"First of all, I want to know if if you will come to trouble us and get your Dutch face back if we release your warriors this time!" Li Tianyang sat upright, faced Lai Qichen, and asked straight to the point.

"If I say absolutely not, then I must be deceiving Mayor Li Tianyang, after all, although I am the commander of the expeditionary fleet, in fact, there is also Lord Cohen, the governor of Java, above me, I will also be ordered by him to come to the expedition to Daming." Lai Qichen is still quite acquainted, and he didn't think about deceiving Li Tianyang, so he simply told his situation: "But I believe that after seeing the strength of Li Tianyang, Mayor Hongtang, our governor will no longer take huge risks to find your trouble, after all, we Dutch are still a group of merchants in nature, and we will not take the initiative to do thankless things." ”

"And how much do you think your governor can pay to ransom you defeated soldiers?" The previous question, Li Tianyang actually thought about it in detail before asking Lai Qichen, otherwise he would not have come to negotiate with Lai Qichen and make the matter of letting the tiger return to the mountain.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty, most of the officials and gentry who sat in the well and watched the sky, Li Tianyang, who came from later generations, had an incomparable advantage, that is, he could definitely be said to be one of the best in his knowledge of Westerners, and he also knew the thoughts of these foreigners, even if he actually did not have much contact with foreigners in this era.

The shortcomings of Westerners in Asia are obvious, and before the Panama Canal was built, both the replenishment of personnel and the transmission of information were counted in years. Therefore, when the Dutch experienced a great war and suffered a series of losses, even if the Dutch governor was unwilling, they were afraid that they would have to die down, after all, they did not have many men in Asia, and there were other colonies to take care of.

"It depends on Mayor Li Tianyang's sincerity, whether you want to release only us captains, or are you willing to release them with our sailors?" After all, Lai Qichen has rich experience, and immediately heard the compromise in Li Tianyang's words, and couldn't help but cheer up: "Although we Dutch people have not been established for a long time, our country's wealth is still passable, and in East India, we have a company specializing in trading, and we will definitely be willing to pay a ransom for our manpower that satisfies Mayor Li Tianyang." ”

"Ransom? Gold and silver treasures, for our Hongtang and Qixintang, these things are not a rare pursuit, if it weren't for the aggression of you people, we would have earned at least tens of thousands of taels of silver in half a year. Li Tianyang was very dissatisfied with Lai Qichen's reply, because he wanted to negotiate with the Dutch, for more than just a little gold and silver: "But I see that your red ghost's cannon is very sharp, I wonder if your governor is willing to use the cannon as a ransom to ransom you?" ”

"This ......" Lai Qichen was embarrassed, he knew very well that the reason why the Dutch were able to gain the upper hand in the naval battle with the Ming people, and to fight more with less was to rely on the strength of the ships and artillery. Advanced Western-style cannons and other firearms, Westerners are very wise, and few of them are sold to these Oriental natives, who are afraid that the Orientals will learn from them and then make progress.

"We are very well aware of the fact that the reason why you have traveled a long distance and worked so hard to attack Xiangshanao of the Buddha Wanderers, Magong Island of the Daming Sailor and Jilong Harbor and Bengang of our Hongtang are not seeking a solid stronghold on the edge of our Daming Sea? Isn't it just that you want to open up maritime trade with our Ming Dynasty? Li Tianyang observed the hesitation on Lai Qichen's face, and he also knew why the other party hesitated, and immediately, Li Tianyang released a bombshell: "If our Jilong Port is willing to cooperate with you, open our Hongtang Jilong Port to you, as a base for you to travel to and from the Ming Dynasty." Even, the Qixintang under my command can also communicate with your merchant ships in commerce, and we will receive the goods you have shipped over according to the market price, and the Daming goods you need, we will also sell them to you according to the market price. ”

"You must know that when you decided to attack the camp of the Daming Navy Division on Magong Island in Penghu, you had unilaterally closed the trade channels with the Ming Dynasty and others, and the Daming government would never trade with a hostile force that attacked and invaded their territory."

"Moreover, I also know that the reason why you are so eager to open the door to the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty is actually another fact that you have to admit, that is, your trade channels in the Eastern Wa Kingdom are being attacked by the Tokugawa Shogunate of the Wa Kingdom!"

"Y-How do you know!!" The Dutch trading fleet and merchants in the Wa Kingdom were being squeezed out and attacked by the Tokugawa shogunate, and many of the Western merchants in the Wa Kingdom were persecuted and pursued.

"As I said, our team's needs in terms of money are actually not big, because we also have our own Mandarin Duck Trade team, and if we want to know the news from the Wa Kingdom, isn't it a very simple thing?" Li Tianyang spread his hands and replied as if relaxed.

"I can't do anything about this, I need to send someone back to talk to our Governor in Jawa." Unexpectedly, when the mountains and rivers were exhausted and there was no way out, this willow and flower was bright and another village, I thought that since they were captured, they Dutch would open the door to this rich ancient country in the east and leave themselves and others, but who thought that this enemy who defeated them not only did not kill them, but also took the initiative to seek cooperation with them Dutch.

If this can really be done, then just the fact that they can open up the sea trade with the Ming people can completely offset the consequences of the failure of his expedition command of Lai Qichen, and even get the reward of the kingdom for the blessing of misfortune.

Since the end of their Warring States period, from Toyotomi Hideyoshi to the current Tokugawa shogunate, the foreigners who traded in the Wa Kingdom began to be excluded and suppressed by the Japanese officials.

Especially in the past few years, the crackdown and suppression of Western Catholicism and its followers provoked by the Tokugawa shogunate made foreigners from all walks of life doing business in the Japanese country very uncomfortable.

"It's okay, I can ask you to send someone back to deliver the news!" Li Tianyang said very generously.

Do you have a ticket? Brothers and sisters!

(End of chapter)