In the end, it did make Xu Jiaqi feel a little disappointed that he couldn't capture Zheng Zhihu alive, but what made him feel even more regretful was that this credit was robbed by the sailor, so he regretted even more that he didn't listen to Qian Tiandun's construction earlier, and led his troops to attack the camp of Shibazhi, otherwise there was actually a chance to leave Zheng Zhihu on the shore and win this great work by himself.

Qian Tiandun thought differently from him at this time, one of the main goals of this operation was to take Zheng Zhihu, and now that this goal has been achieved, how the situation in the Fujian Strait area will develop after that, it also needs to be carefully considered.

Zheng Zhihu's death will undoubtedly completely tear apart the relationship between the Fujian government and Shibazhi, if there may have been some transactions and tacit understanding between the two sides before this, then from this moment on, the hatred value has risen to an unbridgeable height. Even if Zheng Zhilong had other ideas in his heart, he had to fight with the Fujian government to the end from now on in order to maintain his image as a "loving and righteous" leader. For Haihan, who was once very worried about the attitude of the Fujian government, he solved his worries in one fell swoop, and there was no need to worry about the Fujian government's attitude towards Shibazhi repeatedly.

This blow to the Dutch on Nanri Island was another gain, on the one hand, it gave a general understanding of the strength and combat methods of the Dutch, and on the other hand, it also provided an excellent reason for Haihan to prepare some of the means to deal with them in the future. After the naval battle a few days ago, four Dutch armed sailing ships failed to escape from the battlefield and were all captured by the Ming army's sailors, and after counting, the crew of these four sailing ships totaled 472 people, of which 107 were killed or lost in the battle, and the rest were all captured - this was also the largest number of prisoners in military operations since the Dutch East India Company entered the Far East.

Of course, not all of the more than 300 captives were Dutch, most of them were from Dutch colonies around the world, and the real Dutch were only about 50. These captives have been escorted to the city of Zhongzuo and imprisoned, and there is probably no possibility of escaping in the near future. According to Haihan's suggestion, the Fujian government was ready to send a large official to negotiate with the Dutch, and would ask for a sum of money for the prisoners of war.

If the Dutch wanted to recover these prisoners of war from the Fujian government, they would have to pay the Fujian government 50,000 taels of silver as the price of this meddling. In addition, the Fujian government will also demand 50,000 taels of silver from the Dutch on behalf of Haihan for "war compensation" on the grounds that the Dutch armed sailing ship killed and injured many Haihan sailors in the battle, and caused damage to Haihan's ships. In addition, the Fujian government will also require the East India Company to promise not to participate in or assist in any form of anti-Ming forces such as the 18 Zhi in the future.

Of course, it is unlikely that the Dutch will agree to these demands, and it would be hell if the Dutch really agreed to these conditions drawn up by Haihan. The real purpose of these demands is not to obtain those so-called compensations, but to pave the way for some of Haihan's subsequent measures. When the Dutch refused, it was only on this ground that Haihan could take further action.

The results of Fujian's battle were transmitted back to Hainan Island via the radio waves as soon as possible, and when Qian Tiandun and Xu Jiaqi, the representative of the Ming army, cleaned up and counted the spoils together, the executive committee had already received the urgent telegram that had just arrived, and began to discuss the next course of action.

"Qian Tiandun really didn't disappoint us!" Yan Chujie waved the telegram he had just sent in his hand with an excited face: "Almost all the pirates who came to attack were wiped out, and four armed merchant ships of the Dutch were destroyed, and Zheng Zhihu, the leader of the Eighteen Zhizhi, was killed on the spot!"

"Come when called, be able to fight, and win in battle, this is exactly the army we need!" Tao Donglai did not hesitate to praise Qian Tiandun and his subordinate troops. To say that they can fight, the troops led by Qian Tiandun are indeed the ace elite among the militias, and this point has once again been strongly confirmed on the battlefield in Fujian.

