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Longrich questioned politely, as if he had taken the moral high ground, and used the international influence of the Celestial Empire to overwhelm Daming.

Indeed, undeclared war and sneak attacks on territories occupied by others are not authentic on paper.

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

Zheng Chenggong retorted righteously with the reasons Zhu Shuren explained in advance: "This general is ordered to hunt down thieves, what is it called being nameless!"

Longrich was taken aback, he had never seen such a shameless Ming man, and he was in a hurry: "This... the emperor of Ming can do whatever he wants without breaking diplomatic relations! There have been seven years of mutual relations between me, the Netherlands and Ming. No offense!"

Zheng Chenggong: "Do you also know that there have been only seven years of mutual non-aggression? You were ashamed to say, 'There have been many negotiations for a ceasefire and a trade agreement'. If your country has always kept its promises, why did you have 'multiple negotiations for a ceasefire'?
Shouldn't it be that since your country withdrew from Penghu in the fourth year of the Apocalypse and the two sides reached an agreement, Ming and the Netherlands have not invaded each other?In the sixth year of the Chongzhen reign, the Luowan naval battle, and in the 11th year of the Chongzhen reign, your navy general Lang Bijirigo led nine warships, discounted it as an excuse for Liu Xiang's revenge, and plundered our coast. How should we deal with all the old grievances!

The previous two times, it was your country that tore up the contract and looted first. Your country’s so-called contract before was simply because you were thousands of miles away from the country and your supplies were insufficient after a long war, so you pretended to ask for peace in order to breathe a sigh of relief and raise reinforcements!"

Zheng Chenggong turned over the old account, and immediately made it difficult for the Dutchman to be clarified. Longrich struggled to defend:
"One matter is one matter. Although there were repeated frictions at the beginning, most of them were caused by misunderstandings, and the last armistice negotiations in Chongzhen in 11 years, didn't all the misunderstandings be cleared up?
The reason why I played to help Liu Xiang and restore the order in the East China Sea and the South China Sea that year was because of the previous East Asian seas and politics. I, a Dutch merchant ship, have never heard that I have to pay the flag gold to allow trade!
General Zheng, after you wiped out Liu Xiang, you forced all ships in East Asia, without exception, to pay 3000 taels of flag silver every year when they go to sea. Negotiating with you and requesting to take back the order is not trying to start a war with Daming.Now that the negotiations have been settled, why bother to bring up the old things again! "

The past event Longrich mentioned involves a history, that is, before 1638, not all seagoing ships in East Asian waters submitted to the international order dominated by the Zheng family.

Because Liu Xiang hadn't been wiped out before, there were several sea powers in East Asia who divided their territories, so no one could charge everyone's "health management fee" across the board.

But after the fall of Liu Xiang, the Zheng family dominated the East Asian waters, and began to forcefully push 3000 taels of silver per ship per year for flag silver, no one could be an exception.

According to the statistics at the time, if you did not do business in the waters north of Fujian, the probability of being robbed and killed without flying the Zhengjia flag could reach [-]-[-]. That is to say, even if the Portuguese and Dutch ships went from Manila to Guangdong, there is such a high probability of being killed without flying the Zhengjia flag.

If you want to do business in the waters north of Fujian, the killing rate of those who do not fly the Zhengjia flag is generally [-], and they are close to death. If they are caught, the whole ship will be killed.

The Dutch didn't want to pay the money at first, so they let an admiral named Lang Bijirigo lead the fleet to fight a battle. After being beaten and sunk by more than half, the Dutch were subdued in the peace talks.

Now the Dutch feel that we have paid "health management fees" for seven or eight years, how can we suddenly turn our backs?Could it be that you want to raise the price?If you want to increase the price, you can't just attack and fight directly!If you think you are short of money, you can settle it through diplomatic negotiations!

However, Longrich's cry was once again stepped on the pit.

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

"We, Ming, never seem to have allowed your Dutch ships to pay the flag silver tribute, right? At the time of the armistice, we only said that Dutch ships were not allowed to cross the Heishuigou, and could only wait for the Han Chinese merchant ships from Fujian and Guangdong to come out on Dayuan Island. Goods, you can only be responsible for overseas shipping to Hongyi mainland!

