Since then, the Sriwijaya Kingdom has completely disappeared from the world, and has been replaced by the Four Provinces of the South China Sea, which are under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Empire.

It happened that there were four princes of the empire on the ship, so the four major provinces of the South China Sea were named after them, and they were called Nanfeng, Nanqi, Nanyun and Nanyong.

Li Nan, who brought his wife and children, was still unsatisfied, and the fleet was divided into four.

Some escorted the abdicated Tuo Bi Luo and other Sriwijaya nobles to live in the imperial province of Champa, and some went further south to Australia, where they prepared to occupy it completely.

After leaving some troops in the four provinces of the South China Sea to assist the stationed officials to form a maintenance administrative organization, Li Nan continued to sail west on the 'Sea King' and escorted by a small number of warships.

Li Nan is no stranger to this route, in the world of Caribbean pirates, he led the fleet from the South China Sea to the west.

After passing through the four provinces of the South China Sea, and then to the west is what was later called the Bay of Bengal, which is a huge bay of ∧, and on the east side is the country of Bagan in the Indochina Peninsula.

At present, the two major armies in the south of the empire have approached Bagan, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Intelligence Bureau of the empire are also contacting and infiltrating some nobles in Bagan.

Instead of landing in the chaotic city of Bagan, Li Nan traveled to the Indian peninsula.

There is no unified government on this peninsula, and it is currently divided into more than a dozen countries, which can be said to be chaotic.

Throughout the history of the development of the Indian peninsula, it is actually a long history of foreign invasions.

It can be said that as long as it is a foreign race, it can invade this Indian peninsula at will, probably because it has been invaded too many times, so the people living in this land began to accept their fate, basically will not resist, and are forced to accept the arrangement of fate.

Not long after the people of the Indian peninsula entered the primitive society, they were invaded and ruled by the Aryans who migrated from the west.

After the Aryans ruled India, they created the famous Vedic culture, and soon India entered the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms.

Think about this small place, which is still divided into sixteen small countries, and there are endless attacks, under such a long-term internal friction, the national strength of all countries will certainly not be too strong.

Then the Persian Empire rose to prominence and immediately invaded the Indian Peninsula, soon conquering the entire Indus Valley and establishing Indian provinces. Of all the provinces of the Persian Empire, the Indian provinces had the most gold and silver.

After the rise of Alexander's empire, the Persian Empire began to collapse, and the Indian provinces of the Persian Empire began to rule precariously.

The entire province of India was annexed by Alexander's empire.

It stands to reason that this should be the best time for the people of the Indian peninsula to rise independently, but unfortunately, the people here have become accustomed to being ruled by foreign races, and have not resisted at all.

After the collapse of Alexander's empire, the Macedonians of the Indian provinces were forced to withdraw, and at this time, the Mauryan Empire arose, and the Indians finally lived a period of independence.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and from the beginning of the second century BC, the Bactrian Greeks, Cypriots, and Anxites invaded India successively; The invasion of the Cypriots was particularly widespread, and they established a number of principalities throughout the West Indies.

The small principality established by the Cypriots gradually died out in the constant attack. It's a pity that the Otsutsuki clan, who are not strong in combat power next, invaded India.

The Dayue clan quickly occupied all of northern and central India, establishing the Kushan Empire, which was on a par with the Han Empire, the Roman Empire, and the Parthian Empire.

After the destruction of the Kushan Empire, the Indians finally established the second independent state after the Mauryan Empire, which is also the last independent state, the Gupta Dynasty.

A few years later, the Bada people, or the White Huns as they were called in China, began to invade India from Central Asia, occupying the entire Indus Valley and northwestern India in a short period of time, and constantly encroaching on the remaining territories of the Gupta dynasty.

It is worth mentioning that the White Xiongnu did not come to India on their own initiative, but because Dou Xian, the general of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, led a large army to the north to attack the Xiongnu, and finally forced the Xiongnu to move west.

The White Huns were subordinate to the Xiongnu, and they were also forced to migrate from the Western Regions to Central Asia, and then attacked India, so this incident has something to do with China.

The Indians finally survived until the collapse of the White Hun Empire, and although the whole of India was still in chaos, there was no foreign enemy to invade India for the time being.

Unfortunately, not long after, the Arab Empire arose.

The Arabs were so powerful that soon the whole of North Africa, the Middle East, and all of Central Asia fell into the hands of the Arabs.

With the whole of western Asia in Arab hands, how could this mighty empire forget the Indians, who were notoriously weak and deceitful?

The Arabs soon began to invade the Indian states and established a number of forts in the Indus Valley.

Today, the mighty Arab Empire is beginning to disintegrate and face crusaders from Western European feudal lords and Christian churches, and India is temporarily distracted.

At this time, the fleet of the Chinese Emperor Li Nan came to Ceylon, the southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula.

Ceylon is the favorite country of Chinese maritime merchants, and China used to call it the country of lions, the country of masters, and the Sinhala in ancient times.

Although the island country of Ceylon is not large, it is known as the "Kingdom of Jewels" and "the Pearl of the Indian Ocean".

Ceylon's main deposits were graphite, precious stones, ferrotitanium iron, zircon, mica, etc., and these commodities, especially the brightly coloured and beautiful gemstones, were the favourite goods of the wealthy classes of the empire.

The empire was not yet capable of attacking and occupying the Indian peninsula, so for fear of causing panic among the Indians, Li Nan changed to an ordinary merchant ship and boarded the island of Ceylon with other imperial maritime merchants.

This time, Li Nan came here mainly to take his wife and children on a trip to relax, and by the way, to take a look at the strength of these countries and increase his understanding.

After following the other Imperial maritime merchants ashore, they came to the Imperial Chinese settlement.

In fact, it is better to say that this is a Chinese people's settlement area, rather than a concession.

Because the various countries of this era did not have the concept of sovereignty, and the imperial ocean-going maritime merchants were the most popular group of Ceylonese people, the king of Ceylon deliberately set aside an area for the Chinese people of the empire to live.

It can be seen that the Chinese settlement in this city has a different architectural style from Ceylon, like a city within a city, and there are guards brought by maritime merchants on the periphery to prevent some Ceylonese who can't survive from taking risks.

At the very least, he didn't reveal his identity among those maritime merchants, but relying on silver coins to open the way, Li Nan and many concubines still lived in one of the best buildings here.