Chapter 206 Sword Pointing to Taiwan

In order to build more large ships faster and better, it has also driven the machinery manufacturing. The Nanjing Royal Machinery Factory has been established. In recent years, it has continuously begun to produce a variety of water conservancy machinery. In addition to being used in machinery manufacturing and military industry, some woodworking machinery has also been manufactured. It is constantly shipped to various shipyards and put into use.

In addition, the shipbuilding industry has also absorbed a considerable number of idle personnel, initially forming a large number of industrial workers, which is particularly important for China's industrialization and capitalization in the future.

The most important thing is the revitalization of the shipbuilding industry, which has caused more and more Chinese ships to appear on the sea. Chinese ships have begun to develop in a further direction from the beginning, which could only sail to Manila in the Philippines or the farthest to Batavia or Hirato and Ryukyu in Japan.

By the seventh year of Tianyuan, the newly-seaed Western-style sailboats of Dazhong and North Korea were no less than those of those from Western countries. They could sail to the Indian Ocean and even appeared on the coast of Africa.

Although the opening of the sea ban of the Greater China and North Korea is good news for merchants in Western countries such as the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and even the United Kingdom and even Venice, it also makes them feel the threat brought to them by the East, a big country.

In the past, when these ships of Western countries came to the coast of China, they repeatedly tried to occupy a piece of land as a base for their business. When they could not negotiate with the Ming Dynasty, they simply robbed and robbed Chinese merchant ships at sea.

Anyway, in their eyes, the Chinese sea boats are small and thin, and the speed is slow. They can do whatever they want. They live a life of thieves and merchants on the sea. They despise all the ships in China as Kerong ships, which means waste.

However, four years after the Tianyuan era of the Dazhong Dynasty, they began to find that the Dazhong Dynasty also began to appear sailing ships similar to their Western ships, that is, the type of Galen ships they commonly used. These ships also began to be loaded with more and more artillery and began to become less difficult to deal with.

By the seventh year of Tianyuan, the Galen ships built by the Chinese were getting bigger and bigger, and in addition to absorbing the shipbuilding technology of Western sailing, they also began to effectively combine many Chinese shipbuilding technologies to make them more suitable for navigation, and the large number made these Westerners start to smack.

In particular, those warships of the Royal Navy of China and North Korea also began to be replaced with new-style warships in large numbers. They began to cruise along the coast of China and even the southern sea, inspecting and intercepting ships that tried to smuggle, and began to become the master of the Chinese Sea.

Before, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty and the Chinese Dynasty, Chinese warships were generally not easy to penetrate into the deep sea. Even if there was a conflict with Western ships, the Chinese could only rely on numerical advantages to suppress Western ships.

However, after China and North Korea introduced Western sailing manufacturing technology and began large-scale construction, this situation began to change. More and more Chinese warships began to patrol and train into the deeper and deeper sea, and strengthened the control and patrol of coastal islands, even As for the rapid patrol ship with a fast sling mast and double triangular sails that began to appear in the later period, they began to sail quickly on the sea. They appeared alone in the waters rarely seen by seafarers before, patrolling and chasing pirates, and completely became the master of the sea.

The rapid rise of the Chinese marine power has greatly beyond the expectations of Westerners. It was not until this time that they realized that this era had changed. Now the Greater China and North in the East is completely different from the previous dull and numb Ming Dynasty. He They began to become better at learning, more confident, more expansive and even aggressive. Their actions greatly reduced the pirate forces in the Nanyang area and began to extend their tentacles farther.

The Spaniards even found that more and more Chinese warships appeared in the Philippine Islands. They were constantly surveying the islands and waterways here, drawing maps and charts of this area. Some islands that the Spaniards failed to occupy also began to appear Chinese, and even the horses at the southern end. The islands also began to be touched by the boats of the Chinese marine division.

Even outside the port of Manila, the Spanish ship once met a warship hanging high on the Chinese sea division, so the Spaniards asked the Chinese why they came here, but got an arrogant answer. The Chinese sea division personnel said that they were chasing pirates and did not allow the Spaniards to interfere in their actions. Otherwise, it will be a challenge to the Chinese navy.

The Spaniards were frightened to find that at this time, the warships of the Chinese navy were no longer the kind of Keron ships that they despised before, but replaced them with large three-masted Galen ships. Like their ships, the ships were full of turrets, and the series of naval guns exposed the mouths of black holes.

And these Chinese warships began to get bigger and bigger, and gradually began to be compared with large Western warships. At this time, they began to realize that the Southern Ocean was likely to become the inland sea of the Chinese people.

Because their country is far away, whether it is the declining Portuguese or the Spaniards, or even the Dutch, known as the sea coachmen, it is impossible to send a large number of warships to the far east. At this time, the sudden outbreak of the sea power of the Chinese makes them undoubtedly quickly become this faraway. The hegemon of the Eastern Ocean.

