Chapter 1134: Western Colonists Are the Worst!
Prince Ali of Sulu and Prince Murting of Boni, who came with him, were all stunned...... What does the Ming Emperor want to do? Why are you going to send a head of the sect to our country?
The kingdom of Sulu and the kingdom of Boni are both countries of the Heavenly Sect, which are founded on religion, and the imam is equivalent to the vice-king!
Zhu Cihong looked at Ali in Sulu and asked with a smile: "Prince, what do you think of my will?" β
O will!
This is the will of the Emperor of the Celestial Empire!
"Your Majesty," a cold sweat broke out on Prince Ali's forehead, "Chen, the minister is just a prince, a little prince......"
"Just a little one?" Zhu Cihong frowned, "Isn't it the heir to the throne?" β
Prince Ali shook his head...... Not really! He has an older brother!
Zhu Cihong smiled: "You nodded!" Then you are the crown prince of Sulu! β
Did I really nod my head? Prince Ali's mouth opened wide and he was completely confused.
"Prince, don't thank you yet!" Kong Yinzheng suddenly yelled.
Prince Ali woke up like a dream, and quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "Minister Ali bows to thank the emperor for his grace!" β
Zhu Cihong smiled: "Then Anzi should really be in charge of the matter......
Ali said: "Your Majesty, as long as the minister becomes the crown prince, he will definitely be able to facilitate this matter!" β
"That's good, that's good!" Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "I think you are a promising king, and you will definitely be able to do something after becoming the crown prince!" Ali, what do you say is the most important business in Nanyang right now? β
"Your Majesty, the most important thing is, of course, to drive the Dutch out!" King Ali gritted his teeth.
Zhu Cihong looked at the prince of Boni again, and the latter also nodded vigorously: "Yes!" The Dutch are so hateful! Do no evil, don't give us a way to live! β
The Dutch, the Western colonizers! How can it not be hated? You have to get out...... This is the struggle against colonialism!
"Really?" Zhu Cihong frowned, "But I heard that there are still many Sultans on the Nanyang side who are willing to follow the Dutch...... Is there such a thing? β
"Yes!" Prince Ali said, "The Sultan of Johor, the Sultan of Perak, the Sultan of Pattani, the Sultan of Aceh and the Sultan of Java have all betrayed their people and Allah and walked with the Dutch!" β
"Even Allah has betrayed?" Zhu Cihong shook his head again and again, "Could it be forced?" β
Murting, the prince of the Boni Kingdom, clenched his fists: "If it is forced, now is the time for them to stand up and lead the people against the Dutch!" If they don't dare to stand up, they are traitors! β
Zhu Cihong nodded and said, "I heard that the Heavenly Fang Sect has a god war system, which can be launched by the Great Palm Sect...... An Zizhen, have you heard of it? β
Anzi was really stunned and stayed there.
He really didn't know......
"You said that!" Zhu Cihong nodded again, "In this case, when you arrive in Nanyang, you will go and mobilize the people and sultans of Johor, Perak, Pattani, Aceh, Java and other places that have been oppressed by the Dutch, and everyone will attack the Dutch East India Company together...... Be sure to get the Netherlands out of the South Seas! β
"Minister, minister obeys!" An Zizhen didn't know how to mobilize so many people, but he knew that he had to listen to the emperor.
"Your Majesty," Prince Ali was already enthusiastic and stood up suddenly, "Will the Celestial Empire send troops?" β
"Rude!" The celebrant and eunuch on the side roared, and Ali hurriedly knelt down, but a dark face looked at Emperor Zhu, full of anticipation.
Zhu Cixi said, "Allah only saves those who save themselves!" If the sultans and their people in the South Seas are willing to save themselves, then they will definitely be helped. But the premise is that they must show the determination and courage to save themselves. β
Murting, the prince of the kingdom of Boni, asked, "Your Majesty, what if they did not have such determination and courage?" β
There shouldn't be...... The Dutch are so ferocious, who would dare to oppose them! The Boni and Sulu countries were already fierce enough, and they could only barely parry, and they didn't dare to take the initiative to attack at all.
