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Striving to gain access to the China market at the beginning of the seventeenth century the Dutch East India Company openly challenged the Chinese authorities and defied the centuries-old rules on China’s trade with its overseas neighbours.After earlier negotiations had failed,Governor-general Jan Pietersz Coen sent in the spring of 1622 a fleet under Commander Cornelis Reijersen to the Chinese coast to expell and replace the Portuguese over there.When in June the attack on Macao was valiantly repelled by the Portuguese defenders,Reijersen set sail for the Pescadores(P’eng-hu)archipelago situated in between Taiwan and the bay of Amoy(Xiamen)where in the following months a fortress was built.From these new headquarters at the entrance of the bay of Magong the Dutch tried to reopen negotiations with the Fujianese authorities concerning the opening up of foreign trade.As a matter of fact these attempts were bound to fail.In the end Reijersen actually managed to visit the Governor general of Fujian Shang Zhouzuo of Fuzhou.During the negotations in the provincial capital it was proposed by the governor Shang that the Dutch should withdraw from P’eng-hu to nearby Formosa.But because Reijersen himself was not authorized to take such an important decision he asked the Chinese goveror to send an envoy to the Governor General in Batavia to ratify the agreement.