Europeans had a great fear of the Ming in this era, they were afraid of that huge empire, and the Portuguese belonged to one of the European countries that feared the Ming the most.

The Portuguese were committed to developing trade relations with the Ming Dynasty, and for this reason they knelt down when they met the emperor, and the Ming Dynasty wanted to sell the Hongyi cannon, which was also the acquaintance of the Portuguese, so that they did not need to rely on compradors in trade with the Ming Dynasty, and they could buy sufficient goods every year.

The Portuguese Governor in Macau was aware of the changing situation in the Ming Dynasty, a vast dynasty that had changed masters, a northern general who had risen rapidly and gradually controlled the entire empire, and developed a powerful navy.

After the expulsion of the Portuguese governor of Macao, he came to India, and the Portuguese trade capital was not damaged, but was expelled from Macao, eager to restore trade relations with the Ming dynasty.

After the defeat of the Portuguese navy at Malacca, the Viceroy of India quickly came to his senses and took the initiative to come to the door to contact the First Fleet, and the Viceroy of India made a request to ransom the prisoners.

Soon the Portuguese ransomed their captured soldiers, 100 taels of silver for an ordinary soldier, and the ransom for the higher ranks was higher. The Portuguese were captured more than 5,000 in the Battle of Malacca and the siege of the city, for which the Portuguese paid a ransom of nearly 1 million taels of silver.

At the same time, the Portuguese also proposed a settlement agreement, hoping to resume trade with the Ming Dynasty.

The First Fleet then signed a settlement agreement with the Spaniards, in which the Portuguese recognized all of East Asia as part of the Ming Empire, and Portugal was willing to withdraw all personnel from East Asia on the condition that trade with the Ming would resume.

Since the Portuguese came to the Ming Dynasty, they have been very observant, so Wen Bangliang simply signed an agreement with the Portuguese and agreed that the two sides would trade in Sri Lanka.

The Spaniards then came to the door, and the Spaniards were also in awe of the Ming, but they were obviously more arrogant than the Portuguese.

They tried to intimidate the First Fleet on the grounds that it was their Invincible Fleet. Soon they were bombarded away by Wen Bangliang, and the Spaniards saw that it had no effect, and after half a month, they ran to Malacca City and asked for reconciliation with Daming.

But their demand for reconciliation was that the Ming unconditionally release their captives, and the Philippines they would give up, while restoring trade relations between the two sides.

Wen Bangliang immediately issued a list of compensation.

The Spaniards caused the Hongxi Massacre in the Philippines, slaughtering more than 20,000 Han Chinese, for which the First Fleet filed a claim of up to 20 million taels of silver.

The Spanish envoy flipped the table on the spot, unable to accept the conditions offered by the First Fleet.

The policy towards the Spaniards was determined as early as last year, and the top brass of the First Fleet knew that a war with the Spaniards was imminent in the Americas.

The American Fleet and the California Colonies were going to take over the Spanish territory in Central America, and even if it was a peace with the Spaniards, it would not make much sense.

And the conditions of this claim have been determined a long time ago.

How could the Spaniards accept such a harsh demand for claims, and rejected this demand on the spot, and the negotiations between the two sides broke down.

The British also had some strongholds in East Asia, but they had not yet cleared their strongholds, and all the shipping lanes into Asia had been blocked, and it was obviously very troublesome to enter East Asia by going around a large circle.

The British Viceroy of India sent men to Jakarta, and the British were accustomed to taking the Jakarta route because of their similarity to the political system of the Dutch.

After meeting the governor of Java, the British were warned to withdraw immediately from East Asia.

"The sovereignty of every inch of land in East Asia belongs to the Ming Dynasty." The governor of Java said to the British domineeringly that the British had no power in Asia, and after receiving a warning from the governor of Java, they reluctantly withdrew from East Asia.

The European colonists who came to Asia were now soberly aware that the maritime consciousness of the huge empire in Asia had awakened, and their merchant ships would inevitably appear in Europe in the future.

This was not good news for all the European colonists, the Empire of Light had a large number of ships, and the Philippine governor had warned the Spanish Emperor that the Ming Emperor could line up ships all the way to the Philippines if he wished.

The Ming Dynasty had a large number of ships, but most of them were rivers, offshore transport vessels and some fishing boats, and the number of merchant ships in the ocean-going trade was only about 3,000, which had been registered in Shandong one after another, and they were not allowed to participate in the trade of Westerners at this time.

