Lieutenant Colonel Moree stayed in Goa Harbor for more than half a month.

During this time, he visited some Portuguese facilities. As a gesture of goodwill, he donated a batch of medicines to the Royal Goa Hospital on behalf of the East Bank Government. The largest and most advanced hospital in Goa City is capable of admitting a large number of patients, but to be honest, the level is very poor. How bad it is, in fact, you can understand it by example.

One of the hospital's leading doctors was an Indian, and the upper classes, including the Viceroy of Tavola and many nobles, clergy, and merchants, believed him to treat fever mainly by wrapping the patient's head in pepper, rather than bleeding profusely with a strainer until the patient was cured, as in traditional Western medicine.

Of course, that's not to say he won't bleed. Moreover, the doctor also innovated on his own, learning from Hindu worshippers in the countryside to prescribe cow urine to patients who had bled to drink, one cup at a time, three cups a day, and the patients were said to have recovered well after drinking.

This absurd treatment may seem unacceptable to the people of the East Coast, but don't complain, this Indian doctor is already the highest level of medicine in the Royal Goa Hospital. Because Western medicine at this time was powerless against all kinds of common diseases in India, European doctors who came here from Portugal had to let these Indians learn from the clinical experience first. Otherwise, if they had followed the European way, they would have killed more patients than they were cured, even though the mortality rate of patients treated by Indian doctors was also alarmingly high.

To be honest, most of these medicines donated by Mo Lie's eel were probably sent by those who only had some superficial medical skills (or charlatans?). The attending doctor at the Royal Goa Hospital was ruined because he didn't seem to know anything about the medicines, let alone how to use them. Otherwise, it doesn't matter, he gave this batch of medicines mainly for the sake of friendship between the two parties, anyway, just send it, how to use it is a matter of Indians.

After going to the hospital, Colonel Moree, accompanied by the Portuguese, came to their barracks and once again visited the "performance" of the Portuguese soldiers.

The soldiers, with their faces full of reluctance, were called back from overseas. They had been fighting "pirates" off the coast on small warships (converted from Indian merchant ships) and checking for "contraband" on incoming ships, but they suddenly received orders and had to return to Goa in displeasure.

The items performed by these soldiers were mainly queue and shooting. The queue can only be said to be average, of course, this is not according to the standards of the people on the east coast, Colonel Moreel has seen a unit worse than them, this unit directly under the command of the governor of Goa has walked like this, it is already average.

Compared to the queue type, their shooting skills were so bad that even Governor Tavola, who was standing by and accompanying them, felt embarrassed, because it was not a good thing to let future allies see the bad side of their own army.

"There is less training, the soldiers are generally not very familiar with the process, only some veterans from Portugal or wealthy Indo-Portuguese soldiers can do it skillfully, but the level of those black soldiers is not flattering, it is really bad." Although Mo Liege was a naval officer and was not particularly familiar with the army, he shook his head after reading it, and gave up the last illusion of the combat effectiveness of the Portuguese soldiers in his mind. At the same time, he also has a deeper understanding of the rigid system and ideology of the Portuguese, and he has done it, so why not go to the German region to recruit those bitter mercenaries? You know, both the English and the Dutch use these cheap cannon fodder soldiers, but the first choice of the two countries on the Iberian Peninsula is to use their own people, and again they have to be Catholics, otherwise they would rather use the black soldiers of the colonies, like these Portuguese colonial troops in Goa.

"If a large-scale armed conflict breaks out with the Dutch East India Company in the future, relying on these Portuguese soldiers, it may be possible to defend the city, but the field battle is very suspenseful, and if it is not good, it will be defeated in a battle. It seems that the defeat of the Portuguese on the Malabar coast, the Coromandel coast, Ceylon, the East Indies, the Swahili coast and even the island of Hormuz over the years is not accidental, and their system is indeed so backward that even the training of colonial soldiers is not good. It seems that if there is something happening on Diu Island in the future, we must not expect too much from them, and we must focus on reacting upward after returning to this point. On the way to the barracks cafeteria, Colonel Molie thought silently.

Because of Colonel Molie's insistence, today's lunch will be arranged for everyone to enjoy in the barracks. There was no officers' dining room in the military camp in Goa, and everyone ate in a damp, stuffy shed connected to the kitchen. Because of the distance and the climate, the three major foods from the Mediterranean – bread, oil, and wine – and meat were so expensive that most of the ordinary soldiers ate rice with their right hands, just like the local Indians, and looked like an Indian.

Of course, Mo Liege has learned in the past few days that there is obviously more to these soldiers than this is what they have been assimilated. They learned that the Goans drank water from jars, so that the water would not get in their mouths; They learn from the locals to chew konjac paste leaves, rub their bodies with "sweet red sandalwood", drink spirits extracted from palm trees, and bathe frequently. It can be said that they learned and accepted everything about the Indian pagans, and many of the customs have even been popular in the army for a long time, much to the concern of the priests.

