"Train well, and when you take the island of Ceylon, you will be rewarded with a piece of land on the island of Ceylon, and your children and grandchildren will be blessed for generations to come."

Hu Xian patted Chen Lin on the shoulder and wrote a blank check again.

After saying that, he also left the training ground, and there were still many things he needed to be busy with.

An army of five thousand men went to conquer the island of Ceylon, and there was a lot to do.

Weapons and equipment, logistical supplements, ship manpower, etc., need to be busy a lot of time.

And the time is also very urgent, we will leave for Ceylon next month, and many things have to be arranged in advance now.

Back at their residence, Feng Xiang and Zhu Benduan happened to be there, and the two were carefully studying the geographical location of Ceylon Island and studying the current situation in the Indian Ocean.

"How's the training?"

Zhu Benduan saw Hu Xian coming over, smiled and asked.

"It's okay, but I don't know if it's a mule or a horse or a yo-yo."

Hu Xian looked at the map on the table and asked, "Have you found any results?" ”

"It didn't have much to do, but a merchant ship had just returned from the Western Ocean, and our people brought back detailed news."

"Look, this is a map of the island of Ceylon, which our people bought here in Ceylon."

"The whole island of Ceylon is high in the east and low in the west, and when we attack, we must land on the southwest side, take this Colombo first, and then build a castle here in Colombo, use this as a stronghold, and then gradually take the entire island of Ceylon."

Zhu Benduan said to a map on the table.

Merchants are the most attentive to their own business, don't look at them used to be scholars, it seems that they don't understand military affairs at all, but scholars, they all like to learn.

For such a huge investment, it was also very careful, and sent people to Ceylon to collect detailed intelligence materials and information in advance.

"Although this island of Ceylon is only an island, the people on it can be roughly divided into three groups: the Buddhist Sinhalese, who occupy most of the southern part of the island."

"The Hindu Tamils occupied the mountainous areas of the north, and the coastal areas such as Colombo were occupied by merchants from the Middle East and Persia."

"So we can take full advantage of that."

"The Sinhalese and Tamils have a feud with each other, and the weakest are the Middle Eastern and Persian merchants who occupy the coastal areas, and they are the first to take possession of these coastal areas and drive them out."

"These Middle Eastern and Persian merchants bought the gems of the Tamils and Sinhalese at low prices and sold them to us at high prices, and we were really fools of the Ming people, and this time, we swept them away first, and replaced their power on the island of Ceylon first."

"Then we took advantage of the hatred between the Sinhalese and the Tamils, let them fight, and in the end we took advantage of the whole island of Ceylon."

Feng had also formulated a detailed battle strategy relative to the map of Ceylon.

"It's a good strategy."

Hearing Feng Xiang's words, Hu Xian pondered for a while and nodded straight.

"Do you think that we can take this island of Ceylon with five thousand men and an army that has only been trained for two months?"

Hu Xian is a little lacking in confidence, to be honest, this kind of thing, everyone is the first to do it, and there is no confidence in his heart.

"Definitely can~"

"Judging from the current situation, even the largest number of Sinhalese on this island of Ceylon, they are divided into several kingdoms that are hostile to each other, as long as we take advantage of this, we will definitely be able to easily take Ceylon."

"This Sinhalese person believes in Buddhism, we can learn from Tian and Erniu, and make good use of this."

Feng Xiang said very confidently.

With full grasp of the information on the island of Ceylon, they are more confident in taking the island of Ceylon.

"No matter how bad it is, we will definitely have no problem driving out these Middle Eastern and Persian merchants, at least we can replace them in controlling the coastal areas of Ceylon."

"As long as we grasp this, if nothing else, we will have the final say on the gem trade on Ceylon from now on."

Zhu Benduan also nodded, then thought about it and said: "I feel angry when I think about it, don't you know that these Middle Eastern and Persian merchants don't have many people, but they are very arrogant, relying on the monopoly of the gems of Ceylon, I don't know how much silver they have earned." ”

"Hmm!"

Hu Xian thought for a long time and nodded.

After thinking about it, he asked, "When will our war horses be transported to Turtle Island?" ”

"The day after tomorrow can arrive, the horses in the northern steppes are not very good, the horses in the Middle East are very tall, if we master the island of Ceylon in the future, we can get war horses from the Middle East and Persia, and then transport some stallions back to improve our war horses."

Zhu Benduan thought about it and said.

