When he set foot on the land of Ming again, Bill's heart no longer had the same excitement and passion as before, but was full of anger for revenge.

After more than half a year in prison in Japan, the originally burly Bill lost nearly 30 pounds of flesh, and now he is like a dangling bone shelf.

Those damn Japanese dwarfs, who don't eat very well themselves, how can they feed their foreign prisoners.

Although they could buy some food from the jailers as long as they had money, he did not bribe the jailers as a scapegoat.

Originally, Bill also hoped that the East India Company would not tolerate the Japanese shogunate imprisoning its employees, and that the company would make representations to the shogunate, or at least he could take this opportunity to expose Peternatz's crimes.

However, when the East India Company sent a note acknowledging the shogunate's disposition of him, and asking the shogunate not to ruin the good trade relations between the company and the shogunate because of the self-assertion of one or two employees, Bill finally despaired.

He finally realized that Peternat's stealing of his work and throwing him to the Japanese as a scapegoat had won the approval of the company, or at least the governor of Batavia.

As a low-level employee of a company from a civilian background, he couldn't expect the company to come to his rescue. He had thought that he would slowly rot in this Japanese prison like the Portuguese captain in the prison.

But what he didn't expect was that the jade pendant he received from the Ming Emperor gave him a hope of escaping Japan.

The jailer, who knew him well, sent the jade pendant to the Ming Kingdom's merchant house in Edo. Half a month later, Zheng Cai, who had been with him several times, appeared in front of him.

The two talked secretly for nearly half an hour, and when Bill promised to work for Zheng Cai for ten years, Zheng Cai tried his best to get him out of prison and bring him back to Mingguo.

After seeing Bill set foot on the land of Tianjin Wharf, he stood there in a bit of a daze. Zheng Cai, who got off the boat after him, patted him on the shoulder and said, "What, does there look wrong here?" ”

Bill looked back at Zheng Cai and said respectfully: "Dear sir, the changes here are too great, but it reminds me of my hometown Amsterdam." If not..."

Listening to Bill's abrupt words, and then looking at the gritted teeth expression on his face, Zheng Cai coughed lightly and said, "Bill, I think you should forget these past experiences.

Now that the Ming Dynasty and the East India Company have just signed a trade agreement, I don't want to have any conflict with the big men of the East India Company because of you. You know, that's not what I'm trying to do to save you. ”

After listening to Zheng Cai's words, Bill pursed his lips and twitched his throat a few times before he said in a deep voice, "Dear Sir, the East India Company will not abide by this fair trade agreement.

For those bigwigs of the East India Company, any fair trade meant the incompetence of the company's officers.

I can assure you that as long as they are allowed to understand the reality of the Ming Kingdom through trade, they will definitely choose to use force to occupy the foreign trade of the entire Ming Kingdom in order to obtain high monopoly profits, just as they did with the Spice Islands.

I thought you should make a proposal to His Majesty the Great Emperor to build a powerful Ming navy and seize the Spice Islands from the East India Company. This will not only bring great profits to His Majesty the Emperor and you, but also bring you the highest honor. ”

Zheng Cai looked at Bill with a strange face, and finally he said with a smile: "Maybe what you said is right, but before that, you need to be patient for a while."

I can promise you that when the time comes, I will give you a chance to take revenge. But now, I think you should change the name first, what do you think of the name Edmond Dantès? ”

The corners of Bill's mouth grinned, and he bent down and replied, "Dear sir, if you can give me a chance to take revenge, I swear to God, I will repay you." As for changing a name, that's no problem. ”

Zheng Cai smiled and nodded, "Very good, Mr. Dantes, in the next period of time, you should first recuperate in the capital and dictate your past sailing experience." When you're well, you'll get a ship..."

When Zheng Cai left the dock with Dantes, another fleet entered the port of Tianjin, which was a fleet from Taiwan.

The flotilla brought Taiwanese sugar, deer skins and deer breasts, as well as more than a dozen red-haired men with leg shackles. The arrival of these Western prisoners obviously aroused the interest of the citizens of Tianjin, and the originally small streets were suddenly crowded with Tianjin businessmen who were watching the red-haired prisoners.

Walking in the middle of the group of prisoners, Don García de Carmen, unkempt, muttered as he marched with the prisoners, "Damn it, I'm a descendant of an earl, and as a nobleman, you should be courteous to my status..."

However, no one heeded his complaints, and the group of soldiers who were in charge of escorting them were nervously reprimanding the citizens on the side not to hinder the progress of the procession.

Although many citizens who watched the excitement were shot several times because they walked too far ahead, there were still some ruffians who squeezed in front of the crowd. They looked at the red-haired prisoners with a smile on their faces and asked the soldiers guarding the prisoners about their origins.

A young soldier blocking the crowd, obviously seeing this kind of big scene for the first time, after being complimented a few words, he said with some pride: "These are the Spanish red-haired people captured by our Four Seas Battalion, and they actually dare to secretly build a city on Taiwan Island, the territory of my Ming Dynasty.

