Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 328 Recovering Dongfan Island ([-]) Swearing to the Golden Gate

"Of course I have intentions, but the lord has an idea:
These five first-class warships will be handed over to the Ming Navy after you finish building them. How about letting the Lord drive him away on a super warship?

In this way, you will use the money we allocated for the purchase of five first-class battleships to build only four ships, and the first first-class battleship, the "Stubborn John", will be sold to us at a new price of 30 silver dollars. In addition to the cost of transportation, why not do it? "

Van der Laan had to admit that Liu Kongzhao was right, but he was also a little puzzled and asked, "But why is Your Excellency the Earl so anxious to have a first-class warship?"

"I won't hide it from you here. The Zheng family is becoming more and more powerful, and my Ming court is about to lose control. If my Ming navy doesn't have a powerful warship, I'm afraid that in the future, I can only watch If the Zheng family grows bigger, I don't think this is the ending you want to see.

In addition, as long as you let me take this first-class battleship back to Nanjing and show it to His Majesty, I am afraid that His Majesty the Emperor of China will be willing to allow me to cooperate with you, and then I will be able to spend the next three 400 The big order of [-] silver dollars is given to you, not to Francois. Could it be that you still can't trust me;
I, Liu Kongzhao, are the descendants of the God of Wisdom you mentioned, and what I mean often represents what His Majesty the Emperor of China means. "

Liu Kongzhao was fooled and began to believe that Liu Kongzhao was the top nobleman of the Ming Dynasty who could influence the opinion of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Van der Laan finally agreed to Liu Kongzhao's request and signed a contract with Liu Kongzhao to deliver the Stubborn John battleship as the first first-class warship to Liu Kongzhao.

Liu Kongzhao first paid a deposit of [-] silver dollars, and the rest of the money will be made up together with other orders within three months after returning to Beijing.

In this way, Liu Kongzhao took Van der Laan's flagship away with only [-] silver dollars, and Van der Laan returned to Batavia city with Liu Kongzhao's [-] silver dollars, a contract, and a jade pendant symbolizing his status as a top aristocrat in the Ming Dynasty.

A large order with a total value of 450 million silver dollars.

In addition, there will be a long-term cooperative relationship with millions of silver dollars in the future.

Coupled with the status of a top aristocrat who is almost on an equal footing with the emperor of the empire, even a Westerner like himself has heard of his ancestors.

These are the reasons why van der Laan chose to deliver the first-class battleship "Stubborn John" to Liu Kongzhao.

Facing the large order of several million silver dollars, Vanderlande had no choice but to be moved. As a businessman who came to the Far East, what he pursued was to make more profits.

The cost of a first-class battleship is about [-] silver dollars. Even if the transportation cost, labor cost and dividends paid to the East India Company are added to complete the sale of a first-class warship, Vanderland reckons that his shipbuilding company can Earn a profit of one hundred thousand silver dollars.

And the five ships cost 50 silver dollars, plus other orders, Van der Laan found that as long as he firmly grasped Liu Kongzhao, the buyer, he could not have to go to the sea to plunder everywhere, and still earn more money than before. Grab more profits.

As for whether this will strengthen the strength of the Ming Empire's navy, Van der Laan feels that Liu Kongzhao is right. The Ming Empire's navy in the Far East will naturally not affect their maritime security in the West, and helping the Ming Empire's navy can indeed suppress the rise of the Zheng Group. .

As a Dutch colonist, Van der Laan dared not speak out against the Zheng Group, and even hoped that the navy of the Ming Empire could clean up the Zheng Group.

As the saying goes, the enemy of an enemy is a friend, and Van der Laan chose to give the first-class battleship to the Ming Navy without any psychological pressure.

In addition, Liu Kongzhao said that he could still find Frangji and even Kuiyi, who competed with his family in the Dutch shipbuilding industry. Even the governor will be very happy when the top nobles establish business partnerships, and their own families will also be very happy.

As for the first-class battleship "Stubborn John" given to Daming, Vander Laan was not worried about being blamed by the East India Company, because it was originally made by his family.

Liu Kongzhao asked his naval escort to drive the "Stubborn John" to Kinmen Island.

"This name has to be changed, and when the time comes, please give me a name from Your Majesty."

Liu Kongzhao laughed as he said that, he now finally has the confidence to hold his head high in the Zheng Group's warship camp.

Of course, Liu Kongzhao did not expect that his bragging and flickering would actually be able to flick this super giant ship from Hongmaofan.

Liu Kongzhao thought that Kui Yi would die of anger if he found out.

Of course, the reason why Liu Kongzhao would rather buy the battleship "Stubborn John" first at the price of buying a new ship is also because Daming's Zheng Group is about to declare war on the Kuiyi, which occupies the East Fan, which may lead to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The relationship with Hongmao Fan is bad, and maybe Van der Laan's cooperation with him will have to stop.

Because of this, Liu Kongzhao decided to trick Van der Laan into selling the super battleship to him before he knew that the Zheng Group was really going to attack Kui.

In this way, even if the cooperation is terminated, he can earn a super battleship first, which is not a loss.

However, Liu Kongzhao also hopes to continue to cooperate with Van der Laan. After all, the Ming Navy needs more than just a first-class warship in the future.

Liu Kongzhao is already mentally prepared. When the time comes, he will continue to show affection and reason to Fan der Lan Xiaozhi, pass the blame for attacking Kuiyi to the Zheng family, and continue to make big cakes for Fan der Lan, as long as Fan der Lan is willing to make money from himself , you have to continue to put aside national interests and cooperate with yourself.

Zheng Zhilong didn't expect Liu Kongzhao to be able to get the "Stubborn John" directly from Van der Laan.

On the same day, Zheng Zhihu, Liu Guoxuan and other generals of the Zheng Group also came to visit and flattered Liu Kongzhao. Naturally, Liu Kongzhao did not shy away from letting the Zheng family see. After all, the relationship between the imperial court and the Zheng family is so delicate. Suspicion and intimacy coexist.

On the same day, Zheng Zhilong held a swearing-in meeting, and [-] large warships gathered on Jinmen Island.

Liu Kongzhao was also fortunate to participate in the event. Looking at the scenes with sails and flags covering the sky and dense warships, he couldn't help sighing secretly that the Zheng family really had a solid foundation.

Liu Kongzhao followed the Zheng family's warship fleet to Penghu, and joined Shi Lang's warship here.

A few days later, the fleet of Zheng's Group arrived in the south of Dongfan Island. For a while, almost the entire sea was covered with warships of the Zheng family on the shores of the two cities of Zeelandia and Prominza.

At this time, the Dutch colonists Kuiyi had also completed the defense preparations to fortify the wall and clear the country.

The coasts of Zeelandia and Prominza were full of broken ships crowded in the ports, and even the ports were destroyed in order to prevent Zheng's fleet from landing.

It was also the first time for Liu Kongzhao to observe this kind of landing battle, so he had time to order his men to drive his first-class battleship further forward.

"My lord has ordered you to raise the sails when the tide is high, and charge into the inner sea of ​​Luermen with all your strength!"

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