Dragon Sea Empire

The China United Company or Yin Feng had a very clear purpose for the development of Nanyang, which was to control and develop the vast areas of Nanyang. This was the first time that the Chinese immigrated and developed this area under the protection of armed forces in an organized way.

The Chinese are no longer the scattered individuals who went to Nanyang as before, nor are they the good-natured Chinese businessmen who endured the grievances and humiliation. Now the Chinese company is a new force that defeated the old colonizers, the Spaniards. Confidence throughout the company is on the rise.

In response to the provocation of the small country, the Chinese company was not polite, and immediately dispatched [-] guards and soldiers. With the assistance of friendly indigenous tribes, they trekked mountains and rivers into the tropical jungle. Destroy the country.

At the beginning of 1608, the Dayaks attacked a team of gold prospectors of the Zhonghua Company, and a Dominican missionary who was an engineer was killed. At the same time, he is also the director of the Nanyang region of the Security Department of the Chinese company. After hearing the news, he immediately dispatched the guard team of Nanya State, with two sentry teams of 1000 soldiers and three small bronze cannons. With the cooperation of more than [-] indigenous auxiliary soldiers, they launched an encirclement and suppression campaign against the primeval forest area where the Dayaks lived.

The Dayak headhunters, who don't know how powerful firearms are, gathered fighters from dozens of villages and challenged the Chinese and indigenous coalition forces in a river valley. As you can imagine, the Dayaks suffered heavy losses, and many villages The male population is almost extinct.

Today, Nanya State in West Borneo (West Kalimantan) is already an important military stronghold of the China United Company in Borneo. Three forts and a fence wall of civil structures with a radius of five miles have been established on the coast. Here It is also the trade center of Chinese settlements in West Borneo and the Malay states in the interior of Borneo, as well as the largest gold production center of Chinese companies.

The socio-economic situation in Fujian, where there are many people and little land, makes it easy for Chinese companies to organize a large number of immigrants to go to sea. Compared with other areas in the Malay Archipelago and Indonesian archipelago, the natural conditions in West Kalimantan are relatively harsh, but the Chinese are The most industrious nation, in just two years, about 1 Chinese immigrated to West Borneo in an organized manner due to the backing of Chinese companies with strong financial, material, and military forces. In addition, more than [-] spontaneously The Chinese people in the coastal areas who came here, within two years, the gold here has quickly become one of the important incomes of the China United Company. Gold mining rights are sold to other businesses in the form of licenses.

In other parts of Nanyang, the Chinese tend to cooperate with the Dutch in such places because the Dutch and Portuguese arrived before the Chinese companies and occupied some key locations. In the Aceh area, the Dutch occupied early The seaport stronghold in the southeast of Aceh originally occupied by the pirates of the Chinese company was later retaken by the natives due to its weakness. The Dutch actually could only control one port. After the Battle of Manila, the Chinese who strengthened their armed forces re- Returning to Aceh, and cooperating with a Dutch fleet, conquered the surrounding areas of Aceh again; the Chinese company and the Dutch divided up the land of Aceh; the port belonged to the Dutch, and the surrounding land belonged to the Chinese.

When the Dutch came to Asia, they first seized Denardi in the Maluku Islands and Aceh in Sumatra. In 1605, the Dutch East India Company expelled the Portuguese from Ambo Island and established fortresses and commercial houses. The Indian company is bent on conquering the island of Java, and Jakarta is their main goal.

There were thousands of Chinese living in Jakarta earlier. After the Dutch signed a cooperation agreement with the Chinese company, they used favorable terms to attract Chinese businessmen to do business in Aceh and Java. The Chinese also had a good relationship with the local natives of Jakarta. After the first Penghu battle of the Chinese company, Yin Feng cooperated happily with the Dutch and entered a "honeymoon period". Because the Dutch gave preferential treatment to the Chinese, the Chinese immigrants on Java Island took the initiative to help the Dutch attack Jakarta.

Among them, Zeng Erjiao, a Chinese pirate living in Jakarta, took the initiative to organize a Chinese auxiliary force, joined the Dutch army, and participated in the battle to attack Jakarta Tubang. After the coastal pirate gang went south, the Chinese company established a business here.

In June 1608, with the assistance of the local Chinese, the Dutch occupied Jakarta ten years earlier than another historical time and space, and renamed it Batavia as the official residence of the Governor's Mansion.

A large part of the credit for the occupation of Jakarta belongs to the Chinese Auxiliary Army. Some of these troops were selected by the Chinese company from the escort and joined the Dutch army as a sentry team. Yin Feng did this to exercise his troops’ overseas combat capabilities. It is also to familiarize their armed forces with the geographical environment of Batavia.