However, because the content of the telegram was too brief, the executive committee members did not know that Qian Tiandun's troops in this battle were just showing that they were in order, and that the real contribution was actually made by the two naval battles that were excellent militia navy. It was precisely because they put enough pressure on their opponents at sea that they would make Eighteen Zhi panic and make a faint move. In the end, when it comes to meritorious deeds, the merit of naval officer Xie Li is actually greater than that of Qian Tiandun, who is sitting in Nanri Village.

"The most important thing is that the Dutch are openly fighting this time, and we have a good reason to fight them next. Gu Kai looked eager to try: "I now want to know what kind of expression the Dutch will have after hearing the news from Fujian." ”

"We can start counting the time now. Ning Qi took over and said, "The Dutch who fled back from Nanri Island should have arrived at Dayuan Port, and it will probably take nearly a month to relay this news from the local area to Batavia. I think it's time to start arranging for the change of flag of the Ambuna Islands. ”

After taking the Anbuna Islands under the guise of being a pirate, how to take over the control of the area from the "pirates" in a dignified and reasonable manner has always been an open question for the Haihan, because doing so will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the Dutch, who believe that the area is already a colony belonging to the East India Company. The attitude of the Executive Committee is not to take the initiative to provoke a war with the Dutch, and this is not a question of whether it can be fought or not, but that the Executive Committee believes that it is necessary to start building the international image of the Haihan regime from the present stage.

After the complete occupation of Hainan Island, the countdown to the establishment of the Haihan regime has begun, and the Executive Committee has begun to put relevant work on the agenda for the future handling of international relations. Although the foundation of the Haihan state was to absorb resources and labor through trade and war, and to expand its territory outward, the Executive Committee did not want the Haihan to be an aggressive image to the outside world. At the very least, foreign military action and means of expansion should be as moral as possible, so that the ideas of the ruling class can be more easily controlled.

The Dutch East India Company had long been one of the competitors to be dealt with in the Executive Committee's plan, but the Executive Committee also hoped that it would do a decent job in the process, not to make the appearance too ugly, and preferably to allow the Netherlands to play a negative role in the eyes of the world, so that the Haihan could have a reasonable reason to launch an armed operation against the East India Company.

Of course, in fact, Haihan had already secretly carried out a number of military operations against the Dutch, and also regained the Anbuna Islands in the South China Sea that the Dutch had seized from the Ming Dynasty, but they never made it public. And this time the Dutch intervened in the war between the Fujian government and the Eighteen Zhi, which gave Haihan an excellent opportunity. A few days ago, before the start of the war in Fujian, Qian Tiandun had already sent back the news that the Dutch armed sailing ship had appeared in the waters near Nanri Island, and set up an executive committee to make good use of this opportunity to build a reasonable momentum for dealing with the Dutch in the future. After the results of the battle on Nanri Island came out, the focus of the Executive Committee was no longer on the subsequent clean-up of the results, but on the direction of the post-war situation and how to use the results against the Dutch.

"The propaganda department should attach importance to this matter and let the masses understand that the Dutch are not only the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, but also our enemies, and that the hostile actions they have taken against the Haihan militia are a provocation and humiliation to the entire Haihan regime! Tao Donglai began to give instructions on the propaganda work in person, and several young naturalized people sitting on the periphery hurriedly copied these words on paper.

Most of these teenagers are orphans and refugees recruited from other places, and they are not interested in taking the Ming Imperial Examination, and they are only loyal to the Haihan Executive Committee, which gave them a new life. For them, what the Ming Dynasty gave them was endless suffering and panic, and there was nothing to be missed, and the title of Haihan was the identity they truly identified.

In the Ming Dynasty, they may just be orphans that no one cares about, an inconspicuous member of the fleeing army, and may die on the way to begging at any time because of lack of food and clothing, but after drifting across the ocean to the Haihan ruled area, they have received excellent living treatment, not only food and shelter, but also someone to teach them all kinds of knowledge and skills, so that they gradually become respected "cadres".

