Langrich's literary questioning seemed to occupy the moral high ground, and used the international influence of the Celestial Empire to squeeze out the Ming Dynasty.

Indeed, an undeclared war and a sneak attack on the territory occupied by others is not authentic on the books.

It's a pity that he obviously underestimated the ability of the Ming civil officials to make excuses, since Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen dared to come, of course, both civil and military hands had already prepared.

Zheng Chenggong used the reasons explained by Zhu Shuren in advance, and retorted sternly: "This general is edicted to beg for thieves, what is nameless!" ”

Lang Rich was stunned, he had never seen such a shameless Ming person, and he was angry for a while: "This ...... This Emperor Ming can kill at will and destroy diplomatic relations! Between the Netherlands and the Ming Dynasty, there have been seven years of mutual infraction! ”

Zheng Chenggong: "Do you also know that they have only been offending each other for seven years? You were embarrassed to say that 'you have negotiated ceasefires and reached trade peace treaties many times before', but if your country has always kept its word, how can you come up with 'multiple ceasefires'?

Shouldn't it be since the fourth year of the Apocalypse when your country withdrew from Penghu and the two sides reached an agreement, the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands did not offend each other? In the sixth year of Chongzhen, the naval battle of Luowan, and in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the admiral of your country, Lang Bi, that is, Brother Lige, led nine warships and discounted the excuse of revenge for Liu Xiang, plundering our coast, all kinds of old grievances, how should I deal with them!

On the previous two occasions, your country tore up the contract and plundered first, and your country's so-called contract was simply because it was thousands of miles away from the country and the supply was insufficient for a long time, so it pretended to sue for peace in order to breathe a sigh of relief and raise reinforcements!"

As soon as Zheng Chenggong turned over the old accounts, he immediately made it difficult for the Dutch to be entangled, and Longrich struggled to defend:

"One thing is the same thing, although there were repeated frictions at the beginning, but most of them were caused by misunderstandings, and the last armistice negotiations in Chongzhen's eleventh year, didn't the misunderstandings have been made clear?

The reason why he helped Liu Xiang and restore order in the East China Sea and the South China Sea that year was because of the fact that the former East Asian seas and politics were out of several doors, and my Dutch merchant ships had never heard that they had to pay flag money before they were allowed to trade!

General Zheng, after you exterminated Liu Xiang, you forced all the ships in East Asia, without exception, but all those who went to sea had to pay three thousand taels of flag silver every year, which was unprecedented in the first place, and Lang Bi was the impulse of Brother Li, and his original intention was only to negotiate with you, asking for the resumption of his life, not trying to start a war with the Ming Dynasty. Since it has been negotiated since then, why bring up the old thing again! ”

The story of Longreach's history relates to the fact that before 1638, not all ships in East Asia were subject to the international order dominated by the Zheng family.

Because Liu Xiang has not been eliminated before, there are several maritime powers in East Asia that divide their own territory, and no one can collect everyone's "health management fees" at once.

But after Liu Xiang was destroyed, the Zheng family dominated the East Asian seas, and began to forcibly push 3,000 taels of silver per ship per year without discrimination, and no one was an exception.

According to the statistics at that time, if you did not do business in the waters north of Fujian, the probability of being robbed and killed without Zhengjiaqi could reach 55 - that is, even if Portuguese and Dutch ships went from Manila to Guangdong, there was a high probability of being killed without Zhengjiaqi.

If you want to do business in the waters north of Fujian, the killing rate of those who do not hang the Zheng family flag is generally 91 open, nine deaths, and if they are caught, the whole ship will kill Liwei.

The Dutch did not want to pay the money at first, so they let an admiral named Lang Bi Ricgo lead the fleet to fight, and was beaten and sunk by more than half, and the Dutch relented in the peace talks.

Now the Dutch people feel that we have been paying the "health management fee" for seven or eight years, how can we suddenly turn around? Do you want to raise the price? If you want to raise the price, you can't directly sneak attack and fight! If you think the silver is less, you can negotiate it diplomatically!

However, Longrich's cries stepped on the pit again.

