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The Netherlands had more merchant ships than all European countries combined, and was known as the "coachman of the seas".

By the middle of the 17th century, there were 20,000 ships in the world, and the Netherlands accounted for about 15,000, more than the total number of ships of Britain, France, Germany and other countries.

As to which Dutch United East India Company was granted, the Dutch Parliament granted the Dutch United East India Company a charter, granting a large number of privileges.

It has a monopoly on trade from the Cape of Good Hope to the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean to the southern tip of South America, the Strait of Magellan, and the right to initiate, negotiate peace, establish colonies, seize foreign ships at sea, build castles, and mint currency.

In essence, the Dutch East India Company had become the authority of the Netherlands' foreign aggression and colonial rule.

Between 1602 and 1620 A.D., there were 250 ships from Europe to the East Indies, half of which were shipped to Asia by the United East India Company.

Since then, this number has continued to increase, with an average of 22 ships per year from 1626 to 1670.

From 1670 to 1750, it increased to 29 ships per year.

There is also an exact number of ships that traveled between the Netherlands and the East Indies in 1670, 100 of them, most of them large ships with a deadweight of 600 tons.

Trade with the Japanese states accounted for more than 30 percent of the total trade volume of the United East India Company in Asia, and it was a source of revenue that could not be lost.

The year before last, the Xuan army occupied Kyushu and did not see the Dutch merchant house rebuilt, as if because of the conflict between the East India Company and the Japanese merchants on the island of Taiwan, which caused the trade between the two sides to be interrupted.

In 1626, the Japanese Hamada Yabei led a ship to Taiwan to buy raw silk, and wanted to borrow a sailing ship from the Dutch authorities to bring back goods to Fujian, but the Dutch authorities refused.

Knowing that the original inhabitants of the Shinko Society could not tolerate the mistreatment of the Dutch people, Hamada Yabei was dissatisfied with the Netherlands, so in 1627 he lured sixteen of the Society's aborigines back to Japan, intending to encourage the Edo shogunate to take anti-Dutch actions.

In the spring of 1628, Hamada Yabei again led a ship to Taiwan, accompanied by 470 people, including the previous 16 aborigines.

At this time, the governor of Taiwan in the Netherlands was Peter Nuiz, who received a secret report before Hamada's arrival in Taiwan that the Japanese ship was carrying soldiers, cannons, knives and guns and other weapons, so when the Japanese ship arrived in Taiwan, he sent personnel to board the ship to inspect, and sure enough, a large number of weapons and gunpowder were found, so the Dutch authorities detained all the weapons and gunpowder, and put Hamada under house arrest for nearly a week, and 16 aborigines were imprisoned.

Hamada then demanded the return of weapons and gunpowder, the release of 16 aborigines, the provision of ships to pick up goods in Fujian, and the permission to return to Japan, but the Dutch authorities refused. Hamada took violent measures and led dozens of Japanese to break into the residence of Peter Nuiz and kidnap Peter Nuiz and his son. Later, after negotiation between the two sides, the son of Peter Nuiz was taken hostage and returned to Japan with Hamada.

Last year, the Dutch fleet was traded for the purpose of negotiation.

Trade had been interrupted for several years, and Peter Noyz, the head of the Netherlands in Taiwan, could no longer withstand the pressure from the company's top.

Originally, the board of directors decided to try Peter Noiz this year to appease the anger of the Japanese state, but because of Xuanjun's sideways, the board of directors was a little caught off guard.

In the end, the board of directors decided that the situation in the Japanese state was complicated, and it would be better to give Peter Noiz, who was familiar with the situation, another chance.

The board of directors stated that if trade with the Wa Kingdom could not be resumed as soon as possible, then no matter who controlled the Wa Kingdom, Peter Nuiz would not end well.

However, Kyushu was occupied by the Xuan army, and their goods were not needed, and the rest of the Japanese kingdom was blocked by the Xuan army's navy.

In the end, their negotiation turned into the Xuan army, but at that time, Chen Xinzheng was taking the main force of the army, as well as almost all the resources in the jurisdiction, and was dealing with the 120,000 army of Houjin, and could not spare the financial resources to buy the goods of the Dutch people, and the two sides broke up unhappily.

This year, the monsoon season had arrived, and Peter Nuiz knew that if he did not force the army to agree to continue trading before the board sent someone to replace him, he himself would lose all the glory and riches of the place, and become a prisoner.

So, he decided to make a desperate bet, used all his connections, all his favors, used all his power, spent a lot of his family property, and finally mobilized three professional warships and 17 armed merchant ships.

Although more than 30 years ago, the British defeated the Spanish Armada by using the tactics of broadside shelling dominated by artillery and fast sailing ships, the development and application of this tactic was still very slow.

After all, the maritime power of this era is basically out to get rich, even if it is the regular navy of various countries.

It is impossible to obtain the wealth of the other side's ship with a single broadside shelling tactic, so unless it is a formal fleet battle between the two countries, it is still very necessary to jump into the gang.

Therefore, the fleet organized by Peter Noiz also carried a large number of pirates, mercenaries and other forces for gang jumping and landing operations.

These people from different countries in Europe and Asia, with different skin colors, are all a bunch of scum and wretched people who can sell their souls for money.

Their role was to capture the ships of the Xuan army in naval battles, or to land in ports to commit looting.

And the main force of this operation was the famous Dutch merchant ship.

In just half a century, the Dutch were able to transform themselves from a new state that rebelled against dictatorship to become known as the "coachmen of the sea", a type of ship called the Dutchman.

Around the 15th ~ 16th century, the inhabitants of the Netherlands, who originally only fished for herring along the coast, became sea coachmen who made expeditions to the East Indies and the Pacific Ocean due to the reform of the capitalist system and the establishment of a joint stock company.

However, the seas were full of strong competitors, and the Spanish and Portuguese sailed back and forth between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, using the heavy guns on board to trade and rob, and in the face of these long-established rivals who had already opened up markets and trade routes, the Dutch undoubtedly needed a trick to win the battle with the secret skills of the merchants who would choose the Dutch ship over the Spanish ship.

Thus the Friut, or Dutchman, was created to undertake this difficult mission.

The Dutch merchant ship was not in fact a unique type of ship, but was based on the improved maneuverability of the early Spanish galleons, which reduced the hull and reduced the number of armed and sailors, and expanded the cargo hold below the waterline as much as possible, resulting in the O-shaped wide hull.