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Therefore, when Chixian City surrendered to the Ming army, He Bin fled Zeelandia with all the Han people, and joined the Ming army in a swarm.

"These hateful barbarians, I must skin them." Aoi was furious. His most trusted Han people were finally confirmed to be spies of the Ming army, and the whole defense plan became a joke.And Zeelandia is just a lonely castle, with only a thousand or so Dutch soldiers in it, plus various other residents who crowded the castle.

"Your Excellency, there are too many people in the city, I'm afraid there will be problems." Aldorp said worriedly.

"The food and water sources in the castle are sufficient, what's the problem?" Kui Yi felt that he was well prepared and there shouldn't be any problems.

"Your Excellency, there are only a few "secret rooms" in the castle, but there are thousands of people waiting to use them. In just a few days, the stench in the castle is already overwhelming..." Aldorp's words made Kui burst into tears. Nausea, he could recall the scene of sewage flowing in Paris, a big European city.

"Then put it in a wooden barrel first, and then throw it outside the city." Kui Yi thought it was too clever for him to come up with this method.

The Ming army's attack on Zeelandia took place on the seventh day of May. At that time, the entire Zeelandia had been surrounded by warships, and the Ming army landed from the most favorable beachhead.

This is a real landing battle. The marines of the Ming army faced the guns of the Dutch and began to snatch the residential area outside Zeelandia Castle.

Albrecht Herbert was a mercenary from Prussia who had been serving the Dutch in Zeelandia for several years.If he hadn't traveled across the ocean, he might have died on the battlefield of the Thirty Years War.

In order to resist the Ming army that started to land, Albrecht Herbert and Aldorp prepared to burn the residential area, where there was also a warehouse with nearly [-] deerskins piled up inside.

"Quick, you lazy pigs, burn these houses down, burn them all, don't leave a blade of grass to the wise," Aldorp yelled, and he began to feel fear coming from all sides .

"Boom!" As soon as Aldorp's words fell, there was a gunshot from a street corner, followed by a loud gunshot.

This was Aldorp's first street fighting with the regular Ming army. He escaped the battle a few days ago, but I don't know if he was lucky in today's battle.

"Damn Albrecht, what are you still doing, shoot back quickly." Aldorp kicked his subordinates while running backwards, he just wanted to run closer to the gate of Zeelandia Castle.

However, the tactics of the Ming army were very stable. They were not in a hurry to advance, but first established a position, and then began to push the artillery to land.

Because of the cover of a large number of houses in the residential area, the cannons on Zeelandia Castle had a greatly reduced impact on the landing. A large number of Ming troops quickly entered the position facing the Dutch army relying on the cover of the wall.

"Why hasn't the forward position been taken yet?" Zheng Chenggong stood on the boat and watched the gunpowder smoke on the front line. He was very anxious. This battle has been fought for seven or eight days, but Zhelanzha has not been taken yet, and the first batch of food and grass has been exhausted. , the second batch of grain transport ships have returned to Penghu.

Zheng Chenggong knew that the tens of thousands of troops consumed a lot every day, and there was no food in this place, so this battle was purely wasted.In particular, the distance to transport grain is too long, and typhoons are likely to be encountered along the way.

"The cannon has already been transported up, and the shelling must start soon." Liu Guoxuan said.

"Boom boom boom..." The cannons of the Ming army fired.

After a burst of shelling, Aldorp ignored his subordinates who were the first to turn around and ran away. He knew how powerful the Ming army's artillery was. If he ran slower, he might never even think about returning to the castle.

Seeing that the captain had run away, Albrecht quickly rolled on the ground and ran away.But the other Dutch troops were not so lucky. Many Dutch troops were blown to pieces by the artillery fire of the Ming army, and their flesh and blood flew all over the place.

Aoi stood on the top of the castle, the battle in front of him did not scare him, because he was safe.On the contrary, he was even more afraid of what would happen to him after the castle was breached, so Kuiyi didn't dare to abandon the city easily. If a Ming army said they wouldn't kill him now, he wouldn't dare to leave the castle.

"Master Guoxing, we finally captured it in a serious manner." Liu Guoxuan said happily looking at a large pile of deerskins.

"It's better to take down Zelan Zhe quickly. Just send a ship to Siming for these things." Zheng Chenggong naturally looked down on this little wealth, and what he wanted was military exploits.

……

Along the coast of Ningbo, Zhu Youjian has been here for half a month.

In addition to waiting for the good news from the other side of the strait, Zhu Youjian is still inspecting the maritime trade and fishery situation along the coast.Of course, these are just appearances. What he really needs to consider is the development potential of Daming's navy and shipbuilding industry.

