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Chapter 692 Strong Protest (Third Change)

Now Cruise really wants to die. The businessman he hired to talk to him turned out to be a grain merchant who has worked closely with the Kyushu Army, and he has cooperated with him for so many years. His own interests have been tied to the rise and fall of the Kyushu Army. It is impossible. Disclose even a little real information about the Kyushu Army to them.

Putmans looked at Cruise full of resentment. It was he who believed the grain merchants that Cruise had found, which caused them to be kept in the dark by the Kyushu Army these days, under their noses He ran to attack Siam, and the Kyushu Army's strategic intentions were not discovered until the Dutch merchants in Siam returned.

"General Cohen, the governor of the East India Company, has sent us a letter stating that your Kyushu army sent a large fleet to attack Siam, and the army surrounded the capital of the Siamese king. Is there such a thing?" Putmans still Straight to the point.

Xiong Wencan nodded in disbelief: "Since you all know, then we are not afraid to tell you bluntly that Siam has offended our Kyushu Army, so we sent troops to attack them."

"How did Siam offend your Kyushu Army?" Cruise asked.

"Tungoo country invaded our territory. We originally planned to go to the king of Siam to attack Toungoo country. Who knew that they didn't know how to flatter them, so they dared not agree. Therefore, we planned to conquer the city of King Siam first, and then went to attack Toungoo country." Xiong Wencan said.

Putmans and Cruise rolled their eyes. The reason for attacking Siam is simply unreasonable. It is clear that the Kyushu Army just found a reason to prevaricate the mouth of the world.How could they accept such a frivolous reason in front of their old Jianghu who traversed the world.

"We, the Dutch, will never agree to this matter!" Putmans slapped the table vigorously, accusing the Kyushu Army's actions, "I would like to express my strong condemnation to you on behalf of our East India Company! The Kingdom of Siam is an independent kingdom, and the people there obey the orders of the King of Siam and live happily on the Chao Phraya River Plain bestowed by the gods, why do you bring war, panic, and plague there?!"

"Huh?" Xiong Wencan put on a puzzled expression, "When you Netherlanders occupied Batavia, Batavia was not called Batavia, but Jakarta, which was occupied by the Kingdom of Banten. rule, and their people live there unhappy?"

Putmans was asked about his pain, and he hesitated: "It's not the same, we just occupied their royal city... The Kingdom of Banten still exists, and we are now working hard to live in peace with them."

Xiong Wencan snorted coldly: "Forget it, you just lack the troops to control the entire Spice Islands, and controlling those barren islands is too cost-effective for you. As long as you control a few places in and out of the Spice Islands, you can Monopolizing the trade of all the commercial crops in the Spice Islands, why do you need to conquer every place? And it would be more cost-effective to keep these indigenous tribes, enslave them by force, force them to work, or pay you what you need on a regular basis?"

Putmans and Cruise were sweating profusely when they heard this. This is indeed a common method used by the colonists in the colonies. Only a small amount of troops is needed to control a huge population.

"That... that's what we have to do. Only India and the East Indies have the spices and some crops we want. India's overseas trade is controlled by the Franz and the British. We Dutch people don't even have soup. No. If we don’t have a stronghold in the Spice Islands, we won’t be able to obtain these things.” Seeing that he couldn’t reason with the other party, Putmans had no choice but to play the emotional card.

"According to your point of view, people who are as small as petty theft and murder and arson all have their own difficulties, so some of their evil deeds can be forgiven?" Xiong Wencan asked back.

"..." Putmans was speechless for a moment.

"So, this world is a world where the weak prey on the strong. There is no need to leave the world of mortals and set up a memorial archway. Big fists are the last word. Whatever our Kyushu army says is what it is." Xiong Wencan beat the two of them.

Putmans and Cruise, who originally planned to express their strong dissatisfaction with the Kyushu Army, were left speechless by Xiong Wencan's words, and could not find a suitable entry point to refute.

In the colonial era of great voyages, strength is everything. The colonies among Western countries can be robbed from each other, and they were also taken from the hands of the natives at the beginning.

"Aren't you afraid that we Westerners will intervene in your war with Siam? Although you have many warships, once our fleet of armed merchant ships intervenes halfway, it will cut off your sea routes and let you in Siam. Luo Guo's army has become a lone army." Putmans saw that no matter whether he protested or complained, he could not shake the Kyushu Army even a little bit, so he had to speak with the Kyushu Army on the table.

"You can try... If you dispatched the fleet to help Siam earlier, it might work. But now, our fleet and the army should be about to capture the Siamese King City. When your fleet When participating in the war, our fleet will patrol the waterway, and you can only choose to fight with our fleet." Xiong Wencan said.

"Despicable! If it wasn't for your design to delay us here for more than half a month, how could we miss the opportunity!" Putmans couldn't help being furious when he thought about how he had been cheated.

"Mr. Putmans, you have to pay attention to your attitude when talking to our adults. Our adults are the civil affairs officers of the Chief Secretary of Cochin. We manage a vast land and a population of 300 million. Compared with your Federation of the Netherlands, we are not much worse. Don't say that the Chief Secretary of Jiaozhi is just a province that our Kyushu Army has just established." The official next to him reminded.

Xiong Wencan waved his hand to show that he didn't need to care about it: "The beginning of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" says that the soldiers are cunning. We make moves, and you are caught. There is nothing wrong with it. In the end, we just want to take back the land that has belonged to us since ancient times. We are not interested in the Spice Islands. We have a vast land and resources, what do we want? I don’t want to cause conflicts between us and the West because of taking back our ancient land. I hope we can continue to maintain peace.”

"Siam was your territory before?" Putmans asked in surprise.

"Yes, if you don't believe me, please take a look at this map. As early as 1000 years ago during the Han Dynasty, the Indochina Peninsula was our territory." Xiong Wencan asked to spread out a map, on which the territory of the Han Dynasty covered the east and west. Yu, Siam, Lancang, Annan, Koryo, Dongying and other countries, and most of the Siberian Plain...

(End of this chapter)