The city of Geranza, which was established by the Dutch as a trading center in Taiwan, was also renamed 'Geranza Province' by the Dutch, and Taiwan is currently occupied by Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch.

The Dutch occupied Tainan and Taipei, while Zheng Zhilong occupied the central part of Taiwan's west coast, which was originally a place for pirates to settle down, and the first to come here was the founding king Yan Siqi.

Wen Bangliang once followed Yan Siqi in Taichung, and after Yan Siqi failed to plan a peasant uprising, he came to Taiwan, and later died of overeating.

After Yan Siqi's death, the pirates embraced Zheng Zhilong as the leader of the brotherly alliance, and the Taichung area became Zheng Zhilong's territory.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there was a great drought in southern Fujian, and Zheng Zhilong took advantage of the situation.

After he was appeased, Zheng Zhilong organized immigrants whenever there was a disaster in Fujian. Each person was given three taels of silver, and three people were given a cow, and many people were moved to the Taichung area.

Taipei was originally occupied by the Spaniards, and they saw that the Dutch had gone to Tainan to set up a base, so they also opened a base in Taipei.

Just a few years ago, the Spaniards were driven out by the Dutch.

Taiwan is not very convenient for land transportation, Taipei, Taichung, Tainan basically have no road connection, traffic is by sea, but the Dutch have begun to expand to the central region of the west coast, in history Zheng Zhilong lost the central region, and ran to surrender to the Manchu Qing, and later his son Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan.

Soldiers of the Nanyang Infantry Brigade stormed the city of Geranza and took control of the Dutch in the city.

"The king is here, the king is here."

The Han people in the city shouted excitedly, and looked at the Shandong soldiers who rushed into the city with tears in their eyes.

Putman was captured in the Governor's Office, and the city of Geranza was divided into an inner city and an outer city, in an L-shape, with the inner city horizontally and the outer city vertically.

The city of Geranza is also the later Anping Castle in Taiwan.

The attack was on the inner city, and when the soldiers entered the city, they did not find too many accidental injuries, and the deaths were all Dutch soldiers, officials, merchants, and their families, because the Han people and those merchants who came to trade in the city were mostly concentrated in the outer city.

The Hermes-Epitek in the inner city excitedly ran to the outer city, and soon the outer city was also in a bustle.

The Dutch brutally suppressed the Han people and the Gaoshan tribe in Tainan, and forced them to believe in Christianity, as well as various taxes, such as poll taxes and hunting taxes, which were very brutal.

The Nanyang Infantry Brigade began to search for all the Dutch in the city, and at the same time, under the leadership of Han Min, rushed outside the city to clear out the scattered Dutch soldiers.

By the end of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Dutch had signed agreements in 57 villages to maintain Dutch rule over these areas, and by now it had risen to more than 70 villages.

Some of these villages are composed of Han Chinese, some are composed of Gaoshan people, and some are composed of Pingpu people. At the same time, the Dutch began to extend to the central plains of the west coast, and Zheng Zhilong did not garrison any troops in Taiwan at all.

About 1,000 Dutch soldiers were captured in the inner city, and more than 3,000 Dutch officials, businessmen and family members were also captured.

As soon as the Dutch surrendered in the city of Geranza, the Dutch warships in Dayuan Harbor also raised the white flag, and the ten warships transferred from the Cape of Good Hope can be said to be extremely depressed.

I just came to the Far East, and I didn't go out arrogantly at all, so I was picked up.

After the surrender of the Dutch warships in Dayuan Harbor, the First Fleet took over the Dutch warships and began to check the merchant ships in the harbor.

An inventory found that there were more than a dozen merchant ships in the port that belonged to Zheng Zhilong.

"Haha, it's all confiscated by the official." Su Buheng laughed and said, "Those ships that are not Zheng Zhilong, they evade taxes, operate without a license, and are fined half of their goods." ”

"Yes."

…… The Shandong army defeated Tainan, and the people of Tainan were boiling for a while, and all the villages that had been brutally atrocities sent people to the city of Geranza.

The administrators who had arrived with the First Fleet began to take notes of the crimes committed by the Dutch in Tainan, and the Dutch governor in Taiwan, Putman, and the Dutch soldiers were to be handed over to the military courts.

Judging by the crimes committed by Putman, his fate is estimated to be miserable.

In Dayuan Port, Zheng Zhilong's crew has also been controlled, and those maritime merchants who came from Fujian and Guangdong looked at the tickets in their hands with a sad face.

Half of the fine! Coupled with the taxes collected by the Dutch before, this is a waste of money, and it will be a loss.

Zhao Yan is now an envoy of Daming City, and the fine can be said to be justified, so they are glad that the Shandong Navy did not take away their merchant ships.

Even if they take away their merchant ships, they will tell the heavens and the earth not to be spiritual.

