The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 64 Sultan of Kedah
Sultan Muhammad Jewasa II of Kedah barely stood on the top of the Kangar city wall. If he had not tried hard to control himself, his legs would have started to tremble uncontrollably.

Half a month ago, he was still happy about the sudden influx of 20,000 tribesmen, thinking that he could rely on these people to reclaim some wasteland in the middle reaches of the Glass River.

It turned out that these people were not pie in the sky, but bait thrown by the devil. Before they could even start making specific arrangements, the soldiers came to kill them.

The Sultanate of Kedah sounds like a country, but in reality it is not that big and has even smaller population.

At this time, West Malaysia, which is the western part of Malaysia, was actually very desolate.

There are few flat lands in this area, and there are not many mineral resources except tin.

There are only a few acres of land for growing crops, but a heavy rain can often wash away the loose soil. When the old farmers in the Loess Plateau with low yields see this, they shed tears of sympathy.

Historically, it took another seventy or eighty years for West Malaysia to develop. After the colonists such as the Dutch and the British had free time, they began to deceive Chinese workers to come south and open plantations here.

At that time, the population of mainland China exploded to more than 300 million, and a large number of people could not survive. After the First Opium War, China was forced to open its doors, which provided objective conditions for the large-scale migration of Chinese to Southeast Asia.

A large number of Chinese workers were deceived and brought here, but they were left impoverished and unable to return home, so they could only struggle to survive in West Malaysia.

It was they, especially the large number of Fujian immigrants, who brought the technology of building terraces and mountain fields from their hometown to West Malaysia.

They leveled the land, built reservoirs, and dug canals, thus controlling the problem of topsoil that could be easily washed away by heavy rain in tropical areas. Only then did agriculture in West Malaysia begin to develop rapidly.

Only after agriculture is stabilized can the population increase steadily and other industries have the possibility of continuous development.

This is also the reason why there are so many Chinese in West Malaysia in later generations. Without these Chinese, it would not be because Mo Zibu looked down on the indigenous people.

Even if you give the indigenous people of West Malaysia another hundred years, they will not be able to accomplish these things.

This was the situation in West Malaysia at that time. Except for the Sultanate of Johor where Singapore was located, the rest of Kedah, Perak and Pahang were all dense forests with few people.

Take the Sultanate of Kedah ruled by Muhammad Jewa Shah II as an example, the total population was only 110,000.

The indigenous people can only eat rice for two or three months a year, and the rest of the time they basically rely on mangoes, pineapples, coconuts and fish to fill their stomachs.

For a country like this, if Mo Zibu didn't want to establish a secret base in Perlis in the future to prevent any accidents from happening when he went to Myanmar to kidnap people, he would not have bothered to spend the effort to fight.

However, the Sultan's son, Adullah, clearly disagreed.

“Your Majesty the Sultan, there are only a few hundred people outside, why should we agree to their rude demands?
We should fight back fiercely and let those Qinni people know that we are not to be trifled with."

As he spoke, Prince Adula glared fiercely at a man with slightly fair skin next to him.

This is also a Qinni who not only monopolizes the country's only industry - two large tin mines, but also covets his beautiful sister Roxana and wants to be exempted from taxes by becoming the Sultan's son-in-law.

What a delusion!

Prince Adullah, who had long regarded the Sultanate as his own property, would never allow the country to lose such a huge source of income.

That was a direct income of three hundred Batavia silver dollars per year, equivalent to about two hundred and seventy taels of Qing silver.

"Oh! Does my son have any way to repel these Qinni people?"

After hearing what his son said, he looked at the Qinni people outside. Although they had an aura that was not easy to mess with, it seemed that their numbers were indeed a little small.

"Of course!" Prince Adula patted his chest and assured:
“There are two hundred warriors in the city. After the alarm bell is sounded, at least two thousand people can be gathered outside the city within an hour.

