No one can resist the temptation of glory and riches, even if this person already has all this, they will still be tempted by it, because man is always greedy.

For the princes of the Ming Dynasty!

From now on, he will no longer be regarded by others as a lowly man, let alone become fat in the mouths of others.

In the face of such a temptation, who can resist it?

Fan Wendou, Jin Liangyu and the others didn't even discuss it, they reached an agreement - they were willing to obey the orders of Nan Anbo Zheng Zhilong, in other words, from now on, Zheng Zhilong is the "big boss" of tens of thousands of people on these more than 70 ships, as long as he has orders, everyone will naturally obey.

"How many Westerners are there on our ships? How many blacks? ”

And the first thing Zheng Zhilong asked was the number of people on the ship, but he didn't ask about other people, but the crew and captains hired by Jin Wenbo from Macao on the ship, these people were not the "bonus" when he bought the ship, but he specially hired them, in order to train sailors and lead the way on the road when they go to the West in the future, and now Zheng Zhilong wants to know how many people there are.

"Back to Nan Amber, I bought a total of 15 ships from Macao, and there were 1,247 sailors on these ships, of which 6 died in Liaodong, and now there are 1,241 ......."

Jin Wenbo's answer made Zheng Zhilong ponder for a moment, and then muttered to himself.

"1241 people...... Well, that's almost enough, let's make it again, make it up, make it up, make up 1500 people! ”

Jin Wenbo looked at Zheng Zhilong puzzled and asked again.

"I wonder what Nan Amber has sent to them? Those Westerners are different from us, they are all open-minded people who see money, and they have no loyalty to speak of. ”

Jin Wenbo's answer made Zheng Zhilong laugh.

"Third son, what Zheng wants is for them to see the money!"

After saying that, he turned his head to look at Fan Sanba and said.

"Eldest prince, I don't know if I can prepare some silver for someone Zheng!"

"No problem, I don't know how much silver Nan Amber needs?"

"2,000,000 taels!"

2,000,000 taels!

Although this number can be said to be equivalent to an astronomical number, Fan Sanba still nodded and agreed, if it is said that it will take a few days to raise 2 million taels of silver in the past, but now these ships are carrying a large amount of cash, but it is only a few hours of effort, and the silver has been made up by several families, and it is only a few hundred thousand taels every year.

And after the silver was scraped together, thousands of Western sailors were gathered together, including whites, blacks, and even some Indians, they were wearing all kinds of Western clothes, all of them looked at Zheng Zhilong with strange expressions, many of them had heard of Zheng Zhilong's name, and some of them even seemed a little excited to see this legendary figure.

"Everyone knows the name of Zheng, and Zheng is what people call Nikolai Zheng!"

Zheng Zhilong is extremely fluent in Portuguese as soon as he speaks, because many of the crew members are Portuguese, so they can naturally understand his words, and it doesn't matter if they don't understand, there will naturally be other crew members to help explain.

"Nonsense, Zheng doesn't say much, today Zheng is willing to send a fortune to everyone!"

As soon as the words fell, Zheng Zhilong, who was standing on the hillside, ordered someone to directly overturn the silver box to the ground, and the silver of the white flowers fell to the ground with such a "bang", not to mention these sailors who had never seen much silver at all, even if it was a person like Jin Wenbo, when he saw so much silver in front of him, his breathing was also tight.

200,000 silver!

Just when everyone's breathing became short, only Zheng Zhilong was heard to continue.

"Everyone has seen that there are a total of 2 million taels of silver here, and now as long as everyone is willing to drive for someone Zheng, each person can get 500 taels!"

500 taels of silver!

In the face of such a temptation, no one refused, for these sailors who could not receive a mere two or three hundred taels a year, five hundred taels of silver, equivalent to their income for two or even three years, and how could they resist such a temptation.

Just when everyone agreed, I saw Zheng Zhilong looking around at these sailors with greedy eyes and continuing.

