In June of the 43rd year of Orthodoxy, Xie Yun entered the Red Sea along the Suez Canal, and arrived at the city of Hanzhou in the middle of the east coast of Xizhou on the ninth day of June.

The city is located almost in the future Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania, and is a famous natural harbor in East Africa.

Over the years, the Han Dynasty used this as a base to conquer most of southern Africa, plundering millions of indigenous people, and then castrating them and selling them to Dongzhou and Nanzhou.

In the early stage of development, Hanju had natural advantages over Jinju.

First of all, there are more indigenous people in Central Africa, and the more indigenous people there are, the more people there are, the more silver they can sell, and the trade is more developed.

Secondly, it is closer to South Asia and South Continent, and the transportation is more convenient.

It is also for this reason that the development of the Han Wangfu is much faster than that of the Jin Wangfu.

Today, Hanzhou occupies almost all of East Africa and has expanded its sphere of influence to Angola and Congo.

The northern part of the country has also expanded to Somalia and Ethiopia, and the main reason why it has not expanded northward is because there are many deserts and the land is barren.

Moreover, the population base of Hanzhou Prefecture is still too low, and the territory is too large to manage.

Because it occupies four million square kilometers of fertile land, the strength of Hanzhou Prefecture is one of the largest states in the entire Ming Dynasty.

This land is almost equivalent to the later Huaxia, from Hebei to Guangdong, and most of it is arable land and grassland.

Because of this, the Han Wangfu has had some inflated ideas in recent years.

In the era of Zhu Gaoxu, he was already frightened by Zhu Zhanji's methods, and he had been very low-key until his death in the tenth year of orthodoxy.

However, just because he is willing to admit defeat does not mean that his sons are willing to admit defeat.

Zhu Gaoxi gave birth to a total of eleven sons, except for the eldest son, who died young, the other ten sons all grew up.

This is equivalent to the fact that in the territory of the Han Wangfu, there is a prince of the Han Dynasty and nine county kings.

His ten sons gave birth to more than 100 grandsons for the Han line, all of whom are now scattered.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the prince has 3,000 guards, 500 guards, 400 guards of the county king, and then more than 100 generals of the town state, and there are more than 10,000 guards authorized by the imperial court to set up.

The more sons born, the greater the power, which is the most advantageous point of the Ming Dynasty clan.

After Zhu Gaoxi's death, Zhu Zhanqi succeeded to the throne of Han, and he was jealous of Zhu Zhanji's cousin. Because of him, although the Han Wangfu has always been superficially obedient to the imperial court, it has no intention of being close.

However, Zhu Zhanqi was also short-lived, he was the king of Han for five years before he died of illness. When his eldest son Zhu Qipai succeeded to the throne of Han, this person was as timid as a mouse, and his relationship with the court became closer and closer.

However, after he died in the 31st year of orthodoxy and Zhu Jianzhu succeeded to the throne, he was deeply influenced by his grandfather Zhu Zhanqi, and the power of the Han Dynasty became greater, so he was a little disobedient to the imperial court.

However, he also knew very well that although the Han Wangfu was powerful, its population was less than three million, which could not be mentioned compared with the more than 300 million people in the world in the Ming Dynasty.

Not only is the population too far apart, but the technology, economy, and industry of Hanzhou cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty. So at least on the surface, they remained loyal to the court.

Xie Yun knew very well that this obedience was based on the disparity in power. In the next few decades, when the population of Hanzhou exceeded 10 million and became more and more powerful, their obedience to the Ming Dynasty would be greatly reduced.

For the stability of the Ming Dynasty and the prevention of microaggressions, now that the emperor is in full bloom, it is the best time to solve this hidden danger.

Although the power of Hanzhou is strong now, the economy of Hanzhou still needs the support of the Ming Dynasty.

And the people here are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, although they are now obeying the words of the Han Wangfu, but if they want to follow the Han King to rebel, I am afraid that most people will not be attached to the Han Wangfu.

What the Han Wangfu can rely on is mainly its own personal guards, because the fate of these people is really tied to the Han Wangfu.