Previously, the Spaniards and the Dutch could arbitrarily intercept Chinese merchant ships at sea and force them to trade in their own ports. Now they find how stupid it is to do this again. The Chinese people begin to become protective. Once they learn that their Chinese ships have been attacked like this, their sea Military warships will go to the place of the accident to protect their merchant ships.

This is not the worst thing. With the establishment of a maritime trading group company in China, Chinese merchant ships have gradually begun to appear some large Galen ships. Although these ships are used as merchant ships, the military equipment on the ship is not weak at all. It is also loaded with a large number of cannons, which can also become The use of warships makes these Western ships rampaging in the sea no longer wantonly to intercept Chinese merchant ships as before, and even they have to avoid these merchant ships to avoid conflict.

China is a huge country in the eyes of Westerners. Once it changes its way of thinking, it will burst out so much power that Westerners can't imagine. There are too many ports along the coast of China, and they also have inexhaustible manpower. In addition, they can recruit a large number of sailors at any time. Once they turned their eyes to the sea, the strength that broke out made these European maritime powers only look sideways. They realized that in the east, a powerful opponent that scared them began to appear.

At this time, Macao is no longer a prosperous market because of China's open sea ban. The Chinese people have clearly expressed their attitude. They do not allow Chinese businessmen to go to Macao to trade with the Portuguese, but instead open more than a dozen commercial ports along the coast. At the port of the International Maritime Trade, Macao will lose its previous advantages. The Portuguese who have no business can only gradually withdraw from Macao. I believe that soon, the Chinese will take back Macao and expel the Portuguese from here.

I'm afraid the most uneasy people now are the Dutch and Spanish! In the sixth year of Tianyuan, just after the end of their expedition to Liaodong, the Chinese court clearly made representations with the Dutch, showing that they had sovereignty over Taiwan Island and told the Dutch that they must withdraw from Taiwan Island as soon as possible. Otherwise, the next step would be to take military action at any time to recover it. Taiwan Island.

For this reason, of course, the Dutch refused to spit out the fat from the entrance. They negotiated with the Great China Dynasty through the Jesuits, claiming that they had obtained the permission of the Ming Dynasty before they settled on Taiwan Island. The Great China Dynasty could not expel them and wanted to continue to stay on Taiwan Island by playing a scoundrel.

However, the officials of the Great China and North Korea directly rejected their request, so that it was best to evacuate by themselves as soon as possible and demolish their Relanja City and Chilin City on Taiwan Island, as well as the Fort Castle around the chicken cage. Otherwise, the Great China and North Korea will take unilateral action to recover Taiwan Island.

The tough attitude of China and North Korea made the Dutch nervous, because they have realized that the maritime power of the Chinese people is no longer what it used to be. Once the Chinese want to act by force, they have no chance of winning.

But let them spit out this piece of fat meat like this, and the Dutch are not willing to know. They regard Taiwan Island as a very good cow. Among the 25 business halls in Asia, the annual profit paid by the Dutch ranks second. On average, there are 400,000 Dutch guilders every year, with a value of four guilders. Gold, they won't agree to withdraw it like this.

So the Dutch began to prepare intensively. They asked the Dutch East India Company for help, for which the Dutch East India Company reinforced 1,200 soldiers to Taiwan and dispatched more than 20 armed ships to patrol the coast of Taiwan.

In September of the seventh year of Tianyuan, Chinese fast sailboats began to appear in the sea of Taiwan, and began to investigate the arrangement of the Dutch in the area.

After the Dutch found these scout ships of the Chinese marine division, they immediately sent ships to sea to try to expel these Chinese scout ships. The two sides began to have friction, and there was an exchange of fire at sea.

At the end of September, China and North Korea officially announced that the Dutch were unpopular, banned commercial trade between Chinese businessmen and the Dutch, and ordered the Sea Trade Group to stop all commercial exchanges with the Dutch, stopped all merchant ships going to Taiwan and the port of Batavia, and announced that China and the Netherlands would become enemies.

At the beginning of October, Xiao Tianjian summoned the military department and naval attaches at the Wuying Hall in Beijing, listened to their war plan to recover Taiwan Island, and personally watched the naval war exercise in the hall.

The Southern Fleet has formulated a detailed combat plan, including the deployment of Chinese troops, the deployment of the Dutch on the island of Taiwan, and their combat plans.

Xiao Tianjian personally reviewed the battle plan submitted by the Ministry of War and the Navy. Finally, Zhu Bi signed and approved their battle plan, and then the operation to recover the island of Taiwan began to be implemented.

(Today, I would like to thank the two friends of Malt Ye Ye and Song Kaixin for their rewards!)