The water in the South China Sea is as blue as a sparkling blanket. The gentle north wind blows by, and the waves rolling on the sea surface are like a huge blue magic carpet slowly rising and falling. Once illuminated by the morning sun, his eyes were filled with sparkles of light.
Admiral of the Nanyang Fleet of the Ming Dynasty, ambassador of Malacca, and king of Jiugang County, Scarrong Qiu Rong stood on his flagship "Chaozhou", took a breath of moist air, then raised a telescope and looked around. It seems that the line of sight can be exhausted to the infinite distance.
This is already close to the waters of the Strait of Malacca. Small islands are dotted on the southward channel. Each island is covered with green jungles, white sand, and full of infinite vitality. Occasionally, a few Chinese-style sailing ships passed by in groups. The sailors on the ship's bows saw the Ming Dynasty Navy fleet heading south, and they all cheered loudly with excitement.
"The Ming Dynasty is victorious! The Ming Dynasty is coming..."
"The Ming Dynasty is finally here!"
"Nanyang is ours..."
The Han people who sailed on the Nanyang Sea were either from Chaozhou or from southern Fujian, and there were also a small number from Guangfu. In short, they were the group of people who supported the new Ming Dynasty the most. They have long been craning their necks in anticipation of the Ming Dynasty's heavenly soldiers coming to conquer Nanyang.
The Ming Dynasty took over Nanyang, and they, Emperor Zhu's fellow villagers, could just walk away in Nanyang. They were well-off people and could enjoy the treatment of white-skinned Western gentlemen today!
But they had been looking forward to it for many years, and the Ming Dynasty was busy elsewhere, and they never took a serious look at Nanyang.
But now, Ming Dynasty is finally here!
It's never a good idea to be late! However, Ming Dynasty was not just a few years late, but more than a hundred years late!
When the Portuguese and Spaniards arrived in Nanyang and began to engage in zero-dollar purchases, as the suzerains of the Nanyang countries, the Ming Dynasty's navy should appear.
But at that time, the Ming Dynasty's maritime power had weakened to the point of almost non-existence.
Fortunately, the new Ming Dynasty now has a powerful navy, and it can finally come to Nanyang to punish the evil imperialism!
The main force of the Ming Dynasty's Nanyang Fleet commanded by Zhu Heji's uncle Qiu Rong was sent to implement the "Chinese Sanctions Order", including twelve "New World" type warships and twelve "Jianghai" type galley warships. .
The former is the main ship type of the Ming Dynasty Navy. The latter is a medium-sized warship between the "New World" type and the "Assault Boat". It is also equipped with rocket launchers and sub-cannons, and is also equipped with hard sails and oars. It is suitable for offshore or coastal waters with changeable wind directions. Activities in inland rivers where there is insufficient wind. In order to cope with completely different hydrological conditions, the Ming Navy also developed two models of "Jianghai" galley warships, flat bottom and round bottom.
Now following ten "New World" type ships are twelve round-bottomed "Jianghai" type ships. Each "New World" type towed two "Dragon Boats", and each "Jianghai" type towed one "Dragon Boat". In other words, the entire fleet is composed of up to sixty ships of various types. The total number of naval officers and soldiers attached to these ships, plus the accompanying naval infantry, has exceeded 8,000!
The number of people is quite large, but it is enough to sweep away the well-established Western colonists and their lackeys in Nanyang... but it is enough to complete the special mission assigned by Emperor Zhu Da to Scarrong—— Execute the first "Chinese sanctions order" in history!
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On the first day of July in the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, in the south of Bintan Island west of the Strait of Malacca, Tanjung Pinang Port.
Sixty large and small warships headed by the "Chaozhou" rolled up snow-white waves and slowly cruised near Peng Enga Island outside the port. The sea area near Malacca belongs to the equatorial windless zone. It is not completely windless, but the wind is weak. Therefore, there is no need to choose a sheltered bay as the port. Tanjung Pinang Port is just right on the coast, and the only protection is the small island Pong Enga less than two miles away from the port.
However, there was no defense on Pengga Island. The focus of the Dutch's defense in the Malacca Strait was Malacca City, while the entire Bintan Island belonged to the Johor Sultanate, an ally of the Dutch. The Dutch only placed a small team of sailors and two anti-smuggling speedboats at Tanjung Pinang Port on the island, and also built a lookout post.
When the Ming Dynasty Navy's large fleet appeared on the sea north of Bintan Island, Marco Gullit, the chief clerk of the East India Company's commercial office on the island, immediately knew that something was wrong!
