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Chapter 763 Who's Next?

The Dutch in Taiwan have realized that they were being fooled by Liang Guo.

I originally wanted to deal with Zheng Zhilong with Liang State, but now I have become Liang State and Zheng Zhilong with him.

Facing Zheng Zhilong's fleet landing in Taiwan, the senior executives of Taiwan East India Company felt a huge threat.

Today's world economically, East Asia is still the core of the world, and China provides most of the goods the world needs.

The West was voyages in great voyages because of the rise of Ottoman Turkey, which blocked trade between the East and the West. In order to obtain Chinese goods, Westerners opened new routes, attempting to bypass Ottoman Türkiye and trade with China.

Therefore, the Dutch East India Company cannot give up Taiwan and trade with China, otherwise the company's profits will be cut in half.

Now that Zheng Zhilong is plotting against Taiwan, there is no possibility of reconciliation between the two sides, and there can only be one force on Taiwan Island.

After hearing Kau's words, Firland fell into deep thought and said in a deep voice: "Zheng Yiguan is powerful. With the strength of the Taiwan branch alone, we may not be able to defeat Zheng Yiguan. We need to ask Batavia for help, and even join forces with the Spanish in Manila to organize a fleet to defeat Zheng Yiguan."

After discussing for a while, many members of the Taiwan Parliament commented on the parliament, considering that there were only two thousand Dutch members and ten armed merchant ships, they were indeed unable to compete with the Zheng family.

Therefore, after discussion, they decided to incite the indigenous people from Taiwan to attack the Zheng family and monitor the activities of the Zheng family in northern Taiwan, and request assistance from the Governor of Batavia and ask the company to send a fleet from Java.

At that time, we will gather the Dutch forces in the Far East to eliminate Zheng Zhilong's navy, gain maritime hegemony in East Asia, and then deal with Liang State.

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At the Pingtan Island Wharf, several Liang Guo sea ships docked, and a Liang Guo official led a group of craftsmen to get off the ship.

Gao Huan pried out the corner of Zheng Zhilong's wall and poached many Zheng army generals such as Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Cai, Zheng Lian, etc. Zheng Zhilong must be uncomfortable.

In order to give Zheng Zhilong the auspiciousness and to support the Zheng family to land in Taiwan and develop Taiwan Island for himself, Gao Huan transferred a group of masons, carpenters and blacksmiths from Liang Kingdom and sent them to Pingtan Island to help the Zheng family develop Taiwan.

Although Zheng Zhilong was unhappy, the Liang State envoy arrived and sent craftsmen and a batch of supplies, so he naturally had to come to greet him in person.

"Your Highness! This time I was ordered to send 1,000 craftsmen, 30,000 stones of grain, and a total of 5,000 kilograms of various medicinal materials to help the Luzon army explore Taiwan." Zhang Jiayu, the envoy of Liang State, bowed and said.

Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, "Messenger, please tell the king, the Lone King thanks Daliang for his support."

Zhang Jiayu said: "Your Highness, the king said that there are not enough ships in Luzon now. Daliang can send ships to help Luzon transport military and civilians to the island."

Gao Huan has already celebrated the New Year in Fujian. I hope that Zheng Jun’s main force will go to Taiwan as soon as possible so that he can leave Fujian with confidence and return to Nanjing to deal with the backlog of government affairs.

Zheng Zhilong did not want Liang's ships to master the route to Taiwan and the water marks of the straits, so he politely declined, "The king's will be recognized alone. However, I have thousands of Luzon warships, so I won't bother the king."

Seeing this, Zhang Jiayu stopped talking. When the Zheng family soldiers unloaded the cargo on the ship, he looked at the situation on Pingtan Island and led the fleet back to Fuzhou.

After Liang Guo’s fleet left, Zheng Zhilong began to mobilize sea ships and ordered the soldiers and civilians of Pingtan Island to take their families to Taiwan on sea ships.

Zheng Zhilong left Zheng Hongkui to guard Pingtan Island, led a thousand sea ships and 150,000 military and civilians to sea. After two days of sailing, the fleet landed at the Tamsui River estuary in northern Taiwan.

Zheng Sen, who arrived here first, had already established a pier in Tamsui to facilitate ships to dock.

More than 100,000 soldiers and civilians set foot on land, and if there is no house, they will build tents, and if there is no field, they will log and reclaim wasteland.

At this time, more than a thousand craftsmen who Gao Huan gave to Zheng Zhilong played a role. Zheng Sen led them to cut down trees, build wooden houses, burn wasteland and reclaim fertile fields, build earth kilns and fire bricks, find mines and smelting iron tools, and quickly build a residence on the banks of the Tamsui River.

Previously, northern Taiwan was still completely undeveloped, and it was still a primitive island with enough wood to build houses. In just over a month, huge villages were formed on both sides of Tamsui.

The riverside is full of tents and newly built wooden houses, and clothes are drying in the village, and smoke is rising repeatedly.

Fujian's climate is similar to Taiwan. The landing military and civilians have lived in subtropical climates for many years and are not too uncomfortable with Taiwan's soil and soil. But if it were Liang Jun, it would definitely not be able to adapt to the humid and hot weather here.

At this time, Zheng Sen led his army to cut down trees on both sides of the Tamsui River every day. Looking at the villages and towns built, he couldn't help but feel proud. The military and civilians who had landed had houses and land, so they felt at ease.

But what they didn't know was that just as they were sweating profusely developing northern Taiwan, a Dutch fleet of twelve armed merchant ships was setting sail from Batavia and sailing towards the direction of the generals. The military and civilians who landed on the island would face a severe test.

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In February, the weather in Fujian began to warm up, and Liang Jun, who entered Fujian, was a little uncomfortable.

At this time, Gao Huan saw that Zheng Zhilong had already gone to Taiwan and felt that the situation on the southeast coast was stable, so he decided to leave Fuzhou and return to Nanjing to take charge.

In the study room of the palace, Gao Huan asked, "What's the situation there now?"

Du Yinxi said: "According to the news that Zheng Zhibao has obtained, Zheng Zhilong has gained a firm foothold in northern Taiwan, and the ships are continuing to transfer military and civilians from Pingtan, Kinmen, Xiamen, Zhoushan and other places to Taiwan."

Gao Huan nodded when he heard this, "Since the power of the Zheng family has been transferred to Taiwan, I can leave and return to Beijing."

"King, should I go by land or sea this time to return to the capital?" Du Yinxi asked.

Gao Huan sat at the table, thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "It's better to go by land!"

From Fujian to Nanjing, it is definitely more convenient and faster to take the sea route. However, the Liang army's navy is too weak, so Gao Huan feels that it is not safe to take the sea route.

"What about the seized property?" Du Yinxi asked.

The Zheng family has been operating Fujian for many years and has accumulated a lot of money. Gao Huan occupied Fujian and the capture was extremely rich, which is enough to support Gao Huan to launch another war of destruction.

A few months have passed, and the seizure has been clearly counted. There are thousands of vehicles of treasures. If you want to cross mountains and ridges by land, it will consume a lot of manpower and material resources, and it will be much more convenient to go by sea.

Gao Huan heard the words and immediately said in a deep voice: "The property can be transported by sea."

When Du Yinxi heard the words, he nodded and bowed out to prepare. Gao Huan also stood up, walked to the map of the study, narrowed his eyes and stared at the map, and murmured: "The next one is Fulin's child, or Li Jiyu, and Zhang Xianzhong?"

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