Chapter 242

Subic Strait.

Seeing that the main battleships of the Ning Navy were retreating, the Zheng fleet, which was still a little apprehensive, was greatly boosted, and hundreds of conch ships sounded at the same time, and the sound of whining resounded between the sea and the sky.

The hundreds of warships of the Zheng Clan's fleet spread out a huge square formation of the lower quarter moon, and they were also advancing in unison, but the number was ten times more than that of the Ning Navy's naval fleet, and the momentum was naturally ten times terrifying!

Pirates are not soldiers in the real sense, although they are fierce, they are better at fighting with the wind, watching the naval fleet of the Ning Navy retreat, they forget the scar of being beaten by the Ning Navy, it is really good to forget the scar of the pain.

"Keep retreating!"

Li Zhixiang actually didn't want to fight such a battle with the Zheng fleet in Subic Bay, the main problem was that the Subic Strait was too narrow, compared to the huge scale of the Ning Navy and the Zheng fleet, this strait was too narrow.

There was no wide enough sea area for the Ning Navy's warships to give full play to their advantage in speed, and the main force of the Ning Navy retreated, as if they were afraid of the Zheng fleet.

Of course, the Dutch Combined Fleet in the port of Subic avoided total annihilation, and a total of six scarred warships and armed merchant ships were spared.

Zheng Zhilong watched Ning Haijun retreat, knowing that Ning Haijun wanted to distance himself and give full play to the advantages of Ning Haijun's naval guns: "Catch up!" ”

In order to pursue the battleships of the Ning Navy, at this time, dense centipede boats appeared on the sea, and the captain of the centipede boat was slender, plus manpower rowing, and the speed was very fast in a short time.

These small centipede ships did shorten the distance with the battleships of the Ning Navy, and they began to fire shells at the battleships of the Ning Navy, but it was a pity that the guns of these small warships were too small, although the guns rumbled and the shells flew sideways, but the problem was that these shells that were lucky enough to hit did limited damage to the main battleships of the Ning Navy.

However, there are accidents in everything, a cannon lifted by the waves, hit the Gaoyang battleship of the Sixth Detachment of the Ning Navy, this shell hit the mast, although it did not break the mast, but broke the rope of the sail, under the action of huge gravity, the main sail of the ship fell.

The speed inevitably slowed down, and more and more small warships rushed forward, and the vast majority of the shells went into the sea, first raising a puff of white smoke, and then a column of water.

But there was still a part of the battleship Gaoyang, and the part that was hit made a tooth-aching cracking sound, the flames rose, and the temperature of the red-hot lead ball was too high, and it smashed into the wooden hull, and there was no ghost without fire!

However, compared with the sulfur shells of the Ning Navy, the effect of this thing is inevitably a little too poor, and the rate of fire of the front-loading smoothbore gun is too tragic, and the Ning Navy sailors have plenty of time to extinguish the fire.

But the problem is that the Goyo is too slow, surrounded by as many as dozens of warships.

Chen sometimes wanted his warships to relieve the siege of the Gaoyang.

However, Li Zhixiang ordered him to abandon the Gaoyang and retreat.

"Why?"

Li Zhixiang scolded angrily: "Ci is not in charge of the army, you are still an old sailor, look at it!" ”

Chen sometimes took a closer look and found that a group of about 150 warships of the Zheng fleet on the right flank was rapidly encircling them.

If they were surrounded by the right flank of the Zheng fleet, they would not necessarily be defeated, but it was inevitable that they would have to fight a melee battle that they were not good at.

The Zheng fleet, which received British large-caliber naval guns, had significantly stronger firepower than before, and the large-caliber naval guns posed a great threat to the warships of the Ning Navy.

Once entangled by the Zheng fleet, their losses will be heavier.

"Gaoyang, the main fleet retreats, you are in charge of the palace, if you are defeated, you are allowed to surrender to the Zheng fleet!"

On the battleship Gaoyang, in fact, the fire has already burned, and the fierce artillery fire and groups of enemy ships rushing up one after another made the sailors unable to spare their hands to fight the fire, the most fatal thing is that the cannonballs that were not launched were exploded, and an earth-shattering explosion occurred, which made the morale of the Zheng fleet even higher.

