The words are divided into two ends, Zheng Zhilong finally died of an infectious disease in the tropical rainforest of Dayuan Island, which was already the summer of the third year of Longwu, and it was what happened when he went deep into the area controlled by the former Big Belly Country and ran the Zheng family's territory.

The extermination of the Dutch on the island was actually preceded by the turn of spring and summer.

As for the repulsion of the reinforcement fleet sent by the Dutch from Batavia, it happened even earlier, about the end of Longwu's three-year spring farming season.

In that battle, there were also a few Dutch warships that were burned and lost power, and were subsequently captured by the Ming naval divisions.

Of course, the captives on the ship were also screened and interrogated. Those who have the value of bringing letters will also be sent to Nanjing by fast horses, and handed over to Zhu Shuren, the prince of Hubei, for personal interrogation to declare the great prestige of tomorrow.

One day at the end of March, Zhu Shuren met several high-ranking prisoner representatives who had been sent in Nanjing.

These captives didn't suffer much, and they ate and drank well after being captured, after all, Zhu Shuren had explained that he still had to let the captives go back to the Netherlands to talk.

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Early that morning, a Dutch man in his early forties with brown hair and his interpreter were pulled to the Princess's Mansion outside the Purple City in an ordinary carriage.

Zhu Shuren in Nanjing, theoretically there is no palace, who made him the title of King of E, of course, his genuine palace can only be built in Wuchang City, if you want to "go to the domain" in the future, you have to live back to Wuchang.

But in fact, everyone knows that Zhu Shuren is like a regent and will not be a vassal vassal. When he was in Nanjing, he had to live in the princess's mansion, which nominally belonged to his wife.

Zhu Yuchan, as the only daughter in today's school, of course, has a very high salary, and the luxury and grandeur of the princess's mansion is even above the standard of ordinary princes, and the difference is only a name, which makes people feel that Zhu Shuren is suspected of "eating soft rice".

How can a big man who is in power in the world live in a house with his wife's sign every day?

So in the past year or two, Zhu Shuren paid out of his own pocket to make another block north of the princess's mansion, bought all the land that was originally nearby dignitaries, and built another garden to connect it to the princess's mansion.

It's roughly the same as the relationship between the Grand View Garden and the Rongguo Mansion. The princess's mansion is equivalent to the Rongguo Mansion, and the newly built garden is equivalent to the Grand View Garden. Zhu Shuren lives in the garden every day, close to his wife's mansion, but he doesn't live in his wife's mansion.

At this moment, a group of Dutchmen were pulled outside the princess's mansion and the "Grand View Garden", and naturally they were dumbfounded before they entered the door.

Previously, when they passed through the palace wall of the Forbidden City, they were already shocked, and the scale of the palace garden of the Eastern Emperor was far from what they could imagine. It's just that the palace walls of the Forbidden City are too high, and they can't see what it looks like inside, so they can only imagine it.

When I arrived at the residence of Zhu Shuren, the carriage was allowed to enter through the side door, and the palaces and pavilions, pavilions, streams and lakes, rockeries and strange stones, Qinfang waterfalls, strange flowers and plants, rare birds and beasts, the winding paths were quiet and winding for several miles and did not finish the road, which directly made the Dutch all look stupid.

"Is this the residence of the regent of the East? At that time, the palace of Prince Morris in Nassau was probably less than one-tenth. The Dutch official, who was the leader, whispered to the interpreter in an unbelievable tone, of course, they spoke Dutch.

The interpreter was also heartbroken: "Who says it's not, I heard a few years ago that the Eastern Empire fell into a tragic civil strife and nomadic invasion, and now it seems that they can completely stabilize the situation. ”

Maurice of Nassau, whom they refer to, died twenty years ago, was a Dutch consul of the previous generation. But his extravagance has always been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, even if he has been dead for so long, the Dutch still think of his legend when they think of rich people.

