The First Fleet of the Chinese Navy has the main battleships Feilang and Feibao - equivalent to the battleships of the British and other maritime powers at the same time; there are also twenty three-masted gunboats, more than fifty two-masted fast warships, and a large number of A small fishing boat patrolling around the Ryukyu Islands. In May of this year, before Yin Feng went to Luzon to deal with the Spanish, he wrote a letter to Chen Zhongji, the general manager of the Ryukyu Company of the China Company. Later, the Feilang took five three-masted gunboats and carried 1,000 The famous sailor musketeers went north and captured Jeju Island.
At this time, Jeju Island was under the jurisdiction of Jeju Pastoral Affairs of the Lee Dynasty of North Korea, with two counties, Daejeong and Jeongui. For hundreds of years, this place has been a penal colony for political prisoners and a horse breeding ground in North Korea. Historically, this island has had an independent Tamna Kingdom. In 1105, the royal family of Goryeo abolished the title of Tamna Kingdom and established Tamna County. The Yuan Dynasty used this place as an outpost to attack Japan. In 1275, during the reign of King Chungryeol of Goryeo, Tamna Kingdom was restored and the Mongolian Governor's Office was established, which was directly under the central government of the Yuan Dynasty. The territory under the jurisdiction of the government was administered by people sent from Goryeo with the approval of the Yuan Dynasty government in 1294, but it was still directly under the Yuan Dynasty government and the Goryeo royal family had no right to manage it. In the early days of the Lee Dynasty of Korea, it was called Jeju Mu, because the Yuan Dynasty was ruled by the Ming Dynasty. After the overthrow of North Korea, the officials of the Mongolian General Administration surrendered to North Korea, and Jeju Island became North Korean land. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, they simply forgot about this isolated island overseas and never asked the North Korean government for this territory. .
After the Imjin War, the total population of Jeju Island was less than 8,000, mostly exiled prisoners, the soldiers and their families who guarded them, and some managers of the Joseon royal horse farm.
When the Chinese fleet led by Chen Zhongji and Fan Tao appeared off the coast of Jeju Island, they pulled down the blue Chinese-character flag and hoisted the Satsuma Shimazu family's Maru-cross pattern flag. They first sailed around the island and took what they found. All North Korean ships were burned to the ground.
The North Korean defenders on Jeju Island were only a few hundred exiled prisoners. In front of the sudden appearance of the giant ship and cannons, they temporarily lost the ability to think. It was not until the Chinese army's sailor musketeers began to land that they reacted: The Koreans Running around shouting and yelling, the Sailor Musketeers landed without any resistance and took control of the entire Jeju Island within a day. Not only did they capture hundreds of Korean defenders, they also captured nearly 6,000 horses.
Chen Zhongji gathered together the captured North Korean officials, government servants, military officers, etc., and put them on the ship by familiar routes, saying that he was going to send them back to North Korea. Then, the agents of the Military Intelligence Department blew up and sank their ship at sea, and all the officials were killed. Died in the sea together with the officer.
The rest of the residents of Jeju Island were all forcibly put on ships and taken to Taiwan Island to do hard labor. In fact, at this time, the slightly educated Koreans had already discovered that this group of pirates who called themselves the Satsuma Shimazu family were actually pirates. Chinese, Jeju Island is a forgotten remote island in North Korea. Only a few government ships go between the peninsula and Jeju Island every year, sending some information about the internal political struggles in the Kingdom of Korea to the island. Unlucky ones who failed in the battle, the residents of Jeju Island could not expect their own government to come to rescue them, so they had no choice but to be brought back to Taiwan Island by the Chinese army in two batches and sent to the newly developed land of the former Big Belly Country. Those sugar cane plantations, banana plantations, and plantation farms that were guarded by teams of farmers worked as coolies.
