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    Java Island is located in the south of Borneo and southeast of Jinzhou. It is smaller than Jinzhou and Borneo. It is also far away from Taiwan, but it is very close to Australia. It can be said that the geographical location is somewhat remote.

    But everyone must not underestimate the island of Java. This island was the center of civilization in the entire Southeast Asia a long time ago. Although the area of ??Jinzhou and Borneo is much larger than that of Java Island, in terms of population and level of civilization, it is  Still defeated, according to previous statistics from the Slave Catching Association, the population on Java Island should be more than six million, or even more.

    Another point is that the degree of development on Java Island is much higher than that of other islands. The cultivated land area on the island accounts for more than half of the island's area. There are many volcanoes on the island, and volcanic eruptions occur from time to time.  It is because of the influence of volcanic ash that the land here is extremely fertile, and the rice production on the island is not inferior to that of Linyi.  In addition, the island is rich in gold and silver, as well as coal, iron, sulfur and other minerals. Therefore, in the eyes of the Han people, Java can be said to be the most treasured island in Southeast Asia.

    It is precisely because Java Island has such huge human and material resources that when Li Min first established a foothold in Taiwan, he had already made Java a key development target, not only openly doing business with the native kingdom on Java Island  , and also secretly instigated infighting among the kingdoms on the island, and then purchased the prisoners of war produced in the war.  If there were not enough prisoners of war, some slave-catching teams would take matters into their own hands, attack the natives along the coast in boats, and then capture the young men and women as slaves.

    Regarding the slave-catching teams capturing slaves, several small countries on the island of Java did not pay much attention at first. After all, they were small countries like them.  The domestic governance is very weak, and the upper-class nobles only care about the safety of a few key cities in the country.  As for some other small villages, they are of no importance to them.  What's more, the Han people also brought exquisite goods to the island for trading, which brought them huge benefits, so there was no need to annoy the Han people for these trivial matters.

    However, this situation did not last long. As the slave-catching team became more and more rampant on the island, several kingdoms on the island finally paid attention to it and sent envoys to Tang Dynasty and Taiwan to protest. However, the matter of slave-catching was originally  Li Min supported them from behind, so their protest not only had no effect, but also made the slave catching team feel revengeful.

    Yan Bei, who was in charge of the slave-catching team at that time, summoned a slave-catching team of tens of thousands of people.  Then they united and sent troops to Java, and wiped out the two small countries that screamed the loudest. As a result, the small Java country that was not united immediately silenced itself, and no longer dared to make any obstruction to the slave-catching team's actions.

    In this way, Java Island slowly became the back garden of the Slave Catching Association. Most of the slave catching teams like to come here to capture slaves. Firstly, because of the large population here, and secondly because of the developed agriculture here, and the slaves are interested in planting.  Various crops are also experienced.  If you catch them, you can sell them at a good price, so this makes Javanese slaves extremely popular. In just a few years, the number of Javanese slaves in Taiwan and Datang has approached the one million population mark.

    It turns out that there are five small countries in Java.  After two were wiped out by the Yanbei Slave Catching Association, three were left, namely Heling in the east and Zhapo in the west.  and Mataram in the middle, but because the dialect names of these three countries are too difficult to pronounce.  Therefore, these three kingdoms are generally called East Java, West Java and Central Java.

    Originally, these three kingdoms were frightened by Yanbei's act of annihilation, and there was also constant quarrel between them.  Therefore, it is impossible to unite to resist foreign enemies.  But later this situation was broken, mainly because the crazy slave hunting by the Slave Catching Association has caused serious damage to the population structure of the three kingdoms. There is a shortage of young and strong labor in the kingdom, and most of the remaining ones are  It is the elderly and children, and the lack of young and strong labor has caused poverty for most families, and even food has become a problem. This is simply unimaginable for the Southeast Asian islands that are rich in products.

    And this situation of poverty and famine is getting more and more serious. West Java has many volcanoes in the country. Just recently, several volcanoes erupted together. Thick volcanic ash dyed the entire sky black and gray, and a large number of crops died.  As a result, under this natural and man-made disaster, West Java was the first country to erupt into large-scale conflicts. Countless poor natives rushed into the city and began burning, killing and looting. The cruelty of human nature was most thoroughly demonstrated at this time.

    During this conflict, most towns in West Java were destroyed by rioters, and even the capital of the kingdom was not spared. This was mainly because some soldiers took the opportunity to cause chaos and joined the mob to loot. As a result, there was a gap in the guards of the capital and they were  After the mob rushed in, many citizens of the capital also joined in, and the riot became more serious.

    This riot in West Java never ended from the beginning. The capital of the kingdom was occupied by the mob. In the end, even the king's palace was broken down by them. The treasures in the kingdom were looted. The king and his sons were all brutally quartered.?The queen and the king's concubines, daughters, etc., died in even more miserable ways.  What is even more serious is that more than 20 Han merchants also died in this conflict.

