The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 868

"..." Cornelis van der Leyen was dumbfounded.

The sea area between Singapore and Batam is [-] kilometers wide at its narrowest point. If the dry army does not pursue them and walks directly in the middle, the forts on both sides of them will be useless.

The guns of this era simply cannot hit this far.

Gan Jun doesn't play his cards according to the routine at all?
Shouldn't you pursue them and take advantage of the situation to land?

Hong Xu didn't care about him, and took about one-third of the fleet and walked directly through the middle.

The huge fleet slowly passed between Singapore and Batam, with Cornelis van der Leyen's nine coalition forces on both sides. They stared dumbfounded, and the artillery on the fort couldn't hit it.

Cornelis van der Leyen's face was ashen, of course he knew what Hong Xu would do next?
After sparing their turrets, land in the west, then their turrets will be useless, and their ships will be surrounded and annihilated on the sea, because Hong Xu only took one-third, and the other two-thirds were in the sea. The east side awaits them.

Now they are in a dilemma.

Seeing Hong Xu pass, Hong Xu will land on the west side in a while. If he goes out to fight, he will face the other two-thirds of the warships.

Hong Xu was crushing them with absolute strength. With warships, troops, artillery, and weapons all far ahead of them, Hong Xu didn't use any tactics and crushed them at will.

The only thing Cornelis van der Leyen could do at this time was to hide in the sea and see if the dry army could break through their fort by land.

As long as the dry army has nothing to do with their forts, their fleet can survive.

On the afternoon of the [-]th, Hong Xu went around to the west of Batam Island, and [-] soldiers landed with trebuchets.

The warship was still waiting at sea, and the infantry went to attack the fort first.

Cornelis van der Leyen had only built a fort nearby in the last year, and the fort was not large enough to withstand the attack of a large number of troops.

And the big dry gasoline bombs are the best for hitting the fort, and they are almost invincible.

Cornelis van der Leyen used naval guns to help at first, but when he saw the first wave of catapults thrown by the army, the fort was ablaze and screamed everywhere, and he knew he couldn't stand it anymore.

He immediately ordered all the fleet to run to Batavia.

Xilao was blocked in the east with two-thirds of the fleet, and the two sides fought again.

Cornelis van der Leyen wanted to run for his life, but didn't want to fight. The fleet was wiped out in less than an hour.

His flagship was hit by dozens of guns and was forced to surrender.

In the naval battle of Malacca, the coalition lost almost all warships and [-] troops.

Among them, more than 2000 died in battle, and [-] were captured alive, and Hong Xu arranged for them to mine.

After destroying the navy of the Netherlands and various ministries, Malacca has no power to resist Hong Xu.

The whole of Southeast Asia was under heavy artillery fire.

On the [-]th, the Dutch Indian Company announced that it would abandon all bases in Southeast Asia and prepare to return to Europe.

All their ports and bases in Southeast Asia would be handed over to Dagan in exchange for sixteen hundred prisoners and eleven ships to return home.

Hong Xu refused, because the Dutch fortress seemed to be empty under the attack of Dagan. He asked the Dutch to hand over all their wealth unconditionally, and Dagan released 63 middle and senior officers. The rest of the captives needed silver or gold from the East India Company. to change.

In return, the Dutch could return home with a ship.

Cornelis van der Leyen was very angry, but he could do nothing, because he knew that in Southeast Asia, Dagan was already invincible.

Especially after opening up Singapore, the southern province of Da'ao is also Dagan's territory. Dagan will completely connect these forces together, and no country or army can threaten them anymore.

The original words he wrote to the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company were: It is recommended to abandon all interests in Asia. No one can sanction Daqian except God and time. This is an unprecedentedly powerful empire, even more terrible than the Roman Empire back then. hundred times.

Hong Xu soon understood why His Majesty the Emperor had to occupy Southeast Asia. Apart from opening up the route connecting Da'ao Province, the wealth here was even more insane.

In the 17s, the Dutch monopolized the Banda Islands through bloody massacres. The Banda Islands are just north of Tai O Province and are rich in nutmeg.Since then, the monopoly of nutmeg has been controlled. In the 20s, the Netherlands gained the monopoly of cloves by destroying clove trees and cracking down on spice smuggling. Originally, in the 30s and 70s, they controlled the ports of Sumatra (Kingdom of Aceh), And got 80% of the monopoly of pepper.

Of course, all these things will be replaced by Ding Yi now.

How profitable are these businesses?

In the early 17th century, Venetian merchants purchased a spice island (Moluccas) from Indonesia's Spice Islands.
The ship's spices only cost about 3 pounds, and they can be sold for 000 pounds in the British market.The profits gained from the spice trade are very considerable.

But the use of spices at that time was not only for cooking seasoning, or to cover up the rancid smell of stale meat and vegetables, but more importantly, spices such as cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and pepper actually had medical value.

As an ingredient, nutmeg can appetize and disinfect, and make people appetite.In medicine, nutmeg can treat the stomach and intestines. When Europeans make chocolate, they grind nutmeg into powder and add it to chocolate to enhance the antidiarrheal function.