Prince Morris is especially known for his willingness to spend a lot of money on BMW and luxury horse breeding. Even the troughs and troughs where his horses drink water and eat beans are made of gold and silver and inlaid with precious stones.

Once, a Hanseatic merchant showed Prince Morris a rare Arabian horse, which was faster and more explosive than the original horse in the prince's stable, and Morris was so angry that he didn't eat well for a month. In the end, it cost 100,000 ruds to buy BMW. Later, whenever Europeans got a rare BMW, they would go to the prince to kick the gym and sell it.

However, when these Dutchmen saw the luxury of Zhu Shuren's mansion, they knew that Prince Morris, who they had seen from afar when they were young, was afraid that they would not be able to reach it.

The interpreter cautiously asked the servant who led the way: "Dare to ask why this palace is full of lights?" Do you usually wear it like this? Those silk lanterns, I'm afraid they will have to be replaced after a short time, right? ”

The question he asked was not secret, and the people of the palace proudly flaunted: "Even if it is used every day, it doesn't matter!" Will the prince not be able to afford it? It's just a rest with the people, and I don't want to toss. Recently, the prince wants to accept a side concubine! ”

The Dutch did not dare to ask any more.

Several people waited for a long time in apprehension, but the maids and servants did not let them wait, and the fine tea was not interrupted, and at noon, Zhu Shuren finally made time and announced that they were invited to meet them.

The Dutch captives, who have been worn out of temper, do not care about the etiquette of Westerners who never kneel, how can they not bow their heads under the low eaves, and after entering, they choose to kneel and prostrate, and do not dare to look up at the appearance of Zhu Shuren.

"What's your name? What is the job of residence in the Netherlands? Zhu Shuren asked without anger, of course he spoke Chinese, let the translator translate it.

Zhu Shuren has been traveling for more than eight years, and he actually remembers a little bit of English, but he doesn't want to pretend that he knows foreign languages like other travelers, which is not in line with his identity.

There are many ways to show that you know yourself and your opponent, and there is no need to drop the cards.

The interpreter immediately finished translating, and then the Dutch captive at the head replied obediently: "In Lower Janssen. Tasman, Rear Admiral of the Navy, had previously commanded a fleet of patrols under Governor Van Diemen of the East India Company......"

Anthony, whom the captives mentioned. Fan. Governor Dimen, in history, should have contracted some kind of acute infectious disease and died last year, but it is estimated that Zhu Shuren asked Zheng Chenggong to recover the officials in advance, which caused some chain butterfly effect and changed the trajectory of the actions of the Dutch governors and generals, and Van Dimen is still alive now.

Of course, people's longevity is limited, and Fan Dimen is not young, even if he escapes the current death, his lifespan will not last a few years.

Previously, when the Ming army repelled the fleet sent by the Dutch from Batavia to reinforce the fleet, it did not completely inflict heavy damage on its main force, and the Dutch decisively lost their cars to protect the commander after suffering a loss. Therefore, there is no fleet commander or anything among the people who are arrested, and the highest one is only the commander of the patrol detachment in charge of the outpost, that is, the person in front of him.

Compared to Governor Fan Dimen, Zhu Shuren listened to this person's self-report to Yang Sen. Tasman's name was slightly taken aback.

He didn't quite know that this Janssen in front of him. Tasman is not a great explorer and geographical discoverer, after all, the Dutch have many similar names.

But the word "Tasman" is still very representative, there is an island called Tasmania in Australia, and there is a sea called the Tasman Sea.

Zhu Shuren asked quietly: "So, you are a person responsible for exploring the way for the outpost of the main fleet?" What are your geographical exploration achievements? Benwang has always respected scholars, and will give preferential treatment to those with geographical, naturalistic, philosophical, and technical talents.

