New Shun 1730

This concern is very reasonable, and there is enough "history" to draw lessons from it.

In addition to the similar experience of founding a country from afar, such as the conquerors William and Zheng Chenggong, and Yelu Dashi, who traveled to Central Asia and left the name of Khitan and Peach Blossom Stone in Europe, the Dutch also had a special experience of their own.

Just like Cao Cao, who is best at cutting off people's food routes in the story, will definitely protect his own. The Dutch's naval battle experience of often bayoneting red and making surprise attacks on military ports also forced Valkenier to consider Liu Yu's fleet. The possibility of a direct assault on the warships in Batavia harbor.

Southeast Asia is the lifeblood of the Dutch East India Company. Once this happens, the company will definitely dispatch a fleet.

However, it will take two years to go back and forth. In two years, if Liu Yu is really ambitious enough to occupy the entire Java and pull out a force of tens of thousands capable of confronting the Russian elite, this has been confirmed by several people. Years of history prove it. .

In his view, Liu Yu was also fully capable of uniting those Chinese insurgents.

For this reason, Valkenir had to cautiously ask the company's warships in Southeast Asia to assemble as soon as possible.

Once Liu Yu's fleet arrives, the fleet cannot be lazy and hide in the port to rest. It must float on the sea and be ready for battles at any time.

One wave has not subsided, and another wave has arisen.

Just as Valkenir was preparing for this, news came from the port that surprised Valkenir.

A group of Chinese expedition ships, just back from the distant southern hemisphere, arrived in Batavia and requested to dock.

The adjutant of the fleet also gave a reason for docking called Batavia that the local navy could not refuse.

It is a document with the official seal of Dashun, very formal.

There is a passage written on it in Latin, French, Russian, Flemish, and English.

"In order to explore the unknown of the world we live in, considering that the transit of Venus in a few decades is the best time to measure the distance between the sun and the earth, if we miss it, we will have to wait for more than a hundred years."

"Therefore, the Emperor of China ordered the fleet to set sail to find a suitable observation location in the southern hemisphere."

"Mooring will be facilitated along the way. If the ship is short of gold and silver, it can be stamped and go to Weihai to collect the supply cost, and the interest will be compensated in two years."

"Those who attack this ship are deemed to be at war with Dashun."

"If there are pirates, you can use this token to collect ransom and release this fleet."

Holding this document, Valkenir wondered if this was Liu Yu's trick. Could it be that those ships were just here to raid Batavia?

However, the person who came to deliver the letter from the port expressed his trustworthiness.

"Mr. Governor, in fact, we recognize the commander of this fleet. He is not Chinese. He also studied at the Naval Academy in Amsterdam. He is an outstanding graduate of the Naval Academy in Amsterdam and is my alumnus and senior."

"I think you should have heard of his name. A Danish man, Bering. He was recruited directly from Amsterdam by Peter the Great. He was one of the best graduates of the Amsterdam Naval School at that time, and also participated in the Russian War with Sweden."

"I communicated with him and found out that he was indeed coming back from the Southern Hemisphere. In fact, he set out from Weihai and actually surveyed the Northern Sea Route to find out whether Asia and the Americas were connected. Then he followed the ocean currents and followed the west coast of the Americas into the Southern Hemisphere. ”

"The Chinese, especially their emperor, are particularly concerned about astronomy. It seems that this involves the legitimacy of their monarchy. Those Catholic missionaries relied on this to gain the emperor's trust, and also hindered our relationship with the emperor. direct trade with China.”

When Valkenir heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Is that the 'trophy' captured in the Russian-Sino-Russian War?"

"Yes."

"So, China's navy was built with the help of a graduate of the Amsterdam Naval Academy? And now, this navy has the ability to threaten the interests of the Netherlands?"

The official who made the report nodded helplessly and said: "Yes. Looking back, China's navy was built based on the graduates of our Amsterdam Naval Academy in 1702."

This statement cannot be said to be wrong. The navy is a technical branch, and once a system is formed, it can form inertia.

But building it from scratch is more troublesome.

And Bering happened to be the person who perfectly met this requirement.

In twenty years, the Russian fleet developed from sampans to three-masted battleships. Bering participated in the entire development of the Russian Navy from scratch, and also served as one of the first captains of the Russian Navy.

It was precisely with this experience from scratch that the skeleton of the navy was built in Weihai, and then it was able to form an alliance with the French and receive French technical personnel.

Even the current French Navy Minister may not be able to skillfully build a navy from scratch. After all, he is an institutional person under a complete system, not a builder who creates a system.

Valkenir thought about this strange fate, but he didn't know that in Liu Yu's eyes, the biggest gain in the battle north to fight Russia was not the three thousand miles of country, but the capture of one of Russia's most elite expedition teams.

In those three thousand miles of mountains and rivers in the north, Dashun would have a time advantage, sooner or later; but the captured expedition team was the trophy that determined Dashun's future fate.

Northern Dashun has a time advantage, while Nanyang Dashun can only seize the day. The advantage lies with the Netherlands and Britain.

The graduates of Amsterdam forty years ago caused the governor of Batavia, who was now appointed by the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce, to worry.

This fate, which seemed like destiny, made Valknir somewhat helpless.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Then let these people go ashore. You certainly know what kind of villains the sailors who sail on the ocean are. Today, the brothels, taverns and casinos in Batavia will make a lot of money. However, try not to conflict with these villains. If they make trouble, tell our soldiers not to deal with it privately. Communicate directly with the captain, mate and boatswain on the Chinese side."

