Wu Pu said that the imperial court did this, at least two major benefits. First, there are many capital protectorates in the sea areas of the Ming Dynasty, which can consolidate the Ming Dynasty and resist the invasion of foreign invaders.

Second, it can enable the imperial court to open up tax sources, obtain huge trade income, and turn the sea route into a financial route. The Maritime Silk Road can attract the Portuguese from 60,000 miles, and the Ming Kingdom is embarrassed, so what reason is there to turn a blind eye to this trade route with rolling stocks?

If Zheng Ruo once proposed 'sea supremacy' - the control of a certain sea area by a belligerent.

What Wu Pu put forward is the out-and-out idea of 'sea power' - a country's ability and influence in the ocean space!

The sum of the thoughts of the two is the essence of Mahan's 'theory of sea power' more than 300 years later, which can be said to be far ahead of all countries in the world, which is enough to support the take-off of a sea power power.

Zhao Hao borrowed the views of these two to instill his own ideas of sea power and grand vision to the Jiangnan Group and his generals!

Moreover, Wu Pu is still alive, and Zhao Hao has already sent someone to Fujian, hoping to invite him to teach at the Tamluo Island Navigation School. But it's a pity that the old gentleman is too old to go out......

But no matter whether Wu Pu can see that day or not, his idea of the legitimate right of the Celestial Empire over the vassal waters and the achievements of Zheng He's voyage to the West from the military and trade aspects will become the guiding ideology of Zhao Hao, the Jiangnan Group and the Daming Royal Shipping Corporation, guiding them to advance to the depths of the ocean!

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Looking through the 21st history, all those who describe the prosperous era have a clause of 'tribute from all directions, and all countries come to court'.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, for 2,000 years, generations of the Central Plains Dynasty of China have incorporated the countries of the known world into their spheres of influence through canonization, bondage, and tribute, and have built a huge political order system in East Asia, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia.

In this system, the emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty was the co-ruler of the local and foreign vassals. The Son of Heaven exercised direct administration in the central area of the country, and ruled outside the country by the rulers of the Son of Heaven's canonized foreign vassals, and the native and foreign vassals defended each other, forming a 'whole world, no more than the king's land; The concept of the world's co-lord of the world.

Even the king of the dead country likes to make a big fuss about this. For example, Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, during his reign, tributary trade was vigorous. Every New Year, there are always hundreds of operas in Luoyang and the envoys from all over the world to have fun.

This 'world system' reached its peak in this dynasty, and as soon as Emperor Taizu settled on the Central Plains, he quickly sent envoys to Goryeo, Champong, Annam and other surrounding Yuan Dynasty vassal states, informing the Ming Dynasty to succeed the Yuan Dynasty and ask them to submit to the Ming Dynasty. So Goryeo and other countries have sent envoys into the congratulatory table to show their submission, and for a time there was a 'Ming Dynasty unified all directions, the Son of Heaven was a saint of civil and military affairs, and the monarch was a billionaire with benevolence and righteousness. Jitian Polar Land, raise the tribute of cultivation. Since the birth of the people, there has not been such a prosperous situation.

This is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang hated the Yuan Dynasty, but he still wanted to serve Mengyuan as the Zhengshuo Dynasty, because in addition to the rivers and mountains he personally laid, he also had to inherit the world system handed down from the Qin, Han, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties.

During the Yongle period, with the cruising of Zheng He's armada in the Indian Ocean and the sweep of the Mengyuan forces in the north by Emperor Chengzu, this system of 'suzerain-vassal states' reached its peak.

Under the 'coercion' of the invincible army and navy of the Ming Dynasty, and the 'temptation' of the tributary policy of 'thick exchanges and thin comes', the number of countries and tribes that paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty once reached as many as sixty-five!

However, there is a big flaw in this tributary system, that is, it is a loss - the tributary countries come to pay tribute, and they send local products, but they take away a large number of treasures of the Central Plains, which has caused great financial pressure on the Central Plains Dynasty. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty will limit the number of times tributary countries come to the court, generally one tribute every three years, one tribute every five years, or even one tribute every ten years.

There is no other reason, and the landlord's family has no surplus food, and he can't afford to reward these guys who are willing to gather wool.

Of course, there is no such thing as money spent in vain. In addition to the wide spread of Chinese civilization in the vassal states, in exchange for the general tranquility of the surrounding areas, the greatest wealth is to shape the golden signboard of the 'Heavenly Empire'!

Although this signboard is in China, in addition to satisfying the vanity of the monarch and ministers, it is purely a money-losing goods. The Ming Dynasty itself was poor and clanging, and when they saw that those vassals called Huazi were big, the emperor and ministers would not care about this loss of vanity at all.

Otherwise, Liu Daxia didn't dare to burn the priceless Zheng He chart, and he also had words to say nonsense such as working hard and hurting money, burning cleanliness, etc., and no one punished him.

In Zhao Hao's view, this is the Ming monarch and the minister who is purely asking for rice with a golden rice bowl. Although the 'Heavenly Empire' is just a gimmick in China, it can be taken abroad, and it is an out-and-out golden signboard!

