554 A coincidence of history?

I just discussed the policies adopted by this group of people with a reader, and I have to say that it is really impossible to convince anyone on the Internet.

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Fortunately, Pang Yu has also been trained by this time. He is not as straightforward as he was when he first logged in, and he would offend people for no reason. After several years of training, he can already read some less important documents and information at the same time.

He chatted wordlessly with the little girl who came over to complain:

"...Yes, there are so many rats here. I suggest you consider raising a cat. I raised one myself... I raised one when I just captured Qiongzhou Prefecture and lived in the granary of Fucheng. Then

There are more rats in the granary, and they can run over your face when you sleep at night..."

"...Hey, it's true that it's quite annoying to have a lazy cat. My yellow-skinned cat is lazy as hell. If you really find it troublesome to raise a cat, I can lend you the yellow-skinned cat for a few days... No, it

If you don’t catch mice, you won’t catch them even if you’re hungry, but at least you can still bark twice to scare the mice.”

"...You don't have to wait to get off work to hold him. He is the one who hangs around outside the cafeteria every day at noon and is so cute. When the time comes, just grab a bone and give it a yin* and just carry it away... Haha, there is no need to return it specially. I'll wait for you over there.

If there is no more food to eat, it will run back by itself."

After Jili Gulu chatted with the boring girl for an hour and a half, the petitioner was finally satisfied and left. Pang Yu casually added another stroke on the word "正" on a piece of recording paper next to it - ""

The word "zheng" has almost filled up to three. Unexpectedly, in just a few days, he has dealt with more than ten such chores, making it almost impossible for Pang Yu to do serious work during the day.

"It seems that Lao Jie is not a good leader..."

Pang Yu now feels that he understands the old guy who seems to be idle all day long - it is not an easy task to handle these messy and trivial chores and straighten out the various relationships in this small group.

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After more than ten days like this, just when Pang Yu felt that everything was calm and he was gradually getting used to it, a big event that was not trivial suddenly came to his door...

In mid-June, a sailing ship flying the flag of the Zheng family docked at the new port of Weihai. What got off the ship was Zheng Zhihu, the second master of the Zheng family. As soon as he got off the ship, he hurriedly asked to see his brother and excuse him from the banquet. After hearing that the banquet was

After he was gone, he found Pang Yutou again.

As soon as they met, Zheng Zhihu fell to his knees and shouted at the same time:

"Commander Pang, avenge my brother"

"how?"

Even though Pang Yu was always calm and self-possessed, he couldn't help but be startled by Zheng Zhihu's loud voice and excited attitude. And Zheng Zhihu's next cry made him stunned, and his mind turned over and over for a while, only what the old professor Li Mingyuan once mentioned.

, but is regarded as a joke by most people:

——Historical inertia

In real history, in 1633 AD, during the current June and July, the Dutch East India Company, in order to monopolize trade rights with China and prohibit the Spanish and Portuguese from participating in trade with China, assembled eleven large warships and

Together with some local pirates in China, they launched a series of attacks against the Zheng family and the Ming Dynasty navy.

In the early days of the war, the Dutch relied on advanced artillery weapons, fast battleships with excellent performance, and adopted preemptive attack methods to raid many ports along the coast of China. The most successful one was undoubtedly the attack on Zheng Zheng on July 12.

During the raid on Xiamen, their hometown, they completely caught the Zheng family by surprise, destroying all the ships that the Zheng family and the Ming Empire had left in the harbor for anchoring and repairing, causing heavy losses.

However, when the Ming court and the Zheng family came to their senses, after all, the family had a solid foundation. Zheng Zhilong spent a lot of money to summon brothers from Jianghu and mobilized all the strength at hand to retaliate, while local officials in Fujian fully cooperated and dispatched troops from various places...

After more than three months of tug-of-war, in October 1633, the Dutch fleet was finally blocked in Liaoluo Bay, Kinmen, and a battle began with it.

In this battle, the Ming army made full use of the flexible maneuverability of the small arson boats, destroying or capturing more than ten Dutch main warships in one fell swoop. So far, the Dutch East India Company and the Ming Dynasty...or in other words, the Zheng Zhilong Group had been engaged in a maritime war for many years.

The battle for hegemony finally came to an end, and Zheng Zhilong became the unique overlord of the East China Sea. All ships sailing here, regardless of whether they came from the east or the west, must faithfully submit supplies to the Zheng family.

And this was also the original goal of the Qiong Navy - when they first started to form a navy on Hainan Island, they targeted Zheng Zhilong's power after 1633. At that time, they only wanted to be as domineering as the Zheng family.

At sea, it is enough to ensure the safety of Hainan Island.

However, after several years of development, today's Qiong navy has become countless times more powerful than the Zheng family in history. The Dutch have also been driven out of Taiwan Island.

