"Ah, Cai Yilin!"
The staff who were doing their respective jobs gathered around him upon hearing the noise, surrounding Cai Yilin like fans. One girl asked excitedly:
"Captain, are you really the Captain of the Thunderbolt who sank the Spanish warship in the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Spanish flagship in the Battle of Ponta Delgada?"
Cai Yilin couldn't help but smile bitterly, thinking to himself, what the hell is going on? I'm a serious and educated person. Fortunately, the people around him kept asking questions, so he didn't have to bother answering.
"Chief, what is your relationship with Deputy Director Cai of our Management Committee?" someone asked at this time.
"Is your deputy director called Cai Yimu?" Cai Yilin asked with a smile.
"Yes!" Everyone nodded and said respectfully, "Where's the Executive Deputy Director?"
The group divides its overseas territories into 18 administrative regions, and Java Island is one of them, with four cities under it. The executive deputy director of the management committee is the second in command of the entire Java administrative region. He is truly a remarkable senior cadre.
"I'm his second brother." Cai Yilin said with a smile: "This shouldn't be hard to guess."
"Then I guess, you have a third brother named Yisen." The girl's voice laughed like a silver bell.
These "young masters' children" are full of confidence and cheerfulness, which is very different from their fathers who always look sad. They can be distinguished at a glance even in a crowd.
However, Cai Yilin did not hate this. Instead, he felt very close to it, because he was also trained in the Jiangnan Group's free school and was the older brother of these children.
"You really guessed it." Cai Yilin smiled at the girl who was still wearing thick protective clothing and goggles in the hot weather, and whose face could not be seen at all, and said, "Then let me test you. If I had a fourth brother, what would I call him?"
"This..." The little girl was stunned, and the people around her were also stunned. Although they all graduated from junior high school, the school did not teach them how to pronounce the four characters "木".
"Hahaha, go back and check it out. Whoever gets the answer first will get a small gift from me." Cai Yilin signed for everyone again with a smile. After they dispersed, the middle-level police inspector came up to him, helped him carry his luggage, and sent Cai Yilin to the sanatorium.
"Chief, do you need us to help you notify Deputy Director Cai?" asked the middle-level police superintendent.
"Okay. I was planning to give him a surprise." Cai Yilin nodded with a wry smile and said, "Now that you've made such a fuss, I can't keep it a secret anymore."
"I'm sorry, Chief." The mid-level police superintendent said hurriedly with fear and trepidation.
"It's okay." Cai Yilin said kindly. In fact, he quite liked the feeling of being the center of attention.
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Cai Yilin guessed correctly.
The news that Deputy Director Cai's brother had returned was transmitted the next morning to the headquarters of the Management Committee 300 miles away, in Coconut City, the capital of the Java Administrative Region.
The Coconut City is Jakarta, but for hundreds of years, it has been called 'Sunda Kelapa', which means 'a place covered with coconut trees'.
Sunda Kelapa was originally the capital of the Sunda Kingdom. Hundreds of years ago, it was a famous seaport for exporting pepper and spices. However, as the tribal kingdoms on Java Island and even the surrounding areas became sultanates, the Sunda Kingdom, which still believed in Hinduism, was increasingly isolated.
In 1511, the news of the fall of Malacca reached Java, shocking the Muslim countries. The King of Sunda thought he saw an opportunity and sent an embassy to Malacca to seek help from the newly arrived Portuguese governor.
The ambitious Portuguese at that time were also eager to control the Sunda Strait and completely monopolize the spice and pepper trade in Southeast Asia. The two sides hit it off and signed the Portugal-Sunda Treaty.
The most important content of the agreement was that the Portuguese would send troops to land in Java, establish trading posts and fortresses in Sunda Kelapa, and provide protection for the Sunda Kingdom.
Both sides got what they wanted and were very satisfied. However, the Muslim regime and the Japanese merchants were angry. If the Portuguese also took over the Sunda Strait, would there be any hope for everyone?
Soon, the Sultanate of Demu on Java Island, with the support of the Muslim world, launched a full-scale attack on Sunda. The King of Sunda immediately asked the Portuguese for help in accordance with the treaty.
However, the Sundanese people had put their trust in the wrong people, and the Portuguese, who were just pretending to be strong, could not serve as a backer at all. They themselves were struggling to cope with the attack of the Islamic regime on Malacca, so how could they have the energy to support their allies?
As a result, before the Portuguese reinforcements arrived, the Sunda king was attacked and beheaded. To commemorate this victory, the conquerors changed the name of "Sunda Kelapa" to "Jakarta", which means "Victorious City". They also supported the anti-Japanese forces in Sunda and established a vassal state in the Sunda Port area, which later became the Banten Sultanate.
It was not until 1527 that the Portuguese, who had solved troubles in other directions, finally freed up their hands and sent 11 warships of various sizes and 400 soldiers to Java. However, they were hit head-on by the emerging Sultanate of Banten. The Portuguese were frustrated and returned home in defeat.
After that, the Portuguese regularly sent fleets to invade the Sunda Strait, robbing merchant ships and burning docks, partly as revenge and partly to abolish trade here and drive merchant ships to the Strait of Malacca.
The Banten and Demu kingdoms naturally sent fleets to fight back, and even joined forces with the Acehnese to attack Malacca. However, how could they be a match for the Portuguese at sea? They were annihilated without any injuries each time, until finally they no longer dared to challenge the Portuguese at sea...
