After passing through the Maluku Sea, away from the rich spice islands, the fleet sailed eastward for many days according to the Dutch charts, passing through the Black Sea and the Seran Sea marked above, and finally reached the northwestern tip of the Dutch island of Papua.

Close to the coast, the sea breeze and the coconut trees are beautiful.

The Dutch also called this wild island Irian Island, and they called the island's natives with curly hair, dark skin, receded forehead, raised eyebrows, broad noses, and thick lips as Papuans, hence the island. According to the Dutch, the island and the surrounding archipelago are much larger than Borneo.

"My lord, the whole island of Irian Island is slightly northwest and southeast, about 4,000 miles long from east to west, and more than 1,200 miles at the widest point in the middle. The island is mountainous, with a central mountain range stretching from northwest to southeast, forming a continuous central mountain range, many of which are very high. ”

"On either side of the central ridge there are many coastal plains of varying widths, especially the southern plains, which are the largest, with winding coasts and many harbors. There are also many rivers, forming many alluvial plains on both sides of the middle and lower reaches. ”

Wu Sangui listened to the introduction of the hapless Dutch captain, and only nodded slightly.

"What's the climate like here?" Zu Zerun asked.

"Back to my lord, the southeast trade winds blow here for about seven months a year, and the central plateau has a lot of rainfall, the climate is on the hot side, and the temperature is very high throughout the year. From October to March, the northwest monsoon prevails throughout the island, with widespread rainfall and heavy rainfall in the north. From April to September, the southeast monsoon prevails, with more rain in the south. ”

"What about the island's natives?"

"We call those natives Papuans, which means people with overgrown hair. These people are still ignorant and uncivilized barbarians, slash-and-burn, with tribes and no state, and no writing. They slash and burn, grow taro, bananas, etc., and also raise pigs, and can only make simple pottery, stone axes, javelins, etc. Worship ancestors and totems, superstitious spirits and witchcraft. ”

Wu Sangui gradually had a general understanding of Irian Island in his heart, which was an uncivilized and wild island, because it was too remote in the eastern part of the South Sea, so it was much more backward than those islands in the west and north.

It is a large mountainous island, with high mountains and dense forests, many of which are four or five thousand meters high, and there is so much rain that sometimes there are no sunny days for days or even weeks. There are no roads in the mountains, only forest trails trodden by men and beasts.

The island is simply a primeval forest, and the islanders live a primitive tribal life in the primeval forest, with **** all over their bodies, and only a grass skirt tied around their waists.

They like to put bright feathers on their heads, and they also like to put boar teeth on their noses, and some of them paint all kinds of strange patterns on their bodies, and some people paint their bodies with lard.

"You haven't been in contact with the natives?"

"Yes, but the natives here are quite savage, they are very afraid to see outsiders, and when they see them, they hide, and it is difficult to communicate. There are also more savage tribes who see outsiders and even ambush and then eat people. There is no good produce here, so we have little contact with the natives, except for a few simple supply posts in a few bays along the coast, so that we can dock and repair and replenish fresh water every time we pass by. But every time we go ashore to repair, we have to be careful to guard against the cannibalistic natives. ”

"Cannibals." Wu Sangui smiled.

He was not afraid of these savage cannibals, but he was relieved. It seems that Irian Island is indeed very wild and unreachable, which is a good thing for him.

The natives who can only slash and burn, and the cannibals who only have simple javelins and stone axes, are not the opponents of his slave hunting team. It just so happens that you can come here in the future to capture these natives and transport them back to the New World to reclaim the wasteland and cultivate the land.

"Docking!" Wu Sangui shouted.

Five slave catchers sailed together into a temporary Dutch stronghold on the northwestern island of Irian Island.

The stronghold was built at the mouth of a river, on the shore of the bay, with a simple wharf and a simple wooden village, which did not seem to be even a village, only a hunter's hut.

The simple dock is good, the water is very deep, and the slave catcher can directly dock on the dock, and there is no need to stop at sea and then use a small boat to dock, which is much more convenient.

Wu Sangui got off the boat, his feet on the ground, his heart was full of excitement, and his great cause began.

"Uncle, you can name this island, we can't still follow the name of the red-haired people."

Wu Sangui looked at this wild island, thought for a while, and then said, "Let's call it Fuxing Island." ”

"Fuxing Island." Zu Zerun chanted, a smile on his face, as if he had understood the meaning behind the name. He turned his head to the group of men behind him who had just stepped on the island and said loudly, "From now on, this big island will be called Fuxing Island!" ”

Wu Sangui ignored the shouts of the group, and he took out a flag from his arms.

The flag flickered, unfurled with the wind, and a blue flag with two white icons of the sun and moon on it was displayed in front of everyone.

"Bring the spear!"

The one-eyed Malayan monkey hurriedly ran over with a spear, Wu Sangui took it, carefully tied the sun and moon flag to the spear, and then forcefully planted the sun and moon flag on the ground.

"I now declare that this island is called Fuxing Mansion, and the Ming Dynasty will occupy it from today and have sovereignty, and the sovereignty of the Ming Dynasty over Fuxing Island is sacred and inviolable!"

