Dragon Sea Empire

In August of the second year of Apocalypse, Zheng Zhilong's Chinese army and Chinese militia totaled more than 6000 people. After a month of fighting, they actually burned, killed and destroyed all the way, and finally joined the Nanyang Fleet and the Taiwan Fleet Nanyang Detachment on the coast of Pattani. At this time, there were a total of two three-masted battleships of the Chinese Navy, more than ten schooners, more than ten Fuchuan gunboats, and nearly a hundred various auxiliary ships on the sea.

The queen of Pattani was escorted all the way to the north, and she saw with her own eyes that the Malay villages and towns were burned along the way, countless indigenous people were killed, and countless indigenous people became prisoners. It was almost turned into no man's land by the Chinese militia.

In Johor, the Sultan of Johor Mahvisah II organized his few remaining troops to resist. As a result, he was attacked by Zheng Zhilong's department and the Maihai Navy fleet in the South China Sea.

The history of this Sultanate of Johor is closely related to the Chinese. It is the direct descendant of the Malacca Sultanate, which was established under the support of Zheng He. After Malacca was occupied by the Portuguese in 1511, Sultan Mahmud Shah fled to Johor Bintan Island and established the Johor Dynasty. , Sultan Mahmud Shah attempted to recapture Malacca from the Portuguese. The Portuguese finally sent a fleet from Goa, India in 1526 to attack and destroy Bintan Island. After his death in 1528, his eldest son, Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah II, inherited his behest and established the Johor Dynasty with the royal blood of Malacca (there are also historical records that Sultan Mahmud Shah was the founder of the Johor Dynasty), with the capital of Old Johor ( Malay: Johor Lama), a political and religious regime based mainly on Islam; his brother Sultan Muzaffar Shah (Sultan Muzaffar Shah) went to Perak to establish a new dynasty.

In addition to dealing with Portugal, the Johor dynasty also had to deal with its rival in the north of Sumatra - Aceh.

The three parties attacked each other, and most of them were the Johor Dynasty. In 1564, the Aceh people attacked Johor, and the Johor Kingdom was sacked. In Johor, there have been many humiliating incidents in which the capital was burned by Aceh and the Sudan was captured and killed. Johor once controlled Johor, Riau and part of Sumatra. After the Second Southeast Asia War, when the Chinese army captured Malacca, the Johor Sultan Can rule the southernmost piece of land in the Malay Peninsula.

This time, the Johor Sultanate ushered in another looting because it followed Aceh to fight against China. This time, the royal family members of the Johor Dynasty could not escape. The Chinese fleet was killed by artillery fire; the eldest prince Yi Prahin was captured on the last day of the siege of Malacca, and the second prince was killed when Mai Haihai's Taiwanese marines bombed the palace with thunderbolts.

Zheng Zhilong's troops hated the Johor people's betrayal very much, because many soldiers of the Malacca garrison bought properties locally, and their property losses were huge. The biggest culprit was the bandit-like Johor army. The reason is that after ordering a thorough search of Johor, his direct troops and militias carried out a thorough looting and massacre of Johor, a large-scale ethnic cleansing, they broke into the homes of the aborigines at will, burned, killed and looted, or the local Chinese Leading the way, they broke into the homes of noble lords and ransacked their houses. When encountering resisting landlords and nobles, the soldiers of the Malacca garrison used cannons to speak, and even the people and houses were smashed into pieces. Only those Johor businessmen who had a good relationship with Chinese and overseas Chinese were able to escape. Hiding in those rich Chinese merchants, or hiding in the Chinese business hall.

During this anti-Chinese rebellion by the Malays, the Chinese in Johor suffered property losses, and the Chinese business house was looted by the Johor Sultan Guard. However, the personal safety of the Chinese was not violated, and basically no one was killed. Therefore, When Zheng Zhilong's troops began to loot the whole city, some Johoreans were protected by the Chinese and survived.

After a long massacre, in the middle of the night that night, the militiamen first began to find it troublesome-shooting, bayoneting, and macheting those who did not resist were too troublesome. Some Chinese militia organizations (the main members are former pirates) Molecular) tied up a large group of indigenous people regardless of gender, age or age, and formed a long human chain. After they were forcibly taken to the seaside, the militiamen ignited a large bundle of grenades and threw them into the crowd, blowing up the crowd into a bloody mass. Heaps of corpses.

The flames kept burning in the city of Johor all night. The killed Johor natives threw their corpses by the roadside. The blood of tens of thousands of corpses dyed the Johor beach red in the morning sun.

Part of the fleet commanded by Mai Dahai comes from the Taiwan Fleet, and part belongs to the Nanyang Fleet. It has only been one year since Malacca became the main base of the Nanyang Fleet. They were originally stationed in Jakarta and Manila. Therefore, the Chinese Navy has no personal grudge against Johor. They are guarding Malacca. The behavior of the regiment and the militia was very surprised. Mai Dahai sent people ashore overnight, and finally found Zheng Zhilong in the Johor palace, which was full of swords and blood. He warned Zheng Zhilong that many indigenous businessmen in Johor had trade ties with Chinese companies. Zheng Yiguan If you want revenge, you can, but don't hurt the company's interests.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong's uncle Huang Cheng was implicated in the court rape case, which had not yet reached Malacca.

