Chapter 610 Geographical Discoveries

How many casualties the massive and brutal crackdown has inflicted on the island nation, historians have given an approximate figure five hundred years later, around one million. Chen Xie, a historical figure, because of this cruel act, the historiography after 500 years has been debated very fiercely. The attitude of the objective centrist is very clear, there was no such concept as "axiom" and "human rights" in that era, it was a colonial era, and it was the norm for progressive societies to carry out cruel plundering in backward societies. What can't be blamed on him later? The leftists preached that Chen Xie was the great pioneer of the Chinese nation, and that without the thousands of miles of sea frontiers he pioneered, future generations would not be able to enjoy such a huge living space and resources. Chen Xie is a great nationalist and a great historical figure, and he will never allow the opposition to smear him, and resolutely smash the head of the smearer. The rightists also held that Chen Xie was a narrow-minded nationalist and a careerist with no humanity, because his expansionist behavior had caused extremely heavy disasters to the people of the vast Nanyang island countries and the Americas on the other side of the ocean.

Well, this is history. Chen Xie definitely doesn't know, just like the American imperialism in modern society, many people talk about the Indians, can they help the American imperialists?

In the early summer of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Chen Xie, who was sitting in Xinghai City, began a campaign to clean up public order. This five-year campaign was accompanied by the beginning of a stretch of a highway. The road runs through the whole of Java from east to west and takes up to ten years. Countless natives, because of this road, fell in the tropical jungle. Later historians counted at least 200,000 people dying in the difficult construction of the road, and the historian concluded: "For every meter of the road, there is a body buried in an indigenous person." ”

Chen Xie doesn't care what others say about him at all. I firmly believe that history will judge me fairly. No matter how bad it is, it can also be defined as "national integration", right? In early May, another group of Japanese mercenaries landed in Xinghai City. After a simple adaptation training, 20,000 mercenaries were engaged in the campaign of purging from Xinghai City to the west.

After the peace conference, Chen Xie revised one of his orders, that is, "those who resist die". Instead, take as many prisoners as possible and use them for road construction. If a place wants to develop rapidly, it will definitely not work without transportation guarantees. Pushing northwest, crossing the sea into Sumatra, opening up the passage of the Strait of Malacca, echoing Singapore on the other side of the strait.

If it weren't for the road construction, this battle would not have lasted so long, and Chen Xie's request was not to be fast, but to move forward little by little. Advance little by little. Although it is slow, every step is very solid, and every step will bring great and deep suffering to the locals. Of course, this is a refusal to cooperate.

After the Battle of Bandung that year, most of the hundreds of indigenous tribes, large and small, chose to fight the invaders unyieldingly. A small part of the remaining half chose to cooperate. The other part is still waiting. However, this wait-and-see period is not too long, less than two years. Even if it is face-saving cooperation, the wall grasses have made a choice.

Cooperation is not as easy as it is simply said, but the spiritual and material efforts are enormous. The material payment is only the payment of taxes, commercial taxes and agricultural taxes, and the spiritual payment is the forced implementation of Chinese characters. Every tribe must pay for the construction of a primary school. Teachers are sent by the government, and every year there are guaranteed how many graduates, and the tribes that do not meet the standards will be severely punished.

These practices seem hateful to the indigenous people at the time, in the eyes of the indigenous descendants. It's another answer entirely. Five hundred years later, historians conducted investigations and unexpectedly found that the descendants of the indigenous people did not have much ill feelings towards Chen Xie, but more of an attitude of awe and gratitude. Why is this happening? The do-gooders did a survey, and the views of the indigenous descendants were unexpectedly unified, and most of them believed that it was Chen Xie who brought them modern civilization, if it weren't for Chen Xie, the descendants of the aborigines, and they would still live in the deep mountains and old forests, and their parents might die because of a small illness. Shouldn't we be grateful that we can enjoy a life of modern abundance?

In September of the 17th year of Chongzhen's reign (1645), a fleet consisting of a third-class warship, three fourth-class warships, and ten armed merchant ships set out from Xinghai City, and went all the way east to find the Hawaiian Islands. The fleet survived the storm without much loss, and after the storm passed, a new continent was unexpectedly discovered.

Anthony, the commander of the fleet, discovered a natural bay that could be used as a port, docked and landed, declaring this continent the territory of Chen Xie, the marquis of the Ming Dynasty. There is no doubt that this is a huge landmass, and after landing, Anthony found a lot of strange animals, and after determining the general direction, he sent two warships back to send a letter to Chen Xie, informing him of his discovery.

