Soon after independence, the Dutch embarked on the evil path of colonial expansion with the help of the East India Company. After a long period of fierce competition, it gradually squeezed out the colonial power of Spain and Portugal, and occupied large colonies in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Americas.

By the middle of the 17th century, the Netherlands had become a colonial power in Europe, and had established many colonial bases in the former Portuguese territories in Southeast Asia, and also set up trading posts in India, Indochina, and Japan.

We can see from the harvest of the city of Gerancha that the Dutch are really fucking saved.

At this time, the Dutch had another famous company, the Dutch West India Company, which was founded in 1621. The company had a wide range of activities, including the west coast of Africa, the east coast of the Americas, and the colonial islands of the Pacific Ocean, mainly engaged in pirate raiding and monopolizing trade with the colonies.

The traversers could only hate their hands for being too short at this time.

In the 17th century, the economic prosperity of the Netherlands was always associated with foreign expansion. It was through the bloody plundering of the colonies that an important source of primitive accumulation was provided for the development of the free economy of the Netherlands.

The Dutch did not accumulate their original funds by confiscating and squeezing the assets of their citizens.

From this point of view, expansive development has always been the right path.

You don't have to cross the river by feeling the stones, and the Dutch verified it first.

But what did the Netherlands honestly withdraw from the ranks of the great powers after completing the function of stirring up? This makes the traverser even more hateful, what do you think you are trying to do?! Do you really want to take the lead in getting rich, and then really lead others on the same path to prosperity?

The traversers had heard and believed this, but later, the traversers had never believed even a single punctuation mark.

If it weren't for the arrival of the traversers, the Dutch would have been able to play in Indonesia later, and only dare to aim their butcher knives at the people of a certain country. Of course, the later powers, who also embarked on the road to prosperity, really did not feel sorry for him on the issue of colonies, which were magically preserved for a long, long time. Maybe they are also genuinely grateful to this guide to getting rich?

God, the reputation of the Netherlands has always been good.

In response to the later defeat of the Dutch, the traversers did not cite ready-made sources, and in a short time before the traversal, you summarized them word by word.

How so? Wouldn't it be better to learn from the failures of others!

Let someone else pay for the tuition. Of course, the traversers also know that some of the tuition fees in the world are actually in some people's own pockets.

The Netherlands itself has little land, insufficient resources, a small population, and insufficient strategic space.

In response to this situation, the traversers naturally set a basic rule of occupying more land and having more children.

Later, the Dutch paid too much attention to the development of commerce and the use of capital, but did not pay attention to the development of handicrafts and the application of new techniques as they did when the founding of the People's Republic of China.

One lesson that the travelers have learned is that commercial development must never be regarded as an end, it can only be a means.

Unless in that world, the elites like to have state-owned enterprises in a semi-planned semi-market economy (some people will definitely say that foreign countries also have it, this is not the same thing, I only care about this one, you prefer to say the other), because they can get their wealth through the semi-planned economy, and then cash in the wealth through the semi-market economy.

This strange combination assures God that the traversers will never let it appear again.

So there's a reason why the traversers value techniques and raw materials more than gold and silver, I said.

In the last case, they were dragged to death by the war with Britain and France. However, this is also the Dutch who have no recruitment, one limits all kinds of restrictions on the sea, and the other has a market protection tariff on the mainland, and it can't be done if you don't fight. I can't beat it, it's going to die.

Traversers, so be sure to build a strong team that doesn't fight a battle without gain!

The most rearly traveler summed up a rule:

The history of the decline of the Netherlands, as a commercial country, is also the history of the subordination of commercial capital to industrial capital.

One reason why a country does not develop its industry, but is interested in commercial development, is that the people of that country are indeed idiots and the people are ignorant. The other is that people are ready to run away...... Or maybe it's someone.

Back to the point.

Batavia, a merchant who had come to do business through Macau in April, learned of their East Asian star, and the city of Geranza was occupied by a group of people claiming to be the Han and Tang cliques. It is very likely that the Taipei area was also occupied by them, otherwise it would be impossible for not a single ship to come back to report the news.

Spreading the news of the occupation of the city of Gelanza was deliberately done by the Hantang Group, and even contributed to the flames behind it.

When the Dutch and Indian governor Massike (1648-1659) heard the news, he laughed at first, and attacked the city of Geranza, which was second only to the city of Batavia. Without tens of thousands of people, it will not be possible to fight without a few months.

It wasn't that he hadn't seen the construction drawings of the city of Geranza.

The Dutch like the guiding ideology that "the company is the fortress and the fortress is the company". There is nothing wrong with this, and it is worth learning from the traversers.

The Dutch and Indian governor Masuik thought, "Haluha, this must be a ghost of the Portuguese to deceive us." As for why they do this, that's the point of our attention!

Is there still a shadow of the Spaniards behind it?

The rise of the Dutch was largely snatched from the elder and second brothers, and it was natural that there were conflicts with Spain and Portugal.

In addition to the above, there are some disagreements between them.

For example, during this period, in addition to attacking Manila several times without success and joining forces with the British to attack the Spanish and Portuguese fleets in East Asia, he also attacked Macao by force in 1622.

