Daming One Piece

Chapter 239 The South China Sea Is Ours
Orange, in history, it will be renamed Rejalan City in a few years.

Orange prefect Weiss stood on the half-built castle and looked at the Ming army outside the city with binoculars. His expression was extremely complicated.

Although with the increasing population and strength of Beigang, the threat to Orange City will naturally become greater, but in Weiss' view, this threat should be within the controllable range. After all, the two sides did not Too many actual conflicts.

Compared with land, what the Netherlands needs is a trade base close to Ming.

But now?
The dozens of Ming soldiers outside the city and officials from Beigang Xuanwei Division told him clearly.

The Dutch can't stand this place!

Are they confident?

It's really not.

After all, the current Batavia side has signed the treaty, and Cohen has agreed to the conditions proposed by Shi Yiwen to return all the colonies including Batavia to Daming.

That's right, it's a return, not a cession.

Don't look at it, it's just two words, but they have two completely different meanings.

The return means that the Dutch have recognized Shi Yiwen's view that "the South China Sea is all the territory of Ming Dynasty", and it also means that the "legal rationality" of Ming's rule over the South China Sea has been recognized by other countries.

Has the consent of the small Southeast Asian countries such as Mataram, Banten, and Aceh been sought for this matter?

do you need?

Of course not!
Whether it is a treaty or an agreement between the strong, there is never a need to seek the opinions of the weak. In a world where the jungle preys on the weak, the weak have only one choice, which is to be the prey of the strong.

Do wolves need to consult their prey when they bite their prey?
Obviously, there is no need for this.

After the treaty, Oren City, which had stood firm for a long time in the face of the onslaught of Zheng Chenggong's tens of thousands of troops in history, had no choice.

Even in the face of dozens of Ming officials and soldiers, they didn't even have the thought of resisting.

"Alas! From today onwards, the presence of the Netherlands in the Celestial Dynasty will cease to exist!"

After a sigh, Weiss put down the binoculars helplessly. Now, all he needs to do is to go outside the city to negotiate with the officials of Ming Dynasty to return the city, and then try to win some benefits as much as possible.After all, what they handed over was official property, and there were still many private properties of Dutch businessmen in Orange.

Of course, in this process, he must step up to make a few more sums, after all, this is the last chance.

The last option, at least for the Dutch, was a chance to return safely to Europe or their trading post in India.

For the Sultan of Mata Lan, he didn't have any chance at all, or in other words, Shi Yiwen didn't give him a chance at all.

Because the city of Mataram was in the hinterland of Java, Shi Yiwen did not send troops to directly capture the capital, but gave the perverted mercenaries headed by Ahmadinejad a chance—they had a chance to earn a huge sum of money.

As long as you lift Mata Lansudan's head, you can exchange it for 1000 taels of silver!

For these color-eyed mercenaries, this is not a difficult task.You must know that the royal city of Mataram is actually just a slightly larger town, and the royal palace does not have any palace walls or castles, it is a relatively luxurious palace, nothing more.

Dozens of mercenaries headed by Ahmadinejad fled back to the royal city pretending to be rout soldiers, and then entered the palace under the pretext of reporting the battle situation. .

Of course, Ahmadinejad and the others must have received the bounty, but after they boarded the ship, they encountered a group of "pirates" at sea.

Everything else couldn't be easier.

Matalan has perished.

Daming resumed its rule in this area and regained this piece of homeland.

After all, this has belonged to China since ancient times.

Immigrants then began to flood into Matalam on a large scale. As for the former slaves, they... are still slaves, but compared to the past, they are now slaves of the village community, undertaking heavy labor such as land reclamation, but even In this way, they still worked hard without complaint, because compared with the previous rulers, Ming Dynasty was kind and gave them a glimmer of hope for freedom.

As long as they work hard, learn Mandarin, and change their Chinese surnames, their descendants can become free people.

Freedom, even the most ignorant slave also longs for freedom.

Of course, freedom does not come without any price. Speaking official language and changing Chinese surnames are the way for these slaves to obtain freedom from Chinese customs. Undoubtedly, this is also a "gift" given to them by Ming Dynasty.

The demise of Matalan also had a great impact on the neighboring country Banten. Facing the annihilation of Matalan Sultan's family, Banten Sultan reacted very quickly. He immediately sent envoys to Nantianmen Meet the comfort envoy.Take the initiative to submit the letter of credence, whether it is a vassal or a land, as long as you can survive.

The weak in this era always know their position, but they can't do it if they don't know it. If they don't know it, what awaits them is a dead end.

Figured it out...

Well, he will die in various ways. Of course, he will definitely not die immediately, but sooner or later, he will definitely die.

"My lord, now that Wandan has succeeded, then Wandan Sultan..."

Fang Kongzhao said tentatively.

"Let him come here in person!"

Shi Yiwen said directly.

"In the future, he won't have to stay in Wandan anymore, and those so-called nobles, we can still afford to support them."

"Your Excellency, you mean to send it to Beigang?"

Shi Yiwen nodded and said.

"Yes, it is to send them to Beigang, and build a palace near the mountain to house them!"

Of course, when the time is right, these people will definitely die, and Shi Yiwen doesn't even need to arrange this matter, someone will naturally arrange this matter properly.

"Now Banten has surrendered, Aceh, and Johor, one by one, don't be in a hurry. In short, as long as we stand here, no one will be able to push us out of here. Sooner or later, This place will become another land of fish and rice in China."

For this future, Shi Yiwen has no doubts, he believes that he can do all this.Of course, in addition to Southeast Asia, he also has his ambitions for India and the other side of the ocean.

After all, every Chinese person has a strong land plot, and what Shi Yiwen needs to do now is to satisfy people's plot.

Ten years, 20 years... Fortunately, it's not too late now, it's only 1629.The so-called world is still in the age of great discoveries, and this age...is just right!

(End of this chapter)