At about midnight on the fourth day of September in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, Mitsuhisa Shimazu, the lord of the Satsuma domain and the governor of the Shimazu clan, later known as Matsudaira Satsuma Mori Mitsuhisa, accompanied by a dozen or so old retainers from Kagoshima

The castle's Honmaru castle was guarded by the castle, and boarded Maximilian Lemaier's flagship Adriana.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa is not very old, in his twenties and thirties. He has a moon hair and wears a black jinhaori embroidered with the coat of arms of the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma Domain. His expression is sad and solemn. He is on the Adriana.

After meeting Maximilian Lemaia in the large cabin on the stern of the ship, he bowed and handed over the saber, then knelt down in front of Lemaia.

After witnessing Zhe Zhizheng's suicide in the street on Dejima Island in Nagasaki, Yang Zhen originally thought that people from the Japanese martial arts family were people who valued justice and despised death.

At one time, he was worried that if Japanese characters were as stinky and tough as that Zhe Zhi Zhengshi, who would rather commit suicide than "cooperate", then their future trip to Edo might be full of variables.

But now seeing the performance of the Satsuma Domain Lord, Yang Zhen was somewhat relieved.

At noon on the fourth day of September, the treaty between the United Fleet and the Satsuma Domain was reached. Yang Zhen, as one of the parties and as a witness, signed the treaty between Shimazu Mitsuhisa and Lemaia.

After the treaty was concluded, the party that gained the most was, of course, the Dutch East India Company.

Including Maximilian Lemaia himself, with this treaty with the Satsuma Domain in hand, after the war is over, he will inevitably become an important figure in the Governor's House of Batavia of the Dutch East India Company, and his career will be just around the corner.

However, Yang Zhenfang's gains are not small.

In addition to the gold, silver, rice and supplies looted by Yang Zhen from Kagoshima Castle Town on the night of September 2nd, a large number of Satsuma ships captured by the combined fleet in Kagoshima Bay also belonged to Yang Zhen's fleet.

Since the islands obtained by the Dutch from the Shimazu family of Satsuma Domain were occupied by the Dutch fleet alone before the two sides joined forces, Yang Zhen had no right to divide them.

However, after the two sides united and sent troops to defeat the Satsuma Domain, the war compensation received was what Yang Zhen should have received.

In this regard, Lemaia was also very happy. The war compensation received after the conclusion of the treaty was distributed according to the ratio of 50 to 50. Whether it was the gold, silver or rice and cloth in stock of the Satsuma Domain Hall, both parties were equal.

Divide equally.

In fact, Lemaia and his captains, who originally did not pay much attention to Yang Zhen and his fleet, have realized the extraordinary power of Yang Zhen and his fleet after the siege of Kagoshima Castle.

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Although the ships under Yang Zhen's command were not large, and the number of heavy artillery was far inferior to that of the Dutch fleet, the many firearms equipped and used under Yang Zhen's command made Lemaia and the captains under his command secretly surprised.

For example, Yang Zhen's musketeers each had a flintlock gun, and the cannon that finally led to Shimazu's acceptance of the treaty was a surprise to Lemaia and his experienced captains.

Of course, Lemaia and his captains had also seen flintlock guns that could be fired without using a match rope. The gunners on their ships and a few white-skinned and red-haired ghost musketeers were also equipped with similar flintlock guns.

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Even before rendezvousing with Yang Zhen's fleet, Lemaia was worried that after the two sides reunited, Yang Zhen's men would learn of the existence of the flintlock muskets, thus threatening the Dutch's leading position with muskets.

But now, they suddenly discovered from the musketeers under Yang Zhen's command that the precious flintlock rifle they had planned to keep secret was not a "rare item" at all among Yang Zhen's command.

It was expensive for them, and they couldn't afford to equip several flintlock guns. Among the musketeers under Yang Zhen's command, they only had one per person!

This situation was far beyond the expectations of Le Maia and his Dutch officers.

When the mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company were hired, most of them brought their own equipment or paid for their own military supplies such as muskets, gunpowder, projectiles, and sabers.

Without wartime plunder and seizure, and relying solely on the meager salaries paid to low-level mercenaries or employees by the Dutch East India Company, they would even be in debt for paying for weapons.

Under such circumstances, even if they knew about the existence of flintlock muskets, they would not be able to fire one with one hand.

Because for many low-level mercenaries, for the naked and unarmed natives under the Batavia Governor's Mansion, including for those natives on Daguang Island, their traditional matchlock guns are already

That's enough.

Not only can they not afford more advanced firearms, but they also do not need to pay higher prices to purchase more advanced firearms.

Especially when the proportion of black-skinned Upanu slaves among the mercenaries of the colonists became larger and larger, they did not want the Upanu slaves to master more advanced firearms.

Therefore, although the Dutch East India Company is powerful and financially powerful, the weapons and equipment of the contracted mercenaries in its colonial strongholds and its armed merchant ships are still mainly traditional matchlock guns.

Only a very small number of Dutch officers and high-level colonial strongholds had the opportunity to access and be equipped with more advanced flintlock muskets purchased from the mainland.

As for the explosive bombs, the senior staff of the Dutch East India Company and the mercenary leaders have certainly seen it before.

However, their armed merchant ships were not universally equipped.

The reason for this is almost the same as the fact that they did not universally equip flintlock guns. Firstly, it was unnecessary, and secondly, they were expensive.

If we must look for a third reason, then this reason is that for the large number of armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company, the cost-effectiveness of using howitzers with explosive shells is far less cost-effective than using heavy solid projectile cannons.

Ocean-going ships of this era, including giant warships, were all made of wood and could not withstand the solid projectiles fired by heavy cannons. Even if the solid projectiles fired were made of stone, they could shatter the opponent's hull.

