Van Rude looked at Zeng Guangxian a little stupidly: "General Zeng, you are too deceitful to do this, the battleship in the Netherlands cannot be handed over to you, let alone sunk by you." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Then we don't have anything to talk about." Zheng Zhilong sneered, "Give you half an hour, and continue the war after half an hour." ”

"General Zheng." Van Rude's tone softened, "Even if we can withdraw from the city of Geranza, we can't leave without ships, and those two warships still need to be left to us." ”

"It's easy." Zheng Zhilong said with a smile, "I'm not strong, let's exchange, I will exchange ten Daming Fu ships for your two warships, you won't retreat without ships." ”

"General Zheng, this." Van Rude was very embarrassed, but he didn't refuse immediately, "I need to go back and discuss, can General Zheng let us go back to Relansha City first?" ”

Zheng Zhilong did not translate this sentence for Zeng Guangxian, but lowered his head and thought for a while. Zheng Zhilong fell in love with these two Dutch ships, with large tonnage and many guns, although they were not as good as the Pearl in Yulin Bay, they were much stronger than his current warships. The current strength of Yulin Bay should not be under him, if it is really according to Zeng Guangxian's statement, these two Dutch ships are sunk, then Yulin Bay will be dominant.

Although Zeng Guangxian couldn't understand what Fan Rude said, he saw Zheng Zhilong's hesitation, but he didn't want to ask more.

Zheng Zhilong thought for a while, then raised his head and said to Zeng Guangxian: "Brother Zeng, the Dutch people want us to let them go back to Relansha City, and they need to go back to discuss the retreat from Taiwan. ”

Zeng Guangxian guessed what Zheng Zhilong meant, and smiled slightly: "Taiwan is General Zheng's place, and everything depends on the general." ”

"Thank you, Brother Zeng." Zheng Zhilong asked again, "If the Dutch people change their minds and want to rush out of the city with all their might, will Brother Zeng's Pearl be able to stop those two warships of theirs?" ”

"It's no problem to block them, and you can even capture those two warships." Zeng Guangxian asked with a smile, "It's just a general, what if the Dutch turtle retreats into the city of Geranza and doesn't come out." The city of Geranza is high and deep, and it is not very easy to attack. ”

"This great-brother can rest assured." Zheng Zhilong patted his chest, "Sun Tzu's Art of War has a cloud, 'The method of using soldiers, ten will surround it, five will attack it, and the multiple will divide it. Zheng still has tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Jinxia and Taiwan, and even if he can't defeat them, he will surround them. ”

Zeng Guangxian didn't say anything more: "General, please." ”

Van Rude went back in a small boat, and Zheng Zhilong gave him two days, and if there was no result after two days, Zheng Zhilong would attack the city of Geranza with all his might.

When night fell, all the Zheng family fleets and the warships in Yulin Bay were brightly lit, and Zheng Zhilong issued a strict order that the Dutch would never be allowed to escape by nightfall.

Wang Zhaoxing came to the captain's room of the Pearl.

"Lao Wang, how is the battle?"

"Our ship is fine, Zheng Zhilong was sunk by a 30-gunboat, and the personnel were basically rescued. The Dutch sank 2 ships and damaged one, and we captured about a few dozen sailors, all of whom are now on the Qiongzhou. ”

Zeng Guangxian handed a strip of cloth to Wang Zhaoxing: "This is what I am going to send home for the flying pigeon, do you see if there is anything else that needs to be added?" ”

Wang Zhaoxing took it and looked at it: "I don't have anything to add, but there is one thing I don't quite understand, why did Zheng Zhilong put the Dutch back, isn't he afraid that the Dutch will change their minds?" ”

"Zheng Zhilong had long expected that the Dutch would definitely change their minds." Zeng Guangxian said with a smile, "He fell in love with those 2 Dutch warships, Zheng Zhilong didn't want us to sink those 2 warships, he wanted to take them for his own use." ”

"This old fox." Wang Zhaoxing scolded, "Then what should we do, just help him without reservation?" ”

"I'll make the situation clear to my family." Zeng Guangxian explained, "It's not bad to trap the Dutch in the city of Geranza, at least it can relieve a little pressure on the Singapore side, and maybe the Dutch warships in Batavia will come to reinforce it." In that case, we can take out the Dutch here, and maybe Singapore can beat Malacca directly. ”

"But in this case, the fighting in Taiwan will drag on." Wang Zhaoxing suddenly became a little worried, "All the warships in Dengzhou have come to Taiwan, and it is impossible for Tao Min not to know this news." He should have at least three or four warships on the Nanpu side now, and if he attacks Dengzhou at this time, the situation will be very troublesome. ”

"Will Tao Min attack Dengzhou?"

"It's hard to say." Wang Zhaoxing scratched his head, "Tao Min's work has always been unpredictable, even if he can't beat Dengzhou, but if he harasses it, our plan to attack Lushun next year may come to naught, Dengzhou is the base camp of this plan." ”

"But Dengzhou is not so easy to fight, and if Tao Min attacks Dengzhou, it will be clear that he wants to turn his face with us, unless he has to, he should not do this, after all, there is a truce agreement between us." Zeng Guangxian muttered and suddenly slapped his thigh, "Lao Wang, will Tao Min go to Phi Island?" ”

"Tao Min is going to Phi Island?" Wang Zhaoxing suddenly realized, "Guangxian, there is this possibility." If Tao Min takes Phi Island, our Lushun plan will lose a strong assistant, and this is not an illegal armistice. ”

Zeng Guangxian picked up the strip of cloth again, lit it on fire, and burned it: "I have to write a new one and report the situation to my family." ”

Yulin Bay received several messages at the same time, and the two committees held a meeting.

Xia Yang put several aspects of the news in front of the participants: "Everyone, let me talk briefly about it first. Taiwan is now at odds with the Westerners, Zeng Guangxian and Zheng Zhilong are besieging the city of Gelanza, and Zeng is now worried that Tao Min will attack Phi Dao while Dengzhou is empty. Xu Lang also sent a letter from Singapore, and they asked to attack Malacca, because the city defense of Malacca is still relatively empty. Jiang Beiming and Zhang Hai had already returned to Beijing, and Chongzhen promised to train another 20,000 fast gun teams. Jiang Beiming had already told Wang Chengen or Wen Tiren about Gao Qiqian, but neither of them took further action, Jiang Beiming meant that the next step was to go directly to Cao Huachun to see if he could use Cao Huachun's power to hit Gao Qiqian. ”

"Tianyang, I haven't been to the committee much in the past few days, and I'm just taking care of the children at home." Cheng Yiyi said apologetically, "I can't come up with any ideas about these things, but I want to ask how we are collecting taxes on Hainan Island, I think controlling Hainan Island should be the first place." ”

"It's ongoing." Xia Yang said, "I will also tell you that Sun Dalei, Han Wantao and Liu Guannan are reorganizing the tax police, let Wan Tao introduce the specific situation to you." ”

"Okay." Han Wantao nodded, "Ladies and gentlemen, there are three prefectures and thirteen counties in the entire Hainan Island. We have now transferred some people from the army and a group of people from the patrol house, and the entire tax police is about 2,000 people. We plan to send 100 tax police officers to each prefecture and county to set up a tax bureau to start collecting taxes, and the rest will set up a mobile tax police brigade, which will be sent to wherever there is a situation. In this way, the situation can be brought under control in the shortest possible time. ”