Chapter 733: Bloody
When the Empress Dowager's joy is in full swing, the whole city of Nanjing is full of laughter, as if spring has returned to the earth. However, in this lively celebration, the 'Malay Garrison Brigade' was like a cold current blowing from Siberia, which made the visiting Malay sultans or their representatives cold all over the body, and Ibrahim's role in it was like a firefly in the night, bright stars, bright and dazzling, causing people to hate them.
All Malay Sultanates are having a hard time, and they are all facing internal and external pressures to a greater or lesser extent. But it is really rare for someone like the Sultan of Johor to be completely overthrown by his subordinates.
Johor's Heavenly Fierce Gong is really fierce, and his strength far exceeds that of the general nature of the earth. Most of the other sultans hold real power.
Now His Majesty the Emperor of China is about to collect their military power, and there is a great traitor in the Malay Sultanate, Ibrahim, who has become the biggest villain in the world in an instant, and is rejected and cursed by all the Malay Sultans or envoys.
Among them, several Malay Sultans who went to Nanjing to celebrate his birthday in person like Ibrahim, these people cursed Ibrahim even more in their hearts, and they were directly forced into a corner by Ibrahim, and there was no way to retreat. Unlike those sultanates who only came with envoys, the envoys could also deduce that the matter was so important that they could not cut it off, and that they had to return to the royal city. And what about them?
These people devoured Ibrahim's heart.
At the same time, the people in the Johor mission who belonged to the prince and the vice-king of Tianmeng also glared angrily at Ibrahim. But everyone also knew that in Nanjing, on half of Ibrahim's home field, they had no choice but to Ibrahim, and they could not even show hostility. This can only be concocted if the news is sent back to Nanyang as soon as possible, and when Ibrahim returns to Johor.
Of course, at that time, they had to worry about whether Ibrahim would go to Singapore first and drive into the royal city of Johor with the Singapore garrison.
It was the day of the winter monsoon and the British were clearly willing to spread the news to Malaysia.
Chen Ming has treated Ibrahim especially favorably in this short period of time, and his generous rewards have not stopped. Many of China's state media, or those with close ties to the state, have reported on the power structure within the Sultanate of Johor to a greater or lesser extent, portraying Ibrahim as a good sultan who has no rights but loves his people.
Clearly, it's all about building momentum.
On the eve of the Queen Mother's birthday, a garrison of more than 2,000 Singaporean troops had marched into Johor by force, and before the Timon Meng Gong and the Vice-King of Johor had yet to discuss such a response, they took a strong attitude and directly occupied the whole of Johor.
Huang Jingshan, whose position is being upgraded from the Singapore Garrison Regiment to the commander of the Malay Garrison Brigade, is a standard child with three surnames, although he has no great ability, but he is old and more close by blood. He was Huang Song's cousin.
With this relationship, Huang Jingshan sat in the position of the top leader of the Singapore garrison, and now he has been directly promoted to brigade commander. This is the role of seniority, this is the role of blood kinship.
It's like when Qianlong asked Yongrui to be the general of Jingzhou, and let the children of the royal family sit in the place, that is the same plan as Chen Ming now.
The country is peaceful, there is no major war, what is so difficult about being a Taiping general? If something really goes wrong, he will naturally mobilize generals who can really fight well to pacify it.
Chen Ming is doing the same now. Many of the military commanders in the local garrisons were sons of the third surname. Chen Ming had only one requirement for them - to maintain the training of the troops.
If this is not done well, it is difficult for Chen Ming to believe how they survived the war for many years.
Huang Jingshan is a mediocre general. But loyal and reliable!
On some issues, as emperors, there is often a choice between loyalty and ability, and many emperors tend to choose the former.
Reason told Chen Ming that this was not right, but a traverser would make such a mistake.
People like Huang Jingshan are obviously loyal to him. In the selection of military commanders of the local garrison forces and the officers of the Nanjing Praetorian Guard, Chen Ming also regarded loyalty as more important than ability.
He is not a person who is too psychologically dark, and he does not believe - loyalty, just because there are not enough chips for betrayal! - Such a concept.
But when people grow up to a certain time and their status is high to a certain time, some things will naturally grow from the bottom of their hearts.
It's just that Chen Ming, who was happy in the city of Nanjing, obviously didn't know what was going on in distant Malaysia.
