"Put!"

"Bang bang bang—"

On the third day of the second month of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, with the sound of muffled thunder, the first battle of the Ming army in spring did not take place in Yingzhou, which everyone paid attention to, but in the southern part of the South Asian subcontinent.

More than 100,000 troops crossed the sea, and thousands of artillery pieces fired in unison......

The secessionist regimes of Jinji, Tanjor and Mysore suffered devastating blows.

It has to be said that Huanglong overestimated these places and underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

When hundreds of thousands of stone bullets were knocked out of the chambers, they destroyed temples and walls.

On the third day of the war, more than 50 coastal cities of the five southern princely states were lost, and on the tenth day of the war, even when the Yellow Dragon had just arrived in Tanjore, which was captured by the army, the five major princely states lost one-third of their land area.

The combat effectiveness displayed by the Ming army not only stunned the five major princely states, but also terrified Europeans such as Meneses of Kozhikode.

Not to mention them, when Huang Long set foot on the land of Tangor, he himself was stunned.

"The whole army seized 9,637 catties of gold, 94,000 catties of silver, 13 boxes of precious stones, gold, silver, copper, and iron ore......

When Li Dan came to find Huang Long with the records of the Fourth Guard and the 32nd Battalion, Huang Long looked at the document book in his hand, feeling a little panicked, but more confused.

"So much in ten days?"

Huang Long looked at the real gold and silver in his hand, which was worth more than three million taels of silver, and there were other gems worth millions of taels, as well as mines worth tens of millions of taels, and his heart was like a dream.

"How many beheadings?"

Huang Long sat in the king's palace in the city of Tangor, and asked Li Dan who was standing below with some anxiety, and Li Dan couldn't hide his smile:

"More than 14,000 ......"

"Just fourteen thousand?" Huang Long was a little puzzled, and his doubts were written on his face, and he didn't understand why the five countries, which had more than 100,000 troops, were defeated so quickly, but he asked again:

"Are there any people who resist?"

"Naturally, there are, the nobles involved, there are more than 326,000 merchants, if it weren't for this group of people to resist, I'm afraid our army has already reached the hinterland of the five countries, and at most half a month can completely destroy the five countries."

When Li Dan talked about this group of aristocratic class of the Five Kingdoms who resisted, it could almost be said that he gritted his teeth, and it could be seen that he was very confident in destroying the Five Kingdoms in half a month.

"What are the casualties of our army?" Huang Long was a little relieved, thinking that if he beheaded the other party by more than 14,000 levels, then his own casualties should probably be very large.

However, Li Dan's answer was once again beyond his expectations, and the other party smiled and said:

"One hundred and twenty-seven were killed and less than three hundred wounded."

"It seems that the combat power of the Tubang is stronger than that of the Turen......" Hearing such a battle loss ratio of more than 30 to 30, Huang Long felt that he was making a big fuss.

After sorting out his emotions a little and elevating his status, Huang Long spoke:

"All the gold and jewels were sent to the capital, and as for the silver, half of it was left to reward the three armies, and the remaining half was sent back to the capital."

"This ......" Li Dan heard this, hesitated slightly, and said cautiously:

"Wouldn't it be too much to leave half of it? Even if half of it is left, there will be more than 700,000 taels of silver, if it is known by the officials of the imperial court......

"No matter what they say, they just need to tell Your Highness." Huang Long waved his hand and said nonchalantly:

"If His Highness knew about the soldiers' achievements, he would have rewarded them sparingly, and besides, the seizures would have been intercepted."

"Yes......" Seeing this, Li Dan had no choice but to respond, and Huang Long also spoke:

"The nobles who committed the crime were all escorted back to Ceylon and Wandao County to reclaim the land, and as for the natives from all over the country, after counting the cultivated land, they were divided into four or six and let them be tenants of the imperial court."

"Yes......" Li Dan responded.

After all, he is the one who has dealt with the natives of Nanyang safely, and Huang Long has his own experience in how to govern the natives.

