"What! How can this be......"

A voice shouted in pain, "Why monks!" Why Monk...... Where did the monk come from? ”

The place where this sound came from was the second floor of a Tianfang Temple near the main road leading to the Palembang Governor's Palace. And the person who made this voice was not someone else, it was Pu Shou Geng, who fled to the Three Buddhas. He was pinching a monocular, staring out at the street.

At this moment, the brigade of the Juexin Mission, under the escort of the officials and samurai of the Three Buddhas, passed by the Tianfang Temple. From the second floor of this Tianfang Temple, you can clearly see that under the banner of the Sun and Moon King, most of the monks who are clustered around a gilded sedan chair are wearing robes and having bare heads!

And it's also a monk with a Chinese face!

Chen Dexing, the leader of the Heavenly Taoist Sect, actually sent dozens of monks to visit the Buddha country of Three Buddhas!

A very ominous premonition suddenly surged into Pu Shougeng's heart. Srivijaya is a Buddha country in the end! Buddhism can influence the country's major policies, and the expedition to Ceylon that is currently being prepared was instigated by the monks of the Three Buddhas.

And the monks of the Three Buddhas, because the Delhi Sultan of Mukden Buddhism attacked the Pala Kingdom and destroyed the Nalanda Temple and the Chaojie Temple, they were quite hostile to the Celestial Sect. If Chen Dexing sent officials from the Northern Ming Dynasty or simply from the Heavenly Daoist Sect, then the Celestial Sect of the Three Buddhas could also lobby the King of Sharontra through their spokesmen in the court.

However, Chen Dexing sent a group of monks to Palembang...... This is really the death hole of his Pu Shougeng!

A rush of footsteps sounded, and Pu Shougeng looked back to see that it was his son Pu Shiwen and his in-law Ma Shoushan who came up. Both men were sweating profusely. I don't know if it's hot or urgent.

"Abdul," Ma Shoushan wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Chen Dexing sent a nun as an envoy, it is said that what kind of Buddha mother ......"

"Mother Buddha?" Pu Shougeng rolled his eyelids. Although he is a Celestial Sect. But he also knows a lot about Buddhism, especially Tantra -- he was with Kublai Khan, and Kublai Khan believed in Tantra. The so-called Buddha Mother is the title of the senior nun of Tantra, and Tantra has "double cultivation" and "joyful Zen", and the Buddha mother is generally proficient in this way, and the Buddha mother who can accompany the king is natural...... The relationship with the king is not ordinary!

Moreover, the popularity of Srivijaya here also happens to be Tantra, and the King of Shahentra himself has been ordained. There are a few Buddha mothers and empty mothers from the Polo family!

"Father, what are we going to do?" Pu Shiwen asked in a panic. "The King of Charentra will definitely sell us to Chen Dexing...... Let's get out of the way! ”

"Escape?" Pu Shougeng glanced at his son. The wealth of the Pu family and the Ma family is not much, if they can't get a vote in the Three Buddhas, when they reach the big food country, the Pu and Ma families will become poor.

With a fierce look in his eyes, he looked at Ma Shoushan, "Maher, it seems that we are going to plan for the worst!" ”

Ma Shoushan took a breath, "There are only a few thousand people left in our hands...... There are at least 20,000 elite soldiers in the country of Srivijaya! ”

"It's okay," Pu Shougeng stomped his foot. "We still have the Heavenly Thunder Arrow in our hands! There are also a lot of heavenly thunder arrows! There are still tens of thousands of Celestial Cultists here in Palembang, and as long as some of them are willing to follow us, they will definitely be able to wage another holy war! ”

Fight the Holy War again?

Pu Shiwen's face cramped, that sacred battle in Quanzhou had already destroyed half of the Pu family! If Palembang fails here. Then the other half of the Pu family will also be explained...... Is his life so miserable? If you haven't even been to Mecca, are you going to die? To die like this is to die in the end in the service of Jihad's duty. Or is it considered to be a death for robbery? Can you go to some paradise where there is an abundance of virgins?

"I'm afraid that the thief Chen will come to ......," Ma Shoushan said worriedly.

"It's very likely, maybe Chen Thief's sailor is already on the way......" Pu Shougeng squinted his eyes. It was as if he had been thinking for a moment, and suddenly released a fierce light again. "Then don't wait for news from Zhanbei! When the Chen thief's mission goes to occupy the monument, we will do it immediately...... The soldiers of the Palembang Governor's Palace will definitely escort them along the way, and the defense of Palembang will be the weakest at that time. This is our chance!

And this time, we didn't go to the Han merchants, but to the northern city of Palembang, where the temples are the richest, and many Buddha statues are made of pure gold. Let's grab it and go! ”

The former richest man in the world is now gritting his teeth and talking loudly about robbery, which really looks like the forty thieves of Alibaba. However, this is a good idea, there are not many Sriwijaya defenders here in Palembang. Sriwijaya is a typical feudal country, serving as a soldier is a matter for the Aryan nobles, who usually live in their own estates, and only a few serve in the army, and will be drafted in case of war. Therefore, as long as the two thieves of Pu and Ma start fast enough and run fast enough, they can naturally leave with a full load!

