After the Chu Empire's army and navy worked together to capture the city of Malacca, the Chu Empire's series of military operations in the Nanyang region came to an end.
Preparations for this war aimed at controlling the Strait of Malacca began last year. Large-scale mobilization of troops and supplies began this spring, and it was officially launched in the summer.
The fight lasted until autumn and finally came to an end in mid-October.
Strictly speaking, the war is not over yet. For example, the Kingdom of Aceh and the Dachu Empire are still at war, and the two sides have not signed any armistice agreement.
At the same time, the war between the Chu Empire and the Portuguese East India Company was still technically continuing. The final surrender of the Portuguese in Malacca only represented themselves, but not the entire Portuguese East India Company.
However, these are only theoretical states. In fact, after the Portuguese lost the city of Malacca, they had lost all their colonial strongholds in the Southeast Asia. If they wanted to continue fighting against the Chu Empire, they could only start from Ceylon Island or India. The peninsula mobilized troops across the Indian Ocean and ran over to fight the Chu Empire.
But if you think about it with your brain, you know that this is impossible.
What's more, the situation of the Portuguese East India Company is very bad. They have been strongly suppressed by the Dutch all over the world. Ceylon and other colonies on the Indian Peninsula are also facing attacks by the Dutch.
The reason why Malacca City has been short of troops for a long time and cannot get reinforcements is largely because the Dutch beat the Portuguese too hard. The Portuguese were even forced to transfer troops from Malacca City to reinforce the island of Ceylon.
In addition, several other Portuguese colonies in the Nanyang region were not conquered by the Chu Empire, but were successively captured by the Dutch in recent years.
In terms of dealing with the Portuguese, the Chu Empire and the Dutch were actually allies. Although they did not form an alliance and did not discuss with each other, they had a tacit understanding to carve up the Portuguese colonies.
Therefore, the Portuguese East India Company was no longer able to organize troops to fight against the Chu Empire. What followed was nothing more than all kinds of wrangling and negotiations after threats.
Let’s talk about the Kingdom of Aceh. In fact, since the Kingdom of Aceh lost the Malay Peninsula, it quickly recognized the reality and began to send envoys to the Dachu Empire to negotiate a truce.
It's just that the conditions between the two parties have not been negotiated yet, so the relevant armistice agreement has not been reached.
However, in fact, the Kingdom of Aceh simply does not have the courage or strength to continue fighting with the Chu Empire. As for the Chu Empire, it has no interest in the western region of Sumatra for the time being, or it cannot be spared to solve the problem for the time being. The problem of the Kingdom of Aceh.
Therefore, the Chu Empire had no interest in continuing to actively attack the mainland of the Kingdom of Aceh.
This has resulted in a de facto truce negotiation between the two parties.
When the conditions between the two sides are negotiated, the war will probably end.
But it may not be easy to negotiate a deal... It's not that the Kingdom of Aceh is wishful thinking and wants to retain power on the Malay Peninsula, but that the Great Chu Empire has too big an appetite...
In response to the armistice negotiations, the Chu Empire issued a series of very harsh conditions.
The specific conditions can be referred to the original conditions for the Kingdom of Siam, including becoming a vassal and paying tribute, accepting the canonization of the Chu Empire, and ceding all the territory of the Malay Peninsula to the Chu Empire.
These conditions are only the most basic. If the Chu Empire only had these conditions, the Kingdom of Aceh would have signed the treaty long ago.
It is a pity that these conditions are only the most basic prerequisites. In fact, the Dachu Empire also proposed a series of conditions.
For example, the compensation of 13 million Chu Yuan, although this price is a pure lion's mouth, it is higher than the price offered to the Kingdom of Siam in previous years. You must know that the Great Chu Empire initially offered it to the Kingdom of Siam. The compensation price is only 10 million Chu Yuan.
This compensation price, even if discounted in half, is 6.55 million. This price may not be much to the Chu Empire, but for a small indigenous country like the Kingdom of Aceh, it is a truly sky-high price. ...I guess it will take many years of frugality to pay it off.
