"You say, do we still have the ability to fight?" At the urging of the guards, Putmans slowly came to his senses.

The "sir......" guards didn't know how to end the battle.

The sound of flintlock pistols was already heard in the city, and this sound, which Putmans thought was the most beautiful music during the massacre of the natives, now fell to Putmans's ears like a talisman, "Quick, put up the white flag." ”

The east city wall had just collapsed, and the Ming army was like a tide in Qiantang, quickly rushing towards the east city gate.

If the Dutch soldiers who received Putmans' orders had been slow to react, or had been hesitant to surrender, they would not have had to surrender and would not have had a chance to surrender.

After the Ming army entered the city, according to the custom, they began to massacre in the city.

The massacre was soon over, in fact, there was no one to kill, the Dutch soldiers were less than two hundred, plus the East India Company's merchants in the city, there were only six hundred, even if all of them were killed, an average of five Ming soldiers only one became the executioner.

Moreover, after the Ming army entered the city, some Dutch soldiers had already laid down their weapons and obediently waited for the ropes of the Ming army.

Only those Dutchmen who were so frightened that they ran around the city and did not raise the white flag would be shot by the Ming army.

As for the Han people and natives in the city, as long as they do not threaten the Ming army, there is no need to shoot them, after all, they are their own brothers, which Zheng Zhilong has long preached to the officers and men of the South China Sea Fleet.

Zheng Xing stabilized the order in the city on the one hand, and sent people to receive Zheng Zhilong into the city on the other.

When Zheng Zhilong heard that Zheng Xing had taken the city of Relanza so quickly, he immediately hurried to the city of Reranza, and the first thing he did after entering the city was to order someone to bring Putmans over.

"Your Excellency, we meet again." It turned out that Zheng Zhilong and Puttmans were old acquaintances, and there had been maritime friction between the two sides.

Today, with the attitude of a winner, looking at Putmans who was tied up in front of him, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but secretly sigh: With the country as the backing, it is different.

"Mr. Zheng, Geranza belongs to the Dutch East India Company, why are you attacking Geranza?" Putmans didn't understand that the two sides had already made a verbal agreement that each would make their own money, and everyone would have a profit, wouldn't it be a win-win situation? Why the war?

"Your Excellency, is Geranza yours?" Zheng Zhilong grinned, giving Putmans a smiling face.

"The Netherlands had an agreement with the Ming Dynasty, as long as the Netherlands withdrew from Penghu, if it occupied Taiwan, the Ming Dynasty could not have any objections," Putmans seemed to remember something, "If the information is correct, Mr. Zheng should have been present at the time." ”

"Yes, I was indeed present at the time," Zheng Zhilong was happy, the Dutchman's information was comprehensive, and some people still remember him, the hairy boy at that time, "Since Your Excellency knew that I was there at the time, do you know what I said at that time?" ”

"What did you say?" Putmans was stunned for a moment, "What did you say?" ”

"It seems that your information is still not comprehensive enough, only what is beneficial to you, and the rest should be selectively forgotten, let me remind you Your Excellency, I once said to you, 'Taiwan is ours, temporarily borrowed for your use', and now I want to take back my Taiwan."

"No way," Putmans writhed in excitement, but the rope was so tight that he couldn't break free, "I didn't attend the convention where the agreement was signed, and I never heard of it. ”

"It's not too late to know, Your Excellency, sign the instrument of surrender and return Taiwan to us." Zheng Zhilong cocked Erlang's legs and looked at Putmans with some sympathy.

"No, Taiwan is not yours." Putmans trembled, and in order to hide his involuntary trembling, he twisted his body more and more.

Zheng Zhilong is a very reasonable person: "At least Taiwan is not yours, you are just relying on force to seize it, if you talk about force, now you have failed, so whether Taiwan was ours or not, now, it belongs to the Ming Dynasty." ”

"You ......" Putmans really couldn't find a reason for the Dutch to occupy Taiwan, in terms of geography, the Netherlands is 108,000 miles away from Taiwan, in terms of strength, now he is a prisoner, but Taiwan already belongs to the Netherlands, how can he easily spit it out? If he hadn't been tied hand and foot, he really wanted to point at Zheng Zhilong's nose and scold.

"Your Excellency, I'm busy, so my patience is also very limited," Zheng Zhilong drove away the floating tea leaves with the lid of his cup, "How is it?" Your Excellency, do you want to sign the instrument of surrender? ”

"No, I will not sign," called Putmans, "and there will be reinforcements from the Batavia headquarters soon, and none of you will be able to escape." ”

"Run? Your Excellency, you are wrong, since we want to take back Taiwan, how can we escape? If we run away, what will happen to Taiwan? "Zheng Zhilong feels that Puttmans's brain seems to be short-circuited, such a simple truth needs to be reminded, I don't know how he, the governor of Taiwan, became a bribe?" How can we charge Taiwan if we are not prepared enough? Your Excellency, you don't have to worry about that. ”

"You ......"

