"Captain, is this the eastern frontier where Sri Buddha died? Are we going to build a new port here? ”

"This is it, our ship has been sailing along the northern coast of Borneo for three days, this is it." The captain of the ship, who laid down the binoculars, pointed to a swamp and the mouth of the river.

In fact, this deserted beach is Brunei Bay, and the rich Brunei Darussalam is still a swamp and primeval jungle.

"How do you build a port here? The water is too shallow, the water level of the estuary is only 4 meters deep, and it will not exceed three zhang at high tide. It's just a small fishing village! ”

"This is an order from the central government, we are just working part-time, whether we can build a big port or not, we just need to enclose the land. The large island has just finished mapping its coastal outlines, and the interior is almost blank. Maybe there's a gold mine in the deep forest behind this cove! You didn't hear that the lucky guy three months ago circled a piece of land with gold mines in Luzon and sent it out all at once. ”

There are no gold mines in this bay, but there is liquid gold, oil, which is more valuable than gold mines.

Southeast Asia in the 12th century had the advantage of being sparsely populated and traversing the stakes. These future trillions of land and spaces are now forests and swamps.

A piece of land with minerals and rich forests is uninhabited or inhabited by indigenous people who are not able to protect themselves. According to the nature of capital and greed, no amount of windfall profits can reflect the windfall profits of this enclosure. The annual output value of 5,000 square kilometers of land is more than 20 billion US dollars, and 400,000 people can share 50,000 US dollars of GDP per capita. This staggering wealth effect could not have existed before globalization and the oil age in a region that had to rely on poor agriculture and fishing for its livelihoods.

Therefore, knowing the future wealth gathering effect and abundant resources here, how could the traversing people forget it. Naturally, they should send their own people to enclose the land here, so as not to encircle this treasure land by partners or other countrymen.

This is Borneo, where Sri Buddha died and the Malays and indigenous people clashed for survival. The world's third-largest island is vast but inhospitable, rich in resources but scarce in manpower and too much to exploit. It's not much different from the properties of Antarctica. The former is distributed in areas with high terrainfall, good drainage and relatively few rainy seasons, and the latter is mainly distributed in areas with abundant precipitation, forest canopy and lack of herbaceous vegetation in each season.

Under the influence of high temperatures and heavy rainfall, the weathering of tropical rainforest areas is strong, resulting in a particularly thick soil layer. The various processes of soil formation are also rapid and thorough.

In this environment, excessive rainwater brings a strong leaching effect. Dissolves and removes almost all dissolvable minerals, such as potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, etc., causing the soil to become barren by depriving it of the nutrients needed by plants.

On the other hand, those minerals that are not easily dissolved. Relatively centralized. The most common residual mineral is iron oxides. It makes the soil reddish in color, so it is called brick red soil; Another common residual mineral is aluminium oxides, particularly bauxite, which often give the soil a whitish color. These minerals can even cement together to form impermeable hard drives.

The tropical brick laterite is covered by a layer of litter, but there is not much black humus formed by complete decomposition. In tropical rainforests, trees and various other plants and animals fall to the ground after death, in hot and humid climates. Insects and bacteria quickly break down their tissues and turn them into nutrients for plant growth. But. Heavy rainfall here washes away most of these nutrients, and the soil becomes barren.

It's amazing to think that there are so many kinds of plants growing on the barren soil!

Beneath the litter layer is the surface layer of the soil, where not only the soluble minerals are lost, but also the soil particles are decomposed or washed away, leaving only iron or aluminum oxides.

The lower part is mainly sedimentation, which is also affected by leaching under the influence of a large amount of rainwater infiltration, so that the properties of the surface layer are close to each other, and the dividing line is not obvious. Generally, there will be more iron oxides in this layer, which will be darker or redder in color, and even the presence of iron drives.

Comparatively speaking, the bottom and parent layers of this layer are darker in color, as some of the soil particles and salt bases accumulate here. But more minerals, but are carried into the groundwater by seepage water and lost.

