Chapter 137: Recovering the City of Geranza
This incident caused a huge repercussion in the Nanyang area, the most shocked is probably even the Dutch East India Company, over the years between the Dutch and Yu Xiaotian can definitely not be said to be very pleasant, under the former sea wolf's gun, the Dutch barely maintained the city of Geranza on the island of Taiwan, doing business with the Chinese, but life is very unhappy, and Yu Xiaotian has to pay rent every year in order to continue to stay on Taiwan Island to do business.
Later, there was a great debate about whether the Dutch East India Company should continue to maintain the city of Geranza on the island of Taiwan, and many people thought that it should not continue to be maintained, and it would not make money anywhere anyway, and it would depend on Yu Xiaotian's face to act, and there was no need to stick to it at all, and most of the money earned would basically be handed over to Yu Xiaotian as rent.
So finally, at the beginning of the third year of Chengtian, they made a decision, and after the one-year lease was up, they would abandon the city of Geranza on the island of Taiwan, withdraw to Batavia, and completely abandon it.
But giving up the city of Geranza in this way also made them very painful, because they have invested a huge amount of money in the city of Geranza over the years, and the construction of the city of Geranza has also consumed huge manpower and material resources, so they are not very willing to give up the city of Geranza, they want to bargain with the city, and when they give up here, let the city give them some money or materials as compensation for them.
But before they could abandon the city of Geranza and go to the Great Middle Korea to bargain, the Great Middle Korea brazenly launched a war against West Bank in Manila.
The Dutch were very shocked, and hurriedly sent people to inquire about the news, and learned that it was the Spaniards who offended the expedition fleet of the Great and Middle Koreans in the Americas, and led the Emperor of the Great and Chinese Dynasty, Yu Xiaotian, to be furious and brazenly launched an "invasion" of Manila
The Dutch were concerned about the war situation in Manila, and they thought that Manila had been run by the West Banks for so long that it should not be a problem to hold Manila, but soon they got the news that Manila was only under the attack of the Great Chinese Army, and it lasted less than half a month, and then it surrendered, ending their colonization in the Philippines, and the entire Philippines fell into the hands of the Great Chinese and North Korea.
So the Dutch were frightened, knowing that the current Dazhong Dynasty was no longer the Ming Dynasty of the past, and the Dazhong Dynasty was under the leadership of Xiaotian, the emperor, and the military strength and sea power showed explosive growth, and they had the ability to absolutely compete with them head-on at sea and defeat them completely.
And the Dutch are not stupid, they know very well the strength of such a big country as China, in the Ming Dynasty, although they are strong ships and guns, but they do not dare to rashly invade the Ming coast, only a small scale of raids, hoping to occupy a port, as a base for their business.
But now the situation is different, since Yu Xiaotian rose above the sea, they were surprised to find that Yu Xiaotian Group actually has a large number of black technology, whether it is to make guns or cannons, the technology far exceeds the technology they have in the West, and in terms of shipbuilding, it also shows a very high level.
Yu Xiaotian Group has been trying its best to create a new type of ship for so many years, they effectively combine Western shipbuilding technology and Chinese shipbuilding technology, and have developed a lot of new sailing ships, these ships are not only strong, but also very suitable for sailing in the sea, and the speed also has a great advantage, over the years, it is like a dumpling with a large number of large warships launched, and then loaded with a large number of well-trained sailors, rushed to the world, Began to compete with these old maritime powers for maritime interests, and encircled a large number of colonies.
Even if they send the entire Dutch fleet from Europe to Batavia, if they have a duel with the navy of China, they may not be able to win the battle, and if they don't get it right, they will still be defeated or even completely annihilated by the navy of China, China and North Korea, and they will lose all their money.
And this is also an impossible thing, the king of the Netherlands is definitely not able to send all the fleets to the Asian side, now only with the armed forces of the Dutch East India Company, to confront the Dazhong Navy, it is simply to hit the stone with an egg, after they have reassessed the strength of the Dazhong Navy, they sadly found that they can not continue to confront Dazhong and North Korea.
So they also broke off the idea of bargaining with Dazhong and North Korea, and asked for some compensation when they evacuated the city of Geranza, and directly sent an envoy to Fujian, informing them that they would not renew the contract, continue to lease the city of Geranza, completely abandon the city of Geranza, and withdraw to Batavia.
But Fujian officials told them that they could evacuate, but that they had to compensate for the environmental damage caused over the years.
After the Dutch listened to it, they almost sprayed, environmental damage? I have never heard of this term, and I really don't know what the Dazhong Dynasty thinks, so the envoy of the Dutch East India Company began to argue with the Fujian officials, but the Dazhong officials also threw out a set of environmental theories, saying that the problem of environmental damage has a nose and an eye, and it is very strict, and finally the Dutch envoy is angry enough, and can only write a letter to the company to report for instructions.
As soon as the Dutch East India Company heard this, it blew up its nest, and the personnel of one company blew their beards angrily and glared, thinking that this was absolutely unacceptable, and it was a big deal not to want anything, and they would just withdraw the people without pulling them down? However, this did not work, and after the Dutch informed the Fujian side that they were going to withdraw from the city of Geranza, the Dazhong Fleet and the army stationed on the island of Taiwan surrounded the city of Geranza, including several Dutch ships anchored here, which were also disarmed and taken over by the Dazhong Navy.
At this time, Dazhong officials put forward another claim, that is, to claim for the losses caused to the Chinese by the Dutch burning, killing and looting along the coast of China during the Apocalypse.
In the end, Dazhong officials sued the Dutch, and together with the environmental damages, plus the previous looting by the Dutch along the coast of China, a total of 5 million taels of silver should be compensated to Dazhong and North Korea.
