The Imperial Age with the Resurgence of Han Style

Chapter 263 Weakness is the original sin
After leaving Ceylon, the passenger ship "Yanfeng" did not stop at several small ports in the Yiling Islands (now the Andaman Islands of India), but sailed to Aceh in one go.

Of course, the "Yanfeng" did not intend to stay in the war-torn port of Aceh. After replenishing some water and supplies, it sailed away from this city that was still under military control and headed straight towards Away from the Strait of Malacca.

During the short half-day docking, dozens of new passengers arrived from Aceh Port. Except for a few traders, the others were all transferred government officials and demobilized army officers and soldiers.

Two years ago, King Sultan of Aceh rode a richly decorated elephant and went on a safari in the countryside with a large group of attendants. Unexpectedly, he was assassinated by two thugs disguised as fishermen by a small river. A sharp iron fork pierced the abdomen of the cruel sultan, and his intestines flowed to the ground, and then he was in endless pain. Die.

Immediately, large-scale civilian riots broke out in Aceh and across the country.

The mob picked up various crude weapons, chanted slogans of "Allah", and attacked kingdom officials and Qi immigrant settlements everywhere. After they captured the villages and towns, they would kill the captured Acehnese officials and Qi immigrants in the most brutal way.

The once-submissive religious leaders and imams shouted loudly, using the slogan of defending the True God Religion and expelling the invading pagans, and encouraged believers to launch a large-scale "holy war" against Qi and annihilate the traitors, so as to restore the independence of the Kingdom of Aceh and the True God Religion. supreme status.

In a very short period of time, the situation in the entire Kingdom of Aceh fell into an extremely chaotic scene. Except for Aceh Royal City, Jishuiwan (now Simawi City, Indonesia), Lanza, Medan and other important cities, they were still in Qi Kingdom. Under the control of the government, almost the entire territory of Aceh was swept by mobs, and even some tribal leaders and local princes participated in the riots, further exacerbating the situation.

Wu Guangmin, the governor of Qi in Aceh, ordered the garrison troops from all over the country to stick to their cities, collect and protect Qi immigrants, and prevent the mob from attacking the important town of Dabu to seize ordnance and supplies. At the same time, he sent couriers to report to the mainland urgently. At the same time, he also urgently sent troops to Penang Island, Malacca, and Temasek. , as well as the garrison and rural soldiers from Quang Ninh, Kaihua and other places came to put out the Aceh riot.

Obviously, the cruel and unscrupulous behavior of the King of Aceh and the increasingly blatant colonial invasion activities of the Qi people have aroused strong dissatisfaction among the Acehnese people. After someone sacrificed his life to assassinate the King of Acehnese Sultan, the resistance of the Acehnese people was immediately triggered. anger.

In the eleventh year of Taiping (1715), after the First Aceh War ended, the people of Qi supported a "docile" puppet Sultan, and then stationed troops in various strategic points and important cities in Aceh as a way to Strengthen control over the Kingdom of Aceh.

Since then, Aceh has been almost a colonial territory of Qi, and the gold and silver mines, coal, and timber in the territory have been wildly plundered by the Qi people.

What is even more unacceptable is that businessmen from Qi are enclosing land in Aceh and building large and small rubber plantations and palm plantations after clearing and clearing forest land.

With the establishment of mines and plantations one after another, a large number of immigrants from Qi poured into Aceh, constantly squeezing the living space of the Acehnese people.

I have to admit that these new immigrants from Qi State are very diligent and good at business. From having nothing when they first arrived, in just a dozen years, they built beautiful houses, cultivated fertile farmland, and raised a large number of animals. The cattle, sheep, livestock and poultry lived happily.

However, these immigrants from Qi are all pagans. They do not believe in the True God Religion, do not worship, and do not pray to Allah every day. With the connivance of the puppet regime of the Kingdom of Aceh and the protection of the Qi army, they continue to invade and occupy Asia. The land of the Qi people, oppressed and insulted the local Aceh people.

When the local Acehnese people fell into widespread difficulties, these immigrants from Qi were unwilling to use their extra food and money to provide them with due support. Instead, they responded with indifference and watched the Acehnese people fall into poverty and abjection.

Under the instigation of thoughtful people, countless Aceh people believed that it was the arrival of the Qi people that led to their miserable situation and miserable life.

In this world, wealth should be constant. If Qi merchants and immigrants take away too much, the wealth left to the Aceh people will inevitably decrease sharply.

