August is the hottest season of the year.

This year is especially great, walking and working under the scorching sun, if there is no object to block the sun, it is easy to faint from heat stroke, and it is very likely to be burned by the sun.

In the city of Gerancha, located in the southern part of Dayuan Island, groups of topless men, beads of sweat rolling down their bodies, are walking down the street carrying heavy baskets on their backs.

Most of these people are people from the nearby Gaoshan tribe, as well as Han people who come to Dayuan Island for various reasons to beg for a living.

Although the Dutch came to Dayuan for a much shorter time than the Spaniards, the Spaniards at this time were rapidly declining to the top, and the speed of decline in national power was staggering.

And in its place is the Netherlands.

The Dutch, known as the coachmen of the sea, with their strong national and naval strength, soon built two large and fastened cities in the southern part of Dayuan Island, the city of Geranza and the city of Prominissa.

Among them, the city of Geranza is the most, and the whole city took several years to build, so it can be said that it has just been completed.

This is still in the past six months, because the domestic situation of the Ming Empire has changed greatly, and the Dutch have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to accelerate the construction.

Otherwise, according to the slow pace of construction in the past, it will take at least a few years to complete the big city.

This is a very majestic city, and it is also the central city of the Dutch rule on Dayuan Island, which not only houses the Dutch family members on Dayuan Island, but also nearly 5,000 Dutch soldiers stationed all year round.

At this time, the person in charge of the southern part of Dayuan Island was the new governor of Dayuan Island, Hans, who was sent by Western countries to carry out a major official transfer half a year ago. Putmans.

The Governor of Putmans was a very capable nobleman, and had even been personally received by the Queen, and was a hawkish figure in the country who advocated the great expansion of the sea.

His military qualities are not low, he is an excellent graduate of the Royal Netherlands Military Academy, and his grades at the time of graduation are among the best.

At noon today, he sat on the tallest building in the city of Geranza, a spire more than a dozen feet high, holding a tall glass with a fuchsia vintage wine.

He lifted his head and drank the wine in his hand, played with the goblet in his hand, and looked at the ant-sized crowd of busy people on the main street below, and felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction in his heart.

It has been half a year since he arrived on Dayuan Island, and Governor Putmans has completely changed from the excitement he had when he first came to Taiwan, and he has become full of ambition.

Dayuan Island is a good place, the climate and environmental conditions here are very suitable for the growth of various crops and the rapid reproduction of various animals in large numbers.

There are rice, cane sugar, tobacco, hemp, ginger, cotton and other cash crops, and a large number of various birds and animals.

Among them, the deer herd is the largest, and a variety of deer skins and antler velvets are the favorite of the nobles of Western countries.

Since the Dutch occupied the southern part of Dayuan Island in recent years, with the increasing number of various materials handed over to the East India Company every year, Dayuan Island has also been more and more valued by the Dutch royal family and the East India Company.

While enjoying a paradise-like life here, I also earned a lot of money enough to enjoy my old age, what is there to be dissatisfied with?

Governor Putmans, cherishing his current position as Governor, would like to thank the Cabinet Ministers who have sent him to Oyuan Island.

If it weren't for them, he would not have become the emperor of Dayuan Island, and in just half a year, he earned money that he couldn't earn in a lifetime in the Netherlands.

"It's a nice day!"

Governor Putmans stretched his long waist, put down his glass, reached out and picked up the teacup that was sitting beside him, and took a slow sip of tea.

Then, as if he had thought of something, he frowned, and said to himself with some annoyance:

"It seems that two months ago, when Gomez's detachment went to Fujian Yuegang to trade, it was suddenly attacked by the fleet of the current Northern Ming Dynasty and the whole army was wiped out, which is true."

"How can the strength of this Northern Ming Empire be so strong? Especially the naval fleet, which was previously almost blank? ”

He was a little confused.

If the Northern Ming Empire was really so strong, how could it allow the empire to split?

Now the Ming Empire, which is divided into three, logically speaking, should have fallen into a time of great infighting, and the people at home are not happy. 110 eBooks

In the past two months, the three Western countries that dominate the Nanyang region have sent many spies, and they have lured a large number of Han traitors, and finally learned of an extremely terrifying situation:

The coastal areas of the original Ming Empire have almost all been completely occupied by the naval fleet of the Northern Ming Empire and the sea area has been blocked!

It's a fantasy!

This earth-shattering change made the three Western countries, which had been thinking of taking advantage of the fire to rob, unable to hold even the revolving meeting in Manila.

After repeatedly confirming that the news was undoubted, the three countries rarely began a dense tandem, and secretly began the assembly and transfer of the fleet.

Everyone thought about whether to form a combined fleet as soon as possible and deal a blow to the arrogant Beiming Empire.

In particular, the detachment of the East India Company, which went to Fujian Yuegang to trade this time, occupied nearly one-third of the ships and troops in the original Nanyang area.

This time, it was almost wiped out by the Northern Ming Empire, and the real loss was heavy.

Whether it is the ships or the soldiers, the losses are unprecedented in recent years.

With such a big loss, how can you not get it back?

However, the several naval fleets of the Northern Ming Empire that suddenly appeared were too mysterious to find out any information about them.

It's just that not long ago, hundreds of soldiers who fled back to Vietnam from the south of the Southern Ming Empire learned about the specific situation of the naval fleet raid of the Northern Ming Empire.

A gigantic battleship estimated to be around 3,000 tons? At least fifty or sixty of them?

Extremely long-range, full-fledged artillery and flowering shells?

Could it be that Lao Tzu hasn't woken up yet?

How could such a bizarre situation happen in the Beiming Empire, where the navy was blank before?

It's just that after the strict interrogation of these remnants of the defeated soldiers, it is finally certain that what these defeated soldiers said is true!

In this way, after learning the conclusive information, the East India Company, which had wanted to immediately send troops to retaliate, immediately stopped its actions, gathered relevant personnel, and held a meeting!

We keep holding meetings, constantly discussing and studying countermeasures.

Naturally, the retaliatory action that was supposed to be carried out with great fanfare was put on hold.

It is necessary to wait for the bigwigs of the East India Company to meet and study before they can launch a corresponding plan of retaliation.

Even the Governor of Putmans, who had been summoned to Batavia a few days ago, had been given a seminar for a few days, and had only returned to the island of Oyuan the day before.

"No way!"

"I, Putmans, don't know all day long about meetings like those Bataviaan, vegetarian pigs!"

"What do they do besides meetings, seminars, and more?"

"I can't be like those bureaucrats, just let the Northern Ming Empire expand its territory so aggressively, I have to launch an active attack on them!"

The more Putmans thought about it, the more he found that the bureaucrats who knew about meetings all day long were simply brain-dead people, and could not do anything practical except waste the country's people's fat and ointment.

If you don't make some countermeasures, maybe one day you will be hit by the fleet of the Northern Ming Empire, and those bureaucrats are still holding meetings and holding various seminars!

In fact, the main reason why those bureaucrats like meetings so much is that they use the public expenses of meetings to eat, drink and have fun to their heart's content, ruffle skins, make money, and play with women, which is their favorite!

He thought about it for a moment, and shouted loudly towards the gate of the tower: "Guard, call me the adjutant Bosten!" ”

He had to discuss it with his right-hand man, lest he lose control of the overall situation of the sea.

In that case, it will undoubtedly be a disaster for himself and the two big cities on Dayuan Island.