"Also, notify the crew members who had a fight with the Dashun sailors in Tianjin Port last time to be patient and not to pick a fight. They are not the same group of people, and this is not the time to fight."

Valknir was convinced that these people should really just go to the southern hemisphere to find islands and prepare for the observation of Venus transit many years later.

As the governor of Batavia, he knew what the hungry sailors would look like when they came ashore in the vast sea.

He was really worried that these drunk sailors would fight and cause some violent conflicts. Liu Yu might find some excuses to make trouble.

And the crew members who were beaten by Liu Yu and his sailors in Tianjin a few days ago also returned to Batavia. Valkner was really worried that these Dutch sailors would have revenge and fight with this group of Chinese sailors.

Even if these people did not retaliate, the sailors who made trouble in the brothel after getting drunk would appear as soon as a ship docked.

The sailors were a group of desperate people. If they really got into a fight, it would be normal to use knives and guns or even take out grenades or hand cannons from their trouser pockets to sweep the deck.

Once a bloody conflict broke out, these sailors would not be a concern, as there would not be too much firepower on the expedition ship. It would be troublesome if someone with ulterior motives took the opportunity to cause trouble.

Now Valkner was really afraid of Liu Yu's visit. He was so afraid that even if there was a drunken fight between Chinese and Dutch sailors, he would not dare to judge. He could only wait until Liu Yu came and the two sides negotiated to avoid being caught with a reason for war.

Soon, the Dutch sailors on vacation in Batavia were summoned and read the governor's order, prohibiting conflicts with the sailors of the Chinese expedition ship docked.

For this reason, today's temporary additional tasks are assigned to clean the deck and not to go to taverns, brothels and other places where murders are frequent.

On several Dashun expedition ships docked, the sailors were receiving their salaries with thunderous cheers, and some sailors in Weihai were already impatient.

This is the rule at sea at this time. Once the ship docks, and it is a more reliable port, the sailors' wages will be settled immediately for the sailors to squander.

These sailors are also crazy. They set sail from Weihai and took the northern route to North America, and then followed the ocean current from North America to South America, crossed the Pacific Ocean, and made a big circle in the southern hemisphere.

There are also opportunities to vent along the way. There are also natives on many islands. Sometimes they are free to have fun, and sometimes they only need some simple goods to have sex.

But even though it didn't matter if they had been on the ship for a long time, they would not let go of any of the more beautiful sailors, but they finally arrived in Batavia, where there were people who met their aesthetic standards.

The sailors didn't know what kind of feat they had accomplished, nor did they know how lush the water plants on the island named "New Kuwu" by the fleet captain and surveyor, which had conflicts with local indigenous people in the southern hemisphere.

Maybe they knew, but it didn't matter.

They only cared about three things now.

Are there any good sugarcane wines in the taverns in Batavia?

Will the brothels in Batavia increase their prices today?

Do the casinos in Batavia dare to open?

Some people had planned it long ago. After arriving in Batavia, they would go straight to the casino. If they won, they would take the money and leave, and if they lost, they would just pull out their guns and make trouble.

Although the strong dragon cannot suppress the local snake, thinking that there were still thousands of brothers and dozens of warships in Weihai, these sailors who were thinking about leaving if they won or making trouble if they lost didn't care.

Sailors may not be moral scum, but sailors who do not become mentally ill or moral scum in the crew life of this era must be rare.

The sailors on the Dashun side are not made of special materials, and of course they are no exception. Anyone who lives in a small cabin for a year or two will have mental illness of varying degrees.

But in this era, if you want to become the empire on which the sun never sets, you have to rely on the shoulders of these scum and villains. Children from good families, if they have three acres of land, who would want to be a sailor.

The jingling silver coins were distributed to the hands of the sailors. These sailors who accompanied the officers in the "New Kuwu" to survey the coastline for several months and sailed west to confirm that the southern continent did not exist, got off the ship like flying.

Listening to the familiar Chinese voices in the Batavia neighborhood, and the shouts of Fujian and Guangdong Mandarin mixed in the local dialect to solicit business, the sailors did not feel like they were crying or kneeling down to kiss the land as imagined, but instead made a wolf-like howl and a distinctive curse in the Jiaoliao area.

Finally... finally there is a place to spend the money earned with life!

The painful seafaring adventure is finally over. In their eyes after crossing the Pacific Ocean, the distance from Batavia to Weihai is as close as the bow to the mast of a shit ship.

On the ship, the sixty-year-old old Bering was sorting out the charts with the officers' deputies in Weihai, carefully packing several large boxes of charts, and sending people to Batavia to buy asphalt to seal the wooden boxes storing the charts.

In this era, circumnavigation has no historical significance. The last blank left about circumnavigation is the circumnavigation of the battleship fleet.

Obviously, Dashun does not have the ability to paint this blank with its own blue. And they don’t know that the British fleet and captain who created this history are already close to Guangdong.

Even this crossing of the Pacific Ocean is not the first in Asia. Japan had completed it as early as the Tianqi period.

However, in Bering’s view, this voyage can be regarded as a perfect end to his exploration career, and it can also be regarded as a new chapter for those young Dashun naval officers who completed this expedition.