Will Chongzhen agree to the harsh conditions proposed by the Dutch East India Company?

There is no doubt about this, Chongzhen will never agree, because the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty:

No harmony, no compensation, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies!

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty since Taizu and Chengzu are indeed inferior to one generation after another, there are incompetent, fun-loving, absurd, and all kinds of wonderful, including Chongzhen also has a suspicious nature, but they don't have a soft bone.

No matter how badly they were beaten, no matter how critical the situation was, they would never exchange women for peace, never cede land for reparations, and never pay tribute!

A detailed count of the 5,000-year history of China shows that the Ming Dynasty was the only dynasty that did not sign unequal treaties with any hostile forces, and it was also the only dynasty that did not submit to any hostile forces.

Even if the emperor was captured, even if he was martyred, they would never admit defeat.

Yingzong was captured by the tile thorn and immediately replaced by Daizong;

Shaowu was captured by Mites Qing and committed suicide directly on a hunger strike;

Chongzhen was martyred by hanging, Longwu died on the battlefield, even if he died, he would never give in, an East India Company wanted the Ming indemnity, they were afraid that they would think too much.

Zhang Bin didn't change a word, and directly wrote the conditions of the East India Company on the fold, and sent it to Chongzhen urgently for eight hundred miles, he knew that Chongzhen was definitely one word: do it with them.

It is absolutely necessary to do it, but the process of doing it is probably not so simple, the East India Company is a model of unscrupulous means to achieve the end, pirates and plunder, they are afraid that they will play again.

For this reason, Zhang Bin specially asked Zheng Zhilong to arrange a fleet to escort merchant ships, and at the same time, he also wrote a letter to Wang Chengen, asking him to cooperate.

In the afternoon of the same day, before the time, Wang Chengen inspected the silver treasury in the Yamen of the Bosi of Yuegang City, and returned to his study, put on the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and practiced the words seriously.

This practice is an afternoon, not because he wants to be passive and slack off, but because he has nothing to do.

After the development of Yuegang, the business of the Yamen of the City Shipping Division is indeed very busy, but the two deputy promotions are the household officials arranged by the emperor for him, and he does not have to take care of the affairs in the yamen such as issuing Kanhe, receiving tax silver, accounting accounts, etc., and the only official is also the official arranged by Zhang Bin for him.

Seeing that the time was approaching, Wang Chengen was about to pack up and go back to the backyard for dinner, when Song Yingsheng, the official, suddenly walked in respectfully with an envelope, and arched his hand: "My lord, the governor just had a letter delivered to the dock, and his subordinates brought it back to you just when he turned around." ”

This Song Yingsheng is Song Yingxing's brother, the two brothers have repeatedly participated in the examination over the years, but they have not been nominated for the gold list, and gradually gave up the idea of continuing to take the imperial examination.

Zhang Bin did not hesitate to arrange for him to be a city officer, he was a little unhappy at first, because he was also a lifter, his younger brother was a Fujian capital division experience, and he was an official of the sixth grade, but he was given a official from the ninth grade!

However, he had only been working for a day, and he immediately liked the position, because this official did so hard.

It's not that he is still like Qiu Shiyi, the first bully in Hong Kong that month, all day long, he takes his little brother to eat and drink, bully men and women, and do a good job.

He took the officials of the city to count the goods every day, collect taxes and silver, and did a good job.

This work is really hard, not to mention the many servants under him, Yulu is also very high, and the city department is very hard to collect money, Zhang Bin and Wang Chengen naturally will not treat him badly, just set up a name, he is higher than Song Yingxing.

More importantly, he is also very respected, those merchants still wanted to stuff him with money at the beginning, and then saw that he neither accepted bribes, nor deliberately stuck goods, was serious and responsible, and the efficiency was very high, so he naturally revered him abnormally, and his name as Lord Song also spread throughout the two provinces in the south of the Yangtze River with the merchants of the major merchants.

Isn't being an official just trying to gain fame and fortune, some people are pursuing abnormal fame and fortune when they become officials, but Song Yingsheng is pursuing normal fame and fortune, and now it can be said that fame and fortune are both gained, and he naturally does a very good job.

In fact, he still doesn't understand Zhang Bin's hard work, Wang Chengen will be in charge of Dongchang and Jinyi Wei in the future, and he has worked under him on an errand and errand, this experience is enough for him to be of infinite use in the future!

