The Strait of Malacca is more than 1,000 kilometers long, and only 40 kilometers at its narrowest point, and is the throat connecting the Indian Ocean and the South Sea. This strait originally belonged to the kingdom of Manchuka, which also became a trading country, and the population of Malacca City once reached 100,000.

Portugal, which had a foothold in Goa City, India, soon discovered that this was the gateway to the South Seas, and won Malacca City in the sixth year of Zhengde, thus opening the door to enter the Ming Dynasty, and establishing the golden route of "Goa-Malacca-Daming-Japan".

Now Portugal has chosen to open Malacca to the Ming Dynasty, which is undoubtedly showing a certain sincerity.

"You guys are doing wishful thinking, if our Ming Dynasty establishes business contacts with Malacca, it has already recognized your status!" Lin Haoran plucked the tea lightly and said contemptuously.

"Do you still want to retake Malacca, do you want to meet each other in battle?" Galenel's face immediately changed, and he replied coldly.

He also knew the super status of the Ming Dynasty and was the suzerainty of the Manchurian Canada. The former prince of Malacca, Prince Bintang, sent an emissary to Muhammad to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming court demanded that they return Malacca.

However, fortunately, the Ming court did not send troops to Malacca to expel them, except for the envoys who reprimanded and expelled them, but they have also not recognized their status so far.

Now they have established good business relations with the Ming Dynasty, and they also hope that the Ming Dynasty will recognize their legitimate possession of Malacca, instead of meeting each other one day in arms.

"If I really want to meet you soldiers, do you think this official will always sit back and watch you occupy Malacca? Will there be a negotiation with you? Lin Haoran snorted lightly, and responded in a cold tone.

The geographical location of Malacca is indeed very important, it is the only way for the Ming to reach the Indian Ocean, and it is also the only way for the Ming to connect with the West, but it does not have to be occupied.

Now, Lin Haoran doesn't want to take too many steps. With its Ming Dynasty risking to be involved in the whirlpool of hegemony, it is better to follow the cooperation of Portugal and concentrate on the management of Nanyang to make a fortune.

As long as the Portuguese keep the rules, let the Ming make huge profits from it. Not to mention taking the initiative to give up a Malacca, even if he helps to promote the legalization of Portuguese royal power to the imperial court, it is not impossible.

In Lin Haoran's heart, there is not too much Confucianism to shackle, and he will not really keep holding on to Portugal's bad behavior of seizing the country, and the interests of the country and the people are above everything else.

What's more, he is now only the deputy envoy of the Guangdong Patrol Road, not the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and many things cannot be implemented according to his governing policy. Even though he recaptured Malacca from Portugal, this was not necessarily a good thing, but it may have destroyed the good trade between the Ming Dynasty and the West.

It is this that he will not advocate the capture of Malacca, at least not for now.

After listening to Lin Haoran's words, Galenel secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but his tone was still cold and asked, "Then what do you want?" ”

"We Daming merchant ships can establish business relations with Malacca, and I personally recognize your status. But in exchange, I need the Ming merchant ship to get the most favorable taxes, only to pay 10% of the customs duty! Lin Haoran took a sip of tea and said his thoughts.

Galenel was slightly surprised by this condition, but his brows furrowed slightly, and he couldn't easily agree to it. Malacca is now their colony, and the biggest source of income there is this tariff rate of up to 30%.

In the end, his eyes fell on the priest Caro, and the short and fat Caro groaned for a while, and then said to Lin Haoran: "Lord Lin, we can agree to your conditions, but you have to allow us to enter Guangzhou City to preach!" ”

Negotiation is like this, no one can just sacrifice in vain, without any demand, are pursuing the maximization of interests. For Catholicism, missionary work is undoubtedly above all else, and the megacity with a population of one million has long been coveted.

Lin Haoran frowned slightly, and took a sip of tea seriously, surrounded by the smell of falling needles. There are undoubtedly pros and cons to letting these missionaries enter the city of Guangzhou to propagate, and the best result is naturally refusal.

Just when everyone thought they wanted to be yellow, they heard Lin Haoran nod unexpectedly: "Yes!" ”

As soon as these words fell, the missionaries, including Carlo, smiled brightly, and this was undoubtedly a brilliant achievement of their Jesuits in the East.

Ay!

But Galenel sighed secretly, the mission seemed to have achieved great results, but it was also sinking into the mud of the Ming Dynasty step by step. I'm afraid that in the subsequent negotiations, I will have to be firmly exploited by this Ming devil.

The two sides soon signed a friendly trade relationship, Hao Jing will be fully open to the Kingdom of Portugal, and the Ming merchant ships have obtained the most preferential tariff treatment in Malacca, which can be regarded as entering the honeymoon period.

"I've heard that you've discovered two large silver mines in the New World, but I wonder if that's the case?" After signing the contract, Lin Haoran approached Galenel and asked.

Galenelle's heart immediately became vigilant, as if he was worried that Lin Haoran would rob them of the silver mine, and immediately said with a straight face: "What does this have to do with you!" ”

"It doesn't matter much, it's just that the official has a batch of fine spices in his hand, but I don't know if you are interested?" Lin Haoran was not annoyed, and still said with a smile.

When Galenel heard this, she said disapprovingly, "If it's really a good spice, I can buy them all!" ”

"There are a lot of spices in this batch, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat them!" Lin Haoran said with a smile, and then said to Yang Chunlai, who had been standing by his side silently: "Outside Yang Yuan, there is Mr. Gallenel who has taken Mr. Gallenel over to take a look!" ”

Yang Chunlai responded respectfully to Lin Haoran, and then raised his hand towards Gallenelle and said, "Please!" ”

Galenel glanced at Lin Haoran very suspiciously, he already had a great understanding of the spice situation in Daming, they couldn't take out too many good spices at all, how could he not eat them with his ability.

just looked at Lin Haoran's confident appearance, and finally followed Yang Chunlai to leave, intending to take a look.

Lin Haoran watched the two of them leave, but his eyes swelled with anticipation.

If you weigh the wealth of the world with precious metals, the real wealth is not in the Ming Dynasty. Rather, in the distant New World, on the other side of the Great Plain Ocean, there are large gold and silver mines.

The adventurous Spanish and Portuguese arrived in the New World, and now they have entered the mining chain, and they have unearthed a large amount of silver, which has transformed them from a small barren country to a rich power.

Lin Haoran started commercial cooperation with Portugal, and the biggest purpose was to establish a spice and commodity trade with them, so as to obtain their silver.

The Ming Dynasty was not a silver-producing country, but silver became the official currency. This is a good thing, but it is also a bad thing, and under the premise of tight silver coins, it is very easy to cause trade difficulties.

If we can establish good trade relations with Portugal, this is undoubtedly a complementary move, which has a great role in promoting the Ming workshop, and even allows the Ming to transform from an agrarian society.