Dragon Sea Empire

Yan Siqi didn't understand the deep meaning of Yin Feng's words, but he could tell that Yin Feng was thinking of himself. Indeed, with age, experience, knowledge, and vision, Yan Siqi has gradually broadened his horizons over the years, and he has a new understanding of Yin Feng's career. He has recently begun to take classes seriously at the Chinese Military Academy, and he especially likes the world geography classes taught by Western missionaries.

He repeatedly thought about the experience of the rise of Zhonghua United Company, and always felt that Yin Feng seemed to be getting more and more incomprehensible.

At first, he felt that such a person who is sometimes soft-hearted, sometimes impulsive, and has no political experience should have such a powerful force at all. Gradually, after extensively understanding the general trend of the world, especially after Ye Hua brought the European fleet back to the voyage, he said that What he saw and heard made Yan Siqi understand: Yin Feng is seizing the opportunity, an era that is about to undergo major changes.

Now, Yan Siqi understands what he wants to do: unrealistic ideas have to be put aside, the world in front of him needs young people like him to create.

Two days later, Yan Siqi had already selected the manpower for the Nanyang expedition from his old department: 600 capable and tough men, who will go to the Nanyang expedition. For the Dutch fleet, Yan Siqi will lead his men to land on Java Island and open up the situation with extremely limited manpower. In the first two months, he can also get the support of 3000 sailors and musketeers; and wait for the navy fleet to return to Manila. Finally, he will independently support the overall situation.

Yan Siqi’s advance troops for the expedition to Java had just boarded the clipper ship Starfish, and there was a commotion at the dock in Manila Port: Yin Feng appeared at the dock, as if he was about to board the ship, surrounded by Zeng Jingshan, Mai De and others, who were trying to persuade Yan Siqi Puzzled, he was about to get off the boat to ask what happened, but he saw dozens of soldiers from the special battalion boarded his boat, accompanied by An Xiaosi, Luzon Director of the Military Intelligence Department.

"Fourth brother, what's going on, is the ship owner going to Nanyang too? What are the people from the special battalion doing on board?"

An Xiaosi smiled wryly and shook his head: "Miss Li has had an accident, and the captain is yelling to go rescue the people himself. The 20 newcomers from the special battalion are under your command..."

"What's going on?" Yan Siqi didn't have much affection for Miss Li who believed in foreign religions, but he had been Yin Feng's personal guard and knew Li Lihua's position in Yin Feng's heart.

"Miss Li accepted the invitation of the Lin family in Surabaya, Java, and went to Surabaya, saying that she was going to mediate the grievances between Huatian Company and our Zhonghua family,"

Yan Siqi jumped on his feet and said: "People from Huatian Company may not hurt the eldest lady, but the Dutch may not. Oh no, who is the Lin family from Surabaya?"

An Xiaosi smiled wryly and said, "The Lin family from Surabaya came here to make friends with our company on their own initiative a few years ago. It is said that they are the descendants of Captain Lin Feng."

"Lin Feng!" Yan Siqi almost screamed. On the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, Lin Feng, who once attacked Manila, can be regarded as a well-known senior pirate.

"Yes, Lin Feng returned to Chaozhou after being defeated by the Ganlian people in Manila, and haunted Tuolin, Jinghai, and Jieshi. Nostalgic for the homeland, unwilling to live in a foreign country, under the temptation of Jin Jian, who participated in politics in Fujian, the chiefs Cai De, Chen Zhi, and Li Ruiqi went to Chaoyang to be caressed. Although Lin Feng was old, he was still unwilling to submit to the imperial court, so he went to the West without knowing it. In the end, the Lin family in Surabaya is said to be the direct descendants of Lin Feng back then. They are quite prestigious in the local area and have contacts with our company and Huatian Company, so they want to make peace between our two companies... The owner of the ship is here, "

A personal guard in black ran over and said, "You two, the captain invites you to go over,"

Yan Siqi and An Xiaosi hurried to the bow of the boat, but they saw Yin Feng standing on the bow with his hands behind his back, staring at the south sea in a trance.

Yan Siqi scratched his scalp, sighed and said, "Don't worry, the owner, Miss Li has a relationship with Yuan Jin and Li Zhong, so nothing will happen..."

An Xiaosi also said: "The Lin family in Surabaya will never let the eldest miss have an accident. The La people are about to invade my Luzon Island. You can't..."

Yin Feng suddenly said: "I won't go to Nanyang anymore,"

After all, Yin Feng is not the impulsive young man he was ten years ago, so he is a little ashamed of Cai's restlessness and avoids talking about it: "Zhenquan, Brother An is going with you on this trip. He has been in contact with the Tang people in Nanyang for many years. Familiar with local contacts can help you, as for..."

After hesitating for a moment, Yin Feng still didn't finish his sentence. He patted Yan Siqi's shoulder, nodded and said, "It's up to you, have a good trip..."

"Captain," Yan Siqi sighed, Yin Feng didn't say a word about Li Lihua, in Yan Siqi's view, it was a trust in him that didn't need to be expressed in words, but actually put even more pressure on Yan Siqi.

At the same time as the Nanyang advance team set off, the Nanyang expedition fleet under the command of Ye Hua also set off.

Yin Feng watched the fleet heading southeast from the fort of Fort San Diego, and said indifferently to Lin Xiao who had just arrived: "The information about the Dutch will be handed over to me directly in the future."

