Huang Xigon was still relatively calm, he knew that in fact, the Dutch did not want to leave, they had all traveled so far, and the boat could not reach the shore, and they had trekked twenty miles on the ice to get here. Will the Dutch, who had come all the way to come from afar, really give up like this? Definitely not! It's just that the conditions haven't satisfied them yet. But those flag men who don't understand anything, they come to negotiate, and they will only add to the chaos!

Thinking of this, Huang Xigon stood up and bowed his hand to the Dutchman: "You have come from afar, you should stay here for a few more days, and we should treat you well as hosts." And we haven't seen your giant ship yet, and this official is willing to send someone to see your giant ship. ”

Since no one knew Dutch, Nan Huairen also sent a young Spanish deacon to act as an interpreter for the people sent by Huang Xigon to visit the Dutch warships.

The men sent by Huang Xigon followed several Dutch horseback and walked more than 20 miles on the ice before they reached the small channel opened by the Dutch on the ice, and then rowed half a mile of boats before arriving at the Dutch fleet.

Seeing the Dutch warships, the negotiators of the Qing court knew what it meant to have a strong ship and a good gun!

In order to let the Qing court know that they were powerful, the Dutch negotiating delegation deliberately brought a huge East India ship, a huge armed merchant ship with a displacement of 1,400 tons and a three-layer gun deck, moored in the sea, which was simply a mountain of behemoths.

The Dutch specially invited people sent by Huang Xigon to visit the ship, so that the stupid Qing people could know how powerful the Dutch power was at sea.

The representative sent by Huang Xigon, the leader was named Chen Zhaoting, who was also an officer under Shi Lang, and followed Shi Lang to the capital. Because Shi Lang was excluded from the negotiation list, the Qing court still felt the need to choose someone who knew how to participate in the negotiations, so Chen Zhaoting was selected to be a negotiator.

As soon as Chen Zhaoting saw the Dutch East India ship, he was shocked by such a huge warship. When he got on the ship to visit, he was even more shocked: "What a huge ship!" The three-tier gun deck, and the two gun decks below, are all such huge red-coated cannons! Even the light artillery on the upper gun deck is not small, it is estimated that there are at least more than a thousand catties. ”

He secretly counted the number of guns, and found that there were seventy guns on the ship.

"How many such ships do you have in the Netherlands?" Chen Zhaoting asked.

Listening to the interpreter's words, the Dutchman replied triumphantly: "We have at least thirty such ships!" You see, we've all come to your country with four ships at once! As he spoke, the Dutchman pointed to several Galen boats on the sea, and said, "There are also such ships, although they are smaller than this kind of ship, but they are not small!" We have more than a hundred of them! Of course, there are also ships that you haven't seen, and they are not small, adding up to thousands. ”

More than thirty giant ships, hundreds of large ships, and thousands of ships, these numbers frightened Chen Zhaoting.

Naturally, the other people who boarded the Dutch warship with Chen Zhaoting were also extremely shocked.

However, Chen Zhaoting did not know that although the East India ship was huge, it was not a real warship, but just an armed merchant ship, and it was incomparable with a real battleship in terms of the strength of the ship's board and speed. Moreover, the Dutch did not have more than 30 East India ships at all, only three East India ships of 1,400 tons, and only seven East India ships of 1,100 tons.

As for those six or seven hundred ton armed Galen ships, they can't be compared with real warships, and they are almost the same to bluff the Qing people who don't understand anything, and if they are really brought in front of the Western Navy, then they are nothing.

The real professional battleship of the Dutch, the Seven Provincial Battleship is a kind of three-class battleship, the tonnage of this kind of ship is 770 tons, if it is in a naval battle, the East India ship of more than 1,000 tons is not the opponent of the Seven Provincial Battleship at all.

In addition, the Dutch would be willing to send so many ships to the Bohai Bay at one time, not specifically to negotiate, they were transporting goods to Dongying and Korea for trade, and passing by, they came to the Bohai Bay to negotiate with the Qing court. The Dutch hoped to be able to get a good deal of money for the Qing court. If the conditions offered by the Qing court were tempting, the Dutch were even willing to send battleships from their own country to deal with Wang Xinyu's Nanyang Navy!

Besides, after the Dutch were attacked by Wang Xinyu in Batavia, they swallowed their anger until now, which does not mean that the Dutch do not hold grudges, but they have enemies with the Spaniards and the British in Europe, and they can't take care of the East for the time being. If there are exciting conditions, of course the Dutch want to take revenge and find the Nanyang Navy to take a bad breath.

After Chen Zhaoting returned to Dagukou, he reported to Huang Xigon: "The warships of the red-haired people are as huge as a mountain, and each battleship is equipped with more than 100 cannons!" All the heaviest cannons in red! There are fifty or sixty such huge ships of the red-haired people, and there are hundreds of smaller giant ships, and the red-haired people have thousands of warships in the whole country! ”

"Then Lord Chen, tell me, how are the battleships of Zheng Reverse and Wang Reverse compared to the red-haired people?" Huang Xigon asked.

"Zheng Reverse's and Wang Rei's warships are not worth mentioning at all compared to the red-haired ones! As long as the red-haired people are willing, crush their sailors like crushing ants! Chen Zhaoting replied.