Nutmeg is also a folk medicine, and Indians use it to treat headaches and insomnia.The extracted cardamom oil can drive away wind, improve digestive function, prevent flatulence and so on.Cardamom paste has the effect of eliminating the swelling and pain of mosquito bites.After the British colonial government introduced the cultivation of nutmeg to Penang, cardamom, cardamom oil and cardamom paste are all special products of Penang.

On May [-]th, the Dutch took the lead in deciding to surrender unconditionally. The Batavia headquarters was handed over to Zhang Ding. , leaving Asia with food and water for three months.

Everyone was searched before boarding the boat, and not even a single silver coin could be taken away. All wealth belonged to Daqian.

In Batavia alone, Hong Xu looted silver and gold coins worth more than 400 million silver, as well as currencies from various countries.

Zhang Ding was temporarily appointed as the governor of Singapore and Malaysia, and also the commander-in-chief of Singapore.

Hong Xu gave him [-] soldiers and horses, and then Hong Xu led [-] soldiers and horses to fight Aceh (Sumatra), Yuan Youcai led people to fight Kaliman (Brunei), Ma Yue led people to fight Sulawesi (Indonesia), Zhang Ding directly fought Java (including later generations of Bali and East Timor).

These places were once under the gunboats of the Dutch, but now, they saw a more powerful Daqian.

Dagan has more and bigger ships than the Netherlands, the artillery fire is fiercer and more violent, and the soldiers are more and more ruthless.

All of Southeast Asia lives in fear.

By October, all ministries and ethnic groups surrendered one after another, sending precious gifts to Dagan to express their submission.

The Dagan people moved all the high-level nobles of all tribes and ethnic groups to Annan or Tai'ao, and the rest were poor ordinary people.

The common people continued to plant various spices, expanded the area of ​​spices and reduced the area of ​​grain fields.

In the future, Annan will have a large amount of grain shipped over, and the Dagan people will use the grain in exchange for their spices.

Losing a large amount of grain fields, if they want to survive, they must count on Dagan to transport grain continuously.

Hong Xu's first step was to reduce the output of the local grain fields, exchange Annan's grain for their spices, and control the local aborigines.

In the next step, within five to ten years, Dagan will immigrate a large number of Han Chinese here.

Later, the Han people hoarded the fields locally, and the aborigines were responsible for growing spices.

The next step is to abolish the local script, and all learn the Han language and script.

Strive to completely complete control within 20 years.

In November, special envoys and imperial edicts from the imperial court arrived there.

Zhang Ding was transferred back to the capital, Yuan Youcai was the governor of Singapore and Malaysia, and the commander-in-chief of Malacca (in charge of the defense of Singapore, Malaysia to Phuket, the former Aceh territory), and Chen Zhichang was the commander-in-chief of Batavia, (in charge of Bada Via and South Sumatra Province Defense), Wei Pingen is the Makassar General Army (responsible for Gamanli Province on the west of the Makassar Strait and Sulawesi Province on the east).

Considering that the local population is not large at this time and there is no threat, the Dutch can conquer here with a dozen ships and thousands of people.

Therefore, Ding Yi did not arrange many troops here.

Because it has Annan Province in the north, and Tai O Province in the south, all of which are now connected. If there is a war, both the North and the South can support it.

Therefore, the three chief soldiers of Xinma have only [-] soldiers each, and a total of [-] soldiers and horses. This is already several times that of the Dutch back then, and their control is unprecedentedly strong.

The Singapore-Malaysia area was divided into ten prefectures by Ding Yi, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore (the former territories of Malaysia and Singapore were divided into two.)
Where the Kingdom of Aceh is located, it is divided into North Sumatra and South Sumatra.

The Java region is divided into Bandung, Java, and East Emperor.

There are also Jiamanli House, Sulawesi House, and Maruk House.

The ten prefectures are temporarily managed separately by the garrison. Later, a large number of Han people will immigrate, and the Han people will be the local magistrates to form county government organizations for unified management.

It can be said that Dagan's management is much more effective and powerful than that of the Dutch.

The management of the Dutch is similar to that of Europe at this time. It is more of a feudal lord's nature.

But Ding Yi sent people directly from the central government to establish grass roots and manage them.

And in the next few decades, they will continue to immigrate and completely assimilate them.

So far, the entire east of Asia, except for the two kingdoms of Japan and Korea, belongs to Dagan.

There are also Oceania Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, which are not yet under Ding Yi's control.

These two places are now the colonists of the European states, and the former is temporarily occupied by the Portuguese. Of course, the occupation in this era is all about whoever arrives there first and then announces it.

After Portugal, in the eighteenth century, Britain and Germany successively declared occupation.

But this Papua New Guinea will still be an underdeveloped country in later generations, and now Ding Yi has no time to pay attention to him.

New Zealand was discovered by the Dutch in 1642. The Dutch attempted to land and were attacked by the local indigenous Maori.

At present, there is still no owner, and Ding Yi has no time to take care of it. We will wait until the fruits of Southeast Asia are stabilized.

(End of this chapter)