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The third day of the seventh month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen

In the city of Geranza, located in the south of Dayuantai, groups of shirtless men, most of whom are Gaoshan people and Han Chinese who come to Dayuan to beg for a living, are walking down the street with heavy baskets on their backs.

Although the Dutch came to Dayuan for a much shorter time than the Spaniards, the Dutch at this time were known as sea coachmen, and with their strong national and naval strength, they soon built two cities in Taiwan, the city of Geranza and the city of Prominza. Among them, the city of Geranza is the most, the whole city took more than ten years to build, and it is also the center of the Dutch rule, which not only houses the families of the Dutch in the Dayuan, but also nearly 1,000 Dutch soldiers stationed all year round.

The Dutch Governor, O'Ward, sat on a spire of the tallest building in the city, and looked at the ant-sized crowd below, with an indescribable sense of satisfaction.

It's been three years since he came to the big staff, and Ovaud has completely changed from the mentality of being "assigned" when he first came to the big staff. Dayuan is a good place, there are rice, cane sugar, but also tobacco, hemp, ginger, cotton cash crops. Every year, more and more people are handed over to Indian companies, and they are increasingly valued by the Dutch government and the East India Company. And while enjoying a paradise-like life here, I also earned a lot of money enough to enjoy my old age, what is there to be dissatisfied with? I can't remember who the bastard had sent to Oward, but now Oward still wanted to thank the bastard who had sent him in, if he hadn't been able to make money in just three years that he wouldn't have earned in the Netherlands for decades.

"It's a nice day!" Oward stretched his long waist, reached out and took a sip of tea from his teacup, then frowned and shouted outside, "Edie, hurry up and change me a cup of hot tea............ Edie...... Damn this slacker is deaf? ”

"Coming, coming......"

After a while, a fair-skinned white woman in a long yellow dress walked in from the outside with a tray. Place the cup of tea in his hand in front of him.

Seeing the visitor, Oward asked strangely, "Belinda, why are you...... Where did Edie go, is that slacker lazy again? ”

This charming Caucasian woman with a plump figure is Oward's wife Belinda, and she smiled softly: "Idi, they were called out by Lieutenant Colonel Villa, and I heard that they were going to help Lieutenant Colonel Villa with something, so now there are only two of us left in the house." ”

Oward frowned: "What is Villa busy with these days, and he is always missing?" ”

Belinda said with some disgust: "In a few months, you will be stepping down and returning to China, and Lieutenant Colonel Villa, as your adjutant, will also return to China together, so naturally you have to deal with some personal matters, are you so unkind?" ”

"Oh...... Of course not...... I'm not that unkind. Oward shrugged helplessly. Picked up the teacup and took a sip of black tea.

"Oh Ward...... Do you think we should buy a house in Amsterdam after returning home this time? ”

"No...... I think it's better to go back to my hometown of Rotterdam and settle down, after all, that's my hometown......"

"No...... Amsterdam is the heart of the Netherlands, Rotterdam is so barren that there is almost nothing, and the environment in Rotterdam is not good for Erin......"

The two of them were talking about unnutritious words, when suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside, and soon a burly soldier in a red and blue military uniform walked in briskly from outside.

"Huh...... It's Lieutenant Colonel Villa. ”

"Villa, aren't you taking care of your personal affairs, how come you have time to come?"

"Your Excellency the Governor. I just received some bad news. Lieutenant Colonel Villa's expression was a little grim, and he took a note from his pocket and handed it to Oward.

Oward took the note and looked at it, and immediately raised his eyebrows, and asked with a surprised expression, "Is the information true?" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Villa said solemnly: "I guess it should be basically true, this information was sent by our intelligence officers lurking in Keelung." According to the intelligence, the Spanish governor of Antony, who was stationed in the general office, took a few people to the Ming Kingdom and returned and began to give mobilization orders to the troops. At the same time, he also began to solicit people to raise grain, grass, and ammunition, and it seemed that he was going to make some big moves. ”

"Big move?"

Oward frowned and thought for a while and said: "The Spanish troops in Keelung and Tamsui are only about a thousand people, even if the local natives and folk husbands are killed, they can recruit thousands of people, what big moves can they have?" Do they still dare to attack the city of Prominza or even the city of Geranza? "Speaking of which. Oward laughed himself. Assault on the city of Geranza? The idea is simply insane.

Lieutenant Colonel Villa didn't laugh, but said with some concern: "Your Excellency, don't forget that the intelligence says that Oward also went to Shandong in the Ming Kingdom before. I've heard that there is a very powerful new marquis in Shandong. It was under his impetus that Shantung resumed trade with Spain, and I have heard that the Spaniards had obtained many good things from him, and that Spanish merchant ships were now running there almost every day. Do you think the Spaniards persuaded the Marquis of the Ming Kingdom to join them in attacking us? ”

"Hmm...... It's not impossible. Naturally, Oward would not be a fool to be the governor, and his eyes rolled to think of this possibility, but then he said with some distress: "It's just that we don't have intelligence to help in Shandong, so there is no way to figure out the authenticity of this information." ”

"No matter how true this information is, we have to show an attitude, and I think you should write a letter to the company's headquarters, asking them to send more warships and soldiers to defend our interests in the East. I really can't imagine that such a colony, which is the size of the Netherlands, should be guarded by less than 2,000 soldiers and more than a dozen warships. Villa said, too, with a look of anger on his face.

