Chapter 517: The Wind Rises
(First of all, I'm sorry to everyone.,Because from today onwards, Kyushu will follow Party A to the field to investigate.,And every night to draw.,So at most I can guarantee that one chapter will be updated.,But this book will be finished after all!) After all, there has been no break since the book was published, at least we all hope for a happy ending! Thank you all for your continued support! )
"In the world of great powers, small countries can't see the general trend clearly, jumping up and down, but it's just a clown, and after all, it can only be used by others!"
Wang Ze was very angry at this moment, because something happened to the Han people in Nanyang.
In later generations, the Han people in Nanyang were used as scapegoats by the natives, and repeated slaughter and persecution for hundreds of years have become almost commonplace, and even the so-called civilized society of later generations often has appalling large-scale persecution of Han people, and no one has to uphold justice for them.
Their own motherland treats them as foreign friends, and where they own their own country, they treat them as outsiders, precisely because no country regards them as their own nationals, causing these Han people to become fish and meat on the chopping block of others again and again.
Now it is different, since he began to pass through Nanyang, Wang Ze has always paid attention to protecting the safety of the Han people there, not only set up the Nanyang garrison division in Nanyang, but also specially sent the second fleet to be stationed in Nanyang Hancheng and Xingzhou for a long time, guarding the trade routes of Nanyang and the hundreds of thousands of Han people there.
Even Wang Ze also established a complete set of national guard system in various cities in Nanyang, and all laws, regulations, and systems were carried out according to the local area, so the strength of the Han people here should definitely not be underestimated, but in this case, there were incidents specifically aimed at the Han people.
At first, when Wang Ze learned of this incident against the Han Chinese, he was very angry at the inaction of the Nanyang garrison, but soon after learning the most detailed information, Wang Ze realized that he had wrongly blamed Zhou Qiang and the Second Fleet.
In fact, the sudden occurrence of this incident was mainly due to the skyrocketing number of Han people in Nanyang, which led to a large number of Han people entering other countries outside the control of the Xia army to do business and live.
As early as when Wang Ze defeated the four-way Turkic army, the number of Han people in Nanyang had exceeded one million, and now, after five or six years, there are 300,000 people abducted from there by the Xia State when Nanchen fell, and the Han people in the entire Nanyang have already exceeded 1.5 million.
The geographical location of the South Seas is extremely important, and it is an important shipping route connecting the Xia Kingdom to the Western Ocean, so since the Xia Kingdom completely controlled the maritime trade routes between the East and the West, the Han people of the Nanyang have always occupied a very important role in this great maritime trade.
Since they wanted to participate in the seafaring trade, the Xia Kingdom would inevitably trade with the only three countries in the South Seas, so that in the Kingdom of Chenla, the Kingdom of Charentra, and the Kingdom of Sri Buddha, there were many Han people living and settling there.
After the population of Nanyang skyrocketed, more and more Han people were no longer limited to the control of the Xia Kingdom in Nanyang, but they used the strong strength of the Xia Kingdom itself and the strong control over navigation to monopolize the foreign maritime trade of these countries to a large extent.
In this way, even if they are not in their own country, they can get a good living environment, and the local natives do not dare to provoke them in the slightest.
So this situation was formed.
Although the Xia Kingdom has only set up one Luhan County in Nanyang, the Han people living in Borneo, Sin Chau, Penang, Manraka, Haitou (Sabang) and other places have accounted for more than half of the local population, especially in Sin Chau, Penang and Haitou, where Han people have an absolute advantage.
In the country of Sri Buddha's death, there are currently more than 200,000 Han people living in this vast land, and the entire country of Sri Buddha is currently only one or two million people, according to the current fertility status of both sides, the Han people only need a few decades to surpass each other.
Even the kingdoms of Zhenla and Charentla, which were not too closely related to the Xia Kingdom, currently had tens of thousands of Han merchants living and settled there, so the influence of the Han people in Nanyang was already very strong, and they had largely mastered their foreign trade pricing power.
Then again, before the Xia Kingdom arrived in Nanyang, almost all maritime merchants from various countries gathered in the territory of Funan and Zhenla, but when the Xia people monopolized the overseas trade of Nanyang countries, it was bound to affect the vital interests of Nanyang countries, and it was impossible not to attract hatred.
In the past, due to the powerful naval army of the Xia State and the maritime trade routes between the East and the West controlled by the Xia State, although the natives of Nanyang were also extremely hostile to the people of the Xia State in their hearts, they had to maintain a respectful attitude towards the Han people, even to the maritime merchants of Nan Chen.
It can be said that in the past twenty years, the countries of Nanyang have been a paradise for Han people, with countless wealth waiting for you to earn, countless beauties hoping to marry a Han as a concubine, and many samurai hoping to defect to a Han maritime merchant and live a happy life.
But that is no longer the case.
Just a month ago, the kingdom of Chenla, the kingdom of Charentra, and even the country of Sri Buddha, who had always been respectful, suddenly had a number of large-scale persecution of Han Chinese, and in just a few days, thousands of Han people were killed and injured, and hundreds of thousands of other Han people either formed a village to protect themselves, or fled to the territory of the Xia Kingdom in Nanyang.
