On February 21, the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Sima Shu entered the sea from Jiankang and went all the way south, but the royal car did not stop along the way, but directly entered the Ryukyu Strait, and after resting three or five in the Ryukyus, he set off to the west again. A few days later, Sima Shu's fleet first arrived in Yazhou.

Although Yazhou (Hainan Island) was prosperous in later generations, it was a famous tourist attraction throughout the country. But at this time, Yazhou was just a remote county where the Great Jin Dynasty issued prisoners. If it weren't for the fact that after the Great Jin Dynasty recovered Jiangdong, the navy established several ports here, I am afraid that Yazhou would still not be valued by the imperial court.

But even so, the arrival of Emperor Sima Shu not only caused a sensation on the entire island, but also brought a huge impact to the officialdom of the neighboring two states.

In order to ensure the safety of the emperor, in addition to the accompanying guards and guards, tens of thousands of soldiers from Jiaozhou and Guangzhou were dispatched to serve as the emperor's peripheral guards. The Jiaozhou and Guangzhou Prefecture Assassin Prefecture also dispatched a large number of officials to Yazhou, and for a time, in addition to Sima Shu himself, Jiaozhou and Guangzhou were like facing a great enemy.

In this regard, although Sima Shu disagreed, he thought that although he did not have many escort forces, he was definitely the elite of the times. However, he did not stop the people below, sometimes it is one thing for the superiors to do it, and it is another thing for the people below to do it.

No matter what happened to the outside world, Sima Shu had a good time to inspect Yazhou. At this time, Yazhou had a slow economic development due to its sparse population. Even though the construction of the naval port has greatly contributed to the development of the local area, it has not been effective in a short period of time. Therefore, after Sima Shu inspected Yazhou for two days, he immediately took a warship to Chengfang Port. There he will summon envoys from various countries.

Originally, there were only a dozen envoys from the Indochina Peninsula in this visit, but in the end, after the news was learned of by the subject countries in other places, the subject countries from the South Seas, Oceania, the Indian Ocean and other regions also asked to go to the audience, and finally it developed into hundreds of envoys to come to the audience.

On the first day of the third month of the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, Sima Shu, held a tribute ceremony in Chengfang Port, and received the tributes of various subject countries in the palace. After Sima Shu sent troops to recover Linyi, the prestige of the Great Jin began to spread in the Indochina Peninsula. According to the results of the negotiations between the Great Jin Dynasty and the Central and Southern Countries, the Central and Southern vassal states and princes went to Chang'an to pay tribute once every ten years to express their submission and obedience to the upper kingdom.

In fact, this time, not only the subject countries of Central and South China came to the audience, but also some countries as far away as Nanyang and South Asia rushed to come here. For almost a decade. The Great Jin launched a large-scale seafaring expedition. So far, it has been explored that there are seven continents under heaven. It is Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, the Americas, the Arctic and Antarctica, of which the Americas are divided into North America and South America.

Among them, the subject states of the Great Jin Dynasty are mainly distributed in Asia, especially in the surrounding areas of the South Seas. It includes the Kachi, Niba, Ponga, Chenla, Pio, Funan and the Malay Peninsula, and the southeastern South Sea region includes Luzon, north-central Mud, Celebes and the vast seas east of it.

It starts in the morning. Local officials of the seventh rank and above and officers of the rank of captain and above in full costume. Together with the tributary envoys, they were all outside the palace gate. And under the command of the Li Fan Division led by Jia Mo, they lined up the team and waited for the emperor's reception.

When everything is ready. When the emperor arrived, the Luan Yiwei officials sounded their whips, and the hundred officials and envoys knelt down to greet them. After the emperor sat down at the top, the officials above the fourth rank entered according to the rank of knighthood, and each of them was established according to the arrangement of the praise officials. After the ministers bowed three times and knocked nine, the officials of the Li Fan Division led the subject country to worship outside the hall, and after the three bows and nine knocks, His Majesty Dan was happy, and the ceremony was finished, and the music stopped, and the retreat was as before.

At this time, Sima Shu was only thirty-five years old, and it was the prime of life, and many envoys couldn't help but sigh that the strength of the Great Jin Dynasty would last for at least a few decades after seeing the emperor's young face.

At this moment, he was on the dragon chair, sitting south facing north, looking at the local ministers and envoys outside the palace hall, although his face was not happy, but his heart was inevitably full of ups and downs, and he finally had a trace of pride in the coming dynasty. Since the Great Jin Dynasty successively destroyed or annexed Goguryeo, Sanhan, Wa State, Yi Loan and other countries, he has not received so many envoys from his subject countries for a long time.

At this time, there were officials in front of the envoys of the subject countries to lead them to the palace one by one, and after three bows and nine bows again, Sima Shu gave the seat tea. Then the foreign minister offered tribute and handed over the letter of state to express the courtesy of the lord's submission and admiration. These subjects are mainly from Indochina, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the South Seas, the Indian Ocean region, and even an indigenous group in Africa.

As for the tributes, they are nothing more than bear bile, musk, cordyceps, ivory, precious stones, pearls, hawksbill turtles, spices, fragrant wood and other specialties, and even elephants, lions, kangaroos, peacocks and other exotic animals.

"Chen Zhenla, the envoy of the country, the prince Cha Lichai, knock on His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, I wish His Majesty long live and long live!" Prince Zhenla said aloud the words of worship, and then bowed to the ground. He was about twenty, and although he was dressed in real local clothes, he couldn't hide his scholarly spirit.

