In the blink of an eye, it is about to enter summer again, the summer in Nanyang is unusually hot, and the knowledge outside the cold winter pavilion is gradually becoming active, chirping non-stop, Xiao Guizi is holding a robe in one hand, holding a long pole in the other hand and a few little eunuchs to pick up these nasty insects, everyone's voice is very low, and even the footsteps are light.

In the cold winter pavilion, Zhu Jun wore a cool shirt and leaned on the rattan chair to review the chapter, since the defeat of the Dutch, located on the north shore of Java, the Manraka country across the sea immediately went to the table to call the ministers, Manraka in order to win the trust of the Ming Dynasty, but also specially sent the prince into the court as a hostage, saying that he would never betray, please Ming Jiamanga the country of Manraka as a country that will never be conquered, and be friendly from generation to generation. Manraka and Java across the sea to hold the Strait of Malacca, is the most important military point in the South Seas, how Zhu Jun is willing to let them go easily, not to mention that these wall grasses in the Hongwu period into tribute, but a hundred years later, they are afraid of the power of the Dutch and cut off relations with the Ming Dynasty, if you don't knock and knock is really unreasonable.

Zhu Jun was also refreshed, and simply sent an envoy to ask them to cede the northern province of Dingnan (southern Thailand). It is bordered by the Malacca seaport in the south with a total of 40,000 square kilometers of corridor, so that the land route of Malacca port borders Dingnan Province, and across the sea is the two islands of Java and Sumatra, which not only strengthens the central control of Java, but also increases the sea area of Dingnan, Dingbei, Dingxi and Dingdong provinces in the interior, taking advantage of Malacca's unique advantages.

The territory of 40,000 square kilometers may be nothing for Zhu Jun, but for the Manraka country, it is equivalent to losing nearly one-third of the territory, and this corridor is the main waterway of the Manchurian land. The land rich in fish and rice, once it is cut off, Manraka will become a veritable subject country of the Ming Dynasty, not only to rely on the snort, I am afraid that even the autonomy of the kingdom will gradually be deprived by the Ming Dynasty.

But the situation is stronger than people, the king of Burma and the king of Siam have become the ghosts of the Ming Emperor, and the invincible Dutch have all become hard laborers. In the past, the Spaniards who dominated the South Seas have also become the thugs of the Ming Dynasty, Annam, Cambodia, Lancang, and Sumatra countries have depended on each other, and they dare not have the slightest transgression, and the Ming Dynasty's landing in the South Seas has been the trend of the times, and if Manraka wants to confront this behemoth, it will not take a month to be crushed into powder.

Hardly any consideration, the Manraka Kingdom immediately offered to offer the western and southern corridors of Manraka to settle with the Ming Dynasty, and also sent 20 elephants and 300 tusks. A box of pearl agate, 1,000 taels of gold, 100,000 taels of silver as tribute, according to the agreement, the Ming Dynasty has the obligation to protect the safety of Manraka, and similarly, the Ming army has the right to enter the seaports and towns of Manraka, and the entire Manraka has basically become a subsidiary country of the Ming Dynasty.

The land to be handed over was divided into two parts, the northern part was assigned to the jurisdiction of Dingnan Province, and the southern part including the port of Malacca was under the jurisdiction of Dinghai Province. The Ming Dynasty did not move a single sword, and obtained a large vast land.

The next question was about the Spanish governor Khachakin, who had taken Spanish warships with the Ming army during the capture of Java. Now the Dutch have been completely defeated. Khchatin began to ask the Ming army for help in recovering Luzon, according to the intelligence. There were also nearly two thousand Dutch soldiers stationed in Luzon, without any warships. In addition, Luzon has been burning for nearly a year and has long been beaten to ruins. The Dutch army's muskets and gunpowder could not be effectively replenished, and such a force was really vulnerable, and the problem was that the Spanish were only two broken ships and two thousand demoralized soldiers, and although they were worthy of a battle, they were not sure of victory.

Zhu Jun planned to postpone this issue for a while, on the grounds that the wedding was approaching, and it was not appropriate to use swords and guns in vain. In fact, what Zhu Jun is thinking about is the issue of sharing the spoils, it is impossible for the Ming army to follow you Spaniards to fight for free, and now I am the overlord of the South Seas, since you want to recapture Luzon on my one-third of an acre of land, then some conditions must be made clear, but for the sake of face, Zhu Jun did not raise the issue of sharing the spoils first, how can he be embarrassed to say this kind of thing? Then drag it out until you Spaniards understand our intentions and promise the benefits of the land.

Zhu Jun lay on the chair behind closed doors and recuperated, then picked up a piece of music on the imperial case and looked at it.

"Weichen Dinghai Bu political envoy Liu Chuande faced the north and bowed, respectfully asking my emperor Shenggong Jin'an, the minister ......, now Dingnan Province is short of labor, the minister asks His Majesty to agree to recruit the battalion...

Zhu Jun squinted. Recruiting battalion soldiers is a triple success. However, this matter also involves institutional issues. If it is answered today. What if there are projects that need to be recruited in the future? and future generations will learn from it. Isn't this place of soldier becoming a man? In the past, the soldiers of the Ming army and the garrison fought lowly. It's because they usually make a living from farming. and to wartime. These people who lost their hoes and carried swords and guns were clear. I'm afraid that he was also chased and cut down the land.

