My Daming New Empire

He knew that Zhu Zhanji had a prejudice against him, and the more he said now, the worse his impression would be.

The fleet has another fleet chasing from Dongpu. This is Zhuang Jing and Pang Ying coming from Dongpu with two thousand Japanese pirates. They will follow Zhu Zhanji to explore the Nanyang Islands.

And Xue Lu and Zhu Zhen, although they didn't know the reason why Zhu Zhanji and Zheng He were estranged, they knew that their chance had come.

The position of Navy Director, second only to Navy Commander, is envied by many people.

When we left the capital, it was still the twelfth lunar month of winter, but here in Quanzhou, it has already entered spring.

Today's wooden boats are warm in winter and cool in summer because of the thickest log spacing of one meter, but when they enter this tropical area and start sailing, the cabin becomes hot.

Everyone who sails likes winter, because even if it is a little cold, the cabin will not be cold. At most, when you go to the deck, you need to wear two more clothes.

But after entering the tropics, the heat in the cabin is unbearable for most people.

Especially on Zhu Zhanji's flagship, because there are female relatives, the soldiers can't be naked when adjusting the sails on the deck.

Today's cloth and silk are expensive, and almost everyone has only a few sets of clothes. Those ordinary people who can have a decent set of winter clothes are rich.

Even though the soldiers' clothes are issued by the army, there are only two sets a year, and everyone wears their clothes carefully.

When working on a ship, when they arrive in the tropics, almost all of them are naked, and at most they wear a pair of calf trousers.

But the sailors who can work on this flagship don't dislike the hot weather and wasting clothes at all. The pride of serving Taisun is enough to make them not care about these.

Of course, they will also send out an extra set of clothes.

Zhu Zhanji asked people to build a row of wooden houses and a swimming pool on the stern deck of his flagship. This place is three or four meters lower than the deck, and there are wooden houses blocking it. When he brings his wife and concubine here to enjoy the sun When the sea breeze is blowing, people can use a curtain to cover the top, and a private world can be formed.

Here, there are several purpose-built wooden deck chairs and bamboo deck chairs.The wooden recliner is wrapped in thick cotton, which is very comfortable to lie on.

If you don't look at the wooden hull, the enjoyment of all this is not much different from hundreds of years later.

At the beginning, several women were still afraid of this place, because it was a full 15 meters above the sea, and when the boat sailed, the waves pushing away made people feel dizzy.

But when the weather got hotter and hotter, they all fell in love with this place, because only here they could wear thin clothes and enjoy the sea breeze.

The entire fleet started a wave of learning, and Wang Jinghong also began to actively prepare for various sports competitions.

Two days later, the fleet separated in the waters near the later Dongsha Islands. Zheng He led most of the cargo ships and a part of the protected naval fleet to sail southwest from here to Cochin, Champa, Chenla, and Siam for trade.

And Zhu Zhanji led Habayashi Wei, half of the navy and a small number of cargo ships to Luzon, which is due south.

Their fleet will roughly follow the Philippines of later generations, the north of the Palawan Islands, then to the Sulu Kingdom and Boni Kingdom, and then join Zheng He's fleet at the old port.

The subsequent fleet will still be separated, and a large number of cargo ships will stay in the old port to trade with neighboring small countries.And Zhu Zhanji will lead the fleet to Java for trade, and will visit South Africa, which is later Australia.

(This chapter is not in the state, some things I want to write have not been written, I want to double update today, the next chapter will try to complete this chapter, and set the tone of the Western. Zheng He is left because he is a green, has With him by his side, it is difficult for Zhu Zhanji to be tough on some small countries.)

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Chapter 7 Luzon

In the third year of Yongle, when Zheng He visited Luzon Island on his voyage to the West, he was ordered to appoint Xu Chailao, the leader of the overseas Chinese in the Philippines, as the governor of Luzon, to take charge of the military, government, finance, and cultural power. Xu Chailao from Quanzhou also became the Ming Dynasty. The first overseas Chinese leader to be canonized.

Xu Chai Lao lived in Luzon in the early Ming Dynasty. Because of his business skills and close relationship with the local natives, he later became a wealthy man in Luzon Island.

When Zheng He went to the West, he received many blank commissions from Zhu Di.Seeing that Xu Chai is well-known in the local area and good at courting connections, he no longer needs money and canonized Xu Chai as governor.

In the name of the governor of Luzon, Xu Chailao announced that Luzon Island would be attached to Ming Dynasty and become a vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

In the past 12 years, he has been loyal to the court, followed by the people, worked hard to govern, and practiced himself.

In addition, he spared no effort to promote the culture of the Chinese nation, implemented the rule of Confucianism, etiquette and benevolence, spread the advanced technology of agriculture, fishery, industry and commerce in southern Fujian, and developed shipbuilding, textile, pottery, and tea growing industries, which were deeply supported by the local people.

