Chapter 214: The Great Alliance of the Enemies
Zhu Han's suggestion is actually the most practical.
The Ming Dynasty's conquest of Goryeo, Wa and other places wanted to take the route of direct rule in the future.
Therefore, these places must go through a batch of changes, these places belong to the civilized ethnic population, and they are very obedient to the Ming Dynasty, of course, they can't be killed simply.
Therefore, if you transfer the people from these places to live in another place, you can easily change their customs and habits, so that they can change from Koreans and Japanese people to Ming nationals in Nanyang.
"Recruiting these naturalized people is a short-term measure."
"The long-term means in the future, it is best to add more women of appropriate age to the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in advance, and the people born in the future will naturally be the citizens of the Ming Dynasty, and the land here in Nanyang will remain stable."
The Nanyang area, where Zhu Wenzheng is located, has a unique advantage in the slave trade.
There are constant disputes between the various small countries in the South Seas, and the tribes of all sizes are also fighting at war for three days.
The more wars frequented, the more captives were pushed into the slave market.
Zhu Wenzheng only needed to spend some money to match each Ming soldier with two or three female slaves.
In the future, a bunch of small dolls will be born, and the number of Nanyang Ming citizens will be expanded.
After Zhu Han's guidance, Zhu Wenzheng suddenly opened his mouth.
After he took possession of the Spice Island here, it can be said that there is almost no shortage of hard currency in his hands.
All kinds of spices produced in the South Seas, whether in the Ming Dynasty or in Persia, Egypt, Byzantium and other places further west, were in short supply.
Zhu Wenzheng only needed to use the spices in his hand to exchange for a large number of slaves to supplement the population of the Jingnan King of the Ming Dynasty.
Under Zhu Han's guidance, Zhu Wenzheng immediately took action.
He summoned the merchants and slave traders in the city of Malacca to the palace.
Under the regulations of King Jingnan of the Ming Dynasty, all merchant ships that came to Nanyang to trade spices in the future must carry a corresponding number of female slaves according to the amount of goods purchased each time.
These female slaves would be inspected by the Jingnan Imperial Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, and only after passing the quantitative and qualitative tests could the merchants be qualified to trade in spices.
As soon as this regulation was issued, it would not take too long for female slaves from all over the country to pour into the territory of the Ming Nanyang.
Meanwhile.
Zhu Wenzheng, the king of Jingnan of the Ming Dynasty, also sent caravans from the palace to Goryeo, Ryukyu, Wa and other places to recruit farmers to cultivate in Nanyang.
The heroes of these places are even more ruthless than those in the Central Plains.
The lower classes of the local people were crushed like cattle, horses, and livestock.
King Jingnan of Nanyang in the Ming Dynasty gave each person a settling-in fee of five taels of silver, and also gave ten acres of tax-free land, and the rest of the wasteland, no matter how much, was tax-free for three years.
Moreover, the Nanyang place is warm, except for being too hot all year round, there is no need to worry about freezing to death and starvation.
Therefore, in less than half a year, Zhu Wenzheng recruited more than 20,000 poor people from these places to devote themselves to the Nanyang wasteland.
These lower-class people of Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom have no cultural foundation at all, and when they come to Nanyang, they are naturally what the Ming government says.
It is simply not too simple to let them change to the Han language and surname.
After Zhu Wenzheng adopted this strategy, it took less than two years to replace the Nanyang natives on Spice Island, the core of his domain.
As for how these Nanyang natives were replaced, King Jingnan, as a benevolent and loving people, naturally cannot be said to have been killed.
Whether it is death from illness, starvation, or death from heat is possible, or there are too many Nanyang typhoons that have been blown away, anyway, there is no native man in Nanyang on Daming Spice Island.
For these humble Nanyang natives who are as humble as ants, that is, there are still people discussing their existence, and when it is a few tens or hundreds of years later, all the people in Nanyang will occupy the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and no one will think about how these Nanyang natives do not exist.
After all, the presence and disappearance of a race that cannot even leave male offspring without anyone noticing it.
Hundreds of years later, the Ming people in this land of Nanyang will only feel that they have thrived here since ancient times.
The hot temperature bakes the earth, making Tianzhu, which has just passed the rainy season, like a huge steamer.
The vast majority of the Tianzhu people were shirtless, revealing their dark and shiny skin.
One by one, they looked numbly at the marching army on the road, and there was neither fear nor joy in their eyes, as emotionless as animals walking around on the road.
