Did the Ming Dynasty watch the Dutch occupation of the East Indies indifferently?

Don't be ridiculous, it's just that the Ming Empire began to go downhill after the Tumubao Incident. Domestic and foreign troubles took up most of its energy, and there was no spare energy to deal with the Dutch.

Why did Emperor Wanli resist the Japanese and aid the DPRK?

To put it bluntly, it is also interests, the interests of national strategic security, how can we allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the bed?

Now the Dutch East India Company is not strong enough. The largest Dutch East India Company once accounted for half of the world's trade volume. The British East India Company once controlled the entire India. The Opium War was started by the British East India Company.

Naturally, Cheng Shijie could not directly negotiate with Sidney because his status was not equal.

When Sidney left, Xie Jinglin asked frankly in front of Cheng Shijie: "Commander, what is your purpose?"

"I think Sumatra Island, as well as half of the port control of Batavia, and things like the Wind Rider cannot happen again!!"

The Strait of Malacca is too important. If East India loses Sumatra, then East India will lose control of the Strait of Malacca. This is absolutely unacceptable to the Dutch.

If Xie Jinglin really didn’t know the importance of Sumatra in the past, the problem is that now he knows. He smiled bitterly and said: “I’m afraid the Dutch don’t agree, there is absolutely no way they will accept such conditions!”

"That doesn't matter. I know the Dutch will not accept it, but the Dutch will face reality sooner or later. But when the Ninghai Navy takes control of the entire Sumatra Island, my request will no longer be limited to Sumatra Island."

Cheng Shijie is so ambitious that one Sumatra Island is certainly not enough to satisfy Cheng Shijie's greed for land. In this time and space, Cheng Shijie will never allow any more disgusting things to happen.

In fact, the Dutch East India Company was a company disguised as a country, and the Ning Navy was also a country disguised as an army.

Regarding external expansion, Cheng Shijie would not ask the court for instructions, and Cheng Shijie also had absolute control.

The Netherlands was the first country in the world whose colonies were stronger than its own country. Even though Britain later became an empire on which the sun never sets, Britain's military strength among all its colonies in the world is far inferior to that of the British mainland. Now the sun never sets.

Spain, the fallen empire, was also stronger in its native land than in its colonies. It also adopted the traditional method of ancient China, strengthening its branches and strengthening its branches.

It is precisely because the Spanish Empire adopted strong branches and strong branches that the Dutch East India Company was able to easily seize the majority from Spain. The area was more than 35,000 square kilometers, and the total number of Spanish people was less than 1,500.

In the entire Luzon, which is more than 18,000 square kilometers, there are no more than 5,000 Spaniards.

In Batavia alone, there are more than 20,000 Dutch. Counting the entire East India Company, the number of Dutch is more than 65,000. Plus the hundreds of thousands of colonial troops in the Dutch East India, the entire Netherlands has a population of more than 20,000.

There are not even 100,000 troops in the army.

Faced with the conditions proposed by Cheng Shijie, it was naturally impossible for the Dutch East India Company to agree. However, the problem was that the support that the mainland could provide to the Dutch East India Company was very limited. You must know that the Dutch navy at this time could only exceed ten thousand people, and all the warships combined

, even counting small warships of three to four hundred tons, there are no more than a hundred.

As for the main battleships, there were less than fifty. In order to cope with the pressure of the Spanish Armada, they had to transfer battleships from the Dutch East India Company and return to their homeland to fight.

Brewer can only place his hope on Zheng Zhilong now.

The war experience that Zheng Zhilong wanted to send out troops was one million Dutch guilders, which is equivalent to 20 million pounds. The Maritime Monarch class can build more than fifty ships.

"Here, give it to him, but we can't afford so much money at once. We can pay it in installments over ten years!"

Brewer looked at Putmans and asked, "What else does Zheng Zhilong ask for?"

Putmans smiled bitterly and said: "Zheng Zhilong hopes that we can provide him with 30,000 muskets!"

"This is impossible, the most we can provide is fifteen thousand!"

"In addition, he also hopes that we can build a battleship for him, a seven-provincial battleship!"

