There is no need to report on the extermination of the Liukou bandits, but such a thing as a war with Spain definitely requires instructions from the Ming Court.

After all, there are nearly 20,000 people under his command who take the salary of the Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers who are raised out of their own pockets are only 15,000.

Both the French and the Genoese were led by Chen Longzheng to Xiao Ruxun's secret reception room, where he met with the Genoese and the French.

Both the Genoese and the French showed great enthusiasm for the arrival of the Chinese caravan, especially the Genoese, who not only treated Chen Longzheng as a guest of honor, but also often invited him to banquets.

In Chen Longzheng's narration, Xiao Ruxun knows that now Chen Longzheng has become a representative symbol of Chinese culture, Chen Longzheng represents China, he is China, and all his skills are regarded as the inherent skills of the Chinese.

For example, calligraphy, such as literati painting, etc., as well as Chinese stir-fried dishes by Chinese chefs, it is said that it is now popular throughout the upper class of the European aristocracy, before Chen Longzheng left Europe, he left two chefs in the kitchen of the Doge of Genoa, became the head chef, specially for the Doge of Genoa and his guests to cook food, all the ingredients and seasonings are at their disposal, all the manpower is at their disposal.

The cooks on the ship can actually enjoy the treatment of chefs, and these two cooks also have their own tempers, such as idlers to avoid before cooking, leaving only the two of them in the kitchen, etc., so that Europeans still think that Chinese cooking is a strange ritual and cannot allow outsiders to participate.

In fact, these two cooks know that they can't learn their skills from foreigners, otherwise their super high treatment will be gone.

This time, the Genoese and the French came here and expressed the hope that Xiao Ruxun could send more Chinese chefs to Europe, especially the French and Genoa, to their royal and aristocratic territories to make Chinese food for their royal family and nobles.

Because Chinese food is very delicious, they all like it very much, but there are only two Chinese cooks, and they only listen to the governor of Genoa, who is still pretending to be arrogant, and it is more difficult to eat a Chinese meal than to ascend to the sky.

Xiao Ruxun then had the idea of opening Chinese restaurants in France and Genoa, and sent a group of chefs to open Chinese restaurants in big European cities, specifically facing the upper class in Europe. simply opened a Chinese restaurant, provided the best quality Chinese food service for the European high society, and brought up the forced Chinese food in Europe.

As soon as this idea appeared, Xiao Ruxun discussed with them, saying that he was willing to send chefs to Europe, but to open a Chinese restaurant in Europe, and he could open a Chinese restaurant in Paris and Genoa to cook the most original Chinese food.

The aristocracy and the royal family and the big businessmen can go to eat, anytime and anywhere, as for sending chefs to serve the nobles and the royal family, it is a little too difficult, because there are very few good chefs in China, and it is difficult to provide personal services.

The representatives of the two countries expressed their understanding, expressed their support for Xiao Ruxun's idea of opening a Chinese restaurant, and expressed their great eagerness for Xiao Ruxun to arrange this matter as soon as possible.

Then there is business negotiations, this is the right thing, the two countries can allow the two countries to share the profit together, but about the right to sell Chinese goods in Europe, it is up for debate, everyone knows that this is a huge income, Chinese do not have enough channels in Europe, life is not familiar, must look for suitable business partners to assist.

The French and Genoese both want to win the exclusive agency, and the Genoese bargaining chip is a safe route, saying that the Mediterranean is very safe, which can ensure the safe arrival of the Chinese fleet in Genoa ports, and can even send a fleet to escort them, while the French ports are not safe at all, and they are constantly attacked by the Spanish fleet, Spain will not care about your French interests, he will fight you!

But Spain did not dare to attack the Genoese fleet, because the Genoese bankers held the money bags, and the Spaniards could not offend Genoese if they continued to fight, and the Genoese had nothing to fear.

And the French are more than a little weaker in this regard, because their navy cannot fight against the Spaniards, and even the civil war in the country is not over, what do you give security to the distinguished Chinese guests?

The French representative was angry with the Genoese, blowing his beard and glaring at the Genoese, but he also knew very well that the environment in France was very poor, the domestic ports were not safe, the route passed through the territory of Spain, and could be attacked by the Spanish fleet at any time, in case the Chinese merchant ship was attacked, the French could not be rescued, but how to explain to the Chinese?

So the French planned to go through the price war, Henry IV said, not afraid of high prices, if the price is high, we can buy further north, sell at a higher price, Chinese goods have always been a representative of luxury goods, as long as we have a good source, do not worry about not being able to sell, Chinese goods are very popular, so the price of the French is one fifth higher than that of the Genoese.

The Genoese saw Xiao Ruxun's move, and hurriedly announced that they could also raise the price by one-fifth, and the French raised the price by one-fifth, and the Genoese were angry, and also raised the price by one-fifth, and the French gritted their teeth and raised the price by one-fifth.

Xiao Ruxun took the stage as a peacemaker, Xiao Ruxun said-

The amount of goods we ship to Europe is very large, especially the consumable tea, and we also plan to ship a batch of iron pots to Europe for sale, these quantities can be assured that they are large enough.

It is precisely because the quantity is large enough that it is not a good thing for you for any one of you to win the right to sell Chinese goods alone, because you will be jealous of other countries and then use various reasons to find trouble.

The French and Genoese looked at each other and looked stunned - they didn't think of this before, so they thought about bidding, and now they think about it, really, if the French get it, the Genoese will definitely not be reconciled, and go back to unite with the Holy See to look good at the French, and the Genoese will get it, and the French are not reconciled, and go back to unite the anti-Catholic alliance to give the Genoese a good look.

The two countries are fighting for it, and the loss is everyone's interests, so why can't you join forces and we do this business together?

You two countries can cooperate a little bit, divide the sales area, the French sell goods in another area, the Genoese sell goods in one area, no one should cross the line to sell goods, so as not to hurt the peace, do business together, the French have an army, the Genoese have the financial resources, the two countries cooperate, the threat to other countries is much smaller, isn't it?