Surabaya is located on the island of Java south of Borneo, and on the west side of the island is Batavia, the most important stronghold of the Dutch in the Far East, and on the east side of the island is Surabaya.

It was originally a desolate swamp called "Surimu", but after the Han people came here, they changed the name to an authentic Chinese name "Surabaya".

This place originally belonged to the territory of the Sultanate of Tammu, and then belonged to the Sultanate of Bajang and Mataram, but after the Dutch arrived on the island of Java, the Sultanate of Mataram attacked the Netherlands several times and failed, and gradually lost control of the sea, resulting in a decline in trade, a decline in production, and a decline in the country's power, and finally it was controlled by the Dutch.

In this battle of Minghe, the Mataran Sultanate also dispatched more than 5,000 troops, but as a result, not a single person returned, and the national strength declined even more, and many areas were actually in a state of powerlessness.

Because Surabaya is far from Batavia and the Dutch do not have much control over it, it has been occupied by the Han Chinese since a long time ago, and it can even be said that it is a city established and developed by the Han Chinese.

It was originally a swampy area, the living conditions were bad, and the Han people were not many, but in the Ming and Qing wars, especially the Fujian Change, after the Qing army entered Fujian, a large number of Fujian people went to Nanyang to avoid the scourge of war.

There is a characteristic of China's patriarchal society, as long as the people in the clan have a firm foothold outside and break a way out, then many clansmen and township parties will inevitably come to take refuge.

In Nanyang, in addition to the four continents, Han Chinese immigrants from Liangguang and Fujian also spread throughout Borneo, Java and Nanyang.

Historically, the Han people founded the country in Nanyang, including Chen Zuyi's Boni State, Zhang Lian's Feilong Kingdom, Lin Afeng's Banshilan Kingdom, and Liang Daoming, who was elected as the king of the Three Buddhas, in addition to Lu Zili who was exiled in Nanyang.

Survival is the first need of civilization, and civilization itself has a need to grow and expand, which is nature.

Homo sapiens came out of Africa, expanded like Eurasia, and wiped out several other races, such as Leanderthals, before ruling the world.

Although China is in a relatively closed area, the expansion of the entire civilization has not stopped, from the Yellow River basin to the Yangtze River basin, and then to the Lingnan region.

The Ming Dynasty's exploration of the southwest and immigration to Liaodong was also a kind of expansion, but in fact, there was also a trip to the South Seas, and the people had come to the front of the imperial court's policy, but the inherent land thinking, coupled with Beijing's distance from the South Seas, the Ming Dynasty, as a continental civilization, was not accustomed to this expansion of the sea.

In the concept of the West, especially in the Marxist view of history, expansion, especially colonial expansion, is more derogatory than positive, and from the perspective of the current values of the West, this is a very evil thing, and they really did nothing good.

The Western world, in a very greedy and ugly manner, has broken the rules of the original world and has become the center of the world from the periphery of the world.

After they became vested interests, they came to propagate the values of the West today, in fact, just like Nurhachi's rebellion and seizure of the Central Plains with blood and killing, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty's "The Biography of Erchen" satirized traitors and downgraded loyalty, just to maintain their rule, and the West is only to maintain the world rules they created.

The colonial expansion of the West, that is a bloody history, full of killing and plundering of resources, but China's expansion is different from the West, we are a gentle colonization, it is to bring development to the local area, to bring a better life.

Although the development of our civilization from the Yellow River valley to the Yangtze River basin was also accompanied by killing, the mainstream was construction, and wherever we went, we built it, which is still reflected today.

If you want to make statistics, the number of Han people in Nanyang at this time is estimated to have exceeded one million, or even more.

In addition, in 1603 and 1639, the Spanish colonists carried out two massacres in Luzon, and the death toll of the Han people reached more than 50,000 people, and then the Spaniards carried out a third massacre in 1662, which can also prove that there are a large number of Han people in Nanyang.

After the Dutch East India Company occupied Batavia, it wanted to build it into an oriental trading center that could stand alongside Luzon and Macao, replacing the Portuguese and Spanish empires in the East.

The prosperity of Macau and Luzon is inseparable from the Ming people, and Batavia was not only sparsely populated at the beginning, but also the laziness of the local aborigines, which really could not make it gradually prosperous.

In order to build Batavia, the authorities of the Dutch East India Company adopted coercion and temptation to kidnap and recruit a large number of Ming people from the southeast coast, so that Batavia gradually became prosperous.

It can be said that the Dutch were able to turn Batavia into the largest trading base of the East India Company in the Far East, thanks to most of the credit of the Ming people.

