Chapter 239

The biggest shock to Emperor Chongzhen in the Battle of Luzon and Mingxi was not that he got it for nothing, but that it opened a window.

It turns out that having won the war, you can claim compensation from the other side.

This is a concept that neither the ancient officials nor the emperor had, in fact, the examples of ancient claims were not small, and the early Han Dynasty's peace with the Xiongnu was actually a kind of war claim. Of course, the most famous are the Weishui Alliance during the Li Shimin period and the Lanyuan Alliance during the Song Dynasty."

It's just that the party that compensates is the Central Plains Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty's foreign wars were not without victory, just like the Wanli Korean War, the Ming Dynasty victory, the Penghu Naval Battle, the Ming Dynasty also won, including the Liuluo Bay Sea Naval Battle, and the Ming Dynasty was also the victorious side.

In fact, fundamentally speaking, after the victory of the Battle of Liuluo Bay, due to the influence of Western-style ideas, and Zheng Zhilong also had Western aides around him, the negotiations with the Dutch East India Company, including war claims, were handed over to Zheng Zhilong in the form of protection money.

However, the imperial court did not fall into the benefits, and most of the officials of the Ming court were actually influenced by the Confucian golden mean, the Confucian golden mean. Not extreme, leave room for doing things, in a common saying, is "to forgive people and forgive people".

From the perspective of being a person, there is no problem if you are not biased and leave room for doing things. But the problem is that at the national level, this connotation is a bit nondescript. It is not that Confucianism is not suitable for governing the country, but it is not suitable for the law of the jungle in the forest of nations.

After the end of the Wanli Korean War, the imperial court was affected by the financial crisis and was anxious to end the war, and neither demanded war reparations nor compensation from Japan, but only demanded vassals, not even tribute.

The result of the negotiations was: "1. The Japanese army quickly withdrew from Korea and Tsushima after being blocked; 2. Only canonization and not tribute; 3. Reconciliation with the DPRK shall be inviolable. Myojinzong immediately canonized Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the king of the Japanese and canonized the Japanese minister according to the list provided by Konishi.

It wasn't until Cheng Shijie negotiated with the Dutch East India Company that he made a huge claim to the Spanish Empire, of course, the ministers of the court fiercely criticized Cheng Shijie, and most of the ministers thought that Cheng Shijie was insulting to the grace of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen did not know a truth until this time, war turned out to be profitable.

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Cheng Shijie in Luzon is a little nostalgic for the summer in Liaodong. Affected by the weather of the Xiaoice River in the Ming Dynasty, although the summer in Liaodong is hot, there will also be 356 degrees of high temperature, but the problem is that 356 degrees is already the limit.

But during this time, the weather in Luzon was as high as more than 40 degrees, and for half an hour under the sun, no matter how strong a strong man was, he couldn't stand it.

Just after ten o'clock in the morning, Cheng Shijie already felt uncomfortably hot, and he didn't know what's wrong, there was no wind, most of the weather in Luzon was actually fine, only in this extreme weather now, it was unbearable.

Zhu Weiyuan saw that Cheng Shijie was too hot, but there was no ice room in Luzon, fortunately, she could make some smoothies with saltpeter, and when Zhu Weiyuan took a towel to wipe Cheng Shijie's body, she found Cheng Shi standing at the arch and looking inside.

"What's the matter?"

Cheng Shijie knew that Cheng Shi was usually a person with strong eyesight, and there was nothing else to do in this situation, he would not come this way.

"Father, something happened!"

Cheng Shijie asked, "What happened?" ”

"Bad thing, a few days ago, a Canton ship "Chengfeng" representing a Chinese representative in Batavia was about to come to Luzon to meet his father, but the ship was detained by the Dutch East India Company......"

"Why?"

Cheng Shi scratched his head: "I don't know very well, this news was sent by Mr. Wu Shangzhi Wu, and he is now waiting for his father to meet him in the front yard!" ”

After Cheng Shijie changed his clothes, he came to the front yard.

"Meet the Commander!"

"Excuse me!"

Cheng Shijie drank a bowl of mung bean paste, and felt that his body was still wet and a little uncomfortable.

