Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 853
In the early morning of the next day, Chikan Fort, located on land, received Zheng Chenggong's promise, and under the leadership of the military officer, [-] Dutchmen, holding guns high, walked out of the castle and surrendered to the Ming army.

The Dutch are more particular. There is a ceremony for surrender. The soldiers come out with trumpets and drums. It can be seen that the soldiers are secretly surprised, wondering why these red-haired ghosts are so happy after losing the battle.

After the surrender of Chikan Fort, Zheng Chenggong immediately sent He Bin and Banan Shiding to Zeelandia Fort by boat, urging the Dutch Governor Ferleg to surrender as soon as possible, otherwise once the fort was broken, all of them would be killed.

The terrain of Zeelandia Fort is very dangerous. The castle is strong, with turrets on it, surrounded by water, the landing force cannot be deployed, and the ships are vulnerable to the bombardment of the turrets, so it is not easy to attack.

Historically, Zheng Chenggong mainly used the method of "siege and surrender himself", besieged Zelandia for nine months, repelled Batavia's reinforcements, and made the Dutch surrender to him in despair.

There is a big difference between now and history. The support fleet brought by Kau has been severely damaged. Zeelandia Fort can no longer receive any support from Batavia. After the failure of the naval battle, the Dutch in the fort have lost all hope.

After He Bin entered the fort, he aroused the anger of the Dutch, but also brought them hope.

Zheng Chenggong asked He Bin to bring in a sentence, "China is very used to killing thieves. If you say you are a businessman, China treats you as a guest. If you talk about fighting with ulterior motives, China will regard you as a thief and will definitely order you." I have seen the military power of the Celestial Dynasty!"

In fact, these words are a replica of what the Ming army general Shen Yourong said to the Dutch after they first appeared in the Chinese sea to occupy Penghu.

Decades ago, the attitude of some officials in the Ming Dynasty was so open-minded.

It took hundreds of years for the West to form a set of civilized rules, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty at that time were obviously more moral and civilized than the Dutch.

It is a pity that in that era, whoever was behind was beaten, but whoever was advanced was beaten.

Ancient Greece and Rome, which had a relatively high level of Western civilization, were all destroyed by barbarians. The situation in China is similar.

What are the deep-seated reasons for this? Different people have different opinions.

The Dutch are different from the two declining empires of Portugal and Spain. Their national power is in a thriving stage. Under such circumstances, their ambitions are naturally inflated, and they want to monopolize the trade rights with China. trade with them.

Not only did this not put their status on an equal footing, but they had to be condescending and overriding China. Naturally, the Celestial Kingdom could not tolerate such a thing, and the Dutch chose to oppress it by force when they saw that China disagreed.

At this time, the force of the Netherlands has completely failed, and their own lives are difficult to protect. Therefore, Zheng Chenggong promised to enlarge their way of life, and promised them the same status as Spain and Portugal to trade with China. The Dutch have no reason to disagree. .

After a brief discussion, the Taiwan Council accepted Zheng Chenggong's proposal, expressing his willingness to surrender and leave Taiwan by boat.

At this point, the 26-year colonial rule of the Dutch invaders in Taiwan came to an end, and Taiwan returned to the rule of Ming Dynasty.

At the end of June, Wang Yan was discussing with officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, and the Clan Mansion in the Chu Palace in Nanjing.

Chen Bangyan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, took a memorial, hurried into the palace, went outside the living room, and then asked the guards of the palace who were guarding outside: "Is Your Highness inside?"

"His Royal Highness is discussing official business with the Wangge Department and others." The guard clasped his fists and saluted, "Chen Ge Department will come in later, and I will go in and report for the humble."

Chen Bangyan waited outside the door when he heard the words, and the guards invited him in after a while. He held the booklet in one hand, adjusted his clothes with the other, and then stepped into the hall.

In the outer hall, several green-robed officials who were sitting upright immediately stood up and saluted him. Chen Bangyan waved his hand slightly, then walked into the inner hall quickly. When he saw that the people inside stopped talking, he saluted and said: " Your Highness, good news from Fujian, Mr. Chen and Mr. Zheng have already defeated the Holland Yi and regained the officials!"

After finishing speaking, Chen Bangyan presented the booklet to Wang Yan, and several senior officials sitting in the inner hall were overjoyed and began to discuss among themselves.

Wang Yan took the notebook with a smile on his face, opened it to look at it, frowned slightly, and after thinking for a while, he put together the memorial, raised his head and asked: "Master Chen and Zheng Guoxing said in the memorial that they want to make peace with the Dutch barbarians. What does Chen Gebu think?"

For such a major event as a peace negotiation, it is natural for the court to discuss it, so Fujian sent the memorial quickly.

The Ministry of War read the memorial in advance, and Chen Bangyan had already thought about it, so he cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, Master Chen presides over Guangdong and Guangxi, Zheng Guo surname presides over Fujian, and the imperial court manages Nanyang and Taiwan. Make peace, and after the imperial court recaptured the high officials, it also avoided the collusion between the Manchu Qing and the Dutch barbarians, and the officials thought that the imperial court should respect the opinions of the two ministers of the frontier!"

"Look at it too!" Wang Yan thought for a while, then handed the booklet to Wang Fuzhi, who immediately got up to take it, and unfolded it for viewing.

Wang Yan stretched out his hand to let Chen Bangyan take the first seat, and after the ministers below had read it all, he asked, "What's your opinion?"

"Your Highness, the reason for the peace proposal is very good. Moreover, the imperial court sent 3 troops to North Korea. If they want to exert the effect of threatening the Manchu Qing, they must cooperate with a navy to cross the sea at any time to attack the outside of the customs, Beizhi and Shandong. The coast." Wang Fuzhi saluted and said: "Now the Huguang Navy and the Zhejiang Navy are shouldering the heavy responsibility of river defense, and if they cannot be transferred, they can only transfer the Fujian Navy or the Guangzhou Navy to North Korea. No matter who is transferred, the court needs to stop the South China Sea first. war, so the lower officials agree to negotiate a peace."

"The lower officials also agree with the words of the Wangge Ministry!"

"The lower officials seconded the proposal!"

Wang Yan listened and nodded. The reasons for the memorandum are very good. It is related to trade considerations, and North Korea really needs a naval force. No matter if the Fujian navy or the Guangdong navy is deployed, the South China Sea cannot be fought anymore for the time being.

"Then follow the wishes of Fujian and Guangdong, and ask Zheng Gongcheng to send the Dutch to Nanjing to negotiate peace with the Dutch, and to set the trade tax rate."

"I'll wait for orders!"

After all, the settlement of the Dutchman's matter was a happy thing, and Wang Yan found that after this incident was resolved, it was equivalent to finding a vent for other conflicts, and many other matters were immediately followed by solutions. He couldn't help feeling a little excited.

"Didn't the Caizong Mansion just say that the vassal was dissatisfied with the lonely king and wanted to take back the fief?" Wang Yan suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Now that Taiwan and the island have been restored, the country has thousands of miles of land, which is just what is needed Development, the court is now in a difficult situation, and the vassals will definitely not be able to imagine it as before, and the court will not change the policy of reforming the vassals before Mr. Suge. Many lands of the vassals have now been occupied by the people, and rashly taking them back will inevitably cause The people are in turmoil. Gu Fang just thought of a way, it is better to change the land, what do you think?"

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