The imperial edict seemed to be issued in a hurry. As for whether to pursue it or not, the Dutch don't know, but it's a little bit like a consolation prize.

In Zhu Youxiao's words, this is the step I gave them, and they can go down.

A few days later, the two sides officially announced the world by the Honglu Temple in the Ming and the Penghu Navy two months ago and the dramatic Manila Chinese Massacre.

The treaty signed by the Ming Dynasty and the East India Company, a subsidiary of the Federal Republic of the Netherlands, at the end of November of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, is also known as the Treaty of Manila.

The reason for this treaty was the victory of the Ming Navy in the Second Battle of Penghu, but all the funds were targeted at the East Indies.

The terms are divided into trade, compensation, two additional clauses for the Manila incident and one secret clause.

Related Trade:

1. The Federal Republic of the Netherlands officially recognized Ryukyu, Penghu Islands and affiliated Diaoyu Islands, which belonged to the inherent territory of the Ming Dynasty.

2. The East India Company promised to no longer carry out any form of colonization in Ryukyu and Penghu areas within a five-year period.

3. The East India Company recognized that the Ming Dynasty had the same trade rights as the United Provinces in the East Indies.

The additional clauses for the Manila incident, the people of the Ming Dynasty (Chinese) have the same treatment as the Dutch citizens in their local and colonial territories.

Related compensation:

1. In the Second Battle of Penghu, East India promised to compensate the Dunlai Navy Division for 300,000 Dutch guilds, which is approximately 34,000 taels of ships related to the official silver circulated by the Ming Dynasty.

2. Ceding Brunei north of Borneo, three colonial territories, as well as a total of about 180,000 square kilometers of land, as the overseas territory of the Ming Dynasty.

3. At a price of 220,000 Dutch guilds, he sold the Ceylon Island in the South India to the Ming Dynasty and immediately withdrew all the Dutch soldiers in the Colombo city on Ceylon Island.

In the Manila incident, the East India Company promised to compensate 3.5 million Dutch guilds in one lump sum, equivalent to about 400,000 silver, as the comfort fee for the people who died.

Detailed secret terms of the Manila incident:

1. Max, the Governor of Manila, must be handed over to the Ming Dynasty.

2. The position of Governor General of Manila will be permanently revoked. The United Provinces of the Netherlands will recognize Manila, the capital of the Old Port Kingdom, as the free city, have a self-defense force and democratically choose the mayor.

3. Immediately repatriate all Japanese and British people in the Free City of Manila.

4. The Old Hong Kong Kingdom is allowed to choose another capital and choose its own capital.

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In fact, both sides have their own thoughts on this contract.

The signing of the Treaty of Manila allowed the Ming Dynasty to truly have its own management system in the southeastern waters. In a farther way, this is gradually reflecting its hegemony in the Far East.

Because Zhu Youxiao also knew that the price of asking is too exaggerated, it will cause the other party to lose money and not get it at the end, and it will turn into a fierce battle.

Once the news that Zhang Pan captured Manila was returned, the other party is likely to take back the existing clauses. In order to maximize the interests, the treaty should be signed within November.

As long as both parties sign and seal the agreement, the treaty will come into effect immediately. Even if the news from Manila reaches Amsterdam, the Dutch will no longer regret the medicine.

Therefore, in the Treaty of Manila, the Ming Dynasty still abandoned some more ambitious propositions.

At first, Xu Guangqi proposed that the fishery tax imposed on all Dutch ships in the southeastern waters was cancelled in a fierce quarrel between the two sides.

Zhu Youxiao also proposed that the East India Company directly ceded Malacca was forced to give up under the almost firm rejection of the other party.

After that, Zhu Youxiao changed his tone and demanded one-fifth of Borneo territory on the East Indies.

The East Indies is the so-called spice archipelago that Westerners commonly call, and Borneo is one of the largest spice production and variety.

The reason why Brunei, north of Borneo, was asked to have three colonies in three places because Zhu Youxiao wanted to take the opportunity to intervene in the global spice trade.

As for why the Dutch agreed, they naturally have their own considerations.

Although the Treaty of Manila is harsh, it is still not bad. After all, trade in the southeastern waters is almost at a standstill.

As long as the treaty is signed, the trade in various colonies is smooth and the mountains of various commodities are piled up, it is easy to make up for the nearly five million Dutch guilds of compensation.

By that time, the United Provinces of the Netherlands were still a shipbuilding tycoon in Europe, and the East India Company was the world's number one joint-stock company.

Now even the British still like to come to the Netherlands to buy boats, so the prosperous Dutch shipbuilding and fishing industry will not be affected by anything.

As for the local tea, silk, porcelain and other trade goods in the Ming Dynasty, although they had flowed into Europe through Spain, they were still far from reaching the point where American cigarettes and Indonesian coffee became addicted to royal families and nobles in various countries.

As for Manila's free market status, there is no need to worry about this.

As long as the East Indies is still in its own hands, the East Indies company can continue to monopolize the global spice trade.

Spices can still be transported from the East Indies to Europe continuously, allowing you to make a lot of money.

As for the meager profits between the two colonies north of Borneo, let the Ming Dynasty make money!

As long as you have money to make money, the East India Company can hire more sailors, build shipyards, rebuild fleets, seize more colonies, and wait for an opportunity to come back to take revenge.

In fact, although this treaty made the Ming Dynasty almost the hegemony of the local world in the Far East and participated in the trade war, the Ming Dynasty's trade was still at a relatively disadvantage.

East India Company has a large number of powerful partners in the Far East and Europe, and the logistics and commercial transaction costs are extremely low.

No matter what kind of loss is, they can quickly reflect the value of the contract after signing through trade.

This is also why the East India Company Board of Directors must sign the contract as soon as possible at all costs.

The Ming Dynasty only officially entered the trade war since Zhu Youxiao, the Tianqi period.

To put it more bluntly, the Ming Dynasty now has no second trade cooperation country in Europe except Spain.

Even if you want to sell your stuff, people may not buy it!

In this way, the logistics costs and commercial transaction costs must be borne by the maritime merchants or the imperial courts who sell goods alone, and the logistics and time consumption is almost several times that of the Dutch.

This situation is equivalent to limiting the development speed of Ming Dynasty's foreign trade, making the income from this seemingly profitable treaty limited.

The most urgent task is to restore the Ming Dynasty's tribute system in Asia and even the Far East, and quickly establish trade channels with other European countries.

With these "friends", it is much easier to make profits from trade.

On the day of signing the treaty, Zhu Youxiao issued an imperial edict to countries with trade value such as the Luzon Kingdom, the Old Hong Kong Kingdom, the Annan Kingdom, the Mughal Empire, and the Kingdom of Korea.

The Ming Dynasty, who came to pay tribute to all countries, is coming back!
Chapter completed!