At the same time as issuing fines, the First Fleet also issued a manual to those maritime merchants on the "Daming Maritime Trade Management Regulations".

The regulations stipulate that all merchant ships on the southeast coast should come to Tainan or Shandong to register for a 'maritime license'.

In case of emergency, such as war or disaster, all merchant ships will unconditionally accept the requisition of the Shandong Navy and give a certain remuneration afterwards.

It is forbidden to attack or plunder the ships of the Ming Dynasty, and the offender is guilty of a capital crime.

It is forbidden to evade import and export duties, and the offender shall be punished with a capital offense, and shall be released by reading the law, and half of the goods shall be fined in advance.

The Shandong Navy has the obligation to protect any merchant ship that has ascended the throne in the waters under its control.

The regulations also attach tax collection standards for various commodities, and the current import and export tariffs in Shandong have been changed to collect different tariffs for different goods.

Those things that encourage imports, such as saltpeter and sulfur, are exempt from import duties, while those on exports are frighteningly high, and other import items, where they involve protected industries, are subject to relatively high tariffs. The cotton cloth that encourages exports is also tariff-free, and those of Zhao Yan's own industries are tariff-free, and it is almost the same whether it is levied or not anyway. The export tariffs of the products produced by those private factories are very normal, generally between 10~50%, with large profits and small profits.

On the southeast coast, the collection method is different, and now Fujian is still under the control of Zheng Zhilong, so it is not possible to collect taxes at the port for a while.

Therefore, the way to collect taxes is to catch them at sea, and those who do not have documents will be fined.

The amount of money fined is secondary, the important thing is to force those maritime merchants to Shandong to make a living.

When they went to sea, they were first collected by Zheng Zhilong, and then when they went to sea, they had to be collected by the Shandong Navy, so they had no money to earn.

Do not pay taxes on the Shandong Navy?

All right! Wait for the fine! Punish you!

If it is paid, it is natural to get rid of one of them, after all, no one can bear the taxes of both parties. So who to throw off depends on the strength of both sides.

At the same time, it also depends on whose tax collection is lighter.

Zheng Zhilong is a tax of 30,000 taels of silver per ship, which makes people lack flexibility in business, and some goods that are small and small cannot be exported.

However, Shandong is different, the tax is based on goods, and maritime merchants are more flexible in choosing the import and export trade of goods, and the space for operation is relatively large.

Secondly, in terms of goods, Shandong's goods are not less than those of Fujian and Guangdong.

Because Shandong itself has many novel goods, in addition to Qingdao this trade port, there is also a Songjiang port, Songjiang Port has been used as a supply port of Qingdao Port before, Jiangnan goods are generally gathered to Songjiang Port first, and then transported to Qingdao, now Songjiang Port has been Qingdao in general, directly to Nagasaki shipments, Qingdao to Nagasaki, Songjiang to Nagasaki distance is about the same.

Now that Tainan has been laid, the goods from Qingdao and Songjiang can be gathered in Tainan first, and then transported from Tainan to Nanyang and even India.

Since the beginning of this year, Zheng Zhilong has been completely driven out of the market, and the rest of their market is Nanyang.

Of course, they are still acting as compradors for the Europeans and buying Ming goods on their behalf.

In terms of operation, compared with Fujian, Shandong has no disadvantages in the north and south, in addition to occupying a huge advantage in the northern market, at the same time, Liaodong and North Korea have also opened trade ports, and the northern sea trade has been monopolized by Zhao Yan.

And after the south defeated Tainan, there was no disadvantage compared with Zheng Zhilong.

Choosing Shandong is far more business opportunities than staying in Fujian.

Maritime merchants with a little brain know how to choose, of course, they abandon Zheng Zhilong, and then switch to Shandong, Fujian and Guangdong maritime merchants run away, plus intercept Zheng Zhilong's merchant ships, which basically cut off Zheng Zhilong's financial resources.

Of course, this will inevitably lead to a conflict, and it will be a large-scale conflict, but with the current strength of the First Fleet, it is no longer afraid of a conflict with Zheng Zhilong.

Su Buheng left Wen Bangliang in Tainan, split the First Fleet into two parts, and left Wen Bangliang with 20 warships, 10 frigates, and 3 flying clippers.

Su Buheng took another 8 warships, as well as 10 frigates, 12 troop transports, and 3 clippers to the South Seas to attack Batavia and other strongholds of the Dutch.

The Nanyang Infantry Brigade left 1,000 soldiers in Taiwan, and the other tens of thousands of soldiers accompanied the fleet to fight in the Nanyang.

There are still 10 warships in Palembang being equipped, and these 10 warships are relatively complete, and the sailors of those 10 warships have been brought with them before departure.

Therefore, Su Buheng will have 18 warships and 10 frigates, as well as tens of thousands of marines, and he will take the fleet to Nanyang to attack the stronghold of the Dutch in Nanyang.

