Now many people know about the Spanish's massacre of their compatriots of Chinese, but they don't know the history of the Dutch invasion of Taiwan. It can be said that the Dutch at that time were not a good bird! Like the Spanish, they were all birds of a feather! They had done all the bad things!

The Netherlands' invasion of China began in the 29th year of Wanli, Ming Dynasty (1601). The colonists "drived large ships and giant cannons" and invaded various parts of my country's coastal areas under the name of "Tonggong City", in an attempt to seize a place as a base for controlling trade with China and looting China's wealth.

Dutch colonialists first occupied Java Island (now Indonesia), and then competed with Portugal for Macau. They were defeated by the Portuguese and fled to Penghu. In July 1604, the Dutch Governor Wei Malangsu, departed from Java and arrived in Penghu in August. Since the troops sent by the Ming government to Penghu had been sent back, the Dutch successfully landed in Penghu on August 7 without any resistance.

Soon, Gao Wenlu, the leader of the Dutch invading army, sent troops to harass the areas of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in the second year of Tianqi, and demanded the opening of a concession. After learning about it, the Fujian governor ordered Dushi Shenyou to lead five sailboats to go to the lake on November 18, ordered the Dutch army to leave, and prohibited the people from going to sea to cut off the supply of the Dutch army's supplies. The Dutch army was forced to evacuate Penghu on December 15.

In 1619, the Dutch East India Company built Batavia City in Java (now Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia), which tightened its invasion of China.

In 1622, the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in Jakarta, Indonesia, ordered Conaris Yoz to lead 17 warships and more than 1,000 invading the Route Army, and again invaded Penghu, landed in Maguanao (Magong Bay) and built a castle. Longhou then built a castle at Fengguiwei, Jinguitai, Shili, Baisha and Baji Islands. In July of the same year, Yoz led a ship 2 to the west coast of Taiwan and entered Taijiang from Anping. It was prepared for the later entry to Taiwan to imitate it.

At that time, the Fujian Governor Nan Juyi sent 2,000 troops to attack Pengsu. Advance troops landed at Zhenhai Port on Baisha Island and attacked the Wadong Port Fort. Later, the sea crossed the sea and entered Penghu Island, forcing the Redwood Fort near Xiwei (now Chaoyang).

Under the attack of the Chinese army, most of the Dutch army had retreated in Maguanao, and some of them were defending Fengguiweicheng, and they were fighting stubbornly: to wipe out the enemy's troops.

The governor of Fujian Province increased his troops in large numbers (the total strength reached 10,000 and 200 ships). In August, he launched a general attack on the Dutch army from Hongmucheng, Wen'ao, and Xiwei, defeated the Dutch army invading and restored the lake. The leader of the invading army, Gao Wenlu and 12 others were captured alive, and his defeated general fled to the Taiwan army in a hurry.

Seeing that the Dutch army had a huge gap in strength between the two sides, they had to seek peace. After negotiations between the two sides, three peace talks were signed: 1. The Netherlands gave up the lake island, 2. China allowed the Netherlands to trade; 3. The Netherlands was involved in Taiwan, and the Ming government could not ask.

After the Dutch invaders escaped from Hu defeat, they moved to Taiwan: on October 25, 1624, they arrived on the west coast of Taiwan, deceived the trust of local residents, and landed in the Anping area through Taijiang. After the Ming Dynasty government recovered Hu, they were intoxicated by the victory and did not send troops to pursue him, which led to the Dutch invaders gaining a foothold in southern Taiwan.

In 1630, the Dutch built Taiwan. Bay City (called Jelan Chambaugh in the Netherlands), and in 1650, the Chikhill region was built in Tainan (called Provenchaburg in the Netherlands), and for a long time, the Dutch troops stationed in Taiwan reached 2,800.

At that time, there were 11 islands outside the sea, forming a natural barrier from north to south, forming a large good harbor that could be anchored to other ships at the same time. In addition, this place was also the main channel to enter Taijiang, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and had high military value.

The main items plundered by the Dutch were Taiwanese specialties such as deer skin, camphor, coconut, rice and sugar. In 1638, the Netherlands had 150,000 deer skins from Taiwan to Japan alone. At that time, Japan was in the Warring States Period, and Japanese samurai liked to make "Manghariyaki" with deer skin.

The Dutch ships transported cargo from mainland China to Taiwan every year. They transported Taiwan’s rice, sugar, deer skin and vines to Japan and even Persia; then transported metals and medicinal materials from the Netherlands, spices, peppers, amber, tin, lead, cotton cloth, ziana, etc. from Batavia to mainland China through Taiwan; then transported mainland China’s raw silk, porcelain, silk fabrics and other materials to Europe, making a lot of profits!

At that time, a Dutch governor said: "Taiwan is a good cow for the company." The East India Company ranked second in the 25 shopping malls in Asia. The annual wealth transported back to the Netherlands is equivalent to 4 tons of gold. This was an astronomical figure at the time!

In the Netherlands

In areas ruled by colonists, farming requires rent, hunting, fishing requires licenses, and population tax. The land that the Dutch robbed from the mountain tribes was then handed over to local merchants and landlords for rent, known as "Wangtian"! In today's Tainan, Chiayi and other places, there are some villages called "Wangtian".

Dutch colonists called the Chinese "pig" and "barbarians" to kill the Chinese. In November 1635, Putman, the fourth Dutch governor in Taiwan, led the army to kill 26 villagers in Madou Village, including women and children, burned down houses, cut down coconut and betel nut trees, and forced the heads of Madou Village to sign a peace treaty and accept the Dutch rule.

What is most annoying is that Taiwan, which was clearly included in the Han rule during the Three Kingdoms period, actually had two groups of invaders fighting on it! These two groups of people were later with Spain!

In July 1628, the Spanish Governor to Manila sent warships to Huwei (now Tamsui) on the northwest coast of Taiwan to build the Tamsui City (called Santo Domingo in Spain): in 1632, he walked along the Tamsui River and entered the Taipei Plain and Keelung. In 1633, he occupied the junction of Yilan, Suao, Nantou, Hualien and other places. Thus, Spain completely controlled northern Taiwan.

After Spain occupied northern Taiwan, the Netherlands in southern Taiwan was not only affected by trade and navigation, but also politically and militaryally threatened by Spain. In order to exclude Spain's forces in Taiwan, the Netherlands sent troops to attack the Spaniards twice. Finally expelled the Spaniards from Taiwan, achieving the goal of dominating Taiwan.

But in this history, Liu Pei completely defeated the Spaniards when they just gained their foothold. I'm afraid there will be no Dutch in Taiwan!

Liu Pei looked at the map of Taiwan and kept recalling Taiwan's bumpy history. As he thought about it, Liu Pei became more determined to completely occupy Taiwan. Anyway, he would go to war with the Dutch sooner or later. Instead of dragging it to the future, it would be better to completely take over Taiwan now while the morale is high!
Chapter completed!