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This is already close to the sea area of the Strait of Malacca. There are small islands dotted on the southward channel. Each small island is green with jungle and white sand, full of infinite vitality.Occasionally, a few Chinese-style sailboats passed by in a group, and the sailors on the bow of the ship saw the mighty Ming Navy fleet heading south, and they all cheered loudly with excitement.
"Da Ming wins! Daming is coming..."
"Da Ming is finally here!"
"Nanyang is ours..."
The Han Chinese who sailed on the Nanyang Sea were either from Chaozhou, or from southern Fujian, and there were also a small number of Cantonese. In short, they were the group of people who most supported the new Daming.They have long been waiting for the heavenly soldiers of Ming Dynasty to take over Nanyang.
Daming took over Nanyang, and they, the fellow villagers of Emperor Zhu, walked sideways in Nanyang, and those who are properly qualified can enjoy the treatment of today's Western white-skinned masters!
But they had been looking forward to it for many years, and the Ming Dynasty was busy elsewhere, so they didn't take Nanyang seriously.
But now, Daming is finally here!
It's never okay to be late!But Daming is not just a few years late, but more than 100 years late!
When the Portuguese and Spaniards arrived in Nanyang and began to go shopping for zero yuan, as the suzerain of the Nanyang countries, Ming's navy should appear.
But at that time, Ming's sea power had been weakened to almost non-existence.
Fortunately, the new Ming Dynasty now has a powerful navy, so it can finally come to Nanyang to sanction the evil imperialists!
The main force of the Ming Nanyang Fleet, commanded by Zhu Heqi's uncle Qiu Rong, was sent to implement the "Sanction Order of the Celestial Dynasty", including twelve "New Continent" type warships and twelve "Jianghai" type galley warships. .
The former is the main ship type of the Ming Dynasty Navy.The latter is a medium-sized warship between the "New World" type and the "Shocking Boat". It is also equipped with rocket launchers and sub-cannons, and is also equipped with hard sails and oars. Activities in inland rivers with insufficient wind.In order to cope with completely different hydrological conditions, the Ming Dynasty Navy also developed two types of "Jianghai" galley warships with flat bottom and round bottom.
Now following the ten "New World" ships are twelve round-bottomed "Jianghai" ships.And each "New World" type is towing two "Tuqi boats", and each "Jianghai" type is towing a "Tuqi boat".In other words, the entire fleet is composed of as many as sixty ships of various types.The number of naval officers and soldiers attached to these ships, together with the accompanying naval infantry, has exceeded [-]!
The number of people is quite a lot, but it is not enough to rely on this person to sweep away the fledgling Western colonists and their lackeys in Nanyang... But it is enough to complete the special mission entrusted to Dao Scarrong by Emperor Zhu - to perform the first mission in history. A "Celestial Sanction Order"!
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On the first day of July in the seventh year of the Great Duke of Ming Dynasty, in the south of Bintan Island west of the Malacca Strait, at Tanjung Pinang Port.
Sixty large and small warships headed by the "Chaozhou" rolled up snow-white waves and slowly cruised near Pong Enga Island outside the port.The waters near Malacca belong to the range of the equatorial windless belt, and it is not completely windless, but the wind is weak.Therefore, there is no need to choose a sheltered bay as the port. Tanjung Pinang Port is located on the coast, and the only shelter is Pong Nga Island, a small island less than two miles away from the port.
However, there was no defense on Pong Enga Island. The Dutch's deployment in the Strait of Malacca focused on the city of Malacca, and the entire Bintan Island belonged to the Sultanate of Johor, an ally of the Dutch.The Dutch just placed a small team of sailors and two anti-smuggling speedboats at Tanjung Pinang Port on the island, and built a lookout post.
When the large fleet of the Ming Dynasty Navy appeared on the sea north of Bintan Island, Marco Gullit, the boss of the East India Company on the island, immediately knew that something was wrong!
Although Daming has been revived for several years, it also has a navy that can compete with any Western maritime power.But this navy has never been like it is now, with a mighty brigade marching to the entrance of the Strait of Malacca!
Knowing that something was wrong, Marco Gullit immediately dispatched two anti-smuggling speedboats to report to the cities of Malacca and Batavia, and at the same time asked the officials of the Johor Sultanate on the island to send people to Johor The city newspaper.
