Dropping the steel knife in his hand, Duncan squatted on the ground with his head in his hands.
He knew that he would never be able to return to the Great Council after this blow.
If he could not return to Europe, he would probably have to stay in the distant Ming Dynasty for the rest of his life.
This made Duncan feel very sad. of sadness. \ Under the coercion of Lin Fusheng and Mingren soldiers, the remaining six Dutchmen had to raise their butcher knives towards Angelou.
At the critical moment of life and death, not many people could treat death as if they were at home.
Between being shot by Akito, the choice wasn't that difficult.
"I was forced, and what happened in the distant Japanese country on a remote island, the East India Company will probably not know about it.
I will still be able to return to Europe if I have the opportunity in the future."
This is the mentality of many Dutch people.
But soon, their last illusion was shattered.
Lin Fusheng announced that since Java was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty and had paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty every year, Qi Guogong, the owner of Qiyun Trading Company, announced that he would find an opportunity to release the thirty or forty captured Javanese.
Looking at the dozens of Javanese natives who were being held to watch the execution of Angelou, all the Dutch fell into despair.
These people were let back, and everything that happened here could no longer be concealed, which was equivalent to completely cutting off their way back.
"Master, this Lin Fucheng is a talent, but his methods are a bit vicious."
Gu Junen said with a smile.
"Perhaps I was oppressed too much by the Dutch in the past, and now I finally have the opportunity to vent it out."
Chen Yue shook his head, "The Dutch are used to being cruel, and they don't usually treat the natives as human beings, so Lin Fucheng needs to Such people train and train them.”
"Once the escape route is cut off, these Dutch people will have to work for us in Zhoushan.
My father-in-law's naval school can finally be officially opened," Gu Junen said with a smile.
Among these Dutch were surveyors who could measure longitude and latitude, artillerymen who were good at operating cannons, and some who managed sails and rudders.
With their joining, they will become more proficient in operating the two armed sailing ships.
The fact is as Gu Junen said, after despair, these Dutch people became more active in order to have good treatment and a good future in the new place.
After hearing that the leader of these Ming people was the Duke of Ming Dynasty, these Dutch people were in awe and worked even harder.
Chen Yuesui officially opened a school, and these Dutch people taught the students.
There were Nanyang Chinese Lin Fook Seng and others who were proficient in Dutch.
The students had no problem understanding what the Dutch said.
Courses offered include geometry, surveying, sailing instructions, bombardment, etc.
In order to make these Dutch people work hard, Chen Yue gave them a generous salary of one hundred taels of silver per person per year, and appointed them all as officials of the general banner, which is equivalent to a lieutenant in the West.
Several three-masted ships were sailing on the sea.
More than ten miles north of the ships was the Korean Peninsula, and the winding coastline could be seen.
Fu Chun stood on the bow of the ship, looking at the coastline in the distance, carefully drawing a chart with a charcoal pen.
His mission was to take the guide provided by Li Guozhu to the Liaodong Peninsula and try to buy wood from Manta.
The southeast monsoon flows north along the coast of Daming.
At this time, it is a headwind to return to Zhejiang from the Japanese state.
However, you can take advantage of the wind from the Japanese state to Liaodong, and it is not easy for the ship to get lost along the North Korean coastline.
Chen Yue's task for Fu Chun was to set out on a route to buy wood.
From then on, wood from the Northeast would be continuously transported to Zhoushan by sea and turned into sea-going ships.
It is about two thousand miles from Nagasaki to Liaodong, and it takes about half a month to travel with the wind.
It is now September.
After buying the wood, Fu Chun does not need to return to Nagasaki.
Instead, he waits for the northwest monsoon to start and goes directly to Zhoushan from Liaodong.
Fu Chun was an old crew member, and with Li Guozhu's guide on the boat, he entered the Bohai Sea, the Liaodong Peninsula, and a small island at the mouth of the Liaohe River without any danger.
Originally, this was the territory of the Dongjiang Army, but with the murder of Marshal Mao Wenlong more than ten years ago, and generals such as Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, Dongjiang Town has long since disappeared, and many overseas islands are no longer inhabited.
Manta is not good at water and has no interest in these uncontrollable overseas desert islands.
On the deserted island here, there were still a few shabby thatched huts, so Fu Chun ordered them to be cleaned and used as a temporary camping place.
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Accompanied by two Zhoushan Army soldiers and two Japanese warriors, the guide sent by Li Guozhu took a small boat upstream into the Liao River to contact the Manchu tribe.
Fu Chun led his team to wait at the mouth of Liaohe River.
More than ten miles east of the island is Gaizhou, which is already regarded as the heartland of Manta.
However, as the Manchus entered the Pass and captured Beijing, most of the Mantars outside the Pass have entered the Pass, and there are not many who are still outside the Pass.
Gaizhou, Fuzhou and other places have been abandoned, and only Shengjing has Eight Banners troops left.
Thousands of people were stationed there, and there were also some small tribes in the northeast who had surrendered to the Manchus.
They did not follow them to Beijing for various reasons.
The guide sailed along the Liao River for two days and finally found the tribe he had cooperated with several years ago.
This tribe is very small, with about 200 people, but most of the young people have already followed the Manchu court to enter the country.
Most of the people who stay here are old people who are unwilling to leave the burial place of their ancestors.
Materials outside the customs are very scarce, and the Manchus are not good at farming.
Most of the people in this tribe make a living by hunting in the mountains.
In the past, young people from the tribe followed the customs and robbed them, and they could rob a lot of living materials.
However, this time he entered the pass but did not return for a long time, and it is said that the warriors in the tribe followed Duduo, Prince of Yu, all the way to the south of the Ming Dynasty.
Without the looted materials, the tribe's living standards suddenly dropped.
When they heard that merchants from overseas Japanese countries came to purchase wood, the tribesmen were very happy.
The most abundant thing on the mountain is wood, and the least valuable wood is also wood.
Streams rush down from the mountains and merge into the Liaohe River.
As long as the trees are cut down and put down along the stream, it is easy to reach the mouth of the Liaohe River.
A few years ago, the tribe had a trade with the Japanese maritime merchants.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty was blocking the country, and the materials obtained in exchange for wood solved the tribe's problems.
Therefore, people in the tribe would cut down some trees and save them, waiting for possible trade again.
There are hundreds of trees on both sides of the mountains and streams, and they have dried up in the shade within a few years.
Now, the Japanese came again, making the tribe very happy.
After agreeing on the price, the tribesmen tied the big trees into rafts and lowered them along the river, directly into the sea along the Liao River.
The tree procurement that Fu Chun was responsible for went smoothly without any surprises.
Compared with him, the other fleet led by Wu Ping went through a lot. s: The lengthy foreshadowing is almost over, and the author's mundane affairs are almost finished.
The plot will become intense later on.
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