"General, about three or four years ago, a prince named Duruno on the island of Madura, a small island next to Java, under the rule of the Sultanate of Matalan, a great power in cooperation with the Dutch in the area of Java. In the name of opposing the oppression of the Dutch and the Sultan of Mataram, Zoyo's sudden attack led to a large number of volunteers.

This Duruno. Although Sayo was a native prince of a fallen country, he was resolute and resolute, and he was proficient in the art of war, and he was deeply loved by the people. Although there were few soldiers at the beginning, it has swept in just two years. Last year, he sent troops from his base island of Madura to cross the sea into Java, defeating the new army trained by the Dutch for the Sultan of Mataran in one fell swoop, and then besieging Surabaya, the second largest port on the island of Java.

Thanks to this Duruno. Zyo was against the Dutch, and the Dutch reconciled with Mataran decades earlier after defeating Mataran and became allies. So Spearman, the governor of Batavia, had personally led his troops since last spring to support the Sultan of Mataram and the Duruno of Sultan. Zyo was at war. The war has continued to this day, and the Dutch have actually very limited forces in the South Seas, and now they are largely pinned down in Java, so it is impossible to make any major moves around Malacca. ”

The one who was explaining in detail the current situation of Java under the Governor's Palace of Batavia was Li Jizhen's brother-in-law, Jia Liujia Guozhu, the youngest son of Jia Hanfu. He made great contributions to Wu Guogui's campaign in Guangdong last time, and was exceptionally promoted to the position of Minister of Nanyang Trade and Commerce, the co-organizer of the Ministry of Commerce in Macao.

And Cai Yurong and the East India Company Consul Thor. Brouwer's private company is now under the co-organiser of Jia Guozhu, a company whose main business is the port and commercial market of Xiangshan Island and Bintan Island near Malacca. This is not an ordinary business, and ordinary businessmen can't operate it at all, so it must be managed by an official of the level of the co-organizer Nanyang Minister.

In addition, this Jia Liu is not an ordinary co-organizer, his brother-in-law is Li Jizhen, the governor of Guangdong and the son of the Southern Wang, his father Jia Hanfu is now the governor of Guangxi, and his family still has territory in Guiyang Prefecture and Chenzhou in Hunan! There is a "Hunan army".

As a co-organizer of the Nanyang Minister, he can get the full support of Li Fuchen, Li Jizhen, and Jia Hanfu! Therefore, the real power of Jia Liu, the co-organizer of the Nanyang Minister, is much more powerful than Cai Yurong, the genuine Nanyang Minister!

Cai Yurong, the minister of Nanyang, is actually a foreign minister, and he is actually quite important, but Jia Liu's co-organizer of the minister of Nanyang is actually a minister of colonial affairs wearing the skin of running foreign affairs.

Now Li Yat-sen also planned to let him lead a group of mercenaries recruited from Chenzhou and Guiyang Prefectures in Guangxi and Hunan to Bintan Island, and become the de facto governor of the Nanyang colonies of the Ming Dynasty.

"How's the situation going on Bintan?" After learning that the mobile forces of the Batavian Governor's Palace were trapped on the island of Java, Li Yat-sen asked about the situation on Bintan Island.

"In the past two years, the Southern Fleet of the Nanyang Company has dispatched 53 voyages of the Big Bird Ship and the Old Gate Ship to Bintan Island to deliver building materials, food, labor, equipment, sundries, mercenaries, and weapons and equipment. In addition, Nanyang Company also helped Guangdong Company recruit thousands of Chinese maritime merchants, pirates and fishermen to settle on the island. They also built ports, towns, forts, forts, and Chinese literature halls on the island."

The question was taken over by Ho You, the chief officer of the Southern Fleet of the Nanyang Trading Company, which was a copy of the "chartered trading company" of Zheng Jing Holdings, that is, the Dutch East India Company.

Zheng Jing played a trick while "handing over" Fujian Province, and recorded his own fleet and the towns and fields on Dayuan Island in the accounts of the Nanyang Trading Company.

Therefore, in the world today, if you rank in terms of tonnage, Zheng Jing's Nanyang Trading Company can probably be ranked fourth in the world after the Dutch Navy, the English Navy, and the Dutch East India Trading Company!

As for the Ming Navy, it is not worth mentioning, and it is probably similar to the Daqing Water Division jointly controlled by Yang Qilong and Shi Lang.

The Nanyang Trading Company not only has the size of the fleet, but also firmly controls the network of Fujian merchants and Chaoshang merchants all over the Nanyang - Zheng Jing and Li Jizhen control the hometown of Fujian merchants and Chaoshang together, which is equivalent to controlling their "roots". The clan concept of Hokkien and Teochew people is still quite strong in the 21st century, let alone in the 17th century? In addition, Zheng Jing, Li Zhongshan, and Chen Yonghua also control the three largest banks in East Asia today, which also controls the financing channels of Fujian merchants and Chaoshang merchants and the channels for remittances to return to China.