Then he did not arrange resistance, but led the staff and guards of the business house, as well as the Johor officials on the island, and a group of beaming Chinese businessmen (mostly Teochew and Hokkien), together at Tanjung Pinang Port. Visitors from Ming Dynasty are welcome on the pier.
And Qiu Rong and Su Zhandao, who is about to be the governor of Bintan Island (a member of the Su family general, was sent to occupy the island because his name is "Zhandao"), both stood on the command deck of the Chaozhou, holding their hands together. Looking through the binoculars to see everything in front of you.
A prosperous Nanyang trade island is displayed in front of them.
The water is blue, the sand is white, and the vegetation is dense. The ruins of the royal city left by the last Sultan of Malacca Sultanate, Muhammad, are not far from the port. It stands among a large number of messy local buildings, as if describing the history of the city more than 100 years ago. How did the [-]-strong army of the Sultan "heroically" resist the attack of the Portuguese's [-] white-skinned soldiers and thousands of indigenous mercenaries... Many Chaozhou-style enclosures were built closer to the pier.Compared with the surrounding local buildings, they are simply fortresses!The mercenaries of the Nanyang Trading Company had already disguised themselves as businessmen and coolies to contact the local Chinese businessmen on Bintan Island, and secretly entered these enclosures.
If Marco Gullit is determined to resist, then the Nanyang Company mercenaries on the island will probably be able to quickly resolve the battle... and he, all the white people on the island and the land that participated in the rebellion, none of them will survive!
In addition, there are some small white Western-style buildings near the port of Tanjung Pinang, all of which are typical European colonial flavors, reflecting the sunlight near the equator, looking extremely solemn, and seem to indicate the white people's rule over the Straits of Malacca.
The port of Tanjung Pinang is full of rice fields and large mangrove forests. The land on this island is not fertile, and it is not as good as Java Island, which can always be "fertilized" by volcanic ash.However, because it happened to be on the throat of the Strait of Malacca, and it once became the temporary capital of the Sudan after the fall of Malacca, it has long been a well-developed land.Near the port, there are even large and small farms controlled by Chinese businessmen from the north.
Although the Chinese from Chaozhou and southern Fujian have always relied on their hard work and wisdom, they have mastered the economic lifeline of most parts of Nanyang.But because they have no organizations other than clans, fellow countrymen's associations, and gangs, and it is unlikely that the Chinese who went to Nanyang migrated with their clans, they became weak individuals after arriving in Nanyang.Even if you make a fortune, you can't fight against Western or local aborigines who own religions, tribes, and trading companies.Therefore, although they have a large number and strong financial resources, they are always in a state of being ruled... until the arrival of the Confucian Nanyang General Hall and the Nanyang Trading Company with flintlocks, rocket launchers, sugar grenades, and anti-classic !
Now the Chinese in Nanyang have the Confucian Nanyang General Hall that can organize them, the Nanyang Trading Company and the Ming Nanyang Fleet that can provide them with weapons, training, and backstage—if the disciples of the Confucian Nanyang Governor eat Unfortunately, the above Nanyang Trading Company and Daming Nanyang Fleet will not let it go!Especially after the Ming Dynasty conquered Japan, there were a steady stream of Japanese warriors who dared to do evil... It wasn't that they were capable of fighting, but that they were vicious enough to take their own lives, let alone the lives of others?
And when doing colonization, evil...is also a kind of power!
There are dots of fishing boats on the sea, and the operators are all indigenous fishermen. Seeing so many big boats coming at once, I thought some big customers came, and they all drove the small boats to sell the freshly caught seafood. ...The people of Bintan Island are really hospitable!
Qiu Rong just watched all this quietly, Su Zhandao suddenly said beside him: "My lord, do you see that? The foreign devils and officials from the Johor Kingdom are already at the pier, bringing with them dozens of Western soldiers and one or two hundred locals." Soldiers!"
Just pointing at the words, Qiu Rong also turned his gaze.Sure enough, there were a few Westerners in western clothes standing on the pier, a few aborigines in fancy clothes, and a group of Confucian disciples in cross-collared Confucian uniforms with long swords and grenade hammers hanging from their belts.A group of foreign soldiers and a group of barefoot native soldiers stood lazily around.
