From the attack on April 30 to the suicide of Ashikaga Yoshinori on June 26 and the capture of Emperor Jomitsu alive, the military campaign against Toei lasted only two months before it was a complete victory.

However, from the thirteenth year of Yongle to Zhu Zhanji's official plan for the Dongying Raiders, a full year and a half has passed now.

Even from Zhu Zhanji's first military operation to the present, it has been going on for more than nine months.

Because of Zhu Zhanji's strategy of boiling frogs in warm water, although the Ming Dynasty exploited tens of millions of taels of silver from Dongying this time, he also looted countless materials and antiques.

But most of these materials came from the generals and famous lords who were originally hostile to the Ming Dynasty, so the existing generals and famous lords in the entire Dongying did not have a bad impression of the Ming Dynasty.

They even have a closer dependence on Daming because of the free trade policy that Daming is now underway.

Especially those middle and lower class people and slave laborers, they used to be unable to afford to wear clothes and have enough to eat, but now they have cheap fabrics and low-cost food, and they have a better impression of Daming.

On the second day of August, when the main fleet of the Ming Dynasty left Osaka Bay, hundreds of thousands of people from Dongying came to Osaka to see them off.

Although their main purpose is to see off their lord, there are also a considerable number of people who are somewhat reluctant to let go of the Ming soldiers.

They were afraid that after the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty left, prices would rise again. After learning that Daming had not broken off contact with Dongying and would set up a permanent city division, he was relieved.

Seeing this scene, the last trace of worry in Zhu Zhanji's heart disappeared completely.

In this era, although the concept of the country and the nation has been established, it is still the family and the country.

The common people don't really care who is the emperor and who rules, except that the middle and upper classes will have some resistance, and the lower class people will support whoever can lead me to a good life.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Zhanji was also thinking secretly. If it weren't for the people's wisdom and enlightenment of the Republic of China in later generations, if Dongying had proposed a ***** circle at the end of the Qing Dynasty and invaded the mainland decades in advance, I am afraid it would have been really possible for them to succeed.

But they are decades late......

From the rise of resistance consciousness in the late Qing Dynasty to the warlord melee in the Republic of China, the collision of various ideologies and cultures has led to earth-shaking changes in the perception of the world among ordinary people.

Therefore, even if they later occupied almost half of the Far East, it was too late.

The awakening of national consciousness and the transformation of the world's colonial history from land possession to economic control made the Dongying people finally fail.

Having said that, although Zhu Zhanji feels that Dongying and North Korea are a burden, and only wants to use their productive forces, he does not want to be dragged down by their population.

But it seems very feasible to divide politically and unify ideologically.

The Koreans, Dongying and the Ming Dynasty are basically the same race, and in appearance, they are more similar to the Han people than the Mongol Yuan, Tibetans, and ethnic minorities in the southwest.

Moreover, they are also deeply influenced by Confucian culture, and they have the same roots and origins in culture, and this ideological unity is very feasible.

Although the Southwest and Northern Yuan and the Han people were not of the same race, because of the connection of land, Zhu Zhanji would never give up political unity.

Although they are destined to become a burden to the Ming Dynasty at the economic level, there is a need for political unity.

Dongying is lonely overseas, only two neighboring countries, Daming and North Korea, with many people and little land, and barren land, so it is the natural human resources of Daming.

The unity of thought can make them work for the Ming Dynasty with all their hearts. Political separation, do not belong to a country, but the Ming people are better than the Dongying people, which will make the Dongying people become a Ming people as the goal of their life.

As long as the level of the world does not change, every born Dongying person will strive to become a Ming person.

This is more beneficial than the Ming Dynasty ruling them directly.

As for North Korea, although this place is connected to the mainland, the natural environment of the country is similar to that of Dongying, and it cannot be a pedal for the development of the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Zhanji has not considered them for the time being.

Anyway, they are currently treated the same as Dongying, maybe a hundred years later, they will cry and shout that they want to join the Ming Dynasty.