If you are just a Hongyi murderous officer, you should be treated as a rough man, if you are a geographer and naturalist, as long as you share your knowledge with the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will naturally not treat you badly. ”

Yang Sen. Of course, Tasman also wanted to be treated as a prisoner, and he didn't know that Zhu Shuren would let him go back at the moment, so he hurriedly said:

"In the years I have worked for Governor Van Diemen, I have led the expedition fleet to discover many places - of course, most of those places belong to the Dutch East Indies, I hope the prince understands."

He said this as a precautionary shot, lest Zhu Shuren ask him to help seize the land, so he first said that the land he helped the Netherlands find was colonized by the Netherlands, and the sovereignty was unquestionable.

Zhu Shuren just sneered, he didn't have time to colonize at all now, he just tried the other party's catties.

Seeing Zhu Shuren's acquiescence, Tasman shook his spirits: "In the past ten years, I have helped Governor Van Dimen discover that there is a wild and vast peninsula area in the south of the Spice Islands, and there is a large island named after Tasmania, as well as the twin islands of Staten, Tonga, Fiji and ......."

When Zhu Shuren heard this, he only scaled his eyes a few times.

The vast wild "peninsula" south of the Spice Islands? That means that the other party didn't circle the newly discovered land for a week, so he didn't know how big that land was.

This is obviously Australia.

But in the history textbooks, wasn't Australia discovered by Captain Cook in England a hundred years later?

I have to say here that Zhu Shuren's previous life was still a bit superficial when he read the history of foreign geographical discoveries. In fact, the northern part of Australia is not far from the spice islands in Southeast Asia, only one or two hundred miles of the strait, and it is not surprising that the Dutch have long discovered it.

It's just that the Dutch didn't go around the island, didn't know how big Australia was, and didn't think there was no civilization, no spices and other valuable products, no way to do business, so they didn't go deeper.

More than 100 years later, the British came again, this time to establish colonies, convict penal colonies, and to farm, not purely to pursue business, and to explore the whole of Australia.

In fact, the Tasman in front of him has sailed at least about a third of the circumference of Australia along the northeast coast of Australia, all the way to Tasmania, but not to Western Australia and South Australia.

And Zhu Shuren didn't know much about the other geographical names he mentioned, so he asked the other party to describe them in depth, and then he knew that the "Staten Twin Islands" he said was actually New Zealand later. New Zealand was renamed when the British came back to occupy the country.

"It seems that this person is indeed the Tasman who caused the Tasman Sea to be named the Tasman Sea, and he is also the discoverer of New Zealand, and he is a talent."

Zhu Shuren was secretly worried, and couldn't help but feel a little bit of a heart to solicit.

But he still didn't forget the matter, and immediately asked someone to bring a document and throw it directly in front of the other party: "This king summoned you today, just to ask you to go back and bring a message to Governor Fandimen:

Your country's garrison on Dayuan Island, ignoring the peaceful conditions under which we allowed them to take their possessions, withdraw peacefully, and return the island, insist on resisting, insisting on occupying Dayuan Island, and refusing to pay the price for their contact with the Tartars in violation of the previous covenant!

Therefore, in the end, they surrendered after being stormed and breached, and they could only be treated as prisoners of war! The conditions for your country to return the prisoners of war are all on this, this king is not here to negotiate with you, but to announce this decision, can agree, and when the conditions are met, we will release the prisoners of war, if not, all prisoners of war will be executed! ”

Yang Sen. Tasman was shocked when he heard the interpreter's relay: "Your Royal Highness, you can't do this, how can you kill prisoners as the ruler of a civilized country?" ”

Zhu Shuren's nasolabial folds jumped: "You haven't seen the conditions yet." ”

Janssen Tasmann had to look carefully, but the document had already been translated into Dutch in advance: "Let's find Monsieur Descartes and his disciples and take them to Asia to exchange the more than 2,800 prisoners of war and merchants and sailors who were captured at the end of the Battle of Dayuan Island?"

