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  Chapter 497 494【Diplomatic Ancestor】

  Since the Netherlands captured Malacca, it has set its sights on the Philippines.

   In the past few years, troops have been dispatched almost every year. But they did not dare to attack Manila directly, but plundered Spanish merchant ships and Chinese merchant ships by the way, and then took Leng Zi to land and fight to remove Spain's outlying strongholds on the southern islands.

  In a narrow sense, Cebu Island is just a large island.

  In a broad sense, Cebu Island also includes the surrounding archipelago.

   Magellan forced the natives on the island to convert to Christianity, and then helped the natives fight, hoping to turn all the natives of the nearby islands into Christians. Then, Magellan was killed by hostile natives.

  The archipelago extends in all directions, and there are Spanish forts everywhere. In recent years, more than ten places have been destroyed by the Netherlands.

  For this Teddy behavior, the Spaniards are very troublesome, but their strength has declined too much. Every time they encounter a Dutch attack, they can only shrink in the castle to defend, and sometimes the shore forts just give up.

  The Netherlands sent 20 warships this time, not only carrying Dutch soldiers, but also carrying more than 3,000 indigenous people from Brunei and Sulu, and went to Cebu Island in a mighty way. After landing, they quickly pulled out the outer strongholds and surrounded Fort San Pedro near the port.

  However, only the natives fought with the Netherlands. The sultans of Brunei and Sulu did not agree to assist the Netherlands in fighting.

   Even the Sultan of Brunei is more inclined to support Spain.

  When the Netherlands besieged Cebu Island, the battle in the north had not yet broken out, and a Chinese fleet sailed to the capital of Brunei.

  Zheng Guozhong disembarked on the festival, surrounded by a hundred soldiers to protect him, and under the leadership of Fujian maritime merchants, he went straight to Brunei King City.

  Brunei Sultan Abdul Jariru Abba didn't understand what was going on for a while. Seeing that the Chinese fleet seemed to be very powerful, he sent ministers to meet with the envoys to find out what the Chinese were here for.

  After half a day, Minister Su Laiwen rushed into the palace: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of China wants to canonize you as King Boni."

  Sultan Abba felt that it was nonsense: "I am the king, why should I be canonized by the Chinese emperor?"

Minister Su Laiwen explained: "Your Majesty, your ancestors were Chinese, and Brunei used to be called the Boni Kingdom. The Chinese envoy said that your ancestor's tomb is in Nanjing, and he has sent someone to repair it. If... If ..."

   "What if?" asked Abba Sultan.

Su Laiwen bit the bullet and replied: "The Chinese envoy said that if your majesty does not recognize their ancestors, the Huang family should recognize them. At that time, they can only canonize the Huang family as kings of Boni. If the Huang family does not recognize their ancestors, then choose whatever you like." Choose a person surnamed Huang, and adopt him to the royal family of Boni as the king."

   "He is a threat!" Abba Sultan was furious.

  The royal family of Brunei is half of Chinese descent and the other half of Arab descent.

  Hundreds of years later, the flag of Brunei has two slashes, representing two princes in history, one of which is Huang Senping.

  Huang Senping was the commander of the Yunnan Tengchong Guard under Zhu Yuanzhang, and he built the stone city of Tengchong. Even the name "Sen Ping" was bestowed by Zhu Yuanzhang because he defeated Japanese pirates at Sen Ping Beach.

  After arriving in Kalimantan, Huang Senping helped King Boni successfully resist the invasion of the Sulu and Malays. The king married his daughter to Huang Senping as his concubine, and the king's younger brother married Huang Senping's younger sister. The two families jointly rule Boni Kingdom, but they have their own territories.

  After the death of the king, Huang Senping and the king's brother served as regents.

  After the death of the king's elder brother, a palace coup broke out, and Huang Senping supported a prince to succeed to the throne.

  In his later years, Huang Senping lost his leaves and returned to his roots, and died of illness when he arrived in Nanjing. He left three last words: first, to assign his territory in Boni Kingdom to the territory of Ming Dynasty; He was buried in Daming.

  Huang Senping's daughter, Huang Guigu, married King Aheman of Boni. After Ahman's death, Huang Guigu became the Queen of Boni.

  Huang Guigu's daughter, succeeded as the second generation queen. The family was recruited from Ali, a businessman from Arabia. After the queen died, Ali became the king, and the lineage has been passed down from then on, even hundreds of years later.

  The Brunei Sultan Abba in front of him has the blood of Huang Senping flowing through his body.

  As for the Huang family, they still live in Brunei and have their own territory. But in the mid-Ming Dynasty, the Huang family had withdrawn from Brunei's political arena, and became lords with peace of mind, farming and doing business to earn a small amount of money.

   Abba certainly knows who his ancestors are, because the royal blood has never been broken, and the genealogy of the past dynasties is clearly recorded.

  His distant ancestor was an Arab businessman, and his distant grandmother was a daughter of the Huang family, who also gave birth to two queens.

  The meaning of the Chinese envoy is obvious. If Abba does not accept the canonization of the Chinese emperor, then find a descendant of the Huang family to be canonized, and directly provoke a civil war in Brunei!