He had already learned about the situation of the peasants in the Five Countries before he started his move on the Five Kingdoms, and this group of people was basically

He was a slave of the aristocracy, and fifty percent of the output of the land had to be handed over every year.

At present, the Ming Dynasty has reduced the proportion to Sicheng Tianfu, so the local natives will naturally not resist.

They didn't have any land in the first place, and they were all the property of the nobles, and this percentage of labor income was enough to make them die for the Ming Dynasty.

"Before April, we will completely take down the Five Kingdoms, and then register and make a register, and send the Five Kingdoms Documents to the capital and hand them over to Your Highness."

"The vassal kings of these five kingdoms can almost come to the domain."

Huang Long touched his beard, and seemed to look down on the feudal domains who could get so many territories for money.

"Governor, in this battle, the children of the Tang Domain, the Zhou Domain, the Huai Domain, and the Ji Domain fought bravely to kill the enemy, and the number of beheadings of the children of the clans in the army was nearly three thousand."

Li Dan intended to help the feudal clans speak, but Huang Long sneered:

"More than 700 people beheaded more than 3,000 people, what is there to brag about?"

"Don't leave the vassal at that time, you can't even hold the vassal country, and you have to wipe your ass for the court."

"That's ......" Li Dan saw that Huang Long looked down on the feudal clans, so he didn't say good things about the children of the feudal clans.

"Okay, you go down and govern, tell Ji Ming (Shen Tingyang) to move more people to Ceylon Mansion."

"I guess after this battle, the group of Europeans in the 'Race Four' of the 'Knights' will sit down and talk to the Ichiboji calmly."

"If they haven't said anything, send eight fleets to cruise in their territorial waters!"

Huang Long said disappreciatively transliterating the names of people and places, and Li Dan could only respond when he heard this.

Moments later, he exited the palace, and Huang Long made it his temporary governor's palace.

The Ming army began to suppress the rebellion of the nobles of the Five Kingdoms and track down those involved with the nobles, and among them, some ambitious and prepared people naturally found their targets long ago......

"Bang!"

"Arrest them all!"

In the city of Karabang in Mysore, when Zhu Yujian gave a cold order, hundreds of soldiers of the Gong Guard Battalion instantly poured into this noble mansion, imprisoned everyone, and began the long-prepared raid.

As the richest man in Karabang City, Zhu Yujian's seizure made people blush.

More than 3,000 taels of gold, more than 70,000 silver coins, and three boxes of gems, these things made Zhu Yujian's eyes shine.

"Big brother, we ......" Zhu Yujian looked at these seizures, swallowed his saliva, and looked at Zhu Yujian, and Zhu Yujian thought about it before saying:

"Turn over three thousand taels of gold, weigh the silver coins, and keep the odds, and as for the precious stones, the gold and silver that are withheld, the brothers below will divide one-third."

Although the deduction is not much, it is enough to have thousands of taels of silver.

Each of these hundreds of people can get ten taels of silver, and Zhu Yujian has accumulated thousands of taels of silver for his father Zhu Qiqi in the Ming Dynasty.

"If you fight another hundred cities like this, my Tang Domain will be able to have hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."

Zhu Yujian reluctantly grabbed a large handful of gold coins, while Zhu Yujian glanced at him, and then reassured:

"Don't worry, I'll let all five of our brothers have a domain!"

"Zhu Yujian!"

After Zhu Yujian pacified Zhu Yujian, Zhu Changqing's voice sounded from behind, and Zhu Yujian turned to look, and sure enough, Zhu Changqing took hundreds of people and escorted a cart of gold and silver at the door to look at him with a smile.

"It seems that you have seized a lot of money...... Zhu Yujian smiled, after all, their Tang Domain and Zhu Changqing and the others' Huai Domain are allies.

"You're not bad either." Zhu Changqing patted the wooden box behind him, and then raised his chin: "Go first, you guys are busy slowly, and you will drink in the military camp at night."

