Everyone was busy, and Tran Duc led his army to occupy the Banda Islands.

The Banda Islands are not large, only about 40 square kilometers, a small land, can not resist the army at all, when the Southeast Province fleet appeared near the island, the islanders surrendered, and Tran Duc had the Banda Islands at his fingertips.

The reason for this success was that in February 1623, the Dutch carried out a heinous massacre on the island of Trendor in the Banda Islands, in retaliation for their cooperation with the British against the Dutch, and the Dutch killed nearly 15,000 people, resulting in the surrender of the islanders.

The volcanic soil is ideal for growing nutmeg and producing cloves, coconuts and fish.

Since the islanders knew what to do, Chen De did not take it too seriously, and declared them to be free people, paid a poll tax to work for the southeast province, and every year a certain percentage of the population was drawn from the hard workers to become the official subjects of the southeast province.

The government government was established to determine the rule of the southeastern province.

Then Tran Duc took his fleet and headed for the two kingdoms of Tindore, Denadi, and Halmahra.

Head north through the Maluku Sea to reach the island of Halmahera, which is located in the Maluku archipelago region.

Passing through the Maluku Strait and continuing northward, Tran will open up the route from the Spice Islands to Mindanao in the Philippines, and eventually reach Manila, where he will export spices to Manila and re-export them to the Americas, or via Manila, through Taiwan Province, and transport spices back to the mainland.

There are many islands here, many of which are uninhabited.

The Southeast Mansion did a thing that tired them but was very meaningful, on a merchant ship with them, they brought countless blank stone tablets, and every time they arrived on an uninhabited island, they sent small boats to plant stone tablets on that uninhabited island!

Plant a stone monument on a desert island, and the inscription on the stone monument is the number of islands in Southeast Province on the front, for example, Island 1008 in Southeast Province----- there are too many islands, you can't come up with meaningful names, so you have to name them like this.

It is written on the back that this island has belonged to the great Southeast Province, and the date is indicated, and the monument unit is the Java Governor's Office of the Southeast Province and the Java Branch of the Southeast Fleet, and the person who erects the monument is an officer and soldier.

This monument erector is constantly sending people, today it's your turn, tomorrow's turn is his turn, everyone has a turn, even Governor Chen Duc planted his own stone monument on a big island, and according to everyone's precedent, he on the island!

Back on the warship, there are detailed records, write the date, write down what direction and what island on the chart, and take portraits.

After that, the people who participated in the establishment of the island were given a commemorative certificate, indicating that he declared sovereignty on behalf of the Southeast Province on a certain day in a certain year, month, and year, which entered the annals of history!

Anyway, when they see an uninhabited island, they come like this, and the Southeast Fleet is addicted to planting islands, and many warships bring stone tablets with their ships, and they plant deserted islands when they see them.

It's not fun to plant, we planted a stele, and whoever dares to touch our stele will mean war!

What's more, we planted a stone monument on the east side of an island, and there are natives living in the west, and when we meet, we will never admit that those natives came before us, but we planted the island first, and the natives came later, so if we don't accept it, we will do it!

Of course, there will also be a situation where a certain ship has planted a stone monument in the south of an island, and another ship has also planted a stone monument in the north, so it will be on a first-come, first-served basis than the date.

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There are many islands and complex waterways, and the key lies in the charts.

There is a surveying and mapping brigade in the southeast province, which specializes in drawing maps and sea charts, and its method imitates the red hair fan according to the stars in the sky, and makes it in the form of drawing and projection.

In addition to the charts drawn up by the regime, the southeastern province collected a large number of European charts through various means, such as the New Atlas, which included the Moluca chart, which depicted the routes of the places to which the southeastern province went.

Thanks to the Europeans, in the 17th century, the Dutch held high the banner of "freedom on the high seas" and joined the great maritime craze. On the other hand, the Dutch also brought the production and publication of nautical charts to the market, thus breaking the secrecy and mystification of nautical charts since the Middle Ages. The cartographic center of the world nautical charts, from the blockade and monopoly of Portugal and Italy, began to turn to the market-oriented production and publication of the "depression countries" Belgium and the Netherlands.

Flanders (present-day Belgium) was home to three outstanding masters of geography and cartography, Mercator, Aultrius, and Hondius, who produced a large number of maps and nautical charts. The famous cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), the largest carter in the Netherlands, and his son Joan Blaeu (1596-1673), saw the growing demand for nautical charts and collected and produced many of the latest nautical charts.

In 1634 the Blau family's cartographic company published a New Atlas of 161 maps, and later the Grand Atlas, which surpassed any previous atlas......

The map of the Moluccas, a 1630 work by William Jansson Blau, focuses on some of the most valuable islands in the Spice Islands, and shows that the Dutch were in control of the most important spice-producing areas.

The island of Denadi, also known as Ternat, is the capital of present-day North Maluku Province. Adjacent to it, Tidore is also a spice island. Dense forests can be seen here, with a flat belt of spice cultivation behind the forest. These small islands are interwoven into a huge spice production base. This diagram reflects the prosperous commercial landscape of the Dutch East India Company at the time.

Relying on nautical charts, and led by the Dutch, the fleet reached its destination.

To a certain extent, Hongmaofan has been respected by the people of Southeast Province, which is also the reason why everyone supports Boss Yan to list Hongmaofan and Chinese junior followers as the same class.

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With the arrival of the city, the fate of the two kingdoms of Tina and Denadi, which occupied an important position on the spice route, was completely different.

Located in the Maluku archipelago, Tidore and Denadi are two islands with a deep fragrance and history, both of which are almost the same size, both located to the west of the main island of the Maluku archipelago, Halmahera, and were formed by volcanic eruptions in the depths of the Maluku Sea.

Tidore is home to Mount Quintap, while Denadi is home to the Guamalama volcano, which has erupted to give the island fertile soil and produce some of the best cloves in the world!

Good things attract jackals, and the Portuguese made an expedition to Maluku in 1513 A.D., obtaining large quantities of cloves in Tidore and Dena, and establishing merchant houses.

Then the Spaniards, the Dutch, and the British followed, and the Dutch won, sweeping away the rest of the Hongmaofan's power in the Maluku Islands and gaining a monopoly on spices.

Now it's the Southeast Province here!

First arrived at Denadi Island, and then used the old cliché, Chen Dexian sent someone to meet Fasher Sudan on the island, and showed the paperwork, saying that the Dutch had transferred their interests to my Great Southeast Province, and that the people of Denadi could only sell cloves to the Chinese.

Very unlucky, Li Ghost met Li Kui, Fashir Sudan happened to have Dutch advisers by his side, and immediately pointed out that the Southeast Mansion used fake documents!

"The East India Company has never written such a paperwork!" That Dutch advisor Grote was unquestionably authentic.

His Royal Highness Fasher Soudan returned the paperwork as a matter of course and ridiculed the Southeast Province as a liar regime!

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On the flagship of Nanhai No. 2, Chen De heard the report and frowned: "Denadi Sudan dares to be so Diao?" ”

The officers said in a high-spirited manner: "Whatever about him, let's talk about it later!" ”

So the fleet headed for the port of Denadi, to see if Silsuldan had three heads and six arms!