Chapter 130 The Southwest Gateway of the South China Sea
As for the Yingkou falling dragon, Li Chengjun didn't know what was going on, after all, the photos of that era were not clear, and in his guess, it was possible that it was really a dragon that was injured and fell, and then it was discovered, and then there were no relics left, so it may have returned to nature after decomposition.
Of course, there is also a possibility, that is, it is not necessarily a dragon that falls, it may be another giant snake that may fly, or some kind of fish or sea beast in the sea, these are not impossible, but it was reported for a long time, and everyone found that this thing was not a dragon, so it was treated coldly, and no one paid attention to it later.
Yang Yi didn't care much about these, of course he hoped that there were dragons in this world now, but this possibility was almost unlikely, but from the appearance of Li Chengjun and Xie Zhong, Yang Yi felt that there must still be dragons and affiliated water tribes in those places, so when he went to sea, he also planned to discover these clansmen and release them all.
After Yang Yi turned into a dragon and collected the aircraft carrier formation of Citigroup, he returned to the fishing boat, and he was not in a hurry about those warships, if this thing was taken to the outside world, Citigroup would definitely fight to start a war with the world, and he had to be killed first, after all, this is related to the face of the country, and it is also about the competition of national strength.
The next morning, the weather was not bad, in a word, the wind and the sun were beautiful, the fishing boat finally came out of the nine-dash line of the South China Sea, from now on they were in a foreign country, except for Zhang Feifei, a two-pole who was not pulling to take pictures, no one else was interested at all.
Part of it is to go to sea all the year round, which is no longer new, and the other part is that they don't know what is called the nine-dash line of the South China Sea, what is the national border, they think that the most Huaxia can go to Qiongzhou Province will be over, and the other Sansha, especially Nansha, have never felt that they belong to China, and they don't feel big, this thing is not because they are not patriotic, but because of the barrenness of knowledge and the shortness of knowledge.
There is an old man who once said that a person can't eat enough, you can't ask him to be hungry and patriotic, even if he is really patriotic, he has no strength to say it. Although it is an exaggeration to say that there is not enough to eat in today's society, there are still more underdeveloped areas, and everyone has less knowledge to learn for a living, and more to work hard for life, so for them, patriotism can be put in their hearts, and they don't have to know all the things in the country.
Zengmu Dark Shoal is a dark sand located in the southernmost south of China, a group of reefs composed of Zengmu Reef Mound, Eight Immortals Dark Sand and Lidi Dark Sand, which is also part of the Nansha Islands.
Because this island and reef is a dark sand, so all sunk under the bottom of the sea, the shallowest part of the shallowest part of the Zengmu Reef Mound is also 17.5 meters, currently under the actual control of China, put a sovereignty monument, but can not be stationed in the army.
The unique geographical location of Zengmu Dark Sands determines that it is the closest sea area to the Strait of Malacca in China, and is close to Johor, Brunei, Indonesia, the Lion City and other countries, making it a strategic location. Whether it is to maintain the South China Sea Passage or the Indian Ocean Passage, or for the future recovery and operation of Nansha by China, this place is a battleground and an indispensable strategic location.
Yang Yi and they stopped the boat here to take a photo and continued to set off, turning west from the dark sand of Zengmu, driving for more than ten hours, they arrived at another archipelago, which belongs to the boundary of Indonesia, this archipelago is the famous Natuna Islands, the only place for China to enter the Indian Ocean out of the South China Sea, from here you can go southwest to the Strait of Malacca, southeast to the Java Sea, through the Sunda Strait to the waters near Australia.
Speaking of the Natuna Islands, many people in China are not clear now, in fact, the archipelago in this sea originally belonged to China, but with the changes of history, it has now become the territory of Indonesia.
Situated between the Johor Peninsula and Borneo, it has been a common occurrence in China's thousands of years of feudal history, with each dynasty changing to mean the subjugation of the rulers and the great resistance.
The Qing Dynasty directly replaced the Ming Dynasty and ruled China, and about 300 remnants of the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty defeated generals, because they were unwilling to surrender and fall under the rule of the Manchus, so they chose to flee to an island and opened up a new place in the area, and the island they went to was the Natuna Islands.
Speaking of the Natuna Islands, we must talk about a figure in the early Ming Dynasty, he is the famous Three Treasures eunuch Zheng He. Zheng He was a household name in the West, but it was a great feat for the Ming Dynasty to promote the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.
On his way to the West, Zheng He happened to find a small island that was very suitable as a transit station, because this island had very convenient transportation. After a series of transformations, a warehouse was also set up here, which was specially arranged for personnel to be stationed, and then included in the Ming Empire's nautical charts.
