Chapter 562: The Bombardment of Batavia

Batavia.

"I am God!"

Yang Feng, who was hunting in a red cloak, stood on the bow of the Weiyuan and raised his arms, shouting the slogan of the second middle school in an extremely exaggerated manner.

But at this moment he was truly God.

At least for the sailors behind him and the representatives of the Chinese forces in the South Seas, because in the bay in front of Yang Feng, one meteor after another was constantly falling, and almost every falling meteor happened to hit a Dutch warship, and then the terrifying flames exploded like a volcanic eruption, and those warships that were rampant in the sea made them tremble instantly turned into burning torches, and in this instant, the Dutch East India Fleet, which had been rampaging in the South Seas for hundreds of years, was wiped out, with a full thirty-two battleships, cruisers, frigates and armed merchant ships, In this meteor rain that seemed to be the punishment of heaven, it was extinguished.

Because it was a true god who came here to punish the Dutch.

"Long live the God Emperor, long live, long live!"

Xie Guifang reverently kowtowed on the deck and said in a trembling voice.

"Long live the God Emperor, long live, long live!"

Hundreds of people beside him and behind him prostrated their heads on the deck at the same time, shouting and worshiping their gods, worshipping their faith, worshipping their leaders.

Of course, Yang Feng's pretense ended here.

His gasoline was very precious, he only had a hundred tons in reserve, and he had used up nearly half of it by now, which was used to do things or rescue things when necessary, and could not be wasted casually, just when all the Dutch warships on the sea began to sink in the raging flames, the battleship Weiyuan under his feet slowly passed through these magnificent torches, and soon brought the distant city of Batavia into range. Then Zeng Tao slowly raised his head with the giant cannon and aimed the muzzle at the famous fortress, and then with the command to fire, a forty-two-pounder shell whistled out in the fire and smoke of the gun, and at the same time, the heavy shore defense guns on the fortress of Batavia City also sprayed flames.

"I can't help myself!"

Yang Feng sneered and posed.

In the frenzied cheers behind him, the four gasoline barrels that fell from the sky easily solved these self-sufficient ants, and the Weiyuan, which did not have to worry about the threat of heavy shore defense guns, continued to move forward, and three miles away from Batavia City, crossed the hull of the ship and opened the gun doors on the side side, and then ten twelve-pounder breech-loading rifled guns stretched out of their muzzles.

The next moment the flames shone one in turn, and ten shells pierced the air......

"These scoundrels!"

In front of the governor's palace in Batavia, the Dutch East Indies Governor Elans said sadly.

Suddenly, there was a whistling above his head, he subconsciously raised his head, and the exquisite marble carvings above his head suddenly turned into pieces, and countless broken stones fell like shotguns, and a civilian official couldn't dodge, and was hit right on the head by a piece of rubble, and then fell down with a scream, and the cannonball that was bounced off hit the pool in the courtyard, and a statue of a beautiful woman he had purchased with a lot of money was immediately cut in half.

"Your Excellency the Governor, their emperor knows the magic of the East, this is not an exaggeration to evade responsibility, he really knows magic, we cannot defeat him."

The messenger in front of him said.

This poor guy not only had his ears cut, but even his nose was cut, and he looked like Voldemort with missing ears, because Yang Feng personally healed him, so his wounds healed perfectly, it was like a special plastic surgery, or it could be said that it looked extremely funny like an egg with red hair.

"Surrender to a pirate, what about your sense of honor!"

Governor Ilens rebuked.

As soon as he had said this, an even more terrifying cannonball whizzed by, slicing off the glorious spire of the church opposite, and the spire fell with a scream below, smashing the believers in mourning.

"Your Excellency, he wants nothing more than the island, and at most we promise not to attack the gold prospectors in West Borneo who are under his protection, and although we have a loss, it is not great, at least it is not worth the total paralysis of our trade with the Tatars. If we refuse him, then we will have to go around the Makassar Strait to do business in the north, and we will not be able to prevent him from coming and bombarding Batavia, or even all our cities, at any time, and our losses will be even more incalculable. In addition, while I was in his captivity, Woolf of the British East India Company came to me and told me to tell His Excellency the Governor that His Majesty the Emperor was of good interest to us, for his real target was the Tatars, and that if he attacked the north, it would certainly cause a great war in China, and that then we could sell to the Tatars all the scrap arms left over from the Napoleonic Wars, and we would surely make a fortune. ”

Dandan said somewhat excitedly.

"I'm ignoring that!"

Governor Ilens immediately calmed down.

Obviously, he also understood what Yang Feng could bring them.

