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In later generations, India could be regarded as a country, a geographical name, but nowadays, there is no such thing as India at all.

Just like Latin America in later generations, everyone knows that it refers to the northern part of South America and Central America, but on the map, you can't say which place is Latin America.

Today's India is divided into more than 300 small countries, a small town and a county town, which is a country.

The people here do not have the idea of unification at all, and all the rulers have no intention of agreeing, but only trying to stabilize their rule.

Today's largest state is the Delhi Sultanate in the north, and the Mughal Empire, which became famous in later generations, would not be established until a hundred years later.

However, even the largest Delhi Sultanate occupied only a swath of what would become northern India. In the Indian subcontinent, they were a great power, but they were only a puppet supported by the state of Timur.

The Indian subcontinent has always been the stronghold of Hinduism. Later, the small country of Nepal, which was later in the Kapila Kingdom, wanted to become independent, and their prince established Buddhism according to the teachings of the Hindu sect.

However, Buddhism has not developed in the Indian subcontinent, and from the day of its birth, it has been strongly suppressed by the Hindu sect, the mainstream sect in the region.

So the Buddhists fled in all directions, but spread in Tibet and on the Indochina Peninsula.

There was no unified government, and the aristocracy here took advantage of the Hindu division and enjoyed the privileges they were born with.

The upper and lower levels could not be united, the classes could not be crossed, and people had no upward channels for struggle, so there were very few disputes on this continent.

If you win, you are still a slave, and if you lose, you are still a nobleman. You were born a nobleman, you will always be a nobleman, you were born a slave, you will always be a slave, who would want to fight?

The continent is bordered by tropical rainforests and mountains to the east, impassable mountains to the north, and only two mountain passes in the northwest corner provide access to the outside world.

These two mountain passes have also become the source of all wars on this continent.

The big cannibals, the Persians, the Turks, the Mongols, every time a foreign nation enters, they will fight the people here and cry bitterly, but they are helpless.

In this day and age, the Delhi Sultanate, a country ruled by the Persians and a green religion, occupies the most fertile farmland in the north, and if it weren't for their small population, they would have occupied the entire continent long ago.

Hundreds of small countries in the south also organized many resistances, but the slave soldiers were not willing to help them fight, so they were defeated repeatedly. Their own holy land, the most fertile land, is occupied by foreign races, and they can only admit it.

Although the people here are easy to manage, they have a very big problem, that is, they are very productive.

In the world, like the Han people, the only people here can take having more children and more blessings as their basic concept.

This continent is blessed with the highest mountain range in the world in the north, blocking the cold air, although the weather is dry and rainy, but the ground water resources are abundant, so the whole continent is fertile farmland.

Purely in terms of cultivated land area, the cultivated land area here is far more than that of the Ming Dynasty, so the people who can feed it are even more than the Ming Dynasty.

Although Zhu Zhanji thought about taking this land for himself, he was not much interested in the crowded population here.

So many people have become Ming people, and the ethnic composition of the Ming Dynasty in the future will be very complicated.

What's more, he plans to cancel the ethnic division at an appropriate time in the future, whether it is the Mengyuan people, or the Huanghua cannibals, or other Yi tribes in the southwest mountains, or the Indians in the future, collectively known as the Chinese people.

Now, with the exception of the Indians, whose population is a little larger, people of other nationalities will be able to assimilate in the future.

The Indians, on the other hand, had no resistance to influenza, smallpox, or plague, and their demographic advantage could easily be resolved.

But the people on this continent are different, and if the ethnic hierarchy of this continent is canceled, it will affect the stability of the entire Ming Dynasty.

If it is not canceled, it is also a contradiction, which brings hidden dangers to the entire Ming architecture.

Therefore, in Zhu Zhanji's heart, he was ready to treat this place as a colony, or not to include it in the direct management territory of the Ming Dynasty.

It's a big deal, in the future, Burma, Nepal, Assam and other places will be occupied, so that the overall development of the Indian subcontinent can be contained.

