In those days, the Dutch looked forward with great hopes to opening up the China trade, but the Ming court continually put them off. Holland then turned its ambitions toward Macao (controlled by Portugal) and the Pescadores (controlled by the Ming Dynasty), before finally gaining a foothold on Taiwan, on the periphery of China.
十七世紀的荷蘭，期待與中國進行貿易，卻遲遲未果，於是轉戰澳門、澎湖，最後落腳在中國邊陲的台灣。