1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 156 Levying Aceh ([-])
All the residents of Jishuiwan City (now Simawei City, Indonesia) spent the night in panic.

The morning light was slightly dew, and the Han-Dutch coalition forces, which had been repaired all night, began to dispatch again on a large scale.

To the amazement of the mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company, a large group of Hanzhou marine soldiers and indigenous servants in navy blue uniforms began to knock on the doors of houses and dragged all the pretty women and girls in the house. They came out, and then escorted them out of the city one by one.

"Oh, God! If they do this, they will intensify the conflict between the residents of the city and us!" a Dutch officer murmured.

As a colonial officer, he was aware of the East India Company's colonial policy.When establishing a colony in the early stage, we will try not to do things that would intensify the local natives.

Now that they have occupied the port city of Aceh, they will definitely try their best to occupy it for a long time and control the Strait of Malacca.

But now Hanzhou soldiers wantonly plundered the women in the city, and then patted their buttocks and left.But the hatred sown was left to the Dutch colonists.

The organized looting of Rapid Water Bay by the Han and Dutch coalition forces lasted for six days. During this period, the Dutch fleet patrolling outside the harbor easily defeated the more than [-] Aceh navy patrolling here.Sunk and damaged more than ten ships, and the rest scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing towards Banda Aceh.I believe that in another five or six days, the rulers of the Kingdom of Aceh will know that their port has been attacked by the Dutch.

Since Jishuiwan City is close to the inland area and covered with forests and swamps, general large-scale support will not come from this direction.Then, the only way the Kingdom of Aceh can come to help is by sea.However, with the small sampans in Aceh, they couldn't even beat the Portuguese and the navy of the Kingdom of Malacca, let alone pose the slightest threat to the more than ten warships of the Netherlands.

In this battle, the biggest difficulty was the landing and capture of Jishuiwan City, and now both goals have been achieved.Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Bacona organized manpower to carry supplies onto the ship, and at the same time arranged for the army to drive the residents of Jishuiwan to repair the damaged city wall.They unloaded a dozen heavy guns from the ship and replaced the knocked out guns of the dock batteries.At the same time, I didn't forget to move a few artillery pieces and place them on the top of the city.

The following armed merchant ships returned to Batavia after unloading the cargo of defense supplies, loaded with all kinds of seized goods.At that time, they will re-ship some of the tamed Java natives, Chinese, and Malay laborers to this newly conquered port city to establish a formal settlement.As a result, the Dutch East India Company finally had a solid stronghold at the entrance of Malacca, and it took a crucial step to completely control the strait.

Qi Dajiang sent some sailors to take over the two captured Persian slave ships, carrying the captured Hanzhou and many Aceh women, and returned to Batavia with the armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company.Cao Xiong's "Kai Kai" and six Dutch naval warships patrolled the sea near the port, ready to respond to the naval rescue of the Kingdom of Aceh.

Marine soldiers and native servants continued to stay in Rapid Water Bay City, maintaining order in the city together with the Dutch Army.In this battle, the Marine Corps killed 11 people and injured 15 people, and the native servants died 18 people and injured [-] people, which is a [-]% loss.Most of the casualties were caused by the chaotic street fighting after entering the city.The bones of the dead and the wounded also went to Batavia with Qi Dajiang's "Xinghan", and returned to Hanzhou at the right time.

"Are you an intelligent man?" Niu Hu looked at this black and thin native, who hardly looked intelligent at all, and couldn't help but look up and down suspiciously.

"Returning to my lord, my ancestors were Ming people. They were first in the Kingdom of Johor, and then they were taken captive by Aceh, and they have multiplied to this day. Because the villain can speak some Chinese, he was appointed by the city lord to manage the trade at the port. Merchant." The native replied respectfully.

"What do you want me to do?" Niu Hu smiled. After several generations of inheritance, the descendants of the Ming people have become natives.

"The villain doesn't want to stay in Aceh." Nawlana said with her head down.

"Why?"

"The Dutch occupy the rapids, and they will definitely appoint the relatively docile Javanese. We, the original Aceh people, will be excluded. In the future, life will definitely be very difficult. The villain still has a wife and two children."

"Where do you want me to take you?" Niu Hu thought it was funny, you are a native, why do you think I will help you.Is it because your ancestors once had Ming blood?
"The villain wants to follow the adults!" Naurana raised his head and said expectantly: "My lord, you must be different from the Dutch. Are you Ming people?"

"We are Ming people." Niu Hu said: "But, we are not in Ming Dynasty!"

"...I want to go with you." Nawlana once heard from the older generation how rich Daming is and how broad-minded the people of Daming are, they are not as greedy and brutal as Westerners at all.

"..." Niu Hu looked at Nawlana fixedly, then shook his head.Our Hanzhou is the Hanzhou of the Han people. You are a barbarian native with no skills, so why take you there.

"My lord, I know that there is a treasury in the city!" Nawlana said eagerly upon seeing this.