In addition to indemnity, the Chu Empire also proposed that the Kingdom of Aceh cede Wei Island so that the Chu Empire could establish a ship supply base here to facilitate access to and from the Indian Ocean and facilitate trade with the Kingdom of Aceh.
To put it bluntly, the Chu Empire wanted to build a military base in the northern part of Sumatra to station warships. It would not only deter the Kingdom of Aceh, but also assist the naval ports in the Bekka area to block the western end of Malacca.
And if a naval base is established here, it will be equivalent to holding half of the neck of the Dutch... The Dutch ships in the East Indies passed through the Sunda Strait and took the southern coastline of Sumatra Island before heading to the Indian Peninsula.
The Kingdom of Aceh is just west of Sumatra, and Koh Wei is a small island in the west of the Kingdom of Aceh.
The Kingdom of Aceh is naturally unwilling to agree to this condition. They don't want a fleet of the Chu Empire Navy to be stationed at their doorstep for a long time, so why don't they sleep peacefully...
The Kingdom of Aceh did not agree, and the Chu Empire proposed to rent a place directly on the coast of their capital to serve as a military base... The Kingdom of Aceh was even more speechless. They were not even willing to use Wei Island, let alone the coastal port of the capital. .
They said it was okay to use part of the land in the concession to build commercial centers and conduct trade, but it was absolutely not okay to directly build a large military base and station a main fleet or even add thousands of troops.
Finally, let’s talk about it, back to Wei Island. After the Chu Empire’s request for the Aceh Kingdom’s capital military base failed, the Aceh Kingdom actually made some concessions on the cession of Wei Island in order to anger the Chu Empire excessively. .
Anyway, that place is more important due to its geographical location, but it doesn't have any rich products. If it were to be ceded, the loss wouldn't be too great.
In addition to issues of territory and compensation, the Chu Empire also requested military access rights; dispatched advisers to supervise the military strength of the Kingdom of Aceh; requested the Kingdom of Aceh to send their legitimate daughter to Jinling for marriage; and requested the Kingdom of Aceh to severely punish the warring faction; In order to ensure the smooth repayment of the compensation, it is required to take direct charge of the customs agency of the Kingdom of Aceh; it is required that the Kingdom of Aceh fully open its market and negotiate import and export tariffs. The tariff for goods from the Dachu Empire must not exceed 5%.
In short, there are a lot of messy conditions. If the Kingdom of Aceh really agrees to them all, it will be no different from becoming a puppet state.
Because the conditions of the Da Chu Empire are relatively harsh, the negotiations between the Kingdom of Aceh and the Da Chu Empire are also relatively difficult, but... it is just a difficult process. No matter what, the Kingdom of Aceh must obtain a ceasefire agreement for itself and formally The end of the war with the Chu Empire.
Otherwise, no one knows when the Chu Empire will come.
You know, the army troops of the Great Chu Empire have now landed in the eastern part of Sumatra Island and have begun to take over the original territories and vassal states of the Kingdom of Johor.
In this case, the Chu Empire did not even need to conduct any cross-sea landing operations, and could directly send troops from eastern Sumatra to attack the Kingdom of Aceh.
In order to avoid the real subjugation of the country, even if the conditions are harsher, the Kingdom of Aceh has to bite the bullet and negotiate, and try to ensure its own interests as much as possible, at least not to completely become a puppet state.
The negotiations between the Aceh Kingdom and the Dachu Empire are very important to the Aceh Kingdom, but for the Dachu Empire... this matter is not even qualified to be discussed in the Imperial Council.
Negotiations with the Kingdom of Aceh are basically handled by the Nanyang Governor's Office. The elders in Jinling do not care about the life or death of the Kingdom of Aceh at all.
When the elders of Jinling met to discuss the situation in Nanyang, they only had the Strait of Malacca in their eyes, and as for the messy indigenous countries.
