Chapter 1607: Zheng Sen "Sick"
The Spanish colonists took the lead and occupied the northern part of the Eastern Domain, trading and colonizing.
Then, the Dutch red hair, known as the coachman of the sea, did not know the existence of the Eastern Domain, and after capturing Penghu, they also wanted to get involved in Fujian.
At the beginning, the number of red hairs was small, and the battlefield was on land, so they were beaten by the Ming army and beaten all over the ground to find teeth.
Of course, the red hair was not reconciled, so he dispatched troops and actively prepared for war, and in the end, the two sides had a naval battle in Liuluo Bay, and the Ming Dynasty used 200 warships and nearly 10,000 troops to deal with 13 Dutch warships and more than 900 soldiers.
But the result was a defeat for both sides, and the problem was that this time it was a naval battle, and the artillery of the Ming army was too bad.
The Ming army suffered heavy losses, but Hongmao had the upper hand, but it was isolated.
As a result, both sides felt that they could not fight anymore, and after negotiations, the Dutch, under the guidance of Ming officials, agreed to retreat to the southern part of the Eastern Domain.
The Ming Dynasty's plan was called driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, and let the red hair deal with the pirates and Spaniards on the island, but unfortunately, history proved that this was a stupid trick.
After that, the Dutch defeated the original landlords, the Spaniards, monopolized the south, inherited the facilities of the Spaniards on the island, and developed them.
As the Dutch grew in power, they directly threatened the Zheng Zhilong pirate group in the north of the island, and the two sides clashed head-on many times because of their maritime interests.
In the early days, due to the small number of people in the Netherlands, Zheng Zhilong still had an advantage.
But as the number of Dutch and warships gradually increased, Zheng Zhilong felt more and more that he was alone.
Therefore, after two years of confrontation with the Dutch, Zheng Zhilong took the initiative to submit a letter to the court of the Ming Dynasty, willing to "cut off the Yikou and suppress the thieves", surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and was knighted by the court and allowed to develop power in Fujian.
Five years later, Zheng Zhilong, who had actively prepared for the war, finally defeated the Dutch in the Battle of Kinmen, and since then, "the atmosphere of the sea is quite breathing, and foreign goods are sold, all under the banner of the Zheng family", and he has mastered the trade hegemony of the East China Sea.
However, the Dutch still occupied the southern part of the Eastern Domain, and the main interests of the East India Company were still west of Malacca at that time, so they did not have the will to mobilize the navy to the east to fight Zheng Zhilong, and the two sides were at peace.
Until last year, Wu Zheng's three major naval divisions, together with Zheng Sen's naval divisions, forced back the "Zhufan Combined Fleet", which was dominated by the Dutch, and forced the Dutch to recognize the sovereignty of the Jianxin Dynasty over the Eastern Domain with overwhelming military superiority.
Of course, as a "return for the favor", Wu Zheng allowed the Dutch to continue to have a vested interest and sustainable development in the southern part of the Eastern Domain.
In fact, at this time, Wu Zheng had every reason to send liuguan to the Eastern Domain.
But Wu Zheng is unwilling, there are two reasons, one is that it is indeed impossible to achieve the strength to control the Eastern Domain, so to completely sweep away and deprive the Dutch of their vested interests, it must go through a sea battle, the battlefield can not be obtained, and the negotiation table can not be imagined, but the current situation, Wu Zheng is unable to turn around and carry out a two-sided battle, since it is difficult to solve, it is better to let go, first determine the sovereignty of the ownership, and then slowly consume, consumed to the time when it can be leveled in one fell swoop. The second is that the Zheng family has been operating in the northern part of the Eastern Domain for decades, and its influence is not small, and after all, Zheng Sen has made great efforts with the "Zhufan Combined Fleet", and the losses suffered are not small.
Wu Zheng also took into account the influence of the "Emperor Ming Shixun" on the monarchs and ministers of the Jianxin Dynasty, and at this time proposed that there was no legal basis for ruling the Eastern Domain, after all, the General's Mansion was nominally subordinate to the Jianxin Dynasty.
