Chapter 595: I don't have time to chat with you

Sultan Agung managed to connect Mataram with a bygone era, blending the old and the new with the aim of unifying Java. Since the Dutch colonizers invaded Jakarta, the conflict between the Mataran Kingdom and the East India Company has become increasingly acute.

He sought to expel the Dutch. He successively sent troops to occupy Madura, Surabaya, and Cirebon.

After many campaigns and rebellions, he further unified the Central and East Java regions and extended his influence to eastern Sumatra and southern Kalimantan. and instituted a monopoly policy, prohibiting the people from selling rice to the Dutch.

From 1628 to 1629, the Kingdom of Mataram sent troops to attack Batavia, and the Dutch colonists burned down the rice barns of Mataram and sank the ships carrying grain, which was able to stop the attack of the natives. After Sultan Agung's unsuccessful attack on the Dutch, he concentrated his efforts on developing the domestic economy, encouraging inter-island trade, and continuing to accumulate strength in an attempt to fight again.

By driving out the Dutch, the Celestial Army took the place of the Dutch and became an obstacle to the unification of Java by the ambitious Sultan Agung.

The Central Empire has been known to its neighbors for thousands of years, so less than half a month after the Tiance army took Batavia, Sultan Agung sent his eldest prince Armand Gulat to Batavia, now Wanghai City, to meet Wang Yue.

"Armand Gulat, Prince of the Kingdom of Matalan, meet with the Young Protector of the Kingdom of God, and on behalf of His Royal Highness My Father, I wish His Majesty the Emperor of your country all the blessings and peace of the Emperor."

Prince Armand Gurat led a delegation of more than a dozen envoys, including several ministers and generals of the kingdom of Mataram.

Although this Prince Armand Goulat, who is not black and does not slip away, and has typical Austronesian racial characteristics, he wants to imitate the style of the Ming literati, but in fact, he has learned nondescriptly.

The meeting place for the envoys of the Mataran Kingdom was set up in the former Dutch Governor's Palace of Batavia, now the living room of the Military Management Committee of Wanghai City.

"Everyone, please sit down, you've worked hard all the way, I don't know what you have to say about this time in Wanghai City?" In the face of Armand Gulart and the others' salutes, Wang Yue didn't get up, but just raised his hand and motioned for them to sit down.

It is said that Wang Yue was an important minister of the Ming court, and a local king like Sultan Agung should have come to see him in person, but he sent a son to come.

Wang Yue has done a little understanding of this Mataran country, the current Sultan Agung is still a figure among the Austronesian monkeys, bent on being a male lord, a bit of the meaning of Genghis Khan of the Austrones, during his reign destroyed more than a dozen countries, although the destruction of the islands of the South Seas is a small country, but he claims to be the master of great talent, and as a result, he met the Dutch to stop his expansion.

His heir, Armand Gurart, was even worse off than Sultan Agung, whose tyranny and harsh taxes led to the decay and fragmentation of the kingdom of Matalan.

Armand Goulart asked his attendants to present a gift slip and said, "Lord Shaobao, this is a small gift that my father has asked me to bring. ”

Wang Yue looked at the gift list written in Chinese, it was really a thin gift, and put it down casually: "What is the matter with you here?" This official is very busy, and he has no time to chat with you, if you want to pay tribute, go to Beijing, maybe His Majesty the Emperor will welcome your small courtesy. ”

An old man with a gray beard in Armand Goulart's entourage answered: "Lord Shaobao of the Upper Kingdom, and below is the Privy Counsellor of the Kingdom of Mataram, Privy Wijaya Patti. Batavia is the inherent territory of the Mataran Kingdom, but it has been occupied by the Dutch for a long time, and the Mataran Kingdom has repeatedly failed to recover, and now the army of the upper kingdom has driven away the barbaric Dutch invaders, and my king is very surprised. As a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, the Mataran Kingdom has always been respectful to the kingdom, and this time we came to discuss with Lord Shaobao about the return of Batavia to the Kingdom of Mataran, and I hope that Lord Shaobao will understand the earnest feelings of my king. ”

Under the Sultan, the state of Mataran is composed of three advisory councils, including the elders of the Sect, the Prime Minister, and the Privy Council, to decide on the country's political, military, judicial, religious and other major issues, so this Privy Counsel Jaya Patti is roughly equivalent to the cabinet minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention, these Austronesian monkeys are here to fool Wang Yue, according to the consistent style of the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of face, they should always help the vassal state, they regard Wang Yue as an authentic court official.

And Wang Yue listened to his high-sounding words, and said with a smile: "Is the country of Madalan actually a vassal state of my Ming Dynasty, why don't I know?" I only remember that there was once a Bajang country on this Java island, which was a subject state of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"The first generation of the Sultan of your Mataran Kingdom used to be a lord of the Bazhang country, fifty-two years ago, he took advantage of the contradictions between the Bazhang Sultan and the lords, sneaked up on the Bazhang Sultan, forced him to abdicate, and then destroyed his country, and even moved the capital of the country, your current sultan did not get the canonization of my Ming Emperor, but only called himself the sultan, how can he say that the subject country?"

"And Batavia was occupied by the Bajang Kingdom, the Banten Sultan and the Dutch, so why did it become the inherent territory of the Mataran Kingdom? It's only been 52 years since the founding of the country, where did you come from? Could it be Mozoagon that you occupy? Surabaya? Madura? Or Cirebon? ”

"Lord Shaobao, my Mataran Kingdom has the right to inherit all the territories of Bazhang Kingdom, so Batavia should belong to my Mataran Kingdom."

Hearing Wang Yue tell the black history of the Mataran Kingdom so clearly, Prince Armand Goult's face sank.

His father, Sultan Agung, had told him that he would inherit a great territory in the future. After flickering away the Tiance army and taking Batavia, the Banten Sultan of West Java will definitely not be able to stop the pace of Mataran's advance, unify Java, and dominate the South Seas is just around the corner.

Feng Yuanshan, the commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Tiance Army, who accompanied Wang Yue to meet with the Mataran Mission, was on fire and shouted: "His grandmother's, when the Dutch occupied here, why didn't you ask them to reason?" Now that my Tiance Army is here, but you are here to sell your mouths, what kind of skill are you? ”

Wang Yue laughed when he heard this: "What Yuanshan said is reasonable, Batavia was taken from the Dutch by our Tiance Army, and you Ma Dalan opened his mouth and closed his mouth to mention the inheritance, then you go to the Dutch to theorize, this matter has nothing to do with our Tiance Army." ”

Armand Gulart, Privy Counsellor Jaya Patti and the others glanced at each other, and they understood that the Heavenly Commander was not so easy to fool around.

"Lord Shaobao, Java is thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, and it is a poor and remote place, which cannot be compared with the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, why should adults be obsessed with this?" Privy Counsellor Jaya Patti means that the hand of the Great Ming is stretched too long.