Westerners were seen by Zhao Yan as the only enemy on the planet capable of creating a threat, and the purpose of banning merchants from contact with Europeans was mainly to prevent the spread of technology.

The Portuguese and the British relented and withdrew from East Asia, leaving only the Spaniards, but this only resulted in more prisoners.

The Spaniards in Luzon had no will to resist at all, and the various towns on the islands surrendered one after another, and most of the Spaniards were taken prisoner and a few were killed.

The problem of the Luzon Islands was also resolved in March, and the governors, officials, and armed police forces sent by Shandong also arrived in Nanyang.

The whole of the South Seas is divided into four administrative regions, one is the Malay Peninsula, with the city of Malacca as the administrative center, named 'Malacca Province', and the other is the 'Samqi Buddha Province' (Sumatra), with Palembang as the administrative center. One is the province of Java, with Jakarta as its administrative center and encompassing the Indonesian archipelago. One is the province of Luzon, with Manila as the administrative center and encompassing the entire Luzon Islands.

Each of the four Nanyang provinces has a governor and a governor of Nanyang. The first governor of Nanyang has arrived, and it is Zhang Wenju, the original political envoy of Shandong.

Zhang Wenju was the first batch of officials recruited by Zhao Yan when he crossed, and at this time he had completely surrendered to Zhao Yan, and his ability was not bad.

When the administrative and law and order police arrived in Nanyang, they registered the local Chinese, established a trading port, and set up a customs office.

The Chinese of Nanyang dialect obeyed the decrees of the officials from the Ming Dynasty, and the officials of Shandong found that the official authority was very useful here, and those Chinese clans in Nanyang admired the officials of the Ming Dynasty very much, and many Chinese people had left Middle-earth for a long time, and some Chinese clans even arrived in Nanyang during the Tang and Song dynasties, and the yearning for Middle-earth was not understandable to ordinary people.

With the help of these Chinese clans, the newly arrived Shandong officials quickly established order in Nanyang, and the Islamic state in Nanyang was already on the ban list.

At the same time as the establishment of the four provinces of Nanyang, the First Fleet also pulled out the strongholds of Europeans in Cochin, Khmer, Siam, and Burma, replacing them in Indochina.

When the First Fleet pulled out its stronghold in the northern part of Jiaozhi, it received news that the Xishan Dynasty in the northern part of Jiaozhi was fighting a border battle with the 03 Mountain Regiment in Guangxi.

At this time, Cochin was occupied by the Nguyen Dynasty, and it is now the fourth generation of Emperor Nguyen Phuc Lan.

The reason for the war between the 03 mountain regiment and the Xishan Dynasty is very simple, last year Chongzhen reduced the troops of the Ming provinces, Ruan Fulan saw the opportunity and took the opportunity to send troops to capture a region in southern Guangxi, and he urgently needed to make some achievements after a few years in power.

The expansion of the Nguyen Dynasty in the direction of the Ming Dynasty became the fuse of the war.

Although the 03 Mountain Regiment was small in number, since the beginning of the year, it had defeated the 30,000 soldiers and horses deployed by the Nguyen Dynasty in the north, and then attacked Hanoi with a thunderous force.

Along with the armed police force in Guangxi, they also joined the intertwined war with the mountain regiment.

Nguyen Phuc Lan didn't know that he had caused a big disaster until the 03 Mountain Regiment hit a hundred miles away from Hanoi, and hurriedly sent an envoy to sue for peace with the Ming army.

When the First Fleet learned of this, it directly sent five warships into the Red River, and the five warships rampaged through the Red River, sinking 100 fishing boats before appearing under the city of Hanoi.

The five warships that arrived under the city of Hanoi immediately launched an artillery bombardment on Hanoi, and the shelling lasted for two days, and the 03 Mountain Regiment and 10,000 armed police troops also fought all the way to the bottom of the city.

The emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty, Nguyen Phuc Lan, knew that he had caused a big disaster, and took dozens of ministers to open the city gate and present the three major crimes. Kneel down and plead guilty to the king of the Heavenly Empire.

In Ruan Fulan's opinion, as long as he confesses his guilt, Daming will let him go.

It's a pity that Ruan Fulan thought wrong. The 03 Mountain Regiment and 10,000 armed police units rushed into Hanoi and ransacked Hanoi.

This is not a king division, it is simply a group of tiger and wolf divisions.

The sack of Hanoi, the harvest was obviously very rich, the Nguyen Dynasty built the palace very brilliantly, and as soon as the 03 mountain group came, they immediately moved the valuable things in the entire palace.