The reason why our lives in Aceh are getting worse and worse is all caused by the people in Qi!
In the First Aceh War, the enemy Qi faced was the kingdom's army and tribal armed forces led by the Sultan of Aceh and the supreme religious leader. After successfully capturing the Sultan of Aceh and killing the chief elder of the True God Sect, the resistance collapsed. Under the shock of the army, the situation in Aceh was basically stabilized.

But this riot was a nationwide riot that spread almost throughout Yaqi. The participants included True God Sect elders, local tribal leaders, ordinary True God Sect believers, and even many kingdom officials and soldiers. Their weapons are extremely backward, and the number of firearms is very small. Most of them are cold weapons. There are also many mobs armed only with shovels, hoes and other agricultural tools and sharpened wooden sticks.

But such a mob, suddenly mobilized, really made the people of Qi a little confused and at a loss to deal with it. Many isolated immigrant settlements and plantations were invaded by mobs. All captured Qi people were brutally killed and all their belongings were looted.

After massacring a Qi immigrant settlement, these mobs waved the heads of the deceased in their hands and madly pounced on the next settlement, like ferocious beasts.

In order to prevent the riots from continuing to expand and spread indefinitely, the Qi garrison disarmed most of the Aceh Kingdom's troops and ordered all these soldiers to stay in the military camps and were prohibited from going out at will.

When reinforcements from various parts of Qi arrived in Aceh, a large-scale counter-insurgency operation began immediately.

Facing the heavily armed Qi army, although the rioting religious people tried their best to resist and fought bravely, it was of no avail. They were defeated one by one by various counter-rebellion armies and scattered in the wild.

In just over three months, under the powerful offensive of the Qi army, large-scale riots in Aceh were put down and the situation was initially restored.

However, many stubborn mobs hid deep in the dense forests and launched guerrilla warfare with the Qi army. They used the cover of the mountain forest terrain to launch frequent raids on nearby villages, towns and roads, leaving the Qi army officers and soldiers unable to defend themselves and exhausted.

In order to completely eradicate the resistance forces in Aceh, Qi State continued to increase its troops to Aceh, from the initial more than 6,000 officers and soldiers to more than 15,000, vowing to solve Aceh once and for all.

This large-scale riot in the Kingdom of Aceh, with its wide scope, great destruction, and large number of casualties among immigrants from Qi, attracted the attention of the whole Qi State and successfully aroused the anger of the people of Qi State.

Although the Qi State began to gradually encroach and annex Sumatra decades ago, it was limited to digesting and absorbing too many Southeast Asian territories, resulting in a very limited number of immigrants allocated to this large island, and most of the colonial territories focused on development They are all located in the eastern areas of the islands such as Quang Ninh (now Lampung Province on the east side of Sumatra), Xuan Binh (now South Sumatra Province, Jambi Province, Bangka Island, Belitung Island and other areas), making the central and western parts of the island The control was not very strong, and most of the control was mainly to retain the puppet rule of some princes of the feudal states.

As of the first year of Yonglong (1730), the number of immigrants from Qi to Aceh was only over , spread over a land of more than square kilometers, like a mud cow entering the sea, and it was impossible to control such a large territory.

Originally, I thought that the entire Nanyang region was the core of our Qi State, and no external forces dared to set foot in it. In this case, without external interference, we could sit down and slowly digest it. Although there have been native riots in the Nanyang Islands from time to time, they are not large-scale and are often extinguished by the local police and rural soldiers before the army troops are dispatched.

Even though the Qi State continued to immigrate and infiltrate into the Kingdom of Kanbaru, Pakgarurong, Johor, and the Sultan of Brunei, where the natives had strong influence, they did not encounter fierce opposition from the local natives, and they were still in the feudal states. Under the restraint of the prince, he chose to retreat and tolerate for fear of incurring "punishment" from Qi State.

Unexpectedly, in the Kingdom of Aceh, these ignorant and barbaric natives dared to wield butcher knives and massacre and plunder Qi merchants and immigrants. It is an unpardonable crime.

"So, the army officers and soldiers who participated in the suppression responded with violence and carried out multiple large-scale massacres against the Acehnese people?"

In the VIP cabin of the Yanfeng, after listening to a brief statement from an official stationed in Aceh opposite, Pan Guangfeng was silent for a while and then sighed.

