Chapter 433: 433 There is a familiar smell everywhere
Chapter 433 433 There is a familiar smell everywhere
"Mr. Tang." The three goblins stood in front of Tang Mo, bowed their heads and greeted in a respectful tone: "I have caused you trouble."
Tang Mo didn't like this tone very much. It reminded him of some obscene images of people with mustaches on their lips and a habit of inverting sentences when speaking.
Although he knew that it was an image unintentionally created in the movie, and that real chickens who lived a good life did not actually have similar speaking habits, he was still disgusted by things similar to chickens.
There is no way, this kind of resentment is a national habit, and it should be respected, right?
Hearing this familiar, slightly annoying sentence that caused trouble for you, Tang Mo frowned involuntarily, and subconsciously interrupted the other person: "If an apology is useful, why should I build a cannon?"
“Pfft…” Weiss next to him couldn’t hold back and almost laughed out loud. He liked this sentence. He felt that Datang Group did not need to apologize. If he was wronged, he would use cannons to solve the problem.
From another perspective, Datang Group has never suffered any grievances. If you spit on me, I will blast your whole family. It is fair and you can do no harm to children, right?
The people standing here are not good people.
"We come here with sincerity." One of the goblins, whose skin was half green but not green, looked very strange. He lowered his head and continued to explain in a low voice: "We know we were wrong."
In fact, they knew that the time when the Datang Group attacked Dongwan Island was earlier than the time when the Mirage attacked the Datang Group's fleet.
But...the truth about the outbreak of the war is no longer important. What is important is to end the war and get the Mirage out of the current dangerous situation.
Hence, the unanimous opinion of the top management of Mirage is to take the responsibility on themselves, make themselves the fault party, never mention the matter of Dongwan Island, and let Datang Group set a price.
This kind of attitude of admitting and standing upright after being beaten is the sincerity shown by Mirage. It would be too naive to say who has the right now. Now we are competing to see who has the bigger fist!
“So?” Tang Mo spread his hands and asked with a sneer.
If he has the ability to destroy the Mirage Kingdom, he will definitely take this opportunity to eat the opponent in one go. But he does not have such a large ocean projection power, so he can only compromise temporarily.
This is also the reason why he received the three goblin envoys, because he also needs peace. If he didn't nod, how could any Mirage ship arrive in Bunas? It had been sunk long ago!
Now, he is just bluffing to give the opponent a sense of oppression. In fact, he is very willing to accept a peace treaty, a peace treaty that is beneficial to the Datang Group.
“We are willing to compensate Datang Group.” The leader of the goblins bowed again, his sincere attitude moving the world.
Just looking at the appearance of these goblins, they seemed to be sincere, but what they didn't know was that the more they looked like this, the more disgusting they were in Tang Mo's eyes.
In Tang Mo’s view, this is a typical craftsman spirit, and it is surprisingly similar to the nation he is familiar with—according to the popular memes he is familiar with, the content and content are close to 70%.
"This is a war to seek justice! Mr. Mirage's special envoy! The righteous side has won. Now that you have admitted your mistake... Then you have to ask whether the righteous side has forgiven you. "Tang Mo looked at the special envoys from various countries sitting beside him.
Then, he smiled and said to these eager envoys: "Well, let's talk about it, how can we forgive...these little cuties from the Mirage Kingdom?"
People from the Mirage Kingdom are thin and short, but cunning and fierce. A deputy envoy from the Mirage Kingdom clenched his hands into fists when he heard the cute joke made by Tang Mo in an insulting tone.
On normal days, if someone calls him "cute", he would even go into a rage and kill someone. But now, he really doesn't have the courage to make trouble in a place like this.
Regardless of the big situation, which Mirage couldn't resist, even now, he wasn't sure he could defeat the man and woman standing behind Tang Mo with his bare hands.
On the other side, envoys from various countries know that it is their turn to come forward and raise the price - this is the benefit they deserve for participating in the war, and it is also a carnival of victory.
"Open the Mirage Market and exempt all countries from all commercial taxes on imported materials!" The envoy from the Kingdom of Dorne sitting next to him offered the price he was most interested in.
