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Chapter 626 The Great Chu Empire Doesn’t Like To Declare War
With the joint efforts of the army and navy of the Great Chu Empire to take down the city of Malacca, a series of military operations of the Great Chu Empire in the Nanyang region came to an end.

This war aimed at controlling the Strait of Malacca began preparations last year, and this spring began to mobilize troops and supplies on a large scale, and it was officially launched in the summer.

It lasted until autumn, and the curtain finally came to an end in mid-October.

Strictly speaking, the war is not over yet. For example, the Kingdom of Aceh and the Great Chu Empire are still at war, and the two sides have not signed any armistice agreement.

At the same time, strictly speaking, the war between the Great Chu Empire and the Portuguese East India Company was still going on. The final surrender of the Portuguese in Malacca only represented themselves, but not the entire Portuguese East India Company.

However, these are only theoretical states. In fact, after the Portuguese lost the city of Malacca, they had lost all their colonial strongholds in the Nanyang region. If they wanted to continue fighting the Great Chu Empire, they could only start from Ceylon or India Troops were mobilized on the peninsula to cross the Indian Ocean and ran over to fight the Great Chu Empire.

But anyone who thinks about it with their brains knows that this is unlikely.

What's more, the situation of the Portuguese East India Company is very bad. They have been strongly suppressed by the Dutch all over the world, and Ceylon and other colonies on the Indian Peninsula are also facing Dutch attacks.

The reason why the city of Malacca has been short of troops for a long time and cannot receive reinforcements is largely due to the fact that the Dutch beat the Portuguese too hard. The Portuguese were even forced to deploy troops from the city of Malacca to reinforce Ceylon.

In addition, the other colonies of the Portuguese in the Nanyang region were not fought by the Great Chu Empire, but were successively captured by the Dutch in recent years.

In dealing with the Portuguese, the Great Chu Empire and the Dutch were actually allies. Although they did not form an alliance and did not discuss with each other, they had a tacit understanding to carve up the colonies of the Portuguese.

Therefore, the Portuguese East India Company was no longer able to organize its forces to fight the Great Chu Empire, and the next step was nothing more than all kinds of wrangling and threats after negotiations.

Let's talk about the Kingdom of Aceh. In fact, since the Kingdom of Aceh lost the Malay Peninsula, it quickly recognized the reality and began to send envoys to the Great Chu Empire to discuss the truce.

It's just that the conditions between the two sides have not yet been negotiated, so a relevant armistice agreement has not been reached.

However, in fact, the Aceh Kingdom has no courage at all, nor does it have the strength to continue fighting with the Great Chu Empire. As for the Great Chu Empire, it has no interest in the western part of Sumatra Island, or it is temporarily unable to deal with it. The problem of the Kingdom of Aceh.

Therefore, the Great Chu Empire has no interest in continuing to actively attack the homeland of the Aceh Kingdom.

This has also led to the fact that the two sides are still in a state of negotiation for a de facto truce.

After the conditions between the two sides are negotiated, it is estimated that the state of war will end.

But it may not be easy to negotiate a deal... It's not that the Kingdom of Aceh wants to retain power in the Malay Peninsula, but the Great Chu Empire has too much appetite...

For the truce negotiations, the Great Chu Empire issued a series of very harsh conditions.

For specific conditions, you can refer to the original conditions for the Kingdom of Siam, including paying tribute, accepting the canonization of the Great Chu Empire, and ceding all the territory of the Malay Peninsula to the Great Chu Empire.

These conditions are only the most basic. If the Great Chu Empire had only these conditions, the Aceh Kingdom would have signed the treaty long ago.

It is a pity that these conditions are only the most basic preconditions. In fact, the Great Chu Empire also proposed a series of conditions.

For example, indemnity of 300 million Chu Yuan, although this price is a pure lion's mouth, but it is higher than the price paid to the Kingdom of Siam in the past few years. You must know that the Great Chu Empire initially offered compensation to the Kingdom of Siam The price is only 1000 million Chu Yuan.

