"The Heavenly Daoist Sect was born out of the Ming Sect and the Taoist Shenxiao Sect, and this Fang Yumen has always been friendly with the Lin'an Mo family, so it is not surprising that it has now transferred to the Heavenly Daoist Sect."

Pu Shougeng's brows furrowed deeply, and he said lightly.

He had known Fang Yumen for a long time. It was a great man on the rivers and lakes of Fujian, and it was said that he was a descendant of Sheng Gong Fangla. This fair life is righteous and squandering money, righteousness is thin and cloudy, and he loves to make friends with the world's heroes, and the original Quanzhou Mingjiao has been in decline to make it prosperous, and the brothers of the sect have long passed 10,000, and there are hundreds of heroes who can fight and kill. Now that he has entered the Heavenly Dao Sect again, he must have the support of Chen Dexing, I am afraid that the power is a little greater, and it is not easy to deal with it.

"Haiyun, why don't you forget it, don't make such a big fuss, let's quietly retreat to Srivijaya. As a brother, I still have some ways to do trade from Tianzhu to Sriwijaya, although it can't compare with the past situation, but it is a way to live after all. ”

Thinking of the strength of Taoism in Quanzhou today and the strength of the Northern Ming Army and Navy, Pu Shousheng retreated a little.

"Survival?" Pu Shougeng glanced at Pu Shousheng who looked depressed beside him with a smile. Still want to rely on the refuge of the Buddhists of Srivijaya? Those people are all mud bodhisattvas, or it won't be long before Chen Dexing will have to be cleaned up - who let them occupy such a piece of feng shui treasure land in the Strait of Malacca? In the past, the Chinese only knew the land of the mainland and did not pay much attention to the sea, so it was the turn of the monkeys of the Three Buddhas to take advantage. But today's Beiming and Tiandao Sects are fundamentally based on the sea. How could such a maritime empire allow the Strait of Malacca, the gateway to the eastern world, to be occupied by others?

"Big brother, you still don't know enough about Chen Dexing, these three Buddhas must be the first to be beaten among the Southern Fan Kingdoms!"

Pu Shougeng said coldly: "Who let them control the gate from the east of the world to the west? Over the past few hundred years. The Chinese will ignore the existence of this gate, it is simply short-sighted! But Chen Dexing is not such a short-sighted king. What a misfortune! This is not just the misfortune of you and my brother, but the misfortune of the entire Heavenly Fang Sect! And our caliphate. Now it has been destroyed by the Mongols.

Looking at the whole world, where is the power that can stop him? It's so desperate! Now all I can think of is to snatch the rich city of Quanzhou clean...... Then he will fly away with his belongings and go to the far west in search of a great king who can rebuild the caliphate, a hero of the Celestial Cult like Saladin......"

This ancestor came from Da Shi and has lived in China for at least six generations, and now he can be regarded as speaking his heart - although he has never been to Da Shi, has never visited the Holy Sepulchre, and is not a devout believer who abides by the rules and precepts of the Heavenly Fang Sect. He was even familiar with the Confucian classics. When he was young, he also participated in the imperial examination once, and even held an official position appointed by the Southern Song court. But he never regarded himself as a Chinese, and never regarded the hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese in Quanzhou as his compatriots.

His homeland has always been the Caliphate!

"A Saladin ......" can write a good poem, and Pu Shousheng, who is more Chinese than Pu Shougeng, also has an admiring expression when he talks about Saladin, the founding monarch of the Ayyubid Dynasty. Then he let out a long sigh: "Haiyun, we are not heroes like Saladin, how can we defeat so many Kafil in Quanzhou City?" ”

"Kafir?" Pu Shougeng showed a mocking smile and asked rhetorically, "Who is Kafir?" Is it only the Heavenly Daoist who is a Kafir? ”

did not wait for Pu Shousheng to answer. He sneered and replied to himself, "I can't see it!" The Song officials, regimental training and garrison troops in Quanzhou Mansion were all non-believers! Not only do they not believe in Heavenly Religion, but they also do not believe in Heavenly Taoism. The Heavenly Daoist Sect is our enemy, and it is also the enemy of most of Quanzhou Mansion! ”

His face suddenly turned hideous. "Why don't we learn from that Mrs. Chen in Zhoushan? Let's borrow a knife to kill people too! ”

……

And almost at the same time, in a mansion on Zhoushan Island, nearly 1,400 miles away from Quanzhou, Chen Dexing was frowning and looking at the information. At the same time that Chen Dexing swept Yanyun in Hebei. The southbound plan is also in full swing. Of course, Pu Shougeng did not guess, as Chen Dexing's enemy. He knows Chen Dexing quite well. And the first target of going south is Srivijaya. Quanzhou is just taken by the way.

The Strait of Malacca, the gate where East meets West, must be taken no matter what--the capture of Malacca is indeed on the agenda! And it's the first goal of southward expansion!

Yes, the Sriwijaya occupying Malacca is the first to be taken. Instead of hitting Annanguo next to Quang Nam West Road first. This is the advantage of good control, there is no need to follow the rules at all, and there is no need to attack from afar. It is completely possible to launch a leapfrog attack and seize the most important strategic points first. Then slowly find a way to clean up the powerful countries with little geographical importance and relatively large strength and population, such as the Khmer Kingdom and the Kingdom of Annam.

