Nanyang, Batavia, this moment has already become a mess of porridge.

A few days ago, Cohen had welcomed back an envoy from the Gang and an envoy from England!

These days, Cohen has not been idle for a moment, from the moment he received the report of the Fushou Paste incident, Cohen knew that in addition to the big chaos, this time the Ming Empire would definitely not give up, for no other reason, he knew the temper of the Ming Emperor, Dongying's shogunate just because it took in the remnants of the Zheng family, and as a result, he set up an expedition to Dongying and destroyed the country; He only ransacked a yamen of the Ordnance Division, and as a result, the general of the Ming Dynasty directly lit all the more than 200 captives in Batavia, and blackmailed a lot of silver; Kuiyi just squeezed the local natives of Yizhou, and as a result, the governor of Fujian personally went to the door, and now, a turmoil of Fushou ointment, resulting in hundreds of people in the Ming officialdom were forced to be dismissed, and thousands of people in the Ming military were expelled from the barracks. Of course, the other three countries don't have good fruit to eat!

The current Ming Empire is no longer the Ming Empire of a few years ago, a few years ago, Cohen was sure that just by relying on the fleet of the East India Company, he could suppress the Fujian Naval Division of the Ming Empire, but now, the fleet of the East India Company is not enough to see at all, even if he asks the country to send two main warships again, I am afraid that it is not as good as the fleet of the Ming Dynasty. All the old warships of the Daming fleet have been eliminated, and all the new warships are extremely powerful, even the new battleships that have fallen over have no ability to compete with other flagships.

If you want to get rid of the monstrous anger of the Ming Emperor this time, there is no other way, you must unite the four countries, Portugal? Needless to say, Portugal was too close to the Ming Dynasty and too weak, so it was afraid that as soon as the war started, it would be directly destroyed by the Ming army, without any chance; Spain? Although Spain's power is not weak, but only relying on Spain and the Dutch to contend with the Ming fleet, there is still no complete certainty, the English must be pulled in, only the three fleets join forces, in order to maintain enough advantage over the Ming fleet in the South Seas!

"Mr. Vane, this is a handwritten letter from the Governor to your Governor of Dell, after all, it is an alliance between our four Western countries, and in the face of a strong enemy, we must work together, and now because of the time of Fushou Ointment, it is obvious that the Ming Emperor has turned his face, if the arrogance of the Ming Emperor is not suppressed, I am afraid that there is no way to carry out the trade between the West and the Ming Dynasty in the future, and even the trade of Dongying cannot be carried out, so that the three of us have to drink the northwest wind, and the Ming trade and the Dongying trade, The profit provided to us every year is more than 10 million taels, which is very important, I don't need to say more, right? After going back, he immediately said that Governor Dale led the main fleet eastward, went to Luzon together, met Governor Davis, and the three fleets joined forces to attack, if they could negotiate peace, of course, it would be the best, if the Ming Empire did not know the current affairs, then we would only have a full-scale war, and through strong combat power, the Ming Empire's fleet would be completely annihilated on the sea! ”

Vane hurriedly bowed down and said: "Please rest assured, Lord Governor, I naturally know how powerful this matter is, because of the destruction of Fushou Ointment, our Kingdom of England has also suffered huge losses, and the merchants of England have also died a lot, if we don't let the Ming Empire pay a certain price, we have no way to explain it to the country!" ”

Seeing off Vane, Cohen returned to the halls.

"Kluivert, tell me, what is the situation in the Yizhou Sea now?"

Vane asked in a deep voice.

Kluivert said abruptly: "Lord Governor, General Yi is already preparing for the war with all his might, however, this battle is not optimistic, it is too unfavorable for us, Yizhou is too close to the Ming Empire, the Ming Emperor has ordered to mobilize the first fleet and the second fleet to rush to Fujian, and at the same time, the 60,000 Tianxiong army has also been dispatched, rushing to Fujian by warship, not only that, I heard that the Ming Emperor has issued an order to mobilize the Dongying fleet to help, not to mention the Dongying fleet, only the first fleet and the second fleet, The main battleships have reached more than 100, and the large and small battleships together exceed 300, this kind of strength is definitely not something that General Yi can resist, at most a month, maybe half a month, Geranza and Chichicheng will have to fall......"

A month, or even half a month!

Cohen's face changed drastically, his eyes lit up, and he shouted, "Kluivert, are you sure you won't be able to survive for a month?" ”

"It's hard to say,"

Kluivert smiled bitterly and said: "Your Excellency the Governor, you must understand that three hundred warships, there are more than a thousand artillery pieces alone, if you count the artillery of the Tianxiong Army, I am afraid that there are at least 1,500 artillery pieces, so many artillery, where can the Luermen Fort be able to stop it?" Once the Luermen Fort falls, with only the strength of the three or four thousand Dutch troops in Gelansha and Chiji City, how can it stop the 60,000 Tianxiong army? When the time comes, it won't take half a month for the two cities to be razed to the ground......"

"Lord Governor,"

The fleet commander on the side, Soria, said in a deep voice: "Kluivert is not exaggerating, if it is really the Ming fleet and the Tianxiong army that are pouring out, Gelanza and Chichicheng will not last long, the Ming army is equipped with flowering cannons, the power is huge, damn it, I don't know where the Ming Empire got so much silver, in just a few years, the main force of the generals and all the artillery of the Ming fleet have been replaced, such a production capacity is really terrible, even if Dutch England, France combined, the annual production of artillery is only five or six hundred, and their annual productivity is now absolutely equal to the sum of our three countries! ”

Cohen shouted: "Soria, now is not the time to talk about this, if you can't hold it for half a month, then Yizhou may have fallen now, how important is Geranza and Chiji City, you know better than me, right?" It was the outpost and hub of our East India Company's trade in the East, where almost all caravans had to dock and transit! Damn, what now? What to do? ”

Kluivert hurriedly said: "Lord Governor, when I came back, General Yi had already sent someone to Luzon Island to ask Davis for help, in order to be able to move Davis, let Seth go to Luzon with a bill of one million taels of silver, compared to Davis who did not sit back and ignore the ......"

(End of chapter)