New Shun 1730

With several muffled sounds, a large gap was opened in the city wall of Malacca.

The grenadiers quickly launched an attack, seizing the walls on both sides of the gap and controlling the gap.

The infantry then advanced, and the light field artillery followed the infantry to occupy the high places on both sides of the gap. The engineers immediately built simple artillery fortifications.

The whole process was like a drill, or even worse than a drill. Dashun Army fought hard against the air throughout the whole process.

After completely controlling the city gate, the gap, and the city gate facing the east.

The Dutch, who acted with Dashun in St. Paul's Church, finally waited for the time to surrender. If they don't surrender and the heavy artillery is aimed at St. Paul's Church, they will really die without a burial.

Military music was playing and gongs and drums were beating. Liu Yu led the envoys from small countries into the city, watched the surrender of the Dutch, and visited the city walls that were blown apart and the turrets that were blasted away by heavy artillery. This scene is considered over. .

Since Malacca City was abandoned early by the Dutch, it has long been under Dashun's control. Now that the flag is planted in the city of Malacca, the Chinese, Chinese and local Nyonya people in the city all cheered.

The rest of the ethnic groups don't care much either. They are neither Europeans nor Eurasians.

Moreover, the natives of Batavia supported Dutch rule. However, Malacca has always been suppressed by the Dutch. Commercial activities and many laws have a strong style of fundamentalist Calvinism and orthodox feudal commercial monopoly, which makes the citizens of Malacca also feel dissatisfied.

Otherwise, it would be better to be born anywhere at the foot of the imperial city. Batavia can also be regarded as the imperial city of the East India Company. Malacca failed because the geographical conditions were so superior that the East India Company had to use powerful administrative means to suppress the development of Malacca.

Today, the city of Malacca has changed its owner after a hundred years since the 13th year of Chongzhen. But after all, people living in Malacca know China very well, and there is not much panic about Dashun occupying Malacca.

After settling in the city, Liu Yu and Li Huo took a group of officers to St. Paul's Church. There is a hill here overlooking Malacca City and the opposite Malacca City.

The mountain is not high, and there is no way to see all the small mountains at all.

But everyone, including Li Huan, felt a sense of pride when they looked at the city of Malacca that had just experienced the war.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, Malacca was captured by the Dutch. It has been a hundred years since then.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Taizu of Dashun rode into Henan and officially shouted the slogan of equalizing the land and freeing grain.

Today, the descendants of the former bandits have become emperors, dukes, marquises, and even sons of good families.

This feeling of intertwining time and space really gives people an indescribable feeling of pride.

This battle was not fierce at all. No one was killed on the Dashun side, and no one was killed on the Dutch side outside Fort Santiago.

In terms of the significance of this war alone, not to mention the deception of the Dutch fleet in Cirebon, it is far inferior to the Batavia Uprising.

But in Batavia, no one sighed too much.

Here, I sigh again and again.

Because...this is the gate to Nanyang.

To the west is beyond Nanyang.

If Dashun goes out in the future, the fleet will gather here, fly colorful flags, and ride the wind and waves.

If we don't go out, China will control Nanyang again and expand its territory thousands of miles.

With the introduction of the globe, these people knew that the size of the earth was fixed. Now the empire from Omsk to the mouth of the Heilongjiang River; from the Selenga River to Java; from Malacca to Sulu and Luzon, seems to be big enough .

They stood on Mount St. Paul, not looking at the tiny Malacca, but across the water vapor waves on the sea to see the more distant India and even Europe.

Li Han suddenly thought of a sentence Liu Yu had said before, and felt that it was particularly appropriate to apply it to this battle in Nanyang.

"You fell down before I even exerted any force."

"This battle will expand the territory of thousands of miles and conquer several countries. Not to mention the coming of thousands of countries to the dynasty, but if we break it down, we can still get together thirty or fifty tributary countries."

"But the impact of this battle on the people's livelihood in the country is actually not as good as a civil uprising. Three to five thousand soldiers and horses were all solved. There is no need for a large number of accompanying soldiers and civilians."

"If China fights such a battle for another hundred years, it will not break its muscles and bones."

The other officers also had the feeling that the Dutchman fell down before he even exerted any force.

Liu Yu said: "You just pretend that you have no strength, but you don't know that since I captured Vitas Bering and the Rakshasa people at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River on the Asia-American Road and Bridge expedition ship, I have entered Japan, visited Edo, and organized Sweden, setting up a new school... After twenty years of sharpening the sword, it will be effortless to cut it off in one day."

"It's just that I think it would be a waste of resources to sharpen such a sharp sword and only use it once to cut a piece of tofu."

He felt that the future was full of uncertainty, and the emperor already trusted his decision-making and agreed to the plan to cooperate with the Netherlands.

But if I have done so much and something goes wrong in the Netherlands and they refuse to cooperate, then I am afraid that in the future I will have to stand on St. Paul’s Hill in Malacca, looking westward and sighing.

If this matter really fails, the westward march to India will also have to come to nothing. Spices have to be sold. If the Dutch don't cooperate, they can only sell them to the British in Malacca, because only the British can eat and sell them.

When the time comes, a year's worth of money will be placed in front of the emperor, but Liu Yu will go to war with the British who "send money" to the emperor. I'm afraid it will definitely be shaken by then.

Before, the barefoot were not afraid of the shoes. Liu Yu could scare Britain in various ways, and Britain could do nothing about Dashun.

