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    Wandan City.

    Sultan Ah Geng was paralyzed on the throne and could not speak when he received the news of the loss of his country.

    The Banten Kingdom is no longer the previous Banten Kingdom. In the early days, facing the invasion of the Netherlands, they could send tens of thousands of troops to attack.  But now, the territory of Sumatra Island is occupied, and the total population of Banten is only about 100,000.

    China is not the Netherlands. The Dutch have few people, so they can only occupy key cities, and the outside of the city has to be reclaimed by the Han.

    The current situation is that more and more Han Chinese are directly reclaiming land and expelling local aborigines.  This led to the continuous shrinking of the land of Wandan, and it was impossible to fight and win, and it was impossible to cultivate the land, so it could only wait for death slowly.

    ? To be honest, Ah Geng is considered a wise sultan, not someone who is just waiting to die.

    Historically, he tried his best to resist the Netherlands, and relied on the profits of Banten Port to build an elite navy. The trade fleet sailed to India and the Philippines, and even fought back and forth with the Dutch fleet.  It was not until his later years that his son competed with him for power, and the Netherlands supported his son, that Banten Kingdom fell into internal friction and became weak.

    ? At that time, a war broke out between father and son, and the Dutch army was dispatched. Ah Geng persisted in fighting for two full years.  He even surrounded his son and the Dutch allied forces for a time, but was forced to retreat because of insufficient food and grass, and was eventually defeated and captured by the Netherlands.  Since then, the King of Banten surrendered to the Netherlands and became something like a chieftain.

    ? With China occupying Coconut City (Batavia), the port is open to all nations.

    The Governor of Coconut City also offers preferential tariffs. A large number of Chinese goods are shipped to Coconut City, and they rarely go to Banten Port.  Merchants from Britain, France, India, and Persia opened shops in Yecheng one after another, and Banten Port gradually declined.  Once a major international port, it has become a port for exporting local products, and spices can also attract merchants from all over the world.

    With the decline of trade, the shrinking of territory, and the decrease of population, Banten Kingdom's financial situation simply cannot support a large-scale army and navy.

    No matter how wise the monarch is, there is nothing he can do in this situation. If he wants to break the situation, he must first defeat the Datong Army.

    To fight, or not to fight?

    Sultan Ageng looked exhausted, and called his son Hayi: "You personally led a team to China and questioned the emperor of China why he invaded the land of Banten. China is the suzerain, and Banten is a vassal state. The vassal state has no fault. Why did the suzerain  Want to send troops? If the suzerain does this, wouldn¡¯t it be chilling for so many subjects?¡±

    "Yes!" Ha Yi took the order.

    Ha Yi is the prince who defected to the Netherlands in history and fought a civil war with his father for two years.

    This guy has a strong desire for power, but his father has lived too long, so he uses the hands of Holland to kill his father.  At the same time, he admires Qiang, and feels that the Netherlands is very powerful, so he acts as a puppet with peace of mind, constantly betraying the interests of the country, completely disregarding the life and death of the people.

    On the other side of Yecheng, Governor Liu Hanyi also received the news.

    He is so envious of Kuang Hong. The Han people in Palembang have multiplied for more than two hundred years, and the number is tens of thousands. They can open up a large territory in one go.  And there are fewer Han people under his rule. Even if the territory is conquered, it cannot be effectively cultivated, and it can only be eaten away bit by bit.

    Otherwise, he will directly send troops to destroy Wan Dan!

    To the east of Coconut City, the once mighty Matalan Kingdom split into five sultanates.  After several years of melee, there are only four sultans left, which seem to be more unified, but in fact the population has dropped sharply and their strength is not as good as before.

    Among the remaining four sultans, one is a Han Chinese named Zheng Yongshou.

    He is known as the Sudan internally, and the Governor of Semarang, China externally, and he has actually been canonized by the emperor.  But for several years in a row, he rejected the officials sent by the imperial court, clearly wanting to be the local emperor here.

    A few months ago, Zhang Xianzhong, who was the mayor of a town in Taiwan, was suddenly summoned by the prefect: "Do you want to be promoted?"

    Zhang Xianzhong replied: "I think so."

    The magistrate said: "The governor of Semarang is disobedient. He accepts the canonization of the court, but refuses to send officials. Your Majesty intends to let you be the governor of Semarang. Would you like to take this job?"

    Zhang Xianzhong asked: "How many soldiers will you give me?"

    "There are only five hundred fellow troops." The magistrate said.

    Zhang Xianzhong thought for a while, gritted his teeth and grinned: "I'm done with this deal!"

    Zhang Xianzhong had already arrived in Semarang when Prince Hayi of Wandan Kingdom sailed to Nanjing.

    A fleet of six ships escorted Zhang Xianzhong to his post, accompanied by more than ten officials and five hundred troops.

    Zheng Yongshou, governor of Semarang, was quite frightened, and went to the port to greet him in person: "My minister Zheng Yongshou, meet the angel!"

    Zhang Xianzhong smiled and said: "My name is Zhang Xianzhong, I don't know if you have heard my name before."

    Zheng Yongshou quickly said: "It's like thunder."

    "It's astounding as thunder," Zhang said.In the important town of industry, a small earthen fortress was built between the two mountains, and dozens of Javanese soldiers were stationed there.

    Before dawn, the attack began.

    The small earthen castle is so short that it can be climbed by a ladder, and the defenders are defenseless.  Zhang Xianzhong took the lead by climbing up the earthen castle first, and he would kill any living people when he saw them.

    After occupying the earth fortress, Zhang Xianzhong said to the soldiers: "Say it again, rush into the town, and kill anyone who can't speak Chinese. Everything you grab will be handed over, and you are not allowed to hide it!"

    The small town encountered a killing star and ushered in an unwarranted disaster.

    Soldiers rushed into the houses and shops in the small town, and asked everyone they saw, "Are they Han Chinese?"

    Those who couldn't answer would be hacked to death.

    A lot of goods were robbed, and Zhang Xianzhong made a profit, but the Han merchants in Semarang complained endlessly.

    As a port city, Semarang needs to go to this small town for inland goods.  With Zhang Xianzhong killing so indiscriminately, who would dare to transport the goods to Semarang among the native merchants in the interior?

    Zhang Xianzhong didn't care about it, the important place of the door, a matter of life and death, must be in his own hands.

    Moreover, the foreign race had to be killed, and then the Han people from Semarang were moved in.

    As for business, it will recover slowly.  As far as this trade route is concerned, is it true that the Han merchants are in a hurry, but the indigenous merchants are not?

    Just over three months after Zhang Xianzhong took office, the area under the governorship of Semarang has doubled directly, and it is no longer purely a commercial city.

    The Sultan of Yogyakarta was not a vegetarian either. When he was attacked for no reason, he immediately ordered troops to be summoned and gathered 20,000 troops to attack Zhang Xianzhong.

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