Formosa's Chinese merchants, confident that the mission would yield fruit, began taking orders again for pepper and other goods. Nevertheless, the Dutch chose him as their envoy to the Zheng court, and morale was high as he sailed toward Xiamen. Other Chinese entrepreneurs accused him of behaving unethically in order to "satisfy his greedy appetite and fill his bottomless stomach." 4 2 3 He also appears to have been remarkably unscrupulous.
2 For one thing, he had especially close relations to the Zheng court and with traders in Chenggong's new capital, Xiamen. 1 In many ways he was like other wealthy and well-connected Chinese immigrants who had bought a stake in the colony, but in other ways he was less typical. He Tingbin (何廷斌) was a cabessa, a Sino-Dutch translator, a village leaseholder, a tax farmer, and a merchant. E-mail citation PDF version Chapter 11 The Fall of Dutch Taiwan 1
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