In the wooden city at the foot of the mountain, Xu Xinsu and Guo Qing, who were standing in front of the tent, saw several soldiers escorting the two of them. One of them was a Western monk he had seen before, and the other was a tall white man in his 40s.

The middle-aged white man had a large hooked nose and looked very ugly, but his hazel eyes were quite interesting.

After the missionary who acted as an interpreter introduced the two of them to the companion who was the supreme military governor of San Salvador, Xu Xinsu asked with some curiosity: "So he is here to surrender?" ”

After listening to the words of the interpreter, the man named Valdes unconsciously raised his right hand to his waist, and said in a humble and arrogant voice: "What you said is not right, the Ming Kingdom did not declare war on the Kingdom of Spain, so how can you say that you surrendered."

This is just a small misunderstanding between the two sides, and in order to maintain the friendship between the Kingdom of Spain and the Ming Kingdom, we are willing to give up this land on our own initiative to eliminate this unpleasant misunderstanding. ”

Valdes held his right hand into the air, and then remembered the fact that his saber had been disarmed by the other party. He pretended to put down his right hand inadvertently, and finished this nonsense without shame.

As an aristocrat, Valdes is well versed in the art of talking nonsense, and in his opinion, even if he loses a war on the battlefield, he must not lose momentum in negotiations.

Otherwise, in this situation, whether it is in the city or in the harbor, the people on the boat will become the object of the other party's fish and meat.

Of course, Valdes's behavior is also based on the fact that it is a rational nation that is fighting against him, not some cannibal tribe, otherwise there would be no such thing as negotiation.

Xu Xinsu was very unhappy with the dead duck of Waldes, and he unceremoniously accused: "You have violated the territory of my Ming Dynasty, and you dare to say that there is no conflict between the two countries, don't you know that this Taiwan Island is my Ming territory?" ”

Waldes shook his head innocently and said: "We have always called this island Formosa, I have not heard of the name Taiwan, and when we landed on the island, we did not see any traces of Ming rule here, so I think this should be just a misunderstanding."

Since your country believes that this is Taiwan under your rule, I am willing to respect your country's opinion and return this place to you.

But I hope you can see that our tolerance for the thousands of Ming people living in Manila has allowed us to leave safely. I can assure you that we will not take anything from us except our own belongings. ”

When Xu Xinsu was still thinking about how to refute him in his heart, Guo Qing had already said mockingly: "Why talk nonsense with him, the monk over there, you tell this person that the truth is only within the range of the cannon."

If he is not convinced, he can continue to go back to defend the city. We are standing here, not to listen to him explain why he is here, but to accept the surrender of those who invaded our Ming land.

As for the three strengths and weaknesses of the Ming people in Manila, we will naturally negotiate with you separately. But if we were able to take this place with the Dutch, would it be so difficult to go to Manila again? ”

When the missionary translated Guo Qing's words to Waldes, Waldes chewed the meaning of one of the sentences in his heart, and realized that the Ming people in front of him seemed to be very different from the Ming people he knew.

It seems that these Ming people are similar to them in their actions, which is a surprising discovery, and if the Ming people have always behaved like this, then what is the matter with these outsiders in Southeast Asia.

suppressed the doubts in my heart about Akito's sudden appearance of interest in overseas affairs. Waldes knew that he had no chips in his hands at all, and continued to entangle with these Ming people.

Compared with these Ming people, he was more reluctant to fall into the hands of those Dutch. After all, they were still at war with the Dutch, and he didn't know what would happen to them with the brutality of the Dutch against the British on Ambon Island.

However, these Ming people, their hands have not been stained with the blood of the Ming people, at least not here, so these Ming people have no reason to do superfluous things to them who surrendered.

After thinking clearly about the predicament he was facing in the same city, Valdes finally changed his attitude, bowed to the two Ming ** officials, and said in a rigorous tone.

"If you can guarantee your personal safety after we surrender our weapons, and agree that we can notify Manila to redeem our freedom, then we are willing to surrender all our weapons to the Ming ** team and accept your management until Manila redeems us."

Although Valdes was still reluctant to say the word surrender directly from his own mouth, everyone present had already understood that this was just his statement of concern for his own face.

