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A total of 1200 infantry were dispatched, of which 400 were the Dutch Army, and the remaining 800 were all Javanese native servants.

And China's diplomatic note has not yet been sent.

The gold seal of King Nanbawa engraved by the Ministry of Rites has just been brought to Guangzhou by the envoy.However, the letter of credence of Sultan Nanbawa has been presented, and he has essentially become a vassal state of China.

The Dutch army came outside the city of Nanbawa.

The sultan of the country turned pale with fright, and quickly sent people out of the city to shout: "Nanbawa has surrendered to China, we are China's vassals, attacking us is a war with China!"

The Dutch general who returned from the victory in Sri Lanka didn't care about so many, and immediately ordered: "Either submit to the Netherlands, hand over the gold mines, and allow the Netherlands to preach here. Or accept the bombardment!"

After bombardment for several days in a row, Sudan couldn't bear it anymore, and actually went out of the city to surrender.

The Chinese envoys also took the king's golden seal and came to the nearby waters by boat.

The Dutch warship came, and the two sides communicated with each other. The Chinese envoy was a little speechless: the king he was ordered to enshrine had actually returned to the Netherlands.

If one daughter does not marry two husbands, one country cannot have two genus.

How should this be calculated?

Chapter 816 [The envoys who hold the festival are all ruthless people]

Liu Hanyi was born in the former Ming Dynasty. If Zhao Han hadn't changed history, he would have died fighting the Qing Dynasty in Licheng, Shandong.

"Angel Liu, do you want to return to Beijing immediately?" Captain Zhang Yue asked.

Liu Hanyi slammed the scepter on the deck, and the scepter swayed endlessly.He stared at the Dutch warship in the distance, gritted his teeth, and said, "Nah, wow, I have become a vassal of the Netherlands. Why should I go back to Beijing to recover my life? If Kuang Hong was sent to Nanyang, if he can take the city of Malacca, I can take that Badawi." Ya! Do you want to become a marquis at sea?"

From Zhang Dai to Liu Xiangke, and then from Liu Xiangke to Kuang Hong, they all made meritorious service and were promoted as envoys.

In particular, Kuang Hung gathered the armies of various countries in the South Seas and captured Malacca in one fell swoop, and was promoted to Governor of Palembang.This incident has irritated many Honglu Temple officials, Liu Hanyi is now full of anger, how can he have the face to go back to Nanjing in despair?What he wanted was not to occupy Nanbawa, but to take down Batavia directly.

Zhang Yue was tempted by the words of "Marquis of the Sea", and wanted to join in the trouble, and asked, "Then go to Luzon and move reinforcements?"

But Liu Hanyi said: "Go to Tong'an, Fujian first!"

Zhang Yue didn't know why, so he asked, "What are you doing in Tong'an?"

Liu Hanyi said: "It is impossible for the imperial court to mobilize troops on a large scale. At most we can mobilize the troops of Luzon and Palembang. This force is not enough to defeat Batavia, so we can only win by strategy. There is an old gentleman in Tong'an who can help Make an idea."

"Could it be that there are crouching dragons and phoenix chicks in Tong'an County?" Zhang Yue asked curiously.

Liu Hanyi complained: "You have watched too much "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"."

……

Fujian, Quanzhou Prefecture, Tong'an County.

Su Minggang lived in a mansion in the country. The original owner was executed by public trial when he divided the land in Fujian because of plundering and plundering.

"My lord, the angel is here!"

Su Minggang was basking in the sun while squinting, when the butler rushed in and shouted in an excited tone.

Angel?

Su Minggang was overjoyed, could it be that Shangda Tianting was praised by the emperor because of his donation to help his education?Or, it was the report on Batavia that won him the emperor's favor?

He stood up tremblingly, and said, "Help me quickly to meet the angel!"

Su Minggang is 73 years old, and his body is still in good health.He put on his glasses as he walked, and sure enough, in the living room, he saw an imperial envoy holding a scepter.

The emperor's envoys do not use a scepter in the country.

Then, the angel in front of him must be going to sea to handle errands.

Su Minggang thought about it, cupped his hands and said: "I pay my respects to Master Angel!"

"You're very polite, old man," Liu Hanyi held the other's hands and said in a low voice, "Please screen back to the left and right."

Su Minggang understood immediately, and ordered: "You all go down."

There were only two people left in the house, Liu Hanyi closed the door herself, and watched the idlers wait for them to leave.

Su Minggang asked: "The angel wants to attack Bacheng (Batavia)?"

Liu Hanyi was surprised and said: "The old man knows things like a god!"

Su Minggang shook his head and said with a smile: "I have no other skills, but I am familiar with Bacheng. The angel is holding a scepter, and it seems that he is going to go overseas as an envoy. The combination of these two things means that he is going to attack Bacheng."