What Yin Feng did not expect was that the situation in Java Island had taken a turn for the worse before Yan Siqi's advance team arrived.

In fact, even the people from the Dutch and Huatian Company did not anticipate the sudden change in the situation.

It all started with the incident of the Chinese Commercial House by the Red River in Batavia.

Li Lihua did not deal directly with Huatian Company in Malacca, because with the help of the Portuguese, the branch of Huatian Company in Malacca was sealed up by the Portuguese colonial authorities under the pretext of "participating in piracy".

The Lin family in Surabaya really wanted to mediate the conflict between the two major Chinese companies, Huatian and Zhonghua, but Li Lihua really wanted to do more for Yin Feng, and also held a glimmer of hope for reconciliation with his childhood partners Li Zhong and Yuan Jin.

After she came to Surabaya, although she knew that the relationship between the Dutch and the Chinese company was tense, she still secretly went to the Batavia Chinese Business Hall.

Yuan Jin and Li Zhong also had to give the Lin family some face, so they didn't say anything about it. Yuan Jin didn't want to see Li Lihua, so Li Zhong had to negotiate with Li Lihua alone.

The place of negotiation was the Chinese company's business hall by the Red River outside Batavia.

The Dutch issued an order the year before last that all Chinese must move out of the city walls of Batavia. This order reminds people of the move by the Spaniards in Manila to drive the Chinese out of the city. The Chinese company negotiated with the Dutch for this, but Huatian However, the company moved out of the city on its own initiative. The disunity among the Chinese communities gave the Dutch every opportunity to break through. The other Chinese who settled here eventually moved out of the city. Finally, the Chinese company had to leave the city. This commercial building, which is half a fortress and half a warehouse, was built.

Li Zhong led dozens of guards from Huatian Company into the Zhonghua Commercial Hall, and more than 100 Dutch soldiers rushed out from the city of Batavia to block the gate of the commercial hall.

The treasurer of the Chinese company's business office in Batavia is a Chinese businessman who has lived here for a long time. He hurried to the door to inquire. , asked to come in and search, "

Everyone looked at Li Lihua in unison, and then looked at Li Zhong together.

Li Zhong took a few steps back, raised his hand and said, "This matter has nothing to do with me. I haven't disclosed Miss Li's news to Hong Maoyi,"

The captain of the black guard, Magaro, pulled out the Japanese sword with a "choke", and ordered loudly: "Protect the eldest lady, don't let a Dutchman in,"

Li Zhong retreated behind his guard and said repeatedly: "Miss, I didn't do this."

Li Lihua said coldly: "Can you guarantee that all your subordinates will not betray me? Don't you and the Dutch wear the same trousers?"

Li Zhong was speechless, he just looked around nervously, planning to rush out the door.

At this time, the red-haired soldiers outside had already started. This group of red-haired soldiers had just been transferred from Europe. It had only been a dozen days since they arrived in Batavia on the ship of Vice Admiral Vettert's fleet. They were used to it. Being domineering in front of the natives in the colonies, he didn't feel that the Chinese company was anything special, so he smashed the door impatiently.

The gate of the Batavia shop of the Chinese company was smashed down several times, but the Dutch were greeted by a volley of gunfire from the black guards, and the guards organized in the shop rushed out of the door, breaking up the Dutch in one fell swoop, and kept After chasing him to the city of Batavia, Li Zhong escaped from the Zhonghua Merchant Hall in chaos.

The next day, the Dutch mobilized 100 sailors and 120 native auxiliaries to besiege the Zhonghua Commercial Hall. Li Lihua had already left for Surabaya overnight. The Dutch soldiers immediately handed over the Chinese company's people, and the Chinese manor near the business hall immediately organized the Zhuang Ding team to rescue their own people, and confronted the local state troops who supported the Dutch. However, the Dutch mobilized The staff of Huatian Company came to besiege the business hall, and mobilized the Japanese in Nihonmachi. At night, the Dutch opened the gate of the business house with cannons, and killed more than [-] Chinese and more than ten aborigines in the business house. .

The incident at the Batavia Chinese Chamber of Commerce aroused the indignation of overseas Chinese in Java. Within a month, overseas Chinese in Zappala, Patti, Nanwang, and Danmu took up arms one after another and concentrated on the various manors to which the Chinese Commercial Hall belonged. Domestically, the local Dutch colonists were frequently attacked, and the officials of Madalan, an indigenous country in Java in the northern coastal area, supported the overseas Chinese in their struggle against the Netherlands. He announced his support for the Madalan people. In order to maintain his throne, King Pakubuwono I of Madalan publicly supported the Dutch colonists on the one hand, and on the other hand attempted to use the overseas Chinese uprising team to fight against the Dutch army. He promised the Chinese armed forces that if The Chinese armed forces can drive away the Dutch, and he will give up the coastal areas to the overseas Chinese. Therefore, under the order of the Dutch East India Company, the 2 Mataran troops sent to Semarang to support the Dutch army secretly joined the overseas Chinese team. In the siege of Semarang, in July, the Javanese army in Kartasula, the capital of Mataran, and the overseas Chinese rebels jointly attacked the Dutch garrison, killed all Dutch officers, and forced Dutch soldiers to convert to Islam. Residents and native officials in the Brianan area also joined the anti-Dutch war.

At the same time, the Madura army attacked Madalan in an all-round way, and the Dutch also participated in the attack. The war quickly burned all over Java within ten days.