Chapter 927 Heading South to Java

"Lack of education and shamelessness!" Zhang Dong gave a very harsh evaluation after hearing this. He has lived in Sanya for several years and has long been accustomed to being surrounded by knowledgeable and civilized people. Suddenly he met such a group of people.

It is really hard to accept the undressed natives. This is very different from the education he has received.

Zhang Yun just smiled and did not make a comment. He had hundreds of years more experience than these two children, so he naturally would not take such topless natives to heart. Looking at the areas near the equator around the world, there are such natives

There are tens of thousands of tribes, so it is not a rare thing at all. The reason why the Nuoting Association makes such a fuss over this is just because they don't have enough knowledge.

However, the performance of the black soldier Marcus made Zhang Yun very satisfied. When he used his body to protect Zhang Zhi just now, he didn't even hesitate for a moment. This can only be done by people with extremely high courage and loyalty. Although

Marcus is a foreigner, but his performance when encountering critical situations is not inferior to that of the Han soldiers in the militia. Zhang Yun gave Marcus a thumbs up to express his appreciation.

Marcus had been in the army for almost a year, so he understood that this gesture meant praise. He opened his mouth widely, revealing two rows of big white teeth. It was possible to get a commander's praise, even if it was just a small one.

Action is a great honor for soldiers like them who enlisted as slaves.

Although the indigenous people did not show any hostile actions, their appearance still made the military escort team nervous. The commanding officer immediately sent people back to the coast and sent a signal to the fleet at sea.

"Aborigines? No one was hurt, right?" Yan Chujie was not surprised by this. Humans began to settle on this island more than ten centuries ago. It is normal for aborigines to appear. With Zhang Yun's temperament, maybe it has already begun.

He was telling the students about the natives of Borneo. His only concern was Zhang Yun's personal safety. Every traveler was a unique treasure to Haihan. Yan Chujie did not want anyone in the field of natural sciences to

What happened to this single seedling? After receiving a positive answer, Yan Chujie felt a little relieved. However, for safety reasons, he was still prepared to recall the scientific expedition team in advance.

"How about I go ashore for a run?" Roger was a restless person, so he immediately asked Yan Chujie for help.

"Will you go there in person? This battle is a bit big, isn't it?" Yan Chujie was a little hesitant. Roger was also a general in the army after all, so sending him to perform this kind of escort mission would be a bit overkill.

"Just think of it as a way to stretch your muscles and bones, and also see what kind of treasures there are on Borneo, which attracted Teacher Zhang here from Sanya." Seeing that Yan Chujie did not persist in his objection, Roger stood up and ordered: "Get my equipment.

Come!"

Of course, Roger's own equipment is still the foreign goods brought over by the North American gang. The firearms are well maintained, but the inventory of bullets is inevitably getting smaller and smaller. Although he is a very capable mechanic, he has also mastered

Bullet reloading technology, but in the end, it can't match the speed of consumption. This year, Roger didn't even use his own special weapons for target shooting on the island. He used the Trinity rifle more often, and that's all.

Only when the mission is fulfilled will he take out his treasure and show it off.

So Roger took another platoon of people, landed in a small boat, and met up with the scientific expedition team that had landed earlier. Roger's mentality was vaguely hoping that something would happen, so that his group of people could move and have a chance.

Show off your practical ability. However, the indigenous people in the nearby area may have also felt that these outsiders were not easy to deal with. After hiding in the forest, they never appeared again. Zhang Yun and his students spent two days collecting specimens nearby.

Afterwards, the group returned to the ship safely.

The fleet continued southward along the coastline. After sailing for a whole day, it came to the mouth of a river and discovered a fishing village here. Although the indigenous people here were a little frightened by the outsiders arriving in large ships, they did not take a hostile attitude.

After the two parties communicated through simple body movements, the Haihan people took out crystal clear glassware, fine refined salt and large pig iron ingots, and exchanged a large number of fruits and fresh catches from the locals.

For the uncivilized indigenous people, the most useful weapons in Haihan are not rifles and cannons, but various cheap industrial products from across the ages. Even the civilized world cannot resist the influx of these low-cost products into the market, and there is not much knowledge.

