Chapter 187: New Yingtian

Maybe it was a smooth journey, robbing a lot of treasures, gold and silver along the way, maybe it was the royal children's wealth, in short, under Zhu Yousong's order, the Ming army smashed almost all the * that could be moved to the island into the stone city, and bombed the east half of the city of the buildings in the stone city into ruins. At the same time, Sun Yuzhi took advantage of the early tide to drive to the sea area four miles away from the stone city, lined up, when he heard the sound of the cannon from the east, he began to shell from the west, Sun Yuzhi did not have the style of Zhu Yousong, he only let the soldiers blow up the artillery on the city wall, and then the extended city covered the bombardment again, did not continue to fight, but strictly blocked all the channels to the sea, not let a piece of wood out of the city.

Looking at the ruins in the city, Zhu Yousong led the soldiers to swagger into the stone city from the east gate, it is really not a loss to call the stone city, the buildings inside, including many houses are made of stone, the power of the mortar is still a little small, most of the houses are on the top of the wooden part was blown up, some are still burning, but most of the walls are intact, from the outside it looks like a mess, the courtyard inside is still relatively intact.

The soldiers were divided into small teams, and slowly cleared street by street, and all those who were alive or had a breath were all replenished, leaving no living mouths, and the corpses were waiting for the natives to come and clean them up for a while, and there was no time to care about these things for the time being. It was only after passing the center of the city that they encountered sporadic resistance in the west, but this basically had no effect, and they could only let these soldiers practice their courage, oh, not courage, these were all veterans, and it was for them to re-experience the skills of the past.

The Arab men in this city have died, and there are only more than 3,000 women left in the population of 30,000, all of whom are unmarried, and the married have already let them accompany their husbands. When they were assigned to the Ming soldiers, there were no violent resistances. As far as their nation is concerned, women basically have no status in the family, and it is extremely common for men to have three wives and four concubines, even if they reach adulthood, they are all married by the people in the family, or they are bought by the family, or even sold to slaves than others.

After the marriage of Zhu Youxiao and only one queen and two concubines in the Ming Dynasty, there are very few people who marry three wives and four concubines, which will be considered by others as overstepping, monogamy is the most common family, this kind of family has become a common practice, as for the overseas concubines, there are many soldiers, after all, there are many inconveniences when they are single, and ordinary people will not say anything, so after a period of time, these women like the men of the Ming Dynasty very much, which is much better than the men of their clan.

The clean-up work in the city has been completed, this island has changed from heaven to hell, everywhere is ruined and broken, Zhu Yousong led the soldiers to search in the city, and finally found the treasure trove of the Arabs, it is really the most fragrant island in the world, and it is also the richest island, the treasure trove is filled with countless gold and silver treasures, and the rough number is also worth five or six million gold and silver, and the soldiers are given one million taels of silver, and the rest is used for the cost of building the island in the future, because the purpose of Duanwang Zhu Changhao and others is not to destroy, It's about building, and if they want to gain a foothold here, they have to build this place better than before, and they want to make this place a paradise again, and a paradise for all.

Spice picking was still the work of the indigenous blacks, but there was no longer the threat of sticks and whips, and some were only paid according to the amount of work, just like the pay for work in later generations, and the lazy men were sent directly out of the island, and then the industrious people were recruited. The bombed-out houses have been repaired, and all soldiers who are willing to live here can choose a small courtyard, even those hard-working indigenous blacks can buy a small courtyard here, and then take their wives, sons and daughters to live in, Stone Town has begun to become a paradise again, and it is cleaner and more prosperous than before, Duanwang Zhu Changhao has formulated a strict sanitation management system, and those who dare to violate it will be cleaned out.

The country has been completely destroyed, after the occupation of the Ming army, it was changed to Yingtianfu, the same stone city is also called the new Yingtian, and the Pemba Island to which it belongs was renamed Zhudao, which means the surname of the Ming Dynasty, and Duanwang became the governor of this group of islands. The two main islands are mainly for the production of cloves, and no other factories are allowed to be built, so as not to pollute the natural environment and lose the natural fragrance. In this way, they were faced with a problem, those factories needed to find another place to build, weapons and daily necessities had to be self-sufficient, and the cost of transporting them from Daming was too high, and it was impossible for Zhu Yousong to implement his theory of war on the supremacy of artillery fire as he pleased.

The Daimyo Kingdom had already occupied the area on the other side of Zhu Island, and the Duan King Zhu Changhao asked Zhu Yousong to occupy the opposite bank of Yingtian Island, where there were two rivers, and in the middle of the two rivers, he exchanged some iron tools for 100,000 square miles of land to the natives, and then gave them some weapons to expand to the south and west, and the result was that both sides had their own gains, and they were all happy.

There are enough minerals here, you can find them on the mountains near the iron mines, gold, diamonds and the like can be found everywhere, and the coal mines do not have to worry, and the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty began to build here, and after finding the minerals, let the local indigenous blacks dig them, and the cost is to exchange them for the special products and industrial products of the Ming Dynasty, and soon a series of factories were built here. The overseas branch of the Daming Royal Trading Bank has talents, Zhu Changhao only needs to issue orders, and professional things naturally have his subordinates to do, and it has become one of the most prosperous places in East Africa in a short period of time.

The Portuguese were originally the most important customers here, and the sale of cloves was one of their important commodities, although they coveted the clove resources of the two islands, but because they had too few people, the Arabs and Persians here were very powerful, and they did not dare to do anything to these people, but established a series of colonies in the south of Mo Sanbi and the north of Kenya where there were few people. The Ming army expelled the Arabs and Persians on these two islands with sharp artillery fire, and financed a large number of weapons for the black people on the other side of the river, allowing them to continue to expand, and slowly drove the power of those people in West Asia out of this area. In this way, the Portuguese on both sides, the Ming in the middle of the coastal line here are in their hands, as for the pirates that often appeared in the past, in fact, those Arabs and Persians, now it is impossible to appear again, and then only honest business.

After the Ming and the Portuguese controlled the coastal routes in this area, those English, French, Italians, Germans, etc., who passed through here to transport and sell goods, their lives began to be sad, they wanted to go ashore to trade, and met the Portuguese and Ming, and wanted to find the indigenous blacks and Arabs and Persians, it was already impossible, and they needed supplies to pass through here, and the cost was more than before, which was a barrier, making them feel that this place was no longer suitable for them to come and goIt's time to find another route.

Now the happiest are the Portuguese, it turns out that they have to be careful to guard against those Arab pirates when they pass here, now there is no need, the fleet of the Ming Royal Trading House swept here, so that those pirates fled, the local indigenous black people have found work under the leadership of the Daimyo Kingdom and Xinyingtian, most of them can eat, since they can eat, few people go to the pirates with their heads up.

The other is the Dutch, except for the Portuguese, there is no one to compete with them for the spice business, so that their spice business can make more money, although Xin Yingtian is not too friendly to them, but it is much better than those English and French, and the minimum supplies can still be obtained.

The Spanish colony in the Philippines was robbed by the Ming Dynasty, but there was still a lot of territory in India, and there were also a lot of spices there, and Xin Yingtian didn't care about their passage, so their life was not bad.

The Portuguese, the Dutch, and the Spaniards in the Indian Ocean were smooth sailing with the light of Shin Oten and the Daimyo Kingdom, but the English, French, and Italians, who had already tasted the sweetness, were unwilling to suffer this dumb loss, so they came up with a more crooked idea and caused a war.