The Dutch deceived the port of Dayuan, but they were never recognized by these natives, so they often launched attacks on their patrols.

Therefore, for many years after the first landing of the Dutch, the scope of activities was actually limited to a small area around the port of Dayuan.

In addition, although the Dutch are building the city, but their city of Geranza has not been completely built yet, and this is only an inner city, the outer city has not been seen until now, in history, the Dutch completely built the city of Geranza, it was not until 1632, that is, the fifth year of Chongzhen, that the inner city of the city of Geranza was completely built, and the outer city was built two years later.

Therefore, at this time, the castle of the entire Dayuan Dutch is still only a rudimentary form, and its strength is only to maintain their existence, and it can only affect the surrounding area within a radius of dozens of miles on the island of Taiwan, and there is no influence at all if it is farther away.

With the area currently controlled by the Dutch on the island of Taiwan, not even one-tenth of the area controlled by the sea wolf, this is also the reason why the Dutch promised the Fujian government this time that they were willing to help them enter and suppress the sea wolf, even if the Dutch have no way to control the island of Taiwan at present, they do not want to see the sea wolf sit down on the island of Taiwan, and threaten their existence on the island of Taiwan in the future.

When the Dutchman's fleet sailed into the port of Dayuan and docked at the dock, a sturdy middle-aged man stepped down from the flagship at the head.

These Dutch were far less dressed than the Spaniards or even the Portuguese, and in Europe they were known for their modest dress, not as ornate as the nobles of other old countries.

When the middle-aged man disembarked, he was immediately greeted by Peter, and the Dutch, who were stationed at the high level, surrounded him into the castle that had not yet been built.

Although there is no business recently, the construction of the castle and the construction of the fort here have been accelerated, and there are many Ming people in tattered clothes and local naked natives, busy on the construction site, constantly cutting down the surrounding trees, mining stones, transporting various building materials, and building these buildings little by little under the supervision and scolding of the overseers like ants moving.

Before entering the castle, the middle-aged man glanced around the situation. "Your Excellency, the progress of the work here is still too slow, the last time I returned to the headquarters of the company in Batavia, it had already begun, why hasn't it been completed yet?" ”

Peter glanced at the busy construction sites, smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Commander Waite, you can't blame me for this!" I've been overseeing construction all over the place during this time, but we're still too short of manpower here, and we used to be able to recruit some Ming people from land, but now it's hard to recruit people from land!

First, those Chinese pirates fought back and forth in the coastal areas of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and then Zheng Yiguan was forced out of here by the sea wolf, Yan Siqi and Chu Cailao, and now almost the entire coastal area of Fujian has fallen under the control of the sea wolf.

As you know, the sea wolves are very strong, and they also occupy two places north of Formosa (the Dutch name for the island of Taiwan), and in recent years they have collected a large number of people from the coastal land of Fujian Province and immigrated them to Tamsui and chicken coops.

In addition, there is also that Yan Siqi, who also continues to immigrate to Formosa from the land, so when they control the coastal area of Fujian, it will be difficult for us to recruit laborers on land!

And the original recruited laborers, after coming, many of them are either exhausted, or sick, and called by the Lord, so we can't find more labor to speed up the construction, and if we can't solve this problem, then I'm afraid we can only transport slaves from Bacheng! ”

It turned out that the person called Werther by Peter was the commander of the fleet who came this time, and Werther had been sent to the senior officer to handle official business as a merchant last year, and Waite proposed that the construction of the castle and various forts here should be accelerated, and under his construction, construction began at that time.

But this time, after he came here, he saw that the construction situation here was not ideal, and many places had just laid the foundation, and there was still a long way to go before it was fully completed, so he was not very satisfied with this.

After listening to Peter's answer, he nodded, and without saying anything more, he followed Peter into the government hall.

The two sides did not exchange pleasantries too much, and Waite showed Peter the company's letter of appointment to him, entrusting him with full authority to handle this time to assist the Ming government in the attack on the sea wolf.

Peter immediately accepted the company's arrangement, offering his full assistance to Waite's operation.