"The fully Indianized Portuguese communities and cities, formed almost entirely white, Indo-Portuguese, Brahmins and Kshatriyas, and the countryside ruled by Indians, showed at most a certain degree of deference to their Portuguese masters, but they were still unquestionably old men in the face of the lower castes. Strange societies, weak armies, chaotic ideologies, and rich cities, well, we're working with such a group of people. Let's hope everything goes well in the future, Indians always like to 'surprise', at least there are still very few pure-blood Indians in their army, can I be a little more comforted by this? As he ate the roast meat, bread, cheese, butter, and wine that had been specially prepared for him, he thought silently: "It was a great mistake for the Dutch East India Company to break Goa at some cost, and now their spirit is gradually lost, and the Portuguese in Goa have brought in our power, and they will never have a chance again." ”

After an embarrassing tour of the barracks, the group returned to the Governor's Palace in Goa City. Here, the two sides finally exchanged some documents, exchanged some greetings, and then parted. Governor Francisco de Tavola personally sent Moreel and his party to the dock, and ordered his Indians to deliver the goods purchased by the easterners to the dock for free, which was very polite. In gratitude for their kindness, Colonel Moree, after a moment of thought, decided to give the Portuguese sixty brand-new spare rifles (Type 32-C), ten pistols, and some ammunition from the ship's storehouse, as a thank you for their help during this time.

After doing this, the people on the east coast boarded the battleship "Fubo Wanli", and slowly left the port of Goa with the cargo and the agreement to complete the exchange, and headed south along the coast of India. Because of the seasonal winds and ocean currents, they probably couldn't return to New Huaxia Island by the same route, so they could only go south to the East Indies first, and then draw a large arc back to the Dofan Port Naval Base. As for whether this move will be discovered by the Dutch, and what troubles it will cause after it is discovered, it is not up to the East Coast people to control.

Before the "Fubo Wanli" left, more personnel had already been stationed on the island of Diu. They were to build a trading post/fort on a piece of land that the Portuguese had demarcated – for a fee, of course, but with plenty of berths and plenty of water depth, and generally quite good. Some of the funds needed for the construction had been set aside, the Portuguese had agreed to help with the shortfalls, and the building materials were all purchased from the Brahmin merchants, and the personnel were hired from them in order to save as much as possible - you know, even the cost of using the machinery was much higher than the cost of using the low-caste Indians, so what was there to hesitate about?

On September 10, 1681, not long after the departure of the easterners, Balthazar Burt, who was inspecting the troops at Galle Fort on the southern tip of Ceylon, suddenly received news from Indian merchants who had come to trade with him, and that the easterners had arrived on the island of Diu about three months earlier, and had a secret conversation with the Portuguese governor Tavola. Later, the Arab merchants, who had never had a good relationship with the Portuguese, found that the easterners had begun to recruit men, procure building materials, and build castles, as if they were intending to stay on the island of Diu for a long time, so they took advantage of the opportunity to trade in the East, and informed the Dutch East India Company when they passed through Galle Fort.

Most of the businessmen were Moors who were dissatisfied with what the Portuguese had done in the Rajput region, but they had good relations with the more religiously tolerant Dutch, and business was booming. Correspondingly, the Dutch shared information with them on many occasions, and the arrival of the East Coasters on the island of Diu and the beginning of construction were soon informed by them of the Dutch East India Company. Of course, even if they didn't come to snitch, this kind of thing would not have been hidden for long, and the Dutch would have gotten the news a few months later at most, and it would have little impact.

And when Balthazar Bert got the news, his first reaction was that this was the revenge of the Portuguese for the loss of Ceylon! Recently, the belligerent Balthazar Burt had just gathered a fairly large army to attack the British-controlled port of Trincomalee by sea.

The British East India Company, the Portuguese colony of Goa (who also sent ships to help in the battle), and the native kingdoms with which they cooperated, were on the one hand, and the German mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company and the numerous Malay soldiers attached to them were on the other. The outcome of the battle was commensurate with the present situation, with the Dutch East India Company winning a resounding victory, and the English losing the somewhat nodding port of Trincomalee and being driven away from Ceylon in disgrace.

Now on the island, the Dutch are the only opponents left with the already battered native kingdom, and it is believed that it is only a matter of time before they are completely eliminated and the whole island is controlled. Having achieved such a great victory, General Bert was quite proud, feeling that the interests of the Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean should be guaranteed, and there should be no challenger in the next ten years. But the result? Early this morning, he heard the news of the brazen entry of the people from the East Coast into India, which made him sadder than if he had suffered a defeat.

This was not unfounded, in fact the landmark event meant that the Dutch East India Company faced a new rival in the Indian subcontinent and the East Indies. Moreover, this adversary was not as weak as Portugal and England, but they had mature colonies in the western Indian Ocean and could strongly support their expansion in India, just as the Dutch East India Company, which had a solid colony in the East Indies.

Balthazar Burt was also an old man who had been in the Indian Ocean for many years, and knowing that the situation was a little delicate, he had no intention of ignoring the news. So he immediately returned to his bedroom, picked up a pen and paper, and began to write to the Batavians, asking them to change their tactics at once and stop the ridiculous policy of appeasement against the East Bankers. The idea that you were tied up because they were afraid that the East Coasters would block the trade routes of the Dutch East India Company now proved to be extremely incorrect, because if you give face to the East Coasters, but the East Coasters don't give you face, then what is there to hesitate about?

Balthazar Burt even emphasized that in recent years, the people of the East Coast have supported the Zheng clan of Fujian, either explicitly or covertly, so that they have caused the East India Company a lot of trouble in the affairs of Formosa Island, and because of the increasing number of immigrants, it has become a major threat to the East India Company's control of this key island.

"Look at the large warships that the people of the east coast built for the navy of the king of Fujian, they will only be our enemies!" Balthazar Bert concludes: "We should give a clear response to the people on the East Coast, and I think the launch of the operation on Formosa is a good starting point. ”

After writing the letter, Bert thought for a moment and ordered his attendants to take it to the docks, intending to take it with a ship that was about to depart for Batavia. As for himself, he pondered how to make trouble for the Portuguese in the Indian subcontinent, and by the way, to intimidate the people of the East Coast from freely challenging the interests of the East India Company.