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Chapter 698 Daming Officially Liberates Ceylon Island (Please Subscribe!)

Boom boom boom!
The Daming Navy frantically exported to the woods near the pier.

The shells flew high over the heads of the Dutchmen!

Scared them enough.

The guards didn't wait for Ernst Louis to issue orders, and directly showed the white flag.

Seeing this, Liu Guoxuan smiled and said: "It seems that there is no ambush, it's time to tell those red-haired barbarians to go away, and also tell Ceylon the good news, Daming is here to liberate them now!"

When the springboard of the Ming Navy warship was lowered to the pier in Matara Port, the first to disembark was not the Ming soldiers, but a group of dwarfs wearing breastplates and holding bayonet-mounted flintlock guns.

There is no need to doubt that they are the Japanese soldiers who came down first to explore the way.

The characteristic of the Dongying soldiers is that they are fierce and vicious. All the members are wicked, and they don't look like good people. Their bloodthirsty eyes frightened the Dutch and Ceylon natives who greeted them at the pier.

Only the businessman of Ming Dynasty on the side didn't show any fluctuations in expression, after all, it was his own dog.

After seeing the Dongying soldiers calming down the scene and lining up, Chen Peilin walked down the deck slowly. He swaggered up to a group of dumbfounded native officials of the Kingdom of Ceylon, holding an imperial decree in both hands, and asked loudly: "Who are you? An official of the Kingdom of Lan?"

An elderly native man wearing gorgeous silk clothes and a long knife stuck in his belt immediately said in a bit blunt Chinese: "My lord, I am!"

"it is good!"

Chen Peilin nodded, "I am the governor of Ceylon handpicked by the Son of Heaven, and I am ordered by the Son of Heaven to lead the troops to help you drive out the foreigners and bring them under the rule of the Ming Dynasty!"

This Ceylon official didn't understand what he meant. What does it mean to be under the rule of Ming Dynasty?
Is their king dying?
When the Netherlands colonized, at least their royal family could survive, and it was okay for Ming to directly annex it.

Ernst Louis of the Dutch East India Company was not happy on the spot, and immediately protested loudly: "Mr. Chen, the Kingdom of Ceylon is the property of the Federal Republic of the Netherlands. How can you, a state of etiquette in Ming Dynasty, do such a robbery?" This move, you are going to war with the Netherlands!"

"If the Ming Dynasty wants to go to war, it will have to face eight European countries at the same time, and even the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia will join the war!"

Ernst Lewis threatened.

Chen Peilin glared at Ernst Louis unhappily. He obviously didn't dare to hit him, but he still spoke so hard!
Feeling the displeasure of the Governor of Ming Dynasty, the Dongying soldiers lined up directly put the flintlock guns flat, ready to go!

"After Zheng He's voyages, Ceylon was a vassal of the Celestial Dynasty, and Ming was the lord of Ceylon. However, considering that the Dutch East India Company seized Ceylon from the Portuguese, it did not take it from Ceylon. The city. Therefore, the Holy Majesty is merciful and will not go to war against the Dutch East India Company. But the majesty of the Celestial Dynasty cannot be offended! Therefore, the Holy Majesty has decreed that from the first day of December in the tenth year of Shenwu, the Celestial Dynasty Sanction Order will be imposed on the Dutch East India Company!"

Ceylon was also a vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

In 1411 A.D. (the ninth year of Yongle), Zheng He's fleet returned to Daming and played Zhu Di, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Civil and military officials requested the execution of the king of Ceylon. Ming Chengzu thought of ignorance and sent the king and queen of Ceylon back to Ceylon. , and established a person with both ability and political integrity in Ceylon as the king, and established the suzerain-vassal relationship. Since then, Ceylon has become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty and paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty regularly.

"Sanction?"

Ernst Louis was taken aback, "What do you mean?"

Ernst Louis didn't care about the gains and losses of Ceylon, because judging from the current situation, the fall of Ceylon was inevitable, but he couldn't lose more in the future.

"It's very simple. Commercial ships belonging to the Dutch East India Company are prohibited from passing through the Strait of Malacca! Spices such as pepper, cloves, and cardamom are also prohibited from being exported to Europe through the Strait of Malacca!"

As Chen Peilin was talking, he took out a copy of the "Daming Sanctions Order" written in both Chinese and Latin and handed it over, "Take it, and report it to Madras!"

The next thing was very simple. Da Ming expelled all the Dutch on the island, because Chen Peilin had confiscated most of the Dutch's property after occupying Da Ming's Ceylon Island for many years!

As for the royal family of Ceylon, it was a useless thing in the first place, so it should be banned directly!
For the natives of Tianzhu, let’s keep it as a labor force first. Although it is a bit lazy, it should still be usable after modification.

South Tianzhu, Madras City.

Here is the garrison of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and at the same time, the governor of the Dutch East India Company is also in this city.

Originally, his Governor's Mansion was in Ceylon Island, but Kanfezis, who had a good eye, could tell at a glance that Ceylon Island had no strategic depth. Once the Ming army came, he couldn't get out of the island and died. .

That's why Madras came to be safer, backed by South Tianzhu and the Eight-Power Allied Forces, the safety factor soared.

But Governor Canfezis never imagined that Da Ming would not go to war with you at all, but came up with a state between war and peace—sanctions!
And instead of sanctioning the eight Western countries, now only one Dutch East India Company is sanctioned!

It is too insidious!
"Ernst, what did you say?"

In an office of the Eight-Power Allied Forces garrison, Governor Canfezis, who had just settled in Madras, looked in surprise at the Ceylon Island Merchant Big Ban Ernst who came on a galley from the Kingdom of Ceylon. Lewis.

Ernst Louis was also miserable enough. All the ships in the Netherlands were confiscated by Ming according to law, so they had to use the garbage ships of the natives of Tianzhu.

Fortunately, luck is good, and the voyage is short, otherwise no one will know when he dies.

Governor Canfezis was so shocked by the news he brought that he couldn't believe it.

Ernst Lewis said with a sad face, "Mr. Governor, our East India Trading Company has been sanctioned by the Ming Empire! From the first day of December this year, all the company's ships are no longer allowed to travel between the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific through the Strait of Malacca. From Ming Nanyang spices are also not allowed to be shipped to Europa via Dutch ships!"

The sanctioned spice stabbed directly at the seven inches of the Dutchman.

The spice trade has played a pivotal role in the history of the Netherlands and even the history of mankind.

As one of the most valuable commodities, spices were almost as valuable as gold before the Age of Discovery.The word Spice in English comes from the Latin species and is often used to refer to valuable but small items.

The importance of spices was extremely prominent in Europe at that time. They were used in various fields such as cooking, medicine, and spices, and they were very expensive.

Indonesia and the Malay Peninsula were the main production areas at that time, among which varieties such as makassar, pandan and cinnamon were the most famous.

In the 17th century, European countries rushed to enter Southeast Asia to control the spice trade and achieve the expansion of colonial and commercial interests.

Countries such as the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and France all set up trade posts here, and conducted transactions and joint struggles with local forces.

After Nanyang is now under the control of Ming Dynasty, the spice trade has not stopped.

Due to the higher price given by the Dutch, most of Ming's spices were given to the Dutch East India Company, and the smaller part was given to the British East India Company.

But the Dutch always wanted to take back the Spice Islands.

"Spices must never be thrown away!"

(End of this chapter)