In the spring of the sixteenth year of Fengtian, an inconspicuous Qi merchant ship anchored at the port of Champong.

On a March day, at the southern tip of the Indochina Peninsula, it was as hot as the midsummer in Bianjing.

In later generations, the state of Champa was the southern region of Vietnam, the capital city of Indra Buluo, and the map of Daqi was marked as the port of Champa, near Da Nang in later generations.

In fact, Champa has always been seen as a federation of tribal emirates, and today Champa is composed of Amarabogi, who ruled the capital of Champang, and five major emirates: Vijaya, Bintonglong, and Gujira.

More than 20 years ago, the Chenla people conquered one of the five emirates, Gujahla, and plundered the statue of the goddess Branagatta, the goddess of the sea, the patron deity of fishermen, similar to Mazu on the southern coast of China.

The Hindu goddess of Bhanagatta is a Champa religion that is now a mixture of Hinduism and Buddhism with local traditions.

It can also be seen that the ancient Indian civilization once had a strong influence on the civilization of Southeast Asia.

Nowadays, with the introduction of Tiandaoism in the city of Zhancheng, the number of believers has grown rapidly, and some small chieftains have competed to obtain some privileges, and even Chief Guqiluo, one of the five major chiefs, has officially converted to Tiandaoism.

Because of the arrival of the Qi people, the aggressive offensive of Zhenla was stopped, which made the Tiandao Sect even supported by the people of the lower Zhancheng, and the territory ruled by the chief of Gu Ji Luo relied on the help of the Qi people to recover many lost lands, so that the chief of Gu Ji Luo also became a loyal believer in the Tian Dao Sect and a "reliable friend" of the Qi people.

Lu Ning went to Qizhuang again, took the sea route, and also took a look at the overseas leaders that Daqi has gradually operated over the years, and by the way, he looked at Li Yanniang in Jiaozhou.

In the port of Champa, because of helping Champa resist the invasion of the Chenla people, it did not take much effort to obtain land and docks, and it has been in business for several years.

The land that Daqi has obtained every year for a symbolic and consistent lease and can be permanently renewed is already the most prosperous area in the city, with many commercial houses, and the wharf area is also a busy scene because there are often merchant ships from Daqi and even other countries.

Some adventurous civilians of the Qi people also followed the merchant ships of the Great Qi to come here, gradually, or started a family here, and those who had families also brought their relatives here? A special class of elites was formed here.

But? Because the cabinet has repeatedly ordered it, it is said that the emperor is particularly concerned about this? Is it right? The envoys of the upper embassy were unrelenting in punishing the crimes of Qi people, because there was no obvious tendency for Qi people to be cheap locals and traitors? Of course, there can be no real fairness? In fact, the privileges of Qi people are in the gray area? The big one is unimaginable.

The area around Champa was densely populated from ancient times to later generations, and the same is true today? As a matter of fact? Nowadays, Champa seems to have become a grain-producing area in Daqi, and almost all Champa rice and rice are sent to Guangzhou in exchange for some daily necessities.

In addition, the fierce fire oil and oil mines that are easy to exploit here have also become owned by Baixing in the East China Sea. Fierce fire oil is mainly used in ordnance and weapons.

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Tokai Merchant Hall? It is the largest post house in the Qi gathering area called "Brahmin" by the locals, and there are usually officials and generals who go south when they stop in the city? will live here.

Needless to say, the pronunciation of "Brahmin" as the locals is known to have originated in India? In this place? It is extended to a place of honor and so on.

Lu Ning naturally also lived in the East China Sea Merchant Mansion? Shower hot water to pour away the fatigue of the sea journey.

Walking with Lu Ning, living in the courtyard next to Lu Ning's flower garden is a young man named Li Jilong, the son of the late deputy privy envoy Li Chuyun, the son of Jiangmen Huzi, and a genius among the generals of the navy.

Li Jilong has been obsessed with sea ships since he was more than ten years old, although like many noble children, he did Yulinlang by Lu Ning's side, but in the end, he still joined the navy, which also made his father heartbroken, after all, the old man, after all, felt that he still had to gallop across the field to fight for military feats with a knife and a gun.

This time, Lu Ning wants to stir up the Indian Ocean pattern by land and water, and from the perspective of the navy, defeating the maritime power Sriwijaya, which is entrenched in Malacca and occupies the western part of Malaysia and Indonesia in the future, will be the first test.

On land, Lu Ning was not prepared to mobilize too many soldiers and horses, but he transferred the forbidden soldiers and soldiers to reorganize into the "Jingnan Five Hundred Capitals", and formed a large guard regiment similar to the pro-army in front of the palace, with 3,000 combatants, including spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, musketeers and cavalry, and at the same time, the musketeers were also elite crossbowmen, and there were 2,000 heavy reserves, a total of 5,000 soldiers.

Jingnan 500 are all under the command of Jing Hei, Lu Ning's first Yu Lin Lang in the Yu Lin Army, and also one of Lu Ning's favorite young generals, of course, the current Jing Si is already thirty years old, one of the most dazzling generals rising in the army.

Jing Si was appointed as the southwest envoy, and now he should have arrived in Dali with the Jingnan army, and then Dali went to "Qizhuang" in southern Burma, recruited slave warriors from all over the country to help, and prepared to conquer Bengal in the west.

Of course, Jing Si will not go west until the navy defeats Sriwijaya and gains true hegemony in Southeast Asia.

After all, the conquest of the Baltic Kingdom in Bengal is very likely to touch the nerves of the Chola Empire in southern India.

By defeating the Sriwijaya and making it submit, the Great Qi Navy will be able to enter and exit the Strait of Malacca as if it were on the ground, and only then can it stir up the Indian continent by land and water.

Li Jilong was one of the main naval commanders selected by Lu Ning for the First Battle of Srivijaya.

He came with Lu Ning, so he will not stay here, and will set off tomorrow to go to Zengmu Water City to coordinate the naval army, and coordinate the cooperation with the armed merchant ships of the East China Sea, and find an excuse to start a war against the Three Buddhas.

The great-mother water city, in later generations, is the Natuna Island in the Natuna Islands.

Later generations "since ancient times" actually originally had territorial claims to the island of Natuna.

Of course, it is an exaggeration to say that Natuna Island has been the boundary between the China Sea and foreign waters since the Song Dynasty.

If you look at the world map, it's a bit far away from China.

Mainly because there were pirates from the Central Plains in the Ming Dynasty to establish a country here, and in the eighties of the twentieth century, the Chinese on the island accounted for more than ninety percent.

Nowadays, the population of more than 2,000 households on the island are immigrants from the Central Plains, and Zengmu Water City is the first water village of the Daqi Navy, and a dock has been built to maintain and repair ships.

Li Jilong, who originally served in Zengmu Shuicheng, but the emperor was in the capital, convened the generals of the army and navy, and specially summoned him back to Beijing to inquire about the situation in Nanyang.

Now, Li Jilong has been appointed as the deputy commander of the Nanyang Navy and the commander of the first town of the Nanyang Navy Army.

The Great Qi ocean-going navy is organized by the town, and the ships of each town are different, mainly depending on the pirate activity in the patrol area of the town.

But Li Jilong's first town of the Nanyang Navy is undoubtedly an extremely powerful naval force.

Walking all the way, Lu Ning taught him face-to-face, and he was even more impressed by Li Jilong's understanding of the current navy, after all, especially the navy, he rarely followed them on the expedition, and his understanding and judgment of himself, sometimes, mostly used the thinking of later generations, which was inevitably out of the times.