My Daming New Empire

"Call Wang Jinghong, Zhang Qian and Zhou Hang."

"Yes!" Li Liang sent three young eunuchs to call for someone, and they came up and smiled and said, "Your Highness, why don't I make Kung Fu tea for you again?"

Zhu Zhanji waved his hand and said with a sneer, "Your skills...you might as well do it yourself!"

Li Liang smiled and stepped back. "Slaves will learn as soon as possible."

Although Gongfu tea originated in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it has always been popular in a small area in Fujian and Chaozhou.

After Zhu Zhanji participated in the trade, he began to vigorously promote Tieguanyin, and later promoted rock teas such as Dahongpao in Northwest Fujian, and began to vigorously promote the program of Kung Fu tea.

Nowadays, when hundreds of officials in Yingtianfu gather together, besides drinking, the ceremony of drinking Kungfu tea is gradually becoming popular.

However, Li Liang is an ignorant guy, and he is not as good as an old farmer in the country for this set of elegant enjoyment.

When he came to the third deck, Zhu Zhanji felt the breeze blowing, and asked Li Liang to arrange for someone to set up a big umbrella on the deck, set up tables and chairs, and then set up an iron stove a few meters away. Start boiling water to make tea.

This kind of iron stove is like a boiler with a bottom, with four feet on the lower floor, firewood is burned in the middle, and a purple sand pot is hung above it, so that it is not afraid of the fire escaping outside and causing a fire.

Both Wang Jinghong and Zhang Qian were eunuchs, and they were in the same boat with Zhu Zhanji. Before the water boiled, the three of them came one after another.

Wang Jinghong is a master at brewing Kung Fu tea, so he sat in front of the tea table and started the procedure of washing cups and brewing.

When the first cup of tea was handed to Zhu Zhanji, he said: "I have heard for a long time that Malaka is the relay place of my Ming Dynasty, but it is always separated by a layer in the book. How many of you three are there?" This is the first time I have come to Malaka, so I would like to hear a detailed introduction from the three of you. Also, what is the evaluation of this Bailimisura, how he behaves in the world."

Malacca is actually the Malacca of later generations. This country was established less than 20 years ago. It can be said that without the support of Ming Dynasty, this country would not exist.

This Paramisura was originally a prince of the Three Buddha Qi Kingdom and was born in Palembang.In the last years of Hongwu, Majapahit destroyed the Three Buddha Qi Kingdom and occupied Palembang. This Paramesura fled to Malaka.

At that time, when Majapahit was exterminating the Three Buddhas, the king of Temasek (Singapore) was Isquan Dasa, and the prime minister was Lanshan Lanjuna Dhopo.

At that time, because the king of Tu killed the prime minister's daughter, the prime minister held a grudge, so he colluded with Majapahit and led his troops to destroy Temasek.

Majapahit sent hundreds of large and small boats carrying 20 troops to attack Temasek.

When their army reached Temasek, the Prime Minister had the gates of the city opened to let the enemy in.As a result, Temasek was brutally killed by Majapahit, and blood flowed like rivers.

After this catastrophe, Temasek has recovered from a prosperous port to a fishing village with a small population.

The capital of Majapahit is in the east of Java Island, and Sumatra is extremely wealthy. Majapahit did not look down on Temasek, and they retreated.

The retreat of Majapahit gave Paramesura a chance to breathe, but then Siam in the north began to move south again.

Paramesura agreed to Siam's conditions and handed over 40 taels of gold every year, got the sites of several villages, and began to recuperate.

Later, it came to the era of Zheng He's voyages to the West. Zheng He took a fancy to the place of Malaka for the first time on his voyages.

He used Malaga as his base camp, built city walls, palisades, drum towers, and turrets, and built warehouses to store money, food and department stores.

The fleet sailed to Champa, Java and other countries first anchored in Malaka; when returning from Siam, Khorumos and other countries, they also gathered in Malaka to collect money and food, store them in warehouses, and wait for the trade wind to sail back to Daming .

At this time, I have to mention that when Zheng He went to the West for the first time, he encountered a civil war between the Eastern King of Majapahit and the Western King on Java Island, and 170 Ming soldiers were killed.

At that time, King Xi paid 6 taels of gold in compensation, and turned his fight with Daming into jade.

This is also the first time that the Nanyang countries have seen the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. A big country that dominates Nanyang also bowed its head under the might of Zheng He's fleet.

Subsequently, Manjaboyi colluded with the pirate Chen Zuyi to make a tentative attack on the Ming Fleet, but was captured by the Ming Fleet in one fell swoop.

During this process, the Ming Fleet occupied the wealthy old port, and established the old port propaganda department in the old port, and appointed the local Chinese overseas Chinese leader Shi Jinqing as the comfort envoy.