Before the arrival of Mr. Descartes and his disciples, all prisoners of war were to be treated as hired peasants, guaranteed food and clothing to be cleared on Dayuan Island? ”

Descartes is now a little well-known in the West, and the Dutch high society is well informed about its existence, and Janssen Tasmann certainly knows about it.

He is also a geographical explorer and a half-naturalist, and he still cares about academics.

Tasman hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but be tentative: "May I ask, Your Royal Highness the Regent, what is your purpose in looking for Mr. Descartes?" ”

Zhu Shuren also did not contain the lake: "I have heard of Mr. Descartes's name in Asia, and I want to ask him to come to me and be in charge of a random research institute - of course, there are many research institutes of this king, and there are not only this one, there are many talents who are good at technical arithmetic under this king, and many other institutes already have competent directors."

This king just thinks that the stone of the mountain can attack the jade, and there are more perspectives and mirrors, and it may be enlightening to learn from each other, that's all. Therefore, if you can recruit more sages who are similar to Mr. Descartes, but whose names are unknown to me, you can also recruit the Ming Dynasty.

This king will pay for it and use it again, of course, this king will test their knowledge, and the knowledge can be poor, but if it is not a liar, this king can still see it. ”

Zhu Shuren has never been a philatelic person of historical celebrities, of course, he also knows that a Descartes cannot form a qualitative change, and more scientific and technological talents will depend on the cultivation of Daming himself in the future.

But the problem now is that even if Da Ming understands a little bit of natural science, he is also born in reading the Four Books and Five Classics, and his thinking is very limited, and Zhu Shuren needs some catfish effect to muddy the water and inspire each other with these people.

This is the true meaning of the internationalization of academic talents.

Scientists also need to rely on the barbarians at the door to force them to move, otherwise they will always lie there and talk about seniority, and the disciples and grandchildren will not dare to put forward their opinions, and it will be a hair.

As for Zhu Shuren saying this, he also didn't want Tasman to mistakenly think that Descartes really had a lot of strange goods to live in, it was just a signboard, don't think about high-priced people.

Tasman also wanted to talk to him about the treatment, but Zhu Shuren didn't want to say more, only talking about Descartes, how much he earned in Europe, he would give at least five times, maybe ten times, depending on his contribution, and he could also give additional rewards. But this is only a benchmark and cannot be invoked.

As for other details, Zhu Shuren directly said to the captives in his hands that if they didn't want those thousands of Dutch captives to regain their freedom, they could not do so.

Tasman thought about it again and again, but he could only say that he was just a talker, and even if everything went well, it would take seven months to sail from Batavia back to the Netherlands, and fourteen months to go back and forth, and it would take time to find people in Europe, to give the recruits time to settle down, and to make decisions.

So it will be at least a year and a half before it is possible to bring people back, and it is not surprising that it will be two years slower.

Sailing from Batavia to Dayuan or Fujian, it will take another month or two, and the key depends on whether the wind is smooth or not.

Zhu Shuren: "Time can wait, anyway, in the next two or three years, Dutch prisoners will not be mistreated on Dayuan Island." As long as they work hard, they can have enough to eat, a house to live in, and the necessary medical conditions. ”

After receiving his promise, the Dutch had no choice but to obediently go back to prepare first.

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ps: The other day was a 7,000-word chapter, and it's almost time to change the map.

But there will be an emotional drama tomorrow, liquidate the matter of Fang Ziling in the end, you can skip it, don't click on the book tomorrow if you don't want to read it, and after reading it today, you can turn the reading table back a few chapters in advance, so that you won't subscribe to tomorrow's emotional drama. There is still a small part of space tomorrow, and some scenes that finally solve the Zheng family's problem, there are not many, so they will continue to chapters, and if you want to dance, you can dance together.

I was going to go out on the weekend, so I took a leave of absence the day after tomorrow, and I went through the problem of changing the map, and the outline was messed up by my improvisation.

Beginning next Monday, I will write back to the scene of the resumption of the war with Dorgon's side.