The actual power of the Thien Meng family in Johor is far greater than that of the vice-king, not only because of the large territory of the Tien Meng clan, but also because the Tien Meng clan has more land in their hands, and they are more subordinate to the Thien Meng Duke.
The institutional evolution of the Malay Sultanate was far inferior to that of the Celestial World, and even inferior to that of the Yogyakarta Sultan on the island of Jawwa. Because there is a family of marquis here, these marquis all have a lot of power in their hands, and they have their own basic plates. When the external pressure of the Malay Sultanates became less, the internal disputes were caused by the joint action of the Sultan's royal family and the princes.
Historically, wars between the Malay sultans and the princes were not frequent, but there were also fires from time to time.
The latter are actually some of the big tribal chiefs. Just like the chiefs of the big tribes in the country of Heishuli, they occupy a pivotal position in the country's politics, economy, and military.
Wong King San, who had entered Johor, was now faced with this problem, and when he heard that the Chinese army had entered the country, he gave an order that Wong King King hated so much, and he disbanded his own troops. The reason is that Johor no longer needs them, and Johor now has a stronger force to protect them. This has greatly increased Huang Jingshan's workload. And when Huang Jingshan finally cleaned it up, he found that several local princes in Johor had also disbanded their own native soldiers, and they did it more thoroughly and sparingly.
At most, the former still has a small number of descendants in his hands, but the threat of the latter makes Huang Jingshan like a sharp edge.
But Huang Jingshan can't report everything?
It's like being a local official and encountering a difficult earth overlord, you can't always send a piece of paper to the emperor, right? This kind of thing has to bother the central government and the emperor, so what else does the imperial court need officials to do?
Mediocre people will be timid when doing things, but Huang Jingshan doesn't take Malays seriously. He doesn't even think about the backlash after he does things, and the mediocre people will be simple and rude in doing things.
In Huang Jingshan's eyes, these shrunken Tuhou, Tianmeng Gong, Vice King, etc., are all shrunken poisonous snakes. And if you want to pull out the teeth of these poisonous snakes, you must at least find them first. So how do you find a venomous snake hiding in the grass?
Huang Jingshan thought of an idiom - hit the grass and scare the snake!
"To make a big one. In one fell swoop, all these hidden cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods were scared out. ”
Brigade headquarters, Huang Jingshan said to the chief of staff of his subordinates.
The chief of staff with his parted hair looked to be about thirty years old, very young, but his eyes were shining with his own.
"Brigade Marshal, don't worry. Isn't it just to scare those people, it's easy. ”
When the chief of staff returned to his office, he immediately had Mohamunir, Ibrahim's nephew, nominally in charge of the royal guard, but in actual control by his deputy, Anwar.
The latter was an important member of the Bugis power class.
Mohamunir's contradictions with Anwar are intense.
Mohamonir walked out of the chief of staff's room, his whole body trembling. The sun shone on him, and he raised his head and roared at the sun in excitement. Now he feels really good.
The man he hated the most was the one who killed his family soon after.
Mohamonir felt comfortable all over his body, and there was comfort in every pore.
Anwar had been relieved of his military powers, he had indulged the defenders of the royal city before, and many of them had taken their weapons with them when they were disbanded, some of them were swords, guns and muskets, although many people and weapons were now re-integrated into the control of the garrison, but there were still some people and weapons scattered among the people. The world is not peaceful!
Anwar had previously moved out of the royal city and to the port of Pungaran, southeast of Muar, in order to submit to this decision of the garrison. The latter is an important port in Johor, located on the inner side of the Batu Bahat estuary, south of the Straits of Malacca, with a deep and wide estuary, wide coconut groves along both sides of the river, planted with pepper, oil palm, etc.
The port of Pungaland was not controlled by the Bugis, and although it was an important port for the Bugis to trade with foreign seas, it was the territory of the Celestial Warriors, and the nearby Batu Bahar Tuhou was one of the important supporters of the Celestial Warriors.
Now that Anwar has moved there, it is clear that the Bugis and the Celestial Warriors have agreed on some issues, at least the two sides are on the same front, and an alliance has been concluded. And it is very likely that Anwar is the liaison of the Bugis. The Chinese have made Johor lose a lot of money, and now the Chinese are digging into their roots.
Regime comes out of the barrel of a gun. Without the guarantee of force, how can they control the power of Johor?
Both the Duke of Tianmeng and the Vice King did not admit defeat, they must have a certain amount of strength in their hands, and the Tuhou became allies. But in the general trend, they have succumbed to the absolute inferior.
