Because in the military regulations of the Ming Dynasty, if they die on the battlefield for the Ming Dynasty, then their families can also inherit these properties and identities.

The ocean-going fleet, which consists of more than 20 warships, is not huge at all in terms of scale.

But if you add the merchant fleet behind the battleship, it is really qualified to be proud of the world.

Behind the Ming warships was a merchant fleet of fifty or sixty merchant ships.

This is a mixed merchant fleet of Hu and Han, which contains not only the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, but also the Persian merchant ships led by the Persian merchant Maluali.

The first time the Ming Dynasty went to the West, it did not plan to spend too much time on the Nanyang area, which was already familiar, and the main purpose was Tianzhu and Persia.

After giving Maruali some rewards, he had completely fallen to the Ming Dynasty.

"Brother, don't worry, although we spent a lot of money this time, almost half of the Jiangnan Province for a year's taxes, but it will definitely benefit future generations, the future of the Ming Dynasty is not only on land, but also on the ocean, this Western Ocean is only the first step, as long as we make a good start, let everyone see that the ocean can get a hundred times a thousand times the profit, then then organize the action of crossing the ocean, it may not need the imperial court to spend a penny." Zhu Han basically did not have the slightest worry about going to the West this time.

The Ming not only made preparations several years in advance, but also had Marou Ali, a desperate Persian "shrewd" man, even if he encountered a battle, with the ten warships of the Ming Dynasty, it was enough to smash the enemy into slag with artillery.

The elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang was no longer worried after listening to Zhu Han's words.

After all, Zhu Hanke has never let him down over the years.

When all the ceremonies to worship the gods of heaven and earth and the sea were over, Tang He, the commander of the Western Fleet of the Ming Dynasty for the first time, came to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han to pray.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers have been prepared, please give your Majesty the order to set off!"

The first time the Ming Dynasty went to the West, he really fell into a difficult situation when choosing the main general.

Because this operation crossed thousands of miles of oceans, it had to face many dangerous situations that had never been encountered before.

Generals who are not high enough can not intimidate the whole army at all.

Most of the generals who are high enough are not familiar with naval warfare and are not very willing to venture to the sea.

When everyone was afraid of the position of the main general of the West, Big Brother Tang He took the initiative to stand up and take over the burden.

When Tang He led the army to exterminate the Dongfang Guozhen in Zhejiang, he accumulated a lot of experience in naval water warfare, especially under Fang Guozhen, who suffered several losses, which made him study naval warfare hard for a long time.

The emperor lived up to his hard work, Tang He used his combat experience, coupled with the endless national strength of the Ming Dynasty, and finally captured Fang Guozhen alive and sentenced him to death in Hangzhou, stabilizing the south of the Ming Jiangnan.

originally thought that it was useless to put away his naval combat experience, but it was just in time for Zhu Han to plan a Western operation, so Tang He took the initiative to ask for help.

"Set sail, go!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang toasted Tang and this old brother with a glass of wine, he ordered the Ming fleet to be drawn.

Tang He stood on his battleship, looking at the magnificent sea in front of him, and his heart was already boiling.

He is now the highest level of the founding duke of the Ming Dynasty, and the number of food estates can reach 8,000 households, but according to the feudal system proposed by Zhu Han to be modified, although the princes and nobles of the Ming Dynasty can be inherited by hereditary, not all the ranks of Yulu can be passed on.

According to Tang He's founding dukedom, when it was passed on to his grandson, although the hereditary Duke of Xinguo was still there, the standard of what he could receive was already very low.

Just relying on the current Yulu and the land, the descendants of Tanghe will definitely have a large number of hungry stomachs.

The Ming Dynasty formulated strict laws to punish all embezzlement of land and corruption and bribery, and Tang He and other princes and nobles did not dare to think crookedly in these aspects.

Therefore, not long ago, when Hu Dahai came back from drifting thousands of miles on the sea and discovering a new continent, Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, rewarded Hu Dahai with a lot of money, and directly rewarded Hu Dahai with 500,000 acres of fertile land, of course, in the newly discovered continent, not in the Central Plains!

Moreover, these 500,000 acres of land are hereditary, whether it is cultivated and grazing on it or mining and breeding, everything is decided by Hu Dahai and his descendants.

Tang Heke heard that the new continent full of savages was full of gold and silver.