Qiu Rong sneered: "The boss of the Dutch business house on this island turned out to be a ghost... But this is also good, we can seal off all the business routes of the Dutch for him without completely tearing our faces! The Holy Majesty said Now, this method of sealing people's lives without tearing up their faces is called sanctions!"
"My lord," Su Zhandao asked with a smile, "shall we go to the pier now and tell the Dutch about the sanction ordered by the Holy Spirit?"
Qiu Rong said with a smile: "We have to tell the gang of foreigners who don't want to die. We also have to tell the officials of the Johor Kingdom...their Ming Dynasty finally sent heavenly soldiers to rescue them!"
The predecessor of the Sultanate of Johor was the Sultanate of Malacca. After the last generation of the Sultanate of Malacca, Muhammad Shah, lost the city of Malacca, he used Bintan Island as a stronghold against Western colonists, and at the same time placed the official capital in Johor.Later, he failed again at Bintan Island, and since then lost the power to command the Straits of Malacca.After his death, the unified Malacca Sultanate ceased to exist, but split into the Johor Sultanate and the Perak Sultanate, and at the same time lost the territory on the island of Sumatra.
In fact, there was no suzerain-vassal relationship between the newly established Sultanate of Johor and the Ming Dynasty in the north, and the Sultan of Johor did not expect the Ming Dynasty to provide them with protection, but instead formed an alliance with Portugal's enemy, the Dutch.
However, after Muhammad Shah lost the city of Malacca, he still asked for help from the Ming dynasty at that time... That was 1511 in the Western calendar!It's been more than 170 years since it's a bit old now!
But no one has stipulated that the rescuers of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty cannot be late!
When the springboard of the Chaozhou was placed on the pier of Tanjung Pinang Port, a large group of "short soldiers" wearing breastplates, iron helmets, and flintlock guns with bayonets were the first to disembark from the ship. He looked so vicious that he frightened the foreign devils on the pier and the officials of Johor.The leader of the team was the tall and thin Su Zhandao. After commanding a group of "short soldiers" to line up, he swaggered up to a group of stunned officials from the Sultanate of Johor, put his hands on his hips, and asked loudly: "Wait! But an official from the Malacca Sultanate?"
An elderly native man wearing gorgeous silk clothes and a long knife stuck in his belt immediately said in somewhat blunt Chinese: "Mine is Tianmenggong here on Bintan Island."
"Okay!" Su Zhandao nodded, "I am Su Zhandao, the naval infantry vice-admiral of the Great Ming Dynasty, and I will lead the heavenly soldiers to help you drive out the foreigners and restore the old capital of Malacca under the order of the Great Ming Dynasty!"
Marco Gullit, chief executive of the Dutch East India Company, had stayed in Guangzhou for several years and had learned Chinese. Now, when he heard this, he immediately protested loudly, "General Su, the city of Malacca is the property of the East India Company. Does Ming want to go to war with the East India Company?"
Su Zhandao glared at Marco Gullit coldly, and the "short soldiers" who disembarked with him had already put their flintlocks flat!
"The city of Malacca belongs to the Celestial Kingdom of Malacca!" Su Zhanshan said, "The Great Ming Dynasty is the suzerain of the Malacca Kingdom, and has the responsibility to help the Malacca Kingdom regain its lost land... But considering that the Dutch East India Company took Malacca from the Portuguese, and It is not to seize the city from Malacca. Therefore, the Holy Majesty is merciful and will not go to war against the Dutch East India Company. But the imperial court is majestic and should not be offended! Therefore, the Holy Majesty ordered that from the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of the Grand Duke, the Dutch East India Company will be imposed on the Celestial Empire Sanctions!"
"Sanction order?" Marco Gullit was taken aback, "What do you mean?"
"It means that your ships of the Dutch East India Company are prohibited from passing through the Strait of Malacca! Spices such as pepper, cloves, and cardamom are also prohibited from being exported to the West through the Strait of Malacca!" The bilingual "No. [-] Celestial Sanction Order" was handed over, "Take it, take it and report it to Batavia and Malacca!"
Chapter 791 Well, of course we in the West are united!
Malacca Governor's Palace of the Dutch East India Company.
The governor of the Dutch East India Company, Kemps, has moved his governor's office from Batavia to the city of Malacca, where he can board a ship and flee to Ceylon Island at any time. John Churchill, the special envoy of the King of England, also followed him to the city of Malacca. .He also brought some veterans who participated in the Franco-Dutch War and the invasion of India. Although the number was small, they had very rich military experience.These people will help the Dutch train the native mercenaries in Malacca, and some of them will wait for the opportunity to go to Annan to help the Zheng regime train troops.