Jeju Island is known to have a lot of women, so most of the Jeju Island residents who were plundered to Taiwan were women. The most lacking thing among the Han immigrants on Taiwan Island is women, so there are about 1,500 young female residents of Jeju Island. They were quickly allocated to various farms, plantations, and factories for hungry men to choose and take home as wives.
This is also a destructive trick that Yin Feng came up with in desperation: the male-to-female ratio among Han immigrants in Taiwan is seriously imbalanced, and riots occur in surrounding indigenous villages from time to time because Han Chinese are robbing indigenous women. Chinese companies cannot go to the mainland to rob people. For the sake of Taiwan's stability and stability, The population is growing steadily, and it is imperative to introduce foreign women on a large scale.
Chen Zhongji stationed 500 sailor musketeers on Jeju Island, and left behind 20 clippers and ten three-masted gunboats. In this way, the sea west of Ryukyu, from the Korean Peninsula in the north to Shandong and Liaodong in the west, was basically covered. The Chinese army took control.
The direct result of this was that during this year, none of the Xie family's smuggling ships in Yuyao, Zhejiang, were able to return to the mainland. The Xie family and some other smuggling ships with government backgrounds in Zhejiang set out to sea from Ningbo and west of Ryukyu Island. Passing through the sea, I originally planned to avoid the Ryukyu Islands controlled by the Chinese army and go directly to Nagasaki and Hirado in Japan to do business. However, since the sea route between Jeju Island and Ryukyu has been controlled by the Chinese army, most of these merchant ships ended up in China. Occasionally, one or two ships slipped through the net in the hands of the military and naval forces, and they arrived at Nagasaki with good luck. After the transaction was completed, the Xie family's merchant ships suddenly discovered that due to the current and wind direction, they had to pass through the offshore waters of Ryukyu. At the same time, Chang The Chinese Commercial House in Nagasaki was completely controlled by the Chinese Company. It promptly reported the date and number of the Xie merchant ships' return from Nagasaki to the Chinese Northern Fleet. As a result, they were tragically captured by the Chinese Navy. Captured, no one escaped.
Within the jurisdiction of the Zhejiang Chief Executive, not a single merchant ship outside the Zhonghua Company system was able to successfully complete the transaction and return home this year. At the same time, the Zhonghua Company made more than one million taels of silver for nothing, and dozens of ships were added to the merchant fleet.
In the same year, piracy activities suddenly became rampant along the coast of Guangdong. Most of the merchant ships with official and merchant backgrounds disappeared within a few days of going to sea. A few lucky ships were on their voyages to Nanyang, Luzon, and Japan, or were returning after completing transactions. On the way, people disappeared one after another for no apparent reason. In short, within this year, almost all merchant ships that tried to take the opportunity to break the Chinese company's monopoly on sea routes were destroyed.
The number of foreign merchant ships coming to Macau and Guangzhou for trade from the François, Angora, Siamese, Annan, and Pattani doubled. Those with a discerning eye soon discovered that these merchant ships flying various foreign flags, The busy sailors and cargo owners are basically Chinese speaking Chinese.
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In West Borneo, Mai Xiaoliu, the director of the Nanyang Military Intelligence Department, is writing a report in the Nanyazhou Castle. This report will be submitted to Yin Feng who is fighting in Luzon. The content is to communicate with the horses who are being "trained" in the castle. It is related to the chiefs of the small country. These chiefs were destroyed by the guards of the China Gold Development Branch, their wives, children and children were detained and then brought here.
They were forced to receive "training", and the training content was to let them learn how to deal with the Guangzhou government as envoys of tributary countries under the supervision of generals and guards sent by the China Company.
The same "training course" was also held in Luzon. Some Tagalog chiefs were given the names of various countries in Luzon and took the Chinese company's ships to Guangzhou. Then, under the cover of the tributary ship's name, the Chinese company went to Guangzhou with all their might. Mainland merchants doing business.
