August every year is the hottest season of the year.

This year, if you walk and work under the scorching sun, you will easily faint from heatstroke and may be burned by the sun.

Located in the city of Jelanzha in the south of Dayuan Island, groups of naked men, sweat beads rolling on their bodies, walking on the street with heavy baskets on their backs.

Most of these people were from the Gaoshan tribe nearby, as well as Han people who came to Dayuan Island for various reasons to make a living.

Although the Dutch came to the senior officials much shorter than the Spanish, the Spanish were rapidly falling to the peak at this time, and the speed of national strength decline was shocking.

And the Netherlands is replaced.

The Dutch claimed to be the sea coachman. With their strong national strength and naval strength, they soon built two fastened cities, Jelancha and Promincha in the southern part of Dayuan Island.

Among them, Relan Cha City is the best. The entire city took several years to be built, and it can be said that it has just been completed.

This is still the case in the past six months, due to the great changes in the domestic situation of the Ming Empire, the Dutch invested a lot of manpower and material resources to accelerate construction.

Otherwise, according to the slow construction speed in the past, it would take at least a few years before the city could be completely completed.

This very majestic city is also the central city where the Dutch ruled Dayuan Island. It not only lives with the Dutch family members on Dayuan Island, but also has nearly 5,000 Dutch soldiers stationed all year round.

At this time, the person in charge of the southern part of Dayuan Island was Hans Putmans, the new governor of Dayuan Island, sent by Western countries six months ago.

Governor Putmans, a very capable nobleman, even received by the Queen in person. He is a hawkish figure who advocates great expansion of the ocean in China.

His military quality is not low, he is an outstanding graduate from the Royal Dutch Military Academy. His grades at graduation were among the best.

At noon this day, he sat in the tallest building in the city of Jelancha: a spire tower worth more than ten feet high, holding a tall glass in his hand, with purple-red wine in his glass.

He raised his head and breathed a sigh of relief, drank the wine in his hand, played with the high-legged wine glasses in his hand, and looked at the busy crowds of people as big as ants on the main streets below, and felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction.

It has been half a year since I arrived at Dayuan Island. Governor Putmans has completely changed from his excitement when he first came to Taiwan and has become full of confidence.

Dayuan Island is a good place. The climate and environmental conditions here are very suitable for the growth of various crops and the rapid reproduction of various animals.

There are rice, sugar, tobacco, hemp, ginger, cotton and other economic crops, and there are also a large number of birds and animals.

Among them, there are the most herds of deer skins and antlers, which are the favorites of nobles from Western countries.

Since the Netherlands occupied the southern part of Dayuan Island in recent years, as more and more materials handed over to the East India Company every year, Dayuan Island has become increasingly valued by the Dutch royal family and the East India Company.

While enjoying a paradise here, I also earned a lot of money that would allow me to enjoy my old age. What else can I not be satisfied with?

Governor Putmans cherishes his current position as governor and wants to thank the cabinet ministers who sent him to the island of Grand Secretary.

If it weren't for them, they wouldn't have become the local emperor of Dayuan Island. In just half a year, they would have made money that they would never make in the Netherlands in their lifetime.

“What a nice weather!”

Governor Putmans stretched his long and stretched his waist, put down his wine glass, and then reached out to pick up the tea cup placed beside him, and took a sip of the tea slowly.

Then, he seemed to think of something, frowned, and said to himself with some anger:

"It seems that two months ago, when Gomez's squadron was trading in Yuegang, Fujian, was launched a sudden attack by the current Northern Ming Dynasty fleet and wiped out the entire army. It was true."

"How could this Northern Ming Empire be so powerful? Especially the naval fleet that was almost blank before?"

He was a little confused.

If the Northern Ming Empire was really so strong, how could it allow the empire to split?

Now the Ming Empire, which is divided into three parts, should have been trapped in a time of great internal strife, and domestic people are not living in poverty. 110 e-book

In the past two months, the Three Western Kingdoms, which dominate the Nanyang region, have sent many spies to lure a large number of Han traitors, and finally learned about an extremely terrifying situation:

Almost all the coastal areas of the Ming Empire were occupied by the naval fleet of the Northern Ming Empire and blocked the sea area!

This is simply a fantasy!

This shocking change made the Three Western Kingdoms, who had originally wanted to take advantage of the situation, unable to hold even the dispute meeting in Manila.

After repeated confirmation, the three countries began to connect intensively and secretly began to assemble and mobilize the fleet.

Everyone was wondering whether to form a joint fleet as soon as possible and attack the arrogant Northern Ming Empire.

Especially the East India Company, the squadron that went to Fujian Yuegang to trade this time occupied nearly 30% of the ships and troops in the original Nanyang area.

This time, the Northern Ming Empire was almost wiped out, and the real loss was heavy.

Both ships and soldiers have suffered losses that have never been seen in recent years.

How can I not recover such a huge loss?

However, the sudden emergence of several naval fleets of the Northern Ming Empire were too mysterious and basically no information could be found.

However, not long ago, hundreds of soldiers who fled back to Vietnam from the south of the Southern Ming Empire and learned about the specific situation of the Northern Ming Empire naval fleet raid.

Huge, estimated to be about 3,000 tons of strange warships? There are at least fifty or sixty?

Extremely long range, fully mature artillery and flowering bullets?

Could it be that I haven’t woken up yet?

How could this bizarre situation happen in the Northern Ming Empire, which was previously blank in the navy?

However, after strict interrogation of these defeated soldiers, we finally confirmed that what these defeated soldiers said was true!

In this way, after learning the conclusive information, the East India Company, which had originally wanted to send troops to retaliate immediately, immediately stopped its actions, summoned relevant personnel and held a meeting!

Keep holding meetings, constantly discussing and researching countermeasures.

Naturally, the revenge that was originally intended to be vigorously launched was stranded.

We must wait until the East India Company bosses have completed the meeting and research before they can launch corresponding retaliation action plans.

Even Governor Putmans was summoned to Batavia a few days ago for a few days of seminar, and only returned to Damen Island the day before yesterday.

"no!"

"I Putmans, I won't know about meetings all day long like those Batavian, vegetarian pigs!"

"What else do they do besides having meetings and holding various seminars?"

"I can't just let the Northern Ming Empire expand its territory so much like those bureaucrats, and I have to launch an active attack on them!"

The more Putmans thought about it, the more he realized that the bureaucrats who knew about meetings all day were just brain-dead people. Apart from wasting the country's wealth and cream, they could not do anything practical.

If you don’t make some response plans, you might be hit by the fleet of the Northern Ming Empire one day, and the bureaucrats are still holding meetings and holding various seminars!

In fact, the main reason why those bureaucrats like to hold meetings is that they use the public expenses of meetings to eat, drink, have fun, make money, and play with women. They are their favorites!

He thought about it for a moment, shouted loudly into the gate of the tower: "Guard, call me the adjutant Bosten!"

He had to discuss with his capable adjutant, so as not to lose control of the overall situation of this sea area.
Chapter completed!