Sun Moon Banner, Da Ming, and a group of outlaw slave hunters of various races did not have much reaction. For them, it's just a banner, what Ming, what revival, what does it have to do with them?

Zu Zerun was very surprised.

The sun and moon flag is a little special, after the Longqing switch, open to sea trade, the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty went to sea, and also hung the flag according to the maritime practice to distinguish the Xiyi ships, at that time it was this kind of sun and moon flag, at the beginning the background color was Xuan, but later the Xuan color was not obvious enough, so the blue background was used instead.

The white sun and moon flag on a blue background is also equivalent to the national flag of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Wu Sangui played this banner and named the island Fuxing Island, obviously to play the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

After being surprised, Zu Zerun reacted, and now playing the banner of Daming has a lot of benefits for them. In the future, maybe you will still get the support and sympathy of many people, after all, the Han Dynasty has only been destroyed for a few years.

The Malayan monkey stood aside, secretly surprised by Wu Sangui's scheming. He is not a Malay native who can't really understand Chinese, in fact, he is a Malay who has followed a Han maritime merchant to run a ship since he was a child, and he has been to the Central Plains countless times, and he also has a deep understanding of the Central Plains. Later, he also became a member of the Han Navy, but he retired because of an eye injury and was recruited by Jinyiwei to become a secret agent.

Therefore, he knew very well the meaning of Wu Sangui's words, and he also understood his intentions.

This is really an ambitious and treacherous guy, even at this time, he can still press not to fully expose his ambitions, but to pull the tiger skin of the Ming Dynasty as a banner.

Port of Batavia, Java, formerly the Governor's Palace, now the headquarters of the Eighth Fleet.

Liu Jian was still in the news of the surprise news.

"Wu Sangui is so daring, Your Majesty is generous and merciful, sparing him a dog's life, he doesn't know how to cherish it, and he dares to die like this?"

Feng Sheng smoked a cigar and felt the unique taste, which the Dutch had grown themselves in a farm outside Batavia, but after processing it was called an American cigar.

Nanyang is indeed a very rich place, if you don't come to it in person, you don't know that Nanyang is so vast, in the past, Nanyang was only some islands in the South China Sea in Feng Sheng's impression, but after he really came, he realized that Nanyang is so vast, with tens of thousands of islands of all sizes, it is unimaginable.

The climate here is completely different from that of the Central Plains, but it is indeed rich.

"Wu Sangui is not an honest person at all, in fact, according to my wishes, it is much easier to directly send a few people to secretly get rid of him. But His Majesty didn't let it, saying that if he killed Wu Sangui today, would he kill Zu Dashou again tomorrow, and would he want to get rid of the hundreds of thousands of clans in the Ming Dynasty the day after tomorrow? ”

Liu Yunzhen nodded, "I think Your Majesty is right, if you really want to do that, I'm afraid that people will be panicked, and everyone will be in danger at that time." As long as they can live honestly, we can give them a chance. After all, there are only a few people like Wu Sangui, and if they are given the opportunity, they don't cherish it, and they have to die, so they really can't blame others anymore. ”

"Now how are we going to clean up this guy?" Liu Jian asked, "Where do you need to get to my place?" ”

Anyway, Liu Jian is also the royal family of the Han Dynasty, and he will never be polite to a guy like Wu Sangui who dares to dig into the corner of the Han Dynasty.

Feng Sheng took a puff of cigarette, and then skillfully spewed out a string of smoke rings.

"Wu Sangui is now heading to the New World with five boats, to say, this guy really has some skills, ambition and courage. But just in time, let him clear the way for us. ”

Feng Sheng stood up and waved his hand, "Wu Sangui has already crossed that red line, and no one can stop him from doing his own death." This time I came to see my uncle, and it was also His Majesty's intention. Your Majesty's meaning, after we catch Wu Sangui and get the information of the New World, we will have to take the lead in the early development of the New World. Choose a suitable place to establish a commercial port, set up some strongholds, and make some preliminary preparations for immigration. ”

"Immigrating to the Southern Continent, this is too far away, we haven't even filled up the rich lands of Nanyang and Central South yet." Liu Jian frowned.

"It's a special kind of immigrant." Feng Sheng said with a smile, "After the New World establishes ports and strongholds, the imperial court will exile some criminals to the New World and establish labor camps. Farming, grazing, mining, first enclosing the New World, and then slowly developing. ”

Using criminals to enclose land is a very cost-free business, Liu Jian smiled.

"But the criminals who can be exiled to the New World must be extremely evil, and once they go to the New World, they probably won't have the chance to go back in this life. How many such criminals can there be in a year? The New World is as big as the thirteen provinces of the Central Plains, and if there are only a thousand criminals a year, it is really a drop in the bucket. Brother Feng, if the imperial court really wants to develop the New World, I think it is still necessary to use the natives. ”

"Well, well, extraordinary things at extraordinary times." Feng Sheng nodded slightly. (To be continued.) )