Zheng Chenggong dared to come, of course, he quietly found out the evidence of the Dutch in advance. He directly "snapped" and threw out a bunch of testimonies and documentary evidence, and said coldly:

"We Daming, it seems that you Dutch ships have never been allowed to pay flag silver tribute, right? At the beginning of the armistice, it was only said that Dutch ships were not allowed to cross Heishuigou, and could only wait for the Han merchant ships from Fujian and Guangdong to ship on Dayuan Island, and you could only be responsible for foreign shipping to Hongyi!

However, in recent years, we have caught many Dutch ships disguised as Japanese ships to pay silver under the flag, and privately approached the Daming coast to purchase goods! Especially in the past year or two, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty has fallen, and we have caught you and the whip ships in the waters north of Huai'an! Such acts are regarded as collaborating with the enemy in our Ming Dynasty and declaring war on our Ming Dynasty! Based on this alone, the Ming Dynasty will completely expel you from Dayuan Island! ”

Langrich was grabbed by the handle, unable to refute directly, and jumped to his feet in a hurry: "Flag to pay silver? Did you find out about this today? At least five or six years ago, I knew it, why it was not forbidden at that time, but now I take it out and say that this is releasing water to raise fish, and I want to fatten up and kill it!

Da Ming is so cunning, no integrity! The rights and wrongs of this matter will be seen by everyone in the world, and the Korean and Annan kingdoms will also know that you are untrustworthy in your words!"

One of the incriminating evidence mentioned in Zheng Chenggong's last few sentences involves a detail, that is, "when the Zheng family demanded that all the merchant ships in the East Asian waters pay money to the Zheng family", they actually did not allow the Dutch to pay money, and the Dutch were not even allowed to cross the Heishui Ditch after paying the money, so they could only wait for the goods to come on the island.

The qualification to pay the money is for the Ming natives, as well as the Koreans, the Japanese people, the Annam, and the Portuguese.

But in fact, the Netherlands still succeeded in softening and paid the money, and the Dutch East India Company at that time, relying on a company called Woo Yi. Frederick's senior commercial and curator of the East India Company's Merchant House in Japan (this person was already the Dutch governor of Dayuan Island when Zheng Chenggong attacked sixteen years later, and the opponent of the Dayuan battle we saw in the history books was him) helped think of a solution:

Let the Dutch trading houses in Hirado and Nagasaki (in the Age of Discovery and Taiko Rishiden games, Hirado also have Dutch trading houses) negotiate with the local Japanese daimyos, and give a fee to the daimyo such as the Higo Domain, so that these Japanese daimyos can come forward and pay a few more 3,000 taels a year and overlease a few Zheng family flags, and then take them back and embezzle them to hang on Dutch ships.

To put it bluntly, the Dutch are not worthy of paying money directly to the Zheng family, so they find the Japanese to pay the handling fee and pay the money through backdoor.

Does Zheng Chenggong know about this? Of course I know, after all, when I was patrolling at sea, I saw a ship with the Zheng family flag coming over, can you tell whether the ship type is a Galen ship or a Japanese ship?

It's just that in previous years, the imperial court didn't let him find an excuse to recover the big man, and the Zheng family could turn a blind eye and accept the money. Now that the prince asked him to fight, he turned his face directly:

"Surprise inspection! Do you know that you Dutch people are affiliated with borrowing qualifications to break the law? ”

Moreover, since Zheng Chenggong is going to tear his face today, he can also say a very righteous and strict supplementary reason: "Our Daming has always collected 3,000 taels per ship per year, but it is because the fortune ship is generally only 400 materials, and the maximum weight of the Japanese ship is 400 materials."

But your heavy Galen ship, how much more than a thousand materials weigh in weight? How many times heavier is the cargo that can be loaded than the Daifuku ship? Such a ship, fraudulently obtaining the flag formalities, only 3,000 taels a year, what about you to send for food? ”

Why do you pay the road maintenance fee for the pickup truck, but you drive a semi-trailer truck, who are you Dutch people who don't check?

Longrich was completely speechless, because the Zheng family made it clear that the fee standard was not aimed at the Netherlands, and it did not give the Dutch a chance to pay.

The rest is nothing more than the nature and severity of the matter and how to solve it.

