Chapter 623: The Dragon Flag Flies
Even Liukou was able to live well under Xiong Wencan, and Huang Mingli, a first-class military attache of the imperial court with outstanding military exploits, was of course more mixed in Liangguang.
It is too easy to deal with this wretched leader, and it is only a matter of time before the transformation of the Ming army is controlled.
Huang Mingli had a strong Huang family's private army in his hands, there were 10,000 or 20,000 Ming troops who had followed Huang Sheng in Liangguang, and several large and small general officers, generals, and guerrillas in the Guangdong region were all served by Huang family generals.
Although they had long since left their posts without permission, in the south where Emperor Gao was far away, no one had impeached the middle of the matter and the imperial history, because they had no way of knowing whether the officers of the Huang family, who frequently went out for training, were going to fight the bandits and pirates, or just going out for exercises.
Anyway, as everyone knows, most of the bandits in Liangguang have disappeared, public order is getting better and better year by year, and of course no one has targeted the garrison for local tranquility.
On June 26 of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Tutuo army swore to go south.
Half of the Huang family and horses were dispatched, nearly 200 large and small warships of the navy were dispatched, 700 merchant ships were dispatched, the number of the navy reached 56,000, and the merchant sailors were dispatched 20,000.
The army dispatched 18,000 troops, totaling 44,000 regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, and Liu Guozheng, of course, once again selected and supplemented the vacancies for the pro-soldiers who had been promoted to grass-roots officers and delegated them to serve in the navy and army, and now the pro-corps has 8 total of more than 960 people without auxiliaries.
There are 200,000 families planning to emigrate to Malacca, with two or more men contributing one to serve as a military laborer.
Unable to bring so much labor at one time, the first batch of 50,000 young men and women boarded the ship and went south with the army.
Xiyi came to Malacca to colonize, dispatched dozens of warships, and landed one or two thousand troops to count as a large-scale invasion.
The first batch of soldiers and civilians colonized by Huang Shenglai was as high as 170,000, and there were 95,000 soldiers and civilians who were ready to go ashore to grab territory.
Starting from the port of Annam to the Strait of Malacca, about 1,400 nautical miles, all the ships that went south to expand the land were new seagoing ships built by the Huang family, and their speed had reached the peak of the sail era.
Since most of the months chosen to depart were smooth sails, Guo Huaiyi, the pioneer officer of this route, was already ripe and could travel day and night, and it was not a dream for the fleet to sail 150 to 200 nautical miles a day.
The first destination, Palembang in the southeast of Sumatra, which is the location of the Xuanwei Division of the Old Port of the Ming Dynasty, was part of the territory of the Ming Dynasty during the Yongle Emperor.
It was also the southernmost part of the territory of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and it was the highest administrative body of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang at that time, and the first ambassador of the old port was Shi Jinqing.
The vast fleet of the dragon flag fluttering in the Ming Dynasty is here again, the mighty and boundless, Huang Sheng has decided not to go to the Beijing Division, so there is no need to hide it, and the dragon flag is played in a high-profile manner.
The meaning of the dragon in the hearts of all Han people is extraordinary, and the sense of belonging will make the Han people living abroad inexplicably excited. The main colors of the battle flag of the Huang family are yellow and red, which are bright and eye-catching.
The flaming red "Ming" banner and the arrogant bright yellow "Dragon Flag" will be inserted all over the five continents and four oceans in the future.
The island of Sumatra is now an Islamic country, the full name of which is the Islamic Kingdom of Aceh, which adheres to Sunni teachings.
Their current sultan, Iskandar Muda, sent an army against the Portuguese colonizers in Malacca, successfully controlling the pepper trade.
Iskandar Muda later conquered Pahang, Kedah, Perak, Nias and Indharapura and extended his influence to the Minangkabau region. In addition to Sumatra, it also includes some parts of the Malay Peninsula.
The Islamic sultan should be understood as the ruler of a region, that is, their king.
Iskandar Muda, the king of Aceh, brought his country to its prime, but unfortunately he is already dying of old age and is now sick.
The capital of this country is called Greater Aceh, which is located in the northwestern part of Sumatra, on the west bank of the north mouth of the Strait of Malacca, and on the south bank of the mouth of the Aceh River. The Old Port is nothing more than a big city for them, but also a commercial city.
The Huang family's private soldiers, who were aggressive and ready to fight, missed their first punch, and they were extremely depressed.
Because of the fleet that stretched for dozens of miles, the soldiers and civilians of the indigenous Aceh Kingdom of Sumatra had never seen it at all.
The total number of troops stationed here did not exceed 3,000, and most of them were cold-armed troops, and they fled in despair.
It's no wonder that the defenses of the soldiers in the tropics are almost non-existent, and the bows and arrows they use for long-range attacks are not worth mentioning, because the bowstrings are too easily corroded in humid conditions.
When the Huang fleet entered the old port directly, it did not encounter resistance, which was an unexpected good thing.
Huang Sheng had a foothold at his fingertips and immediately managed the place, and Lin Chaoping and the agents began to drive the indigenous concentration from house to house with the Huang family's private soldiers.
Since there was no fighting, how to deal with the large number of natives is a big problem, and it may be inappropriate and harmful to the peace of the heavens and the peace if they are killed selectively and selectively according to the laws of the grassland.
It's not okay to leave these people behind, their religious culture Huang Sheng is more jealous, and there will be constant friction with the good Han people in the future.
So Huang Sheng made a kind decision to capture all the natives and transport them to Java Island to give them a chance to live.
Those who dared to resist were of course not polite, and they were not spared, and all the natives were sent to the site of the Dutch-built city of Batavia, so that these Muslims could go to jihad against the Dutch colonizers.
In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the ambitious Yan Peterlsson Kun served as the third governor of the Dutch East India Company, laying a solid foundation for the Dutch commercial colonial empire in the East.
Under his leadership, the Dutch colonists attacked and drove out the Banten army, and established the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia, the headquarters of the Great Empire of the Dutch East India Company, which was the political basis for Dutch rule over the colonies of Java and the entire East Indies.
The permanent occupation and administration of the city of Batavia cost the Dutch a great deal of money and energy.
In the early days, the area was sparsely populated, lacked food supplies, had no timber to build ships and houses, and the surrounding area was a desolate swampland, with rare villages inhabited and flooded during the rainy season.
Tigers, wild boars, rhinos, etc., are also frequent, and they are also surrounded by hostility and threats from the local Muslim kingdoms.
The Dutch brought boulders from the quarries on the Coromandel Coast in India, cut teak from Zabala in East Java, collected coral stones from the region, and recruited a large number of reliable and hard-working Chinese laborers from China to build the ruins of the city of Batavia.
The city's major construction projects, such as the excavation of canals and drains, the construction of houses and harbors, and the construction of walls and protective fortresses, were mostly contracted by Chinese. The Chinese craftsmen were skilled in brick-making and bricklaying, which was highly appreciated by the Dutch.