Chapter Eighty-Six: Ceylon

"What kind of promotion method? Sow discord? Do you want me to use some special means?"

"That's not necessary, Arekunel is insatiable, as long as he knows that there are a lot of treasures in the fleet, he will naturally be tempted to do it. ”

"I understand, but this matter still needs to be done by your queen mother," Yang Pingfan said sadly.

The next day, Su Yu found Zheng He, who was in distress at this time, not knowing how to resolve the misunderstanding with the local indigenous kingdom.

The queen of heaven gave a plan, first turn her heart, and then hand over people, to give favors to the local people, and word of mouth spread to the king, they naturally knew the goodwill of the Ming Dynasty.

So Zheng He ordered people to go ashore, leveled a piece of land, built a small stronghold, set up a stall, and began to do business with the locals.

Of course, the cheesy term of doing business cannot be mentioned in front of the Big Three, Su Yuguan is called educating the barbarians of the four seas, and the prestige of the Ming Dynasty is overseas, and it is necessary to be thick and thin, so that the local people can remember the prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng He is as good as a stream, but he doesn't know the "calculation" behind the queen of heaven

After obtaining permission to go ashore, the soldiers of the Ming army took out their gadgets and traded with the locals, and the doctors and midwives on the fleet also went ashore to treat the locals.

The advanced products and miraculous traditional Chinese medicine technology of the Ming Dynasty soon attracted the locals to come over, exchange materials for the exchange of materials, see a doctor for medical treatment, word of mouth, the people of Ceylon soon spread the news of the appearance of a foreign fleet on the shore with stupid money and good hearts, and the people from other places flocked to it, and in just a few days, a city was miraculously gathered on the seaside.

Sure enough, as Su Yu expected, for the ruler, what he was most concerned about was the issue of people's hearts, seeing that his people were attracted by the Ming fleet, and then looking at the various strange things peddled by the Ming army, the already suspicious Alekunel suddenly became more jealous of Zheng He's fleet.

After thinking about it, Alekhner decided to take a gamble. He first solemnly invited Zheng He and others to his palace for a banquet, but secretly raised a heavy army from all over the country to prepare for a sneak attack on the fleet docked on the shore.

These are all things that have happened in history, Su Yu pretended to be a ghost and pointed out the matter to Zheng He, Zheng He said that everything was under control, and went with two thousand people Shi Shiran.

Yang Pingfan and Su Yu did not intervene deeply this time, but just observed the incident as a bystander. Yang Pingfan flew in the air with Su Yu as before, only to see Zheng He's men and horses rushing halfway, and Yalekuner himself personally led a raid fleet of more than 50,000 people, and they were greeted by the prepared Ming army led by Yao Guangxiao and Wang Jinghong.

The Ming army lined up for defense, relying on advanced firearms, all kinds of firearms and artillery crackled and shook the sky, and the 50,000 troops of Alekunar suffered casualties and pillows, and they couldn't even touch the planks of the ship, and they couldn't move an inch outside the line of fire.

Wang Jinghong got the order and did not take the initiative to attack, so he stuck to Arekunaer, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

On the other side, Zheng He, who was halfway there, sighed after receiving the news that the whole army of Alekuner was dispatched: "The queen of heaven is honest and I don't deceive, and the thieves are out, and the country will be empty." ”

So he led his two thousand men and horses out of the highway and made a detour to attack the royal city of Ceylon.

The main force of Ceylon was transferred by its own king, and the royal city was empty, and under the onslaught of two thousand elite Ming troops, it was broken in less than half an hour, and the king's whole family was taken prisoner.

Zheng He deliberately let go of a few captives to report the news, Yalekuner learned the news, and immediately panicked, Yang Pingfan saw that the fire was almost over, and put a signal flare in the sky, Wang Jinghong saw this, opened the gate, waved his army to attack, and Zheng He's two thousand men and horses around the front and back, the whole army of Ceylon was defeated, and Arekunel himself was also captured.

In history, the events that should have happened two years later happened in advance under the instigation of Yang Liang and the others, but the aftermath work was a little troublesome, mainly how to deal with the king of Alekunaer, who could not be tied up on the road as in history, and then brought back to Nanjing.

However, this problem was difficult for everyone, Su Yu found Yao Guangxiao and whispered to him for a long time, and a new solution appeared.

That is, to let Arekunaer go, or to be his king, and the Ming army was also brought forward by Zheng He to form an alliance with him, and Arekunar was no longer an enemy of the Ming army, and the Ming army set up a station on the coast to conduct normal trade with the kingdom.

"Isn't this the strategy that the Europeans started back then, pulling one side to fight the other, Arekunel after this battle, his vitality was greatly damaged, not only lost the position of the boss on the island of Ceylon, but also faced the danger of the other two countries uniting to fight back, in order to keep his position, he not only did not dare to fight against the Ming Dynasty, but also hugged the thigh of the Ming army in turn. ”

"That's right, we can't let the Big Three complete the transformation of their minds in an instant, we can only use this method to keep leaving nails on the sea route of the Ming Army. ”

After listening to Su Yu's words, Yang Pingfan fell into deep thought, along the way, Su Yu was not only imperceptibly changing the thoughts of the three giants of the fleet, but also began to accept Su Yu's views on the overall situation.

After forming an alliance with Alekunale, Zheng He once again put forward a request to erect a monument in front of the Buddhist temple, and this time Alekunar readily agreed, as for whether he was happy in his heart, it is unknown.

Zheng He led people to carry out a grand alms in the Ceylon Mountain Temple.

On the day of almsgiving, the Ceylon Mountain Temple was decorated with golden splendor, the Buddha statue was newly coated with gold powder, the incense was burning in front of the Buddha statue, and many good men and women came from afar to participate in Buddhist activities.

Zheng He led the high-level group in the fleet to worship the Buddha, in order to repay the great virtue of the Buddha, Zheng He mission to repay the Buddha with gold and silver weaving gold, silk flags, incense burner vases, lamps and candles and other generous gifts, the tributes are: offering 1,000 gold money, 5,000 silver money, 50 horses of various colors of silk, four pairs of woven gold and silk treasures, five bronze incense burners, five golden red incense burners, five pairs of nasturtium, 2,500 sesame oil, 10 pairs of candles, and 10 pillars of sandalwood.

At the same time, in order to commemorate this grand event, the old scholar of the fleet wrote a special article and asked people to engrave it on the stone stele, which was the stele of the Ceylon Mountain Temple that Zheng He never forgot. The stele was erected in the Ceylon Mountain Monastery and was called the Monument of the Buddha Temple of the Ceylon Mountain, which described this almsgiving activity.

Yang Pingfan stepped forward to take a look, and saw that the inscription was sprinkled with hundreds of words in Chinese, Tamil and Persian.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty sent eunuchs Zheng He and Wang Guitong to announce to the Buddha Shizun, saying that he admired the Buddha Shizun, said that he admired the Buddha and the Buddha, and the Buddha Temple was given to the Buddha Temple with gold and silver, woven gold and silk, treasures, incense burners, vases, silk and candles, etc., to make offerings to the Buddha Temple All kinds of silk wool pick-up weaving gold silk treasure to the pair of Na red two pairs of yellow pair of green one pair of bronze incense burner Wu Yan Jin Zuo full bronze vase against the gold seat full brass candle holder Wu Zhu Jin Zuo full brass lamp Wu Yan Jin Zhai red lacquer gold incense box Wu Yan golden lotus Lu pair sesame oil two Qian Wu Bo Mi candle one pair Sandalwood one burn Yongle Qi year Ji Ji Ji ugly February Jia Shuo day giving.