At first, everyone thought that this was just a lone action by the natives of the Nanyang countries, and Zhou Qiang was ready to use this excuse to get some benefits from Zhenla and other countries, but in a blink of an eye, they found out that something was wrong, and this matter was already the official participation of the three countries.
First of all, a prince of the country where Sri Buddha died suddenly jumped out and declared that the Xia country must withdraw all the troops and all the Han people from the country of Sri Buddha, and compensate for the losses caused by the original invasion, otherwise the attacks on the Han people will continue, which is the historical mission of the country where Sri Buddha died.
Subsequently, the kingdom of Chenla and the kingdom of Charentra put aside their previous suspicions and issued a joint statement in support of the righteousness of Sri Buddha's death, and they also unanimously claimed that it was because the Nanyang Han people had robbed their people of their wealth that they had to take such an action.
Therefore, they also demanded that Xia withdraw all Han people in its territory, and unanimously demanded that Xia relinquish control of the maritime trade between the East and the West, at least the two of them should obtain separate foreign trade rights, which should not be monopolized by Xia itself.
God is pitiful, Wang Ze really did not try to completely monopolize the trade between the East and the West, but Xia Guo's technical research on sea ships over the years has continued, and the quality, speed, and service life of ships have been continuously improved and increased, which has led to Xia Guo's advantage on sea ships.
In addition, because the Xia State controlled many key ports between the East and the West, especially in the South China Sea region until the Xia Kingdom, almost all the good ports were under the control of the Xia Kingdom, and merchant ships from all countries had to pay high tolls when they passed by.
Xia's own ships only need to pay half of the taxes and fees of other countries, and the price of Xia's ships to purchase goods produced by Xia will be reduced.
In this way, considering that the merchant ships of Xia Guo transported the same goods to the Western Ocean, it turned out to be thirty percent of the cost of other countries' fleets, so in front of Xia Guo's merchant fleet, the fleets of other countries could not compete with Xia at all, and even the current proportion of less than forty percent was still decreasing.
However, it is just an excuse for the countries of Nanyang to say this, they will not care about the transportation cost of the Xia country's merchant fleet, etc., all they need is an excuse to start a war against the Xia country.
As the effects of the events continued to expand, the Pandia kingdom in the Western Ocean also claimed support for the actions of the two countries.
After Sun Xing and others conquered the Zhulin Kingdom (Nantianzhu Kingdom), the Pandias annexed more than half of the land of the Zhulin Kingdom and destroyed the Zheluo Kingdom, which was also established by the Tamils, so they have become the southernmost powerful state of the Indian Peninsula, and the most important country on the Western shipping route like Ceylon, the Lion State.
In the past, the Pandians had always had a fairly good relationship with the Xia Kingdom, but now their sudden turn of face also made the Kan Le Third Fleet stationed on the Pearl Islands extremely nervous, and the Dingrong City, which borders the Pandians by land, is even more on alert.
But the matter was still not over here, and then the Persian Empire, a great power in the West, also openly declared its support for the righteous actions of the countries of the South Seas, and they also proposed the same as the Pandians, demanding that the Xia Kingdom give up its control of the sea routes between the East and the West, and also demanded that the Xia Kingdom should not continue to support the Roman Empire.
Even the Persians once again sent a large naval army to attack Yemeni important places by sea with the Persian army on land, but the Fourth Fleet of the Zhiyuan Islands under the leadership of Du Sheng successfully repelled this Persian naval army, and the Persians on land also retreated after being frustrated.
At this time, Wang Ze already understood!
Although I don't know who set up this conspiracy, just instigating these countries in the South and Western Oceans to compete with them for the control of the maritime trade routes between the East and the West has pinched the throat of the Xia State and has greatly threatened the economic security of the Xia Kingdom.
Since defeating the kingdom of Sri Buddha and the Southern Tianzhu kingdom more than ten years ago, and defeating the Persian Empire a few years ago, the Xia kingdom has been controlling the maritime trade of the entire Western Ocean, and now almost sixty percent of the merchant ships running between the East and the West are Xia Kingdom's own merchant ships.
Over the years, the Xia State has been able to maintain such a good welfare of the whole people, can maintain such a high number of troops, and can even confront the Sui Empire and the Turks, relying on this rich golden route between the East and the West, and any goods transported from the East will be dozens of times the profit.
In the past, the Xia Kingdom brought the prestige of defeating all countries, and the countries of the South and Western Seas did not dare to have any opposition to it, so they could only let the Xia Kingdom control this route.
Now, more than ten years later, the people of many countries have begun to forget the original wars, and one by one those in power have begun to stir again, not only the kingdom of Chenla and the kingdom of Charentla, but also the kingdom of Sri Buddha, who signed the "Treaty of Bolimbang" in the past.
What annoyed Wang Ze was that the Pandia, who had defeated the Zhuran Kingdom (Southern Tianzhu) by virtue of their alliance with the Xia army, now also coveted this golden route controlled by the Xia State and participated in it, and finally the Persian Empire, which was robbed of Yemen and had been greatly diverted from trade, also participated in this conspiracy.
Wang Ze had to admire the organization for fanning this person against him, it was not easy just to know so many countries, and this person not only knew these countries very well, but even knew that he had a grudge with these countries, and used them, which was not easy.