Except for the Kingdom of Siam, Annan, and Myanmar, which are countries bordering the Great Chu Empire, they pay more attention to them. Many other Southeast Asian countries, especially those countries on the archipelago, often do not pay much attention to them.
This shows that when the Chu Empire made these battle plans in this war, the top brass of the army and navy of the Chu Empire actually did not consider that the Kingdom of Johor, the Kingdom of Aceh, and the Portuguese were mortal enemies. The triangular war has been fought for hundreds of years.
However, the Chu Empire did not care about the relationship between them, but regarded them all as enemies and pushed them over.
Another point is that there are too many messy countries in the Nanyang region now. The Vassal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Rites and Education of the Great Chu Empire has not yet figured out how many countries there are on the Nanyang Islands.
In this war, the Chu Empire wiped out more than a dozen so-called indigenous royal families in the Malay Peninsula and eastern Sumatra... Many of the so-called royal families were just larger villages. long.
In the end, the Dachu Empire didn't even bother to make a distinction. Anyway, it pushed forward all the way and wiped out all the resistance forces it encountered.
This is also the tragedy of small countries these days... What you think is very important, but in the eyes of those powerful countries, it is just trivial.
The life and death of the small indigenous country aroused public opinion in Jinling City, which was not even as big as the reaction caused by the pregnancy of a female dog in the family of a certain powerful person.
It sounds ridiculous, but this is reality!
This is not only true in this time and space, but also in the 21st century in the original time and space. How many people in the powerful countries in the 21st century really pay attention to the situation of those weak and small countries?
Many people don’t even know Burkina Faso is there... There have been two military coups in the country this year, and don’t think it’s just a country with a big nose. In fact, this country has a population of 20 million. .
A weak country with a population of 20 million, continuous coups and conflicts, but no one in the outside world, especially the major powerful countries, cares about it.
But if there is any disturbance in a big country, it will immediately become news in the media around the world, and people will be keen to discuss it.
The reality is such an exaggeration. When the gap between countries increases to a certain extent, it is like the rich and the poor. Although they live on the same earth, they live in different worlds.
Even the air we breathe is different!
The Kingdom of Aceh was ignored by the senior officials of the Chu Empire, but at least there was someone from the Nanyang Governor's Yamen and the Domain Affairs Department of the Ministry of Rites and Education who paid attention to them.
Otherwise, they wouldn't even be able to find the person to negotiate...
After months of arduous negotiations between the two sides, mainly due to repeated struggles on the part of the Kingdom of Aceh, the two sides finally reached a formal armistice agreement and signed it.
This agreement is the "Treaty of Chuyabeinian". The main content of the treaty is similar to the Chu-Siam-Bangkok Treaty signed by the Kingdom of Siam. They are mainly about ceding territory, making indemnities, and opening markets.
However, military rights of passage and dispatch of consultants were not achieved.
The Da Chu Empire actually doesn't care much about this. Anyway, everything the Da Chu Empire wants has actually been obtained, and the rest is just a matter of convenience. If you can get more benefits, just get it. If you can't get it, it doesn't matter.
In the formal treaty, the Kingdom of Aceh paid an indemnity of 4.2 million Chu Yuan. Because they could not come up with so much money themselves, they directly borrowed money from the Dachu Empire Finance Bank, and they had to bear an additional high handling fee and interest.
In order to ensure repayment, the Chu Empire sent personnel to supervise the customs agencies of the Kingdom of Aceh so that the customs could be repaid.
The Kingdom of Aceh officially recognized the Chu Empire's undisputed sovereignty over the Malay Peninsula and ceded Wei Island to the Chu Empire to supply ships passing by the Chu Empire.
The Kingdom of Aceh officially paid tribute to the Great Chu Empire. Their monarch requested the Great Emperor of the Great Chu Empire to be canonized as the 'King of Aceh' and send his legitimate daughter of the royal family to Jinling to get married.
