In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 518 A naval battle with the Song Army? Just a one-sided massacre
The general meaning of Meng Zhijing is that each person is first divided into five households of slaves, and then has the opportunity to become the village chief or the chief security officer. Only those who become the village chief will be allocated twenty acres of land, and the chief security officer only has ten acres.

Each person can also choose five families of slaves, and the slaves can be chosen by them. They can choose the nobles who used to oppress them in the city, except for the Udymen family, because the Udymen family will be executed.

Each family could only support five households of slaves, and the court would also subsidize each household with regular money.

But they could not oppress the slaves, they had to feed them. If a few people died in a year, the Song people would not let them go.

In addition to subsidizing copper coins, the court also subsidizes a certain amount of sugar and silk every year, and each family is given two iron pots and other items.

Each household is guaranteed to have an ox, and they must raise their own sheep and pigs.

In addition, whoever speaks Chinese characters better will have a better chance of becoming a high official in the future and will receive more land and benefits.

After hearing this, they felt that the treatment was very good, at least it was completely different from before, and they felt like they were the masters.

But Meng Zhijing also said that if he did not do well, not only the village chief but also the chief security officer would be removed and killed.

Meng Zhijing paid equal attention to kindness and power. He first killed people to establish his power and then gave them candies. He quickly made these ten people surrender and changed their surnames to Han surnames. He roughly named them Yan Da, Yan Er, Yan San, etc. Everyone also responded. Very happy.

In August, a Chinese teacher from Borneo Province came to Tanjong, which had been renamed Johor Bahru.

Srivijaya was also called the Srivijaya Dynasty in the past. Due to their key geographical location and the rich local agricultural and food production, they quickly rose up between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean and established a powerful navy.

Those over the age of fifteen can participate in projects such as city construction and logging, and they also have to slowly learn Chinese characters.

All the rest will be transported back to the Lion City, part of which will be handed over to the court, and part of which will be divided among the officers and soldiers of Meng Zhijing and Yan Le.

This means that only four people can become a village with a thousand households. The competition among ten people is very fierce. They have to learn Chinese and Chinese characters better.

The people who did not build cities were responsible for farming crops and growing spices.

Taking the lead, these ten people killed all the nobles one by one in front of the people of the city, including the whole family of Udimen.

At the same time, Yan Le sent troops out every day to capture scattered people nearby. By September, thousands of households had been captured, and most of them moved to the Lion City to build the Lion City.

The Song army confiscated the wealth of Wu Dimen and all the nobles, and first distributed rewards to some of these ten people. Then they selected a hundred households among the people in the city, saying that they had performed well, helped deal with the nobles, and were willing to help the Song people. Each household was given a small amount of wealth and food.

In May, the news of the Song army's massive invasion of the Malay Peninsula actually quickly reached the Srivijaya Kingdom.

At the same time, Malay books were not allowed to appear in the city. The Song army burned books and destroyed history. When the school teachers were teaching, they said that from the Three Kingdoms era, Han people came here to multiply and live. They are actually the descendants of Han people.

Then Meng Zhijing asked them to identify the richer nobles and more powerful people in Tanjong City, and then took them out house by house.

Meng Zhijing led a thousand Song troops to garrison the city. He drew one out of three from the local area and more than a thousand elites to help build the new city. He rested for ten days every five days, and then drew one thousand elites from another thousand households to help.

In September, the Song Army popularized Chinese in Johor Bahru. Children under the age of fifteen in the city, regardless of gender, had to go to school to learn Chinese characters and read Chinese books.

After Srivijaya controlled these two straits, he basically monopolized the financial resources here.

Due to the long and narrow channel, the narrowest one is only six miles wide, it is very easy to be blocked. With the Song army's current artillery range, as long as forts are built on both sides, no ship can pass.

In July, Yan Da and others made repeated statistics and determined that there were 3,600 households in the city, totaling more than 17,000 people.

They use their navy to control the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Sunda. Needless to say, the Strait of Malacca is the only way for merchant ships to pass.

The Sunda Strait is located between Sumatra and Java. It is a waterway that connects the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean. It is also one of the waterways from North Pacific countries to East Africa, West Africa, or to Europe around the Cape of Good Hope. Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty Walked by here too.

The Song people killed all the noble landowners, let the Malays manage the Malays, and distributed the nobles' fields to the Malays, which quickly calmed the hearts of the local indigenous people.

The population structure here is different from that in Song Dynasty. There are very few people over forty years old. Many people do not live long. Instead, there are more children. Every household has two or three children.

At that time, their capital was Palembang in Sumatra. Sandalwood produced from East Java and Lesser Sunda arrived in Sumatra first and was purchased directly by Sriwijaya. Sandalwood from Java and Lesser Sunda Island could not leave the open sea.

