The vast Indian Ocean, the third largest ocean in the world!

It is now the first month of the sixteenth year of Xuanwu, and the north of the Great Song Dynasty is still snowing heavily, but it is still very warm here.

After the warships composed of 100,000 navies of the Great Song Dynasty left the Strait of Malacca, they have been moving forward on such an ocean, and they are amazed by the climate of the ocean. In the past, the Great Song navy had fought in the north, and this was the first time they had come to the warm tropics.

This Indian Ocean has another name, and that is "Western Ocean"!

In the history of later generations, Zheng He went to the Western Ocean and came to this Indian Ocean waters!

Now the Chinese entered the Western Ocean hundreds of years in advance, and the current fleet is even more powerful than Zheng He's fleet back then!

More than a thousand huge warships rode the wind and waves, mighty, and occasionally merchant ships passed by, and the merchants on them all showed frightened expressions on their faces.

This is an ocean-going fleet unprecedented in this era, and even in the history of later generations, such a fleet is extremely rare!

The two treasure ships were at the forefront, surrounded by countless small boats, followed by more than a dozen huge fortune ships and the rest of the warships.

The sea was rough, but the treasure ship was still very stable.

Wang Gui and Wu Jue were standing on the bow of the same treasure ship at the moment, their hair and clothes were blown by the wind and kept swinging towards the back, and their faces were full of excitement.

"From here, all the way north, you will soon be in Daguang!" Wang Guidao.

The Great Light is where the Yangon of the Hereafter will be! In later generations, Yangon was the largest city in Myanmar, but in this day and age, Myanmar is just a small town! The whole of Myanmar has not yet been unified, and one-third of the territory in northern Myanmar belongs to the "Dali State", and now it belongs to the Great Song Dynasty!

"There are also a lot of pirates near Daguang, we need to completely eliminate the surrounding pirates, and then occupy Daguang." Wu said.

"I think so, I'll lead half of the fleet into the bay, and you lead the rest of the fleet to block the outer perimeter of the bay so that not a single pirate escapes." Wang Guidao.

"Good!" Wu Lan nodded.

Ten days later, the fleet came to the sea area where Yangon was located, and all the pirates in the nearby waters added up to only a few thousand, and under the encirclement and suppression of the Song fleet, in just three days, all the pirates were almost wiped out!

Thousands of Song warships came to Yangon, and countless Song soldiers disembarked from the ships and headed forward.

Yangon is now in the hands of the local Tu people, a middle-aged man who is dressed in extremely expensive silk, but is black, thin and small, led a group of Tu people, this middle-aged man still has a white turban tied on his head, and a few colorful feathers are stuck in the turban, he is the head of the Tu people.

With so many warships and troops coming, the leader of the Tu tribe was terrified to the extreme, and he knelt down without hesitation, and the clansmen behind him also knelt down.

"This is the place where my Great Song merchants stayed and subsidized in the past, and from now on this place will be owned by my Great Song Dynasty, are you willing to accept the jurisdiction of my Great Song Dynasty?" Looking at this person, Wang Gui said coldly.

"I'm willing." The head man's voice trembled.

It was also an important town on the Sino-Western trade route, and was often visited by merchants from the Great Song Dynasty, so the head of the man also spoke Chinese.

"Those who know the times are Junjie, you have behaved very well! From now on, the trade tax here is also a small part of yours, which is enough to ensure that you continue to live richly, and you are also my people of the Great Song Dynasty, and you can go to the Great Song Dynasty to study in the future, and you can even live in the Great Song Dynasty. Wang Gui was very satisfied with the performance of the leader, nodded and said.

After Wang Gui and Wu Lan inspected the environment near Yangon and determined that the threat here was very small, the two left more than a dozen warships here, and then they continued to lead the fleet towards the front.

On the treasure ship, Wang Gui wrote a report, Wang Gui believed that the South China Sea was very close to China, the South China Sea Tu people were extremely backward, and the population of the South China Sea Tu people was very small, not even comparable to any province in the Great Song Dynasty! Under such circumstances, the Great Song Dynasty should completely occupy Nanyang and move the people to Nanyang! However, there is an important problem at present, although the population of the Great Song Dynasty has been nearly 100 million, but the population migration has been done too much over the years, and the people need to recuperate.

He wrote down his opinion, and when he met a Chinese businessman, he would have the Chinese businessman pass it on to the Quanzhou Prefecture, which would then be forwarded to the Government Council.

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In February, the Great Song fleet came to Ceylon.

Ceylon is later Sri Lanka, in this era, the Chinese called the "Lion Country" or "Gem Country", the gem storage here is very rich, the world is famous.