Longrich didn't get enough authorization for the time being, he had only been authorized by General Cornelius to condemn it today, and now he had to negotiate concessions and compensation, and he couldn't make the decision, so he had to beg Zheng Chenggong to suspend the offensive for a day and let him go back to the city of Geranza to ask for authorization.

Zheng Chenggong put aside the cruel words, did not accept other conditions, only asked the Dutch to evacuate Dayuan Island, and from then on abolished the second half of the ban that "the Dutch are not allowed to go to the Daming mainland, and the Zheng family is not allowed to go to Manila" set by the two sides since the fourth year of the Apocalypse, and the Daming ship is allowed to go to Manila from now on.

At that time, the main purpose of this treaty was to ensure that both the Dutch and the Zheng family could act as intermediaries and have enough profit margins.

If the Dutch could directly go to the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian to receive the goods, then the purchase price of their silk tea porcelain would definitely be cheaper, and the Zheng family would not be able to monopolize the middleman link to make the difference.

And if the Zheng family ship went directly to Manila to ship, the Dutch would not be able to act as a middleman who sold it to the Spaniards, and the two sides agreed to mutually guarantee each other a part of the monopoly middleman status.

But now the Dutch have taken the lead in defaulting, especially in the last two years when northern China has fallen, the Dutch actually have a small scale of quiet trade with the Qing Tartars, and they are also trying to get close to the coast of the Chinese mainland. Since they breached the contract first, Zheng Chenggong of course wants to revoke the promise that Daming Ship will not be allowed to go to Manila as a reciprocal punishment!

Of course, Zheng Chenggong's words, Langrich can only say that he heard it for the time being, and he will discuss and ask for instructions when he goes back, and he will not promise.

A day later, he received a new mandate from General Cornelius, and again begged bitterly:

"General Zheng, your requirements are too harsh, we admit the mistakes of impersonation and ultra-vires trade before, and we also admit compensation. In this way, we are on Dayuan Island, and there are only twenty ships at most, and more than half of them are not heavy Galen ships, but frigates.

However, in order to show our sincerity, the East India Company is willing to treat all the large trading vessels of the past seven years as heavy Galen ships, and there is no need for you to specifically verify the ship type.

We think that according to the comparison of the tonnage and cargo capacity of the heavy-duty Galen ship and the Daifuku ship, it is enough for the Daifuku ship to receive 3,000 taels a year, and the heavy-duty Galen ship to receive 10,000 taels a year, right?

In the past seven years, 20 ships per year, with a price difference of 7,000 taels per ship, our East India Company is willing to compensate the difference of 980,000 taels of silver in full. In the future, we promise not to cross the line to explore, do business, and pay taxes according to regulations. ”

When Zheng Chenggong heard this, he laughed angrily: "Is there such a good thing in the world? Your family has been audited, and after it is found out, you will pay the tax evasion and forget it? ”

In particular, the tax bureau in the future found out the problem, paid the full amount and added a late fee, and could give a fine of three or four times!

Although Zheng Chenggong is not a traverser, and he does not have a deep concept of the Daming tax law in his mind, his simple intuition tells him that this kind of thing is too cheap to make up for the leaked money.

Longrich also knew that it was a bit excessive, and then urgently said: If the payment is not enough, the fine can be doubled, and the East India Company is willing to pay 1,960,000 taels of silver in exchange for not abandoning the colony of Dayuan Island.

The Dutch were still rich in those days, and a smuggling silver ship to Manila sank, and later generations salvaged it could find that the customs declaration was written 500,000 silver pesos, but in fact it contained 1,630,000 silver pesos, and the entire 1,130,000 silver pesos were smuggled without taxes.

If you can keep Dayuan Island, it will be cost-effective for the Netherlands to pay a one-time loss of about two million taels of silver.

It's a pity that Zhu Shuren behind Zheng Chenggong has family and country feelings, and Zheng Chenggong himself is not bad, how could he let go of this opportunity.

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Zheng Chenggong sternly refused, and once again reiterated his conditions:

The Dutch can take away their movable property on Dayuan Island, and even the houses and fields are allowed to be sold and left, and the previous tax arrears and fines can also be exempted, and this time Dayuan Island will be used as a compensation and punishment for the Dutch's previous illegal acts!

