Dayuan and Qiongzhou are the islands of Taiwan and Hainan. The name of the former is derived from a coastal sandbar in southern Taiwan, which was later known as Anping District of Tainan City, and sometimes refers to the entire island of Taiwan; The latter, on the other hand, is less ambiguous.

In these two places, Chen Kai had read some articles on the Internet about "farming" on Taiwan Island and Hainan Island in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. However, in Zheng Chenggong's view, these two places are not good places, especially in history, Zheng Chenggong also recovered Taiwan and thought it was an anti-Qing base, which made him puzzled by this.

"My father used to go to that place. The eastern part of the island is not clear, but the western side has a lot of land that can be used for farming. However, it is still a wild place, full of raw and ripe tribes, large and small tribes have formed alliances, many of which are controlled by red hair. The Red Fur has a castle built in the south of Dayuan, and the specific number of garrisons and ships is not clear, but its strength should not be underestimated. Of course, these are still secondary, the key is that the miasma is rampant, and it will cost people lives if they are not adapted......"

What Zheng Chenggong said was the truth, and Chen Kai did not take it into account: "It is rumored that there are two abandoned castles in the north of Dayuan......"

"Abandoned? Only one was abandoned, and the other was captured by the Red Fur. In addition, these two cities are now in the hands of the red hair, and it seems that the names have been changed, and I can't remember what they are called. ”

"Uh......"

Chen Kai is talking about the cities of San Salvador and San Tedendomengo built by the Spaniards in chicken coops and fresh water in northern Taiwan, which is the basis of the Spanish colonial rule in Taiwan. However, due to economic reasons, colonial rule in northern Taiwan was always in a state of loss, and the Spaniards had to abandon the city of Santo Domingo in Tamsui and reduce the garrison of San Salvador, which was captured by the Dutch United East India Company. The city of San Tendo was restored and renamed Fort Anthony.

These two places were important fulcrums for the Dutch to colonize northern Taiwan, but because the southern part of Taiwan was the real heartland, where the Dutch controlled tens of thousands of Han Chinese to grow rice and sugar cane for them, and by the way, they bought deer skins and other goods from the aborigines of the west for trade, and the presence of colonial rule in the north was much lower.

Historically, Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan, and the army also pointed directly at the south of Taiwan, defeated Yuyi, and the Dutch withdrew from Taiwan on their own, so there are very few records of the Dutch colonization in northern Taiwan. In addition, a few years after Zheng Chenggong's death, during Zheng Jing's management of Taiwan, the Dutch once regained control of the chicken coop, but they had to choose to give up under Zheng Jing's grain offensive, so that Chen Kai had a certain degree of confusion about the Spaniards giving up these two places and the Dutch giving up these two places.

"Hey, rumors are not credible, and impressions are not advisable."

Thinking of this, Chen Kai couldn't help sighing, originally Taiwan was his ideal place, with these Guangzhou survivors, establish a stronghold in Taiwan, cultivate farming, dig mineral deposits, operate trade, educate the aborigines, go south to drive out the Dutch, develop for a few years, and use this as a backing to recover the lost territory. As far as it looks like a dream.

"Then, Xia Guan remembers, didn't the Taishi also immigrate to the Dayuan back then?"

asked tentatively, but Zheng Chenggong's face was a little unnatural. Then, with a sigh, Zheng Chenggong still told the story of this old incident, but when he heard Chen Kai's ears, it was like thunder.

According to Zheng Chenggong, when Yan Siqi died of illness, Zheng Zhilong, as the eldest of the sworn brothers, was able to surpass the more powerful Yang Tiansheng, Chen Xinji and others to become the leader of the alliance. These maritime merchants were in Taiwan at that time, and they had to look at the Dutch.

In the following days, Zheng Zhilong swept the Fujian Sea with a group of thieves, and the Fujian Ming army fought a big war of 135, small battles every day, in addition to the pirates' desire to plunder, there was also the support of the Dutch behind it, because the Dutch wanted to open the channel of free trade with the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Dutch didn't see it at all, and this original small translator was actually a big player. He used Li Dan's strength to gain a firm foothold in Yan Siqi Group; borrowed the power of the Dutch to become the leader of the group after Yan Siqi's death; fought with the Ming army and forced the Fujian government to recruit him; When he had an official status and backed by the Ming Empire, he in turn restricted trade with the Dutch, forcing the Dutch to support dissidents within his group to fight him, so as to shape his identity as the guardian of the security of the Fujian Sea in the hearts of the Ming Dynasty and the Fujian people, and achieve whitewashing; After this "self-respect", he used the power of the Ming Dynasty to defeat the Dutch in Liuluo Bay, eliminate dissidents, strengthen his own strength, and thus control the trade of the Fujian Sea, and in turn conducted normal trade with the Dutch.

The Dutch, the pirates along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, and the Fujian officialdom, everyone was turned around by him. After a big turn, with the ability of the white wolf with empty gloves, Zheng Zhilong has grown from an unknown little person to an uncrowned king of the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong.

"The first time was Yan Siqi's pioneering, and the second time was Yan Siqi's development in Dayuan, so that Hongmao saw the talent of the Han people in farming, and they needed farmers to grow sugarcane and rice there......

Zheng Chenggong didn't say it tactfully, but there was always a feeling of shame in and out of those words. Zheng Chenggong is not as used to being low and small as Zheng Zhilong in his early years, the first twenty years of his life were so smooth that he had nothing to say, until Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing Dynasty, he began to go through ups and downs, but his stubborn and strong character has been cultivated, especially in the past few years, with the help of Chen Kai, there have been many fewer setbacks, and it is inevitable.

But the more so, the more this kind of secret listening is another feeling in Chen Kai's ears. At the beginning, Hong Xu also mentioned the relationship between Zheng Zhilong, Li Dan and Yan Siqi, but he was secretive about the relationship between the old master and the Dutch. This is normal, and Chen Kai would be like this in other words, but Zheng Zhilong is Zheng Chenggong's father, and he can tell Chen Kai such old things, and it is self-evident that the son does not say anything about his father's faults, and his trust is self-evident.

"Sea coachman, squeaky ......"

Thanks to Zheng Chenggong's trust, Chen Kai still couldn't help but marvel at the Netherlands' maritime strength. Thinking back to the armed merchant ships of Portugal, and then thinking of the more than 16,000 large and small merchant ships under the name of the Netherlands, the Yahat ships, the flute ships, and the most famous Galen ships of the era of sail warships, the naval strength is more than twice that of Britain and France combined, and the difference in maritime strength between the two sides is obvious.

However, it was precisely under such a huge gap that Zheng Chenggong carried the serious injury of Nanjing's fiasco and recovered Taiwan in one fell swoop, just to obtain a base for rejuvenation. Even if there is an element of luck in it, this courage and courage are even more awe-inspiring.

"Zheng Zhilong is a pure egoist, only seeking interests and nothing else, and it is unrealistic to expect him to take into account any country and nation. But that's not the case with Zheng Chenggong......"

At this moment, at the mention of the word red hair, the cold light that flashed between Zheng Chenggong's eyebrows from time to time made him secretly frightened. Now that Zheng Chenggong has basically reunified the Zheng Group, the remaining Zheng Hongkui has always been the leader of the horse.

Perhaps, in the Chinese sea, the trade conflict between the Zheng Group, the representative of Chinese mercantilism, and the Netherlands, the representative of the most developed shipbuilding industry in the West, and the Dutch United East India Company, the representative of the most developed shipbuilding industry in the West, will be rekindled, and a new era has arrived, and he also needs a new way to end the troubled times and catch up with the pace of modernization.