1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 672 Confinement
All the things on the ship were cleared out, and a special person took a pen and paper to count and make a list one by one.However, the two ships did not carry any contraband, and they were basically supplies.The documents and letters previously presented by Fan Longen and others were also collected and sent to the headquarters for Yan Chujie to review.Of course, with Yan Chujie's level, he probably couldn't understand these foreign language scriptures, so he could only send them back to Victory Fort to be translated and interpreted by a special person.

After the three of Van Longen stayed in this confinement room for more than an hour, they slowly got rid of their nervousness and began to feel hunger and thirst.At this moment, the small sliding window under the door opened, and a wooden tray was handed in from there. On it were three large bowls full of food, a pot of clear water, and three small cups. Although there were no knives and forks, But in addition to chopsticks, there are also spoons, which can be regarded as taking into account the dining habits of the two Dutch people.

"It won't... be poisonous, right?" Van der Wegen looked at the three bowls of food that Su Keyi brought to the table, still hesitating.

"The Haihan people don't need to use this method to kill us." The hungry Su Keyi unceremoniously took one of the bowls and began to eat.

"He is right. The Haihan people are not pirates. Their leaders should be a group of very smart people. Before they figure out our purpose of coming here, they shouldn't do anything to us." Van Longen also expressed Su Keyi's opinion agreed.However, if he agrees, he agrees, but he is not in a hurry to start eating.

It wasn't until Su Keyi wiped out most of the bowl of food that there was nothing unusual, and Van Longen winked at Van der Wegen, and the two of them each took a bowl and began to eat.

Of course, there will be no problems with the food and drinking water. Haihan's side does not intend to persecute them, but the superior ordered cold treatment to prevent them from being physically harmed. That's how they're locked up for three meals.

However, such a condition is obviously not enough. Not long after eating, the three of them felt a little anxious, and there was not even a toilet in this small room.In desperation, Su Keyi could only knock on the door.

Soon there was a reaction from outside. After the door opened, several soldiers with live ammunition signaled Su Keyi to retreat, and then someone came in with a toilet and took away the tableware they had just used.

Su Keyi seized the time to negotiate: "Where are your people in charge? We have important matters..."

Before he finished speaking, a Haihan soldier interrupted him: "Be honest! A doctor will come to check your health later!"

"We are in good health, you should ask the person in charge to see us now..." Su Keyi wanted to say a few more words, but the other party no longer wanted to pay attention to him, quickly left the room, and then locked the door from the outside.

"This is really a group of unfriendly people!" Although Van Longen didn't quite understand what Su Keyi was negotiating with the other party, the impatience shown by Haihan soldiers was directly written on his face. Understood.

However, Van der Wegen has silently accepted the reality, walked to the corner and opened the toilet seat without making a sound...

After another hour or so, the door opened again. This time, apart from a doctor carrying a medicine box, the three of them were delighted to see a manager who was obviously a level above the staff.Although this man was young and was not wearing a military uniform, but a strange-styled collared blouse, but looking at the respectful looks of the soldiers behind him, it was obvious that this man was not an ordinary man.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Yu Xiaobao, a clerk in the Haihan Executive Committee Office. Please accept the physical examination we arranged for you three, and we will talk about other things later." The young man introduced himself after entering the room .

"My lord, the next three are the special envoys who came to Sanya to visit Haihan on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. Don't worry about other matters. Can you give us another place to live? This place...is a bit too crude, right? Is this how you treat guests?" Su Keyi immediately responded.

Yu Xiaobao looked Su Keyi up and down, and asked with a smile: "What's the name of this gentleman?"

"I'm Su Keyi, whose name is Baishuo. He is a Batavian from Nanyang, and his ancestral home is Chaozhou, Fujian." Su Keyi clasped his fists and introduced himself.