However, in recent years, we have repeatedly caught Dutch ships pretending to be Japanese ships, posing as flags and paying silver, and approaching the coast of Daming privately to purchase goods!Especially in the past one or two years, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty fell, and we caught you with the whip boats in the waters north of Huai'an!Such actions are regarded as collaborating with the enemy in our Ming Dynasty and declare war on our Ming Dynasty!Based on this alone, Daming will completely expel you from Dayuan Island! "

Longrich was seized, unable to refute directly, and jumped anxiously: "Falling the flag to pay the silver? You only know about this today? At least five or six years ago, why didn't it be banned at that time, but now? Take it out and say, this is to release water to raise fish. If you want to fatten up, you will kill it!
Daming is so cunning and honest!Everyone in the world will see the right and wrong of this matter, and North Korea’s Annan Wa Kingdom will also know that you, Ming, do not keep your promises!”

One of the incriminating evidence mentioned in Zheng Chenggong's last few sentences involves a detail, that is, "when the Zheng family asked all the merchant ships in the East Asian waters to pay to the Zheng family", they did not actually allow the Dutch to pay. After the money, they are not qualified to cross the black water ditch, so they can only wait for the goods to arrive on the island.

The eligibility to pay the money is for people from the Ming Dynasty, as well as the Koreans, the Japanese, the Annans, the Portuguese.

But in fact, the Netherlands still managed to succumb, and paid the money. At that time, the Dutch East India Company relied on a senior businessman and director of the East India Company’s embassy in Japan named Kuiyi Frederick (this person in history When Zheng Chenggong came to attack 16 years later, he was already the governor of the Netherlands stationed in Dayuan Island. He was the opponent of the Dayuan Battle we saw in the history books.) Help me think of a way:
Let the Dutch trading houses in Hirado and Nagasaki (in the era of the great voyage and Taiko Lishiden game, there are also Dutch trading houses in Hirado) to negotiate with the local Japanese daimyo, and make a deal with the daimyos such as Higo Fan and Chikugo Fan Fees, let these Japanese daimyos come forward, pay a few more 3000 taels a year, over rent 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 to pay the Zheng family directly, so they ask the Japanese to pay the handling fee and pay the money through the back door.

Does Zheng Chenggong know about this?Of course I know, after all, when patrolling at sea, I saw a ship flying the Zheng family flag approaching. Can you tell whether the ship is a Galen ship or a Japanese ship?

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

"Surprise inspection! Do you know that you Dutch people broke the law by relying on their aptitude?"

Moreover, since Zheng Chenggong is going to tear his face apart today, he can still give a very righteous supplementary reason: "Our Daming used to charge 3000 taels per ship per year, but it's just that Fuchuan usually only has [-] materials, and Japanese ships only weigh [-] taels at most. hundred materials.

But your Hongyi heavy Galen ship weighs more than a thousand pieces?How many times heavier can the cargo be loaded than the Daifuku ship?Such a ship is only paid 3000 taels a year for fraudulently obtaining the flag of the ship. Where do you send beggars? "

What the hell are you paying the road maintenance fee for the pickup truck, but you are driving a semi-trailer truck? If you don’t check who the Dutch are looking for?

Longrich was completely speechless, because the Zheng family made it clear at the beginning that the fee standard was not aimed at the Netherlands, and they did not give the Dutch the opportunity to pay. Now they say that you have paid less and owed taxes, which is indeed reasonable.

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

Longrich has not received enough authorization for the time being. He was only authorized by General Cornelis to condemn him today. Now that he is in the wrong and wants to negotiate concessions and compensation, he has no choice but to beg Zheng Chenggong to postpone the offensive for a day. , let him go back to Zeelandia City to ask for authorization.

Zheng Chenggong put down harsh words, did not accept other conditions, and only asked the Dutch to evacuate Dayuan Island, and since then abolished the ban that "the Dutch are not allowed to go to the Ming mainland, and the Zheng family is not allowed to go to Manila" set by the two sides since the fourth year of Tianqi. In a word, the Daming ship is allowed to go to Manila from now on.

The main purpose of the treaty back then was to ensure that both the Dutch and the Zheng family could act as middlemen and have sufficient profit margins.

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

And if Zheng’s boats were shipped directly to Manila, the Dutch would no longer be able to act as middlemen who sold them to the Spaniards, so the two sides agreed to guarantee each other’s part of the monopoly middleman status.

But now the Dutch took the lead in breaking the contract, especially in the past two years when northern China fell, the Dutch actually had a small-scale trade with the Tartars of the Qing Dynasty, and even tried to get close to the coast of the Chinese mainland.Since they breached the contract first, Zheng Chenggong will of course abolish the promise that the Daming Ship is not allowed to go to Manila, as a reciprocal punishment!
Of course, Longrich can only say that he heard Zheng Chenggong's words for the time being, and will discuss and ask for instructions when he goes back, and will not promise.

