The sun is high, the gilt is like fire, and in the blink of an eye, it is summer, and Dongfan is like being thrown into a steamer, and the heat is unbearable.

At this time, the station of the east right guard is also very hot.

This heat is not only the hot weather, but the atmosphere of the entire Dongfan Right Guard is even hotter.

At this time, the school yards of the various houses were piled up with all kinds of goods, including rice, sugar, spices, pepper, and so on.

During this time, the training content of the Dongfan Right Guard soldiers has also changed, no longer running circles, and no longer practicing formations, because there is no place at all, they can only use the goods piled up on the school field to practice, simply put, carrying sacks and carrying goods.

They carried bags of goods off the merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company, piled them on one side of the school yard, and then carried the goods on the other side of the school yard onto the merchant ships of the East Sho Hall and placed them neatly in the warehouse.

Why did they carry these goods from the ships of the docks to the city and from the cities to the ships of the docks?

It's very simple, because they have to change the packaging, to be precise, Dongshengtang has to change the packaging.

These goods were robbed by the Dutch East India Company, and if they were transported to Dongying for sale in their original packaging, people could see at a glance that this was pirate's stolen goods, and it would definitely not work to blatantly sell pirate stolen goods, so they had to replace all the packaging with Dongshengtang's packaging before shipping them to Dongying for sale, so that they would not be suspected.

At this time, on a school field near the port of Nanchengmen, everyone was busy, a bucket of rice was packed into a sack printed with the words of Dongshengtang, the bookkeeper was crackling on the side to count the numbers, and the soldiers of the right guard of Dongfan were there to quickly divide the packing, and the commander Gan Hui accompanied the Dongshengtang shopkeeper Zhang San all the way over, checking the progress everywhere, and the expression was extremely flattering.

This Zhang San's three is not Zhang San and Li Si's three, but the three of the three armies of Yongguan, this Zhang San is not an ordinary Zhang San, he is the governor's own brother!

After looking around, Gan Hui smiled and said, "Big shopkeeper, how do you see the progress?" ”

Zhang San hesitated for a moment, and then said embarrassedly: "Everyone has worked hard, working under the sun on this hot day, I really don't want to go." ”

Gan Hui pretended to be serious and said: "Don't think like this, the big shopkeeper must not think like this, they are also a kind of exercise, and the war can be fought regardless of whether the weather is sunny or rainy, is it not the day when the sun is big?" This is certainly impossible, so it is also beneficial for them to exercise under the sun, at least fighting on a hot day will not cause a serious drop in combat power due to inability to adapt. ”

This truth, a set of sets, is the same as the truth, in fact, it is a sycophant.

Zhang San coughed dryly, and said embarrassedly: "In this way, then don't recruit some people over, I'll pay for it, how about a bag of silver for them?" ”

Gan Hui hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Eh, big shopkeeper, don't you dare to do this, how can I collect your money, what do you mean, the progress is not fast enough, right?" ”

Zhang San nodded and said: "Yes, these things of the Dutch were originally urgently needed by Dongying, at this time, the Dutch have nothing to buy, and our supply is not enough, and the things in the shops over there are about to be snapped up, so I want to trouble the commander, recruit more people to come over, hurry up and load, I can pull it to Dongying to sell." ”

Gan Hui hurriedly nodded and said, "No problem, no problem, I'll immediately recruit the guards and let them also come to practice basking in the sun!" ”

At this time, Zhang Bin was almost smiling from ear to ear, although the cost price of the Dutch's two batches of lives added up to less than two million, they could be sold for four or five million when sold to Dongying, and these four or five million were equal to making money for nothing, because these things were all robbed, and they didn't pay a penny at all.

Zhang Bin couldn't help but sigh, it's still a quick way to grab money, no wonder the East India Company wants to cultivate pirates, monopolizing trade is one thing, on the other hand, why don't they rob things.

At this time, he is also like Chongzhen, quite short of money.

The two million taels of military funds raised at the beginning have long been spent, and for this reason, he "disbanded" all the troops assembled in Yuegang, because the imperial court will not give food and salary, if he always lets himself pay money, he will naturally have no opinion, but others will be suspicious, where did this guy get so much money from a governor!

Later, the silver copied from Gao Cai and a few pirates was about the same, because Dongfan was engaged in construction everywhere, and not only could not make money at this time, but also had to keep putting money into it.