"Yes, seven-provincial warships are very expensive to build! We in the Netherlands don't have a hundred seven-provincial warships in total!"

"He already knows this problem!"

Brewer thought for a while and said: "Tell Zheng Zhilong that each of our seven-provincial warships in the Kingdom of the Netherlands costs 25,000 guilders!"

Of course, this value in Brewer's mind is the actual cost out of the factory multiplied by ten.

This means that one million guilders can build forty seven-provincial battleships for free.

"Besides, he wants a port!"

"where?"

Although the Dutch are also very greedy for land, the problem is that under the pressure of powerful enemies, they have no choice but to accept Zheng Zhilong's blackmail.

“Subic Port!”

Brewer thought for a while and said: "Isn't Subic Port in his hands?"

"Zheng Zhilong hopes that we will recognize his status in Luzon. Allow them to freely settle and do business in Luzon, and give them the power to collect taxes and recruit young men in Luzon. Then we will be inclined to do our best to help us destroy Cheng Shijie!

"

Brewer did not have an attack. The covenant is just a piece of paper. When the strength of both parties fundamentally changes, the covenant can be torn up at any time.

The alliance will only be effective when the strengths of both parties are similar. Just like when Maurice of Nassau led the Dutch to defeat the Spanish, the Dutch did not have the strength to fully defeat Spain, and Spain also needed time to adjust its strategic deployment.

, signed the "Twelve Years Truce" agreement with the Netherlands.

If Zheng Zhilong's strength does not recover as quickly as the Dutch East Indies' strength, they will definitely have another fight in the future.

Brewer looked at Putmans and said: "I agree in principle, but I have to sign a supplementary agreement!"

"Supplementary Agreement?"

"right!"

“Let Zheng Zhilong help us gain a foothold in India!”

Brewer said: "You know, we discovered India first. The damn British and French are unruly and bent on squeezing us out of India. This is absolutely not allowed!"

"I'm afraid they won't agree!"

"He will agree. You can tell Zheng Zhilong that if you help us occupy India, we will give him Tamil!"

Tamil State is a state in southern India, bordering the Indian Ocean to the south, facing Sri Lanka across the Bay of Bengal to the east, Karnataka and Kerala to the west, and Andhra Pradesh to the north. The area of ​​Tamil is about ten

Thirty-thousand and fifty-eight square kilometers, almost equivalent to four senior officials.

The problem is that the main residents of Tamil Nadu are Tamils, and the people are fierce. The Netherlands launched two attacks on the Tamils. Without exception, they all failed and returned home in vain.

While negotiating with Zheng Zhilong, Brewer also wrote to the board of directors of the Dutch East India Company and the King of the Netherlands, asking for help, of course, asking the Kingdom of the Netherlands to support the Dutch East India with more warships and more sailors.

As for whether the King of the Netherlands and the board of directors of the Dutch East India Company could allocate more troops and warships to him, that was not his concern.

When Shi Daxuan brought back the Dutch and agreed to his request, Zheng Zhilong was very depressed at this time.

Before Zheng Zhilong fought against Cheng Shijie, he was the king of Nanyang. He had more than 3,000 warships stretching for dozens of miles, and his flags covered the sea. How majestic was he?

However, after three battles with the Ning Navy, he only had about 2,000 warships left. Although it was still a huge force, what made Zheng Zhilong vomit blood was that the original supply line of the Ning Navy was stretched, and he could attack the Ning Navy for a long time.

supply line, thereby weakening the combat effectiveness of the Ning Haijun Navy, forcing Cheng Shijie to return to the rear supply line.

But the problem is that it is not easy to attack Ning Haijun's supply line. The pirates who originally obeyed Zheng Zhilong stopped listening to his orders and instead informed Ning Haijun.

This time he deliberately opened his mouth and proposed very exorbitant conditions to the Dutch, but the Dutch actually agreed. They agreed to pay one million guilders for sending troops.

Now Zheng Zhilong has a headache. After losing three battles with Ning Haijun, the pirates under his command do not dare to attack Ning Haijun's black flagship. This is already the most dangerous signal.

Zheng Zhilong is now certain that many people want to use his head to claim credit from Cheng Shijie.
Chapter completed!