When Huang Zongxi heard this, he said in his heart, and sure enough, it was the same as His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King expected, so he sneered at Bertman: "Speaking of which, you still want to dominate the Ming Dynasty's maritime transactions.

"It's not impossible, as long as the goods loaded and unloaded at Daming Port are priced by the Customs Department, everything will be handed over to you for resale."

Berthman was stunned, what he earns in business is the price difference, if the buying and selling prices are all listened to by Mingguo, then he will really become an errand?

He shook his head, "How can this work?" The rules ...... have always been"

"Rules?" Huang Zongxi interrupted him, "Let's make it clear, this rule was indeed set by the Lan people in the past." The East India Company is entrenched in the East, relying on warships to be strong, and who dares to disobey what you say? ”

"But in the future, you can't make your own decisions about this rule." He glanced at a few Helan people, and his tone was sonorous, "From today onwards, all Yi ships that want to come to Daming to do business can dock at my coastal ports, as long as they pay taxes, they can buy and sell freely." Whoever dares to block it, I, the Great Ming Water Master, will never sit idly by! ”

Berthman also knew that this was not what it used to be, Zheng Zhilong, the "ally" of the great staff, was wiped out overnight, but the Daming sailor was almost unharmed. At present, with a powerful sailor as the backing, Da Ming has the confidence to say this, and he hurriedly smiled: "In fact, the East India Company is also thinking about the safety of your country's merchant ships, and there are many pirates around Da Ming. If no agreement is reached with these guys, there is almost no chance that the merchant ships will arrive safely when they go to sea. ”

He immediately added, "Just like the pirates back then, they were wiped out endlessly, and only when we came forward to mediate with the pirates could we keep the waterway open." ”

What he said is true and false, there are indeed a lot of pirates in the Daming Sea, but in fact, the biggest pirates are these Helan people, and "pirate robbery" has also become a means for them to deter maritime merchants from various countries.

If it was just Huang Zongxi and other officials of the Ming Dynasty, they would be frightened by his words at this time, and the Ming maritime merchants would indeed die for a lifetime when they went to sea, and they would be robbed and killed by pirates, where did they know the identity of the pirates.

However, Huang Zongxi received Zhu Linmiao's guidance a few days ago, and he was already clear about it, so he couldn't help but snort coldly, "Hmph, how did this pirate come about, you and the Lan people probably know better than anyone else."

"However, the Daming Sailor is still confident in guarding his merchant ships, just a little pirate, and he will try it if he is not afraid of death.

"Ah, since Your Excellency mentioned the Japanese Kou, the lower official will say a few more words.

At that time, the Japanese were rampant, and the imperial court just blindly prevented and blocked, so that they repeatedly suppressed it, causing disaster for decades. But now, if there are still people who dare to do evil at sea, we will never passively defend the defense, but send a large army, join the water division to strengthen the ship, go straight to the bandits' lair, cut off the root of the thieves, and finish it in one battle! ”

His words are simply a threat to Chiguoguo - whoever dares to plunder at sea, the Ming Dynasty will send troops to take someone's lair. Earlier, he said that "the people of Helan know the origin of the pirates", which is to tell Betman that Da Ming has long known who is behind it.

Huang Zongxi saw that the Hongyi were still unwilling, and raised his voice again: "I won't hide it from you, the Daming Navy Division currently has three warships with 34 guns, five warships with more than 20 guns, and 20 warships with more than 10 guns. These were soft-sail plywood boats, and all the cannons counted only four pounds or more. As for the old hard sailing ships and the like, there are more than 100 in total, not to mention. ”

He "leaked" the family background of the Ming army's sailors, and he was naturally instructed by the auxiliary king. Zhu Linmiao knew that such a big thing as the naval warship was placed there, and the Helan people would know sooner or later, so it was better to put it out for deterrence in this period of strategic opportunity, and strive to surrender the army without a fight.

Through the information returned by the secret agents sent by the Helan people earlier, they knew that the Ming Dynasty already owned many Galen warships, but they never knew the specific number. Hearing Huang Zongxi say this now, several Helan envoys looked at each other in surprise - it turned out that the combat effectiveness of the Daming Naval Division was by no means weaker than that of all the warships of the Helan people in Taiwan combined!

Cesareo, who had come to Nanjing with Berteman as a military adviser, was young and vigorous, and blurted out: "We have another powerful fleet in Batavia......

Huang Zongxi actually understood Helan, but he seemed to be deaf to it, and still said to himself: "This is just the existing warship of the naval division, and I can also reveal what is being built on the slipway." ”

He said and looked down at the "cheat sheet" in his hand, there were too many details given by His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King, and it was inevitable that there were some who were not familiar with the writing, "Yongbeili." A warship with more than 50 guns will be built in less than a month. A 22-gun warship will also be built next month.

"Nan'an. A thirty-two-gun warship was built in fifty days. Two more fourteen-gun boats were about to enter the water.

"As for the largest Longjiang shipyard in the Ming Dynasty," he smiled slightly, but sold a pass, "but it is a secret of the imperial court, and it is inconvenient for the lower officials to say more." However, the Longjiang Shipyard is larger than the previous two shipyards combined, so you can figure it out for yourself. ”

Bertman and the others had already received the news that the Ming Dynasty was building a fifty-gun warship, but when Huang Zongxi said it, they were still shocked. You know, Batavia's trump card that was able to deter the entire Far East was a fifty-gun warship.

And the Longjiang Shipyard that Lord Huang didn't say explicitly made a few people secretly weigh it. They also went to the vicinity of the Longjiang Shipyard yesterday to take a look, and they knew that what Huang Zongxi said was true, and they couldn't imagine that there was another 50-gun boat on the slipway inside.

In fact, the Longjiang Shipyard has only recently completed the process standardization reform, and the craftsmen have not yet been familiar with the construction skills of Galen warships, and can only build some Galen ships of less than 200 tons for the time being. There were several Junk merchant ships of more than 500 tons on the slipway, which were prepared for ocean-going caravans. Therefore, although the scale is large, it will take time to start construction of ships of more than 800 tons.

However, in reality, the shipbuilding capacity of Longjiang Shipyard has given Helan people a great space for imagination.

Berthman swallowed hard, and nodded at each other with the assistant of the highest administrator of the general, Owatt, this is going to come up with a backup plan - with the current momentum of the Ming Dynasty, in another half a year, even if the Batavia fleet is driven, it may not be able to defeat the Ming army's sailors. Not to mention the fact that the Spanish and Portuguese were eyeing Helan's power in Asia, and even the British were ready to come to the Far East at any time to get a piece of the pie, and the Batavian fleet would never be able to deal with the Ming with all its might.

Since you are not sure about it, you can only bow your head. Berthman rubbed his hands with a dry smile and said to Huang Zongxi: "Lord Huang, although your country has enough strength to deal with pirates, it is extremely expensive to protect the long sea route.

"If your country agrees to hand over maritime trade to the East India Company—that is, to keep the status quo intact—we shall pay a profit of one million taels of silver a year in return."

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