With the landing of the First Marine Brigade of the Xia Army in Manado, the Sultanate of Gowa was immediately placed under the control of the Xia Army.

The streets of Manado Old Town were lined with patrolling Xia troops, and at the same time, the Xia army announced the imposition of military control in the port, and the construction of a new military port capable of accommodating a large number of ships and supplies in a natural harbor near Manado.

The construction of the project naturally required the use of the local residents of the Ghetate of Gowa, and the Xia army was paid with money and food, and recruited natives as laborers, and worked feverishly under the guidance of the craftsmen who accompanied the army.

For a time, the trees on Sulawesi were cut down, the island's stone and some mineral deposits were mined, and a large number of simply processed stone logs were dragged by hand to the construction site, and then turned into part of the fence and pier.

Although the Sultan of Gowa knew about these things, he seemed indifferent, and Manado was the power of the Xia army inside and outside - this matter was already an unchangeable reality when the Xia army fleet appeared in the Manado Outer Sea.

The nobles in their country were also full of dissatisfaction with the Xia army's blatant invasion of their country, but under the pressure of the Xia army's powerful force, they could only swallow their anger.

However, they soon discovered a big business opportunity, and after the 1st Brigade of the Xia Army was stationed in the Manado area, its officers and soldiers went to the city for recreation in their spare time, and the city vendors sold local specialties to the Xia army, so as to make a lot of money.

When the nobles saw that Xia Jun's money was so easy to make, they immediately turned red, and they sent people to drive away those traders, and instead let their own people replace them, and launched a series of commercial sales for Xia officers and soldiers.

For a time, the merchants of Manado Old Town earned a lot of silver from the Xia officers and soldiers, and those tall and golden soldiers suddenly became the dream lovers of the indigenous girls on the island.

The officers and soldiers of Xia could see the indigenous women passing by from time to time on the road, or take the initiative to strike up a conversation with them, and move their hands and feet, the enthusiasm and openness of the indigenous women made these young men with strong blood a little uncontrollable.

Since the military discipline of the Xia army did not restrict officers and soldiers from intermarrying with local women, the first person to eat crabs soon came, and a soldier in the army had a relationship with the daughter of a large local family, and his two-bar gun was very accurate, and the woman was found to be pregnant a month later.

If this is as simple as that, then everything is happy, but it is not that simple, the pregnant girl's brother accidentally bumps into the soldier and the other woman's *** and tells his sister.

When the pregnant girl learned about this, she couldn't accept the blow and committed suicide by throwing herself into the sea the next day, and when her body was washed ashore and found by the patrolling Xia Jun, the girl's body had been soaked in the sea and swollen.

At this moment, the girl's family suddenly couldn't accept this fact, and the girl's brothers were angry and took out knives directly from the house and rushed to the street to take revenge on the soldier.

The soldier's bad luck was that today was his day patrolling the streets, but although he had heard the news of the girl's death, he did not take it seriously, and it was only when the girl's brothers rushed towards the patrol with weapons that he realized that something was wrong. ….

But it was already too late, the girl's brothers roared and rushed towards the patrol, and the patrolling Xia Jun reacted quickly and hurriedly raised his rifle to make a fighting posture.

How could those few indigenous youths beat the well-trained regular army, and in the screams of the civilians, several of the attackers were quickly subdued by the Xia army, three dead and two wounded - one of the soldier's arms was slashed, but fortunately his comrades around him pushed him away in time, otherwise it would not have been just a flesh wound.

The Xia army patrol was attacked on the street, and the incident quickly spread throughout the Manado Old Town and its surrounding areas, and the Xia army high-level attached great importance to it, and immediately sent troops into the city to impose martial law, block the scene of the crime, and interrogate the only surviving attacker.

At the same time, the commander of the 1st Marine Brigade personally went to the palace, not to reassure the Sultan and the nobles, telling them that if the matter had nothing to do with the official Gova, it would not affect the friendship between the two countries.

After coming out of the palace, the commander of the 1st Brigade was full of anger, and he went straight back to the barracks outside the city, and then shouted at the assembled officers

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"This is the first time since the founding of Great Xia that this kind of local people have attacked the patrol in the street, we must investigate it clearly, and give an explanation to the Son of Heaven and the imperial court!"

