Chapter 387: The Dutch Are Attacking Again

Wang Hongyu's suggestion was taken very seriously by the imperial court.

Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi also cooperated with his strategy.

Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian actually followed his plan in their hearts, and even Shoufu Ye Xianggao was gradually persuaded by Sun Chengzong and others.

The court then started a discussion, and discussed the offensive and defense of Liaodong, and after a verbal exchange, the result of the discussion was: under the condition that there is no food and sufficient economy, it is better to defend Jiannu.

To strengthen the economy and the Ming army, we must first start from the south, first cut off the guns and foreign aid of the Jiannu and the Wa State, and then cut off the economic resources of the Jiannu and the Wa State. The export of Dongzhu, mink, and ginseng from Jiannu must be interrupted.

Without Dongzhu, mink, ginseng exchange muskets, cannons, Jiannu's combat power will not be improved, when the time comes, armed up, after the war between the two countries tempered by the Ming army, surrounded by Jiannu dead and alive.

After unifying his thinking, for Wang Huazhen, the governor of Guangning, who did not understand military affairs and always wanted to take the initiative to attack with a large number of people, staying in Guangning could only be counterproductive, and it was better to transfer him to the northwest to stabilize the refugees, open up tuntian, and recruit battalions.

This is exactly what he is good at.

Wang Huazhen was transferred from the position of governor of Liaodong, and because he was not too much wrong because of his merit, he was transferred to Shaanxi as governor at the same level.

This person's ability to recruit troops and do things is acceptable, but he is too immature in front of Nurhachi, and Ye Xianggao also chose to cooperate at the critical moment, and gave himself and Wang Huazhen a step in the name of continuing to train.

Xiong Tingbi stabilized the defense line of the Liaohe River, on the one hand, he moved with cold guns and cold artillery, and on the other hand, he consolidated the defense line, and reorganized the Liao people into Tuntian soldiers and city defenders.

Wang Hongyu also sent a letter to Tianqi to discuss that Sun Chengzong could be used to go out of Liaodong in the future, and now he could be more familiar with the situation in Liaodong.

Sun Chengzong and Xiong Tingbi have similar strategic ideas, but there are faint contradictions between the two and they can't be in the same place together.

Wang Hongyu wants Lao Xiong to be the first person to be the governor of Baodao in the future, and fight on the front line against the Japanese and the Netherlands.

It is expected that half a year later, Sun Chengzong will change Xiong Tingbi, and Lao Xiong will go to the southeast.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Wang Hongyu also met with the generals of Ji, Liao and other places on the way back, and told them that His Majesty knew it in his heart, and he didn't have to worry too much about being attacked by the imperial court.

Just as the war ended, the capital's honeycomb coal, bicycles, clocks and other industries made a lot of money, and 800,000 taels were sent from the state treasury and the inner treasury to reward the front line.

When people arrived at Shanhaiguan, Portugal sent a special envoy from Goa to visit, and Wang Hongyu gave a high-standard reception.

It turned out that in order to negotiate cooperation between the two countries with China, the Goan envoy traveled thousands of miles to the Pacific Ocean, followed the ocean current to the South China Sea, then took a merchant ship to Jiangsu, and then entered the Grand Canal by water, and landed in Tongzhou.

After more than half a year of sea bumps from Brazil, it enters the inland river and then enters the Grand Canal. In more than half a year, he lost dozens of pounds, and the nobles who originally belonged to the white people became blacks, and it is said that they have lost several layers of skin on their bodies.

As for the hardships and hardships of the journey, I can't say enough, I almost capsized in the sea several times, and was intercepted by armed merchant ships in the Netherlands on the sea from the South Seas to China, and escaped by disguised as black sailors.

The Goan envoy said that they had no country to return to, and this time they came from afar to sign a cooperation treaty with the Ming Dynasty, hoping to restore the country with the help of the Ming Dynasty.

With that, he took out two nautical charts drawn in fish skins from his underwear, which marked the voyages to America and back in Portuguese and Dutch.

Wang Hongyu already knows a lot of Portuguese characters, and he can see that going out of America and coming back are not the same route; Another map departed from the northeast coast of the country of Japan on the Americas, and the route back turned out to be the same as in the first nautical chart.

Wang Hongyu asked him what was going on, and the Goan envoy said that the chart had been recovered from a merchant ship in the Netherlands, and that it was just a replica, and that they had copied many of them.

He also said that if he wanted to go from the Japanese country to the Americas, he could reach North America in two or three months along the ocean current, and if he wanted to go to South America, he would have to go south along the coastal waters for 20 days to a month.

This sea route they have walked, if from China to North America is much closer, it is also relatively safe, generally large sea ships rarely capsize.

The Goan envoy said that this time he brought many plant seeds from South America.

The bulbs and vines were left in Guangzhou and handed over to Cai Fuyi for proper handling, and after speaking, he took out a list with Cai Fuyi's signature on it.

The Goan envoy asked if Daming was willing to help Portugal recover? Wang Hongyu said that Portugal will do its best to meet the demands put forward by Daming.

Wang Hongyu told them that in addition to Daming, only England could help them.

However, England and the Netherlands have the same interests, and if England wants to help them, then Portugal will inevitably decline, and will inevitably live under England and the Netherlands overseas.

Daming hopes that Portugal will defeat the Netherlands, is willing to help it recover, and introduces a large amount of Brazilian iron ore, Daming needs to immigrate to South America to help Portugal build South America.

Wang Hongyu and the Portuguese reached a preliminary consensus.

However, a higher standard of emissaries is needed.

The Goan envoy said that there would be a representative of the Portuguese royal family.

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Because the Dutch failed to attack Macao, they did not continue to attack Macao for the second time, but led their army to occupy the Penghu Islands, hoping to use the Penghu Islands as a base to occupy the treasure island and open the door of Xiamen, Fujian Province to the Netherlands.

At this time, they only had four large warships of 500 tons left, and some warships were transferred from Nanyang and Waguo, reaching as many as 15.

At this time, they gathered 7 large warships and 8 medium warships. However, it was far from satisfying the needs, and it was only possible to mobilize dozens of armed merchant ships to station in the Penghu Islands.

Most of these armed merchant ships had a displacement of between 300 and 600 tons, and several large shipboard guns were installed on both sides of the ships, and with the addition of ordinary Hongyi cannons, the total number of shipborne guns in the Netherlands was twice that of the attack on Macao.

In July, the Dutch arrived in Penghu and began to operate their trading base. The Ming authorities in Fujian did not allow trade, and Lei Yeshan sent eight fleets to attack Xiamen in mid-October, only to flee in a hurry when they were hit by the artillery of the forts on the shore.

Ships and armed merchant ships in the harbor returned fire, and a number of small fireships pursued and burned a Dutch warship. The Dutch battleship fled quickly and only a few dozen people died, mainly due to the fact that the artillery of the Ming battery hit the deck.

The sailors and soldiers of the battleship on fire put down the clipper and escaped, and in a hurry fell into the sea and drowned a few of them, and the clipper was overturned by the waves stirred up by the cannonballs, and several of the soldiers drowned with landlubbers.

However, many of the merchant ships docked in the harbor were broken and sunk by the Dutch cannons, and although there were not many dead people, the property damage was not small.

At this time, under Wang Hongyu's advocacy, Fujian was ready for war, and large warships had not yet been built, and many medium-sized warships and small warships of less than 100 tons had gathered.