The spring breeze in March blows the earth, the spring is bright in the north and south of the river, and everything recovers. The willow silk that gave birth to small buds, the grass that poked its head out to welcome the arrival of spring, and the new year has arrived.

Even the Nanyang sailors, who had never experienced the cold, were also looking forward to the arrival of this day.

Because in their eyes, the South Seas thousands of miles away is no longer a loneliness far from their homeland, but wealth, endless wealth.

In the autumn of last year, a Nanyang Navy reconnaissance ship sailed into the northern region of Mayi, which refers to the Philippines in later generations, and found a number of natural doghead gold in exchanges with local aborigines. After this news was reported, Ruan Xiaoqi personally led a group of water masters and more than ten prospectors to the place, and it only took half a month to send back the exact news - a gold mine, and it is still a gold mine with a large amount of storage.

If so, all the officers and men on and off that reconnaissance ship got rich overnight!

And if this kind of thing is just a very special lucky explosion, then in Xinfu [Manila], the conquered indigenous tribes, one by one are cutting down ebony and sandalwood, but they can make extra money.

The local natives are stupid and lazy, and they have to be whipped to work honestly. Ebony and sandalwood are worthless in Xinfu, but as long as they are pulled back to Guangzhou, they will be bundles of banknotes. Therefore, Xinfu is called Xinfu. If it weren't for the fact that the name Fuzhou was already in use, then the Nanyang sailors would definitely call it Fuzhou.

The natural deep-water harbor, the surrounding large area of flat and fertile soil, and the endless forest, such a good place is occupied by a nest of stupid and lazy natives. Ruan Xiaoqi sighed in his reply to Emperor Lu: I don't know what is going on in the world if I don't go out, and I don't know how many good places have been ruined by those uncivilized barbarians. Sizhi didn't meet the hard days before Emperor Lu, and then looked at Xinfu, thinking of the hardships and diligence of the people in the country, and called him angry!

The affairs of the Nanyang Navy Division do not need to go through the hands of the cabinet at all, but Emperor Lu specially handed Ruan Xiaoqi's fold to the cabinet and others, and asked Zong Ze, Zhao Mingcheng and others to see it with golden light, which made Wen Huanzhang look even more straight as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

The only person in the cabinet who said that he wanted to go out was Wen Huanzhang, and the reason was very simple, he saw that the old Confucian system was getting worse and worse in the Lu Qi court, and he felt that his small body was really thin, and it was difficult to undertake the great task of revitalizing the old Song Confucianism, but the overseas feudal country gave him the possibility of finding another way. Isn't it necessarily a good thing to go overseas, take charge of your own own house, and build your own ideal country?

Is it possible that a hundred years later, there will still be benevolent lords doing it, and it is not known to set things right?

Even if he can't see it, Wen Huanzhang only needs to think of one day: the courtesy is lost and the wilderness is begged, and the Confucius etiquette does not exist, so he asks for the four yi. Then the heart is surging!

Lu Qian didn't give much instructions to the Mayi area, but just said to the Nanyang Fleet, "You are free." Let them toss and turn, and when more and more people taste the sweetness, then more and more people will not be able to give up overseas.

It is not a blessing for the world to have a large area of fertile land vacant, but Emperor Lu is now unable to take care of it, and the imperial court is even more unable to organize large-scale immigration of the people. You are free to do whatever you want. If you feel unwilling to look at the vacant large areas of fertile soil, then organize your own people to cultivate and develop.

This decree brought tremendous encouragement to the officers and men of the entire Nanyang Fleet. Because they are the ones who see the benefits.

Yes, they have no share in Mayi's timber and minerals, but Mayi's land, the court has no time to pay attention to it, so won't it cheapen them?

It is by no means difficult to organize people to go to farming and development. Who doesn't have a few poor relatives? The emperor has it. They can bring their relatives and friends to Mayi. For example, Na Xinfu, backed by the coast, surrounded by mostly fertile soil, and it is also the main base of the Nanyang Navy Division in Mayi, whether it is safe or otherwise, it is guaranteed.

Even if there are relatives and friends who are not willing to leave their hometowns, then employment is always okay, right? Sign a deed for three or five years, go to Xinfu to work, and return to your hometown when the time is up, it's always okay, right? As for what to grow on the land, they don't plant rice, they plant sugar cane that can squeeze sugar. This one is more profitable. As for the lack of fertility of the land, I have planted here for the past two years, and after three or five years, I will plant there.

When I had money, I went to the manpower trading house to buy slaves, and then I used slaves to work, and my relatives and friends served as overseers, and it was a beautiful day.

Why did Emperor Lu set up a manpower trading house? Why is it forbidden for Chinese people to be slaves, but not for a complete ban on slavery? That's why.

In the future stage of the great development of the South Seas and the Western Regions, although the main body is Chinese, if there is no cheap labor such as slaves, it will really slow down the progress of Sinicization everywhere by one or two levels.

Not to mention that Emperor Lu didn't want to see too many aborigines in the new territory from the bottom of his heart. In his heart, it is not only the aborigines of South Vietnam who want to be physically exterminated, but also the aborigines of Nanyang who should be dealt with as soon as possible. Although the likelihood of this hope being realized is extremely small.