Srivijaya was then resold to Tang and Song traders from Guangzhou and Quanzhou at several times the profit. Through the Tang and Song dynasties for centuries, they accumulated a lot of wealth.

The same is true in Malacca on the other side. After the frankincense from the great food (Arabia) Persia and other places came in from Malacca, they were also forcibly collected.

The Srivijaya people in Palembang divided frankincense into thirteen grades and exported it to China's Tang and Song Dynasties in large quantities at different prices, making a lot of money.

The merchants from various countries who were traveling at that time had nothing to do with them. Srivijaya's navy was too powerful and guarded two important imports and exports, the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Sunda.

Of course, you don’t have to go through the Strait of Malacca and the Strait of Sunda. Then you have to go around the entire Java Island and Sumatra Island, which is a journey of 6,000 to 10,000 miles. Not only is it not easy to find supplies along the way, but you also have to prevent being caught by the Three Buddhas. Qi Navy discovered and sunk it.

But later Srivijaya discovered that the goods they purchased may not be sold at high prices, and Han merchant ships from the Tang and Song Dynasties may not come often.

So they changed their policy and imposed taxes directly.

According to Arab's historical records, at that time, a Yutai merchant ship had to pay 20,000 dinars to allow them to pass to Palembang (this was the Northern Song Dynasty).

Dinar is a silver coin with different values ​​in different countries. According to the current trade calculations between Zhao, Rui, Song and Abbas, one silver dinar is equivalent to one silver coin in Song Dynasty, that is, one tael of silver.

Of course, the actual weight of silver coins is no more than one or two, so Zhao Yurui also learned foreign methods to save silver.

According to this calculation, at that time, the merchant ship of the Youtai people had to pay 20,000 taels of silver to reach the Northern Song Dynasty.

In this way, the Yutai people are still willing to pay, which proves that the profits are quite high.

Srivijaya made a lot of money here by relying on the large navy, which quickly attracted the dissatisfaction of others.

To the west of Sumatra and to the north of Sri Lanka, a maritime military power emerged in the South India crossing area. The Chola Kingdom, also known as the Zhulu Kingdom, was established by the Miter people.

They also obtained taxation and transactions with the Song Dynasty by controlling maritime trade, mainly in Persia. But now after everyone pays one tax in the Persian Gulf, they have to pay another tax in Palembang, and two taxes to two different dynasties. People will definitely be dissatisfied with the tax.

While Palembang and the Strait of Malacca are must-gos, I don’t necessarily have to go to the Persian Gulf. If you want to collect taxes, I will go to India to trade along the coast and not enter the Persian Gulf.

When the Chola Kingdom realized something was wrong, they had to kill Srivijaya.

In the eighth year of Dazhong Xiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty (1015), the Chola king Rajendra I, who had just succeeded to the throne for a year, sent an envoy to pay tribute to the Song Dynasty. He claimed that he was "a humble chicken, as cheap as a rotten dog" and paid tribute to a pearl shirt. One hat each, taels of pearls, ivory plants, and pounds of frankincense. First build a good relationship with Da Song.

This guy is also a powerful ruler. In the first few years after he succeeded to the throne, he asked domestic businessmen to pay taxes to Srivijaya and at the same time pay tribute to Srivijaya's temple as a sign of friendship.

While showing his goodwill towards Srivijaya, he sent a navy expedition to control Andaman Island first. Andaman Island is located near Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, and it can be regarded as the outpost of Srivijaya.

However, the Chola dynasty of Rajinder I did not have a navy as powerful as Srivijaya. His navy was used more as merchant ships and transport ships. He knew that he could not defeat Srivijaya head-on at sea. He first built a military port further south, stocked up and built ships, and then when the monsoon came, his expedition set sail in late December and reached southern Sumatra in just ten days, and then crossed the Sunda Strait. , rushed straight to Palembang, the capital of Srivijaya, first raided and defeated Srivijaya's fleet at the port, and then launched a landing battle.

The Srivijaya people never expected that the Chola dynasty army nearly 7,000 miles away would appear in their capital, and after landing, they defeated them with infantry battalions and captured Palembang.

It is said that Rajinder I was so shocked by the wealth here that he plundered countless treasures, and finally even the jeweled gates of Palembang were demolished.

Due to this expedition, no envoys from Southeast Asian countries came to the Northern Song Dynasty for three years, and the number of ships from Guangzhou from Southeast Asia was also greatly reduced. At that time, Song Renzong specifically asked, what happened in Southeast Asia?

It can be seen that this battle had a great impact on Southeast Asia.

After this battle, the Srivijaya dynasty's strength was greatly reduced. Time has passed to the present. The Chola dynasty is in its final stage and its strength has also been greatly reduced. It is currently being suppressed and attacked by the Pandya dynasty.

