In this way, in the midst of the chickens and dogs jumping in the subject countries of the South Seas, Emperor Yang's fleet slowly sailed towards Bengal. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He stayed in Hue for five days before heading south to Saigon, where King Chenla had already led his ministers to wait, as well as two hereditary vassals, Tran Shang Chuan and Mo Jiu, who had resigned from their respective positions as envoys, but the next generation of the two families was still appointed as the local governor of Champa Province, especially Chen Shangchuan's son and Mo Jiu's son-in-law, Chen Da Ding, who was at this time the governor of Champa and Mo Jiu's son-in-law, Mo Tianci, who was the prime minister in Chenla.

The wealth and glory of at least three generations of these two families are stable, and it can be regarded as a reward for their loyalty.

Of course, Emperor Yang in Saigon will inevitably accept a few little beauties or something, this can be said to be a common practice, everyone knows that the saint has this little hobby, like what Zhenla beauties, Champa beauties, and local Chinese beauties will accept a few, in fact, whether it is King Zhenla or Chen Shangchuan and Mo Jiu, these people have already been prepared for him. Although there is still a certain distance between those Zhenla Zhancheng beauties and the word beauty, especially the color is a little darker, but after all, it is also the filial piety of these courtiers, and Emperor Yang is naturally not easy to refuse, in short, he is going all the way to collect all the way, and his royal yacht has a displacement of 5,000 tons, and he doesn't care about installing a few more.

Even in the Changguo Shipyard, there is a giant cruise ship with a displacement of up to 30,000 tons according to the Ming standard, which will serve as the peak symbol of the industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty once completed......

In fact, it is Yang Feng's version of the Great Eastern.

This European standard displacement of nearly 20,000 tons, with six longitudinal sail masts, two paddle wheels and a propeller, a total of three sets of propulsion systems of the giant ship, mainly for the future of His Majesty the Emperor to Europe to collect beauties, if the ship is full, it can accommodate up to tens of thousands of people. Even the special beautiful crew is in training, if this is built, one day if you are interested in Emperor Yang can take this giant ship that will not have a man except for himself, and go to sea to ride the wind and waves, then he feels extremely desolate when he thinks about it.

But now he had to make do with a small boat with only one-sixth of its displacement.

After leaving Saigon, he then crossed the sea to Brunei.

In order to celebrate his return to righteousness and abandonment of Xie religion, the king of Brunei was officially included in the ranks of the Ming vassal kings, and deliberately spent a lot of money in his capital to build a palace and an imperial city for His Majesty the Emperor, and most importantly, the largest shrine in the entire Nanyang region, that is, a temple dedicated to Emperor Yang. And it is said that the world's largest statue of Emperor Yang was built, 60,000 catties of gold alone, and countless jade jewels of all kinds, anyway, he has a share of the oil field, even with the black heart of the Ming Empire's oil, it is not good not to give it to him, after all, at this time, the value of oil pumped out of his territory by the imperial oil is more than 50 million every year.

According to the original contract, although Imperial Oil was exempt from tax in Brunei, it had to give him a tenth of the profits.

This is also the reason why the king of Brunei can't wait to change his faith, if he doesn't change his faith, then the Ming army should then find an excuse to destroy Brunei, but if he changes his faith and becomes the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, then the income of millions of dragon dollars per year will be stable, and it is not worth mentioning compared to this faith.

His loyalty was also rewarded.

"This, this, it's too much for you!"

Yang Feng looked at the golden and splendid shrine in front of him, especially the statue of himself that was seven zhang high, which was said to be all made of copper and covered with gold leaf.

Looking at the back of his left hand, his right hand raised upward, and his eyes staring at the more than twenty-meter-tall giant in front of him, he seemed to have a sense of déjà vu, as if he had seen it somewhere, especially the golden one under the sun, and the drooping cloak behind him, I don't know why, he suddenly felt that it would be more coordinated if he changed into a coat.

"This is all a little bit of Weichen's heart."

The King of Brunei bowed his waist and said with a smile on his face.

Behind him were countless subjects who fell to their knees.

"Spread the decree, the King of Brunei is loyal, give the prince a guard of honor, and reward nine chapters of clothes and nine crowns!"

Emperor Yang said.

"Thank you, Lord Ron!"

The king of Brunei prostrated himself excitedly.

The Ming Dynasty basically continued this aspect of the system before, but the title of the king of the vassal state was revised to be clearly the king of the county, and many of them did not have a title before, that is, an indigenous chieftain level, but now the title is clear.

And the king of the county is five chapters of the seven crowns, the nine chapters of the clothes and the nine crowns are at the level of the prince, and the royal family cannot be crowned princes, in fact, because Emperor Yang has no relatives, plus his eldest son is only seven years old and has not been knighted, so there is no prince in the Ming Dynasty at present. The only exception is the king of Goryeo, Li Yan, he can wear the crown of the prince, although he is still the title of the prince of the county, but enjoy the treatment of the prince, which is still a special case given to him by Emperor Jianwen that year, and Emperor Yang in order to show respect for the previous Ming Emperor, also continued this point, after all, Goryeo is also the first to return to the arms of the Ming Dynasty.

