Majapahit was a feudal dynasty founded in the late 13th century (1293) in the eastern part of Java, with its capital also known as Majapahit, and was once one of the most powerful kingdoms in the history of Southeast Asia and the last Hindu kingdom on the island of Java. During the reign of King Ha Xi Wulu (1350-1389), the power of the Majapahit was at its peak.

In 1292 (the twenty-ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty), Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, ordered Shi Bi, Yihei Lost and Happy to lead a navy composed of 1,000 warships, and crossed the sea from Quanzhou, Fujian Province in one year, landed in Java, and joined forces with the forces of Ketara Yasa to defeat Jayakatwang and behead Jayakatwang and his henchmen.

After using the Yuan army to defeat Jayakatwang, Ketarayasa immediately counterattacked and launched a surprise attack on the Yuan army, repulsing the Yuan army. At this point, Ketarayasa became the ruler of the entire Java region, and the kingdom he established was called the Majapahit Kingdom, and the Yuan history referred to the "Majapahit" as "Majapahit".

The Majapahit Kingdom was established in the struggle against the Yuan Dynasty, so it knew that the great powers in the distant east were incomparably strong, and after the founding of the country, it adopted a positive and pragmatic attitude towards the diplomatic and trade relations of the Yuan Dynasty, and paid tribute frequently.

After the Yuan Dynasty, they learned that the Central Plains Dynasty had been replaced by the Ming Dynasty, but they immediately surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

In the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1370), the king of Majapahit sent an envoy to dedicate a gold leaf watch. At the beginning of its establishment, the Ming Dynasty immediately embarked on a series of diplomatic relations and trade exchanges with the Majapahit, the most powerful power in Southeast Asia at the time.

In the fourteenth year of Hongwu (1381), the gold leaf table was paid tribute.

In the thirtieth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1397), the navy of the Majapahit Kingdom captured the old port and destroyed the Three Buddhas.

In the second year of Yongle (1404), the king of Majapahit, Vikalama Wahana, sent an envoy to pay tribute, and Ming Chengzu sent an envoy to give a gilded and silver seal.

In March of the fourth year of Yongle (1406), when Zhu Gaoxu was carrying out a general mobilization in Yunnan, Zheng He went to the West for the first time and passed through the Majapahit Kingdom.

At this time, the Majapahit was in a civil war, there were two kings of the east and west, the king of the west accidentally killed more than 170 people who landed in Zheng He's fleet, and after learning that it was the messenger of the Ming Dynasty, the king of the west was very frightened and asked for compensation of 60,000 taels of gold.

If Zhu Gaoxu was present in this matter, he would immediately increase the price to 100,000 taels of gold, you are so rich, of course there are more points, if not, hum, directly send troops to attack his country and rob everything.

But Zheng He didn't dare to make his own opinion, and decided to send an envoy back to Daming to report to Zhu Di.

In the original history, Zhu Di gave up compensation and pardoned the sins of King Xi.

On this day, Zheng He was arranging a ship to return to China and report to Zhu Di along the original road.

When they came, they set out from Liujiagang in Suzhou, first to Fuzhou, then to Jilong (Wanwan), and then to Zhancheng.

When Zheng He arrived in Zhancheng, Zhu Gaoxu had not yet attacked Zhancheng, and then went to Zhenla, and then to Majapahit.

Zheng He also knew that he would go back to Daming, and then get the will of the Ming Emperor, and he would come back for almost half a year, so he didn't wait in the same place, and decided to continue west, along the island of Java into the Strait of Malacca, and in the direction of Sadi Port.

The eunuch who went back was named Chen Xi, who was Zheng He's confidant, and returned along the same route with a 400-material sea ship compensated by the king of the West of the Majapahit Kingdom.

When Chen Xi came with Zheng He, it was still a tailwind, and now on the return trip, it is a headwind again.

The kingdom of Majapahit was about 5,000 miles from Champ, and after his ship sailed for nearly two months, he first came to Champa to seek supplies.

