Putmans knew a lot about Comrade Yiguan, after all, the scene of the former prefect of the Grand Officer, His Excellency De Weis, leading the remnants of the defeated army to flee back to Batavia had only recently passed.

Now that he heard that the original Dutch translator, the current pirate leader, had died, Putmans was still a little surprised.

However, even more surprising was to come: Cai Feiming then clearly told him that the officers were ready to hire all 14 Dutch ships and go to Xiamen to eliminate the pirates in about one month.

...... Confused, Putmans had to ask Cai Feiming for more detailed information. He couldn't understand this logic: what did the traversers, who already had a channel for the purchase of raw silk, go to the other side of the strait to fight pirates?

You must know that the Dutch are fighting for life and death on the coast, fighting the government today, and cooperating with the government to fight Zheng Zhilong tomorrow, all of which have a clear purpose: to obtain the right to trade raw silk. So when the crossing forces full of raw silk clamored to go to the other side of the sea to do something, the Dutch were confused.

Cai Feiming naturally wouldn't tell Hongmao about the twists and turns in this. He simply told Putmans that the ancient aristocratic force entrenched on Dayuan Island still maintained a relationship with the Ming Dynasty, so the elimination of pirates was a political reason; In addition, the elimination of pirates will help to monopolize the raw silk trade in the future.

Hearing Cai Feiming say this, Putmans understood. In European history, there are more stories of kings pit the big nobles, and the big nobles slap the king in the face than cow hair, so he quickly put the situation into it: the emperor of the Ming Kingdom was trying to weaken the strength of the traversals, so he assigned them to eliminate the pirates.

Thinking of this, a knowing smile appeared on Putmans' face: "As far as I am concerned, it is a noble cause to help the noble gentlemen to destroy the pirates. Of course, this matter needs to be discussed with the sailors, after all, you know, those people only have money and beer in their eyes. ”

"You kid only have money in his eyes, right?" Cai Feiming nodded with a smile on his face at this time, then took out a document from the table and handed it to Hongmao: "This is a few sets of salary plans for hiring the Dutch fleet to go out to fight, we can pay for the goods and money, take it back and discuss it with the crew." ”

"Very good, this document is timely, and I will get back to you soon."

......

Truth be told, the Dutch are not willing to help from the bottom of their hearts. Because time has changed, now that the crossing has the right to trade raw silk, as a third-party buyer, the Dutch are naturally reluctant to go further and monopolize the raw silk trade.

This is the same reason as their reluctance to help Zheng Zhilong fight opponents in history: once any commodity is monopolized, then the buyer will be in a dangerous situation. The Dutch are global coachmen, and they are well aware of this.

However, the will of the Dutch was of little avail.

Since the Dutch in history failed to prevent Zheng Zhilong from monopolizing coastal trade, today's crossing forces are the same, even more terrible than Zheng Zhilong: all the traversers take out is hard power, and any crooked brains of the Dutch are clouds in front of Italian artillery and heavy machine guns.

Therefore, on the surface, Cai Feiming is asking for the opinions of the Dutch on the matter of fighting pirates, but in fact this matter cannot be shirked - as long as you think about the goods in the dock warehouse and the future trade qualifications, the Dutch have to agree if they don't agree.

And this time the Dutch couldn't even grind foreigners. De Weis's fleet could have taken the lead in last year's battle between officials and bandits to destroy Zheng Zhilong, but Putmans couldn't ...... Can't go back to the big man to load the goods afterwards? If you don't work hard to fight, you will not only be rewarded for your meritorious deeds after the war, but also settle accounts after the autumn.

So after a little analysis in the merchant hall that night, the red-haired people knew that they couldn't hide this time - there wasn't much they could do except bargain tomorrow to squeeze more oil and water out of the traversal.

So, after a heated argument the next day, the matter was finally settled: the Dutch fleet would go on an expedition with the Crossing Crowd at some point in the future to trouble the pirates on the other side of the sea.

This point in time is uncertain at the moment. Because Zheng Zhilong had just died, the big man was still waiting for the reaction of the Xiamen bandits. According to the prediction of the traversals, it will take about 15 days for the preliminary news to come over there at the earliest, and the time to actually start is not uncommon in a month - anyway, the time is on the side of the traversing forces, and the longer it drags on, the more chaotic the rabble will be.

......

While the Lord's side was watching the situation on the other side of the sea, the first typhoon of 1628 blew over.

Typhoons of the 17th century are not well documented, at least in Taiwan. Therefore, when the wind circle blows from the direction of the Philippine Sea, there is no satellite and supercomputer crossing force can only give a half-day warning.

Half a day was noticeably tight. Fortunately, since the beginning of May, all the industrial and mining enterprises under the command of the crossing force have begun to prepare for disasters, so when the storm blows, most of the factories have stopped operating according to the plan, and the workers have also begun to urgently reinforce the buildings.

However, some people who are new to the treasure land still underestimate the power of the typhoon.

The typhoon, which lasted for a day and a night, ran mercilessly through the front, and when the force of 12 central winds blew across the Tainan Plain, a large number of wooden dormitories in the Chihkan area were blown off the roofs, some houses collapsed, and the wharves and shipyards along the Taijiang River also suffered heavy damage.

And that's not all: the floods and torrential rains that follow the typhoon are the killers.

Thanks to the painstaking efforts of the pioneers, the large and small channels, including the Xingang Creek, were once very quiet: the sandbanks and boulders in the river have been cleared, the channel has been dredged, and the water flow is very gentle.

However, when the typhoon came, the torrential rain caused the flash flood rushed down from the central mountain range, and the water level of all the waterways in Tainan suddenly rose sharply, and many smaller streams and rivers quickly could not bear the flow, and the next moment, the flood began to overflow.

Then there was the time when the house leak happened to rain overnight: at the night tide, the water level of the Taijiang River soared, and the stream that originally flowed into the lagoon from the plain was flooded by seawater.

...... All of the above is the proper meaning of the question, and both the people who crossed the sea and the coastal people under their command, including those foreign sailors on the island at the end of the northern line, have full experience and psychological preparation for this kind of disaster.

But the only thing that everyone didn't expect was that someone died.

A traversal died in the storm.