Now he only has more than two million taels left from the castle of Geranza, and there were originally more than three million taels in it, but he gave Chongzhen one million taels of filial piety, and as a result, there were more than two million taels left, how long this money can be used, he can't guarantee whether it can last until Dongfan generates profits.

At this time, Dongshengtang is also very nervous, because Dongshengtang is expanding wildly, and almost all the money accumulated in the original has been smashed into it, and the benefits in the future are naturally amazing, but there are not many benefits at this time, and there are even some places where they are losing money and making money.

These four or five million taels came in time, Zhang Bin believes that with these four or five million taels, whether it is Dongshengtang or Dongfan, it will be able to survive until the time of the bumper harvest.

It's still a quick grab, and at this time he hopes that the Dutch East India Company will continue to send merchant ships to deliver food.

Spex is not a fool, and he will naturally not send merchant ships to deliver food until the problem is solved, he will send a naval captain.

At this time, Batavia may have many naval captains, and the people in charge of each stronghold are basically naval captains, and even the people who came to warn and threaten Zhang Bin were also naval captains.

On this day, Zhang Bin was facing the map and thinking about how to resist the retaliation of the Dutch East India Company, when Zhao Ru, who was on duty, suddenly said loudly outside: "My lord, the East India Company has sent an envoy to negotiate. ”

This East India Company, how does it always like to send envoys, Zhang Bin shook his head, stood up, and walked towards the lobby.

This time it was Captain Pettmans, who was not the kind of captain who was in charge of the stronghold outside, but a captain who actually served on a naval superbattleship.

The super battleship is the overlord of the sea at this time, almost invincible, so he is quite confident and quite arrogant, in his eyes, all the natives are garbage, and they are vulnerable at all!

At this moment, he was looking at the beam of the lobby with his negative hands, his nostrils almost went to the sky, and he didn't bother to look at the officials on both sides, and even when Zhang Bin came in, he didn't bother to bow his head, so he pointed his nostrils at Zhang Bin!

This guy is sick, Zhang Bin directly picked up the startling wood and slapped it, and shouted: "What did Spex send you to do, to show the official your dirty nostrils?" ”

Putmans was startled, and then he was humiliated by Zhang Bin, and he suddenly became angry and said, "Aren't you all polite? ”

Zhang Bin snorted coldly: "No matter how polite we are, we won't put our nostrils at others." ”

Putmans also snorted coldly: "I heard that you are very arrogant, and you really live up to your reputation. ”

This guy has a sick brain, who is arrogant at this time!

Zhang Bin couldn't help but pick up the startling wood and slapped it again, and then said coldly: "If you have something to say, just say it, let it go if you have a fart, otherwise you will get out." ”

Putmans almost choked to death by this sentence, these natives were really rude, forget it, he didn't bother to be polite to them, he directly put on a straight face, and said coldly: "You have robbed our merchant ships by pretending to be pirates, Your Excellency the Governor is quite angry at your despicable behavior, he asked me to warn you, return all our merchant ships and goods immediately, and release the employees of our East India Company immediately, otherwise you will be unkind to you." ”

What kind of logic is this, you can train pirates to rob others, and it's not right for me to let people pretend to be pirates to rob your merchant ships!

The great powers are speechless, they can break the rules, but if you break the rules they have made, they will immediately accuse you of breaking the rules and even clean you up!

In short, if he beats you, you can't fight back, and as soon as you fight back, you will take the initiative to provoke trouble, and they will condemn you, abuse you, or even kill you directly.

The great powers were not only like this in the Ming Dynasty, they were all this virtue at all times.

I can't bear it, I don't need to endure it anymore, just start fighting, who is afraid of whom, Zhang Bin also had a straight face, and said coldly: "You go back and tell your Excellency the Governor that this official is very angry at his despicable behavior of sending pirate Liu Xiang to plunder the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, and this official warns you not to be arrogant in the territorial waters of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the official will clean you up." Also, you go back and tell Spex, hit it, come when you have a kind, don't threaten this threat that you can all day long, and don't be blind if you can do it. ”

After speaking, he didn't care whether the translator understood it or not, and waved his hand directly: "Get out." ”

This is said to be happy, but you can't just patronize it, and you don't care about anything else.

Zhang Bin still knows the strength of the East India Company very well, just those forty super battleships can make themselves suffer heavy losses, if they are really desperate and attack with their nests, I am afraid that the entire Fujian Navy Division will be wiped out!