"Villa, calm down." Oward had to reassure his somewhat agitated adjutant, "You must know that our country has too many colonies in the world, and it is impossible to send a large number of troops to garrison each place. And you know that my term of office is over in less than three months, and even if the company sends more troops, it will be the next governor's business. ”

More is better than less, which is a common disease and habit of all superiors. Because more things mean more trouble, and Governor Oward, who has already made enough money, is now thinking about how to return to Holland and live a decent life, and he doesn't want to worry about trouble that won't happen right away.

After calming the aide-de-camp who was a little excited, and sending him away, Ovaud sat down and rubbed his temples and said to his wife: "Belinda, you go to see Erin and teach her some high society etiquette, otherwise how to integrate into high society when we return to Amsterdam will make us lose face." ”

"Okay, I'll teach her." Belinda agreed softly, and then went out with her plump delicate body.

The night was getting dark. After a day of noisy city, the city of Geranza gradually became silent.

The area of the city is not about the size of a small county town, but the so-called sparrows are small and complete, and in addition to the main urban area inhabited by the Dutch, there are also areas inhabited by the indigenous people and the Han people who come to Dayuan to open up wasteland. Since the fifth year of Chongzhen, there have been more than 1,000 ships traveling between Dayuan and the mainland every year, and the total number of Han immigrants traveling between the two sides of the strait has exceeded 10,000. In the eyes of the coastal people at that time, going to Taiwan to reclaim the famine was like a peasant going to the county to work. It's a matter of minutes. Today, the total amount of cultivated land has exceeded 10,000 hectares. What used to be a wild and barren land is now a fertile land, like a thriving world.

But with the increase in the number of Han Chinese in Dayuan. The Dutch colonists were also wary of the Han Chinese. Since the 11th year of Chongzhen, the current Dutch governor O'Ward has introduced the "apartheid system", in which it is stipulated that Han Chinese are not allowed to build houses in Gaoshan settlements. It is also forbidden to contact and trade with the Gaoshan people without permission. They even offered bounties in Gaoshan villages for anyone who caught Han Chinese entering Gaoshan villages without permission. For each one caught, you can get a bounty of five liels (Dutch currency). After nine o'clock in the evening, if the Han people did not wear lanterns in the city, they were not allowed to cross the distance of more than six houses, and the offender was fined, if it was a group of Han people walking, only one lantern was allowed, and the offender was also fined, and if a Han person walked with a lantern and accidentally walked to the house at the end of the city of Geranza, he still had to be fined. All of the above has only one purpose, and that is to turn the Han people into second-class citizens.

However, as the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance, and the various actions of the Dutch naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the Han people in the city of Geranza. Although the contradictions between the two sides have not broken out now, the voice of secret resistance has begun to sprout, and Gong Xiaoman, who belongs to the first place of the Arikawa Division, and several of his companions infiltrated the city of Geranza at this time.

It was very hot in June, and the north side of the city was the main area, where the Dutch colonists and those soldiers lived, and the Han and Gaoshan people who came to Dayuan to reclaim the land lived in the southern area, where the terrain was narrow, less than one square kilometer was crowded with four or five thousand people, and the simple wooden houses were next to each other, and the streets were also full of sewage and stinking sewage, and Gong Xiaoman lived in one of the small wooden houses with three Han people who came from Fujian to reclaim the wasteland.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

Gong Xiaoman couldn't stop patting the mosquito in front of him and said to a young man next to him dissatisfiedly: "Erdan, how did you live in this ghost place for several years, I only lived for a few days and I felt as if I had stayed for several years." ”

The young man known as Erdan was a standard coastal man, with a thin figure and a dark complexion, and he smiled honestly: "What's this, just get used to it." There is a lot of land here, you can earn a lot of silver every year by farming here, just like I brought back six taels of silver to my family last year, I only need to work for a few more years to tear down the family's earthen house and build a spacious and bright big tiled house, and then ask someone to tell me a daughter-in-law, what do you say I am not satisfied with? When he said this, Erdan's face had a look of satisfaction.

Gong Xiaoman was puzzled and asked: "Erdan, why don't you go to Shandong, there are a lot of opportunities in Shandong?" I have heard that there is a lot of recruitment, and if you have the strength to do so, you will not be paid less than a silver dollar a month, and you will only have to work there for a year or two to keep it, and you will marry your daughter-in-law and build a house. ”

Hearing this, another middle-aged man next to him sneered: "You are talking nonsense, how can there be such a good thing." One silver dollar per month. I've heard that silver dollars are so expensive that one silver dollar can be exchanged for one tael or one penny of silver in our place, and according to you, there are more than ten taels of silver a year when you work there, so why don't you go and come to this ghost place to eat with us? ”

"I ......" Gong Xiaoman immediately became dumb, this problem is unsolvable for him now.

