The arrival of things is often a little unexpected, and a war broke out on the island of Taiwan, and the war directly affected Fujian.

After Xiong Zijian was stationed in Fujian, he governed the water division according to the convention, and the main strength was concentrated in Dengzhou, which also made the water division that originally belonged to the Zheng family, and the combat effectiveness was greatly weakened, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong did not object, the main energy of the two was on the imperial examination, it is worth celebrating that Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong were both lifted, one is a martial arts person, the other is a lifter, Zheng Chenggong's examination was not successful, but it is also the identity of the lifter, because the lifter cannot be a local official, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong are both from Fujian, if they want to be officials, there is no possibility of staying in Fujian, so they did not enter the imperial court as officials, but still stayed by Xiong Zijian's side to assist in the jurisdiction of the water division.

Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong's minds have changed, thinking that they can go to Dengzhou, Zheng Hongkui hopes to enter the Jiangning camp, Zheng Chenggong hopes to enter the Yamen of the Dengzhou prefect, which is also what Zheng Zhilong in the capital is willing to see, when Su Tiancheng arrived in the capital, Zheng Zhilong went to visit and talked about the arrangements for Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong.

Su Tiancheng has his own ideas, after returning to Dengzhou, he transferred Zheng Hongkui to Dengzhou, directly entered the water division, and served as a thousand households, but for Zheng Chenggong, Su Tiancheng believes that it is better to stay in Fujian, stay by Xiong Zijian's side, and strive for the examination in three years, to be able to enter high school and enter the Hanlin Academy.

History has changed, Su Tiancheng is no longer superstitious about the previous history, the times create heroes, Zheng Chenggong was a national hero before, but history has taken a turn, and Zheng Chenggong's actions have to rely on himself.

Mr. Su has always been concerned about the situation in Taiwan, which is a headache after hundreds of years. Since he has crossed over, he will not allow the situation to appear hundreds of years later, but because of the situation in all aspects, he can't spare his hands and exterminate the internal rogues, and then he has to deal with the Houjin Tartars. To fight wits and courage with Huang Taiji, so much so that he ignores the situation in Taiwan.

Taiwan in the Yuan Dynasty, officially became the territory of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty set up the Penghu Inspection Department in Taiwan, after the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, it still continued to rule Taiwan, but because Taiwan is far away from the mainland, there are some special circumstances in terms of jurisdiction. For a long time, Taiwan enjoyed a high degree of autonomy, and basically locals did things in the government, and the imperial court rarely intervened.

With the decline of the Ming Dynasty's water division. and the decline of the idea of sea power, Taiwan is gradually not taken seriously.

Su Tiancheng who crossed over. In the capital, I have never heard anyone say anything about Taiwan, as if this place does not exist at all, and after so many years, the emperor does not mention it. The fact that the senior scholars of the cabinet did not mention it, and the ministers of civil and military affairs of the imperial court did not mention it, shows the extent to which they have neglected Taiwan.

Su Tiancheng, who has an unusual idea of sea power, certainly understands the importance of sea power, and is even more aware of the importance of Taiwan. In his plan, Taiwan is to carry out large-scale construction and change its poor, desolate, and backward appearance.

Since the Wanli period, the pattern of the world has undergone great changes, the capitalist trend of thought began to sprout, the road of expansion in Europe has begun, to the Chongzhen period, Spain and Portugal with the help of the strength of the fleet, the first to begin to expand, Spain's warships first occupied Taiwan, and then the Netherlands was not far behind, joined the ranks, also occupied a place on the island of Taiwan, Taiwan was ruled by Spain and the Netherlands.

In the early days of capitalism, Spain's strength was the most powerful, especially the fleet, which could be described as invincible, but it was a pity that the rulers of Spain made a serious mistake and adopted the form of war to raise war, through plundering to enhance their own wealth, but ignoring their own production and wealth accumulation, this kind of practice that violated the laws of the economy caused Spain to suffer a heavy blow, and the prices of the country soared, so that the government could not afford to maintain the cost of the army, and the common people were unwilling to engage in production. The government could only rely on continued plundering to maintain the expenses of the government and the army, and as the power of the surrounding countries increased, Spain's record was no longer so glorious, and the wealth of plunder was limited, and it inevitably declined.

The Netherlands used to be a Spanish colony, but after the Dutch Revolution, thanks to the rule of Spain, it began to become independent and became the first capitalist country in the world.

This situation, in Taiwan was charged to show, Chongzhen thirteen years, occupied Taiwan of the Spanish and Dutch colonists, there was a conflict, this is still some small-scale conflict, in order to compete for greater interests of the conflict, to Chongzhen fourteen years, this conflict can not be reconciled, the Netherlands wants to dominate the island of Taiwan, the two sides of the large-scale battle broke out.

The Dutch government was fully supportive, and demanded that the Dutch Songk take a large-scale offensive to monopolize Taiwan and expel the Spaniards.

