Zhou Zhong couldn't help but feel a little strange when he saw the strange expression on Lu Lao's face, and asked at the moment: "What, is there anything hidden in this?" ”

"Your Excellency doesn't know, there were indeed more than 2,000 Han people in the city, but something happened before, so now there are only more than 1,600 Han people left in the city." Lu Lao coughed at this time, and then began to tell the inside story.

Don't look at the current Han people in Malacca, they all look to the Lu family, but in fact, two years ago, their Lu family was not the first family among the Han people in Malacca, and the real first family was the Huang family. Although the Huang family migrated overseas from the Central Plains for a period of time not as long as the Lu family and the Zhao family, the Huang family's family background is very strong, especially there are several loyal subsidiary families in the family, which makes the Huang family's population extremely large, reaching six or seven hundred, nearly double that of the Lu family, which ranks second, and can be said to be the first family in Malacca.

The patriarch of the Huang family is named Huang Qionghai, who was only in his forties at the time, it can be said that he is in the prime of life, and he is a righteous and squandering man, he has a bold personality and a wide range of friends, and he is also very talented in business, under his leadership, the business of the Huang family can be said to be thriving, and the strength of the entire Huang family is above all Han families, and even the Tamils who control the government of the kingdom also give three points to the Huang family, after all, the Huang family's industry has penetrated into all aspects of the Malacca Kingdom, if the Huang family is unhappy, the entire Malacca Kingdom will be uncomfortable.

Although the Huang family is detached, their family education is extremely strict, and as long as the children of the clan make mistakes, they will be punished extremely severely. In addition, Huang Qionghai is not a bully. Therefore, the relationship between the Huang family, the Lu family, and the Zhao family also gets along well. Even married each other, and now many daughters-in-law of the Lu family and the Zhao family were born in the Huang family, and similarly, many women in their family married into the Huang family.

Originally, everything was normal for the Huang family, not only the population was thriving, but the business was getting bigger and bigger, and like other Han families, the Huang family was not very interested in the politics of the Kingdom of Malacca. At least on the surface. But just a few years ago, the Huang family suddenly began to care about the government of the kingdom without any warning, and even began to send the children of the family into the court as officials.

Lu Lao and others also felt very strange about the Huang family's sudden participation in politics, and even they went out of their way to ask Huang Qionghai, but Huang Qionghai avoided talking about it, whenever Lu Lao asked about it. He would deliberately divert the topic, which made Lu Lao and them helpless at the same time. I was also more curious.

The Huang family's power in the officialdom is getting bigger and bigger, which naturally caused dissatisfaction among the Tamils, and the Tamil officials led by Prime Minister Shultai also began to suppress the Huang family, but the Sultan of Malacca at that time, Alik, was very supportive of the Huang family, although Alik's power was hollowed out by the Tamils, but it still has a lot of influence in the country, plus some Malay nobles are also dissatisfied with the Tamils, so the Huang family has not taken the suppression of the Tamils to heart, and even the power has been growing.

Originally, according to the development speed of the Huang family, I believe that in a few years, they will be able to grow into a political force that is not weaker than the Tamils, but the Tamils will not be so restrained, so just two years ago, they finally resorted to a killer move, that is, to change the king.

Alik, the original king of the Kingdom of Malacca, has always wanted to regain the power of the kingdom, so the relationship with the Tamils has been very tense, but Alik has not had any powerful helpers around him, so he can't stir up any big storms on his own, but now with the help of the Huang family, the situation is immediately very different, and the Tamils led by Shultai have felt the pressure from the palace, so they have the idea of changing the king.

Although the Huang family has some power, after all, the foundation is too shallow, the Tamils still hold the vast majority of the power of the Kingdom of Malacca, although it is difficult to change the king, but if the Tamils unite, it is not a difficult matter. Now the Tamils have felt the pressure of the king and the Huang family, so they quickly unified themselves, and finally decided to abolish Alec's throne, and then recommend Alec's younger brother, who is now the king sultan. Mahmoud ascended to the throne.

But unfortunately, the news that the Tamils were ready to abolish the king leaked out, which also shocked Alik and the Huang family, and hurriedly discussed countermeasures, but unfortunately then they found out that even if they united, they could not prevent the Tamils from abolishing Alec's throne, and after Alik stepped down, the affirmation of the Huang family was also endlessly suppressed, and even they may no longer be able to gain a foothold in Malacca.

