After some bargaining, the two sides finally gave in: the Dutch agreed to the Qing court's proposal to appoint a person to set up a trading house at the open trading port. All foreign ships entered the port, and the goods purchased were purchased from the trading house, and all supplies were also provided by the trading house, and other Qing people could not be used as agents at will. After arriving at the port, 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.

The Qing court's negotiating delegation, at the suggestion of Nan Huairen and Huang Xigon, also backed down and agreed to open more Xiamen and Kinmen as treaty ports.

It makes sense for the Dutch to ask for the opening of Xiamen and Kinmen, because Xiamen is opposite Taiwan, and since the Dutch asked the Qing court to cede the island of Taiwan, then the opening of Xiamen, a treaty port, will allow the Dutch to obtain goods from the mainland nearby, saving a lot of costs.

As for why the Qing court agreed to open more Xiamen and Kinmen, the reason is that at present, Xiamen and Kinmen are in the hands of Zheng Cong, and without the help of the Dutch navy, Xiamen and Kinmen cannot be taken anyway. There is no loss in having the foreigners help recapture the two islands and then open them to the foreigners.

Nan Huairen also did another "good thing": under his intervention, the Qing court not only agreed to cede Dongfan Island to the Netherlands, but also packaged it together with the Penghu Islands and gave it to the Dutch.

I am mighty and powerful, and what is it to give this overseas wild land to friends!

After negotiating the ownership of Dongfan Island and the treaty port, the next step was to discuss the issue of remuneration.

The Dutchman said: "We have come from Europe to help your country exterminate the pirates, and we have traveled a long way, and we have traveled half the world, and the cost of coming this far is not small. And the fleet of the pirates is not so easy to destroy, we have to pay a lot of price, you have to give the silver, right? Where in this world is there anyone who doesn't give money and still lets people go to war? ”

Huang Xigon retorted: "We gave you Dongfan Island, and we also gave you the Penghu Islands, and we also opened the treaty port, why do you still want us to give money?" ”

After Nan Huairen translated Huang Xigon's words to the Dutch, he exchanged words with the Dutch, instructed the Dutch how to speak, and directly sold the bottom line of the Qing court to the Dutch: "In fact, the Qing Kingdom is not stingy with silver, but they are willing to pay up to three million taels of silver. However, the Qing court's current annual fiscal revenue is about 24 million taels of silver, and last year, Haikou entered the Yangtze River and took away half of the southern part of the Yangtze River, reducing its income by 5 million taels, but it still has an annual income of nearly 20 million taels. If you can give them more favorable terms, they can pay more. ”

None of the people in the Qing court's negotiation delegation could understand Dutch, and they thought that Nan Huairen was dutifully helping them translate.

After the Dutch got the bottom line of the Qing court, they quickly thought of a countermeasure: "Aren't thieves just strong ships and guns?" We also have strong ships and guns. The sharpness of the firearms of the thieves is the most troublesome problem in your country. If you are willing to pay seven million taels of silver, we can also provide you with a batch of new firearms, sell you a batch of warships, and help you train sailors for free. ”

When Chen Zhaoting heard that he could buy a Dutch warship, he was very tempted by the fact that he was a sailor, so he began to inquire about the price of buying a Dutch warship.

The Dutchman told him: "The purchase of a warship depends on the size of the warship, and if we sell a large ship like ours to you, it will cost one million taels of silver!" And like the smaller Galen ships, one was 400,000 taels of silver. ”

Chen Zhaoting gasped: "It's too expensive, right?" ”

"It's not expensive, it's already a great price for our friends! The battleships of the English are about the size of a big ship like ours, and the cost of one of them will be equivalent to two million taels of silver for you! If you don't believe me, you can ask for yourself when you have a chance to meet them later. The Dutchman replied.

At this time, Huang Xigon and Sunahai were discussing the price of seven million taels of silver, and they both felt that the cost of sending troops of seven million taels of silver was too expensive, although the Dutch could give away a batch of weapons, but this price was almost one-third of the annual revenue of the Qing court!

"This price is too expensive, we can't accept it!" Huang Xigon said.

After Nan Huairen translated Huang Xigon's words to the Dutch, he added: "At present, the Qing court has invested a lot of money in order to exterminate the Haikou and the remnants of the previous dynasty, and only the three feudal domains and the green camp in Guangdong and Fujian will spend nearly 10 million silver every year!" Coupled with other bandit costs, the annual investment is more than 10 million. ”

In the early years of Kangxi, only Wu Sangui's Yunnan and Guizhou provinces required three million taels of silver every year to support his vassal king's expenses and the vassal king's army. It was precisely because of the huge expenses of the three feudatories that Kangxi thought of withdrawing the feudal domains, and as a result, he forced Wu Sangui to rebel.

The Dutchman was overjoyed: "Mr. Nan Huairen, you are really our best friend!" ”

"Respected representative of the Qing Dynasty, your country has been unable to exterminate the thieves, and the annual investment in exterminating the thieves is probably more than seven million taels of silver, right? If your country is willing to pay this money, I believe that it will only take two years, and you will be able to save this expenditure in the future! The Dutch negotiator said with a smile.