That's it, but you have to do business, it's time to grab it, it's time to fight casually...... The time-travelers didn't come to this time and space to play with the ancients, so the Europeans didn't come to Asia to fight and play!

The Dutch and Indian Governor, Maszk, ordered his men to investigate the information, and he himself was caught in the long ......

The city of Batavia was indeed the strongest fortress in Asia of this era.

It was far more difficult to build than the city of Geranza.

In 1619, the ambitious Yan 61 Petersson 61 Kun became the third governor of the Dutch East India Company, and it was he who laid a solid foundation for the Dutch commercial colonial empire in the East.

It was also under his leadership that the city of Batavia was founded after the attack and expulsion of the Banten indigenous army, and the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company's empire, which was the political basis for Dutch rule over the colonies of Java and the entire East Indies.

In its early days, it was sparsely populated, lacked food, had no timber to build ships and houses, and the surrounding area was a desolate swamp, rarely inhabited villages, flooded during the rainy season, infested with wild animals, and surrounded by hostility and threats from the local Muslim kingdoms.

The Dutch brought boulders from the quarries on the Coromandel coast in India, cut teak from Zabala in East Java, collected coral stones from the local area, and recruited a large number of reliable and hard-working laborers from the Ming Continent to establish the prototype of Ba Cheng in this place.

Most of the major construction projects in Bacheng, such as the excavation of canals and drainage channels, the construction of houses and harbors, and the construction of city walls and protective fortresses, were mostly contracted by the Ming people.

The Ming laborers were skilled in brick-making and bricklaying, which was highly appreciated by the Dutch. It's like the Dutch stonemasons in the city of Geranza who were also praised by the traversers, and the Dutch were quite good at working with slates.

The Dutch governor, Quin, also initiated the practice of delegating all retail commerce, including coastal trade contracts, to the Ming man Kapitan (chief). He tried to adopt a policy of "Meiji Ming", and by appointing the Ming people to Kapitan, he exercised control and indirect rule over the local Ming people.

In October 1619, the Dutch governor Kun appointed his close friend of the Ming people, Su Minggang, as the first Kapitan. Since then, the Aketo Soviet-style family has established a deep friendship with the Dutch.

The traversers will use razor to rule raze, and people will use Meiji to rule.

Since then, Kapitan has been elected and appointed by the Ming people in a fairly democratic manner, and can basically be said to represent the will of the local Ming people.

Kapitan was thus considered to be the defender of the interests of the Ming people in the Dutch Viceroyalty and as an intermediary in official affairs. Each Ming person is required to pay the poll tax at the Kapitan Province on a monthly basis and report at least once a year. In the thirties of the 17th century, the Ming paid more than half of the poll tax collected by the Dutch East India Company in the cities combined. By 1644, the Ming had contracted 17 of the 21 taxes levied by the Bacheng authorities on gambling, retail, import and export of goods, and puppet shows.

But the Dutch governor Kun only completed the first installment.

The second phase was completed during the reign of Antony 61 Van 61 Dimmen (1636-1645), an expansionist colonizer of the Dutch Eastern Empire second only to Kun. During his tenure, Dutch canals, castles, town halls, Christ churches, Latin schools and market districts appeared.

In order to replenish the population, the Dutch East India Company began to recruit Akito in large numbers. In the eyes of the Dutch, the Ming people were known for being "diligent", "peace-loving", and "cowardly" by nature.

Therefore, the Dutch governor lured the Ming people with high salaries, and imposed light taxes on the Ming merchants who emigrated to Batavia, and rewarded people like Wang San and Li Si for attracting fellow villagers to Batavia.

Of course, some unseemly measures were also adopted, such as the kidnapping of "migrants" in the coastal areas of the Ming mainland. This policy was so successful that the Ming galleons from the mainland brought in a large number of immigrants, and once the Ming had acquired the assets to support themselves, they settled in Ba Cheng and intermarried with Balinese women who were sent here as slaves.

The Ming population continued to grow, and most of the Ming people in Ba Cheng were engaged in commercial activities, from itinerant hawkers to permanent vendors, to retailers and wholesalers, forming a complete commercial network.

The Ming people toiled hard, earnestly saving silver taels and lille and waiting for others to harvest their riches.

Batavia has been developed for a long time in the generation of the Dutch-Indian governor Maschik, and now hangs like a ripe fruit on the branches.

All the people of the Dutch East India Company are now assured of the safety of Batavia.

The castle was guarded by sixteen thirty-six-pounder guns, and twelve twenty-pounder guns were used to block the river along the Dutch canal that passed through the city.

They had a total of 1,200 musketeers, and although they were a combination of 700 European mercenaries and 500 indigenous soldiers, they were all armed with arquebuses, which was very powerful.

I don't know what the road is for, the Dutch are inherently reluctant to recruit soldiers from the Ming. But who knows if it will change in the future?

Thank you Yezhongye, Melochi, and three old friends for their support for so long, and thank you for the encouragement of your new friends Hippopotamus Elephant and Alexandervon.