readx(); When the Tang army was fighting in Burma, it was crisscrossing and criss-crossing. Datang is also making various efforts in other places to continuously expand its strength.

Amsterdam, a city that is far from being as frantic as it was today, is full of marijuana and ******** mushrooms, and learning to drive can be paid for with meat. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Amsterdam was the center of European commerce and trade, and the jewel of the sea coachmen. The Dutch developed rapidly in maritime commerce and, thanks to the early capitalist revolution, had a forerunner financial system that contributed to the development of the whole of Europe.

Lately, however, the Dutch in Amsterdam don't have the same high-spirited expression on their faces. The decline of the country, combined with the inherent weakness of its own land and population, made the Netherlands more and more unable to do so in the eighteenth century. And more recently, the ongoing war has made the Dutch suffer.

The Dutch were opposed by the British, who looked across the sea, in what became known as the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War.

On the other hand, the war was fought because the Dutch supported the independence of the Americans, which provoked the British to act against them. In this plane, the Dutch did not have time to give any substantial support to the Americans, and the Americans successfully became independent with the help of the Tang Dynasty. Later, the French and Spaniards fought with the British with the help of weapons and equipment exported by the Tang Dynasty, and the battle was undefeated and undefeated, and the British suffered not small losses, especially in northwest India, which lost control of the Maratha Empire.

The British went to war against the Netherlands, which had suffered considerable losses in the previous War of North American Independence and the wars with France and Spain, and the war, as well as the wars that preceded them, owed the British a great deal of money to the financial bankers of Amsterdam. This money is said to be unpaid. So the British summed it up, since it was not yet on. We'll pay for it. Under the pretext of the Netherlands, Britain had previously supported the anti-British countries and forces, and encouraged piracy and sabotaged free trade. Unilaterally abrogated the treaties of the Anglo-Dutch alliance led by William III, and waged war against the Netherlands.

As a matter of fact. Naturally, the British wanted to gain colonial and commercial benefits in the Netherlands, which they used to make up for their previous war losses. France and Spain, which had just ended the war, did not seem to be willing to go to war with the British again for a while, France thought that it had taken advantage of the previous war, and France did not particularly care about the life or death of the Netherlands. In his later years, King Carlos III of Spain became more conservative, and the bigger problem Spain now faced was the rebellion in the colonies.

As a result, the Dutch had to face the British alone.

The British first sent the Royal Navy to attack the Dutch colonies in the West Indies in the Americas, thanks to the fact that the British had successfully resolved the confrontation with the Tang Dynasty. By selling Prince Rupert's land and recognizing the Tang Dynasty's sovereignty over large tracts of western North America, the British also received a promise that the free naval activities in the Atlantic would not be violated by the Tang people. Of course, if the British Royal Navy harasses the Datang civilian ships, or enters the territorial waters of the Datang Dynasty, it will obviously be attacked by the Datang Navy.

The British, who no longer worried about being attacked by the Tang army, confidently and boldly threw themselves into the attack on the Dutch colony of the West Indies, and a naval battle broke out between the British Royal Navy and the Dutch Navy. In this battle, for the first time, the British used new battleships improved from the Datang engineers. The steam-ironclad battleships led several old sail battleships, and the Royal Navy, which had a disadvantaged fleet size, won a resounding victory. Three Dutch battleships were sunk and two were captured. Dutch Rear Admiral Wilhelm? Krull had to surrender to the Royal Navy at the end in order to get a decent deal.

The victory in this naval battle invigorated the Royal Navy. And the British Admiral proposed that Britain needed to build more steam ironclad warships to meet its own interests. Not only did they urge the Datang shipbuilding engineers who came to Plymouth to step up their conversion of warships, but they also began to try to build bigger and stronger warships themselves.

In the war against the Dutch, the British spared no effort. The essence of this war was the robbery of the British, not only the Dutch colonies in the West Indies, but then the British even robbed the Dutch merchant ships and seized the Dutch trade goods, gold and silver all over the world.

Not to be outdone, the Dutch repelled the attacks of the British in Suriname. At the same time, the British fleet was attacked in the North Sea, but this naval battle did not take advantage. There were also no losses for the British.

And the actions of the British became more and more large, in the summer of 1781. The armed forces of the British East India Company attacked Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the most important Dutch colony in the Indian Ocean. Due to the well-prepared and powerful British, the British East India Company quickly eliminated the Dutch forces in Ceylon and occupied the island.

The British then had a clearer goal, preparing to capture the Dutch colonies in the East Indies. This made the Netherlands even more frightened. Because of the long-term love of business, or more concerned with business than the development of the country, the development of the Dutch army is very limited, and it can be called a waste of armament. The Dutch had no problem dealing with the natives of the colonies, but they had no choice but to suffer when they encountered the European powers. The Dutch colony, established in the East Indies, was arguably the most important property of the Netherlands. The Dutch East India Company* was incompetent, and the company was in decline, slowly falling into ruin. With the Dutch in the East Indies, if the British really wanted to attack them, perhaps the Dutch business that had been operating here for hundreds of years would be over.

At this time, Amsterdam was already in full swing, and since the Tang people began to operate a telegraph system in Europe, a lot of news spread more quickly, which also made the panic spread even faster. However, even if the Dutch knew that Batavia was in danger after losing Ceylon, there was little that the Dutch could do to stop the British, who were already addicted to robbery. Their army is limited in number, and their navy is not as good as the British Royal Navy, which is rapidly becoming steam-ironclad.

Just when the Dutch were on the verge of despair, a Don knocked on their door, with a courteous and courteous smile, and a seemingly hopeful offer.

He is the plenipotentiary ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Republic to Europe, Chu Bai. (To be continued.) )