Shimazu Hisaki went back to Kagoshima to find his brother to study and do it, and then Fang Heng and the Beiyang fleet returned to Nanjing, and took the thousands of Dutch captured on the island to the shore and put them in concentration camps, just as Yang Feng was going to open a salt mine in Jiangxi, and these people would be sent directly to the salt mines as coolies, when the Dutch government sent someone to pay the ransom and when to release it back. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But I guess it's hopeless.

At this time, the Dutch government was living quite tightly, and their main income was from overseas trade, especially spices from the Spice Islands, sugar, Chinese silk, porcelain, tea, etc., which had now been completely cut off, according to Chen Ping, when they came back, Rotterdam had already seen a large-scale bankruptcy tide, especially coupled with the drag of the war with France, at this time the sea coachman was like being tightened his neck, and could only gasp with difficulty.

"Your Majesty, the minister has brought you a gift."

Fang Heng said with a smile.

"What gift?"

Yang Feng said.

"Bring it here!"

Fang Heng turned back to one of his entourages and said.

Immediately after the entourage left, and then with a team of soldiers escorted four beautiful white girls over, the four girls looked at Yang Feng tremblingly, and quickly knelt down in front of him under the scolding of the soldiers, one by one, frightened as if facing monsters.

"This gift is good, send it to Ruyu and let her train it well."

Yang Feng said to Xiao Guizi with satisfaction.

The latter hurriedly agreed, and left with four girls, in fact, at this time in Yang Feng's palace, there were already a few white palace maids, although at this time the vast majority of European colonists who came to the East were men, and women could be said to be rare, but Luo Zhang still collected some in the process of sweeping the spice islands, and everyone knew that Emperor Yang's palace was actually very short of people, so it was inevitable to send them to him......

Ready for sprinkling.

It is said that Emperor Yang's queen Gong is really not in line with his identity, a total of two palaces in the north and south combined, there are less than a thousand concubines and palace maids, as an emperor this is simply outrageous, the people of Daming are very dissatisfied with this, even some people's representatives have specially asked His Majesty the Emperor to hurry up the draft, so that more Daming girls can inherit his rain and dew grace, not to mention too much, how can it be expanded to more than 3,000 people.

Alas, the people of the Ming Dynasty are heartbroken for the serious problem that His Majesty the Emperor is not close to women!

"Your Majesty, when the retainer left Nagasaki, the Mori family sent a messenger to report that Asahin had rejected Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's request for him to send his son to apologize, and that the matter had spread widely among the Wa feudal domains, and it was said that the vast majority of the feudal lords had clearly expressed their opposition. Sendai and other northern feudal domains because of the distance, I don't know what the attitude is, but it is estimated that it will not be supported, although Asahin has no power, and even the territory of Yulu has to be accepted by the Tokugawa family and then given to him, but if he really has to be determined, I am afraid that Tokugawa Tsunayoshi will not be able to do anything about him. ”

Fang Heng then said.

Emperor Dongshan is not stupid, he is a living god in the Wa Kingdom, and he is not a human at all, if he sends his son to apologize to Yang Feng, it means that he has fallen into the world all of a sudden, and the emperor's godhead no longer exists. And the reason why the Imperial Family continues to this day, those generals and daimyo have killed for hundreds of years, but his family is as stable as Mount Tai, is nothing more than because the Emperor is a god, no matter how they kill whoever is in power, they are all human, and people can never replace God, which is the basis for the Imperial Family to protect itself in any troubled times. But once you change from a god to a human, who cares about you, a puppet without any real power, the next time there is chaos, maybe a general will directly cut down his house and then proclaim himself emperor.

Therefore, he would rather die than protect the future of the Heavenly Imperial Family.

In fact, Emperor Higashiyama has already threatened Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, if the latter forces him again, he will cut his own abdomen, compared to the godhead of the imperial family, he has every courage to fight to the death, and if he really has a stomach, then I am afraid that Tokugawa Tsunayoshi will become the target of public criticism, so Tokugawa Tsunayoshi is also helpless now.

"Regardless of them, wait for the Nanyang Fleet to come back and drive the battleship directly to Osaka, I'll see what choice Tokugawa Tsunayoshi makes!"

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

Changguk.

Salutes, drum music, singing and dancing all kinds of celebrations turn the wharf of Changguo Military Port into a sea of joy, including Prime Minister Huang Baijia, a large number of officials and army generals, plus ordinary people, at least 100,000 people gathered here, with cheers to welcome the triumphant return of the soldiers, in front of them in the military port, the warships of the Ming Expeditionary Force are docking one by one, and countless soldiers on the deck meet their relatives with the same cheers.

With the exception of two battleships and four cruisers that remained in Malacca, all the other warships of the South Sea Fleet returned.

In the nearly year-long battle, Luo Zhang and his expeditionary force swept across the entire Spice Islands, and even reached as far as the island of New Guinea, sweeping away all the Dutch and Portuguese strongholds in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, Timor, Malaya and other places, and advancing the Ming territory all the way to the Golden State.