A day later, he received a new authorization from General Cornelis, and begged again:
"General Zheng, your request is too harsh. We have admitted the mistake of counterfeiting nationality and trading beyond our authority before, and we will also admit compensation. How about this, we are on Dayuan Island, and there are only twenty ships at most, and more than half of them are not heavy-duty ships. The Lun ship is just a frigate.

But in order to show our sincerity, the East India Company is willing to treat all the large-scale trading ships in the past seven years as heavy galleons, and you don't need to check the ship type in detail.

We think that according to the comparison of the tonnage and cargo capacity of the heavy-duty Galen ship and the Dafu ship, the revenue of the Dafu ship is 3000 taels a year, and the heavy-duty Galen ship is 1 taels a year, is it enough?

In the past seven years, there were 7000 ships every year, with a price difference of 98 taels per ship. Our East India Company is willing to fully compensate the difference of [-] taels of silver.In the future, we promise not to cross the border to explore and do business, and to pay taxes according to the regulations. "

After hearing this, Zheng Chenggong laughed angrily: "There is such a good thing in the world? Your family has been inspected for taxes. After the investigation, you will pay the evaded tax and you will be done?"

What's more, the tax bureau of later generations will find out the problem, pay the full amount plus late payment fee, and even give three or four times the fine!
Although Zheng Chenggong is not a time traveler, and he doesn't have a deep understanding of the Ming Dynasty's tax law, his simple intuition told him that it would be too cheap to make up for the leaked money in this kind of thing.

Longrich also knew that it was a bit too much, and then urgently stated: If the supplementary payment is not enough, the fine can be doubled. The East India Company is willing to pay 1906 million taels of silver in compensation in exchange for not abandoning the colony of Dayuan Island.

The Dutch are still rich these days. A smuggled silver boat going to Manila sank, and later generations salvaged it. They found that the customs declaration stated that it was 50 silver pesos, but it actually contained 160 million and 110 silver pesos, a total of [-] pesos. Ten thousand silver pesos are smuggled and not taxed.

If Dayuan Island can be kept, it will be a good deal for the Netherlands to pay about 200 million taels of silver at once.

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

Zheng Chenggong sternly refused, and reiterated his conditions:
The Dutch can take away all the chattels on Dayuan Island, and even allow them to sell their houses and fields before leaving. The previous tax arrears and fines can not be pursued. This time, Dayuan Island will be used as the illegal act of the Dutch. Compensation punishment!

Zheng Chenggong also made an exception. As long as the Dutch give up Dayuan Island and do not interfere with the Daming Ship going to the North Island of the Philippines where Manila is located, other trading conditions can remain the same. The Dutch will still be allowed to trade in the future, and can formally trade.

If the fight had to continue, then Daming would not be able to guarantee the safety of the Dutch's private property on Dayuan Island!Because war has losses!Those are to be used as Daming's military expenses and war compensation!
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Longrich went back with the negotiated conditions in despair, but the Dutch were unwilling to compromise because they had a castle to hold on to.

The Dutch fleet was not completely blocked by Zheng Chenggong, and the frigate slipped back to call for help immediately, which is also the confidence of the Dutch.

That being the case, it can only be slowly besieged and attacked.

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

The maximum range of the Ming army's siege mortars also obviously exceeded the Dutch fortress guns of this era. Who made the Ming army's steelmaking technology and artillery technology surpass the Netherlands.

Although under normal circumstances, the range of the fortress guns of the same era is longer 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 made tentative attacks for a few days, they also gradually found out the strength of the defenders in the various strongholds of the Dutch army that were divided and surrounded. When the two combined up, they decided to break down one by one. In the middle, it can also deter the defenders in the relatively hard persimmon city and make them choose to surrender directly.

That being the case, Zeelandia City is located on the hills on the south bank of Dayuan Bay in the Taijiang Estuary. The terrain is relatively high, the city is also the strongest, and the number of defenders and cannons is the largest, so it will be the last to fight.

Chixian City is in a relatively flat area in the hinterland of the bay, and the number of people is less than half. The fortress artillery can't be condescending to make up for the range advantage, so let the Ming army siege mortars make full use of the range difference and slowly push it.

Under the siege and bombardment of the Ming army's artillery, the attack went smoothly. Although the new western bastion that resembled the 17th century was very strong, and some small collapses were blasted away in a few days, it was after all the damage caused by flying kites for free.

