At the beginning of the 17th century, just as Daming's land mergers were becoming more and more serious, corruption was rampant, infighting was infighting, and the national situation was under the sun, and the European countries were gradually moving towards prosperity and strength through colonial expansion and frenzied plunder.

During this period, the original two colonial powers Spain and Portugal were gradually losing their maritime hegemony, the emerging maritime power of the Netherlands is gradually rising, in order to carry out colonial expansion in the Far East, monopoly of the Eastern trade, the Netherlands in 1602 set up the Dutch East India Company with state functions, began the colonial plunder of the Far East.

In 1604, the Dutch East India Company sent Wei Ma Lang with three warships to occupy Penghu Ma Gong Island, and commissioned the local people to "cut wood and build houses for a long time", with the intention of using this as a colonial stronghold to monopolize the trade between Daming and the European continent.

Daming Fujian General Army Shi De decreed that the Fujian Du Department commanded the command of Shen Yue to lead the soldiers to question face to face, and the Dutch side was aggrieved and withdrew from Penghu in November of that year.

In 1622, the Dutch East India Company once again sent seven warships plus more than 900 fighters, occupied Penghu Lake, and blocked the mouth of Zhangzhou, so that the Daming Water Division could not leave the port, the Great Ming Dynasty informed the court, and then ordered the Fujian governor Nanjui to organize the water division to drive the Dutch out of the Penghu.

Four years in February, South Guyi personally arrived at the Golden Gate by boat, ordered the Ming Army to cross the sea to attack, recover the Penghu Lake, the general staidary, guarding Wang Meng bear, led more than 200 warships, more than 10,000 sailors, landed in Penghu, and fought with the Dutch colonists.

However, due to the solid forts built by the Dutch colonists on the island, coupled with their strong ships and guns, the Ming Army could not attack for a long time.

In July of the fourth year of the apocalypse, Nanguyi ordered the coastal guards of Fujian Dusi to mobilize the ships of the Fushu to support and began to launch a general attack on the Dutch colonists in Penghu.

In August of the fourth year of the apocalypse, the Ming army was divided into three roads, directly approaching the castle built by the Dutch colonists in the Penghu, and the Dutch colonists finally withdrew by the enemy, and the guarding the high Wenli and other twelve were captured by the Ming Army.

After this service, Daming recovered the islands of Penghu, the Dutch colonists were forced to withdraw to the east, the European powers saw the power of the Daming Water Division, and did not dare to play the idea of Daming for more than ten years.

However, because the Ming army did not take advantage of the victory and chase the Dutch colonists out of the southeast sea, the Dutch East India Company established a foothold in Dongfan, gradually monopolized the trade of Daming, Dongyi, North Korea and the European Union, and colluded with pirates to plunder the merchant ships of various countries, which eventually led to the outbreak of Daming and the Netherlands a war comparable to the Opium War.

Of course, these are all afterwords, and for the time being, they are not over-the-top.

In order to destroy the trade exchanges between Spain, Portugal and Daming, the Netherlands has long since begun to collude with pirates to plunder merchant ships from various countries on the southeast coast, and this time they were beaten by Daming Water Division in Penghu, and they naturally will not sit still.

In order to reduce the pressure on the Penghu and disperse the Ming army, the Dutch began to contact pirates in June and plundered the southeast coast of Daming.

Among them, the most seriously disturbed by pirates are Fuzhou Province in northern Fujian, Funing State and Wenzhou Province in southern Zhejiang Province, and Taizhou Province.

The four coastal counties of the capital were attacked by small pirates, with small losses, several villages were looted, villagers fled, and the losses were large, and the coastal villages were attacked by pirates, not only the property was looted, but even the people were taken away by pirates.

Only Wenzhou Province Pingyang County, the county ordered Zhang Bin to lead the villagers to resist pirates, although the right arm was arrows through, but to keep the people's property, the whole of Pingyang, can be said to have not suffered any loss.

Only this point, Zhang Bin will be far more than the same, the end of the evaluation, etc., seems to be no problem.

Of course, this merit is nothing compared to the victory of Penghu, but do not underestimate the Dutch sent this army, even if it is a million people of the indigenous country, I am afraid that it will be destroyed by the Dutch forces, but Da Ming not only defeated it, but also captured their defenders, which is very rare in the history of the world.

After the victory of Penghu, Nanjuyi escorted the Dutch guard to Beijing, Ming Xizong and other "sacrifice to the suburban temple, the royal gate was captured, the prison law is equal to the western city, the first side of the head, in order to show the world."

And Pingyang County made Zhang Bin's achievements, I do not know whether the local state capital forgot to report or the party quarrel too fiercely did not pay off his small county order, the Ministry did not even have a word of recognition.

Zhang Bin did not know what was going on, but since the Netherlands had retreated, the pirates were naturally unlikely to disembark and loot again, and more than 500 "hardies" trapped in Pingyang County could return to Fujian.

Farewell to the second brother Zhang crown, his own injury is almost better, he began to pay attention to the sale of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

After all, the output of potatoes and sweet potatoes is placed there, an acre of output is equivalent to about twelve stones, this is only a season of production, the average farmer's family, as long as it is not too lack of food, so many potatoes and sweet potatoes they can not eat, must sell a part, become cash, in order to be more conducive to improving their lives.

At this time, the squire soup found a large merchant in the whole Wenzhou row, came to the county together to discuss the sale of potatoes, Zhang Bin was naturally happy to receive these two people.

It is said that the merchant is not in a low position at this time, even lower than the status of the craftsman, how can a gentleman like Tang Xing go with a merchant?

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the status of businessmen has not always been very low, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was a poor farmer, there is prejudice against businessmen, so the status of businessmen is very low, he even expressly stipulates that businessmen can not even wear silk and satin clothes, which shows that he discriminates against businessmen.

However, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the development of industry and commerce, merchants became richer and richer, and they found ways to start seeking social status.

The most direct method is naturally to achieve fame through the imperialist, such as the Donglin party leader Gu Xian's achievements out of the merchant Jia home, there are many businessmen through the marriage, climbing the elite, to promote the social status of businessmen rising, in fact, this time, the social status of large businessmen has almost caught up with the squire, or, many businessmen, in fact, is a mutated squire, but they are not in the hands of the land, but a variety of commodities.

Like this time with Tang appeared to visit the big businessman who praised his own talent, and the business is very big, almost all of Wenzhou Province has his industry.

He came to Zhang Bin, even to teach the potato practice, because he listened to Tang Xiu described the delicious potato stew chicken, found that this is a good business opportunity, he has several restaurant under his name, if you can make potatoes into specialties, its profit is not a little!

Zhang Bin is quite appreciated for his idea, after all, the restaurant is a place of public consumption, if potatoes can become a common dish in the restaurant, for the promotion of potatoes is very favorable.

Although he was not a cook in a past life, but the dishes will still be made, after all, he is forced to come from, if he does not cook meals, that hungry when there is more.

He happily added a pen and listed his own potato practice one by one.

For example, potato stew chicken, potato stew beef, vinegar potato silk, red-hot potatoes, fried potato strips, fried potato chips and so on.

He was purely to sell potatoes, so that the people under treatment could have a little more income, but he never thought that the back was setting off a boom in eating potatoes!