Although the Ming Dynasty has been revived for several years, it also has a navy that can compete with any Western maritime power. But this navy has never been like this, setting up a mighty fleet and sailing to the gate of the Strait of Malacca!
Marco Gurlitt, knowing that something was not going well, immediately dispatched two anti-smuggling speedboats and flew to Malacca City and Batavia City to report the news. At the same time, he also asked the officials of the Johor Sultanate on the island to send people to Johor. News from the city.
Then he did not arrange resistance, but led the staff and guards of the business office, as well as Johor officials on the island, and a group of beaming Chinese businessmen (mostly Chaozhou and Hokkien), together at Tanjung Pinang Port. Visitors from Ming Dynasty are welcomed on the pier.
Qiu Rong and Su Zhandao, who was about to become the governor of Bintan Island (members of the Su family generals were sent to occupy the island because their names were "Zhandao"), both stood on the command deck of the Chaozhou and raised their hands. Looking through the telescope at everything in front of me.
A prosperous Nanyang trading island appeared in front of them.
With blue water and white sand and lush vegetation, the ruins of the royal city left by the last Sultan Muhammad of the Malacca Sultanate are not far from the port. Standing among a large number of chaotic local buildings, it seems to be narrating more than a hundred years. How the former Sultan's 30,000-strong army "heroically" resisted the attack of the Portuguese's 600 white-skin soldiers and thousands of indigenous mercenaries... Many Chaozhou-style buildings were built closer to the dock. 's enclosure. Compared to the surrounding local buildings, they are simply fortresses! The mercenaries of the Nanyang Trading Company had already disguised themselves as businessmen and coolies to contact the local Chinese businessmen on Bintan Island, and secretly stationed themselves in these enclosures.
If Marco Gullit is determined to resist, then the Nanyang Company mercenaries on the island will probably be able to quickly resolve the battle... and not one of him, nor all the white people on the island and the land participating in the resistance, will survive!
In addition, there are some small white Western-style buildings near Tanjung Pinang Port. They are all typical European colonial style. They reflect the sunlight near the equator and look extremely solemn. They seem to indicate the white people's rule over the Malacca Strait.
The port of Tanjung Pinang is full of rice fields and large mangroves. The land on this island is not very fertile, and it cannot compare with Java Island, which is always "fertilized" by volcanic ash. But because it happens to be at the choke point entering and exiting the Strait of Malacca, and it once became the temporary capital of the Sudan after the fall of Malacca City, it has long been ripe for development. Near the port, there are many large and small farms controlled by Chinese businessmen from the north.
Although the Chinese from Chaozhou and southern Fujian have always controlled the economic lifeline of most places in Southeast Asia with their diligence and wisdom. However, because they had no organizations other than clans, hometown associations, and gangs, and the Chinese who went to Nanyang were unlikely to migrate as a whole family, they became a weak individual after arriving in Nanyang. Even if they get rich, they cannot fight against the Western or local indigenous people who own religions, tribes and trading companies. Therefore, although they have a large number of people and strong financial resources, they are always in a state of being ruled...until Confucian Nanyang Main Hall and Nanyang Trading Company came with flintlock rifles, rocket launchers, sugar grenades, Anti-Sutra is coming!
Now the Chinese in Nanyang have the Confucian Nanyang General Hall that can organize them, and they have the Nanyang Trading Company and the Ming Nanyang Fleet that can provide them with weapons, training and serve as backends - if the disciples of the Confucian Nanyang Governor eat Unfortunately, the Nanyang Trading Company and the Ming Dynasty Nanyang Fleet above will not give up! Especially after the Ming Dynasty conquered Japan, there was a steady stream of Japanese samurai who dared to do evil things... It's not that they were good at fighting, but that they were vicious enough that their own lives were not worthy of their fate, let alone the lives of others?
And when engaging in colonial development, evil... is also a kind of power!
There are dots of fishing boats on the sea, and the crews are all indigenous fishermen. Seeing so many big boats arriving all at once, I thought some big customers were coming, so they all came with small boats to sell the freshly caught seafood. ...The people of Bintan Island are really warm and hospitable!
Qiu Rong just watched all this quietly. Su Zhandao suddenly said next to him: "Your Majesty, did you see it? The foreign devils and officials from Johor are already at the dock, with dozens of Western soldiers and one or two hundred natives. Soldiers!"
