Chapter 16 The Origin of the Ming East India Company

After Yun Zhao read the documents sent by the pig, he no longer asked about Gao Pei, and strictly forbade his subordinates to ask.

Judging from the content of the paperwork, Gao Pei's death is not unjust!

It doesn't matter what sin he committed, the main thing is that he committed enough to cut off his head, it doesn't matter who he is, the main thing is that he has committed a crime, so no one says anything more.

Yun Zhao was trying to downplay the matter as much as possible...... A man who has been slain by the law does not deserve to be taken seriously.

No matter what kind of contributions he had made to Lantian County before, those didn't exist after he was killed by the pigg.

This knife has cut off the righteousness.

During dinner, Yun Zhao received a secret report, and after reading it, he looked at Qian Duoduo and said, "How much support did you give Han Xiufen?" ”

Qian Duoduo stopped the chopsticks in his hand, his big eyes blinking and blinking very confused.

"The concubine gave Han Xiufen a letter, encouraging her to make a career, so that men all over the world know that her daughter can also become a big thing."

Yun Zhao handed the secret report to Qian Duoduo and said, "The seventeen-member director of the board of directors of the Dutch East India Company, Cohento Zheng Zhilong, wrote to me asking if Lantian County was interested in participating in the maritime battle. ”

Qian Duoduo hurriedly opened the secret report and looked at it, Feng Ying said on the side: "We only have one ship, what can we do?" ”

Yun Zhao said: "Han Xiufen single-handedly defeated the four pirate ships of the Arabian pirate Sesio in the Battle of Paradise Bay, and then followed the escaped Sesio to Paradise Island.

Looted all the gold coins of Cesio on Paradise Island, took Cesio's youngest son hostage, hoisted the pirate flag, and forced Sesio to fight her in a decisive battle on Paradise Island,"

Feng Ying nodded and said, "Han Xiufen's combat power is good. ”

Yun Zhao said: "Sesio was beheaded!" Kill six more pirate captains who competed with her for the Pirate King. Killed all the Arab pirates, and finally gave the rest of the wandering pirates the three components of Cesio's treasure to become the king of Paradise Island......"

"Hahahahaha......"

A burst of hysterical laughter came from Qian Duoduo's side, Yun Zhao turned his head, only to see Qian Duoduo holding his stomach with one hand, and arrogantly pointing at Yun Zhao with the other: "I know!" ”

Yun Zhao hurriedly supported the arrogant Qian Duoduo, pressed her on the chair and said, "This is Han Xiufen's record, what are you proud of." ”

Qian Duoduo's big eyes widened, and he looked at Yun Zhao with a shining light and said, "Husband, I want to go to the sea, it's too enjoyable."

Babble, yes...... Pirate King, I want to be the Pirate King too! I'm going to kill, rob, set fire, rape @ rape...... I'm going to do all kinds of evil! ”

Yun Zhao pinched the people with a lot of money and said: "Wake up, it's not that there is no female pirate king, the big-bellied pirate king hasn't heard of it yet, otherwise, you can be a robber king at home, and I will give you this title." ”

Feng Ying, who had read the secret letter, poured a little water into the mouth of Qian Duoduo, who was panting, and said after Qian Duoduo calmed down: "She is now rewarded by sixteen sultans and caliphs, and she is going to be hanged, and she is also proved by the king of Osman that she is a sea devil."

This shows that Han Xiufen has hurt these countries and tribes very much, and in addition, since the Dutch East India Company asked Zheng Zhilong to pass the word, it shows that they are also very dissatisfied with Han Xiufen.

I don't believe that Han Xiufen can become a behemoth in such a short period of time, and this moment is the most dangerous time for her.