Take a look at the aborigines of later generations, typical of South Africa......

Standing in the mastboard, he could see the entire fleet at a glance, with five large and small warships and six transport ships, which contained a newly formed marine battalion.

This is the manpower squeezed out by San Nguyen, who has long regarded Ma Yi as a blessed land, but now there is no rich manpower to run there, and most of the Nanyang sailors are still contained in South Vietnam. Although Li Renzong's life had entered the countdown, the destruction of the killing and brutality to crush all order had weakened the resistance in the land of South Vietnam, and the former's mission was almost complete. Fang La's army has been shrinking its strength one after another, preparing to evacuate. Therefore, the main force of the Nanyang Naval Division could only be placed in South Vietnam, and one arm was assigned to escort merchant ships, and new ports were opened up on the ocean between the Batan Islands and the Natuna Islands for thousands of miles. Now it is such a small fleet that makes San Ruan rack his brains.

I decided to come down a few years ago. However, in order to raise enough manpower and fleet, it has been postponed until today.

At this moment, the southeast wind prevails in the South Sea, and eleven ships of all sizes are blowing against the wind, all the way to the south.

Their destination was not Sun Fook Kong, but the country of Ma Yat further south. An alliance of slave village communities with a total population of less than 100,000, even if you count the slaves on the island.

It is better to erase such an existence. The Ruan brothers, who knew in their hearts that Fang Lajun would soon go south to the Srivijaya Kingdom, had no need to influence the good or bad. Taking Mayi will not only cause greater deterrence to the natives of the entire region, but also harvest countless captives. These are laborers.

But things don't always go the same way, and you can follow the script you have written. Crossing Minami-Fukushima, which was the name given to Luzon by the Nanyang sailors, it was not far from the capital of the country of Ma Yi, and they did not expect to encounter two dhows here. There was also a large three-masted galleon inside.

In Liu An's eyes, such a large celestial boat was already the largest dhowing he had ever seen. There are many such ships in the port of Guangzhou!

It has a beautiful shape and a long and narrow hull, with the foremast sloping forward, while the middle and rear masts are either vertically or slightly tilted back. Due to the large size of the jib, the inclined crossbar is also very long, so two round timbers are often tied together, not so much a crossbar as a mist. And it is dexterous and fast, and it also has good maneuverability against headwinds.

Liu An immediately blew the horn, and he was not the only one who blew the horn. The lookouts on the masts of the other ships also spotted the dhows ahead. This is really surprising. Because as far as they knew, there was no trade between the Celestial people and the indigenous people of Mayi.

These aliens who have come to the East through the waves have only silk, porcelain, cloth, etc., in their eyes, and even if they want to buy spices, they will only be in the country of Srivijaya, and they will be worthless in their eyes. Why did they see two slow celestial merchant ships now?

The two dnaries, one large and one small, also found the Nanyang Navy Division fleet flying the red military flag at the first time, with their strength is simply unable to resist, there are two gunboats among the five sailor ships, they are the invincible overlords on the sea today. How else do the Heavenly People fight? Facing the overwhelmingly superior fleet of the Nanyang Naval Division, the two ships decisively turned their bows and fled frantically towards the southern seas.

The southerly tip of Minami-Fukushima is dotted with islands of all sizes, and the coastline is rugged and full of sheltered bays. If they hadn't chased them down before sunset, the two dnakers would have escaped with ease. As long as they cleaned up the traces of battle on their ships, they could be transformed into regular trading ships that could sail freely in the South China Sea.

However, the speed of the dhows is not low, and in this era, the celestial world is on the same level as the Chinese sailing standard. If the most obvious shortcoming of the dhows compared with the Fukufu ship is not the amount of cargo, nor the cost and the strength of the ocean-going seakeeping, but only the use of headwinds.

Dhows can also go against the wind, and in the late Tang Dynasty, there were dhows that could go against the wind in the heavenly world. But the spinnaker is clearly not as good a headwind as the Chinese sail.

In this chase at the moment, the biggest helper of the Nanyang fleet is the headwind at sea.

After two hours of competition, when the two dhows found that they could not escape, they began to fight back desperately with the few ballistas they had on board, even though they could not hit. Two dhows, one large and one medium-sized, each equipped with a ballista. And the ballistae of the heavenly world also have a long history, of course, in the eyes of those Luo Fu foreign slaves, whether you are heavenly or oriental, they are all scum in front of the torsion ballistae of my great Rome. Don't mention this, let's just say that the naval battle in front of you is all predestined.

The two gunboats were two Sea Shark ships, and they were not loaded with many cannons, six each, and a few Tiger squat guns. Other than that, it's a bit of an old trick, but sinking two dnabloes on the sea is a piece of cake.

The order to open fire was given, and the six guns fired in succession, three catties, three catties; Five catties, five catties; Three catties, three catties......

Six shells whizzed towards the dhows at a distance of five or six hundred meters, and due to the strong wind and waves at sea, and the first round of shelling, the accuracy was not very good. All six shells fell into the sea.

The dhow's return fire was the same as that of the Nanyang Naval Division, and no one on either side of the dyncing hit in the first round. The distance between the warships of the two sides continued to approach.

When the distance between the two sides was reduced to about 400 meters, the second round of shelling of the Nanyang Naval Division began.