The indigenous people are even less resistant to this. This trick was used on the Yu family and his son in the fishing village as early as when the Crossing Group landed in Yulin. Over the past few years, they have accumulated enough operational experience. Although it is not as good as Borneo

The indigenous languages ​​were not fluent, but this did not prevent the Haihan people who were skilled in trade from selling these things to them.

Of course, Haihan does not expect the natives to come up with anything valuable to trade with him. The purpose is just to establish a good image first and let the locals distinguish Haihan from those golden-haired and blue-eyed Western colonists.

Later, when I officially set foot on Borneo in the future, the resistance I will encounter may be smaller because of this.

The fleet arrived at Sukadana Bay, the only bay on the southern coast of Borneo, on October 20. However, there is no natural harbor in this bay with a span of more than 30 nautical miles, and the fleet does not intend to sail there.

Stop here for supplies, because the ruler here is loyal to the Matalan Kingdom, and Haihan's current interactions with the Matalan Kingdom are only trade through middlemen. It is difficult to guarantee that this fleet will not appear near the coast.

This aroused the hostility of the other party. Yan Chujie did not want to cause trouble and offend the Matalan Kingdom, so he ordered the fleet not to stop here and sail directly through the bay from the open sea.

About seventy or eighty nautical miles south of Sukadana Bay, the coastline begins to turn eastward and extends, which is already the southern tip of Borneo. The combined fleet followed the established route, turned eastward and continued to march along the coastline, while taking control of Haihan.

Correct the chart.

Fan Ji and Zheng Zha were jealous of the nautical charts in the hands of the Haihan people. They really didn't understand how the Haihan people, who claimed to have come to this sea area for the first time, could have such accurate sea charts in their hands.

Figure? With this thing, the convenience it brings in setting routes and calculating voyages is simply impossible to calculate in terms of money. No wonder the Haihan people are so courageous and dare to send the fleet thousands of miles away from the base camp.

In conducting military exercises in unfamiliar waters, in addition to confidence in their own force, the navigation information they have should also be one of their reliance. The Haihan people claim to know the world and the earth, and they are really capable.

It took the combined fleet more than three days to complete a nearly 400-mile cruise along the southern coast of Borneo. Apart from the continuous rain that made people feel irritated, they did not encounter any other troubles during this period. Occasionally, it was different at sea.

When ships appear, they will immediately turn around and leave far away after seeing this huge fleet.

The southern coast of Borneo has fewer populated areas than the west coast. Although there are vast coastal plains and numerous rivers, the Southeast Asian natives who are not good at farming obviously do not know how to use these lands to improve their living conditions. What the United Fleet saw

Most of the indigenous villages and towns in the Ming Dynasty still maintain their primitive tribal status. The civilization process is at least nearly a thousand years behind places like Annan of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that the Sulu Kingdom and the Bo Ni Kingdom in northern Borneo once accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, and their level of civilization should be slightly higher.

It was higher, but by this period in the 17th century, it had been severely suppressed by the Spanish entrenched in the Philippines.

On October 24, the combined fleet arrived at the southeastern tip of Borneo. From here to the north is the Makassar Strait leading to the Celebes Sea and the Philippine Islands. Across the strait to the east is the Soviet Union with an area of ​​180,000 square kilometers.

Rawaisi Island. There are many mineral deposits on this island, but it is not among the objectives of this trip.

The combined fleet plans to turn here and head south across the Java Sea to conduct a comprehensive cruise of the northern coastline of Java Island. The biggest risk on this voyage is not the Dutch entrenched in Batavia at the western end of Java Island, but the occupation of this

The Kingdom of Matalan covers most of the island.

Java Island has a long and narrow terrain, about 970 kilometers from east to west, and about 160 kilometers at its widest point from north to south. It covers an area of ​​more than 120,000 square kilometers. The terrain is mainly mountainous and hilly, with many volcanoes. There are as many as 14 volcanoes above 3,000 meters above sea level. This place

Located in the Pacific Seismic Belt, earthquakes occur more frequently than ordinary people imagine. There are as many as a thousand large and small earthquakes every year, making it not a truly livable place.

