Yang Zhen’s series of arrangements for Denglai District were full of the meaning of explaining left-behind affairs.

In fact, Yang Zhen will explain in advance the possible problems that may be encountered when settled in the next area, and grant the General Town Government the highest authority to decide the management office, that is, Zhang Degui will coordinate the handling, which does mean to explain the matters left behind.

On the afternoon of the second day of the seventh month, shortly after meeting Wang Defa and others, Yang Zhen then summoned the old ghost messenger who came to Lushunkou with Wang Defa.

This old ghost messenger was not the deacon Cohen, the Nagasaki Trading House deacon Yang Zhen had met before, but a mercenary officer of the Dutch East India Company named Thomas Peder.

Although this blond, blue-eyed and white-skinned mercenary officer had a Tang Tongshi by his side, he could speak fluent Chinese.

Although his accent was quite weird, it was a bit like a Fujian and Guangdong man who was speaking northern dialect. No one knew what he was saying when he spoke faster, but when he spoke a little slower, Yang Zhen could understand Meng and guess.

In addition to the need for repeated confirmation of the name of individual place names, the two parties do not even need to translate the Tang Tongshi, and they can communicate effectively.

From Thomas Pedel, Yang Zhen learned that the deacon of the Nagasaki Merchant House who had reached an agreement with him had arbitrarily removed from the Dutch jurisdiction of Nagasaki and dispose of the Dutch merchant ship property of the Dutch East India Company, and had been removed from his post by the General Assembly and detained in Jelancha City, and was waiting for investigation and trial of the Dutch East India Company's Batavia Governor's Office.

The candidate who took over Cohen's position was Thomas Pedell, who was sent to continue communicating and cooperating with Yang Zhen to send troops to Kyushu Island affairs.

At the same time, Thomas Pedell brought Yang Zhen a letter to Yang Zhen from the current member of the Dutch East India Company, local governor Paul Trodennius, who commented on the Council for the Council.

The letter sent by Thomas Pedell was written in bilingual. In addition to a large paragraph of floral and vernacular language that Yang Zhen could not understand, there was also a small paragraph of Chinese written in a very neat way with a hard pen.

However, the fancy signature of the letter is a series of common verbal words.

Yang Zhen looked and looked again and again, and could vaguely identify it as paulus traudenius, gouverneur van forsa voc.

Although Yang Zhen could not understand Dutch, he came from later generations and spelled it simply by transliterating it, and it can be seen that the signator of the letter was Paul Trodennius, the so-called chief of the Dutch East India Company Formosa.

The local chief of the Dutch East India Company dispatched a senior officer, Jelan Cham, is commonly known as the Dutch Senior Governor or the governor of Taiwan, but its official title is actually the chief of the Dutch East India Company Formosa.

As early as the Apocalypse period, after the Dutch colonists failed to occupy Penghu, they turned to the Grandmaster and built a city of Jelancha on a sandbank off the coast of Tainan, as the store and ruling center of the Dutch East India Company in the Grandmaster.

Since then, the Dutch East India Company has used its chief officer as the so-called highest administrative chief who ruled the entire Taiwan, taking charge of the trade affairs of the senior officials in Nagasaki and colonial affairs with Taiwan.

At the same time, the Dutch East India Company set up a membership review council in the city of Gerancha, which included the senior business specialists stationed by the Dutch East India Company as well as colonists, merchants, missionaries and mercenaries from the Netherlands, as the highest decision-making body of its Far Eastern colonies.

When Yang Zhen asked He Tingbin about the specific situation of the senior officer, he had already learned about the personnel composition of the senior officers of the Dutch East India Company from He Tingbin's introduction.

So Yang Zhen already knew this. As early as the third year of Chongzhen, he had arrived as a senior official of the Dutch East India Company. He successfully took office last year and became the sixth local chief of the Dutch East India Company.

But when Yang Zhen saw clearly that the signator of the letter was Trodennius, he still couldn't help but be surprised.

Of course, it might be more accurate to say that Yang Zhen’s performance was surprising at the time, rather than saying that he could not hide his disappointment.

Ever since Yang Zhen decided to use Yingzhou Island as a springboard to fight the Japanese sub-country, he has been worried that he would repeat the mistakes of Kublai Khan who sent people to conquer the Japanese sub-country.

Although his is now certain that the plague that broke out in Hirado and Nagasaki last winter had caused a heavy blow to the Kyushu vassals of the Japanese sub-country, he still didn't dare to take it lightly.

The reason why he decided to join the Dutch East India Company to take advantage of the situation to rob the Japanese nu Kingdom was because of this concern. After all, with more strength, he would have more chances of winning.

Moreover, according to Yang Zhen’s own analysis and He Tingbin’s suggestion, the Dutch East India Company will definitely not give up such a great opportunity.

But what surprised Yang Zhen was that he had waited for so long, but what he finally waited was just the reply given by Trodennius on behalf of the Dutch East India Company's senior membership Council.

As expected, in a letter to Yang Zhen, Trodennius, on behalf of the Dutch East India Company's senior members' Council agreed to provide two thousand dans of sulfur free of charge every year in exchange for the opening of trade in the Seogwipo port on Yingzhou Island to the Dutch East India Company's merchant ships.

