"Damn it!"

Zahn, chairman of the Dutch East India Company, whispered, picked up the pipe, took out a silk cloth, carefully wiped off the dust on the pipe, and stuffed it back into his mouth.

"Go and call Mr. Vanderbilt."

Zahn, who had sat back on the chair, urgently ordered the guards beside him.

Soon, Vanderbilt, the tall and thin vice chairman, with a tall and thin dress, walked in with the guards.

"Sir, please call me..."

Zahn waved his hand, interrupted him, and handed Chunis's letter to him.

"Look, see how the Dutch were driven out of Taiwan like a betrayed dog." Zahn smiled bitterly: "Poor Dutch, the British are taking our back path in India, and the Chinese are cutting off our way in Taiwan. It's a perfect combination."

Vanderbilt frowned, quickly put on the gold-rimmed glasses with small round lenses, and quickly finished reading Chunis's letter. After reading the letter, his face was very pale.

"Taiwan, that's lost..."

Vanderbilt whispered, his eyes still full of disbelief.

"Yes, I'm lost. The reality is so cruel. The devil has captured the castle, and God's people can only retreat helplessly." Zahn stood up and walked slowly to the exquisite Rococo-style carved arch window. Looking at the busy port of Batavia in the distance, a sad look suddenly surged on his face: "The East India Company has suffered such a major setback. As the chairman, I really don't know how to explain to such a guy like Congress."

Looking at Zahn's fat back, Vanderbilt suddenly felt a strange feeling of gratitude in his heart.

If I have not transferred back to Batavia from Taiwan in time, then the person who bears the serious crime of losing Tainan should be himself. It's so dangerous.

In this sense, this Chunis happened to be his own scapegoat.

The Ming Dynasty man Li Xiao was really a hero.

Thinking of this, he subconsciously touched the scar on his neck with his other hand.

This scar was cut by the sharp unbroken knife when he was held hostage by Li Xiao's subordinates that day. This life and death were only a moment of shock. From Vanderbilt to this day, the memory is still as new as ever, unforgettable.

Vanderbilt sighed softly, took off the small round lens and put the letter from Chuan back to Zane's desk.

"Mr. Chairman, maybe, we can counterattack and recover the lost land." Vanderbilt's voice was very low.

Zahn sneered and turned around. He blinked his gray-blue eyes and said in a teasing tone: "Go back to attack? Speak lightly, it would be great if it was so easy to attack back."

Zahn sighed, and he paced around the office like a trapped beast: "Now that Taiwan is lost, all the Taiwan fleets are taken into account by the Chinese, and the military existence of the Dutch Republic in the Far East is basically the only city of Batavia. If all the fleets are to be mobilized to counterattack Taiwan, not to mention that the British or Spanish will take advantage of my empty troops to seize Batavia. If our army wants to attack Taiwan, the sea is long and the troops are long, how can we easily defeat the Ming army, which is waiting for hard work? If we are not careful, then our Dutch Republic will really withdraw from the Far East completely."

Zahn said this and stopped, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Maybe, now, we should think carefully about how to explain the process of losing Taiwan to Congress, which is the most realistic approach."

Vanderbilt sighed helplessly, and he blinked and said, "In my opinion, it may only be possible to downplay the fault of losing Taiwan, and emphasize that it is the credit of our East India Company's opening of the huge Chinese trade market, so that we can barely cover up this bad incident."

"Oh, can you say more details?" Zaan's eyebrows jumped, obviously he was very interested in his words.

"Mr. Chairman, I think we can emphasize this point very much." Vanderbilt thrust his bow tie and said happily: "I, the Netherlands occupied Taiwan for decades, and they could only trade with local natives. It was only a few years ago that I had a small trade with the Ming general Zheng Zhilong. To be honest, the benefits obtained from Taiwan were actually limited. But starting this year, the trade between my Dutch merchants and the Ming country has increased significantly, reaching several times that of previous years. The transaction volume of commercial goods such as cigarettes, silk, raw silk, woolen velvet, ironware, etc. is very huge. After these products were transferred to Europe, the profits basically increased several times. The reason for this is that the Ming general Li Xiao agreed to start normal trade with us, so that we can get so many lucrative and very popular products from the closed and self-defense Ming Dynasty."

