After all the kindness and power were put into use, it really had a considerable effect. Although people were still half-believing and half-doubted about the statement of the Merchant Army, Zhishao understood that resisting the Merchant Army was a dead end, and judging from what Shang Yi said, it would be good if he could really do this. However, in comparison, the Chinese have stronger trust in the Merchant Army.

After the meeting, Shang Yi left everyone to stay overnight, and entertained them, and gave each leader some gifts. As the saying goes, a slap and a sweet date are given. Therefore, the leader people's favor for the merchant army has increased a little, and they all think that what Shang Yi might be saying is true.

The next day, the leaders of each village and community left the chicken coop. Shang Yi kept all the Chinese representatives and made other arrangements. Because Shang Yi knew that in this era, in the eyes of the indigenous people of Taiwan, the Chinese and Europeans were all outsiders, and whoever treats them well would listen to them, and they could not completely believe it. This was not because Shang Yi did not trust scholars, because in another time and space, after the Dutch occupied Taiwan, he tried his best to promote the relationship between the indigenous people and the Chinese, which led to internal struggles between many Chinese and indigenous people. In contrast, the reliability of Chinese is much greater than that of the indigenous people. Therefore, to gain a foothold in Taiwan, we must first capture them.

Shang Yi first assured everyone that as long as they obey the rule of the merchant army, they would protect their land and property in Taiwan. Because there would be immigrants coming in the future, they were asked to delineate the scope of their respective villages and submit their household registration and land area after they went back. They also admitted that the land was owned by each household and exempted any taxes within five years. At the same time, each village built its own villages, organized a group training and self-protection to achieve joint defense in the village, and the merchant army sent someone to teach them to train. If the merchant army drew the group S officers from each village to fight, they would pay the reward.

After hearing this, everyone thought that what Shang Yi said was good. In fact, every village had the idea of ​​grouping and protecting itself, but no one organized it, and they were afraid that it would anger the Spaniards and attract revenge. Now that the merchant army is leading the way, it is naturally the original intention.

Shang Yi then announced that all the names of Spanish names with colonial colors would be cancelled and changed to names used in later generations. The chicken coop was also officially renamed Keelung, Santiago City was Sanchojiao County, and the city of El Salvador was changed to Sheliao Island, Santo Domingo City was changed to Tamsui County, and Karmalan was changed to Yilan. And the preliminary ruling foundation for the merchant army was established here.

At the same time, Shang Yi sent Aconia and took ten people to the south by boat to contact the Dutch who occupied Tainan, declaring that the Spaniards were expelled from Taiwan by the Ming army, and demanded that the Taiwanese officials in the Netherlands send people to Keelung to negotiate the interests of the two sides living in Taiwan.

In fact, at this time, the Dutch had not many troops in Taiwan, no more than 600. Even in the entire Asian state, the Dutch had only more than 3,000 troops. Because the Netherlands is now busy with the war in Europe, and if they want to increase their troops in Asia in large numbers, they have to wait until the end of the Thirty Years' War.

But after occupying northern Taiwan, Shang Yi did not intend to take advantage of the victory to march and occupy Taiwan in full. Because the Netherlands is no longer as good as Spain under the rivers, and even if it loses Taiwan, it is unable to fight back. The Netherlands is now in a period of rising national strength. In another time and space, the second half of the 17th century was basically the Dutch era, and the "sea coachman" was famous since this time.

Although it is not difficult to defeat the Dutch in Taiwan with the current strength of the Merchant Army, it is also a problem whether or not to defend after occupying the entire Taiwan. The Dutch's strength in Taiwan is not very good, but the strength at sea cannot be underestimated. Once the Dutch in southern Taiwan is expelled, Batavia will definitely dispatch the navy to retake Taiwan. Although the current Merchant Army Navy's navy's warships are enough, and the quality of the navy is far from keeping up, so it does not have the strength to compete with the Dutch Navy. The Spanish mercenary navy of Alisandra can fight, but Shang Yi does not want to put all his hopes on them.

At the same time, the time for the Mingqing Dingchang is about to begin. With the current strength of the Shang army, it is not enough to support the two-line battle. Shang Yi's main energy is still in China. At this time, Shang Yi does not want to establish another powerful opponent behind him.

Another important reason is that there is an important force on the coast of China now, that is, the Zheng Zhilong Group in Guangdong. Before being recruited by the Ming Dynasty, Taiwan has always been Zheng Zhilong's territory, and Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch are also old rivals. Ten years ago, the two sides fought fiercely for control of the Chinese coast.

