According to historical records, when Zheng He first went to the West, there were 62 treasure ships in his fleet, with more than 27,000 people of all kinds, while the fleet of Columbus and Magellan was only one or two hundred.

It can be seen that at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the country was strong, and no country in the world could have such a large maritime fleet.

It must be noted that the larger the number of HNA people, the more complex the various types of support required, and the tighter the organizational structure, which is not easy to achieve.

Li Hongyu now deeply understands this, because it requires a long time at sea, so the food, drink, and sleep of the entire fleet are the top priority.

During this trip to the South Seas, the fleet sailed according to the records of Zheng He's Navigation Chart, which appeared in the Xuande period, and was originally known as "From Bao Shipyard to Longjiang Pass to Foreign Countries", referred to as "Zheng He's Navigation Chart".

According to Li Hongyu's knowledge, the reason why the "Zheng He Navigation Chart" was produced was because Emperor Xuande was preparing to go to the West again after ascending the throne, so he asked Zheng He, who was garrisoning Nanjing, to comprehensively organize and draw the entire map of the Western Ocean into a complete map of the Western Ocean.

Because the personnel of the fleet that went to the West were on duty in Nanjing at that time, they worked together to compile this immortal work in the history of naval navigation.

The map starts from Nanjing and reaches as far as the east coast of Africa, and the map indicates the direction of the Asian and African countries through which the route passes, the distance and depth of the shipping channel, and the direction of navigation, and the height of the stars, as well as where there are reefs or shoals.

For example, the figure lists a total of 56 needle routes from Taicang to Kurumus, and a total of 53 needle routes from Kurumus back to Taicang, which shows that the fleet has flexibly adopted a variety of needle paths in the voyage, has high navigation technology, and its marine science level is also among the top in the world.

According to the nautical charts, the first and most important country that Li Hongyu's fleet reached was the Champa state in the Indochina Peninsula.

Unlike when Zheng He went to the West, the Champa State had already occupied most of the territory of Annan at this time, and even became a vassal state of Annan for a time, with autonomy under the protection of Annan.

However, at the end of the 16th century, the two major military blocs of Trangh and Nguyen in Annam clashed, and the Nguyen clique occupying the southern part of Annam made friends with Champa in order to fight against the Trung clan in the north, and his leader married his daughter to the king of Champang, so the king of Champa took the opportunity to raise an army and stand on his own to get rid of the control of Annam.

On this day, in the southern part of the Champa country, in the Bintonglong area, the city of Pirobura.

In the late fifteenth century, the royal city of Champa was broken by the Annam state, and the Annam people annexed a large amount of land in the city, so that the royal family of Champa had to set the royal city in the city of Pirobura, and the territory under its jurisdiction was only the Bintonglong area.

Although the conflict between the two major military groups of Annam and Nguyen allowed the king of Champa to stand on his own, they were unable to regain their former territory, and they were no match for the Nguyen clan in the southern part of Annam.

"Look, what's that?"

In the morning, the people of the port of Pirobura began their day, and suddenly, a coolie who was busy loading and unloading goods on the dock pointed to the sea in the distance and shouted in surprise.

This caused the people around to look in the direction of his finger, only to see a group of small black dots appear on the sea in the distance, slowly heading towards the port.

"It's a boat, a lot of boats!" Soon, someone reacted and realized what those little black dots were, and couldn't help but shout in surprise.

"What's going on?"

This made the people at the scene suddenly commotion, they are all experienced people who are begging for a living at sea, and naturally know that those little black spots are ships, and they are huge ships, and they have never seen so many big ships appear before.

"Quick, report to the official quickly." In the panic, someone shouted, and then several young people ran away in a hurry, and went to report to the people in the government.

Palace.

"Your Royal Highness the King, there is an unidentified fleet coming to the port, I don't know who it is, please make up your Highness how to deal with it."

A middle-aged official hurriedly entered the palace of the king of Champa and reported in a deep voice to the king of Champong, who had just gotten up and was freshening up, that the king of Champa had been busy with official documents from various places last night and had slept until late, so he had only gotten up now.

"Unidentified fleet?" King Champa was taken aback when he heard this, then his brows furrowed, and he asked, "Is it a Westerner?" ”

The last Champa king, his father, sent troops to Malacca at the end of the 16th century to support the local Sultanate of Johor against the Portuguese colonists.

Therefore, the king of Champa also had little affection for the people of those countries in the West, and regarded them as greedy predators.

"No, those ships came from the East, and they are said to be larger and more numerous than Westerners." The middle-aged official thought for a moment when he heard this, then shook his head and said.

"From the East?"

King Champong's brows furrowed, and then his eyes lit up, and he said with surprise, "Could it be ...... Could it be that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty sent people to the West again? ”

"This ......"

The middle-aged official was stunned, and said in disbelief, "But Daming has not sent a fleet to the west for more than two hundred years, will it be Daming's fleet?" ”

"Apart from the Ming Dynasty, what other country in the East has the ability to build those big ships to go to sea?" The king of Champa smiled slightly when he heard this, and then excitedly ordered the maid who was grooming him on the side, "Hurry up, I want to see the messenger from the Ming Dynasty." ”

"His Royal Highness, could it be the smuggler of the Ming Dynasty?" The middle-aged official still couldn't believe it, so he asked tentatively.