The fleet sailed directly to the southwest from the waters of Burma in what would become the Burma Sea. Although it made a big bend, the distance was nearly doubled. But because I avoided the headwind, I can now sail downwind, but faster.

The fleet is moving along the coastline of the mainland, and here are all familiar routes, so those navigators are very familiar with each other, and they are not afraid of running aground at all.

Punggar, Shariwani, Gazel and other small countries, which have long disappeared in later generations, are small countries along the coast starting from Bangladesh.

For example, Sri Lanka in later generations, now known as Mount Ceylon, Zheng He went to the West for the third time, and also captured their king directly to the Ming Dynasty.

In later generations, the Maldives is now known as the country of slipping mountains, but this country is pitiful and pitiful, and Zhu Zhanji does not want to waste his energy at all.

In the mountain country of Ceylon, the fleet stayed for a short time, and Wang Jinghong arranged for the fleet to meet him, and prepared a large number of fresh vegetables.

It took two days to load these fresh vegetables onto the ship, and after passing through the Guli country, they arrived at the base set up by the Ming fleet in the Kezhi country.

The Daming Naval Base of Kezhi State is the westernmost stronghold of the Ming Dynasty, which was built during the second voyage to the West, with a wharf and a water filtration tank, as well as a large vegetable field.

When the Ming fleet did not come, it was handed over to the management of the locals. But when the Ming fleet arrived, the residents here had to vacate the port and sell all the vegetables they grew to the Ming fleet.

India's small city-states have no concept of a country at all, they regard the Ming Dynasty as the Heavenly Empire, a tribute every three years, and when they are bullied, they will let the Ming support them.

Just before Zhu Zhanji and them set off, Hou Xian sent an envoy to various Indian countries, and the main reason was to support the Punggar thorn and ask the Delhi Sultanate not to go to war.

The Delhi Sultanate did not dare to disobey the advice of the Ming Dynasty and accepted the mediation agreement, ending the aggression against Punggart.

Today's Ming Dynasty is the real kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and the farthest area of radiation is Kezhi, where Zhu Zhanji has arrived now, which is also Cochin on the west coast of India in later generations.

Zhu Zhanji did not stop all the way, and the main reason was also because now the lords of more than 200 small countries in southern India have gathered in Kezhi.

Half a year ago, after Wang Jinghong arrived in Kezhi, he began to build projects here.

Not only did they re-dredge the harbor, but they also built a large oriental palace on the South Island on the inner side of the Gulf of Cochtburg, at great expense and with more than 100,000 men.

Zhu Zhanji didn't know much about Kezhi, and in later generations, it was not an important area.

He came to India several times, to New Delhi, Mumbai, and to the Hindu shrine of Haldeval and the yoga shrine of Rishi Gash in the southern foothills of the Himalayas in the north.

When the fleet arrived at Kezhi and the whole fleet entered the bay, he realized that Kezhi was a port city with an excellent geographical location.

Because this natural harbor is almost the most perfect natural deep-water port in the world.

The entrance and exit of Kochi Bay are less than 500 meters, and there are islands in the north and south, and Kochi Fort is located in the south island. After the fleet came in, it was not the mainland, the north and south were still two independent islands, and the innermost was the mainland.

Whether it's between islands or between islands and the mainland, there are plenty of places to dock boats.

The city is on the outermost island, and there are several independent large islands in the bay, which are stacked on top of each other, and they are not afraid of the invasion of wind and waves.

Seeing the map here, Zhu Zhanji groaned. Even if the Ming Dynasty has no interest in the Indian mainland, this place must be occupied.

As Zhu Zhanji's flagship entered the harbor, a gun salute rang out.

Everyone was used to this kind of sound, but the two sleeping koalas were awakened and crawled into the corner in fright.

Koalas are cute animals that look cute, but because they feed on eucalyptus leaves, the smell on their bodies is actually terrible.

Because Zhu Zhanji didn't like it, several women had no interest in this small animal, and they were even more afraid that they would be stained with the smell of koalas, and Zhu Zhanji didn't like them.

