The chieftain of Malacca paid tribute during the Yongle period and became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He went to the West seven times, once used Malacca as a base camp to carry out trade, and also built cities, built drum towers and corner towers, set up warehouses, and stored the needed food and materials.

Although Zheng He's operation to the West ended, Malacca was not deserted, as the throat of the sea, the lifeline of transportation, there were constantly merchants coming and going, a large number of Han people migrated to Malacca, business and farming, brought advanced civilization, but also brought prosperity and prosperity.

Chen Shounian was a Fujian immigrant who came to Malacca 20 years ago, when the Portuguese controlled Malacca and then the Dutch.

But they are all foreign devils, Chen Shounian doesn't care much, as long as he pays taxes normally and lives a normal business life, he is very satisfied.

Unfortunately, he gradually realized that the situation was different.

When the Dutch arrived, they first set up a name, imposed high taxes, and then imposed trade restrictions, and the most oily business such as silk and porcelain had to be entrusted to the Dutch. If the Han people want to operate, they must join hands with the Dutch, otherwise they will face high fines and even be arrested and imprisoned, and they will not know whether they will live or die.

Chen Shounian was very angry, but after thinking about it, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were not the same, they could only say that the world was as black as a crow, but fortunately he married a Dutch wife, with the identity of a foreigner's son-in-law, his business had no impact, and it became more and more prosperous. It's just that this deformed prosperity did not make him happy, but worried.

The news from the Ming Dynasty was very bad, I heard that the Ming navy had seized Taiwan, driven the Dutch away, and then took Batavia. Chen Shounian was still unclear about the difference between Zhang Ke and the Ming court, but it did not prevent him from disliking the Ming army.

These places are all Dutch, why should they rob them, don't you know that doing so will bring disaster to them!

Chen Shounian's prediction was correct, henceforth. The Dutch became more and more distrustful of the Han Chinese, even the one who had a Dutch wife.

Han Chinese had to pay three times as much as the natives, had to register their trafficking in detail, and from time to time people visited their homes to investigate, and even encouraged people around them to snitch each other. simply treated them as thieves to prevent them, and from time to time there was news that someone had been arrested and put in prison, and some people found Chen Shounian, hoping that he could come forward to help intercede.

At this time, Chen Shounian will try to help as much as possible, regardless of success or failure. In short, be worthy of your conscience. In private, he often persuaded the Han people.

"We are all outcasts of the Celestial Empire, how about the Ming Dynasty, everyone knows it in their hearts, can we still expect that there is a peaceful place under the sky? As long as we can live, it's not a big deal to suffer a little, the Han people can do anything, they just won't rebel! ”

Chen Shounian may not have expected that the next situation would make him, a person who would not rebel, unbearable!

The Dutch sent troops to the Far East, sending a large number of soldiers and workers. When these people came, they wanted housing, and they requisitioned it from the Han people, and the price was only 30% or even less than the market price. People who have lost their homes are not living on the streets. It's to take refuge outside the city.

The influx of people also caused food prices to skyrocket, and the best food was given priority to the Dutch, who had to eat poor food. Even due to the construction of military camps on a large number of enclosures, there was a huge reduction in vegetables.

Malacca, which has always had no worries about food and clothing, finally tasted the soaring prices and the people's misery.

Relative to these. Even more unacceptable, the Dutch built schools in large numbers, making Dutch the only official language and banning Chinese.

Then a large number of missionaries went around, forcing everyone to convert to Catholicism, not to follow the religion of the East, and destroying the idols and ancestral tablets in their homes, and forcing them to be baptized.

Anyone who disagrees will be labeled as colluding with China, and will be imprisoned, unable to work, and can only starve to death......

Finally, some people couldn't bear it, they chose to compromise, accepted the baptism with tears, worked hard to learn strange language, and gradually turned themselves into another person, and the feeling of heartache permeated everyone's heart. Some people who couldn't bear it quietly boarded the ship, held the spiritual seat of their ancestors, and left this sad place.

Most people suffer in silence until one day, they can't take it anymore.

In the middle of the city, there is a place where the eunuchs of the Three Treasures were stationed, where a grand Three Treasures Temple was built, and there is a well next to the temple, the water of the well is sweet and clear, and according to legend, it was also dug by Zheng He's order. A hundred or two hundred years later, hundreds of people still come here every day to get water.

