Zhao Ming met with Dutch Taiwan Governor Shernand on a Dutch warship.

The two sides signed a trade alliance treaty, which stipulates that in the future, the Dutch East India Company will have priority purchase rights for goods in Donghai Town, Donghai Town will provide the supply of goods, and the Netherlands will be responsible for exporting them to Tianzhu, Dashi and the West. The two sides will shelve disputes, work together to prosper trade.

In addition, East China Sea ships are allowed to transport goods to Dutch strongholds such as Batavia and Grand Secretary, but they cannot pass through Malacca.

The two sides jointly dealt with Spain. The Dutch raided the route of Manila's chicken cage from sea, while Donghai Town pulled out the Spanish stronghold of the chicken cage.

On the Dutch sailing boat, Zhao Ming and Shernand sat opposite each other at the table, and both sides looked at the treaty written in Dutch and men.

Seeing that Shernand had signed the sign after checking, Zhao Ming picked up his pen and wrote down his name. Then he waved his hand and took the seal of the Pinglu Hou from behind. Zhao Ming took it out and stamped it. The two convenient ways were to establish the "Miaosu Trading Treaty".

After signing the treaty, Zhao Ming returned to the lucky ship, and both sides raised their sails and returned to their respective strongholds.

On the Ming Junfu ship, Wang Dana asked: "Governor, will those red-haired and powerful people really raid the route from Manila to Jilong?"

The Ming army's navy was weaker than the Spanish. If the Dutch were restrained, the pressure on the Ming army's navy would be greatly reduced.

Zhao Ming shook his head, "The Western barbarians are cunning and cannot be believed. It is impossible to expect them to put in great efforts. The key is to rely on themselves!"

Ding Weiyue muttered, "Since it's unreliable, why are you doing so much time?"

Zhao Ming heard his words and smiled and said, "Although the Western barbarians are cunning and cruel, they are also worthy of circulating the world. Our governor has troubles to form alliances with the Dutch. First, we avoid fighting with the two Western powers at the same time. Second, our East China Sea naval army and merchant ships need to use the power of the Dutch to develop. Now the Dutch are traversing many oceans and are the overlords of the sea. After forming an alliance with them, the ships in the East China Sea can reach the South China Sea to increase our knowledge, and at the same time accumulate experience in sailing far seas and train a group of sailors and officers and soldiers."

Ding Weiyue didn't expect that Zhao Ming actually heard his words and hurriedly lowered his head and said, "I'm talking nonsense!"

The fleet quickly approached the coast. Zhao Ming ordered Zhang Zhongjian to be prepared for the big-bellied natives, so he returned to Tamsuiwei.

Everyone rode their horses and inspected the road along the way. After the autumn harvest, the residents of each village were organized and trained.

There are seven guards on Taiwan Island, each guard has nearly 10,000 people. Although they are reserve militias, they can be of great use after training for a period of time.

Zhao Ming dispatched eight thousand elite troops from Zhoushan to the south, plus 70,000 troops stationed, so he didn't believe that he would not defeat thousands of Spanish.

In early October, Zhao Ming returned to Tamsuiwei and came outside the acropolis. The group felt that the atmosphere was not right.

Zhao Ming looked at Xu Fuyuan who was hurriedly coming to greet him, and Li Zhongming who was transferred from Zhoushan, and couldn't help but frown and said, "What's going on?"

Xu Fuyuan glanced at Li Zhongming and signaled Li Zhongming to say.

Seeing this, Zhao Ming said in a deep voice: "Old Li, say it!"

Li Zhongming saluted and said, "Governor, the troops transport ship was attacked by Western-Japanese warships, and the two lucky ships were sunk, causing more than 500 brothers to be damaged!"

Zhao Mingwenyu's muscles twitched on his face, "When did it happen?"

Li Zhongming said: "I got the news yesterday that the ten lucky ships were originally transporting 2,500 soldiers to the island. On the way, they encountered three warships from the Western Yi, six from the island, two fled to Wenzhou, and two were sunk by the Western Yi."

