The Dutch, of course, would not surrender like that.

If they were allowed to leave with their belongings, they would immediately abandon the city of Geranza and leave, but it would be different to let them be taken prisoners and wait for the East India Company to ransom them......

In fact, they do it a lot.

So they knew very well what was going to happen, they had to work as coolies on some harsh mine site, rotting in hunger and disease, and then fantasized that the council of the East India Company would pay for them. But in fact, this is basically tantamount to fantasy, and it is definitely more cost-effective for the East India Company to bring a few more poor ghosts from Europe who are too poor to eat, than to pay for them.

So that hope is very slim.

The most likely thing is that they will work as coolies in a certain mine in Daming to death, and at most their relatives can take money to ransom them.

But only if they don't die of exhaustion.

In that case, let's stick to it!

And the Ming army is also not in a hurry, Huang Binqing and Zheng Cai are not short of supplies, Zheng Chenggong was indeed short of food in history, but they don't need to consider the supply of materials at all, since this is the case, they will be besieged and kept smashing with shells!

You can't be in a hurry to deal with the bastion.

All assaults on the bastions inevitably fell into siege and constant shelling.

This is not the garbage-like earthen walls and wooden fences of the city of Yaksa in Kang Mazi, or a cottage fortress, but a truly perfect fortress built by the Dutch, who can be called the master of fortress defense, to regular standards. Even the red bricks outside were fired in Batavia and then transported, and the binder was even mixed with expensive cane sugar, which was also a fortress-level castle in Europe like this, and under the current technical level of the Ming army, it was constantly smashed with cannonballs. When the Ottoman army of 200,000 attacked Malta, 15,000 shells still did not shake Fort St. Elmo, and finally became a legend of the medical knights, and the Dutch used one such thing to drag the prosperous Spain to bankruptcy.

In the era when there were no explosive high-explosive shells, no super-heavy mortars, and no rifled guns, this kind of thing could only be dealt with in a stupid way.

It's just stuck and smashing.

Forty catties of mortar artillery from the body of Erkun, including twenty catties and nine catties of field artillery in Dayuan Town, all the cannons in both directions kept bombarding, to see whether the Dutch fortress was strong or the Ming army's shells were fierce.

"Send them four Divine Mighty Invincible General Cannons!"

Yang Qing said.

He also knew very well that a 40-pound mortar cannon alone might not open the fortress, and it was not uncommon for Xiao Na to have a mortar cannon weighing more than 100 pounds in the era, and he was helpless to take the fortress, so it was better to put the Shenwei invincible general's cannon on the top.

"This bastion is so strong?"

Stilwell said.

"Europe is all about this, and the Dutch built their country on this, they were originally a group of displaced people who built fields on the unowned salt flats by the sea, reclaimed the land and established cities, but there was no military protection, and finally attached to Austria, in exchange for the protection of the Austrian monarch. The latter married their daughters to the king of Spain, and as the most trivial dependencies, they were transferred to Spain as a dowry, and it was customary for European monarchs to marry their daughters. But these people were unwilling to accept Spanish rule because of economic interests, and finally fought a long war with Spain, which has not ended until now, and they used to build fortresses, building fortresses one after another in the Netherlands, and dragging the Spanish king, who was considered the richest in Europe at that time, until his financial resources were exhausted and he had to stop fighting. ”

Yang Qing said.

"Then can we build it too?"

Stilwell said.

"We? Do we need this? ”

Yang Qing said.

Stilwell stopped talking.

Indeed, Daming does not need a fortress, because Daming is attacking, and the fortress can be destroyed after all, but Daming's strength is indestructible.

"But you can build one in Busan."

Yang Qing said.

Not only Busan, the Beiyang Company should build a string of fortresses between Busan and Hokkaido, especially after the future attack on the Japanese state, these fortresses can ensure that the colonists of the Ming Dynasty can gain a foothold in the colony, of course, this is a matter of the future, as for the current two fronts in the north and south, there is no need at all.

"Then we have to prevent others from building it!"

Stilwell said with a hint of concern.

It's not impossible, and the fortress is not a high-tech one, especially with King Gui, who has a close relationship with the Portuguese, and the Netherlands must have become an ally with King Gui after the Ming-Dutch War, so it's not impossible to help King Gui build a fortress against the prison state. In the final analysis, the current battle for hegemony in the Ming Dynasty has made the technical content of the Eastern Battlefield soar, since Li Zicheng can play the Spanish phalanx, and Dolgon can play the dragoon, then why can't King Gui play the fortress defense?

"That's a lot of fun!"

Yang Qing said.

