Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 292 Why Daming
At this time, the maritime hegemony of the Netherlands is not actually called the Netherlands, but the United Republic of the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands. The so-called seven provinces are actually the seven northern provinces of Spain.

In other words, the Netherlands was originally a subsidiary territory of Spain.

The Netherlands is not an established continental power, but an emerging country.

At least for Ming Dynasty, it is a country that cannot be newer.

So, how new is the country of Holland?
In [-] A.D., that is, the second year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, the seven northern provinces began to rebel against Spanish rule, that is, to rebel.

In [-] AD, that is, the ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the seven northern provinces united to announce the abolition of Spanish rule and the establishment of the United Republic of the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands.

In other words, the Netherlands is only a country that has just been established for about 40 years at this moment, and its history is not even as long as Wanli Dynasty!

However, this emerging country did make a big move. It only took them more than 20 years to build tens of thousands of ocean-going ships, and they also replaced Spain as the new maritime overlord!

To be honest, this country is just like opening up.

You must know that Spain has dominated the sea for more than 200 years, and it only took them more than 20 years to surpass this old sea overlord, which is simply outrageous!
The most outrageous thing about this outrageous Netherlands is their number of ocean-going sailing ships.

According to statistics, there are about [-] ocean-going sailing ships in the world at the moment, and the Netherlands has [-] ships.

In other words, the number of ocean-going sailing ships in the Netherlands is three times that of all other countries combined!
In short, the Netherlands at the moment is indeed fierce, and it is an unreasonably fierce kind.

Such an outrageous maritime overlord naturally wants to seize colonies all over the world, because the reason why European countries are frantically building ocean-going ships these days is to rob colonies, plunder resources, and plunder wealth.

Otherwise, why do they build so many ocean-going ships?

If your brain is flooded, you won't build so many ocean-going ships for no reason!
The reason why the Netherlands built so many large ocean-going ships was of course to go out to snatch colonies.

However, this emerging maritime overlord has a fatal shortcoming, that is, their population is not large enough.

The so-called seven northern provinces are actually not provinces like Daming, and their seven provinces are equivalent to the size of seven counties in Daming.

The entire United Republic of the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands is actually as big as the land of the Ming Dynasty, and its total population is actually only about one million.

With such a small population, it is not enough to control more than 1 ocean-going ships. How can they rob colonies all over the world?
Of course they can only pick soft persimmons.

They basically won't snatch the overseas colonies of Spain and Portugal, the old maritime hegemons, because they can't afford them.

Although the populations of Spain and Portugal are not large, they are still relatively large compared to the Netherlands, whose populations are several times that of the Netherlands.

If the Dutch wanted to seize the colonies they had already occupied, they would have to fight. If they were not defeated, how could they give them the colonies?
And Spain and Portugal are not vegetarians, they also have guns and artillery, as well as buildings and gunboats, fighting with them is a war of attrition, and their youth will be exhausted after a few battles!
This is their biggest shortcoming, they can't fight this kind of battle or war of attrition.

Therefore, they can only choose places where Spain and Portugal have not yet colonized to bully those indigenous countries.

This way they don't have to consume any population.

The problem is that Spain and Portugal have dominated the sea for more than 200 years. The indigenous countries near the European continent have basically been wiped out by others, and the colonies that can be robbed have almost been robbed by others. Where can they bully the indigenous countries? Where can they go to snatch the colonies? Woolen cloth?

Don't think about it, only the Far East.

Because the distance was too far, neither Spain nor Portugal seized colonies on a large scale in the Far East.

Spain also captured a Luzon, and Portugal also seized a Melaka.

This Far East is the last piece of "fat" in the world, and the Dutch will naturally not let it go.

Therefore, in 30 A.D., which was the [-]th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the Netherlands established the East India Company to develop colonies in the Far East.

Of course, the East India Company they declared to the outside world was just a trading company.

In fact, the Dutch East India Company was a colonial institution, and they came to the Far East to develop colonies.

In the 31st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, they went to Macau to test the Portuguese, but they were beaten away.