Zheng Zhilong interrupted Putmans a little rudely, "Your Excellency, you don't have to worry about us, let me ask again, whether Your Excellency has signed the contract or not?" ”

"No, I can't sign ......" Putmans wanted to hold his head and cry, but unfortunately his hands were tied, he wanted to crouch down and relax, and his legs were tied hard.

"It's okay, I don't like to force it," Zheng Zhilong suddenly lost his gentlemanly demeanor and put on a devilish face, "From now on, every quarter of an hour, I will kill a Dutchman, hahaha...... They died at your hands, that Zheng Xing, starting with children and women. ”

"You Satan!" Putmans, who was well-educated and gentlemanly, began to swear.

"Satan? Your Excellency, let me tell you who is Satan," Zheng Zhilong changed to a righteous and gentleman's tone, "Taiwan was not your land in the first place, and in order to seize Taiwan, how many innocent Taiwanese people have you killed?" The blood of these natives should be able to stain the shores of this great man, right? Sir, who is the Satan of this world? ”

"You are using strong words, we occupy Taiwan just for business, and we will make the people of Taiwan live a better life." Putmans still refuses to admit his mistake.

"To make their lives better? Your Excellency, are they living better? They are just your slaves, and they would have lived well on this land, as long as you left Taiwan. Did the Ming army go to your doorstep to seize the land and kill the Dutch? No, Your Excellency, if we kill the Dutch who invaded Taiwan now, I will be the hero of this nation, and you will be the Satan in the hearts of the people. ”

Zheng Zhilong not only occupies a military advantage, but also occupies the moral high ground, after all, the Dutch occupy Taiwan, which is an outright act of aggression, and they know best in their own hearts.

In order to combat Putmans's arrogance, expose his aggressive nature, and use the powerful strength of the Ming Dynasty to threaten him, Zheng Zhilong directly regarded the natives of Taiwan as the people of the Ming Dynasty, but fortunately, Putmans's brain seemed to be in chaos, and he obviously did not notice this.

"You're quibbling." Putmansli was desperate for words, so he had to buy himself a little time to think by swearing.

"Sophistry? Your Excellency, believe it or not, I will uproot all the Dutch strongholds in the South Seas one by one - that Zheng Xing, why hasn't he done it until now? ”

"Yes, Commander, let's do it right away." Zheng Xing realized, he snatched a three- or four-year-old child from the arms of a Dutch woman, and walked out quickly.

The child was so frightened that she cried, and when the child's mother found that it was not good, she cried so much that she clung to Putmans' arm and shook it incessantly: "Sir, please save my child!" The child is innocent. ”

Coming to the door, Zheng Xing handed the child in his left hand, and quickly pulled out the scimitar at his waist with his right hand.

"Heavenly ...... Hoo! Putmans looked up to the sky and sighed, he really couldn't stand the cry of the Dutch mother and daughter, as well as Zheng Xing's dangling waist knife, he already understood, if he didn't sign the surrender document, no matter what, he couldn't pass Zheng Zhilong's pass, it seems that he lost Taiwan's black cauldron, he was determined, he felt that he seemed to have only the last trace of strength left: "Let go of the child." ”

"Haha, I said it earlier, I don't have to scare the child like this." Zheng Zhilong estimated that Putmans agreed, and he asked the soldiers to bring the text of the "Ming-Dutch Taiwan Agreement".

The text was written in Chinese, and Zheng Zhilong was too lazy to say it himself, so he asked the translator to translate it to Putmans, who himself drank the freshly brewed tea comfortably.

There are four main contents of the "Ming-Dutch Taiwan Agreement."

First, the Dutch East India Company unconditionally returned Taiwan, the occupied territory of the Ming Dynasty, delivered it to the Ming Dynasty on the same day, and recognized Taiwan as the legitimate territory of the Ming Dynasty;

Second, the Ming Dynasty confiscated all the property of the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan as compensation for the losses of the Taiwanese people;

Third, the Netherlands compensated the Ming navy for casualties and ammunition consumption, equivalent to 1.5 million taels of silver;

Fourth, the Dutch captured by the Ming Dynasty, young and old, were redeemed by the Dutch East India Company for a ransom of five hundred taels each.

"Confiscation of property? Absolutely not, this is the property of the East India Company, it does not belong to Taiwan, and I have no right to dispose of it. Putmans thought that there was only one item in the agreement to return Taiwan, but he did not expect that there were many terms on property, and the property of the East India Company in Taiwan was worth more than 1.2 million taels of silver in movable property alone, not including real estate such as cities and houses, and he flatly rejected this agreement.

"That, Zheng Xing." Zheng Zhilong no longer bargained with Putmans, anyway, he was a pirate in the past, and it was a big deal to do another robbery for the sake of Daming.