However, the Portuguese victory at sea could not save Sunda from its miserable situation. Sunda lost its coastline and hid in the mountains, becoming a landlocked country. Fortunately, civil strife soon broke out in Demu, and the foreign relatives seized power and changed the dynasty, replacing Demu with the Bajang. However, the Bajang regime was unstable and could not take care of itself, so it was unable to invade the west.
The newly born Banten Kingdom alone was not enough to destroy the remaining Sunda Kingdom at that time. This allowed these Hindus to survive for half a century until the real big change.
More than ten years ago, the powerful Celestial Empire fleet returned to the South Seas and defeated the Red-haired Devil fleet in one fell swoop, causing Brunei, Sulu and other countries to submit to the king.
The trapped King of Sunda knew that this was the last chance for his country, so he risked his life to go out to sea and personally go to Luzon to offer land to the Celestial Empire and ask the Celestial Empire to do him justice.
As a result, he was richly rewarded. Not only did the Celestial Empire appoint him as the hereditary governor-general, Zhao Hao also decided to return Jakarta, which had been occupied by the Kingdom of Banten for fifty years, to the Sunda Governor-General's Office.
The Sundanese were happy, but the Banten people were angry. Not only would they have to spit out the meat that was in their mouths, but the national income of Banten depended on the Port of Banten. If Sundanese took back Jakarta, the throughput of the Port of Banten would definitely be greatly affected!
Therefore, Sultan Hassan of Banten might be the only unhappy one among the nine chieftains who were conferred titles at that time.
At that time, he did not dare to show it. After returning home, he became more and more angry and cursed the Celestial Empire for being partial. At this time, one of his ministers suggested that the Celestial Empire's fleet was out in full force, and the troops in the South Seas were empty. Why didn't His Majesty go all out and pretend to return Jakarta to Sunda, and then take advantage of the opportunity when their king and ministers returned to the capital in high spirits to destroy Yating? Oh no, kill all the Sundanese people...
By then, not only will there be no Sunda Kingdom, but even the Sundanese will no longer exist. Who will compete with us for Jakarta?
At that time, the old Bachang Kingdom on the island of Java was crumbling, and the vassal states were ready to move. Banten Sultan Hassan was also ambitious and hoped to take the opportunity to unify West Java.
Moreover, he took it for granted that the Celestial Empire would not care about the wars between its vassal states. As long as he created a fait accompli, kowtowed, apologized, and bribed the Celestial Empire, the matter would be over. Could that Mr. Zhao really carry him into the well?
So in March of the ninth year of the Wanli reign, Hassan assembled an army of 10,000 and marched towards Jakarta, 250 miles away.
Little did he know that his every move was under surveillance by the Coast Guard’s military intelligence department, which had issued an advance warning to Sunda Kingdom.
King Gigi of Sunda led his subjects to prepare for battle and engaged in a fierce battle with the Banten army outside Jakarta.
After several days of fierce fighting between the two sides, the Sunda army, which had been weakened by Hinduism, suffered heavy losses and more than half of its people were massacred.
Just as King Jiji was about to be defeated, a bolt from the blue came from the rear of Banten - the Celestial Empire's fleet bombarded the city of Banten, and the army landed at the port of Banten. Taking advantage of the empty city, they easily captured the city of Banten and captured the king's entire family and the princes and ministers who remained in the city.
That was Lin Feng, the commander of the Luzon Theater. He received a request for help from the King of Sunda and sent out the theater's standing fleet to rescue Zhao from Wei...
The morale of the Banten army was immediately shaken and they had no intention of fighting anymore. Sultan Hassan had no choice but to withdraw his troops quickly and take care of his old base first.
King Jiji took advantage of the situation and ordered a pursuit, but unfortunately his troops were already weak and could not catch up at all...
But it didn't matter. When Hassan led his men to rush back to Banten City in a panic, they were hit head-on by the superior firepower of the Chinese army, which was waiting for them. Sultan Hassan was killed on the spot, and the Banten army surrendered in despair.
Afterwards, Master Zhao was furious and immediately ordered all the local emperors to rush to Jakarta for a meeting!
At the meeting, he denounced Hassan, the governor of Banten, for his cruel and mad behavior and his contempt for the Celestial Empire. He even dared to defy his "Neighborly Reconciliation Order" and openly invaded Sunda, which was also under the Celestial Empire. He also planned to kill all the Sundanese people so that there would be no evidence to prove his wrongdoing!
Moreover, they just surrendered last year, and they dared to do this this year! This is a naked contempt for the Celestial Empire! The most serious provocation to the Jiangnan Group and the Coast Guard!
And the worst humiliation of his person!
Therefore, he made up his mind that he must punish severely and set an example - he requested the court to revoke the title of Banten Governor-General and exile the entire Banten country!
At that time, the Banten Kingdom had already severed its relationship with the Bazhang Kingdom. Moreover, the Bazhang Kingdom was already struggling to take care of itself, and was counting on the Celestial Empire to help them suppress ambitious tribes such as the Matalan. How could they dare to say no to Mr. Zhao's decision? Instead, they expressed their firm support...
If Bazhang Kingdom doesn't speak, others will be even less likely to say anything.
When the 100,000 citizens of Banten, except for a few who fled to Bachang for refuge, were all taken to Borneo, Fangzhang Island, Juedao and other places to perform labor and left Java Island forever, no one in Southeast Asia dared to hold on to luck and stroke the tiger's beard of Master Zhao.
ps. It’s gone tonight.