In the Ryukyu waters, a Dutch merchant fleet is passing here, and they are heading to Japan. The merchant ships of this merchant fleet are all armed merchant ships and two warships are protected.&1t;/p>

In this clear sea, some Dutch people are in a very good mood to catch fish on the deck.&1t;/p>

"Look, there is a ship in front, Oh! Oh my God! It's a fleet." Suddenly a Dutch sailor discovered the situation ahead, and a fleet appeared in the waters ahead of their merchant fleet.&1t;/p>

This fleet was flying the Yellow Dragon Flag. When the Dutch saw these flags, an ominous premonition rose to their hearts. Sure enough, the fleet came straight to them.&1t;/p>

These are all warships of the Royal Fleet of the Ming Dynasty. Although they are not gunboats, they are equipped with artillery on the bow and stern, and the tonnage is larger than that of Dutch warships. The largest warship is about 1,300 tons.&1t;/p>

There are fifteen large warships, and there are more than 30 small and medium-sized warships of various types, with many naval officers and soldiers on it.&1t;/p>

This Dutch merchant fleet composed of more than a dozen merchant ships exploded immediately.&1t;/p>

Facing the Ming warships rushing in, the two Dutch warships had no choice but to flee in a panic. Once they stopped the shelling, they were likely to be surrounded by the Ming warships and had to enter the platoon battle. That would inevitably be done. The Dutch had seen the Ming Navy's ability to fight on the sea, which was no worse than their Netherlands.&1t;/p>

The remaining dozen Dutch armed merchant ships could only escape separately. However, these Dutch merchant ships sailed relatively slowly. After some pursuit, the warships of the Royal Fleet of the Ming Dynasty successfully intercepted most of the merchant ships, and only a few merchant ships ran away in the chaos.&1t;/p>

Many of the Dutch armed merchant ships tried to resist, but were severely taught a lesson. These armed merchant ships mainly have some ability in platoon combat, but the warships of the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty used platoon combat as the main method of combat, and were simply seeking death.&1t;/p>

The Royal Navy's military port in Ryukyu has officially started to operate. The Royal Navy has sent some forces to intercept Dutch merchant ships and Chinese smuggling merchant ships in Ryukyu waters.&1t;/p>

The Dutch were really in trouble this time. If the Ming Dynasty wanted to deal with them, it would be absolutely easy for them to be in the Asian waters. However, the Ming court in the past did not have the awareness of investing its strength on the sea. In other words, it was only since ancient times that China had a great disaster, but the Japanese pirates had been suppressed before.&1t;/p>

The Ryukyu military port just opened. The ‘business’ was obviously very good. In just three months, the Dutch merchant fleet was intercepted two batches and 21 merchant ships were intercepted. China smuggled merchant ships and intercepted more than 30.&1t;/p>

The main reason why the Royal Navy can intercept these merchant ships in Ryukyu is that the merchant ships sail slowly. Moreover, these merchant fleets cannot have too much escort force.&1t;/p>

The Dutch sent several warships over here and they were useless. Several warships had to run away against the large number of warships in the Royal Fleet.&1t;/p>

The big pirate Li Dan did not have gunboats in his hands, let alone compete with the Royal Fleet in armed manner. The main combat method these pirates adopted was on the platoon battle, but these pirates obviously could not have so many warships.&1t;/p>

What caused the Dutch and Li Dan to suffer huge losses was not only the routes in the Ryukyu waters, but also the Royal Fleet of the Ming Dynasty also set up a military port in the Penghu waters to intercept Dutch merchant ships and search for civilian ships. Once Japanese cargo was found on these ships, the ships would be seized immediately.&1t;/p>

What is the fastest way to get rich?&1t;/p>

Robbery!&1t;/p>

This is the usual means of wealth for Westerners. Working to get rich is too slow, and robbery is the fastest way to wealth. Therefore, Westerners robbery everywhere around the world, and it is completely a robber group.&1t;/p>

At this time, the Ming Dynasty, a civilized and etiquette country, also began to plunder on the sea. However, the silver was a huge profit.&1t;/p>

In just about three months, more than 60 large and small merchant ships were robbed. Basically, each ship had a large number of cargo, all of which were handed over to the Royal Trading Company for processing, with a value of more than 50,000 taels. At the same time, a large number of merchant ships were obtained, most of which could be directly put into transportation, and a few needed repairs and repairs.&1t;/p>

By the third year of the Apocalypse, the Royal Marine Transport Company had more than 15o maritime transport ships, which was a fast development.&1t;/p>

Qian Wan and Royal Capital also own hundreds of merchant ships.&1t;/p>

Most of these merchant ships are conducting offshore transportation to the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the Yangtze River waterline, as well as the coastal waters of Zhejiang to Northern Zhili are the busiest.&1t;/p>

After reclaiming Taiwan, the number of merchant ships sailing to Taiwan and Fujian has increased.&1t;/p>

Of course, in addition to the merchant ships of Royal Capital, there are also many private merchant ships, which also participated in the transportation of these routes. The private merchant ships on these routes are legal. After the establishment of the Royal Navy, it also divided some of its forces to cruise these sailings.&1t;/p>

Tianjin Port, in the third year of the Apocalypse, was already a competition of thousands of sails, and it was extremely busy.&1t;/p>

The North-South cargo flows back and forth, and the official routes of North Korea have gradually become busy, and a large number of private merchant ships have also begun to engage in trade with North Korea. Although North Korea now has tariffs, many commodities sold to North Korea still have a certain profit.&1t;/p>

