"Your Majesty, in fact, the most important thing in the South Seas lies in the Strait of Malacca, which is the only channel between the West and the South Seas, whoever holds the Strait of Malacca, who can grasp the initiative of the trade between the East and the West, who can control the trend of the situation in the South Seas, it can be said that its importance is more than the Shanhaiguan during the Ming and Manchurian confrontations......

Shi Kefa said in a deep voice.

Zhu Jie nodded and said in a deep voice: "Therefore, after I have mastered Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, I will station the Nanyang Fleet in the Strait of Malacca, which is the core interests of our Ming Empire, and no one will be allowed to get involved!" Guilin! ”

Tan Guilin hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, what do you command?" ”

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice: "After taking both sides of the Malacca Strait, choose a place on both sides of the strait to build forts and prepare for the construction of military fortresses, my requirements are not high, the future deployment of coastal defense artillery in the Strait of Malacca shall not be less than two hundred, as for the location of the forts, you and Zheng Cai will personally visit the terrain to determine, the imperial court will allocate special funds for the construction of the fort group, this is your most important task in the near future, in addition to building the forts, but also to determine the firing coordinates and shooting parameters of the forts in the Malacca Strait, once a strong enemy comes to attack, With the help of pre-set firing parameters, we can carry out precise strikes on enemy ships and let them return with their feathers! ”

Tan Guilin replied: "Your Majesty, the minister has written it down, and as soon as the minister and Lord Zheng Cai arrive in Malacca, they will immediately start deploying!" However, the coastal defense artillery is all heavy artillery, and if you want to deploy 200 guns, it is not a ...... that can be achieved in a short period of time."

Zhu Jie's eyes narrowed, Tan Guilin said reasonably, two hundred coastal defense heavy artillery, it will take at least three to five years to be able to produce, in addition to the shore defense artillery, it will also take a long time to build a fort, if you want Malacca to have a solid fortress, it is impossible to complete it without five years, but who knows when the English will start a war and compete with the Ming for control of Malacca, not to mention that the Netherlands and Spain will definitely not give up, such a huge loss, No one can swallow this breath, it is very likely that the Dutch and the Spaniards will send a combined fleet to the South Seas again, and even the English may also participate, when the time comes, the strength of the Western Fleet is definitely not something that the South Sea Fleet can resist, and the Strait of Malacca cannot afford to lose!

"I can't care so much!"

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice: "Go all out, it's really not possible, so we will dismantle all the artillery in Batavia and Manila and transport them to Malacca, and the domestic production of coastal defense heavy artillery will be given priority to the fortress in the Strait of Malacca, we just want to resist the enemy and the country!" As long as the Western Fleet cannot break through the Strait of Malacca in the future, then the South Seas and the Ming Dynasty will be impregnable! The order went down, and the first town of the Tianxiong Army was temporarily moved to the Strait of Malacca to protect the safety of Malacca! ”

When Zhu Jie was discussing Nanyang affairs with everyone, Zheng Chenggong finally rushed to Batavia, and at the same time, Andulu, the king of the Sulu Kingdom, came to Batavia to thank God.

Zhu Jie praised Anduru and personally named Anduru the Prince of Nanyang Sulu, who ruled the Sulu Kingdom for generations and became a vassal state of the Ming Empire.

However, just sent away, Anduru, Batavia came again, and this time the person who came was not a distinguished guest, but an Englishman who had come to ask for an explanation!

This time, the English envoy Busby was furious, already angry to the extreme.

Not long after the island of Java was controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the Governor of England in India, Dale, got the information that an English caravan was attacked in the South China Sea, and the entire caravan was nearly 1,000 people, almost all of whom were buried in the sea, and all the merchant ships were sunk!

Only three or two people saved the sampan and fled to the shore with the tide, and then a few people did not dare to make any noise, robbed a merchant ship of the Sulu Kingdom, ran away, and ran back to Bombay to meet Dale!

When Dale heard the news, he was furious, a whole caravan, the goods transported alone were worth millions of taels of silver, plus hundreds of lives, this beam was finished!

"Ming Empire, Lao Tzu is not finished with you, you must lead the army to the South Seas and wipe out your fleet!"

Dale ordered people to quickly assemble the fleet and reorganize the troops, but before the English Far East Fleet had time to set off, the news of the fall of Luzon and Batavia arrived in Mumbai one after another, the Dutch fleet and the Spanish fleet were all wiped out, and the power of the two countries in the South Seas was brought to the end by the Ming Empire!

Dale immediately lost his temper, the strength of the Dutch alone is only stronger than the Far East Fleet of England, and there is also Spain, the two countries were completely killed by the Ming Empire in less than three months, so how strong is the strength of the Ming Empire?

Not to mention anything else, if he sends troops to conquer the Ming Empire again, the English fleet is only afraid that it will be a meat bun and a dog and will not look back, and it will not be the opponent of the Ming Empire's fleet anyway, not to mention that there is still a strong army in the country!

Just, just swallow this breath like that?

How can it be? If you swallow this breath like this, it won't take you too long, and you will have to be depressed to death!

Dale brought in all of his brains in Mumbai and asked for their opinions.

"Everyone, let's talk about it, what are we going to do?"

Dale opened his mouth and asked, everyone also got the news, which one is not full of anger, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty has just left, and he is even negotiating with the Kingdom of England, and he attacked the caravan of the Kingdom of England on the sea, and the Ming Empire has done too unauthentic in this matter.

"Mr. Governor, I think that we must immediately send someone to send a letter to the country, asking the country to make an early decision, if we really want to start a war with the Ming Empire, it is definitely not enough to rely on our strength alone!"

Senator McLaren said.

"Mr. McLaren, a request for a domestic decision? Now that our country is also in full flames of war, and we have just settled down, how can they send troops to the East in a short period of time? Even if we can come, it will be a year or two later, but will we continue to endure this breath like this? I think that we must send an envoy to claim compensation from the Ming Empire, ask the Ming Empire to deal with the perpetrators, compensate us for the losses of England, and at the same time, ask the Ming Empire to fulfill its commitments, now that the Dutch and the Spaniards have been defeated, it is our turn to send troops to Siam and Annam, once we take these two places, the strength will be greatly enhanced, and we will have a place in the South Seas, which can be attacked and defended! ”

(End of chapter)