The picture shows the trading station of Dutch East India Company in Hugley, Bangladesh region, painted by Hendrik Vans Helenberg and published in 1655.
Dutch East India Company, namely United East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, referred to as VOC), commonly known as Dutch East India Company, is a franchise company established in the history of the Netherlands for the development of Asia. It was established on March 20, 1602 and is the world's first joint-stock company and dissolved in 1798.
Its flag is connected with V to O and C (A above is the abbreviation of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which means that the ship or equipment is sent by Amsterdam. If the person sent by Middleborough City is sent, the word M is added, and so on.). In the nearly 200 years since its establishment, a total of 1,772 ships have been sent overseas, and about 1 million Europeans have taken a 4,789 flight of ship from the Netherlands to Asia. On average, each overseas base has 25,000 employees and 12,000 crew members.
The earliest foreign colonial invaders who invaded China
Dutch East India Company established a castle as a trade base in Penghu in 1622, but Penghu was the flood site where the Ming Dynasty government of China was seasonally stationed. After the negotiations failed, China sent an army led by Yu Zigao to surround the castle of the Dutch people, forcing the Dutch to turn to the then former official (now Taiwan) (now Anping District, Tainan City) in 1624 to establish a stronghold in the history of Taiwan.
The purpose of occupying Taiwan is to pivot the commercial strongholds of China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia, and to monopolize the trade between Manila (Spanish colony) and China. The main export trade contents include sugar, deer skin , venison, antler, vine, white rice, and the transportation trade contents include Dutch medicinal materials, spices, pepper, amber, linen, cotton, opium, tin and lead and other metals, Chinese silk, silk, ceramics, gold, Japan's silver, ginseng from the Korean Peninsula, etc.
The original model of the VOC merchant ship "Amsterdam" displayed in the Dutch Maritime Museum
Take deer skin as an example. In just four years from 1634 to 1638, the number of pictures exported from Taiwan to Japan increased from 110,000 to 150,000. By 1658, Taiwan's sugar output was enough to supply Japan and Persia's needs, and Batavia was added as the export object.
Dutch East India Company has about 35 strongholds in Asia, and the Japanese strongholds ranked first with a profit of 38.8%. The second is Taiwan, which makes 25.6%. The profits of Dutch East India Company in these places are mainly distributed to shareholders across the Netherlands, and secondly, it is used to promote Christian missions and give back to local people's cultural and educational development and local infrastructure.
At the Netherlands, there were Japanese in the countries that were operating trade in Taiwan at that time. In view of the Japanese's business competition, the Dutch Taiwanese chief then imposed one-tenth of tariffs on Japanese merchants, which caused dissatisfaction between the two sides. Even the Hamada Yae Ei incident occurred. The two sides terminated trade in 1628, and after the Dutch apologized, they handed over Peter Nuyiz, who offended the Japanese, and went to Japan to imprisonment. Trade was resumed in 1632, but Japan soon entered the era of Japan's lockdown. In addition, because the Dutch and Japan governments have the power to enforce judicial power over all their territories, there have also been conflicts between the two sides.
Relanzhacheng ruins
Chichilou ruins
Chinese military and civilians expelled the invaders
Dutch East India Company occupied Taiwan from 1624 to 1662 until it was successfully defeated by Ming Zheng Yanping Wang Zheng, which was called the Dutch rule period. The buildings of those days, such as Jelanzha City and Prominzha City, are still alive, but most of them are still in full swing.
In terms of time, the Netherlands was one of the earliest European countries to intend to colonize and invade China, and it was also the first country to actually establish a temporary colonial rule in part. After being bravely defeated by Chinese military and civilians, the Netherlands changed its attitude towards China to cooperation, and was eventually replaced by Britain as its colonial hegemony in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