"If you can help Zheng take down the Dutchman's city of Geranza, then everyone can get another 500 taels of silver! And after the city of Geranza is captured, each person will be rewarded with no less than 500 taels of silver! ”

But it's not a big deal, as soon as you make a move, it's 1,500 taels of silver, and in the face of such a temptation, almost everyone becomes fanatical, and even the most sensible people are there staring at the silver and swallowing their saliva.

"The city of Geranza, the city of Geranza ......"

Remembering the name of the place, Philip looked at Zheng Zhilong again and asked.

"Mr. Nikolai, you, why did you go to the place where the Dutch were taken?"

In his opinion, this decision was a bit too reckless, just by virtue of such a small number of people. Just want to lay down the fortress of the Dutch, which is even a bit wishful thinking.

"And it's not an easy thing to do."

"Captain Philip!"

Facing his rhetorical question, Zheng Zhilong laughed and said.

"When did Taiwan become the place for the Dutch? Zheng colonized Taiwan earlier than the Dutch, and my Chinese ancestors arrived in Taiwan thousands of years ago. ”

What Zheng Zhilong said is the truth, not to mention that during the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan had sent people to Taiwan, even Zheng Zhilong's excavation of Taiwan was far more than the Dutch, but later after accepting Zhao'an, he moved most of the people back in large numbers, as for the Dutch's construction of the city of Geranza far later than Zheng Zhilong.

The reason why Zheng Zhilong chose Taiwan is because he learned from Lin Nengchuan's mouth about Damu's plan, he wants to seize Taiwan, as for why he wants to seize Taiwan at the expense of offending the Dutch, Zheng Zhilong doesn't know, but he knows that for him, this is an opportunity, an opportunity for him to return to Fujian and reunite with his father and son.

Since Da Mu wants Taiwan, then my father will take down the city of Relan for you!

It's just that because he has no soldiers and no generals, Zheng Zhilong naturally has to think of some ways to capture the city of Geranza, he is no stranger to the Dutch, he has even been there personally, he knows that the city of Geranza is extremely strong, in the face of the reality that there are neither soldiers nor generals, and even no manpower available, how can he capture the city?

The strongest fortresses were conquered from within, and if you wanted to capture the city of Geranza, you had to make a surprise attack.

Based on Zheng Zhilong's understanding of the Dutch, even if Da Mu has been preparing for so long, then now the Dutch must have gotten the news that Da Mu is preparing to attack Geranza City!

In this case, the Dutch will definitely ask Batavia for reinforcements!

Reinforcements!

What if you pretend to be reinforcements and attack the city of Geranza directly?

"As for how easy it is, there is a saying in China that soldiers never tire of cheating!"

Staring at the Dutch-style merchant ships in the bay, since it is in East Asia, Western merchant ships are mainly Dutch-style merchant ships, even when the Portuguese build merchant ships, they often build Dutch-style merchant ships, with these Western ships, plus those Western sailors on board who look completely different from the Chinese, it is not difficult to "deceive" the gate of the city of Geranza.

The key is whether these Western sailors are willing to help him take the city of Geranza.

For Western sailors, Zheng Zhilong, who has dealt with them since he was young, naturally knows that it is not impossible to let these Western sailors work hard, in fact, most of these sailors are from poor backgrounds, they come to the East thousands of miles away, most of them are forced by life, and in order to obtain wealth, they are sometimes sailors, sometimes robbers, for such people, what is the best way?

It's tempting to take advantage!

Directly smashed it with a lot of silver, smashed them dizzy, smashed them so that they didn't know why, and then everything was easy.

And then they were naturally willing to drive for him. After all, these sailors are not without mercenary experience, but compared to others, he Zheng Zhilong's shot is more generous, after all, these silver are not his silver, for him, compared to silver, taking the city of Gelanza is the most important, besides, if it is really a heavy siege, I am afraid that two million taels of silver may not be enough for him to take the city of Geranza.

No one could resist such a temptation, and the sailors, who had served as mercenaries more than once, accepted it almost with heavy breath.

Fifteen hundred taels of silver!