Zheng Zhilong was silent on the surface, but in fact, the hand hidden in his sleeve kept clenching into a fist, revealing his muscles. Seeing that the battleship was shattered by the martyrdom explosion, he breathed a long sigh of relief and said with a smile: "We won!" ”

The generals around him were also relieved, and Shi Daxuan even felt sorry for the battleship that was blown to pieces: "It's a pity that such a good battleship, and those cannons on the battleship......"

"It's okay, when this battle is won, the warships and cannons of those northern barbarians will be ours!"

Zheng Zhilong was not happy for long, because as it was getting late, the war was inevitably forced to stop.

Early the next morning, the two sides fought again on the sea surface of the South China Sea, and the Ning Navy continued to bleed the Zheng fleet in the form of cavalry flying kites.

As the battleships of the Ning Navy pulled farther and farther away, the huge fireships and small warships of the Zheng fleet began to lose touch with their main warships because of the speed problem.

Zheng Zhilong unconsciously found that they were being led by the warships of the Ning Navy, and they were going further and further north.

Shi Daxuan judged: "Lord Admiral, it looks like the Ning Navy is preparing to attack Xiamen or Quanzhou!" ”

"Chase!"

Zheng Zhilong has no better way, he is now riding a tiger.

"Attack it and save it!"

This is the big gift that Li Zhixiang is preparing to give Zheng Zhilong.

At the same time, the news of the massacre of Chinese by the Dutch East India Company in Batavia also reached Liaodong, and the first time the news was transmitted back, the "Liaodong Times", "Liaodong Weekly", "Liaodong Business Daily" and other newspapers without exception were all front-page headlines: "We want to pay for our debts with blood."

Children are the hope of the future, which is well known in Liaodong.

In addition to those families who came to Liaodong with their families, Liaodong displaced people will also take the initiative to find those children who have no one to take care of them and send them to Liaodong through various means.

Because when you arrive in Liaodong with your child, whether you are looking for a job or a placement, you will have preferential treatment compared to ordinary young men, and your child will be better taken care of and educated in Liaodong, and when he grows up, he will naturally have a higher degree of recognition and loyalty to Liaodong and Cheng Shijie.

The newspapers in Liaodong, among which the "Liaodong Times" is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Liaodong, with a daily circulation of 35,000 copies, and as the official mouthpiece of Liaodong, many policies and notices of the Liaodong Management Committee will be announced in the "Liaodong Times", and the "Liaodong Times" also has a greater influence in Liaodong.

Therefore, the newspaper report that "the Dutch massacre of Chinese in Batavia" immediately aroused a strong reaction, and countless people took the initiative to take to the streets to petition the Liaodong Management Committee, demanding that the management committee immediately wage war against the Dutch East India Company and make the Dutch pay for their blood debts.

When Bishop Robben arrived in Liaodong, he was on a major mission, because Cheng Shijie's Ning Navy had a regimental teaching regiment dominated by the Portuguese, although now these officer training regiments no longer need to train Ning naval soldiers, but 90 percent of their so-called instructors came to propagate doctrines.

The Portuguese are a country of freedom of religious belief, but more than 97 percent of the people believe in Catholicism, because the Portuguese officers and mercenaries hired by Sun Yuanhua at the beginning had a positive effect on the occupation of Liaodong by the Ning Navy, and Cheng Shijie did not cross the river and tear down the bridge, allowing them to live in Liaodong.

As the development of Liaodong became better and better, the Portuguese priests Lu Ruohan (Portuguese), Ban Ande, and Gongsha Xilao, who had a love affair with Sun Yuanhua, proposed to spread Catholicism in Liaodong.

At that time, Cheng Shijie hoped to get more Western cultural and scientific knowledge, which he could actually get from later generations, and it was effortless, but the problem was that he wanted to give Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua face. In this way, Cheng Shijie agreed to establish a Catholic church in Liaodong, but the precondition was to build a church, and the church would send him at least 100 excellent craftsmen.

