Valley Emperor

Bali, east of Banten Island, is an actual ruling area in the easternmost part of Banten House of the Tang Dynasty.

The Datang Empire built a small castle here. There are more than 100 soldiers stationed all year round, and there are also nearly 1,000 immigrants. The immigrants can also organize a certain number of militia.

Such a colonial stronghold is naturally incomparable to Banten City. This kind of colonial stronghold is a very typical small colonial stronghold.

But this kind of small colonial stronghold is much better than other areas in Banten House. In other places, there is not even a colonial stronghold fortress, it is just a trading post at most.

A few years ago, the Datang Dynasty had not yet established the Bandan House. The affairs of the Banten area were basically in charge of the Datang Western Company. In order to make money, the focus of the Datang Western Company was naturally not the same as the current Wandan. The government is so focused on the suppression of immigration and the establishment of effective rule, their focus is on trade and making money.

Therefore, the actions of the Datang Western Company in the Banten Islands were actually relatively conventional colonial trade activities. In addition to building a fort in Banten Port, which acted as a base and used it to control the Sunda Strait, other areas, Datang Western companies actually did not have much action.

In other places, the strategy of Datang Western Company in the early years was mainly to establish trading posts, and then trade with the local indigenous people.

Not to mention, in fact, in the 16th century, the business activities in the Nanyang region were still quite active!

Because Malacca in the Southeast Asian region is the throat connecting Europe, West Asia and India.

At the same time, many special products in Southeast Asia, especially spices and precious wood, are widely welcomed by merchants in East Asia, Europe and other regions.

This active business atmosphere also affected the rise and demise of indigenous countries in the Southeast Asian region, and this rise and demise had a considerable relationship with outsiders.

The Malacca Kingdom, which was entrenched on both sides of Malacca before, was killed by the Portuguese. Otherwise, the Portuguese would not be able to control the important strait connecting the east and west of Malacca.

Another example is the Kingdom of Wandan, a small kingdom whose name is not well known, which was also destroyed by outsiders.

Who is this outsider? Naturally, it is the great Tang Empire, no, to be precise, it should be a trading company that died in the Tang Empire: Datang Western Company!

With the same fate as the Kingdom of Banten, there is also the Kingdom of Bali!

The kingdom also fell to the Tang Empire!

It doesn't matter who the aborigines are on the island. No one cares anyway. What is really worth recording is that with the trade fairs in the Southeast Asian region, Indian businessmen, Hinduism, and a large number of Arabian and other West Asians were brought in. The merchants of the region then also brought the Arab religion.

The detailed process does not need to be elaborated. Generally speaking, it does not take decades. Almost the entire Indonesian archipelago is green.

Then some of the few remaining indigenous people who believed in Hinduism went to Bali. After decades of tossing around, they started to build their own country a few years ago!

But what, religion is terrible, but guns and artillery are even more terrible!

When the Datang Western Company came here in the early years, the Datang Western Company had no intention of fighting with them, but chose to reach an agreement with the local princes and nobles, and then established a trading post here and used the indigenous port as a Supply port.

This is caused by the unique policy of Datang Western Company. There is only one colonial stronghold established by Datang Western Company in the Banten Islands, which is Banten City. In other places, they did not choose to establish colonial strongholds. More often, Datang Western Company is more inclined to cooperate with local indigenous forces, setting up local trade stations, supplying ports, and then doing business with each other.

However, when the imperial government took over the dominion of the Banten Islands from the Datang Western Company and established the Banten Mansion, with Zhu Jiaxiang as the senior civil and military officer of the Banten Mansion, they implemented a policy completely different from that of the Datang Western Company. .

Datang Western Company is for money, so they only need to control the Sunda Strait and the strategic location of Banten Port. In other places, it is enough to establish a trading station for trade, unless the local indigenous people are closed to the country and discord. They trade, otherwise, the Datang Western Company will not start a war if there is nothing wrong, and this war is also very expensive!

But the imperial government is not here to do business!

The high-level civil and military officials of Wandan Mansion are almost all unsatisfactory officials in the country. Except for a very few who want to come to such a difficult place to make a fortune, in fact, quite a few are demoted. .

When these people came to Wandan, they all wanted to open up the territory and expand their territory, so that they could kill them back to their homeland by virtue of their merits, but few of them were willing to stay overseas and hang out with the natives for a lifetime.

In this case, will they get along well with the local indigenous people?

Impossible!

Since the establishment of Banten House, the local policy pursued is expansionism. They are not satisfied with just one Banten city, they want to control the entire Banten Islands.

