Daming pirates

The Dutch deceived Tai Muang Port, but never gained the recognition of these natives, so they often launched attacks on their patrols.

Therefore, for many years after the Dutch first landed in Taiyuan, their scope of activities was actually limited to a very small area around Taiyuan Port.

In addition, although the Dutch are building a city, their city of Jelanja has not yet been completely built, and it is only an inner city, and the outer city has not yet been seen. Historically, the Dutch have completely built the city of Jelanja.

It was not until 1632, the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, that the inner city of Relanja City was completely built, and the outer city was not built until two years later.

Therefore, at this time, the entire Dutch castle was still in its infancy, and its strength was only to maintain their existence. On Taiwan Island, it could only affect a few dozen miles around it, and it would have no influence at all further away.

The area currently controlled by the Dutch on Taiwan Island is not even one-tenth of the area controlled by the Sea Wolf. This is why the Dutch promised the Fujian government this time that they are willing to help them suppress the Sea Wolf.

The Dutch currently have no way to control the island of Taiwan, and they are not willing to see the sea wolf take hold on the island and threaten their existence on the island in the future.

When the Dutch fleet sailed into Taiyuan Port and docked at the pier, a strong middle-aged man stepped off the leading flagship.

The clothes of these Dutch people are far less fancy than those of the Spanish or even the Portuguese. In Europe, the Dutch are also known for their simple dress, and are not as gorgeous as the nobles of other older countries.

When the middle-aged man disembarked from the ship, he was immediately given a grand welcome by Peter. The Dutch people who were stationed there surrounded him and entered the unfinished castle.

Although there has been little business among the officials recently, the construction of the castle and the fort here has been accelerated. There are many Ming people in rags and local naked natives busy at various construction sites.

, constantly cutting down the surrounding trees, mining stones, transporting various building materials, and constructing these buildings bit by bit under the supervision and beatings of the supervisors like ants moving.

Before entering the castle, the middle-aged man glanced around the situation here and said to Peter Nuiz: "Your Excellency, the progress of the project here is still too slow. The last time I returned to the Batavia Company Headquarters

It has already started, so why has it not been completed yet?”

Peter glanced at the busy construction sites, smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Commander Waite, you can't blame me for this! I have been supervising construction everywhere during this time, but we are still too short of manpower here.

, we used to be able to recruit some people from the land, but now it is difficult to recruit people from the land!

First, the Chinese pirates fought back and forth along the coasts of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. Then Zheng Yiguan was forced to leave by Sea Wolf, Yan Siqi and Chu Cailao. Now, almost the entire Fujian coastal area has fallen into the sea.

Under the control of the wolf.

As for the Sea Wolves, you also know that they are very powerful and have also occupied two places in the north of Formosa (the Dutch name for Taiwan Island). In recent years, they have collected a large number of people from the coastal areas of Fujian and immigrated them.

Go to fresh water and chicken coops.

In addition, Yan Siqi also continued to immigrate to Formosa from land, so after they took control of the coastal areas of Fujian, it would be difficult for us to recruit laborers on land!

After the originally recruited laborers arrived, many of them were either exhausted or sick, and were called by the Lord. Therefore, we simply cannot find more laborers to speed up the construction. If we still can't

To solve this problem, I’m afraid we can only transport slaves from Bacheng!”

It turned out that the man Peter called Waite was the commander of the fleet that came this time. Last year, Waite, as a businessman, was sent to the senior officials to handle official business. At that time, Waite proposed that this should be speeded up.

The construction of border castles and various forts began at that time, and at his suggestion.

But this time after he came here, he saw that the construction situation here was not ideal. The foundations had just been laid in many places and there was still a long way to go before they were fully completed, so he was not very satisfied with it.

After hearing Peter's answer, he nodded and followed Peter into the Government Affairs Hall without saying anything more.

The two parties did not exchange too many greetings. Waite showed Peter the company's appointment letter, entrusting him with full authority to handle this time to assist the Ming government in the attack on the Sea Wolf.

Peter immediately accepted the company's arrangement and expressed his willingness to fully assist Waite in his actions.

"I wonder if the Commander, Your Excellency, encountered any Sea Wolf ships when he led the fleet to Formosa this time?" Peter was most concerned about this matter now, so he immediately asked Waite.