If they really wanted to take Nanyang, they would have to put on shoes. Britain would have the means to counter Dashun. If they refused Dashun's goods, at most both would suffer losses, but it would be better than not being able to hurt Dashun at all before.

At that time, who knows who will collapse first when they compete with each other?

At that time, the advantage will be on the British side.

It can encourage smuggling. If it is really full-scale smuggling, it will be difficult to prevent it. If Malacca and Sunda are blocked, people can still transport it to other places by land.

Also, because the economies of Southeast Asia are too heavily tied to European trade, once it is cut off, Dashun's rule over Nanyang will inevitably be unstable. The local states will definitely be extremely dissatisfied with Dashun, and the British will cause trouble with a little instigation.

Therefore, cooperation with the Netherlands is crucial. The Netherlands certainly has no ability to take India. After the Nanyang issue is resolved, there will be no irreconcilable contradictions between Dashun and the Netherlands.

Calculating the time, there is still one year to send back the Dutch who witnessed all this, and to get Dashun involved when the war in Europe ceases.

This is like gambling, the size has been determined, almost all the wealth is on the line. But the dice cup will not be opened until next year.

And even if it can be opened next year, there is no phone at this time, and it will take another year to get here.

This is really crazy.

Li Xi knew about Liu Yu's plan. Hearing Liu Yu's tone of confidence and fear of the future, he comforted him: "Don't think too much, Lord Jing. In the past, Lord Wu had a plan, but he still put out the fire in Shangfang Valley. As the saying goes, man proposes, God disposes."

"We have done what we have planned and considered, and the rest depends on fate. The Celestial Empire has done what it can do. The rest is beyond our ability."

Li Xi certainly supports Liu Yu's westward expansion plan now, which is related to his navy and his prestige among naval officers: the governor of the navy who cannot expand and promote the navy, but instead cuts down the navy and seals up warships, is not a good commander in the eyes of officers.

But support is support, but there are only these things that can be said and done.

Liu Yu continued to look westward for a while, lost in thought, and shook his head for a long time, saying, "I don't have the ability to solve domestic problems. I can only pin everything on this. That's all. Your Highness is right, man proposes, God disposes."

This man proposes, God disposes, is both the imaginary sky and the sky in the Forbidden City.

Liu Yu's words were double-entendres, but he did not bow in the opposite direction of the Forbidden City, because if it was confirmed, it would make his words seem a bit resentful. If the emperor does not plan to continue westward in the future, this will easily become a rift.

These officers around him did not know about the affairs of the court, let alone the affairs between the monarch and his subjects. However, many of them knew about Liu Yu's plan to cooperate with the Netherlands, and they were participants and specific executors in many of the things involved.

In their opinion, how can there be too much money? It is certainly better to make money from growing and buying vegetables than just growing vegetables.

Seeing Liu Yu's worried look, several officers exchanged glances with each other privately, and some of them deliberately diverted the topic, not wanting Liu Yu to be so depressed.

"Your Highness, Marquis Jing, in my opinion, we should continue the defense methods of the Dutch and Portuguese. Let the city and the town here be separated. In the future, this place will be the protectorate of the Nanyang Protectorate, and many of the Dutch's repressive policies can be lifted."

"The climate conditions here are very good, and we can cultivate fertile land. At least food self-sufficiency is not a problem."

"And since this is the first of the four military towns in Nanyang, some immigrants will come here."

"However, I think it is better not to build a military port here. It is better to build a military port in Temasek at the end of the peninsula to the east."

"It is not suitable to build a military port in the middle of the strait. Once it is blocked by others, it will be trapped to death. If it is in Temasek, it can go out of the strait in detail and control Nanyang in. "

"It's just that it's a wasteland with a small population. The infrastructure is definitely not as good as here. But considering the long term, it's worth spending more money like this."

Temasek is Singapore in later generations.

These staff officers' words really diverted Liu Yu's attention. He also considered this problem. Malacca is not a very suitable place.

The port here is not very deep, and the water depth near the port is very shallow at low tide every day, so that the navy of Dashun cannot get too close to it during this battle.

Indeed, the interior of the strait is not suitable for a military port. It is better to build it at the entrance of the strait. After all, this place is not like the inland. In a short period of time, Dashun can only control the narrow area from Malacca to Temasek, and the rest of the territory is not in Dashun's hands.

In this case, it is better to change places.

The officer said, "It just so happens that we have captured quite a few Dutch. If we can use these people as labor, we can save a lot of money."

"Since the Dutch used us Chinese as coolies to build Batavia from a swamp, why can't we use the Dutch as labor to build Temasek?"

"This is one reason."

"Second, there are a lot of people in Malacca, and there are people from all over the place. And there seem to be a lot of Chinese people there, but many of them have been here for a long time, living together with the locals, and converted to Islam."

"If we can build Temasek, we can just move a large number of people in. We are not like the Dutch, who suppressed other places for Batavia. In a few years, Temasek will be prosperous."

"It is both a military port and a fortress. As long as the navy is still the strongest in the South Seas, it is better to build a fortress at the cape of the peninsula than in the center of the peninsula. Once something happens, if it is at the cape and there is a navy, we only need to consider the enemy on one side."

"Besides, it is easy to convert to Islam, but difficult to leave Islam. There are many mosques here. If people immigrate from the country, it may be difficult to say what will happen in the future. Anyway, the Dutch have been suppressing Malacca before, which saves a lot of trouble. If Batavia was not too prosperous and populous, it would be far better to start a new one somewhere else."