The Eighth Guards Army ransacked the entire city of Batavia and burned all the churches, town halls, and schools in Hongmaofan.

Naturally, the entire Dutch East India Company's wealth accumulated during its colonial rule in Batavia went to the Guards.

The Dutch East India Company was the biggest winner of the Age of Discovery, with colonies all over the world, and even many wealthy colonies such as the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Magellan were monopolized by it.

But the Dutch East India Company would not have imagined that its own corporate headquarters in Batavia City would be confiscated by the Ming Guards, and that all of the wealth it had accumulated over the decades would be lost to the Ming Dynasty.

Syllable!

The red-haired man Ma Suike tasted the whipping for the first time, and now he trembled with fear when he saw the whip in the Ming army's hand.

"I said, I said, the company's most confidential file is in the back room of the third building of the city hall, and the opening of the organ is behind an oil painting."

Through the interrogation of Maszki, the Ming Guards were able to obtain the most important information about the Dutch East India Company, the total wealth of the company's operations over the years, the composition and details of the shareholders of the entire Dutch East India Company, and the distribution of the company throughout the world and the navigation data.

After learning of this, Zhu Youzhen, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, in the name of the Generalissimo's Office, ordered the South China Sea Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet to form the Ming Ocean Fleet, with Li Mingrui as the commander-in-chief of the fleet and the governor of Xiyi, leading this fleet to use the navigation data of the Dutch East India Company as a reference, according to the map to find the colonies of the Dutch East India Company in other regions, and deal a devastating blow until the final elimination of the Dutch Kingdom.

Since the Ming Dynasty has decided to declare war with the Dutch Kingdom, it is natural that the Dutch Kingdom will be completely wiped out to punish it for its disrespect to the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Han people! A heavy blow to the proud and arrogant Western world!

The first is Malacca.

This is also the stronghold of the Dutch East India Company, the Ming Ocean Fleet attacked thirty Hongmaofan merchant ships and five warships here, all Hongmaofan did not leave one to completely wipe out, merchant ships and warships and their colonial plundered wealth were also confiscated, and the Daming South China Sea Fleet was responsible for receiving them.

Then Sri Lanka and then the Cape of Good Hope as far away as Africa.

The headquarters of the Dutch East India Company has been eradicated by the Ming Dynasty, and its entire company has lost its center, and at this time, the Hongmao Fan of these colonial strongholds do not know the specific situation, so many of them are caught off guard.

In July of the 33rd year of Chongzhen, the Daming ocean-going fleet bypassed the Cape of Good Hope and sailed into the Strait of Gibraltar!

This is the first time that the Ming Empire has appeared in the world of Western Oceans.

At this time, the administrator of the Strait of Gibraltar was the Kingdom of Spain, and although the Spanish Armada at this time had already been defeated by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the British Empire, it was undeniable that the Kingdom of Spain was still a relatively powerful kingdom among the Western countries.

Today's Western countries have also heard of the Ming Empire's declaration of war on the Netherlands, and know that the Ming Empire took the harshest retaliation against the Dutch East India Company in their so-called Far East.

But the Kingdom of Spain did not expect that the warships of the Ming Empire would actually appear in Gibraltar.

However, Spain, which was once an enemy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, did not have a good impression of the Netherlands, and they were not willing to offend a powerful empire in the East for the sake of the Netherlands, especially after Moxie, the governor of Morocco in the Spanish Kingdom, saw the strong strength of the Ming Ocean Fleet.

"Fortunately, we did not annoy this powerful empire from the east, and sent people to negotiate with them, we do not want to be their enemies, nor do we want to participate in the war of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and if your country does not offend us, we will not offend them! The Strait of Gibraltar will also be opened for them, but it is hoped that your country will pay a certain management fee. ”

Mo Kexi went to meet Li Mingrui, the governor of the Ming Empire's ocean-going fleet.

Although Li Mingrui took a lone army deep into the Western Ocean this time, he was not afraid of the Western countries, but he did not plan to be enemies of all the Western countries.

Therefore, Li Mingrui directly asked to see Moxi, the governor of Spanish Morocco, and said that the Ming ocean-going fleet needed to temporarily rest in Morocco and replenish supplies, and hoped that the Moroccan authorities would provide support, and the ocean-going fleet was willing to use imperial silver dollars as the payment for the required materials and human resources.

Of course, if the Spanish authorities do not agree, the Ming ocean-going fleet will choose to forcibly occupy Morocco first and obtain supplies compulsorily.

Like the rulers of other colonies, Moxie did not dare not agree, not to mention that this was still a lucrative business, and he had to organize his manpower to provide logistical support for the Ming ocean-going fleet.

"This is the Chongzhen 22-type rear-loading flintlock pistol, with a hexagonal barrel, using a lever to pull the bolt, which is more operable, and the bullet propellant is our latest gunpowder material of the Ming Dynasty, which is many times more powerful than your flintlock pistol, if your country is willing to form an alliance with us to help the Ming Dynasty eliminate the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we are willing to provide your country with military order contracts and military loan assistance."

Li Mingrui, the governor of the Ming ocean-going fleet, naturally did not come to take revenge on the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but also came to expand the trade of the Ming Dynasty in the Western Ocean, and the Kingdom of Spain as an empire that began to decline is the first choice for the Ming Dynasty to find cooperation now, after all, Li Mingrui does not think that the Kingdom of Spain will be willing to be surpassed by the Netherlands and the British Empire.

The governor of Spanish Morocco, Moxi, was indeed a little moved, but also said that he had to inform the king first, and the Kingdom of Spain would make a decision, so that he could determine whether to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty, and was willing to help the Ming Ocean Fleet apply for access to the Strait of Gibraltar and the need to obtain a supply base in the Spanish port of Cádiz.

In October, the Spanish authorities agreed to the cooperation request of the Ming Ocean Fleet, saying that they would send special personnel to be responsible for contacting the Ming Ocean Fleet and jointly send troops to conquer the Netherlands.

As a result, the Ming ocean-going fleet successfully entered the Strait of Gibraltar after replenishing supplies in Spanish Morocco, and was supplied again in Cádiz, and sailed into the English Channel in February of the 34th year of Chongzhen, and arrived in the Calais region of the Kingdom of France, with the help of the Spanish authorities, the ocean-going fleet of the Ming Empire obtained the consent of the authorities of the Kingdom of France, and docked in this area for three months to prepare for war against the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Then, the Ming Ocean Fleet arrived at Dunkirk, the nearest port city of the Netherlands, which is the Spanish Netherlands, very close to the Netherlands, and a great war is about to begin.

For the Western countries, they have seen many naval battles, and there is even a large naval battle with hundreds of warships, but this is the first time they have seen a fleet from the East come to this sea area to fight, and the battle is still against the Netherlands, the most powerful naval country among the Western countries.

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