As he spoke, Qiu Rong's eyes turned with just one finger. Sure enough, I saw a few Westerners in western clothes standing on the pier, a few natives in fancy clothes, and a group of Confucian disciples in Confucian uniforms with long swords and grenade hammers hanging from their belts. A group of foreign soldiers and a group of barefoot indigenous soldiers stood lazily around.
Qiu Rong sneered: "The chief executive of the Dutch business office on this island turns out to be a death-phobe... But it's okay, we can block all the Dutch trade routes for him without completely breaking up. Oh! The Holy One said that this method of blocking people’s lives without breaking their faces is called sanctions!"
"Your Majesty," Su Zhandao asked with a smile, "should we go to the dock now and tell the Dutch about the Holy Emperor's decree to sanction the Netherlands?"
Qiu Rong smiled and said: "I have to tell those foreign barbarians who don't know how to die. I also have to tell the officials of Johor this good news... Their Ming Dynasty finally sent heavenly soldiers to save them!"
The predecessor of the Johor Sultanate was the Malacca Sultanate. After losing the city of Malacca, the last Muhammad Shah of the Malacca Sultanate used Bintan Island as a stronghold to resist the Western colonists. At the same time, he placed the official capital in Johor. Later, he failed again at Bintan Island and lost the power to command the Straits of Malacca. After his death, the unified Sultanate of Malacca ceased to exist, but split into the Sultanate of Johor and the Sultanate of Perak, while losing territory on the island of Sumatra.
In fact, there was no vassal relationship between the newly established Sultanate of Johor and the Ming Dynasty in the north. The Sultan of Johor did not expect the Ming Dynasty to provide them with protection, but instead formed an alliance with Portugal's enemy, the Dutch.
However, after losing the city of Malacca, Muhammad Shah still asked for help from the then Ming Dynasty... That was 1511 in the Western calendar! It’s been more than 170 years since it was established!
But no one has stipulated that the reinforcements from the Great Tomorrow cannot be late!
When the Teochew's gangplank was placed on the pier of Tanjung Pinang Port, the first thing to get off the ship was a large group of "dwarf soldiers" wearing breastplates, iron helmets, and holding flintlocks with bayonets. He was so fierce that he frightened the foreign devils on the dock and the officials of Johor. The leader of the team was the tall and thin Su Zhandao. After commanding a group of "dwarf soldiers" to line up, he swaggered up to a group of stunned officials of the Johor Sultanate, put his hands on his hips, and asked loudly: "You guys, wait." But an official of the Malacca Sultanate?”
An older indigenous man, wearing gorgeous silk clothes and with a long knife in his belt, immediately said in a somewhat stiff Chinese: "Mine is the Temenggong here on Bintan Island."
"Okay!" Su Zhandao nodded, "I am Su Zhandao, the deputy general of the naval infantry of the Ming Dynasty. Under the order of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, I will lead the heavenly troops to help you to drive out the foreign barbarians and restore the old capital of Malacca!"
Marco Gurlitt, the chief officer of the Dutch East India Company, spent several years in Guangzhou and learned Chinese. When he heard this, he immediately protested loudly, "General Su, the city of Malacca is the property of the East India Company. You Does the Ming Dynasty want to go to war with the East India Company?"
Su Zhandao glared at Marco Gullit with a cold look, and the "dwarf soldiers" who followed him off the boat had already leveled their flintlocks!
"The city of Malacca belongs to the Malacca Kingdom of the Celestial Empire!" Su Zhanshan said, "The Ming Dynasty is the suzerain of the Malacca Kingdom and has the responsibility to help the Malacca Kingdom recover its lost territory... However, considering that the Dutch East India Company took it from the Portuguese Malacca did not capture the city from the Malacca Kingdom. Therefore, the Holy One has mercy and will not start a war against the Dutch East India Company. However, the majesty of the Celestial Empire cannot be offended! Therefore, the Holy One has decreed that starting from the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of the Grand Duke, the Dutch East India Company will Indian companies implement Chinese sanctions!”
"Sanction order?" Marco Gullit was stunned, "What do you mean?"
"It means that ships of your Dutch East India Company are prohibited from passing through the Strait of Malacca! Pepper, cloves, cardamom and other spices are also prohibited from being exported to the West through the Strait of Malacca!" As Su Zhandao spoke, he had already taken out a document written in Chinese and Latin The "Chinese Sanction Order No. 1" written in two languages was handed over, "Take it, take it and report to Batavia and Malacca!"
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