There are no ships flying the "VOC" flag of the Dutch East India Company. In the minds of the travelers, the Dutch are a thing of the past. 1633, a year that originally left a mark on the history of naval warfare in East Asia, has

It was calm and not worth mentioning anymore - even Pang Yu, who had always been the most cautious, thought so.

But they didn't expect that Zheng Zhihu's sudden appearance today would completely break their confidence.

——The Dutch are back again, and, almost exactly like in history, they attacked Xiamen. According to Zheng Zhihu, the Dutch have exactly eleven warships, no more, no less.

"I x, how is this possible?"

At this time, Pang Yu was filled with a sense of absurdity. The East Asian Dutch had lost most of their maritime power in the previous offensive and defensive battle of Qiongzhou, and then lost Taiwan Island. It can be said that they were driven out of the East Asian waters naked.

.Even if they were able to obtain ships later, they must have been transferred from the Batavia headquarters or even thousands of miles away from Europe. With this number more or less, how could it still be the same as in history, eleven ships?

Not to mention, the Dutch actually dared to start a war? In Southeast Asia during this period of history, there was no Qiong navy that could beat the shit out of them. The Dutch's dozen or so ships were only small-tonnage ships in Europe.

Sailing ships are already extremely powerful in the face of the naval power of the East Asian countries, so they dare to run rampant with strong ships and powerful guns.

But now... in Southeast Asia where Qiong Haijun exists, what will happen even if they knock down the Zheng family? Do they still expect to coexist peacefully with Qiong Haijun after overthrowing the Zheng family? If the two sides have never had contact before,

It's still somewhat possible, but now that they've been beaten, those people in the East India Company won't be so pretentious, right?

...While listening to Zheng Zhihu crying about how they suffered a sudden attack on Xiamen Port, Pang Yu kept echoing these questions in his mind, but his face always showed an expression of attaching great importance to the other party's words, and he comforted the other party from time to time.

sentence——but it was a skill he had just learned in dealing with petitioners many times in the past few days.

And after listening to it for a while, I really sympathized with the bad luck the Zheng family encountered this time - their losses were greater than that time in history. That time in history, when the Zheng family was suddenly attacked, they stayed in the harbor.

The main ones were ships to be repaired, as well as part of the Ming navy. In the end, ten ships were burned by the Zheng family, and five ships were burned by the Ming army. Several of them were cannon boats built by the Zheng family in imitation of Western ship shapes, but

Compared with the forty or fifty gunboats that Zheng Zhilong pulled out during the final battle at Luowan, the loss of ten ships was not enough to break his muscles and bones.

But this time... Due to Qiong Haijun's suppression, today's Zheng family is not able to develop as freely as it did in history, and can only move around the ocean in Northeast Asia. And after sharing Taiwan Island with Qiong Haijun

, they put a large part of their energy and financial resources into the immigration and development of new territories, and their investment in maritime power was naturally reduced.

The scope of activities has been reduced. As the main base of the Zheng family, Xiamen Port has naturally greatly increased the concentration of Zheng family ships. And more importantly, also affected by the Qiong Navy, the Zheng family now has a far-reaching concept of large sailing ships.

It is not comparable in history - at that time, the Western ships they mainly came into contact with were the Dutch ones, so they naturally thought that these ships were the biggest and best. But now, they can see the "Princess" and "Governor" of the Qiong Navy every two days.

With the thousand-ton class ship showing off its power in front of them, how could the Zheng family imitate the Dutch ship type that was defeated by the Qiong Navy?

——The Chinese people have a strong tradition of copycatting. Zheng Zhilong has been keeping quiet in the past few years, but has been quietly collecting information about the large ships of the Qiong Navy. When the information was almost collected, he began to imitate them.

Moreover, there are two ships, and the shipbuilding yard is located in Xiamen Port.

Although Qiong Haijun knew something about this, he didn't pay much attention to it - what the Zheng family could imitate was only the shape and scale, and there were many things inside, especially the modern modifications, which they would be difficult to place. But in the eyes of the Zheng family, this was already

Unprecedented progress. After investing a lot of money and manpower, Zheng Zhihu was extremely excited as he watched the two large sailing ships gradually take shape - his eldest brother had promised to give him one after the ship was built.

However, all these hopes were shattered in the night attack more than ten days ago - the Dutch ship rushed into the port, burned and sank all the large and small ships moored in the port, and then set its evil sights on the dockyard.

They originally planned to seize the two large ships, but found that the ships were not yet completed and could not be launched into the water. After that, they changed their strategy and directly lit a fire, reducing the two nearly completed large sailing ships to ashes...

That night, in addition to these two semi-finished ships, the Zheng family also sunk and burned more than 20 large ships of various types, accounting for almost half of the total number of large ships currently owned by the Zheng family.
Chapter completed!