But the problem is that after this agreement was reached, with the help of Mason's godfathers, Portugal sent more than 300 outstanding talents to Liaodong, including the famous mathematician, Descartes, who is now forty-one years old.

Descartes now holds a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Liaodong University, a professor who has a different title from later generations in Liaodong as in medieval Europe, and the professor is equivalent to the position of dean.

As Portugal sent famous, learned, and persecuted Protestants to Liaodong in Europe, it not only gained the favor of Catholics, but also avoided direct conflict with Protestantism.

In this way, four Catholic churches were established in Jinzhou, Xinghai, Zhenhai and Gaizhou in eastern Liaodong, and the funds for these churches were not provided by Cheng Shijie, but by the churches themselves, and even Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua donated 30,000 taels and 10,000 taels of silver respectively.

As the influence of Catholicism in Liaodong grew, Bishop Robben, as a Protestant Church, would not be able to live in Liaodong, and if Liaodong was just a wild land, they would not be interested in spreading the gospel of the Lord in Liaodong.

But the problem is that the population of Liaodong exceeded 5 million, almost the same as the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Robben also learned the method of landing Ruohan, brought more than 100 craftsmen from the Netherlands, and established a Protestant church covering an area of 15 acres, but he could only use candy, towels, fruits, dried fruits and other things to attract people to come to worship.

Bishop Robben had not yet opened the situation, but he heard the news of the massacre of Chinese by the Dutch in Batavia.

"Those noble lords are really stupid, they don't know how powerful Liaodong really is!"

Robben looked at Father Sean angrily and said, "Even if they really don't know, they should ask us or the Portuguese about it, how is the situation now?" ”

"What else can I do, the crowd is excited, not only Jinzhou, but also the whole of Liaodong, the newspapers are full of articles, demanding that Cheng Dashuai not be soft, and he wants to pay for his blood debts, people spontaneously march on the streets, demanding that the management committee expel us as soon as possible, the army of the Ning Navy has already begun to move, maybe tomorrow the elite troops of the Ning Navy will appear in Batavia."

"It's terrible, our cultists ran out in an instant!"

Robben said indignantly: "I once asked a devout believer why he wanted to quit the religion, I told him that we are a religion and not a secular country, and we cannot be affected by the affairs of the state, and he told me that there is no home without a country......

"That's it, now no Ming people are willing to sell us vegetables, no one sells us eggs and milk, and now we even have to drink water ourselves, but, along the way, those Ming people seem to want to eat us, I told them, I am Portugal, I don't dare to show my identity as a Dutchman at all!"

"God, I wish I could get out of here tomorrow!"

Robben got up and said, "No, I'm going to write a letter to the Pope and let the Pope intervene, and the good situation will be ruined by these damn bastards all at once!" ”

"I'm afraid it's too late to write a letter, isn't it?"

"It's better to be late than to do nothing!"

"Our current Golden State has a population of half a million, is this a city? In many countries in Europe, there is no 500,000 population, not counting the Ming Dynasty, just a Liaodong, more than 200,000 cities as many as seven, if you count the entire Ming Dynasty, there will be hundreds of such cities, there are countless excellent craftsmen here, as long as we can raise enough money, we can build a cathedral in Liaodong that will not be inferior to the Vatican Basilica! ”

Father Sean said: "Before I came to Liaodong, I also thought that "Marco Polo" was made up, calling this ancient country the land of gold, claiming that there was gold everywhere, and there were piles of silver piled up on the streets, which had made many Europeans intoxicated and crazy. The great Columbus set sail in search of this fantasy golden country, but unfortunately he went the wrong way and ran to the Americas, and he did not see the real East until he died. Now I'm here and I've seen it. I don't want to brag like Marco Polo, but...... Who would dare to believe it? In this spacious house, I am living a life that even the Pope would be mad with jealousy! ”

"It's a pity that these lives are going to disappear because of those fools!"

Robben smiled bitterly: "Compared with Liaodong, our Netherlands is simply a wild area, just like this cup of tea in front of us, if in Europa, only the Pope, the King of England, the King of France, the most powerful people in the world, can take a little bit on the grand festival to entertain the most noble nobles, enjoy the envy of everyone, but here, it is just a drink of our daily life......"