The good times did not last long, and after seven trips to the West, the Ming Dynasty began to close off the country, and then it was destroyed soon after. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, none of the more than 300 troops in the south were willing to submit to the rule of the Manchu Dynasty, so they fled to the Natuna Islands, the transit island of Zheng He's voyage to the West at that time.
Zhang Jiexu was the leader of these more than 300 people at that time, because this person was very leadership and very capable, through the efforts of more than 300 people, he drove out the aboriginal Dutch, and tried to live and multiply on this island, and later established the "South China Company" with the same name as the "Lanfang Republic".
The Natuna Islands were originally a barren and barren land, but these things were difficult for the Chinese people. What Chinese people are best at is self-reliance and hard work. With a smart mind and industrious hands, he doesn't worry about eating and drinking at all.
On the island, they mainly focused on fishery development, and then Zhang Jiexu joined hands with more than 300 people around him to occupy nearly 120 affiliated islands around the island, and then slowly led them to develop various economies on the island, from more than 300 people to more than 30,000 people.
It is a pity that the Chinese people can share the weal and woe, but it is extremely difficult to share the wealth and prosperity, after the death of Zhang Jiexu, other Chinese people have other thoughts, and began to compete for the local resources, and this rich island, because of its rich oil resources and unique strategic position, gradually attracted the attention of foreign forces.
After the Second World War, after Indonesia defeated the Dutch to unify the islands, the later Indonesian government took the Natuna Islands into their pockets and no longer came under the jurisdiction of these local Chinese. Because of this, the Natuna Islands never returned to the hands of China.
The Natuna Islands are 400 kilometers away from the dark sands of Zengmu in the east, the latitude is basically the same, composed of more than 270 islands, with a total area of more than 2,100 square kilometers, this area is much larger than the total land area of the entire Nansha Islands, and the Ming Dynasty called this "Wansheng Shitangyu", which means that the islands where all people live.
Natuna used to be called "Anbuna", which is related to a Ming Dynasty emperor, Zheng He's fleet after seven voyages to the Western Ocean, there were officials who played, believing that Wansheng Shitangyu was the gateway to the South China Sea and was the only place to go to sea.
When Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji learned about it, he immediately issued an order: "Wanshengyu, Anbuna." It means that there are all the people of the Ming Dynasty living here, why not include it in the royal land? So it was named Ambuna Island.
After the occupation by the Dutch, in order to cut off the connection between the islands and China, the name of the island was changed several times to "Natuna". In modern times, since the archipelago is located outside the claimed nine-dash line, Indonesia has received the Dutch heritage, so sovereignty now belongs to Indonesia.
It is the southwestern gateway of the South China Sea and the only place for China to enter the Indian Ocean, through which almost all Chinese ships pass. So in 95, China declared that it had sovereignty over the Natuna Islands, but last year, it publicly recognized that Indonesia's sovereignty over Natuna belonged to Indonesia, and China had no sovereignty dispute over this, but the premise was that Indonesia must recognize that China has sovereignty over the Nansha Islands since ancient times.
This precondition is very important, because once China renounces its sovereignty over Natuna Island, it will lose the legitimacy of the historical use of the island as a regional center for the production and life of the Chinese people.
In fact, in modern history, including the continuous struggle between the Netherlands and Indonesia before and after World War II, the Netherlands has always occupied this place, and there was no sovereignty dispute between China and Indonesia at that time. It was not until later, two months after the founding of the People's Republic of China, that Indonesia defeated the Dutch colonists and declared its independence completely, and later took over the Natuna Islands.
The local Chinese people have always wanted to return to the motherland since the time of Zhang Jiexu's "Nanhua Company", but they are still adrift overseas, and it has to be said that in modern Chinese history, there are too many things lost due to poverty and weakness.
After Indonesia's independence, it forcibly implemented a migration policy to Natuna Island, and the original 15,000 Chinese population was gradually diluted, and now the population has reached more than 90,000, and the Chinese have lost their dominant position in this place.
In recent years, the world's largest natural gas reserves have been discovered in the Natuna Islands, which have led to territorial claims by Johor and South Vietnam. It was only last year that China was the first to withdraw its territorial claims, but Indonesia, after obtaining China's concessions, still made a fuss about the South China Sea issue and harassed Chinese fishermen, which was even more arrogant than before.
Therefore, the Chinese government has restarted to compete for the exclusive economic zone, and the international law of the sea stipulates that the 200 nautical miles of the national territorial sea baseline is the exclusive economic zone, and the Natuna Islands will be wrapped 200 nautical miles from the nine-dash line of the South China Sea.