That's a lot of fun!

But it's nothing to him, it's just a bigger mortar, forty pounds is indeed a bit weak, then it's good to change it to four hundred pounds, at this time the British are already using Roaring Meg on the battlefield, and the shells of that thing weigh two hundred pounds. It is indeed too cheap to say that the Ming Dynasty also used a forty-pound mortar cannon, you must know that the Austrians minted Pymhardt in the fifteenth century. Feng. Steyr, that thing's shell weighed six hundred and ninety kilograms......

Well, the forty-pound mortar cannon is indeed a bit out of line with the grade of the Ming Empire.

"We're still too conservative!"

Feeling that as a dignified traverser, he was not as brainy as the Europeans of two hundred years ago, Yang Qing walked out of his staff headquarters with a sigh, and then boarded the new four-wheeled carriage outside.

A group of heavily armed cavalry immediately guarded the carriage in the middle, and at the same time, the leading cavalry played a sign of evasion, and there was even a special gong sounding, plus various imperial honor guards, and the whole team suddenly began to move forward as if it were a clean street, and all the pedestrians on the road hid to both sides......

This is a mandatory requirement for the supervising state.

After all, it was too thrilling last time, and according to the rules, a marquis like Yang Qing is always so low-key, and it is not in line with his identity.

"Stop!"

Yang Qing in the carriage said.

The four-wheeled carriage immediately stopped, and the house slave next to it hurriedly opened the window and waited.

"Buy a newspaper!"

Yang Qing said.

The house slave hurriedly ran to the roadside newsstand and bought a stack of Yingtian Daily for the Marquis of Zhongyong, Yang Qing took the newspaper and waved it forward, and the carriage continued to move forward under the shouts of the house slave. Yang Qing sat comfortably on the seat with high-end spring cushions inside, looking at the ink-scented newspaper in his hand, and the reports printed with movable lead type finally made him feel the modern atmosphere.

"The battle is fierce!"

He said, looking at the newspaper in his hand.

During this period of time, seven or eight newspapers appeared in Nanjing one after another, and it was no longer the era when Yingtian Daily was dominant, and it was obvious that the competition for the right of public opinion was becoming more and more fierce, after all, this was not a new thing, the Song Dynasty was already full of tabloids, and even dared to pretend to be Cai Jing to make remarks, so that Cai Jing had to come out in person to refute the rumors, to say that the Jiangnan gentry didn't even understand this, it would be too underestimate them! Yang Qing can use newspapers to guide public opinion, and of course they will also use newspapers to compete, but because there is no solution to such things as communication towers, these newspapers focus more on those ideological and entertainment things.

But it's hard to unify the tone of this.

After all, there is no first, and especially in such an era of great ideological change, there are a bunch of thinkers who have left numbers in history! In the end, it turned into a war of public opinion.

This is also normal.

After all, the Jiangnan gentry are not a piece.

Needless to say, the old Donglin Party.

The northern scholars who moved south are also a line, and they will not have a good impression of the Donglin Party, these people led by Song Quan actually regard themselves as royalists, but the royalists are actually Yang Qing and his gang who don't say anything but are very honest in their bodies. Song Quan has served as the most important governor of Zhili so far, even if they don't have a very good impression of Yang Qing, as a northerner, if they want to gain a foothold in the south, they can only follow Yang Qing, the boss.

The south is not all Donglin Party.

Especially the gentry of the old Chu Party in Huguang hated the Donglin Party.

The Jiangxi gentry are also a gang.

Even Nanzhili and Zhejiang, the base of the Donglin Party, are not all Donglin Party, to be precise, not all of them have to fight with Yang Qing to the end, and Yang Qing is not at odds with only those land gentry, but the business family benefited from the prosperity created by his reform and the five-port trade policy, especially the new industrial changes brought about by new technologies, in fact, the loss is not large. At least the losses are not to the point that they can't bear it, these people are the enlightened forces among the gentry in Jiangnan, and the core is those celebrities in the Su Song area, Chen Zilong, and Shen Tingyang are its leaders.

Among them, Shen Tingyang even had a good personal relationship with Yang Qing.

Yang Qing also intended to support him.

After all, at present, among the maritime merchant families, the only one who can compete with Zheng Zhilong is the Shen Tingyang family, his own governor Caoyun, and the Shen family relies on the advantages of Songjiang Customs to become the boss of shipping in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the maritime trade in Ryukyu and other places in the Wa Kingdom has also begun to get involved.

Because of their interests, or their acceptance of Yang Qing, these forces constantly debated policies in the newspapers.