Zheng Chenggong also opened the net, as long as the Dutch gave up Dayuan Island and did not interfere with the Daming ship to the North Island of the Philippines, where Manila was located, other trade conditions could remain the same, and the Dutch would still be allowed to trade in the future, and they could officially trade.

If you have to fight again, then Daming will not be able to guarantee the safety of the Dutch's private property on Dayuan Island! Because there are losses in war! Those to be used as military expenses and war reparations for the Ming Dynasty!

……

Longrich returned dejected with negotiating terms, while the Dutch, relying on the fact that they had a castle to hold onto, were unwilling to compromise.

The Dutch fleet was not completely blocked by Zheng Chenggong, and a frigate went back to report for help as soon as possible, which is also where the confidence of the Dutch lies.

Since this is the case, it can only be slowly besieged and attacked.

The follow-up fleet of the Ming army successively transported Zhang Mingzhen's heavy artillery, especially the flowering siege mortars, to the shore and deployed them in place.

The maximum firing range of the Ming army's siege mortar artillery also significantly exceeded the Dutch fortress artillery of this era, who made the Ming army's steelmaking technology and artillery technology have surpassed the Netherlands.

Although under normal circumstances, the range of the fortress guns of the same era will be farther than that of naval guns and field guns, but the latest heavy artillery of the Ming Army and the Dutch fortress guns are no longer products of the same generation.

After Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen tentatively attacked for a few days, they gradually figured out the strength of the defenders of the Dutch strongholds that were divided and surrounded.

In this case, the city of Gelanza is located on the hills on the south bank of Dayuan Bay at the mouth of the Taijiang River, the terrain is relatively high, the city is also the most fortified, and the number of defenders and artillery is the largest, so it will be fought last.

The Red Embedded City is in a relatively flat area in the hinterland of the bay, and the number of people is also less than half, and the fortress artillery cannot condescendingly make up for the range advantage, so let the Ming siege mortar give full play to the range difference and slowly push it out.

Under the siege of the Ming artillery, the attack was quite smooth, although it was similar to the 17th century The new Western fortress was very strong, and it took a few days to blast some small collapses, but after all, it was the injury of flying a kite and prostitution.

In time, the fall of Chichicheng is inevitable. The defenders of the city also tried to organize a night attack and destroy the Ming artillery positions, but they all failed, and the death squads were lost in vain.

More than 600 people in Chichicheng City, after being besieged for more than a month, there were still 400 people and a few civilians left, and finally chose to surrender out of despair-

In fact, the number of Dutch casualties, of course, was far more than 200, because these more than 200 were only killed by regular soldiers, and the sailors, merchants, and dock workers in the city would also carry guns to help defend the city during wartime, and these people also had no less than this number of casualties.

In this era, almost all the Dutch who dared to come to the Far East to make a living were outlaws, and even if they were not soldiers, they were also fierce.

After taking the Red Embedded City, Zhang Mingzhen still felt that the attack speed was a little too slow.

But in fact, if he knew how long it took Zheng Chenggong to storm the Dutch fortresses in the history of parallel time and space, he wouldn't think so.

Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong summed up again and confirmed that this tactic was no problem, but after consuming so many troops to besiege for a long time, some military rations could not be supplied.

At this time, the number of indigenous people on Dayuan Island was not large, and there was also an indigenous country called the Potbelly Kingdom in the middle of the east coast of the island, which was relatively xenophobic. Those who were willing to trade with the Ming Dynasty to sell grain and supply military supplies were only a few natives in the south of the island.

To maintain the military rations of 30,000 troops across the sea for a long time, and to transport all the necessary materials from Fujian, the cost is too high, and the transportation pressure is very great-

In the Zheng family, Zheng Chenggong is not completely able to talk now, his father Zheng Zhilong is still alive, and the industrial operation and trade transportation are all in the hands of Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong said that the pressure is too great, and Zhang Mingzhen can't check the accounts.

Considering that as long as the infantry units finally attacked and swept the tail, plus surrounded the city to prevent the Dutch from leaving the city and counterattacking the artillery position, there were really not so many people in the subsequent stage.