We should support her, the problem is that she is far away at sea, and we can't support her. ”

Qian Duoduo stood up tenaciously again, and worked hard twice with one foot before stepping on the stool and said proudly: "Order the trading houses in Quanzhou and Guangzhou to form a fleet and transport manpower, weapons, and materials to Han Xiufen, I don't believe it, those earth dog-like earth kings can withstand me." ”

Qian Duoduo was already crazy, obviously there was no way to discuss things, Yun Zhao smiled and said: "Since the people of the Dutch East India Company have found us, it means that they have something to talk to us, and tomorrow we will meet Zheng Zhilong and Cohen's messenger." ”

Feng Ying nodded and said: "Let's ask clearly, if they dare to embarrass Han Xiufen, we have no way at sea, and on land, we have a way to make them a dilemma of life and death."

Since this Cohen is a businessman, I think he doesn't want to give up either Quanzhou or Guangzhou, two places where he gets good goods. ”

After making a decision, the three of them will no longer be able to eat well, mainly because Qian Duoduo is always yelling, and he also bites Yunhua who came in with the food, and the biting Yunhua screams, and this meal is even more impossible to eat.

was harassed all night by Qian Duoduo, who couldn't sleep, Yun Zhao yawned when he got up, and Qian Duoduo didn't sleep all night but was in abnormal spirits.

However, when Zheng Zhibao and a European with a small beard were brought into the big study by Yunhu, Qian Duoduo immediately became a beautiful and dignified lady.

For a pirate like Zheng Zhilong, if he wants to do something on land, the first person to look for must be a robber.

The Yun bandits are now famous on the Green Forest Road, and it is not difficult to get on this line by the rest of the bandits.

"The Lantian is the armed merchant ship of Lantian County, I think, with the temper of my Lantian County people, if it weren't for the trouble that the other party came to us, we would definitely not hurt each other."

After the people sat down, Yun Zhao didn't say more kind words to these two people, and directly admitted the fact that Han Xiufen was from Lantian County.

Zheng Zhibao said with a smile: "The tiger on the mountain is a dragon when it goes to the sea, and one ship of the Yun family can stir up the wind and clouds in the four seas, Zheng admires it, and my eldest brother also said that he hopes to make friends with the Yun family heroes on the sea." ”

Yun Zhao nodded, and said in stumbling English towards Cohen's letter: "Welcome to Lantian County, since the East India Company has monopolized the clove trade, and the shipment from both the east and the west, I want to make a lot of money, right?" ”

The envoy was surprised that Yun Zhao could speak a European language, but he still couldn't understand every word Yun Zhao spoke.

Qian Duoduo couldn't understand the strange language her husband spoke, but she still said to the messenger in pure Germanic language: "The 'Lantian ship' you are talking about belongs to my husband's property, and no one can infringe on it.

My husband was asking if Mr. Cohen was going to be my friend or foe in Lantian County. ”

The messenger seemed to be fascinated by Qian Duoduo's beauty, and wanted to go up and kiss the lady's hand, but he felt that it was inappropriate, so he stroked his chest and saluted: "Beautiful lady, Van der Sar respects you." ”

Qian Duoduo said to Van der Sar with some dissatisfaction: "You should pay tribute to my husband." ”

Van der Sar saluted Yun Zhao again, and Yun Zhao did not get up, but looked at the Dutchman in front of him with interest.

The person who was also interested in the scene in front of him was Zheng Zhibao, he was a very smart person, Yun Zhao nodded to him before, which showed that when there were outsiders, Yun Zhao didn't want to talk to him about things.

With the same text and species, Zheng Zhibao understands Yun Zhao's arrangement very well.

"Dear Mr. Earl, your Lantian has robbed four merchant ships of my Dutch East India Company, and the great Mr. Cohen wants me to ask Mr. Earl, do you want us to send someone to take back our cargo from Lantian, or do you want your men to send back the cargo, the ship, and the crew, and compensate us for our losses?"

Through Qian Duoduo's explanation, Yun Zhao understood Van der Sar's words, and he did not answer the messenger's words, but asked Zheng Zhibao.

"How many Dutch are there in Daming?"

Zheng Zhibao glanced at Van der Sar and said: "The Dutch East India Company is strong, and has established its headquarters in Batavia, Java, and other bases are set up in the East Indies and the Spice Islands.

Each stronghold numbered more than 20,000 men, and had an army of more than 100 merchant ships, 30 warships, 50,000 sailors, and 10,000 mercenaries.