Xiong Lijing was by Zhu Youjian's side. Anyway, the Marine Corps that went to sea with Zheng Chenggong this time was also adapted from the [-]th Army.

Because of the long-term lack of attention to the ocean, fishermen and fisheries along the coast of the mainland are in a very primitive state.The small fishing boat in front of Zhu Youjian and the fishing net made of broken hemp made it impossible to imagine that this is a large-scale fishery that can be fished in the ocean.

"Why don't you use rubber bands to weave nets?" Zhu Youjian frowned. With all the rags, he guessed that these fishermen would not dare to go even ten miles away from the coastline.

"Report to the emperor, because of poverty." A thin, short, black charcoal young man replied.

"Are you Yao Qisheng?" Zhu Youjian looked at the young man in front of him and asked.

"My minister is Yao Qisheng." Yao Qisheng replied.

Yao Qisheng, a Jinshi in the second year of Kangxi, and Shi Lang's best partner in attacking Taiwan, is a great talent.This is not because Zhu Youjian has read "Kangxi Dynasty", but this person is indeed famous in history, even more famous than Zhou Peigong.

Yao Qisheng is right. Han people are different from Europeans. Han people like to eat freshwater fish and are always afraid of seafood. Han people think sea fish smells bad.As a result, the coastal fishery has been unable to develop, far less than Europe and Japan pay as much attention to seafood.Han people only love pearls and corals in the sea.

Without a good income, not to mention big boats, even fishing nets don’t use good materials. Where can the crew resources come from? Is it necessary to cut firewood to set up a boat?The Thirteenth Army reorganized some marines, but unfortunately, far more were eliminated than selected.

"Yao Qisheng, tell me, how to make the coastal fishermen rich?" Zhu Youjian asked.

"I believe that coastal prosperity is nothing more than two aspects: land cargo and sea transportation, and sea cargo internal transportation." Yao Qisheng said.

"Tell me carefully." Zhu Youjian was very interested.

"Land and sea transportation is to open the sea and do business with foreigners; domestic transportation of sea goods is to transport coastal products to the inland for sale. However, both of these are business matters, and I am afraid that they will not be welcomed by the world." Kuaiji people Yao Qisheng is an authentic Confucian disciple, but this guy is eclectic and does not follow Confucian routines at all.

"If I send you to Taiwan, what property can you bring me?" Zhu Youjian looked at Yao Qisheng seriously.

Yao Qisheng thought for a while and asked, "Let the minister mobilize manpower?"

Zhu Youjian was a little disappointed when he heard this. Could it be that this guy is planning to develop a land in Taiwan? But the words have already been said, and he doesn't want to take them back.

"Within 50 people, at your disposal." Zhu Youjian stretched out a slap.

Yao Qisheng lowered his head and thought for a while and replied: "First is the buckskin, then the big fish..."

"Wait, what is a big fish?" Zhu Youjian didn't think that the big fish that Yao Qisheng was talking about was bigger fish.

"My Majesty, the big fish is the whale." An accompanying official explained.

"Oh, so it's a whale!" Zhu Youjian became interested and continued to ask: "What else?"

"There are also seafood and sucrose, which are small businesses that lose money..." Yao Qisheng kept talking for half an hour.

"Then what should we do if we are on the coast of the mainland?" Zhu Youjian saw that Yao Qisheng had obviously done his homework, and it was obviously related to the dispatch of troops to Taiwan this time. Many people's eyes were on Taiwan.

"Then it's better to let these people go to Nanyang." Yao Qisheng's tone was a bit self-defeating and emotional.

"Oh, why is this?" Zhu Youjian was stunned. An ordinary official would not dare to say such a thing in front of the emperor. Abandoned people or bandits.

"There are too many monks and too little porridge." Yao Qisheng replied.

"I appoint you as the governor of Taiwan, and allow you to recruit 50 people from the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang to move to the Taiwan Strait. You must show me that this is not a loss-making business as soon as possible." Zhu Youjian blurted out.

Chapter 457: Zhu Youjian Layouts Taiwan Island

Zhu Youjian has thought about the development of Taiwan Island countless times since he met Zheng Chenggong.

Zhu Youjian can't wait for Taiwan to slowly reclaim it for hundreds of years. The reclamation of the world in this place can only rely on time to accumulate, and what Zhu Youjian needs is not time.

From the geographical point of view, Zhu Youjian also does not want to slowly develop ocean fishing from the coast of the mainland. On the contrary, in this era, relatively closed and independent areas with natural fishery resources and rich forest resources are the best choices.

The ship of the mainland is too big, and Chinese people like to flock to implement any policy, so it is necessary to designate an area as a pilot.