Chapter 112 Penghu Bureau

Yu Xiaotian is busy. Three months can be said to have passed in the blink of an eye, and these three months are not long for him, but they have allowed him to do a lot of things.

First of all, in these three months, the news finally came from the south that the battle of Penghu, which lasted for more than a year, finally came to an end in the autumn of the fourth year, that is, August.

Yu Xiaotian sent people to collect detailed information. Since the four-year Spring Festival, Nanjuyi has mobilized a large number of heavy troops and marine warships from Fujian to send troops to Penghu and launched a war with the Dutch in the Penghu area.

Although the officers and soldiers have always occupied the absolute advantage in the number of troops and ships, the attack on Penghu has never been smooth, and the war has always been in a stalemate.

During July, Nanjuyi could not stand this stalemate. He once again mobilized more than 3,000 soldiers from Fujian and gathered a large number of artillery and guns to support the battle in Penghu.

The Ming army finally gained a little advantage and fought under the Red-haired City built by the Dutch in Penghu, but the victory of the Ming army is only here. In the face of the Red-haired City, which is not too strong, the Ming army has never been able to take advantage of it.

With their good artillery and *, the Dutch constantly resisted the Redmao City, making it difficult for the Ming army to make progress under the Redmao City.

In August, Nanjuyi once again increased its troops in Penghu, causing the Ming army to advance both by land and water, and launched an attack on the Dutch at the same time. Only then did the Dutch confirm that it was meaningless to continue this battle.

Before that, the Dutch always had a fluke mentality that if the Ming army could not beat Penghu, they would retreat and acquiesced in the fait accompli that they controlled Penghu.

But when the war came in August, they felt that they had thought wrong before. Daming officials and the court showed extraordinary determination, put on a posture of not giving up, and attacked Penghu many times. The Dutch finally realized that they wanted to steal Penghu as a commercial port for them and Daming. For the impossible.

At this time, in fact, the government is also difficult to ride a tiger. More than 10,000 officers and soldiers have been suspended on the sea for a long time. It is not easy for Daming to supply. They can't raise more food and ammunition to meet the needs of officers and soldiers, but the Red Hair City of the Dutch has been unable to attack for a long time, which makes them quite helpless. Both sides nominally The Ming side has an advantage, but in essence, the two sides are still in a state of stalemate.

It's just that the Dutch side is in a worse situation, because the Dutch's nearest supply point is in Batavia thousands of miles away, and the support that the Dutch East India Company can provide to Penghu is even more limited, and because their maritime hegemony is now being challenged by the newly rising British sea hegemons. They were even more unable to draw more troops and ships from the mainland to fight against Daming in the East.

In this way, the Dutch in Penghu were seriously short of troops, and Daming's naval warships continued to blockade Penghu in an attempt to cut off their supplies.

Although the Dutch are still tenaciously breaking through the blockade of Daming Marine and sending some supplies to Penghu with limited ships, these supplies can only be regarded as a drop in the consumption. By August, the Dutch Red Hair City was about to run out of food.

More importantly, they can't get enough personnel to supplement, and the wounded in Redmao City can't get effective treatment and send them back to Batavia in time, making their combat commen down very serious.

When the war reached such an extent, it had become a kind of suffering for both sides, and at this time, both sides thought of Li Dan and others.

Li Dan and others have actually been paying attention to the outcome of the war. Because Li Dan has an old grudge against the Spaniards, they hope to hook up with the Dutch, fight against the Spaniards, and get a stable partner.

So as soon as the Dutch stole Penghu, they took the initiative to run to the door, collude with the Dutch, and give advice to the Dutch. At the same time, they also helped the Dutch intercept the ships of Chinese sea merchants who went to Manila to trade with the Spaniards in the Taiwan Strait, and forced Chinese businessmen to make peace with the Dutch. Easy.

However, the attitude of the Ming government and the court also made them find that the Dutch occupation of Penghu was not a good choice. As Li Dan, who was familiar with the official way of doing things and thinking of the Ming Dynasty, quickly figured out the truth.