2,300 warriors against 400 Qinni people, isn't that easy! "

Ye Fengchang on the side was about to speak, but Sultan Muhammad Jewasa II had already nodded in agreement. That’s right, five against one, how can they not win?
Ye Fengchang rolled his eyes and could only remind him, "Your Highness, these Han people are from western Guangdong. They just want to rent Glass City as a supply port.

As long as we agree to their request and return the 20,000 people who have escaped, we can avoid fighting." The Sultan was tempted to do so when he heard Ye Fengchang say this, but Prince Adullah immediately stepped forward to stop him.

"No, it's not that easy. These people are already citizens of Kedah. How can we just give them away so easily?"

When Sultan Muhammad Jewasa II heard this, he was indeed reluctant to do so. This was a good opportunity to increase the population by one-fifth!
Ok.

Ye Fengchang could only give a final reminder: "These people are from western Guangdong and are not close to me. If we see blood, it won't end so easily."

Ye Fengchang's ancestral home is Foling, Tongan, which belongs to Xiamen.

According to the division of Nanyang at that time, he belonged to the Minnan clan of Zhangquanxia, and was indeed not very close to Mo Zibu, a Cantonese whose ancestral home was in western Guangdong.

But this was just an appearance. Mozibu was not here to destroy the Sultanate of Kedah. He just came to ask for a place to build a supply station and blackmail Sultan Muhammad Jewasa II.

So before taking an offensive stance, Mo Zibu had already contacted Ye Fengchang, and the two sides quickly reached an agreement.

Ye Fengchang was responsible for intimidating Sultan Muhammad Jewasa II into paying a large sum of money, and then renting the Glass Harbour, which is still a small fishing village, to Mozibu.

Mo Zibu cooperated with Ye Fengchang's actions, allowing him to take the credit for saving the Sultan of Kedah from a great disaster.

He then used his achievements to propose marriage to the Sultan and married the Sultan's daughter Roxana so that the Ye family could continue to take root in the territory of the Sultan of Kedah.

As a result, when it was almost successful, Prince Adula insisted on intervening.

. . . .

The jingling alarm bells rang out on the top of Kangar City. Not long after, the villages inhabited by the indigenous people began to boil.

A large number of fishermen and farmers, armed with strange Malay swords, small machetes, and even harpoons and short javelins, came over in a mighty force, led by the village chief.

At that time, there were many pristine jungles and mountains in the territory of the Kedah Sultanate, so although there were only 110,000 to 120,000 people, the population was relatively concentrated.

For example, the cities of Kangar and Boli are less than eight kilometers apart. Therefore, after hearing the alarm bell from the royal city of Kangar, the people came quickly.

Chen Guangyao simply sat there and didn't get up. On his left were sixty fellow townsmen of the Xianyou pirate Chen Xu and more than sixty servants of the Wang family.

On the right were the two hundred Annan volunteers led by Wu Wenyong, the Egg Breaker, and he himself brought more than fifty red-coat and silver-sword soldiers from the Chen family.

As for the main force, it is still near Songkhla and has not moved yet, waiting for Chen Guangyao to capture several thousand people and use these natives to transport weapons, gunpowder, food and other supplies.

"Who hits the left side and who hits the right side?" Chen Guangyao took a big bite of a piece of dried mango, grinning at the sour taste, and then asked with some boredom.

These natives are so weak that they are reluctant to add honey, sugar or other such things when pickling mangoes.

Thinking that he wouldn't gain much credit or benefit from being defeated, Chen Guangyao lost his fighting spirit.

Wu Wenyong looked to both sides. There were about a thousand people on the left and about seven or eight hundred people on the right.

If you want to fight, of course you have to choose more, so that you can get more credit.

But the Xianyou pirate Chen Xu was much smarter than him. While Wu Wenyong was still choosing, Chen Xu had already led more than a hundred of his men and charged directly towards the more than a thousand natives on the left.

"Fuck you!" Wu Wenyong rolled his eyes and cursed in Chinese.

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