As the deputy commander of the Daming Xinghai City Navy, Anthony has always tried hard to become a governor, just like Lin Ya, he is the largest in a piece of land. This wish was undoubtedly difficult to achieve, and before him, Silao achieved it, now Commander of the Navy and Governor of Temasek. The Governor's jurisdiction is not small, not just Temasek, but also the mainland, and the whole peninsula has been declared by these colonists to be the territory of the Marquis of Heunghai, which belongs to Temasek Province.

Well, now these guys are all in this way, and when they go to a place, they completely ignore the existence of the local natives, and directly declare that this place belongs to the territory of Chen Xie, the Marquis of Xinghai in the Ming Dynasty, and it is guaranteed that it is right. Every time you find it, you get a lot of rewards.

What really drove these outsiders crazy was not how big the land was, but after discovering the local natives, when the two sides made a transaction, the natives took out the iron and cloth they brought in exchange for the things they brought were all yellow and shiny gold. These metals, in the minds of the natives, are of little real value.

Anthony decided to take an expedition himself, and at the cost of three cans of food and a box of biscuits, hired several natives as guides to follow them down a river. It's a land of novelty, with strange species on it, and Anthony has painted them all. The natives here are better at living with Java, they have outdated weapons, and after verifying the sharpness of the iron weapons, they are willing to trade with these outsiders.

The expedition consisted of 150 people, including 30 Europeans, 73 Chinese, and 47 Japanese.

Carrying heavy equipment, walked for three whole days, when encamping at dusk, a Chinese named Cai Dongguo, because of stomach pain, looking for a place to, when he got up after solving the problem, he was tripped by a stone, and he almost fell.

He was amazed by this discovery, and after washing the stone in the creek and deducting the layer of soil from it, his eyes were blinded. The gold mine was discovered, and the news was extremely exciting, and the three kilograms of dog's head gold immediately became the envy of everyone. But this guy named Cai Dongguo said that this piece of dog's head gold should be given to Hou Ye first.

After drawing the map, the expedition returned to the coast, and the discovery immediately caused a sensation. If it weren't for Anthony's hard work, none of these people would have planned to continue sailing, so you should dig for gold first. Anthony asked, is there a suitable tool? In principle, the gold mine that everyone finds belongs to Hou Ye. Does Lord Hou allow you to mine? In the end, it was voted that all the ships would return to Xinghai City, and after getting the permission of the Hou Ye, they would form a group to pan for gold.

Before leaving, Anthony asked people to erect a sign on the seaside, which read: Daming Xinghaihou Territory.

The fleet returned to Xinghai City, and the news brought back directly detonated the entire city. Anthony was received by Chen Xie, who reported this important geographical discovery in person. Chen Xie looked at the map he brought back, took a deep breath, and secretly wanted to slap himself, isn't this Nima Australia? If you're not mistaken, this is Darwin Bay.

"General Anthony, this is a great geographical discovery, this continent, I decided to call it Australia. The bay you find is named Anthony's Bay. In this place, we are going to build a city, let's call it Anthony City. As soon as Chen Xie was halfway through speaking, Anthony knelt down, like a devout believer kneeling down to worship God.

"Your Excellency, Anthony has always been your most faithful servant. Thank you for the honor, which I and my descendants will remember. This expression of loyalty was very sincere, and it was really beyond Anthony's expectations.

"Arise, as lieutenant commander of the navy, and then you will be given an even more important appointment, Australia needs a governor, and someone needs to explore more along the coast. I think it's best for you to do this position. With regard to the discovery of this gold mine, I mean, to form a joint-stock company, in which I personally own 30 percent of the shares, and the rest of the shares are divided among all the members of the fleet, and everyone is a shareholder. I've sent a general manager to manage the development of this gold mine, so I don't think you will have too many opinions, right? Chen Xie said this, who dares to say no. Even all the members of the fleet cheered "Hurrah" after hearing the news, especially those of Japanese descent, who were directly crazy with joy. On the street at night, there were a lot of drunk guys, shouting all the way: Hou Ye is loaded!

A company called the Australian Development Company was listed in Xinghai City, the general manager was the shopkeeper from Shandong, it turned out to be the errand run of the Jinan branch of the joint firm, and he came to Xinghai City for the future of Bo, and his past resume helped him, and he was selected as the manager of the development company in Chen Xie's sight. (To be continued......)