"It's really a Dutchman, and there's that Nanbawa Sultan, who has gone too far this time, completely ignoring the Celestial Dynasty!" Liu Hanyi began to explain the specific reasons.

After hearing this, Su Minggang asked, "How many troops can the Celestial Dynasty send?"

Liu Hanyi said: "There are 3000 garrisons in Luzon and 500 garrisons in Palembang. It is impossible to use all the troops in these two places. There can be more than 2000 soldiers for the siege. Of course, Manila and Palembang The fleet can also provide some naval soldiers. If it is not enough, we can go to Malacca to borrow [-] troops."

Su Minggang was stunned: "Bacheng is the lair of Dutch ghosts, how can this little force be enough?"

"That's why I came to ask the old man for advice. This battle must use strategy, and it needs the help of the Han people in Bacheng." Liu Hanyi showed a fox-like smile.

Su Minggang had studied in a private school and also learned martial arts. Because of his family's decline, he went to sea to make a living in his teens.

34 years ago, the Netherlands occupied Batavia.At that time, Su Minggang had already started from scratch, owned a sea-going ship of his own, and owned land on the outskirts of Batavia.He helped the Dutch transport the Han people to build the city. Because of his generosity and righteousness, he stood out among many ship owners and was unanimously supported by the Han people.

Therefore, Su Minggang was appointed by the governor of the Netherlands as Kapitan to manage the civil affairs of the Han people in Batavia, and he was also asked to handle disputes between the Han people.Immediately afterwards, he was appointed as a member of the Council of Batavia.

Historically, he resigned from Jiapitan in the eighth year of Chongzhen and returned to his hometown to return to his roots.But when he arrived in Taiwan, he heard that Fujian was strictly investigating those who went to sea. He was so frightened that he stayed in Taiwan for three years, and had no choice but to return to Batavia to die.

What about this guy?

They must have cheated their compatriots, but they have indeed won a lot of benefits for the Han people in Batavia.At the same time, it also has an excellent relationship with the Dutch.He even took pride in this, hanging lanterns at the gate of his mansion in Bacheng, with the words "Founding Father" written on the lanterns, thinking that he assisted the Dutch in establishing a foundation.

In this time and space, Su Minggang returned to China smoothly, and spent money to buy the mansion left by the evil gentry, and even got a few acres of land without paying the money.

One of his sons was brought back to the country. He started as an official and is now a seventh-rank official.The other children and grandchildren continued to operate industries in Batavia, mainly doing trade and opening plantations.

He also took the initiative to write a report detailing the situation in Batavia, and all Honglu Temple officials had read the report.

Facing Liu Hanyi's request for help, Su Minggang said: "My son is in Bacheng, and he often writes back. These years, Bacheng is different from when I was doing Jiapidan."

Liu Hanyi quickly asked: "What's the difference?"

Su Minggang said: "The Dutch lost Taiwan and suddenly lost the source of sugar. They wanted to do sugar business again, so they encouraged the Han people to plant sugar, and even captured the indigenous people and sold them to the Han people as serfs at a low price. The Han people reclaimed large forests to grow sugar cane. At the beginning, everyone was very happy to get what they needed, and gradually the Dutch showed their true nature. The Han people are prohibited from selling sugarcane privately, and the Han people are forbidden to open sugar mills privately, and the price of sugarcane is also lowered. The Han people who grow sugarcane are very dissatisfied with this. These Han people, But they are all big landlords!"

"If you are dissatisfied, you can contact me. Please continue to talk, Mr. Liu Hanyi said happily.

Su Minggang said: "When I was working as a kapitan, I tried my best to ease the relationship between the Dutch and the Han people, and tried to help the Han people to speak. After I left, I changed to a kapitan, and it completely changed. The Datong Army and the Netherlands have repeatedly During the war, the Netherlands became more and more distrustful of the Han people, so they only picked out those who had their own way of life as Jiapidan. Now this Jiapidan raises thugs and oppresses compatriots, and the Han people have been dissatisfied with it for a long time.”

"This person must be killed before we can unite the Han people in Bacheng." Liu Hanyi said.

Su Minggang also said: "At the beginning of the establishment of Bacheng, there was an extreme shortage of food. So the Han shipowners were invited to transport more Han people to encourage the Han people to reclaim the suburbs. The Han people who were the first to reclaim the land have now become landlords and no longer work in the fields themselves. The Han landlords also learned from the missionaries and set up plantations in the suburbs, so-called farms, and bought indigenous people as serfs. There are more and more plantations, and they are getting farther and farther away from the city of Batavia. They were plundered by Banten bandits, and the plantations were burned one after another. The Han landlords asked the Dutch to send troops, but the Banten bandits ran away after robbing and burning them. Let the Bandan bandits plunder the Han farms."

