Chapter 1564 Ma Dalan Man’s Considerations

Foreigners who came to Sanya for the first time saw the mighty coastal defense forts outside the port, the huge iron ships docked at the mouth of the Tiandu River, the fast trains on the rails, the wide and smooth landscape avenues, etc.

The series of unique landscapes will make people marvel at these things that break through common sense. Even some people with money and leisure will make a special trip to visit here from other countries.

In fact, this was not the first time for Luo Hong Langsang to come to Sanya, but he still couldn't help but sigh at the prosperity of this city. It is said that the Haihan people transformed Sanya from a deserted beach into what it is today.

It took him less than ten years, and it was really hard for him to imagine how this was done. It’s no wonder that many Haihan civilians regard the rise of Sanya as a miracle, and have no respect for the hundreds of Haihan pioneers who first came here.

Worship.

However, Luo Hong’s purpose of coming to Sanya this time was not to travel. As the nephew of Sultan Rateng Langsang of the Matalan Kingdom and the third-ranking senior general of the Matalan Army, he came here to bring

He has an extremely important task to negotiate with Haihan senior officials on matters related to the arms trade.

When the Matalan Kingdom fought the most fiercely with the Dutch, the main weapons supplier was actually not Haihan, but the British who secretly sold a lot of arms to them. Of course, the purpose of the British doing this was also very clear.

That is to use the Matalan Kingdom to deal with the Dutch, weaken the Dutch control in Java and Sumatra, and destroy the East India Company's control of the Sunda Strait, a key channel into the South China Sea.

However, the failure of the Battle of Batavia made the Matalan Kingdom realize that the weapons provided by the British could not meet its combat needs. At that time, the only country in the South China Sea that could gain an overwhelming advantage in the battle with the Dutch was

Haihan, so Ma Dalan managed to find some Ming people as middlemen, and successively purchased hundreds of artillery pieces and more than 2,000 muskets from Haihan through middlemen.

The relevant departments in Haihan are naturally very clear about the flow of these weapons. If it were not for the later establishment of the South China Sea Trade Alliance and the Dutch's request for an arms ban, this kind of arms business disguised as private trade might still continue.

For a long time. After all, Haihan can get huge profits from it, and he can also use the power of Maltalan to contain the Dutch. There is no reason not to do this kind of good thing that kills two birds with one stone.

The helpless Matalan people could only place their hopes on the British again. However, in 1635, the Haihan army severely damaged the British and Johor coalition forces at Star Island in the Strait of Malacca, forcing the British to temporarily give up their control of the area east of Sumatra.

As a result, the route for imported arms that the Malatan people had finally found was interrupted.

The Matalan people turned to the Spaniards again. Before the two sides could reach a conclusion on the arms trade and military aid, the Spanish fleet was defeated in a battle with the Haihan navy in September of that year off the coast of Sanya and Manila.

Suddenly there was a panic, and the people were worried that Haihan would soon take military measures to retaliate. Therefore, all arms sales plans were immediately stopped by Governor Aragones to consolidate the defense of Manila City. Matalan purchased arms.

Naturally, the plan came to nothing again.

The Madalan people finally realized that Haihan was a hurdle they could not get around in their arms purchase journey. If they wanted to purchase advanced weapons and equipment from other countries, they would eventually have to come to Haihan. But they had to

How to get Haihan to give up the arms sales restriction agreement he signed with the Dutch was a difficult task for the Matalan people who lacked experience in international politics. In the end, Laden decided to send one of his most trusted subordinates, his own nephew Luo Hong, quietly

Come to the capital of Haihan to see if you can use some relatively favorable conditions to get Haihan to waive arms sales restrictions and sell a batch of warships and weapons to the Matalan Kingdom.

This task is of course not easy. First of all, Haihan and Matalan have not concluded a military alliance agreement. At best, they can only be regarded as trading partners. Their relationship is not even as close as that between the Dutch East India Company and Haihan.

At least the East India Company had already stationed ministers in Sanya and built a special embassy. This was a diplomatic advantage that Matalan could not match.