The problem was that the seaports of Malacca and Agodadi had to be built quickly. It guards the Straits of Malacca. One can be a military fortress. Second, it is a turning point for maritime trade. Any merchant ship entering or leaving the South Seas must stop here. Build a day early. The treasury received a cash in advance. The maritime traffic throughout Daming will also increase. The goods produced by hundreds of workshops in the open area can be transported to all parts of the South Seas by virtue of this turning point. Open up the market.

Zhu Jun hesitated. In the end, I picked up the red pen on the royal case and wrote it on the fold. The next is not an example. Five words.

I can't take care of it at the moment. Where is Zhu Jun still in the mood to take care of future generations. This is not an example, and it can be regarded as a wake-up call for future generations. As for whether they do the same. Zhu Jun doesn't care.

"Your Majesty. Cabinet Scholar Zhou Mubai Zhou asked to meet. Little Guizi walked in at some point. Whispered.

"Huh? Oh. Let him in. Zhu Jun sighed in distraction. Then he waved his hand as usual.

"Weichen Zhou Mubai knocked to see the emperor." The fact that Zhou Mubai has been working hard for several days is too much, and he has aged a lot unconsciously, and at the age of thirty, there is a little white between his temples, and he is still smiling: "The emperor is in good health, and the ministers are here, it is very difficult for the cabinet to have a vote, please ask the emperor Zhu to approve." ”

"Oh? What's up? "Zhu Junqiang cheered up, most of the usual folds are unsealed by the cabinet ministers, only some extremely important matters The cabinet does not dare to make a decision before you must ask the emperor for instructions, today is rare, if it is a major event, the cabinet will naturally pass into the palace by their own imperial review, since this twist and turn did not reach Zhu Jun's hands, it means that this matter is not significant, and Zhou Mubai came to ask for instructions at this time, obviously it means that they can't handle it.

"Your Majesty, this was originally a trivial matter, but after all, this matter is about a foreign country, so Weichen came to ask." Zhou Mubai smiled and took out a letter from his sleeve and said: "The king of Japan asks for trade with the emperor, and is willing to treat the emperor with courtesy, this is their national letter." ”

Zhou Mubai arched his hands and put the chapter on the imperial case, he was afraid that Zhu Jun would not know the origin of Japan, so he stroked his long beard and said: "Japan is commonly known as Wa, and its country has the emperor as the mainstay, and under it are generals, daimyo auxiliary ministers, and they have always submitted to the Ming Dynasty. In the third year of Yongle, the Japanese general wrote to the first emperor of Yongle to pay tribute, and offered the captured disturbance of the border of the Japanese invaders, the first emperor of Yongle was happy, and he was awarded the edict. However, the Japanese people were cruel and murderous in pursuit of profit, and repeatedly went to the sea to plunder in the southeast of our country, and the Japanese envoys lost the survey of the tribute in the internal fighting, so they stopped sending tribute ships to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute. Emperor Jiajing issued an edict to suppress the southeast Japanese invaders. ”

"In the Wanli years, the Japanese invaded Korea, the Korean country is my Ming vassal state, the Wanli Emperor sent troops into the DPRK to fight, repelled the Japanese people, since then, although the Japanese people surrendered on the surface, but my previous emperors knew their despicable and greedy nature, so they ignored it, and now the Japanese people sent envoys to come, I don't know what their intentions are."

Zhu Jun listened to Zhou Mubai's narration quietly, of course he understood the details of the Japanese people, and now he just wanted to hear the views of the scholars and doctors of this era on the Japanese people.

In 1600, a Dutch merchant ship arrived on the western coast of Japan, and a few years later a Dutch fleet invaded Japan, securing a treaty port in Japan. At this time, Japan was in the Edo period under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, when Japan was in a period of seclusion, for an island country, seclusion was a very terrible policy, the Japanese could not get self-sufficiency in a closed space, therefore, the Dutch, who had obtained the Japanese treaty port, immediately realized that this was an opportunity to make money, therefore, for half a century, all the shipping in Japan was monopolized by the Dutch East India Company, and they transported goods from all over the country to Japan, and continued to earn Japan's abundant gold, at that timeThere are large-scale gold mines in Kagoshima, Japan, so that the price of gold in Japan is so low that the ratio of silver to three to one, and the East India Company frantically sells goods into Japan, according to the historical exhibition, this situation will continue to maintain for half a century, but now the East India Company is finished.

Zhu Jun could predict with his ass that the end of the East India Company would have a huge impact on Japan, and this country, which had been using gold to exchange goods for the Dutch East India Company, once it lost its goods, its own small peasant economy could not support their consumption at all, especially the gap in food and luxury goods must be very huge, and it was not difficult to imagine that the Japanese who had not been engaged in production for a long time could only seek another East India Company to provide them with the necessities of life in this situation.

The Ming sailors defeated the Dutch, and in the South Seas, the merchant ships marked with the Ming Dynasty came and went, and it was the other East India Company chosen by the Japanese, and only the maritime merchants under the Ming Dynasty had such a huge energy to provide Japan with their living and production needs.

So, the Japanese came, with friendship and goodwill, with peace and a smile on the muzzle of Zhu Jun's gun.