"Actually, I didn't expect it either!"

"What didn't you think of?"

"The Ming Empire is experiencing a terrible catastrophe. Terrible natural disasters swept across the country, and the rogues ate up countless towns and cities like locusts, drank up countless rivers, and spread wildly across the country. The rulers of this vast empire are trying with all their might to extinguish these locusts, and the armies that are still loyal to this empire are exhausted......"

Sean looked at Father Robben and said, "This scene should be very familiar, right?" ”

Bishop Robben nodded.

"The kingdom is about to die, and there will be demons!"

Although there is no such idiom in Europe, there are often striking similarities in history, the Ming Empire has now lost its administrative capacity, and some stubborn and incompetent figures occupy the center of the empire, they turn a blind eye to such a dangerous situation, and only care about using the power in their hands to exclude dissidents, frantically grabbing profits, and not caring about the lives of the common people.

Many of the decrees of the rulers of the Ming Empire could not be implemented at all, except for tax increases. The emperor demanded that the common people pay an extra 10 cents of tax each for the special fund to exterminate the rogues, and this group of shameless officials could get an additional one or two pieces of silver, but the most shameful thing was that those big landlords who owned thousands of acres, tens of thousands of acres, or even hundreds of thousands of acres or hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land did not pay a penny of taxes, and they were proud of tax evasion and ashamed of paying taxes.

Most of the armies of the Ming Empire have lost their combat capability, and the scourge of their own people is even more powerful than that of the rogues, and the ability of officials to harm the common people is even more powerful than that of officers and soldiers...... Natural disasters, man-made disasters, rogue gangsters, foreign enemies, and cool politics...... These most terrible things are pushing the country into the abyss of hell, and many people of insight are lamenting that the country is running out.

Sean sighed and said, "Any empire that comes this far is bound to fall apart. ”

"That's how great ancient Rome ended."

"However, the situation of this country is very special, and even at such a desperate juncture, the first thought of the most outstanding generals is not to divide themselves and fight against each other, but to fight with all their might, trying to reunite this country that has begun to crumble into a whole with their own blood, as if there is an invisible but awe-inspiring force that drives them to stand up and hold the fallen sky back up with their own shoulders."

Sean looked out of the church, and at this time, in order to protect the church from being smashed and burned by angry people, Ning Navy soldiers were standing outside the church like statues.

"His Excellency the Duke, who was born as a commoner, led a group of outstanding people to work together with him, and it took him just three years to build this Garden of Eden on Earth."

"He seems to have come from the classical golden age of this country, with the help of the gods, who has crossed the river of time and come to this miserable, desperately dark and troubled time, to hold down the crumbling sky with his own hands, and lead his beloved people to a more brilliant and brighter future."

Father Robben said solemnly: "Under his rule, the Chinese civilization, which had been severely damaged by the Mongols and Jiannu, brushed away the dust on its body and began to bloom with an unusually dazzling light. I guess even God is curious about this, right? ”

Sean said, "How do you think His Excellency the Duke will respond?" ”

"There is no choice but war! Those aristocratic lords are really dead. ”

Robben said helplessly: "I know our Lord Duke too well, I'm sure he has now slashed at the Dutch East India Company, it's a pity that we can't do anything now!" ”

……

Actually, Bishop Robben's speculation was not entirely correct.

In the Batavia port area, of course, it can't be called Batavia, Jakarta is a famous city with a long history. Hundreds of years ago, it was already a famous seaport for the export of pepper and spices, called Sunda Galaba, which means "land of coconut groves", or "the world of coconut groves". In 1527, the Muslim chieftains led the Indonesian people to defeat the fleet of Portuguese colonists and regain Gondagaraba and renamed it Jayagarda, which means "City of Victory" and "Fortress of Glory", from which the name of Jakarta evolved.

Batavia is just the name given to Jakarta by the Dutch.

The Dutch East India Company's port warehouse in Batavia can be divided into two parts: the West Bank Warehouse (Westzijdsche Pakhuizen) and the East Bank Warehouse (Oostzijdsche Pakhuizen). The West Bank warehouse consists of four building units, which were originally used to store daily necessities such as peppers, nutmeg, coffee, clothing and other daily necessities used on sea voyages.

