Chapter 203: The Aggrieved Sultan of Omar
Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu City, Great Sultan's Palace, what kind of palace is it, in fact, it is a small castle in the style of Tianfangjiao, which is not strong and does not occupy a wide area, after all, under the Sultan of Omar, except for the Chinese who do not listen to his call very much, all the Malays add up to more than 100,000 people.
This population, in the Sultanate of the Malay Peninsula, is very weak, if it were not for the important location of Kuala Terengganu, the rich land, the Dutch, Siamese, and Bugis people all want to intervene and lead to mutual containment, the Sultan of Omar would have been driven away to drink the northwest wind!
In the Sultan's palace, the four-year-old Sultan of Omar, now Chinese New Year's Eve, has the iconic Celestial Sect beard, and unlike the indigenous Sultan of the local black monkeys, the ancestors of the Sultan of Omar are actually Brahmin from India.
At first, they believed in Buddhism, but later converted to Celestial Christianity under the influence of Arab maritime merchants, and finally mixed with those rich and powerful Arab maritime merchants, creating such a white sultan that is rare in the eyes of the South Seas.
Because of this, Kuala Terengganu has not developed much, because the Malay natives under the rule of the Sultan are not very convinced.
After all, in terms of appearance, the Sultan of Omar and his subjects are completely different people, and these black Malay natives even think that the Tang people from the north look more like their own than their Sultan.
So Sultan Omar had been cautious, he felt like he was sitting in the crater of a volcano, and he couldn't tell when he would be ousted from the throne by some careerist!
Ever since Sultan Abidin, Sultan of Omar's father, the Sultan's family intended to intermarry with the natives under their rule in order to secure their rule.
Over the years, the Sultan of Omar has accepted six concubines in one go, all of whom are Malay natives who are a little black and black, just to stabilize the position under the buttocks.
Unexpectedly, the Tang people of the Ye family next door suddenly rose up, directly messing up the idea of Sultan Omar closing the door to stabilize his rule.
He was first forced to submit to King Rama I of Siam under the coercion of the Tang people of the Ye family, and then he was given several consecutive shades by Zhang Chaorong, who had a backer, not only lost the port of Kemaman, but also lost half of Terengganu City, although the Tang people still paid taxes to him, but the Sultan of Omar still felt a hint of danger.
So in the battle between the Yejia Tang and the Bugis, Sultan Omar quickly sided with the Bugis, and cooperated with the Bugis to force Zhang Chaorong to get out of the way to Tao Gong.
But what he didn't expect was that the young patriarch of the Ye family came back from Europa, and brought back ten Westerner giant ships and thousands of Westerner mercenaries, and the strength was so strong that even the Dutch in Batavia were frightened.
Now the Sultan of Omar is numb, and he is worried every day that the Ye family, who originally wanted to annex Kuala Terengganu, will settle accounts with him, and he has released five or six batches of spies between Terengganu and Pettani these days, just to know the movements of the Ye family in Pattani as soon as possible.
As a result, something that scared him even more appeared, Zhang Chaorong of Terengganu is said to have gone to Pattani to ask for sin!
If the Tang people of Pattani forgave the Tang people of Terengganu, then whose sin is it for letting the Bugis people attack Tao Gong?
Sultan Omar touched his bearded head, and vaguely felt a black cauldron falling on his head.
"His Majesty the Sultan, His Majesty the Sultan! There's news! "A black-robed man trotted in.
This is one of Omar Sultan's brothers-in-law, uh.... Sultan Omar had more than thirty brothers-in-law, who were not worth anything at all, so he simply let out all these brothers-in-law that he could still trust, and went to inquire about him!
"Say it! Say it! Sultan Omar hurried up to meet him, eagerly grabbing his brother-in-law's hand.
"Zhang Chaorong is dead, and the Chinese in Xicheng are finished!" It took several gasps for the Malay, named Abduda, to catch his breath, and he trembled and reported the astonishing news to Sultan Omar.