The price of this indemnity, even if it is discounted in half, is 650 million. This price may not be a big deal for the Great Chu Empire, but for a small indigenous country like the Aceh Kingdom, it is a real sky-high price... I guess You have to live frugally for many years to pay back.

In addition to the compensation, the Great Chu Empire also proposed that the Aceh Kingdom cede Wei Island so that the Great Chu Empire could establish a ship supply base here, so as to enter and exit the Indian Ocean, and facilitate trade with the Aceh Kingdom.

To put it bluntly, the Great Chu Empire wanted to build a military base in the northern part of Sumatra Island to station warships to deter the Kingdom of Aceh, and at the same time assist the naval ports in the Beijia area to block the waters off the west end of Malacca.

Then, if a naval base is established here, it is equivalent to choking half of the neck of the Dutch... The Dutch ships in the East Indies passed through the Sunda Strait, took the south coast of Sumatra, and headed for the Indian Peninsula.

The Kingdom of Aceh is just to the west of Sumatra Island, and Wei Island is a small island to the west of the Kingdom of Aceh.

For this condition, the Aceh Kingdom is naturally unwilling to agree. They don't want to have the fleet of the Great Chu Empire Navy stationed at their doorstep for a long time, so why don't they sleep peacefully...

The Kingdom of Aceh refused to agree, and the Great Chu Empire proposed to rent a piece of land directly on the coast of their capital as a military base... The Kingdom of Aceh was even more speechless. They didn't even want Wei Island, let alone the coastal port of the capital. up.

They said that part of the land in the concession can be used to build commercial buildings and conduct trade, but it is absolutely impossible to directly build a large military base, station a main fleet, or even add thousands of troops.

In the end, I went back to the island of Wei. After the military base of the capital of the Aceh Kingdom that the Great Chu Empire wanted failed, the Aceh Kingdom actually made some concessions on the cession of the Wei Island in order to anger the Great Chu Empire too much. .

Anyway, that place is more important geographically, but it doesn't have any rich products, so the loss won't be too big if it is really ceded.

In addition to the issue of territory and indemnity, the Great Chu Empire also demanded the right of military access; sent consultants to supervise the military power of the Aceh Kingdom; asked the Aceh Kingdom to send its prostitutes to Jinling for marriage; asked the Aceh Kingdom to severely punish the main fighters; In order to ensure the smooth repayment of compensation, it is required to directly manage the customs agency of the Kingdom of Aceh; the Kingdom of Aceh is required to fully open the market, and to negotiate import and export tariffs. The tariff for the goods of the Great Chu Empire shall not exceed 5.00%.

In short, there are a lot of messy conditions, if the Kingdom of Aceh really agrees to all of them, it will be no different from becoming a puppet state.

Because the conditions of the Great Chu Empire are relatively harsh, the negotiations between the Aceh Kingdom and the Great Chu Empire are also relatively difficult, but... it is just a difficult process. No matter what, the Aceh Kingdom must obtain an armistice agreement for itself and formally The end of the war with the Great Chu Empire.

Otherwise, no one knows when the Great Chu Empire will attack.

You know, the army of the Great Chu Empire has landed in the eastern part of Sumatra and has begun to take over the original territory and vassal state of the Johor Kingdom.

In this case, the Great Chu Empire did not even need to engage in any cross-sea landing operations, and could directly send troops from the east of Sumatra to attack the Kingdom of Aceh.

In order to avoid the real subjugation of the country, even if the conditions are harsher, the Kingdom of Aceh has to bite the bullet and negotiate, and try to protect its own interests as much as possible, at least not to completely become a puppet country.

The negotiation between the Aceh Kingdom and the Great Chu Empire is very important for the Aceh Kingdom, but for the Great Chu Empire... this matter is not even eligible to be discussed in the imperial council meeting.

The negotiations with the Aceh Kingdom were basically handled by the Nanyang Governor's Yamen, and the bigwigs in Jinling didn't care about the life and death of the Aceh Kingdom at all.