After the construction of Batavia, the Ming people, who were coerced and lured at the beginning, gradually mastered many assets of Batavia with the diligence of our nation, and began to attract the Ming people to take the initiative.

The influx of Ming people into Batavia changed the social structure of the country, and the Ming people became more and more uncontrollable, and the Ming Dynasty in the north became more and more powerful, which made the East India Company unanticipated and deeply disturbed.

In this confrontation between the Ming and the Netherlands, the contradictions between the Dutch colonial authorities and the local Ming people broke out in advance.

Historically, the massacres that would have occurred later occurred in advance because of the conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands over trade and spheres of influence.

The whole of Java was affected, the indigenous people of Mataran coveted the property of the Ming people, and they also fished in troubled waters, and the Ming people living near Batavia were affected, and thousands of people were killed and injured.

Although the Ming army annihilated the Dutch fleet in Malacca, the Dutch were still strong on Javaese land, especially their fortress in Batavia, which was more difficult to breach than the fort in Malacca.

At the beginning of the Dutch fort, the Sultan of Mataran gathered tens of thousands of troops and attacked Batavia twice, but both failed.

At this time, there were still more than 3,000 Dutch in Java, and after Malacca was surrounded by the Ming army and the fleet of the East India Company was trapped in the harbor, they feared that the Ming army would attack Batavia, so they began to intensify the persecution of the Han Chinese, not only plundering their assets, but also forcing them to fortify their fortresses.

The Ming army originally thought that the main force of the Dutch had been surrounded in Malacca, so they only sent a sailor to collect Java, but the sailor had no idea what to do with the Dutch fortress, and only rescued a small number of Han people outside the fort, so they marched east to Surabaya, established a temporary port, and the Dutch fought east and west on the island of Java.

In fact, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty also coveted Java for a long time, because it produced spices, was a famous spice island, and could also grow tobacco and sugar cane, but for a long time, it was controlled by the Dutch.

Immediately after the Ming army established a temporary port in Surabaya, Quang Nam merchants came to transport grain and medicinal materials to help the Ming army stabilize their position, and then sailed east into the spice-producing islands, purchased local spices, and then returned to the Ming Dynasty.

In these places, the Ming Dynasty merchants could not come before, but now that the Ming army has arrived here, the Dutch fleet in the Far East has lost ninety percent, and the original Dutch sphere of influence does not exist.

However, the Ming army established a port in Surabaya, and a large number of Ming people went to Surabaya, which also caused panic among the Dutch, and the governor of Batavia threatened that the Ming Dynasty would take revenge on the Mataram Sultanate, and instigated the Mataran Sultan to gather soldiers to prepare to recapture Surabaya.

The establishment of such a behemoth in Surabaya by such a behemoth in the Ming Dynasty really terrified the Sultan of Matalan.

This makes them easily remember that hundreds of years ago, when Java was still under the reign of Majapahit, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, had led Shi Bi, Yihei Lost, and Happy to lead the sailors to attack Java, but they were defeated by the Manjapahit king Ketara Yasa.

Since Mataran has chosen to side with the Dutch, King Armand Gulat I can only piece together some men and horses to try to drive away the Ming army, but several attacks have ended in failure, and Matalan's army can only retreat to the light.

On 29 April, Li Dingguo, who had been adrift at sea for half a month, led two battalions of land divisions to the Surabaya camp.

As soon as Li Dingguo got off the boat, he met Yu Fangqi and his party who came to greet him.

"Marshal, have the Dutch in Malacca surrendered?" Yu Fangqi asked.

"It fell, and it took seven months to besiege it, and then the food ran out! This group of Heyi are all outlaws, strong-willed, and more difficult to deal with than the Manchu Qing! ”

Li Dingguo didn't want to mention more about Malacca, and it took seven months to fight, and his face was not bright, so he changed the topic and asked, "What is the situation on your side?" ”

Yu Fangqi smiled bitterly, "We originally wanted to take Batavia first, and after solving the red-haired ghosts, we would go north to join the Luzon sailors and fight the Spaniards, but we didn't expect that there were still thousands of red-haired ghosts in Batavia, so we delayed in Surabaya." ”

Li Dingguo frowned, "In this way, there is no progress in Luzon and here." ”

"That's right, there are frequent storms at sea nowadays, and the Spaniards occupy a small island country, we don't have a place to anchor ships, and it will be very troublesome in case of storms, so for the time being, we will run Surabaya first, and prepare to cooperate with the brothers of the land division to defeat the Dutch in Java first!"

Li Dingguo nodded, "Ben Shuai only brought six thousand people, and he really needs the cooperation of the sailor." Let's find a place to talk about ······"

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