The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 173 Batavia
When it was time to eat lunch at noon, Wang Gao came back again.

He personally led the recruits under his command to the cafeteria together.

Wang Gao held a dinner plate in his hand, and took Wei Wu and others to cook.

Buckets of white rice, pancakes, steamed buns, big corn on the cob, large chunks of stewed fat meat, sea fish cooked in various cooking methods, as well as fragrant fish soup, a lot of various All kinds of tropical fruits... All these recruits stared wide-eyed.

Where have they seen sumptuous food!
Wang Gao just waved his hand and said.

"Meat and broth, as well as fruit, are rationed, but the staple foods such as white rice, pancakes, steamed buns and corn on the cob, as long as you can eat them, you can eat freely."

"Just remember, no waste!"

"Anyone who dares to waste food will be dragged out and have his trousers stripped off!"

"Ten food sticks are wasted for the first time, twenty food sticks are wasted for the second time, fifty food sticks are wasted for the third time, stacked in sequence!"

"As for the fourth time, one hundred battles, and the military sticks in the army are not the court sticks used to beat civil officials, they are actually fought. There are not so many flowers and flowers. After one hundred sticks, people must be right or wrong. That's what's left."

Wang Gao tirelessly instructed everyone.

"Also, just eat enough, don't eat too much."

"A few days ago, there was a recruit who didn't have enough to eat before, but the first meal he entered the barracks, he ate too much and made himself alive."

"The military doctors can't help!"

"The person rolled and wailed on the ground for a long time, and died a miserable death!"

After explaining this, a group of people started to line up to get food. More than ten people gathered together, eating food with big mouthfuls.

Unlike people in later generations who like to eat lean meat, people at this time prefer oily and fat slices of meat.

Wei Wu felt the oil exploding on the tip of his tongue, and his face was full of joy that couldn't be concealed.

After lunch, everyone goes to lunch break!

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Gao appeared again and led them to start formal training.

It is said to be formal training, but it is not always true!
Now these recruits are all just enlisted in the army, their physical fitness is really poor, each of them is too thin, and they can't stand the high-intensity training.

You must eat and drink well for a period of time before you can really start high-intensity training.

Before that, at most they just practiced going forward, queues and the like.

While training, cultural education and ideological education are mixed.

While instilling the concept of loyalty in the recruits and brainwashing them with nationalism, the intensity of training is reduced.

This is the meaning of the existence of the boot camp!

If the Restoration Army is compared to a castle, then the recruit camp is similar to a brick kiln.

Shape each recruit into a qualified turning head, and when the recruits come out of the camp, they will gather together, and that will be an indestructible castle.

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Batavia!

Batavia is the largest colony of the Dutch in the East, and it is the distribution center of trade between the East and the West.

Sea coachmen attach great importance to this colony!

There are more than 3000 people in the garrison alone, and there are also systematic bastion defense projects.

Although the military power is not as good as Manila of the Spanish, in terms of prosperity, Batavia is even more prosperous than Manila.

On the one hand, it is because the Dutch are different from the Spaniards. Before the Hongxi tragedy in the [-]th century, there was no such thing as Tu Hua.

In terms of resettlement policies for the Chinese, they are also much more relaxed than the Spaniards, so that the first choice of the Chinese going to Nanyang is Batavia, followed by Manila.

The influx of a large number of Chinese made Batavia extremely prosperous.

In addition, although the Dutch are inferior to the Spaniards in terms of military strength, their reputation as sea coachmen is not blown out.

The Netherlands is the shipbuilding center of Europe in this era, and Amsterdam is the current financial center of Europe.

Although Britain defeated the Dutch in the first Anglo-Dutch naval battle, the Dutch still survived.

Around 1665 in the Western calendar, taking advantage of the restoration of the Stuart dynasty in England and the civil strife in England, the Dutch launched a sneak attack and launched the second Anglo-Dutch naval battle, which brought this place back.

All in all, the Dutch's maritime strength is still very strong!

There are so many seagoing ships going back and forth between the East and the West every year, more than half or [-]% to [-]% of them are from the Netherlands, and most of these Dutch ships stop at Batavia.

However, the sky above Batavia today is shrouded in a layer of haze.

The news of the fall of Zeelandia and Manila came successively, and the two colonies established by the Europeans in the East fell one after another.

Let Batavia feel great pressure!

After surrendering to Zheng Chenggong, Governor Kuiyi led the remaining Dutch in Zeelandia to leave Dayuan and return to Batavia.

After Kui arrived in Batavia, he also brought the Dutch, and all the Spaniards in Manila were publicly tried by the Restoration Army.

The governor of Barossa was sentenced to be cut in half, the Bishop of Sares was sentenced to death, and the news that almost all Spaniards were beaten into hard labor made everyone in Batavia feel the fear from the bottom of their hearts.

Manila, which has a stronger military force than Batavia, has fallen. How can Batavia survive?

As soon as Kui opened his mouth, he suggested to Governor Luobei.

"Your Excellency, the situation in the Far East has changed!"

"Ming's war situation on the mainland is ruined. If they want to expand their living space, they can only develop to the sea."

"The fall of Dayuan Island and Manila is the most obvious proof that the Ming Dynasty has adjusted its strategic focus!"

"Although the sea is vast, the interests at sea are limited."

"If Ming Kingdom is allowed to continue to expand, it will greatly harm the interests of the company."

"In this regard, my suggestion is to unite with the Tatars who defeated the Ming country on the mainland, and completely wipe out the Ming country."

Kuiyi wants to encourage Governor Luobei to expand the war with the Ming Dynasty and retake Dayuan Island to alleviate his guilt of losing Dayuan Island.

Commander Van der Laan on the side also suggested.

"Your Excellency, I second the suggestion of Chief Kuiichi!"

Governor Luobei was deep in thought, with an extremely bureaucratic expression on his face.

"If you just mobilize a small amount of troops to fight a counterattack, attack the Ming people and attack their merchant fleet, I can make the decision!"

"But if you want the power of the entire East India Company in the Far East to participate in the war between the Tatars and the Ming Dynasty, you must get a decision from the 17-member board of directors!"

Kui asked a question.

"Even if the Ming Dynasty has taken away the company's Dayuan Island, it has endangered the company's interests?"

Luo Bei nodded and said.

"Yes!"

Just when Kui Yi and Vander Laan showed disappointment on their faces, Luo Bei spoke again.

"However, we can send someone to go to the Tartars first!"

"If the Tatars are willing to pay enough, the company can help the Tatars build a navy!"

A sly light flashed in Luo Bei's eyes, revealing the essence of a shrewd businessman.

Kuiichi nodded vigorously.

"My lord governor, I am willing to go!"

Kuiyi is now the most active one advocating war against Ming.

Because only in this way can he be relieved of the guilt of losing Dayuan Island.

He doesn't want to be hanged by those noble gentlemen after returning to Amsterdam!
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