Lu Ming

Chapter 224 Bad news

Putmans knew Comrade Yiguan quite well. After all, it was not long before the scene where Mr. De Weiss, the ex-officer of the senior official, led the remnants of the defeated generals fled back to Batavia.

Now that the original Dutch translator and the current pirate leader had died, Putmans was slightly surprised.

However, the more surprising thing was yet to come: Cai Feiming told him clearly after this that the officials planned to hire all 14 Dutch ships to go to Xiamen to eliminate pirates in about a month.

Putmans, who was in chaos, had to ask Cai Feiming to provide more detailed information.He couldn't understand this logic: what is the reason for the cross-border people who already have raw silk purchase channels to go to the other side of the strait to fight pirates?
You must know that the Dutch fought life and death along the coast, attacked the government today, and cooperated with the government to fight Zheng Zhilong tomorrow. All of these had a clear purpose: to obtain the right to trade raw silk.So when the cross-travel forces full of raw silk clamored to go to the other side of the sea to do things, the Dutch were confused.

Naturally, Cai Feiming wouldn't tell Hongmao the twists and turns in it.He simply told Putmans: The ancient aristocratic force entrenched on Dayuan Island still maintains a relationship with the Ming Dynasty, so the elimination of pirates is a political reason; Monopoly of raw silk trade.

Hearing what Cai Feiming said, Putmans actually understood.In European history, there are more stories about kings cheating big nobles, and big nobles beat kings in the face, so he quickly put the situation into it: the emperor of Ming Dynasty was trying to weaken the strength of the crossing people, so he assigned them to destroy the pirates.

Thinking of this, Putmans showed a clear smile on his face: "As far as I am concerned, helping the distinguished gentlemen to eliminate pirates is a noble cause. Of course, this matter needs to be discussed with those sailors. Talk it over, after all, you know, those people only have money and beer in their eyes."

"Is it because you only have money in your eyes?" Cai Feiming nodded with a smile on his face at this moment, then took out a document from the table and handed it to Hongmao: "This is a few sets of salaries for hiring the Dutch fleet to go out to fight. We can pay for the plan, goods and money, take it back and discuss it with the crew.”

"Very well, this document is timely and I will get back to you shortly."

To be honest, the Dutch are unwilling to help from the bottom of their hearts.Because time has changed, and now that the people across the world already have the right to trade raw silk, the Dutch, as third-party buyers, are naturally unwilling to go one step further and monopolize the raw silk trade.

This is the same reason that they were unwilling to help Zheng Zhilong fight against opponents in history: once any commodity is monopolized, the buyer will be in a dangerous situation.The Dutch are the world's coachmen, and they are well aware of this.

But the will of the Dutch was of no avail.

Since the Dutch in history failed to prevent Zheng Zhilong from dominating the country and monopolizing coastal trade, the same is true of today's transmigration forces, even more terrifying than Zheng Zhilong: the transmigration people use hard power. There are clouds in front of the heavy machine gun.

Therefore, on the surface, Cai Feiming was seeking the opinion of the Dutch on the matter of fighting pirates. In fact, this matter cannot be shirked—just think about the goods in the dock warehouse and future trading qualifications. If you promise, you have to promise.

And this time the Dutch can't even do foreign work.De Weiss' fleet was able to take the lead in the three-way battle against Zheng Zhilong last year, but Putmans can't today. Can't you return to the big crew to load afterward?If you don't fight hard, not only will you be rewarded for your merits after the war, but you will also have to settle accounts after the fall.

So after a little analysis in the shop that night, the red hairs knew that they couldn't hide this time—except for going to bargain tomorrow and trying to squeeze more oil and water from the crossing crowd, there was not much they could do. many.

So, after a fierce quarrel on the second day, the matter was finally settled: the Dutch fleet will set off with the crossing people at some point in the future, and go to the other side of the sea to find trouble for the pirates.

This point in time is currently uncertain.Because Zheng Zhilong just died, the officials are still waiting for the reaction of the Xiamen group of robbers.According to the predictions of the traversing crowd, it will take about 15 days at the earliest for the preliminary news to come over there, and the timing of the real action is not unusual in a month—anyway, the time is on the side of the traversing forces, and it is delayed. The longer the time, the more chaotic the mobs become.

At the same time that Da Yuan was keeping a tight eye on the situation on the other side of the sea, the first typhoon in 1628 blew over.

Typhoons in the 17th century are not well documented, at least in Taiwan.Therefore, when the wind circle blows from the direction of the Philippine Sea, the traversing forces without satellites and supercomputers can only give an early warning half a day in advance.

Half a day was obviously a little tense.Fortunately, since entering May, all the industrial and mining enterprises under the crossing forces have started disaster prevention preparations one after another, so when the storm came, most of the factories had stopped operating according to the plan, and the workers also began to give construction emergency reinforcement.

However, some people who first arrived in Baodi still underestimated the power of the typhoon.

The typhoon that lasted for a day and night mercilessly ran over from the front. When the central wind force of level 12 blew across the Tainan Plain, a large number of wooden dormitories in the Chikan area were blown off the roof, and some houses collapsed. China's piers and shipyards have also been hit hard.

These are not the most important: the flood and heavy rain that come with the typhoon are the big killers.

Due to the pioneers' spare no effort to transform, the rivers, including Newport Creek, were once very quiet: the sandbars and boulders in the river have been cleaned up, the channel has also been dredged, and the water flow is very gentle.

However, when the typhoon came, the torrential rain caused by the torrential rain rushed down from the central mountain range, and the water level of all the waterways in Tainan suddenly rose sharply. Many smaller streams and rivers could not bear the flow very quickly, and the next moment, the flood began to overflow.

Then there was the time when the house leaked and rained all night: at night tide, the water level of Taijiang River soared, and the streams and rivers that originally flowed into the lake from the plain were flooded by seawater. Suddenly turned into water.

All of the above are the proper meaning of the question. Whether it is the crossing people or the coastal people under their command, including the foreign sailors on Beixianwei Island, they all have sufficient experience and psychological preparations for this kind of disaster.

However, the only thing everyone didn't expect was that someone died.

A time traveler died in the storm.

(End of this chapter)