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==== The Hirado Agreement ====
After the 1652 [https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%9F%E4%B8%9C%E6%A1%A5 Battle of Chiangtung Bridge], Koxinga and the Fukien resistance were [[Wahhah Republic#Stabilization%20of%20the%20Qing%20periphery|defeated]] by the Qing. Many refugees fled to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyu_Kingdom Loetsjoes], southeast Asia, and most notably, Japan. Koxinga himself settled in Hirado with permission from the Shogunate, after glorifying his own samurai ancestry through his Japanese mother. He went by the name Tagawa
The youthful Lord of Hirado, Matsuura Shigenobu, was worried about Hirado’s economy due to Western trade being limited to Desjima. His father, the late Lord Takanobu, was a baptized Catholic and he noticed how the Fukianese community often syncretised Christian, folk, and Buddhist traditions. In the autumn of 1653, the Lord secretly confirmed an agreement with Koxinga and his close ally, the Italian Dominican missionary Vittorio Riccio (who lived in between Amoy, Desjima, and Hirado). The agreement, called the Verboten Collaboratie in Dutch, entailed:
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