The landing site mentioned by Montel is under a mountain cliff on the southeast side of Greater Java.

No wonder Montel says that the Dutch don't usually patrol southeast of Java, and who would use the cliffs by the sea as a landing site?

When Liu Hongjian arrived there with the fleet in the night, it was just dawn, and there were one or two small Dutch reconnaissance ships in the distance behind the fleet, and Liu Hongjian did not even bother to send warships to expel them.

It was impossible for the Dutch to give up tracking the fleet of the Ming Navy, and Liu Hongjian had no intention of hiding his whereabouts in the territory of the Dutch.

He just wanted to land under the noses of the Dutch, and it was so refreshing to let the Dutch look at it but not be able to do anything.

It's just that the landing site looks rather shabby, and there are rocks under the cliffs, and five or six wave-rider boats turned left and right before they reached a very good cave in seclusion.

The cave looked rather deep, and the sea water poured into it and submerged it for an unknown amount of depth, and the light of the fire was faintly visible inside.

"Lord, this cave was discovered by the remnants of Banten three years ago, when the cave was only a dozen yards deep and did not communicate with the rear, and it took us two full years to secretly open the cave under the surveillance of the Dutch.

The little one checked your fleet, the kind of boat we are taking now can just pass normally, and the reefs in the cave that affect the passage have also been transported out by the clansmen, and the prince can land with confidence. Montel explained.

At this moment, there seemed to be movement in the cave, and a small wooden boat came out leisurely, and on the boat sat two men in tattered clothes, one rowing and the other standing on it, carrying a crude bow and arrow.

Seeing this, the bull stick mallet walked in front of Liu Hongjian with a step, and the broad end of the left and right side of the protection of Liu Hongjian behind him, the canoe boat vigilantly sailed to the side of the bird boat, Montel grunted and talked with it for a while, and the two people on the boat immediately knelt on the boat and kowtowed to Liu Hongji.

"Lord Wang, this place seems to have been detected by the Dutch, in order to prevent the Dutch mercenaries from finding here, please order the landing as soon as possible!" Montel bowed to Liu Hong worriedly.

The cave leads to the hiding place of the remnants of Banten, a dense primeval forest where the remnants of Banten have survived for nearly twenty years, relying on birds, animals, insects and fish.

The arrival of the Dutch reconnaissance ship not only exposed the location of the cave, but also exposed the hiding place of the remnants of Banten, if Liu Hong gradually said that this cave is too small to land here will damage the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, Montel really wants to cry without tears, so he is in a particularly complicated mood now.

Liu Hongjian didn't speak, he looked around the cave repeatedly with a telescope, he didn't speak, and everyone present didn't dare to speak.

"Da Mu, the mountain tribe of your tribe will be the first to land, and immediately take over all the defenses inside after entering, and if you find any suspicious movement, you will immediately bombard it with grenades." Liu Hong was silent for a moment and finally gave the order to land, and Montel on the side couldn't help but stretch out his right hand and pat his chest.

The Gaoshan people are the best at mountain warfare, and the people are fierce and ruthless, especially suitable for being pathfinders in the deep mountains.

In recent years, Liu Hong, in the name of the imperial court, has gradually donated food and other materials to the Gaoshan people in the mountains, and has also built several schools at the foot of the mountain for free literacy for Han and other young people.

At first, the Gaoshan people still rejected the Han people, but with Liu Hongji's strict order, Zheng Sen has always restricted the Han people from entering the deep mountains to log, and the relationship between the two tribes is now very harmonious.

Even many Gaoshan people enlisted in the Nanyang Naval Division and the Taiwan garrison army in order to improve the conditions of the clansmen, and the monthly salary of a qualified Ming soldier was enough to make a family that already relied on hunting for a living to live well.

Liu Hongjian is deeply touched by ethnic integration, and there are also insatiable people in the Han people, but the Han people will always maintain respect for the culture of other ethnic groups, and as long as it does not involve war and oppression, the Han people will hardly discriminate against any race.

Integrating a nation from temptation to contact, and then linguistically and culturally unified, and then through war to tie two or even more nationalities firmly to a chariot, who would dare to say that they are not Ming people after a few years?

"Humble duty!" Zheng Sen bowed and whispered a few words to Chen Jinnan, who then returned to the fleet in a small boat.

Liu Hongjian finally agreed to Montel's request, but on the condition that after the restoration of the Bantan Kingdom, it would be a subject state of the Ming Dynasty, and only the formation of an army would be allowed, and the coastal defense would be handed over to the Ming Naval Division.

In addition, the tax must follow the Ming system, that is to say, Banten can tax itself, but the tax amount must be determined by the Ming Dynasty, and the tax of the Ming Dynasty's round-trip merchant ships is directly collected by the Ming sailor as a sailor's military expenses, and the prince of Banten, Harold, agreed.

If Banten rebels or does not obey the orders of heaven, the Ming Dynasty can transfer troops from other places at any time to quell the rebellion.

The main reason for this arrangement is that the cost of raising troops is too high.

Taking the current Ming border army as an example, an ordinary musketeer earns 36 taels a year, a light leather armor costs 8 taels, and a latest-type bolt-action rifle costs 9 taels or 3 yuan.

A recruit needs at least three months to train his physical fitness and queue, during which he also has to take into account military discipline, etc., and at least six months to train marksmanship, during which he needs to spend how much food and alloy bullets are consumed.

Rao is like this, these soldiers are still new recruits who have not yet been on the battlefield, and once they die on the battlefield, the imperial court will also pay a large amount of pensions, and the cost is very high.

But it is precisely because the imperial court has been willing to spend money on war in recent years, that today's Ming Dynasty, whether it is the army or the navy, can be compared to morale like a rainbow.

Moreover, as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, Liu Hongjian has always paid special attention to the training of soldiers, and it is not difficult to ensure the continuous combat effectiveness of 10,000 troops, and Liu Hongjian can also do it effortlessly with 100,000 troops, but 1 million? What about two million?

Liu Hongchuan's answer was that 1.5 million troops were sufficient, and that there were no longer many soldiers but that they were refined, and that the means of communication had not been significantly improved, as long as the combat effectiveness of this 1.5 million army could be continuously guaranteed, the Ming Dynasty would be able to look down on the world.

On the other hand, when the old man Chongzhen first took over, Daming was also known as an army of more than one million, but how many people could fight? The imperial court is nothing more than a poor worm that feeds on empty wages.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty is already large enough, the development of the sea is not for the purpose of occupying more territory, but for the sake of resources, the sailor can ensure the safety of the trade route in a limited way, and the real root is still the mainland.

On the basis that the means of communication cannot be improved rapidly, if the Ming Dynasty occupies a piece of land and sends tens of thousands of people to garrison it, how many soldiers are willing to leave their homes? Who can guarantee that these soldiers will not slack off on training outside?

In a high position, Liu Hong gradually had to consider these problems, but everything is the same, the goal of the Ming Dynasty is overseas resources, as long as the combat effectiveness of the local strong army and naval division is guaranteed, but any country dares to hinder the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty, and directly send troops from the mainland to destroy it.

Unlike what he thought a few years ago, Liu Hongjian now does not want the Ming Dynasty to become a colonial empire that will eventually collapse.

But who says that the world must be controlled by force?