditions does he have? I spent a lot of artillery shells in Manila this time, you can't let me lose money, right?"
"He gave you 100,000 silver dollars as compensation for your son-in-law."
Liu Hai laughed after hearing this. 100,000 silver dollars, luckily for him, he wanted to send me away with this little money. It was a good idea.
After Liu Hai finished laughing, he suddenly became serious and said to Chen Jiarong who was sitting opposite: "For your sake, I will order less, but 100,000 silver dollars is really not enough. Let's do this. He asked him to prepare 50 for me."
Ten thousand silver dollars, I will pull anchor and set sail immediately."
After hearing this, Chen Jiarong nodded. This negotiation is just like doing business. Ask for a high price and pay back when you get there.
So early on the next day, Chen Jiarong conveyed the meaning of bangs to David.
After hearing this, Governor David was so angry that he burst into smoke and cursed loudly.
"Robber, shameless."
"Despicable villain, this is taking advantage of the situation. I must protest to their emperor."
Daweier vented for a while and calmed down, but in the end he had to discuss whether to give bangs the money.
All the staff under him believe that Liu Hai, the god of plague, should be sent away as soon as possible. If this continues, they will not have to do anything in Manila except to guard against Liu Hai.
In the end, the governor had no choice but to collect 500,000 silver dollars and send them to Liu Hai's warship.
After Liu Hai got the silver dollar, he was very happy and immediately promised the other party that he would pull anchor and set sail the next day.
That night, Liu Hai sent Chen Yuting home for a reunion, took some things with him, and returned to the ironclad Jiangxi.
On the second day, Liu Hai happily led the fleet to leave the waters off Manila and continue heading south.
Governor Davell stood on the pier and watched the fleet leave from a distance with a telescope, feeling relieved.
With the fleet gone, he could finally free up his hands to do other things.
This time, I lost an extra 500,000 silver dollars in vain. I must scrape this money out from these natives.
So on the second day after Liu Hai left, the Spanish garrison came out in full force and launched a raid on the indigenous people near Manila.
After a few days, all the natives near Manila were slaughtered, and all the property of these native pigs was confiscated and sent to Governor David.
The governor looked at the mountains of gold and silver jewelry and was satisfied. He had finally earned back the departure fee for Liu Hai.
Besides, Liu Hai left Manila and continued southward. The destination of this stop was the Dutch colony of Indonesia.
The last time Liu Hai took the Jiangsu armored cruiser back to the Qing Dynasty, he passed by Indonesia and stayed there for a few days, and also helped the locals fight for some power.
This time Liu Hai came to Jakarta with a larger fleet, where Liu Hai received a warm welcome from the local Chinese.
Since the last time Liu Hai forced the colonial government to grant greater power to the Chinese in Jakarta, there were even Chinese figures in the police force.
So now the status of the local Chinese has been improved to a certain extent. Although it is still not comparable to the white people, it is only lower than the white people. The indigenous people no longer dare to act recklessly.
These benefits are very obvious to the Chinese in Indonesia. Now they are much safer on the streets than before.
Therefore, this time the main wealthy businessmen in Indonesia discussed with the large plantation owners and felt that Liu Hai should be given some funds so that he could come to Nanyang every few years. Otherwise, he would lose money every time he went south. As time went by, Liu Hai
He won't come again.
This is also the Nanyang fleet that uses money to buy bangs and comes to Jakarta to show off. If this continues, their status will become even higher, and they may even be on an equal footing with white people.
Therefore, Liu Hai attended several banquets in Jakarta. In addition to banquets held by the local colonial government and governor, he also participated in social gatherings held by local Chinese and overseas Chinese.
After staying in Liu Hai for a few days and preparing to go back, these overseas Chinese carried more than a dozen boxes containing about two to three hundred thousand taels of silver and sent them to Liu Hai's warship.
Liu Hai naturally shied away from the money sent by the local Chinese, but he quickly accepted it with peace of mind.
Liu Hai's trip to Jakarta was quite enjoyable this time, and there was nothing messy about it.
The Dutch government has slightly improved the status of the Chinese in recent years, which has made the local Chinese have no complaints, so the two sides are getting along quite happily.
After Liu Hai stayed in Jakarta for half a month, he pulled anchor again and set sail. The entire Nanyang Navy headed north to Wusongkou, Shanghai, where it was stationed.
Liu Hai's Nanyang Navy headed north and returned to Hong Kong to add media and supplies.
While here, Ding Ruchang, the admiral of the Beiyang Navy, seemed to have forgotten all the original unpleasantness and greeted Liu Hai at the Hong Kong dock again, and welcomed Liu Hai and the officers to have a party at his residence in Hong Kong.
The bangs were not postponed. It was unpleasant last time, so it would be good to have some fun this time to ease the embarrassment between both parties.
So in the evening of that day, the Beiyang Navy and Nanyang Navy held a dinner for all officers in a small auditorium.
This time Ding Ruchang had made an agreement with Liu Buchan in advance that if he dared to talk nonsense again, he would definitely be subject to military law.
Although Liu Buchan was not very satisfied, looking at Ding Ruchang's determined look, he knew that if he provoked him again this time, it might not be like the last time he just said a few words and it was over.
In fact, Ding Ruchang had the arrangements for this time, and it was Li Hongzhang who passed the order.
Although the relationship between Nanyang and Beiyang has become increasingly estranged during this period, after all, they are all fleets of the Qing Dynasty, and Beiyang is facing huge pressure.
Although Li Hongzhang was extremely proud on the surface and believed that his Beiyang Navy was the best fleet in Asia, he also understood in his heart that if there was a war, reinforcements from the Nanyang Navy would be needed, so he ordered Ding Ruchang
Improve the relationship with the Nanyang Navy.
At the beginning of this dinner, the relationship between the two parties was relatively harmonious, because the admirals of both parties had already sent a message to the people below that there must be no more trouble this time.
But as they drank more and more, these people lost their ability to keep their mouth shut.
As the youngest among this group of people, Sa Zhenbing sometimes seems a bit young and energetic. Although he is not the captain of the battleship now, he is just the leader of a training ship.
"I would say that there is no need for our Nanyang and Beiyang fleets to be divided into two fleets. If we form a combined fleet, we will have a place in the entire world."
What he said was quite good, so it immediately attracted the attention of others.
Sa Zhenbing was also drunk, and he was fine at first. He was talking about Nanyang and Beiyang's joint operations, how to exert their combat power, etc. But what he said next was a bit unpleasant.