And then......

The messenger knelt down happily.

If you don't kneel, you can't do it, there are a bunch of guns next to you to aim at it, and there is this old traitor next to the governor of the Ming Dynasty who is there to sow discord, in case he is really shot to death, those who come to the East to make a living in these years are the kind of flexible people who know how to make a living.

Kneel and kneel.

"Your Excellency the Governor, as far as I know, you speak our language, and I hope you will let this Portuguese go away, and we will have a direct conversation, these evil Portuguese are our enemies, and he will do everything he can to sow discord between us, and what he wants most of all is war between us."

The messenger knelt on the ground and still spoke righteously.

"Bold, Salazar is my slave, and his loyalty to me will not allow you to slander me!"

Yang Dudu scolded angrily.

Salazar hurriedly translated for him, and then knelt down and kowtowed to him with a loyal face.

"Get up, tell this Huguenot, I made it very clear, I am the supreme military commander of the Ming Dynasty here, if I really invite him here, and allow them to live in Hong Kong, I can't know not about it, I don't know who invited them, but this person definitely has nothing to do with the Ming Emperor. They can go back and find out this person, and I will also investigate the matter, but now that they have entered the ocean of the Ming Emperor, if they do not leave immediately, then I will regard it as an invasion and expel it by force. ”

Yang Dudu said.

Huguenot is a scornful term for Protestants in the old French Church.

The original meaning is said to have evolved from Swiss German, but in any case, the word Protestant is now referred to by the old French religion as if it were you, a bitch, and it is clear that this messenger was Huguenot, who had fled to the Netherlands, and they were also the main force of the Dutch rebellion against Spain. The King of Spain set up an inquisition in the Netherlands, issued a bloody edict, and buried all such men and women alive, which eventually led to the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain, and it was clear that Sarah, who had fought for the King of Spain, had seen the man he hated the most.

Salazar immediately translated for him.

The messenger rose helplessly, and then turned away.

"Get out of here, Huguenot, go back to your swamp, the sacred land of the Ming Dynasty is not something you are qualified to set foot in!"

Salazar shouted triumphantly.

Yang Dudu next to him nodded approvingly.

After the return of this envoy, the Dutch fleet did not retreat, and they had no place to retreat, this time they were determined to obtain a trading base along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, either to find a way for the Ming officials to fulfill their promise to obtain Hong Kong Island, or to seize Macao by force, or to go north to occupy Penghu, but in any case they must obtain such a place. They had no other choice, the East India Company had no stronghold in the area, and in the past they could only cooperate with smugglers, or go north to the Wa Kingdom to buy from the merchants there, but then they would have to endure the exploitation of the merchants there.

They needed a place to trade directly with the Ming Dynasty.

It doesn't matter what went wrong with this, whether someone deceived them or not, even if they were really deceived, it had to be true.

If it doesn't work, just fight.

More than 1,000 soldiers from their twenty-four armed merchant ships came over, that is, they were ready to use force, and if they could take it peacefully, of course, if they could not take it peacefully, they would have robbed it.

Do you really think they came with peace in their sincerity?

"They don't have any good boats, huh?"

Yang Xin looked at the Dutch armed merchant ship in the distance.

"Hui Dudu, those three big ships they call the returned sea ships, mainly large sea ships that transport goods from the colonies back to the mainland, these ships are similar in firepower to the warships, but the planks are thinner than the battleships, but they are still much stronger than our cruisers, our cruisers are not good wood, many of them are made of oak and even Burmese teak.

The same thickness is stronger than ours.

The rest of the cruisers, which they call the Clippers, are the main armed merchant ships of the East India Company on our side.

Our cruisers should be called clippers as they call them.

There is also the Flute ship, which is larger than the clipper ship and smaller than the returning ship, but it is not really armed, it is only used to carry cargo, and it can only sail in the sea area where they are completely controlled, without fear of being attacked.

At present, the East India Company mainly uses these three types, and these three returning ships should have been specially transferred, these heretics are obviously ill-intentioned, and they are ready to use force, otherwise they will not deliberately transfer the returning ships that were not originally running in this area. As for those clippers alone, they may not be able to beat our cruisers, but these three returning ships really have to be careful, our cruisers can't beat them alone, these ships are also twelve-pounders, and our cruisers' planks are not as strong as them. ”

Salazar said.

"Can you stop the short heavy artillery?"

Yang Dudu said.

"This can't be stopped, but the short and heavy artillery has a short range."