So when they finally left Nanzhou, they only took two with them.

If you can live to return to the Ming Dynasty, you will be placed in the zoo in the palace in the future to show children a surprise.

Blowing the sea breeze in the Indian Ocean, a group of women are very excited to be able to go to a foreign land full of popularity and see a new world.

After all, they are still sixteen or seventeen years old, or even thirteen or fourteen years old, and they still like the bustling noise.

In later generations, there were many people who considered themselves mavericks and thought that they liked secluded places away from the world, but that was in an environment where there was Internet and food.

It really leaves you with nothing, living in dirt pits, shacks, growing your own food and vegetables. I can't see a person every day, I can't understand any information about the outside world, I'm afraid few people can stand it.

The welcome ceremony at Kezhi was more grand than any previous one, because it was the first official appearance of the Ming royal family in the West.

This is not only related to the face of the Ming Dynasty, but also to the situation of the entire Indian subcontinent.

Therefore, according to the information obtained in advance, except for a few countries that only sent representatives because the lord of the country was too old or too small, the other city-states were all the lords of the country who came in person.

Of course, it was mainly the southern city-states that came, and the northern regions did not send people because of the influence of the Delhi Sultanate.

Instead, it was the Delhi Sultanate that sent a large delegation to welcome it.

Zhu Zhanji knows the situation here better than anyone else, and knows very well that the current Delhi Sultanate is the puppet of the Timurid State, and they are deliberately giving Ming eye medicine.

Zhu Zhanji also consulted his subordinates on whether to punish them, but was later persuaded to dispel this idea.

First of all, even if it is landed from Bombay, the distance from Delhi is 2,200 miles, and according to the current normal marching speed of 50 miles a day, this trip will take 80 days just to go back and forth, not to mention the war.

Secondly, Zhu Zhanji can't finish everything, Zhu Di now wants to crusade against Timur, which is what he wants to do himself, and he wants to go down in history.

Zhu Zhanji intervened and came in, and if he was defeated, it was good to say that Zhu Di would rush to avenge him. If he wins the battle, Zhu Di will still be annoyed with him.

You are a grandson, you are not honest, just grab credit with your grandfather, and don't want to get mixed up.

So Zhu Zhanji has decided, what he has to do this time is to understand the various terrains of West Asia and prepare for future wars, instead of grabbing credit.

As long as the other party doesn't mess with him, he will settle down a little.

On this trip, his main focus was on Europe, to make the European buns bold, and not to let them develop the navigation industry.

The flagship finally docked at a newly built pier on the South Island in the bay, and standing on the bow of the ship, you can clearly see that not far from the pier, there is a splendid palace-like building.

Due to Zhu Zhanji's special emphasis on greenery, although the palace is mainly a brick and wood structure, it still retains a large number of trees.

In the eyes of Indians, it is too extravagant to build a palace just to welcome the arrival of a prince.

Zhu Zhanji had no intention of explaining that this was to prepare for Zhu Di's westward expedition in the next two years, so that they could misunderstand and show the glory of the Ming Dynasty.

After the nine gun salutes were completed, the flagship also docked steadily, led by Wang Jinghong, leading the major vassal kings of southern India to bow down three times.

Zhu Zhanji showed that the pompous dragon chariot was on the boat that had arrived earlier, and at this time it was already placed on the dockside, and eight horses were waiting to leave under the comfort of the groom.

The dragon robe of the Son of Heaven is a five-clawed golden dragon, and although the dragon robe worn by Zhu Zhanji looks the same as that of the Son of Heaven, it only has four claws.

Another difference is the crown. The crown of the Son of Heaven has twelve, and Zhu Zhanji wears a nine-fold crown.

With Zhu Zhanji's disembarkation, the royal dragon flag on the ship was also lowered, and the honor guard of 99 people also stood on both sides of the red carpet below, waiting for Zhu Zhanji's arrival.

Of course, the current red carpet is not a carpet, but just red silk, although silk is expensive, but it is nothing to Daming.

