The people of the Hantang Group are now studying the general climate and environment of the international political pattern in the entire East Asian region.

They now severely weakened the Dutch East India Company's power in East Asia, and dealt a blow to the Dutch, who had always been determined to forge ahead. The resulting trends that are different from the previous history must be re-deduced and reconsidered, so that they can find or create the most suitable situation for the Hantang Group to exploit.

Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, and the Danish East India Company, which only existed in India, had to be taken into account.

Hantang Group is confident that it has the ability to play an interesting game of chess, and maybe the chess pieces are not so obedient, but under the general trend, they should have no choice.

The first thing Hantang Group didn't expect was that Batavia, a small chess piece, reacted a little fiercely.

They only sent less than 1,000 people to recover it, and the Han and Tang cliques occupied it, and they took so much effort to send almost 80 percent of their military strength, judging from the data, they couldn't organize so many people...... Do they really look up to the Hantang Group, or do they intend to fulfill us, knowing that we lack labor?

Chairman Wu Dapeng posted on the Internet, and said in hindsight: "This is because the times are different, and now the Dutch East India Company is in a period of vigorous development, and the enterprising spirit is relatively strong...... As their wealth increases, their small-scale business mentality begins to emerge, and they tend to be conservative and calculating...... Every nation has its natural inferiority, and we should learn to take advantage of it and be wary of changes in our own mentality...... The nation of the Ming Continent is too old, so old that any new ideas and new things are put into it, it will become pitch black and distinctive...... Fortunately, we are looking at and solving problems from a historical perspective......"

After a while, the manager of Merges replied: "If we admit that no matter which ethnic group has natural advantages and disadvantages, then the discussion about it is just a certification for us, and it does not solve the substantive problem." Many of the substantive issues are not what the problems appear to us, such as the social system that is often mentioned in the world...... Personally, I don't think anything about the social system is the core issue...... The core issue is whether the formulators comply with the various systems they have formulated...... We can open the constitution of any country, whether it is a dictatorship or democracy and freedom, and every constitution will be perfectly and inspiring. So what's the difference between them? The difference is a question of whether the makers themselves adhere to it. ”

Director Li Ziqiang also posted back, his words were a little unkind, and said, "What about the privileges of our traversers? What about the superiority of our Hantang Group?! ”

Manager Merge quickly replied: "Our privilege is to have the opportunity to establish a system that everyone who makes it must abide by; Our superiority is our ability to ensure its smooth implementation......"

Jianguo An's director also made a rare post: "Time and awareness of the concept of equality...... I guess it's going to take quite a long time to develop......"

After a long time, the manager of Melozie replied: "We do not need to put a time limit on this stage, as long as there is such a good thing in each of us, then the Pygmalion expectation will surely make it tend to be completed......"

Chairman Wu Dapeng sighed in his heart after reading it, but he didn't say anything more.

There was a sudden silence on the Internet.

The second thing that the Hantang Group didn't expect was that there were also people on the Ming Continent who were studying them now.

After Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing Dynasty, the Zheng family's official businessmen plus maritime merchants and pirate groups fell apart almost immediately, they were originally a group established by personal prestige, and when the leader was gone, they could only overturn and start over, or come to a Ming continent unique to the Ming Continent, and if it were not for the arrival of the Han and Tang groups, there would still exist and continue the collapse ending...... Some of the original territory was occupied by family members or some of the former subordinates.

No one paid attention to the rightful heir, Zheng Chenggong.

Huzhou (present-day Kinmen) was occupied by Zheng Zhilong's fourth brother Zheng Hongkui and his subordinate Chen Bao; The best place for Fujian's coastal foreign trade, Zhongzuo (now Xiamen), was based by Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian brothers.

And Zheng Chenggong failed after organizing several sieges of the city, and now he is still facing the difficulty of having no base, so he can't do what he can.

The troops he organized had to train soldiers and reorganize their ships in Anping or on the islands around Gulangyu, Zhenhaiwei and Haicheng (present-day Longhai), a small island in Xiamen, in order to observe the changes. Later, the space for development was too small, so he had to go to the western part of Guangdong to recruit troops and pay for food...... This is also the reason why He Bin went to Zheng Chenggong for the first time, and he was not there.

