The frequent cruises of the East China Sea Fleet in Hong Kong and the constant movements of the Dutch on Dayuan Island have brought a lot of pressure to the Zheng family, especially the Dutch on Dayuan Island, which is equivalent to choking the Zheng family's trade door to Japan.

This nail is there, no matter how you look at it, it is extremely unpleasant, and even the biggest threat, they are more threatening than the Australians.

In order to deal with the threat posed by Dayuan Island to themselves, the Zheng family, who originally had a trading post on the island, started a new round of operations, constantly transporting supplies and people to the island.

Although the Spaniards were completely swept away from Dayuan Island in last year's battle, the Zheng family's power here was still not completely swept away.

The Zheng family's trading post on the island is the Zheng family's largest intelligence transfer station, and the information collected every day will be sent from here to Zheng Hongkui for analysis.

The Dutch conquered Dayuan Island, where they stationed five warships and more than a thousand soldiers to secure the territory they currently occupied.

The Zheng family's ships came in with obvious signs of reluctance to leave Dayuan Island, and ten warships disguised as cargo ships had docked in a harbor in the eastern part of Dayuan Island without movement for ten days.

The fact that they were only seen carrying all kinds of supplies and goods from the cabins every day, and that they were not seen carrying local specialties into the cabins, made the Dutch very suspicious of what they were doing.

As the person in charge of Dayuan Island, Edmund has sent many groups of spies to investigate here, but the news received is very small, all of them are useless things.

"Andy, I'm sure they have other intentions, trust my instincts, don't you think it's strange that those ten cargo ships have been docked for ten days and have not moved away at all?"

"Strange, Ou. Of course, Mr. Edmund, I have already found out that something is wrong, but our people do not have any evidence, according to the contract signed by our Zheng Yiguan, they have the right to dock here for a long time, and if we rush them away, we may be able to fall for the scheme. ”

As Edmund's assistant and think tank, many times the two of them are colleagues discussing countermeasures.

If Zheng Zhilong really wants to make a move on Dayuan Island, the current strength of the Dutch is really not enough to fight. They are no better than Spain, because of the limitation of strength, in Luzon and the big man, they can only give up one of them, otherwise the loss of sesame seeds will be less watermelon, and the gain will outweigh the loss.

"We should send a letter for help to His Excellency the Governor, and ask him to send more warships and soldiers during the military exercise with the Australians, as long as they don't do it before that, we will have a chance to say yes."

Asking Batavia to send forces to defend seems like a good idea. However, the number of Zheng Yiguan's ships is almost several times that of the Netherlands, and the number of soldiers is dozens of times, does Batavia have such a force to send to defend.

Obviously not, Andy's suggestion simply didn't work. It can only solve the problem in a short time, and it will not be useful in the long run.

The old Zheng family's attention to Dayuan Island actually has a lot to do with the current situation, and Dayuan is isolated overseas, which can be used as a trading base to Japan. It can also be developed as its own private land.

The only advantage here is that it is far away from the mainland and will not be attacked by other sides, and Zheng Zhilong has taken a fancy to this. That's why I attach great importance to this place.

It's just that now this place is controlled by the Dutch, and it is still difficult for him to take this place as his own, and with the news of the Australian East China Sea exercise, he doesn't dare to attack here easily, in case the Australians also intervene, it won't be fun.

The most important thing now is to find out whether the Australians will be involved in this matter, according to the Zheng family's understanding, the Spaniards and the Portuguese will never be involved in this, the Portuguese are the weakest, and the Spaniards and the Dutch are rivals.

According to the Zheng family's analysis, Australians are most likely to be involved, after all, their relationship is too close, and there are many cooperation projects between the two sides.

It would be nice if the Zheng family could get the internal affairs of Australia at this time and know how they deployed.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but the spies in Hong Kong suddenly got a message that the Australians seemed to be extremely dissatisfied with Siam and were launching an operation against them.

The source of this news was heard from a soldier in the governor's palace, because the soldier complained like a companion that the training subjects had recently been much heavier, and what he heard from the commander was that it was very likely that something would be done to Siam.

I heard that the Siamese deliberately raised the price of grain to export to Australia, and the Australians were unwilling to accept this price, judging from their always tough attitude, they would definitely retaliate against Siam, and it was likely to be military retaliation.

With this news, the Zheng family can be completely relieved to act on Dayuan Island without worrying that the Australians will intervene, but whether this news is true still needs to be confirmed.

After all, with a cautious attitude of Australians, it is rare for news to leak out.

For this reason, the Zheng family sent people to observe the vicinity of the military camp in Hong Kong for a few days, and found that there were indeed many more training tasks than before, and there were obvious signs of increasing troops.

After receiving the news, the Zheng family quickly reacted, sending ten warships disguised as merchant ships to Dayuan Island, and transported hundreds of people to the island, ready to launch an attack at any time to recapture Dayuan.

The specific time of the operation has not yet been determined, but it is definitely not now, it is the date of the joint military exercise of the Four Parties in the East China Sea, and starting a war at this time is likely to bring other people in, in order to be on the safe side, the Zheng family still decided to wait until they finished the exercise to make this decision.

After all, the geographical location of Dayuan Island is important, but it is really not important to the Zheng family at present.

However, the importance of geographical location, Lao Zheng saw this from a map bought from Australians.

Looking at the map, there is a sea between Dayuan and Fujian, but it also forms a natural barrier for both sides, and with this barrier, it is difficult for mainland forces to interfere with Dayuan Island.

And most importantly, there is a flanking situation here, so that people have no chance to escape.

I hadn't seen the map before, Zheng Zhilong didn't know, but now I regret seeing it, if I could have established a base here, this situation would not have happened. (To be continued......)