There is a famous port called Da Nang in Champa City, he is the birthplace of the Champa Kingdom, and it is also the central city of Champa at that time, the most important outlet to the sea, and the name is Dahekou Port at this time.

After the Ming army captured Annam and Champa successively, Zhu Gaoxu concentrated Annan's ships in Haiphong Port and Champang's ships in Dahekou Port, and organized local people to protect and build ports in both places as a backup.

When Chen Xi came, it was still relatively quiet here, and there were not many ships in the port, but when he returned this time, he suddenly found that there were mountains and seas of ships in front of him, and there were ships everywhere, and a large number of ships were blocked around the port.

Fortunately, there was no Annando in the boats of the city, and their ships slowly swallowed up, moving left and right, and finally squeezed to the harbor, but they also could not get ashore, so they could only put small boats ashore.

Chen Xi walked slowly on the return trip and didn't bring enough things, so he hurried ashore to find supplies.

Unexpectedly, the boat had not yet approached, and I saw a Ming army patrolling the shore from a distance.

Chen Xi shook his head, thinking that he was dazzled.

It was also strange for the Ming army to see him, because he obviously also recognized that this was a Han Chinese, and he was wearing the clothes of a eunuch in the palace.

After he went ashore, he explained his intentions, and the Ming army asked him to wait.

After a while, a thousand households came to the scene, and he told Chen Xi that he was a thousand households in Dahekou, Zhang Xiaobu.

Chen Xi later learned that the Ming army had set up a thousand households here, and at the same time requisitioned tens of thousands of local people to expand the port and build a new shipyard.

This is the same way as in Annam, that is, all the shipwrights and shipyard resources of the city are concentrated here.

Zhu Gaoxu originally wanted to use Saigon Port, which is closer than here, but Saigon Port is now a small fishing village, and it will take at least two or three years to build before it can be used, so he will make use of Dahekou Port first.

Zhang Xiaobu was born in Zhu Gaoxu's own army, and this time Annan and Zhancheng were returned to the Ming army, and many Weihe offices were built, and all the chief officers and middle-level generals of Weihesu were almost all Zhu Gaochu and Yunnan Musheng.

Zhang Xiaobu also heard Chen Xi's intention, so he said: "Wait a minute, I will go and tell the Marquis of Xiping, Jiaozhi and Zhancheng, and now the Marquis of Xiping has full authority to deal with it." ”

Chen Xi was in a hurry, he was in a hurry to return to Daming, and only asked for supplies, but Zhang Xiaobu didn't care, and detained him and his ship first.

It was quite close to Champa by sea to Thanh Hoa, and a few days later, the order of the Marquis of Xiping came to Champang.

Zhang Xiaobu called Chen Xi: "Is Zheng He still in the country of Majapahit?" ”

Chen Xi said that he had already continued to the west, and then turned around and acted according to the will of the imperial court.

Zhang Xiaopreach said, you stay here for two months, and then take us to the country of Majapahit and ask for 100,000 taels of gold.

"What?" Chen Xi was dumbfounded.

Of course, Xipinghou did this for Zhu Gaoxu's great event.

Zhu Gaochu sent money everywhere, spending a huge amount of money, and he was able to use the same excuse to agitate the health centers of Yunnan Province because Zhu Gaochu had a lot of money.

He now understands why Zhu Gaochu had to fight Annan first, because only when the fight starts, Zhu Gaochu can claim to plunder property indiscriminately.

It can be said that at this time, the wealth of the entire Annam and Champa supported Zhu Gaoxu in his war against the Ming Empire.

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In May of the fourth year of Yongle, Zhu Gaoxu had already returned to Yunnan early.

The whole of Yunnan is also mobilizing, a large number of soldiers and horses of the guard are being mobilized, and the local officials must know about the transfer of so many soldiers and horses, but fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu has a good excuse, the war in Annam is unfavorable, and the imperial court needs more soldiers and horses, so with the support of Zheng Xiang and Cao Long, although the soldiers and horses in Yunnan are frequently transferred, the entire Yunnan civil officials did not know about it in the early stage.

