After a while, Wei Baihu was brought in.

"I have met the adults..."

"Old Wei, come on, come on, come on, are you so polite to me. I have talked to you so many times, it's all my brothers, why are you doing this?" Ye Rongbai went forward and stopped him without waiting for Wei Baihu to salute him, and smiled and grabbed his hand and let him sit down and talk.

Wei Baihu had no choice but to bow, "Sir, let's not talk about your higher grades and a lot of low-ranking positions. You still have a title. Now you always wait for low-ranking positions like this, and you feel uncomfortable in your heart."

"You, you are not going to be strong?" Ye Rongbai laughed and scolded, "You and I have this set. Not to mention that your households are all legacy households, just say that you also have a title? You are not an outsider, and this southern land is not a local area. If you are brothers, there are no one around. Who are you going to show these tricks?"

Wei Baihu suddenly laughed. Ye Rongbai was right. His family is not an ordinary family. He is a family of Jinyiwei. If he really wants to be a military post, he is already a lieutenant colonel. Moreover, Wei Baihu is indeed a title. Although his title is not as good as Ye Rongbai, he is just a second-class baron, but this identity means that he is also a nobleman.

"By the way, I just finished harvesting the crops. What's the matter with me in such a hurry?" Ye Rongbai asked after sitting down and giving up a cup of tea.

Wei Baihu sighed and said, "It's not the business of those Westerners."

"What? The Europeans in the west are causing trouble again? Is they a Dutch or a Portuguese this time?" Ye Rongbai looked a little solemn in an instant.

When the Ming Dynasty announced its sovereignty over the southern continent, the Dutch had already landed in the northwest region of the southern continent.

But compared to the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch were just landings of the people, and did not directly declare sovereignty to this land like the Ming Dynasty.

Over the years, the Dutch have had a camp in the northwest of the south and northwest of the bay, which is opposite the bay to the west of Luogang. Although this camp has been basically abandoned for a long time, no Dutch have officially stationed here.

But when the Ming Dynasty officially discovered the Southern Land and announced to the world the Ming Dynasty's sovereignty over the Southern Land and began to immigrate to the population to develop the Southern Land, the Dutch who didn't care about the Southern Land suddenly emerged and landed again in the camp that had been abandoned before, and built a small military fortress.

The Dutch did not pay attention to the actions of the Dutch at first, but soon discovered this situation. Ye Rongbai, as the highest-level official of the Ming Dynasty in the Southern Land, immediately negotiated with the Dutch, reaffirming the Ming Dynasty's sovereignty over the Southern Land, and demanding that the other party demolish the military fortress and withdraw from the Southern Land to avoid military conflicts.

The Dutch did not directly refuse the Ming Dynasty's strong response, but the Dutch adopted a strategy of delay, indicating that there were uncertainties about the Ming Dynasty's sovereignty in the southern continent. According to international practice, the Netherlands, as a first-comer, has at least the interests of the current region. The Ming Dynasty's definition of all sovereignty in the southern continent was different, which required discussions between the two countries before deciding.

In addition, the Dutch also said that the other side hopes to resolve this issue reasonably through negotiations and other means on the basis of facing the friendship between the Netherlands and the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, although the Dutch had partially avoided it, they actually had to not demolish the military fortresses. They even continued to strengthen and expand the territory they occupied during the year, and at the same time, they also added hundreds of troops to the land to confront the Ming people in Luogang.

From a military perspective, Ye Rongbai is fully capable of pulling out this nail directly. Not to mention the others, the Ye family made a fortune in the maritime trade. The Ye family has its own huge fleet in the South China Sea. The combined number of these merchant ships is quite large, and there are several armed merchant ships that have been modified with warships after retirement from the Navy.

With the ability of the Ye family, they can handle this matter directly by sending private troops. Although the Dutch had military fortresses there, their garrison was less than 200. These people were simply native chickens and dogs under the strong ships and guns. But Ye Rongbai could not do this because he now represents the Ming Dynasty. Once he did this, it would affect the Ming Dynasty's foreign affairs and policies.

For this reason, Ye Rongbai sent a report to the local area half a year ago, reported the matter in detail, and suggested that the Ming Dynasty directly expel it by force. However, the official order from the Ming Dynasty court had not yet arrived, so Ye Rongbai had no choice but to continue to argue with the other party on the one hand, and on the other hand, he asked the hundred households in Luogang to stare at these Dutch people in case the other party did something else.

Even so, the Dutch people did not stop and even colluded with the Portuguese privately. Just two months ago, a Portuguese merchant ship came from the Dutch, which not only brought some supplies to the garrisoned Dutch, but also landed on more than a dozen Portuguese officers and soldiers.

Today, Wei Baihu suddenly ran over to find Ye Rongbo and said it was Westerners' business. Ye Rongbo immediately thought of the Dutch and Portuguese over there.

But who would have thought that the following words of Wei Baihu made Ye Rongbo stunned, because Wei Baihu told Ye Rongbo that this time was not only the Dutch and the Portuguese, but just now he received news that an armed merchant ship under the banner of Britain came to the Dutch military fortress, and many people boarded ashore.

"This matter is serious?" Ye Rongbai asked hurriedly.

"Sir, how many brains do you dare to talk nonsense? This is of course true!" Wei Baihu replied with a wry smile.

Ye Rongbai stood up and frowned.

Luogang is far away from the local area, and it is inconvenient to transmit information between each other, but Ye Rongbai still learned a lot of news from the local area of ​​the Ming Dynasty through the Ye family channels.

Not long ago, the war in Xinming came to an end, and the Ming Dynasty won a huge victory in Xinming. The victory of Xinming also changed the attitude of various countries towards the Ming Dynasty. Since last year, Western countries have undergone subtle changes in the attitude of the Ming Dynasty. This is deeply felt by Ye Rongbai, who is far away from the Ming Dynasty. It is precisely for this reason that the Dutch people have such courage to set up military buildings under his nose.

Now, according to what Ye Rongbo thought, with the end of the Xinming War, the Dutch and the Portuguese would calm down. Isn’t the same the news from the Ming Dynasty? But in fact, it was not the case that Ye Rongbo was told. The change of the ministers of the two countries in the Ming Dynasty did not affect the southern continent, and even the British are coming now.

"What are they going to do?" For a moment, this question flashed through Ye Rongbai's mind. Ye Rongbai could not sit still, and immediately said to Wei Baihu: "Let's go!"

“Where to go?”

"Where else? Of course it is the dock. I want to take the boat to see what's going on!" Ye Rongbai said, walking straight to the door. Wei Baihu was about to call him, but a few seconds later, Ye Rongbai's figure was quickly seen. Seeing this, Wei Baihu hurriedly followed.
Chapter completed!