As a result, both sides won and lost each other. Although Zheng Zhilong had a slight advantage, he was unwilling to make enemies for a long time. Therefore, both sides had to make concessions to each other. Zheng Zhilong withdrew from Taiwan and gave it to the Dutch. At the same time, the Dutch recognized Zheng Zhilong's control over China's coast and did not pursue trade in Fujian. The two sides agreed to trade. The Netherlands retained a route to Manila and Batavia. However, the Dutch trade with Japan required that the Chinese specialties be transported to Taiwan through Zheng Zhilong. After the transfer, the Dutch side would ship to Japan for sale.

Shang Yi had also had the idea of ​​joining forces with Zheng Zhilong to deal with the Dutch, but Zheng Zhilong was not willing to do so. After defeating the Dutch, he would share Taiwan's strategic location with Shang Yi, and to prevent the oriole from coming behind. The alliance should also be based on strength. Guan Jian was still because the merchant army's maritime strength was too poor. It was not enough to make Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch feel afraid.

On the contrary, keeping the Dutch in Taiwan for the time being and reaching some co-resident agreements with the Dutch can stabilize the ruling foundation of the merchant army in Taiwan, and on the other hand, it can also restrain the Zheng Zhilong group on the coast of China. Because if Shang Yi wants to develop overseas trade, he will sooner or later conflict with Zheng Zhilong, and the Dutch are the only non-Zheng group fleet that can trade along the coast of China. Therefore, the current two heroes’ battle for hegemony gradually becomes the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and using the power of the Dutch to break Zheng Zhilong’s Longdu status is the best choice at present.

Moreover, Shang Yi estimated that in only one year, the navy of the Shangjia Army could form combat power and strengthen its voice. At most two or three years, a powerful navy could be established. By then, it would be the time for him to show his power.

At the same time, Shang Yi was confident in attracting the Dutch.

In the Chinese's impression, the first capitalist country was Britain. But in fact, the champion of this championship belonged to the Netherlands, which was not only the first capitalist country, but also the first republican country. Although the Netherlands was officially independent, it had to wait until the end of the Thirty Years' War. Of course, at this time, the Netherlands was also called the United Republic of the Netherlands. It was not until Napoleon's failure in 1814 that the Kingdom of the Netherlands was officially established.

At this time, the Netherlands was composed of seven provinces in the northern part of the Netherlands, including Glithen, Oveysher, Utrecht, Zeeland, Fesland and Groningen, and therefore it is also called the United Republic of the seven provinces of the Netherlands. However, these seven provinces are independent in politics, each with their own governments, and Hen has extensive autonomy. The provinces jointly organized the Dutch National Parliament as the central organ, and officially became a federal state. The parliamentary site was located in The Hague, Netherlands, so it can also be called the Dutch Republic. The supreme leader was called ruling.

Members and provincial parliaments elected forty representatives to form, which had legislation, decided on taxes, declare war, peace and deal with important state powers. Moreover, each province had a veto power, and resolutions on major matters needed to be passed unanimously. Governance and responsibility were responsible for coordinating conflicts and differences among provinces.

Some of the Netherlands' political and economic achievements had a profound impact on later generations. Later, the United States' independence revolution and constitution were deeply influenced by the Netherlands. Moreover, the modern financial industry, banking industry, and stock trading industry all originated in the Netherlands in this era.

It is precisely because of the unique national system of the Netherlands in this era that the Netherlands did not, like Spain and France, whose local officials were responsible to the forty members of the National Parliament, rather than the emperor alone. Therefore, something similar to Dela Pena's arbitrarily changing the combat targets was absolutely impossible in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands' colonial behavior in Asia was under the jurisdiction of the Netherlands East India Company, and this company system was almost at the same time as the Netherlands' political system. Therefore, although during the overseas colonization of the Netherlands, wars, plunders, killing and conquering were also carried out. However, the only criterion for measuring success and failure was how much trade was added to the company and how much revenue it brought to the company. As for how many victories, how much land it conquered, and how many colonies it established, it was a bliss for the Dutch East India Company. The purpose of the Netherlands' occupation of Taiwan was to have a pivot stronghold for commercial trade in China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia, which could better carry out trade activities.

Therefore, the Dutch are probably not willing to be suppressed by Zheng Zhilong in the coastal areas of China. However, with the current strength of the Dutch, it is not enough to defeat Zheng Zhilong and monopolize China's trade. At the same time, other forces on the coast of China were wiped out by Zheng Zhilong, and the Dutch could not find anyone who could unite. In fact, the Dutch probably hoped that at this time, someone could stand up and mess up the situation and see if they could touch a few big fish.
Chapter completed!