It has even begun to spread to learning.

Now the mouthpieces of various newspapers are discussing the science of Confucianism, or reinterpreting Confucianism, in order to adapt to this era of change, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, Huang Zongxi and others all appeared, Fu Qingzhu, Lu Shiyi, Zhu Zhiyu and others are not far behind, and they have reinterpreted Confucianism. To be precise, trying to save the decaying zombie of Confucianism and prevent it from being eliminated by the times, although their camps are different, they are the same on this point, after all, in their opinion, if Confucianism is eliminated, then their world will really collapse, but it is precisely because of the different camps that they will inevitably quarrel.

"This is the predecessor of the masters of the Republic of China!"

Yang Qing said with emotion.

"Let's go, go to the Imperial Academy!"

He said.

The guard of honor of the Marquis of Zhongyong immediately turned at this crossroads.

At this moment, on the Yuejiang Tower, a group of handsome sons are looking over the railing......

"The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes!"

Huang Zongxi chanted loudly.

In the basement dozens of meters below his feet, the Jinyi guard who was listening showed a trace of speechlessness, it was obvious that he had heard this poem countless times, and these humanities and scholars liked to chant this poem on the Yuejiang Tower to pretend to be forced, and there was no novelty at all.

Of course, Huang Zongxi didn't know.

At this moment, his face was flushed after drinking a lot of wine, and although the wound on his forehead that was hit by the street tiger stick had long since healed, it became more and more eye-catching against the backdrop of his face. But this is his medal, with this scar, he is simply regarded as an idol in Yaojiang Academy, which is a glorious sign of his courage to fight traitors.

"Wen Xian Gong is a wise man!"

Lu Shiyi, who was beside him, said with emotion.

Yang Shen, the author of this Linjiang Immortal, was the first to criticize the science of science, and he even directly reprimanded the gray prince for "sweeping away the former sages with his own opinions", using his own understanding of Confucian classics to cover up the thousands of years of Confucian research since the Han and Tang dynasties, and suppressing the achievements of scholars in previous dynasties under himself. In addition, he also criticized the study of mind, evaluating that the study of mind is learned but not substantial, not so much Confucianism as bald, and he happened to be consistent with the Confucian interpretation of these enlightened elements at this time, and became the sage of these people who traced their origins.

"What about Wen Xiangong? Haven't you been banished for thirty years? ”

Mao Qiling sneered.

"For more than 100 years since Sejong, how can there be more than one Yang Wenxian? The result? Reprimand, banishment, martyrdom, what virtuous minister is not like this? There are many people who only hold the sky with one hand, but they don't need to govern! As a result, when the Central Plains was in the middle of the mountains and the temple was covered with dust, it pushed me to the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang not to pay taxes, it is simply a mad dog, the world is so big, is it only me that the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang do not pay taxes? In the final analysis, it is still a problem of this system, the dictatorship is at the top, and the group is like a puppet......"

"Be cautious!"

Zhu Zhiyu interrupted him.

"Afraid of what? I'm not talking about the emperor! ”

Mao Qiling said.

"The system of this court just doesn't work, don't you let people say it? If the system doesn't work, what's the use of having virtuous ministers? Shizong favored Yan Song, a traitorous minister, Mu Zong favored Feng Bao, a eunuch, Shenzong was obsessed with Hou Gong, and Wei Zhongxian of the Xizong Dynasty did not need to be said, even the first emperor had Cao Huachun and then Yang Qing. With the safety of the world in one, if it is a Ming monarch, the world is very fortunate, if it is a faint monarch, the world is in danger, and let's calculate how many Ming monarchs are faint in the Ming Dynasty, and then count how many Ming monarchs in the past dynasties and how many faint monarchs?

I'm afraid that eight times out of ten, all of them will be faint!

The world is the world of the people, not the world of one family and one surname, since this is the case that the people of the world rule the world together, and the world should not be judged by one person. ”

He continued.

"How can the world be ruled together?"

Lu Shiyi asked curiously.

"I met a red-haired man today, not a Portuguese from Macau, but a Dutchman, and their system is very refreshing. They didn't even have an emperor, but all the gentry elected one person to govern, but the ruling was only like the head of the cabinet, and the real power was concentrated in the parliament composed of representatives elected by the gentry, and all laws and state affairs were decided by the parliament, and the ruling was only the executor, and they called their system ......"

Mao Qiling pondered for a moment and then said, "They call it democracy. ”

(Grandma is ninety-six years old and is about to leave, my mother is serving every day these days, and I watch the children, so for the time being, there is a chapter every day.) ）