Wang Chengen also knew that Song Yingsheng had the relationship between Song Yingxing and Zhang Bin, and he was quite effective in his work, so he was also quite kind to Song Yingsheng.

As soon as he heard that it was Zhang Bin's letter, he immediately stood up and took the envelope, opened it and read it carefully, and then said to Song Yingsheng: "Yuan Kong, you haven't eaten yet, go and drink two drinks with me, it just so happens that the governor has to discuss with you about the matter." ”

With that, he cleaned up a little, and then raised his feet and walked out.

Song Yingsheng didn't squirm, and walked directly behind him to the backyard.

It turned out that Zhang Bin wanted the city to notify all the merchants to try to arrange ships to go to sea on the first day of each month, the sea route to Nanyang has not been smooth recently, and there may be pirates to rob, and the Fujian Navy Division will organize warships to escort all merchant ships to Nanyang on the first day of each month, so that it will be much safer.

This matter is really only Song Yingsheng is the most suitable to do, because all merchant ships must go through his inspection if they want to go to sea, and he did not issue a certificate to release them.

So, from the next day, when he inspected the cargo of merchant ships, he always persuaded the merchants to wait until the first day of the new year before going to sea.

As soon as these merchants heard that there were pirates on the way to Nanyang, they naturally did not dare to go to sea alone, and it was not a big deal to delay the delivery of goods for ten days and half a month.

In this way, all the merchant ships in Yuegang did not rush to sea, but waited until the first day of each month, when the fleet of the Fujian Navy Division came, and then gathered together, followed the fleet of the Navy Division, and went to the South Sea together.

Not to mention, the Dutch really did what Zhang Bin thought, and played pirates again.

On the third day of the second lunar month, Zheng Zhibao was leading more than 100 warships to escort more than 200 merchant ships to the South Seas through the coast of Guangdong.

Zheng Zhibao naturally also understands the flag language, and when he saw the flag on the centipede ship clearly from the telescope, he did not wait for the herald flag bearer on the mast to convey it, so he immediately ordered: "Quickly, notify all the merchant ships behind to turn around and retreat in the direction of Dayuan." Also, let the wheel ship behind hurry to the big man for help. ”

After a burst of flags, all the merchant ships following the fleet of sailors turned around and fled in the direction of Dayuan, and the wheeled steamer behind it turned around even more quickly, rushing straight in the direction of Dayuan, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.

Zheng Zhibao immediately ordered: "Order the twenty Daifuku ships to line up in front, turn their sails, slow down, and prepare to fire, and all the rest of the warships will turn around and follow to protect the merchant ships." ”

There was another flutter of flags, and twenty Daifuku ships lined up in front of them, while the other warships followed the merchant ships and retreated in the direction of Dayuan.

Soon a bunch of dense black dots appeared on the sea in front of the right, Zheng Zhibao raised his binoculars and saw that it was the fleet of pirate Liu Xiang, this guy didn't know whether he had annexed a few small pirates, or grabbed some ships from where, and the number of pirate ships had reached more than two hundred.

Zheng Zhibao looked at the rapidly approaching pirate fleet, and immediately ordered: "Quick, all the Fu Ship warships, the target is directly in front of the pirate ship, bombard five rounds in a row at the fastest speed, and then turn around and retreat." ”

The command flag waved for a while, "boom, boom, boom", and almost instantly, all the Fufu battleships opened fire at the same time, and twenty shells fell in front of the pirate fleet in the blink of an eye.

Although this first round did not hit a pirate ship, the water column stirred up made the pirate ships behind panic, and many pirate ships began to slow down, joking, the Ming army's artillery has such a long range, it is definitely a big guy, if you want to get a cannonball, it is estimated that the ship will be destroyed directly.

The artillery did not stop, and soon there was another roar of "boom, boom, boom", and twenty shells smashed into the pirate fleet again, and this time, finally some of the pirate ships came into range.

"Click", one pirate ship was blasted through, and the other mast was broken.

The artillery of the Ming army was still roaring, and there were constantly pirate ships being shot, and after five rounds, more than ten pirate ships began to sink, and the pirate ships behind had to go around to avoid it, and the entire pirate ship formation was instantly chaotic, and the speed did not start so fast.

After the five rounds of shells were bombarded, there was no need for Zheng Zhibao to order, all the Dafu ships turned around and retreated in the direction of Dayuan, and at this time, the pirate ship at the front was still almost three miles away from them, and the artillery of ordinary pirate ships could not bombard so far at all.