According to John Churchill's plan, the city of Malacca, located on the edge of the Strait of Malacca, will become a stronghold for the Eight-Power Allied Forces to contain Ming!
The geographical location here is very superior. On the one hand, it is more than 100 nautical miles away from the southeast entrance of the Strait of Malacca.Moreover, the Strait of Malacca is located in a windless area... It is not completely windless, but there are very few strong winds that can propel ships at high speed.
Therefore, it is impossible for the Ming Navy to rush to the sea near the city of Malacca suddenly, which can be regarded as having a certain strategic depth.
On the other hand, the city of Malacca, about a hundred miles to the northeast, can reach the coast of the South China Sea on the Malay Peninsula ... where it is easy to find a port to board a ship to Annan.Although the Ming navy is very powerful, it is impossible to completely control Annan's coastline.Therefore, the Eight-Power Allied Forces can still send arms and instructors to Annan through the ports on the Malay Peninsula close to the South China Sea when the Strait of Malacca was controlled by the Ming army during the war.
After all the calculations, John Churchill and Campos picked the treasure land of Malacca together!
But they never figured out that the grand prince of the Ming Dynasty actually came up with a state between war and peace—sanctions!
Ming Dynasty did not intend to start a war with eight Western countries with one enemy, but to sanction... and not to sanction the eight Western countries, but to sanction only one Netherlandish East India Company!
"Marco, what are you talking about?"
In an office of the Malacca Governor's Mansion, the Governor of Campus, who had just settled in the city of Malacca, looked in surprise at Marco Gullit, the head of the Bintan Island business house, who was coming on a galley from Johor. I can't believe my ears a bit.
"Your Excellency," Gullit said with a sad face, "our Netherlands East India Trading Company has been sanctioned by the Ming Empire! Starting from the seventh day of July, all the company's ships are no longer allowed to travel between the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific through the Strait of Malacca... …Also, the spices produced in the Maluku and Banda Islands are not allowed to be shipped to the west through the Strait of Malacca!"
"What?" Governor Kemps stood up suddenly and roared, "This is an act of war, this is a war against the Federal Republic of the Netherlands... At the same time, this is also a war against England, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden , His Majesty the Pope and the Great Mongol Kingdom!"
While yelling, he looked at John Churchill sitting in his office—this guy came up with the bad idea of a trade war. Why did Ming sanction the Dutch East India Company?Did they sanction wrongly?They should sanction the British East India Company!
"Mr. Governor," said John Churchill calmly, "it is obvious that this so-called sanction is an extremely barbaric act and a threat to the entire Western world... The emperor of the Ming Dynasty attempted to use this despicable means of interrupting trade. , to force the entire civilized world to kneel and surrender to him. It is absolutely impossible to succeed!
We in England will always support the right of the Netherlands and the Dutch East India Company to trade freely anywhere in the world! "
"Thank you very much!" Kemps said gratefully to John Churchill, "Can I understand that the Kingdom of England will join the Netherlands and the Dutch East India Company to fight against the enemies who try to block free trade?"
"War?" John Churchill said with embarrassment, "Mr. Governor...of course we will go to war with Ming together!
Not only us, but the whole world will unite and start war against Ming!It's a matter of time...but not yet, we're not ready yet!Indian sugar has not been produced in large quantities, our army has not yet fully mastered warfare in the era of sweet gunpowder, and we have not even completed complete mastery of the Indian coastline.
If we really want to go to war with Ming, the ideal battlefield should not be in Nanyang, which is close to the mainland of Ming, but in India and the Indian Ocean! "
Campos' face was livid, "Then how are you Englishmen going to support our Dutch East India Company's right to free trade?"
John Churchill thought for a while and said, "Mr. Governor, I remember that the Strait of Malacca is not the only channel connecting the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific. There is also a strait between Java Island and Sumatra Island. What is it called?"
"The Sunda Strait," Campos said calmly, "but the seas south of Sumatra are extremely windy and turbulent. Every year during the wind season in the Indian Ocean, the seas south of Sumatra will have the highest waves in the world, which is very dangerous!