And Wen Bangliang has 20 warships and 10 frigates in his hands, and he will use these forces to fight Zheng Zhilong.

Although Taiwan has only 1,000 soldiers, it is completely sufficient.

Only the power of the Dutch exists in Taiwan, and there is simply no need for many soldiers. At the same time, Taiwan's population is only a little more than 100,000, not to mention that even the administrative staff have been brought this time.

With Shandong's administrative capacity, it is almost impossible for any chaos to occur.

Moreover, it will not be long before Shandong will send troops and horses to Taiwan, after all, the Nanyang Infantry Brigade is not responsible for garrisoning the territory, and the Nanyang Infantry Brigade is a combat group.

Soon, the First Fleet was divided into two parts, Su Buheng headed for the South Seas with his battleships and frigates, and Wen Bangliang began to clean up the Dutch stronghold in Taiwan and cooperate with the administrative staff to take over various places.

After Wen Bangliang received it at Dayuan Port, he took the fleet to the Taichung area. When he came to Taichung, he couldn't help but feel emotional.

At that time, this was the territory of the Brotherhood League, and Yan Siqi also wanted to be like a general, wanting to start by reclamation, and recruited thousands of people from Fujian to come to Taichung to reclaim.

Taichung now is even better than it was back then, and there are already 30,000 or 40,000 people concentrated here. Zheng Zhilong, who has already controlled Fujian, obviously doesn't look down on the people of Taichung, and any town on the mainland can compare to Taichung's people, and at the same time, there is no commercial significance here, and Zheng Zhilong, who has been whitewashed, does not need any place to hide, and only a few hundred soldiers are stationed in Taichung.

As soon as Wen Bangliang arrived, he docked at the port, and took the sailors on the ship to get off the ship to take over the territory, and the personnel under Zheng Zhilong obviously did not dare to move when they saw so many people coming ashore.

Seeing that it was the Shandong Navy, he went to negotiate.

Wen Bangliang asked people to take out the order of the military department and issue a notice to them that Taiwan had been placed under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, and that the government would be established again, and that unrelated personnel would leave quickly.

Directly using the imperial court to press, the effect is obviously very good, but the personnel sent by Tianzheng Zhilong returned to Fujian by boat, and the Taichung Plain was officially received.

…… At this time, Fujian Shijing.

When the First Fleet appeared on the southeast coast, Zheng Zhilong was always paying attention to the movements of the First Fleet.

The Shandong Navy went south collectively, and this time its strength increased dramatically, so Zheng Zhilong had to be vigilant and secretly vigilant.

The strength of the Shandong Navy is getting stronger day by day, which has made Zheng Zhilong feel that it may not be so simple to be a rich man.

Soon someone reported that it took only six days for the Shandong navy to capture the Dutch city of Geranza.

In Ishii's mansion, several of Zheng Zhilong's younger brothers were anxious to ask Zheng Zhilong to send troops to support the Dutch, after all, they had a common enemy at this time.

The so-called cold lips and teeth are the current situation.

If it unites with the Dutch, it may also compete with the Shandong Navy, but if it does not support the Dutch, the southeast coast may change.

Zheng Zhilong suppressed them.

"If you move at this time, you and I will be killed." Zheng Zhilong shook his head and said.

"Big brother, how could it be!" Zheng Cai asked puzzled.

"If we send troops to help the Dutch, it will be a traitor, think about how the Jin merchants died!" Zheng Zhilong said coldly, "Once we make a move, he Zhao Yan can deduct a traitor on our heads, and when the time comes, who can stop us from waving our troops south?" ”

Everyone was silent for a while!

At this time, Zhao Yan's power was monstrous, the cabinet and Dali Temple were in his hands, and when he signed a contract with Chongzhen, a seemingly ordinary contract became the reason for Zhao Yan to rule the world.

"Big brother, he, Zhao Yan, is not fighting Mongolia, I'm afraid he won't be able to draw troops for a while and a half." Gan Hui said half-loudly.

"But the Shandong soldiers and horses will come back sooner or later."

"Then we just watched Dongfan Island being occupied by them like this?" Gan Hui said urgently.

"Humph! It won't be long. Zheng Zhilong suddenly showed a cold smile and asked Zheng Cai, "Has our silver been sent to the capital?" ”

"It should have been delivered." Zheng Cai replied: "It is estimated that there will be a reply in a short time." ”

"Hmm!" Zheng Zhilong nodded with satisfaction, "Just give us some time, and we can train a strong army on land, one in the south and one in the north, to suppress the rebels with Your Majesty." ”

"Big brother, I'm afraid this is not very reliable!" Li Guozhu, who was silent on the side, suddenly said meaningfully.

"Zhao Yan's idiot, his own bitter fruit, he has to swallow it himself in the end." Zheng Zhilong suddenly laughed, his face full of pride and victory......―――――― 8,000 today!

(To be continued)