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Chapter 1477
boom! !Grenadiers used primitive grenades to blow up the treasury gate of the Kingdom of Mataram. The soldiers of the No.12 Corps used their hands to disperse the smoke produced by the black powder explosion, and then rushed into the treasury impatiently.

"If it's our private loot, we're rich!"

Soldiers armed with muskets entered the warehouse and saw a dazzling array of gold and silver treasures and all kinds of rare treasure houses. Their eyes were shining, and there were everything from luminous pearls, corals, porcelains, and silks.

Although the Kingdom of Mataram is a backward kingdom that is extremely dependent on agriculture, as a sultan, it still obtained a lot of wealth from various lords, and also obtained many rare goods in the war of conquering Java Island and exchanges with foreign merchants .

"Move these things out and take them away!"

The officers and soldiers hurriedly removed all the gold and silver treasures in the warehouse, which would be used as trophies for their war.

"You need to pay tribute to Batavia as a vassal. Every year, you pay tribute to the prescribed amount of gold, silver or rice. Except for the tribute of gold, silver and rice, the land rent you receive belongs to you. From now on, you must not attack Batavia and the coastal ports. , not to offend our Huaxia merchants and residents."

Huang Degong sat at the negotiating table with the great elders and prime ministers of the Matalan Kingdom. They left the fugitive Agong Sultan and had a new master.

And the new master turned them from sultan's vassals into two sultans, each in charge of half of the territory of Java Island.

After the arrival of the expeditionary force, the Matalan people gradually discovered that these people were not gods, but they possessed the same power as gods. They easily defeated their army with a small number of people, causing Sultan to die. They also had to succumb to such power and signed a treaty with each other.

The kingdom of Mataram had just become strong when it was split into two kingdoms, east and west.

The Jungle Expeditionary Army stayed in the royal city for several days. During this period, these trembling lords even wanted to offer women from the clan to Huang Degong and others to satisfy these officers from the outside world. However, Huang Degong and others obviously liked gold and silver more. This kind of spoils is not interested in Matalan people.

There were also lords and nobles loyal to Agong Sultan in the royal city. Huang Degong led troops to confiscate the property of these lords and nobles, and obtained a batch of gold, silver and jewelry.

Huang Degong was very satisfied with the treaty and spoils, and he then withdrew his troops and withdrew from the royal city of the Kingdom of Mataram.Instead, the Matalan Kingdom sent Huang Degong and others a batch of horses so that they could carry the spoils away.

"Corps commander, why don't we directly occupy the royal city of Mataram and garrison here? If we have an army stationed here, we can try to assimilate them and supervise them to pay taxes every year here." Some low-ranking officers don't understand Why did Huang Degong choose to leave Wangcheng so soon after signing the treaty with them.

"It is very difficult for the Nanyang Provincial Government just to manage Batavia and the coastal ports and city-states. How can they have the energy to send people to manage so many villages in the kingdom in the hinterland of the island. To achieve control of Java Island, you still have to rely on the lords here , otherwise our income may not be as high as the cost of maintaining law and order here..." Huang Degong said.

"Your Majesty understands that although we can get more land rent by directly ruling the hinterland, before they surrender willingly, once their lords oppose us, we will need to spend extra energy to deal with them, and we will have to send more and more More and more soldiers came here to suppress. And here is located in the hinterland of the jungle, it is difficult to transport supplies, and the cost of maintaining an army is extremely high." The adjutant said suddenly.

"That's exactly the reason. Nanyang is very big. Our No.12 Corps only has 10000 people in one Corps. We need to suppress the lords and nobles in various places at the same time. We are already struggling. Let them deal with their own people and pay tribute every year. It’s better for us to come to the jungle to suppress them with no effort.” Huang Degong said with emotion.

There are three provinces in the Nanyang region, East Cochin Province, West Cochin Province, and Nanyang Province. They have been established for several years. However, the areas controlled by these provinces are very limited, mainly concentrated in ports and large cities. Tribes living in mountains, forests, and swamps still adopt the lordship system. As long as those tribes pay a part of the tax every year, they are left to fend for themselves.

This time, for the Kingdom of Mataram, Huang Degong and Nanyang Province, which lacked the power to control them, maintained the independence of the Kingdom of Mataram on the premise that the other party was willing to pay taxes.However, at this time, the Mataram Kingdom split into two independent kingdoms, the Eastern Kingdom and the Western Kingdom.In other words, there are two more sultans on Java Island, as well as the original Agong Sultan.

Just after Huang Degong and others transported the loot back to Batavia by boat, Agong Sultan made a comeback.

However, there were two new sultans in the royal city. They were supported by Huang Degong, and a group of lords and nobles were forced to be loyal to the two new sultans.They were afraid of being executed by Agong Sultan who came back, so they had to join hands with the elders and prime ministers to reject their original masters-everymore, the powerful country on Java Island fell into chaos and declined from then on.

What led to all this was only an expeditionary force of 2000 people.

Batavia soon learned of the victory of the Jungle Expeditionary Army.

At this time, Batavia officials welcomed a group of strange local businessmen who wanted the local government to sell them a strange privilege.

"Do you really want to spend money to buy the right to collect this kind of thing from the government?" The local official reconfirmed.

"That's right, my lord, we have brought ships and boxes in order to buy such things that can only be collected easily in Southeast Asia." A shrewd businessman said.

"We have never sold this kind of privilege, and we don't know whether the higher authorities allow us to sell it..." Batavia officials looked at each other and said with difficulty.

"My lord, this is just the waste of seabirds. This kind of natural fertilizer is abundant in Nanyang Province, and it is useless to keep it. It is better to sell it to us. We will ship it back to the mainland and use it as fertilizer. It is the same as the one produced by the factory. Compared with fertilizer, this kind of natural fertilizer is easier to maintain the fertility of the soil. We transport it back just to sell it to the farm, so that we can produce more food locally, and the Nanyang Province can also benefit from it. Isn’t it killing two birds with one stone? ?” said the businessman.

"What you said is not unreasonable, otherwise we will temporarily allow you to collect this natural fertilizer on some islands?" Batavia officials thought that they could get an extra financial income for this, so they agreed to this strange plan. Business.

(End of this chapter)