Matthew, the captured Dutchman, was free to move during this time, and was escorted to hang out among the Tiger Army. Of course, he couldn't see the most important things, but he was very purposeful to let Matthew see some façade things.

Matthew's mood was very nervous now, because he had seen the might of the Tiger Army, and he saw a more powerful army. Matthew secretly pondered that it was not unusual for his Dutch army to be beaten to the ground by fighting these wolf-like fellows.

Hearing that Li Guo called him, Matthew followed him to see Li Guo in a hurry. Seeing Li Guo's face, Matthew immediately knelt down, which was a convincing kneeling.

"General, Master Tiger, what are you looking for me?" Matthew asked respectfully.

"That's right, I want to send you back, please pass back my desire to cooperate with you and earn money together." Li Guo said, handing Matthew a letter.

"Okay, I'll relay your thoughts." Matthew bowed, took the letter and left.

Li Guo sent a fleet to send Matthew to Malacca, and another ship from Malacca to Batavia, Indonesia, which was already the new headquarters of the East India Company.

At this time, it was Cohen who managed the entire East India Company, and he was appointed Governor of the East India Company. This is a visionary but brutal man. Cohen's methods can even be described as vicious, and once in order to monopolize the clove trade, Cohen killed or drove away the indigenous people of the cloves-rich Banda Islands.

However, the East India Company was founded in 1602, just about 30 years after its establishment, and was still in the development stage, and its strength was not as strong as in the later period. So. The Dutch also did not want to go toe-to-toe with Li Guo's Tiger Army. Although they did not yet know Li Guo and his army, the crushing defeat at Malacca cost the Dutch five ships. You know, that's quite a serious loss.

But if you let it go by silently. For the Dutch, it was unbearable. Cohen, as Governor, couldn't stand it even more.

So, after a long period of deliberation and debate, Cohen and the company's top management finally reached an agreement, that is, to lead all the armed forces of Batavia to occupy Malacca.

At this time, Matthew returned, and Matthew came back on one of Lee's warships.

When they first saw Lee crossing the ship, the Dutch, including Cohen, were startled. How? Before we could attack Malacca, the enemy of Malacca came to the door?

But looking left and right, there was only one warship on the other side, and besides, in addition to a white tiger flag hanging on the ship, there was also a white flag, which was a sign of peace.

The Dutch ships surrounded them, but saw a small boat laid down on the warship, and the small boat carried several people. Sail towards the shore.

The Dutch were quite sensible and saw that there was no danger, so they did not fire at Li Guo's warship, otherwise it would be troublesome.

On the boat was Matthew. In addition to Matthew, there was another very important person on the ship, and that was Wang Tiekou.

Li Guo sent Wang Tiekou to follow him for no other purpose. It's Wang Tiekou who can stare at his eyes and talk nonsense. Li Guo believes that anyone who can lie is suitable to be a diplomat.

Matthew went ashore first. I met Cohen and explained the situation in general. turned around and pointed to Wang Tiekou, who was standing on the boat, and signaled that it was Li Guo's envoy.

Cohen nodded, and ordered Wang Tiekou to be brought ashore and properly settled.

Then, Cohen gathered the company's top management to listen to Matthew explain what had happened in detail before making a final decision.

"This Ming army is not called the Ming army." Matthew said.

Cohen was a little confused.

"This army seems to be independent of the Ming army, and the locals call them the Tiger Army. Their leader was a young man, and in their legend, this young man was transformed from a white tiger, so this young man was called Tiger Master, and this Tiger Master was called Li Guo. Little by little, Matthew made things clear.

"Li Guo's Tiger Army is very remarkable, whether it is the army or the navy, it has great strength." Matthew had been impressed by Lee's team.

"Humph! Matthew, are you frightened by the Orientals? Cohen snorted coldly.

"Dear Lord Cohen, I'm not intimidated, I'm telling the truth." Matthew told the truth.

"Don't forget," said Cohen, "we now have hundreds of merchant ships, thirty warships, tens of thousands of semi-militarized employees, and ten thousand brave private armies in Batavia. Isn't it enough to defeat them with such a force? ”

Matthew's head shook like a rattle, "Yes, Lord Governor, maybe we can wipe out a small country, but it is completely impossible to destroy Li Guo's Tiger Army. ”

Cohen couldn't stop sneering.

But Matthew didn't care, and then boasted about the might of Li Guo's Tiger Army: "The Army of the Tiger Army is almost invincible in my opinion, I have seen them drill, and their weapons are all firearms, even stronger than ours. ”

"Their navy is as powerful as their army, and in addition to more than thirty large warships with similar power to ours, there are also various small ships for melee combat. If you think that's not surprising, the most amazing thing is that they have an unknown number of superships! The ship had no sails, and when black smoke rose from the sailless ship, the wheels on both sides of the ship would turn and they could move against the wind, and the speed of the big ship was amazing. Matthew saw a new type of ship that Li Guo had specially let him see.

"However, Li Guo and they seem to have the same purpose as us, they just want to do business and make money, and they don't want to fight, this is the letter from that tiger master Li Guo to you, please take a look." Matthew pulled out Li Guo's letter.

Cohen took the letter, opened it, and saw that some words were written in Chinese, and then translated it again in Dutch. Cohen read it and handed it to the other senior personnel.

After that, Cohen and the others began to discuss. They heard what Matthew said had noses and eyes, and some believed Li Guo's words, it seemed that Li Guo had great strength, and how to deal with Li Guo still had to be carefully considered.

"I think we still have to deal a blow to that Li Guo's army!" A high-level said.

Another high-ranking person shook his head, "But that is extremely risky, the last time we attacked Malacca, didn't we suffer heavy losses?" If, as Matthew said, even if we were able to defeat Li Guo's Tiger Army, our losses would have been catastrophic. ”

Cohen thought for a while, waved his hand, and said, "That Li Guo made it very clear in the letter, he wants to do business with us, and we don't have to be busy answering him about this matter first." There is a saying in the East that it is better to see than to hear, and I want to see their strength with my own eyes. If they just brag to us, then we can still continue to attack Malacca. If Matthew's words are all true, then perhaps we can consider working with them. ”

"You mean you want to go and see where Li Guo is?" A high-level asked.

Cohen nodded, "Yes, that's exactly what I thought, didn't Li Guo say it in the letter?" He will be waiting for us in Malacca. ”

Before they could reply, a Dutch soldier ran up to Cohen and reported to Cohen, "Your Excellency, the enemy envoy from Malacca has smashed the plate!" (To be continued......)