However, he has another killer feature, that is, a fortress, a fortress is at least ten super battleships, if you rely on the fortress for defense, forty super battleships are not so terrible.

Now that the castle has been built, the artillery is also fully equipped, and the remaining central left guard and Penghu fortress are almost built, but the number of artillery is a bit insufficient.

Originally, Zhang Bin also wanted to take the guns on the captured Dutch armed merchant ships to be recast, after all, the front-loading test artillery was not as convenient as the rear-loading artillery, and the rate of fire was also much worse.

However, at this time, he couldn't manage so much, because the Yuegang Cannon Foundry didn't have time to cast so many thousand-pound cannons, so he simply asked the Dutch artillery to be dismantled to the central left guard and the Penghu fortress to be used as shore defense artillery, and the fifty or so merchant ships were only equipped with a thousand-pound Franc machine, so in fact, the impact of combat power was not very great.

Zhang Bin is actively preparing for the battle here, what about Spex's side, will he immediately come to attack Zhang Bin with all his might?

After Putmans returned, he repeated Zhang Bin's words with added vinegar, but Spex hesitated.

The great powers still have a problem, that is, they bully the weak and fear the hard.

If you shake when he yells, and you shrink as soon as he enters, then they will definitely bully you to death.

However, if he yells, you yell back, and as soon as he enters, you go straight up, they will carefully consider whether to fight with you!

This is the bandit logic of the great powers, the weak, no matter how you retreat and beg for mercy, they will not let you go; Strong, even if you beat him, he still has to think about whether he will be beaten worse by you when he fights back!

At this moment, Spex began to think carefully, why is this southeastern governor of the Ming Empire so confident?

People are definitely not pretending to have confidence, because the Ming Empire has already defeated the East India Company twice, just fight, he doesn't need to pretend.

Thinking of this, Spex actually gave up the plan to do it immediately, and instead sent a sailboat to inform Liu Xiang and asked him to inquire about what confidence the southeastern governor had.

Liu Xiang has been operating in the coastal area of Fujian for many years, so naturally there will be internal response, he sent someone to notify the internal should be checked, and it was immediately found out, it turned out that Zhang Bin's confidence was the fortress, and he built a three-story fortress about the same size as the castle of Relancha in Penghu and Zhongzuo!

In other words, whether you want to attack the big man, attack Yuegang, or even attack Penghu, you have to face a fortress.

When Spex received the news, he didn't dare to do anything, he was quite aware of the terrifying defense of the fortress, even if a fortress didn't have any battleship support, ten super battleships might not be able to take it down, and if there was a battleship support, it would be even more terrible, twenty super battleships, thirty super battleships, and forty super battleships might not be able to take it down!

This mainly depends on the number of warships of the other side, they have already analyzed the strength of the warships under the governor of the southeast, and come to the conclusion that to defeat his fleet, it is necessary to go all out, and it is possible to have forty super battleships.

Now, with the addition of three bastions, forty super battleships may not necessarily win even if they are all on board!

Knowing that he can't win the battle, he has to come hard, that is, there is a problem, Spex has no problem, so he immediately wrote a letter to send people back to the European mainland, asking for support, what he meant, at least twenty more super battleships must be added to completely defeat the southeastern governor of the Ming Empire, if you want to defeat the entire Ming Empire, then at least forty super battleships must be added.

Zhang Bin naturally didn't know Spex's thoughts, he could only hurry up and prepare for the war, and try his best to protect the front line of Yuegang, Penghu and Dayuan, as for the counterattack on Batavia, he really didn't dare to think at this time, with these humble warships under his command that were not even as good as other people's armed merchant ships, running out and fighting other people's super battleships was tough, that was looking for death!

The only thing he can do now is to defend, to defend Yuegang, Penghu and Dayuan, and consume the strength of the Dutch.

Zhang Bin also knows that their biggest weakness is that they can't afford to consume, because there are only a million people in the entire Netherlands at this time, and the East India Company can pull out 100,000 people, 100,000 people, not to mention the entire Ming Dynasty, even if it is compared with the current Fujian and Dongfan, it is not worth it.

Spex wrote a letter asking for support from the European mainland, and the south fell into calm again, Zhang Bin waited left and right, but did not see the Dutch do it, and the same was true in the north, and the left and right did not see Huang Taiji do it.

So, whether the Dutch made the first move or Huang Taiji did it first, this chapter is over, and see the next chapter breakdown.