Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 697 Non-resistance decision-making Daming Governor of Ceylon (please subscribe!)
Knowing that something was wrong, Ernst Louis immediately dispatched two anti-smuggling speedboats to report to the city of Madras in the southeast of Tianzhu.

That is the site of the British, and it is also the station of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces Fleet.

Matara Castle was originally built by the Portuguese. After the Dutch East India Company captured Ceylon Island from the Portuguese, it did not think about expanding the defense of this coastal town. Therefore, the castle still retains the European coastal defense fortress in the [-]th century. style and size.

Such a fortress is fine against the indigenous kingdoms of Ceylon, but against the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Ming Fleet equipped with rifled guns, it can only be beaten and not fight back!
Matara Fort is located on the impact beach on the right bank of the estuary of the Neilawala River. It is roughly a rectangle of 500*400 meters, and it is long from east to west and wide from north to south.

The fort is only 400 meters away from the coastline, completely within the firing range of the Ming Royal Navy's rifled guns.

It only needs to lightly fire, and the whole castle will be engulfed in flames.

Portuguese castles have always been small. When they were first built, European artillery technology was relatively limited, and it was not foreseeable that there would be heavy artillery with a range of 1000-1500 meters, or even 2000-3000 meters.

So the builders were completely unaware that their castle would one day be completely covered by enemy artillery fire.

Based on this understanding, the head of the Dutch East India Company, Ernst Louis, did not dare to arrange resistance. There are only [-] troops on the island, what a mess!

Ernst Lewis led the staff of the business house and several guards, as well as the officials of the Kingdom of Ceylon on the island, and a group of beaming Ming businessmen (mostly Chaozhou and Hokkien), together in Matara. Visitors from Ming Dynasty are welcome on the pier.

The Kingdom of Ceylon is still alive. Interestingly, the Kingdom of Ceylon had a story with Daming before.

When Zheng He sailed to the West, he reached Ceylon, and King Ariel Kunel presented many gifts to the Ming Dynasty, expressing the peace between the two countries.

Unexpectedly, Ariel Kunel, who was not greedy, saw Zheng He's fleet loaded with a lot of gold and silver, so he pretended to invite Zheng He to his palace.

After the banquet, he asked Zheng He for gold coins again, but secretly sent troops to rob Zheng He's fleet.

Zheng He was calm and calm, knowing that most of the troops of Ceylon had been sent to attack the fleet, and the capital was empty, so he sent orders quickly, dispatched more than 2000 soldiers, attacked the capital of Ceylon by surprise, and captured Ariel Kunai alive. The son and his wife belong to the official family.

The general who led the robbery fleet heard that the army was returning to attack the capital, and hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops to rescue.

Zheng He's army took advantage of the victory to kill the carbine, and then defeated the enemy soldiers.

They had no choice but to surrender to the Ming army. Zheng He released the surrendered generals and soldiers on the spot, and only detained Ale Kunel and several important officials on board, and then continued to visit other areas.

It turned out that the king of Ceylon was captured by Ming Dynasty before!
And Liu Guoxuan and Chen Peilin, who will soon be the Governor of Ceylon Island, stood on the command deck of the Guangzhou, watching everything in front of them with binoculars.

Chen Peilin is a rising star of the Chen family in Yingchuan, Chaozhou Prefecture.

The Chen family is the most common surname in Guangdong Province and also the most common surname in Chaoshan.

The Chen family originated from Wanqiu (now Huaiyang, Henan), hoped in Gushi (now Gushi County, Henan), flourished in Yingchuan (now Changge, Henan), opened Minzhang in the south, and spread all over the world.

Among the 7000 million people with the surname Chen in later generations, there are about 5000 million from the Yingchuan Chen family.

In the Chaozhou area, there is a phenomenon that the tops of the houses of many ordinary people are engraved with four beautiful characters "Yingchuan Old Home".

Because, with the changes of history, the Yingchuan Chen family moved south to Fujian and Guangdong, etc., and now it has become the most common surname in Fujian Province, Guangdong Province and other places. The Chen family in Chaoshan area of ​​Guangdong is generally Yingchuan Chen Descendants of the family.

Chen Peilin is one of the best. His family has been in business for generations, and he himself has read the Four Books and Five Classics, and was admitted to Jinshi. He is a compound talent.

Zhu Kezang's heart is also big enough. Before the island of Ceylon was taken, Chen Peilin was named the governor of Ceylon.

A prosperous Tianzhu trading island is displayed in front of them!

From a distance, Ceylon Island has blue water, white sand, dense vegetation, and the geographical environment looks very superior.

There are also some small white Western-style buildings near the port of Matara, all of which are typical European colonial flavors!
Reflecting the sunlight near the equator, it looks extremely solemn, and seems to indicate the white people's rule over Ceylon.

There are dots of fishing boats on the sea, and the boats are operated by native fishermen from Tianzhu. When they saw so many big boats coming at once, they thought that some big customers were coming, and they all drove up to sell some freshly caught fish seafood.
The natives of Ceylon are still very hospitable!

After being trained by the Portuguese and the Dutch, I don't know if it will still be full of greed like it has been for hundreds of years.

The current Ming Dynasty is only stronger than the Ming Dynasty that Zheng He sailed to the West, and this time Ceylon Island must be completely taken.

Liu Guoxuan just watched all this quietly, and Chen Peilin suddenly said next to him: "Lieutenant General Liu, do you see that? The red-haired barbarians mean to surrender!"

Ernst Louis, head of the Dutch East India Company, led dozens of people standing on the pier and waiting, without any intention of fighting.

If you look carefully, there are several white flags hidden behind the guards.

Because Ernst Louis made it clear that if the Ming army fired, they would immediately raise the flag and surrender.

As Chen Peilin pointed, Liu Guoxuan also turned his gaze.

Sure enough, I saw a few Westerners in western clothes standing on the pier, as well as a few natives in fancy clothes and a group of Ming businessmen in Hanfu.

This group of businessmen was found by Ernst Lewis for emergency treatment. Presumably the Daming Navy would not act first for the sake of the people of Daming.

Ernst Louis looked fiercely at a group of Dutch soldiers and a group of barefoot native soldiers from the Kingdom of Ceylon next to them. Their lazy appearance made Ernst Louis wish to go over and kick them.

It was because of this group of goods that Ernst Lewis made the decision not to resist.

Liu Guoxuan sneered: "The red-haired barbarians on this island seem to be afraid of death, but this is also good, we can seal off the red-haired barbarians' Tianzhu trade routes without completely tearing their face, look How are they fighting a trade war!"

"Your Majesty said before that this method of sealing people's lives without tearing their faces is called sanctions!"

"Lieutenant General Liu, should we dock now to accept their surrender, and by the way inform the Hongmaoyi of Ming's sanction order!"

Chen Peilin asked with a smile.

"That's fine, but the artillerymen should continue to be vigilant in case those red-haired barbarians play tricks and set up an ambush!"

"Lieutenant General Liu, I see a forest over there. If there is an ambush, it must be there!"

"Okay, okay, let's blast a wave of woods first to see if there is an ambush!"

"If there is no ambush, just treat them as scaring them!"

(End of this chapter)