"Okay!" Zhu Yujian raised his hand in the air, and Zhu Changqing also returned a salute, and then signaled the convoy to return to the military camp outside the city.

It can be seen that filling one's own pockets is no longer a separate phenomenon, but war is an uncontrollable factor after all, as long as people like Zhu Yujian and them don't eat too much, so that Huang Long's face can't hang up, Huang Long will not look for their hemp

Bother.

Cities were breached, gold and silver were seized, and most of the people chose to hand in ninety percent, and only a small number of greedy people chose to hand in eighty percent.

But no matter what, every time a city was breached, the Ming army could get money and food.

In dealing with agricultural civilization, Han soldiers are always brave and good at fighting, even if it is not for military merits, but for gold and silver.

When the five major princely states faced such a Ming army, they were basically crushed and destroyed by the destruction and decay.

Even March did not last, only on February 28, with the fall of the Mysore Kingdom, the equivalent of a province of Guangdong was pocketed by the Ming army.

When the news of the destruction of the Five Kingdoms in 25 days reached the north, whether it was the remnants of the Vijayanagar Kingdom, the major sultanates in the north, or the governors of the European countries in Kozhikode, they all thought that the Ming army was bragging.

However, when they investigated carefully, the real situation made them stunned.

In less than 25 days, the Ming army really annihilated the five major princely states of the Netherlands and Portugal, which had been dealing with the Netherlands and Portugal for more than half a century.

"160,000! 160,000 people!"

"How can they have such a delivery capability?"

"Do the Ming people have black magic?"

In the Portuguese Doge's palace in Cozhicode, Peterson, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, was questioning the number of Ming troops, compared to whom Meneses, the governor of Portugal, was more sensible.

"We should now think about how we can maximize the benefits."

"These fleets of the Heavenly Ming people are moving back and forth on the waterway, obviously proclaiming their force."

"I have heard that the troops of Stuart (England) and Bourbon (France) have withdrawn from Cozhicod, and now only our and Spanish troops remain."

"We in Portugal and you in the Netherlands want to be freed from the rule of Felipe IV."

"Now, if we can go out together and drive away the Spanish army, and then drive all the Stuart and Bourbon people, then even if we can't garrison troops in India, we will become the only trading country in Europe to the Ming Dynasty."

Unlike the independence of the countries that later generations thought, the Habsburgs were still the rulers of the continent during the Thirty Years' War, while Portugal and the Netherlands were now vassals of the Habsburgs.

King Felipe IV of Spain, not only the king of the Spanish Habsburgs, but also the third king of the Portuguese Habsburgs, and was the lord of the South Netherlands (Netherlands).

While the Far East looks peaceful at the moment, Europe is in full swing.

Felipe IV and Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne very closely, and not long after Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, Felipe IV also inherited the throne of his father Felipe III in the first year of the Apocalypse.

However, he is not as lucky as Zhu Youxiao, and he has Zhu Youzhen, a good younger brother.

In order to win the Thirty Years' War, he continued to expand his army, and by the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the number of troops under his command had reached 300,000.

When Europe was in full swing, he did not forget the trade with the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately he had not made any moves, and Zhu Youzhen ordered Huanglong to send troops to take the entire Nanyang region.

Spain, having lost Luzon, suffered a cold winter in foreign trade, but soon recovered with the peace of the war.

If the rise of the Ming Dynasty is beneficial to anyone, it is undoubtedly the Spaniards who currently control the closest to the Ming Channel.

In fact, Zhu Youzhen had no idea what kind of benefits his policies gave Spain when he was engaged in foreign trade on a large scale.

Historically, Felipe would have been distracted by the independence of the Netherlands and Portugal during the Thirty Years' War, as well as the Protestant Confederation armies.

Christian IV, a Protestant Danish king in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, with the support of Britain, France, and the Netherlands, together with the Protestant Alliance, launched an attack on Felipe's Haasburg clique, and soon occupied northwestern Germany.

