On the surface of the South China Sea, the water is as blue as a shining blanket, and the waves are rolling layer by layer, like this blue carpet is slowly undulating. When the sun shines, the eyes are full of light. Looking around, it is as if you are in an infinite blue world.

Dotted with small islands on the southbound course of two sailing boats, each one lush with lush jungle and white sandy beaches. It was as if the scenery was about to overflow from it. Occasionally, a convoy of merchant ships appeared ahead, and then was overtaken from behind by these two three-masted clippers. Looking at these merchant ships, they are all in the style of lucky ships, and the stern of the ships is hung with the sun and moon flags, and they all sail from the coast of China to the south for trade.

With the collapse of the Pu family, the Ma family and other white trade families, most of the merchant ships that go to the south are the fortune ships of the Han people. The dhow of the Arabs was almost extinct, and only the Northern Ming navy was equipped with dhow-hung warships and expedition ships.

In addition, a three-masted schooner that could use a mixture of crosssail (soft sail) and spinnaker also began to appear in the South China Sea. This is an experimental ship type of the Beiming Navy, which is a design idea proposed by Chen Dexing, and the first ship is the "Mingzhou". It is said that the purpose of the construction of this three-masted soft sailing ship was to use it on future transpacific routes.

The Enlightenment Mission to the Three Buddhas in the south took two "Mingzhou" class ships, namely the Mingzhou and the Ocean. They are all medium-sized ships with a load of about 2,000 stones, each carrying ten three-inch cannons, which is very fast and has a strong endurance. Although the combat effectiveness is only mediocre, considering that Beiming still retains the secret of granule H medicine. Such warships are also capable of meeting the challenges from the sea.

Moreover, the Beiming Navy now has a "Daming"-class sail oar hybrid ship equipped with 24 cannons, and is also building a Tai-class sail battleship that can be equipped with 48 cannons.

In the years imaginable. The maritime supremacy of the Ming Dynasty seems to be unshakable!

It is precisely because of this recognition. Otani Juexin abandoned Buddhism and entered the Tao without hesitation, and also became Chen Dexing's disciple. In her opinion. It was only a matter of time before Chen Dexing became the co-leader of the world (the world). Even Japan cannot stay out of Chen Dexing's world, and for Chen Dexing, who has absolute sea power, the sea around Japan is not an insurmountable moat at all.

Since Chen Dexing and the Heavenly Daoist Sect are unstoppable, it is better to introduce them to Japan by yourself!

Juexin, who had temporarily changed back into a monk's uniform, stood on the deck at the stern of the ship, his expression was a little complicated, and he just sighed softly.

The altar master of the Three Buddhas of the Heavenly Dao Sect, Li Yangguan, who looked a little fairy-like, just walked away from the foredeck with heavy steps, his face was full of beads of sweat, but his robe was still meticulous. There was also a horizontal knife hanging from the belt. Looking at Juexin and sighing, he quietly turned his eyes away.

Juexin suddenly asked, "Li Daoren, you have been to the Three Buddhas, and you are a preacher. What do you think of the Srivijaya people? ”

Li Yangguan slowly turned his face, glanced at Juexin thoughtfully, and said slowly: "Three Buddha Qi people...... One thing is strange about them, their nobles and commoners look completely different. The civilians are short, black-skinned with flat noses, a bit like monkeys. The nobleman is a bearded rhinoplasty. The skin is also whiter, as if it is white. Moreover, the Sriwijaya people also like to judge people by their appearance, the whiter the skin, the more noble, and the darker the skin, the more humble. So the Bai Fan from the West and the Han people from the south of Middle Earth. Because of his white appearance, he is respected in the Three Buddhas. ”

He glanced at Juexin, and this woman was also quite white. "A skin like Uncle Shi should be quite popular in the Three Buddhas."

The Taoists of the Heavenly Daoist Sect are also senior. Chen Dexing is the founding patriarch, and several heavenly envoys are inferior to Chen Dexing. The Taoists below are ranked according to the lineage. Anyone who enters the Tao and becomes a priest must be apprenticed. Li Yangguan is a disciple of Ren Daoxing, and Juexin is a disciple of Chen Dexing, so he wants to call Juexin his uncle.

After listening to this nephew's joke, Juexin just shook his head and smiled, and asked again: "What about the people of the Polo royal family?" What do they all look like? ”

"They are the same as the nobles of the Three Buddhas, and they can't tell each other apart at all." Li Yangguan has been in the Three Buddhas for more than a year, as if he has done nothing else, and is studying the human race there.

He pondered and said: "It is said that the ancestors of the nobles of the Three Buddhas are also from Tianzhu, and they may be the same species as the Polo royal family. However, the Tianzhu people of the Three Buddhas do not seem to be of the same species, some of them are like white fans, and most of them are short and black, which is similar to the aborigines of the Three Buddhas. In addition, the Tianzhu people also seem to value white...... Moreover, the Three Buddhas, along with Buddhism and Brahmanism, do not pay much attention to the equality of all beings, but divide people into five castes. Brahmins and Kshatriyas are precious, Vaishyas are the middle, and Shudras and Dalits are cheap. This five-class caste division also seems to be related to skin color, with the upper castes being whiter and the lower castes having dark skin. ”

The Three Buddhas mentioned by Li Yangguan are completely different from Malaysia and Indonesia hundreds of years later.