Now the warehouses on the east coast, which were originally used to store flour and grain, were in disrepair and had no repair value, and the Dutch built new warehouses, which became a concentration camp for the Chinese prisoners. In addition to the Chinese on the Chengfeng, there were also some people who were arrested, more than 1,500 people.

Although the abandoned warehouse is not small, the problem is that in the sweltering weather, so many people must be very tormented. The turbid air, sewage, garbage, and the smell of feces and sweat are mixed together, and it smells very bad.

Although Cheng Shijie had already started a war against the Dutch, the Dutch East India Company did not declare war on the Ning Navy, nor did it declare war on the Ming Dynasty, and when Cheng Shijie sent the main warship of the Ning Navy to Subic Harbor, Cheng Shijie's ship, the Eight Princesses, which did not have any artillery, also sailed into Batavia Harbor.

When the Eighth Princess arrived at the port, Xie Jinglin did not get off the ship directly, but waited for the arrival of the Dutch on the ship, a total of thirty-five Ning Navy soldiers on the sea, and the sentry commander headed by Feng Lei was called Feng Lei.

Feng Lei said: "Mr. Xie, someone wants to see you!" ”

"Who is it?"

"It is said that he is a member of the Batavia Lin family, what is his name Lin Bufan!"

Lin Bufan was actually forced to come, and the first moment he saw Xie Jinglin, he looked at Feng Lei beside him and said, "This general ......"

"My name is Feng Lei, the fifth sentry commander of the third division of the first general commander of the Ning Navy Guards Division, you can call me Feng Sentinel Chief!"

"Whistle Commander Feng, how many of you are here?"

"Thirty-five!"

Feng Lei looked at Xie Jinglin's assistant translators, clerks and other diplomatic personnel and said, "If you count Mr. Xie and his party, there are seventy-nine people in total!" ”

"It's only seventy-seven!"

Lin Bufan was somewhat disappointed.

Xie Jinglin asked, "How is the situation now?" ”

"Not so good!"

Lin Bufan smiled bitterly: "The weather is too hot, there are too many old and weak women and children, there is a lack of medical treatment, there is little food, and most of them are spoiled pig food, there are hundreds of people who have malaria alone, and more than a dozen people have died......

Xie Jinglin glanced at Lin Bufan and said: "Give me the Dutch East India Company, whether it is war or peace, now it all depends on their attitude, if you don't want to die, just have a better attitude!" ”

Batavia, headquarters of the Dutch East India Company. It is also the Dutch East Indies Governor's Palace, which was completed in 1626 and is the most typical European architecture. Successive Dutch governors called the shots to defend the interests of the Dutch East India Company in the sea and land.

At this moment, the current Governor of the East Indies, Hendrik Brouer (Hendrik brouer, the author spelled it out himself, I don't know if it is correct or not, and there is no Chinese translation of the name on the information. Breuer was the eighth Dutch Governor of the East Indies, and he faced his greatest crisis since becoming Viceroy.

Debaul, the commander of the East India Combined Fleet, submitted a report to him, in which Debaul comprehensively assessed that even with the addition of Zheng Zhilong, the probability of victory for the Ning Navy was as high as more than eighty percent.

Because all the warships of the Ning Navy are all battleships of the third level of battleships in Europa, especially the manufacturing capacity of the battleships of the Ning Navy, this huge fleet was only built by the Ning Navy within two years, even if they mobilized all the warships of the Dutch East India Company and defeated the Ning Navy fleet in the case of losing both, the problem is that in two years at most, the Ning Navy will create another super fleet.

When Brewer saw the report, he asked: "What if you add the Spanish Far Eastern Fleet?" ”

"The Spaniards only have a few warships, counting the armed merchant ships, they can draw out up to thirty warships, but by the time the Spaniards complete the assembly, it will be too late!"

In fact, the main force of the fleet of the Dutch East India Company was not in Batavia, and if it were, it would be much easier to do, just fight. But the problem is, no!

"Can you say that Portugal is moved to enter the war?"