Under the leadership of our Lord Dong, we broke the Hongmao City they had built, and captured them and sent them back to the capital to sacrifice prisoners to His Majesty. ”

"Isn't that a great victory, and I haven't heard such good news in a long time. Dare to ask this military master, how many of these red-haired people are there who don't know the height of the sky? A green-skinned man asked flatteringly.

The young soldier's eyes flickered, and then he said proudly: "There are thousands of people, these are all intact prisoners for Your Majesty to see, and those who are missing arms and legs are all lost in Taiwan." ”

After the Gyeonggi earthquake, the people of Gyeonggi returned to their normal lives and the workshops returned to normal production within a few days.

And Empress Zhou in the palace came forward and called on the people who had spare energy to collect clothes and donate to the victims, which also made the hearts of the people in the capital quickly settle down.

The people whose houses were destroyed began to realize that although the current emperor was very young, he had not forgotten their suffering, which made them begin to have hope for the imperial court and began to actively cooperate with the work of the local officials.

However, just like Chongzhen's nameless anger that erupted after the earthquake, the bad news one after another after entering Chongzhen's first year also made the people of the capital always feel a little panicked.

The little joy brought by the sports meeting was quickly shattered by the earthquake. Just when Chongzhen was thinking, how to inspire the hearts of the people in the capital, so as not to be used by some people to attack the new policy he promoted.

Wang Chengen walked into the upper study with a piece of music and said to him happily: "Weichen wants to congratulate Your Majesty, Xu Xinsu, the envoy of the East China Sea Parade, has made a victory to Your Majesty, and he has joined forces with Peter of the Four Seas Battalion and the Dutch East India Company to capture the Hongmao City in Tamsui." ”

Hearing the news, Zhu Youzhen was also very happy, so he asked Wang Chengen to read Xu Xinsu's recital to him.

After the Spanish invaded northern Taiwan two years ago, they built the city of San Salvador on a small island outside the port of Keelung. This year, it extended its influence to the Tamsui region, and built a small fortress here, named Santo Domingo, which the local natives called the Red Hair City.

The Spanish governor of Manila wanted to threaten the trade routes between the Dutch East India Company and Japan by invading the northern part of the island and building fortified cities.

However, Spain was caught up in a European war on its own soil, and had no time to support the Grand Governor of Manila's grand plan, and the Governor of Manila had to devote some of his energy to fighting with the East India Company for the Spice Islands.

Therefore, the manpower of the Governor of Manila for the colonization plan in the northern part of the island of Taiwan has always been between 3 or 400 people. The Spanish colonizer Waldes, who was ordered to open up the northern part of the island of Taiwan, although he occupied the small island outside the port of Keelung, was also resisted by the local natives.

Because the natives refused to sell food to the Spaniards, the Spaniards who invaded Taiwan often fell ill or starved to death due to lack of food.

The Guijosha, a native tribe in Tamsui, wanted to ally with the Spaniards to attack their enemies on the condition that they would be provided with food. But afterwards the natives repented, and not only did they not give food to the Spaniards, but they also killed eight Spanish soldiers.

But the Spaniards, who had fled back to San Salvador, brought the geographical information of Freshwater to Valdes. Compared with Keelung, the freshwater area is the most important crop producing area in northern Taiwan.

So Waldes sent 100 soldiers, with the help of two ships, to occupy the Guirou Society, and used the village as their base in Tamsui.

When Xu Xinsu arrived in Tamsui with more than 30 ships and nearly 4,000 troops, the local native tribes quickly fell to Xu Xinsu, who represented the Ming Dynasty.

With the rudimentary defenses and the meager number of troops, the 100 soldiers who were originally stationed in the village were taken away by an officer and 20 of them were taken along the Tamsui River to explore whether there was a waterway to connect with Keelung.

After a modest battle, Xu Xinsu captured the village and captured the returning Spanish expedition a day later.

Hsu rejected Peter's offer to hang all the Spanish captives, nor did he accede to the Guirousha's request for the return of the land.

He selected a number of captives who had been massacrated among the indigenous tribes and invited the leaders of these indigenous tribes to visit the trial.

Xu Xinsu then declared that the island of Taiwan would henceforth belong to the Ming Dynasty, and ordered the native tribes to donate land and population records to him. These indigenous tribes quickly succumbed in the face of the strong military strength of the Ming army.

Xu Xinsu finally said in the recital: "... With fertile freshwater land and rivers crisscrossing it, it is the best location for reclaimed agricultural areas in northern Taiwan. Although there are many indigenous tribes here, they are all small tribes of 2 or 300 people, and it is estimated that there are only nearly 10,000 natives in the entire Tamsui area.

If enough people can be relocated to this area, the development of this area will not be much worse than that of Jiangnan..."

In the end, Xu Xinsu sent some Spanish prisoners and captured booty, and returned to the capital with the Taiwanese fleet returning to Tianjin, ready to be sent to the emperor.

And after leaving 500 men to garrison Tamsui, he himself will lead the coalition army to continue north, bypassing the cape to attack the last base of the Spaniards in Taiwan, the city of San Salvador.