"Second brother, those two Dutch ships seem to be spying on us!" After sailing for a distance, Gao Yitong suddenly felt that something was wrong, and the two Dutch ships had turned, one on the left and one on the right.

At this time, on the lookout of the mast, Gao Laosan also shouted loudly. "Second brother, the Dutch let us enter the port of Malacca and be checked!"

The Fukuyama, which carried the Luzon and Zheng flags, did not know that the Dutch had suddenly torn up the Ming-Dutch agreement.

Gao Yihuan also had a little doubt in his heart, but he just thought that the Dutch were afraid that they would evade taxes, so he held them. "These red-haired ghosts, aren't they just paying money, since there is an agreement, how can we lose them? Doing business is about integrity, let's go to Malacca for two days! ”

Gao Yihuan ran for the first time, and when he left Malacca, he also met Dutch ships, but the Dutch gunboats did not monitor them like the prisoners like this time, and asked them to enter the port.

Because there is only such a big port as Malacca nearby, out of Malacca is the Indian Ocean, it takes more than a month to sail to Ceylon Island and the east coast of India, and ships must be supplied in Malacca before they can enter the Indian Ocean, so the Dutch generally only need to sit in the port and wait for merchant ships to enter the port.

This behavior was really strange, but Gao Yihuan was inexperienced, so he thought it was Hongmaoyi's cautious eyes.

In fact, Gao Yihuan didn't understand it in his heart, there were only more than 2,000 Dutch people in Malacca, but the ships that came and went had to pay taxes to them, how could such a good place be occupied by this group of red-haired ghosts who came from thousands of miles away? What a shame.

After sailing for half a day, Gao Yihuan's lucky ship entered Malacca under the surveillance of two Dutch gunboats, he didn't know that the situation had changed, but even if he knew about it, it didn't work, he only had two guns on this ship, and it was impossible to be the opponent of the two Dutch warships.

The ship sailed into the harbor and slowly entered the bay, where a pier made of stones jutted out into the sea.

The entire harbor is surrounded by mountains, and the entrance is narrow, but the inside is very wide, making it a natural haven.

On a hill next to the harbor, there is a stone fort, very strong, said to have been built by the Portuguese and later fell into the hands of the Dutch, with the Dutch flag flying on it and cannons on the sea.

The castle was inhabited by the Dutch in Malacca, and was their base camp for the Dutch who were easy to defend and difficult to attack.

On the beach below the fort is the city of Malacca, but there are no walls, but a large number of stone and wooden houses.

Malacca is a city that developed because of the maritime trade, and in addition to warehouses and hostels, these houses also have restaurants and brothels, and there are about 40,000 or 50,000 people living here.

The entrance to the port is very wide, and ships can dock next to the wharf, Gao Yihuan looked at it at a glance, and saw that there were seventy or eighty lucky boats parked on one side, and he was a little surprised in his heart.

If it weren't for the Dutch flag floating on the stone fort on the top of the mountain, and seeing so many lucky ships, he would really think that this was the harbor of the Ming Dynasty.

Approaching the dock, the sailors on the ship began to get excited, Malacca is an important node on the voyage, there are vegetables, fruits, fresh water, meat, and even many women, the sailors who have been floating for a long time began to be restless.

However, as they entered the harbor, a large group of Dutch soldiers came to the dock in the castle of Malacca, armed with muskets.

At this time, there were more than a dozen Dutch people standing on the dock, led by a red-bearded Heyi leader, who saw a lucky boat coming to the dock, and couldn't help but smile at the Heyi beside them, and then shook their heads and motioned for them to help stop the boat.

As the boat approached the dock, the sailors on board threw the ropes, the Dutch on the shore helped to secure the boat, the anchor was lowered on the ship, and after the gangplank was set up, the sailors cheered, and Gao Yihuan took the lead and walked off the ship.

As soon as he stepped off the ship, a large group of Dutch soldiers with muskets had already arrived at the dock, and the redbeard immediately smiled proudly, and said in a broken Chinese: "Stupid pig, hand over your gold and silver, and then all kneel, and the ship and the cargo are ours." ”

Hearing his words, Gao Yihuan and the shopkeeper of the Zheng family, who had just disembarked, looked at each other, a little incredulous.

At this time, the Dutch soldiers of the brigade suddenly rushed over, directly carrying muskets, aiming at Gao Yihuan and his group who had disembarked, and the atmosphere suddenly became depressed.

The shopkeeper of the Zheng family, seeing this, immediately said, "What are you going to do?" We are people with the surname Zheng Guo, and the Ming Dynasty has a treaty with the Netherlands, why are you robbing our cargo......"

Gao Yihuan was also filled with righteous indignation, and at this moment, the red-bearded He Yi did not answer the words of the Zheng family's shopkeeper.

Gao Yihuan saw the red-haired ghost, and suddenly raised the short gun in his hand, and heard a gunshot, and the Zheng family shopkeeper next to him was knocked upside down and flew out, and a blood hole in his chest gushed out a large stream of blood.

Before he finished speaking, He Yi shot him directly, this was too barbaric, Gao Yihuan had never seen such a scene, and his face turned pale with fright.

