Chapter 594: Mata Blue Country
Zhuang Suwen turned his face and said solemnly: "It really has nothing to do with you, but this official doesn't want to tell whether it is you Portuguese or Dutch when the time comes, what if the Dutch pretend to be your people to attack me, so you must withdraw." ”
Anyway, the Portuguese on the Malay Peninsula are also going to be driven away, this is just an excuse to find casually, and those officials of the Ming Dynasty court really can't tell which country these Europeans belong to, and our Tiance army may not be able to tell the difference.
In the face of the strong Tiance army, Kui Ke didn't think that the little force in Malacca could block the attack of the Tiance army, so he had to say: "Lord Zhuang, we can't be the master of this, we need the governor to make an idea." ”
Zhuang Suwen continued to say solemnly: "This official knows that you can't be the master, so you go back and tell your Governor that you must withdraw from Malacca before February next year. Otherwise, when the time comes, whether it is the Dutch, the Spaniards, or the Portuguese, for the sake of safety, our army will launch an attack on the city of Malacca, and the consequences arising from this will be borne by you Portuguese. ”
In this era, there is no international law, whoever has the big fist will listen to whomever it is, and the Portuguese are also outsiders, everyone is a robber, each other.
Portugal's colonies are actually very large, the area of the Viceroyalty of South America is several million square kilometers, and at the peak of the number of colonies in the world exceeded 10 million square kilometers, but its native population is only a million people, and it is still a small country in nature.
Such a small and powerful country is unable to engage in a large-scale war with the Ming Dynasty, especially in the face of a monster like the Tiance Army.
The Portuguese did not appreciate the firepower of the Tiance army, but the occupation of the cities of Geranza, Manila and Batavia by the Tiance army, and the destruction of the Spanish and Dutch Asian fleets one after another, have fully demonstrated that the Asian power of the Portuguese cannot fight the Tiance army alone.
In terms of strength, the strength of the Portuguese in Asia was far from that of the Dutch and Spaniards, and even inferior to the newly active British, who had not yet gained a stable colony in Asia.
Queko is gone, the fate of Malacca City may have been sealed, but the translator Lin Fu was retained by Zhuang Suwen, to build Singapore, the local needs more Chinese, Zhuang Suwen needs Lin Fu to bring the news to Malacca City, and it is best to spread it to the entire Malay Peninsula. The local natives are unqualified laborers that even Europeans dislike, otherwise they would not do everything possible to smuggle people from the Ming Dynasty.
The Tiance army occupied Batavia, which is now Wanghai City, and the Dutch withdrew from the stage of history, and the impact on the South Seas was enormous.
The South Sea, made up of thousands of islands, large and small, was still divided in the 17th century. The most important feudal kingdoms on the archipelago are: Mataran in East Java, Banten in West Java, Aceh in Sumatra and Goa in Sulawesi, Kalimantan and other islands, there are still some remnants of Hindu kingdoms.
The socio-economic development of the various regions of the South Seas is very uneven. The island of Java, where Wanghai City is located, was only the fifth largest island in Indonesia in later generations, but it was able to support 100 million people, and its natural resources were still quite rich.
But now the feudal natural economy of Java predominates; In the coastal areas, commodity-money relations and handicrafts were relatively developed due to trade with Europeans. Feudal landlords let merchants contract taxes, and more and more they replaced taxes in kind with taxes on money. In the other islands, there was a marked socio-economic backwardness, with slavery flourishing in some areas. Some areas are still in the stage of primitive communes.
The Dutch founded the East India Company in 1602. In order to obtain maximum profits, it obtained from the Dutch government a monopoly of trade east of the Cape of Good Hope, and forcibly fixed slave ownership and feudal relations of production in its colonial territories, and made extensive use of the organs of power to violently extract the products of the inhabitants.
The Dutch East India Company used all means to resolutely plunder the colonial territories and prevent the slightest export from falling into the hands of competitors. To this end, it regulates that all sea traffic to the islands of the Indonesian archipelago shall be restricted to Dutch ships or local vessels that have been authorized to pay taxes by the Orchids. Some of the sailing crew members who came to the Bonda Islands without a permit were shackled and some were beaten to death.
They sought to seize a monopoly on the operation of important goods, to the exclusion of the Spaniards, Portuguese, British, French, and Danes. Forcing the kings of the islands of the South Seas to respect their monopoly position. In order to supervise the production of cloves, the Dutch East India Company forced the Indonesians to expand the area where cloves were cultivated on Ambon Island. Cut down all lilac trees outside of Ambon Island.
The Banda sold nutmeg to Javanese, Malays, and other non-Dutch Europeans without the permission of the Dutch. The Dutch East India Company killed nearly all of the more than 15,000 inhabitants of Banda Island, 800 of whom were taken into slavery in Batavia.
The Dutch relied on bloody terror to rule. As soon as the Indonesian people showed the slightest sign of resistance, the Dutch slaughtered them one by one. It was with this extreme cruelty that the Dutch monopolized the spice trade, selling spices from Indonesia at astonishingly high prices at the Amsterdam Exchange, where merchants from almost all European countries gathered. The Dutch East India Company had become a supplier of goods to the monopoly trade of European and Eastern countries.
So the Dutch can be described as the little overlord around the island of Java, and now this overlord has suddenly fallen, leaving the natives of the nearby islands happy and puzzled.
The Central Empire in the north, as neighbors for thousands of years, they are no strangers. Many of the large and small countries in the South Seas were their vassals, and the kings who were able to be canonized by the Central Empire were once the envy of other kings. However, in the past hundred years, the influence of this central empire has gradually declined, and now the empire's army has suddenly driven out the Dutch and set foot on the island of Java.
The arrival of the Tiance army made several powerful sultanates in the South Seas, such as the Mataram Kingdom, the Banten Kingdom, the Aceh Kingdom, the Johor Kingdom, and the Howa Kingdom, feel threatened.
In particular, the nearby kingdom of Mataram has a tradition of struggle, and the history books record that if you strike a big gong in the streets and alleys, within half a day, 200,000 people will come to the assembly from the countryside of the capital and its vicinity with weapons.