Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 118 The Dutch Delegation

After Claudia returned to Chaozhou Mansion, she was stunned by the bustling city. After asking Wannu Gabrao, she found out that it was Tangning again.

Claudia also didn't know why the two hemispheres couldn't be opened when they were combined like this. For this reason, she asked the Jesuits of Chaozhou College for advice and found that they also didn't know.

So, curious and eager to learn, Claudia decided to see it with her own eyes.

The already numb audience suddenly saw a foreign girl approaching, and the originally calm scene suddenly became lively.

"Look, look, it's that Franz woman."

"Hey, what is that Franz woman running here at this time, the excitement is long over."

"Hey, she actually went to line up, does she still want to try it? A group of big men can't do it, but a woman can do it?"

The news was spread to ten, ten to hundreds. Hearing that the beautiful Francine woman was going to try to pull the ball away, many people deliberately gathered from other places to this experimental site.

For a while, this experimental site was overcrowded.

Claudia has already gotten used to being surrounded by Daming people, even if she puts on Daming's costumes.

But fortunately, there are yamen servants around to provide her with protection, and those onlookers didn't ask for autographs, group photos, etc., they just watched from a distance and discussed, as long as they got used to it.

It seems that she intends to see how Claudia pulls away the ball that no one can pull away. Most of the people who lined up in front gave up.

So, it didn't take long to line up with Claudia.

"Girl, do you want to try?" the new army platoon leader asked with a smile.

Claudia nodded seriously. She took out ten cents, threw it into the wooden box, and walked slowly to the table.

The people watching stretched their necks and held their breath, more nervous and excited than trying to go up by themselves.

At a shy gesture from a student, Claudia grabbed the rope.

"Ready?" the student asked.

Claudia nodded.

"start."

Immediately after giving an order, Claudia gritted her silver teeth and began to exert force suddenly. The rope was taut, but the ball did not respond at all.

Tried another position, same result.

Claudia immediately dropped the rope and shrugged, and then said in very unfluent Daming words: "I, I, I can't open it."

After all, he walked off the stage without any frustration, and just gave up.

The onlookers didn't react for a while, so this is the end?The time has not yet come, it is too fast.

Seeing that Claudia really came out, the stupefied people reacted, and there was an uproar, feeling like they were being tricked. You must know that many people came here in a hurry from all the way.

If it weren't for the fact that she was a woman, or a beautiful and seductive Francine woman, it is estimated that many people would curse and throw vegetables and rotten eggs at the same time.

Claudia felt the dissatisfaction of the people around her. She didn't know what she did wrong and how she offended so many people.

Under the protection of several guards and yamen servants, he hurriedly fled this place of right and wrong.

Claudia's sudden appearance was just an episode, and it could only prove once again that this ball will not be so easy to open up, and it won't work if anyone comes.

Claudia was not the only one who was attracted by the hustle and bustle of Chaozhou Prefecture. There was also a group of Dutch people. If they didn't have more important things to do, they might also want to see what happened.

Of course, the premise is that they don’t disclose their Dutch identities. Otherwise, with the current flow of people in Chaozhou, it’s really hard to say whether the rotten eggs thrown by people will kill them.

Nowadays, in Chaozhou and Huizhou, the most unwelcome foreigners are the Dutch.

However, people in the two prefectures still prefer to call them red-haired ghosts or red-haired ghosts because they don't like them.

There were six Dutchmen in this group, escorted by a squad of New Army soldiers, who came from South Australia.

Because their ship first encountered a pirate ship of the Caribbean Pirates in the Wanli Shitang sea area, and after revealing their identities, they escaped the fate of being robbed, and then were taken directly to Nan'ao, and then sent to Fucheng by Ye Dacheng's arrangement.

Before these people arrived in Fucheng, Tangning had already received news and knew the purpose of these people's visit. However, he was not in a hurry to meet these people, but arranged them in the post house first.

Naturally, the Dutch are here for negotiations. If it wasn't for the delay in going back and forth from Batavia, they would have arrived long ago.

Of course, another reason for their arrival now is to pretend to be the new army of Pirates of the Caribbean.

It's really abominable, even if you want to pretend to be a pirate, you have to pretend to be something like it, how can the Caribbean pirates be of yellow race, and why don't they stay here in the Caribbean Sea, what are they doing all the way here?
But what if you know?What can I do if I expose and prove it face to face?If you can't beat others, no matter how much evidence you have, it's still wrong.

The Dutch East India Company was originally established by a group of businessmen, and no one could stand the robbing of merchant ships again and again.

Now there are two ways in front of you, either fight or make peace as soon as possible.

If you want to fight, you really don't have much confidence. More importantly, with the current strength of the Dutch East India Company in the Far East, you can't afford to lose. Once you lose, the consequences will be very serious.

They believe that, not to mention another fiasco like that, even if the losses are slightly more, the Portuguese and Spaniards will definitely smash their Dutch power in the Far East like sharks smelling blood, and the Dutch East India Company will also will face bankruptcy.

This price is too great.

Therefore, it is safer to take the route of peace talks.

The idea of ​​the Dutch is the same as that of the Portuguese. Their greatest enemy and greatest threat is not the Ming Dynasty, but the other party.

That being the case, no one wants to fight to the death with Daming, and then let the other party take advantage of it.

The failure of the Netherlands this time was purely a capsize in the gutter, and they definitely don't want to capsize again.

Thus, the Dutch delegation represented by Jialong came to Chaozhou Prefecture.

But after they came, the new army gave a cold treatment on the grounds that their Master Tang had important matters to deal with and had no time.

In this hot day, the cold treatment did not feel cool, but made Jia Long and his party even more uncomfortable.

Now that they are here, they must want to settle things as soon as possible.

Because on the way here, they saw with their own eyes the new army pretending to be Caribbean pirates and robbing their Dutch merchant ships.

If it weren't for the fact that there was nothing valuable on their boat, and that they were here for negotiations, they would probably have been robbed.

In the past, they were the Dutch who robbed others, but now they did not expect to be the targets of other people's looting, and in front of them, they were angry and helpless at the same time.

Jia Long couldn't stay in the post house, the new army didn't restrict their activities, so he came out with an interpreter.

He wanted to find out if the person surnamed Tang was really busy or fake, and what he saw after entering the city. Did something important happen here?Take the time to find out.

The looks of the two were very obvious. Some people guessed whether they were Dutch, so they asked directly. Naturally, Garon would not admit it, so he said that he was Spanish.

Seeing that it wasn't a red-haired ghost, and there were soldiers from the new army behind them to protect them, the Chaozhou people didn't make things difficult for them.

After reading the notice and asking about it, they finally knew what had happened. It turned out that the person surnamed Tang had done it.

Jia Long is very strange, through the two hemispheres that are joined together like that, is it true that no one can pull them apart?

When it comes to things like this, almost no one can resist curiosity.

All right, Jialong immediately decided to go to an experimental site to have a look.

(End of this chapter)