"Look...... I can't tell. The middle-aged man looked at the speechless Gong Xiaoman and said proudly: "Young people are still down-to-earth, and what do you say about a silver dollar a month, I really think we are fools, how can there be such a good thing in the world!" ”

After the middle-aged man preached in a tone of a passer-by, he took out a coarse porcelain cup from the bedside and drank a large sip of water. I was about to continue to say something......

"Smack...... Crackling ......"

Suddenly, there was a series of chaotic sounds of things falling to the ground and faint cries.

"What happened?" Several people in the room looked at each other, and then, almost at the same time, jumped out of the bed and put on their shoes and rushed out of the room.

When they ran outside, they saw a group of Dutch soldiers in red and blue uniforms walking down the street with a group of men in short gray shirts, led by a small but good-looking man. Behind them, more than a dozen gorgeously dressed but already somewhat torn women staggered after them, and those in gray clothes were shouting at them to go quickly.

"Who are these people and why are they happening?"

After seeing the scene in front of him, Gong Xiaoman couldn't help but be taken aback, but before he could speak, he felt his clothes tighten, and then the whole person was pulled back, and then the whole person was pulled under the eaves.

"What's wrong with you?" Gong Xiaoman was very dissatisfied and turned around and was about to scold, but saw the middle-aged man in the same room with a solemn expression. Yan sù said: "Xiaoman, don't speak, these Dutch people are not easy to mess with, don't make trouble for yourself." ”

The second egg on the side also persuaded: "Yes, Brother Xiaoman, Uncle Dog is right, those Dutch are fierce." There are also those people in gray clothes, they are all from the Zheng family in Fujian, and these people are with the Dutch and kill a lot of our Han people. Those people outside must have been caught here by the Zheng family's people after tying up tickets at sea. ”

"What's going on?" Gong Xiaoman felt that he had encountered a big fish, although he had long known that the people of the Zheng family actually had dealings with the Dutch. But they didn't expect that they would be so deeply involved, and the Zheng family's people would send people to the city of Geranza after robbing the merchant ships at sea. What the hell is going on, Gong Xiaoman's suspicions in his heart are even heavier.

It was late at night. Most of the lights in the room were extinguished, but Gong Xiaoman couldn't sleep at all while lying on the bed, his heart was always thinking about the scene just now, his experience and intuition told him that the relationship between the Zheng family and the Dutch was by no means just ordinary collaborators, and the relationship between them must have exceeded his imagination.

"Be sure to report what you just saw."

Gong Xiaoman gritted his teeth, he took out a small bag from a corner next to the bed, and then shrank it all into the quilt, then opened the small bag, took out a pen and paper, and a small flashlight. This is the treasure that Hou Ye distributed to Arikawaji. Gong Xiaoman was also stunned when he saw this thing emitting a bright pillar of light for the first time, he really couldn't imagine that there was something in this world that could emit light without fire, but this thing was too precious, it couldn't invade water or bump, and it couldn't be used for too long, otherwise this treasure wouldn't be able to shine. Gong Xiaoman, who covered his whole body in the quilt, began to write down what had just happened and his guesses on paper with a flashlight......

Just when Gong Xiaoman was immersed in writing, Oward was receiving an important guest in the Governor's Palace, and this guest was the middle-aged man with a vicious face that Gong Xiaoman saw on the street just now.

"Oh...... Mr. Zheng, welcome to you, I heard that you have recently made another big deal, is that right? Oward stood up and opened his hands to the visitor to hug him, but was dodged by the visitor.

This man with elegant manners was Zheng Zhilong's henchman Zheng Yang, and after seeing Zheng Yang avoid it slightly, he smiled bitterly: "Your Excellency, we Han people are not used to this kind of understanding, I have received your wishes, as for the hug, I will be exempt." ”

"Haha...... You Han people are just too shy. Oward laughed, not reluctantly, and then sat back in his seat, and said to Zheng Yang with bright eyes: "You Han people have a saying that you don't have anything to do and go to the Three Treasures Palace, I don't know what advice you have when you come to me this time?" ”

Zheng Yang, who had dealt with the Yiren a lot, was not surprised by Ou Ward's directness, and he also said straight to the point: "Your Excellency the Governor, you must already know about the battle we had with the Weihai Weishui Division some time ago. To tell you the truth, we lost a lot of ships in that battle, but what distressed us the most was that we lost too many guns, so our leader wanted to buy some twenty-four-pounder guns from you, and the price was negotiable! ”

"How much do you want to buy?"

"The more the merrier, if we can, we want to buy fifty first!"

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