"The foreign minister, Campos, the Governor of the Dutch East India Company, respectfully invites the Great Emperor St. Ann..."
Campos had already knelt down in front of Zhu Heji, performed the most formal ceremony of three bows and nine kowtows, and also greeted Emperor Zhu in Chinese.
While he was kowtowing, Emperor Zhu had already spoken: "Campus, you call yourself a foreign minister, and you say you are the governor of the East India Company... Which country are you a minister of? Your monarch. Who is it again? Is the East India Company of which you are the governor a government office or a trading company?"
The attendant minister Nalan Xingde immediately translated Zhu Heji's words into Latin, and then added: "The emperor is well versed in Chinese and Western affairs and is familiar with Western affairs. If you dare to deceive the emperor with lies, be careful of the thunderous wrath of the emperor!"
When Campos heard this, he quickly kowtowed and apologized: "Your Majesty, forgive me, I come from the Republic of the Western Netherlands. Although the Republic does not have a monarch, it does have a consul who is not much different from the king. Consul William III That is my monarch. As for the East India Company, it is between a commercial institution and a government agency. It is a chartered trading company specially authorized by the Great Parliament of the Netherlands. It can exercise the rights to make war, make treaties and govern colonies.... ..”
What he is speaking now is Latin, which Zhu Heji can understand completely, and he also knows what a franchised trading company is... They are actually robber companies that legally engage in zero-dollar purchases!
In fact, it is just a bunch of bad-looking people, Europa aristocrats who believe in God and are passionate about charity. It is inconvenient for them to commit robbery. Just set up such a Yaomo company, hire some desperate people to go to sea to rob, and become shareholders to share the blame. You get the benefits but don't get bad reputation or cause and effect. After you die, you won't go to hell for killing people and setting fires.
This is so treacherous!
Zhu Heji is now the supreme leader of the Eastern civilized world. Of course, he must maintain the order of the Eastern civilized world. Of course, he cannot allow such gangster companies to come to the civilized world east of Malacca to do evil.
"Bold!" Zhu Heji was already angry. He shouted and interrupted Campos, who was still planning to bully the emperor. However, Campos, Qiongsen, Martin, Wallenberg, and Pimentel were The leader of the bandit colonists was frightened. They all lay on the ground, not even daring to show their anger, for fear that Zhu Heji would kill them all with just one order.
Zhu Heji angrily rebuked: "You are obviously all pirates and bandits. You are engaged in the business of killing people and stealing goods. You all do all kinds of evil. How can you pretend to be honest businessmen? I know very well what you have done." very!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Qiu Rong beside him also stared and echoed: "Huh, you thieves, don't think you can deceive the Holy Emperor! Don't even think about deceiving me. I know you too well." What kind of stuff is this!"
Nalan Xingde also lowered his face and said in urgent and fast Latin: "The Great Emperor knows everything, and of course he also knows about the evil things you Europeans have done in the name of chartered trading companies and missionaries... ....Now that you dare to lie and deceive in front of the Great Emperor, aren't you afraid that the Great Emperor will behead you in anger?"
Now Qiongsen, Martin, Wallenberg, and Pimentel stopped working and immediately raised objections.
"Great Emperor, we didn't say anything!"
"Great Emperor, the one who deceived you is the Dutch pirate and profiteer Campos. I am a slave of the King of France..."
"Great Emperor, I am the agent of the King of Sweden. Our Swedish East India Company really has never done anything bad east of the Strait of Malacca..."
"Great Emperor, I am related to the Bello family in Macau, and your Concubine Bei is my distant relative!"
Well, we actually became relatives!
I'm afraid to die like this, it's really a disgrace to Portugal.
However, Zhu Heji was still prepared to give Bei Jiaxin some face. He smiled and said to Pimentel, who claimed to be a relative of Concubine Bei: "You, the Governor of Timor, are different from the four of them. You are a Portuguese official. They are pirates in the name of a chartered trading company!”
Pimentel breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was still very weak. Because he was originally a Macau Portuguese and a high-ranking official. After Zhu Heji regained Macau, he fled to Goa with his family because he was unwilling to be ruled by the Ming Dynasty. After arriving in Goa, he gathered a group of Macau Portuguese people to work as mercenaries. After two or three years, he got opportunity to serve as Governor of Timor.