Vanderbilt paused and continued: "So, I think that if we can emphasize this to the members of Congress, we realize that although we have lost Taiwan, the commodity trade with the Ming Dynasty has not been interrupted, but the quantity will be greater and more profitable. Then, in the face of gold and silver coins that are rushing like flowing water, our members of Congress will naturally know how to correctly treat the oldest and largest Ming Empire in the East."

After hearing Vanderbilt's persuasion, Zahn's face slowed down a little. He nodded and smiled, "Very good, your analysis makes sense. No fool would be in trouble with gold coins. If our East India Company could provide such greedy guys with the right amount, perhaps all the unhappy and quarrel would disappear."

Zahn took a few more steps in the room and said quietly: "However, in my opinion, the trade between our Netherlands and the Ming Dynasty is basically just a trade deal between us and Li Xiao. This Chinese in the Ming Dynasty can support such a powerful business group with all his strength, which is really a powerful person who cannot be underestimated."

Vanderbilt came up and whispered: "What does the chairman mean?"

"The war is over now, and the past can only be passed by him in this way. Now, the Dutch Republic needs to maintain good relations with Li Xiao, so that the trade volume and commodity types of both sides will continue to expand, thereby obtaining more and more profits. This is the focus of our East India Company's future work." Zahn's eyes were very complicated. He sighed: "Although Li Xiao is just a general of the Ming Dynasty, in my opinion, this person is extraordinary, brave and resourceful, and has a great future. Perhaps one day, this person will eventually create an empire of tomorrow."

While Chairman Zaan sighed at Li Xiao, the entire Taiwan Island was still immersed in the festive atmosphere of just the New Year.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year in the 11th year of Chongzhen, Li Xiao set up a feast in the Governor's Mansion in Chicing City, entertaining a group of civil servants and generals, and gathering together to have a banquet.

Originally, Li Xiao wanted to celebrate the arrival of the New Year on New Year's Eve to celebrate the arrival of the New Year and discuss the future development direction of Taiwan. But considering that the New Year is the moment when every family reunites, Li Xiao has become a beautiful woman, giving the soldiers of the army three days off and going home to celebrate the festival. So it was not until today that they had a banquet together to discuss matters.

At the banquet, every general and official of the Tiger Army who came to the banquet were all happy and were deeply proud of their chance to have a banquet with Chi Feng Bo Li Xiao.

Being able to attend Li Xiao’s banquet shows that Li Xiao treats himself as his confidant, and such attention naturally makes them very happy.

Li Xiao was also very happy to see the Taiwanese generals and officials. He personally held the pot and poured wine to many people. This greatly eliminated the difference between the upper and lower levels. At the whole banquet, the wine and the cups were even more harmonious.

After the banquet, Li Xiaofu invited everyone to the living room of the Governor's Office and began to talk to everyone about his plans and ideas for Taiwan.

"Everyone, Taiwan is now my territory of Ming Dynasty, so it is necessary to plan well." Li Xiao said jokingly: "First of all, we must change the original Dutch castle, like the original Spanish castle, to the name of our Chinese city. In the eyes of Benbo, this Chixing City and the city is high and steep, can be renamed Kaohsiung Palace, and use this place as the capital city that governs Taiwan."

"What a Kaohsiung Palace, this name is so powerful!"

Zhao Wencai, who was promoted to the director of Pingnan Camp by Li Xiao for his contribution to persuade the Dutch to surrender, first praised him, and everyone also praised him.

Seeing that everyone praised the place name, Li Xiao smiled.

Unexpectedly, he was just copying the name of a major Taiwanese city in later generations, but he was praised by the officials present. Li Xiao thought to himself that this "plagiarism" action was considered to be a gift from the Buddha.

In fact, Kaohsiung, which later generations were not in Chichicheng. The current Chichicheng was renamed Tainan City in later generations, while the real Kaohsiung City in Taiwan was still south of Chichicheng. Now, Kaohsiung, the famous Tainan area in later generations, is just a small coastal fishing village called Dagouzi.

The official name of Kaohsiung was in September 1920. Japanese colonial rulers began to carry out administrative regional reforms, and renamed this small fishing village with the best and best natural deep-water harbor in Taiwan to Kaohsiung Prefecture, and eventually changed its name to Kaohsiung City.

