Things often come and go a little unexpectedly. A war broke out on Taiwan Island, and the war directly affected Fujian.

After Xiong Zijian was stationed in Fujian, he managed the navy as usual, and his main forces were concentrated in Dengzhou. This also greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the navy, which originally belonged to the Zheng family, and neither Zheng Hongkui nor Zheng Chenggong expressed his opposition. Both of them were in the imperial examination. It is worth celebrating that Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong both passed the imperial examination, one was a martial juren and the other was a juren. Zheng Chenggong failed to succeed in the imperial examination, but at least he was a juren. Because the juren could not be an official locally, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong were both from Fujian. If they wanted to be an official, there was no possibility of staying in Fujian. Therefore, they did not enter the court to be an official, but they still stayed with Xiong Zijian and assisted in the navy.

Both Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong's minds have changed. They thought they could go to Dengzhou, Zheng Hongkui hoped to enter Jiangning Camp, and Zheng Chenggong hoped to enter the prefect of Dengzhou. This was what Zheng Zhilong, who was in the capital, was willing to see. When Su Tiancheng arrived in the capital, Zheng Zhilong went to visit him specifically and talked about the arrangements for Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong.

Su Tiancheng had his own ideas. After returning to Dengzhou, he transferred Zheng Hongkui to Dengzhou, directly entered the navy, and served as a Qianhu. However, for Zheng Chenggong, Su Tiancheng believed that he would stay in Fujian and Xiong Zijian, and strive for the imperial examination three years later, so that he could pass the Jinshi and enter the Hanlin Academy.

History has changed. Su Tiancheng no longer believes in the past history. The times create heroes. Zheng Chenggong used to be a national hero, but history has turned around. Zheng Chenggong's actions have to rely on himself.

Su Tiancheng has always been paying attention to the situation in Taiwan, which is a headache in hundreds of years. Since he has traveled through time, he will not allow the situation in hundreds of years to occur. However, due to all aspects of the situation, he cannot make any moves and wiped out the internal bandits. He will fight against the Later Jin Tartars. He will fight wits and courage with Huang Taiji, and ignore the situation in Taiwan.

During the Yuan Dynasty, Taiwan officially became the territory of the Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty established the Penghu Inspection Office in Taiwan. After the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, it continued to rule over Taiwan. However, because Taiwan is far away from the mainland, there are some special circumstances in its jurisdiction. The officials in the court were extremely reluctant to go to Taiwan. On the one hand, they were not adapted to the climate there, and on the other hand, they were not used to the poverty and desolation there. For a long time, Taiwan enjoyed a high degree of autonomy, and basically the locals did things in the government, and the court rarely intervened.

With the decline of the navy in the Ming Dynasty and the decline of the idea of ​​sea power, Taiwan gradually became less valued.

Su Tiancheng, who traveled through time, had never heard anyone talk about Taiwan in the capital. It seemed that this place did not exist at all. After so many years, the emperor did not mention it. The Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, nor did the civil and military ministers of the court. This shows how neglected Taiwan has reached.

Su Tiancheng, who has extraordinary ideas about sea power, certainly understands the importance of sea power and is more clear about the importance of Taiwan. In his plan, Taiwan will carry out large-scale construction to change the appearance of poverty, desolation and backwardness.

Since the Wanli period, the world pattern has undergone great changes. The capitalist trend has begun to sprout, and the expansion of Europe has begun. During the Chongzhen period, Spain and Portugal took the lead in expanding with the help of fleets. Spanish warships first occupied Taiwan, and then the Netherlands was not willing to fall behind and joined this ranks, and also occupied a piece of land on the island of Taiwan. Taiwan was ruled by Spain and the Netherlands.

In the early stages of capitalism, Spain's strength was the most powerful, especially the fleet, which was invincible. Unfortunately, the Spanish rulers made a serious mistake and adopted the form of fighting to strengthen their own wealth through plunder, but ignored the country's production and wealth accumulation. This practice that violated economic laws caused Spain to suffer a heavy blow. The country's prices soared, so that the government was unable to maintain the military's expenses. The people were unwilling to engage in production. The government could only rely on continued plunder to maintain the government and military's expenses. With the strengthening of the strength of neighboring countries, Spain's record was no longer so brilliant, and the plundered wealth was limited, and it inevitably declined.

The Netherlands was formerly a Spanish colony. After the Netherlands Revolution, it requested Spanish rule and began to become independent, becoming the world's first capitalist country. Its strength quickly began to become stronger and its strength gradually surpassed Spain.

This situation was revealed in Taiwan's charge. In the 13th year of Chongzhen, the colonists of Spain and the Netherlands, which occupied Taiwan, had conflicts. This was a small-scale conflict. In order to compete for greater interests, in the 14th year of Chongzhen, this conflict could not be reconciled. The Netherlands wanted to dominate Taiwan Island, and large-scale battles broke out on both sides.