At the same time, the British army, led by Mansfield, occupied western Bohemia.

The Protestant coalition is on full swing

Victory, and then the Catholic clique of the Hasburg dynasty could only hire mercenaries from the Bohemian nobleman Wallenstein.

Wallenstein then lived up to his expectations, defeating Mansfield at the Battle of Dessau Bridge in April of that year, and later Denmark at the Battle of Vogaster, and taking control of Saxony.

However, at sea, the Dutch navy has been sneaking up on the Spanish treasure ships, causing a serious recession in the Spanish economy, while the Dutch economy is thriving because of the South Seas.

But the problem is that Zhu Youzhen's indiscriminate entry led to the complete withdrawal of the Netherlands, Spain, Britain, France, Portugal and other countries from the South Seas, and they could only huddle in Kozhikode in southern India and trade with the Ming Emperor's shop.

As a result, the Netherlands was actually the hardest hit by the economy, so the Netherlands was not as brave as it was in history, but was stuck in economic problems and intensified its colonization of South America.

It stands to reason that even so, Spain is not in a very good situation.

However, Zhu Youzhen's move to open up the saltpeter trade immediately made Spain, which was in the westernmost part of the Sino-Western route, profitable.

Large quantities of saltpeter were constantly purchased by Spanish merchants and shipped to the Spanish mainland.

Although the Netherlands, Portugal, Britain, and France were all blocking the Spanish saltpeter ships during this period, they could not stop the saltpeter trade between Spain and the Ming Dynasty.

With the import of millions of pounds of saltpeter, Spain's gunpowder production increased rapidly, so Felipe IV did not hire Wallenstein's mercenaries as in history, but only with 300,000 troops with sufficient gunpowder, he was able to resist the attack of Denmark and England.

Not only that, economically, due to the opening of the Ming Emperor's Imperial Store to the Small Western Supervision Mission, the shipping route was reduced from 16 months to 12 months, so more Ming Dynasty goods began to pour into Spain, indirectly alleviating some of Spain's inflation.

Fighting a war was actually an economic fight, and the Spanish economy was on the rise because of the dumping of goods by the Ming Dynasty, and because of the increase in the production of gunpowder on the battlefield, firearms could be used without scruples, so the situation in Europe naturally changed.

The British and French withdrew quickly because their troops were too small, and the two together were only 3,000 people, and they could not keep their spice markets at all.

Therefore, after Huang Long and Shen Tingyang received Zhu Youzhen's handwritten letter and guaranteed that the spice trade would not be affected, the two *** teams directly chose to withdraw after learning that the Ming Dynasty had destroyed the five major princely states in 25 days, and only retained hundreds of escorts.

For them, they can't fight with the Ming soldiers, and once they lose, they will lose spices and Ming Dynasty goods, especially the saltpeter of the imperial store.

In this case, simply retreat, anyway, they only need to maintain trade with the Ming and will not be punished.

It's a pity that, compared to their ease, Menezes and Peterson, who are trying to seek independence, do not have so many easy choices.

They didn't want to go, but they couldn't beat the Ming army.

Fighting, trade was cut off, and Spain and England and France had the last laugh.

Without fighting, although trade can be preserved, it will not be able to curb Spain's maritime trade, and the two countries' hopes for independence will be shattered.

So at this time, they are very embarrassed, they can't fight if they want to, and if they don't fight, they will be criticized by the domestic nobles, in short, they are not people inside and outside.

If they were to forcibly attack Spain and Britain and France, they would be able to raise their domestic economy after monopolizing the shipping lanes, but the problem would be a bit contrary to some of the terms negotiated with Britain and France in Europe.

Don't force Britain and France to fight to the neutral camp at that time, then the idea of independence of the two countries will be completely shattered.

"Let's retreat......

Peterson didn't want to take any chances, and Menezes was upset when he heard him say that.

It would be difficult to give up the position of Viceroy and the colonies of India for anyone.