When Madalan State purchased arms from Haihan, Luo Hong had come to Sanya once to be responsible for inspecting and accepting the equipment. This was one of the main reasons why he was selected to be sent to Sanya this time. Laden believed that Luo Hong had been

I have dealt with the senior management of Haihan, and I have some kind of friendship, which makes it easier to speak during negotiations. Moreover, Luo Hong's mother is Han Chinese, and he has learned Chinese characters since he was a child, so he has no problem communicating normally with Haihan people.

But after Luo Hong arrived here, he soon discovered that the barrier between him and the Haihan people was not a matter of language and writing, but a huge gap in ideology and international political methods. What the Haihan people had in these aspects

He had no way to use the existing advantages. Even though he brought a large number of gold bricks to show his sincerity, the Haihan people seemed not even interested in talking about arms deals.

On the second day after Luo Hong arrived in Sanya, he began to apply for an interview with senior official Haihan through the diplomats at the Guest House. The process was quite smooth. On the third and fourth days, he met with Minister Ning respectively.

Qi and Minister of Defense Yan Chujie. But when he tried to apply for arms purchase to these two people respectively, he was rejected by the other party using various diplomatic rhetoric.

According to Ning Qi, Haihan has always been very cautious on the issue of foreign arms sales, so the arms purchase requirements proposed by Matalan must be submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Executive Committee for discussion before making relevant decisions. As for enforcement.

Ning Qi did not give a clear timetable for when the committee could start discussing this issue and when it could come up with a final resolution. He only vaguely stated that it would be as short as ten days and a half month, and it would be difficult to say if it was longer. After all,

The Executive Committee has to deal with the affairs of the entire country. Matalan's arms purchase requirements are not an important matter to Haihan, and the discussion agenda will definitely be pushed back.

Yan Chujie's refusal was more direct. He directly pointed out to Luo Hong that Haihan had signed an arms embargo agreement with the Dutch East India Company, and warships were also included in the agreement. Unless Haihan and the Netherlands lifted this agreement,

Otherwise, it would be temporarily impossible to sell the warships they need to the Matalan Kingdom.

Luo Hong still refused to give up and asked Yan Chujie whether the relevant shipbuilding technology could be transferred to the Matalan Kingdom. In this way, the Matalan Kingdom would build its own warships, which would not be regarded as Haihan's breach of contract and the sale of weapons and equipment.

Although Luo Hong had a good idea, he oversimplified the matter. Yan Chujie simply ordered someone to fetch the weapons ban agreement and pointed out to him face to face the relevant manufacturing of weapons and equipment on the prohibited transfer list.

"Technology" content. After Luo Hong confirmed it, he felt very cold. It seems that the Dutch are smart enough. They took all these issues into consideration when they signed the agreement. Now it is very difficult to find a loophole to exploit.

Luo Hong was originally a military general, and he was not good at using his brain to do tricks. Half of the team he brought were military attachés, and the other civil servants did not know Haihan as well as he did. At this juncture,

I couldn't come up with any useful ideas. As for asking for instructions at home, it was even more impossible. The voyage from Sanya to Matalan was more than five thousand miles, and it took at least two months to go back and forth. Even if Luo Hong could wait, his uncle

Laden may not have this patience.

Before Luo Hong had thought this through, he heard that the Dutch had already dispatched. Thanks to Luo Hong's arrangements after arriving in Sanya, he specially arranged for people to keep an eye on the movements of Dutch Minister Su Keyi. His people were also regarded as

When the diplomatic envoy saw that Su Keyi had gone to Fort Victory, he found an excuse and registered in the name of official business. He confirmed that Su Keyi had gone to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then brought the news back.

At such a sensitive time, the Dutch minister went to visit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Haihan. Luo Hong would not speculate whether the matter had anything to do with him. As a general leading troops in war, he was accustomed to considering the worst situation first. If the Dutch were

When he learned of his arrival, he went to the high-ranking officials of Haihan to persuade him to hinder his mission. The longer he waited, the worse the situation would become. And he had never been in the habit of waiting for fighter planes to appear on the battlefield.

From the day he held the saber for the first time, Uncle Laden's words were firmly imprinted in his heart - the best fighter plane must be created by oneself, and the fighter plane waiting is most likely to be the enemy's trap.

"We can't sit still and wait for death. If we don't take action immediately, the Dutch will probably get ahead and let the Haihan people reject our request again!" Luo Hong immediately summoned the other seven people who stayed with him in the guest house and announced himself

The decision: "We can't let the Dutch do whatever they want this time!"