In this kind of weather, swimming is the best option, and certainly the best way to escape the heat, provided that you learn to swim.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

"The Chinese in Dutch Batavia are living in a terrible situation, they are similar to the Chinese in Luzon, and they are suppressed by the Dutch East India Company and the local natives. Originally, they didn't have a choice, no matter how difficult it was, it was better than in Daming, at least there was no need to starve! ”

Wu Shangzhi smiled bitterly: "After the marshal occupied Luzon, more and more Chinese migrated to Luzon, Luzon originally had more than 45,000 Chinese, but now it has exceeded 70,000, more than 25,000 people came to Luzon in more than a month, the Dutch East India Company began to feel the trouble, so they tried every means to stop it, a few days ago, the Li family, the Lin family, the Guo family, and the Shen family in Batavia sold their property and moved their families to Luzon. As a result, when they were traveling, they pressed the Li family's Chengfeng ship! ”

Wu Shangzhi was also calm at this time, and there was no righteous indignation, after all, Cheng Shijie was now preparing for war with Spain, and the attitude of the Dutch was also very important.

"What did Putmans say?"

Cheng Shijie looked at Xie Jinglin, who had just come in.

At this time, Cheng Shijie was really not angry, because the Dutch did not look for trouble with him, he was also ready to find trouble with the Dutch, the big man was Da Ming, there was no doubt about this, before preparing to launch the big man offensive, he would easily clean up the Dutch power in the south of Dayuan, which was originally a planned thing.

Unlike the actual people of the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Shijie knows very well that whether it is Spain or the Netherlands, their fundamental focus is on Europe, and there is not much strength here in the Far East, at least until the victory or defeat of the Thirty Years War is decided, they have no way to take care of the Far East.

Now it's good that the Dutch actually took the initiative to come to the door.

The Netherlands, with a mainland area of only 40,000 square kilometers, had more than 1.9 million square kilometers of colonies in Southeast Asia, which were collectively known as the Dutch East Indies and were under the jurisdiction of the East India Company.

With the Strait of Malacca, the Dutch have only collected toll taxes in recent years, and the Dutch have made a lot of money, stuck in the trade routes of the Ming Dynasty, and European countries have contributed a lot of taxes to the Dutch East India Company.

The importance of the Strait of Malacca, needless to say, Cheng Shijie is unwilling to be stuck by others.

The change in attitude of the Dutch East India Company is not surprising, to put it bluntly, that is, interests. In the territory controlled by the Dutch East India Company, there were many Chinese, and these Chinese were the big taxpayers of the Dutch East India Company, so why did the Kingdom of the Netherlands dare to argue with Spain with less than 5 million Dutch people with 40,000 square meters of land for the company?

You must know that the Spanish Empire had more than 5.5 million square kilometers of land in Europe, more than 23 million square kilometers of colonies, and more than 45 million people.

With Cheng Shijie's occupation of Luzon, the Chinese who could not live under the rule of the Dutch East India Company naturally chose to emigrate, they themselves were immigrants, and it was also a good choice to give up their industries in the Dutch East Indies and go to Luzon for development.

But the problem is that almost eighty percent of the Dutch East India Company's production and operation depends on the Chinese, and if it depends on the local natives, these natives are lazy and greedy, and they will not do anything at all except instinctive breeding and eating. The Chinese immigration to Luzon violated the fundamental interests of the Dutch.

So sooner or later a conflict will happen.

"Marshal, you need to be calm, your subordinates will negotiate with the Dutch side immediately, and you must bring people back!"

"Hurry up, it's easy to have problems in this kind of weather now!"

Cheng Shijie decided to get the people back first, and as for revenge, let's wait until later.

Xie Jinglin said: "The subordinates will urge them to ensure the safety of those Chinese as much as possible, and try to ensure that no one is harmed." Xie Jinglin didn't dare to say it to death, white people were brutal in the colonies, he knew very well, just look at Luzon, anyone would care about the life or death of the natives of Luzon?

No, Cheng Shijie won't care.

"Tell the Dutch that if they dare to provoke a war, then be prepared to take revenge on the Ning Navy!"