"Those smugglers don't have so many ships, they must be the fleet sent by the Ming Dynasty!" Hearing this, King Champa shook his head and said with a resolute expression, as far as he knew, those Ming smugglers would not be on such a large scale at all.

Obviously, the fact that the king of Champa was so decisive at this time that it was the fleet of the Ming Dynasty had something to do with the fact that the smugglers did not form such a large fleet, and that the person he desperately wanted to come was the messenger of the Ming Dynasty.

If the king of Champa wanted to restore the country and regain the territory lost by the Annan Kingdom, he was obviously unable to do it on his own, so the Ming Dynasty became his only reliance.

Historically, the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and Annam was not good, and there were several wars between the two sides, with many casualties.

In the fourth year of Yongle, Ming Chengzu sent Zhang Fu to lead the army deep into Annan, eliminated the Hu regime in Annan, and obtained 15 prefectures in Annan and 3.12 million people.

The following year, the Ming court claimed that in order to respond to the request of the local officials to "the original retro county", it changed the name of Annam to "Jiaozhi", and the Yongle Emperor changed the name of Annan to the political envoy of Jiaozhi, and the Ming Dynasty successfully recovered Annam.

However, because the Ming Dynasty did not pay attention to Annan, the officials sent were not imperial court officials selected by the imperial examination, but scholars recruited from Guangxi, Guangdong and Yuannan, and the reason why these people were willing to go to a barren place like Annan was naturally with the idea of wealth.

Therefore, after the arrival of those officials, the expropriation and extortion, coupled with the instigation and instigation of local rebel forces, led to the subsequent rebellion of Annan, and the imperial court had to send troops to quell the rebellion.

It is a pity that the Ming army fought several times unfavorably, so that Emperor Xuande was tired of the war after succeeding to the throne, and the ministers such as Yang Shiqi, a cabinet member at that time, took the opportunity to speak, and Emperor Xuande then decided to withdraw the army, and Wang Tong and others, who were still in Annam, led the army of more than 80,000 people to return to the north, and dismissed the political envoy of Jiaozhibu and rested with the people.

However, in the eighteenth year of Jiajing, Mo Dengyong, the lord of the Northern Dynasty of Annan in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, sent an envoy to Zhennanguan to ask for surrender to the Ming Dynasty, and dedicated the land register and household registration of Annan to the Ming Dynasty.

The black dog came, Mo Dengyong and dozens of ministers bowed down to themselves, entered the town of Nanguan to ask the officials of the Ming Dynasty to surrender, and the Ming Dynasty then reduced the Annan State to the Annan Metropolitan Envoy Division, and the subordinate country was reduced to a dependent territory, and changed its thirteen ways to the Thirteen Xuanfu Division.

As a result, the Kingdom of Annam once again became an administratively autonomous region within the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

However, it is worth mentioning that this does not mean that Annan has really become a dependency of the Ming Dynasty, and the Li regime of the Southern Dynasty of Annan does not recognize the Mo regime of the Northern Dynasty, and naturally will not recognize the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, Da Ming did not intervene in the rule of the Mo regime of the Northern Dynasty of Annan, but only nominally turned Annan into a dependency of the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, at the end of the 16th century, the Mo regime in the north was defeated by the Li regime in the south, and then unified the kingdom of Annam.

However, with the support of the Ming Dynasty, the Mo regime was not eliminated, but continued to occupy the Gaoping region in the northern part of the kingdom of Annam.

In other words, there are actually three forces in the current state of Annam, in addition to the Zheng and Nguyen regimes, and the Mo regime in the north.

It is precisely because of this that the king of Champa felt that he could use the power of the Ming Dynasty to restore the country, in the final analysis, the Champa State was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it was one of the fifteen non-levying countries designated by the Ming Taizu, so the Ming Dynasty, as the suzerain, had the responsibility and obligation to help him seek justice.

The so-called "country without expropriation" was an important policy under the Ming Dynasty's suzerain-vassal system and tributary system.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu set the tone for the diplomacy of the Ming Dynasty: one should pursue harmony, and the other should strictly enforce the sea ban, and these two ancestral systems have been running through the history of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years.

Later generations believed that the pursuit of peaceful diplomacy was a continuation of the traditional way of "Huairou Yuanren" of the Chinese Celestial Empire, and it was also a negation of the foreign expansion of the Mongol and Yuan rulers.

In the second year of Hongwu, Ming Taizu ordered the compilation of the "Emperor Ming Zu Xun", announcing that 15 overseas countries such as Korea and the Wa Kingdom would be listed as "countries that do not levy", and warned future generations not to arbitrarily levy them.

The fifteen countries were, in order: Korea, Wa, Greaterkyus, Lesser Ryukyu, Annam, Chenla, Siam, Champa, Sumatra, Western, Kuawa, Hyung, Baihua, Sriwijaya, and Boni.

Of course, these fifteen countries were not set by Ming Taizu on a whim, in fact, it established the actual control scope of the Ming Dynasty, and determined the tributary principle of "thick and thin" to give preferential treatment to countries that are not levied.

Under the vassal system and tributary system, the Ming Dynasty became the suzerainty of the tributary states, and the tributary states recognized the suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty, which in turn constituted the foreign vassals of the Ming Dynasty, and together formed the powerful Ming Empire.

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