But on this day, when everyone arrived, they found that the wellhead was filled with sand and gravel, and there was no way to get water. Some people were about to scold and looked up suddenly, only to find that the Sanbao Temple next to it had long been empty.

The statue of the god was moved, the incense burner and tribute were gone, the tables, chairs and windows were removed and demolished, leaving only three empty houses.

Seeing this, the crowd that had been patient finally couldn't bear it anymore!

Every New Year's Day at the Three Treasures Temple, everyone will gather to burn incense and pray, for the Han people in Malacca, this is not a simple ceremony, but a memory of the hometown deep in the bone marrow!

If it weren't for the urgency, no one would leave their hometown, the small Sanbao Temple, like an umbilical cord, connects the distant hometown at one end and the wanderer at the other. As long as the umbilical cord is still there, everyone will have a little thought and a little good expectation. Now some people are rudely reckless, and suddenly some people are like crazy.

They grabbed the poles in their hands, screamed, and pounced.

A group of people from the previous year took the lead in killing, and the Dutch soldiers who were about to set fire to them were a flat shoulder. The Dutch, of course, were not resting on their laurels, and they hurriedly raised their firearms, and a cloud of smoke rose into the air, and a young man was pierced through the chest and fell in a pool of blood.

The Dutch shouted triumphantly to the people: "If you don't want to die, get out of here, get out of here!" ”

He shouted frantically, but no one took a step back. He obviously didn't understand that the Han people, who seemed to be docile as sheep, were the most rebellious people in history, and as long as they were cornered, the destructive power that erupted was definitely beyond their imagination.

There was fire in everyone's eyes, and they didn't know who took the lead, and with a snort, they killed them.

Knock the Dutch soldier to the ground, smash the flat pole hard, and use both fists and kicks, not for a while. There were only three dark black trails left on the ground.

The people who acted finally came to their senses, they actually killed the Dutch, and the matter will definitely not end easily. Just as they were about to flee, the sound of neat leather boots rang out in the streets, and Dutch soldiers rushed from all directions with loaded guns. Dense gunfire came, and a large number of people fell to the ground before they could resist, and the blood stained the ground red, and Malacca was filled with blood.

"Iniquity!" Chen Shounian stood in the study. Listening to the report of the family, when he heard that the blood-stained long street, the people were killed and injured countless times, and the corpses were piled up like a mountain, he trembled all over, and tears welled up in his old eyes.

After enduring it for most of his life, he finally couldn't bear it anymore. He turned around sharply, rushed to the side room, and pushed away his praying wife. Grabbed the enshrined cross and statue, lifted it violently, and smashed it to a powder!

"you, I don't believe in you anymore! Knave. Hooligans, robbers, scoundrels, God will not let you go! Even if it is to worship the gods in the sky. And you can only go to hell, to hell! ”

Just on the other side of Malacca, the negotiation venue. The representative of the Chinese side also rebuked sharply: "Stop the killing immediately, otherwise the powerful Chinese Navy will send you to hell, don't think I'm telling a joke!" Don't be unpredictable! ”

The representatives of the Chinese side made the strongest declaration of war, which the Dutch apparently did not understand.

Governor Seth looked contemptuous and sneered: "This is the territory of the Netherlands, no matter what you do, it has nothing to do with you!" ”

"Hmph, soon it won't be!"

The negotiations unexpectedly collapsed, and the Chinese delegation immediately left Malacca, and John Tong, who came with him, had a very ugly face, he kept drawing crosses on his chest, silently praying for God's blessing.

The stupid Dutch angered the behemoths that should not be provoked the most, although the empire had its eyes on the South Seas in the past, the upper echelons of the empire were still calculating the gains and losses, and they would not have fought easily, otherwise they would not have been sent.

After this bloodshed, the Celestial Empire will definitely not sit idly by, and soon the overwhelming fleet and countless soldiers will flood here.

John Tang's judgment was very accurate, when they went through many difficulties and dangers, and returned to the port of Guangzhou, the mission immediately passed the news to the capital, and half a month later, His Majesty the Emperor convened a meeting in front of the emperor.