At this time, the Srivijaya and the neighboring state of Java should be part of the Tianzhu civilization in the strict sense. Tianzhu is India, an old colony of thousands of years. After the Aryans conquered the indigenous peoples of ancient India, they used the caste system to separate themselves from the conquered peoples. The Srivijaya and Java were the result of the Indian conquest - of course, the whiter Indo-Aryans conquered the shorter and darker natives, because the caste system dictated that the soldiers of ancient India could only come from the Kshatriya caste, that is, the descendants of the Aryans.

The Aryan conquerors from India moved this caste system to Srivijaya and Java. Moreover, it is still the 13th century, and the conquest of Tianzhu by the more egalitarian Tianfang Christians is not very long, let alone the conquest of Srivijaya and Java, so large-scale "national integration" has not yet appeared in India, Sriwijaya and Java.

Therefore, when Chen Dexing saw the nobles of the Srivijaya Kingdom and the exiles of the Polo royal family, he must have been surprised, thinking that he had met Europeans.

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Sriwijaya, Palembang.

The two warships, the Mingzhou and the Great Ocean, have slowly sailed into the harbor under the guidance of a small oarship of the Sriwijaya Kingdom. The Strait of Malacca is a windless area, so the port here is not built in a bay that can be sheltered from the wind, but directly near the channel waterway, which is large and not under the port of Quanzhou.

Juexin, Li Yangguan, and Ji Lao Thief were all standing on the deck of the Mingzhou, holding binoculars and looking at everything in front of them.

Palembang was in front of them.

The city is built along the sea, and it seems that there is no planning, so it looks a little cluttered. But a closer look reveals that the city has four completely different styles. In the northern part of the city, there are many stupas and magnificent buildings, many of which reflect dazzling golden light from the roofs of the towers, which seems to tell the wealth of the city.

Immediately adjacent to this affluent area is a large jumble of local buildings, mostly made of bamboo and wood, which look dilapidated and crowded. This area accounts for more than two-thirds of the entire Palembang metropolitan area.

Further south is another Tianfang sect, a tall and majestic Tianfang Temple stands in the middle, and the huge onion-shaped treasure top is also shining with gold, as if it is richer than the temple to the north. Around the Tianfang Temple, there are small white buildings, typical of the Tianfang Sect architectural style, reflecting the sunlight near the equator, which looks extremely clean.

The southernmost side is a series of Chinese-style houses, clean and tidy, simple and elegant. Neither flaunting wealth nor losing its decency. A heavenly Taoist temple hanging the banner of the sun and the moon stands impressively in it. The hunting and fluttering Sun and Moon King Banner seems to show everyone that this is the territory of His Royal Highness King Ming!

The layout of the city, of course, is also "Tianzhu characteristics", and what is shown everywhere is not integration but isolation. The monasteries and mansions to the north belonged to the Aryan conquerors from Tianzhu, and a large slum in the middle naturally belonged to the local untouchables of the Three Buddhas. The two small "Tianfang Parish Districts" and "Han Districts" in the south belong to the Tianfang merchants and Han merchants who settled here.

Four distinct areas, without the slightest hint of mixing - this is Indian-style apartheid!

The Srivijaya in the 13th century was actually part of Indian civilization.

The nun just watched all this quietly, and Li Yang shut down next to her and suddenly said, "Do you see it?" Chen Li, the head of the Srivijaya Qi Han Merchants (actually Song Merchants) Chamber of Commerce, was already at the dock. Good guys, how many Sriwijaya soldiers are accompanied! ”

With a finger as he spoke, Juexin and Ji Lao Thief's eyes turned away. Sure enough, I saw that on the dock, there were several wealthy businessmen dressed as members of the Han family, who were frequently wiping the hot sweat on their faces. A few Sriwijaya officials who looked like white fans, dressed in elaborate silk clothes, and covered with glittering gold (a lot of gold chains, gold bracelets, gold rings, etc., showing off their wealth in red fruits) were accompanied by them, and soldiers wearing uniform silk clothes, turbans, and strange serpentine swords stood lazily around.

These soldiers are also white.

Li Yangguan sneered: "Although these three Buddhas are big countries with a population of two or three million, the only people who are qualified to join the army are the descendants of Baifan who came from Tianzhu. Ordinary pariahs are not worthy of taking up arms to fight. ”

"How many white descendants are there in the Three Buddhas?" Kakushin is no stranger to the "samurai system", and this is probably the case in Japan, but Japanese farmers are sometimes dragged into battle to make up the numbers.

"One hundred thousand, maybe two hundred thousand...... It couldn't be more. ”

"And how many troops do they have?"

Ji Lao Thief on the side interjected: "About 20,000...... They were all samurai with status, and they usually brought three or five servants with them when they went to battle. (To be continued......)