But their number is pitiful, even if the Han Wangfu relies on its own money, the number of private troops raised is nearly 30,000, but compared to the Ming Dynasty, they are still weak and pitiful.

Xie Yun's idea was to cut off the relationship between the Han Palace, the private army of the Han Palace, and the army under the imperial court.

can't carry the people, and the Han Wangfu can only be obedient.

Of course, this step is not easy, because the current Hanzhou Mansion has been divided into ten regions, except for the Prince's Mansion to govern the largest area, the other nine county kings have also built cities in various places.

Their forces are scattered, and it is not easy to catch them all.

However, the imperial court now had a sharp weapon, not a repeating gun, but a radio station.

Before this mission, Xie Yun did not want to be a soldier except for his own guards, and only asked the imperial court to open the signal network between Daming and Xizhou as soon as possible, so that Xizhou could directly hear Daming's broadcast.

With radio and wireless telegraphy, the situation in Xizhou not only could not be concealed from the imperial court, but more importantly, the people of Hanzhou Mansion would not be stupidly used by the Han Palace.

Of course, relying entirely on one mouth, he wants to make the Han Wangfu accept the conditions of the imperial court, which is not realistic, so what he still wants to rely on is the 60,000 elite soldiers of the Golden City.

From the previous year, the Ming army gradually changed from flintlock pistols to repeating guns.

The Ming soldiers of the Golden City began to change their outfits in the second batch, but until now, the armies of the Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty are still using old flintlock pistols.

There is a gap in weapons, and then control public opinion and propaganda, as long as his methods are not too excessive, the two royal palaces may only be obedient.

In the port of Hanzhou City, Zhu Jianzhu sat on the third floor of the restaurant built by the Han Wangfu at the port, looking at the envoy ship slowly entering the port, his face was gloomy.

He was not happy not because of the ships entering the port, but because the harbor kept sounding loud horns.

Since more than half a year ago, the imperial court began to install wind turbines and tweeters in Hanzhou City and the ten major cities in Hanzhou, and he felt that something was wrong.

Whether it is the construction of signal towers, wind turbines, or tweeters, it requires a lot of costs.

When did the imperial court do a loss-making business, how could it be possible to install it for free in cities in Hanzhou without the cost of one or two silver.

But he can't say he doesn't want this kind of free thing, so he can only have the officials of the Ministry of Industry install such a set of things in every city.

Subsequently, the appearance of wireless telegraphy already made him feel threatened. The original Xizhou and Daming could not talk directly.

If the Ming Dynasty had any news to reach Xizhou, it had to be transmitted to the Yingzhou Mansion by telegram, and then a clipper ship would be sent from there to deliver the message.

Although most of the journey has been saved, it will take seven or eight days to transmit the message from Yingzhou Mansion to Hanzhou Mansion.

But now, the instructions of the imperial court can be directly transmitted to the Hanzhou Mansion, and the political envoys of the Hanzhou Mansion are not as well-behaved as before.

In particular, in the past six months, telegrams from the Department of Communications and the Department of Information have been transmitted incessantly. Even if he let people stare at the telegraph room, and arranged for his own people to enter the telegraph room, he still didn't know how much unfavorable news came back to Daming.

As a feudal overseas prince, his every move was watched by the imperial court, which made him feel like a fish in his throat when he was used to being free.

What made him even more uncomfortable was the loudspeaker that began to sound later, and this novelty attracted countless people from the beginning.

When various programs start to be played in the loudspeaker for two hours a day, it is even more attractive for adults and children to sit around the loudspeaker every day.

He didn't understand why the sound of the Ming Dynasty could travel across tens of thousands of miles to Xizhou.

Moreover, what came out of the loudspeaker was not only the sound of the court, but also many policies, decrees, and anecdotes from various places.

Even an ordinary person knew that there was a phone in Ying Tianfu and could talk thousands of miles away. Knowing that the water of the Huai River is fierce this summer, the people of Jianghuai are preparing to fight the flood.

Even sometimes, the emperor will speak in person in the speaker, and in the speaker, the emperor is a saint who cares about the people and cares about the good and bad life of every people.