With the above points, the Fujian and Chao merchants of Nanyang have become the eyes and ears and business partners of Nanyang Trading Company.

Therefore, He You was able to recruit so many maritime merchants and pirates for the Bintan Commercial Market, and his Nanyang Company became the general contractor for the development and construction of the Bintan Commercial Market.

In addition, according to the plan, the home port of Nanyang Company's southern fleet will also be relocated to Bintan Island after the construction of Bintan Island takes shape.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty was able to take over the shell of the commercial company and the Ming-Dutch joint venture company, and turn Bintan Island, an island blocked at the entrance to the Strait of Malacca, into the Ming Dynasty's forward stronghold in the South Seas.

And as long as this stronghold is not pulled out by the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch will not dare to tear their faces with Daming!

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan ordered: "Okay! Jia Liuge, Mr. He (although he works in the Nanyang Company, he still has the rank of the chief soldier of the Daming Water Division), without further ado, you should enter Bintan Island as soon as possible! Now that the Dutch East India Company is trapped in the war on Java Island, and the Dutch mother country is still at war with France, we are stationed in Bintan Island at this time, even if they know that it is wrong, they can only swallow this loss first.

However, you also have to hurry up and set up defenses and hoard supplies on Bintan Island, because Geng Juyi has made things too big in the New World, and they will definitely be very wary of us. So once the Dutch have their hands free, they will definitely attack Bintan! ”

"General, do you think the Dutch will tear their faces with us?" He You was a little unbelievable, "If they tear their faces with us, what else will they do about the deal?" ”

Li Zhongshan shook his head and said: "General Soldier He, the Dutch have never been well-behaved businessmen, they have always used strong ships and cannons to do business, if they do business honestly, can they gain a firm foothold in the South Seas?" It's been squeezed out of our people a long time ago. When dealing with this kind of person, we can't have any illusions of not going to war, and we have to be ready to fight at any time! And it must be won! Only when we win, will the Dutch swallow their anger and become our agent. ”

"General, the Dutch East India Company has more than a hundred Galen ships and gunboats." He You said, "If we want to fight a naval battle, we are not very sure. ”

The Zheng family and the Dutch East India Company have fought several battles! Although the probability of the Zheng family winning is not low, the price of winning is also not low!

"General Soldier He, don't worry, they have many ships and guns, and it may be difficult for us to gain the upper hand at sea. But we still have a trump card in our hands, and the Dutch don't have it! ”

"General, what is the trump card you are talking about."

Li Zhongshan smiled: "It's the Mongolian East India Company!" ”

"Mongolia. East India Company? He You was stunned, "General, what threat can this company pose to the Dutch?" ”

Li Yat-sen said with a smile: "The Mongolian East India Company can open up the trade routes of the Western Regions, and transport the favorite spices and silk of Europeans to the Rakshasa and Ottoman countries by land!"

In addition, a re-emerging Great Mongolian State could help the Mongol East India Company gain trade privileges from India. After all, the state of Timur in India was also founded by the Mongols.

This Indian market, for those Europeans, is not as important as the Ming Dynasty! ”

This 17th century is the Indian century if it is economically speaking!

As the Ming Dynasty in East Asia fell into a devastating war, the population fell by two-thirds or more, and industrial and commercial production shrank sharply, and if you want to calculate GDP, it will definitely not rank first in the world.

And today's GDP is the largest in the world, and that must be the Timurid Empire, which ruled most of India!

At the same time, India's spices, cotton, precious stones and saltpeter are also high value-added goods no less than China's silk, porcelain, sugar and tea! Moreover, India's Bengal also produces silk, although it is not as good as Chinese silk, but it also sells well in Europe.

Therefore, the competition between the Netherlands, France, Britain and other powers in India is also quite fierce!

And Aurangzeb, the Timurid dynasty that now rules India, is the last emperor of India! Although this emperor is a bit of a foreign power, it is not a 17th-century European power that can take care of him from across the ocean.

Therefore, it was a little difficult for the European powers to get trade privileges from Aurangzeb, and without privileges, the European would not be able to do business. What they like is monopoly free trade!

Therefore, the Mongolian trading company that entered India with the power of the Great Mongolian Kingdom must have put great pressure on the Western colonists who came from the Indian Ocean, such as the Dutch, French, British, and Portuguese.

And once they were expelled from India, it would be difficult to maintain trade routes in the South Seas. Coupled with the reopening of the overland Silk Road, perhaps the domination of trade between the East and the West will fall into the hands of the Ottoman Empire, the Great Mongols, and the Rakshasa Kingdom - the trade routes dominated by the land powers do not have to be by land, but can also be by sea, but the maritime trade depends on the land powers near the routes.

In addition, the route around Africa will most likely be replaced by the "land and sea trade route" from the Red Sea through the Sinai Peninsula and into the Mediterranean, and the whole of Europe will change drastically!

Moscow, Kremlin.