At this time, whether it was Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Hongkui or Zheng Chenggong, they did not notice Taiwan, the Dutch warship fleet often harassed in the South China Sea, but was defeated by the Zheng family's sailors, and did not dare to be arrogant, but the Dutch warships completely occupied the South Seas, using the South Seas and Taiwan as a base, and constantly harassed the sea areas of the Ming Dynasty, especially after the construction of Daming Weihaiwei into a commercial port, the behavior was even more crazy, and they thought that there were huge interests in it.

Under such circumstances, the complete occupation of Taiwan became the greatest wish of the Dutch colonists.

The battle broke out under such circumstances.

It is said that the battle on the island of Taiwan will not soon involve Fujian, but because of the expansion of the scale of the battle, both the Netherlands and Spain want to control the shipping in the South China Sea, and at the same time that the two sides are at war in Taiwan, the fleet is also engaged in the South China Sea, so that the East China Sea and the South China Sea have been affected, and the Weihaiwei wharf has also been significantly affected.

This is Xiong Zijian's responsibility, so Xiong Zijian sent a warship to begin to maintain the order of trade and transportation in the South China Sea and the East China Sea.

The Dutch three-masted battleship, the strength of the force should not be underestimated, Xiong Zijian's warship, there is no warship that can compete with the three-masted battleship, fortunately, the main energy of the Netherlands is to compete with Spain for Taiwan, it is impossible to mainly deal with the Ming naval division, plus the Dutch battleship has been defeated by the Ming Dynasty several times, and does not dare to be too arrogant.

Xiong Zijian quickly reported the information attached to the coast to Su Tiancheng.

Everyone thinks that this is not a big deal, Su Tiancheng's main energy is still in the confrontation with the Houjin Tartars, and he will not pay attention to the affairs of Fujian and Taiwan, and I can't imagine that Su Tiancheng does not think so.

The Taiwan incident quickly attracted Su Tiancheng's attention, so much so that Qu Qingze, who was in charge of intelligence work, had to write letters to Xiong Zijian many times, asking for a detailed report on the situation and to grasp the situation on the island of Taiwan.

Because of Su Tiancheng's attention, Xiong Zijian also attaches great importance to the fighting situation on Taiwan Island, although it is said that the fighting on Taiwan Island is in full swing, but merchant ships still have to trade, although because of the battle between the Netherlands and Spain on Taiwan Island, the navigation of merchant ships has been affected somewhat, but there are always merchant ships passing through the South China Sea, and Xiong Zijian's task, that is, to protect the safety of these merchant ships, many merchant ships, are rushing to Weihaiwei Wharf to trade.

The profits of maritime trade are too huge, no matter what happens, it is impossible to stop this trade, not to mention the transaction in Weihaiwei Wharf, so that these merchant ships have obtained huge benefits, the formal management of Weihaiwei Wharf, clear taxes, and the convenience of purchasing goods, but also make a large number of merchant ships, have to go to Weihaiwei to trade.

Through the merchant ships, Xiong Zijian obtained a lot of information, the battle between the Netherlands and Spain in October, basically ended, the result was expected, the Netherlands went to victory, and the Spanish colonists were about to leave Taiwan.

A steady stream of information was sent to Dengzhou.

Qu Qingze, who sorted out this information, has never understood very much, Taiwan is a big place, what's the big deal, now the focus is still on the matter of exterminating the Houjin Tartars, the opportunity is very good, even if Huang Taiji plays some conspiracy, it is not a big deal, the Jiangning battalion, which is strong and strong, can launch a large-scale attack on Gaizhou, Yaozhou and Haizhou.

Qu Qingze's understanding is consistent with Hong Chengchou, the two are already Su Tiancheng's right-hand men, and Su Tiancheng discussed with them about the size of the matter, Su Tiancheng will pay attention to Taiwan Island, they don't understand very well, and the distance between Taiwan and Dengzhou is too far, but both of them know that Su Tiancheng's decisions are correct from the perspective of later development, and Su Tiancheng will generally make explanations.

In early October, Qu Qingze received information from Xiong Zijian that the Netherlands had completely defeated Spain and gained full control of the island of Taiwan.

After quickly sorting out this information, Qu Qingze hurriedly came to Su Tiancheng, who had already emphasized that the results of the battle between the Netherlands and Spain must be reported as soon as possible.

Hong Chengchou and Qu Qingze entered the room together.

The map on the table, the two have long been familiar with it, it is a map of Taiwan and Fujian, this map has been placed for a long time, and Su Tiancheng has also watched these two maps for a long time.

After seeing Qu Qingze and Hong Chengchou come in, Su Tiancheng nodded and continued to make some marks on the map.

Hong Chengchou and Qu Qingze saw this situation and did not speak for the time being, they knew that Su Tiancheng must be thinking about something, it may be thinking about the next move. (To be continued......)