He saw the red-haired man proudly put away the smoking musket, and said contemptuously: "Yellow-skinned monkey, the civilized world doesn't need to talk to monkeys about any rules!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the Dutch soldiers carried their guns and pressed forward, and several old sailors tried to draw their swords to resist, but the Dutch did not hesitate to pull the trigger, and knocked down several people in succession, and the blood instantly stained the dock red, and the sailors were shot and beaten at the slightest movement.

Gao Yihuan's whole person was already frightened and sluggish, after the Ming-Dutch agreement, the ships of the Ming Dynasty and his vassal subordinates could enter and leave Malacca, and they only needed to give the Dutch a certain amount of tolls.

This toll is also agreed upon by both parties, and the stipulation is 10% of the goods.

According to the private agreement between Zhu Yihai, the king of Luzon, and Wang Yan, at the beginning of this year, Luzon had already claimed vassal to the Ming Dynasty, and Luzon was a subordinate of the Ming Dynasty, and the agreement between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands was also applicable to Luzon.

This is because the Ming Dynasty stipulated in the policy of vassals that the vassals were not allowed to sign any treaties with any forces in private, and could only be signed by the Ming as the suzerain.

This is tantamount to depriving the vassals of their independent diplomatic powers, but the treaties signed by the Ming Dynasty with other countries, the vassals also enjoy all the advantages stipulated in the treaties.

Since the signing of the agreement, a large number of ships from the Ming Dynasty, Luzon, Annam, Quang Nam, and Ryukyu have come to Malacca and then headed west to India for trade.

Previously, because of the hostility between the Ming Dynasty and the Dutch, the Dutch controlled Malacca, and the ships of the Ming Dynasty and its vassals could only be trapped in the South Seas, but after the agreement was signed, the two sides made a truce, and the Ming Dynasty ships were able to enter and leave Malacca, and get supplies here, and the Dutch also got the opportunity to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and merchants were able to trade and purchase goods in the five major ports along the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

This kind of situation has existed for more than three or four years, and it has been peaceful, Gao Yihuan really can't imagine why he went to sea for the first time and was just about to successfully return to the sea, but suddenly there was such a change.

In fact, if one side wants to rise, it will inevitably conflict with the traditional boss, and the contradiction between the two is difficult to reconcile.

After the Ming Dynasty signed a treaty with the Netherlands, it seemed to be a win-win situation, but with the smooth navigation of Malacca, the increasingly powerful Ming Dynasty maritime merchants naturally did not limit themselves to the South Seas, and ships began to sail to India in large numbers, even to Mumbai on the west coast of India, which made the Dutch unacceptable.

Although the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty passed through Malacca, they could charge a large fee, but they were not satisfied with this, they were sea coachmen, to put it bluntly, they were second-class dealers, relying on monopolizing shipping and earning a huge price difference.

The Ming Dynasty maritime merchants themselves transported goods to India and traded with the feudal princes in the Mughal Empire, which the Dutch naturally could not accept.

In this case, the Dutch did not expect, they did not expect that the ships of the Ming Dynasty would go to India on a large scale to rob them of their jobs.

In the eyes of the East India Company, after signing the agreement, although they lost Taiwan, they obtained the right to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and they could buy materials from the Ming Dynasty and ship them elsewhere.

Although this made them need to compete with the Portuguese, Spanish, and British, and did not achieve their goal of monopolizing trade with the Ming, they were at least able to gain the right to trade with China, but they did not expect that they had obtained the right to come to China to purchase goods, and the Ming merchants also gained the right to break out of the blockade.

With the Ming Dynasty ships going to India, the East India Company's income shrank significantly, coupled with a large number of Ming Dynasty people entering the South Seas to make a living, the Ming Dynasty's power in the South Seas grew rapidly, posing a huge threat to the East India Company, making the Dutch begin to worry that their colonial rule would be challenged by the Ming Dynasty.

Half a month ago, the Spanish expeditionary fleet arrived in the Sulu Islands at the southwestern tip of Luzon, and the Dutch East India Company, which was dissatisfied with the treaty, immediately sensed the opportunity and colluded with their enemies, the Spaniards, and decided to tear up the Ming-Dutch agreement and force the Ming Dynasty to sign a new treaty by force.

Gao Yihuan's situation was good, the Dutch just seized the ship and took them hostage, but for those Chinese who had lived in Java and other places for a long time, the Dutch directly adopted a policy of massacre.

In order to keep the colony, they were worried that the Chinese in Java and other places would be too powerful, and when the time came, the Ming Dynasty would peep at Java.

Especially after Zheng Chenggong occupied Luzon and drove out the Spaniards, the Dutch were even more worried, so they decided to take this opportunity to clarify the Chinese in Java and other places, so as not to collude with the Ming Dynasty.

In just a few days, the Chinese in Batavia were killed by the Dutch, and the rest fled the city to avoid being pursued by the Dutch.

The Han Chinese, who had lived in the city for several generations and had accumulated a large amount of family property, became the main targets of the Dutch colonial authorities, just like the crimes committed by the colonists in the Americas and Africa, who wantonly shot innocent Han Chinese, robbed the property accumulated by generations, insulted women, and did all kinds of evil······

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