……

A typical thunderstorm in the South China Sea swept across the entire Malacca Peninsula (Malay Peninsula). Admiral Gu Dali of the Ming Dynasty stood on the back deck of the sail oarship Taiwan, looking at the thick dark clouds on the coastline of the peninsula more than 30 miles west of the sea level, and the faint thunder of the branch lightning transmitted here, just like the scene of the roar of artillery fire on the battlefield, it was really spectacular to the extreme.

He now commands the most powerful maritime forces of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the Taiwan Prefecture, Haidong Prefecture, Fuzhou, Liaoyang Mansion and other four 4000 stone (load stone) class spinnaker oarships named after the Ming Prefecture as the core, including 12 "Hai" class 3000 stone class spinnale oars, 20 "Dragon" class 2000 stone class spinnaker oars The main force of the Nanyang Fleet. There are also sixty-three large and small armed ships, which have also been incorporated into the fleet, loaded with a full 6,000 officers and soldiers of the Ming Expedition led by Fang Yumen (adapted from the Quanzhou Tiandaoist rebel army), and marched south to the Three Buddhas. For such a large lineup, he is both satisfied and slightly regretful. There really is no opponent to fight!

Look around at the fleet, quietly sailing at a low speed sheltered from the wind. His mind came up with the words that King Chen Dexing confessed in Luzon a few days ago.

“…… Jue Xin nun is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she will definitely do something when she arrives in Srivijaya. And Pu Shougeng and Ma Shoushan are frightened birds, and they can't stand being frightened. Once they perceive danger, most of them will choose to strike first and start an incident in Palembang. Therefore, the Lone King will send you to the Three Buddhas now, and take the opportunity to lay out.

And you must act at the opportunity, and if there is chaos in Palembang, you will take the opportunity to occupy it. But don't go and destroy the Celestial Sect there, let alone touch the Buddhist forces of the Three Buddhas, unless they take the initiative to seek death! But you must fully demonstrate the naval force of the Nanyang Fleet and deter all forces around Sriwijaya.

If Palembang is safe and sound, you should occupy Temasek Island (Singapore), the southernmost tip of the Malacca Peninsula, and use it as our big stronghold in the Strait, and this island will be taken no matter what, even if Palembang is already in hand.

The lone king explained another principle. Malacca will replace Quanzhou as a hub of trade between the East and the West. In the future, the power of the Western Heavenly Sect merchants will stop at Malacca. Therefore, we need to keep the Celestial, Christian, and White forces in Malacca. This is also the reason why the Lone King does not let Zhao and Yu go with you.

In addition, if you take Palembang and Temasek Island, you will be temporarily represented by the post of Trade Department of the Strait, and Tran Tak Fong will take over later. ”

Obviously, Chen Dexing gave Gu Dali a very complex task - Chen Dexing not only wanted to control the Strait of Malacca, but also to maintain normal trade between the East and the West, and to use Palembang and Temasek Island as trade hubs, and to make Sriwijaya and the surrounding countries obey or revere the Ming Dynasty and abide by the rules of the game set by the Ming Dynasty...... It is very easy to slaughter Palembang and Tuzhan Monument. The force of the Ming Dynasty is not at all something that the Three Buddhas can resist!

But what about after the slaughter? Tran Tak Hing's soldiers are about to slaughter all the whites in Palembang, will the Arabs and Europeans still dare to trade in Sriwijayaya? I definitely don't dare! For the time being, the Han merchants did not have the strength to trade with the Great Food Nation in Tianzhu - and the Ming navy was not able to go to the Indian Ocean to protect their interests for the time being. In this way, the east-west shipping route will be interrupted, and the Ming Dynasty will no longer be able to extract tens of millions of benefits from maritime trade every year.

That's why Chen Dexing will now leave domestic affairs alone and come to Luzon to take charge -- the things to deal with are too complicated. In the entire Ming Dynasty, except for him, a character who really has a world vision, there is really no second person who can deal with it. Let someone else come, in case it is messed up, Chen Dexing has nowhere to find an income of tens of millions a year to make up for it!

……

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

The roar of thunder was already ringing over Palembang, the largest city in the Strait of Malacca region, at this time. Then there were balls of fire, rising from the aristocratic quarter in the northern part of the city! It's as if something was struck by the thunder and lightning falling from the sky!

Just when the residents of the city were stunned by this sudden rise of fireballs, they didn't know what was happening. In the southern part of the city, in the Tianfang Sect settlement, a black Abbasid flag suddenly fluttered above the onion-shaped golden dome of the Jinding Tianfang Temple!

At the same time, there were people who shouted in the language of food and Persian: "God is greater!" The Holy War has begun! Long live the Jihad warriors! ”

Then, thousands of white men dressed in black coats, armed with scimitars and crossbows, swarmed out from all corners of the Tianfang Sect settlement, forming a black torrent towards the north of the city, where there were many Buddhist temples. (To be continued......)