Dragon Sea Empire

Witness to history?

You Wenhui didn't quite understand what he said.

When more than 300 sailboats of different sizes rushed towards the enemy ships covering the sky and covering the sun, and when he saw dozens of fireboats igniting raging fire at the same time, You Wenhui felt his hairs stand on end, and he really felt the turmoil of history. The curtain is opening.

These ships bravely fought against enemies from overseas. They were not imperial court officers and soldiers, but a force gathered by coastal merchants, small merchants, artisans, fishermen, farmers and others.The China United Company, which had just taken shape, organized them, and for the first time showed a unique and powerful force.Of course, all of this is inseparable from Yin Feng, the founder of the company.

The Orange anchored near Fengguiwei on the south line of Magong Port, and a Jesuit missionary was carried by a small boat of the Zhonghua Company, who said he was here to convey the negotiating opinions of the president of the Zhonghua United Company.The Flying Dragon led a large group of fireboats to watch the Dutch vigilantly on the periphery.

The Dutch failed completely. More than 60 people were killed in the landing operation, and the remaining 140 were all captured; in the naval battle, two Dutch junk ships-Chinese-style sailboats were sunk, and the Orange was hit in total. More than 20 times, a total of more than 30 sailors died in battle, and the Chinese rescued more than 60 other people from the sea.

The whole battle was completely initiated by the Dutch, so the Dutch had no conditions to raise at all, and acted completely according to Yin Feng's opinion: Wei Malang came forward to negotiate in person, and Li Jin followed behind as the general manager.

More than 200 captured Dutchmen were trapped in the landing site camp, and two teams of escort soldiers with live ammunition were watching them.These captives are disarming, and all the weapons are piled up on the beach, and the clerks of the Chinese company are counting and registering.

Wei Malang went ashore, and he was greeted by 10 black-clothed escort soldiers, who were specially selected by Yin Feng. They were full of energy and high spirits. An officer wearing a Spanish-style helmet and Western-style plate armor stopped him. After seeing Wei Malang and Li Jin, he turned his nose to the sky and said, "Who are you?"

Li Jin secretly scolded the other party for putting on airs, but on the surface he didn't dare to disobey, and hurriedly said: "This is Admiral Wei Malang of the Dutch Navy, and I am Li Jin, the general officer, from Haicheng."

It was Lin Xiao who came. He looked at Li Jin angrily, and blurted out: "Traitor!"

Li Jin almost fainted from anger. He is a very strong person by nature, but now he is in an awkward position. He tried not to get angry, and asked forcefully: "Who is your Excellency? General Wei Malang is here to negotiate." , can only negotiate with your leader."

Lin Xiao sized Li Jin up and down, but he didn't expect that this traitor was still very face-saving, and he was still tough in his bones. He couldn't help but smiled, and didn't plan to quarrel with him: "Okay, if that's the case, come with me."

Wei Malang observed the situation on the beach, and found that the personnel of the China United Company handled the prisoners, collected the seized items, treated the wounded, prepared their weapons, and everything was going on in an orderly manner; Among the Chinese soldiers, it can be seen that the main personnel of this orderly army are all Chinese, and the few grassroots officers who are giving orders are also Chinese.This dispelled Wei Malang's last doubts; before he went ashore, he thought that there must be a large number of Western military technicians on the Chinese side, so this army was completely different from the Chinese army he knew.Now, he understood that this army was indeed composed of Chinese.

"General, Your Excellency!" one of the captured Dutch soldiers called him.Wei Malang was startled, and recognized the voice of his adjutant, Captain Bunter, and tried to run to the beach landing site camp, but the Chinese soldiers who escorted him swung their guns and blocked the way at him.Li Jin hurried forward and said: "The person calling is General Wei Malang's adjutant, please let them meet!"

The soldiers blocking the way were expressionless and did not move at all.Lin Xiao said: "Forget it, let him go. The ship owner has an order to give preferential treatment to prisoners, understand?"

The soldier shouted: "Yes!" He put away his gun, stood aside, and when Wei Malang passed by, he followed closely behind him.

Wei Malang had no choice but to see the seriously injured Captain Bonte under surveillance.A Chinese doctor is bandaging his wound and applying an unknown Chinese ointment.

Lin Xiao followed behind Wei Malang, and said loudly: "Our ship owner has an order; all injured red hairs must be treated, hehe, you are lucky!"

Li Jin translated his words to Wei Malang. Of course, Lin Xiao's last words were automatically ignored.Wei Malang nodded and said, "Indeed, I see that the wounded here are treated well. Uncle Jin, they are civilized people. Thank them for me."

Along the way, Wei Malang saw the corpses of Dutch soldiers neatly stacked aside, and someone was covering them with cloth.On the other side, hundreds of Chinese armed personnel were forming a team, and all the soldiers moved in the same order in the voice of the password, which was no worse than the regular army of the Dutch Republic.The more he walked, the more frightened he was; this is a well-disciplined army. I wonder how the leaders of this army will treat us prisoners of war?

"Uncle Jin, do you think they will not massacre our prisoners of war like the natives of Nanyang?" Wei Malang asked involuntarily.Li Jin stopped, gave him a strange look, and replied: "I don't think so, and we Chinese will not kill people in the name of heretics like the Portuguese. You should rest assured about this!"

In front of the Mazu Palace camp stood two rows of black-clothed soldiers with live ammunition. The Chinese flag of the China United Company fluttered high on a blue background. Four 4-pound guns were placed at the gate of the camp, three of which were seized from the Dutch.Brother Baradas had been waiting at the door. At this time, he stepped forward to greet Wei Malang, and said to him in Spanish with a smile while making the sign of the cross: "Your Excellency, your subordinates have been treated well. These Chinese people are better than Spain. It's more civilized."

