Gan Hui persuaded people to publicize Storm's statement, and the fleet's bad luck was eliminated, and its will to fight became stronger!

With the blessing of Empress Mazu, the command of the military governor, good warships, and the results of hard training, our army will surely win!

They actively repaired the damaged areas, raised their sails, and headed toward Batavia with murderous intent!

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In early spring, Batavia is full of bright spring scenery. Compared with the people in the northern continent who are still stuck in the snow, people here wear single clothes and are very comfortable (the highest temperature is above 30 degrees and the lowest temperature is above 20 degrees).

The so-called Batavia is Jakarta in Indonesia in another parallel space. It was founded in the 15th century AD. Its original name was pa, which means "coconut" in Malay, so Jakarta is also called "Coconut City". Those who come here

The first Europeans were the Portuguese, who built the first fortress, and the fortress port is still called Sunda pa. Sunda is translated as "Sunda", and the strait between Java and Sumatra is the Sunda Strait, and the entire

The areas of Malaya, Singapore, and Indonesia are also known as the Greater Sunda Islands. The Sunda Strait is an important international shipping channel connecting the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

In the early 16th century AD, Jakarta was conquered by Fatahira (h) of the Hindu Kingdom of Bandon and renamed Jakarta, which means "City of Glory and Victory". June 22, 1527 was recorded as the official founding day of Jakarta.

In 1619, the Dutch East India Company conquered this place, named it Batavia, and became the capital of the Dutch East Indies.

The Dutch's eastern commercial colonial empire was based on the island of Java, centered on the city of Batavia, extending as far west as Persia, India and Ceylon (today's Sri Lanka), extending east to the Maluku Spice Islands, and north to China.

and Japan, turning the Netherlands into a huge colonial empire.

In 1619, the ambitious Jan Pedelson Kun began to serve as the third governor of the Dutch East India Company. It was he who laid a solid foundation for the Dutch Eastern commercial colonial empire. It was under his rule that the city of Batavia

After leading the attack and driving away the local Banten army, the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company's empire was established. It was the political basis for the Dutch rule over Java and even the entire East Indies colony.

The permanent occupation and management of Bach cost the Dutch a lot of money and energy. In the early days, the area was sparsely populated, lacked food supplies, and had no wood to build ships and houses. The surrounding area was a desolate swamp with few villages inhabited, and floods in the rainy season

There are often tigers, wild boars, rhinoceroses, etc., and the area is also surrounded by hostility and threats from the local Japanese kingdom.

The Dutch transported huge boulders from the quarries on the Coromandel coast of India, cut teak from Zabala in East Java, collected coral stones from the local area, and recruited a large number of reliable and hard-working Chinese workers from China to build on the ruins.

The prototype of Bach. Major construction projects in Bach, such as the excavation of canals and drainage channels, the construction of houses and harbors, the construction of city walls and protective fortresses, were mostly contracted and built by the Chinese. Chinese workers were familiar with brick making and bricklaying techniques, which made the Dutch

People praise him very much.

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In fact, the Dutch who entered Southeast Asia mainly carried out their activities under the name of the Dutch East India Company. The company was founded on March 20, 1602. The company's logo consists of V connecting O and C, and the A above is the abbreviation of Amsterdam.

After the establishment of the Dutch East India Company, the Netherlands (States-nds) gave the company a 21-year monopoly to conduct colonial activities in Asia. It was the first multinational company in the world and the first company to issue stocks.

This is also the world's first mega-corporation. The government holds shares, has the right to support wars, sign treaties with foreign countries, mint currency, establish colonies and other rights. In the past 200 years, it has had an important influence in world trade.

, pays 18% dividends to the government every year, sends a large number of merchant ships and personnel overseas, develops trade, and establishes colonies.

Its profits mainly came from the occupied Spice Islands, and huge profits were made by transporting the spices produced in the Islands and elsewhere - pepper, cloves and nutmeg - to the Netherlands. For example, in 1610, the Dutch East India Company

The spices shipped back to the Netherlands were worth 8.8 million guilders. At that time, the price of goods was that the annual salary of a Dutch teacher was about 220 guilders. The spices alone could support 40 million teachers.

At that time, due to poor refrigeration technology, in order to preserve meat (long and sturdy livestock had to be slaughtered in the autumn, but there was more to eat at that time), Europeans had to use a lot of spices, but Europe did not produce spices, and those who traveled overland

The spices shipped to Europe were so valuable that only nobles could use them.