Zhu Cihong looked at the two princes and asked, "Then do you have the determination to do the Boni Kingdom and the Sulu Kingdom?" β
Neither do we! How can we have such determination? We're not crazy yet!
Neither Prince Ali nor Prince Murting knew how to answer.
In fact, Zhu Cihong is making things difficult for people, and he also knows how many catties and taels there are in Boni and Sulu. In these years, there was only one Ottoman Empire that could be fought by the Celestial Cult countries, and the Ottoman Empire did not rely on its own Celestial Cultists to fight, but on the Janissaries Legion.
But who are the Janissaries in the Legion? They were all recruited warriors from Christian countries under the Ottoman Empire, who had been trained to do so!
And these people, at least until they left the Janissary Legion, were slaves!
This kind of slave soldier is the pillar of force after the rise of the Heavenly Sect countries - maybe these countries do not use slave soldiers in the early stage of their rise, but they must rely on slave soldiers after the rise. For example, the Ghulam Guard, the Mamluk Guard, and the Janissary Legion are all of this nature.
And the Celestial Sect countries that have no place to buy slave soldiers, or can't afford to buy slave soldiers, or can't buy high-quality slave soldiers, must be militarily weak.
However, the Heavenly Sect takes great care of its followers and does not allow them to be turned into slaves.
Therefore, after the Turkic, Uighur, Kipchak and other fighting peoples in Central Asia were all converted to the Celestial Sect, most of the Celestial Sect powers lost their source of slave soldiersβoriginally everyone bought boys from that area for training, but now there is nowhere to buy them...... That's why those countries pounced when they met Western colonizers!
Fortunately, the Ottoman Empire was still relatively tolerant of religion, and if they had forcibly promoted the Celestial Religion in Greece, Transylvania, Hungary and other places early on, then no matter how hard Grandpa Koplulu tried, he would not have been able to revitalize the Ottoman Empire.
And the Ottoman Empire's supply of slaves and soldiers is very valuable, and it is impossible to supply them to the countries of Boni and Sulu!
Moreover, the countries of Boni and Sulu were very poor, and they could not afford slave soldiers at all, so they could only rely on those noble soldiers of the Heavenly Sect who were not very capable of fighting in their own countries to fight, how could they defeat the Netherlands?
But if you can't beat it, you have to fight! If the kingdoms of Boni and Sulu didn't want to fight, then why did they send such a large delegation to Ying Tianfu? Do you want to tease Emperor Zhu?
"We in Sulu have determination!"
"We in the country of Boni are also determined!"
Both Prince Murting and Prince Ali expressed their determination.
"That's it!" Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "I know that the Dutch are very capable of fighting, but your two countries have limited strength and can't beat them." However, I have already made arrangements, and as long as you obey the command of the ministers I have sent, you will definitely be able to stir up the South Seas. The Dutch will be exhausted by then, and the Celestial Empire will send troops when the Dutch are tired. β
Emperor Zhu didn't say that he would send troops to fight the Dutch...... Those feudal rulers who followed the Dutch colonizers and betrayed the interests of their own working people should also be attacked!
Had it not been for the fact that these people were willing to act as lackeys, would the Western colonizers have been able to gain a foothold in Southeast Asia? How many Dutchmen are there in Batavia? The sky is in the thousands, and if the local feudal princes had stood up and led the masses to fight to the end, the Dutch would have been driven out long ago.
Zhu Cihong said again: "And I will not let you two countries contribute in vain...... After the deed is done, there must be a lot of rewards. There are few people in the country of Sulu, so I can make the decision to change you to a big country, and I will reward you with the land of Riau under the Sultanate of Johor!
As for the country of Boni...... I can move you to the rich country of Java! β
The territory of the Sultanate of Johor straddles the Straits of Malacca, and the territory on the Malay Peninsula is called Johor, and the territory on the island of Sumatra is called Riau. What Zhu Cihong promised to Sulu was Riau on the island of Sumatra...... That's much richer than Sulu.
As for the island of Java...... It would be even richer, as it was the most fertile land in the South Sea Islands, and the grain production was frighteningly high!
The two princes are excited, it seems that there is still a future for following the Celestial Empire!
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