Da Ming started to ascend the throne

"Master Hou, see if it's true, Yu Qian really can't understand."

Zheng Chenggong smiled slightly:

"My lord, wait for a moment, I will check and check."

Someone might say, does Zheng Chenggong understand Dutch?

Of course I understand, his father Zheng Zhilong can speak several languages.

And their Zheng family often did business with the Dutch, which also made Zheng Chenggong proficient in the Dutch language.

Zheng Chenggong carefully checked the confession written by Cruy.

He suddenly found out that this guy is really talented, and he called the royal family of the Netherlands worthless.

He couldn't help turning his head to look at Colonel Netherlands a few more times, with both approval and disdain in his eyes.

What he praised was that the confession was written to benefit Daming, but what he disdained was that he dared to insult his own country like this.

To be honest, Zheng Chenggong looked down on such a person, a standard scum.

Zheng Chenggong returned Cruy's confession to Yu Qian, and couldn't help laughing:

"Your Majesty, Your Excellency, Colonel Netherlands is a talented person, and he wrote a very good confession, but he actually..."

Zheng Chenggong explained the contents of the confession to Yu Qian and Zhu Youjian in detail.

Yu Qian and Zhu Youjian both had smiles on their faces after listening.

Zhu Youjian got up and said slowly:

"Cruey, your performance is good, I decided to save you a way out, but the death penalty is unavoidable, so I decided to send you to Ceylon to mine for five years.

As long as your expression is good enough, you will be released after five years, someone will escort them to Ceylon, and inform the person in charge of the mine not to embarrass Cruy. "

Cruy was overjoyed when he heard that, and finally moved the Emperor Ming with his actual actions.

Not only did he not have to die, but even more than 500 soldiers under his command were pardoned for capital crimes.

Although he has to work as a volunteer for five years, it's a hundred times better than being beheaded!

Colonel Cruy of the Netherlands kowtowed to Zhu Youjian excitedly on the ground:

"Thank you, His Majesty, Emperor Ming, for the grace of not killing, thank you Cruy!"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 617 Unfair Treaty

Chapter 617 Unfair Treaty

Cruy may not have fully understood what His Majesty the Ming Emperor meant.

It is not his decision to perform well enough.

Besides, it is impossible for those [-] soldiers to go back, their fate must be to be a lifetime of volunteer labor for Daming.

After taking Cruy away, Zheng Chenggong couldn't bear it any longer. He stepped forward to give a military salute:

"Your Majesty, I don't understand something. I hope Your Majesty will make it clear that although the Dutch were completely defeated this time, it also caused dozens of casualties to the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. They should be executed immediately and avenge the soldiers..."

Zhu Youjian shook his head:

"Ai Qing, please be safe and don't be impatient. If you want to win the world in the future, it is impossible to kill all the people who oppose you in the world. Sometimes you need a strategy.

I know that the lives of the soldiers of the Ming army are the most precious, and it is far from being able to offset the killing of a few Dutchmen. I want to make the deaths of the soldiers more valuable, and you will understand later.

Now I announce that all soldiers who participated in this battle will be rewarded with twenty dragon coins, and non-commissioned officers will be rewarded with ten dragon coins.

The commander in charge of the battle will be rewarded with two hundred dragon coins, and a first-class merit will be recorded for the soldiers.

Except for the reward for injured soldiers, a pension of [-] dragon coins is added, and the reward for soldiers killed in battle is excepted for a pension of [-] dragon coins.

In addition, the parents and minor children of the soldiers who died in battle were raised and arranged for work by the Ming court.

For the captain who performed outstandingly in this command operation, he will be promoted to a rank and be named a baron.

As the commander-in-chief of the fleet this time, Ai Qing should be very clear about which battleship captain performed more outstandingly. "

Regarding the handling of captives, although Zheng Chenggong did not fully understand what the emperor meant.

But he was very pleased with the rewards to the soldiers, and hurriedly thanked them.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! My emperor is holy!"

"In this naval battle, our fleet killed more than 2 soldiers of the United Fleet and sank more than 100 warships.

It can be said that from ordinary soldiers to non-commissioned officers to the chief general, they all performed very bravely, and they deserve to be rewarded by His Majesty.

If we say that the most outstanding performance should be the captain of the Wendi and the entire ship's army, they started a bloody battle with a dozen Dutch warships single-handedly.

Even after shooting out all the shells, he drove the battleship without fear, and rushed directly to the Dutch battleship for hand-to-hand combat.

In this battle, they sank four Dutch warships and rammed and sank six Dutch warships, making a great contribution to the complete annihilation of the combined fleet.

Your Majesty, most of the casualties of the Ming soldiers this time came from the Wendi, and I feel that the captain of the Wendi is qualified to be a baron. "

Zheng Chenggong was very satisfied with this battle, especially Haijiao's performance, which made him look at it differently.

Of course, the other soldiers performed very well, including Shi Lang and Zheng Zhihu.

He himself is already a first-rank member and an earl, and his status is extremely high. If he wants to go further, this merit is far from enough.

But the other captains are still rank five and rank six generals, and even the deputy commander Shi Lang is only rank four, but he doesn't have a title.

The rank system of titles in the Ming Dynasty was quite troublesome.

In other dynasties, the setting of titles was often done by dividing the titles into princes, uncles, and barons.

However, because of the shortcomings of this enfeoffment, it has caused many bad effects. In order to avoid repeating the responsibilities of the previous dynasty, the Ming Dynasty absorbed progress and carried out great reforms on the title.

First of all, the identities of the successors of the title are divided into Zong's title and foreign relatives' title.

There are two ways of dividing, one is obtained by surname, and the other is obtained through meritorious service.

The ancients paid special attention to surnames, thinking that brothers can be trusted, but loyalty is not.

Therefore, many kings with the same surname are often sealed.