At the same time, they had sixteen ships in Xin'an, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou, with more than 2,000 sailors and six merchants, totaling no more than 3,000 people. ”

Yun Zhao nodded and said: "Spices are a good thing, and they are extremely expensive in Daming, didn't Brother Feihuang (Zheng Zhilong's number) think about establishing a Daming East India Company?" In any case, you can't let the Europeans specialize in the front, right? ”

Zheng Zhibao said with a smile: "This matter will be discussed again, the county will deal with the trouble caused to you by this person from the Dutch East India Company first." ”

Yun Zhao nodded, and said to Van der Sar again, "You understand what we're talking about, right?" ”

Van der Sar, with a wooden expression, said in Chinese: "I understand, I heard that Mr. Earl is preparing to co-establish a Daming East India Company with Mr. Zheng Zhilong."

Here I have to tell the two gentlemen that the consequence of your doing so is war!

And the sea is too foreign to the people of your country. ”

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "It's not strange, two hundred years ago, my Ming warship had already arrived at the Cape of Good Hope.

So this road was carved out by our ancestors, so, I am entitled to a piece of the pie, Mr. Van der Sar, what do you think? ”

Van der Sar said: "Dear Mr. Earl, you are provoking. ”

Yun Zhao smiled and spread out his hand, Qian Duoduo immediately put his teacup in his hand, Yun Zhao took a sip of tea and said, "Since my subordinates have started robbing your company, then they must have a reason to rob you."

So, I support my subordinates!

And if you dare to confront my men at sea, then I will confront you on land.

Guangzhou, Quanzhou is not far from me.

Drop-off! ”

Yun Zhao was in no mood to talk to this stupid Dutchman, and Yun Zhao probably knew better about the Dutch East India Company than anyone in the Great Ming.

Eighty years ago, a group of Dutch merchants sent Houtman to Portugal to spy on business, and after returning home, the group of businessmen set up a company to use this information to expand into the East Indies.

Thirty to forty years ago, fourteen Dutch companies were formed with a focus on the East India trade, and in order to avoid excessive commercial competition, these fourteen companies merged into a joint company, the Dutch East India Company.

The Dutch National Assembly at the time authorized the Dutch East India Company to have a monopoly on trade from the Cape of Good Hope in the east to the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of South America in the west.

Its board of directors is made up of more than 70 people, but only 17 people actually hold real power, known as the 17-member board of directors, which are eight from Amsterdam, four from Zeeland, and one from each of the other regions.

The Dutch East India Company was the first company to organize its own mercenaries, issue currency, and be the first company limited by shares, and was granted the right to enter into formal treaties with other nations, as well as to colonize and rule the land.

Since the emergence of this company, the once calm sea has finally begun to smoke from cannons, and the Age of Discovery has also been pushed to the peak of economic interests.

Southeast Asia has always been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and the tribute has never stopped over the years, although the value of the things given to the envoys of these countries is much higher than the tribute they sent, but this is the way the Shang Kingdom ruled the vassal states.

This system of tribute occupies a very important position in Chinese history, and it is definitely not comparable to the loss of some money.

Based on Yun Zhao's understanding of the Dutch East India Company, if they didn't really have no way to deal with Han Xiufen, it would be absolutely impossible for them to politely come to Lantian County to discuss a solution.

What you can't get from Han Xiufen, it's even more impossible to get from Yun Zhao!

Therefore, in view of the fact that Van der Sar and his entourage still have a lot of important news that has not been dug up, he was just invited out of Yunzhao's big study, and he was taken away by Qian Shaoshao, who was even more curious about what Han Xiufen was doing at sea.

"The two armies are fighting, don't kill them!"

Zheng Zhibao found through the window that Van der Sar was tied up with a sturdy and practical wooden pole and carried away, and his heart was a little uneasy.

"Emissary? He doesn't deserve it! You are the real messenger, and what I just said is not a joke. ”

Van der Sar was carried away, and Yang Xiong immediately prepared a sumptuous banquet in the side hall to entertain Zheng Zhibao.