Wei Malang was very wary of this Portuguese Jesuit missionary, because they and the Spaniards were both "Sibanks".Moreover, when the Dutch attacked Macau a few years ago, the Portuguese wantonly massacred 10 Dutch prisoners of war.

Wei Malang originally wanted to take the military chaplain to participate in the negotiations, but Baradas sternly refused when conveying Yin Feng's order.In fact, Yin Feng did not say that the Dutch chaplain was not allowed to participate in the negotiations. It was Baradas who arbitrarily claimed that only Wei Malang could participate in person.The Dutch were always heretics to Father Baradas.

Baradas led Wei Malang to enter the camp, but was blocked by a young man who had just appeared.Yan Siqi said in a rough voice: "The big boss has an order. The red-haired barbarian negotiator is waiting at the door first, and the big boss is still receiving other people."

Yin Feng is indeed receiving other important people.

These unremarkable merchants in front of them represent the seven major families of Zheng, Huang, Li, Zhang, Lu, and Shi, the great merchants of Zhangzhou Haicheng and Quanzhou Anhai.They rushed to Taiwan last night, and rushed to Penghu today, with the purpose of persuading the China United Company led by Yin Feng, Huaxing United, not to conflict with the Dutch.Accompanied by Han Ping, within Zhonghua Company, Han Ping was not the only major shareholder who opposed the war with the Dutch, but everyone else knew Yin Feng's tough attitude in foreign affairs, so he didn't say anything; and , They also blindly trust Yin Feng in dealing with the foreign barbarian issue, thinking that he can always find a way to deal with the red-haired issue.

Now, these businessmen who persuaded peace came late, and when they arrived in Penghu, the Dutch had already surrendered.

This makes their mission awkward.These people are all executives in their own family business, and some are the leaders of the family business, such as Huang Cheng, a big businessman in Nan'an, Quanzhou, who does business in Macau and has been to Manila.

When Yin Feng heard Huang Cheng's name for the first time, he always felt that he should have heard of this person somewhere, but he didn't remember it for a long time.

"...Captain Yin, the big boss, we are all businessmen. In business, making money is the top priority. Wearing Dutch red hair is just for business, and it is a great benefit for us to go to sea. We are now I'm afraid it's not good to treat them like this?"

It was Huang Cheng who spoke, and he seemed to be the spokesperson among these businessmen.And Han Ping, who accompanied them, hid in a corner with a fat body and kept silent.

This is the camp of the Mazu Palace of the guards. Yin Feng sat behind a simple table, looked at the representatives of the seven major merchants in front of him, and said with a cold smile: "So, what should we do now? I have defeated the Hongmaoyi, and their generals will soon Come here and surrender to me. What to do?"

"Let them go, pay them some money, and they will probably do business with us. If Hongmaoyi refuses to quit, then it will be inconvenient for us to go to Nanyang to do business, and it will be too troublesome!" Huang Cheng's main business is in Macau, but he doesn't want to let go of his business in Nanyang.

"That's right, Yin Dadong's family, the red-haired barbarians will cause trouble, and the imperial court will have nothing to do with them, and the sea will be banned at that time, so it's our business that suffers!" said the Zheng family, a big businessman in Anhai, Quanzhou.

"It's really strange, why can't we do anything about them? Look at the present, but we won the battle, and the Hongmaoyi were defeated." Yin Feng is not surprised that these businessmen spontaneously came to speak for the Dutch. Indeed, the Dutch can give These merchants bring more silver.Merchants have no motherland, and people all over the world in this era do not have any concept of a country in the modern sense. Yin Feng understands this very well: Accusing these businessmen of not having a country concept and currying favor with foreign invaders, these are all playing tricks on the cows, and they have nothing to do with it at all. idea.

Huang Cheng stood up, swayed his thin body, and said excitedly: "Boss Yin, you are a hero with great righteousness, but you don't know how to keep a low profile. You fought vigorously with Hongmaoyi. Although you won, but What will the government think of you? If the red-haired barbarians stop doing business with us Ming merchants, not only our seven merchants will suffer losses, but too many people will be involved in the coastal areas of southern Fujian and Guangdong. At that time, they will Join the government to deal with you!"

Yin Feng smiled, and didn't care about this level of threat at all: "Mr. Huang, have you also invested in our Zhonghua company?"

Huang Cheng's face was flushed red, and it took him a long time to speak: "Yes, I have 5000 taels of shares, which was encouraged by my distant cousin."

Yin Feng stood up, came to Huang Cheng, bowed his hands and saluted, Huang Cheng was puzzled, and hurriedly returned the salute: "Dong Yin, what does this mean?"

Yin Feng said solemnly: "You are a shareholder of our company, so you are naturally a family with me. What you said today is also for the long-term interests of the company. I understand it out of good intentions."

He was thinking in his heart: Sure enough, I guessed it, so it is!Of course, it is understandable for Huang Cheng to worry about his 5000 taels of silver.

He paused, pointed to the direction of the sea and asked, "Which one of you has dealt with red-haired barbarians?"

Everyone shook their heads together and looked at each other.

Yin Feng sneered and said: "I grew up in the West, you should have heard of this, right? I have known since I was a child, whether it is a red-haired man, a Frangji man, or a Ganla man from Luzon. , They are all guys who eat soft things and fear hard things!"