Huang Xigon's face changed, and he thought that Chen Zhaoting was lying: "In that case, why would the red-haired man's Dongfan Island be taken away by Zheng Wei?" ”

"Lord Huang, the lower officials have no intention of deceiving! The red-haired people will lose Dongfan, and they are completely careless in Jingzhou! They only had a few hundred men and four warships on Dongfan Island, and they didn't expect Zheng Cheng to come to attack at all, so they lost Dongfan. And Dongfan has a strong fort built by the red-haired people themselves, and it will be difficult for them to regain it after they lose it. Chen Zhaoting replied.

"So, we have to borrow the red-haired people to defeat Zheng Reverse and Wang Reverse Water Master?" Huang Xigon asked.

"Lord Huang is right!" Chen Zhaoting nodded, "The imperial court has strictly banned the sea for many years, but it can't trap the two thieves, but it makes the thieves more and more powerful, because the sea robbers rely on the benefits of the sailors, they can easily get food from Dongying, Annam, Siam, and even Burma!" They traded at sea, selling the goods of Dongying and Korea to the South Seas, and then selling the goods of the South Seas to Dongying and Korea, and made countless profits from them! With the money you earn, you can buy food! If they can defeat the two anti-sailors with the help of the red-haired fleet, and cut off their sea trade routes, they will lose their source of silver and food! And if the two thieves lose the water master, my Wang Shi can also take advantage of the situation to recover Jiangnan! ”

Huang Xigon frowned: "The imperial court sea ban is useless for thieves, why don't we know this?" ”

Chen Zhaoting replied: "Lord Huang, the thieves are developing on several isolated islands hanging overseas, and our imperial court lacks sailors and has no time to take care of them, so the thieves have taken advantage of the loopholes. And the red-haired people also built cities on several islands and traded in the South Seas, so they understood the situation. ”

"Originally, the imperial court thought that the thieves ravaged Jiangnan were all due to the benefit of the sailors. If the red-haired man's sailor defeats the two thieves and loses the advantage of water combat, the king can take advantage of the situation to recover Jiangnan. I didn't expect that if I could destroy the thief sailor, it would be the best way to trap the thief on an overseas island! Huang Xigon sighed.

Sunahai, who was standing on the side, listened to the conversation between the two and asked, "In this way, do you want my Heavenly Chao Kingdom to open the sea ban to a small country?" Wouldn't this hurt the face of our big country! ”

Huang Xigon said: "There is no need to open the sea ban, after exterminating the thieves, you just need to open up Guangzhou!" If the red-haired people insist on it, we will open them another Xiamen. ”

"The opening of the sea ban is a matter of great importance, and it must be reported to the imperial court!" Suna Kaido.

Huang Xigon turned around and arched his hand to the west and said: "Today's matter, I will report to the court with an expedited report of 600 miles, and I hope that the Empress Dowager Lafayette and the emperor can decide!" We're here to keep the red-haired people waiting for two days! ”

Six hundred miles were urgent, and it took only one day for the messenger to send the matter of exchanging the ban on the opening of the sea for the support of the Dutch. Bumu Butai and Kangxi learned of this and immediately convened the three ministers to discuss together.

Both Suppilon and Sonny agreed to win the support of the Dutch by opening up the Canton area, but Suke Saha objected, and said that Ao Bai was not there, and that there was one less person, and if Ao Bai was there, he might not be able to agree.

"Lord Sukh Saha! If Lord Ao is here, he will inevitably agree to open the sea ban and get the support of the red-haired people! If we don't believe it, we can make a bet and send this matter to Anqing with an expedited 800 li to ask Lord Ao. If Lord Ao disagrees, it will be regarded as the old man's loss! If Lord Ao agrees, you will lose if Lord Sukh Saha! How about we bet 10,000 taels of silver? Curb Pilon sneered.

Sukh Saha was speechless, he knew that Ao Bai was against him in everything, as long as he was against it, Ao Bai would definitely approve of it! If this bet continues, he will definitely lose.

Bumu Butai said: "Since this is the case, if three people agree to oppose one, then the mourning family also agrees to this matter!" I don't know what the emperor and grandson want? ”

"Grandma agreed, what else do I have to say!" Kangxi Road.

In the afternoon of the next day, a 600-mile courier returning from the capital arrived at Dagukou, and negotiations between Qing and Dutch began. Since the Empress Dowager Lafayette and the Minister of Gu Ming have agreed, what else is there to say? Anyway, the minions abide by this bottom line: opening up Guangzhou and adding at most Xiamen is the bottom line.

At the beginning of the negotiations, Huang Xigon proposed that the Qing court could only open the sea ban on Guangzhou, open Guangzhou as a treaty port, and appoint a person to set up a trading house in Guangzhou. All foreign ships entered Guangzhou, and the goods purchased were purchased from the trading houses, and all the supplies were also provided by the trading houses, and they could not find other Qing people to act as agents at will. After arriving in Guangzhou, foreigners are not allowed to enter and leave other places at will, and must live in the mansions built by the merchant banks for foreigners.

"In this way, when our businessmen go to Guangzhou, what is the difference between being imprisoned? And only one place in Guangzhou, it's too few! It's hard for us to accept such conditions! The representative of the Netherlands retorted angrily.

"We can open up Guangzhou, which is already the grace of the imperial court!" Huang Xigon arched his hand to the west. (To be continued.) )