After the two sides summed up, some compromises were finally made, Zhang Mingzhen only left a few artillery units, and the rest of the Ming army in the north was allowed to withdraw temporarily after returning to Nanjing to ask Zhu Shuren for instructions.

The Zheng family's troops were also reduced from 25,000 men to 15,000 as appropriate, which was used for long-term siege and protection of artillery.

At the same time, Zheng Zhilong also issued a military order to Zhu Shuren through Zheng Chenggong, guaranteeing that even if most of Zhang Mingzhen's people withdrew, as long as the siege heavy artillery team remained, the Zheng family would eventually take the whole island.

When Zhang Mingzhen and part of the Zheng family's troops withdrew to the north, they spent a month on the way, stopping and stopping, and destroyed the big belly kingdom in the middle of the east bank, a country of alpine natives, there is nothing to say.

Later, he passed through the water, and destroyed the defenders of Fort Anthony, and wiped out the main Dutch force in the north of the island. Fort Anthony was rebuilt by the Spaniard Fort Santo Domingo, which was destroyed two years ago, and now it has not been repaired, it is dilapidated, so it is easy to break under the artillery of the Ming army. Of the five dissatisfied companies of the defenders, more than 800 men, a small half were killed, and the rest surrendered and were captured.

At the end of the month, more than two months after the war, the three places of Xianweiyu Fort, Chichicheng and Fort Anthony had been broken, and the Potbelly Kingdom had also been destroyed.

The only one on the island who resisted the Ming Dynasty was only one city of Relansha, which lasted until the New Year of the third year of Longwu.

……

After Zhang Mingzhen withdrew most of the imperial army, only one general in charge of the siege artillery team, Zhang Guozhu, was left to assist Zheng Chenggong.

When Zheng Zhilong learned of this situation, he personally brought some fleets to Dayuan Island and met with his son in private.

Zheng Zhilong's gang was also ambitious, and immediately explained some things to the loyal Zheng Chenggong: a small number of troops could surround the city of Relansha, and then replant the fields that had been cleared by the Dutch in the surrounding fields, and expand the wasteland, and gradually realize the self-sufficiency of military food for the besieging troops.

The Taijiang Plain in the south of Dayuan Island is still quite fertile and suitable for growing rice in a large area, and it can also produce a large amount of grain in later generations, which is enough for the local people to eat and can be trafficked to the northern water.

Zheng Chenggong expressed his incomprehension of this kind of offensive method that was too careless about casualties and slow, and he believed that paying an extra few hundred or nearly 1,000 casualties at most could definitely take down the half-bombarded city of Gelanza.

But Zheng Zhilong, a traitor in history, showed more ambition, and he warned his son that although Zhu Shuren has always been in alliance with the Zheng family, he is now very powerful, far crushing the Zheng family.

Zhu Shuren also promised the Dutch to open customs, officially collect customs duties, completely abolish the centuries-old maritime ban of the Ming Dynasty, and let the sea trade completely go to the open to collect money. What will happen to the Zheng family's flag silver business in the future?

The imperial court has collected the customs duties, can the Zheng family collect the flag silver again? That's a huge fortune of more than 1,100,000 taels of silver a year at its peak!

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong wants to occupy Dayuan Island slowly, and in the process of occupying the island, first let the Zheng family's military tuns spread all over the fertile land on the island, control the throat and create established facts, and ensure that even if Dayuan Island is a legitimate foreign trade tax island in the future, the Zheng family can still have absolute economic interests on Dayuan Island!

Zheng Chenggong still admires Zhu Shuren, and he also recognizes this eldest brother, and he is a little disapprehensive about dealing with his father's small actions, of course, he also admonishes Zheng Zhilong, the prince of E has promised that in the future, he can give the Zheng family a share of the economic interests of Dayuan Island, and there is no need to make small moves.

Helplessly, Zheng Zhilong could suppress his son, plus he did a relatively dark kneading, and also made a military order to take Dayuan Island, but it was only a little delayed, and it was delayed until the end of the relatively cool winter season, Zhang Mingzhen's people from the north couldn't stand the tropical climate and retired from the army, and then he personally controlled the rhythm of breaking the city and the timing of reporting.