At the same time, Trodennius, on behalf of the Dutch East India Company's senior members, basically agreed to Yang Zhen's plan to jointly send troops to the Japanese sub-country.

However, regarding the time of sending troops and the implementation of the dispatch plan, Trodennius, the chief executive of the Dutch East India Company, put forward his own opinions in the letter.

Or Yang Zhen will postpone the action plan to jointly send troops to Kyushu Island until the end of the year, when the Dutch East India Company will draw twelve plywood ships from Batavia, Banda, Manlacia, etc.

Either agree to the Dutch East India Company's senior members' council to send troops with their existing strength, but the cooperation conditions that Yang Zhen had previously promised could not be changed.

However, the Dutch East India Company Members' Commentary on the Council that currently has not many large-scale armed merchant ships that can mobilize and assemble, and there are only four plywood ships of the same level as the "Nassau".

At the same time, Trodennius did not inform Yang Zhen in the letter how many heavy artillery, how many muskets, and how many soldiers the four plywood ships he could send had.

However, from Wang Defa's previous report, Yang Zhen already knew a lot of firepower and troops on the plywood ship sent by the Dutch this time.

Because Thomas Peder, who came to Lushunkou with Wang Defa this time, was one of the four large plywood ships mentioned by Trodennius, called the "Provincha".

Judging from the basic situation of the Provencha report by Wang Defa, if it is not counted for other accompanying boats, only four armed merchant ships equipped with large numbers of heavy artillery, the Dutch could dispatch this time, without more than 800 troops.

This is obviously far from Yang Zhen’s expectations.

Yang Zhen originally proposed the conditions for joint troops to send troops, requiring the Dutch East India Company to send at least 1,500 gunships, but now it is less than half.

However, Yang Zhen did not intend to postpone his plan to send troops due to this.

At the same time, he did not change his promise to agree to Cohen and brought back to the Dutch East India Company Members' Council.

Anyway, the conditions that Yang Zhen had agreed to before, such as recognizing the exclusive trade monopoly of the Dutch East India Company over the Japanese sub-country, for example, the two parties evenly divided the land of the Kyushu Island and all affiliated population cities and property, etc., all must be based on the prerequisite of taking over the Kyushu Island vassals.

If the Dutch East India Company has not sent enough gunships and troops, and the final goal of occupying the vassals of the Japanese sub-country Kingdom is not achieved, then Yang Zhen cannot be blamed for not counting his words.

Of course, there are also things that make Yang Zhen feel relieved in the letter Trodennius wrote to Yang Zhen.

That is, Trodennius did not mention any of the previous Ming Dynasty defenders in Yingzhou that exchanged for the large ocean-going merchant ship "Nassau" in the Dutch Nagasaki Merchant House, which was in desperate situation.

Yang Zhen was originally a little worried that after the incident was reported back to the senior official, the member review board of the Dutch East India Company refused to give up.

But now, although they removed Cohen from his post and even detained him and wanted to judge him, they did not overturn or deny the transaction between Cohen and others with Yingzhou Island. Generally speaking, they were accusations.

On the morning of the second day after meeting Wang Defa and Thomas Pedell, Yang Zhen went to Shuangdao Bay in person. He first boarded the newly equipped Yingzhou and raised a new Beidou Seven Star Flag with seven Venus stars, clarifying the status of Yingzhou as Yang Zhen's own ship. Then, at the large campus in the harbor, he inspected all the soldiers of the South Road Naval Camp that had been established.

After several months of unremitting efforts by Yan Shengsan, Yu Haichao, Jin Yukui, Chen Yongzhong and others, and after several months of equipment, testing, selection, training and running-in with many new recruits, the newly-organized South Road Navy Camp was finally fully loaded and joined the list.

Nowadays, the newly-edition South Road Naval Camp has changed its guns and cannons. Without including Yang Zhen's flagship Yingzhou and Qiu Guangyi and others' sub-family fleets on Yingzhou Island, they already have 25 newly-entered 400-material warships, 36 200-material warships, as well as various other fast-posters, and 68 flat-bottomed sand ships.

As for the problem that Yang Zhen had previously worried about not having enough heavy artillery equipment for all 400-material warships, after half a year of hard work, especially after Wang Shoutang returned to Lushunkou, he also restarted the fleet operation to transport coal and iron ore from Anzhou to Lushunkou, which was successfully resolved at the end of June.

The newly-entered four hundred-material warships were equipped as scheduled according to the standards of six heavy red cannons and fourteen sky-storming cannons.

Twenty-five 400-material warships were loaded with a total of 150 heavy red cannons and 350 sky-storming cannons.

As for the remaining thirty-six 200-material warships and another 68 ships of various types, they originally belonged to the Central Naval Camp led by the Three Institutions of Yansheng, part of the East Naval Camp led by Yu Haichao, and the fleet left behind by Lushunkou on the South Road.

These ships that originally belonged to other naval battalions were equipped with war soldiers, ship workers and paddlers, as well as various weapons and equipment such as large guns, small cannons, bird guns, bows, crossbows, swords, shields, hooks, sickles, and guns that they were used to.

Yang Zhen drew them in and formed a new South Road Naval Camp together, which saved a lot of effort.
Chapter completed!