In fact, this truth is very simple, that is, Penghu has been included in the territory of the regime on the mainland since a long time ago. At the earliest time of the Song Dynasty, there was a garrison here. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Department was set up here, and the Ming Dynasty also regarded this place as the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The Dutch steal here, which is intolerable for the emperors and officials of the Ming Dynasty, because if they urgently need to tolerate the Dutch to stay in Penghu, it is equivalent to acquiescing that Penghu is no longer the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to the loss of land! No one dares to bear this responsibility. Once it spreads, the spit of people in the world may drown them.

So no one dares to say that he doesn't want Penghu from top to bottom. That's it. Let's take it down for the Dutch! So since no one dares to bear it, the only way is to get it back through war.

Now both sides are in a situation where they can't retreat. The Dutch continue to stay here and have no practical significance. Therefore, when they see that both sides are difficult to get off, they both think of intermediaries like Li Dan, so Li Dan and others pointed out a "bright way" to the Dutch

That is to ask the Dutch to take a step back and go to the Taiwanese staff, and completely give up Penghu. The reason is very simple, that is, so far, the Daming officials have not officially included the Taiwan member island in the territory. So far, the Taiwanese have not even had an official name, that is, some people call it Liu Some people call it Taiwan and Taiwanese, and some call it a chicken cage.

At present, Taiwan Island is simply an enclave. For hundreds of years, no one has really controlled it. Instead, it has become a paradise for some pirates and a place for some immigrants to live.

As early as a few decades ago, it was occupied and operated by the famous pirate Lin Feng, but later, because Lin Feng resisted the Spanish invasion in Manila, she led all her men to Luzon and finally gave up Taiwan Island.

And it is not far from Daming, at least closer than Manila. Although the geographical location is not as good as Penghu, it will not attract the attention of the Ming government here. In addition, Taiwan Island is also very large and its natural resources are relatively rich.

So Li Dan and others advised the Dutch to move to the area of Taiyuan Island and build a new foothold there.

On the other hand, they also secretly contacted the Ming government and were willing to help Nanjuyi, these Ming officials, lobby the Dutch to give up Penghu, so that they no longer have to ride the tiger and end the battle of Penghu as soon as possible.

So both the Ming government and the Dutch finally accepted the proposal, and the Dutch finally announced that they would abandon Penghu and evacuate here at the end of August.

The condition was that the Ming officials did not intercept him and let him leave Penghu smoothly. In the end, the long-lasting war was completely ended.

And for both of them, this matter is a matter of great joy. Nanjuyi and other official officials of the Ming Dynasty can finally give a decent hand to the court, and they can declare a great victory, saying that they have driven the red-haired people out of Penghu under their hard work. Since then, he has become a national hero of the Chinese people in history.

For the Dutch, they have also ended this nightmare for nearly half a year. Finally, they can breathe and continue their work in another place. They don't have to worry about being blocked in the city and eventually killed. Their main purpose of coming to the East is to make a fortune, not to lose their lives. Giving up Penghu is not a bad thing for them.

But the real situation is that although the Ming side won nominally, it ended in failure. It did not really defeat the Dutch, but finally compromised with the Dutch and let the Dutch run to Taiwan Island, a water away from the mainland, and rebuilt their city. Fort, buried the future troubles for the future.

And it is obvious that Yu Xiaotian will face this kind of trouble in the future. So far, history has maintained a huge inertial movement on the original trajectory, and has not been separated from the original trajectory. However, a huge variable has appeared in this trajectory, that is, created by Yu Xiaotian and him. Seawolf Group.

It is no longer an overdone to call the sea wolf a group, because in the development of the sea wolf in more than a year, in addition to having a strong maritime armed force, other aspects are also developing rapidly.

Yu Xiaotian began several aspects of simultaneous development after inheriting the legacy of the shark gang.

First of all, he made great efforts to expand on Nanri Island. In more than a year, he cultivated nearly 3,000 mu of land on the originally barren Nanri Island, planting dry rice, sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, as well as a small amount of rice. The three crops of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, have just been suppressed by the Spanish in recent years. Or the Portuguese were introduced to the Ming Dynasty and gradually accepted by the Ming people, and gradually began to expand and grow.

Among them, the most widely introduced is probably sweet potato. This thing is easy to grow, which is not easy to choose the soil, and the yield is relatively large. It can be eaten as a very effective staple food or supplementary food. Yu Xiaotian's first bite of rice in the world is porridge cooked with shredded sweet potatoes and brown rice. The west has become very popular at the end of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the south.

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