Along with the Ming fleet, hundreds of representatives of the Toei, led by Ashikaga Yoshitsugu, the fifth shogun of the current shogunate, presented their credentials to the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, they are also some upper-class people who admire Daming culture and want to maintain a closer relationship with Daming.

In addition to politics, there is also the economy......

For a country that does not have enough to eat and no clothes to wear, it is lucky for them to be able to buy these things through the gold and silver in the mountains.

But after thousands of years of long-term exchanges, Dongying not only wants to buy, but also wants to be able to create their own.

Therefore, learning from the Ming Dynasty is also the consensus of people of insight in this era.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji will not teach them the most advanced technology, but it is still possible to teach them some low-level technology through industrial adjustment, and then affect their domestic economy in this way.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji will never let them be fed, because this country is a white-eyed wolf, and when they are fed, they will expect more.

Anyway, it is to hang them and give them some benefits, but they can't be fed too much.

These Dongying people don't know Zhu Zhanji's thoughts, although the Ming Dynasty burned Osaka this time, and even almost burned Kyoto, but it also directly suppressed a large number of generals and famous lords in power.

Those who can come to Daming with them have more or less benefited from it, and they are currently loyal to Daming.

The exploration trade became free trade, and most of the generals and lords wanted to establish a deeper cooperative relationship with the internal supervisors of the Ming Dynasty.

Especially the local tyrants who have some minerals on their own territory are bent on expanding their strength.

Ashikaga Yoshiji can be regarded as the happiest one this time, and he easily became the ruler of Dongying, which he couldn't have imagined before the Ming Dynasty sent troops.

Since he was a child, he has lived under the obscenity of his brother, like a dark cloud, hanging over him.

Now that the dark clouds have dispersed, even the royal family has been taken to Daming, and now Dongying, except for those rebels in the south, there is nothing to worry him about.

Militarily he couldn't help much, so Hino Yasuko and Ashikaga Mitsutaka sent him to Daimei to show goodwill.

Two months ago, he couldn't believe that he could become the master of Toei, because Ashikaga Yoshinori's power was too great.

In fact, it is. Historically, he also rebelled this year, but unfortunately, in the original history, he was the losing side.

After his failed rebellion, Ashikaga Yoshinori imprisoned him. After two years in captivity, the impact was not so great, so I killed him directly.

"Commander Ji, where are we going now?"

Relying on his close relationship with Kitsuna, Yamana Clan did not take a boat with other lords and generals, but mixed a cabin on the Nishikie Guard.

Kitsuna also needs to win over a desperate ally near Iwami Province, and now although the Yamana clan has become the guardian of Nagato Province, he is still the weakest. Because he is the weakest, he needs to rely on the support of Daming, so Ji Gang feels that he is more worthy of support.

Of course, Ji Gang knew the sailing route of the fleet, and said with a smile: "Now that the Zhongshan Kingdom basically rules the Ryukyus, His Royal Highness Taisun has agreed to his request and will go to the Ryukyus, so we have to go around." ”

On this trip back to Daming, Ji Gang was ready to take off the post of commander of the Jinyi Guard. Although the next official position has not yet been determined, Iwami has been promised to him by his grandson, and this time when he goes back, he will also bring all his family to Dongying.

Daming he can't stay anymore, even if he has made great contributions in Dongying this time, but he has controlled Jinyiwei for more than ten years, and he doesn't know how many enemies he has set up.

In order to calm the people's anger, even if Zhu Di attaches great importance to him, he will not offend a large number of civil ministers and military generals for him.

Therefore, it is safer to stay away from the whirlpool of Daming, and his resignation, which is like exile, can at least calm some public anger.

Now that Taisun has promised to let him become the guardian of Iwami Country, although there is only one county to govern the land, it is much better to be a soil emperor here than to stay in the country.

What's more, although Toei is poor, Iwami is not poor. Others thought of Dongying as a barbarian land, but he liked this hierarchical country.

Because here, he can justifiably be powerful.