According to statistics, a total of 100,000 taels of gold, more than 300 kilograms of ivory, jade, and jewelry, and more than 6 million taels of silver were seized.

Ransacking a Hanoi yielded tens of millions of taels of silver.

At the same time, the king of Cochin, Nguyen Phuc Lanh, his family members and thousands of officials were arrested.

The war between Daming and Jiaozhi was simply beyond everyone's expectations, Zhao Yan used to expand in the north, and suddenly the war broke out in the south, and the major newspapers sent war correspondents one after another, and the war correspondent of the 03 Mountain Regiment of the "Daming Daily" had already sent the war report back to Shandong on the eighth day of the outbreak of the war.

On the same day, Daming said that a report entitled "Jiaozhi sent troops to invade the land of Daming, and the Guangxi Mountain Regiment vigorously counterattacked" completely attracted the attention of people all over the world.

According to the report, in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Jiaozhi took advantage of the emptiness of the Ming Dynasty and Guangxi to send troops to capture the territory of about 100,000 square kilometers of the Ming Dynasty.

In February, the 03 Mountain Regiment stationed in Guangxi had a border conflict with Jiaozhi, which became the fuse of the war in one fell swoop, and defeated the 30,000-strong army of Jiaozhi in the border conflict.

Jiaozhi is the homeland of China, the Tang Dynasty set up Jiaozhi County, the Ming Dynasty set up in Jiaozhi in the early days of the establishment of the 'Jiaozhi Political Division', Jiaozhi did not accept the education, but also intended to commit it, the situation is very bad.

Subsequently, the Daming newspaper had a battle report every day, and the war report was transmitted back day after day, and the sales volume of the "Daming Daily" directly doubled.

The newsboy on the street carried a large stack of newspapers, and the newspapers he waved while commuting to and from work shouted leisurely: "Outside, outside, the 03 Mountain Regiment conquered Hanoi and arrested King Nguyen Phuc Yen of Cochin." ”

"Outside, outside, conquer Jiaozhi, the king of Jiaozhi, Ruan Phuc Chen, has been escorted to Zhaojiabao."

When the people heard this, many people gathered around, unhurriedly took out a few copper plates and stuffed them to the newsboy, took a newspaper and read it carefully on the side of the street.

According to the report of the war record, Hanoi has been conquered by the Ming army, and Nguyen Phuc Ngan and his family, as well as the officials of Cochin, have all been escorted on the road, and it is expected that they will be able to reach Zhaojiabao in more than half a month.

Regarding the war that took place in Jiaozhi, Shandong intellectuals behaved very calmly, and although they were very concerned, they were not particularly anxious.

Many of them smiled after reading the newspaper and said to the people next to them, "We have won the battle again." ”

Fighting a war is nothing new to the people of Shandong, and now they can be very calm in the face of war, and victory is taken for granted in people's impressions.

Although it was calm, the people spontaneously celebrated.

On the day the news came back, the business of restaurants in various cities in Shandong was several times better than usual.

For Zhao Yan, the war that broke out on the Indochina Peninsula was obviously unexpected, and judging from the reported situation, this war belonged to the kind of situation that started if it was not careful.

First of all, in the border conflict, the Zhongshan Regiment killed twelve soldiers, which was originally nothing, after all, 30,000 were killed, but this obviously provoked the 03 Mountain Regiment, and the commander of the 03 Mountain Regiment directly waved his troops into Jiaozhi, and then the Guangxi Armed Police Force also gathered and followed into Jiaozhi.

Eight days later, Zhao Yan received the news that since the war had already occurred, Zhao Yan immediately ordered to continue the attack, and urgently called Zhang Buyun.

"Immediately set up an administrative list of Jiaozhi, and this year will include Jiaozhi in the administrative scope." Zhao Yan instructed Zhang Buyun.

"My lord, what kind of ethnic policy do we adopt in Jiaozhi?" Zhang Buyun asked Zhao Yan, Zhao Yan thought for a while and said: "Jiaozhi has a high degree of sinicization, and you can continue to strengthen sinicization." However, it is still a foreign race, and if it does not obey the indoctrination, it will be suppressed by iron-blooded means. ”

"Yes." Zhang Buyun was instructed to go down to select the Jiaozhi administrators.

Cochin, also known as Vietnam in later generations, is the country with the highest degree of sinicization, and it is also the only country in Southeast Asia that was founded on Confucianism.