That's even the equivalent of ten years of their income!

It's enough to make everyone tickle for it!

After these Western sailors expressed their willingness to serve Zheng Zhilong, he began to prepare for the attack on the city of Geranza, first of all, he had to prepare the flag of the Netherlands, which is simple, after all, the Netherlands is now a great navigational power, and when these Western ships were pirates in the past, they originally prepared the flag of the Netherlands, and the only headache was the armor, because most of the Dutch soldiers wore cuirasses, and if they wanted to pretend to be Dutch soldiers, they must have cuirasses, but the sailors on the ship did not have many cuirasers, After several patchwork, only a hundred cuirasses were made.

"It's not a big deal, just tell them that the rest of the people are hired sailors!"

After learning of this situation, Zheng Zhilong instructed Jin Wenbo.

Maybe this Jin Wenbo didn't agree with the actions of several families, but it didn't prevent Zheng Zhilong from appreciating him, after all, for him, this young man was a talented person, and for him who had no one in his hands, he naturally wouldn't miss such a talent.

"You know, now that the Loyal and Righteous Army has deployed a large number of men and horses in Nantianmen, it is impossible for the Batavia side to send a large number of reinforcements to Taiwan......"

"There's no way around it!"

Under the city of Geranza, in the face of Kuiyi's inquiry, Philip said in an extremely helpless tone.

"Now, the Ming army has appeared in Southeast Asia, and they have tens of thousands of soldiers stationed in Nantianmen, Batavia must consider whether Zheng Chenggong's actions in Taiwan are to attract Batavia's attention, and when we send reinforcements here, attack Batavia, which is what we need to worry about! But the city of Geranza can't give up, so ......"

Pointing to the disembarking soldiers behind him, Philip said.

"We had to hire these people and let them come over to assist us in defending the city of Geranza, although they are not real soldiers, but, for the defense of the fortress, it should be enough, what we need is to let Zheng Chenggong retreat, not to fight a decisive battle with him, what do you think? Excellency. ”

There was no doubt that Philip's words were all in the heart of Kuichi, and that was exactly what he needed.

"Of course, sir, it is the biggest consensus between us to let Zheng Chenggong retreat, after all, here, we can't do without the Zheng family, once the Zheng family or the Ming Kingdom decide to block us, then it will be a disaster for us, when the time comes, even if we don't want to leave here, we can only leave from here, after all, without Chinese goods, our existence here is completely dependent on exporting Chinese products to Japan, without all this, Geranza City naturally has no value of existence."

As an "old Taiwanese", Yu Yi knows very well the value of Relanza City, he knows that the reason why Geranza City exists here is because of trade, and without trade, there will naturally be no Geranza City, and in order to maintain trade, you can't offend the Zheng family, you must maintain a good relationship with Zheng Chenggong, which is the biggest contradiction.

But even if it is a contradiction, for Yuyi, he must do his best to maintain all this, after all, for the Netherlands, the most important thing is business!

Without commerce, there would be no Netherlands, and this foundation must be maintained no matter what. Without this foundation, everything will eventually be destroyed.

Now it seems that the Batavian side is not unaware of the situation here.

"So we have to try to maintain our relationship with them, not only with the Zheng family, but also with the Ming Kingdom, after all, they are our most important trading partners in the East."

The reason why Kuichi said this was because he knew very well that the Ming were not the country of those uncivilized barbarians, they were strong enough, even strong enough to send fleets to expedition thousands of nautical miles away, and all along, European countries had despised their strength, but he would not, he knew what choice was more beneficial to the Netherlands.

"Of course, that's what I'm here for, Your Excellency the Governor."

Philip's words made the whole person become proud, and in his opinion, the reason why Philip had this attitude was because of his lobbying for Batavia over the years, and it was under his persuasion and reports that Batavia changed their attitude towards the Ming Kingdom and made them realize what was most important here.

In addition to being proud, he inadvertently saw that there seemed to be something strange about Philip, and in some places it seemed to be different from the officials in Batavia that he had come into contact with.