As the royal family of Dongying, more than 200 members of the Chengguang and family are alone on a treasure ship. In addition to the sailors on the ship, there were only some internal supervisors of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Dongying learned everything from the mainland, only the eunuch culture did not learn the past.

This is mainly because the Dongying royal family is not a centralized royal family, and their franchise-style political system does not make people willing to castrate to serve them.

Secondly, the animal husbandry industry in Dongying is not developed, and their domestication of domestic animals is very backward. Don't say that in ancient times, even during the period of the Eight-Nation Alliance, their military horses were not gelding.

Why, because no one knows how to do it!

Therefore, their royal family generally uses the nobles of the General's Mansion and the Famous Lord's Mansion to serve. These noble ladies generally enter the palace to serve for a few years when they are teenagers, and then go back to marry.

When they were escorted to Daming, except for a few female officials who were willing to follow, most of them returned home.

It's impossible for the royal family to be left unattended, not to mention anything else, washing clothes, emptying the toilet, you can't let their princess and princess do it themselves.

However, Zhu Zhanji told them not to worry, there were many eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, and just these people, they could arrange one or two hundred people to serve them.

And with the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, they can monitor their lives even more.

Unlike other jubilant people, all the royal family members are worried, although the Ming Dynasty is prosperous, but their fate cannot be in their own hands from now on.

Moreover, the General's Mansion is only willing to give them 200,000 taels of silver every year, which can only maintain a relatively decent life, and if they want to do more, they can't do it.

Living only on the silver, many members who are accustomed to all kinds of luxuries feel that the future is dark.

Zhu Zhanji didn't care so much, he couldn't wait for the shogunate not to give them a tael of silver, so that they could eat bran vegetables tomorrow.

Of course, this is not practical. At least for now, most of the Dongying people still recognize the rule of the royal family, and it is almost impossible to let the Ming Dynasty replace the royal family for decades.

They have now become dishes in their own pots, they can eat as much as they want, they don't want to eat, and they can be thrown away as garbage.

He is now thinking about Southern Ryukyus, which has not yet become his own pot dish, that is, Wanwan.

The name Wanwan is not yet available, and the official positioning of Wanwan is also very vague, sometimes it is called Southern Ryukyus, sometimes it is called Dongban.

Since the Yuan Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Division has been set up here, which is subordinate to Tong'an County, Quanzhou Road, Fujian.

Zhu Yuanzhang also inherited this tradition during his reign until the 20th year of Hongwu, when Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the sea ban and moved the Han residents on the island to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou.

Although the sea ban has not been canceled, it has become a virtual reality, so Zhu Zhanji decided to strike while the iron was hot and solve the Dongfan problem.

During the Zhu Yuanzhang period, he indiscriminately moved all the Han people back to the mainland, regardless of the fact that these people already had a large industry in Dongfan.

Until now, the Han people who moved back from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou still run to the east every year.

Fujian has many mountains and few lands, and the population is dense, although there are only a few plains in the west, but there are fewer people.

After the Han people moved back, there were only a few ethnic minorities there, and the total population was probably less than 100,000. Compared with the tens of millions of people in later generations, the current population is pitifully small.

Therefore, he was nominally going to the Ryukyus this time, mainly for the sake of Toban. There are some things that must be promoted faster by his grandson.

Needless to say, the establishment of the Inspection Division will definitely be carried out by the Third Fleet in Taipei and Tainan, and even if it is not for occupation, it can be used as a relay point in the Age of Discovery.

Of course, the matter of immigration cannot be ignored, Fujian has many people and few places, and it is a natural place for immigrants, and there is no conflict at all.

Moreover, there is another very important reason for immigrating to Dongfan, and that is camphor.

In later generations, many people simply did not know what camphor was.

Even Zhu Zhanji, every time he was a child, he saw the smelly white mothballs in the big closet at home, and they were almost invisible later.

But in this era, camphor is a miracle medicine and an extremely important strategic material.

