Yan Siqi, Zheng Zhilong and a group of people, when Hongmen was not strong, fought with Hongmen for the right to rule Dayuan Island, in the history of Li Tianyang did not cross over, they also left a far-reaching mark in the history of this world, which is well known to future generations.

However, because of the influence of Li Tianyang, a butterfly that crossed over, the former king of Kaitai and the last sea lord of the Ming Dynasty eventually became a stepping stone on the peak of Hongmen's climbing, drowning in a corner that no one knew.

Since being defeated by Hongtang's army, Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong and their group have been heading west, looking for a place to stay.

Originally, in the Luzon Islands, Yan Siqi and their father, like Li Tianyang and other fathers Li De, ran another business, but as Li Tianyang went south to inherit his father's business, he successively defeated his younger brother and the Spanish army that controlled the Luzon Islands at that time.

Zheng Zhilong inherited the foundation of Li Dan, the sea lord of the Japanese Kingdom, and the strength accumulated by Yan Siqi through years of development has been exhausted in this journey, and finally followed them to the Chengguan District of Jawa, but it was only in his early 4000s.

More than half of them are the families of the warriors who followed Zheng Zhilong and them, so the force that can really be used by Zheng Zhilong and Yan Siqi is only two thousand.

In the surrounding waters when Hongmen had not yet risen in the Ming Dynasty, Yan Zhengzhi's strength at this time was just a group of large-scale pirates.

After years of wandering, coupled with the risks encountered at sea all the time, Yan Siqi and the group of righteous brothers who followed him back then, finally survived until now, and only two or three people remained, and even Yan Siqi himself contracted malaria and died not long after arriving in Java.

Among them, Zheng Zhilong finally became the actual controller of this team because of his heavy troops, and the miserable white that knocked him directly from the height to the bottom was deeply engraved in his heart, and it has long become an indelible obstacle in Zheng Zhilong's heart.

Deeply affected by the demon barrier, without the restraint and guidance of Yan Siqi, the big brother, Zheng Zhilong, who regained power, began to rush again for revenge.

Zheng Zhilong knew very well that it was almost impossible to defeat the rising Hongmen with his own strength, and his previous last effort in Luzon confirmed Zheng Zhilong's idea. Only by uniting the powerful fleet of Westerners, Zheng Zhilong and them will have the possibility to regain what they have lost.

Although the Spanish fleet failed, but in Zheng Zhilong's opinion, although it was defeated, the Spanish fleet with only more than ten warships made the Hongtang fleet pay a heavy price, if the Spanish fleet at that time was a little stronger, maybe the situation would not be the way it is now.

Zheng Zhilong, who had long lost confidence in the eastern forces, finally pinned Jiang's hopes on Westerners in this era of discovery, where science and technology were changing with each passing day. Looking at the four fields, the Westerner forces that can still gain a foothold in East Asia, except for the Xiangshanao Portuguese who rely on the people's nose, are only the colonists here in Java - the Dutch colonists.

The matter of returning to the Netherlands is effortless, don't forget that Zheng Zhilong's former identity has also traded with the Dutch and the Spaniards, and he also has his own channels in the Netherlands, and now the strength in his hands is not really too down, it is not difficult to attract the attention of Dandel, the governor of the Netherlands.

With the rise of the Hongmen in the eastern seas, the Spaniards and the Dutch suffered great losses in the hands of the Hongtang fleet, and the losses were innumerable.

More importantly, the colonial structure of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was different from that of other maritime kingdoms, and although the current Governor of Dandel was officially canonized as a kingdom, he was also the supreme head of the Dutch East India Company in the Far East, and he was tasked with agitating for the company to make greater profits.

The rise of Hongmen has completely controlled the largest consumer group and the largest production area of luxury goods in this era, and the trade of Dutch merchants has been greatly curbed.

Originally, although there were Spaniards, British, Portuguese and Dutch people competing for interests, but there was not much difference in strength in the Far East, and under the final distribution of benefits, the Dutch merchants did not suffer any losses.

However, after the rise of Hongtang, the Ming Dynasty, the most powerful and wealthy country in the East, was firmly in his hands. Of course, they did not cut off the window of trade between Westerners and Easterners, but if Westerners wanted to trade from the East, they had to go through Hongmen Jilong Port and then carry out it under their strict supervision and control.

