The city of Greater Aceh was built by the local aborigines, and when the Ming and Portuguese forces besieged the Dutch castle and built trenches, the local natives were afraid at first and hid from the coalition forces. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info later became bolder, and watched from afar.

The translator sent by the Ming army began to do the work of the local natives: "We are civilized Orientals, we came here, unlike those Western colonizers, we are not to enslave you, we are to bring you wealth!" You won't forget Zheng He's trip to the West more than 200 years ago, right? What we have brought to you is prosperity. ”

Although the Kingdom of the Three Buddhas has fallen and the locals have changed from Buddhism to Green Religion, the story of Zheng He's voyage to the West has been passed down among the locals for generations. Even after the fall of the Srivijaya Kingdom, the Sultanate of Aceh, established by the Green Religion, was also one of the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, but it had to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

The vassal kingdom paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and the gifts given by the Ming Dynasty were often more generous, that is, the Ming Dynasty felt that he had to save face. However, the fact that small countries did not travel thousands of miles to Beijing to pay tribute shows that they were vassal states of the Ming Dynasty.

Everything changed since the arrival of the Western colonizers, the local coastal cities were occupied by the Western colonizers, and the king was driven to the mountains. Some small countries were directly destroyed by Western colonizers, and they became Western colonies, where Westerners plundered local resources, exchanged iron for gold and jewelry, and used the locals as slaves.

In comparison, the Ming Dynasty was loyal and honest, and every time they sent envoys to Beijing to pay tribute, they would always bring back a large number of valuable good things when they came back, such as silk, tea, ceramics and other treasures, which were worth far more than the gifts sent by the tribute.

Now Wang Xinyu's Nanyang Company is here, he came on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, and the impression left on the locals is quite good. The transports that followed the fleet unloaded boxes of ceramics, ironware, tea, wine, flour, and all sorts of other good things, which were put up for sale in the city of Great Aceh.

The Ming people sold things at fair and reasonable prices, and there were not many gold and jewelry to go, which made the locals ecstatic.

In fact, the price of the things sold by the Nanyang Company here is quite high, even higher than the price sold in Europe, but in the eyes of the local natives, gold and jewelry, although good, are much cheaper than gold and jewelry in other places, because gold is just ordinary currency here.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the price of gold and silver was about 1:10 to 1:12, but when it came to the city of Greater Aceh, the price of gold and silver was very low, about 1:4 to 1:5, and the Nanyang Company did not exchange silver, but used silver to buy goods and sell them, so that more gold was earned.

The Nanyang Company earned silver from the Spaniards, and then used the silver to buy things on the mainland, and exchanged the goods for gold in the city of Greater Aceh, which made more than ten times the profit.

Moreover, Nanyang Company not only set its sights on exchanging gold with the locals, but more importantly, it developed local resources, cultivated land in the local area, planted cash crops, and opened factories to obtain higher profits.

The gold earned is dead, and if you save the gold and do not turn it into a commodity, you will not be able to turn it into a real symbol of national strength in the end, but will cause the robbers to blush, and finally end up with a personal death and ruined fortune. Gold must be turned into money-making capital in order to make more money; The money earned must be turned into steel and an army to ensure that their wealth is not plundered.

The gold earned by Nanyang Company was not directly turned into currency for circulation in the market, but into gold reserves, which were used to issue banknotes, that is, how much gold and silver were in reserve, and how much paper money was issued.

This means that anyone who has banknotes in hand can exchange them for gold or silver at any time at Nanyang Bank. In this way, paper money can be recognized by the people, and from then on, all the gold and silver in the society will be collected into the national treasury, and all will be replaced by paper money, and paper money will be circulated in the market.

When paper money is recognized, it can replace gold and silver to pay the wages of the local indigenous people, so that the hard-earned gold and silver can be returned to the local indigenous people.

It's just that it will take some time for the banknotes to be recognized, and at present, the Nanyang Company wants to open factories around the city of Greater Aceh, build plantations, and employ local natives, and still have to pay them the white eagle as a salary. And they can exchange Eagle Ocean for the gold earned by Nanyang Company at any time. No way, gold is the currency that everyone recognizes here.

The issuance of paper money and the abolition of the circulation of gold and silver in society are all things for later, and now it is the Dutch who are killed first.