But that kind of densely woven blanket is a luxury for Daming.

This red carpet is not something that anyone can walk, except for Zhu Zhanji and the children of the clan, only his concubines can walk. Even Zheng He, a deputy marshal like Xue Lu, who greeted him, couldn't leave.

This kind of pomp shocked almost all the people who came to greet him, those Indian vassal kings, looking at Zhu Zhanji's expressions full of envy and admiration.

Silk is more expensive than gold, but now it is only for paving the ground.

There is also this magnificent guard of honor, the fleet that covers the sky and the sun, all of which cannot explain the wealth and strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Many of them can only rely on pony carts when they go out, and even some poor ones can solve the problem with a sliding rod.

They never thought that a hundred people would need to wait for a person to travel alone, and even if they were spitting, there were people waiting for them with a spittoon.

walked out of the red carpet, and at the end was Zhu Zhanji's dragon chariot. The newly built cement road is wide and smooth, and everyone stands on both sides, and the sandwich road is welcome.

Yu Linwei's soldiers had already disembarked and lined up on both sides of the road to prevent anyone from ramming the dragon.

They were all carefully selected, all of them were tall and expressionless, one held a musket in his hand, and the other held a horizontal knife hilt, crossed and lined up, separating the distance between the local natives of Zhu Zhanji.

Not to mention, such a posture is very frightening, and those natives saw these soldiers, and their legs were weak.

Zhu Zhanji sat on the dragon chariot, and under the escort of the three thousand feather forest guards, the dragon chariot walked slowly.

After his dragon chariot passed, the natives waiting on both sides could line up and follow behind in turn, heading towards the newly renovated palace.

Now there is no welcoming ceremony for the Hereafter, because of the language barrier, and the decree will not be read or anything.

When they arrived at the palace, it was time for Zhu Zhanji to receive them in turn.

Zhu Zhanji was also thinking about it in his heart, although this kind of ritual was already in place, it seemed that some music was still missing.

In the future, at the welcome ceremony, some drum music will be used to add some momentum.

Zhu Zhanji was standing next to Liu Wan, and he also made a lot of efforts to build the palace this time. I haven't seen Zhu Zhanji for half a year, and at this time I introduced the construction of this palace to Zhu Zhanji.

The palace is not far from the wharf, covering an area of about 50,000 square meters, and there is a moat outside, and there is no city wall on the inner side of the moat, but a circle of walls about 1.5 meters high is repaired with bricks and cement.

This height is also the height at which the Ming soldiers are standing and aiming.

There is an urn city at each of the four corners of the palace, plus the urn city at the front and back gates, a total of six. Each urn city can accommodate 500 soldiers, and they are also responsible for the perimeter security of the entire palace.

For a newly built palace, there can be a wall, an urn city, and a front and rear palaces on the inside, which is already very satisfying to Zhu Zhanji.

He casually praised Liu Wan a few words, and the guy laughed contentedly.

After Zhu Zhanji entered the palace, he didn't go to the harem to change clothes and wash, but came directly to the main hall.

After the internal servants and the Ministry of Rites, the Jinyi Guard made proper arrangements, and began to summon the vassal kings.

Because there are too many people, a banquet full of Ming flavor will be arranged after the reception, so this time the reception did not come one by one, but entered the main hall together.

If the lord of the kingdom and the prince come together, they will meet the two of them, but if the lord of the kingdom does not arrive, only the prince or the envoy will be seen.

Even so, when the representatives of the two hundred and thirty-one city-states had met in turn, and each of them had simply said a few words through the general affairs, more than an hour had passed.

Everyone was hungry, so they directly arranged to eat on the flat ground of the martial arts arena in the side courtyard.

For this banquet, Wang Jinghong has been preparing for two months. From the Eight Immortals table for eating, the Taishi chair, to the position that everyone should arrange.

From the setting of each dish to the preparation of the raw materials, it took him a lot of thought.