"Yes!"

Cheng Shijie is stuffy and hot now, and his heart is also on fire.

"Order, Ning Navy Sailor, Jumping Battalion, prepare for war!"

"Yes!"

Cheng Shijie is actually not afraid of the threat of war from the Dutch, whether it is the Dutch or the Spaniards, the methods of the colonial countries fighting for colonies in this era are really a bit rough.

If Cheng Shijie were involved in the colonial struggle, he would never have adopted war methods, just like Zai's strategy, first of all, to establish good relations with the aborigines, give them weapons, give them training, and let the aborigines take advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to adopt guerrilla tactics against the Dutch.

In fact, what Cheng Shijie didn't know was that the Batavia incident of withholding the Chengfeng was also the revenge of the Dutch East India Company against Cheng Shijie.

Just as Cheng Shijie was about to attack the Dutch, the restless Chen Dayong was holding a meeting in Tamsui to resist the Dutch colonial aggression and allied forces.

Colonial rule was unpopular everywhere, even in servile India. The Dutch and Spaniards invaded Dayuan, plundered Dayuan's mineral resources, timber, land, and did not spare even a little sugar produced by Dayuan, and also massacred and expelled the aborigines for this purpose.

Now that Chen Dayong has climbed to the top of the mountain, there are many people who have responded to the climb, and not only the young and strong people of the Gaoshan tribe in Tainan have heard the news, but even the mainland immigrants, who have always been regarded as weak and bullied, have tried every means to come to the valley to defect, and he has pulled up a local team of nearly 18,000 people almost effortlessly.

Outside the county of Tamsui County, more than a dozen ethnic groups such as the Atayal tribe, the Saidek tribe, the Beinan tribe, the Yami tribe, the Bunun tribe, the Zou tribe, the Lukai tribe, the Paiwan tribe, the Shao tribe, the Ami tribe, the Taroko tribe, the Saqilaiya tribe, a total of 113 tribal leaders, and Chen Dayong held a blood alliance, after sacrificing the ancestral spirit, they cut their wrists, let their blood drip into the blood of the ox, and dipped their fingers in the blood to press the fingerprints on the covenant.

Chen Dayong took the blood wine and swore to the sky: "From now on, we will abandon the previous suspicions, work together, expel Xiyi, live and die together, if you surrender to Xiyi without authorization or collude with Xiyi to make peace, then people and gods will be angry, the whole clan will be punished, and you will not be allowed to enter the ancestral spirit house after death!" ”

When the interpreter began to read out Chen Dayong's words, all the tribal leaders also raised their bowls at the same time and chanted in their own words: "From now on, we will abandon our previous suspicions, work together, expel Xiyi, live and die together, if you surrender to Xiyi without authorization or collude with Xiyi to make peace, then people and gods will be angry, and the whole clan will be punished, and you will not be allowed to enter the ancestral spirit house after death!" ”

At the end of the alliance ceremony, Chen Dayong waved his hand, and dozens of carts pulled full loads of weapons and equipment, of course, these equipment are mainly cold weapons, and the only hot weapon is actually a grenade.

Chen Dayong distributed these equipment to the leaders of the various tribes according to the head, and the soldiers of the Ning Navy would train these tribal warriors, training them how to use crossbow machines, how to make traps, how to use grenades, how to maintain armor and other equipment.

In particular, the hand grenade, because it is not filled with black powder, the power is not small, the absolute killing radius of the bullet body made of pig iron is seven meters, but in fact it is very dangerous to be 35 meters away from the explosion point, and some shrapnel flying out of 100 meters is still lethal, and it is not a joke to be hit.

With the end of the alliance and the horde rebellion began to move out of the temporary training camp of the Ning Navy, the Dutch actually began to get into trouble.

The first to suffer was the Qitianling Lumberyard. It was originally a dense forest, overgrown with towering trees, some of which were even thousands of years old, and were considered sacred by the Atayal people.

However, the damned Dutch expelled the Atayal people, took it for themselves, and cut down the trees on a large scale, and those trees that grew more than a hundred years were made into materials by them to build large ships, and the less important ones were used to build camps and houses.

