After crossing the Pauk Strait, we did not stop at the desolate Jaffna, but headed straight for Ceylon, which is now Sri Lanka.

People who have been to Sri Lanka have a deep impression of this place. Formerly known as Ceylon, this place is a typical tropical island country, and it was once called the Lion Country, the Shizi Country, and Sinhala during the Ming Dynasty.

Ceylon's economy is very simple in structure, it is an absolutely agricultural country, and the most important export product is Ceylon black tea, which is one of the three major tea-producing countries in the world, so the country's economy is deeply affected by the tea market. Tea rises, and there is money to spend up and down Ceylon; When the tea fell, Ceylon went up and down to ask for food collectively......

And as I have just said, Ceylon is also a gem-rich island, one of the world's top five gem-producing countries, known as the "Gem Island". In particular, rubies, sapphires and cat's eyes are the most famous, but to put it bluntly, they are all sold with raw ore, there is no processing business, and the added value is exploited by outsiders, so the biggest feature of this place is that it is poor......

Another feature here is the heat! We delivered some of the ship's goods that needed to be sold here, mainly cotton and linen products and ceramics, and the market was excellent! I also bought some cheap red and sapphires, handed them over to the employees of the blade sea here, and brought them back to the Ming Dynasty to be processed and sold by the vest chamber of commerce.

However, at noon on the second day of our arrival in Ceylon, while eating, we received an unexpected warning!

The owner of the hotel, Ali Han, is a local in his forties and an acquaintance of the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce, after knowing that I am the big boss of the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce, when I went to eat at noon the next day, Ali Han suddenly walked up to me, sat down after saluting, approached me and said softly: "Boss Sun!" Don't go any further west lately! It's dangerous! "He's been doing business here for many years, and he speaks more or less the languages of various countries, so there's no problem with communication.

I frowned and said, "Why is it dangerous?" Tell us more! ”

Alihan seemed to be afraid, looked left and right, did not dare to say more, and turned and went into the back room. I nodded to the others and got up and followed, feeling some of the locals' unfriendly stare along the way.

I wondered, what's going on? Blade Sea has offended people here?

When I entered the back room, Alihan was waiting for me, and when he saw me coming in, he looked left and right, and when he saw that no one was following, he closed the door and invited me to sit at the table in the back room.

"Mr. Sun, the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce is my old customer, otherwise I wouldn't have said much!" Alihan was the first to take a stand.

I nodded, took out a piece of silver and put it on the table, and arched my hand: "I naturally understand this!" I hope the boss can explain it in detail! ”

Alihan looked at the silver, but pushed it back to me and said, "I don't say this for the money, but for the sake of the friends of the sea of blades." ”

After speaking, he lowered his voice and continued: "Recently, Burma and the Ming Dynasty have gone to war! ”

When I heard this, I suddenly remembered that at the end of the 16th century, the Ming Dynasty had indeed fought an unexplained war with Burma! At this moment, he couldn't even remember what he had passed, so he could only nod his head and ask Alihan to continue.

Alihan's voice lowered: "I have another cousin, who works in the royal palace of Kalihet, I heard that this war is nominally between Burma and the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, the Mughal emperor also has the support behind him, and there may be more small actions of Portuguese red hair behind the scenes......"

Hearing this, I remembered! In 1582, Queen Elizabeth of England sent merchant John Newbernay with an expedition to the East, bringing a letter to the Mughal and Ming emperors, hoping that the three sides would be able to trade in exchange for greater trade volume and profits, and exclude other countries from this huge business circle, so as to maintain the dream of a growing empire and better compete with Spain and Portugal.

However, when these British envoys passed through India, the letters were arrested by the Portuguese, who intervened strongly, and were not finally delivered to the Ming Dynasty. The Portuguese wanted to monopolize trade between the Mughal Empire and the Ming Dynasty, and they did not want the British to trade with either the two countries, nor did they want the two to trade with each other. But the Mughal emperor was very shrewd and not bewitched by them, and the Portuguese on the Ming side were even more out of reach.

So after thinking about it, these red-haired ghosts finally decided to instigate Myanmar, which has always been at odds with the Ming Dynasty, to invade the north and attack the Ming Dynasty!

Think about it, how can the weak Myanmar wrestle with the powerful Ming Dynasty? But the reality is that the Ming-Burma War, which lasted for nearly 50 years, was in a disadvantageous position for the Ming Dynasty in the early days of the war! The battles were also fought in the Ming Dynasty's "southwest pole border", in other words, the area of modern Yunnan.

This year in history, that is, in the 11th year of Wanli and the first month of 1583 in the Gregorian calendar, the Burmese army burned and plundered Shidian, attacked Shunning and Chanda, and "killed and plundered" everywhere they went, bringing great damage to the local area. The Burmese army attacked cities and plundered land on the southwest border, killed people and set fires, and actually went deep into the territory of Shunning Province to peep at Tengyue, Yongchang, Dali, Menghua, Jingdong and other places, and the Ming court was shocked. The Yunnan local envoys and garrisons hurriedly took action to deal with the Burmese invasion.