However, the governor of Timor Island is a bit hot. Although he received the appointment more than ten years ago, he was unable to take office for various reasons.
And this time, because he and his men performed outstandingly in the "Eight-Nation Printing" War, the Governor-General of Goa sent a warship to send him to Timor, and by the way reestablished Portugal's colonial rule on Timor Island.
But Timor Island is also located east of Malacca...now it is a territory of the Chinese Empire!
After Nalanxingde translated Zhu Heji's words into Latin, Campos, Qiongsen, Martin, and Wallenberg all took a breath. The Ming Emperor wanted to treat them as pirates. While they were indeed pirates, they were licensed pirates. Among them, the French East India Company was controlled by Louis XIV and was an organized state-owned pirate!
Thinking of this, Frenchman Henry Martin shouted in Latin: "Great Emperor, I am a naval colonel appointed by King Louis XIV of France... Our French East India Company is affiliated with the royal family, and I am a slave of the King of France! "
After hearing what he said, Nalan Xingde turned around and said to Zhu Heji: "Your Majesty, this foreigner named Ma is said to be a slave of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs and a member of Fawang Road 14th. The one with the surname Kan, the poor one, and the Wa's foreign devil is different, he is a slave with status."
Zhu Heji smiled and said in his heart: "As expected of Nalan, his translation is really good!"
He smiled and said: "I don't care about people from Lu Shisi, Zhan Er, Wei Laosan, or Cha Twelve. Since you want to make a fortune in Ming Dynasty's territory, you must abide by my rules... ....And this rule of mine will not only control what they do under the Great Tomorrow, but I will also control what they do west of Malacca!"
Nalan Xingde turned back to several foreign devils and said: "The emperor said that the east of the Strait of Malacca is now the territory of the Ming Dynasty. As long as you want to do business east of Malacca, you must abide by the rules and laws of the Ming Dynasty! And this The law not only governs your affairs east of Malacca, but also governs your affairs west of Malacca!"
What?
Even taking care of things west of Malacca?
Isn’t this too broad a policy?
"Great Emperor," Qiongsen, who can speak Chinese, said, "According to international public law, monarchs or governments of various countries usually take care of the affairs of other countries. Generally, they cannot interfere in the judicial affairs of other countries, otherwise there will be chaos."
"Who said this?" Zhu Heji glared, "Do you think I don't understand international public law? We, the great Ming Dynasty, have the largest national power in the world, so we can exercise long-arm jurisdiction!"
Qiong Sen was stunned, what is long-arm jurisdiction? Is there such a provision in public international law?
"Great, great emperor, how to exercise this long-arm jurisdiction?" Qiongsen thought for a while, but still felt that he wanted to ask clearly.
Zhu Heji said calmly: "Your companies, as well as the Goa Governor's Office, are not allowed to do anything east of Malacca that will harm the national security of tomorrow's country. Otherwise, I will punish you You implement the 'Celestial Sanctions Order', impose strict and severe sanctions... and even send troops to attack!"
Nalanxingde immediately translated Zhu Heji's words again, and Campos, Martin, Wallenberg, and Pimentel were also a little dumbfounded.
National Security?
What standard is this?
Zhu Heji felt very unhappy when he saw them being stupid, but he did not continue to explain the principle of long-arm jurisdiction to them. Instead, he smiled and said to Timor Governor Pimentel: "Governor Pi, Timor Island is a good place... It is rich in mahogany, teak, green dragon wood, sandalwood, and also produces pearls. I heard that Timor Island is a good place... There are also gold mines. But this island is occupied by a group of Macanese people, and they don’t recognize you as the governor!”
Because Portugal was swallowed up by Spain for decades, the country's foundation was hollowed out by the Spaniards. The navy was also defeated by several failed "Invincible Fleet Expeditions," and its control over the colonies was greatly relaxed. Therefore, Portuguese colonies often experienced rebellions, rebellions, and conquests by nearby indigenous feudal dynasties.
And a twenty-year-long civil war broke out among the mixed-race Portuguese on Timor Island! At the end of the fight, he rejected the governor sent by the Governor-General of Goa and started an independence movement. And this one
Nalan Xingde translated Zhu Heji's words. Pimentel frowned after hearing this, "Great Emperor, Goa sent a third-class battleship to take me to Timor Island to take office."
