On July 19, 1701, a merchant ship with a huge "vo" logo on the sail was sailing. Its destination was the Port of Malacca under the control of the company, which was only a few nautical miles away from the destination and could enter the port and get anchor in almost two hours.

At this moment, a ship with a huge tonnage rushed over to their right. An informed staff member of the Dutch East India Company pointed out that it was a 1,100-ton large skid-scissored three-masted schooner built by the East Coast many years ago. This kind of ship sailed very fast when it was windy, and when the wind was unfavorable, it could adjust the sail truss in time and advance at a certain speed.

This kind of ship was mostly built thirty years ago, and it was very popular on the east coast. The famous "sprint champion" class immigration transport ship was born out of this type and modified. It was once dominated by speed at sea, which made countless ocean traders envious. Later, the Dutch first learned the hull design of the East Coast people, and then the English, French, German, and Spanish followed and created clippers with their own style, which greatly improved the efficiency of maritime trade.

However, this kind of clipper also has its own shortcomings. One is that the hull's center of gravity is unstable, and the personnel are more suffering, and it is easy to cause unnecessary losses when transporting valuables; the second is that there is more water in the cabin, which is easy to wet the cargo, and you need to take strict moisture-proof measures; the third is that the hull structure is more likely to be damaged than ordinary merchant ships, the ship's life is short and the maintenance cost is high, which makes many people love and hate it.

Therefore, these Dutch East India sailors are really curious now. This very shabby clipper must have been eliminated from the East Coast. They have this tradition. They have been in use for many years before. The maintenance cost has entered a high expenditure stage. The Far East colony is still in use. This is really a waste of money. Maybe I didn’t spend money when buying a ship. There is only one explanation.

The big fly scissor cargo ship has a deep draft, so that the bow is not raised high by waves as usual. If you guessed correctly, the ship should be loaded with a large number of metal products. What is it? Not a weapon, right?

Considering that the number of people on the east coast of Malacca City has increased in recent years, and the total number has even exceeded 1,500, the employees of the East India Company cannot calm down. These damn East Coast people must have bribed the Sultan of the Johor Kingdom. Although this damn puppet is useless, the East Coast people have found an opportunity. Well, in their words, they are "taking chicken feathers as command arrows" and starting to build farmland and markets a little far from Malacca City, and officially began to settle down.

These people seem loyal and pay taxes to the Dutch East India Company from time to time, but they also have a bottom line, that is, if anyone wants to expel them, they will immediately turn against each other and take tough measures. The Malacca Municipal Council established by the Dutch East India Company has long learned about this. They want to "persuade" these East China people not to settle here. As a result, the East China people directly took out the land deed issued by the Johor Sultan and pointed out that the land was already theirs. Then, they took out the agreement of the United Provincial Government and the Dutch East India Company, pointing out that they allowed East China people to carry out "operating activities" in Malacca. You see, the procedures are completely reasonable and legal, what else should I say?

To be honest, the Dutch actually didn't like to be "reasonable" and "**" in the East Indies. When they face things that they cannot tolerate, they often directly send warships to block the door, such as gathering 12 warships to block the Surat port, or directly sending troops to siege, such as gathering a large number of mercenaries and indigenous soldiers to besiege the Portuguese city of Malacca. But unfortunately, when facing the East Coast people, neither of these two tricks cannot be used, otherwise the consequences will be serious. Therefore, their "persuasion" is really persuasion, but the East Coast people are unmoved and insist on not leaving. What can you do?

So, after such delays, not only did the East Coast merchants and their staff in Malacca City, but there were thousands of farmers and craftsmen outside the city. If they were allowed to develop, the number of people would be completely on their side. If they included the Johor natives who wanted to retake the city of Malacca City all the time, this matter would become more and more difficult.

Today they were "fortunate" to see an East Coast merchant ship heading to Malacca. The ship was loaded with cargo. If nothing unexpected happened, the ships would definitely carry at least hundreds of immigrants from the East Coast colonies. It can be foreseen that the power of East Coast people in Malacca will be taken to a new level.

