Zhenhai Port has always been lively as a transportation hub next to the national capital, but today it is even more noisy.

Dozens of whale shark-class ships with a load of more than 6,000 stone docked at the berths of the wharf, and thousands of soldiers of the Left Guard Army of the Central Protection Army were stopping the crowd watching the excitement under the command of Guo Erlang, not because they were afraid that someone would steal the property that was being unloaded, but because they were afraid that someone would be injured by the gantry crane that was working.

Although a large number of people and merchants of the Xia Kingdom who heard the news were a little unhappy when they were stopped by the soldiers of the Central Protector Army, they were still very excited when they saw the belongings unloaded from the ship, after all, these trophies represented another unprecedented victory for their country.

"I'm afraid General Fang is going to be happy this time!" While organizing the soldiers to maintain order, Guo Erlang turned his head from time to time to look at the large amount of property unloaded on the ship, and his eyes were full of envy that could not be hidden, and a considerable part of these belongings belonged to the combat soldiers.

"General! Tell Your Majesty one day, and send our Left Guards to fight outside!" Not only was Guo Erlang envious, but the soldiers under his command almost drooled, and this time the soldiers of the vanguard led by Fang Lei also scored at least a hundred silver coins of booty each.

One hundred silver is one hundred yuan, one hundred thousand yuan, if you buy wasteland in remote areas, you can buy at least two or three hundred acres, and this hundred silver money is not counting the war allowance, it is really a big income.

"Your Majesty has always been fair and strict, this time it is the avant-garde army, and it will definitely be our turn to be the left guard in the future!" Although Guo Erlang did not ask Wang Ze about the battle arrangements, he believed that His Majesty would definitely arrange these things, and he would definitely not let his soldiers be wronged.

The soldiers of the Left Guard were envious, and the people and merchants of the Xia Kingdom who were watching were even more envious.

A chubby businessman said in a slightly jealous tone: "We people are careful every day, coming and going in the wind and rain, and only earn a little family business in a few years, but people only need to go out to fight a war, and they can earn hundreds of acres of arable land, and they still grab the most money in this world!" ”

Of course, the businessman's words are not easy to hear, especially the people of Xia who are supported by Xia Jun are even more displeased, and some people immediately refute them.

Several young men who looked like students reprimanded angrily: "The soldiers have crossed thousands of miles across the ocean to fight in the wild and barren land of Nanyang, and they have died all their lives, all of them are fighting for the future of my Xia country, and now they have these belongings, and it is also a matter of course, you enjoy the protection of the soldiers of the Xia country, but you are still talking about cool things here!" ”

This chubby businessman was a former Nanchen immigrant who had just arrived in Xia Kingdom, and when he saw that he had been taught a lesson by several young people, he suddenly couldn't get up, so he relied on his fat body to quarrel with a few people.

Who knew that several young women who couldn't look at it suddenly rushed out next to them, and these young women, known as the female tigers of the East China Sea, flipped the merchant to the ground and flattened it with a beating, and even the soldiers of the Left Guard who had been maintaining order deliberately came over a little late.

At this time, someone in the crowd of onlookers suddenly said in surprise: "Huh? Aren't these ships the fleets of the East China Sea and Northern Merchant Houses organized to explore new shipping routes? Didn't they go to the West? How come only these dozens of ships are back? ”

As the man asked, the other merchants also reacted, but they didn't know the situation at that time, and they just thought that the army had plundered too much, so they hired these merchant ships that had sailed far away to carry the booty back first.

However, these ships that returned from the South Seas carrying loot were indeed part of the ships that followed Mi Ke and Fang Lei's voyage fleet before.

After Cao An and Fang Lei led tens of thousands of infantry troops to break through Shaluntra City, the capital of the Charentra Kingdom, although the indigenous army that took the lead in attacking the city carried out a lot of destruction, the Xia army still looted a large amount of valuable property from the city.

Although the Chalientra Kingdom was established only for more than 20 years, it brought a large amount of property with it when it fled from Funan, and Java Island belonged to a region with a slightly earlier origin of civilization, so the Charentela Kingdom also plundered a large amount of gold and silver in the process of unifying the island.

In addition, the local area of Java Island is also rich in a large amount of gold and silver, so after the Xia army broke through the city, they plundered a large amount of gold, silver, precious stones and other property from the city, as well as countless other precious timbers and precious spices, which made the soldiers of the blue wolf army and the avant-garde army happy.

At the same time as the two infantry armies reaped a bumper harvest, the First Fleet of the Xia Kingdom and the Mike Fleet, which had completely annihilated the naval forces of the Charentelta Kingdom, also began to attack the various coastal cities of the Charentra Kingdom under the leadership of the four generals of the First Fleet and Mike.

Because these cities are not national capitals, they do not have the wealth and prosperity of Shaluntra cities, but the advantages of being located in coastal port cities, and decades of trade with other countries, still allow the indigenous people in these cities to accumulate a lot of wealth.