When the fleet of Datang Western Company first came to Banten, the kingdom of Banten was destroyed with a wave of hands. When the empire officially took over Banten, the first thing they did was to attack Bali!

Because at that time, with the existing military strength of Banten Prefecture, it was impossible to completely control the islands of Banten Island, Sumen Island, and Makassar, and the big islands could not be defeated.

At the same time, in order to obtain more trade resources, it is also to control the Little Banten Islands (Little Sunda Islands). At the same time, the main reason is to control the passage into and out of Australia, and to implement the Australian immigration plan that is still in a top-secret state. The Banten Islands need to be occupied, and it is impossible for the Europeans to get involved.

The combination of many circumstances led to the first target chosen by the high-level executives of Banten Prefecture in that year to be Bali!

The process of the attack was naturally smooth. With the support of several warships sent by the Luzon Squadron, the Banten Squadron sent a large number of main troops to Bali, and it took a few days to kill the remaining indigenous people on the entire island. The power is flattened.

Surprisingly, the local aboriginal princes and nobles were still relatively courageous. Even if they were unable to resist, they used a very extreme way to express their dignity in the face of the Tang emperor. When they resisted, they used various small means to kill the officers and men of the Great Tang Emperor. After 6 days of climbing, they fought head-to-head without casualties. However, there were as many as a dozen people attacked and killed by the natives at night.

In the end, when the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty on board 6 completely wiped out the island, dozens of remaining royal families and nobles of the Bali Kingdom committed suicide in front of the Army of the Tang Dynasty!

This move stunned the Tang officers who led the army at that time!

At that time, the head of the Banten garrison, who led the Deng 6 unit in charge of the Bali operation, was deeply impressed by the bravery of the local indigenous people!

Then he contacted a few waves of familiar pirates, or maritime merchants. Anyway, they were all the same. These days in the East Asian waters, pirates and maritime merchants are not separated!

Yang Hong and the others said generously: The indigenous people in Bali are giving away free gifts, and they don’t charge a penny. As long as you want, you can go directly to the island to arrest people!

The Datang military can also provide logistical supplies. Of course, this requires money!

In this way, the indigenous people who once bravely resisted Bali were cleaned up by the pirates in just one year, leaving a piece of pure and impossible Bali to the Tang Dynasty!

Therefore, when Bali was in the eleventh year of Xuanping, there were actually no natives on the island. Well, at least not on the bright side. As for whether there are any residues in the deep mountains and old forests, it is unknown.

On the entire island, there are only about a thousand immigrants who have immigrated from the country, and there are also nearly two hundred soldiers of the 6th Army stationed here, who belong to the Banten garrison.

Normally, Bali is very calm, but it has not been very calm in the last month. The small port on this island has ushered in a huge ship, which has become busy.

The Banten Squadron came here half a month ago, and then used Bali as its base to target the eastern area of ​​Banten Island, that is, the Qing campaign.

Although the base in Bali is small, it is still barely enough to serve as a logistics supply base. After all, the Banten Squadron came to the eastern part of Banten Island to clean up, not to say to occupy any place, the main goal is to carry out the local indigenous people, that is The Kingdom of Batrang conducts a deterrent military strike.

The Batang Kingdom, which is currently the only indigenous country on Banten Island that rules most of the area, but this indigenous country has actually been undeserving of its name since the infighting of the royal family decades ago.

The Bazhang Kingdom has now become a nominal kingdom. Most of the lords and vassals are independent. For example, the former Wandan is actually a lord directly belonging to the Bazhang Kingdom. Although it is a kingdom, it is still There is no formal independence from the Kingdom of Batang.

In the ninth year of Xuanping, the high-level civil and military officials of the Wandan Mansion of the Datang Empire also deliberately provoked infighting among the lords of the Bazhang Kingdom~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The fight was quite lively.

Therefore, the Banten Island area in recent years has been quite chaotic. Several were supported by the Tang Empire, some were supported by the Portuguese, and some were local forces. In short, it was rather chaotic.

But it is a pity that some of the companies supported by Datang are not very strong. They have been defeated again and again, and they are about to be killed. The top officials of Wandan House are worried that after the civil strife in the Ba Zhang Kingdom is over, they will be reunited and then counterattack. Banten City and other western areas of Banten Island.

Under such a big background, only the fleet went to the east of Banten Island to carry out military strikes and deterrence by force!

And these indigenous people really have this idea. They have concentrated a large number of troops in the central and eastern regions. With the help of the Portuguese, they have already killed the city of Banten, and they are ready to expel the imperialist invaders of the Tang Dynasty. The great war is over!

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