Chapter 304 I absolutely can't accept such a shameless condition!

Gronin immediately grabbed the telescope at hand and looked in the direction indicated by Nade Kohler. He saw a lot of Westerners standing on the tail of the three-class battleship. Then, a familiar face suddenly flashed by. They seemed to notice that someone was observing them here and soon disappeared along the stairs. Lost downstairs, but although only one side can be clearly seen, Groning dares to swear in the name of God that that guy must be the niece of Lord Dundaas, chairman of the British East India Company Supervisory Commission. His confidant general, Plaint, a senior employee of the East India Company, is the only one. Only his confidant will be sent by him to monitor and secretly command these pirates.

"Now, I can be completely sure that this is the handwriting of the British. Only they can gather such a large number of pirates in the East to deal with our Netherlands." Groning gritted his teeth with a gray face and said viciously.

"The fleet was actually captured by the other party. It seems that our fleet and army are all over. Oh, my God, what else can we do? ..." Snead, the governor of Java Province, put his hands around his head, with a face of despair and helplessness.

A loud slap sounded at this moment. Snead covered his bloody mouth, and puzzled and anger wandered in his eyes. And it was none other than Gronin, the governor of the Dutch colony, who slapped him in the face.

At this moment, Groning's face is extremely gloomy and cold. You idiot, if you dare to say one more word, I will immediately order you to be put in prison and executed on the charge of disturbing the military!"

Snead opened his mouth to say something, but when he saw Groening's eyes soaked in ice water in the cold winter and the expression next to him, he closed his mouth knowingly, silently covered his face, and greeted Groning's wife and daughter countless times in his heart. There is a super-friendship physical relationship with them.

"Kroll, keep watching and see if that British bastard will appear again." Gronin called his confidant bodyguard, asked him to stare at the warship, and then looked at the warships with a gloomy face, as if to figure out the other party was not in a hurry to attack.

At this time, a small sampan was placed on the third-class battleship. A Westerner dressed as a pirate held a white flag and sat in the sampan. He commanded several Chinese pirates and rowed the boat towards the dock.

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"The other party sent someone to negotiate with us, but I just don't know what harsh conditions they will offer in the current situation." Old Van Persie's silver eyebrows closed tightly in the middle of his eyebrows, and his tone was full of anxiety.

"All the cards are in their hands. When I think of this, I can't wait to order the battery to bombard the bastard into rotten meat. Groning clenched his fist hard and smashed it on the wall.

"Governor, we absolutely can't be impulsive now. We must listen to their conditions before we can respond. Although we are passive, we can finally find out what they think." Old Van Persie was afraid that the governor would suddenly give a real order. In that case, if he really angered these pirates, it would definitely not be able to suppress the employees of several East India companies. In this regard, old Van Persie was quite experienced. In those years, he had done this many times, of course, for the Netherlands. The interests of.

"Don't worry, I still know this truth, but I feel unwilling to think of those British hiding behind." Groning sighed for a long time. At this moment, the Marquis of Groning, the 48-year-old governor of the Dutch colony, suddenly seemed to be ten years old.

Gronin received the pirate envoy at the head of the city. The one-eyed pirate with a red beard like a messy nest was full of arrogance and unruly. After coming up, he even looked extremely arrogant.

Inadvertently took off his tattered boat hat and scratched his scalp while saluting. Seeing his action alone, the senior officials of the Dutch colony couldn't help feeling that their scalp was also itchy.

"I, Rodman, the envoy of Datang Lanfang Company, pay tribute to you on behalf of Liang Pengfei, the general manager of our Datang Lanfang Company." Rodman spoke fluent Portuguese and nodded to the Dutch colonial officers present, not even bending down.

De Kohler took a step forward angrily, but was interrupted by Gronin's gesture that he wanted to teach the damn dirty pirate a lesson.

"Isn't the general system of Lanfang Company Luo Fangbo? How could there be a guy named Liang Pengfei? Why have I never heard of it? Groning pulled out a silk handkerchief sprinkled with perfume from his pocket and blocked it in front of his nose to prevent the bad smell of wine and rotten smell from the pirate from getting into his nose. If it weren't for wanting to know what cards the other party was playing, Groning really wanted to let people wash the guy into the sea and wrap it in sulfur with a horse brush. huang gave him a good brush for a week.

"This is the governor of our Dutch colony, the Marquis of Gronin." When Van Persie saw Gronin's displeasure, he quickly stood up and introduced first.