The officers looked at each other, lowered their heads one after another, scolded the troublesome soldier a thousand times in their hearts, and loudly agreed to the brigade commander's reprimand on the surface.

After some investigation, the truth soon came out, and the injured soldier was immediately ordered to be discharged from the army, sent back to the mainland, and compensated the pregnant woman's family with a large amount of money as compensation, but the girl's elder brothers attacked the patrol team can not be taken lightly, and the top management of the Xia army knows very well that if this pioneer is opened, then the Xia army will have no majesty at all.

Therefore, except for the three attackers who were already dead, the only remaining attackers were sentenced to be hanged and dragged to the square in the city to be executed in public, and on the day the attacker was sentenced to be hanged, many civilians went to the square to watch, and they sympathized with this brave young man who wanted to avenge his relatives, and his parents fainted on the spot.

In order to avoid a similar situation, the top level of the Xia army also urgently promulgated a temporary military discipline, that is, officers and soldiers are prohibited from having affairs with local women, and violators will be severely punished.

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What happened in Manado was just a small episode, at the southern tip of Sulawesi, at the location of Makassar, the 2nd Brigade of the Xia Army successfully landed, but to the Xia army's surprise, Makassar was not abandoned as they imagined, and there were still some residents living in it, who were the Portuguese who did not follow the departure, and some Westernized natives.

The remaining residents became nervous when they saw the huge fleet appearing on the sea, and the militia formed by the residents spontaneously took up various weapons and hid in the abandoned streets, watching the huge fleet vigilantly.

When they saw the dragon flag flying high on the battleship, they finally breathed a sigh of relief - compared to the Chinese who have gradually become active in the South Seas in recent years, the Dutch are more of a threat to them, and they are not too hostile to the relatively friendly Chinese. ….

As a result, they watched as the Xia army's ships sailed into the offshore waters and landed on the shore, and after more and more Xia troops stood on the beach, the leaders of these Portuguese finally realized that the Xia army was most likely preparing to occupy the place.

Thinking of this, in order to prevent unnecessary conflicts, he hurriedly led a few people towards the Xia army, and the Xia army, who was busy on the beach, saw a few figures approaching, raised his rifle and aimed at them without hesitation, and quickly approached them.

Xia Jun on the opposite side watched his movements, although several people couldn't understand his words, they still hesitated, leaned up to disarm the weapons in the hands of several Portuguese, and escorted them towards the beach, these Portuguese followed Xia Jun very obediently and left, and were brought to Liu Yang, the commander of the Second Brigade who landed first.

"Brigade Marshal, these red-haired fans don't know what they're talking about, but we see that they have no malicious intent, so we brought them directly to you." After the leading soldier gave a military salute, he said to Liu Yang.

Liu Yang looked at a few foreigners who did not conform to the oriental aesthetics, frowned slightly, and ordered someone to call the envoy who knew Dutch and Portuguese with the army, and it didn't take long for the envoy to walk over quickly.

"Talk to them and hear what these red-haired fans are about." Liu Yang pointed to a few Portuguese and said to the envoy.

The messenger nodded, and then began to speak in Portuguese with the leader of the Portuguese, who was excited to see that at last someone understood his language, but soon he calmed down, and made known to the messenger his purpose and the place where they were gathering in Makassar.

After the exchange, the envoy said to Liu Yang: "Brigade commander, these Hongmao Fans are residents of Makassar, they did not follow most of the people to leave after the war with Heyi, there are still a small number of people and some natives who have settled here, and they have taken the initiative to contact us in order to prevent unnecessary conflicts after our army has penetrated in."

"Residents of Makassar?" Liu Yang looked at the foreigners, scratched his cheeks, and suddenly didn't know what to do with them, see you

He then proposed, "Brigade commander, why don't you take them, it just so happens that we also need manpower to rebuild Makassar, and these Hongmaofan and Turen are the most suitable laborers."

"Yes." Liu Yang nodded and accepted the envoy's proposal, and he instructed the envoy: "You go and tell them that Great Xia allows them to continue to settle here, but from today onwards, Makassar is the territory of Great Xia, and as long as they continue to stay here, they must accept the rule of Great Xia and act according to the laws of Great Xia."