"Huh?" Niu Hu was taken aback, "Isn't the official treasury all under our control?" All the government offices, official treasury and other places where valuable materials are stored were taken by the coalition forces at the first time, and there was a lot of gold in them. Silver and coins, the treasury you mentioned, shouldn't this be it.

"It's not the gold and silver from the official treasury." Nawlana shook his head and said, "It's the tax silver accumulated in the port for a year, and the gold nuggets excavated and extracted from the inland gold mines."

"Where is it?" Niu Hu became interested.

"In the quay, in the basement under the tax collector's office."

"Why put it on the pier outside the city?"

"In the past few days, this batch of gold and silver was supposed to be transported to Banda Aceh, waiting to be picked up by the navy patrolling here, so it was transported to the dock in advance for storage, and it was guarded by the city guards. But now..."

Now all the Aceh troops in Jishuiwan City were either killed at the pier and in the city, or were supervised by the Han-Dutch coalition forces to build fortifications in the city.

"Who else knows?"

"Almost all died. The commander of the guard died outside the city, and the tax collector was killed at home. The city owner should know that he was locked in the granary by you..."

Immediately Niu Hu stood up and said to Li Fade: "You guard the camp here. I will take him to report to the commander." Then, he grabbed Nawlana's arm, walked out of the house, and rushed to the pier at night.

"Treasury?" Cao Xiong was very interested after hearing Niu Hu's report.In order to keep the two Persian slave ships captured at the pier, and to rob Aceh women freely, he made a lot of concessions to the seizure allocated by the Dutch.Now hearing Niu Hu say that he found the temporary vault in Jishuiwan City at the pier, he couldn't help shouting, God has treated me well!Knowing that our Hanzhou is poor, I specially sent a windfall.

Greeted dozens of sailors, followed Niu Hu and Na Wulana to the tax bureau at the pier.

After opening the bombed government hall and finding the location of the basement, everyone started digging with shovels.After a while, the iron plate entrance to the basement was exposed.

After struggling, they pried open the iron plate and threw a torch into it. After observing for a while, they saw that there was no movement, and then several sailors jumped in.

"There's gold! There's plenty of coin!" shouted the sailor from below.

"Fucking shit, keep your voice down!" Cao Xiong scolded with a smile, "Be careful to attract the Dutchman." As he spoke, he also jumped in.

There are dozens of tin boxes in the basement of more than 30 square meters.Among them were eight boxes, which were filled with strips of refined gold nuggets, and the rest of the boxes were filled with all kinds of coins, Spanish, Dutch, Indian, Persian, Ottoman, and so on. It can be seen how many businessmen from various countries come to trade in this Jishuiwan port on weekdays.

Watching the marines and sailors bring up the gold and coins from the basement one by one, Cao Xiong patted the native on the shoulder with satisfaction, "In a few days, after we return, let's go aboard. "

"Thank you, sir!" Nawlana said gratefully, "I want to bring my family and relatives..."

"Okay, bring your family and relatives to the boat tomorrow." Cao Xiong said, "However, you still have to help us with one thing."

"What's up……"

"You know everyone who knows this vault, right?"

"The villain knows it."

"The dead are not counted, and the living ones will be identified one by one with our soldiers tomorrow."

"Ah?" Nawula looked at Cao Xiong in astonishment.

"Do a good job! When you arrive in Hanzhou, you can live the stable life you want."

Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona looked at the seized list cleared up by the company's business personnel with satisfaction, and made a rough estimate. The East India Company seized a total of about 50 to 60 guilders of precious metals and various items in this military operation. Class materials.And these are just the goods handed over to the company.These officers and the soldiers and sailors below each have their pockets full, far exceeding their annual salary.

Looting, especially looting a country, is indeed an act that can make people rich.However, this approach certainly cannot be used as a long-term behavior of the company.For example, decades ago, when the East India Company and the Kingdom of Johor attacked the Kingdom of Malacca, they suffered a disastrous defeat, losing a large amount of mercenaries and supplies, which almost caused the company's financial strain.

"Sir, Zhao, I sent someone to bring you a gift." The guard entered the door and reported to Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona.

"Oh, why did he give me a gift?" Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona asked suspiciously.

"Sir, my captain would like to express his gratitude to you for allowing him to take away a large number of women in the city." Second Lieutenant Andrew Florent walked into the room with a few soldiers of the Hanzhou Marine Corps, carrying two boxes.

"In addition, his subordinate accidentally killed the city lord. He apologized for that..." Second Lieutenant Andrew Florent said.

In the morning, a few soldiers from the Hanzhou Marine Corps broke into the granary in the official treasury. For some reason, they got into a dispute with the city owner of Jishuiwan who was imprisoned here.

"Wow!" Lieutenant Colonel Jemini Bacona casually opened a box, and saw that there were many coins from various countries, as well as some rhino horns and ivory, and the other box probably did the same.

No wonder, I always heard Colonel Aryan Van Dijk, the commander of the fleet, say, Chao is a very generous person.

Well, sure enough.

(End of this chapter)