After Xu Xinsu made a suggestion, he found that Zhu Youzhen watched him fall into silence. He couldn't help but ask a little uneasily: "Your Majesty, do you think there is something wrong with this Zhang Lun?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with Zhang Lun, I have talked to him for a few words, and he is an honest person. I just remembered the Dutchman Peternats, and you said that if I didn't allow him to replace Bill, what would he do to Bill after leaving the capital? Zhu Youzhen was worried about Bill.

Xu Xinsu thought for a while and said, "Maybe we can inform Bill first and let him get ready." Wechen thought that if he had taken precautions, Bill would not have any accidents. ”

"No, no, I'm not worried about anything happening to Bill, I just want it to play out according to my script."

"Script? Did Your Majesty write any scripts? What the emperor said once again made Xu Xinsu feel inexplicable, and he asked cautiously.

The corners of Zhu Youzhen's mouth rose, revealing a strange smile, as if he was saying to Xu Xinsu in front of him, and seemed to be talking to himself.

"In the book that Father Kinnige brought, I saw an interesting one. It's a story about revenge. ”

"Revenge?"

"Yes, it's about a fisherman in Europe who was framed by powerful people, was arrested as a criminal at his wedding ceremony, and finally obtained a treasure, and then took revenge on his enemy."

Xu Xinsu suddenly said oh, oh and there was no follow-up, he didn't think there was anything interesting about this kind of cliché.

Zhu Youzhen suddenly said in a good mood: "If we make Bill a Ming version of the Count of Monte Cristo, this story will definitely be very interesting." ”

Xu Xinsu finally had a toothache, and he couldn't help but admonish: "Your Majesty, I can't be knighted without military merits, and Bill is just a fan, how can I get the title of Daming?" ”

Zhu Youzhen laughed a few times before he said, "I didn't mean that I wanted to make him the Count of Monte Cristo, but that I wanted him to be a character in the book I had read." ”

Xu Xinsu was finally a little confused, and he couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty is going to put Bill in prison?" ”

"It's not that I want to put him in prison, it's that the Japanese shogunate wants to put him in prison." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile.

"Why is the shogunate of Japan?" Xu Xinsu still didn't figure it out.

"In order to repair relations between the Dutch East India Company and the Japanese shogunate, Peternatz decided to send Bill to Japan as the main culprit in the destruction of Dutch-Japanese relations, and the Dutch East India Company approved of Peternats's approach." Zhu Youzhen said quickly.

Xu Xinsu tried his best to piece together the clues in Chongzhen's words, and after thinking for a while, he gave up his efforts and said: "Is Your Majesty too optimistic, first of all, Hamada Yabei should not be watching, Peter Natz uses this trick Li Dai Taozhuang, he will definitely tell the truth to the shogunate to prevent this kind of thing from happening."

Secondly, the Dutch East Indies should not have watched Bill, who signed a trade agreement with the Ming Dynasty, be sent to Japan by Peternats as a scapegoat, right? ”

"Of course Petrots can't do it alone, isn't there still you?" Zhu Youzhen pointed at Xu Xinsu and said.

"Minister? Chen Neng..."Xu Xinsu suddenly stopped. Yes, with his assistance, it will naturally be different, as an envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty to negotiate trade with the Japanese shogunate, as long as he comes forward, the shogunate will definitely accept the mediation between Japan and the Netherlands made by the Ming envoy, and it is the same whether there is a scapegoat or not.

This is not his arrogant idea, but after the unification of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was regarded by the Japanese as a man of the world, unified the entire army of Japan, and could not resist the attack of a border army of the Ming Dynasty.

The Korean War obviously left a profound impact on the Japanese, which made the Tokugawa shogunate always maintain courtesy towards the merchants of the Ming Kingdom.

Although Tokugawa Ieyasu took the opportunity of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death to seize the world of his grandson-in-law, he relied on force to seize the world, not righteousness, so the legitimacy of the Tokugawa shogunate's rule has not been high.

For example, the southwestern feudal domains on Kyushu and Shikoku Island have always been unconvinced by the shogunate, so Yan Siqi and others want to create a shogunate in Nagasaki and other places.

If the Tokugawa shogunate can restore normal relations with the Ming Dynasty now, it will obviously be able to improve the status of the shogunate in the hearts of the Japanese vassals, and for this alone, presumably the shogun will not accept the request of the Ming envoy.

But Xu Xinsu immediately thought of another thing, "But Your Majesty, the Dutch East India Company..."

"That's naturally Peternat's own business, such as replacing Bill's name on the Ming-Dutch trade agreement and writing his own name, presumably the Dutch East India Company will not care, and use a retired veteran with no background to exchange for the understanding of the Japanese shogunate." Zhu Youzhen said lightly.