"Dead? Zhang Chaorong is dead? How did he die? And what about the others who went to Pattani with him? Why are the Tang people in Xicheng going to be finished? ”
Sultan Omar was anxious, and shook Abduda's thin body and asked.
"Dead, he was killed by the new patriarch of the Ye family, that is, the Siamese Luan Jue Ye Kai, not only that, but he also led his troops to Terengganu to cure the treachery of those Tang people!"
"What?" Omar Sultan only felt a numb scalp, although he didn't like Zhang Chaorong very much, but he still felt a trace of sadness.
Together with the Tang people, or Zhang Chaorong, the patriarch of 50,000 or 60,000 people, went to ask for guilt and was killed, then he, the Malay sultan, could still be killed?
"Is this news reliable? Where did you get it? Omar Sultan hurriedly asked his brother-in-law Abdul Dar, expecting that perhaps the boy had made a mistake.
But Abdul didn't give his brother-in-law Sultan any hope at all, "When I entered the city, I met Zhang Qiming, the second young master of the Zhang family, who came back, and he and his younger brother Zhang Zhengming both cried into tears, both of them were wounded, and they were also dressed in the white cloth that only the Tang people wore when they died.
Among them, Zhang Zhengming still had beaten injuries on his face, and they said that the Ye family should hand over 5,000 Dutch gold coins, or send 5,000 people to farm and mine for the Ye family, otherwise they would be killed! ”
Omar Sultan gasped, whether it was five thousand Dutch gold coins or five thousand laborers, the Tang people of Terengganu must be unaffordable!
And the Tang people can't give such a big fortune, and he Omar Sultan can't afford it, not to mention, even if he can afford it, the Ye family in Pattani must claim more from him than from the Tang people, and if he can't afford to give money, then the Ye family will definitely use this as an excuse to send troops to attack.
"So..., what are those Tang people going to do?" The anxious Sultan of Omar is a bit of a master!
"I... I don't know yet! "How could Abdul know what the Tang people should do, and as soon as he heard the news, he came to the Sultan's palace to report it.
"Inquire quickly! Just go! With an anxious wave of his hand, Sultan Omar drove Abdul out of the way.
"No need to go, Sultan, Zhang Chaorong's son Zhang Qiming is asking to see him outside the palace!" A man dressed in black walked in, none other than the Sultan's First Minister, his uncle Anadin!
"He's asking to see him now? It's night! Sultan Omar was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, he figured out that if the Zhang family was unwilling to hand over five thousand Dutch gold coins or five thousand laborers, the only option was to come and form an alliance with him against the Ye family.
"Invite them in!" Although the Tang people of Kuala Terengganu rarely come to his palace, and the relationship between the two sides is getting colder, Sultan Omar still quickly agreed to Zhang Qiming's meeting, and at this time, the former enemy is about to become friends.
To Omar's surprise, it was not one person who came in, but three people, and glancing at the chief of the guard standing beside him, Xenas, Omar Sultan felt a little relieved.
Of course he knew Zhang Qiming, so Sultan Omar pointed to the two tall strong men beside Zhang Qiming and asked, "Are these two warriors your guards?" ”
Zhang Qiming made a chest stroking salute, pointed at the tall Ye Huan and said: "This is our Gao Huan brother of the Terengganu Gao family, he was originally a soldier of the Ye family, and I brought him here to report something urgent to the Sultan." ”
"As for this, this is Liu Chonghan's brother of the Liu family, he was wantonly bullied by the Ye family in Beidan, but he also heard some news and wanted to report it to the sultan."
After Zhang Qiming finished speaking, Ye Huan stepped forward half a step forward, "I have seen His Majesty Sultan Omar below, this Ye family is too deceitful, whether it is five thousand Dutch gold coins or five thousand people, we can't afford it!"
This is clearly for the lives of our entire clan, fortunately there is a Sultan here, this Terengganu is always the Sultan of your country, how can you allow the Ye family to be rampant! ”
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