In addition, it is the Banten Sultanate, a vassal state of our Dutch East India Company, that controls the Sunda Strait.Once we ignore the Ming navy's seizure of Bintan Island and sit back and watch them cut off shipping in the Strait of Malacca, the Banten Sultanate will be forced to seek the protection of the Ming Empire from the East India Company... At that time, the Sunda Strait will also be closed Blocked by the Ming Empire! "
"That's right..." John Churchill frowned, "It seems that we must try to take back Bintan Island... and at the same time take appropriate measures to retaliate!"
"England is going to send troops?" Camps looked at John Churchill gratefully, and then asked Marco Gullit, "Marco, how many people are there from the Ming army? How many ships are there?"
"They came with twelve large sailing battleships, twelve light galleys, and more than thirty speedboats." Marco Gullit said, "About three thousand infantrymen landed. But Bintan Island Most of the Chinese are supporters of the Ming Empire. Almost all of them participated in Confucianism, and all of them are armed and have participated in some military training.
Most of the merchant ships engaged in trade east of the Strait of Malacca belonged to Chinese merchants... These Chinese merchants were also supporters of the Ming Empire!Most of them, or their parents and grandparents, came from Chaozhou Prefecture in Guangdong Province of the Ming Empire or Zhangzhou and Quanzhou Prefectures in Fujian Province. Many of these people’s relatives followed Emperor Zhu to participate in the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty war and established the Ming Empire. The new nobleman!
In addition, the infantry of the fleet of the Ming Empire arrived at Bintan Island in the name of assisting the Malacca Sultanate to recover the city of Malacca!Maybe the Sultan of Johor will also...be bewitched by them! "
"What? The Malacca Sultanate?" Campus was taken aback, "Has this country been disintegrated for 100 years?"
"It's been more than 170 years," Marco Gullit said, "but the Ming army still claims that they came to help the Malacca Sultanate at the invitation of the Sultanate of Malacca, Muhammad Shah."
"What does this have to do with the Sultan of Johor?" John Churchill didn't know much about the situation in Southeast Asia, so he had this question.
"Because the Sultan of Johor is the descendant of the Sultan of Malacca," Camps said, "Now someone is willing to help him restore the ancestral property of the city of Malacca, and he is likely to be tempted... If Western countries cannot enjoy freedom of navigation in the Strait of Malacca and oppose the Ming Empire On the issue of illegal sanctions against the Dutch East India Company, maintain a consistent and tough stance. Nanyang states, including the Johor Sultanate and Banten Sultanate, may fall to the Ming Empire!
At that time, we will lose the fertile land in the Strait of Malacca and its east... The battlefield of our struggle against the Ming Empire will turn to the Indian Ocean! "
What Campos said seemed to make sense!
In this era, the Europeans’ rule over the Nanyang colonies was not particularly effective, and many Nanyang states that were dependent on the Europeans were more or less dissatisfied.Moreover, although Daming, the suzerain country, has withdrawn from Nanyang for many years, the businessmen of Daming still control the money bags of Nanyang countries!Recently, these Chinese businessmen who control the money bags of the Nanyang countries have been mixed up with the Confucianism and the Nanyang Trading Company.Guns, pens, and money bags are all alive!Can the several sultanates in Nanyang remain unshakable?
If the Western powers are cowardly at this time, then Daming will collect dogs everywhere in the Malacca Strait!
"Then... let's sanction the Nanyang Trading Company together!" John Churchill said, "We can prohibit the Nanyang Trading Company from entering the west of the Strait of Malacca, and prohibit the sugar, porcelain, silk, and cotton produced by the Ming Empire from entering the west of the Strait of Malacca by sea! "
As he spoke, he turned his attention to Sir Childe, Governor of the British East India Company.
The Sir came here from Madras, a colony of the British East India Company, to meet Baron John Churchill, but unexpectedly encountered a "sanction war" in the city of Malacca.
"We should indeed ban the Nanyang Trading Company from entering the west of Malacca..." Sir Child said, "But we have not allowed ships flying the Nanyang Trading Company's flag to pass through the strait before, so those despicable profiteers have been using Western-style merchant ships to do business. Smuggling, we suspect that the sweet powder used by the Ottoman Empire was sent to Basra through the smuggling trade of the Nanyang Trading Company.”
"The anti-smuggling must be strengthened!" Campos slapped the table.