If it weren't for the arrival of the Han and Tang groups, next year, that is, in the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1650, Zheng Chenggong and his four generals, taking advantage of his uncle Zheng Cai's departure from Xiamen to go to Guangdong to collect grain, used "resourcefulness", in fact, it was to use his uncle Zheng Lian's trust in him, of course, there are also history books that use his uncle Zheng Lian's contempt for him, kill his uncle Zheng Lian in one fell swoop, and then integrate his army into his own. When another uncle, Zheng Cai, heard about it, he led his troops out and didn't dare to come back...... It wasn't until Zheng Chenggong personally wrote a letter to inspire him back with family affection, and after he handed over his military power, he still regarded him as an elder...... After the most illness, he died at home.

These materials are all in the database of Hantang Group, anyone who wants to check it.

Many people in the Hantang Group were speechless after reading it...... We don't want to judge who is right and who is wrong...... Those tricks that take advantage of people's emotions to be carried out are really fucking disgusting, and even more disgusting is that there are still people who admire this kind of resourcefulness.

Xiamen is a good place. Economically, I just mentioned it.

Militarily speaking, Xiamen is located in the important place of the sea and the frontier, at the intersection of spring and Zhang, the key point of Taiwan, the southeast gateway, the guarantee of Fujian, and the important area of the sea frontier.

In Tong'an, three sides away from the sea, Jinxia is particularly dangerous, and it is really the defense of the portal.

After Zheng Chenggong obtained the port of Xiamen, he finally had a base for maritime trade, and realized his economic and strategic goals of "coastal areas, where we have the inherent people, the east and the west, and the people who are self-studied, and the people who are self-revived, and there is more than enough room to advance and retreat to the war", so that he can calmly raise grain and accumulate wages and manufacture ships.

Zheng Chenggong no longer fought "guerrillas", and he had a maritime trade until it became a solid base for him to recover Taiwan.

Of course, these are all things after 1650 and don't need to be talked about.

In the middle of July 1649, it was the hottest time in Xiamen.

Zheng Cai, Zheng Lian, and Zheng Bin were sitting under the garden pavilion in Yongshengbo's mansion to enjoy the coolness.

While the three of them were drinking tea, they talked about the Hantang Group in the city of Geranza, Taiwan, which was the second time they had seriously talked about this so-called Hantang Group.

The first time was when I heard that they had defeated the Hung Maobo and occupied their big city. This began to make the three of them vigilant and discussed countermeasures again and again.

After hearing that the eldest brother Zheng Zhilong was brought to Beijing, those red hairy people have been ready to move, and often large plywood ships come to peep on the nearby sea, and openly "escort" the maritime merchants, who can only go to Batavia City to trade raw silk, silk, tea, porcelain and other things.

Everyone knows that the price given by the Hongmaofan is nearly two percent lower than that given by the Franco-The maritime merchants came to cry, and the three brothers had no choice - when the eldest brother was still there, the Hongmaofan secretly handed over the silver to the sea before he could go to sea-but the eldest brother was gone, and many of the old brothers were gone, what could the three of them do? Bear with me. At that time, the three of them ran Xiamen with all their might, and they had more than enough to protect themselves.

But the Hantang Group, which is more powerful than the Hongmaofan, came, and it really scared them at first, and it was even more defense-full defense, and many maritime merchants who wanted to trade were drunk by them - fortunately, it was later found that the Hantang Group only knew that the Han Dao was nesting in the city of Relansha, Taiwan, and did not peep around, and the business was fair, so they put their minds at ease, as long as they don't covet me Xiamen, everything will go with you, no matter how weird things do with me?

I even heard that they actually used artillery to exchange the little girl with Guangzhou City, which is a pity, but you are exchanging with us, how can you give it up so easily?

Until they heard that the artillery of the Han and Tang groups had been detained by Guangzhou City, they just smiled indifferently and dealt with the government.

