Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 239

The biggest shock to Emperor Chongzhen of the Battle of Luzon and Mingxi was not that he got something for nothing, but that it opened a window.

It turns out that if you win the war, you can claim compensation from the other party.

This is a concept that ancient officials and emperors did not have. In fact, there are many examples of ancient claims. In the early Han Dynasty, the marriage to the Xiongnu was actually a kind of war claim. Of course, the most famous ones are the Weishui Alliance in the Li Shimin period and the Song Dynasty.

"Chanyuan Alliance".

However, the party making the compensation was the Central Plains Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty's foreign wars were not without victory. Just like the Wanli Korean War, the Ming Dynasty was victorious, and the Ming Dynasty was also victorious in the Penghu naval battle, including the Liaoluowan naval battle, in which the Ming Dynasty was also the victorious party.

In fact, fundamentally speaking, after the victory of the Liaoluowan naval battle, due to the influence of Western ideas and the fact that Zheng Zhilong also had Western staff around him, the negotiations with the Dutch East India Company included war claims, and the money was in the form of protection fees.

The line form was handed over to Zheng Zhilong.

However, the imperial court did not benefit from it. Most of the officials in the Ming Dynasty were actually influenced by the Confucian golden mean. The Confucian golden mean is not extreme and leaves room for doing things. To use a common saying, it is "to spare others."

Be merciful to others."

From a human perspective, there is no problem in not being extreme and leaving leeway in doing things. But the problem is that at the national level, this cultivation is a bit nondescript. It is not that Confucianism is not suitable for governing the country, but that it is not suitable for the nation.

In the jungle law of the forest.

After the Wanli Korean War ended, the imperial court was affected by the financial crisis and was eager to end the war. It did not ask for war reparations or compensation from Japan, but only asked for vassalage, not even tribute.

The result of the negotiation was: "First, the Japanese troops quickly evacuated North Korea and Tsushima after being granted the title; second, they only granted titles but were not allowed to ask for tribute; third, they repaired with North Korea without infringement." Ming Shenzong immediately conferred Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the king of Japan.

And according to the list provided by Xiaoxi, the Japanese ministers were conferred.

It wasn't until Cheng Shijie negotiated with the Dutch East India Company that he made a huge claim to the Spanish Empire. Of course, the court ministers fiercely criticized Cheng Shijie. Most of the ministers believed that Cheng Shijie had insulted the Ming Dynasty. Since he won the war, he should be punished.

Degree, enough is enough.

Only then did Emperor Chongzhen realize that war can actually make money.

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Cheng Shijie from Luzon misses the summer in Liaodong a little. Affected by the Little Glacier weather in the Ming Dynasty, although the summer in Liaodong is hot, there will be high temperatures of 35 or 6 degrees Celsius, but the problem is that 35 or 6 degrees Celsius is already

It's the limit.

But during this period, the weather in Luzon was as high as over 40 degrees. Even the strongest man could not stand being in the sun for half an hour.

It was just after ten o'clock in the morning, and Cheng Shijie was already feeling uncomfortably hot. He didn't know what happened, but there was no wind. Most of the weather in Luzon was actually fine, but the extreme weather now was unbearable.

Zhu Weiti saw that Cheng Shijie was too hot, but there was no ice room in Luzon. Fortunately, he could use saltpeter to make some smoothies. When Zhu Weiti wiped Cheng Shijie's body with a towel, he found Cheng Shi standing at the arch and facing in.

Looking around.

"What's the matter?"

Cheng Shijie knew that Cheng Shi was usually a discerning person, but if there was nothing else like this, he would not get involved here.

"Father, something happened!"

Cheng Shijie asked: "What happened?"

"Bad thing, a few days ago, the "Chengfeng", a Guangzhou ship belonging to a Chinese representative in Batavia, was preparing to come to Luzon to pay homage to my father, but the ship was seized by the Dutch East India Company..."

"What's the reason?"

Cheng Shi scratched his head: "I'm not sure. This news was sent by Mr. Wu Shangzhi. He is now waiting in the front yard for his father to receive him!"

After Cheng Shijie changed his clothes, he came to the front yard.

"Meet the Marshal!"

"No gift!"

Cheng Shijie drank a bowl of mung bean paste and felt that his body was still wet and a little uncomfortable.

In this kind of weather, swimming is the best choice, and of course it is also the best way to escape the heat. The premise is that you must learn to swim.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

"The life of the Chinese in Dutch Batavia is very bad. Their living situation is similar to that of the Chinese in Luzon. They are double suppressed by the Dutch East India Company and the local indigenous people. Originally, they had no choice. No matter how difficult it is, it is better than in the Ming Dynasty.

, at least there’s no need to starve there!”

Wu Shangzhi smiled bitterly and said: "After the general occupied Luzon, more and more Chinese moved to Luzon. Luzon originally had more than 45,000 Chinese, but now it has exceeded 70,000. In more than a month, there are two

More than 5,000 people came to Luzon. The Dutch East India Company began to feel trouble and tried every means to stop it. A few days ago, the Li family, Lin family, Guo family, and Shen family of Batavia

The four families sold their property and moved to Luzon with their entire family. As a result, during the trip, they captured the Li family’s ship, the Chengfeng!”

Wu Shangzhi was calm at this time and was not filled with righteous indignation. After all, Cheng Shijie was now preparing to go to war with Spain, and the attitude of the Dutch was also very important.

"What did Putmans say?"

Cheng Shijie looked at Xie Jinglin who had just entered.