Zheng Zhilong still has to take care of the face of the ship owner's brother-in-law. He also feels that this cleansing has gone too far. After all, with his own troops, it is impossible to wipe out all the natives. After things settle down, These aborigines are still the labor force of Chinese manors and factories, and they will also be taxed by the Malacca tutelary government. Zheng Zhilong suddenly felt that he might have made a mistake, and quickly ordered the end of the large-scale manhunt throughout Johor.

However, at this moment, those red-eyed Chinese militiamen can no longer suppress their desires. Even some units of the Malacca Garrison Regiment of the Chinese Army have participated in large-scale massacres and looting operations. Participated in robbery and massacres.

Zheng Zhilong spent two full days to clean up the situation.

Relying on the personnel of the Navy’s Supervision Department and the [-] marines sent by Mai Dahai from the fleet, Zheng Zhilong finally restored order in Johor City and the surrounding areas. He executed several small leaders of the pioneer militia and publicly beat However, Zheng Zhilong used wartime needs as an excuse to prevent the military judge from investigating the officers of the Chinese Army who participated in the robbery and massacre. No one in the Malacca garrison was punished by military law.

After staying in Johor for five days, Zheng Zhilong's troops began to continue northward. Mai Dahai's naval fleet had already pulled anchor and set sail the day before, heading northward to the coast of Pattani.

The founding monarch of Pattani legend is a queen. Later, this small Muslim-majority country often has queens. Since the 13th century, Pattani has surrendered to the Sukhothai Dynasty of Siam, and then to the Ayutthaya Dynasty. In addition to paying tribute, the internal affairs are still independent. It once paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty called it Da Ni. In the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, Da Ni was a vassal state of Siam and belonged to the grandchildren. Many Chinese pirates could not get along in the country, so they ran to the pier and came to Pattani. For example, the famous pirate Zeng Benben once came to Pattani. After he believed in Islam, he became the head of the local customs. He even cast cannons for the Queen of Pattani. , this time the Nanyang Malays rebelled against China, and several of these cannons were used to attack the city of Malacca where the Chinese were stationed.

Because there are many Chinese in the country to help out, whenever Siam is weak, Pattani will try to stand on his own.

Pattani is the hub of the east-west voyage. In the Song Dynasty, there were commercial exchanges with China and India, and there were many Chinese settlers. Before the 16th century, Chinese sailboats carried goods such as ceramics and silk, textiles from India, and Pattani for long distances. Pepper, gold and other local products from nearby countries gathered here and exchanged with each other. Local merchants transported the goods to Java, Sumatra, and Makassar in Sulawesi.

The trade between the West and Pattani was led by the Portuguese, followed by Dutch and British merchants. In 1601, the Dutch United East India Company set up its first trading house here. In 1612, the British East India Company also traded here and set up a trading house. After the Second Nanyang War, the Chinese army forcibly drove the Portuguese and British business houses out of Pattani. In recent years, Chinese companies have dominated Southeast Asia and monopolized the trade between the East and the West. The Pattani people are jealous of the Chinese. This time, Nanyang When the Malay National People's Congress rebellion first started, Pattani was already ready to move.

Siam, Pattani's nominal suzerain, never thought of fighting with Chinese companies a few years ago. Before the Second Nanyang War, the Portuguese, Dutch, and British business houses stood side by side in Ayutthaya and Chinese companies. Trade was booming and taxes were increasing year by year. At this time, Chinese companies did not have the strength to fully control the Gulf of Thailand.

In the past few years, the Chinese company has controlled the Strait of Malacca, and only the Portuguese can enter the area east of the Strait of Malacca for trade. Therefore, the Dutch and British in Ayutthaya were driven away by the Chinese, and all overseas trade was carried out by the Chinese. The merchants and the Portuguese monopolized the monopoly, and the Siamese suffered a lot from suppressing the price of goods. Now, Siam can only be located in the northwestern tip of the Malay Peninsula, on the Indian Ocean side of the Strait of Malacca, which is another time and space. The coastal areas of Jidao do some business with Western whites. Since this place is thousands of miles away from Ayutthaya, the traffic is inconvenient, and the trade situation is not ideal.

At the same time, Siam’s mortal enemy, Myanmar, faced the Indian Ocean, and Chinese companies were unable to monopolize maritime trade in the Indian Ocean. Therefore, the Kingdom of Myanmar became a golden treasure in the eyes of Europeans. A large number of Europeans entered the coast of Myanmar, and Myanmar became a entrepot trade biggest beneficiary.

The Siamese were so jealous that they went crazy. Taking advantage of the Malays' rampant disturbance in Nanyang, they paid money and weapons to encourage the Pattani people to attack Malacca.

Under the loss of interests, envy and envy, Pattani was instigated by the boss of the suzerain country behind him, and immediately raised the banner of anti-Chinese companies. After the news that Aceh sent troops to Malacca, Queen Pattani immediately sent troops to attack the local Chinese businessmen. The Beida Nian Chinese Merchant Hall was caught off guard and immediately captured. Dozens of guards of the merchant hall were killed, all the Chinese merchants in the merchant hall were arrested, and all their belongings were looted.

Then, Queen Pattani received a reward from Siam, a batch of matchlock guns and ammunition produced in Siam, and then, Queen Pattani personally led the team and went south to attack the city of Malacca.

Finally, the Queen of Pattani surrendered to the Chinese with her entire army. She herself was taken as a prisoner and trapped in a prison cart pulled by a donkey along the way, bumping all the way back to Pattani.