"In August of the 17th year of Yu Yiguangwu's reign, he and Duke Guo He took a fast boat from Timor, facing the wind and rain, facing the vast expanse of vast emptiness, visiting countless islands and reefs, and finally arrived at Sulawesi Island. During this period, the water and light were visible.
The sky, with its boundless power, invites you to swim and fly across the sky. If there are no stormy waves, lightning and thunder, you really feel like you are isolated from the world, and you have become an immortal and ascended to immortality!
The shape of this island is strange, like a one-armed warrior. The one that goes up to the north is a warrior's helmet; the one that extends to the east is a warrior's one-armed one; in the southeast and south, there is a tripod on each side. Under the left foot, there is the big city of Makassar, which is also a famous port in the deep sea.
.It is steep and winding, the bay is deep, and the coast is covered with corals.
When the speedboat anchored on the shore, there were countless large rocks standing thousands of feet sideways, like ferocious beasts and strange ghosts, and they were so fierce that they were eager to attack people. The fires and smoke rising into the sky were like the volcanoes in the north of the island. There are high mountains and deep valleys, few plains, and there is Lantong in the southwest.
Mount Bora, more than a thousand feet high, overlooks the entire island and is the head of all mountains.
When I first landed on the island, there was heavy fog, making it difficult to see the direction. The roads were dangerous, the rocks were deep and ravineless, and there were few people around. There were ghost sounds. I was so scared that I slowly explored it. At sunrise, red wheels swelled on the bottom of the sea.
The fire beads jumped in the furnace, and the golden light flickered, just like the open of the alchemy cauldron. The grass and precious flowers, the path is graceful, the brocade stones are mottled, illuminating the paintings. Between the vast sea of clouds, there is this fairyland on earth. Hehehe! How strange it is.
Great and!"
——Zhang E's "Travel Notes on Malacca·Sulawesi"
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Zhang E was writing travel notes, while Guo Lin was drawing maps. Born in Jinyiwei, he was very familiar with this kind of work and could clearly draw the topography of Sulawesi Island.
Well, the Minahasa Peninsula in the north of Sulawesi Island has the Maluku Sea to the east, Tomini Bay to the south, the Kasai Strait to the west, and the Sulawesi Sea to the north. It is surrounded by the sea on all sides. It is sparsely populated and densely forested.
It is rich in wood suitable for shipbuilding and construction, and is a good place to station troops! Manado in the east of the peninsula and Taludaad in the south are both suitable for building seaports. While he drew the map, he carefully wrote the report to Emperor Guangwu.
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There are always coincidences in everything in the world.
Guo Lin, Zhang E, He Bin and others were preparing to go to Sulawesi to form an alliance with the Gowa Sultanate. However, they were blown to East Timor by the sea breeze. By a strange combination of circumstances, they induced the local indigenous grape people to establish an independent country and became a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.
The stationing of troops on Yaku Island was a coincidence.
As a coincidence, Olney, the leader of the indigenous Portuguese in East Timor, is actually a close friend of the Sultan of Gowa, Hasanuddin. In fact, this is not surprising at all. The enemy of the enemy is a friend. Both sides are facing the threat of the Dutch. Naturally,
We must join hands to defend against the enemy. Hearing that the Ming Dynasty envoy was going to Sulawesi, Orne happily sent a guide and wrote a letter to Hasanuddin.
Sultan Hasanuddin was a erudite Westerner, proficient in Latin, and could answer fluent questions with the Spanish and Portuguese without a translator. It was precisely because he purchased a large number of guns and ammunition from the Spanish and Portuguese that he had the courage to challenge the Dutch.<
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Unfortunately, he was defeated and lost the capital, the palace, the mosque, the army was disbanded, and he could only survive under the supervision of the Dutch. According to the treaty, in the future, if the Gowa Sultanate wants to recognize the Dutch East India Company as its suzerain, it must submit a request to the Netherlands.
