In Crescent City, the capital of Nanyang Province, Liu Jin was very comfortable lying on the beach chair by the sea, enjoying the scenery of the beach while drinking coconut water, and the whole person's small life was extremely relaxed and comfortable.

Some time ago, he had just ended his campaign on the island of Java, leading tens of thousands of troops to sweep across the entire Java, and more than 200,000 slaves were captured, which greatly alleviated the demand for slaves from the plantation owners in the South Seas.

At the beginning of the year, from the northernmost Annam, then down to Champang, then Malacca, then Siam, and then to Java, and finally when he came back, he also laid a large piece of land here in Bonizhou, and now he is back in Crescent City, ready to leave for the class to return to Beijing.

"It's next September in a blink of an eye, this is back to Daming, and then take a break for a while, and the New Year will be celebrated immediately."

"The fourteenth year of Hongzhi has passed like this, and it will be the fifteenth year of Hongzhi soon."

"It seems that Emperor Hongzhi has only reigned for eighteen years, which means that he has only been around for about four years."

Liu Jin pondered, although Emperor Hongzhi did not have any eloquence, he was indeed a good man, and you can rest assured that you don't have to worry about your future if you work for such a boss.

If you meet a comrade like Zhu Yuanzhang, to be honest, Liu Jin would rather stay away from him, find a place to be a rich man with peace of mind, and never enter the court, because you don't know if you will be wiped out by Comrade Zhu tomorrow.

But Emperor Hongzhi is different, you can do things for him with peace of mind, don't worry too much, so Liu Jin can let go of his hands and feet to work, and he has everything now.

"I don't know what disease Emperor Hongzhi had in his history, he died young in his thirties, it seems that more schools will be established, and the establishment of medical schools will also be on the agenda."

"I hope that Emperor Hongzhi will be able to renew his life when the time comes, and count on Zhu Houzhao to be such an unreliable naughty boy......"

Thinking of Zhu Houzhao, Liu Jin couldn't help but shake his head.

This product is not very reliable, and the heart is too heavy, if according to the time in history, he ascended the throne as an emperor in his teens, and this character has not been polished yet, and the future of this Ming Dynasty may be eventful, and the situation that he has managed to manage with great difficulty may also be affected.

In contrast, Liu Jin still hopes that Emperor Hongzhi can live for more than ten years, and when Zhu Houzhao's classmate is in his thirties, it will be much better when his playfulness is restrained.

"Your Excellency has a letter from the Western region."

At this time, someone hurriedly came to Liu Jin's side and handed over a few letters to Liu Jin.

"Hmm!"

Liu Jin took the letter and looked at it carefully.

The letter was written to Liu Jin by someone from the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company on the Western side When the Western United Trading Company was preparing to attack Ceylon Island, Liu Jin attached great importance to this matter and was extremely concerned, so he also told the people of the Ocean Trade Company to always pay attention to the movements on the Ceylon Island.

"I took the island of Ceylon so easily, and the treasure I have obtained now alone is worth more than 30 million taels of silver, and this Western United Trading House is really rich now."

After reading the contents of the letter, Liu Jin had a smile on his face.

It's a good start.

The beginning of the real colonial era.

Once the news from Ceylon Island reaches back to the Ming Dynasty, it will definitely cause a violent response on the Ming side, and then the major trading houses will organize more private armed forces to go to all parts of the world to conquer and colonize one place after another.

This greatly promoted the advent of the colonial era, and promoted the rapid development of all aspects of the Ming Dynasty, and from then on, the Ming colonists, the magnates of the Ming Dynasty, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and so on, they will be out of control.

At that time, even if someone proposes to oppose colonization and impose a sea ban, they will not hesitate to sink to the bottom of the sea.

"Ceylon is a good place~"

"Gems are trivial."

"With the island of Ceylon, you can use this as a springboard to plot the whole of Tianzhu, and you can also attack Burma in the east and the Middle East, Persia and Africa in the west."

"Hu Xian's vision is really vicious enough, and this method is also insidious and despicable enough, but this kind of person is needed in the colonial era."

Liu Jin had a map of the Indian Ocean region in his mind, and after careful analysis, this Ceylon Island is definitely a treasure island, and the Western United Commercial Bank took Ceylon Island, which has many benefits, and has a nail in the Indian Ocean, and the entire Indian Ocean will slowly become a colony of the Western United Commercial Bank.

"The Portuguese established a colonial foothold here in Guri, and also blocked the Persian Gulf, expelled merchants from the Middle East and Persia, and wanted to monopolize the trade in spices and the East."

