At night, the harbor, one of the cabins of Zheng He's treasure ship. Vertex updates are the fastest

"Scholar, the king of Champa really offered to let us help him recover his homeland, so I told him what the scholar confessed, and the king of Champa promised us the Ming sailor to enter the port of Piroboro City."

As soon as Wang Hong returned from the palace, he immediately came to see Li Hongyu and reported to him with a smile.

At noon, the king of Zhancheng held a banquet in the palace to entertain Wang Hong and his party, and at the banquet, he not only asked about the purpose of the Ming fleet's westward journey, but also asked Wang Hong to help Zhancheng restore the country.

Wang Hong agreed to the request of the king of Champa according to Li Hongyu's instructions, but also put forward a condition, that is, he hoped to set up a naval base in the port of Piroboro to ensure the smooth progress of overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty.

As long as the Ming sailors entered the port of Piluo Buluo, it meant that the city was provided with a strong protection, so that Annan did not dare to go south to get involved in the Bintonglong area, so he agreed very happily.

"My lord, so that the sailor has his first overseas base!" Bai Cheng was also at the scene, sitting on the side, and said to Li Hongyu happily when he heard the words.

As the commander of the Naval Division, Bai Cheng's natural naval division can develop and grow, and if a base can be set up in the port of Piroboro City, then the naval division can resist the enemy to the west of the Indochina Peninsula, and thus ensure the security of the area east of the Indochina Peninsula, which is of extremely important strategic significance.

Li Hongyu smiled when he heard this, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, which meant that he was going to start preparing the funds for the establishment of the Sailor Base in the port of Piroboro City, because it was an overseas base, the cost was greater than that of the domestic one, and it was not a small amount.

For Bai Cheng, his task is only to unify the army, and Li Hongyu not only has to control the development direction of the water division, but also is responsible for the logistics of the water division, trying to raise the military funds needed by the water division, and shouldering the responsibility that should be borne by the imperial court.

However, this is a good thing anyway, once the naval base of the port of Piroboro City is completed, it will effectively prevent the Western countries from advancing eastward and keep the enemy out of the country.

In Li Hongyu's view, the enemy from the West should naturally be put in the first place, and the enemy of the Ming Dynasty in the east is only one Wa State, and the economy and science and technology of the Wa State will lag behind the Ming Dynasty, and there is nothing to be afraid of, but the Western countries must not be sloppy and careless in the slightest bit in their ships and guns.

"Scholar, we are short on time, if the Ruan family adopts a procrastination strategy, how should we deal with it?"

Hong was now worried about another matter, and muttered for a while and turned to Li Hongyu, if the fleet was delayed in Zhancheng for too long, it would miss the rest of the trip.

"Tell the Nguyen clan that if they don't accept our terms, then we will trade with the Zheng clan, and then he will be the enemy on his back." Li Hongyu sneered when he heard this, and said in an orderly manner.

If Annam is a unified country, then it is really difficult to deal with, and the reason why the Ming army was defeated in Annam during the Yongle Emperor period has a lot to do with the climate and topography of Annam.

The armies of the Ming army were usually dominated by the garrison army of Gyeonggi, supplemented by the armies of the local capitals, so that the personnel were complex and difficult to adapt to the water, soil and climate of Annam.

The territory of Annam is a narrow strip of land along the coastline, with lofty mountains and mountains, rain and miasma, which makes the Ming army suffer, and once the rebels are defeated, they will go deep into the mountains and old forests, so it is difficult to annihilate them.

Today, Annam is in the period of confrontation between the two major military blocs of Zheng and Ruan, and there is still the Mo regime in the northeast that is dependent on the Ming Dynasty, which just gives Li Hongyu an opportunity to pacify Annam, support the Mo regime and the Champa state, and gradually eliminate the Zheng regime and the Nguyen regime.

Before Li Hongyu is ready to recover Annan, he needs Annan to be plunged into a steady stream of civil wars, which will save him a lot of trouble, and all he has to do is provide some military and financial assistance.

Originally, Li Hongyu would definitely get rid of the Zheng regime and the Zheng regime, which was the most powerful of the Nguyen regime, first, but if the Nguyen regime insisted on going his own way, he would not mind getting rid of the Nguyen regime first, and then let the Mo regime and the Champa state flank the Zheng regime.

Although this will be a lot of trouble, the final result will certainly be the same, with the Mo regime taking charge of Annam, and the Champong state restoring its original territory.

The Mo regime had already declared itself a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Jiajing had also reduced the Annan State to the Commander of the Annam Prefecture, and the subordinate country to the dependent territory, and changed its thirteen provinces to the thirteen Xuanfu Division.

Therefore, after the Mo regime took charge of the Annan Kingdom, it actually became a dependency of the Ming Dynasty de jure and was no longer a country, and the Mo family became a local vassal king of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the Champa Kingdom, the national strength is not as good as that of Annan, since even Annan has become a dependency of the Ming Dynasty, then the King of Champa will naturally know what he wants to do.

