The ship of the exploration team was moored close to the shore, and through the telescope, it could be clearly seen that it was a large ship heading towards this side, it seemed that it should have just come from the western sea, and the goal was clear, it was in their direction.

The ship of the exploration team is not large, with a displacement of more than 200 tons, and can only sail in the near sea, and there are only more than 30 people on board, after all, it is only a small team, and the captain was reminded that he immediately picked up the telescope and looked over there.

I saw that a large ship with a displacement of 1,000 tons and a width of about the same shape, but a little wider than two points, and a little bloated, was heading towards this side.

Looking at the flag on the ship again, I don't even know it, but one thing is certain, it is definitely not the ship of the Ming Dynasty.

The captain felt a little bad, but in the past few years, he has been used to running rampant on the sea, and he didn't feel scared for a while, but there are strict rules for marching, and when this kind of thing happens, it still needs to be warned.

Rules and regulations have proven to be useful, and they can avoid unnecessary losses caused by many individuals subjectively.

In the vast sea, where is there any morality and law, two big ships meet a lone boat, so is there anything to take into account?

Apparently not!

The personnel who had just come ashore quickly returned, and when the sails of the small boat were halfway up, the two big ships drove not far away.

Through the binoculars, looking at the muzzle of the black hole, the lookout directly shouted, "Be careful, they have artillery on board!" ”

They have seen and used this thing, but Wang Xuan has never promoted this thing in the army, and he has always felt that the current artillery technology and firearm technology still have too many shortcomings in practical application and are not practical.

In the case of firecrackers alone, the fire gas developed in the early stage is relatively large compared with the crossbow machine that has basically reached its peak, one does not know where to hit ten meters away, and the lethality does not exceed thirty meters, and the other has no reduction in lethality within 100 meters, and there is no comparison at all.

Of course, the reason why the firecracker has made great progress in Europe is because of the low cost of construction and training, and it is better to be cheap than easy to use.

In China, the national strength is strong, and it will not feel any inappropriate for it takes a year to manufacture a crossbow machine, to put it bluntly, there are more people and more money, so the development of this thing in China is very slow, until, the invention of smokeless gunpowder, the application of rifling, its practicality surpasses that of crossbow machine.

Period, even now, point 38, 54 pistols, the effective range is only 30 meters and 50 meters, compared to the crossbow machine is still inferior!

As for the cannon, the current smoothbore gun relies on huge kinetic energy, and as for the accuracy and frequency of firing, it is too LOW!

This is not the Caribbean, nor is it Europe, this is near Daming, where there is the world's best internal strength, with solid cannonballs against martial arts masters...... This is the cannon to fight mosquitoes!

The shooting angle is too small, the movement is slow, change the landing angle, a group of third-rate masters can destroy a battleship, in this case, what does Wang Xuan do.

But, in the absence of a master......

When Qi Xuefeng received the news of the detachment, the big ship and the red-haired people on board had already been brought over together, and the tattered boat still sank after all, except for the scientific research personnel of the school and a few special combat team members who protected them, most of the others died at sea.

These guys jumped directly into the sea and went under the big ship, deftly boarded it, and then there was no follow-up, and several special combat team members, with the help of scientific researchers, directly used poison to bring down the whole boat.

If it weren't for the consideration of bringing them back for interrogation and needing someone to drive the boat, none of these red-haired devils would have survived.

Seeing these red-haired ghosts, Wang Xuan rubbed his temples, and then remembered that at this time, when the Spaniards were ravaging Southeast Asia, including Luzon, there were a large number of traces of Spanish activities, and on most of the large islands, there were their people.

Fortunately, Wang Xuan also knew Spanish, and after learning about the situation with these red-haired devils, he ordered them all to be hanged on the dock.

On the third day, the army of 30,000 people, divided into thirty fleets, set off, the ship was loaded with the most advanced bed crossbow, the bowstring was made of wire rope, the range was 500 meters, the head was hollow, and it was stuffed with gunpowder.

Compared to those who fire solid cannons, the lethality is several times greater, especially to the human body.

Wang Xuan specially emphasized that don't add iron nails, broken glass, phosphorus and other things to it, it would be too inhumane to blow up your own people.

The purpose of this expedition was twofold: first, to clear the whole of Southeast Asia of any other national power, and second, to prepare accurate charts and subdivisions of the various indigenous forces in preparation for future occupation.

Now Wang Xuan didn't want to do business with Europeans, because there was no need at all, he was not short of money, what he wanted was to occupy, more people, and occupy more land.

Therefore, a fleet of 3,000 people set off directly towards the Strait of Malacca, anyway, it is not far from the south of Annam, and it can be well supported, and at the same time, there are twenty artillery guns on board, which is the most advanced cannon at present, and if you do shore defense, the cannon is indeed better than the ballista, after all, the range can easily reach two thousand meters.