"Are the ships all connected?"

"It's all arranged, our major trading houses, it's enough for each family to send ten big ships, and the grain has already been purchased from Jiaozhi."

"Artillery can also arrive here with the war horse the day after tomorrow."

"In addition, when we set off, the major trading houses will also organize fleets to follow us to the Western Ocean, and when the time comes, we can also ask other ships to help us transport some goods and personnel."

Zhu Benduan also replied one by one, he was in charge of logistics, and Hu Xian was in charge of the commander-in-chief.

Because the Western United Commercial Bank was jointly funded by the big bosses and major shareholders of the major commercial banks, it has also received strong support from the major commercial banks in all aspects.

The dignitaries quickly gathered enough people to ask for money and money, materials and supplies, and ships and ships.

In a short time, the merchants had arrived at Turtle Island with everything they needed in preparation for the next battle against Ceylon.

"Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed."

Hu Xian also nodded with satisfaction, looked at the hot weather outside, and couldn't help but sigh.

Time is slowly passing.

Boats arrive at Turtle Island every day.

Turtle Island is a small island south of Crescent City, the geographical location is quite good, the island has plantations, large-scale cultivation of sugar cane, and because there are more ships coming and going, so it is also built a port.

The ships of the major commercial houses kept coming and going, and they also sent all kinds of materials to Hu Xian, Zhu Benduan, and Feng Xiang.

After the five hundred war horses arrived at Turtle Island, Chen Lin began to train cavalry again, and cavalry was still very important.

The speed of riding horses is fast, horses are also an important means of transportation, and the lethality of cavalry is undoubted, just because they can't arm too many cavalry, otherwise they want to buy more war horses.

A few days later, rumbling shelling began to be heard above Turtle Island.

The artillery also arrived, and the artillery began to train.

The whole Turtle Island is in full swing, and the Western United Trading House is preparing to open the overseas colonization history of the first private armed forces in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, it is also here on the island of Java in the South Sea.

Liu Jin is commanding 30,000 Ming troops to attack the natives on the island of Java, which is a large island, and the natives on it are also divided into many countries, including the traditional Javanese Sundanese people, and the New Javanese people who believe in YSL, and the foreign Middle Eastern Persian missionaries have established several MSL kingdoms here.

These countries above Java are very unfriendly to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, not only imposing heavy taxes, but also showing that the disappearance of several merchant ships and the murder of merchants and sailors are related to these people on the island of Java.

Therefore, for these countries on the island of Java, Liu Jin is not just as simple as letting them cede land and pay compensation, he wants to kill on a large scale.

Kill them ruthlessly, if you don't teach them a hard lesson, they won't know what to be afraid of.

"Boom~Boom~"

With a rumbling roar, more than five hundred Miyun cannons let out wave after wave of roars.

The small city in front of me was soon in ruins.

"Attack!"

With Liu Jin's order, the Ming army marched towards the city with neat steps, and the half-dead natives who had already been frightened by the artillery fire were the opponents of the Ming army.

In less than a stick of incense, the city was occupied by the Ming army.

After capturing the city, Liu Jin reduced all the prisoners of the war to slavery, put on bracelets and anklets, and escorted them directly to the seaside port, where merchant ships sold them to the plantations in the South Seas.

Now these slaves are very valuable, an adult slave can be sold for more than twenty taels of silver, and it is as much as it wants, and the plantations in the South Seas need a large number of manpower, the more the better.

The plantation owners are all worried about this.

"The action is really fast enough, how can it be almost organized so quickly, and we will attack Ceylon next month?"

Liu Jin received the latest news from Daming, which focused on the matter of the Western United Commercial Bank.

"Ceylon Island is a good choice, the country of gems, they will be issued in the future."

Liu Jin took out a map, looked at the location of Ceylon Island, and couldn't help laughing.

This is very good, everyone has made a fortune overseas, and more and more people will go overseas in the future, and then large and small commercial houses will build colonies all over the world, and it will not take a hundred years, and the whole world will almost be divided up by our Ming people.

"Well, Ceylon ~ has the strength of five thousand people, and it will definitely be no problem to take it."

Soon, Liu Jin put his attention on the island of Java in front of him.

"After taking Malacca, Java and Jinzhou, the entire Nanyang region will fall under the control of my Ming Dynasty, and the most important thing is to block the spread of people from the Middle East, Persia, and India to the east, and this will be the paradise of my Ming people in the future."