People paid taxes, and in case of war, they had to provide mercenaries for the Dutch.
Guo Lin and others came to Makassar, the capital of the Gowa Sultanate, and found that it had become a stronghold of the Dutch. The Dutch built the Rotterdam Fort. Sultan Hasanuddin heard that he was driven to Makassar, north of Makassar.
Ross City. They came to the city of Maros, but heard that the Dutch felt that the city of Maros was too close to Makassar and was unsafe, so they drove the poor Sultan to the city of Baru further north.
Everyone couldn't help but sigh that the king who lost his country was so pitiful that he had no choice but to rush to Balu City again.
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"Your Majesty, the wind is strong at the seaside, please put on your robe!" On the beach of Baru City, the loyal slave Pratogu put on a warm robe for the subjugated king Hasanuddin.
The Sultan seemed not to have noticed, and was walking aimlessly on the beach. His forehead, which was not too old, was already white hair, and his back was hunched. The heavy pressure bent his waist, but it could not destroy the unyielding heart.
Soul. A broken wolf is still a wolf. He is walking, thinking and reflecting on the reasons for failure, and is always ready to start over again.
"Oh! I was too hasty!" He sighed in the sea breeze.
This well-educated and erudite monarch who was proficient in Latin, astronomy and mathematics began to build a Western-style army as soon as he came to the throne. He purchased advanced Western weapons and bought many matchlocks and artillery. Even the gunners followed the translated
The Spanish conducted training and also built the Western-standard Zomba-Op Fortress in the southern city of Makassar. It was very effective. His army successfully defeated the indigenous tribes on Sulawesi who dared to resist him, even if they had control of the sea.
The Dutch, who had an advantage, did not dare to launch a rash attack.
As a result, the cunning Dutch wooed the small and medium-sized princes in western and northern Sulawesi. These princes originally expressed their submission by joining the Sultanate after the Gowa Sultanate became strong, but they were ready to do so again under the instigation of the Dutch. They were originally hostile to these dissidents.
The power could be calmly and slowly consolidated, but four years ago, when he thought he was fully fledged, he made a mistake and was anxious to annex the territories of these princes by canceling their autonomy. As a result, these people defected to Batavia, attracting
defeated the Dutch army.
Dutch Admiral Spearman led 21 warships, 818 sailors, 578 soldiers and 395 Moluccan indigenous people, and landed in northern Sulawesi. Due to the large support from the indigenous princes, he appeared in sight with overwhelming force.
Around Kasai. In desperation, he had no choice but to sign a peace agreement with the Dutch and recognize the independence of the indigenous tribes in northern Sulawesi.
After the defeat, he should endure the humiliation and accumulate strength secretly. But a year ago, when he saw the main force of the Dutch leaving Sulawesi, he couldn't help it and sent troops to punish the indigenous people in the north. The indigenous people asked the Dutch for help, which was completely
The unprepared Batavia authorities hurriedly gave Admiral Spearman only three small armed merchant ships and a single-pole sailing ship. The admiral went ashore with only 83 soldiers and 11 sailors, but he
There were also Allied forces. The main force attacking Makassar was nearly 10,000 indigenous people from the north. They hated the Sultanate of Gowa more than the Dutch, so they worked extra hard. With the support of Dutch naval guns, they captured Makassar.
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The cruel reality made him realize that he should not be too impatient in everything, and planned to slowly recuperate, lick his wounds and fight again. But the Dutch did not give him a chance to make a comeback, disbanded the Gowa army, and only allowed him to fight again.
He retained a small number of guards, forced the Gowa people to pay heavy taxes, demolished the palace, mosques and military fortresses, and even drove himself out of the capital. Is there any chance to regain his strength?
"Your Majesty," a guard hurried over, "envoys from the Ming Dynasty are here, and they have brought a letter from your friend, Orne, the Governor of Portuguese Timor."
This chapter has been completed!