Kaohsiung 8 quickly left the port of Batavia and fled to the open sea.

I did something bad and wanted to escape! The Dutchman was furious, and four clippers pursued him, vowing to keep him.

Governor Speke's face was pale, and he patrolled the devastated harbor for a long time, silent.

He was out of anger, and Mingren's dozens of boats were not as good as the other party's boats.

More than 600 people died in the chaos, especially the Poseidon, which entered the water too quickly, and half of them did not escape (more than 200, the number cannot be counted accurately), especially the captain Brando, who survived the dangerous Battle of Batavia safely, but was drowned in his own harbor!

Governor Speke was familiar with Brando, and they had once gone to the Wa Kingdom together to do business and dealt with the old tortoise, Tokugawa Ieyasu.

As the captain of a big ship, Brando is a navigator and a veteran of gunnery, and his death, both public and private, makes Governor Speke heartbroken!

The Poseidon was one of the only two large ships of the East India Company with more than 50 guns, and it made outstanding achievements in this general battle, playing the role of a tooth for a tooth, and it sank at once!

The "Ulisi Marsh" was sunk;

The Parrott ran aground;

Several boats were also injured and damaged.

In the search, the Ming people found a small boat left behind, the boat left a piece of wood, written Chinese characters, people showed it to the governor of, he found Jiabidan Su Minggang as an interpreter, he told the governor in Dutch: "Lao Tzu is here!" "The payment is the southeast mansion of the Ming Dynasty

"Lao Tzu is here?" The silly red-haired fan can't understand this Chinese slang.

"Meaning their warship came to the port to play!" Su Minggang paraphrased it to him.

Governor Speke understood, the other party entered the port without permission, and it was clear that BS was in place, which immediately made him roar like thunder, and cursed in his mouth.

When the fire was raging, a public case came to the door.

The two captains of the "Easter" and the Dutch ship "Angel" tugged and went to Governor Speke to complain, saying that the other had attacked him for no reason.

"Who fired the cannon first?" Speke asked impatiently.

"Him!"

"Him!"

The two captains pointed at each other, glaring at each other.

"Alright, find someone to check your losses!" Speke quickly cut through the mess, pointed at the two captains and said, "You, responsible for compensating for his losses, he, responsible for compensating for your losses, so be it!" ”

This kind of treatment made the two captains look at each other, and it is impossible to say!

Speke sneered: "Cannibalism, isn't it cool to fight, whoever fights hard will lose more money, see if you dare next time!" What a shame! ”

……

Speke made arrangements so that people did not mention the aftermath.

He convened a high-level meeting that afternoon, with the main participants of him and Hendrik Brower. Brouwer (Brouwer) and Anthony van Diemen (Diemen) were both veteran colonialists and veteran navigators, with Diemen being a hardliner second only to the expansionist colonists of the Dutch Eastern Empire who had been governor Cohen.

During the Batavian War, they didn't have time to catch up because they were running boats outside, and as soon as they returned, they saw the chaos in the port of Batavia.

The meeting was held in the governor's office, not luxurious, for a simple style, but there are eight Chinese-style floor bottles in the aisle on both sides, each of which is five meters high, the style is quaint, it is a high-quality Ming product, from Jingdezhen, even in the Ming Kingdom, it is the palace hall and the residence of high-ranking officials and magnates to be seen.

Speke invited everyone to sit down, and after a few opening remarks, he voiced his concerns.

"The loss of our men and ships is insignificant!" Speke waved his hand.

"But our invisible losses will slowly show their power, putting our East India Company at a disadvantage!"

"For example, the loss of the situation, we lost Dayuan Island (Taiwan), which seems to be just a place, but our previous investment is in vain!"

The foreigners in the room nodded in unison, the base of Dayuan Island came from a difficult place, and it was almost like a behemoth to come to the Ming Kingdom, and paid the price of blood!

After the Dutch reached the waters of the Ming Kingdom before the settlement of Dayuan Island, the Dutch general Reyotz led 16 warships (armed merchant ships) and 1,000 people to attack the Portuguese-occupied Macao, but the result was a defeat, 136 people were killed, 124 people were seriously wounded and 40 people were captured, and the losses were heavy.