"Good, good! The prince is flat, give sit! Sima Shu showed a pleasant look. He had learned from Jia Mo that although this prince was a member of the Zhenla royal family, he had long been studying in the Luoyang University Hall of the Great Jin Dynasty, and he admired the culture of the Great Song Dynasty and was bent on promoting Zhenla to break away from Funan and go to the Great Jin.

As soon as the prince of Zhenla was seated, he looked up at Sima Shu and waited for the emperor's inquiry. He was very excited at the moment, and seeing the emperor of the Great Jin Empire was something he had been looking forward to for a long time.

"Is the country of Zhenla peaceful? Is the nation healthy? Is the king okay? Sima Shu smiled and asked three questions in a row.

"Your Majesty, since Zhenla and the Great Jin Dynasty have become friendly and good-neighbors, and your Majesty's prestige will be used to deter wrongdoing, and the country will be stable. He also entrusted the emperor with great blessings, and the wind and rain were smooth for many years, there was no worry about hunger, and the people were happy. Although my father was in his sixties, he was in good health, but because of the work of state affairs, he felt unbearable headaches. The prince replied, and when he spoke of his father's illness, there were faint tears in his eyes.

"I have also heard of the king's illness, and I have consulted the imperial doctor. At this time, they already had a charter, and when the court meeting was over, someone would take the prince to the Tai Hospital. If necessary, the Tai Hospital should send someone to Chenla to treat your father. Sima Shu said, his tone full of concern. The most important filial piety in China, Sha Li guessed that he was worried about his father's health, and his tone was sincere, so he won his praise.

When Sārichai heard this, he hurriedly left his seat again and bowed down, and only sang in his mouth: "Thanksgiving the Holy Grace of the Minister!" ”。

The emperor did not have much time, and there were so many envoys waiting, so he said a few more words and said a few more words and said a word of humor. Sima smiled and agreed, and opened his mouth to give glass, silk, porcelain, tea and other local things of the Great Jin Dynasty. When he walked out of the main hall after thanking him, he saw the next envoy waiting at the door.

The number of subject states in the central and southern parts of the Great Jin Dynasty was not too many, and it only took an hour to complete all the audiences, and it was the turn of the envoys of the subject countries in other regions. Many of them were tribes from Oceania, and Sima sent people to explore the sea areas south of the South Sea and east of the Whale Sea.

A large island was discovered in the waters southwest of Celebes in the South Sea. This large island has many tropical rainforests and birds, and the terrain is long and narrow, larger than an inland province, and it is named Southern Ryukyus. South of the Ryukyus then found a continent, the continent is vast, and the inland land of the Great Jin Dynasty is like, there is a peculiar animal on it, the body grows up, the appearance is quite similar to the rat, to jump instead of running, its fast as a horse, under the abdomen more open a pocket, to hold the cubs, the native people are called kangaroos.

Because there are many rare birds, beasts, flowers, grasses, insects and fish on this continent, and the natural landscape is peculiar and magnificent, it is called Ozhou.

A few years later, the exploration ship found two neighboring islands in the southeast of Ozhou, the sum of the two islands is similar to Luzon, the two are only one line of strait, because it is located in the easternmost sea area of the Great Jin Dynasty, the first to see the sunrise, it was named Danzhou. Because Southern Ryukyu, Oshu and Danshu are all located in the ocean beyond the South Seas, the world refers to these three places and the surrounding islands as Oceania.

As for the east of the Whale Sea, the continent was not discovered until it was detected 20,000 miles away, and this continent was divided into two parts, north and south, with small pieces of land connected to each other in the middle, and its size was even greater than that of the Great Jin Dynasty. This place is rich in products, dense forests, rivers are all over, and the natives are numerous, and Sima Shunai gave the name of America. The northern part of the continent was named North America, the southern part was named South America, and the middle part of the land was named Central America.

"I have heard that in recent years, the Gupta Empire in the northern part of the Indian peninsula has developed rapidly, and its national strength has gradually unified northern India, what is the situation in this situation?" At this time, Sima Shu was asking the envoys of the Lion Kingdom.

When the envoy of the Lion State heard this, he said: "Since the spring and summer of last year, the Gupta Empire in the north has begun to fight southward, and in order to conquer Bengal, the country has sent 80,000 troops to attack Bengal, and then saw that it was not able to resist, and added 40,000 troops. Fortunately, the local soldiers in Bangladesh were heartfelt, and after half a year of hard fighting, they had to withdraw due to the lack of logistical supplies. Bangladesh was thus spared. ”

"How powerful has the Gupta Empire become?" Sima Shu frowned and said, since his attention has been on West Asia, Central Asia and Europe, and he has not put the countries of South Asia in his eyes, but after listening to the introduction of the envoy of the Lion Kingdom today, he suddenly felt that he could not let the Gupta Empire unify the South Asian subcontinent.

When Xia Xuan heard this, he got up and bowed to the earth: "Although the Gupta Empire is powerful, it is still not the opponent of the kingdom, if it weren't for Your Majesty sending a navy to help our country, I'm afraid that our country would also suffer from the scourge of swords!" On behalf of our king, I would like to thank Your Majesty for your assistance! ”

Although Sima Shu was surprised by the strength of the Gupta Empire, he didn't pay much attention to it, "The envoy is polite, this is my responsibility, since the subject country is willing to serve our court as a superior state, my court has its own responsibility to protect the security of the subject country." ”

The envoys of the Lion Kingdom bowed to the emperor again, and then realized that they had taken up too much time for tribute, and left the palace after four bows. After the last group of male envoys finished their visit, Sima Shu finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the tribute ceremony had lasted nearly three hours at this time. Hundreds of envoys from Nanyang, Central South and Oceania were cordially received by the emperor. (To be continued......)