When the Dutch East India Company heard the news, they cried on the spot, five million taels of silver, even if they smashed the Dutch East India Company and collected every silver coin, they would not be able to compensate so much silver!
This is simply blackmail, naked blackmail, they can't agree to anything, so the two sides started a tug-of-war, and then simply the officials of the Great China and North Korea put forward another thing, that is, the former Malacca Sudan was a vassal state of China, and now Malacca is occupied by the Dutch, which is not legal, and must be returned to the Great Middle Kingdom.
After this matter was raised by the Dazhong officials, the Dutch East India Company wanted to cry even more, which clearly indicated that the next step was to do something to them, to drive them out of Southeast Asia, and finally completely control the whole of Southeast Asia in their hands!
So the Dutch, of course, refused to give in, and the two sides collapsed, and then Yu Xiaotian decreed that he forcibly took back the city of Geranza, confiscated all the property of the Dutch in the city of Geranza, and confiscated all the ships in the city of Geranza, and then expelled the Dutch, and let them return to Batavia on a boat of the Portuguese in the Entrenchment.
Originally, when Yu Xiaotian wanted to start a war against the Dutch-occupied island of Sumatra and bring Malacca and the entire Southeast Asian islands under the Dazhong Dynasty, an incident happened that forced Yu Xiaotian to temporarily interrupt this plan, temporarily reach a détente with the Dutch, temporarily shelve these disputes, and temporarily maintain the Dutch occupation of Batavia and the control of the Strait of Malacca.
However, the Dutch were required to fully open the Strait of Malacca, and not to inspect and collect taxes on any ships passing by, otherwise they would send troops to clean up the Dutch.
The Dutch were forced by the fact that the naval strength of the Great and North Koreas was now getting stronger and stronger, so they had to pinch their noses and agree.
The main reason that forced Yu Xiaotian to temporarily shelve this plan to conquer the Dutch was not caused by others, but an incident caused by the Wa State in northeast China, which made Yu Xiaotian change his mind and decide to start a war against the Wa State first.
Originally, after so many years, Yu Xiaotian constantly sent smuggling ships to the Wa Kingdom and the Ryukyu Islands to launch a series of attacks on the Wa State, which greatly weakened the Wa State's control over the Ryukyu State.
The king of the Ryukyu Kingdom also felt that the status of the U people in the Ryukyu Kingdom was increasingly challenged by the new Chinese, which made the U people less and less arrogant in the Ryukyu State, so after the establishment of the Great Zhong Dynasty, he began to challenge the U people's control over them.
Yu Xiaotian's subordinates also deliberately supported the resistance of the Ryukyu people against the Japanese in the Ryukyu Kingdom, and secretly directly participated in the rebel army of the Ryukyu Kingdom, launched a conquest against the Japanese people stationed in the Ryukyu Kingdom, and finally defeated the Japanese people stationed in the Ryukyu Kingdom in the third year of Chengtian and completely expelled them from the Ryukyu Kingdom.
The king of the Ryukyus was grateful for the help of the Dachu Dynasty and enabled him to regain his state, so he sent envoys to the Dachu Dynasty to pay tribute to Xiaotian, and re-asked Yu Xiaotian to canonize him and recognize his status as king.
Yu Xiaotian gladly agreed to his request, officially canonized the king of the Ryukyus, and reached an agreement with the king of the Ryukyus, that is, the Great Middle Dynasty had the right to garrison troops in the Ryukyu Kingdom to help the Ryukyu Kingdom defend against the attacks of the Japanese people.
At the same time, it also granted the Ryukyu Kingdom considerable autonomy, and demanded that the Ryukyu Kingdom guarantee the status of the Chinese in their country, and a series of unequal peace treaties.
The king of the Ryukyus, believing that they had long been vassals of the mainland regime and that these conditions were acceptable, agreed to the peace treaty proposed by Yu Xiaoten.
As a result, the Daichu Navy officially stationed a detachment in the Ryukyus, which was subordinate to the East China Sea Fleet and stationed in the Ryukyu Kingdom, and also sent an army of 5,000 men to garrison the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was in power in the Tokugawa shogunate on the side of the Wa people, was immediately furious when he heard the news, in the past, they often bullied the Daming, but now how did the Chinese bully them and the Wa people?
In this era, because the Tokugawa shogunate implemented a policy of closing the country, they knew very little about what was happening on the mainland, only that the Ming Dynasty seemed to be gone now, and an emperor surnamed Yu ascended the throne and called the emperor, and changed the name of the country to Dazhong, but they didn't know how powerful the Dazhong Dynasty was now.
He also thought that the Dazhong Dynasty was similar to the previous Ming Dynasty, even if it was more powerful now, how powerful could it be? So he ordered the arrest of all the Chinese who were doing business or settling in the Japanese kingdom, and killed many Chinese, and at the same time ordered to strengthen the policy of closing the country and closing the country, completely ending foreign trade activities.
This time Yu Xiaotian was annoyed, the people who dared to kill Lao Tzu, the people who arrested Lao Tzu, now you think you are something, you dare not do business with Lao Tzu, you must know that Lao Tzu is still thinking about your silver! You say you won't buy and sell if you don't do business?
This is absolutely not possible, this is an affront to him, an affront to the entire Dazhongchao, and now it is finally time to settle the old accounts together, when the Wukou raided the border on a large scale, harassed the coast of China for more than a hundred years, I don't know how many Chinese were slaughtered, and repeatedly invaded the little brother of the mainland, so that the countries on the mainland had to send troops to fight in the DPRK.
The small kingdom of Wei has never been punished, and later generations have become the biggest enemy of the Chinese.