"Encountered us! When we approached Formosa, we encountered several ships flying wolf-head flags. These ships were traveling very fast, but they did not intercept us, but were far within our field of vision.

Observed us and followed us until we reached Dayuan before disappearing on the sea.

I once sent a ship to try to expel them, but was unsuccessful because they are very fast and flexible. Their sails are very simple to operate and can sail against the wind. They are much more flexible than our ships, so we just

They were driven away, and they soon returned to our sight!" When Waite mentioned this matter, he was a little annoyed and said with an unhappy look on his face.

"Yes! These damn Chinese pirates don't know where they got this kind of flexible clipper. For this reason, I once sent a letter to Bacheng to ask the company to check this matter. I don't know where the company is.

Did you find anything?" Peter also looked helpless and continued to ask Waite.

"The company has already checked. The letter you sent also contains the painting of this kind of ship. The company attaches great importance to it and specially checked the situation of this kind of ship. Although this kind of ship is our European ship type, it is not the same as the British ship.

It is somewhat similar to the human dhow, but after careful identification by the company's personnel, it was believed that this type of ship was not exactly the same as the dhow used by the British.

This kind of ship has more graceful lines than the British sloops, and the side of the ship is slightly lower. It should have a lower center of gravity. Moreover, the shape and arrangement of the sails are also different from the British sloops. It seems that

Easier to maneuver than boats like theirs.

We also asked the British specifically about this, but the British did not admit that they provided such ships to Sea Wolf. The British only did very little trade with Sea Wolf, mainly selling a batch of British-made ships to Sea Wolf.

Woolen and Indian canvas, but this kind of ship is definitely not what they provide to Sea Wolf!

Including themselves, they have never used such ships in the East. Such ships are mainly used by them for coastal activities in Europe and will not sail far here, let alone such a large number.

Therefore, the company judged that this kind of ship was not provided to Sea Wolf by the British, let alone the Spanish or Portuguese.

Then there is only one possibility, and that is that this group of Chinese pirates built these ships themselves. They probably did not know how they recruited some skilled shipbuilders in Europe to build such ships!" Waite said.

said.

"Impossible! This kind of ship has very good performance. Even in the West, no one has built this kind of ship. If it had, it would have been built in large quantities. Why is no one using this kind of ship?

Appeared here? If someone can build such a ship, there is no way he would be recruited here to help these Chinese pirates build ships!" Peter immediately shook his head.

Waite helplessly shrugged his shoulders and smiled bitterly and said: "This is just the company's guess. I don't know the specific situation. This kind of ship is indeed good. This explanation is not very reasonable. No one can guess why.

But the fact is that no one has ever sold a ship like this to Sea Wolf, so the only explanation can only be that Sea Wolf built these ships himself!

But we don’t have to worry too much. Although this kind of ship is good, it is only a sloop after all. It can’t carry many cannons. If there is a real fight, these ships can harass the outside, but they cannot be used as the main force!

And I believe that even if Sea Wolf builds these ships themselves, their number will not be too many. It is very difficult to build such ships, so they will not have too many!"

"It's best like this! This kind of ship is very troublesome. I hope there aren't too many of them. It has been two months since a Chinese merchant ship came to Dayuan for trade. Ever since Zheng Yiguan was driven away, the entire

The coastal areas of Fujian are almost controlled by sea wolves.

It is said that Chu Cai Lao and Yan Siqi all surrendered to Yu Xiaotian, and together they blocked the waterway to Da Yuan Lai, making it impossible for merchants from the Ming Dynasty to come here to trade.

If this situation continues, then the meaning of existence will be lost, so we must find a way to break this deadlock as soon as possible. Now we have stored a large amount of deerskin here, but it cannot be transferred out. In addition, there is no

Enough funds to purchase Chinese goods.

If this continues, in less than a year, we will suffer a lot of losses here, and the company does not want to see such a situation!"

Waite said sternly: "It is true. If this is allowed to continue, then the senior officials will lose their meaning. We must break this deadlock as soon as possible. I wonder what the current situation is in the Ming government? We must break it as soon as possible.

We need to end this conquest against the Sea Wolf."

(Monthly ticket! Monthly ticket! I want a monthly ticket!)