Xu Xinsu made way to the tent and invited the missionaries and Wades in for a detailed discussion.

When several people in the tent were confirming the details of the surrender of the Spaniards in the city, an officer hurriedly ran into the tent, walked to Guo Qing's side and bowed his head to report something.

Guo Qing nodded at the officers who came in, and said a few words in Xu Xinsu's ear with an unchanged face.

Xu Xinsu suddenly stood up angrily and reprimanded Valdes: "Are you trying to trick us? Think this will stir up a conflict between us and the Dutch? Tell you that this is delusional. ”

After listening to Xu Xinsu's words, the confused Valdes said a little dazedly: "Your Excellency, is there any misunderstanding in this, I came to negotiate peace with sincerity today." Otherwise, I wouldn't have to come to the house myself, would I? ”

Xu Xinsu stood there and looked at Valdes in disbelief, not knowing whether to believe him or not. Guo Qing thought for a moment and then interjected and asked, "Isn't that sailing ship in the harbor sending people to surrender to the Dutch really a plan you discussed?" ”

After hearing Guo Qing's question, Valdes finally lost his calm, and said with some despair: "Salgado, this idiot, is he planning to bury all the people on the ship?" ”

After a while, Valdes reacted and pleaded to Xu Xinsu: "Your Excellency, I hope you will allow me to return first, I need to send someone to stop the people on the ship." As for what I have just said, I have no objection to the way in which you can take over the city of San Salvador.

After half an hour, the gates of San Salvador will open and everyone will walk out of the castle. But I hope that it will be your country's official army that will come to receive it, and not the natives..."

Although Xu Xinsu and others successfully took over the city of San Salvador, the disposal of the "San Juan" became a knot between the Ming army and the Dutch.

For the Dutch East India Company, the expulsion of the Spaniards from the island of Taiwan and the discord between China and the Spaniards were the main purpose of the expedition.

But for those East India Company employees, getting the spoils of war was their greatest motivation to fight. A Manila sailing ship costs nearly Rp 300,000 in Europe and will not be less than Rp 120,000 built in Asia.

But even an old ship can be sold for 8 or 90,000 rupiah. This Manila sailing ship is already equivalent to the salary of all the employees of the Dutch East India Company who participated in this war, for a year.

Even Peter, who wanted to maintain good relations with Mingguo, did not dare to lean too much towards Xu Xinsu on this issue.

After some heated arguments, the two sides finally reached an agreement that the galleon would be sold to Xu Xinsu for 75,000 guilders, and each party would own half of the crew on board.

At the same time, Peter, in place of the crews of the three East India Companies, assured that they would no longer make claims on other trophies on the island.

In fact, Peter and others had already learned from the captain of the "San Juan" that the city of San Salvador, which the Spanish had built on the island, was still in a situation where it was still unable to make ends meet, and even most of the food had to be transported from Manila.

Such a barren colonial fortress naturally made them lose interest. In comparison, it was more beneficial for these Ming people to give up their ownership of the galleon.

Moreover, the Ming people promised them that they would pay the price of the ship at a discount for the goods of the Ming Kingdom, instead of paying the silver directly. In this way, the price of the ship sold has more than doubled, which is obviously more exciting for the Dutch.

When Xu Xinsu selected half of his crew, he promised them that as long as they were willing to serve him for three years, then they would not have to pay the so-called ransom money.

Nearly a third of the crew were not Spaniards, but mestizos, Southeast Asian natives and even Japanese.

Maybe Manila will redeem those white sailors, but certainly not them. If it falls into the hands of the Dutch, it may be sold to slave traders.

Therefore, these non-European sailors quickly chose the side of the Akito, and even some Spanish sailors who were not worried about the Dutch faction also chose to be willing to serve the Akito.

Peter originally had a headache about how to fulfill his promise to the Ming Emperor and lease a Western-style sailing ship to the Ming Dynasty. He himself had no opinion on this, but the governor of Batavia vetoed it.

Governor Kun was willing to transport goods by sea for the Chinese emperor, and could even give certain concessions. But he could not agree, lease a company's ship, and hand it over to the Ming people to manage, and train talents for ocean voyages for the Ming Kingdom.

