Cohen's mission was particularly smooth. After all, at this time, Mao Jue had all wanted in his hands. Add a piece to Malacca to the west and Luzon Islands to the east, just like two doors to lock most of Southeast Asia in his arms. Taiwan has become a floating soap box in the bathtub of the Ming Dynasty inland sea. If Cohen hadn't come this time, even the pony sea of ​​the commanding troops in the Nanyang Front would have forgotten that there was a city surrounded by his own troops.

Without any trouble, the Netherlands paid 1,000 Dutch gulf symbolically, admitting that it was evil and stupid to fight against the Ming Dynasty, Pang Dahai ordered it to be released.

In history, when Zheng Chenggong recaptured Taiwan, he besieged Relan Chacheng for nearly a year, but this time, Beiming had been besieging here for two years and two months. The Northern Ming Royal Fleet blocked the Luermen made way out of the sea. Vanderburg, who had been several years old, was crying and staggering before walking out of the moss-filled stone gate.

In two years, the food in the castle had already been eaten up. Fortunately, the Ming army did not siege the city, and they were allowed to fish in the bay or something. Otherwise, a year ago, the thousands of Dutch people would have starved to death.

Even so, more than a thousand people died of illness due to nutritional imbalance.

Food is not the most deadly, the most deadly is the omnipresent despair! These thousands of them seemed to have fallen into the ocean of the Ming Dynasty. They could not see reinforcements, hope, or even death. The Ming army did not attack the city or surrender, but surrounded them. Even the city of Gerlandzha was sent to ask for surrender, and the answers they gave were to ask their superiors for advice. If Christians had not allowed suicide, Vanderbilt even suspected that he would have shot himself in the forehead.

Fortunately, it's all over.

He even refused the invitation from the Ming Dynasty's Taiwan Governor Tian Tao to perform the banquet. When the Dutch East India Company sent the Golden Deer, which was sent to pick up the expatriates, and the East India entered the port, Vanderbilt was the first to climb onto the deck with both hands and feet.

As the sun sets, the three-color flag representing the East India Company was slowly lowered, and the golden dragon flame-spraying flag representing the Ming Empire slowly rose. Standing on the deck, holding a glass of wine that had been away for more than a year and savoring it. Vanderbilt couldn't help but bow to white gloves and hummed.

"There will be no future, Taiwan!"

I guess after spending the past two years of siege, he never wants to go back here again!

He was frivolous like a young man, celebrating his escape from death, but if Vanderbilt had heard an old Chinese saying: Eight out of ten people will be unsatisfactory! He probably wouldn't be frivolous.

Just as the gentleman Vanderburg said goodbye to the place where he had fought, he suddenly heard footsteps behind him. He turned around a little drunk, but the captain of the Golden Deer who came to pick him up was wearing a uniform and a few medals. One was also a beard, with a somewhat solemn face, and he walked over with a dullness.

"Cheers to the end of the war, gentleman!"

Holding the wine glass, Vanderbilt toasted with a high voice, and the relaxed smile made the wrinkles on his old face dissipate.

I don't know if I was born to be unable to laugh or what, but the smile that Demproy had put out was as stiff and rigid as the two randomly drawn on the dough with his hands. He also took a glass of wine from the round tray. Captain Golden Deer responded and raised his glass, but his words made Vanderbilt sober.

"Cheers to the war just began, sir!"

The crystal cup with half a glass of wine still slid down to the ground. After a few seconds, Vanderbilt came to his senses and grabbed Demproy's collar, roaring with hoarse throat: "Is the board crazy?"

"We are in the Ming Dynasty's eyelids! How many troops did the Ming Emperor have? Hundreds,000? 500,000? How many troops did the entire East India Company have? Twenty thousand!"

"I want to meet Sir Cohen and I must cancel this plan!"

"Calm down, sir!"

Dempludo did not resist when he was pulled on his collar. He was over twenty years younger than Vanderbilt anyway, and he didn't care about the old man. He lowered his head slightly, and the young and strong officer said contemptuously.

"Sir Cohen has returned to Rotterdam. As for your appointment, you can choose the Governor of Port Galman or the Governor of Butcher Bay. I heard that A Butcher Bay is in the South Pacific, which is particularly far from the Ming Dynasty, but is next to a group of cannibal Maori people. I believe that you are so friendly and friendly, and you will definitely like these new neighbors, right?"

Listening to the aggressive words of the young and strong, Vanderbilt couldn't help but let go of his fist and retreated dejectedly for a while. Then he swung his sleeves and shouted fiercely: "You must have been bewitched by the devil, and you will go to hell sooner or later!"

After ruthless words, Vanderbilt hummed and hurried towards the back cabin, looking at the back of the old man with white hair. When he turned around and looked at the city of Relandzha, Demproy's round monkey eyes could not help but show a provocative look. The election raised the goblet in his hand and purred the glass of red wine as red as blood.

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North, Tianjin.

As a major port in Beijing, Mao Jue used more thoughts here than in the capital. Since entering the Central Plains, the construction here has not stopped. Xu Lei Railway has been divided into one individual branch, and from here, they went straight into Tianjin, and traveled about a mile to the sea. It was like the construction of Dujiangyan, investing a large amount of concrete into the sea, and then paving the port on it. This is a deep-water port built manually, so that large sailboats no longer need to dock on the shallow seaside, and unloading goods one by one with flat sand boats. Both efficiency and safety have been greatly improved.

