After the Ming Dynasty's warships arrived at Haojing'ao and landed, the two armed merchant ships that had been looming in a confrontation posture near the pier left the pier. The peninsula of Haojing'ao no longer needs them, so what's the point for them?
Said, there are places where they are needed more.
A small island near Hao Jing'ao has the largest Portuguese firearms workshop here. Hundreds of people work and live on this small island. The firearms workshop here can not only produce long and short muskets, but also for the Ming Empire.
Provides the main source of Folan machine cannon.
And here, the Portuguese would not allow the Ming Dynasty to take it away under any circumstances. If the Ming Dynasty wanted to take it away by force, they would rather evacuate everyone and destroy this place than let the Ming Dynasty succeed.
All the weapons in Hao Jing'ao, including the cannons in the forts on the pier, are provided by the firearms workshops here. If the land in Hao Jing'ao is the first thing that Portugal cannot give up, then this is their second.
Something that cannot be given up.
The armed merchant ships brought back the news that the Ming army had arrived at Haojing'ao, and everyone in the firearms workshop on the island also stopped what they were doing and began to be on full alert. There were gunboats at sea to provide support and cover, and there were sufficient firearms on the island to resist
, no matter who wants to invade, they have to pay a sufficient price.
The news that Father John brought to Jose that he had not seen Jiang Wan at all also made Jose alert. Almost like the captains of the two armed merchant ships, he immediately thought of the firearms workshop on the island. He even
I wonder if Jiang Wan's fundamental purpose is that place.
"Compensate!"
After Jose considered it carefully, he made a decisive decision: "Andre, send someone to ask General Jiang to come. If they don't let you go out, just pass the news over. Just say that I am here and I am willing to talk to you."
They discuss compensation!"
The feeling of not being able to control everything is really bad. If you don't plan to have a fierce conflict with the other party, then the delay in dealing with this problem is nothing more than a matter of money!
Jose felt that he had figured out the key to this problem. The firearms workshop would never tolerate the Ming Dynasty people making up their minds. The artillery transaction with the Ming Dynasty people was already his most important achievement. It was because he could click on the governor of Hao Jing'ao.
The biggest capital of the position, he will not tolerate anyone to destroy it.
This time, Jiang Wan came very quickly. The moment he saw Jiang Wan, Jose let out a long sigh of relief. The fact that the other party came so quickly meant that the other party was always in the big house, not just aside.
Surrounding myself, I went to the firearms workshop.
"In view of your property in Haojing'ao, we, the Victor Chamber of Commerce, failed to fulfill our duty to protect it. I am willing to give you satisfactory compensation on behalf of the Victor Chamber of Commerce!" He did not talk nonsense with the other party, nor did he want to talk about Catherine with the other party.
After he revealed the matter, he determined that the other party was just using this matter as an excuse. Then, he simply agreed to compensate, which would definitely make the other party unable to continue to be entangled.
"Three thousand taels of silver!" He raised three fingers: "The Chamber of Commerce is willing to pay a compensation of three thousand taels of silver and purchase the property where your property is located in full and give it to you as a gift!"
"Do you think I am the one who is short of these three thousand taels of silver?" Jiang Wan slowly sat in front of the other party, followed by the little girl Jiang Yanran. She looked at Jose opposite him and the priest next to him, shaking her head with disdain.
He shook his head.
"I have investigated and found that your trading company may not be able to earn so much money in a year!" Jose suppressed his anger: "This is just the amount of compensation I will pay. At the same time, given that your country's demand for artillery is too high,
Big, we have suspended the production of short muskets, which means that the agreement between our Victor Chamber of Commerce and your Excellency is about to be terminated. For this reason, we are willing to provide another two thousand taels of silver as a supplement to your Excellency!"
He coughed, and his face was extremely serious: "I think you should think about it carefully. After all, even if it is Haojing'ao, the fee for my Victor Chamber of Commerce to rent this place is only five hundred taels of silver a year, five thousand
Two silver coins to resolve this little misunderstanding between you and our chamber of commerce. I think our chamber of commerce is already very sincere!"
Father John also nodded slightly. This was a huge fortune. He felt that the young general opposite should accept this condition instead of looking at himself and Jose with contempt.
"If you want to talk about the rent you paid for renting this place in Haojing'ao, then I have something to say!" Jiang Wan looked at Jose in front of him as if he was an idiot: "Well, I'll give it to you.
One thousand taels of silver every year, Victor Chamber of Commerce and all non-Ming people will withdraw from here, what do you think, as long as I live, you can keep coming to get this silver every year!"
"How is this possible!" Jose slapped the table hard, and Father John hurriedly pulled him to signal him not to get angry.
"Yes, you also know that this is impossible, so why are you still telling me so much!" Jiang Wan glared at him and sneered: "One code is another code, you have to mix it up, I'm talking about business with you, you and
I'm talking about land leasing. If that's the case, we won't talk about buying and selling. Let's talk about land sovereignty..."
"Talk about business, talk about business!" Jose tried to smooth things over: "Other things are not within the scope of our discussion today. It's up to you!"
"Okay, let's continue talking about business!" Jiang Wan nodded: "I don't want the money. I'm not short of it. However, I am a little interested in your sailboat. Otherwise, you can give me a whole boat from your dock.
It’s the kind of merchant ship you’re on, of course, the kind with cannons at the front and rear!”
Jose looked extremely sad, but Jiang Wan continued.
"Of course my business has to be reopened, and it will still be where it is. If you find it distasteful, you can continue to look for trouble, or even make things difficult for my business. The worst is that I will do it again and ask you for some compensation!"
"The trade of short muskets can be terminated. However, as long as the short muskets produced by you appear again in our territory of Ming Dynasty, I will blame it on you and cause trouble for you. Even our Emperor will support me in this matter.
So, it’s useless for you to look at me like this!”
Jiang Wan spread his hands: "Look, my conditions are not excessive at all!"
"So, your condition is that your trading company reopens and nothing happens. The Victor Chamber of Commerce will pay you an armed merchant ship as compensation for this misunderstanding and the termination of the contract!" John repeated what he said, and then looked at
Asking Jose: "Mr. Jose, what do you think?"
"I think he is asking for a price!" Jose said coldly: "Just the armed merchant ship of my chamber of commerce, with its standard equipment of four cannons and two small cannons, costs more than 5,000 taels of silver, and it is said that there are also
The ship itself!”
"Oh, by the way, you don't have to worry about the captain and sailors. I can recruit them myself!" Jiang Wan said with a smile: "Haojing'ao is such a good place. How can I be left out of making money?"