It is impossible to develop a starting agriculture in this kind of land, which is no different from the stony land, and the indigenous tribes have not been able to upgrade the industrial structure even if they know that growing rice can feed the population better than hunting.

Sri Buddha also died in the same embarrassment as China felt about the nomadic northern regions, and gave up his plans to expand eastward to occupy Malay territory.

Sumatra and Java have a large amount of paddy soil cultivated for a long time and rich volcanic plaster, which is fertile enough to support Sri Buddha's agricultural progress to the level of a feudal state, but it still cannot support its perennial wars with the Chola kingdom of India and several small states of Java.

After arriving at Sri Buddha through a huge fleet of ships carrying various industrial goods, Sri Buddha immediately realized that his opportunities and dangers had come. The opportunity is to develop industry and commerce, revitalize the national power to unify the Sunda Islands and defeat the old rival Chola, and the danger is to be conquered by the Chinese Empire.

Under the double offensive of modern manors that could not be bought with money or money, the top management of Sri Buddha was very aware of the current affairs and signed the same 'treaty of friendship and commerce' as Japan's Goryeo and other countries. The new ambassador who arrived was also deeply influenced by Bai Jiazhen's propaganda offensive, vigorously advocating friendship between the middle chambers, and taking Japan, Goryeo, Dayue, and other countries as examples, China is not a hegemonic country with a special complex for land, and will not invade friendly countries and neighbors who are aware of current affairs, and Western Xia is just an old enemy and robber country that does not open its eyes, and it is also in the interests of all countries to be eliminated, and it is a mortal enemy of the Chinese Empire to establish exchanges and trust between the world's civilized countries, and it is an evil country. From now on, all countries should establish a mutually beneficial all-round cooperation system on the basis of peace and friendship on the premise of win-win cooperation.

After the death of Sri Buddha, a tributary trade participant who had often gone to the Great Song Dynasty to make offerings, he changed from a nominal Chinese vassal state to a real Japan-like vassal state.

Zhang Bo and Zhao Long exerted extraordinary strength in the negotiations, Zhang Bo, who was proficient in Sanskrit, and Zhao Long, who was proficient in bribery, were the focus of attention during the negotiation process.

Sri Buddha is also the Three Buddhas in ancient Chinese texts, and the difference in names is only a difference in transliteration, just like Mamat and Muhammad are both transliterations of well-known characters, but from the perspective of communication, there are subtle differences. The past, present, and future of Buddhism are impressive. Since it is the Three Buddhas, Buddhism is naturally prosperous, giving people the intuitive impression that it is a paradise of the Buddha country on earth. But Sumatra, whose productivity is no different from that of Hainan Island before the Great Development, is not very attractive to the many merchants and navies who came from the prosperous metropolis of the Celestial Empire.

If it weren't for the abundance of cheap products that could be sold back for profit, not many citizens of the empire would want to stay in this hot and humid country or work for long periods of time.

Lacking the ability to mint coins and smelt metals on a large scale, Sriwijaya had weak control over the seas, and had absolute authority over the island of Sumatra alone, and was almost helpless to deal with the territories of the Malay Peninsula and Borneo as feudal princes.

Sri Buddha, who had a very low level of centralization, had to hold on tightly to the Celestial Empire, which had finally taken the initiative to extend an olive branch, and to develop the economy while accumulating national strength. Signing this treaty to join the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere is in the interests of all Sri Buddha's deceased magnates, and it is also an opportunity to obtain an almost free naval umbrella of the Celestial Empire. The little military expenditure that the Celestial Empire did not care about at all became a habit in the future. Who wouldn't believe in the promise of a powerful regime that could easily destroy their country to protect themselves? Especially after participating in naval exercises and artillery salvo performances, none of the nobles were brain-dead.

If the image project is done well, it will be an artifact in the field of diplomacy before the advent of the information age. Stimulated by the good news of Sri Buddha's death, it became easier to open Champa, Angkor, Bagan, and other similar Chinese subjects to get abroad. Xinjing's stock exchange and Nanyang Trading-related stocks have skyrocketed. (To be continued......)