As for the ownership of the city of Greater Aceh after the Dutch were driven out, the Ming army and the Portuguese had an agreement. According to the agreement, the Dutch castle was owned by the Ming Dynasty, and the Portuguese built another stronghold in the city of Greater Aceh. The Portuguese could build a port here, set up shops, and operate together with the Ming people.

Of course, this is only the first step, Sumatra is sparsely populated and the population density is very low, as long as tens of thousands of Han people are immigrated to open up the wasteland, this Sumatra island will be surnamed Daming, no longer native, let alone Dutch.

As for the population problem, on the one hand, the Ming army captured the population from the Manchu-controlled areas, and on the other hand, encouraged fertility in the areas under their own control. Wang Xinyu even moved out of the later Soviet Union's encouragement of heroic mothers to have more children, and under his own control, he increased the population and gave subsidies for having more children.

Of course, the policy of subsidizing silver to encourage childbirth is only for Han people, but also includes Miao, Li, Yi, Oroqen, and Mongols who have completely joined the Han nationality, and even the Manchus who are willing to become Han Chinese, as long as you are Han, you can enjoy this policy. However, the Han people who believed in the Green Religion did not enjoy this policy, and the Hui and all the Green Believers were never allowed to join the Han nationality unless they abandoned the Green Religion, so the Green Religion believers were directly excluded.

Wang Xinyu treats religious beliefs, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity and other major religions equally, allowing freedom of religious belief, but deliberately suppresses the Green Religion. This point makes many people not quite understand, but only Wang Xinyu himself understands what is going on in his heart, as he came hundreds of years ago, he naturally knows the dangers of the Green Sect.

It is precisely because of the policy of encouraging childbirth that population growth is not a problem.

After three days of preparation, the Ming army had dug trenches and built earthen slopes to block shells.

Sixty-four-pounder mortars were brought down from the ship, erected behind the earthen slope, and raised their muzzles at the Dutchman's castle.

Zhang Yukun sent an order: "Everything is ready, attack the city!" ”

"Fire!" The artillery commander gave the order.

Eight 64-pounder mortars swung out, and with the sound of gunpowder gases expanding, the shells rose into the air, arcing in the air and smashing down on the Dutchman's castle.

The first round of shells were all solid shells, but the sixty-four-pound iron ball was smashed from a high altitude, and the kinetic energy should not be underestimated, eight shells were fired, six missed, and the remaining two fell on the castle. The huge cannonball smashed on the castle, and immediately cracks appeared, and the stones on the castle cracked, and the whole castle trembled violently.

The gunners cleaned the chambers, loaded the gunpowder, loaded the shells, and carried out the second round of fire.

In the second round of fire, the hit rate became higher after proofreading, with five out of eight shells hitting. Solid cannonballs smashed into the top of the castle and the outer walls of the castle, splattering cracked rubble. The cannonballs that fell on the top of the castle smashed through the top of the castle, and a large hole was made in the top of the castle made of bricks and lime, injuring two Dutch soldiers and six indigenous soldiers as they fell. Several shells smashed into the outer wall of the castle, causing stones to burst on the inner wall and injuring one Dutch soldier and four indigenous soldiers.

Zhang Yukun picked up the binoculars and looked at the castle that had withstood two rounds of shelling. This time he did not carry flowering shells of the new gunpowder, only solid shells and ordinary flowering shells, but looking at this posture, as long as it took three or four hours of bombardment, the castle would collapse.

Taking into account the problem of cooling the chamber of the cannon, a cannon can fire a maximum of 10 shells an hour, and 20 shells in an hour. Eight cannons, four hours can fire more than 600 shells, the small castle in front of it simply cannot withstand the bombardment.

Before an hour came, the Dutch, who could not withstand the shelling in the castle, raised the white flag and surrendered to the allied forces.

The Dutch knew that if the coalition continued to shell, the castle would fall sooner or later.

Major Van der Sar, who was stationed at the castle, had his own arm wounded by a small stone that had been splashed, and after hastily bandaging his arm, he finally made a painful decision: "Surrender to those infidels, the devils of the East, or the castle will collapse and we will all die here." ”

Major Van der Sar, with bandages and splints on his arms, walked out of the castle and surrendered to Zhang Yukun outside.

But when he saw Zhang Yukun, Van der Sar was still very unconvinced: "This is our territory!" I protest against your blatant aggression against our territory! ”

"This is not your territory! You also took it from the Portuguese! We're just getting it back! In this era, whoever has a hard fist will speak! So I brought warships, artillery and troops! You have no choice but to give up here. Zhang Yukun said very toughly.