It's just that at the moment, east of the Cape of Good Hope, European countries really don't have the strength to compete with the reformed Ming Dynasty, and they don't even have the qualifications to become opponents.

Not to mention anything else, if they really declare war with the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Navy on the shipping lane, which is enough to crush the entire European sea power, will start shelling Kozhikode.

Not only that, but the Ming army was in Mysore

The garrison of the four naval guards, an army of 20,000 men, will immediately go north, and it will only take five days to reach the city of Kozhikod.

At that time, Portugal and the Netherlands may really have to kneel and beg before they can regain their trade qualifications......

Economic warfare works no matter what era it is, and Zhu Youzhen's economic sanctions against Europe have hit their fate.

The Ming Dynasty was short of gold and silver, but the problem was that Japan and the vast Nanyang region had enough to provide it, and the gold and silver brought by European merchants was just the icing on the cake.

Without this flower, the economic crisis of Daming can still be solved, but it will be a few years later, but if there is no Daming as a commodity exporter, then inflation in Europe is a chronic poison, which will kill them sooner or later.

The three major imports of goods in Europe are Daming, India and the Americas.

At present, if they go against the Ming Dynasty, then the first and largest commodity import place will be gone, not to mention that their contradiction lies in the second commodity import place.

Once it can't be defeated, and the Ming Dynasty has cleaned up India, then Europe will only have the Americas as an import.

But the problem is that the gold and silver imported from the Americas are the culprits of inflation in Europe, so the three places actually complement each other.

Without the Ming Dynasty and India, relying only on the Americas, no matter how much gold and silver flowed into the Americas, the Europeans could not spend it, because although the purchasing power of the aristocracy was strong, what they could consume was limited.

If the economy cannot circulate at the bottom, it is only a matter of time before inflation explodes.

Peterson did not dare to fall out with Daming, and the ambitious Menezes also threw himself into the trap.

If the Ming army had only 10,000 troops, he might have instigated the countries to fight with the Ming, but the problem was ......

These 160,000 projected troops are really a bit of a bully.

If Europe really had this projection capability, it would have occupied all of the Americas a long time ago.

They couldn't defeat the Ming army in the first place, but now the number of the Ming army is still crushing, what can they do......

"The rise of Spain is not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, we may be able to discuss trade with Huanglong, in short, we must curb Spain."

Menezes had exhausted his donkey skills, and in the end he had to set his sights on Da Ming.

If the Ming Dynasty sanctions Spain, Spain's economy will fall, and its share of trade will be divided between Britain, France, Portugal and the Netherlands.

"Will the Ming make a move?"

Peterson was skeptical of this question, after all, in his opinion, even if the Spanish dynasty was restored to its peak, its one-time projection capacity to the Far East would only be three or five thousand troops.

This bit of strength is simply a joke, you must know that the Ming Dynasty already had the ability to send more than 20,000 people to eastern Africa more than 200 years ago.

Peterson even doubted that if the Ming Emperor wanted to, they could send 10,000 troops to the European theater......

"Whether Da Ming will make a move, we have to fight for it at least."

Menezes sighed: "If we don't fight for anything, then once we lose this war, there will be no possibility of independence."

"Well, I'll write a letter to Tanjore in your name, hoping that Yellow Dragon will agree to our proposal." Peterson doesn't have a good idea right now.

After all, if this thing is done, even if they lose the Indian colony, they will be rewarded at home.

But if it doesn't work out, it's a bit bad......

After a brief meeting, Peterson and Meneses sent two letters to Huanglong in the name of Portugal and the Netherlands.

One was given to Huanglong, along with a thousand gold coins as a meeting gift, and one was given to the King of Qi and the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

In any case, after this gift is given, you can always get some favor......

With the melancholy of Peterson and Meneses, the clipper loaded with letters and gold coins sailed out of port and began to head south.

It is estimated that Zhu Youzhen himself didn't expect that he just wanted to make some foreign exchange, and he could actually affect the situation in Europe...

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