Peter privately told Xu Xinsu that although he could not rent a Western sailing ship for the Ming Emperor, he could recruit some unemployed seafaring talents for him. The contradictions between the Ming army and the Dutch East India Company were finally temporarily settled.

A few days after capturing Chicken Coop Harbor, Dong Weixian, who had finished handling the affairs of Tamsui City, finally rushed back.

At the same time, a coalition of more than 20 village elders demanded that the Ming army fulfill their promise to return the island (including the buildings on the island) to them.

Guo Qing was obviously opposed to the restitution, and he suggested to Xu Xinsu and Dong Weixian that the aborigines of the island should simply be disarmed and then screened.

Let the aboriginal soldiers who are willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty kill those soldiers who obey the village elders, and take advantage of the convenience of most of the village elders in the Jilong area to directly purge these Dongfan leaders who dare to ask for land from the Daming.

Guo Qing's proposal was naturally opposed by Xu Xinsu and Dong Weixian, Dong Weixian was out of unbearability, believing that this would greatly damage the reputation of Daming, even if it got the immediate benefits, but it was not conducive to the Taiwan reclamation company that wanted to open up Taiwan's inland in the future.

And Xu Xinsu just felt that it was not worth it, and for the problems that Guo Qing thought were difficult to solve, in his opinion, it was simply not worth mentioning.

Xu Xinsu said that he would personally handle this matter and let the two stay stable for the time being. Perhaps on the battlefield, Xu Xinsu's performance is far inferior to Guo Qing.

But as for how to divide these aboriginal village elders, the 10 Guo Qing are not as good as him. After spending three days separately meeting with the representatives of the villages and communities in the alliance meeting, he released a rumor that the state was interested in buying the entire island at the price of 100,000 pieces of cotton cloth.

At the same time, such a rumor spread among the alliance meetings and the aboriginal soldiers who went to war. The Ming Kingdom, which originally had nothing to do with the Chicken Coop Harbor, paid wine and cloth to each aboriginal warrior in order to drive away the Spaniards.

The Jinbaoli Society and the Big Chicken Coop Society, which got back to Shezhu Island, actually didn't show anything to them, the village communities that participated in the war, which is really a bit excessive.

Soon, the meeting of the village community alliance, which originally seemed to be monolithic, became divided after a village community representative proposed to ask the Jinbaoli Society and the Big Chicken Coop Society to take out 3,000 pieces of cotton cloth and 1,000 ** wine as a reward for their participation in this war.

Although the Jinbaoli Society and the Big Chicken Coop Society are among the most powerful villages in the Jilong area, they are also the villages with the most casualties among the young and strong in this war.

Their strength has been greatly damaged, which naturally aroused the peep of the village community that originally had a grudge against them. And the village community, which was originally good friends with them, did not ventilate with themselves because of the rumors that the two societies had betrayed the island, and they also began to have some other ideas.

The split of the village community alliance gave Xu Xinsu the opportunity to win over and divide. Under the internal and external difficulties, the elders of the Jinbaoli Society and the Big Chicken Coop Society finally listened to Xu Xinsu's persuasion and were willing to dedicate the land of the village community to the Ming Emperor.

And Xu Xinsu also promised that he would ask the emperor for a decree and canonize several elders as local toasters. Of more than 20 village communities, 17 village communities finally chose the same path as Jinbaoli Society and Dajilong Society, and obtained the official canonization of the Ming Kingdom by offering soil to the Ming Emperor.

In the end, more than 900 people were left in the army composed of aborigines, and they felt that it was much more cost-effective to fight for the Ming Dynasty than to fight for the village community. At least the reward given by General Ming Guo will not be embezzled by the village elders.

This aboriginal army was incorporated into the Four Seas Battalion and became Dong Weixian's subordinates. The port facilities built in San Salvador and Spain all became the property of the Taiwan Reclamation Company.

The land defense of Tamsui and Jilong belonged to Sihaiying, and the coastal defense of Tamsui was handed over to Zheng Zhilong, while the coastal defense of Jilong Port belonged to Xu Xinsu.

On 11 October, Peternac returned to the south with three sailing ships. Xu Xinsu, on the other hand, took the fleet and the selected Spanish prisoners and set off north to Tianjin.