Given time, the fall of Chixian City is inevitable.The defenders in the city also tried to organize night raids and destroy the artillery positions of the Ming army, but they all failed, and the death squads were damaged in vain.

Chixian City with more than 600 people, after being besieged for more than a month, there are only 400 people and some civilians left, and they finally chose to surrender because of despair——

In fact, the number of Dutch people killed in battle is of course far more than 200, because these 200 are just casualties of regular army soldiers, and the sailors, merchants, and dock workers in the city will also go to the city with guns to help defend the city during the war, and there are many of them more than this number of casualties.

Almost all Dutch people who dared to come to the Far East to make a living in this era were outlaws. Even if they were not soldiers, they were also tough folk.

After taking Chixian City, Zhang Mingzhen still felt that the attack speed was a bit 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 would not feel so.

Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong combined again and confirmed that this tactic is no problem, but the long-term siege consumes so many troops, and some military supplies are really insufficient.

In this era, the number of indigenous people on Dayuan Island was not large, and there was an indigenous country called Dadu Kingdom in the middle of the east coast of the island, which was relatively xenophobic.Previously, those who were willing to trade with the Daming Wangshi to sell grain to supply military supplies were only a few local aborigines in the south of the island.

To maintain the military rations of [-] troops across the sea for a long time, and transport all the necessary materials from Fujian, the cost is too high, and the transportation pressure is very heavy——

In the Zheng family, Zheng Chenggong is not completely capable of talking now. His father, Zheng Zhilong, is still alive, and the industrial management and business transportation are all in Zheng Zhilong's hands. Zheng Zhilong said that the pressure is too great, and Zhang Mingzhen can't check the accounts.

Considering that the infantry units only need to attack the fortifications at the end and surround the city to prevent the Dutch from going out of the city to recoil the artillery positions, it really doesn't take so many people in the follow-up stage.

After the two sides made up their minds, they finally made some compromises. Zhang Mingzhen only left a small number of artillery units, and the rest of the northern Ming army asked Zhu Shuren for instructions after returning to Nanjing and allowed them to withdraw temporarily.

The Zheng family's troops will also be reduced from 5000 as appropriate, and may be reduced to [-], which will be used for long-term siege and artillery protection.

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 withdraws, as long as the siege artillery team remains, the Zheng family will eventually win the whole island.

When Zhang Mingzhen and some of the Zheng family's troops withdrew back to the north, they spent a month on the way, stop and go, and wiped out the Dadu Kingdom in the middle of the east bank, a country of high mountain natives. There is nothing to say.

After passing through Tamsui, they destroyed the defenders of Fort Antony in Tamsui and wiped out the main force of the Dutch in the north of the island.Fort Anthony was rebuilt by the Spanish Fort Santo Domingo, which was destroyed two years ago. It has not been repaired yet, and it is dilapidated, so it is easy to break through under the artillery of the Ming army.Of the more than 800 people in the five dissatisfied formation companies of the defenders, less than half were killed, and the rest surrendered and were captured.

By the end of the twelfth lunar month, more than two months after the start of the war, Xianweiyu Fortress, Chixian City, and Antony Fort had all been destroyed, and the Dadu Kingdom was also destroyed.
The only thing on the island that resisted Ming Dynasty was Zeelandia City, which lasted until the third year of Longwu.

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After Zhang Mingzhen withdrew most of the imperial court's direct troops, he left only Zhang Guozhu, a general in charge of the siege artillery team, to assist Zheng Chenggong.

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

Zheng Zhilong is also ambitious, and immediately explained some things to the loyal Zheng Chenggong: a small number of troops can surround the city of Zeelandia, and then farm around, replant the fields that were cleared by the Dutch, and expand the wasteland. Realize self-sufficiency in rations for the siege troops.

The Taijiang Plain in the south of Dayuan Island is quite fertile and suitable for large-scale rice cultivation. Later generations can also produce a large amount of grain, which is enough for the local people to eat, and can be trafficked to the fresh water in the north.

Zheng Chenggong expressed his incomprehension to this kind of attack method that cares too much about casualties and is too slow. He believes that paying a maximum of hundreds of thousands of casualties will definitely be able to storm Zeelandia, which has been half disabled. down.

But Zheng Zhilong, who was a traitor in history, showed more ambitions. He warned his son that although Zhu Shuren had always been allied with the Zheng family, he was now very powerful and crushed the Zheng family far away.