"This is the Lion Country!" Looking at the big island in front of him, Wang Gui smiled.

"This small island is not as big as any of my provinces in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is much smaller than the two big islands we found in the North Sea, but there are actually two countries on it, and they are fighting endlessly!" Wu said.

From the 8th century to the 16th century, for hundreds of years, the Sinhalese kingdom and the Tamil kingdom on the island of Sri Lanka were at war! It was not until this point that the British completely occupied it, and the fighting between the two tribes was forced to stop.

"We're just getting a stronghold here, controlling the sea line, and not participating in their wars." Regarding the war on the island, Wang Gui obviously disdained it, and shook his head at the moment.

Soon after, the Song fleet came to Colombo and prepared to occupy it.

Colombo is one of the nodes of trade between China and the West, because of its geographical importance, after the beginning of the Age of Discovery, first the Portuguese, then the Dutch, the British occupied here, and now the Chinese came here!

Song Jun has just come to the dock, and there is already chaos on the dock!

The Song army went straight towards the city of Colombo, and before they came to the city gate, the city was closed!

Wang Gui ordered the Sinhalese inside to open the city gates and accept the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, but the Sinhalese did not agree.

Soon, the Song army launched an attack on the area.

The Sinhalese kingdom has a total population of less than a million and a total strength of just over 50,000 people, and Colombo has more than 8,000 garrisons because of its location! However, in front of the 100,000 troops of the Song army, these 8,000 garrisons were vulnerable.

In just half an hour, the Song army conquered this place and occupied Colombo.

"Tell the merchants on the docks that we won't embarrass them! In the future, everything will be the same as before, and even the commercial tax here will be much lower than before, and we will enact laws to protect the private property of merchants! Wang Gui asked people to clean up the battlefield while sending people to announce the policy of the Great Song Dynasty. The Great Song Dynasty sent troops to occupy important strongholds on the sea line, not to destroy trade, but to make it more prosperous. Because only when trade is more prosperous, can the Great Song Dynasty gain more benefits.

For more than a month, the Sinhalese continued to attack Colombo, but they were no match for the Song army at all, and they were defeated every time!

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Until May, nearly 20,000 troops of the Song army were sent to Yangon, Colombo and other cities, accompanied by civil officials!

These 20,000 army forces were all heroes of the world who had fought against the Jurchens and Mongols in the north, and the Jurchens' claim of "invincible" was by no means exaggerated on them, and they were here to maintain the Song army's rule over Rangoon and Colombo.

In July of the sixteenth year of Xuanwu, the Great Song fleet went all the way west to Guli Kingdom!

Guri, the center of trade between China and the West!

It can be said that whoever controls Guli will control the trade between China and the West!

This is where the Kozhikode of India was located, in this era, India was divided into countless states, but it was not unified until after the rise of the Mongols, the Turkic Mongol descendants went south to unify India and establish the Mughal Dynasty.

The area of the current Guli country is equivalent to the size of Yanjing in the Great Song Dynasty, because of the developed trade, the population here has rarely reached 1.2 million, but this 1.2 million come from various places and countries, mostly merchants, and the number of troops here is less than 10,000!

When Zheng He went to the West for the first time, the end point was the Guli Kingdom, when the king of Guli also sent people to the Central Plains to pay tribute to Ming Chengzu, expressing his willingness to be a vassal state of the Central Plains.

After the rise of the Age of Discovery, the Portuguese, with a population of only 2 million at the time, became the overlord of the sea, and the Portuguese da Gama led only 20 warships around the Cape of Good Hope all the way to the country of Guli, and conquered the country with 20 warships, after which the Portuguese mastered the hub of trade between China and the West.

And now the Great Song Thousand warships have come to the Guli Kingdom!

In July, the Great Song Dynasty completely occupied Guli, and the Great Song Navy promulgated laws here, first to ensure that the property of merchants would not be damaged, and then to determine the tax law, in the coastal cities occupied by the Great Song Dynasty, merchants from all over the world no matter where they paid taxes, in the rest of the land convenient no longer need to pay taxes, so that the tax revenue of the East-West trade greatly decreased! In the past, the cities along the route were under the control of many forces, and the trade between China and the West was very expensive, and the price of a thing worth a few pennies from China to Guli could reach a few taels of silver!

Until this time, the military operations of the Great Song Navy came to an end temporarily, and this most prosperous sea line in the twelfth century was completely controlled by China!

After that, 100,000 navies will remain stationed on this sea line, and if necessary, they will establish the rest of the colonial cities in the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, and other places, and the navy will also be responsible for exploring the Western Ocean.