Qian Duoduo was not interested in eating with outsiders, and when she saw that her husband had arrested Van der Sar, she happily went to see her brother's interrogation, and she listened to the story on the side.

Although having a feast early in the morning is not good for the stomach, these things are essential to talk about something.

Yun Zhao and Zheng Zhibao were a little late when they saw each other, especially after drinking, the two of them were even more at ease...... As for whether it is true or not, only the two of them know best in their hearts.

In Yun Zhao's big study, there are 683 files about Zheng Zhilong, and Yun Zhao doesn't like this person who has a special hobby for Japanese women.

Because of his strong maritime power in Guangdong and Fujian, Yun Zhao took this person into his sight and studied it.

One of the most valuable volumes is the life of Zheng Zhilong, which Yun Zhao personally filled in, especially the blank period in the Wa Kingdom, which put a big question mark on him.

Zheng Zhibao definitely couldn't see these top-secret things, and it was beyond his imagination, and at the banquet, he happily agreed to Yun Zhao's request for the Zheng family to send supplies from the Lantian over.

On this point, Yun Zhao entrusted with caution, and Zheng Zhibao promised with seriousness.

Zheng Zhilong's dissatisfaction with the Dutch East India Company was undeniable, and no one liked to find someone else on their own turf.

Zheng Zhibao was very satisfied with Yun's practice of cutting off contact with the East India Company without considering it, holding the idea that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and for the Lantian in the distant Arabian Sea, if he could help, Zheng Zhibao was naturally willing to help.

"Left Full Rudder ......"

Han Xiufen shouted, Zhang Chuanli, who was at the helm, quickly hit a full rudder, the huge Lantian quickly rowed a semicircle to the left on the sea, the sails were full of wind, and the two tall warships passed by, at the same time, the guns on the sides of the ships on both sides made a huge roaring sound at the same time, the fire was full of fire, sawdust was flying, and there were constantly cannon muzzles sticking out of the muzzles, and after a flash of fire, they quietly retreated, waiting for the next launch.

Chain bullets whizzed out of the muzzle of the gun, easily tearing the sail into pieces, and some of the chain bullets smashed into the mast, sending the stout mast to the ground with a thud.

"Jump Gang!"

Mario's shrill roar was piercing in the roar of artillery fire, and then countless hooks flew towards the ships on the opposite side.

Han Xiufen fell heavily on the battleship named "Princess" on the opposite side like a cannonball, and before she could gain a firm foothold, she slashed her long knife at the neck of a soldier, the power of this knife was so great that it actually cut off the head of the soldier, and the headless corpse fell on the deck after a rain of blood.

Behind her, a group of swarthy pirates slid silently down the rope onto the Princess, and with the same long knives, they fought the swords-wielding armorers on the deck.

Liu Mingliang was the last person to jump into the gang, and as soon as he jumped on the boat, he was hit by the greasy plasma that slipped under his feet.

Looking left and right and finding that no one was paying attention to him, he hurriedly got up and killed Han Xiufen's side.

Han Xiufen's axe was about to knock a plate armor man with a red tassel on his helmet to the ground, and he took the opportunity to pierce the long knife through the gap between the Tin Man's waist, shaking the handle vigorously until a stream of blood flowed out from under the Tin Man's armor, and he gave up.

The Lantian County soldiers with short firearms quickly swept away the unarmored sailors, and as for the black warriors who were entangled with the armorers, they relied on their strong bodies to roll on the deck with the ironclad men without their help.

"The captain is gone."

Someone shouted, Han Xiufen looked in the direction of his subordinates' fingers, and saw a small lifeboat actually hanging a sail, and under the drumming of the sea breeze, it fled to the depths of the sea like an arrow.

Seeing that his captain had run away, the desperate sailors dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground to accept the arrangement of fate, while those tin men gathered in the corner, their weapons outward, cautiously guarding against Han Xiufen, who was gradually approaching.

