In Fubo Bay, Nandou Island, more than a dozen warships are moored at the humble wharf, and the Jinao with the flagship flag is impressively listed. The docks were bustling with people, and countless laborers were busy under the watchful eye of blue-black uniformed soldiers. Looking west and north from the pier, the gravel road stretches out like a chessboard, and in the chess grid are patches of newly erected simple wooden houses.

The periphery of this house is wrapped by a ditch and a wooden fence, there are tall watchtowers every dozens of zhang, and there is a gray and white dwarf mountain in the distance, take a closer look, but it is not a mountain, and countless skulls are piled up, which is the common "Jingguan" in ancient rumors.

"When I went to Jinou, I had to start lightly."

Fubo Bay, on the Jinao, An Lu said to Wu Ya, the commander of the Eagle Yang Army, although it was an admonition, his tone was extremely weak, and he seemed to be afraid that this young man with a trace of childishness on his face would swing his knife down. This guy has cut off more than 10,000 heads on the island, and looking at his frowning and crooked expression, it seems that he has not killed enough.

"It's not something I can decide......"

Wu Ya said idly that the fleet he led set sail for the South Seas, and first set up the Anglo-Chinese Merchant Hall in Guangnan Hui, and arranged a trade route, so that the Nanyang Company could dump commercial goods in Guangnan on a large scale and in an organized manner.

After October, the fleet continued southward and arrived at this large island in the South Seas. This island is in the vast sea five or six hundred miles south of Spyy Stick (Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City), and three hundred miles west to Jinou in Chenla, which is composed of one large island and five small islands, fifty miles from east to west, forty miles from north to south, and an area of quite wide. To the east of the island, there is still a calm bay that can accommodate dozens of large ships.

This is the second stop of Wu Ya's southward journey, this island originally had a messy name, Wu Ya was directly changed to Nandou Island, the newly built port was named Yingyang Port, and the bay was named Fubo Bay in order to take care of his naval colleagues. This island will be a military base for the Anglo-Chinese layout in the South Seas, and the 10,000 prisoners of war brought in in advance will have to be built here as a strong harbor fortress.

This large island was originally extremely desolate, and although there were many natives on the island, they all lived a life of wool and blood. There are small fishing villages in the bay, but they are a haven for the pirates of the South Seas.

Wu Yasuo led the fleet to build a port town here, and still had the intention of soothing the natives on the island, but unexpectedly, the two sides did not understand each other at all, and the natives regarded the Anglo-Chinese soldiers with muskets as demons, and regarded them as the end of the world, and went to the land one after another to send them to death. Wu Yasuo's surname started a big cleaning, and the island was cleared of the natives, men, women and children, and no one was left. If it is on a vast continent, it is bound to fall into the vast sea of "people's war", but this is just an island. The Anglo-Chinese army divided the region, divided the labor and cooperated, and with the cooperation of the servants recruited from Quang Nam and familiar with the dense forest terrain, they killed thousands of natives in a month and completely occupied this large island.

During this period, not only the natives, but also pirates from all over the country came in an endless stream to send them to death, and the white swallow commanded the warships to clear them one by one, sending a clear signal to their former colleagues that this was no longer their territory, and how far they went.

Coupled with the incident of the captive laborers plotting to rebel, more than 10,000 heads were piled up in the northwest of Yingyang Harbor, showing the bloody history of this Yinghua town.

Wu Ya felt that he hadn't killed enough, and the things he did in Yinghua, that is, the internal guards, were far from his main business of raising the army. The supervision of Yingyang Port has begun to see the scale, and a steady stream of manpower and materials have also been dispatched by Nanyang Company and brought here from China. This stage of work is over, and the ** who is eager for the smoke and flames of war is rolling in the depths of his heart.

"The situation in the place where we are going is complicated, even if we want to fight, we must have the certainty of everything in one fell swoop, and now our strength is still not enough."

Bai Yanzi said this, Wu Ya sighed, this is the right reason, he has to listen.

The construction of a military port on Nandou Island was a move by the Nanyang Company and even Li Shi, and the initial purpose was to lay a nail to ensure the unimpeded passage of Anglo-Chinese merchant ships in the Nanyang. And Wu Ya's expectation is the role that this chess piece will play in the next stage, which will have to wait until Yinghua settles the Central Plains.

