Everything on the ship was cleaned out, and someone took a pen and paper to clear the books one by one. However, these two ships were indeed not loaded with any contraband, and they were basically supplies. The documents and letters that Fan Longgen and the others had previously presented were also collected and sent to the headquarters for Yan Chujie to see. Of course, with Yan Chujie's level, he probably couldn't understand these foreign books, so he could only send them back to Victory Fort for someone to translate and interpret them.

After spending more than a few hours in this confinement room, Van Longen and the three of them slowly got rid of their nervousness and began to feel hunger and thirst. At that moment the sliding window under the door opened, and a wooden tray was passed in, on which were placed three large bowls full of food, a jug of water, and three cups, although there were no knives and forks, but with spoons in addition to chopsticks, which could be regarded as taking into account the dining habits of the two Dutchmen.

"No...... Poisonous, right?" Vanderwegen looked at the three bowls of food that Su Keyi brought to the table, still a little hesitant.

"If the Haihan people want to kill us, they don't need to use this means. The hungry Su Keyi unceremoniously took one of the bowls and began to eat.

"He has to be reasonable, the Haihan are not pirates, their leaders should be a group of very smart people, and they shouldn't do anything to us until we understand the purpose of our here. Van Longen also agreed with Su Keyi's view. But approval is approval, and he is not in a hurry to eat.

It wasn't until Su Keyi had wiped out most of the bowl of food that it didn't look anything out of the ordinary, that Van Longen glanced at Van der Wegen, and the two of them each took a bowl and began to eat.

Of course, there will be no problems in the food and drinking water, and Haihan really has no intention of persecuting them, but the boss ordered them to be treated coldly, and they must not be physically harmed, and the people in charge of the affairs below can think of such things as they locked them up for only three meals.

However, such conditions are obviously not enough, not long after eating, the three of them feel anxious, and there is not even a toilet in this room. In desperation, Su Keyi could only knock on the door.

Soon there was a reaction from outside, and after the door opened, several heavily armed soldiers signaled Su Keyi to retreat, and then someone came in with a toilet and took away the utensils they had just used.

Su Keyi ⊕⊕⊕⊕, m.⌒.co±mstyle_tt; Hurry up and negotiate: "What about you people in charge? We have important things to ......?"

Before he could finish, a Haihan soldier interrupted him: "Stay honest!

"We are in good health, you can let the person in charge come to see us now......" Su Keyi wanted to say a few more words, but the other party didn't want to pay attention to him anymore, quickly left the room, and then locked the door from the outside.

"This is really a group of unfriendly people!" Although Fan Longgen couldn't quite understand the content of Su Keyi's negotiation with the other party, the impatience expressed by the Haihan soldiers was directly written on their faces, and this attitude could be completely understood without verbal communication.

Van der Wegen had already silently accepted the reality, and quietly walked to the corner and opened the toilet seat......

After about another hour or so, the door opened again, and this time the three of them were delighted to see a steward who was clearly one level higher, except for a doctor with a medicine box on his back. Although this person was young and did not wear a military uniform, but a strange style of stand-up collar cardigan, looking at the respectful appearance of several soldiers behind him, it was obvious that this person's identity would not be ordinary.

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Yu Bao, the clerk of the General Office of the Haihan Executive Committee, please accept the physical examination arranged by us first, and other things will be done later. The young man introduced himself as soon as he entered the room.

"My lord, the next three are envoys who came to Sanya to visit Haihan on behalf of the Dutch East India Company, we don't have to worry about other things, can you change our place to live first......?" Isn't it too simple?Is this your hospitality?" Su Keyi immediately replied.

Yu Bao looked Su Keyi up and down, and asked with a smile, "What is the name of this gentleman?"

"In Xia Su Keyi, the word Baishuo, a native of Batavia, Nanyang, his ancestral home is Chaozhou, Fujian. Su Keyi clenched his fists and introduced himself.

"Mr. Su, then I'll explain it to you, and you will translate it to your two red-haired companions later. Looking at the staring appearance of the two ghosts next to him, Yu Bao knew that they couldn't understand what he was talking to, so he chose Su Keyi as the main conversation partner.

Yu Bao continued: "First of all, for security reasons, we need to take a moment to confirm your identity. The official documents and letters you are carrying have been sent to your superiors for review, and there will be news later. Before that, we had to let the three of you be wronged here first, after all, we also feel very difficult to deal with your sudden visit. ”

"Can't we just wait for your identity to be confirmed in a good place, it's not a reasonable thing to do to keep the envoys of other countries in a prison cell!" Su Keyi continued to try to get better treatment.

Yu Bao shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, in view of the extremely unfriendly behavior you have taken against us in Fujian, we think that we are still in a state of war with you. And we haven't confirmed your identity or purpose yet, so that's all we have for now. I hope you will be able to cooperate with one, which will also help you in the next treatment. ”

"What is he doing?" Van Longen asked Sukeyi in Dutch. Su Keyi briefly summarized the content of the conversation and told him, Fan Longgen shook his head and said, "Please tell him that the war in Fujian was provoked by their Haihan people first!"

After listening to Su Keyi's relay, Yu Bao waved his hand lightly and said: "I'm sorry, the fact I know is that your armed sailing ship has formed an alliance with the local pirate gang and launched a military attack on Nanri Island, which is garrisoned by the Ming army. It seems to us that it was the East India Company that started the war, that is, you. ”

Seeing that Su Keyi still wanted to open his mouth to defend himself, Yu Bao said again: "If you want to debate with me, then it's up to you, but what I have to tell you is that if you don't complete your physical examination and make sure that you don't have any strange infectious diseases, then you will never have the chance to meet the person you want to see." ”

The admonition apparently worked, and after the three Dutch envoys muttered to each other, Su Keyi said that he could undergo a medical examination, but hoped to leave the place as soon as possible.