"Compensate our war expenses, at least 500,000 gold coins for each country!" Next to the Dornish envoy, Tes from the Kingdom of Wright followed up with a compensation clause.
“Hand over all trade routes and ensure the safety of all countries on the endless western sea!” Yangmu Kingdom has a clear understanding of the east and west on the sea, and its mouth smells like seafood.
“Guarantee the absolute safety of merchants from all over the world in the Mirage Kingdom!” the special envoy of the Pinewood Kingdom also said.
Various scraps of paper with Chinese city names and the word "treaty" popped up in Tang Mo's mind, as if he was sitting at the embarrassing negotiation table in Nanjing and Tianjin.
Only this time, they were the victorious party... Sure enough, once this identity changed, the feeling immediately became different.
Tang Mo even thought with a bad taste: You said that when you were sitting in Yamaguchi County, you were talking about the cession of Okinawa... Will writing a novel about Li Zhongtang's assassination and corruption in Kyoto be a big hit?
How about...let Lao Li think about it and shoot himself six more times, and force Ito Hirobumi to cut off Honshu Island as well?
Looking at it, it looked like a wet market, and the content of the Treaty was too strong, almost 100%. It is estimated that after this war, the Mirage Kingdom will definitely have a new vocabulary like semi-colonial and semi-feudal society in its textbooks.
Let’s count them casually: Well, Dorne, Susus, Wright, Pinewood, Yangmu, Binghan, Galles and Nanla Empire... Exactly eight countries, triggering a certain special effect, Tang Mo’s guilt +1, deterrence Strength +1, unlock the achievement "Scars of the Old Empire"?
Daily Whey, something strange seems to have been added...
Tang Mo shook his head and drove these strange things out of his head. After everyone made their pre-agreed demands, he also put forward his own idea: "After agreeing to these terms, we will compensate Datang Group." All losses, the war...is over."
He did not specify his conditions, but to the ears of the goblins, this sentence of "compensating all losses of Datang Group" seemed too vague and made people wary.
Soon, they confirmed their judgment. When the beautiful forest pressed a piece of information in front of them, the goblins finally knew what it meant to open a lion's mouth.
For example, at this moment, they looked like anxious boys who came to propose marriage. When the girl's parents brought up the amount of the bride price, they had a look of shock on their faces.
After thinking about seizing Zheng State and starting the road to hegemony, Tang Mo tried to analyze the problem from another angle.
This time he built momentum for himself and declared war on Mirage together with eight countries. In fact, it was a helpless move for him. His warships are too few to search for all the mirage ships in the endless sea to attack, so he must use the power of the navies of various countries to make up for his lack of strength.
The problem can be viewed from the perspective of maximizing interests. Although the Datang Group won a complete victory this time, the benefits of the war were obviously diluted by various countries.
Hence, even if Tang Mo had the ability to destroy the Mirage Kingdom this time, he would not do it at this time.
What he wants is to occupy the Mirage himself and turn it into his own territory, rather than carve up the Mirage with eight countries. This is not in the interests of the Datang Group.
"We can't afford such compensation! Mr. Tang, our country is very poor..." The goblin envoy headed by him began to bargain.
His cutting angle is very tricky, showing the ability of the diplomats of the Mirage State-in the years of war against Zheng State, they have developed a quite skilled diplomatic team.
In the trade route, it was unstable to win the country. Their navy was severely damaged, their merchant ships were captured and sunk, and they were unable to maintain the original scale of maritime trade, so fighting for this was meaningless.
˜The Mirage is also willing to hold its nose and accept the opening of the market and ensuring the safety of businessmen. Anyway, they also hope to learn advanced technology through trade, and they are eager to have someone willing to do business and open a workshop.
Taxation is a tough nut to crack, so it’s not appropriate to start fighting over it. The starting point is compensation, which seems to be just right.
"It doesn't matter, we can provide loans. That is to say, we will lend you money so that you can repay the indemnities of various countries." Tang Mo's sudden generosity made the goblins a little overwhelmed.
However, the national envoys who had received Tang Mo's loan immediately showed clear expressions on their faces that were half-smiling but not smiling.
Borrowing money from Datang Group... is not that easy! Boy! It feels good to borrow money for a while, but pay back the crematorium! What? not return? Well, brother, you can be brave. You can communicate with Yangmu Kingdom about this matter. They are very experienced.