Van der Sar was very unconvinced: "Don't look at you taking advantage of it now!" When our Armada arrives, you warships will not be an opponent at all! Our fleet will send you all to the bottom of the sea! ”

"Good!" Zhang Yukun sneered, "We will take good care of you and let you see with your own eyes how we defeated your Invincible Armada!" ”

After the Ming army captured the city of Great Aceh, the Nanyang Company immediately announced the reclamation of wasteland, the development of minerals, and the construction of factories here. At the same time, the main army of the Ming army boarded the warships and continued to sail in the direction of the old port.

The Combined Fleet first went to Singapore to replenish its supplies, replenished its food and fresh water, and stayed in the port for a day before leaving the port and heading for the old port, which was controlled by the Dutch.

The Old Port, now called Palembang, is a large city on the island of Sumatra. When Zheng He went to the West, the Daming once set up the Old Port Propaganda Envoy in the Old Port, and the Three Buddhas Kingdom was a vassal state of the Daming Dynasty, paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and the Chinese Shi Jinqing held the post of the Old Port Propaganda Envoy. In the area of the Old Port, there used to be many Chinese living here.

The fall of the Buddhist kingdom of Srivijaya and the rise of the Sultanate of Aceh made it relatively difficult for the Green Cultists to get along with, so many Chinese chose to leave here, but many remained.

Later, the Portuguese and the Dutch arrived, and the old port is now in the hands of the Dutch. Although the Dutch were not very strong here, they were garrisoned by an army of more than 100 men, as well as more than a dozen armed merchant ships and four gunboats.

On the night of the 2nd day of the sixth month of the lunar leap month, the 20th day of the seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, the combined fleet arrived off the coast of the old port.

It was not yet dawn, there was no moon, and the harbor was pitch black. Because the combined fleet was not very familiar with the situation in the port, it did not dare to enter the port rashly at night, so the fleet blocked the port, and after dawn, the special forces of the fleet of marines led several small boats to lead the way into the old port.

"Oh my God! There's a fleet coming! "The Dutch in the harbor had just woken up from their slumber when they saw a large fleet suddenly enter the harbor.

The Nanyang Navy, the Portuguese Fleet, and the Spanish Fleet all entered the harbor, and more than 100 warships, large and small, carried out a one-sided slaughter of the Dutch armed merchant ships and gunboats in the harbor. The Coalition forces were outnumbered, and each Dutch armed merchant ship and gunboat had to withstand the shelling of more than a dozen ships in turn.

The guns in the old harbor rumbled, and the battleships passed in columns past the Dutch ships anchored in the harbor, the guns in the guns flashed from the bow to the stern, and the cannonballs rained down on the Dutch ships.

There was no suspense in this naval battle, and the Dutch ships were smashed to pieces, and some of them made holes in the waterline and sank into the sea; The decks of some ships became garbage heaps, and the recalcitrant sailors were beaten to a bloody pulp, and the ships were bleeding like rivers; There are also ships that are on fire, and the flames **** sails.

The Dutch ships, which did not sink, saw that the situation was not good, and they all raised white flags and surrendered.

The Ming army rowed a small boat and went directly to the pier. Landing from the pier, there is no need to consider the problem of moisture in the musket gunpowder, and the musketeers can immediately go into battle after landing, unlike landing on the beach, and the ammunition must be waterproofed, and the wrapping paper needs to be unwrapped after landing.

Groups of Ming soldiers jumped from small boats, rushed across the pier trestle, and rushed ashore.

Some Dutch sailors took up muskets and resisted, only to be immediately beaten into a hornet's nest by a volley of indiscriminate guns. The Dutchman, who was not dead, turned and ran away into the castle. The Dutch, who could not escape, fell to their knees and surrendered.

The Ming army soon surrounded the castle and formed a formation, besieging the castle to the ground.

In addition to more than 100 Dutch army and more than 200 local aboriginal soldiers, there were also more than 600 Dutch sailors and sailors who escaped from the outer harbor area. There were originally more than 2,000 Dutch sailors and sailors, but more than 400 were killed in the battle, more than 1,000 were taken prisoner, and only more than 600 escaped into the castle.

The castle of the Old Port is also not big, after all, it is not Batavia, and there are not many Dutch. The small castle was crowded with so many people, it seemed overcrowded, and it was as hot as a steamer inside. (To be continued.) )