The Anglo-Dutch Wars in history not only affected the entire European landscape, but also affected the situation in East Asia.

In East Asia, the British adopted a strategy of cooperating with the Ming and Zheng dynasties, while the Netherlands began to cooperate with the Manchus due to Zheng's successful recovery of Taiwan, and the Netherlands were the only Western power that could trade with the Tokugawa shogunate.

After Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan, the Netherlands wanted to counterattack, so they sent people to unite with the Manchus and fight Taiwan together to destroy the Zheng clan.

The Manchu Qing were nothing calves, in order to eliminate the last vestiges of the Ming Dynasty, they were naturally happy to accept it.

The two sides finally reached a preliminary cooperation, and also signed a military agreement, which was signed by the traitor Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, and Li Shutai, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.

(In this book, Geng Jimao's father Geng Zhong was a prisoner of the Ming army during the Liaodong War, and was skinned and made into a humanoid specimen by the figure master Li Tingbiao;

Li Shutai followed Hong Chengchou to Dongsheng Shenzhou and was named the king of the north of the Great Eastern Kingdom...... ）

After the establishment of the Qing-Dutch coalition army, the troops immediately launched an attack on the Zheng army in the Kinmen and Xiamen areas in three directions.

In the Battle of Kinmen, the Zheng army won, and the land commander of the Qing Dynasty, the traitor Ma Degong, committed suicide in defeat.

However, after that, under the leadership of the traitor Shi Lang, the Qing army won one victory after another, and the Zheng army had no choice but to retreat to the Tongshan area.

Then, the two sides quarreled over the next offensive target, and a dog-eat-dog situation began.

The East India Company intended to target Taiwan, but the two traitor commanders, Geng Jimao and Li Shutai, believed that they should first conquer Tongshan so as not to be attacked by the enemy in the middle of the attack.

In the end, the two sides got tired of biting, and after the dispute continued, the military cooperation was terminated, and they each patted their butts and broke up.

The main reason for this is that the Dutch people think that the Tatar Qing are too abrasive, and the longer the war against Taiwan drags on, the more money the East India Company will fill in, and in the end, the company may lose money.

In consideration of interests, the gains outweighed the losses, so they stopped early and completely abandoned the Taiwan colony.

And Ta Qing has always wanted to persuade the Zheng family to surrender, and he talked about it a total of nine times in the past few decades, and issued various rules to the Zheng family.

From the conditions of landing, shaving hair, changing crowns, calling ministers, and sending protons into Beijing, it has been talked about not landing on the shore, not shaving hair, not being easy to crown, not being a minister and paying tribute, and so on, and then forcibly attacked due to changes in the situation.

In this time and space, there was no Ming Zheng force, and there was no Manchu power, and Japan was engaged in a civil war.

In the whole East, only the Ming Dynasty was getting stronger, and the Dutch people were about to face the British with all their might, so they had to come to form an alliance with the Ming Dynasty and rely on the Ming Dynasty to safeguard the interests of the East India Company in the South Seas.

Because once the Anglo-Dutch war broke out, they would be very busy on their own in Europe, and they would not care about the Eastern world at all.

Over the years, the Dutch people have also seen the ambition of the Ming Emperor to some extent, but their colony is in Indonesia, and between the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, there is also the Spanish colony of Luzon.

The Dutch people never dreamed that the Ming Emperor would carry out activities to go to the West this year, and he fell in love with the Strait of Malacca at a glance!

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was stable in the country, and the rule of the Ming Dynasty was very stable, coupled with the recovery and development of the social economy, the country became stronger and stronger.

In particular, the commodity economy in the coastal areas has developed particularly rapidly, the variety of commodities has increased, and the mode of business operation has changed, and there is an urgent need to open up the world market overseas on a large scale.

After more than ten years of heavy agricultural policies and the blessing of agricultural science and technology, Daming has completed agricultural reform, is undergoing a commercial revolution, and is rising to become a commercial power.

With the abolition of the untouchable status, the establishment of labor-employment relations, and the handicraft industry, there has also been a great development.

Mining and metallurgy, textiles, ceramics, papermaking, and printing have all been improved to a great extent compared with before.

With the continuous opening of ports in the southeast coastal cities, Daming's overseas trade has become increasingly developed, and foreign immigration has increased.