In order to earn a wealth for his children and grandchildren, Tang He is particularly interested in going to the West this time.

The Ming fleet led by Tang He set off from Zhenjiang.

First, they passed through the sea in Zhejiang and Fujian, and finally arrived in Quanzhou for maintenance and replenishment.

The mighty navy of the Ming Dynasty shocked all the foreign merchant ships in the port of Quanzhou.

These merchants of Nanyang, Tianzhu and Persia had a faint premonition that the vast and boundless sea was about to usher in its new master.

The fleet departed from Quanzhou, and then entered the vast and deep South China Sea.

The hydrological situation in the South China Sea is completely different from that in the Jiangnan area, where not only the bottom of the sea is very deep, but also the climate is very hot.

Quite a few soldiers and sailors in the fleet had symptoms of maladaptation.

Fortunately, these ocean-going vessels are equipped with a large amount of cooling oil and wind oil essence.

These new medicines made by Zhu Han have excellent curative effects on the symptoms of discomfort caused by the hot and humid environment on the sea.

The soldiers of the Ming Ocean Fleet were grateful to His Royal Highness for these inventions while using cooling oil and wind oil essence.

Tang He led the fleet to continue sailing in the South China Sea, and whenever he encountered some small islands, Tang He would order ships to come close to him to record and investigate.

Not only will they count the location of these islands, their products, and their inhabitants, but they will also carve stone monuments on the islands when they leave.

"The sun and the moon shine, the land of the Ming Dynasty!"

Although Tang He ordered his soldiers to do this, he didn't know what Zhu Han's purpose was for letting him do this.

Because in the eyes of Tang He and other Ming soldiers, although these small islands in the South China Sea have no official government, the fishermen of Guangdong and Hainan in the Ming Dynasty often come to fish and rest, so it is natural that it is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to be so troublesome, and they have to carve stone monuments on them.

It's your own thing, do you still need to emphasize it so much?

Besides, there are only Jiaozhi Kingdom and Lin Yiguo around, and it is not too much for these two small and poor states to say that they are savages, do they still have the courage to snatch the ownership of these islands with the Ming Dynasty?

Of course, Tang He didn't know that Zhu Han was planning the layout in advance in order to be foolproof in the future.

In order to prevent that in the unlikely case, there will be unfilial descendants in later generations, and there is no legal backhand left for the Ming Dynasty to consolidate the hegemony of living in Nanyang.

Tang He led the Ming fleet along these islands in the South Seas, and finally came to Malacca, which was marked on the chart.

Most of the officers and men of the Ming Dynasty came to this place for the first time, and when they were close to Malacca, many of the officers and men of the navy had not sailed for such a long time, and many of them already had anxiety problems.

Many people have all kinds of anxieties and delusions, and even feel that they have come to the ends of the earth, and if they go any further, they may fall into some abyss.

The anxiety of a long voyage at sea can sometimes lead the crew to behave irrationally.

Tang He was not panicked at all about this situation, and this problem was already recorded in the navigation manual that Zhu Han gave him.

It also chronicles how to deal with the anxiety of these crew members.

Tang He used the navigation manual given by Zhu Han to easily solve the anxiety in the army.

But Tang He also knew that the long-term sea voyage had gradually depressed the mood of the soldiers, and if they could not relax properly, it would definitely be detrimental to the next voyage.

Because in the navigation manual given to him by Zhu Han, after crossing Malacca, they will enter another ocean, and the wind and waves in the sea will be even more dangerous.

That's their final destination this time, the West.

In this era, the Western Ocean is actually the Indian Ocean.

The influence of the Central Plains Dynasty was based on Malacca, and basically had little influence on the power in the Indian Ocean.

It can be said that only having access to the Indian Ocean, the fleet led by Tang He will not have any allies to rely on.

So when he was resting on the shore in Malacca, Tang He listened to the advice of the guide Marouali.

Orders were given for the soldiers to go ashore to buy things and relax.

Men who have been at sea for so long, and all of them are sturdy young men, after stepping on land, the first thing they think of is naturally women, and the soldiers of the Ming fleet are generous, and they soon make a name for themselves in this small port town on the edge of the Strait of Malacca.

Thousands of indigenous beauties threw their arms to the naval officers of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of the arrival of thousands of Ming soldiers and sailors, this small city of Malacca called Uka suddenly prospered.

And everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty is a powerful and wealthy country, as long as they are served well, there will inevitably be endless wealth.

As a small port city, Wuka is naturally familiar with its business wisdom.

However, just relying on the consumption of the soldiers and sailors of the Ming Dynasty to make money is too slow for some people.

The dozens of huge merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty must have been loaded with priceless gold, silver and goods.

Suleiman III, the lord of Ukka, was already greedy for the Ming fleet.

As a small city on the Strait of Malacca, Wuka City is not like Cochin, Angkor and other countries in the north have a full understanding of the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Suleiman III felt that the city of Uka was thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, and as long as he secretly planned to contact the surrounding pirates and city-states to ambush the Ming fleet, no one would be able to detect the mastermind behind it.

Although the city of Uka is a port and commerce is its economic lifeline, robbing and pirates at sea is another way to make a fortune.

Greedy for the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, Suleiman III ordered the surrounding pirates and several city-states that believed in Allah to be contacted.

They prepared to ambush the Ming fleet in the narrow strait after the Ming fleet left Uka City.

Because these city-states who believed in Allah had excellent arson ships and fast spinnakers, they could attack unhindered in narrow straits.

As long as the warships of the Ming army can be destroyed with arsonist ships, those merchant ships loaded with huge goods can be plundered at will.

In order to find out the naval strength of the Cha army, Suleiman III brought wine and barbecue meat for three consecutive days to supply the Ming fleet, Tang He for this quite sensible Nanyang small city lord, is also very appreciative, every time to eat and drink is not in vain, rewarded Suleiman III with a lot of Ming porcelain and mint cool oil.

These items, which seemed cheap to Tang He, were coveted treasures in the eyes of Suleiman III, and the last bit of vigilance of Suleiman III disappeared at the thought of the dozens of cargo ships of the Ming army loaded with such treasures.

In particular, there were only thousands of sailors and soldiers on the dozens of large ships of the Ming army, which made Suleiman III no longer afraid.

According to Suleiman III's previous knowledge, nearly half of the sailors on the ship were slaves, and they had no combat effectiveness at all.

Whoever you are a slave to is a slave anyway, and you can't die in battle at all.

In this way, the Ming army is equivalent to a three-year-old child holding a gold brick in front of his eyes.

If he did not eat the big fat sheep of the Ming fleet, Suleiman III believed that Allah would definitely inflict guilt on him.

Suleiman III immediately sent people to contact the pirates and several city-states, and even before the battle began, they had already discussed a plan to divide the spoils.

Suleiman III, the initiator and largest force, would receive forty percent of the spoils, and the remaining sixty percent would be divided between a dozen pirates and city-states.

As for the captured Ming soldiers and sailors, in order to prevent the news from leaking out, Suleiman III would sell them all into slavery in the Delhi Sultanate.

After all, Suleiman III saw that these Ming soldiers and sailors were sturdy and fair-skinned, and they all belonged to the characteristics of superior people in Tianzhu, and sold them to Tianzhu for a high price.

Suleiman III assembled a combined fleet of more than 20,000 pirate men and thousands of ships, large and small.

By the time Tang He led the Ming fleet out of Uka City and sailed northwest along the Strait of Malacca, Suleiman III and his combined fleet of pirates were ready for an ambush.

Tang He couldn't have imagined that the Ming Fleet led by himself was obviously the strongest maritime combat force built with huge national strength, but some people would think that it was a weak chicken.

These city-states and pirates in the South Seas are still at the level of counting their combat effectiveness by numbers.

They did not know that Suleiman III's foolish decision would allow the glory of Allah to completely dissipate in the South Seas.

After leaving the city of Ukka, Malacca, Tang He and his fleet sailed very smoothly, and the storm season here had just passed.

In addition, there are long land and islands on both sides of the Strait of Malacca, and the wind and waves in the Strait of Malacca are very small, and the navigation is naturally extremely smooth.

"General Tang, as long as you cross the Strait of Malacca, then enter the Indian Ocean, sail north along the coastline, and sail another 2,000 miles, you will reach Bengal, where the Ming vassal Duan Gong occupies a piece of land, where we can get water and supplies." Maluari said as he stood next to Tang He.

Although Maluali obtained the official position and slave trade franchise of the Ming Dynasty, after seeing the strength of the Ming Dynasty, he was still full of deep awe for Tang and these highest-ranking princes and nobles.