Chapter 796: Preparations for Combat against the Danmu Country

Banda Aceh was burned and the Sultan of Aceh died in the fire, which was not the end of the Aceh resistance, but precisely the beginning of the Aceh resistance.

The rise of a country has a rise of popular spirit, they feel that they must do something, they have a responsibility for the whole world, or it can be said that the rise of a popular spirit will naturally lead to the rise of a country. Under the leadership of the Sultan of Aceh, the expansion of the Aceh people to the outside world is by no means the will of the Sultan of Aceh, which represents a trend of thought in Aceh.

And the destruction of Banda Aceh and the death of the Sultan of Aceh will not crush this trend of thought, on the contrary, it will make it more widespread.

Unbeknownst to Tomei, his resolute policy in Aceh was the beginning of the inability of the Franc Mechanic to do anything east of the Strait of Malacca for 30 years, because almost all of the Franc Mechanic's power in East Asia was involved in the counterinsurgency in Aceh, and even the forces of other Western countries were brought in, which did not subdue for decades. Of course, decades later, Aceh has become a geographical term.

However, this pair of Zhu Houhuang, who is far away in the southern capital, has no relationship with power, and Zhu Houhuang can't think of what will happen decades later.

"Now that Aceh has temporarily resolved, and the Francophile has also settled down, only the country of light eyes is absolutely intolerable." Zhu Houhuang said: "Lonely, we must not tolerate the emergence of another Three Buddhas in Nanyang, or the Kingdom of Majapahit. One mountain does not tolerate two tigers. ”

Sriwijaya was once extremely powerful, expedition to India, after the failure, the country's strength declined, and Majapahit once fought with the Yuan army, defeated the Yuan army, with these achievements, knowing that these countries are by no means small countries, at least with the same country as Annam, absolutely not to be underestimated.

The timing of the eastward advance of the Francophiles was very good, just when the traditional overlord of Java, the Majapahit kingdom collapsed, and the new overlord had not yet been produced.

Even Zhu Houhuang subconsciously ignored the country on the island of Java.

As a result, he came out of his own and wanted to capture the old port, Zhu Houhuang turned over the history, and was suddenly shocked, Zhu Houhuang was facing the Majapahit in his heyday, and he must not easily obtain such a big benefit. After all, the Francois are foreign to Nanyang, and without the support of the local natives, they are like duckweed without roots, unable to withstand too many casualties and have no resilience.

But a native Nanyang Empire is different.

Don't think that these countries pay tribute to Beijing, and you really think that people are subject countries. Maybe their tribute envoys are simply merchants pretending, even if they are true, they are just greedy for trade interests, just like worshipping the Buddha in ordinary times, if the Buddha is a statue, it is fine, but it will become a living person, maybe the first to be beaten to death by the group.

Moreover, since Danmu has sent troops outside of Java Island, it means that their internal integration is almost over, how can Zhu Houhuang endure it. So the tone was set at the beginning.

War.

Yang Shen was reluctant.

For Yang Shen, what is good about these wild places in Nanyang, can they compare with Beijing and Jiangnan? To have the strength to attack Java, it is better to think about how to raise troops in a difficult way. However, Yang Shen knows how to be a subordinate very well, and since Zhu Houhuang has already set the tone, he will definitely not contradict it, he said: "Your Highness, is the matter of attacking the Danmu Kingdom delayed." Now the army is stationed in the old port and Xijinzhou respectively. It's not in the southern capital, and even the south is empty, and the attitude of the Francois is unknown, and the country's financial burden is very heavy, so it's better to wait. ”

Zhu Houhuang looked at Wu Xingzhi.

How much family background Yongguo has has always been obtained from Wu Xingzhi's mouth.

Wu Xingzhi said: "Your Highness, for several months, I have been at war with the four kingdoms of Franc Ji, Aceh, Manchu Jia, and Danmu, spending money like flowing water, and the year's savings have been empty, and I have borrowed three million taels from Shaofu, and there is not much left. If you go on these, you can only issue paper money. ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Paper money can never be issued. ”

Since the issuance of banknotes by Dongyong, Zhu Houhuang has always intended to maintain the price of banknotes, although there are fluctuations, but it is impossible to fall below the market price of eighty percent. This is the result of Zhu Houhuang's hard work.