Limited by the size of the city, the wealth of a city may be far less than that of Shaluntara, but after plundering a dozen cities, the harvest of the navy is even richer than that of the infantry army, and if it were not for the fact that the navy remembered to choose a few places along the coast to establish settlements, I am afraid that their harvest would be even more. 90 look

When the dock was about to be filled with huge boxes, only half of the goods on the ship were unloaded, and I don't know how many young people in Xia Kingdom were fascinated by joining the army.

Looking at the boxes on the dock, as well as the boxes that were still being unloaded on the ship, Wang Ze was excited in his heart, he was excited not because the Xia army plundered back enough to support the Xia army for a year, but because he was excited that this rich land in Nanyang completely fell under the control of the Xia country.

'There are people and people, and there are people and wealth!' ’

A piece of land belonging to oneself is the fundamental condition for all countries and peoples to live in peace.

Since ancient times, Han people who are good at farming have valued not only the temporary property, but the fertile land that can be cultivated, and the land and knowledge that are valued by the cultivators.

As long as this land has the basic conditions for cultivating crops, no matter how many unfavorable factors there are, the industrious and intelligent Han people who have been industrious and intelligent since ancient times can still turn it into their own comfortable home, and even the barren land can become rich.

It was only after a large number of Han people went to Nanyang in the Ming and Qing dynasties that they established their homes in these barren lands after the hard work of these Han people.

It's a pity that these Han people only care about building their homes, but neglect to build their own strong countries, even if some Han people build a country, but because of the lack of pleasure, they have not developed, and eventually these Han people are all expelled or killed by the natives, and the homes they have worked hard to build have become indigenous cities.

But that's no longer the case.

At present, the strength of the Han people in Nanyang has occupied an absolute advantage after decades of development, starting from the line of Luhan County, Borneo, and Coral Island, the large archipelago to the east has always been sparsely populated, and there are not many indigenous people, and the Xia Kingdom can firmly occupy this place as long as they slowly immigrate there in the future.

After the death of Sri Buddha on Jinzhou (Sumatra Island) in the western part of the South Seas, after Zhou Qiang led the Nanyang garrison division and the Second Fleet to join forces with the local Han people's armed forces, after a series of previous wars, the number of natives on Jinzhou was less than 600,000.

However, the number of Han people in the local area increased to 250,000 because of the Han people from other parts of the Nanyang region who fled here, and the arrival of some Xia immigrants.

With the rebels of Sri Buddha's country fleeing into the dense forest, although there are still a small number of Sri Buddha's army resisting the Xia occupation, this large island, which was later famous for its wealth, has become the possession of the Xia country, and the indigenous rebellion only adds some trouble.

Therefore, in the Nanyang Islands, the only one that is still outside the control of the Xia Kingdom is the island of Java, where there are still millions of natives living in it, and these millions of people are only a rough count, and I don't know how many natives are still living in those dense jungles.

But Wang Ze is not afraid of this, anyway, when the Xia State controls the hegemony of the sea, no matter how strong these natives are, they can only be trapped on the island, and the Xia State has divided the hundreds of powerful indigenous tribes that participated in the attack on the Charentra Kingdom into a small kingdom, and the establishment of these hundreds of small countries will greatly weaken the ability of the indigenous tribes on the island to resist together.

According to the First Fleet's explorations, the city of Surabaya (Surabaya), Yogyakarta, and the western strait of the island have a large number of plains to be cultivated, and the local Charentratas have already been killed by the Xia army, which is enough to move hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese to settle down.

Although these coastal plains and hills are not the most exquisite and rich land on the island, they are also first-class arable land in the Xia Kingdom, as long as a dozen large settlements are established on the island, and a large number of Han people are relocated, this incomparably fertile island will sooner or later become the territory of the Xia Kingdom.

After occupying the Chalitra Kingdom, Cao An, Fang Lei, the First Fleet, and the Mike Fleet did not attack the last remaining Zhenla Kingdom, but handed him over to the Nanyang Garrison and the Second Fleet.

Therefore, after a few days of rest, Mi Ke led his fleet on a voyage to explore Yanfuzhou, where he would investigate the settlements established in the southeastern and southwestern parts of the continent, which would later serve not only as a place for the exile of criminals from the Xia Kingdom, but also to house a large number of people.

At the same time as Mi Ke left, Fang Lei, Cao An and the First Fleet continued to go west to the Pearl Islands, and the hundreds of merchant ships that opened up new routes also accompanied them, although the Western Ocean was still at war, and the Mi Ke fleet also went to Yanfuzhou, but the strength of the First Fleet was stronger and safer than Mi Ke.

At this time, in the Western Ocean, the Third Fleet led by Kan Le was fighting against the naval alliances of the Kingdom of Pandia, the Lion Kingdom of Ceylon, and the Zhulin Kingdom (Southern Tianzhu), while the Fourth Fleet stationed in the Zhiyuan Islands was still engaged in many battles with the Persian Empire under the leadership of Du Sheng.

After a short supply in Wanghai City (Aceh), a huge fleet of six or seven hundred warships and merchant ships continued to travel westward.