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"In a month, in a month, I will see the corpses of all the sailors on that ship! You don't want to cheat. There were one hundred and twenty-four people on board, of whom there were only thirty blacks. The rest are Dutch. ”

Nassau saw that although there was no detailed list of personnel on the roster, the main members, such as the captain and first mate, knew that the Chinese had already investigated.

Two Dutch ships, when sailing to the Zhoushan Islands, robbed Hangzhou Bay by the way, and then entered the port of Zhoushan with great arrogance, anchored at Shuangyu Port, ready to load goods.

When Shi Lang learned the news and sent troops to Shuangyu Port, a Dutch ship had already left, detained one of them, tortured the other to understand the situation of the other ship, and then immediately rushed to Yang Chao to plead guilty, demanding that all those Dutch people be killed, and that troops be sent to fight the Dutch East India Company.

Nassau couldn't help but be big, China is not India, India is just a geographical term, it is fragmented, except for the Turkicized Mongols in the north, the Mughal Empire established by the Mongolized Turks is slightly stronger, the small princely states on the southern coast are not at all the opponents of the Westerners, they are used to running rampant in India.

But in China, you have to be a man with your tail between your legs, and the Portuguese are a good example, they deceived the Portuguese to live in Macau, but claimed to the Westerners that Macau was their territory, and they stationed a governor in Macau, and usually wore the governor's uniform to the top, but once the foreigners and the Chinese locals clashed, the Xiangshan County Commander first arrested the Portuguese governor to the county government to beat the board, and asked him to pay the money and people.

The Governor patted his ass. After returning to the foreigner's territory. Still pretending to be nothing. Continue to pretend to be the Viceroy of the Portuguese Empire in China.

The example of Portugal can be seen that Westerners are very aggrieved in colonization in China, let alone in China, even in Japan, which is basically the case, and the Tokugawa shogunate is also dominated by dominance towards foreigners.

If you kill someone in India, you can go to other princely states to continue trading, but you can commit a crime in the port of the Ming Dynasty. The entire coastline of the Ming Dynasty will reject you.

So the East India Company had been telling its captains, especially those who traded to the North, that they had to obey the law.

But these two captains are new, they are the fleet of the West India Company, and the East India Company has been developing too aggressively in recent years, so it recruits captains aggressively, and the major shareholders of the East India and West India Companies are basically a group of people, so it is not a problem to recruit a few shipyards from the West Indias.

But the problem is that the captains and sailors of these two ships are coming to the East for the first time, and they are used to being in Africa and in the Americas. Not to mention looting, it is to set up the cannon directly at the door of the house with some effects. Then they have done everything to force them to pay the ransom, and in their opinion, robbing a few villages of the Chinese is not a big deal.

But Nassau knows that this is a big deal, and the Chinese can ban the sea for hundreds of years out of defense against maritime threats, and it is clear that this country cares more about security than any other country in the world.

But it was really difficult to arrest and kill hundreds of people, and Nassau had to explain: "Lord Earl, these people are some scoundrels, and I deeply regret that. Also apologized to Daming on behalf of the East India Company. The East India Company was willing to pay compensation. They are also willing to punish the crew members who commit crimes. But the sea ships have already reached the sea, trying to find them and difficulties. I hope the Earl will understand. ”

Yang Chao snorted coldly: "You Dutch, don't you have a gentry?" ”

Yang Chao also felt that he had overestimated the moral standards of Westerners, who were a group of nomadic bandits and pirates.

The Middle Ages destroyed the Romans, destroyed the Greek and Roman civilizations, and it was not yet a thousand years, and the darkness of the Middle Ages had not been washed away by the waves of the Age of the Great Sea, and the countries established by the Germanic, Gaul and other peoples had not yet fully accepted the civilization and morality of the agrarian peoples.

What Vasco da Gama, Columbus and others, how remarkable they are in the history books of later generations, for Westerners, they did make indelible contributions, but for Easterners, they brought disaster.

The original intention of these people to develop the shipping route was to trade, but before they arrived in one place, they all began with raiding.

When the Portuguese arrived in China, the plunder was repulsed, and when the Dutch arrived, the same plunder was repulsed, and the British, with a desire for trade, brought a letter of state to meet the officials of Guangdong, but when they entered the mouth of the Pearl River, they robbed hundreds of civilian ships, and even the source of their goods was mainly looted.

After hundreds of years of exchanges, Portugal learned to be the board of the Ming county officials, and the Dutch wisely accepted the rules of the Zheng family, and the British were completely squeezed out of the Oriental Ocean.

However, in India, these people occupied land one by one, built castles, and acted as prestige, and their problems did not change at all, but they just put away their minions in the Chinese seas.

Nassau was very embarrassed and said, "Those people are not gentlemen, and a Dutch gentleman cannot do such a thing." ”

Yang Chao snorted coldly: "Isn't it a gentleman, I heard that Captain Philip is still a little nobleman!" ”

Nassau was silent, and the captain who had indeed escaped was a nobleman, a baron, from a small town in the south of the Netherlands, which made him unable to refute.