"Jinou is a desolate place, and if you want to make it a place to live, you have to rely on the goods of the Chai stick river fairy in the north. The situation in the north is complicated, although it is the Han people of Chen and Zheng, but it is sandwiched between the forces of Chenla, Quang Nam and Siam. If we are too strong, and those countries regard us as public enemies, I am afraid that we will not be able to withstand it with the current strength of Nanyang Company. Siam, in particular, was specifically instructed by the King of Heaven not to be hostile to it at this stage. ”

An Lu carefully explained the situation, this land of the South Seas, the situation of the countries below Jiaozhi is unpredictable, and Yinghua is now indirectly involved with the Nanyang Company, and must first cling to a root, which is Siam. Anglo-Chinese and Siam are now in close contact, and ships and rice are still supported by Siam.

At this moment, the Indochina Peninsula is a historical stage in which the Mekong Delta is the hot spot of contention between the East and the West. To the east, the Nguyen lords of the Lê Dynasty expanded to the south, and the Champa kingdom had fallen by this time, and the old land was under the control of Cambodia. But Cambodia is overwhelmed by Siam to the west, which is also sensitive to the situation in the Mekong Delta.

"Then Chen Shangchuan and Zheng Jiu are not my Chinese Han people, an edict, open up their land for Huaxia, and allow them to be local shepherds, so isn't the land of firewood sticks and river immortals my land of Yinghua? Why bother to open another place in Jinou? ”【1】

The commander of the left battalion of the Fubo Army made Feng must not know the situation very well, so he felt that the Chen and Zheng families should be a great help.

"Chen Shangchuan died two years ago, and his son Chen Dading took over, and Zheng Jiu died a year ago, and his son Zheng Tianci took over. They did not have the full control of the situation like their father, and both families were under the control of the Nguyen clan in Quang Nam, helping the Nguyen clan to make enemies of Siam. Regardless of whether we can recruit them as helpers, even if they are willing to be Yinghua vassals, it means that they will immediately turn against Siam. ”

Bai Yanzi shook his head, he was also very clear about the situation here.

"That's why the King of Heaven wants us to open our own way in Jinou, which they don't pay much attention to, with Nandou Island as the support of force, and Jinou as a trade route, so that we can have our own foundation in this Nanyang, and we don't have to be attached to any force."

Wu Ya muttered like an endorsement, this is the route that Li Xian told him earlier.

"And that's just the situation in the south of Cochin, the whole South Seas, as well as Luzon, Java, and Malaka. Those places are different from here, they are all Europeans......"

Bai Yanzi is familiar with Nanyang, so he feels that Yinghua's journey in Nanyang is still very long.

"Eat bite by bite, step by step, let's ...... here"

Wu Ya pointed to the Eagle Yang Harbor, which had just seen the scale, and his somewhat irritable mood was also raised.

"I've already planted a tree, don't you have the ambition to come and enjoy the shade by yourself!?"

Bai Yanzi and An Lu and the others looked at each other and smiled, how could there be?

"Then act quickly, we must have a big battle with the Tartars this year, and I still want to go back and lead the Eagle Yang Army to rectify the Shi Shibiao in Fujian."

Wu Ya urged, a sail shadow fell, Feng must have gotten off the boat, he wanted to lead the left battalion of the Fubo Army to stay on Nandou Island.

Li Xian's trip to Nanyang is another game, and Kangxi is not a stupid person, after the battle of Yizhang, another game was also opened, and both sides are revitalizing resources to prepare for another battle.

Xiamen, Fujian, Shi Shibiao looked at the two big ships moored in the harbor, his expression did not move, but his eyes were bursting with sparks.

"The ship is big enough, but there are only two, and it is difficult to fight against the Nanban Sailors. According to my detailed report, there are more than a dozen gunboats in Nan'ao, half of them are of this size, and two are larger than this. ”

Next to him was a blonde foreigner, and when his colleague translated Shi Shibiu's words, his eyes were full of disdain, and he muttered, and his colleague nodded to Shi Shibiu.