"My lord, do you want to drive the sailor's warship over and put pressure on the Ruan clan?" Bai Cheng also knew that this trip to Nanyang was urgent and could not be delayed, so he asked in a deep voice after thinking about it.

"Nope."

Li Hongyu groaned for a moment when he heard this, shook his head and said, "Our Ming Dynasty is a state of etiquette, so we salute first and then soldiers, if the Ruan clan doesn't know how to raise us, we will do it." ”

"General, the Portuguese got drunk and made trouble in the tavern in the port and clashed with the locals."

At this moment, a soldier walked in briskly, bowed to Bai Cheng and reported, "The military attache on patrol asks for instructions, do you want to intervene in their dispute?" ”

Bai Cheng couldn't help but look at Li Hongyu when he heard this, according to the regulations, Wang Hong and Bai Cheng should jointly make up their minds about this kind of emergency, after all, it is not a simple political or military incident, so it is necessary to consider the two comprehensively to ensure the safety of the fleet.

However, now that Li Hongyu is on the boat, it is naturally up to Li Hongyu to make the decision.

"These damn guys!" Li Hongyu couldn't help but scold in his heart, and a helpless look appeared on his face.

European liquor is usually made from coarse grains that are difficult to eat, while Oriental liquor is made from fine grains, many people in Europe like to drink, so those colonists came to the East very much like to drink Oriental liquor, once they drink alcohol, it is inevitable to make trouble.

After a little contemplation, Li Hongyu made a decision, bowing slightly to Bai Cheng, who was looking at him, he wanted to tell those Portugal to follow the rules.

"Go, arrest all those who make trouble, and wait for disposal." Seeing this, Bai Cheng ordered the soldier who came to ask for instructions.

Mashigaru sent a fleet of nine warships to escort Li Hongyu, including five three-masted warships, which was seventy percent of the strength in his hands, which shows the importance attached to this escort.

The Portuguese fleet, led by an Colonel named Leman, sailed behind the Ming fleet.

According to the agreement between Li Hongyu and Mascolu, the Ming fleet and the Portuguese fleet did not interfere with each other, but those drunken Portuguese soldiers had obviously affected the trade of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Hongyu naturally could not get used to them.

The next morning, Lyman, who got the news, sent his adjutant to find Bai Cheng's dignitaries, and for him, he didn't think there was anything wrong with the dozen or so drunken Portuguese soldiers, didn't they just beat some local natives, what's the big deal?

Lyman, like most European officers who participated in overseas colonization, looked down on those overseas countries at all, believing that they were ignorant and backward natives, who were born to be colonized by those civilized countries in Europe.

If it weren't for Ma Shijialu's repeated advice before leaving, Lyman would definitely go to Bai Cheng to ask Bai Cheng for his guilt, you must know that the safety of the Ming fleet can be in their hands, and in a naval battle, the ships of the Ming army and sailors are not their opponents at all, including Zheng He's treasure ships, they will all become their targets.

However, the escort of the Ming fleet this time had great political significance and economic value, and it was related to the interests of the Portuguese Empire in the East, so Lehmann did not dare to ruin the voyage.

Mascolus had carefully considered the sending of Lyman, a naval officer with a wealth of combat experience, who was arrogant but rigid and would faithfully carry out his orders without causing any trouble.

Although Bai Cheng released the troublesome Portuguese, he warned the adjutant who came to the dignitary that if something similar happened again, the agreement reached between Li Hongyu and Mascolu would be null and void, which meant that the Portuguese would lose the advantage in dealing with the Ming Dynasty.

Although Lyman was extremely annoyed when he learned the news, he had no choice but to order to restrain his Portuguese soldiers, after all, in addition to Portugal, the Ming Dynasty also had Spain, Britain and even the Netherlands and other countries that chose to cooperate.

Although he can severely damage the trading fleet of the Ming Dynasty, the result is not something he can bear, not only Portugal will become the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, but he will also be sent to the gallows by the King of Portugal.

When Mascolus promised Li Hongyu to escort the Ming Dynasty's overseas trade fleet, Li Hongyu had actually seized the initiative, so that Lyman's Portuguese fleet had to serve the Ming Dynasty's trade fleet.

After all, the current situation of the Ming Dynasty is not the Manchu Qing Dynasty more than two hundred years later, even if the contradictory European countries are united, they cannot defeat the huge Eastern Empire of the Ming Dynasty with their current weapons, they will at most blockade the coastline of the Ming Dynasty, once they land then it will be the fate of being slaughtered.

However, the blockade of the coastline is a thankless task, which requires a lot of money and loses the most important trading partner of the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to helping the Ming Dynasty implement the sea ban.

The purpose of European countries coming to the Ming Dynasty is to trade, and they come in order to chase more interests, who has nothing to do to block the coastline of the Ming Dynasty?

It is precisely because of this that Li Hongyu can be said to have settled on the Portuguese this time, to paraphrase a post-break sentence, the two sides are now like Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, both have their own interests and needs. (To be continued.) )

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