It was not until the Age of Discovery that spices could be transported in large quantities from Asia to Europe via sea routes. Only then could more people in Europe have meat to eat. To a certain extent, Europeans grew taller thanks to the meat preserved by spices.

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Then there are raw silk, textiles, porcelain and tea (the export of tea was not strong at first, but with the Southeast Prefecture’s promotion to Hong Mao Fan, tea sales strengthened), mainly from the Ming Dynasty. When Batavia was first founded, the Dutch colonists tried their best to induce them.

Chinese merchant ships went to trade to obtain large quantities of Chinese silk, porcelain, tea, etc. These goods were shipped to the European market for sale, and huge profits could be made. For example, in 1621, the Dutch East India Company trafficked Chinese raw silk to Europe, with a "gross profit of 317%."

. When they enter and exit the customs in Ba city, they can increase their customs revenue. Therefore, Kun did not hesitate to send ships to blockade Manila occupied by the Spanish, Macao occupied by the Portuguese and the ports in the Penghu Islands, and also coerced and induced Chinese merchant ships to go to Pakistan.

Davia Trade.

Chinese merchants (that is, smugglers) can also make huge profits by transporting silk fabrics, porcelain, tea, dried and fresh fruits, brocades, white cotton and other items to Batavia. For example, in the late Ming Dynasty, the fortune orange "was only 5 cents per 100 kilograms in China."

, and when shipped overseas, every 4 oranges were worth 2 cents. A businessman named Su He, who was poor and could not buy valuables, earned thousands of gold just by selling lucky oranges."

OK, that ends the background introduction.

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Wow...

The rain was heavy, and Governor Jacques Specx (a veteran colonialist, the Dutchman Jacques Specx led two ships to Hirado in 1609 and obtained a seal of seal from Tokugawa Ieyasu to allow trade) across the

The large glass window looked at the port in the rain, silently.

This governor has short blond hair, a mustache, bright eyes, and a strong aura.

The city of Batavia where he is located is located in the coastal area. It is the political, economic and cultural fortress of the Dutch colonists. After ten years of construction, it has established ports, forts, city walls, residential areas and other decent-sized structures.

Trade with the Netherlands is very frequent.

Every year around New Year's Day, Dutch merchant ships set sail from Amsterdam and arrive in Batavia in August or September (it can be seen that the speed is very fast, and the Dutch sea coachmen are not boasting), making Batavia very lively.

There, the goods collected from various places are packed and shipped onto the ship, and then they set sail back to Europe from October to December.

The Governor's Mansion is a double-story building built in 1626. It is a small European-style building. Every time he sits on the second floor of the Governor's Mansion to work, he can see the port (Yan Changwu's Governor's Mansion halfway up the seaside of Kaohsiung Military Port has a similar layout.

, it seems that the world's heroes have the same vision), seeing the large number of merchant ships in the port, I felt proud and no longer tired.

It’s all my own merit!

But a series of information he received recently disturbed his mind. First, some European shipowners who were going to trade with the Southeast Prefecture, a local government under the powerful Eastern Ming Dynasty, all said the same thing when passing Batavia.

New warships are constantly being launched in the Southeast Prefecture (this cannot be hidden from anyone), and it is obvious what they want to do.

Among the four red-haired countries that are mainly active in Asia, the British are at war with the Southeast Prefecture. They even sold their battleships to the Southeast Prefecture. The Spaniards and Portuguese have always been at peace with the Southeast Prefecture, while the Dutch are at peace with the Southeast Prefecture.

In two big games in a row, it is inevitable that Southeast Prefecture wants to defeat the Dutch.

Speke thought for a while and asked the footman to fetch "Mr. Basten".

This Mr. Basten is the captain of the armed merchant ship "Dolphin". The "Dolphin" is almost the largest ship owned by the East India Company. It has a double gun deck and has 54 guns (originally there were not that many, but it was refitted by the Governor).

), 26 of which are 24-pound guns, which are very powerful.

Due to its heavy tonnage and slow speed, the "Dolphin" did not participate in the last expedition to invade Southeast Prefecture.

After a few words of conversation with Mr. Basten, Speke roared angrily: "You damn guy, you actually sold all the 24-pounders to Southeast Mansion!"
Chapter completed!