"Mr. Su, then I will explain it to you, and you can translate it to your two red-haired companions later." Looking at the wide-eyed and small-eyed appearance of the two ghosts next to him, Yu Xiaobao knew that they were listening He didn't understand what he said, so he chose Su Keyi as the main conversation partner.

Yu Xiaobao continued: "First of all, for the sake of safety, we need to spend a little time to confirm your identities. The official documents and letters you carry have been sent to your superiors for review, and there will be news later. Here Before, we had to let the three of you feel wronged here, after all, we felt that it was very difficult to deal with your sudden visits."

"Can't we let us wait for your identity confirmation in a better environment? It's not a reasonable behavior to lock foreign envoys in cells!" Su Keyi continued to try to get better treatment.

Yu Xiaobao shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, because you have taken extremely unfriendly actions towards us in Fujian, we believe that we are still in a state of war with you. And we have not yet confirmed your identity and intention to come , so it can only be like this for the time being. I hope you can cooperate a little, which will also help your treatment in the future."

"What is he talking about?" Van Longen asked Su Keyi in Dutch.Su Keyi briefly summarized the content of the conversation and told him. Van Longen shook his head and said, "Please tell him that the war in Fujian was first started by the Haihan people!"

After listening to Su Keyi's report, Yu Xiaobao waved his hand lightly and said: "I'm sorry, the fact I know is that your armed sailboat has formed an alliance with the local pirate gang, and they are attacking Nanri Island where the Ming army is stationed. launched a military offensive. As a military adviser appointed by the Fujian government, the Haihan Militia has the obligation and responsibility to respond to such provocations. In our opinion, it is the East India Company that provoked the war, that is, your side. .”

Seeing that Su Keyi still wanted to defend himself, Yu Xiaobao said again: "If you want to continue arguing with me, that's up to you, but what I must tell you is that if you haven't completed your physical examination, make sure there is nothing wrong with you." Weird infectious disease, then you will never have the chance to meet the people you want to see."

This warning obviously worked. After the three Dutch envoys whispered among themselves for a while, Su Keyi said that he could accept the physical examination, but hoped to leave this place as soon as possible.

After completing the inspection for a while, Yu Xiaobao said: "Three, I can only wrong you to spend the night here today, and tomorrow at the earliest, you can leave here."

After Yu Xiaobao finished speaking, soldiers outside brought in three rolls of straw mats and pillows and put them on the ground. These were the bedding that the three of them would use tonight.At this time, it is the dog days of Hainan Island, and under the temperature of more than 30 degrees, there is no need to cover the quilt.

"Your food and drinking water will be in charge of special personnel, just wait for the news." After Yu Xiaobao finished the process, he left the room, ignoring Su Keyi's yelling.

"These disrespectful guys!" After the door was locked again, Van Longen couldn't help losing his temper.Due to language reasons, he couldn't communicate directly with the other party, so he had to go through the translator Su Keyi, which made him full of anger but couldn't vent it.

However, after shouting a few words, Van Longen quickly calmed down and calmed down: "It seems that the Haihan people really regard us as Shibazhi's gang, so it's no wonder they have such deep hostility towards us. "

Van Longen traveled back and forth between Dayuan Port and Batavia more than once, and he still has some understanding of Shibazhi's actions and reputation.As one of the strongest armed forces at sea in the Far East, Van Longen is actually ashamed to be mixed with pirates like Shibazhi and compared to others in this way, but this is the company's strategy and he cannot be tolerated. Post a question.

"The Haihan people have been allied with the Fujian government for a long time, but we really didn't expect them to dare to take the initiative to attack us." Van der Wegen recalled the battle in Fujian at this time, and realized that his underestimation of the enemy at that time was the cause of the war. One of the main reasons for the subsequent defeat of the war.Moreover, at that time the Dutch fleet indeed launched an attack on the Daming Navy first, and then the Haihan Fleet joined the battle. If you really want to argue, the East India Company must be at a loss.Of course, as the military attache of the East India Company stationed in Dayuangang, he would definitely not admit that the company had made mistakes in handling the relationship with Shibazhi, because it was his uncle Hans who made the decision to send troops. If you think this is not done right, you are making things difficult for your family.

