In the 17th century, the Dutch came to Luzon and established the first colonial stronghold in Java, Batavia, the port of Jakarta. Then, from Java to the west, occupied Sumatra Island, east, and seized the spice islands from Portugal, and even began to occupy Malacca and Ceylon one after another. They were intensifying competition with Portugal's Malay Governor Doyle Ropez Di Preila and his chamber of commerce.
In the waters of the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch once invaded the Ming Dynasty's territory, Xiaoliuqiu, and also tried to attack the Portuguese in Macau. They even obtained commercial strongholds in Nagasaki on Kyushu Island, Japan.
By this time, the Netherlands had established a Cape of Good Hope colony in South Africa, making it a strong relay station for its colonial expansion in Asia. It built a New Netherlands colony based on the Hudson River Basin in North America, and captured Manhattan Island at the estuary to establish New Amsterdam.
In South America, Dutch colonists occupied some important islands in the Andreas.
In short, the Netherlands is undoubtedly a powerful maritime trade and colonial country. Its shipbuilding industry ranks first in the world. There are at least hundreds of shipyards in the capital Amsterdam alone. The country can start construction of hundreds of wooden sailboats at the same time. The shipbuilding technology is the most advanced in the world.
At this time, it was the most glorious moment for the Dutch. The tonnage of merchant ships in their country accounted for more than three-quarters of the total tonnage of Europe at that time. It had more than 15,000 ocean-going merchant ships of various types, and almost monopolized the maritime trade of the entire world.
It can be said without hesitation that Norwegian wood, Danish fish, Polish food, Russian fur, Southeast Asian spicy food, Indian cotton textiles, Ming Dynasty exquisite silk, tea and porcelain, etc. are mostly transported by Dutch merchants and sold by Dutch merchants. At this time, Amsterdam in Europe was also the center of international trade. There were often more than 2,000 large merchant ships anchored in the port, which was not something that ordinary people could imagine.
but……
Now, it is just such a powerful country, but no one dares to provoke, and Anne has been targeted by this country.
After occupying Jiadedin, she was not satisfied with the fact that the Li Family Chamber of Commerce had only one stronghold in Luzon. After robbing the flagship of the Swedish Navy Admiral Hederam and organizing a local patrol fleet to ensure basic safety, she led her five large ships south to capture Brunei, and took Manila and Manado to the east, and finally stopped outside the port of Delnat, the easternmost to the Spicy Islands occupied by the Dutch.
Although, before coming here, there was a guide who warned Anne of the Dutch to be powerful, hoping that she would not easily have conflicts with the Dutch, that is, the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce, but how could Anne care about so much?
Anyway, she wanted to completely occupy Nanyang, that is, Luzon, as soon as possible, turn it all into the territory of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, and then let the Li Family Caravans organized by her stolen merchant ships to do business and make money here, and she can continue to chase the fastest sister Li Huamei.
As for the Dutch and the Netherlands country, what does it have to do with her? She just wants to beat them, rob their colonies and ports. What can they do?
The surrounding islands of Port Delnat are known as the spicy islands, rich in bananas, peppers, cloves, cinnamon, tulips and cardamom. The Dutch colonized and set up many plantations here, enslaved and oppressed the local indigenous peoples to produce specialty crops for them and seize a huge amount of economic value.
In fact, the Dutch in the port had also vaguely heard about the Li Family Chamber of Commerce and Ji Ading before. Although the communication was inconvenient, they still knew it.
However, they never took it too seriously.
After all, they never thought that the Li family fleet would be so crazy that they would fight against the Malay Governor Doyle Atai Ropez Di Preyra in Indochina and go to war, without attacking or defending the threat from Malacca, but instead heading eastward to the Delnat Port in the Netherlands?
So, seeing the five huge terrifying ships lined up outside the port with masts towering into the clouds, like towering mountains, seeing them open the cannon door and push out one cannon, the unexpected Port Delnat immediately became in chaos.
"That's Port Delnat?"
(???.???)??????
Looking at the huddle in front of the port town, which seemed to have no ability to resist, Annie looked at the first mate beside her.
"Yes!"
"The Grand Admiral, that is the colony of Delnath, occupied by the Dutch Kuhn Chamber of Commerce!"
“That’s what the guide said.”
The first mate himself didn't know, but since the guide said that and brought them here accurately, it was definitely correct.
"They don't care whose family it belongs!"
o(′^｀)o Humph!
Anne saw through the telescope that the ordinary people in the Port of Delnat were in a mess, and the fortresses and fortresses in the port were even more crowded. She didn't seem to be planning to directly raise the flag to surrender to her Li's Chamber of Commerce like Manado and Manila?
