During the Ming Yongle years, there was once a small country in Southeast Asia, leading its family, a total of more than 340 people to visit China, Zhu Di very warmly received them, this country is the Kingdom of Sulu, is a multi-ethnic archipelago country in Southeast Asia, composed of three archipelagos, each island a king, a total of more than 7,000 islands.
Before the 14th century, during the Three Kingdoms period of Eastern Wu, that is, in 226 AD, Eastern Wu Xuanhua engaged in Zhu Ying, Zhonglang Kangtai Floating Sea Patrol Southeast Asia visited this place, at that time, the people who lived here were indigenous people, and the state had not yet been formed. In 1390, the Minangabau people from Sumatra officially established the first state, the Sultanate of Sulu, in this area.
In 1417, three kings of the country, with their families, traveled thousands of miles to visit the Ming Dynasty, and were solemnly received by Zhu Di, and when they returned to Dezhou, China, one of the Eastern Kings, Badug Halar, died of illness. So he was buried in Texas, and Ming Chengzu Zhu Di sent envoys to pay tribute. The king's family of 10 people also stayed in Texas to guard the tomb.
In 1565, the Sulu Kingdom of Cebu Island was occupied by the Spaniards, as the Appetite of the Spaniards increased little by little, constantly encroaching on the islands of this country, during the Yongzheng period, the country sent emissaries with a large number of tributes to visit the Qing Dynasty, and requested the establishment of a vassal relationship, the Yongzheng Emperor at that time agreed without saying a word.
And the descendants of the Eastern King who stayed in China to guard the tomb hoped that the Yongzheng Emperor could give them Chinese nationality status, and for such a thing, the Yongzheng Emperor naturally did not have any reason to refuse, so he agreed. Sulu felt that such an identity was not safe, and in 1753, it once again played the Qing Dynasty, hoping to divide its territory into the territory of China, but at this time, the emperor was not Yongzheng, but had been replaced by the Qianlong Emperor.
We all know that the Qianlong Emperor did not even look at the advanced foreign guns and cannons brought by the West. Not to mention a few island countries, especially these island countries are still so far away, it is also very troublesome to control, so it was rejected on the spot, in 1851, Spain occupied Hele Island, since then the Qing Dynasty and this country relations have been broken, this country is the predecessor of the Philippines.
The Philippines, in the 1970s, occupied eight islands in the South China Sea through illegal military operations, and although the Philippines is a multi-island country, its oil reserves are also as high as 30 billion oil resources.