"But have I agreed?" Zhu Heji looked at Pimentel seriously and said to him in Cantonese, "Timor Island is east of Malacca. I agree that you can go to Timor Island. I don't agree. , you can’t go to Timor.”
Pimentel grew up in Macau. He could hear and speak a little Cantonese. He immediately knew that his opportunity had come, so he asked in Cantonese: "Your Majesty, what can I do for you? What do I have to do... to become governor general of Timor?”
Still a smart man!
Zhu Heji said with a smile: "You will not become the governor, because I will not allow Portugal to have a colony on Timor Island! But I can agree that the Timor Company, controlled by the Goa Governor's Palace, operates the logging farms on Timor Island. Plantations and the pearling business…do you understand?”
Of course Pimentel understood, and he quickly bowed to Zhu Heji, "Pimentel is willing to serve the great emperor!"
Zhu Heji laughed: "Okay, I just like smart people like you. I will arrange for someone to take you to Timor Island!"
Different from what he did in Macau that year, this time Zhu Heji did not deprive the Portuguese of their colonial interests in Timor Island, but turned them into a colonial company. The reason why he did this was not because he couldn't settle a small Timor island. Rather, he wanted to use the interests of Timor Island and East-West trade to influence the Portuguese Governor-General of Goa, thereby maintaining the East-West trade line and striving to slowly transform the Governor-General of Goa into his own agent.
Zhu Heji's positioning of the Dutch East India Company was also the agent of Ming Dynasty's commercial interests in the West!
After arranging Pimentel, Zhu Heji approached Campos again, "Governor Kan, King Qiu has already told you what I mean, right? The Dutch East India Company can only engage in business in accordance with the law under the rule of the Celestial Empire. activities, and are not allowed to engage in non-commercial activities such as judicial, administrative, legislative, diplomatic and other non-commercial activities, and it is not allowed to establish colonies on the land under the rule of the Ming Dynasty... Any colonies that have been established under the rule of the Ming Dynasty must be Hand over governance, military power, legal power and related assets within the time limit.
However, all assets owned by the East India Company and related to commercial activities, such as commercial ports, commercial ports, manors, etc., can be retained and continued to operate. "
Zhu Heji spoke very slowly. When he said something, Nalan Xingde would translate it. Krampus, on the other hand, was thinking and listening. When Zhu Heji finished speaking, Campos also breathed a sigh of relief.
What Zhu Heji said was similar to what Qiu Rong and Su Zhandao said to him in the Johor Sultanate that day.
Business can continue, but this colonial rule has come to an end.
As for the business without colonial rule... it may not be impossible to make money, but it definitely depends on the face of the Emperor of Heaven!
If the Dutch East India Company violated the core interests of the Ming Empire west of Malacca, then Emperor Zhu's long-arm jurisdiction would come.
In other words, the Dutch East India Company's properties east of Malacca have now become hostages in the hands of Emperor Zhu.
Unless the major shareholders in Amsterdam really don't want money...then they and the Dutch East India Company can only obey the will of the Emperor of Heaven to a certain extent.
This move can be described as brilliant!
What Campos wanted to understand, Qiongsen, Martin, and Wallenberg also understood it.
Although France, Britain, and Sweden do not have colonies east of the Strait of Malacca... there are huge economic benefits to trading with China!
Moreover, the Dutch East India Company and the Portuguese Governor-General of Goa would probably succumb to the Ming Dynasty because of their huge economic interests.
As a result, the trade war plan drawn up by Baron John Churchill was almost bankrupt!
"The great emperor, the Dutch East India Company, is willing to abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty and operate legally in the area east of Malacca. Chen Campus must obey the emperor's lead!"
It turned out that by this time, Campos had figured everything out, so he simply gave in.
After hearing Campos's statement, Zhu Heji knew that he had influenced the first round of the trade war.
The Dutch East India Company is now a giant in East-West trade!
Their trade volume alone is greater than that of everyone else combined.
As long as the Dutch East India Company is tied up, the European market and the Indian market will not be far away from the great tomorrow.
The second round of the trade war is not in the Ming Dynasty, Nanyang or the Indo-China Peninsula. But in the distant New World...the gold of the New World is the key to victory in the trade war.