Most of these helpless young migrants brought in by the Ministry of Civil Affairs have undergone more than three years of cultural training, and some of those who are considered gifted by the military or other departments are selected to enter military academies or vocational training institutions affiliated with various departments to receive more specialized training. These secretaries who can audit the Executive Committee are all students directly recruited by the General Office of the Executive Committee, and they can be said to be the best talents in a hundred, not only each of them has a high degree of loyalty, but also has a certain cultural foundation, so that they can integrate into the administrative system of Haihan faster and better than others.

At present, except for a very few topics that require a high degree of confidentiality, most of the meetings of the Executive Committee will arrange for clerks to make on-the-spot notes, and then the leaders in charge will select some positive parts from the discussions, and the propaganda department will publicize and disseminate them in the Haihan ruled area through various channels, so as to guide the trend of public opinion among the people.

And the outcome of this war against the Netherlands will also become the main work of the propaganda department in the near future. Although the Haihan's military operations with foreign countries were never interrupted, most of the time there was no public propaganda in the ruling area due to various considerations. In the impression of ordinary people, the last time Haihan made a big move to the outside world was the previous year, when the Haihan militia sent troops to Qiongbei to "assist" the Ming officials in driving out pirates. In fact, neither the two operations in the South China Sea in the first half of this year, nor the military operations carried out by the diplomatic mission to Fujian more than two months ago were openly publicized on Hainan Island.

There was no publicity at the time because the timing was not right, and it would have backfired to publicize it, but after this fight with the Dutch, the Executive Committee decided that the time had come. If done right, this time it could solve many of the remaining problems at once, while also further strengthening the unity of the population.

Although mass education has been carried out in the ruling area for several years after traveling through time and space, due to the limited number of teachers and objective conditions, the cultural popularization process in the ruling area is not high, and the literacy rate can only exceed 30%, and a considerable number of naturalized people are pure illiterate who cannot even write their own names. In such a social environment, the propaganda department did not unrealistically publish mass newspapers and periodicals as a means of propaganda.

In fact, there are only two kinds of periodicals in the entire ruling area, one is the internal current affairs reference issued by the Crossing Public, which is published once a month, and the content is mainly the resolutions of the Executive Committee, the progress of the key projects of various departments, the important affairs of overseas institutions, and the personnel transfer arrangements of the Crossing Public, etc. There are only 50 copies of this internal reference per issue, which are distributed to the units for safekeeping by the supervisors and then circulated internally among the traversers. According to the secrecy system, ordinary naturalized cadres are not qualified to read this kind of internal reference.

Another kind of publication is aimed at the public, it is also a monthly magazine, but its distribution object is only a unit rather than an individual, and the person in charge of each unit organizes a collective lecture after receiving the publication, and explains the content of the publication that has direction and guidance to the general public in a more understandable way. In some units where the literacy rate is too low to organize activities on their own, such as remote farms, the propaganda department will send special personnel to the local area to give lectures after the publication is published.

When it comes to propaganda work, the time-travelers have hundreds of years more experience than all the ruling classes of this era, so from formulating policies to writing manuscripts, from publishing publications to organizing propaganda, the Executive Committee has been extremely good at controlling the only media in the ruling area, and has always maintained an extremely effective role in guiding public opinion. Compared with the practices of the feudal empires of the same era, the methods of the Haihan are undoubtedly far ahead of this era.

As soon as the Executive Committee's resolution was issued, the propaganda department immediately set into action, and even deliberately advanced the publication of this issue and the publication of the journal by several days in order to meet the Executive Committee's request to start the relevant publicity as soon as possible.

On 5 August, the latest issue of the publicly-circulated "Haihan Monthly" was newly released, with an eye-catching headline on the front page -- "The Western Invaders invaded the Ming Dynasty, and the Haihan sent troops to relieve the siege." The second piece of news immediately following is equally eye-catching -- "Nanhai Zhudao has become a pirate nest, whose fault is it?"