Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 187 Daming lost a fisherman

On December [-]th, when the new Ming Dynasty was constructing the Royal Bank vigorously, a major incident happened at the military port of Mingyan City in Luzon.

What's the big deal?
102 warships of the Guangdong Fleet gathered in Mingyan Port.

If you look down from a high altitude, the sails are like clouds and the momentum is majestic.

Wang Yang, the Guanzhen of the Second Town of Jinwei, was discussing life with his sister in his arms, when he suddenly received a notice asking him to go to the yamen of the Duhu Mansion as soon as possible.

Wang Yang could only put on his clothes resentfully, and arrived at the Dudu's Mansion.

"Master Chen, what's the matter?" Jin Yiwei's town governor came to deliver the order to him today, presumably there was going to be a war.

"General Wang, get ready, we are about to march south." Chen Weiguo said seriously.

When Wang Yang heard this, his eyes widened. What kind of girl are you still hugging? War is king!
"Master Chen, where are you going? I'll prepare right now!" Wang Yang said excitedly, and he was delighted when he heard the battle.

"General Wang, this time our target is the Malacca area, and the No. [-] Guard Town has also joined the battle. Let's talk while walking." Seeing that Wang Yang was determined to gather troops, Chen Weiguo said along the way.

"It's just right! Wait, who are we going to fight, and we need to use two towns of troops!" Wang Yang was a little shocked.

Since the establishment of the Guards Army, there have been almost no joint operations between the two towns, because the opponents are not enough to fight!
"General Wang, that's right."

On December 22, Jinwei's first town and second town, as well as Liu Guoxuan's Guangdong Fleet, quietly flocked to the waters of Malacca.

Many senior officials and officers of the former Dutch East India Company went out with them.

Among them is Anthony, a senior MP who previously surrendered on behalf of the Netherlands.

They didn't get any good results back in the Netherlands, and Daming's treatment was good, so they simply defected to Zhu Kezang!

Zhu Kezang is not afraid of their betrayal.

Like Anthony, his interests are now highly tied to Daming, and his wife and daughter have already lived in Chengtianfu City.

As a businessman of Daming himself, he is now in the Nanyang area, using his previous connections to help Daming dump industrial products to the aboriginals and Portugal. It can be said that he has made a lot of money.

Recently, as Jin Yiwei continued to go deeper in Nanyang, they inquired about a piece of news.

There is a country that actually wants to unite with the Spaniards who are farming in New Guinea to take action on Ming's Nanyang territory!

I really ate bear heart and leopard gall!
Zhu Kezang thought to himself: Isn't this the siege net?
When the Dutch colony was attacked last time, there was one place that Ming did not take care of, and that was the Johor Peninsula, which is later known as the Malay Peninsula.

The Dutch East India Company had a stronghold in Johor at that time, called Mancigar, which is the state of Malacca in Malaysia later.

Because of the presence of Batavia, the Dutch didn't pay much attention to Manchuria, so when Ming attacked the Netherlands, the Johor Kingdom took the opportunity to drive the Netherlands away from Mancija.

I didn't expect that Da Ming didn't settle accounts with them, but instead they conspired to seize Da Ming's Java Island and Sumatra Island. I don't know where they got the courage.

Hearing the news from Jin Yiwei, Zhu Kezang was furious on the spot. It was time to deal with these Johor monkeys.

Of course, Zhu Kezang did not directly declare war on Johor in the name of the emperor.

Instead, the issue of declaring war on the Kingdom of Johor was brought to the cabinet meeting.

The role of the Ming cabinet is to decide major national affairs, and Zhu Kezang, as the founder of the new cabinet system, naturally has to do it step by step.

For this issue, the Ming cabinet voted unanimously.

If there is no war, the battleships of the Royal Navy of Ming Dynasty will be in vain!

Wait, at least there has to be a reason for war, right?
As the saying goes, the teacher is famous, Daming is now a serious country!
You can't engage in any special military operations, what a drop in price!

Chen Yonghua, the Prime Minister of Ming Dynasty, listed three crimes against the Johor Kingdom on the spot: "Your Majesty, the Johor Kingdom refused to accept the kingship and did not take the initiative to pay tribute. This is the first crime!"

"Secondly, colluding with my Ming enemy Spain, this is the second crime!"

"Finally, the fishermen of Daming got lost in the waters of Johor for no reason and were suspected of being kidnapped by Johor. This is the third crime, which cannot be pardoned, and the country must be wiped out!"

Ah, Zhu Kezang didn't even know there was such a thing, could it be made up?

Lost a fisherman, this looks a bit familiar, no matter, just hit it, the Kingdom of Johor is ready to accept Daming's wrath!
As soon as he heard that Daming was going to fight Johor, Anthony, the former Dutch East India executive, immediately ran over to flatter Zhu Kezang.

Anthony has been stationed in Manlaga for many years, so he is very familiar with the situation in Manlaga.

He prepared a large amount of information about Managa and the Johor Kingdom at the first time, and then ran from Luzon to Yizhou Island in person, and told Zhu Kezang everything he knew in detail.

In response to the information given by Jin Yiwei and Anthony, Zhu Kezang and the Ministry of War immediately began to formulate tactics.

By the way, the Minister of the Ministry of War has been replaced by Qiu Hui. Although Chen Shengwu is Chen Yonghua's nephew, his composition is complicated and his ability is average.

Therefore, Qiu Hui, who was actively studying at the Daming Imperial Military Academy, was favored by Zhu Kezang. After the founding of the new Ming Dynasty, he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War.

In the end, after discussion, Zhu Kezang decided to continue to send Liu Guoxuan's Fujian Sea Fleet and Guards to carry out a major clean-up of the Southeast Asian countries.

And Johor is just an appetizer!

Otherwise, the first town is enough to deal with a mere Johor.

By the way, what is the Kingdom of Johor?
The Johor dynasty was a feudal dynasty on the island of Malay.

Its predecessor was called the Malacca Dynasty, and its capital was in the current city of Malacca.

130 years ago, the Portuguese who had just arrived in Southeast Asia launched an attack on Malacca and broke through the royal city of Malacca.

The king of Malacca had to flee north and established a new royal city in what is now Johor.

For more than 100 years, the Kingdom of Johor has always wanted revenge and wanted to take back Malacca.

Just like the Eastern Jin Dynasty lost the Central Plains and always wanted the Northern Expedition.

By this time, the Dutch came and established a colony in Java.

The Dutch wanted Malacca, and the Kingdom of Johor also wanted Malacca.

The two sides hit it off immediately: let's cooperate, you get Malacca, and colonize there, and I recover Malacca, old iron, is there anything wrong?
As a result, the Netherlands united with the Kingdom of Johor, defeated the Portuguese army in Malacca, and cleared Portugal's influence in the Malay Peninsula.

The Kingdom of Johor became stronger for a time.

The Netherlands was not greedy, so it left a small stronghold in Manchuria.

In 1673, the Kingdom of Johor was invaded by the Zhanbei Kingdom on Sumatra Island, and the country has been in a slump ever since.

Previously, Sumatra Island had been cleaned up by the Guards. Except for the Kingdom of Aceh, which was vassalized, other small countries were annexed.

In this way, the kingdom of Johor thought it could do it, but actually made a wave of things, looking for a fight!

(End of this chapter)