It was China's homeland, and the Song Dynasty was mainly responsible for the split, and the Song Dynasty only took the essence of the area, and lost all the undeveloped areas around it. Although the management and economic development of the Song Dynasty reached the peak of all dynasties, it was also destroyed by the alien race because it left too much room for the alien race.

What the various dynasties of China will be like has a lot to do with the origin of the founding emperor.

The monarch of the Tang Dynasty came out of the official class, with a relatively sufficient background and a relatively high vision, and he did a good job in military affairs and people's livelihood.

The [***] of the Song Dynasty was born in a military family, and the background is not so sufficient, and the vision is naturally not so high, although it has the awareness of economic development and precision management, but the strategic vision is insufficient, leaving too much living space for foreign races.

And in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's family was even worse, he had to eat when he was down, Zhu Yuanzhang was the most lacking in the background, and Zhu Yuanzhang was the worst in vision, although he loved the people like a son, but he actually came up with a tax-free system, which really had to make people speechless, and as a result, it led to the bankruptcy of the country's finances at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In contrast, Zhao Yan's background can be said to be the highest, and his vision is naturally the highest.

As a traverser, a traverser from the era of the information explosion, I know what is the right thing to do, I have never eaten pork, and I have seen countless pig runs.

So Zhao Yan ordered to continue the attack until the entire Jiaozhi was destroyed.

In the entire Indochina Peninsula, if you say the country with the highest combat effectiveness, it is Siam, which is the later Thailand, and Siam has an artillery team trained by the Portuguese for them.

The King of Siam also possessed advanced firearms, which of course were much backward for the Shandong army.

However, after all, the number of troops in the south is small, and there are only three mountain regiments.

Although there is no suspense that these three mountain regiments will destroy the countries of Indochina, they are not administratively ready!

This year, we will swallow four provinces in Daming, and draw four provinces in Nanyang, and then attack Jiaozhi, and the administrative personnel will not be enough.

Siam, Myanmar, Cambodia and other countries can be cleaned up in a few years.

After all, the development model on the Indochina Peninsula is very special, first of all, there are many races, except for a relatively high degree of sinicization of Jiaozhi, many other ethnic groups have not been exposed to Han culture, unlike the ethnic minorities in the Ming Dynasty.

Those ethnic groups have nothing to do with the Han nationality, and most of them are Islamic countries, so they must be thoroughly cleaned, otherwise it will be difficult to immigrate.

However, the Indochina Peninsula is also what Zhao Yan is bound to swallow.

The topography of the South Peninsula has three distinct features. First of all, its topography is generally high in the north and low in the south, with many mountains and plateaus, and the mountains and rivers are roughly in a north-south direction, and the mountains and rivers are arranged alternately, and the topography of the peninsula is like a palm. Secondly, its topography has been eroded for a long time and is quasi-plain, the karst terrain is developed, and the Indo-Malay massif also has uplift and fault phenomena during the Tertiary orogeny. Third, the plains are mostly distributed in the southeastern coastal areas, mainly the vast alluvial plains and deltas in the lower reaches of the great rivers.

There are a large number of non-ferrous metal deposits on the peninsula, including lead, zinc, silver, antimony, copper, tin, tungsten and other minerals. Other mineral deposits are mainly coal, precious stones, rock salt, oil and natural gas. In addition, water resources and forest resources are also quite abundant. The dry season and the rainy season are more distinct, the countries on the peninsula are agricultural countries, producing teak, rubber, rice, sugarcane, oil palm, coconut oil, pepper, etc., among which the development prospects of rubber and oil palm are considerable, and it is an important production area of rubber in later generations.

These are all okay, but what impresses Zhao Yanxin the most is the alluvial plains and deltas on the Indochina Peninsula.

That is, the southeastern region, where there is the Mekong Delta, and the Red River Delta in the Cochin Hanoi region, both of which are rich agricultural areas.

The potential for its agricultural development is huge, even better than that of the Jiangnan region.

After all, the closer to the tropics, the more abundant the product, rice can be planted three seasons a year, in the future, the agriculture of the Ming Dynasty will develop to aquaculture, and rice will have to be supplied from Southeast Asia.

Zhang Buyun walked not long ago, suddenly ran back, and said to Zhao Yan with a look of surprise: "Lord, my subordinates have thought of it." ”

"What do you think?" Zhao Yan asked strangely, looking at his excited face, as if he had taken a stimulant.

"Lord, aren't we short of manpower? There are so many people on the Indochina Peninsula, why don't you arrest them there? Zhang Buyun said with both hands.

(To be continued)