Therefore, Wu Zheng "generously" "gifted" the entire Eastern Domain to Zheng Sen in return.
And Zheng Sen belonged to the Yongli Dynasty, which was also the imperial court under the Ming Dynasty.
This is equivalent to Wu Zheng throwing a hot potato to Yongli, and let Zhu Youlang bother for the time being.
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But Wu Zheng didn't see Zheng Sen this time.
Zheng Sen evaded.
That's right, he was deflated twice under Wu Zheng's hands, which made Zheng Sen very depressed.
So, he used this kind of means that couldn't be put on the stage to respond to Wu Zheng's relatively "high-profile".
Wu Zheng "met" Zheng Sen in Kinmen, this etiquette method, Zheng Sen is only the king of Yanping of the Yongli Dynasty, and Wu Zheng is the king of Wu, the difference of one word, the distance is quite large, although it is two dynasties, but whether it is the Yongli Dynasty or the Jianxin Dynasty, it is nominally the power of the Ming Dynasty.
Zheng Sen couldn't help but pass it on, but he held his breath again, so he called him sick, seriously ill, and he was so sick that he couldn't get out of bed.
However, the lineup of Yanping Palace's Fengchuan is still relatively compliant.
Zheng Sen's twelve-year-old son, Zheng Jing, who had become a son at this time, came to Jinmen to meet Wu Zheng Zheng together with his uncle Zheng Xi, who was Zheng Sen's fifth brother.
The accompanying people included Zheng Sen's subordinates Huang Zhao, Xiao Gongchen and others, and naturally that Chen Yonghua was indispensable.
It stands to reason that this is not something that cannot be overcome.
After all, the two belong to two dynasties, but why did Wu Zheng come?
If you can't see Zheng Sen, who will you talk to?
So Wu Zheng did not meet Zheng Jing, Zheng Xi and others, but summoned Chen Yonghua to meet him alone.
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"Foreign Minister Chen Yonghua ...... to meet His Royal Highness King Wu."
Chen Yonghua, who is only in the age of the crown, makes Wu Zheng feel a sense of vicissitudes, it seems that after the battle of Tanhu Mountain, Chen Yonghua's life is not easy.
Speaking of which, there are some reasons for Wu Zheng, when Wu Zhengshui Division and the "Zhufan Combined Fleet" were in a stalemate in Tanhu Mountain and fell into a critical situation, it was Chen Yonghua who insisted on admonishing Zheng Sen to reinforce Wu Zheng.
But when they arrived, the battle was won, and the Zheng family's sailors suffered heavy casualties, although Wu Zheng was not stingy and supplied most of the captured enemy ships to Zheng Sen, but the losses of the seafarers could not be replenished in time.
This also caused Zheng Sen to face off with the "Zhufan United Fleet" in the waters of Kinmen in the future, and the sailors suffered heavy losses.
The chain reaction was that Wu Zheng and Li Dingguo joined forces to put pressure on Zheng Sen, forcing Zheng Sen to leave the southeastern base in Fujian and come to the northern part of the Eastern Domain.
Zheng Sen was definitely not convinced, but the situation was strong, and he had no choice.
Led the remnants of the army and naval division to the northern part of the Eastern Domain, but the problem is that the two largest cities in the northern part of the Eastern Domain, the city of Santo Domingo (now the Tamsui area, also called Fort Anthony) and the city of San Salvador (now Keelung), were built by the Spaniards more than 20 years ago.
After the Dutch took over, they renamed the city of Santo Domingo as Fort Anthony, and built forts and various fortifications in the two castles, so to speak, the northern part of the Eastern Domain was basically under these two castles.
Therefore, on the surface, the Dutch compromised and recognized the sovereignty of the Jianxin Dynasty over the Eastern Domain, but in fact, the north and south of the Eastern Domain were still under the actual control of Hongmao, and even Zheng Sen's father's original pirate base was among them.