"Brother John, I really can't see it, it's quite ruthless!"

Just when the pale-faced John was at a loss, Zhang Cheng glanced at the Dutch soldier who was staring at John with straight eyes, stepped forward and said to John with a smile, "I thought you would let him live, but I didn't expect you to be so happy, and you would kill him with one knife!" ”

"Yes...... It's you ......."

When John heard this, he wanted to explain, it was obviously Zhang Cheng who pushed him behind his back just now, but after seeing the big men in the room, he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, he didn't want to die here, so it was best not to defend himself, so as not to anger Zhang Cheng and the others. Little "Say." ⒉

At this moment, the Dutchman who had been stabbed in the chest was bleeding from the nose and the corners of his mouth stuffed with rags, and after kicking his legs hard, he slowly drooped his head, and gradually lost his breath, and the place where the knife was stabbed in his chest was stained with blood.

"He's dead!" A big man stepped forward and put his hand on the Dutch soldier's neck artery, and then said to Zhang Cheng.

"Brother John, from today onwards, we will be people in the same boat, you can take these two ingots, it can be regarded as my meeting gift."

Hearing this, Zhang Cheng smiled and picked up the two gold ingots on the ground, walked over and stuffed them into the hands of John, who was standing there in astonishment, and then pointed to the dead Dutch soldier and said coldly:

"This guy should be damned, he **** a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, making that little girl jump into the sea to commit suicide, it's a pity to die!"

"I killed someone." John came back to his senses when he heard this, and looked at Zhang Cheng with a frightened expression, looking a little incredulous for a while, and his body trembled slightly, as if he was scared enough.

"Listen, you're killing someone who deserves to be killed, and it's not a pity to live and die like this animal!" Zhang Cheng stretched out his hand and grabbed John's neck, and said to him in a deep voice, "You are doing a good thing for the people for the sake of heaven." ”

"Yes, it's doing good, I'm doing good." John wiped the sweat from his forehead, and subconsciously nodded there to comfort himself, his heart pounding hard.

"That's right." Zhang Cheng let go of John, glanced at the corpse of the Dutch soldier, waved his hand at the big man in the room, and said coldly, "Put him in a sack and sink into the sea." ”

A few big men then stepped forward and carried the Dutch soldier's body out of the door, and if he sank into the sea, no one would be able to find him.

"He, and him, he saw us killing, and we can't let him go!"

At this time, John, who was in a mess in his mind, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly pointed to another Dutch soldier in the room who was curled up on the ground with a frightened look and said to Zhang Cheng that in order to prevent the news from leaking out, he had to silence it.

The young Dutch soldier saw Zhang Cheng pointing at him, knowing that something was wrong, and hurriedly shook his head vigorously, his eyes were full of pleading, he was still young and didn't want to die like this.

"There is a wrong, there is a debtor, this Hongmaoyi has not done anything to hurt the heavens and reason, so there is no need for his life, just lock him up."

Zhang Cheng did not answer John, but after glancing at the young Dutch soldier, he shook his head to the people in the room, and the frightened Dutch soldier was carried out.

In fact, in addition to the fact that the young Dutch soldier did not deserve to die, he was also a witness to John's killing of the previous Dutch soldier, which was an invisible constraint to John, and the Dutch would have killed him if the matter was revealed.

The young Dutch soldier didn't know that Zhang Cheng would not kill him, and thought that the big men were going to be unfavorable to him, so he struggled desperately in fright, and a whining sound came out of his mouth as if he was begging for mercy.

"Brother John, since you have a letter of nomination, then we are a family, and I won't hide some things from you."

After the Dutch soldier was taken out, Zhang Cheng's face turned pale, and he said to John seriously, "Hongmaoyi is menacing this time, I want to know how their strength is, how they are preparing and when to attack Penghu." ”

"Alas!" John suddenly sighed secretly when he heard this, it seems that he fell into the trap of Zhang Cheng who wanted to capture the old man, and now he ended up like this.

However, there is no regret medicine in the world, since the dead Dutch soldier was killed by him "with his own hands", then now he can only choose to cooperate with Zhang Cheng, otherwise he will not let Zhang Cheng do it, I am afraid that the Dutch will not let him go.

Therefore, John didn't dare to hide anything anymore, and told everything Zhang Cheng wanted to know.

Early the next morning, private school.

"Sir, these are the things that John knew about the Red Hairy." Zhang Cheng smiled and handed a few pieces of paper to Li Hongyu, which wrote about the deployment of troops and the battle plan of the Dutch who came to Daming this time.

For Li Hongyu's plan to capture and indulge, Zhang Cheng was so impressed that he threw himself to the ground, not only got rid of the Dutch soldier who was a **** girl, but also made John honestly act as a spy, which is two birds with one stone, thousands of times stronger than torture.

Li Hongyu picked up the pieces of paper and looked at them, and then frowned slightly, from John, he finally figured out why the Dutch came to Daming this time.

This time, the Dutch fleet was sent by Cohen, the governor of the "Dutch East India Company", and its purpose was naturally to open up trade with the Ming Dynasty.

In the 17th century, the key to economic backwardness in Europe was the trade of Asian goods such as spices, pepper, sugar, silk and porcelain.

In total, the Netherlands set up more than 20 companies for spices in the East Indies, i.e. the Indonesian archipelago, but the competition between the companies reduced the profit margins.