In an instant, the special envoy of the Yangmu Kingdom felt several sets of eyes directed at him. He felt particularly uncomfortable and had a feeling of shame as if it was a ray of light on his back: What are you looking at me for? I didn’t borrow the money! I'm warning you, don't slap someone in the face! This is too much! Still watching? Do you want to start a war? asshole!
"We may not be able to pay it back...and we can't pay it back with interest..." The mirage envoy seemed to be arrogant.
In fact, they did have no money. They had almost spent all their savings and purchased a large amount of weapons and equipment from Cyric, so that they could achieve a huge victory in the war against Zheng.
But before they could enjoy the rewards of victory, they were beaten by Datang Group. Not only was Dongwan Island robbed, but the collapse of maritime trade was the most disastrous loss for Mirage.
“We found a large number of corpse pits on Dongwan Island. We still have to settle the accounts of the Mirage goblins massacring civilians.” Tang Mo no longer struggled with the matter of borrowing money, but suddenly talked about the issue of massacre.
He looked at the three goblins with unnatural expressions, paused and continued: "You want to compensate our corresponding slaves, but you won't tell me that you don't even have any, right?"
As he spoke, he picked up the compensation list from Datang Group: "We can talk about the money later. Let's talk about the slaves."
"We...we have just finished the war, and the population is not rich." The leader of the goblins replied bitterly.
In fact, this is what makes it more difficult for them: for countries in this era, population is sometimes equated with wealth. There is almost no difference between taking away their population and dividing their wealth.
Tang Mo smiled. In today's peace talks, he had seen all the past jokes. The other party was also very similar to Principal Chang. What did you say in that comment? Principal Chang has a weird temperament. If you ask him for a little bit, he won't even give you a little bit. But what if you win his big one? He doesn't want it when he's young.
Now, Tang Mo is ready to take down the big one to remind these goblins that they are still meat on the chopping block.
"Since we are so poor, let's go find valuable things ourselves." Tang Mo picked his ears and showed an impatient look: "Gentlemen, it seems that Mirage wants to continue fighting the war..."
"Wait a minute! Wait a minute! We will compensate! We...we..." The special envoy of the Mirage Kingdom softened instantly. They, the Mirage Kingdom, really couldn't hold on any longer.
If the war is over, they can resume development and recuperate. No matter what, they can also bully Zheng Guo and get some benefits.
But if the war continues and their maritime trade continues to be paralyzed, then their mirage will really be over. Although it will not collapse directly due to lack of food like the Talon Kingdom, it is not much better.
Ever since, the envoys of the Mirage Kingdom, who had begun to mess up, agreed in principle to compensate the Datang Group's slaves.
Only in terms of quantity, they still had to bargain - Datang Group wanted 300,000, and Mirage was willing to give 100,000. After much discussion, the final deal was 200,000...
Later, because there were no gold coins to compensate various countries, Mirage began to seek loans from the Datang Group, and the mortgage was very simple: they would then sell some slaves to the Datang Group: a strong slave would cost 10 gold coins, and the price would be fair.
The Mirage Kingdom then discussed the total amount of compensation with various countries, and finally negotiated the price to 300,000 gold coins per country. At this point, the total compensation paid by Mirage Kingdom is 2.7 million gold coins.
In the end, Mirage had to spend another 100,000 slaves to barely meet the compensation requirements of 300,000 gold coins for each of the nine countries and forces in the accounts.
Then the two sides began to discuss the issue of trade taxes. Mirage was obviously unwilling to hand over its important income. The two sides fought fiercely, and Mirage finally got back 50%.
Datang Group received 10% of the mirage tariff, and the other eight countries each received 5%. Everyone was happy.
The rest of the matter was relatively simple. After signing the contract honestly, as the last of the four major naval powers in the old Endless Sea, Mirage handed over control of the Western Endless Sea.
Although they still retain their navy and their fleet is still huge, everyone knows that there will only be one overlord in the endless sea from now on.
And Datang Group got everything it wanted before the war started! —
Today is not in good condition. I only have 4,000 words. I will give you an update... Sorry.
(End of this chapter)