When the bigwigs from Jinling held a meeting to discuss the situation in Nanyang, they only had the Strait of Malacca in their eyes, as for those messy indigenous countries.

Except for the Kingdom of Siam, Annan, and Burma, which are countries bordering the Great Chu Empire, which are more valued by them, there are many other countries in Southeast Asia, especially those countries on the archipelago, which they often don't pay much attention to.

This is from the fact that when the Great Chu Empire formulated these battle plans in this war, the high-level officials of the Great Chu Empire’s army and navy never considered that the three kingdoms of Johor, Aceh, and the Portuguese were deadly rivals. The Triangle War has been fought for hundreds of years.

But the Great Chu Empire didn't care about the relationship between them, but regarded them all as enemies, and pushed them all over.

Another point is that there are too many countries in various messes in the Nanyang area. The Department of Confucian Affairs of the Ministry of Rites and Education of the Great Chu Empire has not figured out how many countries there are on the Nanyang Islands until now.

In this war, the Great Chu Empire wiped out more than a dozen so-called indigenous royal families in the Malay Peninsula and the eastern part of Sumatra... Many so-called royal families are just a larger village long.

Later, the Great Chu Empire didn't even bother to make a distinction. Anyway, they pushed all the way across, and all the resistance forces they encountered were wiped out.

This is also the tragedy of small countries these days... What you think is very important, but in the eyes of those powerful countries, it is just a trivial matter.

The life and death of a small indigenous country aroused public opinion in Jinling City, not even as great as the reaction caused by a pregnant bitch in a certain dignitary's family.

It sounds like shit, but it's reality!
This is not only the case in this time and space, but also in the 21st century in the original time and space. How many people in the powerful countries in the 21st century really pay attention to the situation of those weak and small countries?

Many people don't even know that Burkina Faso is there... There have been two military coups in this country this year, and don't think it's just a big booger country. In fact, this country has a population of 2000 million.

A weak country with a population of 2000 million, continuous coups and conflicts, but no one cares about it in the outside world, especially in the major powers.

However, if there is any disturbance in a big country, it will immediately become the news of the media around the world, and the people are keen to discuss it.

The reality is such an exaggeration. When the gap between countries reaches a certain level, they are just like the rich and the poor. Although they live on the same earth, they live in different worlds.

Even the air you breathe is different!
The Kingdom of Aceh was ignored by the high-level officials of the Great Chu Empire, but at least there were people from the Nanyang Governor's Yamen and the Department of Civil Affairs of the Ministry of Ethics and Education to take care of them.

Otherwise, they wouldn't even be able to find someone to negotiate with...

After several months of arduous negotiations between the two sides, mainly after repeated entanglements on the part of the Aceh Kingdom, the two sides finally reached a formal armistice agreement and signed it.

This agreement is the "Treaty of Chuya North Year". The main content of the treaty is similar to the Chu Siam Bangkok Treaty signed by the Kingdom of Siam at the beginning.

However, the right of military passage, the dispatch of consultants, and the like have not been achieved.

In fact, the Great Chu Empire didn't care much about it. Anyway, the Great Chu Empire had already obtained what it wanted, and the rest was just a matter of convenience. It didn't matter if it could get more benefits.

In the formal agreement, the Kingdom of Aceh paid 420 million Chu Yuan in compensation, because they could not afford so much money themselves, so they directly borrowed from the Great Chu Empire Finance Bank, and had to bear an additional high handling fee and interest.

In order to ensure the repayment, the Great Chu Empire sent personnel to supervise the Customs Agency of the Kingdom of Aceh so that the tariffs could be repaid.

The Kingdom of Aceh officially recognized the undisputed sovereignty of the Great Chu Empire over the Malay Peninsula, and ceded Wei Island to the Great Chu Empire for the passing ships of the Great Chu Empire to replenish and so on.

The Kingdom of Aceh officially paid tribute to the Great Chu Empire, and their monarch asked the Great Chu Emperor to be canonized as the "King of Aceh", and sent the legitimate daughter of the royal family to Jinling to marry.

