Tonna. Fernandez was not a high-ranking businessman in the Viceroyalty of Batavia.

He and his colleagues had been working at a trading post in India, where they had just opened up the situation and were about to suppress the Portuguese in Goa, when the Viceroyalty of Batavia suddenly requisitioned them for the second time.

The question of Batavia seems to be more severe.

They smelled a hint of unease in the requisition order written by the Dutch and Indian Governor Ma Shouke himself - they were asked to report to Batavia except for a very small number of guards?! Recruit a large number of local mercenaries?! Such as Toner. Someone like Fernandes immediately went out on a clipper?!

What happened to Batavia now?

The captain of the clipper who came to deliver the requisition order said a few words vaguely, as if the war with the pirates was somewhat unfavorable, and he himself was not too clear because of the urgency of the situation.

Tonna. Fernandez then arranged his work as ordered, and went out on a clipper boat first.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, a schooner appeared in the Netherlands, which was fast but not enough to carry cargo - so it was often used as a means of transportation and communication between colonies.

Some say that it is the prototype of the Skuna that would later become famous in North America, and that anyone who has played the game of Grand Voyage should know it.

But the people of the Han and Tang groups didn't even have the slightest intention to verify this matter -- because they knew that it would be different from history in the future.

Tonna. Fernandez and his colleagues went to Ceylon. By the time they restocked, most of their men had been transferred to Batavia, and the main news was that we had been defeated by pirates - but, Tonna. Neither Fernandez nor his colleagues took it seriously, and it wasn't the first time we had been beaten by someone else.

Tonna. Fernandes and his colleagues arrived in Malacca. While they were resupplying, something was not quite right. There is no longer the laziness of the past - the port is now heavily guarded and heavily checked.

Moreover, everyone on the dock had a stern face, and from time to time you could see a small group of mercenaries patrolling.

The news they received was even clearer, there was a pirate organization called the Han Tang Group, I heard that it was from the big city of Antarctica, and they captured the city of Geranza as if they had fallen from the sky.

This point tona. Fernandez knew it for a long time.

But what he didn't know was that when Batavia sent 70% of its troops to fight the pirate organization, it was completely annihilated, to be precise, even the men and the ships were captured!

How is this possible? But judging from the pained expression on the face of the senior businessman, everything is true. The only good news is that the people of their Han and Tang clique did not hang their prisoners, and all the personnel were arranged to work as coolies in the northern region of Taiwan, including the business people who originally worked in the city of Geranza.

Now, in the small bars of Malacca, there is no longer any unemployed scum screaming drunkenly - much quieter - and a few British businessmen discussing something in the corner.

Tonna. Fernandez and his colleagues asked for a few glasses of rum, and several people sat down with a heavy heart.

A colleague said, "Tonna. Fernandes, I suspect that Governor Marsa is going to send you to negotiate with those Han and Tang cliques—you have negotiated with Arabs, Moors, and Indians, and I believe that all of this has made a great impression on Governor Marshou—"

Another colleague said: "God willing, they are at least civilized, even if they are like the Ming Merchants - at least they don't kill prisoners!" ”

Tonna. Fernandes smiled wryly, and he said, "To make businessmen and administrative staff to be scum coolies, they are either extremely short of people, or they don't know how to respect identity - I heard that their faces are like Akito, and their style is like that of the British round heads, and even shorter than them - God knows what they are, and I don't understand the strange things they have, what those things are-"

And so everyone started talking about those strange things.

Nothing to say all the way. When they arrived in Batavia, it was as if it was going to be a military fortress, and everyone was nervous.

It seems that all the rumors are true.

Governor Marsan personally received Tonna. Fernandez.

A few years ago, Tonner. Fernandez had met Governor Marss at a meeting, when he was in good spirits and in high spirits, but he had not seen him for a few years—he was now much older, his face was gray, and his eyes were dark—

Governor Marsan whispered, "Tona. Fernandez, I've read in your business diary about your achievements in negotiating with various low-level civilizations - I admire you, and I wish you would negotiate with them-"

"What's the bottom line of the negotiations?"

"It's going to take at least two years to hold them back - only the Cape of Good Hope has a support team rushing here, and I've managed to get people who can move to get them to take up arms, and I've hired even the most disgusting scum - and even recruited Akito into the army."