Sir Child nodded, and said again: "It is beneficial to us to ban the import of sugar and cotton cloth from the Ming Empire...India's sugar and cotton cloth just replaced them. However, it is difficult to ban porcelain and silk. Because the porcelain and silk produced in Europe Silk cannot be compared with the products of the Ming Dynasty at all, but we can implement strict import quotas. We can reduce the amount of silk and porcelain imported by 50.00% every year, so as to deal a heavy blow to the porcelain and silk industries of the Ming Empire.”
After hearing what Childe said, Campos almost scolded a profiteer.
Now that the Dutch East India Company has been sanctioned by Ming Dynasty, the merchant ships it owns cannot engage in East-West trade at all.After the Spanish Empire lost the Philippines, the galleon trade could no longer be carried out.
Therefore, the silk and porcelain exported to Europe will inevitably be greatly reduced... the dozens of ships of the British East India Company and the French East India Company must be very busy to maintain 50.00% of the import!
And if the quantity of porcelain and silk imported into Europe is reduced by half, it will inevitably push up the price!
The British profiteers are going to make a lot of money now!
"This is very good!" John Churchill nodded heavily. "This will not only attack the Ming Empire, but also maintain supplies... But we should join forces and help the ships of the Dutch East India Company break the blockade of the Ming Empire."
"Our ships can fly the flag of England!"
"No, no..." Baron Churchill immediately shook his head, "This is not a good way, we should unite! We must let the Ming Empire know that we in the west are united when we face the east!"
"Baron, how are we going to let them know?" Krampus asked.
"The ships of all our countries have formed formations with the ships of the Dutch East India Company to go to Bintan Island together!" John Churchill said, "I don't believe that the governor of the Ming Dynasty on Bintan Island really dared to stand united. Open fire on the merchant ships of Western countries... unless they really want to cut off trade with the West!"
"Okay, that's it!" Kemps nodded, agreeing to John Churchill's plan.
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The capital of the Sultanate of Johor, Batu Shawar City.
When Campus and John Churchill were discussing to show the unity of the West like the Ming Empire.
Mamo I of the Sultanate of Johor, together with his prime minister and several Tian Menggongs, led his palace guards to stand outside the south gate of the fortified city of Batu Shawar, frowning and looking into the distance. The open road ahead is a bit confusing!
What confused Ma Mo I was the unbelievable news brought back by Tianmeng Gong, who guarded Bintan Island. Emperor Ming actually sent a rescue letter sent by one of his ancestors more than 170 years ago. A large fleet equipped with thousands of musketeers.Come to help him seize the city of Malacca and restore the ancestral property of the Malacca Sultanate... This thing sounds unreal!
Was the Ming Empire so righteous?It's been more than 170 years... If Ming Dynasty had to be so righteous, what did he do more than 170 years ago?
Moreover, after the Ming Kingdom recaptured Luzon Island from the Spaniards, it did not return it to the original owner.Instead, a state of Lu was established on its land, and this state was granted to a prince of Ming Dynasty!
With this precedent, Ma Mo I always felt that Daming's fleet and infantry did not come well.Maybe he wants to take his own sultan seat, and then arrange a person surnamed Zhu to be the new sultan.
But he didn't dare to take the risk of being offended and killed tomorrow... So he could only send an envoy to the city of Malacca to inform the Dutch about this; Go to meet the Great Tomorrow Dynasty envoy's team.
Chapter 792 The Eight-Nation United Armada!
The gong resounds and the horseshoe wins.With the sound of quiet evasion in Chaozhou Chinese and Japanese Chinese alternately, the imperial envoys of the Ming Dynasty passed through the city of Batu Sawar, the capital of the Johor Sultanate.Wearing collarless tops, trousers, short sarongs around their waists, and caps, the people of Johor crowded together on both sides of the narrow street. When they saw their sultan and imperial envoys coming together, they all knelt down. , while looking up curiously.
This thing is really strange!The former Sultan of Johor, Muhammad Shah (the founding Sultan of the Johor Sultanate is his son), asked for reinforcements from the suzerain Ming Dynasty more than 170 years ago. Why did Ming’s reinforcements arrive so late?Although Daming is quite far away from Malacca, it should take a few months at most a few years. How could it be possible to go for a hundred years?This is many generations... This reinforcement is still on the way to marry a wife and have children?