The Great Ming Dynasty Dominate Overseas

Everyone was busy, and Chen De led his army to occupy the Banda Islands.

The Banda Islands are small in area, only about 40 square kilometers. The small land cannot resist the army. When the Southeast Government fleet appeared near the islands, the islanders surrendered and Chen De had the Banda Islands at his fingertips.

The reason for this success was that in February 1623, the Dutch carried out a heinous massacre on the large island of Delendur in the Banda Archipelago in order to avenge the islanders’ cooperation with the British against the Netherlands. The Dutch killed nearly With 15,000 people, the islanders are now scarce, so they have to surrender.

The volcanic soil here is suitable for growing nutmeg, and produces cloves, coconuts and fish.

Now that the islanders know how to do it, Chen De is not too serious and declares that they are free people and pay a poll tax to work for the Southeastern Prefecture. Every year, a certain percentage of the population is drawn from diligent workers to become the official citizens of the Southeastern Prefecture.

The government was established, and the rule of the southeastern government was confirmed.

Then Chen De took his fleet to Tidore and De Nadi, two Sudan kingdoms and Halmahera.

Go north and pass through the Maluku Sea to reach Halmahera Island, these places are located in the Maluku Islands region.

Pass through the Maluku Strait and continue northward. Chen De will open the route from the Spice Islands to the "Mindanao" of the Philippines, and finally reach Manila, export the spices to Manila and re-export to the Americas, or pass through Manila to the Taiwan Province. The spices are shipped back to the mainland.

There are many islands here, and many of them are uninhabited islands.

The Southeast Mansion did something very meaningful to them. They carried countless blank stone tablets on the same merchant ship. Whenever they arrived at an uninhabited island, they sent small boats to plant on that uninhabited island. Stele!

Plant a stone tablet on the deserted island, and engrave on the stone tablet. The front is the number of islands in the Southeast Mansion, for example, the island No. 1008 in the Southeast Mansion-----There are too many islands, you can't give a meaningful name, so you have to name it like this .

It is stated on the back that this island belongs to the great Southeast Mansion, and the date is indicated. The monumental unit is the Southeast Mansion Java Governor Mansion and the Southeast Fleet Java Division, and the monument erector is the officer and soldier.

This monumental person so and so and so and so and so is constantly sending people, today it’s your turn, tomorrow it’s his turn, everyone has a chance, even Governor Chen De planted himself on a big island Erected a stone monument, and sprinkled a pee on the island according to everyone's precedent!

Back to the warship, there are detailed records, indicating the date, writing down which position and which islands are occupied on the nautical chart, and also drawing pictures for souvenirs.

After that, the people who participated in the establishment of the island all received a commemorative certificate, indicating that he declared sovereignty on behalf of the Southeast Mansion on a certain island on a certain day, a certain month, and this is in the annals of history!

Anyway, I just came here when I saw an uninhabited island. The Southeast Fleet was addicted to planting islands. Many warships carried stone monuments on board, and they planted deserted islands.

It’s not fun to plant. We planted stone tablets. Whoever dares to touch our stone tablets means war!

What's more, we planted a stone tablet on the east of a certain island, and there are indigenous people living on the west. When everyone meets, we absolutely do not admit that those indigenous people came first, but we planted the island before and the indigenous people behind. We are not convinced. Just do it!

Of course, there will also be cases where a ship planted a stone tablet on the south side of a certain island, and another ship planted a stone tablet on the north side. Then it is better than the date, first come first served.

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There are many islands and complex waterways. It seems right and wrong. The key lies in the chart.

There is a surveying and mapping team in the Southeast Prefecture, which specializes in drawing maps and charts. The method is imitated by the method of drawing projections based on the stars in the sky.

In addition to the charts drawn by this regime, the Southeastern Prefecture has collected a large number of European charts through various means. For example, in the "New Atlas", there is a map of Moluccas where the Southeastern Prefecture is located, and the routes to the places of the Southeastern Prefecture are drawn.