……

More than a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the past year or so, too many things have happened in Daming, both openly and secretly.

On the bright side, Emperor Wanli burped and left a mess for Emperor Taichang.

Although the crown prince has always been unpopular, the prince is the prince, and in the end, the throne still fell to him.

One person ascended to heaven with a chicken dog, although Zhu Changluo did not attain the Tao, but he ascended to heaven, no, he became the son of heaven.

The original Li Xuanzhi became a concubine, that is, he was drunk with Hongchen, and he robbed Zhu Changluo of a lot of love in the later stage, and this time he was also upgraded to a concubine, and gradually equalized in the competition with Li Xuanzhi, in which Wang Xuan successively sent in the little eunuchs contributed a lot.

Zhu Youxiao was appointed as the crown prince, and has been following Zui Hongchen for more than a year, for some reason, Zui Hongchen has never conceived a child.

Another point is that due to the gradual increase in the strength of Drunk Hongchen in the palace, Zhu Changluo's body remains the same, and he was poisoned to death after only one month in power, but this time there is no big problem for the time being.

At the same time, the intensity of the struggle of the four major parties has decreased, especially the three parties of Chu, Zhejiang, and Donglin, because of the threat of Wang Xuan behind them, they have begun to cooperate with each other to a limited extent, and it is no longer the state that you approve of and I oppose, which may also be part of the reason why Zhu Changluo has been living well.

In the border areas, a lot of energy and money were spent on army building in the south of the Yangtze River, and the matter of counteroffensive 'Houjin' in distant history has long been forgotten.

On the Jurchen side, because Wang Xuan sold a large amount of grain in the past, cattle, horses, sheep, wool, timber, etc., the life of the Jurchens was much better, the civil contradictions were small, and the natural fighting spirit was also being consumed.

As for the Tatars, the situation was similar to that of the Jurchens, Wang Xuan's grain was transported to the north in large quantities through the Yellow River, and after a part of the affected population was transported away, although there was still a shortage of food, the gap was too large compared to history, which led to more grain being sold to the grasslands.

Also due to Wang Xuan's relationship, a large number of wool purchases also made the rare winter of the grassland people not so sad.

For a time, the whole Daming was calm, even if there were several droughts in the north, they did not cause much damage, which was quite a bit of a sense of prosperity, which made too many people ecstatic.

However, there are no people who really understand among those who rejoice.

Those who really stand at the top of the power of the Ming Dynasty know that all these changes come from the Jiaolong Wang Xuan in the south!

Everything is just a superficial phenomenon now, Da Ming will really embark on that road depends on when Wang Xuan makes a move, no one believes that Wang Xuan has a powerful military force in his hands, and he will be willing to lurk after the wealth of the rich country, and the war is just a matter of time!

And a move is bound to be an earth-shattering shock!

Wang Xuan is indeed accumulating strength, this power is not only military, but also political, without a mature and stable political system, even if he goes to Beijing, it is useless, and his control is insufficient.

All five million people were finally shipped over, and the more blatant they became, especially after Wanli burped.

Now many big families know that Wei Guogong 'hired' Wang Xuan to occupy a large island in the Wa Kingdom, and he is completely running it as if it were his own family.

It is said that it is overseas, in fact, it is not so far, now the navigation technology is much more advanced, even from Kyushu Island to Nanjing, at most 20 days is enough, than to go to Beijing are more convenient I don't know how much.

During this time, many people contacted Wang Xuan through some channels, hoping to also make a place overseas, preferably closer to Daming, such as Shikoku Island......

In this regard, Wang Xuan did not refuse, and specially held an auction meeting in secret.

"The world's first land auction, I think it's a particularly memorable day, today is destined for the birth of a new powerful family, with the title of hereditary marquis." Wang Xuan stood on the high platform and personally presided over the land auction conference, "Okay, I know everyone is in a hurry, so now, the auction begins, the country of Wa, Shikoku Island, 1.88W square kilometers, half the size of Kyushu Island 89, the starting price is one million people, each increase is not less than 10,000 people, especially remind me, the entire population must be delivered within a year, I don't want anyone to break the contract." ”

"One and a half million people!"

"One million eight million!"

"Two million!"

"Two and three hundred thousand!"

At this moment, people are no longer human, they have completely become a kind of currency, which seems cruel, in fact, for most of the poor people in this era, it may not be a good thing, at least, in the eyes of these top people, they have become extremely valuable, more valuable than money!

It's no longer just a string of numbers on paper, or a cold name, only in this seemingly cruel time do they become alive and flesh and blood.

Whether sarcasm or indifference, that's the reality.

The poor, as never before, were taken seriously, were concentrated, cared for, for fear of freezing, starving, and dying.

Of course, most beggars don't think so...... A good beggar life, but the ghost is willing to be caught and sold.

Whether ancient or modern, the beggars are very rich.