Chapter 276: East India Trading Company
Peng Feng was vilified by many scholars of Huaxia, cursed as the greatest tyrant in history, even more so than Qin Shi Huang, who burned books and buried scholars alive.
However, because of Peng Feng’s six policies.
The common people of the New Dynasty were living much, much better than before.
At this time, the land of Huaxia, after more than a hundred years of war, had finally returned to peace, and everywhere was showing a scene of prosperity.
Of course, at the same time, because of Peng Feng’s established limits on personal farmland, housing area, and spiritual land, the landlord class no longer existed in this era.
Those of the Imperial Bodyguard, in order to pass their KPI assessments, searched high and low for corrupt officials.
This was also an era where officials did not dare to chat and landlords were extinct.
If there were a way to calculate GDP now, the annual growth rate for these ten years would probably be above ten percent every year.
This made the common people loudly proclaim that the New Dynasty was truly good.
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Twenty years later.
The year is 16610.
Peng Feng lazily sat in the imperial palace.
He found that being an emperor was really boring.
He was just waiting for his son, Peng Zhenlong, to grow up.
Then he could stop being the emperor, go out and travel the world, and cultivate to break through to the Mysterious Immortal Realm.
Of course, breaking through to the Mysterious Immortal Realm was really difficult.
He estimated that he would not be able to break through to the Mysterious Immortal Realm within a hundred years.
Just at this moment.
A carrier pigeon landed in the imperial palace.
It transformed into a white-robed young girl.
“Reporting, Your Majesty, there is an urgent matter to report.” The white-robed girl took out a memorial.
Peng Feng was not very willing to deal with political affairs. Usually, many political affairs were handled by Zhu Weichuo, Feng Feifei, and Bai Wan’er. These three usually competed with each other, making the handling of political affairs very exciting.
However,
There were two departments that were responsible to Peng Feng.
One was the Imperial Bodyguard, which was responsible for monitoring all the officials in the world, arresting officials from time to time, and also assessing KPIs.
There was no way around it, officials, such creatures, would still be corrupt even if they were caught and beheaded.
No matter how much the Imperial Bodyguard arrested, they could not eliminate them all.
Didn’t Zhu Yuanzhang of the past kill so many people that no one dared to be an official, and yet the remaining officials still engaged in corruption.
The second was the Knowing Heaven Bird, an intelligence organization that was only responsible for intelligence, to avoid being blinded and deceived.
Peng Feng took the intelligence handed over by the Knowing Heaven Bird and could not help but be stunned.
This!
The intelligence said:
Many large ships had sailed from overseas and attacked Taiwan Island. The original governor of Taiwan Island, Wang Zhiwen, fought with the people on these large ships, and as a result, was seriously injured and barely escaped.
And Taiwan Island was occupied by these overseas ships.
Afterwards, it was discovered that these overseas ships belonged to an East India Trading Company. It was said that the East India Trading Company was affiliated with the Netherlands in Europe, the country of windmills.
Peng Feng could not help but be stunned.
That’s right.
In the original history,
The exploration ships of the Netherlands arrived in the Indian Ocean at the end of the 16th century and discovered the abundant resources and products of the South Sea Islands.
The ambitious Dutch secretly developed their military industry. Before long, they proved to the world with their absolute naval strength that the Netherlands was the overlord of this sea area.
On May 20, 1602, in the original history, the Netherlands established the notorious VOC, which was the Dutch East India Trading Company.
And the various countries in Asia at this time were simply unable to resist the attacks of the Dutch East India Trading Company. One by one, the regimes were destroyed by the Dutch East India Trading Company, and one by one, the countries became colonies of the Netherlands.
The Dutch East India Trading Company was simply making a fortune, with countless gold, silver, and people being continuously transported back to their country.
And the Dutch East India Trading Company set its sights on Taiwan.
At that time, Zheng Chenggong was in Taiwan, and he fought a battle with the East India Trading Company, defeated the East India Trading Company, and recovered Taiwan.
And the history of this world was similar.
The Dutch East India Trading Company also attacked Taiwan.
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However, unlike in history.
Peng Feng’s New Dynasty did not have fiefdoms.
Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo, two Heavenly Immortals, were both in the Central Plains.
And the governor of Taiwan Province, Wang Zhiwen, was only at the second level of the Earth Immortal Realm.
There was no way around it. Previously, the Great Ming and Great Qing had fought a hundred years of terrible battles, consuming a large number of experts. At its peak, there were more than ten Heavenly Immortal Realm experts in the world. And now, there were only three Heavenly Immortals in total.
The Earth Immortal Realm was already considered a top-tier expert in this era.
Generally, the governors of each province were at the Earth Immortal Realm.
Now, just like in history, the East India Trading Company had attacked.
The opponent was definitely a strong person at the Earth Immortal Realm.
Logically speaking,
Peng Feng could send Zheng Chenggong or Li Dingguo to go. With their cultivation at the first and third levels of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, they would definitely be able to solve this matter.
However,
Peng Feng had been staying in the imperial palace for twenty years.
He had long been bored.
It was rare to encounter something,
Of course he had to go and see what this damn East India Trading Company was all about.
“Alright, then I will personally lead the expedition.” Peng Feng said with a smile.
Then, he told the empress about the personal expedition.
The empress and two imperial concubines in the harem naturally agreed. Peng Feng was not an emperor who grew up in the deep palace. He was a real, number one expert in the heavens and the earth who became emperor.
What was there to be afraid of when dealing with some foreign invaders?
“If Your Majesty is going to Taiwan, I want to go too.” Feng Feifei immediately said.
“Then I will go too.” Bai Wan’er would not let Feng Feifei go with Peng Feng alone.
“I actually want to go too. Staying in the palace for too long has become tiresome,” Zhu Huichuo said.
“Then let’s all go.”
“What about the political affairs?”
“Let Zhenlong and Luanfeng handle them. One is the crown prince, and the other is the eldest prince. It’s time for them to practice how to handle political affairs.” Peng Feng said nonchalantly.
Zhu Huichuo felt slightly apologetic, but she really wanted to leave the palace to play, so she could only put the burden on Peng Zhenlong and Peng Luanfeng.
After leaving a letter to the crown prince,
Peng Feng and the other three left home… left the imperial palace.
Their destination was Taiwan Island.
Afterwards, when Peng Zhenlong and Peng Luanfeng learned that their parents had left, they could not help but complain. They were not even taken along when they went out to play. They also really wanted to leave the palace to have some fun.
Helplessly, their father and mother had left, so they could only stay in the imperial palace and deal with those hair-raising political affairs.
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And at this time.
On Taiwan Island, the smoke of battle had dissipated.
This place was originally the territory of the New Dynasty.
Now, however, a group of white-skinned, blond-haired people stood there.
These people held firearms in their hands.
The Great Ming had already had muskets and flintlocks at that time.
And these people had even stronger firearms in their hands.
After all, in terms of firearms, Europe was still much more advanced.
And these white-skinned, blond-haired people were undoubtedly the white people of the Dutch East India Trading Company.