Therefore, the foreign maritime forces of this era were eager to pursue longer barrels and longer ranges of naval guns, rather than the power of explosive shells in close combat.

Because if the enemy's ship is equipped with a long-barreled, large-range naval gun, you will be destroyed before you can get close to the enemy, and there will be no time for you to win with the power of the howitzer in close combat.

In this way, under the Dutch East India Company, which was obsessed with pursuing profits and reducing cost-effectiveness, the level of equipment with flintlock guns and howitzers was surprisingly low.

Of course, without Yang Zhen, with their current equipment, they would indeed be able to roam the waters of Southeast Asia and the Far East for many years to come.

However, now that Yang Zhen is here, the situation is naturally different.

After the siege of Kagoshima Castle, the attitude of Le Maia and his officers and captains towards Yang Zhen and Yang Zhen's generals suddenly changed.

Lemaia, who used to look askance at people, knew to ask Yang Zhen for his opinion before issuing various orders.

At noon on the fourth day of September in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, after the final treaty was reached, Lemaia accepted Yang Zhen's suggestion and first detained the Satsuma feudal lord Shimazu Mitsuhisa and his entourage.

Then Mitsuhisa Shimazu's family elder Shimazu Hisutong took the agreed treaty and led a Dutch musketeer team led by the Dutch red-haired ghost Cohen, general officer He Tingbin, and a team of Jinhai Town musketeers led by Li Lu and Zhang Guogan.

Entered Kagoshima Castle where the Satsuma Domain Hall is located, took over and inventoried the inventory of the Satsuma Domain Hall.

It was not until the evening of the same day that the Dutch musketeers and the musketeers of Ginkai Town watched the surrender of the Satsuma Domain and transported all the gold, silver, rice and cloth belongings in the store to the coast outside the city, did Yang Zhen agree to release Shimazu Mitsuhisa and

His family’s old retainers.

However, what surprised Yang Zhen was that the Satsuma clan, which he thought was one of the powerful vassals of the Wonu Kingdom, was not that wealthy.

Cohen, He Tingbin, Li Lu, Zhang Guogan and others collected gold, silver, rice, cloth and silk from the treasuries of Ninomaru and Honmaru in Kagoshima Yamashiro, and the amount of gold, silver, rice, cloth and silk they collected was far lower than Yang Zhen expected.

The gold in the treasury is only 21,000 taels; the silver in the treasury is only 68,000 taels; and the cloth is only 2,200 pieces.

A lot of rice was shipped out of the shell, but after the two families were divided equally, each family only had about thirteen thousand dan.

You must know that the stone height of the Shimazu family of Satsuma Domain is as high as 720,000 koku!

As early as when he was on Fukue Island, Yang Zhen learned about the status of the Satsuma Domain from He Tingbin. At that time, Yang Zhen was very happy, thinking that he could make a fortune from the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma Domain.

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Therefore, he did not make land demands on the Shimazu clan, but instead placed his hope on clearing the Satsuma domain's treasury.

For this reason, after Yang Zhen came out to negotiate surrender terms with a white flag, Shimazu Hisamichi, the family member of the Shimazu clan in Satsuma Domain, the next morning Shimazu Mitsuhisa went down to the city to surrender. Yang Zhen asked Yan Shengsan to send people back to order Shen

Yongzhong came quickly with more ships.

The result was great. The Satsuma Domain was strong in the outside world and dry in the middle. The donkey dung eggs had a shiny surface, and there was not much savings in the domain's treasury.

Moreover, Yang Zhen had to share the gold, silver, cloth and rice with the Dutch equally.

The rice after being divided equally was enough to feed the troops and horses Yang Zhen brought on this trip, but the hard currency such as gold, silver, cloth, and silk was quite pitiful.

It's not even as much as what Yang Zhen's musketeers and grenadiers robbed from the castle town on the night of the second day of September.

"Captain, the southeastern vassals of Kyushu Island have experienced the Shimabara Rebellion, the Amakusa Rebellion, and the plague since last year. Their strength is indeed not as good as before!"

After releasing Shimazu Mitsuhisa and his family's old retainers, He Ren and Yang Zhen's subordinates, under the auspices of He Tingbin, counted and evenly distributed the gold and silver and other materials obtained from the Satsuma Domain's treasury.

When the Dutch officers saw that they had been allocated tens of thousands taels of gold and more than 30,000 taels of silver, considering the number of their troops and a rough calculation, they knew how much they could get per capita. They were shouting and happy at the moment.

But Yang Zhen, who was present, was a little unhappy when he saw this situation. Several of the generals who followed Yang Zhen were also unhappy.

They had received large quantities of gold and silver goods and rice supplies in Hirado Island before. They had seen many big scenes, but the small scenes in front of them made them quite disappointed.

In particular, half of the various gold and silver supplies they received were given to the Dutch, which made them even more angry. They always felt that their hard work was in vain.

What kind of mood you have, what kind of performance you will naturally have.

Amidst the cheers of the Dutch people, He Tingbin, who was like a human spirit, had long noticed the expressions of Yang Zhen and his subordinates, so he immediately spoke to comfort them.

"Of course, the biggest blow to the wealth and strength of the feudal lords on Kyushu Island was the seclusion order imposed by the Tokugawa family of the Edo shogunate for many years! The shogunate set the Port of Nagasaki as the only port for foreign trade, and assigned Nagasaki

Followed and monopolized the entire foreign trade.

"Think back in those days, the Matsuura clan of the Hirado clan and the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma clan were powerful clans for a while, and they were said to be rich and powerful. However, after the sea trade stopped, they were left with nothing for more than ten years. They are no longer what they used to be!
Chapter completed!