In the eyes of Abdulrahman, this would be a very long period of resistance, but he didn't know that his opponent Huang Jingshan didn't take their reaction seriously at all.
The simplicity and rudeness of Huang Jingshan's attack shocked Abdulrahman.
On the street in front of Anwar's mansion in Port Pungaran, several horse-drawn carriages blocked the view of outsiders. It was already dark at night, and there were far fewer people still out of Pungarand than during the day. It is a harbor city with a population of tens of thousands, but apart from the poor people of the port, everyone else lives in a wash. Every house in the rich area can be expanded and expanded, and it can become a manor.
"No, your accent is a little weird, aren't you ......" The two people in front of the door finally found out that something was wrong, but they only had time to say half of the words, and the four businessmen dressed as people who came to visit had already knocked down all the two people outside the door, and the handkerchief in their hands was directly blocked by the two of them. Then, taking advantage of the gap, the short knife had already stabbed them in the chest.
Quietly enter the village, don't shoot.
Their mission tonight is to destroy Anwar's full gates, and to tell everyone that danger is coming with crimson blood. Do you still hide what you hold in your hands? Beware of losing your own life.
The two men struggled, convulsed, swallowed their last breath, and then collapsed limply to the ground. No one on the other side of the gate noticed anything wrong. The bloodstains were quickly covered by white ash, and the bodies were carried away.
Two Malays, dressed in the same clothes as the corpses, occupied the left and right sides of the gate.
Capable scouts jumped over the wall into the courtyard, and a few men armed with bows and arrows occupied the high ground.
"Solve them all, and leave not a single one."
The Scout officer leading the team gave the order in a low voice. It was too easy for them. The people in Anwar didn't even have the power to fight back.
The bloody gas soon rose in the courtyard, blown far away by the sea breeze.
It's just that Pungaland Harbor is vast and sparsely populated, and the area of the houses built by some rich and noble families is envious of the nobles in Nanjing. Although the blood wafted out, no one smelled it at all.
After all, this is the seaside. The sea breeze smells fishy, and how much blood can be shed when thirty or forty people die?
As soon as the wind blows, the smell of blood fades even if it wafts out.
Anwar's facial features were distorted by despair and fear, and after being identified by a Malay who was acting, he chopped off his head with a knife.
I took care of all the people in the whole yard, and it was not that there were no screams, but fortunately it did not alarm anyone. In turn, the members of the squad began to collect goods.
As an important member of the Bugis power class, Anwar's personal wealth is still considerable. Although the gold and silver here cannot be all his family property, but in the secret vault where the gold and silver are hidden, the gold and silver are also shining, jewels, all kinds of gold and silver ingots and gold and silver coins, all added together, there are two or three hundred catties, and they are all office, and there is not a single hair left. Even some of the silverware in the room was swept away.
Then everyone quickly evacuated. Finally, under the response of the answering personnel, he disappeared into the dark night where he could not see his fingers.
This is Huang Jingshan's strategy, to make a big deal and make a sign that Anwar's house has been robbed, as for the Malays believe it or not, it is not for Huang Jingshan to consider.
All he asks for is the hidden force to come back to the surface.
In this way, even if he can't wipe out all the remaining forces in an instant, he at least has a spectrum in his heart. What to do next, it can be regarded as a goal.
Anwar was an important member of the Bugis power class, and after the incident, such a shocking bloodshed spread throughout Johor and then the whole of Malaya. Everyone who heard the news was stunned.
This was too much of a surprise to them.
The means are too brutal!
Countless rumors flew across the Malay Peninsula. Who did it has become the time for countless people to pay attention.
Among the suspects, the garrison brigade is of course among them, but to Huang Jingshan's surprise, in public opinion, the degree of suspicion of the garrison brigade is not the only one.
The garrison brigade can only be regarded as the first batch of suspects in a series of suspects, and it does not even occupy the first place.
Because Anwar has come to this day, he still has many enemies.
And the matter of falling into a well and taking advantage of the fire to rob is not only in China, but also in the whole world. Anwar, who had lost his military power, was actually a reservoir dog, and it was not just one or two who wanted to beat him, even if the Heavenly Warriors and the Bugis had formed an alliance.
When Chen Minghuan in Nanjing spent the happy birthday of the Empress Dowager and turned his head to look at Malay again, he found that Huang Jingshan was still competent and prosperous in Johor.