Su Laiwen said: "Your Majesty, the Spanish red-haired ghost, this massacre of the Tang people really shouldn't be. The Chinese emperor is already angry, and even joined forces with the Netherlands to send troops. We have already refused to cooperate with the Netherlands. Are we going to reject China's canonization again? Can't at the same time Offend the Netherlands and China."

Aba has been a sultan for 46 years. He 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. In case Manila cannot be broken, after China and the Netherlands withdraw their troops, Spain What if you send troops to attack us?"

  Sullevan sighed: "If you don't agree, I'm afraid it won't be Spain who will attack us, but China and the Netherlands will come together."

  Aba thought about it, but there was nothing he could do. The king of a small country is so helpless.

Su Laiwen persuaded: "Your Majesty, it is better to turn to China and obtain the asylum of the Chinese emperor. This Chinese emperor is different from the previous ones. According to Chinese maritime merchants, the emperor has fully opened up Chinese ports. Now, for Lu The Tang people who died in the Song Dynasty sent troops, and they will definitely expand their influence at sea in the future. Brunei has the support of the Chinese emperor, and the Netherlands, Spain, Sulu, Mataram... these countries dare not bully us any more!"

  Aba got up and walked around, pondered for a long time, and said: "Then surrender more thoroughly, and tell the Chinese envoy to ask the princess to marry the Chinese emperor as his concubine."

  This Sudan has many sons and daughters, and the daughters are basically married, leaving only the thirteenth daughter who is young and unmarried.

   just turned twelve...

   Not too young, according to their teachings, a girl should marry at the age of nine.

  The royal family of Brunei has Chinese blood. This information was provided by Fujian maritime merchants. Zhao Han immediately sent envoys to Borneo.

  The sea battle this time is the close cooperation between the imperial court and merchants.

  Fujian Maritime Merchants, for their own benefit, can be said to fully support the emperor in fighting. A lot of people contributed money and efforts, and there were also many people who offered advice and suggestions. All kinds of Nanyang intelligence were scattered to Nanjing like snowflakes.

  After Tainan is the Netherlands, Dutch warships cruise between Taiwan and the Philippines all year round, intercepting any Chinese merchant ships they see, and forcing Chinese merchant ships to trade in Zeelandia (Tainan). Those who are disobedient will be looted directly!

   In order to obtain greater profits, Fujian maritime merchants tried every means to go to the Philippines, and even used smaller and faster ships for transshipment in Kinmen.

  They are all willing to bear the risk of shipwreck and death, so why not dare? Even in my dreams, I want China to actually control the Philippines!

  Brunei King City.

  Chinese envoy Zheng Guozhong read out the canonization edict, the Brunei Sultanate was renamed the Boni Kingdom, Brunei Sultan Abba was given the name Huang Nianzu, and every generation of kings in the future must have a Chinese name.

  The old Sultan Abba knelt down and sincerely accepted the canonization of the Chinese emperor. It is no wonder that he is old.

   Then, send 12 warships and 500 soldiers to fight with the Chinese army.

  The fleet of Chinese envoys, with the warships of Brunei, ran to the Sulu Sultanate next door, and also wanted to forcibly confer the king of Sulu.

  A Chinese Muslim who was randomly found was led by the envoy Zheng Guozhong to the Sulu King City to recognize relatives.

  The ancestors of the King of Brunei were buried in Nanjing, and the ancestors of King Sulu were buried in Dezhou, Shandong.

  At that time, the whole family went together to worship 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.

   Facing the sudden appearance of Chinese relatives, Sulu Sultan said he couldn't explain it.

  Sulu was also bullied miserably by Spain. They also sent troops to resist, but as a result, the territory was beaten 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 Island, Spain’s main expansion direction in the Philippines is to seize the island from Sulu!

   One-third of the territory of the Sulu Kingdom has been eaten by Spain!

  Although the people at the bottom are still resisting, the nobles of Sulu Kingdom basically choose to lie flat.

  Now the Chinese envoys come with "royal relatives" and insist on canonizing Sulu king, and they say that they are not allowed to lie down again, so get up and resist with China.

  The Sultan of Sulu was really scared of being beaten. He pretended to be deaf and dumb, and treated the Chinese envoys respectfully, but he was unwilling to accept the canonization, let alone follow China to attack Spain.

  Actually, just change to a Sudan.

  In history, another Sultan of Sulu even took the initiative to contact the Manchu Qing, requesting the canonization of the Manchu Emperor, and wanted to use the Manchu Qing to send troops to resist Spanish encroachment.

  After eating and drinking for several days, Zheng Guozhong suddenly couldn’t sit still, and left with one sentence: "If you don’t want to return, you are the enemy by the way. Wait for the emperor of Datong and the Netherlands to attack together!"

   "Boom boom boom!"

  The Chinese fleet and the Brunei fleet fired directly at Sulu King City after leaving the port.

   Fire a symbolic shot, just hit a few shots and leave.

  The Sultan of Sulu was shocked, and sent a fast boat to catch up with the Chinese fleet. He stood on the boat and approached and shouted: "My lord is willing to submit, my lord is willing to submit!"

The aborigines in northern Luzon were instigated by China, Brunei and Sulu were also instigated, and the Netherlands led the aboriginals to besiege Cebu Island... After a series of operations, the Spaniards were completely surrounded, but the governor was powerless to resist, not even the fleet. Dare to dispatch casually.

  (end of this chapter)