Xu Fuyuan took the conversation and said, "Governor, yesterday, the ship that went out to sea to Zhoushan transport food also met the Western Yi sea ship. One of them was captured by the Western Yi, and the remaining ships fled back to the port."

Zhao Ming's naval army was okay to bully the Qing Dynasty, but it was still very different from the old maritime power.

After Zheng He voyage to the West, there was no need for ships in the Ming Dynasty. The ships only needed to sail along the coast and at most they went to Japan. Therefore, the civil demand for ships was not that high. It did not require that the ships must be very strong or large.

The affordable ship with low cost and high cargo capacity, Haicang ship has become the main ship along the coast.

More than ten years ago, after the Ming Dynasty and Portugal and the Dutch continued to contact each other, they had already mastered the methods of manufacturing Western warships and successfully imitated them. However, the people did not need them. The government did not have this kind of expensive ocean-going sailboats, so only Zheng Zhilong built a few.

Except for the seven Dutch warships seized by the Ming army in the East China Sea, all the remaining ships were common good ships along the coast. Compared with the warships of the Western Air, these ships were not strong enough and easily destroyed. The second was warships with less speed than those of the Western Air. The third was that the firepower gap was huge.

With these three weaknesses, if ships traveling between Zhoushan and Taiwan meet Spanish warships, they will be unable to defeat, unable to escape, and easily destroyed.

The Spanish wanted to block Taiwan and cut off the ties between Taiwan and Zhoushan.

Zhao Ming frowned. It seemed that the Dutch did not attack the route from Manila to Jilong. Otherwise, the Spanish would not have had so many warships to raid the Ming army's fleet.

Now Spain is carrying out a sea battle against Zhao Ming. Not only is it difficult for Zhoushan's troops and equipment to transport to Taiwan, but Taiwan's food cannot be transported out, which will also affect the situation in Shandong and Liaodong.

Zhao Ming asked in a deep voice: "How many people and equipment are there now?"

Xu Fuyuan said: "Reported to the governor, there were 3,000 people ashore, and there were 1,000 war horses, 200 flintlock guns, 3,000 combs, and several swords and spears were transported to the Taiwan Island!"

Zhao Ming frowned and said in a deep voice: "Although the Spanish intercepted them at sea, the transportation cannot be stopped. He ordered Guo Zhong to organize four gunships to escort the fleet, and then ordered Gu San to lead three gunships to form a fleet of crusades to attack the merchant ships from Manila to Jilong."

The warships that Zhao Ming can take out at present are the seven Dutch warships seized. However, the Dutch warships are also merchant ships. In order to increase their speed and cargo capacity, they have weakened their combat power, which is not as good as the warships of the Spanish Empire.

For a long time, Portugal and the Netherlands were all Spanish territories, and the Spanish Empire could be said to dominate the world.

Zhao Ming's seven warships are a powerful armed force in the East China Sea, but sailors and gunners cannot be compared with the Spanish Empire, which has been scattered across the sea for more than a hundred years, so Zhao Ming did not dare to fight head-on at sea.

Xu Fuyuan immediately received the order, "As for the order in a humble position!"

Zhao Ming looked at Li Zhongming again and said, "Soldiers on the island should seize the time to practice muskets and practice rehearsal fire."

Li Zhongming nodded, "I understand!"

Zhao Ming said to Chen Yujie again: "The firearm workshop produces copper cannons, do you still have long axes?"

Chen Yujie said in a polite manner: "Report to the commander, he has already made a sample cannon!"

At that moment, Zhao Mingshengyuan did not return and ordered: "Go, go to the firearm workshop!"

Zhao Ming ordered the others to do their own things and ran directly to the cannon casting workshop with Chen Yujie. However, before he saw the cannon, Wang Dana hurried back. He walked to Zhao Ming and said anxiously: "Governor, scout report that three thousand Spanish people were invading the Tamsui Basin from east to west. In addition, the Big Belly King on the south also had abnormal movements!"

Zhao Ming frowned, "The Spaniards' movements are really fast."
Chapter completed!