Chapter 484: The Captain's Trip

Specific to the following Fafu County, Chen Xie was not very polite, and directly took out a list. It is really a reversal of Shunchang, and there are famous literati in Jiangnan Province, but unexpectedly many people choose to attach themselves to Chen Xie.

By the time the dust settles and the officials in various places have decided, it will already be in early July. A detective team and a tax collection team, mainly composed of Dengzhou soldiers, were also built in a very short period of time. Officially began to implement the policy of 10 taxes and 1 tax on commercial tax in Jiangnan, and successfully hollowed out the government in various places, and the government could not say anything about this matter.

Let's put it this way, this system is self-contained and directly subordinate to the monarchy. The tax collected came to the Beijing Division, and eight transactions were given to the household department, and two percent went into the inner treasury. This proportion of spoils is also the result of a compromise. However, only seventy percent of the taxes received at the local level were handed over to the Jingshi, and thirty percent remained in the local area for various expenses.

After the new commercial tax system was officially put into operation, Chen Xie disappeared. It seems that overnight, Chen Xie left Jiangnan, and no one knows where he went. Fortunately, Chen Xie is the governor of the three provinces, and it is impossible to stay in Jiangnan all the time. Zhu Yujiao stayed in Nanjing, which shows that Chen Xie will use this place as his base camp in the future.

Dayuan Island is far away, and when the scenery on the sea is monotonous and makes people crazy, I finally see the destination. The red lady lay on the railing, and her seasickness reaction was not so strong. When I first got on the boat, I vomited a terrible thing.

Chen Xie's hand gently stroked behind his back, and said softly, "Don't come." You don't listen. The red lady stubbornly raised her head, glanced sideways and said, "You won't go back to Jinan, I have to come to you." Just arrived in Nanjing, you are going to sea again, I don't follow you, isn't it in vain? Besides, if I don't come along, I'll cheapen those Korean women. ”

Chen Xie had no choice but to laugh, this woman was confused, and there was no reason to talk about it. I really didn't expect this trip. The Red Lady will come suddenly. The original plan was to take a group of North Korean women on a trip. They don't get seasick, they are ruthlessly corrupted all the way over, and they can relieve the hardships of the recent period. I never thought that the red lady would kill her halfway to Nanjing. Chen Xie couldn't survive her. I had to take it on the road. along the way. The red lady was seasick too miserably, and Chen Xie didn't have the heart to be corrupt.

For the people of this era, the south is a land of miasma. It's actually not that mysterious. It's malaria that's at work. When the northerners went to the south, there were very few people who did not suffer from malaria. Chen Xie has artemisinin, so he naturally doesn't worry about this thing. After a large number of immigrants arrived in Dayuan, they all relied on artemisinin to survive ninety percent, and the rest did not hold on to about one percent.

500,000 people settled on Dayuan Island, which is the result of Chen Xie's perseverance in immigration. Clearing the wasteland is a trivial matter, and the key is that on Dayuan Island, on both sides of the freshwater, hundreds of settlements have appeared. At the mouth of the Tamsui River, a fortified fortress was built, as well as a dock and a permanent fleet.

At the same time, the Dutch were still staying in Tainan, and Chen Xie never deliberately targeted them. But it is clear that with the dramatic increase in the number of immigrants on the island of Dayuan, the Dutch felt threatened by Yan zhòng. He protested to Zheng Zhilong many times, but Zheng Zhilong ignored it, and the Dutch protested and protested, and he didn't say a word of politeness, he had to be busy earning silver.

Now Zheng Zhilong has achieved the post of chief soldier. However, the number of troops under his command has been greatly reduced. There were no more than 10,000 soldiers, and no more than 100 warships. On the contrary, there are more than 200 merchant ships in his business, which specialize in the Fujian-Fusang and Fujian-Surabaya routes. Zheng Zhilong, who is worth a lot of money, is now a rich man who is stable and his thoughts of being the overlord of the sea have long faded. This is to live a good life, and there is no longer the heart to fight. More realistically, the strength of the Dengzhou Navy is so strong that he can't match it. In just a few years, there are dozens more big ships of six or seven thousand materials (2,000 tons), and nearly 100 more ships of three or four thousand materials.

Not to mention Zheng Zhilong, the Dutch are in Tainan, and they are always worried about being beaten out, and even worried about being beaten to Surabaya. This is a very realistic concern, at this time in Europe, the situation is not so optimistic, in the face of the rise of Britain, the strength of the Dutch East India Company, unable to take into account Southeast Asia is already a very real problem.

The rise of the Dutch, that is, in just a few decades. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Netherlands, known as the coachmen of the sea, was definitely the overlord of the sea. But this country has the disadvantage of being very famous, the country is too small.

