Chapter 130: The Crisis of Borneo's Independence

The two sides introduced each other, and then the chief of the tribe led a tour of the whole tribe, the tribe is not big or small, on the basis of the original Cham people, they also incorporated their own style, such as the tribe has umbrella tree marks everywhere, basically every house has a huge umbrella tree painted on the wall, even the door of the house or the yard is planted with umbrella trees. No way, who let the umbrella tree become their spiritual sustenance.

Hou Zongsheng didn't plan to lead Ruan Wenzhao to visit the water tribe in the south, the water tribe is relatively closed, and the thinking is relatively old-fashioned, it is a blessing that he didn't do anything to them last time, if the tribe launched an attack last time, the final result must be that they are defeated, they only have a few dozen people in total, how can they be worthy of a large tribe of nearly 10,000 people.

The repair of the ship is expected to take half a month. Before the ship was repaired, Ruan Van Zhao and the others could only stay here, and Hou Zongsheng took him on a tour of the Umbrella Tree Tribe, preparing to wait for them to rest for a few more days and then take everyone to visit the copper mine in the south.

On the other hand, Floris's other fleet also arrived in Natuna a few days after Nguyen Van Zhao's arrival, after all, the distance was actually about the same, but the difference was that natural factors such as the direction of the ocean currents made the fleet arrive in Natuna a few days late.

In the past nearly half a year of publicity, Natuna has made a name for itself, and now many merchants with a little money in the country will go to Natuna to buy goods, after all, there is no tariff for transportation from all over the country, and at most only a small amount of commodity tax will be charged, which has a very good treatment for them.

The dockyard in the port of Natuna was also larger, the repairmen were more skilled, and with priority for repairs, all the ships were repaired in a week or so. During these seven days, the governor of the fleet went to Vijaya to report to Floris about the situation of the Ponto, and with the permission of the puff, the size of the fleet was increased by 10%, and in the future a crew of sailors who were familiar with the southern transit points and to Sita would be trained, so that all the admirals and explorers could be freed up for other tasks.

On March 30, the 24th year of the year, the fleet sailed for Flores again loaded with cargo and immigrants, carrying 4,000 immigrants and all kinds of daily necessities.

The governor also told him about the current situation of Majapahit, the situation of Majapahit is not optimistic, all the subject countries have a high tendency to independence, and during the war, half of the taxes and products originally contributed by the original have basically risen to all, and the kings of those subject countries are naturally dissatisfied, and the independence of Malacca and other countries makes them also ready to move.

On the 14th day of March in the 24th year of the Zhizheng Dynasty, the vassal states of Borneo jointly launched a rebellion, and they received the support of Ayutthaya and other countries, of course, it was only verbal support, how could Ayutthaya use troops for the sake of these distant and small countries, not to mention that their army was recuperating, so everyone raised some supplies and sent them to these countries.

Of course, they did not have the support of any country, they also received the full support of Sulu, Luzon, Siang, Ruu and other countries, and the expansion of Majapahit in the Malay region has been hit hard, presumably in the short term they will not take the Malay region as the target of the war. In this way, these small countries have become the target of Majapahit, they don't want to be controlled, and it just so happens that the people of Borneo are not full of control and want to ask for the control of Majapahit, so why don't they help?

The kingdom of Single-Weight Buro, the Kingdom of South Sarunai, the Kingdom of Kutai Matapura, the Sultanate of Belau and the Kingdom of Bo Ni first declared their independence, unilaterally canceling the rule of Majapahit in their countries, because these countries were originally in the kingdom of Borneo, and there were many reasons for submitting to Majapahit, and now Majapahit is a little tired, and it is also a good opportunity for them to become independent, plus each subject country has its own army, etc., Majapahit's power in various countries is not strong, and the difficulty of independence is also very small.

The rest of the area was indigenous, and the Majapahit sent officials to administer it directly. In practice, however, the Majapahit had very limited control over these regions, and could only rule the entire region through a single tribe. They set up four administrations in the remaining areas, each of which chose an easily controllable tribe to support.

The vassal kingdom first declared independence, which sparked the independence sentiment of the other tribes of Borneo, and the Majapahit officials pacified the tribes while conveying the news of the independence of the Borneo states to the country.

Ha Xiang Wulu was also very angry when he knew, and decided to teach the countries of Borneo a lesson, later generations called this civil strife the Borneo independence crisis, from the beginning the possibility of Borneo independence was very small, Borneo did not have a large regime, they were all very loose regimes, and there were even many indigenous tribes, plus the consumption in the war was destined to the entire Borneo State could not come up with high-quality manpower to form an army.

On March 18, the 24th year of Zheng, Ha Xiang Wulu led an army to land from South Borneo, and in less than five days, the Kingdom of South Sarunai announced its surrender. On March 24, the 24th year of the reign of the Emperor, the Kingdom of South Sarunai announced that it had joined the Majapahit. After that, the Majapahit army divided into two groups, one to the west to attack the kingdom of Shan Chong Bula and the other to the north to attack the kingdom of Kutai Matapura.

It didn't take long for the Kutai Matapura Kingdom to be broken by Majapahit, and the foreign forces saw that it was not good, and hurriedly sent troops to Borneo, so what was originally just a Borneo independence crisis evolved into a Borneo independence war, which was involved in more than ten countries and regions, but these countries were all small countries. A chopstick is broken, a bundle of chopsticks is broken, all countries think like this, so all kinds of forces are constantly mobilized, and even those small countries have found the Yuan court.

Tuhuan Timur was naturally not interested in caring about the affairs of these small Nanyang countries, but in order to promote the national prestige of the Great Celestial Empire, the Yuan court still took out a lot of weapons to support the small countries, hoping that they could win this war.

To the surprise of the Penglu, the Bo Ni Kingdom came to their heads, they spoke the same language from the roots, and the ethnicity was very similar, and the two countries were very good in the past, but then the relationship became ossified. The reason is that the religious beliefs of the two sides are different, and the Bo Ni Kingdom abandoned Brahmanism and converted to Sunnis, so that the relationship between the two sides is not as good as before, and the contacts between the two sides are gradually decreasing.