"Hello, Sir, our general system took over more than a month ago. It's not surprising that you haven't heard of it." Rodman shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently.

"I'm not interested in knowing when you formed a damn alliance. Tell me, what do you want to be stuck in our port? What on earth do you guys want? Groning stepped back two more steps, and the smell of the damn pirate was enough to make the African wild elephants foam at the mouth.

"It's very simple. Please agree to the conditions of our pirate alliance. Oh, I almost forgot." The pirate suddenly patted his bald head with his hand and put his hand into his bare-footed leather boots as if he wanted to pull something out. The senior Dutch officials were all pale.

"Aha, I found it. That's it. This is the condition that our leader proposed to your lord." After taking it out for a long time, he finally handed over a white letter that was stained by his heel or toes. However, his action made all the Dutch take a few steps back collectively, as if the letter in his hand was stained with poison.

"Hi, hi, what do you mean? Don't think that I'm a pirate and want to look down on me. You know, I'm the best diplomat appointed by our general system. Rodman shouted discontentedly and heard the word diplomat. If it hadn't been for the lumpy dirt on this guy's body, old Van Persie would have jumped forward and strung this guy alive, diplomat? This guy is simply insulting the profession of diplomat, and old Van Persie looked angry.

"Soldiers, come forward, bring the letter over, open it, and read it out loud. I need to know what conditions their general system has put forward." Groning took a few more steps and patted a Dutch soldier standing next to him, signaling him to move forward.

"Me?!" The expression on the soldier's face suddenly became wonderful. Is it still me?! Go, soldier, obey the order!" Governor Gronin stared at the soldier fiercely.

The soldier squeezed his nose with extremely reluctantly, stepped forward and took the letter with his orchid finger. After six or seven steps back, he took a deep breath of fresh air and continued to open the letter with the orchid finger.

Soon, the conditions proposed by this so-called Grand General System were surprisingly consistent with the requirements of the pirates in Man Kassel, but there were a few more. First, the Dutch must hand over his colony in the East, and he will only be able to retain the colony of Sumatra Island. Other Eastern colonies must All of them were handed over as compensation for the Dutch colonists who provoked Lanfang for no reason and launched a war for no reason.

Second, compensate Lanfang Company for about 5 million Dutch guilders as a pension for the families of the victims of Lanfang in this war.

Third, release all Chinese and indigenous slaves.

Fourth, the Netherlands must spend a lot of money to redeem their naval officers, otherwise, they will become laborers and rely on their labor to redeem their freedom for a construction period of up to 20 years.

"Absurd! This is simply ridiculous. Do you want us to hand over the colony to a group of pirates, ask us to pay millions of Dutch guilders for it, and ask us to release those slaves? This is simply... I really can't describe your greed and shamelessness. Yes, shamelessness. I absolutely can't accept such a shameless condition. How can we in the Netherlands negotiate with a group of robbers?

"This lord, we are not robbers. Please pay attention to your words. We belong to the Lanfang Republic and a sovereign country, and I represent a country, not a robber. Of course, I admit that I used to be a pirate, but now I am a citizen of the Lanfang Republic, and I am even more Lanfang's envoys to surrender to your Dutch colonies. The extremely sloppy pirate Rodman raised his head proudly and looked at Groning, the Dutch lord, without fear.

"We will not accept such conditions and tell you, Your Excellency the General System, no colonial governor can make a decision on such conditions. In addition, tell you, Mr. General System, I hope you'd better release our Dutch soldiers immediately, otherwise, our Kingdom of the Netherlands will never give up. At this time, Van Persie stood up and responded. Of course, he still carefully kept his distance from the pirate Rodman.

"Well, do you mean to refuse? But it doesn't matter. Let me bring you a word from our general system. We can give you a whole day to think about it. I hope you can have new ideas tomorrow. Rodman rolled his eyes and put his broken hat back on.

"New ideas?" Governor Groning shook his head disdainfully, but did not say anything objection. After all, they are now in a weak position, so it takes time, even one more day.

"Block the city gate and strictly prohibit anyone from entering and leaving. We absolutely can't let the matter of Wang Jiaxi be repeated in Jakarta." Governor Gronin gave the order to De Kohler.

At the same time, two indigenous armies have quietly dived into the jungle less than ten miles away from Jakarta. Waiting for the night to come.

(to be continued)