But Zhu Jianzhu knows very well that this uncle is actually a ruthless person, and there is no family affection at all.

However, only the court can speak in the loudspeaker, and only what the court broadcasts and what they listen to. He just wanted to express his will, but he couldn't.

Seeing that the people's hearts that the Han Palace's maintenance for decades had been won over by the imperial court little by little, Zhu Jianzhu couldn't do anything.

He was still waiting for the imperial court to change his clothes, and he knew that the power of the current repeating pistol far exceeded that of the flintlock pistols of the soldiers in the Han Palace.

But now, the repeater has not been reloaded, and the radio is constantly ringing every day.

If this continues, the rule of the Han Dynasty will be dismantled little by little. The people will only talk about the good of the court and the good of the emperor, as for what the Han palace did and how much it paid, who remembers?

He wants to revitalize the Han Palace, and wants to tell the world that their Han Palaces are no worse than the original prince. If it weren't for Taizong's reversal and the establishment of Zhu Gaochi as the crown prince, today's world should be the Han Palace.

But now it seems that it is getting farther and farther away from that goal.

He knew what Xie Yun was here for, and he didn't see that the Han Wangfu had a good time these years, so he came to fight the autumn breeze.

These traitors, as long as they have silver, everything is fine, if they don't stuff enough silver, they don't know how much right and wrong they have to move when they go back.

I'm afraid this is also what that uncle meant, he used various means to weaken the strong domain, not because he was afraid of instability.

"Lord Wang, the envoy has disembarked, we should go and greet him."

Zhu Jianzhu retracted his thoughts, and saw that a group of red-clothed Jingwei had occupied various key roads on the dock, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously sneered. It seems that this scholar is also greedy for life and afraid of death. My Hanzhou Mansion has been galloping to Xizhou all these years, when did I go abroad! ”

Shi Hancong, the head of the palace, said with a smile: "These ministers are used to staying in the nest of wealth, and they always think that Xizhou is a barbarian land. ”

Zhu Jianzhu's smile faded, and he sighed: "In comparison, my Xizhou is really a barbarian land!" ”

He will never forget that when he was fifteen years old, he went to Beijing with his grandfather. The first time I returned to Daming, I saw the shock of the prosperity of Daming Middle Continent.

The dense high-rise buildings, the crowd rubbing shoulders, the rushing trains, and the bustling street markets all made him stunned.

He has lived in Hanzhou City since he was a child, and Hanzhou City, the largest city in Hanzhou Prefecture, has only 300,000 people.

The entire Hanzhou Mansion is more than 4 million square kilometers, and there are only 3 million Han people in total, which is not as many as a person in Yingtianfu.

Even with the Kunlun slaves here, the entire Xizhou is less than 10 million people, and it is not as large as the population of a Zhejiang political secretary.

He grew up on the grassland, and where had he ever seen such a prosperous scene. He asked his grandfather why they didn't live in Yingtianfu, and his grandfather just sighed bitterly.

He didn't dare to ask, but later, he looked for the answer himself, and he found the answer.

The original emperor should have been his great-grandfather, but this emperor snatched the throne of his great-ancestor, and they could only be sent to the barbaric Xizhou to be accompanied by Kunlun slaves.

The people of the Ming Dynasty enjoyed glory and wealth, but he, the prince, had to kill Kunlun slaves and castrate them to sell them in exchange for money.

There are countless minerals in Xizhou, but these minerals have to be handed over to the imperial court, and their royal palace can only get less than fifty percent.

It's all so unfair!

He also wants to live in the prosperous Yingtianfu, live in the palace like a city, and enjoy the happy life there.

Of course, no one dared to say anything about this dream. Don't say that having such a dream is against the yang and yin of the court, and you have to be cautious, and you don't dare to let people grab the handle.

On the dock, Xie Yun met Zhu Jianzhu, the king of Han who was only twenty-five years old this year.

Judging from the appearance, this prince is also a horse general, and he is strong. However, he acted calmly and moderately, and his mind was gloomy, which made Xie Yun couldn't help but think of Zhu Gaosui, the king of Zhao, whom he had seen many years ago.