The application of camphor is very early, and it has been used as medicine in the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasty. It has the effects of customs clearance, stagnation, turbidity, insecticide and itching, swelling and pain, and is mainly used to treat symptoms such as itching, bruises, and toothache.

Nowadays, in the army fighting in the southwest, each soldier distributes a medicine with camphor ingredients in the medicine bag, which can prevent miasma.

Dongfan can be called the "Camphor Kingdom" because almost all of the northern mountain forests here are camphor forests, and many of them are more than 1,000 years old.

For the Ming army to attack the world, camphor is an indispensable material. What's more, nowadays, because camphor is valuable, many people can't afford it, and their clothes at home are often eaten by rats and insects.

Therefore, the development of the camphor economy hundreds of years in advance will not be out of place because of time.

After two days of sailing, the ship arrived at Shuri, the capital of the Ryukyu Nakayama Kingdom. At this time, the Third Fleet had completed its escort mission, and the fleet that wanted to return to Shuizhai turned to the northwest direction.

Even so, the fleet stranded in Shuri still exceeded 100,000 people, which is more than the current population of the Ryukyus.

The king of the Zhongshan Kingdom, Shang Bazhi, was only forty-five years old this year, and he became famous as a young man, replacing his father as Sashiki Kiji. In the fourth year of Yongle, he raised an army to defeat Wuning, the king of Zhongshan, seized the throne of Zhongshan, and took charge of the state with his father as the nominal king of Zhongshan.

At the beginning of this year, he followed Zhu Zhanji's wishes and attacked the disobedient Beishan Kingdom.

The minister of the Beishan Kingdom and Shangba Zhili should join forces with the outside world and attack the capital of the Beishan Kingdom. Pan Anzhi, the king of Beishan Kingdom, killed himself in the city, Beishan perished, and the ancestral sword Chiyo Kanimaru of the Beishan royal family also fell into his hands.

Today's Ryukyus no longer have the Kitayama country, but there is still the Nansan country.

Last year, Wang Yingzu, the king of Shannan, sent people to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute and ask for the lord because his father was killed. This is the first time that Nanshan has submitted a request for canonization to the Ming Dynasty.

In May of the same year, Zhu Di sent Chen Jifang and others to Nanshan Kingdom to issue an edict and named Ta Lumei as the king of Ryukyu Mountain.

Because of this relationship, Zhu Zhanji did not agree to Shang Bazhi's request to attack Shannan, Zhu Di only made Shannan King last year, how could he destroy him this year.

What's more, Zhu Zhanji didn't want Shang Bazhi to dominate the Ryukyus, although they had always served the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Zhanji didn't want him to be too independent and lose his restraints.

In order to intimidate the king of Shannan, Shang Bazhi proposed to contribute the Chiyo Kanimaru Treasure Sword to Zhu Zhanji. In fact, he just wanted Zhu Zhanji to support him when he returned to China and warn King Shannan not to make trouble for him in the back.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji did not refuse such a request. Gathering the kings of various countries is the homework that he, the future emperor, must do, so he has the arrangement to run here during the typhoon season.

However, Zhu Zhanji only stayed here for half a day, and the fleet did not disembark at all, because the population of the country of Ryukyu was about the same as the number of the fleet, and there was no such large reception capacity at all.

Zhu Zhanji was also afraid that the time would stay too long, and he would be forced to suffer when a typhoon came.

Arriving at Shuri, which was located a little north of Naha in later generations, Zhu Zhanji also accepted Shang Pazhi's request and went to his palace for a meal.

It is said to be a palace, but it is not as big as the mansion of the Ming Dynasty, and this king is extremely hard.

Here he also met the king of Shannan, Ta Lumei, a sturdy young man of only twenty-five years old, who looked very brave.

However, this kind of sturdiness is only relative to ordinary people, and for Zhu Zhanji, he is not enough.

In the face of such a rambling army, he, like Shang Bazhi, did not show any dissatisfaction at all.