At this critical juncture, the Huang family and King Alec decided to fight to the death, first the Huang family mobilized a large number of money and property to buy the generals in the army, and then Alec came out to promise benefits to those generals, but after a period of co-optation, there were really many generals who were bought by them.

Two years ago, in the autumn, when Zhou Zhong had just crossed over to the Ming Dynasty, King Alec and the Huang family finally joined forces to launch a coup d'état, when they led tens of thousands of troops to occupy the city of Malacca, and even had the upper hand for a time. However, the Tamil counterattack turned out to be unusually ferocious, and their army suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat from the city of Malacca, and the coup ended in failure.

"What about the people of the Huang family, they won't be killed in a coup d'état, right?" Zhou Zhong was very worried when he heard this, and asked first, the Huang family has six or seven hundred people, if they are really killed by those Tamils, he will not care about the reason, he has to let those Tamils take their lives to pay for it.

"Lord Admiral, rest assured, although the Huang family failed in the coup, they have long been ready to retreat, and have already transferred the old and weak women and children of the family to Jinzhou opposite Maliu in advance, and after their defeat, they also went to Jinzhou by boat, and now the Huang family supports Alec as the king in Jinzhou, and declares that they are the orthodoxy of the Kingdom of Malacca, but the city of Malacca is the foundation of the kingdom, so now most people recognize the Sultan. Mahmoud is the king of Malacca, but few people know that there is also a king of Malacca opposite the city of Malacca. ”

Zhou Zhong was relieved when he heard that the people of the Huang family were not slaughtered, but transferred to Jinzhou, opposite the city of Malacca, that is, the island of Sumatra in later generations, after all, there were not many Han people overseas, and the six or seven hundred people of the Huang family were not a small number, and the Huang family was actually interested in politics, which was very rare among the Han people, and maybe they would need to rely on their strength to rule the port of Malacca in the future.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong couldn't help but be more interested in the Huang family, and immediately asked Lu Lao and them about the Huang family. Speaking of Lu Lao, although they do not approve of the Huang family's participation in the internal disputes in the Kingdom of Malacca, they are both Han Chinese, and they have a relationship with each other by marriage, and they have secretly supported the Huang family before, but unfortunately the coup failed later, and the Huang family also hid in Jinzhou, which made them very disappointed, and now if they can let the Huang family come back with the help of Zhou Chong's hand, it will naturally be great, so they also know everything about Zhou Chong's problems, which makes Zhou Chong also collect a lot of information about the Huang family.

According to Lu Lao, there is still an unknown secret about the origin of the Huang family, and this matter was learned by accident through their interactions with the Huang family. It turned out that the Huang family came to the Kingdom of Malacca with the legendary Princess Han Baoli, and they were also the first Han family to settle in Sanbao Mountain.

The Huang family has a large population, but not all of them are surnamed Huang, in addition to the main surname of Huang, there are also four subsidiary families of Qi, Mei, Ma and Chang, these four families are loyal to the Huang family, and have always been dependent on the Huang family.

When Zhou Zhong heard this, he suddenly thought of something, and asked very curiously: "Old Lu, you said that the Huang family came with the princess Han Baoli, but according to the time when she got married, it should have been Yingzong's reign at that time, but according to our Ming records, there was never a princess marrying outside during the Yingzong period, and no one had even heard of the title of this princess, you have lived in Malacca for many years, and you are good friends with the Huang family, I don't know how much you know about that Han Baoli princess?" ”

Hearing that Zhou Zhong did not ask about the Huang family, but inquired about the matter of the princess Han Baoli, Lu Lao and their faces showed embarrassment, now it has only been more than fifty years since the marriage of Princess Han Baoli, although Lu Lao They only migrated later, but for this sensational Nanyang Daming princess, they have also heard of it, and even know some inside stories, but in front of Zhou Chong, the Ming official, they are not easy to say.

Zhou Chong saw the embarrassment on Lu Lao's face at this time, but he was even more curious in his heart, and immediately asked: "Lu Lao, you don't have to worry about anything, after all, this matter has passed for so many years, and Princess Han Baoli has also passed away, and the court will not be interested in this kind of thing, but I am personally very curious about this matter, so I want to inquire." (To be continued......)