With the news of the capture of the island of Ceylon by the United Western Trading House came the presence of the Portuguese on the Tianzhu side, and the Portuguese established a colony on the Tianzhu Calicut side, and blockaded the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea very strongly.

"Interesting, it seems that the first battle between the East and the West is going to appear on the Tianzhu side, and I originally thought that it might appear on the Golden Continent side."

Seeing this news, Liu Jin immediately laughed.

The East and the West are carrying out great voyages and colonization at the same time, and conflicts between them will definitely arise, not to mention that here in the Indian Ocean alone, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably have conflicts with the Portuguese.

"I don't know if Da Gama has come to Tianzhu's side, and when the time comes, I may be able to invite him to Daming's side as a guest."

Thinking of this, Liu Jin remembered Vasco da Gama, who opened up the route to the Indian Ocean in history, and he was also named the first governor of India by the King of Portugal, and finally died here in Tianzhu.

Liu Jin, who came from later generations, still admired this navigator who was written into history textbooks, and if he had the opportunity, Liu Jin still wanted to see him.

Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Magellan......

Of course, with the rise of the Ming Dynasty, perhaps their names may not be on the history textbooks of the future world.

"There is a Western United Trading House on Tianzhu's side, it is impossible for the Portuguese to go east, don't worry about it for the time being, if the Portuguese have to find death to offend my Ming, I don't mind driving you out of the Indian Ocean."

After thinking about it, Liu Jin didn't care about this matter.

Portugal is a small country and weak in power, not to mention that it and Spain were the first to start world colonization, but when it came to the later stage, it almost lost most of the world's colonies.

The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France quickly overtook it and replaced it, seizing a large number of colonies from Portugal.

Among them, Tianzhu was originally a Portuguese colony, but it was later robbed by the Dutch and finally by the British, and its colonies were almost robbed all over the world.

In the end, even Brazil was almost snatched by the French, but fortunately they were able to keep the fig leaf in the end.

So Portugal is not terrible, its country is too small and doomed to have limited potential.

It has exhausted its own country's strength, and it can only organize more than 20 warships to the Indian Ocean at most at one time, and these dozens of warships are nothing to Da Ming.

The planning of the first phase of the Ming Navy is to establish three powerful navies, and the number of main warships of any navy must exceed 100 warships, from here you can know the power gap between large and small countries.

"The problem of this colony is also a big problem~"

"Does this colony belong to the Great Ming Administration?"

"It can be said that it belongs to private land, for the Ming court, of course, it is more appropriate to belong to the Ming Dynasty, but for these private colonists, it is natural to hope that these places can belong to their private people permanently."

"The relationship between the two must be dealt with, belonging to the imperial court, which may not have so much power to manage, and it will also discourage the enthusiasm of private colonization."

"It belongs to a private person, and the imperial court may be worried about the phenomenon of China."

"Perhaps it should be the colonial way of the West, with the governor-general to govern the colonies."

"Whoever fights it belongs to whom, and whoever is appointed to be the governor has the ownership of this land, but he still has to pay taxes to the Ming Dynasty, and it still belongs to the Ming Dynasty in name, so it may be better."

Soon, Liu Jin thought of a more headache again.

The Western side is different from the Nanyang, and the Nanyang is relatively close to the Ming Dynasty, so it is possible to directly set up a province to govern it, which is a bit unrealistic on the Western side.

What's more, this is also a private territory, and it stands to reason that it should belong to a private person.

So this problem is also a problem that needs to be solved, if there is no way to solve the problem of the ownership and income of this private colony, the era of private colonization cannot be popular.

"And this slave problem~"

"The production and use of a large number of slaves, there will inevitably be more and more slaves, and it is very likely that they will slowly gather from all over the world to the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Jin thought of another headache, the slave problem.

Liu Jin from later generations is very clear about the slave thing, like a double-edged sword, there is a good side, there is also a bad side, the Gallic chickens of later generations are almost better than the Gallic black chickens, just from here you can know the slave problem and the many drawbacks brought about by the rise of the colony.

Racial, cultural, creed, and religious conflicts are intensifying.

"The slaves in the Nanyang region, there will definitely be slaves from Tianzhu here, slaves from the Middle East, Persia, and Africa, if they all converge in Daming at that time, it will definitely be a mess."

"It has an extremely far-reaching impact on the Ming Dynasty, and many of the impacts may have a huge impact."

"Perhaps a slave law should be enacted as soon as possible to strictly control all aspects of slavery."