Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 680 This Debt Will Be Claimed By Our Daming Military

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Cabinet sent the confidential debt to François Nakatani Tianhe, the Western Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who supported the tax cut proposal of the two chambers.

The reason why Zhang Huangyan sent Gu Tianhe was because he didn't mean to make Gu Tianhe sick if the debt failed.

After all, Gu Tianhe was always against him, the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Of course, if Gu Tianhe succeeds in repaying his debts, it will be nothing more than a successful mission.

If he didn't succeed, it would naturally give Zhang Huangyan a reason to ask domestic capitalists for money.

And Gu Tianhe also wanted to succeed in debt.

After all, before he left, he had already received Wang Jiaqin's entrustment.

Even Yang Mingshen had great expectations for him, and even in order to relieve Gu Tianhe's loneliness at sea, even Yang Mingshen personally arranged for a top ten most beautiful oiran in the East to come to the West with him.

"Brother Gu, if you can't get back this debt and ask the cabinet to use it to build the railway from Chengdu to Kunming and to prepare for the recovery of Jiaozhi's military expenses, the cabinet will ask you and me for money from rich businessmen, so your task this time is arduous ah!"

Every time he sees the Japanese beauty around him having fun at his knees, Gu Tianhe can always think of Yang Mingshen saying this to him.

But Gu Tianhe also knew that the debt of hundreds of millions of silver dollars was not a small amount, and it would be very difficult for Francine Country to repay this debt.

After all, this used to be equivalent to 7000 million taels of silver, which was the decades-long income of the Ming treasury 17 years before Chongzhen.

Moreover, the debt itself is fabricated out of thin air. It is a figure fabricated by the Ministry of Finance under the instruction of Wang Jiaqin, a cabinet scholar and party member of the two houses, in order to divert the cabinet's way of making money.

Gu Tianhe didn't even know if the French authorities would agree to the debt.

But Gu Tianhe knew that he still had to fight for it. After all, it was related to the interests of the entire capital group behind him, and it was also related to the interests of Daming.

Gu Tianhe first arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, which is already a colony of the Ming Dynasty, and there is also a vassal state in the area around Cape Town, owned by the King of Jingjiang Zhu Youzhi of the Ming Dynasty.

This vassal state is called the Sixth Kingdom of Ming Dynasty.

After Zhu Youjian entrusted the vassal kings with overseas real fiefdoms, in order to attract them to establish a Han country overseas, he allowed them to establish their own country and even build an army overseas.

And this Zhu Youzhi was the feudal lord who came to Africa with the Daming Ocean Fleet and established the Sixth Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.

Many Ming vassals and noble heroes still habitually start with Daming when they establish a country overseas.

And the vassal kings directly named their ancestors as the first sons of the Ming emperor, and named them the first kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.

As for nobles such as Gonghou Bo, it is easier to establish a country overseas, directly adding the word Daming and their own surname and title.

For example, the Principality of the Huang family of the Ming Dynasty, which was founded in India by relying on [-] rifled guns, and the Marquis of Linchuan of the Ming Dynasty, which was established in the Black Sea region.

Therefore, in the entire world, there are not many known Sixth Kingdoms of Ming Dynasty.

But at least on the continent of Africa, there is only one Sixth Kingdom of Ming Dynasty.

And the Sixth Kingdom of Ming Dynasty is now regarded as the most civilized independent country on the African continent.

The Sixth Kingdom of Ming Dynasty survives mainly by trading with the Cape of Good Hope, a colony of Ming Dynasty.

Li Dingguo also served as the governor of Africa here, governing Ming's colony in the Cape of Good Hope.

In addition, the Ming Navy also has its own African fleet here to guard the routes in this area.

In recent years, due to the implementation of the Tween Order, King Zhu Youzhi of the Sixth Kingdom of Ming Dynasty intends to entrust several of his sons Tween to North Africa.

But Li Dingguo was against it. He didn't want the Sixth Kingdom of Ming Dynasty to go to North Africa to establish a few duchies. Then someone might open up a route there, which would sharply reduce his trade income in the Cape of Good Hope.

Therefore, the Sixth Kingdom of Ming Dynasty could only seek the support of the central court of Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Youzhi, the king of the Sixth Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty, learned that someone from the central court, Gu Tianhe, appeared in Africa, he also came to meet him in person, hoping to know his thoughts through Gu Tianhe, the central court of the Ming Dynasty.

Gu Tianhe knew that many places in North Africa were colonies of Frangji.

And he still doesn't want to cause Frangji's unhappiness because of the Han forces in Ming Dynasty's involvement in North Africa, so as to affect his own debt, so he didn't agree to King Zhu Youzhi.

Even, Gu Tianhe immediately set off northward the next day after meeting Zhu Youzhi's envoy at the Cape of Good Hope.

After several months of wandering at sea, Gu Tianhe arrived in Gibraltar, France.

But what Gu Tianhe didn't know was that because the matter of Daming's taking back Macau had been known to the Frangji authorities, the Flangji authorities had already begun to be dissatisfied with Daming.

From Frangji's point of view, Macau seems to be their territory.

And Daming is tantamount to occupying their territory.

Therefore, when Gu Tianhe appeared, they did not welcome him, even though Gu Tianhe just wanted to get back the debt of more than 1 million silver dollars in a friendly way.

Of course, Frangji didn't want to turn against the Ming Empire just like that, so he still chose to meet Zhonggu Tianhe, the Western Secretary of the Ming Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Gu Tianhe met King Fulangji and announced his intention for coming: "It has been more than a hundred years since your country illegally occupied Macau in the year of Jiajing Guichou. Although it has been forcibly taken back by our Ming Dynasty, your country I have borrowed my Macau and nearby routes for hundreds of years, and have never paid back a penny of rent, and there is no record in my financial files over the years.

According to the average market price of leased land over the past hundred years, as well as the basic lease rate of our Daming Central Bank and the added value of land in Macau over the years, you should repay our Daming's debt of 5000 million silver dollars.

Now all the citizens of your country serving in Macau can repay 2000 million of them for ten years, and the remaining 3000 million can be divided into five years to pay off, plus interest, you should repay 3000 million silver dollars every year, the total is still 5000 million Silver dollars, of course you can choose to pay them off in one lump sum, so you only need to repay 3000 million silver dollars! "

When Gu Tianhe reported the debt, King Frangji was angry on the spot: "You bastards, you are extorting! You destroyed our warships, occupied our base in the Far East, Macau, and killed our officers and soldiers. Now But he still asks us for money, he is simply a robber, an unreasonable robber, can’t he fight the Armada that bullies us, seize his ship and beat him out of the country!”

In the end, Gu Tianhe did not want to pay back the sky-high debt, and was beaten and humiliated. Even the merchant ship he brought with him was robbed, and even the Dongying women were taken away.

When Gu Tianhe returned home in misery, it was not Zhang Huangyan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, who was furious, but Zhu Youjian, the emperor of Ming Dynasty.

"Bastard! The little Frangji dared to humiliate my Ming officials in this way, and immediately convened a meeting of the Grand Marshal's Mansion to prepare to teach Frangji a heavy lesson. Since the cabinet does not want to pay back the 5000 million debts, I will be the Marshal. The government is up to our military to ask for it, but if we want it, it’s not just 5000 million!"

With Zhu Youjian's order, a meeting of the Generalissimo's Mansion was held immediately, and the Ministry of the Navy issued a military order on the same day, directing Zheng Chenggong to go north to attack the Flangji Kingdom.

(End of this chapter)