The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 625
Even rogues can live comfortably under Xiong Wencan's command. Of course, Huang Mingli, a first-rank military officer with illustrious military exploits, is more easy to mix in Guangdong and Guangxi.

It is too easy to deal with this useless leader, and it is only a matter of time before the transformation of the Ming army is under control.

Huang Mingli has powerful private soldiers of the Huang family in his hands. There are [-] to [-] Ming troops in Guangdong and Guangxi who have followed Huang Sheng to fight. Several generals, generals, and guerrillas in the borders of Guangdong are all generals of the Huang family.

Although they left their posts without permission, in the south where Emperor Tiangao was far away, none of them were impeached by Shizhong and Yushi, because they could not know whether the officers of the Huang family who frequently went out for training were going to fight bandits and pirates, or Just going out for practice.

Anyway, as we all know, most of the bandits in Guangdong and Guangxi disappeared, and the law and order improved year by year. Of course, no one targeted the garrison when the place was peaceful.

On June 26, the seventh year of Chongzhen, Tuo Tu's army swore to go south.

Half of the Huang family's horses were mobilized, nearly [-] warships of all sizes from the navy, [-] merchant ships, [-] naval personnel, and [-] merchant sailors.

The army dispatched 960 thousand troops, including [-] regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers. Of course, Liu Guozheng was selected again to make up for the vacancies that had been promoted to grass-roots officers and sent to the navy and army to serve as personal soldiers. There are more than [-] people in one hundred without auxiliary soldiers.

Families planning to immigrate to Malacca have two or more males and one male will be sent as a labor force for the army. The number is 20.

It was impossible to bring so much labor at one time, and the first batch of [-] young men boarded the ship and went south with the army.

Xiyi came to Malacca to colonize Malacca, dispatched dozens of warships, and one or two thousand troops ashore would be considered a large-scale invasion.

Huang Sheng came to colonize the first batch of soldiers and civilians as many as 17, and there are [-] soldiers and civilians preparing to go ashore to grab land. The fate of the monkeys in Malacca is worrying!

It is about [-] nautical miles from Annan Port to the Strait of Malacca. All the ships going south to Tuotu are new sea ships built by the Huang family, and their speed has reached the peak of the sailing era.

Since most of the months of departure are smooth sailing, Guo Huaiyi, the pioneer officer of this route, has already memorized it so well that he can travel day and night. It is not a dream for the fleet to sail 150 to [-] nautical miles a day.

The first destination is Palembang in the southeast of Sumatra, which is also the location of the Xuanweisi in the old port of the Ming Dynasty. It was part of the territory of the Ming Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Yongle.

It was also the southernmost point of the territory of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and it was the highest administrative institution of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang at that time. The first comfort envoy of the old port was Shi Jinqing.

Daming's vast fleet flying the dragon flag is here again, mighty and boundless, Huang Sheng has already decided not to go to the capital, so there is no need to hide it and play the dragon flag in a high-profile manner.

The meaning of the dragon in the hearts of all Han people is extraordinary, and the sense of belonging will make the Han people living overseas excited inexplicably.The main color of the battle flag of the Huang family and horses is yellow and red, which is bright and eye-catching.

The fiery red "Ming" flag and the arrogant bright yellow "Dragon Flag" will be planted all over the five continents and four oceans in the future.

Sumatra is now a Muslim country, its full name is the Kingdom of Aceh, and it believes in Sunni teachings.

Their current Sultan Iskandar Muda once dispatched troops to attack Malacca occupied by the Portuguese colonists and successfully controlled the pepper trade.

Iskandar Muda later conquered Pahang, Kedah, Perak, Nias Island and Indalapura, and his influence spread to the Minangkabau area.In addition to Sumatra, its territory also includes some areas of the Malay Peninsula.

The sultan of Japan should be understood as the ruler of a region, that is, their king.

Iskandar Muda, the king of Aceh, pushed his country to its heyday, but unfortunately he is old and sick.

The capital of this country is called Greater Aceh. It is located at the most northwestern tip of Sumatra, on the west bank of the northern mouth of the Strait of Malacca, and on the south bank of the Aceh River mouth. It has an important geographical location.The Old Port was nothing more than a large city for them, and a commercial city.

The Huang family's private soldiers, who were preparing to fight aggressively, missed their first punch, and they were all extremely depressed.

Because of the tens of miles of fleet, the soldiers and civilians of the indigenous Aceh Kingdom in Sumatra have never seen it.

The total number of troops stationed here does not exceed 3000, and most of them are cold-armed troops. They fled on the lookout.

It's no wonder that soldiers in tropical regions have almost no defense, and the lethality of the bows and arrows they use for long-range attacks is not worth mentioning. This is because bowstrings are too easy to corrode in a humid environment.

It was an unexpected good thing that the Huang family's fleet did not encounter resistance when they entered the old port directly.

Huang Sheng gained a foothold at his fingertips, and immediately managed the place. Lin Chaoping and his agents led Huang's private soldiers and began to drive the indigenous people from house to house.

Since there was no battle, how to deal with the large number of natives is a big problem. It may not be appropriate to selectively kill them directly according to the law of the grassland, and it will hurt the peace of the world.

It's not good to keep these people. Huang Sheng is more jealous of their religious culture, and they will continue to rub against the kind-hearted Han people in the future.

So Huang Sheng made a well-intentioned decision to capture all the aborigines and ship them to Java Island to give them a chance to survive.

Those who dare to resist are of course not welcome, they will kill without mercy, and send all the aborigines to the site of the city of Batavia built by the Dutch, so that these Christians can go to jihad with the Dutch colonists and it is worth looking forward to.

In the 47th year of Wanli, the ambitious Yan Petersson Kun served as the third governor of the Dutch East India Company, laying a solid foundation for the Dutch Eastern Commercial Colonial Empire.

Under his leadership, the Dutch colonists attacked and drove away the Banten army, and established the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company Empire in Batavia City, which was the political basis for the Dutch to rule Java and even the entire East Indies colony.

The permanent occupation and administration of Batavia cost the Dutch enormous sums of money and energy.

In the early days, the area was sparsely populated, lacked food supplies, and had no wood to build ships and houses. The surrounding area was a desolate swamp, few villages were populated, and floods occurred during the rainy season.

There are often tigers, wild boars, rhinos, etc., and at the same time, it is also hostile and threatened by the local demon kingdom.

The Dutch transported boulders from the quarries on the coast of Coromandel, India, cut teak from Zabala in East Java, collected coral stones from the local area, and recruited a large number of reliable and hard-working Chinese laborers from China to build on the ruins. The prototype of Batavia City.

Most of the city's main construction projects, such as the excavation of canals and drainage channels, the construction of houses and harbors, and the construction of city walls and protective fortresses, were mostly contracted by the Chinese.Chinese workers are familiar with brick making and bricklaying techniques, which is highly praised by the Dutch.

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