Hearing them say that there were only more than 3,000 soldiers in the country, Zhu Zhanji felt a little speechless, and he was also wondering if he was too influenced by later generations because he looked up to them so much.

Now such a country is really nothing!

Two countries, less than 3,000 people are fighting around, this is not the same as a child's house.

He was still excited to mediate with them, but at this time he was also discouraged.

It was only when he was about to get on the boat that he said to the two: "You are just such a small number of people, don't fight in the future." In the future, I will honestly plant sugarcane, and then transport it to Daming, and I will want as much as you produce here. Earn more money and buy some cloth for the common people to make clothes. ”

It's summer, and Shuri Castle is a little better, and there are still some nobles in clothes. Outside the city, men and women, young and old, almost all of them just put a piece of cloth around their waists and used it as clothing.

Some didn't even have a cloth and just walked naked on the side of the road. Especially the older ones, all of them are extremely ugly and have no beauty at all.

Looking at those swarthy bodies and shriveled **, Zhu Zhanji wondered if he would become a wilted brother if he had seen too much.

When the boat arrived at the chicken coop, good luck ran out and they encountered the second typhoon of the year.

The first time I was in Osaka, because I had prepared for it, and because it was in the bay, there was a barrier from Wakayama, so the wind was not very strong.

But this time, after Zheng He and Si Tianjian's men predicted a typhoon, they hurried to Jilong Bay, and then lowered more than a hundred ships, connected them, and tied them together to resist the storm.

There were more than a dozen ships that could not stop inside the bay and stopped outside the bay, and as a result, half of the dozen ships were capsized, and the remaining few masts were also broken.

In this era, when you encounter a typhoon, you can only rely on luck. Wooden ships have a shallow draft, their hulls are not as strong as steel, and they simply do not have any ability to resist in the face of nature.

The typhoon lasted for three days, and it rained heavily for three days, but fortunately, the ship entered the bay before the typhoon arrived, and there were fewer than ten casualties.

Liu Sheng, who originally thought that he was used to life at sea, realized at this time how approachable the sea was before. He didn't get seasick, but it's been dark in the past few days.

When the typhoon passed, he faced Zhu Zhanji and comforted himself and said: "The old minister used to feel that he was old, and he often sighed for his spleen, but this time he went on an expedition, his stomach was smaller, his legs were thinner, and he should serve His Highness for another twenty years." ”

Zhu Zhanji laughed and said: "There are talented people in the country, and they have led the way for hundreds of years. An Yuanhou is not satisfied with the old man and has commendable ambitions, but if Daming can't do without you all the time, wouldn't it be a dereliction of duty for us? ”

Liu Sheng slapped his big hand and exclaimed, "This poem was written by His Royal Highness?" In the future, who dares to say that His Royal Highness is slightly inferior in style, see that I don't slap in the face! ”

Huang Yuan was also stunned, and sighed: "Your Highness, Weichen heard that this poem is like a lower one, has there ever been a whole poem?" ”

Zhu Zhanji was also stunned, he never wanted to be a copyist, has this poem not come out yet?

He himself was not sure......

He could only disguise it and say: "This is a feeling, but there is no special idea, just treat it as a residual sentence......"

Zheng He continued: "Although it is a fragment sentence and the language is straightforward, the meaning is profound and majestic, and it seems that His Royal Highness has its own hills and valleys in his chest......"

Zhu Zhanji was ashamed and hurriedly said, "Stop, stop." It's just a momentary feeling, and it shouldn't be so praised. I have a few pounds and a few taels, and I still have a number in my heart. What's more, poetry is a trail, and in my eyes, it is not as useful as a good strategy. ”

Several people were familiar with his personality, and they all shook their heads and laughed, but they didn't let him go, and they had to ask him to write a couplet for each of them, so they put it away contentedly.

Zhu Zhanji is really ashamed, he has never known shame, but he even feels hot on his face.

(The day before yesterday, it broke out 12,000, and then it was scrapped all at once, and I am still adjusting...... Fight for another outbreak. ）