From then on, even Majapahit did not dare to ask Daming to return to the old port, and acknowledged Daming's occupation of the old port.

The occupation of the Old Port by the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to inserting a nail in the middle of the Majapahit ruled area.The surrounding small countries who were dissatisfied with Boyi all fell to Ming Dynasty and were willing to be the vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the reason why the current Nanyang countries yearn for Ming Dynasty is willing to be a vassal state.It's not because they are interested in Ming Dynasty, but mainly because of Majapahit's strong coercion.

It is also for this reason that when Da Ming withdrew from Jiaozhi and let the Southeast Asian countries see the weakness of Da Ming, they ignored Da Ming again, mainly because they could only submit to Majapahit in the end.

But these are not what Wang Jinghong and Zhang Qian can know, but Zhu Zhanji's speculation.

The topic returned to Malaka.

Because of Daming's strong intervention, Paramesura gained a respite.Zheng He took a fancy to Malaga's geographical location, which brought development opportunities to Malaka.

In the third year of Yongle, Bailimisura sent an envoy to submit a letter, wishing to be a county.In the seventh year of Yongle, Zheng He named Bailimisura the king of Manlaga, and he was no longer affiliated with Siam.

In the ninth year of Yongle, Bailimisula led his wife and more than [-] entourages to the court to pay tribute to Qilin. Since then, he has officially become a vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

With the support of Daming, they no longer need to hand over the 40 taels of gold that they originally had to hand over to Siam every year.From a site with only three villages, Malaga has developed into the most important maritime traffic point in Southeast Asia because of the fleet's sailing.

Zheng He's fleet made four missions, each with a population of nearly [-], which lasted more than a year and a half, and required a large amount of supplies.

Therefore, it is necessary to set up a fixed material transfer station in the middle of the voyage to store items that are not urgently needed, ease the transportation pressure of the fleet, and continuously replenish and apply materials for the mission's fleet.

Malaga is an ideal place for Zheng He's fleet to transit.The superior geographical location, from the perspective of shipping, is not only conducive to the berthing of ships for replenishment, but also conducive to the fleet waiting for different monsoons, so as to obtain the most favorable time for the southward voyage and return to Daming.

Today's Malaga, from a deep-water port in several fishing villages, has become the strongest water village in the world under the development of Zheng He.

The security protection here is stronger than any port in Ming Dynasty, because there is no need to build it so strong in Daming, there were Japanese pirates intruding in the past, and now there are no Japanese pirates, so why is it strong?

However, the development of Beimingshan Copper Mine also had a great impact on Malaga.In the past few years, Malaka's development speed has slowed down.

This is mainly because the demand for copper and rice, which were transported the most from the Nanyang region in the past, is now much smaller.

With the pacification of Cochin, this granary gradually came into play.In Guangdong and Fujian in the past, rice was shipped from the Nanyang region.

Most of the copper used to cast copper coins in the Ming Dynasty was also transported back from the Nanyang region.

Now the demand for these two kinds of goods has dropped, which has a great impact on Nanyang.

Although the Nanyang region has rich copper reserves, the copper coins minted by their countries are not recognized by each other. Only the copper coins of the Ming Dynasty are the recognized currencies of all countries.

The copper coins minted in the Ming Dynasty every year were brought back from the Nanyang area, and the copper coins were minted and shipped back.With the development of the Beimingshan Copper Mine, Daming's demand for copper has been greatly reduced, making this trade deficit bigger and bigger.

After listening to their analysis, Zhu Zhanji also gained a deeper understanding of the situation in the entire Nanyang region.He asked again: "Then, what kind of person is this Paramesura in your impression?"

Zhu Zhanji still has a little impression of Paramisura, because he has been to Yingtian Mansion twice.But back then when he was young, the only time he saw him was at the Great Court Meeting, and he was only known as a little old man.

He originally thought that there would be no connection between them, because when he grew up, this Paramesura would probably be dead long ago.

But I didn't expect that until now, he is still alive and well.Think about it, he was born in the fourth year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty, and he is 73 years old this year, which is really a long life.

Wang Jinghong had the most contact with Paramisura. He pondered for a while and said, "To use one word to introduce, it's old and cunning."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and asked again: "What do you mean by that?"

Wang Jinghong said: "At the beginning of the founding of the country, Malaga was surrounded by powerful enemies, but Bailimisura was able to be all-round and exquisite, fighting for the living space of Malaga. In the north, he established a good relationship with the Kingdom of Siam and paid 40 taels of gold every year. In exchange for temporary peace for Siam, the Kingdom of Aceh on the southern island of Sumatra formed a marriage alliance, and at the same time took my Ming Dynasty as the suzerain state, and established a suzerain-vassal relationship with political significance rather than substantive jurisdiction.