The Dutch government fully supported it and asked Songk, who was stationed in the Netherlands, to take a large-scale offensive approach, to monopolize Taiwan and expel the Spaniards.

At this time, neither Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Hongkui nor Zheng Chenggong noticed that Taiwan, the Dutch warship fleet often harassed the South China Sea area, but was defeated by the Zheng family's navy and did not dare to be arrogant. However, the Dutch warships completely occupied the South China Sea and used the South China Sea and Taiwan as bases to harass the Ming Dynasty's waters, especially after the Ming Weihaiwei was built into a commercial port, their behavior became even more crazy, and they believed that there were huge benefits in it.

Under such circumstances, completely occupying Taiwan will become the greatest wish of the Dutch colonists.

The battle broke out under such circumstances.

In theory, the battles on Taiwan Island will not involve Fujian soon, but due to the expansion of the scale of the battle, the Netherlands and Spain both wanted to control the shipping of the South China Sea. While the two sides were fighting in Taiwan, the fleet also fought in the South China Sea, so that the East China Sea and the South China Sea were affected, and the Weihaiwei Wharf was also significantly affected.

This is Xiong Zijian's responsibility, so Xiong Zijian sent warships to maintain the order of trade and transportation in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Who knew that the maintenance of this order was not going smoothly. The warships actually suffered a blow from Dutch warships and suffered heavy losses.

The power of the Dutch three-masted warships cannot be underestimated. The warships controlled by Xiong Zijian do not have warships that can compete with the three-masted warships. Fortunately, the Netherlands' main energy is to compete with Spain for Taiwan, so it is impossible to mainly deal with the Ming Navy. In addition, the Dutch warships have been defeated by the Ming Dynasty several times, so they dare not be too arrogant.

Xiong Zijian quickly reported the information on the attachment coast to Su Tiancheng.

Everyone thinks that this is not a big deal. Su Tiancheng's main energy is still in confrontation with the Later Jin Tartars, and he will not pay attention to the matters in Fujian and Taiwan. He did not expect that Su Tiancheng did not think so.

The incident in Taiwan quickly attracted Su Tiancheng's attention, so that Qu Qingze, who was in charge of intelligence work, had to write letters to Xiong Zijian many times, asking for detailed reports and to grasp the situation on Taiwan Island.

Because of Su Tiancheng's attention, Xiong Zijian also attached great importance to the battle situation on Taiwan Island. Although the battle on Taiwan Island is in full swing, merchant ships still have to trade. Although the navigation of merchant ships has been affected by the battle between the Netherlands and Spain on Taiwan Island, merchant ships always pass through the South China Sea. Xiong Zijian's mission is to protect the safety of these merchant ships. Many merchant ships have to rush to Weihaiwei Wharf to conduct transactions.

The profits of maritime trade are too huge. No matter what happens, it is impossible to stop such trade. Moreover, the transactions at Weihaiwei Wharf have made these merchant ships gain huge benefits. The formal management of Weihaiwei Wharf, the clear taxation, and the convenience of purchasing goods have also made a large number of merchant ships go to Weihaiwei to trade.

Through the merchant ships coming and going, Xiong Zijian obtained a lot of information. The battle between the Netherlands and Spain was basically over in October. As expected, the Netherlands won the victory and the Spanish colonists were about to leave Taiwan.

Information was sent to Dengzhou continuously.

Qu Qingze, who sorted out these information, has never understood it very much. What is so amazing about Taiwan? The focus now is on the matter of eliminating the Later Jin Tartars. The opportunity is very good. Even if Huang Taiji is using any conspiracy, it is not very great. The powerful Jiangning Camp can launch a large-scale attack on Gaizhou, Yaozhou and Haizhou.

Qu Qingze's understanding is consistent with Hong Chengchou. The two are already Su Tiancheng's right-hand man. Su Tiancheng discussed matters of big and small matters with them. They didn't understand why Su Tiancheng would pay attention to Taiwan Island. Besides, the distance between Taiwan and Dengzhou was too far away. However, both of them knew that the decision made by Su Tiancheng was correct from the later development, and Su Tiancheng would generally explain it.

In early October, Qu Qingze received information from Xiong Zijian, and the Netherlands completely defeated Spain and gained full control of Taiwan Island.

After quickly sorting out this information, Qu Qingze hurried to find Su Tiancheng. Su Tiancheng had long emphasized that the result of the battle between the Netherlands and Spain must be reported as soon as possible.

Hong Chengchou and Qu Qingze entered the room together.

The map on the table was familiar to the two of them for a long time. It was a map of Taiwan and Fujian. This map has been placed for a long time, and Su Tiancheng also watched these two maps for a long time.

After seeing Qu Qingze and Hong Chengchou come in, Su Tiancheng nodded and continued to make some marks on the map.
Chapter completed!