Then the Dutch tried to establish trade with the Ming State, how could the Ming Kingdom afford these foreign devils, the two sides fought, the Dutch general Franzon was deceived to the shore by the then Ming Fujian Governor Nan Juyi in the name of peace talks, and was sent to Beijing by the Southern Governor, so that this foreigner tasted the taste of China's fast knife at the mouth of the vegetable market, and the knife came down to two sections of the head and body, and became a Dutch "martyr" with honor. (Knowing the reason why Taiwan's Yan Dashao didn't go to the mainland, foreigners even dare to believe the words of Ming Dynasty officials, it's really stupid)

Everyone PK, the Dutch burned and injured the battleship, the Dutch could not take advantage of the mainland, so they had to establish a base in Penghu, as a result, a team of thousands of people was besieged by tens of thousands of Ming troops, and finally settled on Dayuan Island.

The next thing is to be deceived by Yan Dashao to take Dayuan Island again, and the Dutch are really at a loss and not wise.

……

The key to losing the base of Dayuan Island is that the sea route to the country of silver ---- the country of Wa has been cut off, and a lot of silver is gone!

In the 17th century, the Wa Kingdom had little land and many people, and it was also a sea country, and there were volcanoes, so it was difficult to survive.

But God is fair, the benefit of more volcanoes is more gold and silver, the annual production of gold and silver makes the purchasing power of the rulers of the Japanese country super strong, so that the red-haired fans are extremely yearning, but to the southeast of the government to cut the waist, collect water guidance, a boat of three thousand taels of silver, the red-haired fan business is much more difficult.

Speke complained bitterly about his family history, which made the Dutch present look grim.

Again, Speke said: "We lost, we lost face, we lost people's hearts!" ”

"The Spaniards have repeatedly laughed at us, saying that we have failed to even affect them and lose face, and we don't have to pay attention to these blasphemous countries!" Speke snorted coldly: "It's just that our last failure, plus this time we called the Ming people, the Turen and the Ming people under our jurisdiction have different thoughts!" ”

"They dare to rebel?!" Dimen shouted angrily.

"I don't dare now, but when Mingren comes over again, it's hard to say!" Brower said heavily.

"Brouwer is right, we can't tell people to come over again, we have to strike first!" Speke said.

"Does the Governor have any good ideas?" Everyone asked.

"With the trade embargo, gunpowder, cannons, firearms, metals, medicines, wood, sails, etc., cannot be sold to the Ming people!" Remembering that the 24-pounder cannon sold to the Southeastern Mansion hit him so much that he couldn't lift his head, Speke was annoyed.

"Yes!"

Speke's plan was an incomplete trade embargo, and he could not block the silk, porcelain, and tea trade, but the southeastern government would not necessarily agree to such a trade embargo.

"Are there any more ships, do you see their warships in that form?" Speke asked.

"See!"

"We have to build that type of battleship, otherwise we won't be able to catch up with them!"

"Yes!"

"Also, set up a standing fleet and prepare for war!" In the past, armed merchant ships were temporarily conscripted into each war, which was not conducive to command and training.

But the establishment of a standing fleet would squeeze the profits of the East India Company, affecting the dividends, and the shareholders would have opinions, which would be a big problem, and if the shareholders were not satisfied, they would remove him as a governor.

"Yes!"

"There's one more, use Akito!" Brower proposed.

"What's your idea?" Speke asked happily, he liked to fight the Ming people with the Ming people, and he didn't have to shed the blood of the Dutch.

"I know a gentleman named Li Kuiqi, he has fought with the Southeast Mansion a few times, and he won the first time!" Brower said.

refers to the battle between Li Kuiqi and Li Ying, which was essentially a tie, but Li Kuiqi came to Huang Po to sell melons and boasted that he had won, and the Dutch believed it again, proving once again that they were too easy to deceive and their IQ was not as good as that of Mingren.

The Dutch have decided to discuss and plan to see how they will be approached with the Ming man Li Kuiqi, and then make further plans.