Salazar said cautiously.

The short and heavy cannon was not very popular with sailors, because it was useless if it was fired less than a hundred zhang.

Within 100 zhang, especially when it is 50 zhang, it is very powerful, but more than 100 zhang is as weak as urine going out.

It's not as good as a nine-pound cannon.

The latter is at least two hundred zhang and very powerful.

"Then get closer and fight."

Yang Dudu said.

Salazar was right, because of the gap between the two sides in terms of shipbuilding timber, his cruisers were really not as strong as the Dutch's ships, they were all oak or even teak, and his cruisers were made of camphor, pine, fir and other messy wood, and the two sides had different resistance to beating. It's not that he is reluctant to use oak, Daming is not without oak, there is one on the Liaodong Peninsula, but shipyards around the country rarely have oak, and he has to wait for several years to complete the drying with this thing.

His first batch of oak is not expected to be ready for use until next year.

It was just used to build battleships.

But at the moment it's all a bunch of wood.

If they are not afraid of death and can brave enemy shells and close to a distance of 200 meters, then they can win with short and heavy artillery.

But at medium and long ranges, these cruisers could not bombard the Dutch.

"Who is that?"

Yang Xin looked at a small centipede ship that suddenly appeared on the sea and said.

"For example, those small smuggling boats, there have been occasional smuggling incense in Mirs Bay recently, originally they were all loaded here, but now they dare not come."

Salazar said.

Yang Xin didn't say anything more, just sat there and stared at the centipede ship, which came around from the east of Hong Kong Island, and went straight to the Dutch flagship.

"Give the signal, the ships are ready for battle, the cruisers go to deal with the clippers of the Dutch, and all the centipede ships set up rockets to drag the three big ships."

Yang Xin said.

He felt that something was wrong.

His hunch was accurate, for by this time the Dutch's flagship, their fleet commander, Rejoz, had already obtained the so-called agreement......

"Is this true?"

He asked Gao Wenlu uncertainly.

"Your Excellency, I went directly to their official office, and met an official in a red robe, with a bird on his chest that resembled a chicken, and he was the highest official in Guangdong, and he accepted our gift and received me very kindly. According to him, we are far from here, the road is very hard, we need to rest and replenish fresh water, we can go directly to Hong Kong Island, and the rest can be talked about later. ”

Gao Wenlu said.

"So what's going on?"

Rejoz pointed to the Ming warship that had begun to prepare for battle in the distance.

"General, I think it's because of the Portuguese."

The messenger just now said.

"I heard from the man who took me to the official that the man who had been sent by their emperor to collect taxes had a Portuguese slave under him, who was very trusted under him, and commanded the fleet directly for him, and that their emperor also had an old minister with whom he was close to the Jesuits. The viceroy's supporters in the capital were the viziers, who were political allies, and had previously asked the Portuguese to forge cannons for them to fight the Tatars in the north. ”

Gao Wenlu said.

"So he's a Jesuit friend?"

Reyoz's expression immediately became solemn.

"Yes, it would be reasonable if the official in Canton had allowed us to live on the island of Hong Kong, and he, as a friend of the Jesuits, had been bribed by the Portuguese to come out and drive us away."

Gao Wenlu said.

"Jesuits, this ghost."

Reyoz said through gritted teeth.

The name is synonymous with hatred in the eyes of the Dutch, and William, Prince of Orange, the equivalent of the father of the Netherlands, was assassinated by the Jesuits.

That's how they sorted out the truth of the whole **.

First of all, the invitation they received was genuine, the Ming Emperor had allowed them to live in Hong Kong, and the official in Guangzhou had full authority to deal with the matter, but their residence in Hong Kong affected the interests of the Portuguese in Macau, especially the Jesuits, who were even more in tune with them, so they bribed the governor, who led a fleet to intercept for money under the bewitchment of the Portuguese slaves around him......

This is normal.

He and the one in Guangzhou were both the emperor's ministers.

He was the commander of the naval fleet, who was a magistrate, and the military and political affairs were not in line with all countries in the world, and it was said that this governor was also a favorite of the emperor, and it was normal for the magistrate to not be a magistrate for personal gain, and in the end it became a matter for the magistrate to allow them to live, but the governor came to block it. Now it's either to pay the money for this governor, but I don't know how much he will offer, and the Portuguese will definitely increase it, or simply beat him up by force and teach him a lesson......

"Ready to fight, we need to first make them learn to respect us!"

Rejoz said.