Under the strong demand of the Atayal people, Chen Dayong listed the Qitianling lumberyard as the primary target, and after the reconnaissance of the Red Lady, there were 51 Dutch soldiers stationed in the lumberyard, a total of more than 300 colonial troops from the Tagalogs, and there were strong camps, and if they attacked it, it might cause large casualties, so it was decided to outwit it.

On a misty morning, two Saiyame huntress staggered to the intersection of the lumberyard with a wild boar in their arms, attracting the attention of the Dutch soldiers.

You must know that the two Yami huntress are one in a hundred beauties, with a sturdy figure, a pretty and wild appearance, bright clothes, and the wild boar that took a lot of effort to hunt is also surprisingly large, weighing more than 300 catties, no matter which of these two things it is, it is enough to attract attention.

The eyes of more than a dozen Dutch soldiers lit up, and they said in their hearts that this time it was good, pork and beauties were automatically sent to the door, where to find such a good thing? Maybe they really didn't treat the aborigines as human beings, and they didn't even get free from bargaining, and just rushed out and grabbed them.

The two Yami huntress screamed in fright, threw away the boar and ran. The Dutchman, who had already been collectively embraced by the sperm, would not let them go, and chased after them with a strange smile, following the two Yami huntress who were running like a flight in the steep hills, into a forest near the forest farm.

Then, after a scream, the heads of a dozen Dutch soldiers became trophies hanging from the waists of the hunters.

Then, dozens of black-covered Atayal hunters, armed with crossbows and steel knives hanging from their waists, rushed into the lumberyard like tigers descending from the mountains, leaving dozens of Dutch soldiers to move their heads before they knew what was happening.

The Atayal people fought several times and failed to recapture the forest farm, Chen Dayong only used a little trick to defeat it, 51 Dutch soldiers were not spared, although more than 300 Tagalog colonial troops saw the death of the Dutch, immediately surrendered, but the Yami and Atayal colonies, who had the custom of headhunting, also cut off their heads.

Only three Allied fighters were killed, and a dozen were slightly wounded.

Early the next morning, on the highway twenty miles away from the city, a small group of Dutch soldiers escorted six four-wheeled carriages appeared in front of them, there was nothing polite, one shot over and put down a piece, and then rushed up and stabbed with bayonets, and slashed with scimitars, eleven Dutch soldiers saw God in a daze, and the six four-wheeled carriages loaded with a large amount of gunpowder, flour, wine, and more than a hundred flintlock guns, and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition were all trophies.

Of course, the Dutch East India Company was not aware of this matter at present, and the Allied forces were out of control, attacking the Dutch mountain garrisons everywhere, setting up ambushes on the highways to ambush passing convoys and small Dutch troops.

In just one week, six lumberyards, two mines, and three farms were destroyed, killing more than 200 Dutch soldiers and more than 1,000 of their servants.

The road was even worse, the flat cement road was originally the hope of the Dutch to develop the Tainan area, but now it has become a shooting range, within a week, there were 21 undulating attacks on the highway line, an average of three times a day, no matter how much damage was caused to the Dutch, the fear of walking on the road at any time may be arrowed or even lose their heads is enough for the Dutch to suffer.

The public order situation in Tainan has deteriorated rapidly, and there are fires everywhere outside Dayuancheng and Chichicheng, and although the various fortresses have not yet been attacked, everyone is already in danger, and they are frightened overnight.

Now that the Dutch are stirring up trouble, no matter what measures are taken, Cheng Shijie will never compromise with the Dutch, and the character he has finally built up will collapse once he compromises.

With Cheng Shijie's order, the war machine of Luzon's Ning Navy was quickly activated. The soldiers of the jumping battalion, who were originally on vacation, immediately canceled their vacations and returned to the camp, and the soldiers of the Ning Navy on the street also began to prepare for war, and a large amount of materials were transported out of the warehouse and transferred to the battleship.

The battleship was quickly maintained, repaired, and ready for war.

"Mr. Wu, what did the marshal say?"

