None of the six armed Dutch merchant ships survived the bombardment......

Nor are they likely to survive.

What can these armed merchant ships, which are essentially only capable of dealing with pirates and part-time pirates, be able to do in the face of battleships and cruisers? They had only twelve pounds at most, and most of them had nine and six pounds, not to mention the more than a foot thick oak of battleships, and even the planks of cruisers could not be shaken.

But the thirty-two-pounder and twenty-four-pounder guns were truly devastating to them.

Especially when it's so close.

Even if you bring Britain's newest first-class ship Sea Monarch, you can't carry a 32-pound shell at a distance of 200 meters!

The six Dutch armed merchant ships were all destroyed at the foot of Xiaonan Mountain in a blink of an eye, and the remaining thirty or so old warships of the Gui Army were silent, but the warships of the Nanyang Naval Division did not attack them. The bombardment of the Dutch was nothing more than an example of killing chickens and monkeys, and it was to use these unlucky guys to show their strength and deter the Gui army and the Portuguese, who were not in the same group as the Dutch in the first place, and could even be said to be hostile. Of course, Zheng Cai would not be unaware of the relationship between the three families, and if he sank the armed merchant ships of the Dutch, the Portuguese in Macau might have cheered.

It was clear that he had the right strategy.

The difference between his strength and only playing the Dutch left the Portuguese to choose.

As the Portuguese armed merchant ships fled without a fight, the troop transports carrying the marines rode the tide, ignoring the nearby Gui warships as if they were not looking, and then went straight to the docks in Deep Bay. A few of the Gui warships still wanted to come forward, but the cannonballs on the ten cruisers that stayed to guard them immediately flew out, shooting columns of water in the sea in front of them, and these Gui warships immediately woke up.

Then it's time to negotiate.

"Is Guangdong the land of the Ming Dynasty?"

Zheng Caiyi said rhetorically to a general of the Gui Army who came to negotiate.

"Yes, but we're from the Katsura Domain!"

The latter said.

The two of them are actually old acquaintances.

It is said that the Gui Jun Sailor is nothing more than an adaptation of the Guangdong Sailor in the past, and they and the Zheng family are not just acquaintances, it is estimated that there are all worshippers.

"What's wrong with the Gui Domain? The Gui Domain is also a minister of the Ming Emperor, and the Gui Domain's fief is also the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Gui Domain's fief is another sun and moon? Who are we? We are the Ming Navy! Within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, we can go wherever we want! I would like to ask you, do you know that there is no diplomacy between the people and the ministers, and do you know what it means for the vassal king to have an affair with a foreign country? Not only fornicated with foreign countries, but also brought the Dutch to fight against the king, you are a rebellion, this nature is very serious, and you want to punish the nine tribes! ”

Zheng Cai said emotionally.

The sailor general watched quietly as he continued to pretend.

"I'm always an old acquaintance, this time I'll give you a chance, but we have to go to Guangzhou City, we have to ask King Gui, why did he rebel?"

Zheng Cai continued.

"Brother Yu, two million is too much!"

The general said very frankly.

Two million is really a lot, the Ming Dynasty in the middle of Wanli when the commercial tax was the highest, only 4.8 million taels a year, which includes the salt tax, and the entire commercial tax in the early Wanli period added up to only more than two million, the Guangdong gentry have indeed made a fortune over the years, but it is difficult for them to pay such a huge amount of money. After all, they actually have the final say here, even if King Gui and some sober-minded people will agree, those misers in the Advisory Bureau may not have this awareness!

"In this way, then we need to talk about it, and it is not unreasonable to believe in the country."

Zheng Cai immediately changed to a smile and said.

Then he took the guy into the cabin to talk about dry goods, and by this time the first troop carrier had already docked, and a group of heavily armed marines came out of the cabin, and even the cannons were lowered from the ship. Neither the Gui army's naval division nor the defenders on the fort dared to move, but the gate of Xin'an County had been closed, and a brigade of the Gui army that had come from the reinforcements was deployed on the city wall, and the other part of the Gui army was deployed in Danan Mountain. In this way, even if the marines land, they will only be confined to the beach at most, as long as they can't cross the county seat of Xin'an, which is the ancient city of Nantou, then this landing is meaningless, and no matter what the Ming army wants to do, as long as it does not break the tiger gate, it is meaningless.

Just as all the marines had landed and set up camp on the shore, the sailor general returned to his ship with a staff officer of the Nanyang Navy, and then rode the tide straight to Humen......

Four hours later.

"This king has no intention of rebellion!"

Zhu Youlang said angrily.

This is purely a desire to add to the sin, and if there is no excuse for it, then find another one, and there will always be one that can be used.

"But the king did not get the permission of the imperial court, he privately befriended the Dutch, and allowed them to live in Hong Kong, this is also a fact, the Ming ancestral system, the vassal king has no diplomatic rights, this vassal king fornicates with foreign countries, that is also a big crime in which dynasty! Especially if you are also leading foreigners to fight against Wang Shi, this can already be regarded as an accomplice! ”

Lin Bin, a staff officer of the Nanyang Naval Division, said.