"General, this is the capital of Haihan. If we use force against the Dutch here, no matter the outcome, I don't think the Haihan people will have a good impression of us." A subordinate immediately reminded him cautiously. After all,

The mission of this trip is to come to the Haihan people to buy arms, not to fight against the Dutch. It is even more taboo to use force under the eyes of the Haihan people. Although they don’t know much about Haihan, they also know that Sanya

This place is very strict about public security. Foreigners like them need to register wherever they go. There is no way they can hide from Haihan's surveillance.

Luo Hong shook his head and said: "No, I don't mean to fight against the Dutch, but to try to get the Haihan people to agree to our request as soon as possible."

"But haven't Haihan people rejected it twice before?"

"That's because I gave them the opportunity to refuse." Luo Hong said firmly: "So I don't plan to let them make a decision so easily this time. We must fully demonstrate our determination."

When it was almost noon that day, the landscape avenue of Victory Port was busy with traffic. A strange convoy came from the direction of the port, which attracted the attention of passers-by. It seems that it is not accurate to say that it was a convoy, because there were a total of

The two carriages looked small, but the things they carried seemed to be extremely heavy, so that the strong horses pulling the carriages showed their muscles and seemed to be very strenuous. There were several dark-skinned men beside the two carriages.

They moved forward on foot, separating the pedestrians on the road from the two vehicles, obviously protecting the things carried by the vehicles.

The two carriages came along the avenue to the Fort Victory and stopped in the Victory Square outside the main drawbridge. Then the men lifted up the tarpaulin covering the carriages.

The onlookers, including the nearby sentry, suddenly felt a dazzling golden light in front of their eyes. Looking at the cart again, the pile of yellow, orange and golden things turned out to be palm-sized gold bricks! Look at them stacked on this cart.

The size of each cart is at least a hundred or so gold bricks, weighing at least a thousand kilograms. No wonder the horses pulling the carts are very laborious.

There are indeed a lot of rich people in Sanya. A casual tea-goer in a street teahouse might be a big businessman who makes a lot of money every day. And there are endless stories about flaunting wealth and fighting against wealth, and they are often criticized.

It was used as a source of conversation among the people after dinner. But even the well-informed people of Sanya had never seen anyone pull two carts of gold bricks outside the Victory Fort to show off their wealth. Soon, a large number of people heard the news and crowded over to watch the excitement.

However, although there were a lot of people watching, the order was not disordered. Everyone could see that the two carts of gold were not unclaimed wealth. The guys in the caboose next to them didn't seem to be a good person, and there were also people not far away.

Sentinels of Fort Victory, who dares to cause trouble at the gate of Fort Victory?

The Victory Square outside Fort Victory seemed to be undefended, but as soon as there was a situation, policemen in black uniforms appeared nearby. Before the sentry could take action, a group of policemen rushed to the scene and took action.

The two carriages were isolated from the onlookers.

"What are you doing? Do you know where this place is? Who is taking the lead?" The police officer leading the team walked up to the motorcade, took a look at the gold bricks on the car, swallowed, and then started to reprimand these people with a straight face.

Helping ungrateful guys. No matter how rich these people are, if they dare to mess around outside Fort Victory, they are asking for death. Therefore, although the police officer was surprised by the wealth represented by the two carts of gold bricks, he still did not forget to fulfill his duty.

Responsibilities.

"Here is Luo Hong, the envoy of the Matalan Kingdom. The gold bricks on this carriage represent the sincerity of our country's friendship with Haihan! At the same time, I also hope that this sincerity can be witnessed by the people of Haihan. If the Executive Committee can agree

According to our country’s trade requirements, these two carts of gold bricks will soon enter the Haihan treasury and become the common wealth of the Haihan people!”

The only solution Luo Hong could think of was to risk his life and fight. The target of this fight was not the Dutch, but the face-conscious Haihan people. He ordered people to unload all the gold bricks shipped this time from the ship, and then use a horse-drawn carriage to

The purpose of transporting it to the Victory Fort and displaying it is to let more people understand the wishes of the Madalan Kingdom and use public opinion to force Haihan executives to change their minds.
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