Wu Shangzhi had just returned to the Wu family's compound in Zhenghegang District, and Li Shiji, the representative of the Batavian Chinese and the second son of the Li family, immediately greeted him.

Wu Shangzhi pointed outside: "What did you hear?" ”

"Bang ......"

Rhythmic footsteps are heard.

Li Shiji immediately reacted: "The marshal wants to send troops? ”

"The Ning Navy has entered a state of combat readiness, now it only depends on the reaction of the Dutch!"

Wu Shangzhi said with a smile: "The marshal is ready to send troops, if the Dutch don't let them go, then they can only fight!" ”

Just then, a young man with a panicked face ran in.

"Second Young Master, it's not good!"

Li Shiji's heart tightened, this man he knew, it was Gu Changsheng, the chief attendant beside his eldest brother: "Changsheng, why are you here?" ”

Gu Changsheng hugged Li Shiji's thigh and cried: "Second Young Master, the Li family...... The Li family is finished......"

The Li family in Batavia is also one of the representative families of the local Chinese, and the head of the Li family, Li Shiji's father, Li Shichang, let his eldest son Li Shimao marry a white Dutchman in his early years.

This Dutchman was an employee of the Dutch East India Company, of course, his status was not high, but he was a powerful faction, and for the sake of the dowry of 80,000 taels of silver, the other party agreed to this transnational marriage. With the care of the Dutch, the Li family quickly changed from an ordinary family to a well-known wealthy Chinese family in Batavia.

But the problem is that Li Shichang actually wanted to move his family to Luzon, which was a betrayal for the Dutch, and they couldn't bear it, and thousands of natives attacked the Li family's plantations, shops, and old mansions in Batavia.

In all fairness, the strength of the Li family is actually not weak, there are more than 500 armed families, and if there is no Dutch colonial army, these thousands of natives will not have successfully attacked the Li family's old mansion.

However, the Dutch colonial army was different, they had artillery and muskets, and the old mansion of the Li family lasted less than half an hour before it was breached, the mansion covering an area of more than 150 acres was breached, more than 260 armed men were killed, and the rest surrendered.

The Li family's entire family in Batavia was killed, a total of 41 people, including eight children, Li Shiji's eldest son was only three years old, followed by Chongzhen, who was born in February of the seventh year, and is now only more than five months old, was also killed, and dozens of female dependents were raped, including Li Shiji's wife.

Li Shiji fainted at that time.

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Zhenghe Port Department.

Putmans stared at Xie Jinglin and said, "Our demand is that you must immediately stop supporting the Dayuan natives, and promise that you will never be ......."

While Putmans was speaking, a soldier from the Ning Navy came to the venue, and he whispered softly in Xie Jinglin's ear.

Xie Jinglin's face changed greatly, he got up and said to Putmans: "Hans, I'm very sorry, this negotiation is meaningless, the two countries are fighting troops, don't kill the envoys, you are an envoy and a diplomat, you can leave Luzon immediately, otherwise you will bear the consequences!" ”

Putmans's face changed drastically: "Thanks, something happened!" ”

"You have already started the knife, more than 300 Chinese people in Batavia have died, including fourteen babies and sixty-three children under the age of twelve, you are really inferior to beasts, we have no habit of negotiating with beasts, we want to pay him blood for blood!"

Putmanston's head was as big as a fight: "Damn it, those bureaucrats! ”

In Putmans' view, the Dutch East India Company has not yet recognized the reality, that is, the Ming Dynasty has re-emerged.

At the same time, Cheng Shijie signed his name on an order that read, "Operation Hurricane!" ”

Operation Hurricane refers specifically to the strategy of the big man, that is, he is ready to let Chen Dayong play.

If the Dutch still have a certain advantage at sea, then the war on land is completely the absolute home of the Ning Navy.

The war to regain the Commanders began first.

Cheng Shijie was in Luzon Harbor to review the officers and men of the Ning Navy Naval Division, he looked at the officers and said: "Just received the news that the Dutch slaughtered more than 300 Chinese in Batavia, including 14 babies and 63 children. ”

"Resolutely complete the task!"

(End of chapter)