There is also the comprehensive opening of the market, which is also indispensable. No matter where the army of the Chu Empire goes, other things can be discussed, but this one basically does not need to be discussed.
You have to agree whether you agree or not.
If you agree, you can continue to be a king or something. If you don't agree, the Chu Empire will send troops to destroy you, or directly occupy or support a puppet to make him agree.
After a series of Chu Yabeinian treaties were officially signed, it also meant that the state of war between the Chu Empire and the Kingdom of Aceh officially ended.
Now only the Portuguese are left...because the Portuguese no longer have any foothold in the Southeast Asia region, and they are not having a good time on the island of Ceylon and the Indian Peninsula.
After learning that the city of Malacca was lost, although the senior officials of the Dutch East India Company were very unhappy, they also felt deeply helpless.
After learning that more than a thousand soldiers surrendered and became prisoners in Malacca, these prisoners also included more than 200 professional soldiers of the Portuguese East India Company, hundreds of Portuguese militiamen, and more than 600 indigenous people. After mercenaries.
They also reached an armistice agreement with the Chu Empire very simply. There were only two conditions in their armistice agreement, or in other words, there was only one formal condition.
Because one of the conditions is that they hope that the Chu Empire will continue to do business with them, and the city of Malacca under the control of the Chu Empire can be open to the Portuguese.
And this is not a problem at all. The Da Chu Empire has always pursued a free trade system in trade. Let alone after the armistice, even during the war, you Portuguese want to do business with our merchants from the Da Chu Empire. We Very happy too.
In the future, Malacca City will undoubtedly become a fully open trading port, welcoming merchant ships from all over the world.
Therefore, the Portuguese hope that the two sides will continue to maintain trade, and the conditions for releasing Malacca City are not conditions at all.
The Portuguese had only one real condition, and that was to release the more than a thousand prisoners as soon as possible and return their weapons.
The Portuguese wanted to dispatch these prisoners of war to fight on the island of Ceylon to deal with the increasingly powerful Dutch.
Regarding this condition, the Dachu Empire readily agreed. The personnel retained could only serve as labor force for the settlement, and there was no problem at all in returning them to the Portuguese.
It would also allow the Portuguese to hold on to Ceylon longer and continue to hold back the Dutch.
Even the Da Chu Empire took the initiative to ask if you would like us to help you transport these personnel and equipment to Ceylon Island. Don’t worry, we will give you a preferential price for the freight...
Not to mention, the Portuguese were quite excited. After a while of discussion, the two parties immediately finalized a transportation entrustment agreement. The Portuguese paid a large sum of money and entrusted the Nanyang Trading Company to send ships to transport more than a thousand people to Go to Ceylon.
This is pretty funny too!
In October, the two sides were still at war, but after December, the Nanyang Trading Company of the Chu Empire began to help the Portuguese transport personnel to Ceylon.
Not only transporting people, Nanyang Trading Company even transported several ships of various strategic materials.
These are the weapons, ammunition and various living supplies ordered by the Portuguese to continue to hold on to Ceylon. In order for the Nanyang Trading Company to transport them, they paid a price far higher than the market price.
After this, the relationship between the Chu Empire and the Portuguese East India Company suddenly changed from enemies to trading partners, and the relationship was still very good... This made the Dutch in Batavia look at it. He was stunned for a moment, and then cursed the Portuguese for being spineless and shameless. Even the city of Malacca was robbed by the Chu Empire, and they even sent money to the Chu barbarians to purchase supplies.
At the same time, he was scolding the people of Chu, scolding them for being greedy and cruel. In short, he could scold them no matter how vicious or unpleasant they were.
But now the Dutch can do nothing but curse.
Anyway, they couldn't defeat the Chu Empire, and they didn't dare to. Now, apart from hiding at home and cursing, they could only continue to strengthen the defenses of Batavia and other colonies, and even recruit more indigenous troops to deal with potential threats. The Chu Empire was threatened.
