Xu Yifan arrived, and after only one day of delay, he led the Imperial Navy to escort Zheng Chenggong to Nanyang, and he had already delayed a lot of time, from Songjiang Mansion to Batavia, a distance of tens of thousands of miles, not a month, and he couldn't catch up with Batavia at all.

The Imperial Navy had just passed through the Ryukyu Strait, and had not yet entered the South Seas, starting from the Ryukyus and going south, the major powers of the South Seas had already been shaken!

Ming Navy!

What a battle!

The entire navy of the Ming Empire, with more than a hundred warships in size, has been stretched out more than ten miles in length by the fleet alone, and the sun and moon flags of the Ming Dynasty are flying under the sea breeze, and these more than 100 warships alone are enough to deter the large and small forces in the South Seas, even the Dutch are no exception.

The news had already been sent back to Batavia.

Count Cohen, the governor of the East India Company, frowned tightly, what are you doing? Isn't the Ming Empire going to clean up the remnants of Zheng Zhilong? Now I don't go to Dongying, but I came to Nanyang, is it because I secretly helped Tagawa Nanazaemon? You don't want to go to war with yourself, do you? Although the fleet of the sailors of the Ming Empire is huge and the combat power is not bad, but if you want to rely on these forces to overturn the nest that you have been operating for many years, it is too much to talk about the Dutch in your eyes, looking at the world, there is no empire that dares to compete with the Dutch Kingdom at sea, and their Ming Empire also does not have this strength, at least, within three or five years or even more than ten years, there is absolutely no such strength!

"Lord Governor, this Ming Navy is not good......"

Soria on the side said in a deep voice.

"Humph!"

Earl Cohen snorted coldly and said angrily, "It's not that you caused trouble?" Just for that batch of goods, such a small profit, the East India Company and the Ming Empire to get the relationship into, you don't forget, our East India Company every year to the Western Ocean, at least more than sixty percent of the goods from the Ming Empire, even if it is to trade with the East Ying, but also through the coast of the Ming Empire, once the Ming Empire is turned over, do you know how much loss it will bring us? ”

Soria's face turned red, originally Van der Vaart's proposal, Cohen was not too interested, because the Ming Empire was too important to the East India Company, Cohenya did not want to offend the Ming Empire to death, after all, now the Ming Dynasty has defeated the two old enemies in the north, and at the same time quelled the domestic rebellion, in the future for a period of time, the Ming national strength is thriving, that is inevitable, with the huge size of the Ming Empire, once it is recognized, all the forces of the entire Eastern World will join forces, and they may not be able to help people, This country is too huge, huge beyond the imagination of all Westerners, and with a population of more than 10,000 alone, it is not something that Western countries can match.

However, Cohen was unwilling to do it, and he couldn't stand the pry of these cadres under his hands, and the generals kept instigating Cohen to make a move, and the profits from the arms plus the profits brought by the goods of the Yanhuang Company added up, which was more than three million taels of silver, which was definitely an astonishing number, even if the Dutch East India Company now monopolized more than sixty percent of the world's trade volume, the profit of three million taels of silver alone could already account for two percent of its profits.

Isn't it just going to Nanjing to get a batch of munitions? What's the big deal? Didn't the Dutch have done such a thing before? Those officials under the Ming Empire are corrupt one by one, people are superficial, no one takes these things seriously, a surprise attack, overnight, snatch the arms, at most two days, you can safely transfer this batch of arms out of the Ming Dynasty, and when the Ming Empire court finds out, the daylily is already cold, even if they know that the Dutch did it, when the time comes, give them a death without proof, and push all the things on the official party, isn't it over? Could it be that now the Ming court really dares to argue with the Dutch on the sea?

Although the Ming Empire is strong on land, it is far from at sea, there is a Zheng Zhilong to support, controlling the southeast coastal area of the Ming Dynasty, and now Zheng Zhilong is dead, the Zheng family is divided, and the entire Ming Empire can no longer compete with the sea power of the East India Company.

Get a vote!

Under the constant instigation of Van der Vaart, Soria and others, Cohen made up his mind and sent a fleet to meet Van der Vaart's actions.

As a result, the ending was beyond everyone's expectations, unexpectedly, Zheng Zhilong's Fujian Navy Division declined, and an imperial Navy division that was not weaker than the Fujian Navy Division actually appeared, and used nearly a hundred warships in one breath to completely block the Yangtze River estuary, and the fleet of the Yiguan Party and Soria's fleet fought with all their might, only to break through the encirclement of others, and as a result, both sides suffered a lot of losses, Zheng Cai even sank his own flagship by the Ming Empire, and as for the fleet of the East India Company, it lost more than a dozen ships, At least three or four hundred people are missing, either buried at the bottom of the sea, or captured by the Ming Empire.

The worst outcome is that the Ming Dynasty has captured a lot of Dutch, and when the time comes, the East India Company will not be able to wash itself even if it jumps into the South Seas, and the Ming Empire will be able to give up? No force would allow such a thing to happen, let alone the Ming Empire, which prides itself on being the superior country of the Celestial Empire?

No, now that the navy of the Ming Empire has already waved its troops into the South Seas, needless to say, it is definitely Xingshi who is asking for guilt......

Soria gritted her teeth and said fiercely, "So what? Lord Governor, let's give him a death and not admit it, his Ming Empire has no way, they can't start a war with us without conclusive evidence, right? We went to the coast of Daming to fight a decisive battle with the Ming Empire, and there was no certainty of victory, but in the South Seas, in Batavia, even if their empire's navy was strong, we could let them have no return! ”

"Fart!"

Cohen's face darkened, we are merchants, we make money with anger, and completely break with the Ming Empire, and the Ming Empire has cut off our supply of goods and trade routes, so how can we get rich? Not to mention making a fortune, if you can not go bankrupt, you have to burn high incense, the annual expenses of the East India Company for various affairs are not a small number, millions of taels, or even tens of millions of taels, without abundant financial resources, the East India Company will definitely not be able to survive!