At the end of the 13th century, Kublai Khan sent an army of thousands of warships from FJ Quanzhou on an expedition to Java. However, the results were not ideal. At that time, the ruler of Java, King Ketalayasa of Majapahit, first surrendered and then rebelled.

retreated the Yuan army. By this period, the Majapahit Kingdom had already disappeared in the long river of history. The Matalan Kingdom that replaced it had a larger territory and stronger strength. It not only occupied most of Java Island, but also

Expanding the sphere of influence to southern Borneo and eastern Sumatra. Unfortunately, their attack on Batavia last year was in vain. If the Dutch were driven out of the place, it would basically declare that the entire Java Island was under its rule.

The Matalan Kingdom is full of hostility to the Dutch, but this does not mean that they will regard Haihan as one of their own. In terms of the degree of ambition for external expansion, the ruler of the Matalan Kingdom, Ratten Langsang, is probably

It is not much worse than the Haihan Executive Committee. If he understands the development trajectory of the Haihan people in the past few years, then it is very likely that he will regard Haihan as a competitor.

But Yan Chujie did not want to just take a quick trip to the outer sea. The executive committee made a request before setting off, hoping that he could lead the team to the ports of Surabaya, Semarang, and Cirebon on Java Island to see the local ports.

Regarding the development situation, if possible, it would be better to discuss trade cooperation with Matalan.

Of course, the combined fleet was not unprepared for this. When it went south, it had already contacted several Ming merchants who had business dealings with Matalan and asked them to send people to accompany them on board ships from Ampurna Island. The fleet headed south through Java.

When they arrived near Madura Island, southeast of Surabaya, they sent a supply ship carrying several Ming merchant envoys to the Surabaya Port to contact the Matalan people and inform them of the joint fleet's request to enter the port for supplies.

In fact, the current name of Surabaya is Surabaya, and the Chinese name "Sishui" was originally derived from the fact that after the war in Zhangzhou in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a large number of immigrants from Longxi County, Zhangzhou Prefecture, southern Fujian came south to Java, bringing with them the folk people of southern Fujian.

They believed in "Sizhou Buddha" and built temples to worship them. Later, these temples "Sizhou Temple" dedicated to the gods gradually evolved into the place name of this place. There is another explanation that "Si" means swimming, and Si River is

It implies the situation of Han people leaving their hometowns to make a living in Southeast Asia.

Although at this time, this place does not have the name Surabaya, all the maps in the hands of the Haihan people marked this place as "Surabaya", so the mistake was adopted. This place has been Java since the Middle Ages.

One of the island's most important external ports, before the rise of Batavia, more than 70% of Java Island's import and export trade was completed here, which shows its importance.

The envoy sent by Haihan must be very eloquent. He actually persuaded the Matalan people in Surabaya Port to allow them to obtain supplies locally. However, the Matalan people were also very cautious. After hearing that the other party was a fleet, they

Asked to send people out to sea first to check the situation. This sight almost scared the Matalan people back. As long as you are not blind, you can see that 80% of the ships in this fleet are warships, and some of them are larger than

The Dutch warships in Batavia are much larger. With this kind of formation, how could the Matalan people dare to put the fleet into the port? If the Haihan people have ulterior motives, the defenders in the port may not be able to defend this army at all.

offensive.

Fortunately, Yan Chujie quickly provided a new compromise plan, which was to dock the fleet near Madura Island across the Surabaya Strait, and only send supply ships to Surabaya Port to purchase the required supplies. Of course, Yan Chujie did not forget it.

We requested to meet with local managers during this period in order to deepen mutual understanding and discuss the possibility of conducting trade between the two parties.

On October 28, the fleet dispatched two supply ships. Under the leadership of the Matalan guide ship, they sailed into the Surabaya Port from the north of the Surabaya Strait. As a precaution, there were no travelers on board the two ships.

Instead, Roger's subordinate Li Dagui will be in charge. He will contact local authorities at the port and then see if there is an opportunity to arrange an official meeting for both parties nearby.

The two ships also brought a lot of good things produced by Haihan and Daming to show Haihan's sincerity in hoping to carry out trade with the Matalan country. Yan Chujie believed that no one would refuse such good things delivered to their doorsteps, because these goods were used to

They all need to be re-exported to Surabaya Port through merchants from the Ming Dynasty. Not only are they expensive, but the quantity is small, you may not be able to buy them even with money.
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