So, they let the maritime merchants go to operate - the three of them stepped up the training of soldiers and the repair of coastal defense, in this troubled era, the steel sword in the hand is the most important, and the warship in the sea is the most important. Other things about Taiwan's chicken feathers and broken dogs, I'll be done after hearing about it, and I don't care.

This time, the three of them rarely sat together again.

On weekdays, Zheng Cai was in charge of the overall situation, Zheng Lian lived in the barracks in Zhongyan and was responsible for training the soldiers, and Zheng Bin was responsible for repairing the various forts of the coastal defense - the three of them were generally very busy.

Zheng Cai picked up the tea bowl, scraped the floating tea leaves with the tea lid, and took a sip gently, a fragrance poured into the heart, good tea!

He peeked at Zheng Lian, only to see that his second brother's face was dark yellow, his eyelids were swollen, and the whole person was listless and couldn't lift his spirits. He kept playing with a red comb in his hand, and inadvertently there was a smell of fat powder, and he combed his head a few times from time to time-

It is said that this object is made of sea keel - from the Taiwan side, it is very rare, his daughter often pesters himself to ask for it, he simply bought a whole set of such ornaments at a high price, all kinds of colors - the daughter is not entangled.

At this time, Zheng Cai was furious in his heart, his second brother went to Xishui Lake last night, and he didn't know which fan he spent the night with!

But his face was silent, and he decided to knock him a few times in a while.

The third brother, Zheng Bin, has been talking about it all the time and telling all the rumors he has heard and collected.

When he finished speaking, he grabbed the tea bowl, which was mild at this time, and drank it in one gulp, and then spit out the tea leaves.

Zheng Cai asked Zheng Lian gently: "Second brother, what do you think of this Hantang Group?" ”

Zheng Lian lazily held the comb and said: "They have officially played the Shuanglong Opera Pearls Flag - this is Chengqi, they want to be the king!" ”

Zheng Cai nodded happily, looking forward to his next step.

"What can I do in Xiamen—"

"Huh?!"

"But I'm going to take advantage of this opportunity—"

"Hmm."

"Bring in more combs like this, and they'll sell!"

"Huh?!"

"And, of course, the guns they traded for women—we can afford them too."

"Hmm-"

Zheng Bin interjected: "The maritime merchants said that what they need most is iron ingots, cotton cloth, cotton, and Chinese medicinal materials, but they don't like raw silk, silk, porcelain, and tea." ”

Zheng Cai asked in a low voice, "You just said that they have countless snow salts and coarse salts?" ”

"That's right, the maritime merchants also said that the Hantang Group explicitly told them that in another month, they will still have snow sugar, rock sugar, and fruit candy to produce - let them stock up more, and exchange them at the right time-"

Zheng Cai asked hesitantly: "In this day's great drought, drying salt can produce more, this is natural-but sugarcane needs countless water-everywhere is reduced, how can they-"

"Yes, some maritime merchants didn't believe it, so they sent people to watch secretly, and sure enough, there was a forest of sugar cane, and there was no end in sight, and a bumper harvest was a foregone conclusion—I heard that they had wells and pumps—"

"Pumps? It's common for us to wait, what does the well mean? ”

"Yes, how much can the sailors use to pump water? What does the well mean? I'd love to see it for myself—"

"Well, then, you choose a merchant you can trust, bring some goods they like, and go with them to trade with them—I'll write a letter to see if they can agree to trade with us, and maybe they should give me a little bit of thin noodles in the name of Yongshengbo—are you afraid?"

Zheng Bin smiled and said, "Big brother, the maritime merchants have been back and forth many times, and they are very honest - the goods that can be obtained for free can be settled, and it must be okay to go this time-"

Zheng Cai thought for a moment and said, "You don't have to worry about their interests, it's the right way to buy the artillery firearms - it would be better if you could buy the scarf plywood, but the matter of this warship is too important, they don't necessarily agree, just try." Safety is the priority! ”

Zheng Bin said briskly: "Hey, it's okay, it's okay!" ”

Zheng Lian suddenly held up the comb and said, "Bring more of this - and fruit candy, I've eaten it, it's very good!" ”

Zheng Cai couldn't bear it anymore, he shouted: "Shut up!" You go to my study and wait for me right away!! ”