"Mr. Vinsstrong said that this is only the vanguard of the fleet, and we have six more warships on the way, each with more than twenty cannons. Mr. Vinsstrong had also encountered rebel sentinel ships at sea, whose ships had apparently been built under the direction of the British, and whose sailors were so unskilled that they could not catch up with our ships in headwinds. It follows from this that even if they had a whole fleet no less than ours, they would never be our opponents. ”

Shi Shibiao snorted lowly, the Dutch are still so arrogant, they were beaten like that by the national surname in Taiwan, decades have passed, and the country is not as good as before, looking at their Huaxia but still has that lofty face.

But he sighed again, in order to defeat the Anglo-Chinese Navy and defeat his former subordinates, it was necessary to introduce foreigners and "defeat the barbarians with razing".

This Vinsstrong was a commissioner sent from Batavia by the Dutch East India Company, and he was here because the Qing court had sent a message of cooperation with Dutch merchants through the Min customs. Shi Shibiao is the manager of the specific cooperation between the two sides at the military level.

"But Your Excellency, I have been strictly ordered by the company that we Dutch warships cannot participate in your civil war unless we have obtained a formal treaty signed by His Majesty the Emperor. Governor Fan has been reluctant to make a clear statement on this matter, Your Excellency General, do you have any news? ”

Wen Sizhuang then asked, this is not the first time that the Dutch have dealt with the Qing State, during the Shunzhi period, when the Qing State conquered the Zheng family in Taiwan, it also contacted the Dutch East India Company and promised to return Taiwan to the Dutch. But the Dutch fleet arrived, but the Qing army did not move.

After Kangxi ascended the throne, in order to conquer Taiwan, he also had secret discussions with the Dutch. Even when attacking Jinxia, he attacked with the coalition army, promising to cut a land for the Dutch. also promised that after destroying the Zheng family, Taiwan would be given to the Dutch. At that time, it was Shi Shibiu's Laozi Shi Lang who led the army, but unfortunately the fleet went to sea twice and was blocked by strong winds and waves.

These exchanges were not formal exchanges, but verbal agreements between Qing officials and the Dutch, and at the same time, the trade between the Dutch and the Qing was also hindered and damaged by the Portuguese, and the profits were very small. Later, the Dutch changed their strategy and concentrated on the management of Nanyang to attract Chinese businessmen to the south, and they were already disheartened with the affairs of the Qing Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, at this time, such news suddenly came from the Qing Dynasty, combined with the fact that Guangdong was occupied by "traitors", the Batavia authorities of the Dutch East India Company were a little moved. According to the promise of the Qing officials, if the Dutch could defeat the traitor sailors and help the Qing control the waters of Guangdong and Fujian, then the Qing would follow the example of the Portuguese and give them permission to trade with the Qing in a certain place.

Although this condition was not as affordable as ceding Taiwan, it still exceeded the expectations of the Dutch. According to the information known to the Dutch, the traitors were probably supported by Britain or anyone else, and their power was strong for a while, but they expected that the Qing Kingdom, which occupied the entire continent, would eventually be the victor, so they had to stand with the victor.

In view of the previous experience, the credibility of the Qing Kingdom made the Dutch very suspicious. So on the one hand, the fleet was dispatched, and on the other hand, it was necessary to ask for an official certificate of agreement.

Shi Shibi tugged at the corners of his mouth, the official contract signed by the emperor? What about dreaming? Are you the emperor and you are on an equal footing to talk about business? It is already the emperor's grace to lead the army to "King Qin", so you should do your best, and the emperor will definitely be rewarded after the deed is completed.

Of course, this is not Shi Shibiu's own heart, but imagining the reaction of the officials above after he conveyed Wen Sizhuang's request.

"Mr. Wen Sizhuang should take a look down at this matter, Huayi's defense, the emperor will not break it, but the following things can be accommodated, as long as the matter is done, everyone is easy to speak. Now that things have not started, they are obsessed with small affairs, and they are not successful. ”

Shi Shibiao said vaguely, Wen Sizhuang listened to his colleague's translation, spread his hands, and was very puzzled. If you don't talk about the price, agree on the details, and make a good promise, how can you do things? How did this Qing man's brain grow?

(To be continued)