How to turn this golden sign into a source of money? Wu Pu has already made it very clear - don't sit back and wait for the tributary country to come to the door, set sail and go out! Let the fleet follow the overseas trade, set up the Metropolitan Protectorate at the strategic points of the route, set up the City Ship Division in the important trading cities, and extend the sea power to the Persian Gulf!

In that case, the wealth will roll in, and all the chronic diseases that plague the Ming Dynasty will not matter!

Because he had already advanced a deposit of two hundred years, Daming thought that the cost of doing all this would not be too high. At least the Portuguese, and later the Spanish, Dutch, and English, wanted to cry and go home to find their mother.

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You know, how difficult is it for Europeans to set foot in this big future?

Take, for example, the Portuguese invasion of Malacca. In 1511, the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese, who had been in Africa and India all the way, gathered a powerful fleet including 11 Karak galleons, and rushed to the city of Malacca, a key point in the maritime trade between the East and the West.

They thought that this time it would be like fighting in India, and a few dozen soldiers would be able to defeat thousands of Indian princely state troops, but they were met with stubborn resistance from the king of Malacca, and they fought hard for a month before they relied on the navy with a generation difference to take the city of Malacca.

However, the remnants of Malacca continued to harass the Portuguese rule. In 1551, that is, in the 30th year of Jiajing, the Kingdom of Johor, established by the royal family of Malacca, united with Java to attack the city of Malacca, intending to recover the old capital, but was defeated by the powerful Portuguese fleet of Malacca.

In addition, the surrounding countries were also very hostile to the Portuguese colonists, and Aceh attacked Malacca several times in an attempt to drive out the Portuguese. The most recent attack took place in 1568, in the previous year. But it still couldn't help the Portuguese fleet.

During this period, the king of Malacca sent several envoys to the suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty to ask for help, and even personally brought the gold seal documents given by the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, hoping that the Ming Dynasty could once again support the subject country as Zheng He persuaded Siam to invade Malacca.

The imperial court did negotiate with the Portuguese for the return of Malacca.

But there was no longer Zheng He's invincible armada in the Indian Ocean, how could he subdue the distant Yi with only a pale and weak holy decree? The Francophile did not pay any attention to it, and the negotiations naturally ended in failure......

But this negotiation also shocked the Grape people, who learned that most of the countries of Southeast Asia were subject to the Ming Dynasty.

The Portuguese are envious of the Ming Dynasty, if these countries are also willing to serve them as their masters, why do they have to fight wherever they go and kill so hard?

So the Franco-Rang people arose the idea of conquering the Ming Dynasty, which could replace it once and for all, and as a result, they were taught to be human beings in the later Battle of Tuen Mun and the Battle of Sai Cao Wan...... Although I'm already a big budge, I'm not a little Franc who can go to the local wilderness.

In short, in the eyes of the Portuguese, the Ming Dynasty was incredibly stupid. They only begged the sleeping dragon to sleep longer, so that they could steal more treasures from the dragon's lair.

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Although Zhao Gongzi can't wake up this sleeping dragon for the time being, he has already taken great pains to press his handprint with the claws of this sleeping dragon, so that he can pull the big flag as a tiger skin, and go to protect the treasures of the Celestial Empire under the banner of the Ming Dynasty!

Looking at Zhao Gongzi, who was standing proudly on the deck, full of spirit and red lips, Zheng Ruozeng couldn't help but feel a little gloomy, these things should have been done by the imperial court. This is also the most valuable wealth given to the Ming Dynasty by history, which is enough for the Ming Dynasty to easily get out of the crisis and be brilliant for another two hundred years!

It's a pity that the court established by this old peasant not only cherishes it, but also fears it like a tiger and a wolf and avoids it like a snake and scorpion. Not only will they no longer go to sea, but they will not allow the people to develop into the sea.

Then you can't blame Zhao Gongzi for acting on his behalf.

Zheng Ruozeng, who has reached the end of his life, can see it very clearly. He even had such a thought in his heart - even if Zhao Gongzi set up another court overseas in the future, it would be better than now, and let the Europeans swallow the Ming Sea in vain!

Zheng Ruo had let his thoughts startle, and he couldn't help coughing violently.

"Let's go inside." Zhao Hao also hurriedly supported Zheng Ruozeng.

"Don't tight, don't tight." Zheng Ruozeng shook his head, but he still walked towards the hatch obediently and said: "Since Gongzi has lofty ambitions and wants to compete with that Franc Jiyi, then relying on the current coast guard team alone is probably far from enough." ”

"Well, Mr. Kaiyang is right." Zhao Hao nodded and said, "So we have to continue to enhance our strength." ”

Saying that, he smiled again: "By the way, the Coast Guard has been renamed 'Daming Royal Maritime Tamluo Garrison Area', doesn't it sound like a lot of grandeur?" ”

"Be confident, remove the word 'shipping', and call it 'Daming Royal Tamluo Garrison Area' more magnificent." Zheng Ruozeng smiled and said: "After spending money, you have to maximize its effect." ”

P.S. Let's write another chapter...... Ask for a commuter pass......