"So you're sure the Amsterdam headquarters will send support?"

Governor Marshought shook his head heavily, and said, "I don't know, all I know is that they will judge me and send someone to replace me, and it will take at least two years—"

Tonna. Fernandez saw a dead silence in Governor Marshou's eyes.

"Do they have any signs of coming against Batavia?"

Governor Marsa sighed bitterly: "Tonna. You don't know, Fernandez, there was a time when we were at our weakest, and a thousand Ming or Tu people, even if they were armed with knives and sticks, could kill all of us here, and rob us of our possessions and women—fortunately, this qiē was not born, and I no longer wanted to leave my security in the hands of my opponents—"

"Well, I see what you mean—"

Governor Marss slowly opened the Bible, pulled out a list of the contents and handed it to Tonna. Fernandez.

"This is a list of some high-ranking businessmen, whose families here want to pay some ransom, ransom them, and bring them back will also help us to know more about the truth - I hope the next one will not make my mistake - to complete this task, you will get a higher position, because that is what you have obtained through your talents."

Tonna. Fernandes smiled wryly and said: "The news I got along the way, and the news I got during the rest of the few days, confused me, I couldn't understand them, they were so powerful, and yet they were able to be silent for so many years - for the first time I lost confidence in my work." ”

"They can only crawl out of hell - fortunately they don't like to hang captives like the Moors, go ahead, just do your best, except for the ransom of those families, I will take out most of my own property, convert it into gold for you to take away, you will get a letter signed by me personally to prove your identity, you can bribe as you like, and it is better to ransom the Dick military attaché as well, even if the people of his family know that he is captured, they will not be able to pay the ransom."

"We've lost a lot this time—"

Governor Marshou, barely squeezing out a smile, said, "It doesn't matter, as long as we drag on for two years—when the support team from the Cape of Good Hope arrives, I'll add some more taxes to those Ming immigrants." ”

"Governor Marshou, that's a good idea. We can also raise the tax in Malacca a bit—"

"So we need two years. You can take the merchant ship of the Su family, they are our friends, and they notified us of the results in the first time last time, you can trust them. ”

"Okay, I'll go get ready."

The merchant ships of the Su family are typical oriental rigid sailing ships, which can also go against the wind in November. Along the way, Tonna. Fernandes soon became close to the Su family's second son.

There is a kind of person who is innately good at communicating with people - the second son of the Su family. Fernandez has a lot to know about Taiwan.

Despite Tona. Fernandez had already been to the city of Geranza, but every time the second son of the Su family mentioned the situation there, Tonna. Fernandez glared at his blue eyes and said, "God, is that true?" And this sentence made the second son of the Su family even more interested in talking.

After the Su family's plan to do internal response failed last time, they didn't even dare to ask for the payment when they saw the fiasco of the red hairy fan, so they ran back to Batavia to report the news.

Later, I saw that 6 Ming merchants went to Taiwan to do business, so they changed the ships and personnel they went there last time, and also joined in to do trade, which was not bad, and the profits were quite large.

This time, the Su family is going to open a trading post there, after all, the war on the Ming Dynasty 6 has been endless, and they can't always buy the second-hand goods of the Ming merchants - directly build a shop in Taiwan, you can buy the goods on the Ming University 6 nearby - the Taiwan Geransha market is now expanding bigger and bigger, and the first batch of merchants who built shops have earned silver taels.

The tax revenue of the Gelanza Customs in Taiwan has always been very stable, and there is no extortion like other places, and the law and order are also good, so it is a good place to do business. Everyone does business equally.

Tonna. When Fernandez heard the second son of the Su family say that the staff there would not accept bribes, his heart sank even more, and he was even less confident in his task.

The merchant ships of the Su family are now familiar with this route.

They soon reached the port of Geranza -

Oh my God, is this true?! Tonna. Fernandez shouted this sentence in his heart this time.

He saw a small boat, with red flags fluttering on it, still emitting thick black smoke, heading towards the Su family's merchant ship at a height that he couldn't understand, and the people on it were still shouting something.

The second son of the Su family turned his head and said to him a little proudly, "How is it?" Am I right? The ship is like the wind, and it would have been quicker if it had raised its sails—but it used to be smoking, but I don't know why it was now smoking—"

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