At that time, Catholic Spain and Portugal were in a state of hostility with the Christian Netherlands.

In order to compete with Spain and Portugal, the Dutch "National Assembly" agreed to unite more than 20 companies, and in the early 17th century, the "Dutch East India Company" was established in the form of a joint stock company, which monopolized the supply of spices in the East Indies.

Through the spice trade, the Netherlands grew rich and became a wealthy country in Europe.

After entering the 17th century, the European market demanded a large number of goods such as raw silk, porcelain and tea of the Ming Dynasty, and the trade was very profitable, so the Dutch tried their best to trade with the Ming.

However, the Portuguese, who had already arrived in Daming earlier than the Dutch and had obtained residency in Macao, did not want to give the Dutch a piece of the pie, so they united with the Spaniards, who were at war with the Dutch, to obstruct them.

The Dutch were naturally unwilling to be pinned down by Portugal and Spain, so they cooperated with the British to cruise between the Yingzhou Strait and the South Seas based on Hirado, preventing Portuguese and Spanish ships from doing business with the Ming and the Japanese Kingdom, and at the same time curbing the ships from the Ming and the Japanese Kingdom to the South Seas.

According to the information provided by John, the reason why Cohen sent a fleet to Daming was because he learned an important piece of information about the Spaniards, so he wanted to preemptively attack the plan to disrupt the Spaniards.

It turned out that due to the cooperation between the Dutch and the British, the Spaniards advocated setting up a base on Xiaoliuqiu in order to break through the naval blockade between the Dutch and the British and trade with the Ming Dynasty.

After receiving the news, Cohen took it very seriously, and in order to avoid giving the Spaniards a head start on trade with the Ming Dynasty, he ordered Rear Admiral Relsen to form a fleet to capture Macao, where the Portuguese were located.

Considering that the Portuguese and Spaniards would not easily let the Dutch capture Macao, Cohen told Raelsen that once he could not capture Macao, he would continue to go north to the Penghu Islands and Xiaoliuqiu to find a good port to station.

John did not know when the Dutch would attack Macau, but he would take action when Joseph returned, and if he could not take Macau, he would come to Xiaoliuqiu to look for opportunities.

Because Rayson had a premonition that it would be difficult to capture Macao before the departure, he sent Joseph to Xiaoliuqiu in advance to explore the way, and it would be best if he could unite the pirates and armed maritime merchants in Xiaoliuqiu to attack Penghu.

The reason why Raelsen was so cautious was because he participated in a battle that was defeated by the Ming army after the Dutch occupied Penghu twenty years earlier.

At that time, Raelsen was still a young lieutenant, and he wanted to make a contribution to the Eastern Theater and capture the rich Ming Dynasty like he had captured the East Indies.

Indeed, at that time, the Dutch successfully captured Penghu and defeated the inspection department stationed on it, but how did they know that only a group of militia was stationed on Penghu Island.

When the Ming counterattacked, Raelsheng saw a scene that had never been seen before, the sea was densely packed with many ships, tens of thousands of Ming troops braved the attack of the Dutch artillery and arquebuses, and soon surrounded the fortress where the Dutch lived, and surrounded it.

After all, the arquebuses of the XVII century were far inferior to the rifles of later generations, and although the Dutch army had an advantage in firearms, this advantage was not much in the face of the outnumbered Ming army.

In addition, it should be noted that the Dutch army is too small, at best there are only more than 1,000 people and more than 10 ships, which is already a relatively large expeditionary fleet of theirs, and its population base is far from being comparable with the Ming Dynasty.

Later, when Raelsen learned that the Ming Dynasty had a population of hundreds of millions and millions of soldiers, he was shocked that the number of soldiers alone exceeded the total population of the Netherlands.

Therefore, this attack on Penghu Island Raierson made preparations in advance, wanting to use profits to lure the pirates and armed maritime merchants of Xiaoliuqiu to help in the war, but it failed without thinking.

"Sir, there are only seven or eight hundred people this time, and there are only about a dozen ships, and they dare to invade Penghu, aren't they afraid of fleeing in disgrace like last time?"

After Li Hongyu finished reading the contents of those papers, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but sneer, and said with a disdainful face, "I think this Hongmaoyi simply can't remember to eat." ”

"This time is different from the last time, now that the war in Liaodong is in full swing, the imperial court has no time to take care of the affairs of Penghu, if Hongmaoyi occupies Penghu, I am afraid they will be proud for two or three years!"

"The war in Liaodong?"

Zhang Cheng was stunned when he heard this, and then asked curiously, "A few years ago, wasn't the Jiannu of Liaodong beaten by the new champion of the imperial court, that is, the scholar Li who is now in charge of the Customs Department, and it is not a climate at all, and it can still make the imperial court spend effort?" ”

"At this time and that time, compared with those red-haired Yi, Jiannu is my Ming's henchman!" Li Hongyu put away a few pieces of paper in his hand and said with a solemn expression.

Once Liaodong is lost, then there is no city in Liaoxi to block the pace of the Houjin army, the key is that the morale of the Ming army will be dealt a heavy blow, and the Houjin army's troops will reach the Shanhaiguan Pass, a stone's throw away from the Beijing Division.

However, Li Hongyu is now beyond the reach of the whip, and with his current position, he is not suitable to intervene in the war in Liaodong, so he can only resign himself to fate, and the top priority is to start the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, which is the purpose of his stay in Jilong Port.

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