Xu Xinsu carefully went through the whole thing from the beginning, and finally understood what Chongzhen meant, he nodded and added: "Chen understands, when Bill is used as a scapegoat and handed over to the Japanese shogunate, the minister will go to rescue him, and then Bill will become a weapon for us to deal with the Dutch." Is that right? Your Majesty. ”

Zhu Youzhen clapped his hands lightly and said approvingly: "Mr. Xu is really smart, he can guess without reading the script." But you can't come to his rescue, because you're going to have to make friends with Peternat, and you have to make him feel like you're the kind he can trust. ”

Xu Xinsu nodded and said, "The minister will definitely do his best, but Your Majesty, the Dutch are not so easy to deal with." The minister hoped that His Majesty would be fully prepared to strike a fatal blow to them, not to drive them away, otherwise they would definitely come back. ”

"Against the Dutch? It's too early. I asked you to befriend Peternat in order to unite the Dutch East India Company with the Ming to deal with the Spaniards. Zhu Youzhen explained his thoughts.

"Spaniards? Is that the Spaniards in Manila? Your Majesty, didn't we, with the Dutch, attack the Spaniards in Manila, cut off our own trade routes? Xu Xinsu said in surprise.

"It's not that we unite with the Dutch, it's the Dutch who invite the Ming to attack the Spaniards together." Zhu Youzhen corrected Xu Xinsu's statement.

"Does that make a difference?" Xu Xinsu was a little angry, and in his opinion, this kind of word play seemed to make no difference at all.

"Whether it is the Ming Dynasty inviting the Netherlands, or the Netherlands inviting the Ming Dynasty, there is still a big difference, in the final analysis, we are the masters in this sea area, whether it is the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, or the British are a group of villains from across the ocean.

In any case, in this sea area, the power of the Ming Dynasty far exceeds that of any of these villains. Now if the master of Da Ming is dissatisfied with one of the villains and wants to drive people away. How do you think the other villains feel? Zhu Youzhen analyzed for Xu Xinsu.

Although he has not studied geopolitics, Xu Xinsu, who has experienced the storms and waves at sea, immediately understood that this is not the same as the encirclement and suppression of pirates by the Ming Navy. After encircling and suppressing one pirate, the other pirates who felt dangerous put down their estrangement and banded together to deal with the Great Ming Marine.

"They will unite against the Ming Dynasty." Xu Xinsu couldn't help blurting out.

"Yes, exactly. But what do you think will happen if one of the later villains wants to drive away the first villain, and uses the power of the master to deal with the first villain? Zhu Youzhen said with some excitement.

Xu Xinsu suddenly blurted out, "Other people will also try to use the master's power to attack opponents who compete with them." Your Majesty, this is really an ingenious plan. Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely become Peternats's best friend in Daming..."

In a small courtyard of the Clarification Fang Beihui Hall, Peter Natz opened the window facing the courtyard and looked at the courtyard in a daze, as if he didn't feel cold at all.

The yard was not large, only an old tree that had lost its leaves, and under the tree was a stone table and a few stone benches, and nothing else.

The walls facing the courtyard were either crawling with withered vines and plants, or the skin of the wall had fallen off, revealing the dirt and broken tiles inside the wall, and a sense of decay came to the face.

Compared to here, the taverns in Edo are a little more lively. From the time he landed in Tianjin, he and his three attachés were treated like prisoners. In order not to anger the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Petrots could only endure it as much as he could.

Compared with the high spirits when he just took office as the governor of Taiwan, he is now like two people.

When Peter Natz first arrived in the East, he thought that it was a ridiculous state founded by a bunch of uncivilized barbarians, just like the New World and the Black World.

However, in the Battle of Penghu in 1623, the Ming State forced the company to abandon the Penghu fortress, and the Batavian Governor Kuhn was therefore recalled to his native post, which made him understand that this continent was different from other continents, and the Ming State was the master of this land.

Soon, he strictly carried out the company's orders, and angered a country called Japan in the north, a country formed by a group of monkey-like short people, who also did not take the company seriously.

However, in order to please these monkeys, the senior management of the company, who has amazing trade interests with Japan, actually ordered him to go to Japan and ask for forgiveness from these monkeys, which made him feel humiliated.

The worst thing was that the monkeys actually left him in Edo for nearly 4 months, and they never summoned him, and finally he had to leave Edo in disgrace.

When he returned to Taiwan, he received the news that Ming Guo wanted to negotiate trade with the Netherlands, which made him feel much better. But when he arrived in Beijing, these Ming people still put him under house arrest, which made him feel again, a kind of bad omen.

While Peter Natz was thinking nonsense, a group of Ming sergeants suddenly pushed the door open and walked in. He immediately left the room, called the interpreter, and walked out of the room.

Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi Huang Bao tilted his head and looked at Peternats, he pressed the handle of the knife with one hand, pointed at Peternats with the other and snorted coldly: "You, what's your name?" Forget it, it doesn't matter anyway. Even the adults said, "Go back wherever you come from." Is this saint child's play? You people still have to be exchanged..."