The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 378

At this time, the sailors of the Huang family, the auxiliary soldiers, and the master craftsmen who accompanied the army to repair the warships were all working happily. They loaded all the goods captured from Zhuyin's ship onto the empty horse boats that were left to carry rice back to the voyage.

It is not too difficult to repair these powered-off ships, because the craftsmen who participated in the voyage are all masters. They have participated in the repair of hundreds of enemy ships that have been knocked out and become trophies.

The craftsmen can be said to have rich work experience. When they were selected to go to sea, they made targeted material preparations. Now they are busy rebuilding the mast on the Zhuyin ship.

The twelve Zhuyin ships were temporarily towed by the fleet while sailing and repaired as much as possible. With the efforts of the Huang family ship repair masters, it is estimated that these ships will be able to restore [-]% of the wind power soon.

Huang Sheng took the fleet directly to the port built by the Dutch in Taiwan, which is said to be relatively prosperous.

He understands the history and the strength of European countries. The Dutch have just established their country for more than [-] years. After gaining independence, their economy has developed rapidly. They have almost monopolized world trade by taking advantage of the decline of Spain and the busy civil war in Britain.

Trade exchanges between countries in the world mainly rely on maritime traffic.The Dutch merchant fleet has more than [-] sea-going ships, accounting for three-quarters of the total tonnage of European merchant ships and one-third of the world's transport ships. They are called "sea coachmen".

At this time, the country of the Netherlands is on the rise, and the navy of the sea coachman is not given for nothing.They were the most powerful colonial empire in the world at this time, not only winning the competition with Britain, but also replacing the former colonial overlord Spain.

Therefore, this time, Huang Sheng did not have any plans to fight against the Dutch to seize the city of Zeelandia, and then obtain the entire territory of Taiwan.

I will do this in the future, it is too early now, let them operate for a few more years, why not take advantage of the Huang family in the future?
Zheng Yiguan's son, Zheng Chenggong, was able to defeat the Dutch and snatch Taiwan Island as his base camp when he was desperate after he failed many times in fierce battles with the Manchus. Isn't the strength of the Huang family not as good as that of Zheng Chenggong?

No, Zheng Chenggong was able to take Taiwan lightly, which is closely related to the international situation.

When he attacked Taiwan, it was already the 15th year of the Yongli calendar in the Southern Ming Dynasty. At this time, the Dutch were fighting the British inextricably and had no time to take care of the Far East battlefield.

Britain defeated the invincible Spanish Armada in the 16th year of Wanli, ended the mythical war records created by the Spaniards one after another, defeated Spain's maritime hegemony, and broke the colonial monopoly of Spain and Portugal. From then on, Spain began The road to recession.

The United Kingdom stood out and gradually developed into a rising star and powerful colonialist country. The struggle with the colonial power of the Netherlands is of course inevitable.

In the sixth year of Yongli, the British fought against the Dutch, and the Anglo-Dutch maritime war lasted for more than 20 years. Although the Netherlands did not completely lose to the British militarily, overall, the Dutch maritime strength was greatly weakened.

The Huangs had rifled guns, and it should be a no-brainer to defeat the Dutch now entrenched in Zeelandia, where they have few garrisons and limited warships in the South China Sea.

But at this time, the Dutch were invincible. From the perspective of national interests, they could not tolerate the fact that they were defeated by the Ming army. From the perspective of their country's national prestige, the Dutch would not allow their colonies to be robbed.

They have colonies all over the world, if the news gets out and everyone follows suit, how can the Dutch rule?

So don't act too hastily. If the Dutch send a powerful fleet here to take revenge when Ming is in trouble, they will find out how weak the seemingly mighty Ming is, and the consequences will be disastrous!
Peter Nuiz, the third chief executive appointed by the Dutch East India Company to Taiwan, is only in his early thirties this year.

In the fourth year of Tianqi, the Dutch built Zeelandia City in Tainan, the later generation of Taiwan Island, which is the Anping Castle Fortress. They regarded it as their own land and built a city to make it a fact.

The natural deep-water port guarded by the city of Zeelandia has been operated into a free trade port. The port is very prosperous, and merchant ships from all over the world come in and out.

There are many shops and restaurants and brothels near the port. Sailors have to go ashore to have fun every time they arrive at a port.This is the living habits of sailors. How risky is it to run sea trade? I am happy today, and maybe I will be buried in the belly of a fish next time I go to sea.

So the sailors took advantage of the rare opportunities to drink and play with women near the port. They were stupid and rich, which led to the commercial prosperity of the port.No matter what era the income of sailors is considerable, if they don't get a high income, who would be willing to risk their lives to go to sea?
Suddenly there was the sound of rumbling guns outside the noisy port of Zeelandia, and immediately the streets near the port were in chaos.

Many high-nosed and deep-eyed Westerners rushed towards the city of Zeelandia. While running, they screamed strangely in Dutch: "Enemy attack, enemy attack..."

Peter Nuiz, who had just been abducted by the Japanese Hamada Yahei and not long after he was released, hurried to the watchtower of Zeelandia and looked through the binoculars. He saw that the sea outside the port was full of warships, densely packed The blockbuster does not know how many ships there are.

In order to show off his muscles, Huang Sheng brought all the ships he could bring, and now the huge fleet has a total of three hundred ships.Of course, many of them are ordinary merchant ships without combat effectiveness, they are just fake fish.

Peter Nuiz took a breath, he had already seen the flags of the huge fleet outside the port.

On the fiery red banner there is a large Chinese character 'Ming'.He doesn't speak Chinese, and he only knows a few men, including the word 'Ming'.

It's the navy of the Ming Dynasty, are they going to attack us?The regular army we defend here is less than 500 people, and all the Dutch who can be mobilized will not exceed 1000 people.There are probably nearly 1 people in Daming, right?
what do I do?Peter Nuiz, a nepotistic idiot, is terrified.One of the musketeers under Peter Nuiz was his confidant named Abdul Nuiz, a professional soldier with the rank of captain.

He suggested: "Your Excellency, I suggest that we deploy defense immediately. As long as we stick to the castle, there will be an endless stream of merchant ships from our country. Soon there will be merchant ships reporting to Batavia and Ambon Island. The company headquarters will send The fleet came to our rescue."

The East India Company is a commercial company established by the Netherlands in the 30th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, which has state functions to colonize and plunder the East and monopolize Eastern trade.

The Dutch have many garrisons in Batavia and Ambon Island in Indonesia, and the company headquarters has also been moved from Ambon Island to Batavia, the capital of later Indonesia, Jakarta.

Just as the city of Zeelandia was in turmoil, a No. [-] blessing ship without artillery came out of the fleet outside the port.Under the watchful eyes of the Dutch guns, the merchant ship sailed slowly towards the port.

On board were twenty tough martial artists led by Liu Guozheng and Li Xihan. They held a light steel round shield in their left hand, a bright one-handed battle ax in their right hand, double-barreled short guns in their waists, and wrapped steel armor all over their bodies. , wearing an all-steel breastplate on his upper body.

Everyone in Huang Sheng's personal team has the potential of special forces. They despise any enemy and calmly face the Dutch guns.

(End of this chapter)