At this time, Cheng Shijie was really not angry, because the Dutch did not cause trouble for him, and he was also preparing to cause trouble for the Dutch. There was no doubt that the chief officer belonged to the Ming Dynasty. Before preparing to launch the offensive of the chief officer, he took care of the Dutch.

It was originally planned to recruit the forces in the south.

Unlike the people of the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Shijie knew very well that whether it was Spain or the Netherlands, their fundamental focus was on Europe, and they did not have much power in the Far East. At least until the outcome of the Thirty Years' War was determined, they had no way to take care of the Far East.

of.

Now, luckily, the Dutch actually came to visit.

The Netherlands, with a mainland area of ​​only 40,000 square kilometers, has colonies in Southeast Asia covering more than 1.9 million square kilometers. These colonies are collectively known as the Dutch East Indies and are under the jurisdiction of the East India Company.

Relying on the Strait of Malacca, the Dutch have made a lot of money just by collecting toll taxes in recent years. Being stuck in the Ming Dynasty's trade channels, European countries have contributed a lot of tax revenue to the Dutch East India Company.

Needless to say, the importance of the Strait of Malacca, Cheng Shijie is not willing to let others choke his neck.

In fact, it is not surprising that the attitude of the Dutch East India Company changed. To put it bluntly, it was about interests. There were many Chinese living in the territory controlled by the Dutch East India Company. These Chinese were the major taxpayers of the Dutch East India Company. Why did the Kingdom of the Netherlands use the four

With a land of 10,000 square meters, less than five million Dutch people dare to challenge Spain?

You must know that the Spanish Empire has more than 5.5 million square kilometers of land in Europe, more than 23 million square kilometers of colonies, and more than 45 million citizens.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands relied on blood transfusions from the Dutch East India Company. As Cheng Shijie occupied Luzon, the Chinese who could no longer live under the Dutch East India Company naturally chose to immigrate. They themselves were immigrants and gave up their industries in the Dutch East India.

, going to Luzon for development is also a good choice.

But the problem is that the Dutch East India Company relied on the Chinese for almost 80% of its production and operations. If it relied on the local indigenous people, these indigenous people were lazy and greedy. They would not do anything except instinctively breed and eat. The Chinese asked Luzon

Immigration violates the fundamental interests of the Dutch people.

So conflicts will happen sooner or later.

"Commander, if you are angry, you will not raise troops. You need to calm down. I will negotiate with the Dutch side immediately and we must bring him back!"

"Hurry up, it's easy to have problems in this weather!"

Cheng Shijie decided to get the person back first, and as for revenge, he would wait until later.

Xie Jinglin said: "The subordinates will urge them to ensure the safety of the Chinese as much as possible and try to ensure that no one is harmed." Xie Jinglin did not dare to say it to death. The white people were brutal in the colonies. He knew very well. Just look at Luzon.

Now, does anyone care about the life and death of the natives of Luzon?

No, Cheng Shijie wouldn't care.

"Tell the Dutch that if they dare to provoke a war, then be prepared to bear the revenge of Ning Haijun!"

"yes!"

Cheng Shijie was feeling stuffy and hot now, and his heart was on fire.

"Order, Ning Haijun Navy, jump into camp and prepare for war!"

"yes!"

Cheng Shijie is actually not afraid of the war threat from the Dutch. Be it the Dutch or the Spanish, the methods used by colonial countries to compete for colonies in this era are really a bit crude.

If Cheng Shijie were to participate in the colonial struggle, he would never resort to war. Just like the strategy of Da Yuan, he would first establish a good relationship with the aboriginal people, give them weapons and training, and let the aboriginal people take advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to fight against them.

The Dutch adopted guerrilla tactics.

In fact, what Cheng Shijie didn't know was that Batavia's seizure of the Chengfeng was also the Dutch East India Company's revenge against Cheng Shijie.

Just when Cheng Shijie was about to attack the Dutch, the restless Chen Dayong was holding a general meeting of the Allied Forces to Resist Dutch Colonial Invasion in Tamsui.

No matter where it is, colonial rule is unpopular, even in slavish India. The Dutch and Spanish invaded and plundered the country's mineral resources, timber, land, and even a little bit of what the country produced.

Cane sugar was not spared either. For this reason, they massacred and expelled the aboriginal people, which had long caused outrage and resentment. Both the mountain tribes and the mainland immigrants living in the coastal plains hated them with gnashing teeth.

Now Chen Dayong ascended the mountain and called out, and immediately there were a large number of responders. Not only the young and strong people from the high mountain tribes in Tainan came to hear the news, but even the immigrants from the mainland who had always been regarded as weak and bullied also found ways to come to the valley to seek refuge. He almost effortlessly succeeded.

A local team of more than 18,000 people was assembled.

Outside Tamsui County, there are Atayal, Seediq, Puinan, Yami, Bunun, Tsou, Rukai, Paiwan, Thao, Ami, Taroko and Sakilaya ethnic groups.

A dozen ethnic groups, a total of 113 tribal leaders, held a blood pact with Chen Dayong. After offering sacrifices to their ancestors, they cut their wrists, let their own blood drip into the cow's blood, and dipped their fingers in the blood.

Put your fingerprint on the covenant.

Chen Dayong held the blood wine and swore to the sky: "From now on, we will put aside our past grudges and work together to expel the Western Barbarians. We will live and die together. If we surrender to the Western Barbarians without permission or collude with the Western Barbarians to make peace, then humans and gods will be angry, and the entire clan will be punished."
To be continued...