This prince is not an ordinary person!

Zhu Jianzhu: Even if he is a prince, he must first meet Xie Yun, who is the emperor's special envoy.

Xie Yun didn't dare to accept the full courtesy, and then as a courtier, he visited the King of Han.

The two sides were smiling, talking and acting intimately, as if they had not seen each other for many years.

After the entourage of both sides finished the salute, Zhu Jianzhu warmly invited Xie Yun to settle in the palace courtyard. Xie Yunwan refused for a long time before Zhu Jianzhu dispelled this idea and lived in the yamen of the Internal Affairs Mansion not far from the palace.

Xie Yun came to fight with Zhu Jianzhu this time, how could he live in the palace courtyard. Not to mention anything else, the people who serve are all Han Wang's people, and you have to worry about someone listening to your subordinates when you say a word.

Sitting in the car, the smile on Zhu Jianzhu's face faded, and he sighed: "The tree wants to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop......"

"Bachelor Xie insisted on refusing to live in another hospital, I am afraid that this time I came with bad intentions."

"I don't need to remind this king to know, but I don't know if this uncle of mine will be embarrassed this time."

Han Cong said: "Do you want the old minister to send someone to the Jin Palace......

"No need, Zhu Zhongxuan and his people are as timid as a mouse, and they can't be complicit. However, it is also appropriate to send him a telegram, in addition to him, there are other twelve side princes' mansions on the other side of Nanzhou, all of whom sent a telegram. It is said that this king is anxious and wants to close his house, and this slave trade should be stopped in the future. ”

After thinking about it, Zhu Jianzhu felt that it was inappropriate, and said: "There is no need to say so, just say that my Han Wangfu is now short of manpower, and I want to ask each royal palace to send some additional collateral and personal guards to Xizhou to plan for mining." ”

He was afraid that he would say that he would ask to close the house, and if the court went directly down the slope, he would sit on wax.

Now please ask all the royal governments to send people to Xizhou to open mines, and they can attack and retreat, and they can defend it, so he doesn't believe that Grandpa has no face and doesn't come to deal with him, a grandchild.

A backyard of the yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has long been cleaned up.

Xie Yun moved in with the rest of his entourage, and without washing his face, he was busy meeting with officials at all levels of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the General Administration Department, the Internal Affairs Office, the Information Department, the General Administration Department, and the Judicial Department.

This busyness came to noon, presided over by Sun Jingwei, the political secretary of Hanzhou, and officials at all levels gathered together to catch the wind for the relief of the clouds.

Because it was noon, Xie Yun was invited to attend the reception dinner of the Han Palace, so everyone did not drink, and the banquet was inevitably a little dull.

After returning to the small courtyard from the restaurant, Xie Yun breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little tired.

This time he came to Xizhou, and he couldn't believe anyone in Xizhou before the matter was broken.

Many officials have served in Xizhou for many years, and no one knows whether there is collusion between them and the Han king, so it is not appropriate to startle the snake.

The only people who can reassure him are the people he brought, and those who were arranged by him in advance.

"Bachelor Xie, don't you meet with officials at all levels in the afternoon?"

"If I don't see it for the time being, let's just say that I'm tired from the journey and need to rest for a day."

Having said that, Xie Yun did not feel tired, but felt energetic. "Let Cai Kang, Secretary of the General Administration, and Liu Shancai of the Telegraph Bureau come over, and ask him to bring the telegrams of the past six months to keep records."

The wireless telegraph office in Xizhou was only opened before the Chinese New Year, and once the wireless telegraph was opened, although it was expensive, whether it was an official, a businessman, or an ordinary person, when something happened, he would always send a telegram.

In the past six months, there have been quite a few surviving telegraph records.

However, Xie Yun is not worried that Liu Shancai and Cai Kang will not be screened, and those ordinary telegram records between businessmen and ordinary people, as long as they are not particularly concerned, will basically be screened out.

And through a comprehensive analysis of the remaining telegrams, we can get a similar picture of the network of contacts in Xizhou, including the positions of some important people.

After a while, Cai Kang and Liu Shancai entered the house with several large boxes of telegram notes.