Yang Feng put forward three demands, one is that the territory of the Ambuna Islands and several small islands attached to it belongs to him, the second is that West Borneo belongs to him, and the third is to protect the rights of the Chinese in the Dutch East Indies, the latter article can be ignored, here the Chinese were originally their allies, this is not the Red Bowl period when the two sides fought for control, after the Red Bowl incident, they have understood that they can not play without the Chinese. So here they control the right to collect taxes, the Chinese are responsible for developing the economy and creating wealth for them to enjoy, and those natives are responsible for being cattle and horses, this is already a principle, and it is also a common principle of all European colonists in Southeast Asia, as for Ambuna Island to Yang Feng is not worth mentioning at all, there is nothing more than to collect pepper a few times a year to collect 2,400 poll taxes, but West Borneo is indeed more painful.

After all, there are gold mines there, and the gold mines there produce up to millions of rupiah worth of gold per year.

However, the gold is in the hands of major companies.

The Dutch colonial government really wants to get all this gold, but the problem is that the tens of thousands of Chinese gold diggers there are not good at stubble, although these guys are divided and infighting, but they are really brave and good at fighting, they have been entangled with the Dutch colonists for nearly a hundred years, the latter has always been helpless against them, and now with Yang Feng, it is even more difficult to deal with, no more Yang Feng gave those gold diggers thousands of rifled guns, then he really can't guarantee that he can fight.

And just like the British said, this inexplicable Ming Emperor drilled out, if he went north to attack the Tatars, then it was really an opportunity to make a fortune, once China fell into a large-scale war, they could be arms dealers, think about the huge wealth in the hands of the Tatar Emperor, Ilens felt that the golden light was shining in front of him, this is an almost endless treasure house, compared to this treasure house, the gold mines of West Borneo are really dim.

But......

Nothing more!

He raised his head and looked at the cannonballs whistling overhead, and said without hesitation: "You are right, immediately go out to find His Majesty the Emperor and negotiate peace." ”

Well, the main thing is that he knows he has no other choice.

"Peace talks?"

Yang Feng looked at the returning Dandan.

"Let's talk about it, a few of you are responsible for talking to them and adding all your requirements!"

He then said to Xie Guifang.

These people have been completely subdued by him, and they also represent the major Chinese gold mining companies in West Borneo that have invested in his banner, and even he has marked their respective ranges on the map for these guys who have fought openly and secretly for many times, if he goes back and negotiates with their people, then Yang Feng will give the major companies official titles. Anyway, he doesn't want anything from these people, he doesn't even collect the poll tax, in fact, he won't collect any tax, and he will provide them with protection completely free of charge, but he has to personally select a group of young and middle-aged people to be soldiers for him, there are tens of thousands of Chinese gold diggers in West Borneo at this time, all of whom dare to fight and kill and are used to seeing blood, and his request is that the major companies add up to give him 2,000 soldiers.

As for the sultans there......

I'll clean it up later, it's just a bunch of waste wood that even major companies can't beat.

As for the Dayak headhunters in the jungle......

Try not to provoke, it is said that even the Japanese army can be beaten out, Yang Feng is not interested in going deep into the jungle, as long as such a headhunter does not come out to hunt the head, then the best way to deal with it is to enclose the reserve to fend for themselves, if they dare to come out to hunt the head, then leave the jungle to protect them will be like a lion in Antarctica.

In short, Yang Feng's first gunboat diplomacy ended perfectly, and Xie Guifang and representatives of the four major companies, such as Dagang, Heshun and Santiaogou, as envoys of the Ming Empire, began negotiations on the deck of the Weiyuan with Dandan, who represented the Dutch East India Governor.

They all know each other very well.

These gold prospectors had been panning for gold in West Borneo since the mid-eighteenth century, and had been entangled with the Dutch who also coveted it for nearly a century, and they certainly knew how to make a break with the Dutch, who gave up the two colonies of Sanfa and Pontianak, and all the previous agreements signed between the two sides were nullified, as were the agreements signed between the Sultans of West Borneo and the Dutch, and the Dutch completely withdrew from West Borneo and recognized this land as the land of the Ming Dynasty, in short, the four major companies completely got rid of the Dutch and turned to the Ming Empire.

After the completion of the Weiyuan Treaty in duplicate, it was handed over to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire to be stamped with a jade seal, and then taken to Batavia by Dandan, where it was stamped by Governor Ilens on behalf of the Dutch government.

By the way, Yang Feng also presented him with a photo of the signing of the contract, which will be used as a historical witness in the future, and Yang Feng also met with the representatives sent by the local Chinese on the Weiyuan, there are a large number of Chinese here, Yang Feng only came to symbolically bombard the city instead of destroying it, because at least a third of the city is Chinese. The Emperor promised them that if they encountered injustice in the future, they could go to Ambuna Island at any time to find him, and he would come to administer justice for the Chinese here, so the Emperor ended his trip in Batavia and the hurried Chinese in Semarang and other places, and transferred to Dong Wanlu to inspect the Lanfang Company and select his soldiers.