Zhang Ke stood in the middle of the ministers and said to everyone: "The situation is very clear, the colonists of the West are cleaning up our influence in the South Seas. They suppressed and restricted, and even slaughtered the Han Chinese, in order to dominate the South Seas. Once we make them successful, we lose millions of potential boosts. I will not allow Westerners to be so rampant under our noses, the Privy Council must come up with a battle plan, and we must be fast, our compatriots are bleeding and dying. The sooner you send troops, the more you will win the hearts and minds of the people. Don't wait for the blood to get cold, it's too late! ”

His Majesty's speech soon became an impassioned newspaper that was published throughout the country.

At the time of Zhang Ke's order, the shipyard in the southeast was tinkling, rushing to work day and night.

The huge warship, which symbolizes the prestige of the Oriental Sea, is under construction, and the unprecedented four-deck, 5,000-ton displacement, plus more than 150 guns, constitute this behemoth on the sea.

Amid the cheers of the crowd, the Liaodong sail battleship entered the sea and gradually floated on the sea, and with the raised military flag, the latest flagship was finally built.

The busy workers jumped and jumped around the Liaodong, drinking and singing, until the second half of the night, when they dispersed. They didn't know that just as they dispersed, two other huge shadows appeared on the dark sea, although they were much smaller than the Liaodong, but what was amazing was that these two warships had no sails!

With the breakthrough of the steam engine, the application of the steam engine to the means of transportation, whether it is a train or a ship, has been put on the agenda.

Zhang Ke did not participate in this matter, he just put forward his own requirements. After all, Zhang Ke knows very well that for the huge China, the most terrible thing is not the external enemy, but whether it can break through itself. Let the technicians and craftsmen study it, and I believe they will come up with the best results.

Sure enough, five years ago, the first railway was successfully built between the city of Tianjin and the port, and the train that could run by itself without cattle and horses attracted the attention and amazement of countless people.

At first, the train could only pull five carriages, and then gradually increased to 30 cars, and the volume of one train was as high as 500 carriages, and the prosperity of Tianjin port was completely inseparable from the credit of the train.

The breakthrough at sea was placed in the Golden State Shipyard, and after hard work, a 100-ton ship was first built, two huge paddle wheels were placed on both sides, and the steam engine drove the paddle wheel to rotate to provide power for the ship.

The first trial was a success, but while everyone was cheering, the second trial went into serious trouble, and due to the huge wind and waves, the paddle wheel exposed to the water broke and the ship lost power.

After reflection, everyone put the paddle wheel in the back, hoping to avoid the problem of breaking, after several sea trials, the result is the same tragic, as long as the sea surface is exposed, it will inevitably be damaged, and because the paddle wheel is huge and friendless, it seriously slows down the speed of the ship.

After thinking hard, Sun Yuanhua personally summoned the best talents to tackle key problems, and finally came up with a completely new plan, turning to propeller propulsion and completely abandoning the huge paddle wheel.

It took more than two years to develop the first propeller-driven warship with a displacement of 500 tons. Due to the use of steam power, the battleship does not depend on the direction of the wind, and the battleship is more agile and ferocious, and during the exercise, it shines.

With the successful experience, the next step of the ship suddenly increased to 1,000 tons, and more importantly, the use of ironclad covering, which created a precedent.

Many old shipwrights didn't believe that the iron pimple could float on the water, but when the ironclad ship was really built, they were only amazed.

Of course, it is not easy to build ironclad ships, so far, only three warships have been built, and for the war in the South Seas, Zhang Ke sent out the two largest of them.

After joining the Liaodong, more than 20 warships, plus hundreds of supply ships, went south together and headed for the port of Guangzhou, where thousands of warships had already gathered.

The essence of the eastern sea power is gathered here, the white sails are connected, and from a distance, the sea surface is even hidden, and 200,000 sailors and soldiers, plus temporarily requisitioned boatmen, hundreds of thousands of people are waiting.

An unprecedented fleet, unprecedented power, and everyone's blood is swollen. The glory of Zheng He's fleet is back, the heavenly kingdom is shining its sword, and it is a small deterrent!

Rumble!

The guns of departure sounded, and the flagship Liaodong rode the wind and waves, carrying the commander of the fleet, Ming Ruxin, towards the South China Sea. Just before they could make their move, another fleet sailed out of Java, and their mission was to attract the Dutch fleet and annihilate it at sea!

"Red-haired devil, wait, I will send you all to the bottom of the sea to feed Wang Ba!" (To be continued......)