This is blackmail!

The Ming Dynasty would not accept any blackmail. After hearing this, Wang Dong snorted coldly and asked sarcastically: "Your Excellency Earl, if your conditions are this, then I don't think there is any need to continue the talk today."

"What? Your Lord Duke has any objections to these conditions?" Louis seemed to be unaware of it, and said with a surprised expression: "I don't know what objections to these conditions you have? Why don't you say it out and we can discuss it."

"Haha, I don't think there is any need. I don't think this outrageous condition is at all." Wang Dong replied with a sneer.

Louis shook his head, spread his hands and said sincerely: "Since it is a negotiation, eliminating their own differences to achieve consistency, isn't this the purpose of the negotiation? How can you know the result without discussing it?"

"This is a bit reasonable..." Wang Dong thought about it and then reluctantly said: "Since your Count is interested in discussing, then let's discuss it, hoping to eliminate the differences and achieve consistency."

"Of course! This is also the result that both of us hope to see, isn't it?" Louis nodded with a smile.

At this time, both of them secretly cursed each other, "Old Fox". The two sides had already made an invisible confrontation by borrowing the conditions of negotiation, and the process and results of the confrontation also confirmed their respective judgments.

Louis Lion spoke up and proposed five outrageous conditions first, but Wang Dong said that there was no basis for negotiation, but he did not stand up immediately and ended the negotiations directly.

What does this mean? It represents their own temptations and also represents that both sides actually want to end the war, but in terms of the way and bottom line of ending the war, this is the basis of the real negotiation.

As the temptation of both sides ended, the real negotiation finally began.

On that day, Wang Dong and Louis each argued with each other, and continued to argue about how to end the war and the interests of both sides, and even had fierce quarrels.

Whether it is Wang Dong or Louis, they set their own bottom lines before meeting. Of course, during the discussion or even quarrel, no one could show their trump card. Instead, they would use various reasons and even threats to force the other party to make concessions, thereby achieving their goals.

The negotiations were in this difficult and intense atmosphere, and there was no result on that day, but the mutual testing and quarrel on the first day had already made both parties feel at ease and vaguely touched the other party's bottom line. Therefore, starting from the negotiations on the second day, both parties began to enter into substantive issues and refused to give in to each other's sake.

It was not until the fourth day that the negotiations had some reasonable results, but in some aspects the differences between the two sides were still relatively large, and the quarrel continued over this.

Until the sixth day, after six days of tug-of-war and negotiations, many aspects had basically reached an agreement, but at two points Louis was still unable to force Wang Dong to make concessions.

"Hisser Duke, the Ming Dynasty compensates France, which is only formal, because you, the Ming Dynasty, only need to take out part of the profits from Spain and hand them over to France. These are not much loss to the Ming Dynasty and do not harm the substantial interests of the Ming Dynasty. Why are you so persistent?"

Wang Dong said seriously: "I don't think we need to continue discussing this issue. Whether it is substantive or formal, the Ming Dynasty will not do this. This is about the dignity and bottom line of a country. Moreover, in my opinion, if you want to compensate, it is France who gave the Ming Dynasty compensation. After all, it is you, the Earl who launched this war."

"No, no, no! The war was not started, nor was it the French Empire. The Duke. That was because the Ming Dynasty and Spain went to war." Louis corrected.

"It's not that the Ming Dynasty and Spain went to war, it's that Spain, including you France, started war against the Ming Dynasty!" Wang Dong retorted, and then said: "According to your opinion, can I think that as long as there is no actual loss, France can do the same?"

Louis showed an inquiring expression, and Wang Dong continued: "If this is the case, then as the Governor of Xinming, I can tell you that the Ming Dynasty can give you a huge sum of money in private. If you get this huge sum, just give a part of it to the Ming Dynasty in the form of war compensation. If you are willing to do so, I can arrange it immediately. In this way, the economic profits of your country may be more than the so-called compensation you asked before."

After hearing this, Louis cursed in his heart, saying, "This old fox is really hard to deal with, he actually did this trick for himself."

Originally, Louis planned to use this method to make France finally gain some nominal benefits in this war. Even if the Ming Dynasty only compensated the French Empire for very little money, as long as the money was delivered in the form of war reparations, Louis could explain it to Paris.

But Wang Dong was not fooled, and even made such a request, which completely failed Louis's plan.

After a forced smile, Louis did not accept Wang Dong's words and instead talked about Manzanillo.

Wang Dong also refused to give in to Manzanillo, but considering the French dealings, the Ming Dynasty could withdraw Manzanillo from the areas currently entering Central and South America, which was already the greatest concession for the Ming Dynasty. As for the port city of Manzanillo, the port city, must be in the hands of the Ming Dynasty. This is not only the punishment of the Ming Dynasty to the Spanish Kingdom after the war, but also the avoidance of the Spanish Kingdom's actions to continue to threaten the Ming Dynasty after the war.

Although he had been prepared for a long time, when Louis heard such a reply from Wang Dong again, Louis couldn't help but feel extremely depressed.

In this way, in the end, France not only did not gain any benefits from it, but instead made countless soldiers lose nothing after bleed and sacrificed.

But what can Louis have to do? Could he continue to fight? This is simply impossible!

This is a meaningless war. If you continue to fight, it will only continue to consume France's strength in the New World, and will not be of any benefit to France's domination in the New World and even Europe.

Louis knew this very well, and this was one of the reasons why he decided to end the war, but he never expected that the negotiations with Wang Dong would be so difficult and so few things would be obtained.
Chapter completed!