"I wonder if Your Excellency the Commander led the fleet to Formosa this time, but did you encounter the ship of the sea wolf?" This was Peter's primary concern now, and he immediately asked Waite.

"Touched! As we approached Formosa, we came across several ships flying the wolf's head flag, which were moving very fast, but did not intercept us, but watched us from a distance, and followed us until we came to the great man, and then disappeared into the sea.

I sent a boat to try to drive them out, but it didn't work, because they were fast and nimble, and their sails were easy to maneuver and sail in the wind, much more nimble than our ships, so we just chased them away and they were soon back in our sight! As soon as Waite mentioned this, he was a little annoyed and said with an unhappy face.

"Yes! These damn Chinese pirates don't know where they got this nimble clipper, so I once sent a letter to Bacheng to ask the company to check on the matter, and I don't know if the company found anything? Peter, too, looked helpless, and continued to Waite.

"The company has already checked, the letter you sent and the painting of this kind of ship, the company attaches great importance to it, and specifically checked the situation of this kind of ship, although this kind of ship is our European ship type, and the British dhow is somewhat similar, but after careful identification by the company's personnel, it is believed that this kind of ship is not exactly the same as the dhow used by the British.

This type of ship has a more graceful line than the English dhows, a slightly lower side, a lower center of gravity, and the shape and arrangement of the sails are not quite the same as those used by the British, and seem to be easier to handle than their kind.

We also asked the British about this, but the British did not admit that they provided the sea wolf with this kind of ship, the British only did very little trade with the sea wolf, mainly sold the sea wolf a batch of British woolen wool and Indian canvas, but this kind of ship was definitely not provided to the sea wolf!

Neither they nor themselves had used such ships in the East, which they used mainly for their operations along the coast of Europe, and would not sail far here, let alone in such numbers.

Therefore, the company judged that this kind of ship should not have been supplied to the sea wolf by the British, let alone by the Spaniards or the Portuguese.

Then there is only one possibility, and that is that these Chinese pirates built these ships themselves, and they probably did not know how to recruit some skilled shipbuilders in our Europe to build such ships! Waite began.

"Impossible! The performance of such ships is very good, even in our West, no one has built such ships, and if they had, they would have been built in large quantities a long time ago, why is it that no one uses such ships, but only here? If someone could build such a ship, they would not have been recruited here to help these Chinese pirates build ships! Peter immediately shook his head.

Waite shrugged his shoulders helplessly, smiled bitterly and said: "This is just the company's speculation, I don't know the specific situation, this kind of ship is really good, this explanation is not very reasonable, no one can guess why, but the fact is that no one has ever sold this kind of ship to the sea wolf, so the only explanation can only be that the sea wolf itself built these ships!"

But we don't have to worry too much, although this kind of ship is good, but after all, it is only a sloop, and there are not many cannons on it, if it really fights, these ships can attack on the periphery, but they cannot be used as the main force!

And I believe that even if the sea wolves themselves build these ships, there will not be too many of them, such ships are very difficult to build, they will not have too many! ”

"It was better to be like this! This kind of ship is very troublesome, I hope they don't have too much, it has been two months since a Chinese merchant ship has come to Dayuan to trade, since Zheng Yiguan was driven away, the entire coast of Fujian, almost controlled by the sea wolf.

It is said that Chu Cailao and that Yan Siqi, both of whom were subservient to that Yu Xiaotian, together blocked the shipping route to Dayuanlai, making it impossible for Ming Dynasty merchants to come here to trade.

If this continues, then the point of saving is lost, so we have to try to find a way to break this deadlock, and now we have a large number of deerskins stored here, but we cannot transfer them, and we do not have enough money to buy Chinese goods.

If this continues, it won't take more than a year for us to lose a lot of money here, and the company doesn't want to see such a situation! ”

Waite Zhengse said: "That's true, if you let it go on like this, then the big man will lose its meaning, we must do our best to break this deadlock, I don't know what the situation is now in the Ming Mansion?" We must do everything we can to end this crusade against the sea wolves. ”

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