After more than 100 years, the Ming Dynasty finally came to the Strait of Malacca, but at this time, the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty had ceased to exist, and the Kingdom of Johor established afterwards was also beaten by the Portuguese and retreated into the northern part of the peninsula, and the entire Strait of Malacca was under the control of the Portuguese. Historically, by 1641, the Dutch had driven out the Portuguese and taken control of Malacca.

In order to block the retreat of the Jose Alliance fleet, two coast guard warships once cruised near the strait. The Portuguese could be sure that this strange warship belonged to the Ming Empire, because they saw the sun, moon, and golden dragon flags.

The Portuguese defenders of Malacca numbered less than a thousand men and had only a few armed merchant ships. The Dutch East India Company's Geranza City in Taiwan, and the Keelung City of the Spaniards have been conquered by the Ming Empire, and it is said that the empire already has a powerful navy, which even the Portuguese Governor in Goa knows, and he specially issued an order not to mess with the Ming Empire!

The Ming Empire is indeed not something that Portugal can afford to provoke, not to mention that Macao is under the nose of the Ming Empire, which is a very important colony of the Portuguese and a window for trade with the Ming Dynasty.

The Portuguese didn't want to provoke the Ming Empire, but the Ming Empire came to the door.

To be precise, the navy did not trouble the Portuguese, because the Portuguese occupied the mouth of the city of Malacca, and the target location of the navy was a peninsula 160 kilometers south of Malacca, which was the entrance to the Straits of Malacca, and Temasek, the former capital of the Sultan of Malacca, which was later Singapore.

Zhuang Suwen, commander of the Nanyang Detachment, arrived here with a landing ship, a supply ship, a coast guard warship, two maritime surveillance warships, four passenger and cargo ro-ro ships, and ten motor cargo ships. For he will be appointed governor of the South Seas, and this will be his domain in the future.

At this time, Temasek (Singapore) was sparsely populated and the famous metropolis of later generations was not yet in sight, and it was planned that facilities such as settlements and port batteries would be built here, as well as a customs house.

In the future, any ship coming from the direction of the Indian Ocean will have to pay taxes here, and this tax payment certificate can be passed through the South China Sea and the Ming Dynasty, which means that there is no need to pay taxes repeatedly. Therefore, this is also the last checkpoint from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean, and you can only go out of the Kansai after verifying the tax payment vouchers issued by other ports in the Ming Dynasty.

It is foreseeable that this place will soon prosper in the future, so unlike Manila and the newly renamed Wanghai City, the starting point city will invest more construction efforts here.

More than 200 people from the civil affairs and construction departments who came with the detachment this time were engaged in preliminary exploration and urban planning, and the first thing to start was the construction of the port, and a month later, 5,000 construction workers will be transferred from Taiwan to this place, and the subsequent resettlement work will also follow. A battalion of the 5th Brigade of the Tiance Army will be temporarily used as a land force here, and will be replaced by the security forces in the later stage.

Landing ships, passenger and cargo ro-ro ships, and motorized cargo ships brought a large amount of materials and equipment, and grain, prefabricated houses, engineering vehicles, and so on came ashore one after another.

Although there is no ready-made port, the landing ships and passenger and cargo ro-ro ships are not very demanding, and Temasek is a natural port, so the landing of goods and vehicles is very efficient.

As the area with the highest proportion of Chinese in later generations, Han ancestors have arrived here since the Yuan Dynasty in history, and it is said that there are more than 2,000 Chinese in Malacca City, more than 100 kilometers to the north, so scattered Han villages are scattered throughout the Malay Peninsula.

With the addition of modern off-road vehicles, the footprints of civil affairs and construction personnel soon set foot on this small island with an area of only more than 600 square kilometers, as the former capital of the Sultan of Malacca, in fact, the island is not deserted, there are not only villages but also towns. Therefore, a few days after the arrival of the Tiance Navy fleet here, there were more than 300 Chinese and more than 100 natives on the construction site near the port, all of whom were attracted by the high salaries of the construction department of the starting point city.

The peninsula, a hundred kilometers to the south, suddenly became lively, causing unease among the Portuguese in Malacca, who did not understand what the Ming Empire was trying to do. Is it here to steal business?

The Portuguese sent emissaries to inquire about the situation. There are a lot of Chinese in the city of Malacca, and there are more business contacts between Portugal and Daming merchants, and Malacca is a small commercial port, so there is no shortage of Chinese translators, and the Portuguese envoys directly brought a Chinese translator.

Before the ship carrying the Portuguese envoy approached, it was detected by radar, and the envoy's ship slowly docked under the escort of the coast guard warship.

"Oh my God, is this the warship of the Ming Empire?" Looking at the several huge warships in the harbor, the Portuguese envoy Quico was frightened, the size of the landing ship and the supply ship was really too big.

Queko and the Chinese interpreter were brought to Zhuang Suwen, commander of the detachment on the landing ship.

"Your Excellency Lord Mingguo, Greetings to Queko Nar." Quiko was dizzy from the massive steel battleship.

"Grass people Lin Fu has seen adults." Translator Lin Fu saluted and said, "I don't know who you are, my lord?" ”

When they came to negotiate, they naturally had to find out who the negotiator was, and at this time the Portuguese didn't know who the commander of the Ming army was, because the Ming army didn't say hello at all, and ran over directly. And this Ming army is very different from the Ming army in my impression, revealing weirdness everywhere.

Zhuang Suwen did not hide it, and replied directly: "This official is a subordinate of Wang Yue Wang Shaobao, the commander of the Nanyang Detachment of the Great Ming Ce Army, and the general of the Tianjin Navy of the Imperial Court. Where are you from, and what are you doing here? ”

"Luck, luck!" Lin Fu saluted again: "We are from the city of Malacca in the north, which belongs to the Viceroy of Goa, and the Portuguese want to ask your army about the intention of coming here. ”

Zhuang Suwen said: "Our army has recently taken Manila and Batavia, in order to prevent the Dutch and Spaniards from counterattacking, this official has come here to build a fortress on the order of Lord Wang Shaobao to resist the attack of the Spaniards and the Dutch, you go back and tell your Excellency the Governor, in order to avoid accidental injury, please ask them to evacuate Malacca as soon as possible. ”

"What? You took Manila and Batavia? Quico exclaimed, and then said in confusion: "It's not fair, we Portuguese have nothing to do with them, why let us leave?" ”

The speed of information transmission in this era was slow, Manila and Batavia were occupied by the Tiance army, and the Portuguese in Malacca were still unaware.

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