"What a rich land! Even better than there in the river! ”
Timur rode on his horse and looked at the land around him, and his heart sighed with envy.
Since receiving help from the Deli Sultanate, the Western Chagatai Khanate has stabilized the situation.
In particular, Wang Baobao, who had just conquered the territory of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, was busy digesting the newly expanded territory and was not in a hurry to launch an attack on the Transoxiana region occupied by the Western Chagatai.
Therefore, the situation in the Western Chagatai Khanate stabilized slightly, and the Delhi Sultanate immediately issued an invitation to hire them.
The Delhi Sultanate itself was a country founded by Celestial Mercenaries, and whenever there was a battle, it would hire warriors from the Celestial Cult territory in Central Asia to fight in India.
Because Timur and others had experience in fighting with the Orientals, these Orientals naturally referred to the king of the Mongol Yuan Empire, so they were hired by Firuzisha of the Delhi Sultanate to attack Duan Gong in India.
These mercenaries were not only from the Western Chagatai Khanate, but also many from places like Khorezm, Khorasan and Kabul.
There were more than 20,000 people in total, and the nominal commander was Jelaidisha, the prince of the Delhi Sultanate, and the actual general was Timur.
These mercenaries from Central Asia and West Asia, marching on the land of Tianzhu, are full of greed and desire for everything around them.
If it weren't for the fact that they were brothers of the Celestial Sect with the Delhi Sultanate, they would have already disregarded any discipline and started to loot on a large scale.
"What are you going to do with those Orientals? Timur, do you have a good idea? ”
Jelai Disha, the prince of the Delhi Sultanate, asked.
Not long ago, the Delhi Sultanate had launched several smaller attacks on Duan Gong.
When the number of troops dispatched was small, there were three or four thousand, and when there were many nearly 10,000.
But the soldiers of the Delhi Sultanate, because they often bully Tianzhu's weak chickens, have already seriously degraded their combat effectiveness.
The successive attacks made Duan Gong easily use a few hundred surgical troops.
It was in this situation that the Delhi Sultanate had no choice but to merge soldiers from the Celestial Sect in Central Asia.
These Tianfang warriors from the mountains and steppes of Central Asia have sharpened their will and combat skills in the midst of war and hardship all year round, and their combat power is far stronger than that of the Delhi Sultanate's army.
However, the cautious questioning of the prince of the Delhi Sultanate made Timur feel insulted.
"Your Royal Highness, we are inspired by Allah to gain every advantage and defeat those Easterners in Bengal without any complicated schemes, just scatter our valiant warriors and destroy their army warehouses and cities!" Timur said confidently.
The facts were as Timur had predicted.
When the 20,000-strong Tianfeng mercenaries arrived in Bangladesh, their ferocity and bravery immediately defeated the local soldiers of Tianzhu under Duan Gong.
The number of Dali troops in Duan Gong's hands was less than 10,000, and with such an army to rule, a territory equivalent to the size of the entire Yunnan region was completely insufficient.
So there were more than 20,000 indigenous soldiers recruited from the local area in Duan Gong's army.
But the combat effectiveness of these Tianzhu indigenous soldiers is very low.
They were only responsible for the defense of cities and fortresses, and when they had the greatest defensive advantage, they were easily defeated by the mercenaries led by Timur.
These Central Asian Celestial Sect mercenaries are not at all soft against these Brahmans.
Timur's soldiers not only slaughtered all the enemies who resisted on the battlefield, but also plundered the city after it had been captured.
Every city has been plunged into a terrible hell.
Many Tianzhu natives were frightened by these murderous Heavenly Fang Sect warriors.
Under this terrifying effect, the ruling order that Duan Gong had built up with great difficulty gradually began to be shaken.
Although Duan Gong lost some of the outermost territories, he still had a very great influence on the hearts of the people inside.
According to the spies' report, these mercenaries led by Timur are super combative, and they are definitely not comparable to those indigenous people of God.
In this case, even if Duan Gong lost a lot of territory, he still didn't dare to take the initiative.
He gathered his forces and mainly defended the area around Xindali City.
In the rest of the important cities, some of his cronies will be sent to supervise the battle.
Duan Gong's cautious performance, in the eyes of Timur and other Tianfang Sect mercenaries, was definitely afraid of revealing his incompetence.
"Allah is great!"
