Chapter 618: The good cow of Formosa, the Dutch will never let go

The senior official of Dongfan, Relan Chacheng.

When he learned that the Ming Navy warship appeared, Governor Oward Watt urgently convened members of the Council, senior businessmen and several senior officers to hold a meeting.

As the ninth governor of the company in Formosa (original meaning "beautiful", this is the name of the Dutch for Dongfan Island), he took office only last year and could not make a decision on many things here.

, or it may never be able to do it.

For example, Batavia responded to the matter of Mingguo asking them to withdraw from Formosa within a time limit, and there was nothing to discuss.

But considering that the Ming Dynasty navy has appeared nearby more and more frequently recently and the number of warships is also large, Oward thought it would be safer to hold a meeting to discuss it.

In this way, if something bad happened, he, the governor who had just taken office, would not be blamed for the head office. That's right, Oward was not optimistic about the reply from the headquarters to Mingguo.

The headquarters' impression of Ming Kingdom is definitely the same as before, but since he took office, he felt that this mysterious and ancient country was undergoing some huge changes.

Unfortunately, at present, no one is facing this change, whether it is the company headquarters or Formosa.

Seeing that all the participants arrived, Oward knocked the table with a cigarette gun and said, "The meeting is now on - the envoy of the Ming Kingdom is here again. Don't think about it, we must ask if we took the initiative to evacuate from Formosa.

.What do you think? Tell me."

An older member of the Council of Justice laughed and said, "Dear Governor, does this matter still need to be held to waste everyone's time?"

Didn’t the headquarters give a reply long ago - let’s evacuate Formosa? The Ming people were simply dreaming.

No, even if they dream, they shouldn't dream of such a good thing."

Senior businessman Gerder earnestly mentioned a series of data.

He said: "Currently, the company has 25 shopping malls in East India (East Asia). In addition to the Japanese shopping malls with the highest profit each year, Formosa shopping malls have always ranked second, accounting for about 25.6% of the company's annual total profits.

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Nowadays, you can receive more than 100,000 Dutch guilds every year by just collecting taxes. The total wealth transported back to the Netherlands from here every year is as high as 400,000 and 500,000, which is nearly 400,000 tonnes of gold.

It can be said that Formosa is a very good cow for the company - it has a lot of milk and is effortless to squeeze.

In this case, how could the company give up Formosa by just one word from Ming people? It’s impossible.”

Another MP, also an important official who has worked here for many years, continued: "The company started operating Formosa more than 20 years ago, and during this period it defeated the Spanish, Japanese and even the Zheng family of Ming Dynasty.

Competitors.

He also tamed many indigenous people and Ming people who came across the sea. Now he divided this place into seven administrative regions, established many strongholds, castles, artillery towers, and even many churches and schools, which allowed tens of thousands of people to be baptized.

It can be said that we have established a mature and solid rule here. Why did the Ming people let us withdraw with just one word? This is absolutely impossible!"

As an official who has worked here for many years, Delong seems to have a certain feeling for this place and is quite excited when speaking.

The rest of the people were driven by Delong's emotions and also made statements-

"We will evacuate with just one word from the Ming people? This is simply a joke."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"We won't leave, see what the Ming people can do. Just rely on their broken ships and those cannons that imitate us, if they dare to attack Relanzha City, they will definitely lose their teeth!"

"Those yellow-skinned monkeys are just a group of pigs. They probably will only clamor and have no ability to come and attack us. In my opinion, I don't have to pay attention to them."

"Actually, it's good that they come to attack, and we just happened to teach them a lesson. Then we attacked them along the coast and allowed them to go to mainland China to do business.

In that case, we can get more profits without having to share them with those cunning Ming merchants.”

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It was not surprising that everyone knew that they didn't want to evacuate.

In fact, he didn't think he should evacuate - if he really evacuated, wouldn't his position as Governor General of Formosa be gone?

He just wanted everyone to pay attention to the Ming Dynasty's warships and army and be prepared to deal with bad situations.

So, after everyone finished speaking, he looked at the company's top military commander, Colonel Connor.

"Col. It's been so many days since the Ming people's warships have been figured out? If the Ming people really come to attack Formosa, how are our army ready to deal with it?"

Connor is a handsome middle-aged officer with a Dutch military pride between his eyebrows.

He heard this and said, "Is there any important warship of the Ming people's warships? Anyway, the cannons on their ten warships may not be as many as those on one of ours.

In addition, please don’t forget that our city of Jelancha is the most solid defense system in the world today. There are hundreds of cannons in the upper and lower castles.

What's more, on the northern sand island and on the North Tail Line Island, we also built artillery towers and bastions, and the Ming people's warships may not be able to get close to our city of Jelanzha."

Speaking of this, Conner paused, looked around everyone, and then continued: "The stupid Ming people gave us three months to evacuate, but they didn't know that they gave us enough time to prepare.

Today, we have twice as many formal soldiers in Formosa than before, with more than 1,800 people.

In addition, a fleet of up to a dozen warships was cruising around Formosa.

As long as they find that the dilapidated boats of the Ming Dynasty are coming to attack us, they will appear in time and intercept them at sea, so that they can understand that we, the Dutch, are the best sea hunters!"

Slap sex!

After hearing Connor's words, the participants couldn't help but applaud excitedly, as if they had seen the Ming people fleeing in a crushing defeat.

Speaking of which, they were actually quite looking forward to defeating the Ming people.

Since its establishment more than 40 years ago, it has been trying to open the door to Ming Kingdom so that the company can open its arms and colonize Ming Kingdom like those island countries in Southeast Asia.

However, in the past few decades, they have never won any wars related to the Ming Dynasty.

In Penghu, they were driven away more than 40 years ago, and were defeated by the Ming government army more than 20 years ago. They fled in a panic and were forced to choose Formosa as the colonial transit place.

In Macau, they first wanted to directly attack and occupy Macau more than 20 years ago, but suffered a crushing defeat. A few years later, they tried to block Macau to achieve certain political and commercial purposes, but they suffered another crushing defeat.

It seemed as if it had something to do with the Ming Kingdom, and the Portuguese who were beaten by them in other parts of the world became inexplicably powerful.

This made the Dutch, as the emerging overlord of the ocean, very dissatisfied.

Many people believe that Penghu and Macau suffered several defeats because they were close to the mainland and had many personnel on the other side. As support, the boats and ships bullied the few with more and no matter how much they consumed, they defeated them.

If a battle occurred on the ocean far from the mainland, the Ming and Portuguese would never be able to defeat the excellent Dutch navy.

Therefore, this time, I was very excited to learn that the Ming people forced the company to evacuate Formosa, such as Connor and other Dutch soldiers.

They all felt that this inevitable war would be a great opportunity for Dutch soldiers to prove themselves and avenge their past shame!

So, when the applause fell, Connor stood up and said, "Governor and all the participants, on behalf of the military, I suggest that this time the envoys and warships of the Ming people will be detained, and to show them that we will never compromise!"

Second update.

Good night ~
Chapter completed!