After the Dutch captured Malacca, they set their sights on the Philippines.
In the past few years, troops have been sent out almost every year. However, they did not dare to attack Manila directly. Instead, they robbed Spanish merchant ships, robbed Chinese merchant ships by the way, and then took advantage of the cold weather to land and launch operations to remove Spain's peripheral strongholds on the southern islands.
In a narrow sense, Cebu Island is just a large island.
Broadly speaking, Cebu Island also includes the surrounding islands.
Magellan forced the natives on the island to convert to Christianity, and then helped the natives fight in the war, hoping to turn all the natives in the nearby islands into Christians. Then, Magellan was killed by the hostile natives.
The islands are connected in all directions and there are Spanish forts everywhere. In recent years, more than ten of them have been destroyed by the Netherlands.
The Spaniards were very troubled by this Teddy behavior, but their strength had declined too much. Every time they encountered a Dutch attack, they could only huddle in the castle to defend themselves. Sometimes the forts on the shore simply gave up.
This time, the Netherlands sent 20 warships, not only carrying Dutch soldiers, but also more than 3,000 indigenous people from Brunei and Sulu, heading towards Cebu Island in a mighty manner. After landing, they quickly removed the outlying strongholds and moved San Pedro near the port.
Troburg was surrounded.
However, only the natives followed the Dutch in the war. The sultans of Brunei and Sulu did not agree to assist the Dutch in the war.
Even the Sultan of Brunei is more inclined to support Spain.
When the Dutch besieged Cebu Island and the fighting in the north had not yet broken out, a Chinese fleet sailed towards the capital of Brunei.
Zheng Guozhong disembarked from the ship, protected by a hundred soldiers, and headed straight for the Royal City of Brunei under the leadership of Fujian maritime merchants.
The Sultan of Brunei, Abdul Jalilul Aba, did not understand what was going on for a while. Seeing that the Chinese fleet seemed very powerful, he sent his ministers to meet with the envoys to find out what the Chinese were doing.
After half a day passed, Minister Su Laiwen rushed into the palace: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of China wants to crown you the King of Balni."
Sultan Abba thought it was nonsense: "I am already a king, why should I be canonized by the Chinese emperor?"
Minister Su Laiwen explained: "Your Majesty, your ancestors are Chinese, and Brunei used to be called Bo Ni Kingdom. The Chinese envoy said that your ancestor's tomb is in Nanjing, and he has sent people to repair it and worship it. If...
if……"
"What if?" Aba Sultan asked.
Su Laiwen replied bravely: "The Chinese envoy said that if His Majesty does not recognize his ancestors, the Huang family should recognize them. At that time, the Huang family can only be canonized as the King of Balni. If the Huang family does not recognize their ancestors, then you can choose whatever you want.
Choose a person named Huang and adopt him to the Bo Ni royal family to be crowned king."
"He is a threat!" Abba Sultan was furious.
The Brunei royal family is half of Chinese descent and the other half of Arab descent.
Hundreds of years later, the Brunei flag had two slashes, representing two princes in history, one of whom was Huang Senping.
Huang Senping served as the commander of the Tengchong Guards in Yunnan under Zhu Yuanzhang. He built the Stone City in Tengchong. Even the name "Senping" was given by Zhu Yuanzhang because he defeated the Japanese pirates at Senpingtan.
After arriving in Kalimantan, Huang Senping helped King Bo Ni and successfully resisted the invasion of the Sulu and Malays. The king married his daughter to Huang Senping as his concubine, and the king's brother married Huang Senping's sister. The two families ruled together.
Bo Ni Kingdom, but each has its own ruling territory.
After the king's death, Huang Senping and the king's brother served as regents.
After the death of the king's brother, a palace coup broke out, and Huang Senping supported a prince to succeed to the throne.
In his later years, Huang Senping returned to his hometown and died of illness when he arrived in Nanjing. He left three last words: first, to include his territory in the Bo Ni Kingdom as part of the Ming Dynasty; second, to request that the highest mountain in Nanyang be canonized as Zhenguo Mountain, and to serve as the foundation for the Ming Dynasty.
Zhonghua Yongzhen Nanyang; third, request to be buried in the Ming Dynasty.
Huang Senping's daughter, Huang Guigu, married King Ahman of Balni. After Ahman's death, Huang Guigu became the Queen of Balni.
Huang Guigu's daughter succeeded as the second generation queen. She recruited Ali, a businessman from Arabia. After the queen's death, Ali became the king, and it has been hereditary since then, even hundreds of years later.
The Sultan Aba of Brunei in front of him has the blood of Huang Senping flowing in his body.
As for the Huang family, they still settled in Brunei and had their own territory. However, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Huang family had withdrawn from Brunei's political arena and settled down as lords, farming and doing business to earn a small amount of money.
Abba certainly knows who his ancestors are, because the royal bloodline has never been broken, and the genealogy of past generations has been clearly recorded.
His distant ancestor was an Arab businessman, and his distant ancestor's grandmother was the daughter of the Huang family, who also gave birth to two queens.
The meaning of the Chinese envoy is very clear. If Abba does not accept the canonization by the Chinese emperor, then find a descendant of the Huang family to be canonized and directly provoke a civil war in Brunei!
Sulevin said: "Your Majesty, the Spanish red-haired ghost, it is really inappropriate for these guys to massacre the Tang people. The Chinese emperor is already angry, and he has joined forces with the Netherlands to send troops. We have refused to cooperate with the Netherlands, do we have to refuse China's canonization? We can't do it at the same time.