Sultan Firuz Shah of the Delhi Sultanate, after receiving the news of successive victories, could not help but praise the all-knowing and all-powerful Allah in his palace.
Timur, a poor mercenary army in Central Asia, showed super combat effectiveness and gave Firuzisha a worthwhile experience.
You must know that to hire more than 20,000 Heavenly Sect warriors, Firuzisha only took out the equivalent of 200,000 taels of silver.
Of course, in addition to this, all the loot of plunder on the battlefield goes to these mercenaries.
It's just that these plundered spoils belong to those rebellious Tianzhu natives, and there is no loss at all for Firuzisha.
With such a cheap price to allow himself to win one victory after another, Firuzisha couldn't help but imagine that after pacifying Bengal, he would continue to hire these Central Asian Heavenly Sect warriors to attack Sindh and Kanda in the south, and realize his dream of dominating Tianzhu.
Just as Firuzisha was praising Allah for his successive victories, a soft voice came from outside the palace door.
"Father, I'm coming!"
With the crisp sound of gold and silver jewelry colliding, a gust of incense wafted in from outside the palace door.
This is a typical Central Asian beauty.
With fair skin, big turquoise eyes, curly chestnut hair, and gorgeous Tianzhu characteristic costumes, the mysterious figure is fully revealed.
"Alina, my daughter, come to Father!" Firuzisha, who has always been known for his ferocity, showed a rare kind smile.
Because of his huge harem, Firuzisha had more than a dozen sons and more than a dozen daughters.
But among them, Firuzisha's favorite is this daughter...... Princess Alina.
Alina is fourteen years old, and her mother was the daughter of a Persian nobleman who had the status of a formal wife in Firuzishah's harem, rather than a lowly female slave.
Moreover, Alina is not only sweet and seductive, but also very smart and studious.
Not only was she fluent in Persian, Udur, and other languages, but she was also an excellent poet, and she was also familiar with many legal texts and the Qur'an, and often helped her father, Sultan Firuz Shah, in political decision-making.
So Firuzisha has always regarded this daughter as his treasure.
It's just that no matter how treasured a daughter is, she is still a daughter after all.
In the end, you always have to get married.
Firuzisha attaches great importance to the alliance with Chen Youliang, and the princess agreed to marry is this favorite daughter Alina.
Firuzisha wanted to let this daughter go to the East, so that she could use her ingenuity to control a part of the political power, which could be used to help the Delhi Sultanate achieve great benefits in the Oriental trade.
It will not be long before the Bengal region occupied by Duan Gong will be recovered by Timur.
At that time, Firuzisha will send someone to escort Princess Alina to Chen Han to get married.
Today, he called Princess Alina over, and what he wanted to say was related to this.
"I am going to let the palace guards take you to Timur's military camp, these river people believe that they will soon be able to defeat those orientals, and when the time comes, after taking Bengal, the road to Aurora will be restored, if you can reach Han one day sooner, you will be able to open the trade route between us one day sooner, for the sake of the kingdom, I have to part with you in advance, my daughter."
Firuzisha said to Princess Alina.
Chen Youren, as an envoy before, brought a batch of goods with the merchant group, which made the Delhi Sultanate earn more than ten times the profit.
If it had been able to engage in large-scale trade with Chen Youliang earlier, the Delhi Sultanate would have had an endless source of wealth.
Firuzisha of the Delhi Sultanate was very concerned about marrying Princess Alina.
Not only did he send what he thought was an elite escort of the court Gracchus, but he also prepared an unusually rich dowry.
Tianzhu's local spices filled more than 50 carriages, as well as a large number of ruby and gold jewelry, and more than 100 excellent war horses purchased from the Hezhong region.
In addition to this, Firuz Shah ordered his men to prepare more than 300 good slaves, all of whom were bought from Persian merchants, Armenians, Romans, and other pagans.
These heretics had been sold as slaves since childhood, had already been castrated, and now in their teens, they had been domesticated to be very docile, and could become Princess Alina's most reliable servants in the Eastern court.
These castrated juvenile slaves were also a specialty of the Delhi Sultanate.
Not only were they able to serve their masters to near perfection, but they were also proficient in legal paperwork, poetry, and combat skills, and were good enough to take on any position in the court.
Obviously, Firuzisha just wanted his daughter Princess Alina to have enough say in Chen Youliang's palace to help the Delhi Sultanate gain enough benefits.