Here, I want to thank the Europeans. In the 17th century, the Dutch held high the banner of "freedom on the high seas" and joined the great sea craze. On the other hand, the Dutch also brought the production and publication of nautical charts to the market, thus breaking the secrecy and mystification of nautical charts since the Middle Ages. The cartographic center of the world's nautical charts, blocked and monopolized by Portugal and Italy, began to turn to the market-oriented production and publication of "depression countries" Belgium and the Netherlands.

Flanders (present-day Belgium) had three outstanding masters of geography and cartography, Mercator, Autrius and Hondius, who drew a large number of maps and charts. The largest map publisher in the Netherlands and the famous cartographer Willem Janszoon (1571-1638) and his son Joan Blau (1596-1673) saw the increasing demand for nautical charts With a big prospect, a large number of the latest nautical charts will be collected and produced.

In 1634, the Blau family's cartographic company published the "New Atlas" with 161 maps, and later published the "Great Atlas" that surpassed any previous atlas. Trade winds are drawn on every piece of ocean on the chart. And the navigation direction, as well as the big sailing ship, the name of the ocean is written in gorgeous fine fonts, and the coastline is shaded exaggeratedly to highlight the three-dimensionality...

The map of Moluccas in Chen De’s hand is a work of William Jansson Blau in 1630. This map focuses on the most valuable islands in the Spice Islands. It shows that the Dutch have already Control the most important spice producing areas.

The Ternate Island depicted in this picture, also called Ternate, is the seat of today's North Maluku province. Tidore next to it is also a spice island. In the picture, you can see that there is a dense forest, and behind the forest is a flat spice planting belt. These small islands are connected to form a huge spice production base. This picture reflects the prosperous business scene of the Dutch East India Company at that time.

Relying on the nautical chart, and then led by the Dutch, the fleet arrived at its destination.

To a certain extent, Hong Maofan has been respected by people from the Southeast Mansion, which is why everyone supports Yan Boss to classify Hong Maofan and Zhonghua Xiaofan as the same class.

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As soldiers approached the city, Tidore and De Nadi, the two Sudan kingdoms occupying an important position on the spice route, had completely different fate.

Located in the Maluku Archipelago, Tidore and Denadi are two deep-scented and historic islands. The two islands are almost the same size. Both are located on the west side of Halmahera, the main island of the Maluku archipelago. It was formed by the eruption of a volcano in the depths of the Maluku Sea.

Tidore has Jintapu Mountain, and Denar is the Guamarama Volcano. The eruption of the volcano has made the island have fertile soil, producing the world's top cloves!

Good things attracted wolves. First, the Portuguese expedition to Maluku in 1513 AD, obtained a large amount of cloves in Tidore and De Nadi, and established a business hall at the same time.

Then the Spaniards, Dutch, and British followed one after another. The Dutch won, and wiped out the rest of the Orangutan's power in the Maluku Islands and obtained the monopoly of spices.

It's Southeast Mansion now!

First arrived at Denadi Island~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and used the same old clichés. Chen De first sent someone to meet Fashir Sudan on the island and produced a document saying that the Dutch would transfer their interests to my Great Southeastern Mansion. The people of De Nadi can only sell cloves to the Chinese.

Unfortunately, Li Gui met Li Kui, and Fasher Sudan had a Dutch consultant next to him, and immediately pointed out that the Southeast Mansion was using fake documents!

"The East India Company has never written such a document!" Grot, the Dutch consultant, said unquestionably.

His Highness Fashir Sudan naturally returned the documents and ridiculed that the Southeast Mansion was a liar regime!

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On the Nanhai No. 2 flagship, Chen De heard the report and frowned, "Dana Di Sudan dare to be so Diao?"

The officers said angrily: "Don't worry about it, let's talk about it if you do it!"

So the fleet set out toward the port of Denadi, wanting to see if Hirsudan has three heads and six arms!