The battle to destroy the East India Company's stronghold in the Indies was unusually smooth.

Henry, the director of the East India Company, was escorted to follow the battle, and after seeing the strength of the Zheng family's naval division, Henry quickly understood that from this moment on, the East India Company lost its dominant position in South Asia.

Henry is a businessman, businessmen pursue profits, after roughly understanding the meaning of the Ming court, Henry immediately expressed his willingness to cooperate, comply with the requirements of the Ming court, and do business with all parts of South Asia and the Ming Dynasty. 、

Henry's attitude made Hong Xingui and the others very happy.

On the seventh day of March, the warship formation arrived in Batavia.

At this time, the warship formation, has gained a lot, exterminated the East India Company's stronghold in Tainan and the Indies, the harvest is huge, some small places along the way, after seeing the Ming Dynasty warship formation, have expressed obedience, took out a large number of materials, into the army, in order to seek their own peace, of course, for the army's requirements, they also fully accepted.

Among the warship formations, there are already envoys and hostages sent from these places, who will follow the warship formation to Daming and personally express their loyalty to the emperor of Daming.

The governor of the Dutch East India Company stationed in Batavia was Cohen.

This is a legendary figure.

Cohen had a strong strategic vision, the Netherlands at that time, not yet fully independent, was under the control of Spain, and Cohen's East India Company had an extraordinary position, which could organize its own army, issue its own currency, sign formal treaties with other countries, and at the same time colonize many parts of South Asia.

To put it bluntly, the East India Company at the time. In terms of fame, it even surpassed the Netherlands.

The institutions in Tainan and the Indies have suffered a devastating blow, and the news has not yet reached Batavia, after all, the Zheng Jiajun Sailor is moving too quickly, and Cohen is still preparing to do his best to resist the upcoming attack.

The East India Company had nearly 20,000 mercenaries and nearly 200 large merchant ships. There are nearly 50 large warships, and there are some small warships, and their combat effectiveness is also extraordinary, and most of these merchant ships and warships are stationed in Batavia, and the merchant ships sail in South Asia, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and other places, monopolizing the maritime trade in Japan and other places.

The East India Company's warship formation, which had lost to Zheng Zhilong, was forced to accept the rules set by Zheng Zhilong, and it was necessary to take out a large amount of money every year and hand it over to Zheng Zhilong. was able to engage in trade in the South China Sea, which made Cohen very uncomfortable, and later heard that Zheng Zhilong had left Quanzhou, Fujian, and felt that the combat effectiveness of the Daming Naval Division was not strong, so he began to refuse to pay protection fees.

Unexpectedly, in less than a year, the Daming Sailor came to Batavia.

Possessing his familiarity with the terrain, Cohen decided to strike hard at the Great Ming Marine.

Batavia is home to the headquarters of the East India Company, so there is no room for error. Otherwise, the East India Company would lose all its interests in South Asia, and in its place would lose all maritime trade from Europe to South Asia, among other places.

When it was learned that the Great Ming Naval Division had arrived in the waters of Batavia. Cohen was ready for battle, and he didn't even plan to negotiate with the Great Ming Sailor.

The battle at sea began on the 10th day of the first month of March.

It was another one-sided battle, the huge Zheng Jiajun naval division warship formation was not at all able to resist the East India Company warship formation, and Cohen, the governor of the East India Company who personally commanded the battle, watched the warships around him be blown up by cannonballs and became silent and silent. In a short period of time, he fell into despair.

After the battle lasted for most of the day, there were few ships left under Cohen's command, and the Zheng Jiajun warship formation suffered almost no losses.

The docks in Batavia were soon occupied by the naval division of the Zheng family, and Cohen, who failed in the battle at sea. There was no time to escape, and he was captured by the Zheng Jiajun's sailors, and ironically, it was actually the mercenaries of the East India Company who joined the Zheng Jiajun not long ago, which made Cohen even more desperate.

The battle on land was hardly carried out, the governor of the East India Company, Cohen, had been captured alive, the board of directors of the company was in a mess, and had no intention of resisting, just when the soldiers of the Zheng family army had just begun to attack, the board of directors of the East India Company chose to surrender, they were wise, the warship formation led by the governor was completely annihilated, and the governor was captured alive.

Completely destroying the East India Company and occupying Batavia so quickly was something Hong Xingui did not expect.