    After receiving the news of the death of the Han merchant, Li Min immediately responded and was ready to make the mob in West Java pay the price, so he mobilized two armies from Linyi and Shicheng, each with 10,000 Japanese troops.  And the three Korean troops of 10,000 people were ordered to enter West Java to quell the rebellion, allowing them to use any unconventional means.

    These ferocious Japanese and Sanhan people have been trained by Li Min to become loyal hunting dogs. They will bite whomever Li Min tells them to bite, regardless of whether the order is right or wrong, so when they entered West Java under the banner of putting down the rebellion in West Java  After that, Li Min's orders were immediately carried out to the letter, and the rioting natives were brutally suppressed. For a time, West Java once again set off a bloody climax due to the entry of these two armies. In just half a month,  Within, tens of thousands of mobs had been massacred.

    However, Li Min's decision to send troops this time can be said to be very clever, or it can be said to be a failure, because according to his and Lu Hong's previous estimates, if he wanted to end the rebellion in West Java in a short time, he would have to use thunderous means to suppress the mob.  After the most violent mobs are suppressed, a royal family from the original West Java will be introduced as a puppet, and then the entire West Java will fall under Taiwan's control.

    This plan can be said to have excellent timing. The only drawback is that it will lead to the death of countless Javanese natives during the suppression process. The slave production here will definitely be greatly reduced in the future. However, the world is such a big place, and the origin of slaves is still easy to find.  , and Java is the center of Nanyang, so after occupying it, there are still many benefits, so Li Min decided to send troops.

    However, when sending troops, Wang An expressed opposition because he believed that doing so might irritate East Java and Central Java. If they unite, it may have a huge impact on the situation in Java.  However, Li Min and Lu Hong insisted that there were constant wars between East Java and Central Java, and they had not seen any signs of union before, so Wang An's worries were obviously unnecessary.

    However, facts have proven that the truth is indeed in the hands of a few people. Although the domestic situation in East Java and Central Java is not as bad as that in West Java, it has also been greatly affected by slave hunting. The natives in the country are also in dire straits and may change at any time.  A situation like that in West Java.

    In particular, the royal families of the two countries became even more panicked after hearing what happened to the king and his family in West Java. The news that Li Min sent troops into West Java became the last straw that broke the will of the two countries.  The mob killed people, and on one side sent troops into Java, posing a fatal threat to their own country, and neither of these results was what they wanted to see.

    It was also under this fatal pressure that East Java and Central Java began to put aside their prejudices and actively engage in contact. In the end, the kings of the two countries married each other's daughters, and then reached an agreement and decided to form a close alliance to jointly resist.  Li Min's invasion.

    As soon as this alliance was established, it immediately publicized the evil deeds of the Slave Catchers in the country and attributed all the current difficulties of the two countries to the Slave Catchers. Although the Slave Catchers took some of the blame for this, most of the blame from the two countries was  It's not an exaggeration. If the slave-catching team hadn't been crazy about catching slaves, they wouldn't be in this situation.

    Such actions by the two countries quickly aroused domestic people's dissatisfaction with the Han people. In fact, these native people already hated the Han people, especially the slave catching team. Now that they have received official support, the anger that had accumulated in their hearts before was  It broke out immediately. For a time, everyone in the two countries was shouting about beating the Han people, and even some law-abiding Han businessmen could no longer do business.

    Regarding this situation, Li Min was immediately alert and evacuated as many Han people as possible from the two countries. If it was really impossible to leave, then don't stay in the cities of the two countries, but go to Li Min's Zhutuohai.  Go to some of the established strongholds.

    These strongholds were the nails nailed by Li Min in the Three Kingdoms of Java. They were generally built by various slave-catching teams. They were usually guarded by members of the slave-catching teams. Only Han people were allowed to enter inside, and they were built very solidly. As long as they did not encounter large groups,  Attacks of this size generally do not cause any danger.

    However, the counterattack by East Java and Central Java was unexpectedly violent. Just a few months later, with the instigation of the two countries, countless mobs transferred their hatred to the Han people, and then used the armies of the two countries as the core  , countless natives spontaneously joined in, forming a crowd of hundreds of thousands to besiege the stronghold on the seaside. Soon some strongholds could not withstand it. Fortunately, the stronghold was built near the sea. Whenever the stronghold could not withstand it, it would retreat to the sea.  However, the small wooden boats of the natives did not dare to pursue them at all, so the casualties of the Han people were not great.

    However, the fierce resistance in East Java and Central Java gave Li Min a blow. Now he has to admit that the situation in Java is out of control.Unless he sends a hundred thousand troops to encircle and suppress them regardless of the cost, it will be impossible to quell the chaos in Java in a short period of time.

    But just when Li Min was troubled by the chaotic situation in Java and regretted his wrong decision-making, a small accident ended the chaotic situation in Java, but the consequences of this accident were also extremely terrible!  (To be continued)
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