Seeing that everyone was talking for a while, Li Xiaofu said, "Everyone, with the intention of my official, the Relan Fen City on Dayuan Island will be renamed Anping City with the intention of protecting security. As for other castles such as Promincia Fort and Rebuilt Fort, Ding You, the head of the Taiwan Profounding Group, will draw a detailed name change plan for me, just to make it simple and easy to read."

Ding You stood up and bowed, "Don't worry, Lord Li, the student will do this as soon as possible. But I don't know how Lord Li plans to set up prefectures and counties next?"

Li Xiao pondered for a moment and said, "In Benbo's opinion, this Taiwan land can be divided into four major areas. namely Kaohsiung Prefecture, Changhua County, Taipei County, and Taitung Region that has not yet been included in the scope of our army's rule. Among them, Kaohsiung Prefecture is the entire Tainan area occupied by the Dutch, Changhua County is the Taichung area acquired by our army from Zheng Zhilong's troops, and Taipei County is the original land occupied by the Spaniards. The specific boundaries and towns of these three places are also carefully savored by the Regiment Commander Ding and Deputy Regiment Commander Ma, and then set up various official offices in each prefecture and county according to the official government system of our army, which is a plan for long-term public security."

Ding You and Ma Huaxing stood up at the same time and agreed to Li Xiao loudly.

Li Xiao paused and said to everyone: "As for the Taitung region and the Taichung Mountains, we should implement the strategies set by Benbo before, vigorously melt and absorb the fresh blood of the Taiwanese natives for our Chinese Han people, so that they can recognize the Han people's calligraphy, wear Han clothes, recognize the etiquette of Han people, and marry Han immigrants, so as to integrate all the Taiwanese indigenous tribes into the Han people in a gentle way of gradually eroding. The land in Taitung and Taichung Mountains can be gradually occupied by our army without war."

Everyone agreed with Li Xiao’s words.

To be honest, Li Xiao has basically occupied Taiwan's fertile land. The barren and wild Taichung Mountains and Taitung region have little economic value. It is the best and appropriate measure to gradually encroach and annex.

At this time, Li Xiao suddenly thought of something and asked Ding You: "Now that our army has recovered Tainan, has the specific situation of Tainan land ever calculated?"

Seeing Li Xiao ask, Ding You hurriedly said, "Mr. Li, according to the statistics and on-site testing in the past few days, this Tainan area has many rivers and a flat terrain, which is the most fertile and lush place in Taiwan. Under the Dutch rule, 300,000 mu of land has been reclaimed, but the entire Tainan has more than 5.2 million mu of developed land, which is more than twice that of Taipei!"

After hearing Ding You's answer, Li Xiao was very happy.

Because he remembered that according to reports from Ding You and others, there are about 2.6 million mu of wasteland that can be developed in Taipei, while there are 3.2 million mu of land in Taichung. Together with the current 5.2 million mu of land in Tainan, the total area of ​​land that can be developed in Taiwan has reached more than 11 million mu!

In fact, this number is far from the real exploitable area of ​​Taiwan’s entire island. You should know that in modern Taiwan, the existing arable land area in Taiwan is 16.2 million mu, which is much more than the amount of wasteland that Li Xiao has discovered now.

However, according to statistics from Modern Taiwan University, 20% of Taiwan's arable land is located in the Taitung region and the Taichung Mountains. These places have high mountains, dense forests and dense malaria. The cost of development is too high, so Li Xiao did not consider it for the time being. After all, it would take many years to fully work to develop and utilize the 11 million mu of arable land.

At this time, Li Xiao suddenly sighed in great relief.

How can such a rich and prosperous treasure island not allow many powerful people to covet it? And such a treasure island, the stupid and stupid Ming government, gave up and refused it ignorantly, which really makes people speechless.

No wonder in real history, after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing Dynasty ceded Taiwan to Japan, causing Japan, from the emperor to the subjects to go crazy, and almost everyone was cheering and celebrating. Because these greedy robbers knew that with this treasure island with abundant resources, Japan could make all islanders well-fed and well-dressed in agriculture alone.

"Very good! It seems that our army must immigrate from the mainland quickly and develop as much land as possible in Taiwan. We must make this treasure island of China permanently owned by the people of the Han Dynasty and pass on the land for generations! Even if this treasure island of Taiwan is used to protect the blood and lives of the Han people, it will be spared!"
Chapter completed!