The Department of General Administration is a professional intelligence organization, and the vast majority of officials who serve in the Department of General Affairs, except for professional scientific and technological personnel like Hu Yuansheng, have graduated from professional intelligence schools.

They cannot be said to be proficient in intelligence analysis, collection, camouflage, assassination, explosions and other subjects, but at least everyone is familiar with them.

With these people here, Xie Yun doesn't need to worry about anything at all, he just needs to give a clear direction for the investigation.

The intelligence officers in the outhouse worked in a tense and orderly manner, and in the inner room, Xie Yun and Cai Kang sat at the window and communicated in a whisper.

Cai Kang is Zhu Zhanji's intelligence assistant specially arranged for Xie Yun, he set off from Daming with Xie Yun more than half a year ago, but did not go to Europe with Xie Yun, but came to Xizhou separately in the Indian Ocean.

In the past six months, while checking the political secretary by himself, he arranged for the construction of signal base stations and established more than a dozen telegraph offices in Xizhou.

In addition to these apparent telegraph offices, he also brought more than 1,000 high-frequency wireless telegraphs for communication and reconnaissance between major armies.

That is to say, in the future of Xizhou, the orders of the imperial court can directly bypass the governor, admiral, and general soldiers, and directly send them to the hands of each commander.

Of course, this is only an extreme case, and under normal circumstances, the imperial court will not bypass the high-ranking generals and communicate directly with the commanders below.

But at the very least, each army could receive orders directly from the imperial court.

In addition to that, he also brought quite a few radios. At this stage, the manufacture of radios is high-tech, and the manufacture of tubes is very difficult, so the production is not high, and the price is high.

Zhu Zhanji demanded that every military guard should have at least one radio, and the imperial court would broadcast different programs on different frequency channels every day, so that officials at the level of commanders and envoys of various armies could clearly understand the decisions made by the imperial court.

In the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang clearly stipulated that in the economy, the vassal king could not interfere in the tax revenue of his fiefdom, let alone deal with civil affairs.

Although these vassal kings had military power, they could only have an army of 3,000 men.

Moreover, these vassal kings also did not have the right to command the imperial army, and unless the emperor ordered these feudal kings to command the imperial army, they would be punished for treason.

When he came to Zhu Zhanji, because it was a feudal overseas, Zhu Zhanji put some economic power, such as taxation, and the vassal king's mansion had a part of the tax power, and if the vassal king developed his own economy, he would have a certain amount of tax exemption.

Militarily, because the princes of Nanzhou had no foreign enemies, although they had 3,000 guards, they did not have the right to lead troops.

Only the two royal palaces in Africa each had an army of 6,000 men, and this army was paid by the imperial court, and the right to lead the troops was also given to the two vassal kings.

This is mainly because they have to deal with Kunlun Nu and the Arabs who are running around the world.

But in Africa, the main force is not these two escort armies, but the personal guards of the prince and the county king, like the Han Wangfu, because there is a prince, nine county kings, and a large number of town generals, and the share of personal guards they are allowed to form is more than 20,000.

But in fact, the Han Wangfu itself formed more guards than this number, almost more than 30,000.

In addition to these troops, the Golden City has 60,000 elites of the imperial court, and the local government also has about 1,000 local troops.

More importantly, the imperial court arranged a naval governor's palace at the mouth of the Qingjiang River, and arranged four theaters along the coast of Xizhou to facilitate the navy to attack Kunlun Nu at any time.

These troops, all of them must be able to contact the imperial court directly, and no matter where anything happens, the imperial court can know it as soon as possible.

In the past six months or so, Cai Kang has traveled almost all over southern Africa because of these things, but he has also successfully completed the tasks assigned to him by Zhu Zhanji.

Nowadays, every military guard has two wireless telegraphs, and they can communicate with the imperial court at any time.

The task assigned to him by Xie Yun is to screen out trustworthy objects and establish a reliable intelligence system outside the original intelligence network.

Being able to solve the hidden dangers of the two palaces without fighting and killing is what Xie Yun wants to do.

That's what he can do.