Liu Hanyi thought about it: "Sir, you are saying that the big Han landlords in Banten, because sugar cane was undervalued, and they ignored it because they were plundered, have already alienated themselves from the Dutch."

"That's it." Su Minggang nodded.

Liu Hanyi asked again: "What else?"

Su Minggang said: "The last time the Chinese Empire signed a contract with the Netherlands, the Netherlands shall not tax the Han people in Bacheng differently. The Netherlands did keep its promise, but it contracted the poll tax to Jiapitan. Jiapitan is a Han. It does not violate the contract between the two countries. The Han people in Bacheng are even more angry because of this, thinking that the Dutch have turned their backs on their promises. As long as the Chinese army is dispatched, ordinary Han people will help fight. As long as the Han landlords outside the city give enough preferential treatment promises, they will definitely I am willing to sell grain to the Datong Army. If the Datong Army is besieging the city with 3000 people, there is no need to worry about two years of military food, and you can buy it from the Han landlords.”

"Great kindness!" Liu Hanyi said happily.

Su Minggang said again: "The dog sent a letter, and a big event happened last year."

Liu Hanyi quickly said, "Please tell me, old man."

Su Minggang said: "Bacheng has a total of 21 types of taxes, 17 of which are contracted to the Han people for collection. Every New Year's Day, at the Jiapitan mansion, bid for these contracted taxes. It changed last year!"

"Changed?" Liu Hanyi asked.

Su Minggang said: "The tax-included bidding was moved from the mansion of Kapitan to Batavia Castle. There was an employee of the Dutch East India Company who married the widow of a Javanese aristocrat and connected with other councilors. He acted recklessly during the bidding. 17 One of the tax types of the Han people was taken away by the Javanese nobles. Although the other two types of taxes were won by the Han people, the winning bidders were relatives of Kapitan who was a dog for the Netherlands. dissatisfied."

"Wonderful!" Liu Hanyi laughed.

Su Minggang said: "The old man can write a letter and give it to Quanzi when the angel sends troops to Bacheng. Quanzi will contact the rich Han merchants and landlords in Bacheng. We are unable to help the Datong army attack the city, but as long as the Datong army is willing to pay, we will guarantee Provide rations for [-] soldiers for two years. We can also enlist thousands of civilians to be peasants for the Datong Army, helping to cut down trees, dig ditches, and fill trenches.”

Liu Hanyi stood up and cupped her hands: "Thank you for your righteousness, old man. After the matter is completed, I will definitely ask for credit for old man."

"No, I just need to spend my old age in my hometown." Su Minggang was actually dissatisfied with the Netherlands.After he left Batavia, the tea was cold, and the new Kapitan was in Batavia to get his hands on the property he left for his son.

The next day.

Liu Hanyi carried Su Minggang's handwritten letter in his arms, held a scepter, and boarded the ship again. He still had to persuade the Governor of Luzon and the Governor of Palembang to send troops.

Chapter 817 [Zhang Huangyan]

Manila.

Zhang Huangyan, governor of Luzon, personally went to the pier to meet the emperor's envoy.

After some politeness, Liu Hanyi was taken to the governor's mansion, which is the castle left by the Spaniards.

Before entering the castle, I heard cheers and shouts from the northeast of the city.

"Da da da da!"

As soon as they came riding on a fast horse, the soldiers got off their horses, cupped their hands and said to Zhang Huangyan, "Reporting to the General Command, our army has won a complete victory. Only 6 people were slightly injured, 1 person was seriously injured, and 1 person was bitten to death by a poisonous snake. Five barbarian villages, more than 5 barbarians were killed, and more than 300 barbarians were captured!"

"it is good!"

Zhang Huangyan was very happy.

Liu Hanyi asked curiously: "There are often wars in Lu Song?"

Zhang Huangyan explained: "The barbarians in this conquest often attacked the farms of the Han people, and occasionally attacked the indigenous tribes close to the government. The previous governor mainly focused on appeasement, but who knew that the barbarians made an inch of progress. The governor couldn't bear it and launched an army crusade."

"I see." After hearing this, Liu Hanyi became more confident in persuading Zhang Huangyan to send troops.

Zheng Guozhong, the former governor of Luzon, only sent troops once during his seven years in office.Its main energy is busy with resettling the Han people, educating the aborigines, building ports, building roads, and digging canals. The small frictions on the periphery of the site are often resolved by peaceful means.

Today's Zhang Huangyan is obviously much tougher, and he sent troops directly after only half a year in office.