There is also the item of fully opening up the market, which is also indispensable. No matter where the troops of the Great Chu Empire go, other things can be discussed, but this item is basically out of the question.

You have to promise, you have to promise, and you have to promise.

If you agree, you can continue to be a king or something. If you don’t agree, the Great Chu Empire will send troops to destroy you, or directly occupy or support a puppet to make him agree.

After a series of Chuyabei year treaties were officially signed, it also meant that the state of war between the Great Chu Empire and the Aceh Kingdom had officially ended.

Now only the Portuguese are left... since the Portuguese no longer have any foothold in the Southeast Asia region, and they have a hard time living in Ceylon and the Indian Peninsula.

After learning that the city of Malacca was lost, although the executives of the Dutch East India Company were very upset, they also felt helpless.

And after learning that more than 1000 soldiers in Malacca surrendered as prisoners, and these prisoners also included more than 200 professional soldiers from the Portuguese East India Company, hundreds of Portuguese militiamen, and more than 600 indigenous mercenaries. .

They also reached an armistice agreement with the Great Chu Empire very simply. There were only two conditions in their armistice agreement, or only one formal condition.

Because one of the conditions is to hope that the Great Chu Empire will continue to do business with them, and the city of Malacca under the control of the Great Chu Empire can be opened to the Portuguese.

And this is not a problem at all. The Great Chu Empire has always pursued a free trade system in trade. Let alone after the armistice, even if it is still in war, you Portuguese want to do business with the merchants of our Great Chu Empire. I am also very happy.

The future Malacca City will undoubtedly become a fully open trading port, welcoming merchant ships from all over the world.

Therefore, the Portuguese hope that the two sides will continue to maintain trade, and the condition of releasing the city of Malacca is not a condition at all.

There is only one real condition for the Portuguese, and that is to release the more than 1000 captives as soon as possible and return their weapons.

The Portuguese are going to dispatch these prisoners of war to fight on the island of Ceylon to deal with the increasingly powerful Dutch.

Regarding this condition, the Great Chu Empire also readily agreed, and keeping the personnel can only serve as labor force for reclamation, and there is no problem at all with returning them to the Portuguese.

And it can also allow the Portuguese to persist in Ceylon for a longer period of time, and continue to hold back the strength of the Dutch.

Even the Great Chu Empire took the initiative to ask, do you want us to help you transport these personnel and equipment to Ceylon Island? Don't worry, the shipping fee will be a discounted price for you...

Not to mention, the Portuguese people were very excited. Immediately after a while of discussion, the two sides finalized the entrusted transportation agreement. The Portuguese paid a lot of money and entrusted the Nanyang Trading Company to send ships to transport the more than 1000 people to Xi’an. Orlando.

It's also pretty funny!

The two sides were still fighting in October, but after December, the Nanyang Trading Company of the Great Chu Empire began to help the Portuguese transport personnel to Ceylon Island.

Not counting the transportation of people, the Nanyang Trading Company even transported several ships of various strategic materials in the past.

These are weapons, ammunition and various living supplies ordered by the Portuguese to continue to stick to Ceylon Island. In order for the Nanyang Trading Company to transport them, they paid a price far from the supermarket.

After doing this, the relationship between the Great Chu Empire and the Portuguese East India Company has suddenly changed from an enemy to a trading partner, and the relationship is still very good... This made the Dutch in Batavia look He was stunned for a moment, and then scolded the Portuguese for being spineless and shameless. The city of Malacca was snatched by the Great Chu Empire, and they even sent money to the Chu Manzi to purchase supplies.

At the same time, they are also scolding the people of Chu State, scolding them for being greedy and cruel, in short, they can scold them however viciously and unpleasantly.

But the Dutch now can't do anything except curse a few words.

Anyway, they couldn't beat the Great Chu Empire, and they didn't dare to fight. Now, apart from hiding at home and cursing, they can only continue to strengthen the defenses of Batavia and other colonies, and even recruit more indigenous troops to deal with potential The Great Chu Empire was threatened.