And in this vast land, a military region-level organization was set up in the Nanyang Economic and Strategic Mission, a provincial-level Zhennan Province, and the intended capital was Zhennan Mansion, but because Zhennan Mansion had just begun construction, so at present, the Nanyang Economic Strategy Envoy and the Zhennan Governor's Yamen were set up in Coconut City, which was the original Batavia.

The administrative districts at the provincial level include Zhennan Province, Coconut City Province, Old Port Province, Xijiang Province, that is, Makassar Province, Ambon Province, and Timor Province, a total of six provinces.

Of course, these prefectures are different from the country, in fact, they occupied the fortresses of the former Dutch and Portuguese, but the vast majority of the land is still under the rule of those indigenous sultans, but this is not a big deal, even in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, there are many places that are only nominal prefectures and counties, but the real power is in the hands of the local Tusi, and this kind of fetter system is not a new thing, it is nothing more than to take it down first and then slowly clean it up.

"See the Prime Minister!"

Luo Zhang walked down the gangway and bowed to Huang Baijia.

"General Luo has worked hard, how are our guests?"

Huang Baijia said.

"It's all right."

Luo Zhang said hurriedly.

"Then ask them to disembark!"

Huang Baijia said.

Luo Zhang immediately turned his head and shouted to the ship, and then an officer shouted into the cabin: "Please pay tribute to the Kingdom of Siam!" ”

After he finished speaking, a group of men dressed in Siamese clothes walked out of the cabin, and at the same time the salute was fired, and then these people walked down the gangway to meet the Huang Baijia, who at this time were still under the rule of the Ayutthaya dynasty, but were declining under the threat of the Burmese. However, they have always had a special relationship with the Chinese, when the Qing army entered the customs and moved the border, a large number of Chinese fled to Siam, and even more than 100,000 Chinese participated in the battle to defend Ayutthaya in the original history of the Ayutthaya Dynasty, and then the Siamese people returned to the country under the leadership of the Chinese, that is, the famous Daxin King Zheng Xin.

Now they have no hesitation to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

After the Siamese envoy was invited aside, the officer on the ship shouted, "Please pay tribute to the Sultanate of Brunei." ”

Then the Brunei mission walked down.

At this time, Brunei has believed in Mu Dabeard, the Sultan is Na Suruddin, at this time Brunei is not a small country, in fact, the entire northern part of Borneo, that is, the later Brunei and Sabah belonging to Malaysia, Sarawak all belong to the Sultan of Brunei, they have no psychological burden to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and their ancestors are still buried in Nanjing!

"Please pay tribute from the Sultanate of Jeddah!"

"Please pay tribute to the Banten Sultanate!"

"I have invited the Sultanate of Yogyakarta to pay tribute."

……

In the following time, the tribute envoys from the countries of Nanyang who came to meet Emperor Yang kept getting off the ship one after another, this time it was Emperor Yang's enthronement ceremony, Luo Zhang knew very well that the more he came, the more His Majesty the Emperor was happy, it can be said that all countries in Southeast Asia where he reached the front of the army required tribute envoys. The Sultan of Aceh wanted to be tough before, but after being blockaded by the battleship Weihai and fired a round of artillery shells, he was also frightened and quickly sent tribute envoys. Thanks to the fact that there are as many Sudans in Southeast Asia as dogs at this time, Luo Zhang actually allocated more than 20 countries to Emperor Yang, which can be regarded as a bit of a taste of all countries coming to the dynasty.

These countries are very clear about what the tribute of the Ming Dynasty means, it is an opportunity to make a fortune, get some strange local products to kowtow and kowtow to a minister, and then you will get a huge reward, this kind of good thing except for those ignorant guys who don't hurry up and run to it?

However, they didn't know that the Ming Dynasty at this time was no longer the Ming Dynasty of the past, and the Ming Emperor at this time was not the foolish emperors of the old Zhu family. In the future, no matter what the Ming Emperor wants them to do, they must do it, because it is a holy decree, because they are already Ming courtiers, if they dare not listen, then it is to resist the decree and disrespect is to rebel, and the Ming army will perform their duties.

Of course, at this time, none of these envoys understood this.

The envoys of more than 20 small countries set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty under the warm welcome, and then boarded the train that made them tremble to the Changguo Mansion, where they enjoyed a grand dinner reception, rested for a night and visited the factory of Changguo, which was completely unbelievable to them, and then boarded the small river steamer to meet them again and began their journey to the Ming Dynasty. Their first stop was to enter the Qiantang River and sail to Hangzhou, then along the canal all the way north to Suzhou, after visiting Suzhou, and then continue to Wujin, where the countless chimneys of Huawei Steel pointed to the sky, and the spectacular scene of countless steelmaking furnaces splashing molten steel even made them jaw-dropping, and the scene of a cast steel rifled gun in the foundry waiting to be assembled made their legs weak.

They are suffocated by the strength of this country.

Next, they entered the Yangtze River and headed north to Yangzhou, where they showed them the luxury of the country, which made them feel like they were in a fairyland.

But this was all right, and when they arrived in Nanjing, standing on the asphalt road leading to the city, many of the envoys simply knelt down on the road, worshipping the magnificent city in front of them as if they were worshipping gods. (To be continued.) )