Entering the city of Batavia and entering the office building of the East India Company, Hong Xingui took out a letter written by the emperor, which was a letter that the emperor instructed him to open after occupying Batavia and destroying the East India Company.

The emperor's meaning in the letter was very clear.

Leaving two warship formations and 10,000 generals of the Zheng Jiajun naval division in Batavia, with Hong Xingui as the chief soldier, personally leading the 10,000 Zhengjia army's naval divisions to control all parts of South Asia and control the maritime trade of South Asia.

After destroying the armed forces of the East India Company, it was necessary to absorb the trade talents of the East India Company, let these people stay in Batavia to do things, and help the Ming Dynasty to carry out maritime trade, but the people on the board of directors of the East India Company could not be kept, and all these people were escorted to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, all the money and property exploited by the East India Company were transported to the capital of Daming.

After reading the letter, Hong Xingui was surprised, he also entered Batavia, only to know that the East India Company had a board of directors, and all the things of the company were decided by this board of directors, and Governor Cohen was the head of the board of directors.

The emperor's order, of course, Hong Xingui carried it out.

Hong Xingui immediately convened Ding Baokun, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhibao and others to discuss together.

This deliberation lasted two full days.

During this period, Zheng Zhilong proposed to let his younger brother Zheng Zhibao stay by Hong Xingui's side and help with things.

Hong Xingui agreed to this suggestion, and specially wrote a recital, recommending Zheng Zhibao to be the guerrilla general of Zheng Jiajun's army, and assisting in commanding the naval division by his side.

The discussion was carried out in full accordance with the requirements put forward by the emperor, Zheng Zhilong put forward a lot of suggestions, on how to manage the stalls left by the East India Company, how to completely control the company, etc., all put forward good opinions, Zheng Zhilong put forward the most critical suggestion, that is, among the businessmen brought by the sailor, select a part of the shrewd and capable people, enter the company to do things.

At this point, the East India Company collapsed and was replaced by the Ming Royal Nanyang Company.

All maritime trade matters in South Asia, Korea, Japan and other places are directly responsible for the Daming Royal Nanyang Company, and all maritime trade transactions in South Asia are all required to pay a tax of 10% of the value of all goods to the Daming Royal Nanyang Company.

At the same time, the trading place also needs to pay a 5% transaction tax to the Daming Royal Nanyang Company.

This transaction tax is the responsibility of each locality, and you need to pay it directly when you buy goods traded at sea.

Of course, if some parts of Europe are not convinced, and even rob merchant ships protected by the Ming Royal Nanyang Company, then the Ming sailors will go to Europe to teach these unconvinced countries a lesson.

This is the responsibility of Daming Royal Nanyang Company.

Even Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhibao and others, who had been pirates, gasped after seeing the emperor's letter, how domineering this should be, Zheng Zhilong was in charge of maritime trade in the South China Sea and other places at that time, and the emperor was in charge of the entire sea trade, even distant Europe, must follow this trade rule, otherwise the end will be beaten.

With the strength of the Zheng family's army and sailors, it is certain that Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal in Europe are looking for teeth all over the place.

Zheng Zhilong and others even understood that from now on, the tax on maritime trade would become the largest tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty, far exceeding the tax on commerce and agriculture and agriculture, and it might even be several times, and the huge profits of maritime trade would be unimaginable to ordinary people.

The emperor just knows this.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong admired the emperor's five-body throw.

The captured Cohen, after hearing the decision made by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, his face was as dead as ashes, and he couldn't say anything, and the protest at this time had no effect.

The strength of the Daming Sailor made Cohen feel fear, such a strong sailor, it is a natural thing to conquer the sea, even Spain, which was once called the overlord of the sea, has no power to fight back in front of such a sailor.

Cohen's only request was to write a letter to the Netherlands.

The content of this letter is also very clear, imploring Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal in Europe to do things according to the requirements of the Ming Dynasty, do not have any wrong thoughts, the Ming Dynasty rules the maritime trade is a matter of course, because the Ming Navy is a giant on the sea, and no maritime army can compete with it.

After this letter was sent to Europe, it caused an uproar, and some places were not convinced, thinking that Cohen was exaggerating, but these unconvinced places were finally obediently doing things according to the requirements of the Daming Royal Nanyang Company, because they suffered a devastating blow from the Daming Sailors.

That's all for later. (To be continued.) )