The Anti-Habsburg Alliance was placed in a decisive battle in the Atlantic Ocean by the armored warships of the Ming Empire, and lost a lot. At the same time, the secret of the armored warships was discovered.

After the great powers gathered together to negotiate, they decided to make peace talks, delay time, and make every effort to build iron-armored warships in order to turn defeat into victory.

This idea is good. The Daming Habsburg Alliance also accepted their request for peace talks, but even they did not expect the result of this peace talks.

The venue for this peace talks was set in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. In order to show sincerity, the Anti-Habsburg Alliance sent a peace talks delegation to Lisbon early to wait, but the peace talks envoys of the Ming Empire delayed nearly a month before arriving.

It's good to delay. The Anti-Habsburg Alliance is trying to delay time. Even if the negotiators of the Ming Empire delayed it for a year, they would have no objection.

After Zheng Zhilong arrived in Lisbon, he did not delay any further. On the day of arrival, he asked all representatives involved in the negotiations to start the negotiations on time at Siyu the next morning.

This time, the lineup sent by the Anti-Habsburg League is unprecedentedly strong, and the leader is no longer the Dutch negotiator Spike, but the Duke of Richelieu, the behind-the-scenes manipulator of the Anti-Habsburg League. In addition, the Earl of Blatford, Earl of Ulfield, Earl of Uxenzene, and Earl of Uxenzene, and Spike are all real power figures in various countries.

There are only three in the Habsburg Alliance of the Ming Dynasty, namely Zheng Zhilong, Schvira and Okundo.

Three to five, it seems that the Habsburg Alliance in the Ming Dynasty is a bit weak, but the negotiation scene is not like this at all.

The negotiation was relatively calm at the beginning. After sitting on both sides of the negotiating table, neither of them spoke. On the side of the Habsburg Alliance of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong was confident and was not in a hurry at all. On the side of the anti-Habsburg Alliance, Richelieu was also a god, as if waiting for others to come and ask him.

The two sides were in a stalemate for about a quarter of an hour, and Zheng Zhilong became a little angry. It was not that he was unable to wait, but mainly because he couldn't stand Richelieu's pretentious look.

What kind of pretending is that I can't beat him and still pretending to be addicted, right? He couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Do you want to talk or not? If you don't want to talk, please come back. We don't just happen to talk."

This is a naked slap in the face, and the meaning is very obvious. If you don’t speak, you’ll get out of here. I’m too lazy to serve you.

Richelieu's face turned red by his words and could no longer pretend. After all, they came to ask for peace and delay time. If they were sent back like this, they would be really over.

He thought for a while, put on a serious face and said seriously: "Your Highness, on behalf of the Anti-Habsburg Alliance, I strongly condemn your country and your allies, and I ask you to withdraw troops from the east bank of the Ukrainian River, southern France, southern Netherlands and east coast of North America, and immediately return our North American colonies, and ensure that we will no longer invade the English Channel by force."

Oh, the toad yawns, what a big tone, think you are a victorious country!

Zheng Zhilong decided to tease the old fox.

He did not reply immediately after hearing this, but pretended to think for a while, and then hesitated: "It is not impossible to retreat, but you must show a little sincerity."

It is certain that he was slaughtered. Richelieu also understood that it was impossible for the Ming Empire to withdraw its troops this time without paying a price. He said expressionlessly: "Yeah, you said."

This guy is really good at pretending. Zheng Zhilong smiled gloomyly, took out a piece of letter paper from his arms, took it apart, and put it in front of him and slowly started to recite: "

First, please withdraw troops from Spain and Portugal immediately;

Second, please open all ports along the Atlantic coast, North Sea coast and Baltic coast, and allow merchants from the Ming Empire and allied countries to freely carry out trade activities;

Third, you must compensate the Ming Habsburg Alliance for the total loss of 3 billion taels of silver;

Fourth, you must permanently cede the Port of Dover, Port of Calais and nearby areas;

Fifth, you must lay off the army under the supervision of the Ming Empire, and the number of army troops of each country shall not exceed 10,000;

Sixth, you must lay off the navy under the supervision of the Ming Empire, and the number of super battleships of each country must not exceed ten.

Is this condition still called peace talks?

No matter how deep Richelieu's scheming was, he couldn't help but say in a fury: "Don't you think these conditions are too much?"

Other representatives of the anti-Habsburg Alliance powers were also full of anger. Can this condition be called a peace talk? It just means people kneeling down and singing conquest!

Zheng Zhilong answered seriously: "I think these are not too much. You should do it first. Since you dare to do it, you must be prepared and be prepared to bear the consequences of defeat."

Richeliu was so angry that he wanted to bargain with Zheng Zhilong and trick the Ming Empire into retreating his troops. How could he bargain with this condition? Except for the first one, everything else was exaggerated to an outrageous level, and there was no need to discuss it at all.

He couldn't help but refute: "What is the consequence of defeat? Are we defeated? Can the victory or defeat of a battle determine the entire situation?"

Zheng Zhilong said coldly: "Don't accept it, continue fighting, we did not ask for a ceasefire."

Richelieu felt a stern when he heard this. He finally remembered that he was here to fool others into retreating troops, but why did he forget everything when he was agitated?

He suppressed the anger in his heart and said in a plain tone: "We came to the peace talks with sincerity. Prince, the conditions you put forward are really too harsh."

Zheng Zhilong changed his face so quickly. He was also hard when he was hard. Now that he was soft, he immediately smiled and said, "Isn't this a negotiation? Do you think it's unreasonable? Let's discuss it."

Richelieu heard this and immediately tentatively said: "Can the second issue on trade ports be appropriately reduced?"

Zheng Zhilong smiled and nodded and said, "Yes."

Richelieu again tentatively said: "Can the issue of compensation in Article 3 be appropriately reduced?"

Zheng Zhilong still smiled and nodded, "Yes."

Richelieu gritted his teeth and finally tentatively said: "Can articles 4 to 6 be cancelled?"

Zheng Zhilong replied seriously: "The fourth article about the cemetery area can be discussed, and the fifth article and the sixth article about the number of army and the number of super battleships can also be appropriately relaxed. If it is to cancel it, it is impossible!"

If Articles 4 to 6 cannot be cancelled, then it’s a big deal to discuss it. Richelieu was once again angry and said, “The prince’s meaning is nothing to talk about.”

Zheng Zhilong shrugged and spread his hands and said, "I didn't say anything, everything can be discussed."

Isn't this obvious trick? Richelieu said in a sinister way: "Don't think we really have no way. We just crouched in the port and didn't come out. What can you do?"

Zheng Zhilong said indifferently: "Then wait and see."

Seeing Zheng Zhilong's attitude, Richelieu knew that it would be useless to say more, so he snorted angrily, stood up, turned around and walked out.

Other representatives of the anti-Habsburg Alliance powers also stood up angrily and left, and the first peace talks ended.
Chapter completed!