Now, the ports still built to the south are particularly lively. There are a whole basket of celebrities from all walks of life in the capital. They are rare on weekdays. The exquisite four-wheeled carriages with smooth black and red paint, which have the feeling of later cars, are densely packed with carriages. The businessmen and literati in long robes and mink hats are wearing emerging long dresses, hugging a large-brimmed hat with feathers, and socialite ladies with round fans. The bustling and lively ones are no less than the Shanghai beach that emerged in the late Qing Dynasty.

However, such a large group of high-ranking people were not here to go to the dance. Today, the headline of the Imperial Capital Daily, the three imperial battleships including the Dragon King of the North Sea were returned today!

Even if Mao Jue visited Tianjin Port in person, of course he was one level higher than the celebrities below. Next to the port, the Imperial Hotel specially built by the Ministry of Works is a fifth-floor round tower of high-rise buildings of this era. Mao Jue was slightly excited and slightly depressed holding his telescope and looking into the sea.

Others looked at the sea like a high-necked goose, and he had already seen the mighty sails of three huge sailboats.

No wonder Mao Jue was depressed. Since the ninth year of Chongzhen, Mao Jue sent expedition ships to sail eastward every year to explore routes to the New World. But I don’t know if it was the impact of this small ice age. The northern route was particularly cold and difficult to travel. For eleven years, six ships were cut off in the missing and wrecked ships, and almost a thousand people were killed or injured. This was how Mao Jue’s seemingly simple North Pacific route was opened.

The Age of Discovery is indeed an era of fighting against heaven with money and fate.

But at least this investment has made a return now, the money

Last year, the Imperial Fleet had already opened up the Bering Strait, heading south along Alaska, and finally stopped in a warm area of ​​a large offshore island to establish the first colony.

If Mao Jue guessed correctly that area, it should be the third largest city in Canada in later generations and Vancouver, which has a lot of Chinese. Going a little further south, it will be the United States in later generations.

However, the name Vancouver is destined to be destroyed in history in this time and space. Pang Dashan, the commander of the Empire Fleet who was responsible for overseas exploration, carelessly named the place Maple Shugouzi, because the ground is full of maple trees.

These places are too far from the northwest, and even the old colonial empires Spain and the emerging Netherlands have never arrived. They are not afraid of being late for dinner. Although both Britain and France have already surrounded large areas of colonies on the east coast of North America, and France also calls North America New France in a coquettish way, at least, the Ming Dynasty has also caught up with this feast of crows that divide the new world.

The three ships of the North Sea Dragon King also sailed last year. They carried more than 800 Central Plains refugees, 300 Jurchens recruited from Northeast China, 500 Li Koreans, and 500 Japanese went to the new colony to settle and build. The significance of these ships to the Ming Dynasty was no less than that of the Mayflower in the UK.

The ship creaked and leaned against the shore. With the name of the first mate, several rows of sailors were wearing neat blue cotton armor of the Ming Navy, carrying brand new flintlock rifles on their shoulders, and strode down the stairs with meteors. The mighty military appearance and handsome face immediately caused the little girls to scream while covering their mouths. A group of reporters also rushed to scream. My Ming army was in full swing!

But when Mao Jue watched this scene, he put down his telescope with a sneer. History is indeed a little girl who can be dressed up. She has been traveling for more than two months on the sea and is still worried about doing physical work. Even the handsome man has to turn into a sloppy man with a beard.

Before mooring Jin Port, the Expeditionary Force rested for a week at the Lutun Island Military Port in the north. He threw the Expeditionary Force soldiers into the bathhouse for three or four days, and almost marinated them with soap and spices. The three warships that were scarred by the storm during the voyage also received overall maintenance. They pulled down the damaged wood, polished and waxed the whole ship's death parcel. They were as bright as when they left the factory. In the end, even the short-sick and injured soldiers were screened and replaced. They specially came to the beauty pageant in the Tieshan Legion, and dozens of tall and mighty handsome guys were selected to fill the team to fill the scene. Now they are at the forefront.

Of course, Mao Jue did not treat the warriors who had lived and died for him. Although he did not have the chance to receive this honor, the bonus Mao Jue gave them doubled.

This creates the public image of the scene before us!

To be honest, Mao Jue looked down on such a face-saving project in the past, thinking that it was just a waste of money. But now, he only realized that the face-saving project is really not worth losing. Take the present for example! Going out to sea to deceive people to develop colonies and deceive capitalists to take out white money to invest. If you are the boss, invest in a group of idol groups that are very energetic and like a gay group, or a group of bearded and old-fashioned, smelly and sloppy, and you will die at any time?

This toss was really in vain. Even the selected rich and powerful figures in the capital, the ladies who were spraying incense were all leaning over with interest, and a large group of reporters rushed over and handed over the microphone. The scene was once very lively.

This time, Mao Jue brought all his cabinet members. In addition to the Minister of Rites Song Xiance, Sun Chuanting, and Hong Chengchou, who influenced the image of the empire, no ancient style beauties. Looking at this scene, Mao Jue also turned around and smiled easily, and tilted his head to the bottom.
Chapter completed!