And now, the King of Brunei has also received this honor.

"You deserve it faithfully."

Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder and said.

Well, he's going to use this to encourage these vassal states to do this, to make them worship each other in a big way, and at the same time keep spending their wealth on these things.

His principle of subjectivity is actually quite simple.

Supporting the upper echelons.

Give the king, give the ministers of the kingdom stable power, so that they can exploit their own people unscrupulously and directly knock on the bones, as long as they are obedient to the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that they can squeeze their own people as much as they want, even if they catch their own people and sell them to the Ming slave traders.

And then in various ways, such as engaging in big projects, such as luxury goods, such as tribute, such as letting them buy Ming national bonds, in short, all kinds of ways to suck the hard-earned money of the people they squeezed into the national construction of the Ming Dynasty. And at the same time, those Ming merchants who have privileges, through these privileges, especially tax exemption and extraterritoriality, monopolize these subordinate industries and commerce, this is not difficult, originally the Nanyang Chinese in the late history have already done it, but it was only destroyed by ***, and now with the backing of the Ming Dynasty, they will be easier to do.

At the same time, famine and other disasters were constantly created to reduce the population of these subject countries.

Again, it's not that difficult.

He has a lot of textbooks to learn from, for example, the British, in the eighteenth century, a British famine in Bengal, easily killed 10 million people, Bengal lost one-third of the population at once, and the nineteenth century was also a British famine in Ireland, which also reduced Ireland's population by a quarter in five years, and what the British could do, he could also do.

He could even use a more ruthless one.

Such as spreading a little plague.

Anyway, if he wants to do this, he has a way.

And as a result, these subject countries will become similar to the Nanyang states in the later period of the European colonizers, the feudal monarchs are still in the generations, and they are kept as pigs in their palaces, and the wealthy class all become Chinese, they control all the industry and commerce in these countries, they are all big landlords, big capitalists, they are superior people, they live in beautiful garden houses and enjoy the good life served by servants, as for the bottom of these countries are those natives, and no one cares what life they live, Continue to rot from generation to generation in the dirtiest slums!

And originally, in history, there would be a *** to change all that, but now......

Now Emperor Yang actually can't think so far away, anyway, he is only responsible for building the edifice of the empire and making it as strong as possible, but there are really descendants of future generations, let all this collapse with a bang, then he has no choice, and it is impossible for him to climb out of the grave again.

With a sense of uncertainty about the future, His Majesty the Emperor left Brunei, and his next stop was Siam, of course, the capital of Siam at this time was not Bangkok, but the big city in the north.

But Bangkok is also developing.

It developed as a base for the Ming army.

Different from other countries in the South Seas, the country of Siam has a deep Chinese imprint, in fact, a large proportion of the country's population is Chinese, originally in history when Burma captured Ayutthaya, hundreds of thousands of Chinese fought to defend Siam, and even after Siam destroyed the country, it was still the Chinese who led the restoration of the country, of course, they will definitely not have Zheng Xin in the future, but at this time the King of Siam has also appointed the Chinese as his Chao Phraya, and the commander of the Siamese army is also a retired colonel of the Ming Army.

This result made Emperor Yang very pleased.

In the palace of the Imperial City of Bangkok, summoned and encouraged the King of Siam, and by the way tasted the little Siamese girl, His Majesty the Emperor set off to continue his journey, the next stop is Zhennan Province, that is, Singapore, at this time Zhennan Province has begun to take shape, including Daming Zhennan Province institutions at all levels have also been running in the city.

Of course, the most important thing is ......

"I love this!"

On a small island on the north side of the Dragon's Tooth Gate, Emperor Yang stroked the cannon beside him and said.

This cannon is too big.

The barrel was dark and heavy, like a silent dragon, poking its head out of the reinforced concrete bunker, overlooking the vast sea of the Dragon's Tooth Gate, the inner diameter of the muzzle was so thick that it could even drill into an adult's head, and behind the barrel, those gunners were using their booms to lift a cannonball almost the size of a bucket, carefully placing it on the supply slot, and then quickly pushing it into the chamber, and then began to put in the medicine bags one by one.

Well, this is the new generation of shore defense artillery of the Ming Dynasty.

Seven-inch cannon.

That's two hundred and twenty-four millimeters.

The weight of the shell is 300 catties, and the maximum range is 20 miles, in fact, such a cannon can cover the entire Longyamen waterway.

"Fire!"

Looking through a telescope at a small island near Batam opposite, the flag representing the target, Emperor Yang said with great interest. (To be continued.) )