In the Strait of Malacca, the Governor's Palace of Malacca City, which is the new Viceroyalty of the Netherlands, the Governor's Mansion of Batavia has been captured by the Chinese army, and they can only retreat here, which is the last colony of the Netherlands in the Indian Ocean and Asia.

Today, the port is full of warships, from the Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, British, as well as the French, Swedes, Italians and other warships and armed merchant ships come here, today they want to discuss an expedition to the Huaxia Kingdom, due to the rise of the Huaxia Kingdom, and the isolation of the country, their trade has plummeted, and now it is less than 25% of the past.

At present, they only have a small amount of goods from the Huaxia Kingdom, and they are all collected from the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the high price is not something they can afford, at such a price, they bring back to the West only twice the price, which is equivalent to making them a decent and docile merchant from huge profits, how can this work? How can they sustain their huge business empire without 100% windfall profits.

They buy spices from India and sell them to the West, in fact, the West is not the main consumer of spices, the profits are not so high, the original Ming Dynasty of spices in this era is the main consumption place, there are many people, the market is broad, even if they make double the profits, and then replace them with ceramics, tea, silk, back to the West they can earn thirty or fifty times the profits, run once a year, it is enough for the company's expenses for a year, and make a lot of profits, if there are many ships, it may make several times the profits, the company has now lost money again and again, Many shareholders have clamored for the revocation of their shares, but the company has not been able to lose its share capital.

The Huaxia army also occupied the island of Japan, renamed Penglai Island, and the gold and silver of Japan were also needed by them, and brought back to the West for their parliament and the king to recruit soldiers, build ships, and pay for the luxurious life of the royal family.

Now that all of this is cut off, they simply cannot maintain the daily expenses of the East India Company by reselling some materials and commodities in Luzon and the new Lu country, Australia, and India, such a low-profit business.

To this end, they united the British and the Spaniards, and the three countries jointly submitted a request for war to their own emperors, parliament, hoping that the kingdom would send troops to support them, and at the end of last year, the war between the British and the Dutch had just ended, and the two sides concluded an armistice, and the two countries, which had fought for decades, were in great need of foreign markets to replenish their domestic consumption of materials, and to solve their domestic surplus weapons and equipment, as well as the surplus troops that were called up by the war, otherwise the military expenditure alone was a large expense, and it was disbanded, These people were either going to be pirates, or to make trouble, or to lose their jobs and increase their burdens, and the East India Company's request for war allowed the two countries to find a good solution to the problem of these goods and the placement of soldiers, so that they could continue to fight.

In Spain, because of the luxurious life of the king, the entire royal family and the kingdom are in debt, this year to borrow new debts, pay off the debts of previous years, and then borrow a sum for expenses, most of the income of the East India Company went into the royal family to repay the debts, can only repay the interest, and then use this money as a guarantee credit, continue to borrow, the royal family's arrears can not be paid off even if it is eight hundred years.

In such a situation, how can you let them endure their only source of income being cut off, which is absolutely not allowed, so the Spaniards were the most active, mobilized ten first-class battleships, twenty second-class battleships, fifty third-class battleships, one hundred fourth-class battleships, and two hundred fifth- and sixth-class battleships, transported 30,000 soldiers and horses, and began to set off on an expedition to the Kingdom of China.

This was planned in the first half of 1674, and the second half of the year was already underway, and it was only a few months away.

The British also sent the same number of warships, and also had some additional allies, they co-opted Italians, French, Swedes, and even Poles to come to the Far East, these people had a total of nearly 100 warships, nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the British also sent 20,000 soldiers and horses, with a total strength of more than 40,000 people.

Generally speaking, it is absolutely impossible for Westerners to go on an expedition to the Kingdom of China, and the losses caused by the supply and sea voyage risks caused by maintaining such a large fleet for a year can make them desperate, but in the face of the huge profits of the Far East, they are desperate, hoping to conquer this huge kingdom in Asia, in fact, they don't know that Zhang Qiang is no longer the king, and Huaxia is no longer a kingdom, such a large territory, and it is still expanding, Zhang Qiang has already proclaimed himself the Chinese Empire, the emperor of the Chinese Empire.

Compared with the Dutch and the Spaniards, the British are more concerned, they pay more attention to how to get benefits from the Chinese Kingdom, the previous Chinese Kingdom is more advanced than them, they have brought back to the country, now the British have been able to manufacture the Chinese Kingdom of the continuous guns, breeched guns, rifled guns These guns and ammunition, and have made some progress, this time the battleships and soldiers and horses have been reequipped with these advanced cannons and guns that appeared in the Chinese Kingdom, and even the warships, the British have learned from the Chinese Kingdom to install iron plates and copper plates on the warships, It was made into an iron-clad battleship.

The British are full of confidence this time, they are not short of soldiers, India can catch at will, there is no need to catch those Indian Aborigines who are more like cattle than the Nanyang natives, although they are not smart, but they are more obedient, they are good materials for soldiers, and they are much faster and more experienced than the Nanyang natives.

The new governor's palace of the Dutch was full of white-skinned, high-nosed, blonde Westerners, dressed in various costumes, each more noble than the other, and each more fetish, because it contained the admirals and army generals of various countries who had arrived by clipper ship before.

Already the British governor, the Dutch governor, the Spanish governor, the three governors of the colonies in the Far East and Asia, not to mention the Portuguese, their governors have long died in the hard labor camps of the Chinese Kingdom.

In retaliation, this time the Portuguese specially sent fifty capital warships, five thousand regular troops, royal cavalry, royal musketeers, artillerymen, and royal guards.

British Governor Inspector Les walked to Gerard Peak, the new governor of Spain, which governor spent money to go back, this governor was sent, not he wanted to come, the original governor of Luzon was a position that everyone who wanted to be a governor must grab, now no one in Spain wants to come here, war, war, or war, there is no hope of making money, in the past, I could make a sum of money after leaving office, now let alone leaving office, I can live and persist until I leave peacefully is happy.

Every day, in addition to the port and the castle of the governor's palace, as well as the limited activity territory in the city, the outside was occupied by the natives and the Han people, not on the surface, but constantly attacked, Zheng Zhi knew that he was inferior to the Spaniards in terms of the quality of soldiers and weapons and equipment, and never confronted them head-on, and had to show his strength to fight against the Spaniards in order to protect the Nanyang merchants.

(End of chapter)