Zhu Shuren also promised the Dutch to open the customs, formally collect tariffs, completely abolish the sea ban imposed by the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and let the sea trade completely collect money on the bright side.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 money again?That was a huge wealth of more than 100 million taels of silver per year at its peak!
Therefore, Zheng Zhilong wants to take Dayuan Island cautiously and slowly. In the process of occupying the island, first let the Zheng family's military colonies spread all over the fertile land on the island, control the throat to create established facts, and ensure that even Dayuan Island will be taxed as a legal foreign trade in the future. The Zheng family can still have absolute economic interests in Dayuan Island!
Zheng Chenggong still admires Zhu Shuren, and he also recognizes this big brother. Of course, he disapproved of his father's petty actions. He also advised Zheng Zhilong that Prince E had promised to share the economic benefits of Dayuan Island with the Zheng family in the future. little tricks.

Reluctantly, Zheng Zhilong could suppress his son, and he did it in a dark way, and he also issued a military order to take Dayuan Island, but it was only a little delay until the end of the relatively cool winter season, and Zhang Mingzhen from the north was affected. Tropical climates have all retreated due to illness, and then he personally controls the rhythm of breaking the city and the timing of the report.

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

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

However, compared to the parallel time and space, where the entire battle lasted for nearly a year, the siege of the city of Guangrelanzha took more than eight months, which is still much faster.

Moreover, before the Ming army won the final victory, it did repel the reinforcement fleet sent by the Dutch from the Batavia Laoshi Expedition at sea, knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger, completely establishing Ming's absolute authority in the East Asian ocean.

Later, Zhu Shuren also learned about the small tricks of the Zheng family seeking personal gain and wanting to eat more and occupy more. Of course, he had to find a way to beat and punish Zheng Zhilong——Zhu Shuren was very kind to Zheng Chenggong, a younger brother. , Has been a traitor in history!

Zhu Shuren treated Zheng Zhilong pretty well before, but it was only because of his son's face, and there was no conflict of interest.

However, it was God’s will, Zhu Shuren did not seize the opportunity to punish Zheng Zhilong for delaying the development of his island power—maybe it was because Zheng Zhilong procrastinated and delayed the battle against the Dutch from the original end of winter to early spring. It's not over until late spring and early summer.

Coupled with Zheng Zhilong's lack of greed, he went deep into the center of the island to pursue the remnants of the Aboriginal people of the Dadu Kingdom, trying to arrest people as tenant farmers and kill those who harassed the rebels.

Although he is from Fujian, the pristine tropical rainforest of Dayuan Island is far more dangerous than Fujian. Finally, in a private operation this summer, Zheng Zhilong contracted a tropical disease and died without timely treatment——

Don’t really think Zheng Zhilong is in poor health, because in the history of parallel time and space, when Zheng Chenggong regained Dayuan Island 16 years later, he also defeated the Dutch and died of illness the next year. He was only 38 years old when he died.

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

Maybe it's because the Zheng family's genetics are faulty, and they are particularly afraid of certain tropical disease bacteria or viruses on Dayuan Island. After reaching middle age, they can't bear it anymore, and only young people can bear it.

Daming recovered Dayuan Island 16 years ahead of schedule, but the butterfly effect was that Zheng Zhilong replaced his son and was killed by a tropical disease.

After getting the news of Zheng Zhilong's death, the beating that Zhu Shuren planned before naturally stopped, and there was no need to argue with the dead.

Moreover, Zheng Zhilong is dead, and it is even more necessary to play the emotional card, not only to completely win over Zheng Chenggong, but also to help Zheng Chenggong completely control the power of the Zheng family.

In any case, Zheng Chenggong's second uncle and third uncle are still alive in this life. These people followed Zheng Zhilong to surrender to the Qing Dynasty in history, and only Zheng Hongkui followed his nephew.

Now that these people have not surrendered, Zhu Shuren will help Zheng Chenggong get rid of these two unreliable uncles as soon as possible.

The best way, of course, is to hold Zheng Zhilong's nose and give Zheng Zhilong a title, give a little honor, and then immediately allow Zheng Chenggong to inherit.

With the title of title and the absolute support of the court, Zheng Chenggong can marginalize his second and third uncles.

Zhu Shuren killed three birds with one stone. He not only recovered the senior officials, beat and threatened the Dutch, but also made Zheng Zhilong and his two younger brothers withdraw from the stage of history.

Three years in Longwu, it can be regarded as a perfect start.

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PS: As I said, my book cannot make people who have been big traitors in history die in prosperity and wealth.But the butterfly effect has reached this point, and it is impossible for Zheng Zhilong to become a traitor and a complete villain again.Not even like Wu Sangui

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