Zhu Zhanji also came to this era, only to know that before Spain invaded the Philippines, Ming Dynasty even extended its territory to the Nanyang region.

There is a governor of Ming in Luzon, and he has always supported him.

As for the Secretary of State and Consolation of the Old Port, there is a Ming Dynasty garrison.

In addition, in Nanyang, including Xiyang, there are more than [-] small countries that consider themselves to be the vassal states of Ming Dynasty, and have sent envoys to Ming Dynasty for a long time, and some kings live in Ming Dynasty and never return to China.

Zhu Zhanji couldn't figure out why Daming played such a good set of cards in his hand at the beginning, but in the end he played a mess and suffered a complete defeat!

What he didn't know was that all of this was due to the original owner of his body, a good emperor who was blown into the sky by Confucianism, but was actually a sinner of the nation.

In the original time and space, after the capital was moved to Beiping, the imperial court's control over Nanyang was greatly reduced.

The Jiaozhi rebellion involved too much energy of the imperial court. In such an area, it costs tens of thousands of taels of silver or even millions of taels of military expenditure every year, but the benefits obtained are only 10 taels.

The short-sighted civil servants felt that it was not worthwhile to spend too much energy on this barbaric land, and persuaded Zhu Zhanji to give up Jiaozhi.

However, none of them thought that the act of giving up Cochin was the first domino toppled. When Ming gave up this stronghold controlling Nanyang, the small countries in the Nanyang region saw the weakness of the Ming Empire.

After Zhu Di passed away, Renzong Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, adjusted Zhu Di's expansion policy, took measures internally to alleviate people's poverty, and externally carried out strategic contraction.

At that time, due to the construction of Beijing and successive years of northern expeditions, the military and civilians were exhausted and financial constraints were caused. Xia Yuanji persuaded him to stop sailing to the west, and Zhu Gaochi agreed.

The contraction of Zhu Gaochi's foreign policy is not only reflected in his voyages to the West, but also in the Annan issue.He only served as emperor for ten months, but the policy of appeasing Jiaozhi Lili and others began at his hands.

He recalled Huang Fu, who had always been popular, and listened to the advice of eunuch Shan Shou and others to recruit Li Li.These appeasement actions delayed the war opportunity and gave Li Li a chance to breathe and grow, which directly led to the serious deterioration of the Ming army's situation in Annan. In the end, Zhu Gaochi's successor Zhu Zhanji had to abandon Jiaozhi.

The restoration of Annan in the fifth year of Xuande marked the strategic retreat of the Ming Dynasty on land, and the countries in the Indochina Peninsula were no longer tame.Stopping the Western Seas marked the strategic retreat of the Ming Dynasty on the sea route, and the pressure on the island countries dropped sharply.

The disappearance of the Ming Dynasty's military presence in the South China Sea directly led to the loosening and disintegration of the Western tributary system.Zhu Zhanji did not expect the geo-earthquake caused by Ming Xuanzong's abandonment of the Chief Secretary of Jiaozhi.

In order to save face, he ordered the elderly Zheng He to sail to the west for the seventh time.But at this time, Xu Chai Lao from Luzon had already returned to his hometown in Fujian, and after the troops from Jiugang withdrew, the Southeast Asian countries also stopped talking to Daming.

The entire Ming Dynasty's power map in Nanyang, because of the abandonment of Jiaozhi, led to a complete breakdown.

Also because of this reason, the emperors of later generations lost interest in Nanyang and always felt that it was thankless.

What's more important is that the change of Tumu Fort led to the northward shift of the strategic center, and Daming thus became a continental country.

Although Zhu Zhanji doesn't know this, and he doesn't think he is a talented superman, but he knows very well that with the identity of a prophet, he can turn a bad card into a good one, at least, hold a good deck of cards , he will not stink.

On the sixth day of February, the fleet arrived at the northern part of Luzon Island with the help of the trade wind from the north. The scenery here is already significantly different from that of Ming Dynasty. Many soldiers who have never been to the southern country are curious to see to the land to the east.

The fleet sailed along the west side of Luzon Island, not far from the mainland, and could clearly see the outline of the mainland.

The ships with smaller tonnage in the fleet are closer to the mainland. Occasionally, when they encounter large villages, they will send flat-bottomed boats ashore to check on the situation.

There is no shortage of general staff in the fleet of the mission, and many people from Fujian who have worked hard in Nanyang can also speak the local dialect.In the Nanyang region, language issues are not an obstacle.

Most of the tribes of the large Ilok people in northern Luzon have become allies of the Chinese, and Xu Chailao is regarded as their leader.

Xu Chai Lao taught them to grow rice and even cotton, which solved their long-standing problems of food and cloth shortages.