Who knows if Chu Manzi's crazy people would call him without saying a word.
Chu Manzi had many previous convictions for undeclared wars... Most of the time, he fought directly without even declaring war.
It was similar to the previous attack on Malacca City. Although an ultimatum was sent, it was only sent in after the city of Malacca was surrounded.
Therefore, the Dutch have to guard against the Chu barbarians from starting an undeclared war!
Many people from the Chu Empire, especially businessmen from trading companies in the Nanyang region or personnel from the navy, laughed when they heard about this.
They have officially declared war on you, who do you think you are?
They are just barbarians. Do you still expect me, the Great Emperor of the Chu Empire, to give you a special edict declaring war?
Isn’t this nonsense!
In terms of declaring war, in the past ten years, only three families, Qianming, Donglu and Zhungeer, were qualified for the Chu Empire to issue a formal declaration, and the declaration was almost an imperial edict to declare war.
Apart from these three families, no other enemy has yet received an official declaration of war from the Chu Empire.
The Chu Empire was still very cautious when it came to declaring war. After all, soldiers are the most important thing for the country!
War is something that needs to be taken very seriously and be cautious... For example, the Chu Empire is currently at war with Jungar, and the two sides continue to compete around the Hami and Turpan areas.
To this end, the Chu Empire has mobilized nearly 100,000 troops to fight on the front lines or maintain logistics lines in the rear. It has also mobilized more than 200,000 young people of all kinds to transport baggage and farm on the front lines.
Regarding this war, the senior officials of the Dachu Empire had been discussing it in the discussion forum before, and they couldn't be more cautious.
It can be seen that the Chu Empire's attitude towards war is still very cautious, and once a war breaks out, it will go all out.
But the problem is that it is just a fight against the barbarians of a small country. This is not a war... In the battle on the Malay Peninsula, the ground forces were only two divisions plus a marine regiment of the navy.
Strictly speaking, only one division and one marine regiment were used.
The scale was not even as large as the one that attacked Myanmar a few years ago. When they attacked Myanmar before, the Chu army still used three divisions.
This level of so-called war. In the eyes of the senior officials of the Dachu Empire, this was not considered a war. It could only be a conflict or counterinsurgency.
The Chu army is now fighting rebellions in the vast southwest and Qingkang and other areas. Basically, it is a small fight every three months and a big fight every year. It continues to vigorously kill all kinds of local chieftains and dignitaries, and will follow up with immigration integration and other measures. , ensuring that the toast problem in these areas is solved once and for all.
It's just a matter of cleaning up some indigenous barbarians. This has happened countless times in China's long history. I have never seen the Central Plains dynasty declare war or crusade in a serious way...
You can't do this kind of thing several times a year. If you issue a declaration of war or a proclamation every time, you can't get through that day.
An imperial edict declaring war comes every three days. The author is not annoyed, but the readers are annoyed...
Therefore, the Dutch thought that the Chu Empire liked to engage in undeclared wars and engage in shameful sneak attacks... But in fact, the Chu Empire disdained too formal a declaration of war against them.
As for sneak attacks, the war preparations of the Da Chu Empire will not be made secretly. Just like this time when they attacked the Malay Peninsula, the huge fleet of the Da Chu Empire came over openly and made it clear that they wanted to attack you. You are not strong enough to stop it. What's the matter with Da Chu?
What, you said that the Zhungeers were shamefully attacked by the Fourth Cavalry Army of the Great Chu Empire.
Are you kidding? The attack on Guazhou was such a great thousands-mile attack. How could it be compared to a shameful sneak attack?
Let me tell you, don’t talk nonsense, you will easily get beaten if you talk nonsense... If you keep talking nonsense, be careful, our Chu army will bombard Batavia Port tomorrow!
This attitude of the Chu people made the Dutch even more focused on preparing for war, building fortifications, and guarding against the huge fleet of the Chu Empire. One day, they suddenly appeared outside the Batavia Port and made a shameful unannounced attack. And fight!
