Aria glanced at the old men in the tent, then turned her head and asked, "Do you mean that you need our help in raiding Portuguese ships in the waters near the Indian Ocean recently?" ”

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Ding Xinghao beside her, and then continued: "I can gather the people of our tribe to help you, please believe me, my hatred for the Portuguese is a hundred times greater than yours." How about Colombo, where we are more familiar. ”

Song Tao listened to Ding Xinghao's translation, and said with a smile: "Actually, we are not only going to attack the Portuguese, but also the British and Dutch. We will consider Colombo, and Mombasa, Cochin, Dammam, Diu are all within the scope of our plan. Let's do it ourselves, after all, it's not necessarily a good thing to have more ships, we just want to trade with you with what we plunder, and get proper supplies. ”

After reaching an agreement with Alia, Song Tao and the others used this island as their base, and then began to plunder the coast of India. Most of the Dutch, British, and Portuguese maritime forces went to Manila, and the garrison along the coast of India was relatively weak; in less than two months, the ocean-going exploration fleet plundered dozens of merchant ships of the British, Portuguese and Dutch countries one after another, and also attacked several coastal colonies, causing panic in the waters near India.

Ding Xinghao stayed on this island every day, and Song Tao refused him to join every action because he was afraid of his crow's mouth. He stays on the island every day with nothing to do*. Fortunately, he is fluent in Arabic and can communicate happily with the Arabs of the island.

Of course, every day Alia will personally entertain him, and the two will have more and more opportunities to communicate. He wanted to avoid it, but he couldn't resist. The last time he separated from Alia, that beautiful face still remains in his heart. Let him think about it from time to time.

Song Tao and the others brought back a lot of sailboats one after another, which also shocked the Arab pirates on the island. You see, people have done it with pirates, and they have already robbed so many good things in such a long time.

As a result, the work enthusiasm of the pirates on the island suddenly rose. They all sailed out to sea on the Arabian Delta sailing ship and joined in the plunder. The coast of India was infested with piracy, and colonists from all over the world stepped up their patrols. A large number of Arab pirates who went out to sea to plunder also happened to encounter the naval warships of several countries, and the two sides fought in various waters, causing gunsmoke all over the coast of India.

Song Tao and the others took the opportunity to attack everywhere, landing and looting more than a dozen colonies and commercial ports one after another, and making a lot of money. Now the Ocean Exploration Fleet has opened a special trading point on the Pirate Island, specializing in selling all kinds of looted materials. Ding Xinghao now has something to do every day. Specializes in trading with Arabs of all stripes.

When the ocean-going fleet was making trouble along the coast of India, the combined fleet led by Li Ming was already overwhelmingly moving south.

A large number of warships made a forced landing in Batavia, the Moluccas, Banten, the Maluku Islands, Ambon Island, Ambon, Denadi, Tidoli, and Banda Islands.

The South Seas is made up of thousands of islands, large and small, and was divided in the 17th century. The Islamic feudal kingdoms on the archipelago mainly include: Mataram in East Java, Banten in West Java, Aceh in Sumatra and Goa in Sulawesi, and some Hindu kingdoms remain on the islands of Kalimantan.

The socio-economic development of the various regions of the South Seas is very uneven. In Java, the feudal natural economy predominated; In the coastal areas, commodity-money relations and handicrafts are more developed. Feudal landlords let merchants contract taxes. Increasingly, taxes in kind are being replaced by taxes on money. In the other islands, socio-economic lags behind significantly. Slavery prevailed in some areas, and in others it was still in the primitive commune stage.

The Dutch founded the East India Company in 1602. In order to obtain maximum profits, it obtained from the Dutch government a monopoly of trade east of the Cape of Good Hope, and maintained slave possession and feudal relations of production in its colonial territories, and extensively exploited the various products of the conquered inhabitants by the violent exploitation of the organs of power.

The Dutch company used a single tactic to resolutely plunder the colonial territory and prevent the slightest export from falling into the hands of competitors. To this end, it regulates the sea traffic of the islands of the Indonesian archipelago. Only Dutch ships or local vessels that have been approved to pay taxes are allowed to travel between them. Some of the sailing crew members who came to the Bonda Islands without a permit were shackled and some were beaten to death.

Efforts were made to seize a monopoly on the operation of important goods, to the exclusion of the Spaniards, Portuguese, English, French, and Danes, and to force the kings of the islands of the South Seas to respect their monopoly position. To facilitate the supervision of the production of cloves. The Dutch East India Company forced the Indonesians to expand the area under lilac cultivation on Ambon Island and cut down all lilac trees outside of Ambon Island.

The Banda sold nutmeg to Javanese, Malays, and other non-Dutch Europeans without the permission of the Dutch. The Dutch East India Company nearly wiped out more than 15,000 inhabitants of Banda Island, 800 of whom were taken into slavery in Batavia.

The Dutch ruled by bloody terror, and if the Indonesian people showed the slightest sign of resistance, the Dutch would kill them all over the island. It was with this extreme cruelty that the Dutch monopolized the spice trade, selling spices from Indonesia at astonishingly high prices at the Amsterdam Exchange, where merchants from almost all European countries gathered. The Dutch East India Company had become a supplier of goods to the monopoly trade of European and Eastern countries.

Although the Dutch colonists basically controlled the Spice Islands, their military power here was still very weak, and when the Far Eastern Combined Fleet came to kill them, they were almost scared to death. They took up arms and tried to defend the castle, but under the guns of the Far East, they fell apart and disappeared in an instant.

The Far East Combined Fleet took down all the important places in the South China Sea without any effort, and this time the Far East played for real, the 122-mm howitzers on the three landing ships and the 85-mm cannons on the sailing ships were bombarded indiscriminately, and the castles and fortifications carefully built by the Dutch were like paper paste.

In less than two months, the Far East Fleet swept across the islands of the South Seas, and the ferocious momentum of the Far East also severely shocked the natives of all parts of Nanyang, who all took the initiative to contact the Far East Company, hoping to establish good relations with the Far East. (To be continued......)

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