"It's impossible, Portugal is too deep in contradiction with our Dutch!"

Batavia, the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company, was snatched from the Portuguese, and they also thought about robbing Macao, but they did not succeed, and it was precisely because of the threat of the Dutch that the Portuguese unswervingly stood on the side of the Ming Dynasty.

"Then it's only negotiation!"

"It seems that this can only be the case, unless the Spanish are willing to send their Armada to the East!"

Debaul smiled bitterly: "With the ability of the Ming people to build ships, when the Invincible Armada plus the main fleet of the Kingdom of the Netherlands arrives in the east, I am afraid that the warships of the Ming Empire will be doubled, and at that time, we will not have an advantage!" ”

In this case, Brewer met with Xie Jinglin and his party.

"Welcome, Mr. Xie, and welcome to beautiful Batavia!"

After listening to the translator's translation, Xie Jinglin said expressionlessly: "Your Excellency the Governor, I came here on the order of the Duke of Haiguo, and I only do one thing, which is to officially inform you that I arrived in Batavia on the Eighth Princess of the Duke of Haiguo, this is a ship without artillery, if you don't want to declare war with the Ning Navy, then release the Chinese who were detained by you, this is a prerequisite, if you think this is an intimidation of you, you can ask the Spaniards to find out the real strength of our Ning Navy!" ”

It can be said that Xie Jinglin's words are very straightforward, and he did not give Brewer, the governor, face, a naked threat.

The problem is that the Dutch eat this one.

Brewer hurriedly explained: "Mr. Xie, I have already explained to you, this is an accident, no one wants to see this happen, the relevant responsible person has been punished, I said, if His Excellency the Duke of Haiguo can promise not to pursue this matter again, then the Chengfeng can set off at any time, of course, the Chinese in Batavia can also leave freely." ”

Brewer didn't know who Cheng Shijie was before, so he naturally didn't care about the threat of war issued by Cheng Shijie, but with the in-depth investigation of intelligence, they found that they couldn't defeat the Ning Navy, and there was no possibility of tricks, especially the huge production capacity.

Back in 1588, England defeated the Spanish Armada with the help of a storm, but did the British Royal Navy really rise?

In fact, no, it was not the Anglo-Spanish naval war that really rose Britain, but the Glorious Revolution, after the Industrial Revolution, with the strength of Britain, through the Seven Years' War, which was a war that covered Europe, North America, Central America, the coast of West Africa, India and the Philippine Islands.

Now the Netherlands has not yet become a sea groom, and their strength is not stronger than Spain, and now Spain is as troubled as the Ming Empire.

If you really want to give an example, the rise of the Netherlands, like the rise of the Manchus, took advantage of the fact that the Spanish Empire was mired in the Thirty Years' War and was besieged by the European Catholic League.

If there were no natural disasters and man-made disasters in the Ming Empire, without Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, relying only on the strength of Jiannu, they would not even be able to break the Shanhai Pass, and the city of Beijing would have fallen directly, and if Wu Sangui had not surrendered to Jiannu, they would not have been able to enter the customs.

The Netherlands also fought a key victory with Spain, the Battle of Downs, and when Emperor Chongzhen was still alive, Jiannu only had one sneak attack.

Xie Jinglin looked at Brewer and said with a faint smile: "Your Excellency the Governor, are you a child?" ”

Brewer was slightly stunned, and subconsciously replied: "No! ”

"No, then why would you make such a naïve request?"

Xie Jinglin's voice raised an octave: "Do you think the Duke of Haiguo will give you such a promise now?" Sober up, Your Excellency the Governor, continuing to detain the Chengfeng will only make our Haiguo Duke even angrier, leading to a more uncontrollable gaffe, and the final result will be ...... Surely you don't want to see it! ”

"This is a misunderstanding!"

"Your Excellency the Governor, do you want to threaten the Duke of Haiguo with the Chinese on the Chengfeng or the Chinese from Batavia? I can now tell you very officially that Hai Guogong will not accept any threats! The nobles of the Ming Empire will definitely not compromise! ”

Xie Jinglin's attitude is also what Cheng Shijie meant, if the Dutch continue to naively suppress these Chinese and force Cheng Shijie to compromise and make concessions, this is simply impossible.