"This is the military camp." Su Keyi suddenly said a nonsense.

Seeing the two people looking at him in bewilderment, Su Keyi quickly explained: "Listen to the voices outside..."

The two stood up, walked to the wall where the small window was, and began to listen to the noise outside. Sure enough, they heard the sound of neat and clear slogans and rhythmic footsteps coming in clearly from outside.

Militia officers and soldiers have a good style of work
Not afraid of strong enemies, I have the responsibility
The trumpet blows the glory of the iron blood
For my Haihan to win the battlefield
……

Su Keyi translated what he heard to the two Dutchmen one by one, and the three of them leaned against the wall and listened for half an hour.In the end, Van der Wegen was the first to express his opinion: "This is a large-scale military camp. Judging from the slogans they shouted, it should be between forty and sixty people in each batch, and at the same time this is going on. There are at least five batches of people doing this kind of marching training, that is to say, about 60 people are doing this kind of training. If you consider the ratio of the troops in combat readiness and resting in this army, I think the size of the troops stationed here is at least 300 around people."

Although van der Wegen's inference is not accurate, it can be considered somewhat based.The army training base on the Luhuitou Peninsula currently maintains a garrison size of more than 1500 people all year round, but this is not all of the Sanya garrison. In the industrial zone, there is still a full-scale army stationed, and the total force is maintained at about [-].Although such a force is not strong, considering that Haihan's current control area is getting wider and wider, the number of troops stationed in Sanya is already relatively concentrated.In Danzhou, Qiongzhou Fucheng and other places in the north, the number of garrisons is far less than that of the base camp.

Of course, considering Sanya's geographical location, it is very difficult for any strong enemy to launch a direct attack from the outside world. The water armed forces from the mainland must first pass through the blockade of the Qiongzhou Strait, and the nearest enemy in the South China Sea is located in Bada. The Dutch in Via obviously do not have such a surprise attack capability. As for the Annan Kingdom in the west, more than [-]% of its coastal defense force is in the hands of the Haihan people, so there is no need to worry.The current number of garrisons is basically enough to maintain daily defense.

"The Haihan people imprisoned us in the barracks, which means that at least they didn't treat us as ordinary prisoners." Now Van Longen could only find some such reasons to appease the emotions of his hapless trio.

"But we don't expect to be able to escape from here on our own." Su Keyi immediately poured cold water on him: "The security of the military camp is much stricter than that of the prison."

Of course, Su Keyi was just joking, they came here with a heavy responsibility, even if they could escape, they couldn't just escape.If they hadn't been able to meet with Hai Han's senior management, they would not have been able to report to the company's board of directors when they returned to Batavia.

"The young man just now, is he from Haihan or Ming?" Fan Longen asked Su Keyi curiously.

"I think he is from the Ming Dynasty... No, to be precise, he is a group called 'naturalized people' by the Haihan people. He was a Ming person in the past, but now he belongs to the Haihan people who have no Haihan blood." Su Keyi explained: " The Haihan people used the form of naturalization to change the affiliation of those Ming people who were included in their ruling area. Only those people who chose to naturalize in Haihan can enjoy the various preferential treatment conditions of Haihan, such as working in Sanya , settlement, enlistment, etc.”

"You know a lot!" Fan Longen looked at Su Keyi with admiration.When he set off, he once thought that Su Keyi was only able to let Cohen come forward to push him to the top because of the honor of his family.However, with the deepening of his understanding, he found that this Chinese man had a lot of things in his mind. At least his understanding of Haihan and his calm performance here had already shown some of his abilities.

"My daily business is to deal with those Daming maritime merchants from Sanya, so I know the situation of Haihan relatively well." Su Keyi replied very modestly.

(End of this chapter)