"Why?"

Soon, the envoy relayed Liu Yang's words to the Portuguese, who seemed to anticipate this result, accepted the offer very calmly, and was willing to lead the Xia army to their meeting point.

Subsequently, Liu Yang sent a battalion of soldiers and horses and Portuguese to their assembly point to take over, and he stayed on the beach to continue to command his subordinates to land. ….

Some of the soldiers unloaded their equipment and took axes to cut wood in the inland forests, preparing to rebuild Makassar using the island's abundant tree resources.

After the Xia army landed, Makassar that had been abandoned for many years soon ushered in life again, the original buildings were demolished and rebuilt, and a number of buildings full of Chinese style rose from the ground, and the Xia army rebuilt a new city wall on the basis of Makassar Castle, but because of the lack of sufficient labor, except for the soldiers who had to be on guard, the rest of the officers and soldiers had to temporarily make cameos in the engineering team.

Makassar's movements did not escape the eyes and ears of the Dutch, and it was not long before the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company, Batavia, learned of the incident, and the city's parliament began to discuss it, and they finally came to the conclusion that the Xia army was trying to meddle in the affairs of the South Seas, and if the Xia army's actions were not checked, their interests in the South Seas were likely to be damaged.

Having come to this conclusion, the Governor of the East Indies decided to report the matter to the mainland, thousands of miles away, and asked the mainland to send reinforcements to the colonies, but what they did not know was that the Second Anglo-Dutch War was breaking out in Western Europe at this time, and on February 22, 1665, the Dutch officially went to war with the British.

The outbreak of the Anglo-Dutch War doomed the Netherlands itself to be unable to provide aid to the colonies in the Far East.

To get back to the point, due to the rise of the Xia Dynasty in recent years, the Governors of the East Indies knew very well that they could not compete with the Xia Dynasty with their Asian colonies alone, so they did not immediately fight against the Xia Dynasty, but began to shrink their forces and formed a colonial corps with indigenous people in Indonesia to prepare for war in advance.

The actions of the Dutch in Batavia were not deliberately concealed, and a large number of overseas Chinese also settled in and around the city of Batavia, which benefited from the growing strength of the Xia Dynasty in recent years and the expansion of its influence in Nanyang, and the local Dutch and indigenous people did not dare to oppress them openly, which made the overseas Chinese full of gratitude to the imperial court.

Therefore, when the Dutch recruited and trained troops on a large scale, some overseas Chinese were keenly aware of something amiss—the Dutch were not strong enough enemies in Nanyang to require them to recruit troops from the natives, and combined with the news that the Xia army controlled the Sultanate of Gowa and Makassar in recent times, these overseas Chinese boldly speculated that the Dutch were preparing for war with the Xia Dynasty.

Based on this speculation, these overseas Chinese were shocked, and hurriedly took a boat to Makassar to report the matter to the Second Marine Brigade of the Second Navy stationed in Makassar .

Subsequently, he also solemnly expressed his gratitude to these loyal overseas Chinese, and he advised them not to continue to settle in Batavia, but to leave there as soon as possible if they could, so as to avoid being affected by future wars.

Liu Yang's words were almost naked, and the overseas Chinese listened to his advice and hurriedly set off for Batavia, preparing to leave there with their families.

The actions of the Xia army in Sulawesi made all the forces in the South Seas full of fear, not only the Dutch were preparing for war, but the Portuguese on Timor Island also began to struggle when they saw that their old rivals, the Dutch, were so nervous.

The Portuguese knew very well that their power in the South Seas was not strong, and the war with the Dutch was already at a disadvantage, and it was the lord of the island of Sri Lanka

The stronghold fell into the hands of the Dutch, and if they fought with the Xia army, it would be tantamount to a moth fighting a fire and killing themselves, so after some entanglement, the Portuguese finally decided to withdraw from the South Seas in advance and abandon all their strongholds in East Asia.

Of course, this also includes Macau.

In June 1666, the Portuguese submitted a request to the Cantonese envoy to return the island and terminate the Lend-Lease agreement, and then obtained permission from the Cantonese side, and the Portuguese then began to evacuate the island and the Xia Dynasty government took over.

Tears.