There are nearly 600 guests, and there are more than this number of people who are qualified to serve on the table on the Ming side, and then each table will also arrange a high-level general or a clan, a translator, and a total of 150 tables will be placed in the courtyard.

Such a large-scale banquet and a wide variety of dishes all made the small vassal kings of these city-states look like dirt buns that have never seen the world.

They don't have the habit of using chopsticks at all, and they don't know how to use them, so in order to accommodate them, most of today's dishes can also be grasped by hand.

This made it convenient for them, but it also made most of the Daming guests not eat well.

They don't use paper to poop, they wipe and wash it with their left hand, although it's not a hand, but it's also disgusting!

After eating, the vassal kings went back to their palaces with satisfaction, waiting for Zhu Zhanji's private reception.

The island on the inner side of the bay of Kezhi, which is ten miles long and five miles wide, has been sold to the Ming Dynasty by the Kezhi Kingdom for five hundred gold coins.

On the north side of the island was the dock area and the Ming palace, but the south side was provided by the Ming to other Indian vassal kings free of charge, so that they could build palaces or consulates.

Almost all the vassal kings have built their own houses on a few acres of land, even if they don't live here, they will trade with the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Therefore, some poor vassal kings simply built a large warehouse.

"Your Highness, this is the order in which you will receive the vassal kings. There are four hours a day, and the time for the meeting in each country is a quarter of an hour, and it takes eight days to see them all. ”

As a leader, there are some things that must be done, just like this kind of reception, which cannot be shirked.

Zhu Zhanji also knew that this was a procedure that had to be experienced, so he took the list and asked, "In what order is this order?" ”

"The first is the lord of the Kezhi Kingdom, and then the representative of the Delhi Sultanate, the most powerful here, and the following order is arranged in the thousand-character script after the translation of the Chinese characters of the name of the country."

What Wang Jinghong didn't say was that for this order of reception, the lords of all countries were arguing, and he also mediated for a long time before he persuaded all countries to follow the rules of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "This arrangement is good, although this is the Western Regions, but since I recognize the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain, we should follow our rules." ”

Wang Jinghong smiled bitterly: "That's what I said, but now in the Western Regions, there are only more than 20 countries that are willing to recognize me as the suzerain, and most of them are countries by the sea. Those who are not close to the sea are almost all in contact with my Daming for the first time, and it is not easy to make them obedient. ”

Zhu Zhanji can also understand, I am a high emperor and far away, and I have little to do with you, there is no threat to survival, so why bother to find a father for myself.

Those countries that are close to the sea want to take advantage of Daming here. Just like the lord of the mountain country of Ceylon, Alie Kuner, saw that the Ming Dynasty made a lot of money from trading with Indian countries, so he was red-eyed and wanted to grab money and ships.

It's just that he overestimated the strength of his own people and underestimated the strength of the Ming soldiers.

The 50,000 soldiers were defeated by less than 10,000 naval soldiers organized by Zheng He.

Zheng He only led 2,000 soldiers, and he was able to directly attack their capital and capture Yarekunar alive.

"Do you know what the Delhi Sultanate thinks while not allowing other countries to come, but at the same time sending people of its own?"

Wang Jinghong was obviously prepared, and said unhurriedly: "Your Highness Mingjian, this Delhi Sultanate only became the Sayyid Dynasty the year before last, and their lord still needs the support of the Timurid Kingdom because he has just ascended the throne......"

"What does the Sayyid dynasty mean? One Sultanate still has so many fame? ”

Wang Jinghong said: "The Delhi Sultanate has gone through four dynasties since its founding 200 years ago. They have a similar inheritance pattern to the Mengyuan people, the previous lord died, and they inherited the throne according to the size of their power, although these four dynasties were all Delhi Sultanates, but they were not related by blood. ”

Zhu Zhanji understood, this is a newly seized throne, and his power is definitely not very big. It is necessary to curry favor with Timur on the one hand, and bully the surrounding small countries according to the instructions and sow discord.

He thought for a moment and asked, "You've been here for a few months, what do you think?" Do you need me to teach me a lesson? ”

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