At the same time, the Chinese Company stepped up its efforts to attack the Japanese forces in Malacca, Pattani, Siam, Cambodia and other places and seize the overseas trade rights of various places. Under the implementation of various cover measures, the overseas trade volume of the Chinese Company this year was basically the same as the year before. When the maritime ban policy was relaxed, the amount was about the same.
Mai Xiaoliu finished writing the report with difficulty, stood at the highest window of the castle, looked towards the port, and took a long breath: He has been in Nanyang for six years, and now the Spanish army has begun to counterattack Luzon, he still You have to stay here and collect information about the entire Nanyang area.
His assistant was a son of the Dan people from Yazhou. He was only 15 years old and was busy sharpening his ink. Seeing that the manager seemed to be in a bad mood, he said cautiously: "Brother Six, I heard that Li Lihua and Li Da The lady is about to go south. Have you seen her? Then, how should we call her, Madam or Miss?"
Mai Xiaoliu was stunned and said with a wry smile: "Didn't you see her when you were in class at Taiwan Enlightenment School?"
"It was the time when the Satsuma Domain of Japan was being conquered. Miss Li had been in Taipei. None of us, the children of the Yazhou Dan family, had ever seen her, but we all went to the young lady of the shipowner's house, and she invited us to dinner. The young lady is a good person. I heard that she gave birth to a son for the captain..."
Mai Xiaoliu waved his hand: "You are such a long-winded kid, why are you talking nonsense like those women? Hurry up and get to work."
Turning around, Mai Xiaoliu thought distressedly: Miss Li Lihua must have come to Nanyang to deal with Huatian Company. Although, within this year, Huatian Company in Aceh and Malacca suffered heavy blows from Zhonghua Company. However, in Batavia, the headquarters of Huatian Company, Yuan Jin and Li Zhong's power is still very strong. It is obvious that the Dutch are secretly helping. Li Lihua's trip is probably to take action against Batavia.
In August, Li Lihua brought her bodyguard to West Borneo.
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At the end of 1613, with the strong southeastern Pacific monsoon, the Spanish expeditionary force came to the Asia-Pacific waters. Even at the most intense moment of the Luzon Campaign, the measures Yin Feng arranged at the beginning of the year to deal with the maritime ban were still implemented.
In this year, apart from the war with the Spanish on Luzon Island, the Chinese Company's largest overseas military operations took place in Siam and Aceh.
After Yamada Nagamasa Niemon left Taiwan that year, he followed the "Shu Seal Ship" sent by the Tokugawa family to Siam. When he arrived at Ayutthaya (now Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai Prefecture, Thailand), he contracted a fever and stayed there ever since. In Ayutthaya, there were about 1,000 Catholic Japanese samurai who fled to Ayutthaya because of the anti-Catholic actions of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Yamada Nagamasa was elected as the leader because of his high cultural level. Nagamasa organized the elite among the samurai. They formed an army to be loyal to the King of Siam, Palasu Dong, and purchased a large number of Western-style guns from Macau, Malacca and Batavia (Jakarta), making this Japanese mercenary army the royal guard of the King of Siam.
After the Chinese Company defeated the Spanish and occupied Luzon Island, a large number of Chinese came to Siam to do business, practice medicine, and open shops. In the Japanese town of Ayutthaya, opposite the Portuguese settlement, Chinatown, the largest foreign settlement area, was formed. .
The Chinese Merchant House also organized a Chinese Guard, which helped the King of Siam during the Burmese army's invasion of Siam. Therefore, it also gained the respect of the King of Siam. As a result, Siam also had three foreign mercenary troops in the country. Serving the king: the first Portuguese guard to come to Ayutthaya, numbering about 300 people; the Japanese samurai mercenaries headed by Yamada Nagamasa, numbering about 800 to 1,000 people; the Chinese who were officially recruited by the King of Siam a few years ago The Guards, numbering about 700 men, were the best equipped, possessing a large number of flintlock muskets and three bronze six-pounders,