However, the trade with North Korea does not have much huge profits under the existence of tariffs, but it doesn’t take too much time to travel, and you can always make some money.&1t;/p>

The route to Taiwan is gradually becoming busy.&1t;/p>

In the third year of the Tianqi period, the Ming Dynasty's reclamation activities in Taiwan were expanding rapidly, and a large number of workers recruited from northern provinces and Fujian were invested in the reclamation activities in Taiwan.&1t;/p>

The reclaiming of Taiwan's Dayuan Port has already been on track. Large areas of sugarcane gardens and rice fields have been opened outside the city. Because there is no frost, sugarcane will grow on its own after being harvested. Generally, sugarcane in the fields will not need to be replaced after two or three years. If it grows for a few years, it will deteriorate. However, compared with those areas where there is frost in winter, it saves much more labor.&1t;/p>

In the third year of the Apocalypse, Royal Capital transferred tens of millions of yuan to Taiwan's reclamation. People and materials were mobilized in large quantities to Taiwan. Among them, private merchant ships undertook a lot of transportation business.&1t;/p>

Taiwan’s garrison brigade has been invested in Taiwan, and soon new expansion will be launched in Taiwan. Four new castles have been added along the western coastline of Taipei, Taichung and Tainan. The opening of Taiwan has entered a stage of improvement in the third year of the Apocalypse.&1t;/p>

The benefits of opening the stage are obviously amazing.&1t;/p>

For every acre of land that is opened, the annual income is at least 1 yuan, and it also provides many jobs to the people of Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

If the Royal Agricultural Company can reclaim tens of millions of acres of land in Taiwan, the annual income will be at least tens of millions of yuan. In addition, the commodity market, taxation, minerals, forestry, fishery and other income formed after the establishment of Taiwan is definitely a money tree.&1t;/p>

Taiwan’s natives are obviously one of the resistances to the opening of Taiwan, while Taiwan’s pirates are another resistance.&1t;/p>

After Zhang Yan governors the Royal Navy, the main task of the 6th Navy team became to wipe out Taiwan's pirates. These pirates were entrenched in coastal ports in Taiwan, waiting for an opportunity to rob civilian ships and plunder coastal villages and towns, which was very harmful to the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

To wipe out these pirates is actually very simple, that is, to copy their nests and make them not rest, supply, or sell stolen goods. After all, these pirate ships are often not very large. As long as the pirates entrenched in Taiwan's ports closer to the coast of China, Chinese local pirates will not be rampant on the coast.&1t;/p>

At the same time, Chinese pirates have a very prominent feature, that is, they like to go to Japan to recruit Japanese pirates in recruiting personnel. At this time, the Ryukyu military port was put into use, and the Royal Navy checked passing ships in Ryukyu and prohibited private merchant ships from going to Japan. Obviously, the blow to the pirates is quite a big blow.&1t;/p>

The 6th Navy Team has a large number of troops, so it is relatively easy to deal with these pirates entrenched in various coastal ports in Taiwan. After ploughing the ground and sweeping the caves, a large number of pirates were wiped out by the 6th Navy Team, and many pirates were captured. These pirates were all sent to the quarries in Taiwan and served on the construction site. They were all free labor.&1t;/p>

Li Dan's Pirate Alliance obviously suffered a big blow in the plowing cave sweeping this time. However, Li Dan's Pirate Group naturally did not collapse so easily.&1t;/p>

They soon completely hooked up with the Dutch, providing various goods for the Dutch. They also hooked up with the Spanish, because Spain was also included in the Ming Dynasty's trade blacklist. The Spanish could not trade through official channels, so they could only rely on these pirate compradors.&1t;/p>

Although Li Dan's business in Japan suffered a big blow, they once again gained wings due to the Spanish trade.&1t;/p>

The Spanish silver is naturally scary.&1t;/p>

At this time, the Royal Navy has only the power to patrol the Taiwan Strait and cut off the maritime route to Japan. It has no power to intervene in the South China Sea, and smuggling is obviously not prevented by coastal martial law. The collusion between local governments and maritime merchants is also very serious.&1t;/p>

Li Dan also circled a lot from Japan, avoided the Ryukyu waters and returned to Fujian, and began to preside over the trade with Nanyang. The business scope of these pirates was also mainly transferred to Nanyang.&1t;/p>

Royal Capital's expansion in maritime interests is basically a step-by-step approach, first including Northeast Asia and Taiwan in the control scope, and then expanding to the Southeast Asia.&1t;/p>

The current Royal Fleet can equip a large number of warships with the advantage of local supply. However, it is relatively lacking in gunboats, so its ability to control the ocean is limited to Northeast Asia and the Taiwan Strait. Going further south, you are a little more willing but not strong enough.&1t;/p>

After the expansion of the business to the north failed, the Dutch were naturally extremely unwilling to accept it. As a newly rising maritime robber gang, she still wanted to compete with the Ming Dynasty at sea. However, after the last naval battle, the Dutch felt that more warships must be mobilized from the local area to defeat the Ming Navy. Therefore, due to the losses of warships, the activities on the coast of the Ming Dynasty have been considered to be somewhat silenced.&1t;/p>

Next year, warships will come to support the Netherlands. Song Ke plans to plunder the Ming Dynasty's merchant ships next year to force the Ming Dynasty to agree to trade with the Netherlands. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!