The ghost knows if Chu Manzi's psychopaths will call over without a word.

Chu Manzi has many previous convictions for fighting without declaring war... Most of the time, he called directly without even declaring war.

It was similar when they attacked the city of Malacca before. Although an ultimatum was sent, it was sent in after the city of Malacca was surrounded.

Therefore, the Dutch also have to guard against Chu Manzi's undeclared war!

Many people from the Great Chu Empire, especially businessmen from trading companies in the Nanyang region or personnel from the navy, laughed when they heard about this.

And officially declared war on you, how old are you?
It’s just a mere barbarian, is it possible that you still expect my Majesty, the Great Emperor of the Great Chu Empire, to give you a special edict to declare war?
It's not nonsense!
In the matter of declaring war, in the past ten years, only the Qianming, Dongyao, and Zhungeer were qualified to have the Great Chu Empire issue a formal call to arms, and the call to arms was almost regarded as an imperial edict to declare war.

Apart from these three families, no other enemy has received the official declaration of war from the Great Chu Empire.

When it comes to declaring war, the Great Chu Empire is still very cautious, after all: the soldiers are the great affairs of the country!
Things like war need to be treated very seriously, and be cautious... For example, the Great Chu Empire is now fighting with Jungar, and the two sides continue to compete around the Hami and Turpan areas.

For this reason, the Great Chu Empire has successively mobilized nearly 20 troops to fight on the front line or maintain the logistics line in the rear. It has also mobilized more than [-] young and strong civilians of various types to transport supplies and cultivate land on the front line.

Regarding this war, the top leaders of the Great Chu Empire had been discussing it before, and those who were cautious could not be more cautious.

It can be seen that the Great Chu Empire's attitude towards war is still very cautious, and once a fight starts, it will go all out.

But the problem is that it is nothing more than a small country and barbarians. This is not a war... In the battle on the Malay Peninsula, the ground forces are exhausted, and there are only two divisions plus the navy and one marine regiment.

Strictly speaking, only one division and one marine regiment were used.

The scale is not even as large as the ones that fought against Burma a few years ago. When they fought against Burma before, the Chu army used three divisions anyway.

This level of so-called war.In the eyes of the top leaders of the Great Chu Empire, this is not a war, and it can only be a conflict or counter-insurgency.

The Chu army is now in the southwestern region and Qingkang and other areas to suppress the rebellion. Basically, they fight every three months, and every year. They continue to strangle all kinds of messy chieftains and dignitaries in the area, and then follow up with measures such as immigration integration. , to ensure that the chieftain problem in these areas is resolved once and for all.

It’s just to clean up some indigenous barbarians. This has happened countless times in the long history of China. I have never seen the Central Plains Dynasty want to declare war or crusade in a serious manner...

This kind of thing must not be done several times in a year, and every time a decree or call for war is issued, that day will not pass.

An imperial edict to declare war comes every few days. The author is not annoying, but the readers are annoying...

Therefore, the Dutch thought that the Great Chu Empire liked to fight undeclared wars and play shameful sneak attacks... But in fact, the Great Chu Empire disdained to declare war on them too formally.

As for the sneak attack, the war preparations of the Great Chu Empire will not come secretly, just like the attack on the Malay Peninsula this time, the huge fleet of the Great Chu Empire will come here openly, making it clear that they want to attack you. Can't help but shut up Dachu.

What, you said that the Zhungeer people were shamefully attacked by the Fourth Cavalry Army of the Great Chu Empire.

What a joke, raiding Guazhou, what a great raid for thousands of miles, how can it be compared with a shameful sneak attack.

Let me tell you, don't talk nonsense, you will be beaten easily if you talk nonsense... If you talk nonsense, be careful that my Great Chu Army will bombard Batavia Harbor tomorrow!
The attitude of the Chu people made the Dutch concentrate on preparing for war, building fortifications, and guarding against the huge fleet of the Great Chu Empire. One day, they suddenly appeared outside Batavia Harbor and made a shameful unannounced and fight!

(End of this chapter)