If Cheng Shijie compromises, it will not save those Chinese, but will cause them to fall into a bottomless abyss, and they will suffer more brutal slaughter by the Dutch.

Xie Jinglin said: "You Holland has more than 100 people in Liaodong, more than 100 people in Luzon, and 2,000 people in Dayuan, how many people are in Daming, we haven't had time to count yet, I can tell you now, as long as a Chinese dies, we will cut off the head of a Dutchman, of course, you can be proud, because the Dutch in our hands are not as many Chinese as in your hands, come on, we will hurt each other!" ”

Brewer's head hurts, and he feels like a bucket.

The Dutch did not have many people in Daming, because the Ming and the Dutch found out about the war, the Ming officials were not interested in the Dutch, but the Dutch living in Daming now, almost without exception, pretended to be Spaniards.

Of course, they are not pretending, the Netherlands is still a subject of Spain, just like a colony of Great Britain, although it has the nationality of Great Britain, it is a second-class national.

"Sober up, Your Excellency the Governor, the best thing to do is that you have a duel between the nobles of our Sea Kingdom, where the loser bears everything and the winner has everything, how about it?"

The same is true of Cheng Shijie's reasoning, since the Dutch flipped the table first, then Cheng Shijie must retaliate, and how to retaliate is Cheng Shijie's power.

Just then, a Dutchman whispered in Debaul's ear.

Debaul's face changed dramatically.

"Damn it, what's going on?"

Brewer listened to Debaul's words, roared loudly, and then his eyes were glazed and his face turned pale.

The news that Debaul received was the news that happened more than twenty days ago, that the Ning Navy had captured the city of Orange, and the more than 1,000 Dutch people in the city of Orange, including the surviving army, a total of 2,000 and 52 people, were captured by the Ning navy!

Xie Jinglin smiled faintly: "What's the matter?" ”

"Why do you want to ...... Big-man attack? ”

"You are really ridiculous, you dare to suppress our Chinese merchant ships and slaughter the unarmed Chinese people, are we not allowed to retaliate against you?"

Xie Jinglin said lightly: "I can tell you responsibly, this is a retaliation from the Duke of Haiguo and from the Ning Navy, in fact, I have already reminded you that once the Ning Navy retaliates, the consequences are not something you can bear, this is just the beginning...... Well, in that case, I have understood your attitude, can I declare the breakdown of negotiations? Leave! ”

Xie Jinglin immediately turned around and walked towards the door.

"Wait!"

Xie Jinglin turned around and smiled faintly: "What, Your Excellency the Governor is going to detain me?" ”

"No, no, no!"

Brewer hurriedly explained: "You misunderstood......"

"Then you're preparing...... Ready to kill me? ”

Xie Jinglin smiled lightly: "I can tell you, this doesn't make any sense, you may not know our Haiguo Gong, do you know?" More than three years ago, our Haiguo Duke was just an ordinary officer, about the same as your colonel, and in just over three years, he became a thousand households and became the duke of the Ming Empire, what do you think is the reason? ”

"To show our sincerity, we can release the Wind Ride and leave immediately!"

"Not enough!"

"All Chinese who are willing to leave, all can leave!"

"Is that all?"

"To show our sincerity, we ...... We ......"

At this time, Brewer realized that their Dutch East India Company really had no advantage over the Ning Navy, and it could be said that there was no card to play.

"We can hold the British ship "Joseph" in the port of Medan in tow! ”

"What sincerity do you show us by holding down the British ship!"

"This Joseph is an eight-hundred-ton armed merchant ship with one hundred and sixty-nine guns on it, and these guns were all purchased by Zheng Zhilong from the British!"

Zheng Zhilong was betrayed in this way.

"We're not interested in these old and broken guns!"

"We can order the Dutch Combined Fleet to withdraw from the battle, or we can cooperate with you in launching an attack on the Zheng Fleet!"

In order to appease Cheng Shijie's anger, Brewer sold Zheng Zhilong, and there was no psychological burden at all.

(End of chapter)