In the meantime, a cargo ship has to pay protection fees, commercial taxes, etc., and must promise not to sell firearms to other groups, so that the income of Westerners will be reduced by at least 20%.

We may be able to tolerate the loss of interests once or twice, but after a long time, Westerners will inevitably have some resentment and dissatisfaction.

And if you want to get your interests back on track, in addition to trying to reduce costs and increase profits, there is also a bold way, that is, to overthrow Hongmen's dominance in Nanyang.

It seems like an incredible idea, but what lies in it is boundless interests and long-term development.

Hongmen paid attention to the development of science and technology, and their hands on Chinese firearms, steam engines and other new products had already brought a great impact on the Westerners who regarded themselves very highly, and at the same time gave them a great sense of crisis.

The development of Westerners has always been bloody, and the accumulation of capital generated by the West is coming from the demise of countless indigenous tribes in Africa and the Americas, and the rich treasures of these colonies are forged with bloody corpses.

It is precisely because they know that everything they have now is not easy to come by, so the night is more and more important in this era, and it is likely that the main palace will threaten them, and other existences will appear and rise.

There is already a gradually rising, developing, and civilized Europe, so there should not be and is no need for an Eastern civilization to compete with them Westerners for benefits!

Perhaps on the European side, everyone fought fiercely because of the conflict of interests, but in the waters of the South Seas in the East, the bonds built by the same blood culture made them more willing to unite with each other to fight against the Hongmen, who were increasingly giving them strong pressure.

Since the west of Luzon, Westerners have gradually begun to abandon confrontation and competition with each other, and have begun to cooperate for win-win results, and the struggles between Westerners in Java, India, and Africa have gradually decreased, and more of a tacit relationship has begun to form between multiple parties, at least not as frequently as before.

However, it was the Hongmen in the Far East that brought about these changes in the Far East, which was established less than thirty or forty years ago.

Even if the Westerners began to secretly join forces and cooperate, but if they want to have a local Hongmen confrontation, it is not an easy thing to do at night, in the past, Westerners could open the door of a continent and a country with strong ships and artillery, but now in the face of the same strong ships and artillery, and even in firearms and technology has faintly begun to surpass the Westerners Hongmen, they have to admit gloomily that the strength of one side alone is no longer enough to compete with Hongmen.

Therefore, the visionary leaders of the West, while uniting with each other, began to gather and use the countless resources and groups available to them.

In this context, the Wyvern Gang led by Zheng Zhilong soon gained the support of Dandel, the governor of the Netherlands, and with Dandel's help, the Wyvern Gang, which had suffered heavy losses in strength, gradually began to recover to its most glorious time, and even surpassed.

With the Hongmen breaking through the blockade of Western-style warships and firearms technology by the Westerners, the imitation Western-style sea ships on the Oriental Ocean are no longer the privilege of Westerners. In this way, Westerners naturally have no need for blockade technology, at least in the Far East, Westerners are no longer so stubborn in their technological clamping.

The opening of warships and firearms technology has made the Flying Dragon Gang, which was greatly influenced by the Hongtang Fleet, walk on the road of imitating the Honghongtang Fleet from the very beginning, making the overall scale of the current Flying Dragon Gang fleet not large, but the overall strength should not be underestimated.

The total size of the fleet of the Flying Dragon Gang has reached more than 40 warships, which does not seem to be much, but all of them are Western-style sea ship systems, although the Clark sail warship is a relatively backward warship of the Westerner warship system, but compared with most of the Oriental sea ship systems in this era, it is still advanced.

At the same time, each battleship carried more than ten guns, the main gun even reached forty-eight pounds, perhaps it could not be compared with the gunfire of the battleships of the Hongtang fleet and the Westerner warships, but among the civil groups, they were completely regarded as the top fleet.

With this powerful fleet, Zheng Zhilong has also been thriving in the Indian Ocean over the years, and his life is very nourishing.

Of course, in exchange for it, it is also a means for Westerners to restrain Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong's gang has not really belonged to them until now, most of the supplies need to be exchanged from the Dutch, and their warrior families are mostly in the Dutch colony in Java, which can be regarded as hostages in disguise.

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