At the official establishment ceremony of the Governor’s Mansion, Li Jin, the leader of the Chinese immigrants appointed by the Dutch, and the representatives of the Chinese company’s business hall sat beside the Governor of Batavia, and thousands of Chinese immigrants cheered around. Then, the dragon lantern dance, lion dance and other celebration activities were carried out lively, and countless aborigines and Dutch immigrants were watching curiously.

Van Layden, who has just returned from Taiwan, is already a major and has served as the commander of the city defense of Batavia. Da Yugai, who has been to Taiwan, is now the governor of Batavia, and Admiral Metliff is the Batavia Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Viceroyalty of Davia.

Van Layden stood on the newly built fort, looking at the happy crowd with a very serious expression on his face.

Beside him, it was his boss, Admiral Matliff, the commander of the East India Company Fleet. This big red-haired man was watching the Chinese dragon dance team pass by with his mouth curled up.

"What a strange people, Leighton, are their revels always so rowdy?"

Van Layden smiled wryly: "Didn't you see, this pagan dragon is their most worshiped sacred beast. I often saw such scenes when I was in Formosa Island,"

Matliff shook his head: "I don't think the resolution of the company's board of directors is wise. You see, there are thousands of Chinese here, while we in the Netherlands only have more than 300 people. The regional directors of Chinese companies can still enter the parliament. It’s simply conniving the Chinese to control everything, I don’t know whether the real master of Batavia is us Dutch or these Chinese,”

Van Layden sighed and said: "Now the Chinese company is our largest supplier and distributor in Asia, and the company's board of directors will definitely not fall out with the Chinese company because of this,"

Matliff sneered: "Profit, yes, profit, why the East India Company was created, isn't it to make money, but, dear Colonel Leighton, do you think these Chinese people really will not threaten the security of our colony ,"

Layton hesitated for a while and said hesitantly: "General, judging from the current situation, it should not be possible,"

"What is the current situation, Major, look at these carnival Chinese, here is Batavia, which we have attacked for six years, but what else here belongs to the Dutch, there are Chinese merchant ships outside the port, they monopolize The price of the goods was paid, and a large amount of hard currency from the East India Company was earned. What exactly did we get? Did we earn labor fees after sailing thousands of kilometers to Europe to sell the goods?"

Van Layden smiled wryly: "That's not a lot, the company's profits have doubled in recent years,"

Matliff continued to sneer: "Hmph, I will put forward a proposal at the annual meeting of the East India Company. Just in case, at least all Chinese people should be moved to live outside the city."

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On a Malacca merchant ship at the port of Batavia City, three people including Yuan Jin, Li Zhong, and Li Huayu were looking at the pier where people came and went.

Yuan Jin said in a disdainful tone: "Look, half of the merchant ships here belong to the Zhonghua Company. Yin Feng's hands are really long."

Li Huayu is completely dressed as a Malay, and his skin has been tanned under the tropical sun all year round. He smiled coldly and said, "Myna, don't worry, Yin Feng's people don't have much influence here. The Tang people here are all According to Jin Bo, only Jin Bo can speak in front of the Dutch, "

"Uncle Jin, it's Uncle Li Jin, right? We heard about him when we were in Fujian, and we also met Brother Li. It's a pity that Brother Li doesn't want to come to Batavia with us..." Li Huayu said with a sigh.

Yuan Jin patted the bow of the boat and said with a sneer, "Brother is also thinking of us..."

Li Zhong snorted with his nose, and said: "How do you talk? The eldest brother left us and went to Europe with Yin Feng's boat. Why is he still thinking about us? I think we started with the eldest brother back then. , although I have escaped from death several times, but I have never lived under the fence like this, and I can't figure out why Brother Li is not willing to take us to Nanyang to explore the world, "

Li Huayu smiled bitterly: "It's not because of my sister Lihua...she..."

Yuan Jin interrupted Li Huayu impatiently: "Don't worry about this fake foreign woman, she has long forgotten who supported her. In my opinion, Brother Li didn't want to go out to be our leader, it was really for us Good; he gave us all the money stored in Malacca. This is the proof. He must have something to hide. I think Yin Feng’s subordinates must be watching him. If he openly falls out with Yin Feng, the people from Zhonghua Company will definitely hunt us down,"

Yuan Jin patted the bow of the boat, gritted his teeth and said: "Now we have reached the land of the Dutch, and Yin Feng can no longer cover the sky with one hand, so we will use the money left to us by the eldest brother, and you, brother Huayu With our financial resources, we have created a world in Batavia, and one day, we will drive the blue flag of the Chinese company out of Batavia,"

A few days later, at the Business Management Office of the Batavia Governor's Mansion, a new Chinese company was established; Huatian Company, the company had four original Chinese shareholders, of which Li Huayu was a Chinese in Malacca, a Portuguese colony. , was elected as the big boss, the shopkeepers are Yuan Ba ​​and Li Jiu,