The two fleets chased and fled, and more than 200 pirate ships chased the 20 Dafu ships led by Zheng Zhibao for most of the day, and they were about to catch up with the fully loaded merchant ships.

After all, the merchant ship is full of goods, and it is impossible to run past the empty warships and pirate ships, and in this way, in a few hours, the Dafu ship and the pirate ship led by Zheng Zhibao are afraid that they will catch up with the merchant ships in front.

After chasing for another two hours, the Dafu ships led by Zheng Zhibao caught up with the other warships, and those merchant ships were about to be caught up, but it was almost dark at this time.

Zheng Zhibao looked at the sky, I am afraid that the bright moon is hanging high tonight, and he can also sail quickly at night, like this, these merchant ships will be caught at night, he gritted his teeth and ordered: "All warships, turn around to meet the enemy." ”

A burst of flags flew, and soon, all the warships turned around, looking at the pirate ship less than three miles away, Zheng Zhibao didn't think about it, and directly ordered: "All artillery, five rounds of bombardment in a row, the musketeers are ready to shoot, and the others are ready to engage in gunwales." ”

"Boom boom", the Ming warship fired, "boom boom", and then the pirate ship also fired.

However, the number of pirate ship artillery is obviously not as large as that of the Ming warships, and their loading speed is not enough for the second round of fire, so the pirate ship is dumb after a while, but the Ming army is roaring constantly.

After the five rounds of artillery bombardment, the distance between the two sides was less than a mile, at this time, more than 20 pirate ships were sunk, and many other ships were also damaged, on the other hand, on the side of the Ming army, only more than ten warships were damaged, and none of them were sunk.

Seeing that the distance was less than 100 paces, a group of pirates were already screaming and ready to take overboard, and the dense muskets rang out on the Ming warship.

There was a sudden scream from the pirate ship, and at the same time, they also began to fire arrows, and the two sides went back and forth, shooting happily.

After about a quarter of an hour of firing at each other, the pirate ship that rushed to the front finally met the Ming warship, Zheng Zhibao rushed to the right side of the ship with his personal guards, pulled out his waist knife, and slashed at the pirates who rushed over, and the pirates were immediately turned over by the people he cut off.

The two sides began a fierce white-knuckle battle, and more and more pirate ships squeezed up, seeing that the number was about to exceed Zheng Zhibao's fleet, more than 200 Ming warships suddenly appeared in the direction of Dayuan.

Finally arrived, calculating the time, it should be almost up, because the merchant ship is cumbersome, Zheng Zhibao did not lead the fleet to drive at full speed in the first two days, but cooperated with the speed of the merchant ship to move slowly, so, in the past two days, they did not run too far, and even just arrived in the sea near Qiongzhou Mansion.

In addition, they are desperately retreating in the direction of the big guys, and the distance between them is also shortened by a little half, if the big guys receive a call for help from the wheeled steamer and rush over, it won't take more than a day, but fortunately they arrived in time.

Zheng Zhibao was very happy, but Liu Xiang was so angry that he was spurting blood, and the reinforcements from the Ming Army, which had just begun to receive the Ming Army, had arrived.

Two hundred against two hundred, pirates are not the opponent of the Fujian sailors, not to mention that they are now more than 300 against more than 200 ships, it is impossible to win at all!

Liu Xiang reluctantly ordered a retreat, and the pirates who boarded the Ming warship hurriedly retreated to their ships like a tide, preparing to turn around and escape.

At this time, Zheng Zhibao began to command his subordinates to counterattack the pirate ship and fight with those pirates, and in the end, he only left about thirty pirate ships, and the others ran away.

More than 200 Ming warships caught up with the back, and these more than 30 pirate ships did not last long before they were all captured by the Ming army.

At this time, the pirates had already run away, and it was pointless to catch up, and finally Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao, who came to support, discussed, and simply let Zheng Zhihu lead two hundred warships to support and escort all the merchant ships to continue to the South Seas, while Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhibao took the captured pirate ship together and rushed back to the staff to repair.

This time, Liu Xiang can be said to steal chickens and rice, he had already inquired clearly, knowing that there were 100 Ming warships escorting, and his side would win, but he never thought that these guys not only fled back when they saw him, but also had the Ming army fleet to come to support!

Fortunately, Zhang Bin figured out the shameless vices of the East India Company, and knew that these guys would play pirate robbery again, so he made careful arrangements, if he hadn't arranged for the sailor fleet to escort him, I am afraid that many merchant ships would have been looted this time.