In addition, after the abolition of private shipbuilding restrictions under the Tianwu New Deal, many large-scale seagoing shipbuilding industries appeared in the Jiangnan region, and the imperial court established a large-scale government-built shipbuilding industry, in addition to Nanjing Shipyard, Suzhou, Songjiang, Zhenjiang and other places have official factories.

The prosperity of industry and commerce, the development of shipbuilding, the accumulation of navigation experience, the cultivation of a large number of seafaring sailors, and the increase of navigation knowledge all prepared a solid economic foundation and material conditions for the Ming Dynasty to go to the West again.

Zhu Cihong was not intoxicated by the merits of the Tianwu New Deal, his eyes no longer stayed on the previous "propaganda of national prestige", and the formation of a fleet to the West this time was to play the vanguard of the establishment of an unprecedented blue ocean empire with a more open mind.

The entire Ming Empire, from the emperor to the common people, everyone's concepts have basically changed, and the external expansion is unstoppable!

In the Age of Discovery, the strength of sea navigation represents a country's comprehensive national strength, and the prosperity of sea ships also symbolizes the country's prosperity, technological development, and cultural progress.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty followed the mode of peaceful diplomacy.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, took the initiative to develop diplomatic relations with the vassal states, and also formulated fifteen "non-conscripted countries", trying to build an ideal world order dominated by the Ming Dynasty with a hierarchical order and harmony, and this foreign policy influenced the Ming Dynasty for 300 years.

Zhu Cihong does not pursue the goal of "serving guests from all over the world, and all nations come to the court", but to open up the maritime Silk Road that has appeared since the Tang and Song dynasties, widely spread the achievements of the Chinese nation's civilization to all parts of the world, change the values of the world, and let the whole world realize the strength of the Ming Dynasty!

On this basis, Zhu Cihong also began a series of larger strokes.

Backed by force, the Ming Dynasty strived to subdue the states by not moving troops and building an international order pattern centered on the Ming Empire.

But this does not mean that force is rejected, Zhu has always liked to salute first and then soldier, and it is imperative to take the land he likes!

This trip to the West is actually equivalent to Zhu Cihong sending people to see the land.

First of all, it is time to restore the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty over the Nanyang Islands, especially the Strait of Malacca, the choke point to the Indian Ocean!

It has been the land of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times, and in the fifth year of Yongle (1407), Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, set up the Old Port Propaganda Division in Palembang, Sumatra.

This is the highest administrative body of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang, and it is also the southernmost point of the Ming Dynasty's territory.

The jurisdiction included all of present-day Malaysia and Singapore, most of Indonesia, and parts of Thailand and the Philippines.

Facing the Malay Peninsula to the northeast across the Strait of Malacca, the Indian Ocean to the west, the South China Sea and the island of Java to the east, the Old Port was a military and economic location, and was equipped with a royal military town.

The Ming Navy set up a city gate and warehouse in Manchurian in the Strait of Malacca, and used it as a transit point for operating in the West.

A few years earlier, the Dutch had just wrested control of Malacca from the Portuguese.

But now the Dutch people have taken the initiative to send a mission to lick the Ming and ask for an alliance, which is a bit interesting.

Zhu Cihong didn't do the kind of lack of virtue of taking advantage of the fire to rob, if this thing is not done well, it will remind the Dutch people that the Ming Dynasty wants Malacca, and then those red ghosts will definitely strengthen the defense of Malacca, and maybe it will delay the strategic deployment of the Ming Dynasty to the West.

Zhu Cihong was not in a hurry, so he first asked the red ghosts to build for two years, and then directly used it after the dock was built.

Based on the advantage of the traverser, he vaguely remembered that the Anglo-Dutch war would break out this year, and it would last almost a year or two.

In the first Anglo-Dutch war, the Dutch people would lose the land reparations, pinching their noses as grandchildren, and Britain was also exhausted by the war like the Netherlands.

Zhu Cihong's plan is to go to the West this year, and when the strength of the Dutch naval fleet in the Netherlands is greatly damaged after the Anglo-Dutch War, the ocean-going fleet of the Ming Dynasty will almost come back.

As for how to explain to the Dutch people, Emperor Zhu has not yet been in the habit of explaining to others.