In the 32nd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, they went to Quanzhou to test the Ming Empire, but they were driven away.

In the 47th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, they finally conquered Java Island, gained a firm foothold in the Far East, and moved the headquarters of the East India Company to Batavia.

Immediately afterwards, they began their plan to colonize the Far East, and their first choice was the Ming Empire!

Why did the Dutch choose Daming as their target?

To be honest, their goal setting is a bit absurd.

You know, Daming also has muskets and cannons, and the population of Daming is terrifyingly large, hundreds of times theirs!
Even if Da Ming declines, no matter how bad Da Ming is, it cannot be swallowed by a small country with a population of one million!

They took Daming as their target, so why not go directly to war with Spain and Portugal!

Because the combined army of Spain and Portugal is not more than half of that of Ming Dynasty!

The reason why the Dutch chose Daming has a lot to do with their partner Dongying.

Their cooperation with Dongying began in the 33rd year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Dongying had just fought two fierce battles with Ming Dynasty, Dongying Kanbai Toyotomi Hideyoshi had just passed away, and the Tokugawa shogunate had just taken control of Dongying.

There is no doubt that Dongpu has been spying on Daming for a long time.

Whether it's Toyotomi Hideyoshi or Tokugawa Ieyasu, they all want to win Daming and become the overlord of the Far East!

However, Tokugawa Ieyasu chose a different method from Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was overwhelmed, and directly led his army to invade Korea, the vassal state of Ming Dynasty, in an attempt to use Korea as a springboard to bring down Ming Dynasty.

Needless to say, he mobilized more than [-] troops to fight against Daming twice, and in the end he didn't even take down Daming's vassal North Korea.

Tokugawa Ieyasu has more chicken thieves, he chose to fight the fire and let the Dutch go first!

In fact, his thinking is similar to Taichang's thinking at the moment.

Taichang wanted the Dutch to fight the Spaniards, and lose both sides, and then easily win Nanyang.

He wanted the Dutch, the overlord of the sea, to fight against the overlord of the Far East, Daming, so that they could easily take down Daming and become the overlord of the Far East!

I have to say that their idea is really a bit vicious.

However, the Dutch just fell for it.

Because Daming's piece of fat is really too fat!
What's more, the Dongying people made the Daming Navy too bad. They made the Dutch mistakenly think that the Daming Navy was just a bunch of small sampans and had no fighting power at all.

The Dutch are certainly not stupid, and they wouldn't fall for such a trick easily.

The problem is that in the 32nd year of Wanli, the results of their testing of the Ming Empire were similar to what the Dongying people said!

At that time, they also sent a few armed merchant ships to test it out, and the Ming Empire also sent dozens of small sampans!
They have seen it with their own eyes, the Daming navy is just a bunch of small sampans, and the Dongying people fooled them, they were really fooled!
It's not fake, it's real.

The reason why the Dutch targeted Daming and repeatedly provoked or even took the initiative to attack Daming was because they were fooled by the Japanese.

They just think that Daming is a soft persimmon, easy to pinch!

Because in history, when the Dutch came to attack Ming Dynasty, they sent a total of seven warships, and they were not even big gunboats.

This seemingly absurd behavior just proves that they have been fooled and received too much wrong information.

Because they think that Daming is like this, seven ordinary warships are enough to overthrow the Daming navy!
Of course, Daming did not have such dishes as the people from Dongying said.

There was no such dish in history, and it is even less so now.

However, the Dutch had been fooled by the Dongpu people and had already targeted Da Ming. They just wanted the ant to destroy the elephant and swallow Da Ming's fat that was countless times bigger than themselves!

It has been true in history, and it is true now.

The act of the Japanese people fooling the Dutch and the absurd behavior behind the Dutch are like an ant fooling another ant.

The Japanese ant said: "Da Ming's elephant is too weak, I tripped it when I stretched out my feet last time."

The Dutch ant thought to himself: "That's great, I'll trip up the elephant, Daming, and jump on it and eat it up!"

They don't even think about how big their stomachs are!
(End of this chapter)