"Ambassador Pan, you don't know something." Seeing Pan Guangfeng's calm expression, the official quickly defended: "In the riot two years ago, it can be said that the vast majority of Acehnese people participated. I heard that those who were lucky in the riot The immigrants who escaped said that the cruel methods of those mobs were simply inhumane. Even children as young as seven or eight were led by adults and used wooden spears and sticks to brutally kill immigrants from Qi. Army officers and soldiers slaughtered entire villages and towns, and there may be people who killed recklessly. If the killing was carried out, whether it was one of three or one of two, a large number of murderers would definitely escape the net. "

"Such killings will probably leave indelible hatred in the hearts of Acehnese people." Pan Guangfeng shook his head and said, "In the future, if we want to peacefully control the local people, it won't work."

"Ambassador Pan, as the ancients said, the natives are afraid of power but not moral. The strong will be bandits and bandits, and the weak will be humble." The official said disapprovingly: "As long as our country of Qi uses thunderbolts to deter all the mobs who cause chaos. , will naturally eliminate their resistance and disintegrate their gathering momentum. After our Qi Kingdom has been in power for hundreds of years and its manpower has become stronger, we will naturally be able to occupy the land of Aceh forever and enjoy peace and prosperity."

"Haha..." Pan Guangfeng chuckled, not quite agreeing with the official's words.

The Angry-Eye Vajra wants to proclaim his authority and recite the Dharma, so how can he just use force to inflict violence?
If other civilized countries saw such a wanton killing of natives, it would really damage the reputation of our country, Qi.

In other words, there was such a massive riot in Aceh, but the puppet government supported by Qi and the army guided and trained did nothing, showing disgraceful mediocrity and slowness, without any "responsibility" of the puppet regime. disappoint others.

Nowadays, the entire Kingdom of Aceh is under full military control. After King Sultan was assassinated, the designated crown prince has never ascended the throne. He still serves as temporary regent of the royal government as a supervisor, but the decree cannot leave the palace at all.

Looking at this appearance, His Majesty the Emperor and the cabinet are probably thinking of deposing the Sultan of Aceh and directly taking over the Kingdom of Aceh.

Oh, the Kingdom of Aceh may have perished.

It is sad to say that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qi has a diplomatic department and affairs commissioner specifically responsible for Nanyang affairs. However, with the destruction of one kingdom after another, the envoys stationed abroad in the Nanyang region are also very embarrassed. The locals were "unemployed" one after another and were replaced by civil affairs officials appointed by the cabinet.

In time, when the entire Nanyang and Malay regions become the official territory of the empire, the Department of Nanyang Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs may have no meaning in existence.

It’s quite funny to think about it. The territory of the empire has expanded rapidly, and many government affairs departments, including the army, have also continued to expand. However, the personnel and powers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been shrinking as a result, and the number of countries or states with which it can deal has also gradually decreased. .

Although he was somewhat sad about the imminent destruction of the Kingdom of Aceh, Pan Guangfeng also knew that Qi would eventually completely control the Strait of Malacca, a chokepoint. Aceh is located on the south bank of the Strait and controls the western entrance to the Strait. The key position will be annexed by Qi sooner or later and become part of the core territory of the empire.

This is the tragedy of small countries and their people, and it is also their fate.

In this era of the jungle, kindness is not the original sin, but weakness is. Only strength is the right way.

A country, a nation, just like people, the poorer and weaker you are, the more life and pressure will bully you. When you become stronger, the world will be kind to you.

We have to admit that when a country or a person is at its weakest, it has the most enemies.

When you and your opponent are fighting in the same dimension, you may still be able to show your courage and make five steps with blood. But when an opponent from a higher dimension uses dimensionality reduction strikes against you, it is impossible for the weak to perish together.

So when facing the strong, the weak can only wait for death without fighting or working hard?

In the current era of great strife, can the weak just live in ignorance and live in an ignoble existence?

No, on the contrary, the weak have to work harder, try their best, and strive to compete on the same field as their opponents.

If not, how could our Qi country rise in the Han continent in just a few decades, then dominate the oceans, and become a glorious empire that is admired by all countries in the world!
Therefore, when a person or even a country becomes strong, he (it) will be surrounded by warm and friendly friends.

Although being weak is the original sin, not working hard is the greater original sin.

The Kingdom of Aceh is like this, and so are other kingdoms in Southeast Asia. It is like this in India, Persia, Arabia, Africa... all are like this.

(End of this chapter)