"Malacca is born for trade and is the best trading port in the world. The two monsoons gather here, and commerce begins here. Merchant ships from China, Vietnam, Japan, North Korea, and Ryukyu travel south in winter (if they are not equipped with steam power) and return in summer. Merchant ships from the Arabian Peninsula, India, Persia and other places set off in summer and arrived in winter. The seasonality of this voyage gave birth to a prosperous transit trade. Merchants buy and sell here, bulk cargo is coming and going, and the ports are crowded, bustling, shoulder-to-shoulder, market trade is very lively, and various celebrations are rich and colorful." At this time, the East Coast cargo ship pointed at by the Dutch, So Yilun from Tsushima Island was carefully reading the report written by the East Coast people.

Soyilun was brought up from prison by the East Coast people. Because he surrendered to Korea in the Battle of Tsuma Island, their family's fiefdom in Hoshiqian was confiscated by the angry shogunate, and one of his sons left in Edo was also ordered to seduce the stomach. What's even more disheartening is that even though he surrendered, the new rulers of Tsuma Island still jailed all their family and the powerful factions in the vassal on the grounds that he killed many North Korean soldiers in the previous battles, and all their property was confiscated.

At the critical moment, the East Coast people reached out to help, asked them out of the North Koreans, and promised that they would never return to Tsushima Island to cause trouble for the North Koreans. So Iron had no good choice, so he agreed to the East Coast people and took their family and close vassal officials and hundreds of samurai to the Port of Malacca.

Where is Malacca? Those who trade for many years have a vague understanding of the Ma Zong family, knowing that it is a large trade hub in Southeast Asia. He is not very opposed to going to this place, since he was originally a prisoner of the Koreans, he could be executed at any time. Can there be something worse than this?

They set out from Jeju Island, and along the way, Zong Yilun was reading the description of the port of Malacca by the East Coast people. Moreover, the two intelligence officials on the ship also talked to them, so that he could understand the purpose of his trip, which was to act as a guard of East Coast merchants and civilians in the local area to prevent the little kids from coveting their lives or property. The Dutch people dare not use their despicable secret tricks. They had to be careful.

Zong Yilun had no objection to this. He could see that the people of the East Coast wanted to directly rule the port city, although the report said that it was still under the rule of the Dutch East India Company. Moreover, the intelligence officers had made it clear to him that in the future, more than ten officers would be sent to Brunei to help them train and let him obey the orders of the officer in the territory (it is said to be a Japanese), which would make it even more obvious.

Zong Yilun was not clear about what Brunei is now, but after reading a document, he knew it too well! It was simply shocking! The people of the East Coast had already destroyed the local Sudan and established an organization called the "Malaya Management Committee" to fully manage all the affairs of the two major colonies of Brunei and Dili. Of course, this is not the most scary, and the most creepy thing is that the people of the East Coast were trying to change the local population composition! This was not written in the document, but Zong Yilun was not a fool. It can be seen from the lines that the Brunei people either died of exhaustion on various construction sites, or boarded a ship to Africa and were incorporated into an organization called the "Eight Banners of the Islands". Those who stayed in the local area naturally immigrated south from Shandong, Zhejiang and other places. What is this called? It is called changing the cage and changing the birds! It is the most vicious colonization method!

How about Dili? Zong Yilun didn't read it, but compared to the situation similar to Brunei, he will be the world of East Coast people in the future. What about Malacca? It has not been won yet, but once it is won, the local Malays, Dutch, Germans and others will probably get out, right? This is another paradise that belongs to East Coast people alone!

After controlling Malacca and controlling Brunei, the two largest trading port cities in the wind will be fully acquired. If others want to do business, they have to pay taxes to the East Coast Management Committee. The flow of various goods will be clear to the East Coast people. Even, they can decide which goods can go where, which ships cannot pass through the strait, etc. This power is really going to heaven!

If so smoothly continues for decades, when Brunei, Malacca and Dili Island each have hundreds of thousands of residents, the East Coast people will have stronger control over the sea passages of the East Indies, right? No, they cannot do nothing in the past few decades, and they will definitely accelerate expansion and try to control more land. What did the intelligence official just now say? Yes! He said that there is probably another team of tens of thousands of people allocated. This team is said to have fought wars, rich experience, and strong enough will, which should help them control more land and cities, right? This is almost inevitable! In this area, Zong Yilun can't think of anyone who can gather more powerful forces than the East Coast people, even the Dutch people can't do it!
Chapter completed!