Relying on strong shipbuilding capabilities, coupled with the fact that Dutch merchants stole the charts of the voyage to the East from the Portuguese, they immediately organized merchant ships to Goa, Java and the Moluccas, India. In 1602, Dutch merchants and aristocrats joined forces to establish the East India Company, which expanded rapidly in South Asia and established a number of armed trading stations. In 1603 in Java and in 1606 in Malacca, he defeated the Spanish and Portuguese navies. In 1619, he established his first colonial stronghold in Java, Batavia (present-day Jakarta), and then invaded Sumatra from Java to the west, the Spice Islands (present-day Maluku Islands) from Portugal to the east, and then Malacca and Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka). In eastern Asia, it once invaded Taiwan, a Chinese territory. Acquired a commercial base in Nagasaki, on the Japanese island of Kyushu. In 1648, the Dutch captured the Cape of Good Hope and established a strategically important colonial base at the southern tip of Africa. In North America, based on the Hudson River Basin, the New Netherlands colony was established, and New Amsterdam was established by seizing Manhattan Island at the mouth of the river. It can be said that this period was the peak of the Netherlands and the time when the Netherlands began to decline. The process of turning from prosperity to decline is unexpectedly fast.

The rising star, Britain, after defeating Spain, was squeezed out by the Dutch everywhere British merchants. In Russia and the Baltic States, in the North American colonies and East Asian countries, in the Mediterranean and the coastal areas of West Africa, the Dutch relied on their abundant capital and basic land to monopolize the trade of the countries. In 1649, a treaty was signed with Denmark, granting cargo ships duty-free access to the Guò Sunde Strait, thus gaining trade advantages in the region. What the British people could not tolerate the most was that the Netherlands went so far as to wantonly catch fish, shrimp and other aquatic products in British waters, and even sold these aquatic products on the British market at high prices to make huge profits. These circumstances have long provoked the anger of the British bourgeoisie. In 1651, the English Parliament passed a new "Navigation Ordinance", which stipulated that a cargo imported into England must be carried by an English ship or brought to England by a ship of actual origin, which meant that no other country with the ability to ship should interfere. The Netherlands has always been a trade intermediary country and the center of commodity distribution in the world due to its large number of merchant ships, large size, high efficiency and perfect organization. Britain's new navigation regulations were clearly aimed at dealing with the Netherlands, striking a blow at its intermediary role in Britain's trade with other countries. The struggle between the Netherlands and Britain intensified as never before, with the Dutch opposing British navigation regulations and Britain refusing to abolish them, which led to the Anglo-Dutch naval war.

Of course, these things have not happened yet, and they are still in the process of brewing. But at this time, it was undoubtedly the time when the expansion of the Netherlands reached a limit. In the face of Southeast Asia, which is thousands of miles away, the Dutch East India Company can actually come up with very limited strength. Otherwise, he would not have been defeated by Zheng Zhilong, and obediently paid the protection fee.

In order to welcome Chen Xie's quiet arrival, Zheng Zhilong came to the big man early, stood on the dock and waited, looking at the battleship that was docking in the distance. The first battleship that slowly approached the shore was not Chen Xie's flagship, but a battleship called "Lushun", with a displacement of 2,000 tons and armed with sixty cannons.

Fang Sigu, Ehongluo, and Gong Salu, all dressed in Dengzhou military uniforms, stood on the dock and waited. Westerners have more experience in how to colonize, and Chen Xie has made full use of this. Over the years, some craftsmen have been dug up from Europe one after another, and they have all stayed in Dayuan to use as a supplement. It is difficult for these European craftsmen to accept the more core technology of Dengzhou, and they are restricted from leaving when they reach the master.

As the head of immigration, these three Portuguese now do not recognize their own nationality, and all of them have joined the nationality of the Ming Dynasty. Chen Xie gave them the positions of one guerrilla and two garrisons. The three of them went back and forth between Dengzhou and Dayuan, and their families settled in Dengzhou. To become a member of an ancient civilization in the East, and to become a person with an official position, is a kind of all-round sublimation. These Portuguese, under Chen Xie's command, are definitely the wave of people who are desperate.

"Liaodong" is the flagship, the second dock, when Chen Xie helped the red lady down, everyone came forward to greet him. Chen Xie didn't mean to be embarrassed, and calmly helped the red lady to go ashore, in fact, his feet were also floating, this boat that had been on for ten days, and those who came from Songjiang Mansion would be weak when they stepped on the ground.

Although it was very hard, Chen Xie still shook hands with the greeters one by one very seriously, and kept saying: "Hard work!" When he walked in front of Zheng Zhilong, Chen Xie smiled and arched his hand: "Feihuang, why are you here too?" ”

Zheng Zhilong is not a foreigner, he has to follow the rules of the Ming Dynasty, and he stepped forward to bow down, but Chen Xie raised his hand to stop him and said, "Just follow the rules of the Dengzhou camp." Zheng Zhilong hesitated for a moment, but still stood upright, and saluted crookedly: "I have seen Lord Cabinet Department. Chen Xie returned the salute with a smile, took the initiative to hold his hand and said: "Feihuang, you are a master on the sea, this sea area, we have to rely on your help, we can't stay at home, wait for the Taixi people to come to the door, we have to take the initiative and go out." ”

Zheng Zhilong laughed twice and did not answer this sentence. What do you mean about this? He doesn't have much ambition now, just stay in Fujian, earn money to live, and it's very cool. A stable and wealthy life easily destroyed the ambition of a good man at sea. Chen Xie didn't say much, just one attitude towards Zheng Zhilong, just don't make trouble for me. (To be continued......)