Yang Chao said: "This governor is not consulting with you, nor is he negotiating with you, this is an ultimatum, within a month, I will not see these people, and the Ming and the Dutch will automatically enter a state of war." You go back and prepare, it's either handover, or war! ”

Nassau said: "Lord Zhongyibo, one month is definitely not enough, please give me a year, I need to discuss with the East India Company, and I will definitely give a satisfactory explanation to Lord Zhongyibo." ”

Yang Chao was very firm: "Just one month." In ten days, I will be able to discuss everything from north to south. A month has already seen that you are barbarians, and you are slow to deal with things. ”

Nassau was depressed, can the land be compared with the sea?

Yang Chao waved his hand, and the guards immediately sent off the guests.

One month is definitely not enough, Yang Chao knows very well in his heart that he actually just wants to fight.

The occupation of Taiwan by the Dutch is intolerable, but there is no good chance, and now the Dutch have committed such a crime, and they just want to punish them and take the opportunity to drive them away.

After sending Nassau away, he immediately called Shi Lang over.

"I am ready to send Sun Changfu and Zheng Yongwang's 200,000 troops to the south and land in Taiwan with you, and you will immediately go back to repair the warships, and after a month, ensure that all the warships can be dispatched."

Shi Lang sighed: "Governor, it won't take 200,000 people, I will bring a few thousand sailors to wipe out the Dutch foreign hair, there is no need for a labor army, you can listen to my good news." ”

Yang Chao scolded: "You think about my intentions! ”

Shi Lang pondered at this time, he is a very talented person, and he has talent, and he immediately understood.

"What do you mean by Liaodong?"

Yang Chao nodded, landing in Taiwan, what a good opportunity for military training, if you can transport 200,000 people from Jiangnan to Taiwan, then you have the ability to transport 200,000 people to fight in the northeast, this kind of opportunity is not easy.

Fighting Taiwan is nine out of ten, the Dutch are so many, needless to say, to win the war, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Liaodong can definitely set up a defense of more than 100,000 people, so to attack Liaodong, it is not easy to have fewer people, but it is not easy to have more people, Zheng Chenggong landed 200,000 people in Shanhaiguan, and finally defeated, isn't it because of lack of experience, the loss is not only a military problem, but a transportation and logistics problem.

So Shi Lang thought of it all at once.

A month later, the Dutch did not hear from him, and it was estimated that Nassau's letter had just been delivered to the Governor of the East India Company, so where would he have time to make a decision.

But Yang Chao's army began to set off, and 200,000 people had already gone south and rested for more than half a month.

Immediately board the ship at the mouth of the Xinjiang River, and sail south in waves under the escort of the warship.

The main battleship led by Shi Lang has arrived in Quanzhou and agreed with Zheng Chenggong to jointly attack Taiwan.

In later generations, a Zheng Chenggong Dutch could not stop it, let alone Yang Chao's warship, and the two sides fought three naval battles in January, and the Dutch were all defeated.

In mid-February, Yang Chao's vanguard force forcibly landed at Luermen, and the main force landed at Heliao Port.

The role of the Zheng family is immeasurable, because they are familiar with the sea conditions in this area, and they have been running Taiwan for much more time than the Dutch, but it is precisely after gaining a foothold in the mainland that Zheng Zhilong gave up the foundation of Taiwan, which is very regrettable.

At this time, the Dutch forces were concentrated in the two castles of Taiwan City and Chikan City, Yang Chao's army cut off the connection between the two cities from Luermen, and surrounded Chikan City from Heliao Port, 200,000 troops, the Dutch only had about 1,000 people, and they were powerless to rescue if they did not cut off their contact.

Then there was a tight encirclement, and then a fierce shelling, Yang Chao's cannon had the help of Swedish craftsmen, the quality was no different from the similar Western cannons, but the number was much more than the Dutch, it only took two days to make all the cannons on the Dutch city dumb, but Yang Chao did not take the opportunity to attack the city.

Then give Chikan City three days to surrender unconditionally, otherwise they will no longer accept prisoners.

The Dutch were quite kind, they did not surrender, but three days later, Yang Chao's army launched an attack, broke through the city wall and rushed into the city, killing all the Dutch, and bringing the corpses back to be exhibited in Haining County, so that the people of Haining could see the government's determination to protect them.

Then the Dutch in Taiwan City became acquainted with each other, and under the leadership of the mercenary leader, they not only surrendered, but also signed a contract with Zheng Chenggong, who was only 300 German mercenaries who knew muskets and cannons, decided to serve Zheng Chenggong for three years.

At this time, the Dutch negotiators arrived in Nanjing, and together with Nassau, they formed a negotiating mission to cease war with Yang Chao.

The Dutch demanded that Yang Chao return Taiwan and continue trading with them.

Yang Chao couldn't help but feel amused, and told them that not only was he not trading with the Dutch, not only did he want to recover Taiwan, but he had already contacted the Zheng clan and was ready to send troops to Batavia, drive the Dutch forces out of the East forever, and completely cut off the Dutch threat to the Ming people.

The Dutch representatives' faces turned pale, and it was indeed possible for Yang Chao to unite with the Zheng clan to completely drive the Dutch out of the East.

This meant that the Dutch East India Company was about to go bankrupt. (To be continued......)