Now it is only a mild autumn in Western Europe and East Asia, and South Asia under Aurangzeb is still a hot summer, but the third Tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Fyodor III. The land of Rakshasa ruled by Alekseevich was already covered with snow and rain, and in the farther north, it was already covered with snow.

Compared to the extremely cold winter, the rakshasa muddy and cold autumn is even more annoying. Because in winter, people can also brave the cold and step on hard snow and ice to travel. But in the cold and muddy autumn, the whole rakshasa seemed to be stuck in mud, and it was impossible to move at all. Even the war between the Ukrainian side and the Turks was suspended because of the damn weather - it was a literal melee, and if you want to go back a little further, the origins of this war can be traced back to the 13-year Polish-Russian War that ended in 1667, through which the Rakshasa took Ukraine on the left bank east of the Dnieper and Smolensk a little further north. However, the peace treaty concluded between Rakshasa and Poland did not bring peace to Ukraine. The Cossack war against Poland and the Rakshasa continued on Ukrainian soils (mainly west of the Dnieper), and several of the Cossack leaders took the initiative to bring in the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate in order to defeat the two powerful enemies of Poland and Rakshasa!

And the Ottomans and the Crimean Khanate, of course, are not in demand - these two countries have a constant and strong demand for Ukrainian "blonde and blue-eyed long-legged horses"! So the Ottoman Sultan entered the war in 1672, intervened in the melee in Ukraine, and after four years of bad fighting, finally helped the people of right-bank Ukraine to free themselves from Polish rule, and they are now slaves of the Ottoman Sultan!

The Rakshasa state, on the other hand, was invited by the Ukrainian Cossacks, who were unwilling to be slaves of the Ottomans, to join the war in 1676.

In other words, the bad war on the Ukrainian side has been fought for almost 20 years since the last Polish-Russian war, and I don't know when it will be a head?

Fyodor III, who had been frail and sickly since childhood, looked at the gray Moscow city outside the window, sighed softly, and wanted to give up a little - or let them be slaves of the Turks!

At this moment when the heart of Tsar Fyodor was shaken, outside the door of the study where the Tsar was located, his grandfather Ilya suddenly came. Danilovich. Miroslavsky had a frightened voice: "Your Majesty, my Majesty, it's not good, they're here again!" ”

"Who? Who's coming again? Tsar Fyodor was stunned, "Ilya. Danilovich, come in. ”

Then a creak was heard, and the door of the Tsar's study was pushed open, and the tall, fat, and the great nobleman Miloslavsky, who looked like a mold carved out of the same mold as the Tsar's dear sister, Princess Sofia, walked in from outside the door and saluted the Tsar again.

"Who's coming? It can't be Poles, right? The Tsar asked with some concern.

Poland and Rakshasa are feuds!

Before the last "Thirteen Years' War", Poland had invaded the Rakshasa many times, and also captured Moscow, and the Polish king almost became the Rakshasa Tsar!

Although the Poles were more devout to the Father, it was unlikely that they would join forces with the Turks. But who knows? Didn't France, the "father-in-law" of the Poles, maintain good relations with the Ottoman Empire?

Perhaps, with the mediation of Louis XIV, Poland and Turkey will deal with the Rakshasa country together!

"Not the Poles, it's the Mongols!" Miroslavsky's answer gave the young tsar a sense of being fooled.

"Grandfather!" The Tsar said in a reproachful tone, "Are you joking with me?" Is it April Fool's Day in Orthodox Christianity? It is now the 17th century, not the 13th century, and the time that belonged to the Mongols has long passed.

What we need to worry about now is the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Kingdom of Poland joining forces. It is likely that Louis XIV of France would have brought them together, so that the Holy Roman Empire would feel great pressure to withdraw from the ongoing war. ”

This brother of Peter the Great is quite good at figuring it out!

"No, no, there is no such possibility." Miroslavsky shook his head repeatedly, "The parliament of the Kingdom of Poland will veto all resolutions that have the potential to improve the external environment in Poland. All it takes is a noble councillor who is out of love for the Father and loyal to the Emperor to make Poland work for nothing in the Holy Roman Empire. ”

Not only does Poland have an outrageously powerful parliament of nobles, but the country also has a number of transnational aristocrats – many of whom are members of both the Polish parliament and the German Reichs. Don't know where you'll stand when you vote?

"Your Majesty," Miroslavsky added, "although it is not the 13th century, but the Great Mongolia, which had been dormant for more than two hundred years, must have revived now, and the Kazakhs have suffered a devastating blow from the Mongols from the east this summer, the land of Sanyuz is being ravaged, and the Kazakh herdsmen are fleeing in all directions.

And the nomadic Turkuts of the lower Volga also began to move eastward this summer. It is said that they went on a pilgrimage to meet three great Mongol conquerors, including the Mongol Great Khan, the Golden Horde and the Chagatai Khan!

Your Majesty, we cannot take the Mongols from the East lightly! I also recommend that you end the war with the Ottoman Empire on the grounds of joint defense against the Mongols! ”

(End of chapter)