Zhu Houhuang's monetary policy is conservative and conservative. I can't even think about it, let alone do it, plus Zhu Yuanzhang's Daming treasure banknotes, the lessons of the past, almost all over the court, and even the people of the Ming Dynasty are cautious about paper money, so Zhu Houhuang can't, and he doesn't dare to have the slightest indiscriminate issuance.

Zhu Houhuang looked at Xu Song and said, "Shaofu, how much money can you get?" ”

"If His Highness wants Shaofu to raise money, Shaofu can only sell it." Xu Song said.

As soon as the cannon sounded, the gold was ten thousand taels, especially the entire Dongyong main fleet was almost scrapped, not to mention the military expenses and pensions in the war, just talking about the funds for the reconstruction of the Dongyong fleet, it made Xu Song's teeth hurt, although the Shaofu monopolized the operation and the profits were very high, but no matter how high it was, there were restrictions, especially the entrepot trade between the most profitable Ming and the Franco. It also made Shaofu lose a lot of money.

Where is there any money in Shaofu?

There's no money for a.

Zhu Houhuang frowned, and said secretly in his heart: "Could it be that you just let the Danmu Kingdom develop here obscenely?" The more he looked at it, the more angry he became, but even if he was angry again, it was useless.

"Your Highness." A person's voice suddenly came from outside the door, it was Li Liangqin.

Li Liangqin, as Zhu Houhuang's closest person, was in charge of Zhu Houhuang's personal security affairs. Only he dared to disturb Zhu Houhuang when he was discussing with the ministers.

"What's the matter?" Zhu Houhuang asked.

"The embroidered guard has a confidential submission." Li Liangqin said.

Zhu Houhuang said to Wu Fengyi: "Uncle, go and have a look." ”

After Wu Fengyi bowed and saluted, she slowly retreated, and not long after, Wu Fengyi came back again. In the eyes of everyone, a secret letter was given to Zhu Houhuang.

Zhu Houhuang took it.

He knew that the secret letter was going to be presented to him.

According to Dongyong's level of secrecy, unless this news must be conveyed to his ears, he will not break into such a high-level meeting.

When Zhu Houhuang saw it, he was immediately furious, and said: "What a Danmu country, you just now, who is not in favor of attacking the Danmu country." ”

Zhu Houhuang spread the letters, and took them one by one to look at them, but saw that it was written that the envoy of the Danmu State was about to make a detour to Beijing to pay tribute.

Just looking at this news doesn't seem like much, but none of you here are stupid.

First of all, Danmu has never paid tribute before, and Zhu Houhuang himself has only vaguely heard that there is such a country before the old port, but what is the internal situation of this country, even now Zhu Houhuang does not understand too much. Not to mention Beijing. Danmu Guo ignored Beijing before, and Beijing did not know that there was such a country.

Why did you get hot so quickly, and you went to pay tribute.

Moreover, the problem between Dongyong and the Ming Dynasty is known to many small countries, and now the small countries within the sphere of influence of Dongyong are adhering to the county officials are not as good as the current management. Even if it is tribute, it is to notify Dongyong first, and then go to Beijing, and even more, go to Beijing to pay tribute at all, people go to Dongyong, go to Nandu to pay tribute, and express loyalty to His Royal Highness King Yong.

Just by looking at the deeds of the country of the eyes, it can be said that its heart cannot be asked.

In this way, even Yang Shen took the initiative in the war with Danmu Country.

"Your Highness. The Danmu country is not big, although the national strength is strong, but it is trapped on a small island, as long as the sailors block the shipping lane, the Java country can make it no threat to me, can this battle be blocked for a long time and delay the decisive battle. Yang Shen said.

The biggest advantage of a long-term blockade and a postponement of a decisive battle is nothing else, that is, the problem of funding, which can prolong the time for raising military funds as much as possible.

Zhu Houhuang didn't know whether this method was good or not, so he could only see that his eyes turned to Huang Shilong. After all, the question of naval warfare is still answered by naval warfare experts.

Huang Shilong pondered for a while, and said: "Your Highness, I'm afraid not, the ship can't be maintained by drifting on the sea for a long time, if Your Highness wants to blockade for a long time, it must be close to the ports of Java, and what can be blocked is only a few ports, and Java Island stretches for thousands of miles, like a continent on the sea, and there is no need for blockade or non-blockade." ”