The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 584
It is not the Malay Peninsula that the Huang family is going to seize first, but the island of Sumatra.

Because relatively speaking, it is much easier to completely control an independent island with the support of a strong navy than to completely control a peninsula. At least it will not encounter simultaneous attacks by the enemy at sea and on land.

There are many regimes near Malacca, and there are also many aborigines here. If you send a spear to the aboriginal men, they will become warriors and will continue to harass the new occupation.

These picking monkeys are quite familiar with the terrain, and the Malay Peninsula is full of mountains and hills. It is quite easy for Huang Jiare's weapons to defeat them. However, since this is only a peninsula, hostile armed forces will appear in the north and move south from time to time.

In a place where wars are always raging, how can the Han people work with peace of mind?So Huang Sheng pointed his sword at Sumatra in the next step.

The cold weapon army is aggressive as long as it has a spear, but it is impossible to become a navy. The navy needs warships and long-term training.

In the long history from the Ming Dynasty to modern times, the countries in Southeast Asia belonged to the existence of mud that cannot support the wall, and there has never been a military force that can be regarded as a navy.

It is imperative to completely take down Sumatra Island with naval superiority, wipe out all the indigenous troops here, and expel all the indigenous residents.

Huang Sheng's character is steady, not rushing or impatient, step by step, and once he wins a piece of land, he will digest it thoroughly.

Let the occupied land be formed with a social structure dominated by Han people with swords. After three to five years, the occupied land will be the homeland that the Han people will never give up.

This time, Huang’s navy took merchant ships across Malacca to the Indian Ocean for trade, mainly to buy cheap and high-quality cotton, sell porcelain and glassware, and open up trade routes to open up a huge market in the South Asian subcontinent.

In this year's sea trade, without a strong navy as the basic guarantee, it is to give gifts to others.

Of course, the Huang family's navy on the long voyage only accepts gifts, and it is absolutely impossible to give gifts to others.

He will collect merchant ships and warships from other countries that appear in sight along the way. The strength of the Huang family is not what it used to be, and there is no need to give face to anyone, just go all the way and grab all the way.

Those who dare to resist will be killed without mercy, and those who surrender will be given work and food and clothing.There are too many benefits of sea plundering. Every time a merchant ship or warship is successfully captured, the opponent will lose some strength, and the Huang family will have fewer competitors when doing business.

This has no moral burden, and other colonial empires did the same. The law of the sea is that the strong survive. Several Western maritime powers are also constantly attacking each other. It is normal for you to rob me, and I rob him.

Huang Mingdao led the caravan escorted by the navy to the east coast of the Mughal Empire. At this time, it was the era of Shah Jahan, and the Mughal Empire was in its heyday and had a vast territory.

A huge trading fleet came from Daming, and the ships were strong and fierce, but the people of Daming did not fight bravely, but demanded fair trade.

Under the protection of strong force, business is of course easy to discuss and negotiate. The returning fleet is fully loaded with the specialty cotton of the empire. Not only that, the goods of Ming Dynasty have won the favor of merchants from the Mughal Empire, and the exquisite porcelain and glassware have become the country's A must-have luxury item in a celebrity home.

After peaceful and friendly negotiations between the two sides, the Huang family signed the fifth trade agreement - "Indian Ocean Treaty".In the future, the Ming caravan will travel to the Mughal Empire at least twice a year, and the two superpowers will communicate with each other.

Zheng Yiguan's pirate gang has seized territory in Malacca, which is an island larger than the later Singapore. It is the largest island in the Riau Islands called Bintan Island, which is located on the south side of Singapore.

Zheng Yiguan has a unique vision. He chose this place because many Han Chinese have already lived here. When the Portuguese colonists attacked Malacca decades ago, Malacca Sultan Mahmud Shah was defeated and fled to Bintan Island and established Tanjung Island. Areca the city to fight against the Portuguese.

After a fierce battle, Zheng Yiguan completely defeated the descendants of Sultan Mahmud Shah, and slaughtered all the monkeys who regarded the Han people as second-class citizens. Now Zheng Yiguan has a population of [-] to [-], and the output of Bintan Island’s farmland can fully make Zheng Yiguan The food supply of the official group can be self-sufficient.

When Huang Mingdao's navy passed the island, Zheng Yiguan thought that the Ming army was coming to suppress bandits again, so he dared not act rashly, so he sent Zheng Zhibao to negotiate.

Zheng Zhibao saw Huang Mingdao knelt down and begged, and told Huang Mingdao that the Zheng family had obeyed Master Huang's order to stay away from Daming, why did the Ming army want to kill them all?
Of course, Huang Mingdao comforted Zheng Zhibao and told Zheng Yiguan that the Ming army did not come to suppress the bandits at all, but went to the Mughal Empire to do business.

In recognition of Zheng Yiguan's trip to Malacca to expand the land, Huang Mingli sold Zheng Yiguan [-] flintlock muskets and [-] six-pound smoothbore guns that Zheng Yiguan urgently needed.

Zheng Yiguan belongs to the naked wolves in Malacca. There are as many pirates as there are cow hairs here. Soldiers and horses from all over the world are constantly attacking. With advanced firearms, he has been affirmed by Master Huang. To carry forward the great cause, it is necessary to kill the monkeys so that their expressions will change.

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In the study of Gao Di's mansion in the Inner City Pavilion of the capital, Gao Di put down the letter of his second son Gao Zhiyong and sighed, "Oh! The state is so difficult, and it's not easy to be a magistrate!"

Gao Jian, who was waiting on the side, knew that the master was worried about the second son Gao Zhiyong. He had been promoted to Suizhou, Guide Mansion, and had been in office for a year from the sixth-rank magistrate. Every time the master read a letter, the master would sigh with emotion.

Gao Jian comforted Gaodi in a low voice: "Master, the second son has been a local official for more than seven years, you should also try to transfer him back to be a Beijing official."

"Hey! It's not easy to say. Now that Henan has been plagued by disasters and bandits everywhere, I'm afraid my son can't escape the blame. It's hard to say whether I can keep my official position. It's wishful thinking to return to the capital!"

Gao Jian said flatteringly: "My lord, you are a nobleman, so you forget things! The eldest son is now a doctor in the Ministry of War, and a Beijing official with real power in his hands. How can he be so successful?"

"That's because Nanguo is supporting you, and the imperial court urgently needs talents who know how to fight!" Gao Di suddenly paused, then laughed loudly, and said: "Great opinion, it really is a good idea, the old man has an idea."

Huang Sheng, who was having a temper tantrum with Hongxie in the south of Jinzhou, received a letter from Ge Lao Gaodi. It turned out that Gao Jian, the housekeeper of the Gao family, came to Liaodong to deliver the letter in person, which shows that this letter is very important.

In the letter, Gaodi asked Nan Guogong to help his second son Gao Zhiyong.

Now that the territory in Henan is not peaceful, the old man is worried that something will happen to his son. Knowing that the Huang family's influence has begun to infiltrate Henan, he begs Nan Guogong to send some servants to Suizhou to help train the soldiers of the militia, township bravery and inspection department.

Gaodi had worked with Master Jinglue in Liaodong, and he knew the Huang family's ability to train soldiers. If his son was assisted by the Huang family's family members, he would be safe no matter what.

(End of this chapter)