This time they threw away their inappropriate swords, holding axes and guns in their hands, their faces were covered by their visors and their expressions could not be seen clearly, but Han Xiufen felt that there was a tragic aura permeating the deck.

These were supposed to be soldiers, not mercenaries, because the guys who knelt on the ground and raised their hands in surrender in all sorts of strange armor were the mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company.

This kind of armor should not appear on the ship, just like the Yun armor should not appear on the ship.

It was this group of people who resisted the most fiercely just now, even after the main mast of the warship was broken by a chain bullet, and they still fought to the death.

The entire warship was quickly searched by Liu Mingliang and others, and the black pirates on the rest of the pirate ships also boarded the ship one after another and began to carry supplies.

After dealing with these things, Liu Mingliang came to the group of people who were still holding axes and guns as motionless as sculptures, and said in a skillful Germanic language: "Put it down, we won't kill the prisoners." ”

A terrible cry suddenly came out of the group of armorers, and the armorers looked back one after another, only to see a young man wearing a tight top, a large string of unknown ornaments under his neck, socks a foot and a half long, and a pair of small leather shoes under his feet trembling out of the crowd, and said in a Germanic language far more beautiful than Liu Mingming: "We surrender, hoping that we can redeem our freedom with gold." ”

Han Xiufen glanced at the young man with soft golden short hair and said to Liu Mingming, "Send him to my cabin." ”

Liu Mingliang was embarrassed and said: "This is a violation of the ban, although there is no provision for women to rape men in our Lantian County military regulations, but I still think it is inappropriate." ”

"Take it back!"

Han Xiufen accentuated her tone, Liu Mingming's body trembled, and ordered two black men to get this beautiful blonde boy to the Lantian No.

"Fuck off, you filthy pigs don't touch me!" The young man lost his temper, and then a woman dressed as a maid also rolled out of the crowd and hugged the blonde boy tremblingly, for fear that he would be hurt.

"I'm going to challenge you!"

The armor soldier led by him did not hesitate to lift his face armor, untie his armor, wear a linen tights, raised the axe gun in his hand and pointed straight at Han Xiufen.

Han Xiufen, who was wearing leather armor, was more like a heroic man than Liu Mingming, she glanced at the young man lightly, Liu Mingliang regretfully raised the short fire gun and pulled the trigger, and the short fire gun sprayed a large amount of iron sand in the shouts of the young man and the woman without accident, and the young man's body was beaten to a mess.

The rest of the armor men shouted and launched a desperate charge, and for a moment, the loud sound of hammers striking plate armor, the movement of axes and spears slashing on human flesh, the sound of bows and arrows leaving the strings, and the sound of firecrackers filled the deck.

The movement did not last long, and soon the deck fell silent, and the nine armorers fell to the ground without a sound.

"You killed Andreas, you killed Andreas."

The blonde boy and the maid came to the bloody young man who was beaten by Liu Mingliang and kept screaming at Han Xiufen.

"Next time, before you surrender, order your men to lay down their arms! Liu Mingming! ”

Han Xiufen explained to the young man in Germanic language, and shouted at Liu Mingliang again.

The young man buried his head in the maid's arms and wept mournfully, Liu Mingliang immediately beckoned, and the two giant-like blacks put the two petite people on their shoulders, stepped on the swaying springboard, and got on the Lantian No.

The "Princess" had already been beaten to a pulp, and the pirates on the Lantian had to work hard to carry the supplies and artillery on the Princess.

Liu Mingming, who was tired and paralyzed, leaned lazily on the rudder and said to Zhang Chuanli, who had a leisurely face: "Old Han has been back to the room for a long time, do you think that blonde boy who is as delicate as a flower can be obedient?" ”

Zhang Chuanli said: "It's normal for people to violate that teenager, but it's difficult for our brothers, who are bound by military law, and it is estimated that they will be monks for a long time." ”

Liu Mingliang licked his lips and said, "I saw it just now, which maid looks like a gourd all over her body, which is tempting." ”

Zhang Chuanli looked Liu Mingliang up and down and said, "I think you are very suitable for the position of celebrant eunuch." ”