Offend the Netherlands and China."
Abba has been the sultan for 46 years and is an experienced old king. He said with a sad face: "Once you accept the canonization of the Chinese emperor, you have to help China fight the war. If Manila cannot be conquered, Spain will wait until China and the Netherlands withdraw their troops.
What if they send troops to attack us?”
Sulevin sighed: "If we don't agree, I'm afraid it won't be Spain that comes to attack us, but China and the Netherlands." Gu
Abazuo thought about it, but there was still nothing he could do. The king of a small country was so helpless.
Su Levin advised: "Your Majesty, it is better to turn to China completely and obtain the asylum of the Chinese emperor. This Chinese emperor is different from the previous one. I heard from Chinese maritime merchants that the emperor has fully opened China's ports. Now, for Lu
The Tang people who died tragically in the Song Dynasty sent troops and will definitely expand their influence on the sea in the future. Brunei has the support of the Chinese emperor, the Netherlands, Spain, Sulu, Matalan... none of these countries dare to bully us anymore!"
Aba got up and walked around, thought for a long time, and said: "Then surrender more completely, tell the Chinese envoy, and ask for the princess to be married to the Chinese emperor as his concubine."
The sultan had many children, and most of his daughters were married, leaving only the thirteenth daughter who was still young and unmarried.
Just turned twelve years old...
Not too young. According to their teachings, a girl should get married at the age of nine.
The Brunei royal family has Chinese ancestry. This information was provided by Fujian maritime merchants. Zhao Han immediately sent envoys to Borneo.
This war at sea was the result of close cooperation between the imperial court and merchants.
For their own benefit, the Fujian maritime merchants fully supported the emperor's war effort. They contributed a lot of money and effort, and also gave many suggestions and suggestions. All kinds of Nanyang information arrived in Nanjing like snowflakes.
After Tainan, it is the domain of the Netherlands. Dutch warships cruise between Taiwan and the Philippines all year round, intercepting any Chinese merchant ships they see, and forcing the Chinese merchant ships to trade in Jelanje (Tainan). If they are disobedient, they will be directly looted!
In order to obtain greater profits, Fujian maritime merchants tried every means to go to the Philippines, and even used smaller and faster ships to transship in Kinmen.
They are willing to bear the risk of shipwreck and loss of lives, so what else would they dare not? They would never dream of China actually taking control of the Philippines!
Royal City of Brunei.
Chinese envoy Zheng Guozhong read out the canonization edict, and the Sultanate of Brunei was renamed the Kingdom of Bo Ni. Sultan Aba of Brunei was named Huang Nianzu. From now on, every king must have a Chinese name.
The old Sultan Aba knelt down and sincerely accepted the canonization of the Chinese Emperor. It was not easy for him at his age.
Then, twelve warships and 500 soldiers were sent to fight with the Chinese army.
The Chinese envoy fleet, together with the warships of Brunei, went to the Sultanate of Sulu next door, also to forcibly enthrone the King of Sulu.
A Chinese Muslim who was randomly found was led by the envoy Zheng Guozhong to the Sulu Royal City to recognize his relatives.
The ancestors of the King of Brunei are buried in Nanjing, and the ancestors of the King of Sulu are buried in Dezhou, Shandong.
At that time, the whole family went together to pay homage to Zhu Di in Beijing. On the way back, the king died in Dezhou, and the eldest son returned to Sulu to inherit the throne, while the queen, second son, third son and entourage all stayed in Shandong. Many Hui people in Shandong are their descendants.
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Faced with the sudden appearance of Chinese relatives, the Sultan of Sulu was speechless.
Sulu was also bullied miserably by Spain. They also sent troops to resist, but as a result, their territory was lost less and less. Moreover, a large number of Green Christians in Sulu were killed by Spanish colonists.
Let’s put it this way, apart from Luzon, Spain’s main expansion direction in the Philippines is to seize islands from Sulu!
One-third of the territory of Sulu has been eaten by Spain!
Although the people at the bottom are still resisting, the nobles of Sulu basically choose to lie down.
Now the Chinese envoys came with "royal relatives" and insisted on canonizing the king of Sulu. They also said that they would not be able to lie down anymore and quickly rise up and join China in resisting.
The Sultan of Sulu was really afraid of being beaten, so he pretended to be deaf and mute, and treated the Chinese envoys respectfully, but was unwilling to accept the canonization, let alone follow China in attacking Spain.
In fact, it would be better to change to Sudan.
Historically, another Sulu Sultan even took the initiative to contact the Manchu Qing Dynasty and asked the Manchu Qing emperor to be canonized, hoping to use the Manchu Qing Dynasty to send troops to resist Spanish encroachment.
After eating and drinking well for several days, Zheng Guozhong suddenly couldn't sit still and left with one sentence: "If you don't want to return, you are an enemy by the way. Let's wait for the Emperor of Datong and the Netherlands to jointly attack!"
"Boom boom boom!"
The Chinese fleet and the Brunei fleet fired directly at the Royal City of Sulu after leaving the port.
Fire symbolically, fire a few shots and leave.
The Sultan of Sulu was horrified and sent a speedboat to catch up with the Chinese fleet. He stood on the boat and got closer and shouted: "My Lord is willing to submit, my Lord is willing to submit!"
The natives in northern Luzon were instigated by China, and Brunei and Sulu were also instigated. The Netherlands led the natives to besiege Cebu Island... After a series of operations, the Spaniards were completely surrounded, but the governor was unable to resist, and even the fleet was