Before taking Sriwijaya, it was natural to collect relevant intelligence and buy the Belt and Road Party. And the Heavenly Daoist Sect, which used H medicine weapons to open the way and enter the Three Buddhas, undertook these two missions. Through the Tiandao Taoist Temple in Palembang, Chen Dexing has learned some extremely valuable information.

First of all, the dominant sect in the Srivijaya is Mahayana Buddhism, and secondly, Brahmanism - a country that is somewhere between China and Tianzhu, there is no doubt that Tianzhu has had a greater influence on it!

Whether it is Buddhism or Brahmanism, it is all from Tianzhu! Moreover, although the Three Buddhas were canonized by the Song State, it became the periphery of the Tianzhu civilization through exchanges between Buddhism and Hinduism.

In addition, the Srivijaya also engaged in a century-long battle for maritime supremacy with one of the Tianzhu states, the Brahmanical kingdom. In the end, the kingdom of Zhuran failed, and the state collapsed. The Srivijaya state, on the other hand, is still strong with the help of Malacca's tax revenue.

Moreover, they also want to expand further into Tianzhu and are preparing an expedition to Ceylon. Then use Ceylon as a springboard to attack Tianzhu itself. It is said that a group of Buddhist monks and members of the royal family of the Bala dynasty who had fled from Tianzhu were the ones who wanted to restore their country in Tianzhu with the help of the power of the Three Buddhas.

Secondly, there are still many Chinese immigrants and Tianfang Christians in Srivijaya in Srivijaya. Chinese immigrants naturally come from Chinese mainland, and their ancestors are merchants and sailors who came south from the mainland. There are quite a few people, the financial resources are not weak, and the forces are not small. If all the Chinese forces of the Three Buddhas are twisted into a rope, they are far more than the Heavenly Sect - in history, about the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese of the Three Buddhas once established their own country, the New Three Buddhasyajaya Kingdom, and its leader Liang Daoming was also canonized by the Ming Dynasty as the old port propaganda envoy, which was passed down for three generations. During the same period, the Chinese leader of Luzon, Xu Chailao, was also canonized by the Ming Dynasty and became the governor of Luzon.

However, these two Chinese regimes did not survive until the Western colonizers entered Southeast Asia, and were exterminated by the local Tianfang cultists. Although these Chinese regimes did not receive the real and powerful support of the mother country, the Ming Dynasty, how could the Celestial Cultists who exterminated them ever receive even the slightest aid from the Ottoman Empire?

Far from their homeland and without any strong support, the Celestial Cultists defeated the Chinese at their doorstep...... This is the victory of Tianfang Sect over Confucianism! In terms of external communication, Confucianism is far behind Tianfangjiao, Christianity, and Buddhism. Otherwise, Chen Dexing would not have had to create a somewhat cult-like Tiandao Sect to serve as a tool for expanding and uniting overseas Chinese.

Looking at the history of Western colonization, it is not difficult to find that the colonizers mainly relied on their own strength to struggle and open up overseas, rather than relying on their mother country thousands of miles away.

In the age of sailing, even the most powerful empire could not send a large army to provide 24-hour close protection for colonists thousands of miles away - the War Office of the British Empire, which once dominated the world, had only a standing army of more than 60,000 men until the end of the 19th century.

Although the current Northern Ming Army is close to 200,000, their main enemy has always been the Mongol Empire, and the vast continent is their main battlefield. The power that can be invested overseas is very limited.

……

The sound of footsteps outside the door interrupted Chen Dexing's train of thought, and then the voice of the secretary Xu Ziyuan sounded.

"Your Majesty, Taiwan's Chen Dafu and the Heavenly Taoist Sect Mo Ming envoy ask to see you."

"Invite them in."

Chen Dexing put down the paperwork in his hand, stood up and walked to the door of the study to greet him. I saw Chen Huaiqing and Mo Yingniang walking in one after the other. There was a considerable distance between the two - Chen Huaiqing did not convert to the way of heaven, he still studied the study of Confucius and Mencius, and he actually did not approve of his son's pretending to be a god and playing ghosts.

"My lord, Shadow Niang, sit down."

After Chen Dexing invited the two of them to sit down, he also sat back on the bookcase, picked up the two drafts of the battle plan formulated by the staff department on the bookcase to seize the Three Buddhas in the south and handed them to Xu Ziyuan, and asked him to transfer them to Chen Huaiqing and Mo Yingniang respectively.

"My lord, Ying Niang," Chen Dexing saw that the two of them had finished reading the battle plan, so he said solemnly, "What does the lonely king mean, the operation to capture Quanzhou and the southward Srivijaya can be combined into two, and the main force dispatched is the Nanyang Fleet." At the same time, the Straits Trade Division and the Tiandao Strait General Altar were established. The Straits Trade Department actually exercises military and political powers, and has the power to collect cross-strait transit taxes, recruit troops, form local officials, and convene local councils. The Strait General Altar of the Heavenly Taoist Sect is solely responsible for religious and indoctrination matters in the Strait, and must make every effort to recruit believers among the indigenous upper strata of the Strait, and must make every effort to recruit Chinese people from the Strait into the Strait. All Heavenly Daoists who are within the jurisdiction of the Strait Governor's Mansion can have privileges such as holding public office, serving in the army, and being exempt from paying poll tax.

In addition, the Lone King also thought of a plan to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf! (To be continued......)