"That was done during the period when the king did not know that the Duke of Xinguo was a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and he misheard the slander and closed himself to the realm, and he did not communicate with the holy driver, and this king will make it clear to His Majesty! As for the Dutch warships fighting you in Tuen Mun, it was their own doing, and it has nothing to do with the king! ”

Zhu Youlang said.

"But the suspicion of the king's rebellion has been completed, and the Ming rebellion case belongs to Jinyiwei, even if the king's situation is special and there is no need to go to prison for the time being, Jinyiwei must also send someone to close the palace and conduct further investigation into the case. Before the investigation is clear, the king must be grounded in the palace, and the Jinyi guard and the accompanying soldiers and horses need to pass through the Humen to Guangzhou, and the king's guards have been blocked in the Humen so far, what is the reason for prohibiting the king from passing? Even if the king is a vassal king, he has no right to block the actions of the imperial army in the fiefdom, and blocking the imperial army is also tantamount to rebellion. ”

Lin Bin said.

"Staff Officer Lin, you are trying to add to the crime!"

Ding Kuichu scolded angrily.

"Well, the contemptible people are just clarifying the facts, Ding Gong has also been an important minister of the imperial court, and the contemptible people want to ask Ding Gong to teach him, this vassal king fornicated with foreign countries and resisted the king with the army of guards, should this be regarded as a rebellion according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty? Could it be that King Gui wants to become an ancestor? ”

Lin Bin said.

"It's just gibberish!"

Ding Kuichu said angrily.

"Ding Gong is talking nonsense about the Great Ming Law?"

Lin Bin said.

King Gui rubbed his forehead with a gloomy face.

Indeed, if Yang Qing bites him to fornicate with foreign countries to protect and resist Wang Shi, these two items can be said to be his rebellion, and the people and ministers have no diplomacy, and the vassal king's fornication with foreign countries is the usual time in the past, and he can also be taken down on the charge of rebellion. In fact, those who framed the vassal king often used such crimes, not to mention that he blocked the king with an army of guards, which can also be regarded as complicity. No matter what the Ming army on the Lingding Ocean did, as the de facto imperial army of the Ming Dynasty, if they wanted to reach the fiefdom of the vassal king, then any obstruction by the vassal king could be labeled as a rebellion.

But you have to let the Ming army pass through Humen......

Then he's still playing a fart, and people will go directly to Guangzhou!

In any case, the Ming army cannot be allowed to pass through the Tiger Gate.

The Ming army was blocked out of the Tiger Gate, and he could continue to bargain, but he was not qualified to bargain when he entered the Tiger Gate.

"Staff Officer Lin, don't talk nonsense, now you go to the Advisory Bureau with this king, if the sages of the Advisory Bureau agree, this king will pay these two million for the King of Qin, if the Advisory Bureau does not agree, this king will not have the ability to pay even if he wants to!"

He said very simply.

"Then there is King Lao!"

Lin Bin said with a smile.

Then they went out together, boarded King Gui's four-wheeled carriage, and before they could get out of the carriage, a carriage stopped, and a ghost guy came out of the carriage and walked directly to their carriage.

"Mr. Moeller, you'll talk about that later!"

Zhu Youlang stopped him from speaking.

"Your Highness......"

Before the ghost could finish speaking, the two guards pushed him aside, and then Zhu Youlang's carriage drove out of the palace and went straight along the stone-paved street to the advisory bureau, which was not too far away. From time to time, ragged children rushed out and threw themselves at the splendid carriage with broken bowls, but the cavalry on both sides immediately whipped them away. Not only King Gui's carriage, but all those carriages and sedan chairs that drove through the streets, and even well-dressed pedestrians, would be chased in the same way.

Impatiently, King Gui picked up a box full of copper coins and threw it directly out the window, and the children cheered and swarmed up.

Then the carriage picked up.

A silk-clad walker walks past the children with his nose covered, and the backdrop is the new brick buildings under construction, many of which are European-style, lined with signboards and open shops......

"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road!"

Staff Officer Lin said with emotion.

"It's like there are no beggars in Nanjing!"

Ding Kuichu said disdainfully.

"At least we didn't let these children have to beg in order to make ends meet, or act as cattle and horses, and the cart of charcoal they pulled was worth 200 catties, right?"

Lin Bin said.

As he spoke, he looked at the side of the road, two children, who were at most eleven or twelve, pushing and pulling a charcoal cart slowly forward on the street, obviously malnourished, they were black and thin, and the amount of labor was obviously overloaded, making the two of them like scarabs struggling to push dung balls, in fact, in this bustling city, they were indeed as humble as scarabs.

"At least they can support themselves, there are no lazy people on the land of my Gui Domain, and the young and strong don't work hard to make the boss sad, they can at least subsidize the family!"

Ding Kuichu said.

Lin Bin did not continue to discuss the issue.

There is an essential difference between the two sides in principle, Guangzhou does not have the compulsory education system that has been implemented in Nanjing, and there is no free primary school here that has been popularized in the two counties of Nanjing and is being extended to the whole of Yingtianfu.