Srivijaya was attacked by Siam on the Malay Peninsula and lost part of its territory. After the Song army came, their capital was also moved to Jambi.

Srivijaya's once powerful navy was also entering a period of decline.

After the Song army invaded the southern part of the Malay Peninsula, Srivijaya immediately sent envoys to question the Song army's behavior.

In these years, the Song Army controlled the Persian Gulf, and they controlled Malacca. The two sides lived in harmony. Their merchant ships going to the Persian Gulf would pay taxes to the Song Army, and the Song Army's ships passing through Malacca would also pay taxes to them.

We all get along well, why do you just fall out with each other?

Meng Zhijing quickly replied, we want control of Malacca, give it to us, and the Sunda Strait will still belong to you.

I'll go. How can Srivijaya be willing to agree?

Malacca is obviously much more important than the Sunda Strait.

Meng Zhijing said, "We will rent you ten thousand silver coins per year for five hundred years."

Srivijaya flatly refused.

In June, Srivijaya began to reorganize his troops, gather his navy, and prepare to attack Lion City, the nearest stronghold of the Song army.

Because they have suffered losses before.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Rajinder I of the Chola Dynasty first transferred ships and troops from thousands of miles away to Andamanda near Sumatra, and then made a sudden surprise attack, catching them by surprise.

Srivijaya clearly cannot afford to repeat the same mistakes.

Srivijaya decided to take a preemptive strike and destroy the Song army's stronghold in Lion City first.

Having lost its stronghold, the Song army’s navy could not dock, and the infantry camp could not stay in the Malay Peninsula for long.

On the seventh day of the sixth lunar month, the Srivijaya naval commander, Prince Piye, the commander-in-chief of the army this time, set out from Palembang with more than 300 large and small ships and 20,000 horses.

This battle was almost a nationwide effort, and all the warships that Srivijaya could bring out came out.

It's less than a thousand miles from Palembang to Lion City. Because of the advanced warships of the Song Army, they were two or three centuries ahead of this era. It usually took two or three days to arrive.

But Srivijaya's ships are still old technology from the Northern Song Dynasty, and since they are traveling from south to north, there is a headwind in June.

The ship took its time and it took half a month to reach the vicinity of Batam.

After entering here, they were a little cautious, because there were many islands here, the waterway was not wide, and too many ships crowded together, making passage difficult.

At this time, there are Panjang Island and Jaga Island on the left side of Batam Island, Lempang Island and Jiatan Island on the lower right, and the larger Bintan Island on the right.

In mid-to-late June, Srivijaya Navy Vice Admiral Dubusa proposed that the entire army go east, bypass Bintan Island, and attack from the east of the Lion City.

His suggestion is still very accurate. It is not safe to walk from the left or lower right side of Batam Island. There are small islands everywhere and the roads are narrow, making it easy to be blocked and ambushed.

Bypassing Bintan Island and passing through the South China Sea, the sea is huge. Not to mention more than 300 ships, more than 3,000 ships can be arranged in an orderly manner. Entering the Singapore Strait from the east of the Lion City, you can advance and retreat, and it is safe. favorable.

But Pierre objected because it would take an extra four to five hundred miles to go around Bintan Island.

Their boat was slow and the wind was against them, so it would take them many days to travel.

However, he still followed some suggestions and chose the widest channel, between Batam and Bintan.

There is a section of the two islands that is more than eight miles wide and about twenty miles long.

This section is relatively dangerous. After passing through this section, it becomes wider.

Of course, eight miles wide is not considered narrow in the eyes of Pierre and others now.

In later generations, artillery could hit dozens or hundreds of miles, and such a place could easily be blocked.

How far can the current cannon go?
If it were eight miles wide, their warships would be lined up in a row. Even if they lined up one ship for every mile, they would be able to line up eight rows.

Thinking about it this way, both Pierre and Dubusa can accept it.

So the Srivijaya Navy passed directly between Batam Island and Bintan Island and attacked the Lion City (Singapore).

In order to show the strength of the Sriwijaya navy, Piye lined up two ships every mile, with an average of one ship every half mile.

There were eighteen rows in total.

More than 300 boats formed sixteen rows. The distance between the front and rear boats was about half a mile. They were like sixteen long dragons and slowly entered the waterway. The scene was extremely spectacular.

But they didn't know that at the narrowest point of the waterway, there was a small island more than three miles wide, across the sea from Bintan Island.

At this time, about five large warships of the Song Army were quietly hiding in the east of the island.

At a high point on the island, Song Jun was looking at their huge fleet with telescopes.

Song Jun watched Srivijaya's fleet enter the ambush circle with a half-smiling expression on his face.

He could already imagine the one-sided massacre.

(End of this chapter)