"Hurry up, send someone to deliver a letter and let them surrender immediately in an hour!"
o(*'　〼')o
"Otherwise, they will directly smash their broken fortress and fortress into pieces!"
?(ψ｀╭╮′)?
This Nanyang is very big, with many ports and many ships of resistance forces waiting for her to clean up, so Anne must move faster so that she has no time to stay in this broken place for how long!
"yes!"
"I'll do it now!"
Soon, with the order from the first mate, a assault boat that could only accommodate a dozen people was placed on the deck of the warship with a winch. Then a group of sailors rowed the boat and sent two local guides and translators holding the white flag high towards the port.
"Anne..."
"We're going to fight again?"
“Is this a little bit bad?”
Looking at the artillerymen on the deck, and then looking at the harbor in the distance, Song Yifeng, who has been practicing Taoism in the mountains since he was a child, has a lively temperament, but is not bloodthirsty or tyrannical, the second admiral, plans to persuade Anne again.
Think about it, how long has it been since they came to Nanyang?
This time, she captured the port of Ji'ading, snatched countless ships and cargo from other chambers of commerce, and now she has occupied two ports in succession and plans to bombard the third port. Why do she always feel that they are more like a group of robbers?
"What's wrong?"
ヾ(=?ω?=)o
"Aren't we the Li family's pioneering fleet? We came here to develop routes and markets. They insist on monopolizing and not allowing us to do business, so we have to fight!"
o(′ω｀*)o
"But as long as they surrender, they will definitely not make things difficult for them!"
(=′ω=)
Yes, in Anne's opinion, the process doesn't matter what it is. She just wants the final result, and her final result is:
In Nanyang, no one will make things difficult for them in the Li family fleet, allowing the Li family chamber of commerce to trade freely, and no one will dare to drive them away like a stupid sister Li Huamei!
If she wanted to do the above points, she thought about it and could not think of a better way except to use force to directly knock down and drive away all the bad guys.
"ah?"
"But……"
"I remember, didn't we say we were going to come to find Sister Li Huamei?"
"Why has it suddenly become a pioneer fleet now?"
Song Yifeng was a little at a loss. She blinked her big black eyes, thought about it and then, and finally made a point of determination, that is, when they set sail from Hangzhou, they did not seem to have said that they would develop routes and trade routes, and they were really just here to find Sister Li Huamei!
But later, after Ji Ading accidentally grabbed a lot of merchant ships of all sizes and sizes, they recruited sailors and some locals at the suggestion of the flagship mate, and combined with the capable Li family fleet, formed several caravans and escort patrol fleets, intending to do business in the waters between Nanyang and the Ming Dynasty.
"in spite of!"
(′ε)
"Anyway, we have fought, and it's useless to stop now. If we don't win a bad guy, we will definitely not be able to continue to set out to the Indian Ocean and chase Sister Li Huamei and the others."
(??? 3?)
Anne still saw this clearly. In this case, if the Preyra Chamber of Commerce and the Malay Governor were completely defeated, the other party would definitely not let them have a good life.
As for the seemingly strong East India Company and the other party, it was just a by-the-stop. After all, Anne had thought about it. To fight one hostile force, it was also to fight two, so just defeat them and drive them away.
(…)
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"I always feel like we may get into a lot of trouble..."
"Maybe it is a hundred or a thousand times more trouble than the kind I caused when I was practicing Taoism with my master on the mountain?"
Lying on the edge of the boat in a depressed mood, looking at the port in the distance that did not seem to be intending to surrender, and then looking at the densely packed black cannons that stretched out from the hull, Song Yifeng sighed in a little depressed manner.
Anyway, she understood that Anne's great admiral came to find fault on purpose, and that guy just wanted to find some target to fiddle with these big "toys".
"Don't worry!"
(*^▽^*)
"As long as we are powerful enough, there will definitely be no trouble!"
(????-)?
Annie said that although she often causes trouble, she is also very good at solving troubles, so she didn't care about the things that Song Yifeng, the second admiral, was worried about.
“Huh?”
Σ(°△ °|||)︴
"Look! Someone is here, are they here to surrender?"
ヾ(^▽^*)))
At this time, Annie saw that it seemed that a small boat carrying locals was flying towards them, and then the people above were still waving towards them?
Unfortunately, she soon lost her face.
Because, the first mate came to tell her that it seemed that the Ming Dynasty vendors living in the local area came to her to celebrate and "welcome the Ming Dynasty King's Army" and that they were not the envoys she thought were sent by the enemy to surrender.