After Nan Huairen translated the words of the Dutch to Huang Xigon and others, he also added: "The red-haired man is right, the cost of exterminating the thieves is huge, if we can give up this money, then after the extermination of the thieves, the matter of withdrawing the feudal domain that the emperor has always wanted will be logical!" How much silver can the court save in this way? There is a saying that if you are reluctant to make a little money, you will not be able to make a lot of money! ”

After Huang Xigon and Sunahai listened, they were a little moved.

Then the Dutch, with the help of Nan Huairen, threw out a bigger cake: "As long as your country is willing to pay this expense, then in addition to sending troops, we can also provide your country with 5,000 of our most advanced muskets, 3,000 sets of fine armor, and 200 artillery pieces, to help you train the most elite Wuzhen Chaoha." As for the cost of buying warships, we can also get more discounts, and if your country buys warships, we will help train sailors for free. In addition, after the extermination of the pirates, we came to your country to trade, and we can bring you a large amount of silver. ”

After Nan Huairen finished translating to the Qing delegation, he added: "The quality of the Dutch plywood ships is far superior to that of the Oriental ships, and in addition to their assistance in sending troops, they can also sell you another batch of ships." With those ships, not only did they wipe out the pirates, but some small groups of pirates along the coast could also wipe them out. In the future, there will be no need to ban the sea, and the islands can also be opened to fishermen, so that fishermen can go out to sea to fish, catch pearls, and increase a lot of income for the imperial court. ”

After listening to Nan Huairen's words, Sunahai nodded again and again. They don't care about whether the sea ban can be opened or not, whether they can exterminate the pirates along the coast, what they are most concerned about is to be able to exterminate the remnants of the former Ming Dynasty and ensure that the Qing Dynasty can be passed down for generations, so that they can treat the Han people as slaves for generations, riding on the heads of the Han people and continuing to suck blood.

The Dutch provided muskets, artillery and sophisticated armor, which could not only be used to exterminate the henchmen in the south of the Yangtze River, but also to go to the southwest to exterminate the remnants of the former dynasty and the remnants of the camp.

There is just one point, Bumu Butai and Minister Gu Ming's bottom line for Sunahai is only three million taels of silver, but the Dutch want seven million taels, which is a difference of four million taels, such a large amount, Sunahai can't be the master.

So it was another 600 miles to report the matter to the capital.

To pay for the Dutch troops, this matter was not only discussed between Bumu Butai and the three ministers who took care of their lives, but after the end of the early dynasty, some of his confidant ministers were summoned to the palace of the heart to discuss.

Many people objected to paying the Dutch this huge amount of money to send troops, especially some of the Eight Banners.

A group of Manchurian officials, nobles, Baylor, and Beizi such as Tuhai, Shangshan, Chani, and Moro strongly opposed it. In the end, they launched Shang Shan, who stepped forward to speak.

"Master, don't do it! Now thieves are rampant, the court costs nearly 10 million taels of silver every year, and my annual financial income in the Qing Dynasty is only 20 million taels. How can the hardcore crops of the children of the Eight Banners be given? What's more, last year it lost half of Jiangnan, and the imperial court's income decreased by at least five million taels, but the military expenditure increased by three million taels! But we still have to give the red-haired ghost 7 million taels, so we can't make ends meet! Shang Shan, on behalf of Tuhai and the others, stood up and knelt on the ground to speak.

With Shang Shan, Baylor spoke, Tuhai, Moro and other minions also stood up against paying silver to the Dutch in exchange for the Dutch sending troops.

Suo Etu took a step forward, knelt on the ground and said, "Master! The minion felt that the money should be paid! The imperial court now exterminates the thieves and the three feudatories every year, and the total cost is more than 10 million taels of silver! And the Haikou relied on the advantage of the sailor to come and go freely between various parts of the South Seas and Dongying, but the sea ban of our court could not trap the thieves, and the thieves became more and more powerful! Without the help of the Dutch fleet, it would have been difficult to exterminate! Even after defeating the thieves in Jiangnan, they fled to the sea. There are so many islands in the sea, and we don't have a sailor, where to catch it? When they turn over and make a comeback, the imperial court will have to pay a huge amount of military expenses again! And you can't cut the grass and eradicate it! The minions thought that if they wanted to completely exterminate the pirates, they still had to be helped by the red-haired ghosts! ”

This time, even a Sukazakh, who did not deal with Soetu, was on his side and agreed to pay the Dutch for military expenses: "Master, Soetu is not wrong! The red-haired ghost not only sent troops, but also gave us weapons! If we buy a giant ship and have a sailor, even if the thieves escape thousands of miles away, we can hunt them down! ”

In the end, Bumu Butai decided to pay the Dutch this fee, but the cost of seven million taels of silver was too staggering, and Bumu Butai asked the messenger to tell Sunahai that he could save as much as possible by bargaining with the Dutch.

After some fierce bargaining, and with Nan Huairen's "help", the Dutch finally pushed the cost of sending troops to six million taels.

However, the Dutch made a fuss about the contract: the cost of sending troops was six million taels a year...... (To be continued.) )