Zheng Chenggong didn't want his family to be convicted, so he had to try to mediate and speed up the attack.

In the end, the battle that the Ming army expected to be resolved in three months actually dragged on for five or six months before the city of Geranza was finally breached. Because it was a breach rather than a surrender, General Cornellis and others naturally became prisoners of war and no longer enjoyed surrender treatment.

But compared to the parallel time and space, the entire battle lasted for nearly a year, and the siege of Guangre Lansha City was more than eight months, which is still a lot faster.

Moreover, before the final victory, the Ming army did repel the reinforcement fleet sent by the Dutch from the Batavia Labor Division Expedition at sea, knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger to completely establish the absolute authority of the Ming in the East Asian sea.

Zhu Shuren later also knew that the Zheng family was seeking personal gain and wanted to eat more and occupy more, so of course he had to find a way to beat and punish Zheng Zhilong - Zhu Shuren was very good to Zheng Chenggong's little brother, after all, he was a national hero, but Zheng Zhilong was different, he was a traitor in history!

Zhu Shuren was pretty good to Zheng Zhilong before, but it was just for the sake of his son's face, plus there was no conflict of interest.

However, it can be regarded as providence, and Zhu Shuren finally did not seize the opportunity to punish Zheng Zhilong, who delayed the development of his island power - perhaps it was because Zheng Zhilong delayed time and delayed the battle against the Dutch from the original end of winter and early spring to the end of spring and early summer.

In addition, Zheng Zhilong was not greedy enough, and he also went deep into the middle of the island to pursue the remnants of the Bigbelly King's land, wanting to arrest people as tenant farmers and kill those who harassed and resisted.

Although he is a native of Fujian, the pristine rainforest of Dayuan Island is still much more dangerous than Fujian, and finally in a private operation this summer, Zheng Zhilong was infected with a tropical disease, and the treatment was not timely -

Don't really think that Zheng Zhilong is in bad health, because in the history of parallel time and space, when Zheng Chenggong recovered Dayuan Island sixteen years later, he also died of illness the following year after defeating the Dutch, and he was only thirty-eight years old when he died.

And now Zheng Zhilong is also a middle-aged man in his forties.

Maybe there is something wrong with the genes of the Zheng family, that is, they are particularly afraid of some kind of tropical disease bacteria or viruses on Dayuan Island, and after middle age, they can't bear it, only young people can bear it.

The Ming Dynasty recovered Dayuan Island sixteen years ahead of schedule, and the butterfly effect was that Zheng Zhilong was killed by tropical disease instead of his son.

After getting the news of Zheng Zhilong's death, the kind of beating that Zhu Shuren had planned before was naturally reined in, and there was no need to worry about the dead anymore.

Moreover, Zheng Zhilong is dead, and he needs to play the emotional card, not only to completely encircle Zheng Chenggong, but also to help Zheng Chenggong completely control the power of the Zheng family.

Anyway, Zheng Chenggong's second and third uncles are still alive in this life, these people followed Zheng Zhilong to the Qing Dynasty in history, and only Zheng Hongkui followed his nephew.

Now that these people have not been cleared, Zhu Shuren will help Zheng Chenggong to squeeze out these two unreliable uncles as soon as possible.

The best way, of course, is to pinch his nose and give Zheng Zhilong a knighthood, give a little mourning, and then immediately allow Zheng Chenggong to inherit.

Zheng Chenggong has a knighthood and the absolute support of the imperial court, so he can marginalize his second and third uncles.

Zhu Shuren can be regarded as killing three birds with one stone, not only recovering the big people, beating and coercing the Dutch, but also making Zheng Zhilong and his two younger brothers withdraw from the stage of history.

After three years of Longwu, it can be regarded as a perfect start.

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ps: As I said, my book can't make people who have been traitors in history die prosperously. But the butterfly effect has reached this point, and it is unlikely that Zheng Zhilong will be a traitor and a complete villain again. Not even like Wu Sangui

In order not to disgust readers, I think it is the best way to let Zheng Zhilong die early because of greed and infection while expanding the territory of the tropical rainforest. This is also the last plot kill in the book.