The two sides began to exchange fierce fire in Yunnan, but they have been at a stalemate with each other. It was not until Liu Fei and Deng Zilong's troops "Huizhuyi soldiers", with the cooperation of the local Tusi army, broke the Burmese army in the Panzhihua land south of Yaoguan, killed Gengma Tusi Hanqian and Wandian Prefecture Tusi Jing Zongzhen, captured Jing Zhenzong's younger brother Zongcai, and won the victory of Panzhihua, that the balance of war began to tilt towards the Ming Dynasty.

I don't remember the specific process of the war, but behind Burma, there must be the secret support of the Mughal Empire, the reason is that in the battle log of the Ming army at that time, it was mentioned many times that the Burmese army had a large number of elephant soldiers! That is, elephants for war! It is an extremely destructive weapon of war. This kind of powerful army is the patent of the Mughal Empire, and if it weren't for their covert help, Burma, the land of projectiles, would not have been able to muster so many elephant soldiers to attack the Ming Dynasty!

At the beginning of the war, this kind of huge and invulnerable thing made the Ming army very frightened, and the Ming army was defeated and retreated. But General Deng Zilong found the key point in several confrontations with it - he discovered what the elephant was afraid of! Not a mouse, but - a lion!

So in a battle that happened not long ago, General Deng Zilong saw through the Burmese army's act of persuading surrender but was actually an espionage, and deliberately arranged the old, weak, sick and disabled in the camp, but sent the elite to hide in the mountains. The Burmese army was really fooled and began to storm Deng Zilong's camp! The first to bear the brunt of it were hundreds of elephant soldiers who flaunted their might!

However, Deng Zilong's department had already prepared, they made a lot of fake lions, and when the elephant soldiers rushed into the camp, Deng Zilong ordered people to set fire to these paper fake lions, and the elephants took a look! My goodness! So much terrible stuff! I was immediately frightened.

The elephant soldiers who had been charging forward were no longer restrained and began to flee in the opposite direction! As a result, a serious stampede was caused! At this point, more and more elephant soldiers entered the situation of frenzy, and the Burmese army was in chaos without a fight, and the casualties were huge! Deng Zilong's department naturally would not let go of such a good opportunity, and under the full pursuit, they achieved a great victory!

Alihan's voice sounded again: "Mr. Sun, looking at your expression, you seem to already know about this!" Let me say, be careful! Ceylon is not a Mughal territory, and people are no longer friendly to the Ming Dynasty. Blade Sea is a good person! Good people don't deserve misfortune! ”

With that, he folded his hands and saluted me.

I folded my hands together and saluted, took out another ingot of silver, a total of two ingots, and pushed it to Alihan again, saying, "If you can tell me this, it means that you take us as friends with the sea of blades!" Friends shouldn't talk about money, but it's my food! Think of it as an upfront payment! ”

When Alihan heard this, he twisted his subordinates. Before I left, I told me all the time, don't talk nonsense, don't go west!

Naturally, I agreed, went out and called everyone, and rushed back to the stronghold of the blade sea as soon as possible.

Sitting in the big room, with the door closed, I told all of you about the situation. To tell the truth, among the people here, except for me from the Ming Dynasty, Haleha and Mavi are half of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no other Ming Dynasty person. But they all know that although I have left my hometown, I have always been concerned about the safety of the Ming Dynasty because of my second uncle and ancestor, so I will take care of this matter that I know today.

So now it becomes a question of how to manage it.

Mo spread out the intelligence net on the first day we came, and by today he has collected some information. In order to support the Burmese invasion of the Ming Dynasty, the Mughal Empire gathered considerable material resources, especially a considerable number of elephant soldiers, and concentrated on boarding ships from Kalikhit and sailing to ports close to Burma.

Recently, I heard that there is a group of elephants to be transported, about 70 or 80 of them. We are currently gathering around Kalihet and will board a ship for Myanmar in the near future!

Oh! And this situation? My eyes lit up. If on land, we are not a powerful elephant soldier, but at sea, the situation seems to be completely different!

I asked the Nine Ghosts Masataka to open the chart, I stared at it for a long time, and suddenly poked my finger heavily in one position!

That night, the blade sea mobilized as a whole to make preparations. Later, I took a few men with me and took a small boat to the west and then to the north, and we arrived at Kalihet first!

Despite Alihan's repeated warnings and reminders that it was dangerous, I was not afraid! I won't be relieved if I don't go and see it myself!

Sitting on the boat, I patted the light-swallowing sword in my hand, and secretly said in my heart: "Second Uncle Ancestor, Qilan is far overseas, but he will never sit back and watch the Ming Dynasty suffer!" If I can do 10, I will try my best to do 12! This is dangerous, and I hope that the second uncle and ancestor will bless me in the spirit of heaven! ”

After saying this, I continued to silently look at the darkness on the bow of the ship, but I didn't notice that the three-color stone pendant on my chest flashed quietly a few times, as if in response to my prayers!