After completing the inspection for a while, Yu Baocai said: "Three, I can only wronged you to spend the night here today, and you can leave here as soon as tomorrow." ”

After Yu Bao finished, a soldier outside brought in three rolls of straw mats and straw pillows and put them on the ground, which was the bedding that the three of them would use for the night tonight. At this time, it is the dog days of Hainan Island, and under the temperature of more than 30 degrees, there is no need to cover the quilt.

"You will be in charge of food and drinking water, so wait for the news. After Yu Bao finished the process, he left the house, ignoring Su Keyi's yelling.

"These rude fellows!" Van Longen couldn't help but lose his temper after the door was locked again. Due to language, he couldn't communicate directly with the other party, and he had to use the translation of guò Su Keyi, which made him feel angry but couldn't vent it.

However, after yelling a few words, Fan Longen quickly calmed down and calmed down: "It seems that the Haihan people do regard us as a gang of Eighteen Zhi, no wonder they have such deep hostility towards us." ”

Van Longen traveled back and forth between Dayuangang and Batavia more than once, and he still had some knowledge of what Eighteen Zhi had done and what he had known for it. As one of the strongest maritime forces in the Far East, Van Longen was ashamed to be mixed with pirate forces like Eighteen Zhi and to be compared in such a way by outsiders, but this was the company's strategy, and he could not question it.

"The Haihan people have been allied with the Fujian government for a long time, but we really didn't expect them to dare to take the initiative to attack us. Van der Wegen recalled the battle in Fujian at this time, and had already realized that his light enemy at that time was one of the main reasons for the subsequent defeat. Moreover, at that time, the Dutch fleet did attack the Daming Naval Division first, and then the Haihan fleet joined the battle. Of course, as the military attache of the East India Company in Dayuangang, he would certainly not admit that the company had made a mistake in its policy of handling relations with Eighteen Zhi, because it was his uncle Hans who made the decision to send troops, and if he also thought that this was wrong, he was adding to the problem of his own family.

"This is the barracks. Su Keyi suddenly said something incoherent.

Seeing the two of them looking at him with a confused expression, Su Keyi hurriedly explained: "You listen to the voices outside......

The two of them stood up, walked under the wall where the window was, and began to listen to the noise outside, and sure enough, they heard the sound of neat and loud slogans and rhythmic footsteps, which came clearly from outside.

The militia officers and men have a good work style

I am not afraid of strong enemies, and I have responsibility

The trumpet sounded the glory of iron and blood

Win the battle for my Haihan

......

Su Keyi translated what he heard to the two Dutchmen, and the three of them leaned against the wall and listened for half an hour. In the end, it was Vanderwegen who was the first to express his opinion: "This is a barracks of modest size, and it can be inferred from the sound of the slogans they shouted that each group should be between forty and sixty men, and at the same time there are at least five groups of men who are engaged in this kind of marching training, that is, about three hundred." If you take into account the proportion of personnel in combat readiness and rest, I think the size of the troops stationed here is at least about 1,000 men. ”

Vanderwegen's inferences, while not entirely accurate, are somewhat substantiated. In addition to the naval base on the side of Shengli Port, there are also army units stationed in the port area of Sanya Port, Shengli Fort and Tiandu Industrial Zone, with a total strength of about 1,500 people. Although such a force is not very strong, considering that the current control area of Haihan is becoming more and more vast, the number of garrisons in Sanya is already relatively concentrated. In Danzhou, Qiongzhou and other places in the north, the number of garrisons is far less than that of the base camp.

Of course, with the geographical location of Sanya, it is difficult for any strong enemy to launch a direct attack here from the outside, and the water armed forces from the mainland must first pass through the blockade of the Guò Qiongzhou Strait, and the nearest enemy in the South China Sea is the Dutch in Batavia, which obviously does not have such a surprise attack capability, and as for Annam in the west, more than eighty percent of its coastal defense forces are in the hands of the Haihan people, so there is no need to worry. The current number of garrisons is basically enough to maintain daily defense.

"The Haihan people kept us in the barracks, which shows that they at least didn't treat us like ordinary prisoners. Van Longen can only find one such reason now to appease the unlucky trio.

"But let's not expect to get out of here on our own. Su Keyi immediately poured a basin of cold water on him: "The security in the military camp is much stricter than in the prison. ”

Of course, Su Keyi was just laughing, they came with a heavy responsibility, even if they could escape, they couldn't just run away. If they hadn't been able to meet with Haihan's top management, they would have been unable to report to the company's board of directors when they returned to Batavia.

"That young man just now, is he a Haihan or a Ming?" asked Fan Longgen curiously to Su Keyi.

"I think he's an Akito...... No, it is accurate to say that the Haihan people call it a group of 'naturalized people', who used to be Ming people, and now belong to Haihan people who do not have Haihan blood. Su Keyi explained: "The Haihan people changed their belonging to the Ming people who were included in their ruling area in the form of naturalization. Only these people who chose to naturalize Haihan could enjoy all kinds of preferential conditions of Haihan, such as working, settling, enlisting in the army, and so on. ”

"You know a lot of situations!" Van Longen was also a little impressed by Su Keyi. When he set off, he once thought that Su Keyi was only stained with the light of the family, so that Cohen could come forward and push him to the throne. However, as his understanding deepened, he found that this Chinese man did have a lot of things in his head, at least his understanding of Haihan and his unfazed appearance here, which had already shown some of his abilities.

"My daily business is to deal with those Daming maritime merchants who came from Sanya, so I know the situation of Haihan relatively well. Su Keyi replied modestly.