"Let our second admiral go and talk to them, they are not available!"
(?~?)
Without thinking, Annie directly pushed the matter to Song Yifeng who could only complain.
Now she doesn't want to deal with those troubled guys, she just wants to play her giant ship and cannon naval battle game, so that she won't care about that troublesome "internal affairs"!
"I?"
"That's OK..."
"I hope they can speak the Ming Dynasty's official words, otherwise, I don't guarantee that I can understand what they want to say!"
Song Yifeng did not refuse, and walked off the podium directly with her title of the Second Admiral of the Li family fleet, and walked towards the so-called "Ming Dynasty people" who were pulled on the deck. At this time, she was standing tremblingly on the deck of the bow.
Soon, Song Yifeng roughly understood the details and purpose of the visitor.
Perhaps those people were indeed from Central Plains. More than a hundred years ago, merchants and civilians from southeastern coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty had frequent interactions with Luzon. Gradually, people began to settle here, including their ancestors. However, later, life gradually became difficult after the Portuguese arrived, especially after the Netherlands occupied the place, they still suppressed the Ming people who were originally doing business very dedicatedly.
Now, after seeing the giant ship arrive and besieging Delnat Port, seeing the Li-character flag hanging on the mast and the Ming Dynasty flag, it was believed that the King of the Kings came to expel the Westerners, and they felt that the Kings had a great victory rate, so they hurriedly rowed out to show their loyalty.
When it got hot, it also promised to help guide the way, supply, and comfort the port, etc. Anyway, Song Yifeng didn't understand it very well, while Annie didn't want to listen at all.
One hour, or half an hour later, the ultimatum deadline arrived soon.
Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Dutch in the Port of Delnath still had no intention of surrender, so a round of artillery bombarded far away at their fort and the ragged small fortress on the sea.
result……
Although the Dutch people in the Port of Delnat were brave and stubborn at the beginning, they flew over one after another and were instantly stunned by the precise shelling, they found that the counterattack of the shore artillery was completely impossible to reach the Li family fleet, so they quickly tactfully hung a big white flag high.
After Giardin, Brunei, Manila and Manado, the Dutch colonists in the Port of Delnat found hopeless resistance and soon surrendered in a frustration.
Of course, it is said that some diehards did not surrender, but ran to the inland plantations to defend?
However, Anne and her fleet did not take that kind of thing seriously, nor did they intend to send people to clean up. They just began to clean up and rectify the defense and business of the port with the help of the "Ming Dynasty people".
...
While Anne and her five super battleships bullied the Port of Delnat and successfully captured the port, and captured a group of "big belly" merchant ships from the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce, in the Strait of Malacca, Portugal's Malay Governor Doyle Atai Ropez Di Preyra finally organized a huge fleet of seven second-class battleships and dozens of armed merchant ships.
At this time, Swedish Navy Admiral Hedram Joachim Bergstone and his three remaining second-class battleships were also on the list!
Because, his flagship, the first-class battleship, was brutally taken away by Anne for free, and then he and his subordinates were expelled...
That thing was a great humiliation to him!
Therefore, he also participated in this grand expedition ceremony today and was preparing to cooperate with Malay Governor Doyle Ropez Di Preyla to control the other ten armed merchant ships in this large fleet, and together with the warships under his command, as the squadron of the main fleet commanded by the Governor, responsible for protecting the rear of the main force.
"Gentlemen, ladies!"
"The Li family fleet will pay a heavy price for their stupid behavior!"
"Certainly!"
"No one of them wants to escape back!"
"Facts have proved that the Ming Empire will no longer have any influence in the Indochina. As we all know, their emperors have been beaten to death by rebels, and their empire has begun to collapse. Therefore, their navy will not come to our ocean again to make trouble!"
"We will return triumphantly before the full moon next month. At that time, everyone who goes out to fight and those who come here will be welcomed by you will be given a bottle of rum from the New World!"
In the unloading square at the port terminal, Doyle Ate Ropez Di Preira, the Portuguese Malay Governor in a naval uniform, was surrounded by the guards, and passionately followed the Western men and women who came to see him off. After setting the deadline for triumphal and making various rewards, he turned around and boarded his second-class battleship leaning against the pier trestle.
Soon, the warships and armed merchant ships that had already been replenished began to raise their sails in an orderly manner and turned away from the port. They first gathered on the spacious strait and formed two large and small formations, then turned uniformly, heading eastward, and heading towards Brunei, which was captured by the Li Chamber of Commerce.
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Chapter completed!