Afraid of being misunderstood by the emperor's envoy, Zhang Huangyan said in more detail: "The natives of Luzon Island are mainly Tagalogs. These Tagalogs are scattered into large and small tribes, and they have no affiliation with each other. They said People with the same language can farm and weave, and the closer they are to the sea, the easier it is to be civilized. But the more they go to the mountains, the more unruly they are. Every year, they plunder the Han people’s farms, and even hunt the heads of the Han people. The Han people on the border can’t bear it anymore. Even if I don’t send troops, those Han landlords will unite to conquer.”

Tagalog is the main ethnic group in Luzon.

Tagalog is very close to Miyako.The Miyako Islands, located between Taiwan and Ryukyu, are currently under the jurisdiction of Ryukyu County.

The Tagalog people are deeply influenced by Indian culture, and at the same time have been in contact with the Han people for a long time.The Tagalog people in the coastal areas are extremely civilized and good at planting and weaving. They cannot be regarded as ordinary barbarians. As long as schools are popularized, a large area of ​​Sinicization can be achieved in two or three generations.

Liu Hanyi asked to see the triumphant return of the army, and Zhang Huangyan took him to the northeast of the city.

Small boats returned with soldiers and luggage.There were also sergeants on the bank, leading the prisoners along the river, and many female prisoners were crying.

The [-] Datong Army stationed in Luzon have brought their families to settle here.Each person gets a full quota of [-] mu of land, and a few family members get hundreds of mu of land. It can be said that all of them belong to small landlords.If there is a battle loss, recruit troops from the local Han people to supplement.

The armor of the soldiers has also changed, and they no longer wear cotton armor, because it is too hot and not suitable for combat in tropical areas.Now they wear all chain armor and chain helmets, and wear a sunshade bamboo hat, and also wear a standard coir raincoat on rainy days. The [-]% armor rate is enough to crush the aborigines.

Liu Hanyi asked: "How to deal with those prisoners?"

Zhang Huangyan replied: "Priority is sold to soldiers as tenants (essentially serfs), and the rest are sold to local Han people. Children are raised in orphanages and become Han people when they grow up. It's not that the government can't govern benevolently, but It is this kind of barbarians who are afraid of prestige and do not obey virtue, and plunder farms again and again. Now that they have sent troops, of course they must be done once and for all, and they must not let the captives go back to the mountains."

"That's true." Liu Hanyi echoed.

Liu Hanyi pointed at the boat operators again, and asked, "The oarsmen are dark-skinned, aren't they Han Chinese?"

Zhang Huangyan said: "Most of them belong to Pampanga people. When Spain ruled here, the indigenous servants were all Pampanga people. They can speak Chinese and Spanish. In the Battle of Manila, most of the Pampanga soldiers were killed, and the rest were all loyal. Subordination. This race is very obedient, and more than 2000 people have naturalized into Han people one after another. They are afraid that the government will not trust them, so they convert to Mazu one after another, and they even speak Chinese at home.”

To put it bluntly, it was Mu Qiang.

I used to serve as lackeys for Spain and collectively converted to Catholicism.Now they are acting as lackeys for China and collectively convert to Taoism. The Datong Army came to Luzon, and the most killed were the Pampanga people. The more they were killed, the more they would obey the Han rule!

Today, among the people of Pampanga, being able to speak Chinese can give them an edge over others, and they walk with wind on their feet.On any occasion, they deliberately speak Chinese to show off, and the spread of Chinese is very fast.

Other tribes still need the persuasion and enlightenment of the government.

The Pampanga people actually took the initiative to accept enlightenment and asked the government to allow their children to enter the school.

Liu Hanyi asked while walking: "Can the natives of Luzon have writing?"

Zhang Huangyan explained: "There were books in the past that were destroyed by the Spaniards. As long as there were books written in the local language, the Spaniards would burn them all, which paved the way for us to educate the aborigines."

Some tribes in Luzon really gave birth to writing, but they did not create it entirely by themselves, but borrowed part of Indian writing.

After the Spanish colonization, the Luzon language was completely banned, leaving only some oral literature, such as oral epics, dramas, myths, riddles, proverbs and so on.The Ifugao people, who are good at terraced fields, still have narrative poems such as "Ali Gurong" and "Hunting Song".

After inspecting the triumphant troops, Zhang Huangyan brought Liu Hanyi into the city again.

Zhang Huangyan pointed to the block in front of him and said: "When the Spaniards were here, each ethnic group had to live in separate areas. Now the city must live in a mixed way to facilitate the assimilation of the ethnic groups."

"This way of governance is prone to chaos." Liu Hanyi expressed concern.

Zhang Huangyan explained: "Small disputes continue, but there are no major disturbances. Because in the city, the number of Han people is the largest. Every block has a police station. Out of ten policemen, eight are Han Chinese. There are two remaining police officers. to other ethnic groups in the neighborhood."