On 7 May, the Han Dynasty suddenly convened a meeting of Yunnan civil and military officials.

On the same day, officials from the three divisions of Yunnan and all the provinces of Yunnan Province came.

After many officials arrived, they found out that all the civil officials of the provincial government were summoned in the name of the King of Han and the Marquis of Xiping.

You must know that in this era, there is almost no precedent for summoning officials from the whole province to a meeting in a certain place, because many places are too far away for officials to run around without nothing.

Now the officials of all the provinces have come, proving that the king of Han has been gathering everyone several months in advance.

It is said that when each county government receives the notice, only one official above the eighth grade is left, and everyone else comes to discuss the matter.

This time there were one or two hundred people, and then there were a large number of commander-level generals of the guard, almost three hundred people, who gathered in the Han Palace.

Many civil officials are unaware of what is going on, but those who are alert already know that something is wrong.

After a while, King Han and Xipinghou's younger brother Mu Xin came to the scene, and Cao Yu, the political envoy, had sharp eyes, and saw that behind Mu Xin was Xipinghou's mother, Mrs. Geng.

Xipinghou is in Annan, and the old lady appears in person, plus his younger brother, of course, it represents the will of Xipinghou himself.

Everyone noticed that the Han King Zhu Gaoxu was fully armed, wearing armor, and his expression was solemn, and many people became serious.

"Silence." Suddenly, Zhu Gaoxu's henchman Zhou Hu roared.

The scene gradually fell silent.

Zhu Gaoxu walked to the front and slowly spoke with a solemn expression: "In August of the first year of Jianwen, the Yan army and the southern army fought a big battle, and the southern army was defeated. ”

There was silence all around, some people felt that something was wrong, and many people didn't dare to breathe, and they all looked at Zhu Gaoxu.

"Because the Yan army failed to attack the city before, it was fruitless to surrender Mancheng County, Baoding Prefecture, and ordered to send troops to attack Mancheng again, after the city was broken, the cruel Zhu Di brazenly ordered to slaughter the city for three days, and the chickens and dogs were not left."

There was a commotion in the crowd.

Many people already knew what Zhu Gaoxu wanted to do at this time, and Cao Yu was stunned and couldn't believe it.

Then Zhu Gaoxu told Zhu Di's evil consequences one by one, including the killing and surrender of Juyong Pass, Tan Yuan's Cangzhou killing and surrendering thousands of Ming troops and other evil deeds.

When Zhu Gaoxu followed Zhu Di to fight the Jingjing, he saw Zhu Di repeatedly send letters to frame Zhu Yunwen, and many things that Zhu Yunwen did not do were also poured on Zhu Yunwen, and even said that Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Gaozu, was also killed by Zhu Yunwen.

So now Zhu Gaoxu has learned the same, Zhu Di has done it, he has not done it, all the nonsense, Tan Yuan's killing and surrender is also said to be instigated by Zhu Di.

What's more, when Zhu Di was in Baoding Mansion, he ordered the killing of Manchu civil officials, and said in front of the generals that if the officials of the Jianwen Dynasty did not surrender, they would all be killed, anyway, many people in the world want to be officials.

The civil and military forces in the audience listened to it without saying a word, shocked and frightened.

Zhu Gaoxu went on to say that after the success of the Jingjing, Zhu Di disregarded the scholars in the world and killed the scholars.

Fang Xiaoru, Lian Zining, and Huang Zicheng were all exterminated.

When he said this, he was already a little colorful, talking about the scene at that time, learning from Zhu Di and asking Fang Xiaoru: Do you believe that I punish the nine clans?

Then he learned from Fang Xiaoru and shouted: What about punishing my ten clans?

The Chinese officials in the audience were moved when they heard this, and many of them couldn't help but tremble.

At this moment, more than a dozen children appeared behind the King of Han, singing as they walked: "Heaven has sent war and sorrow, who knows the reason, the treacherous courtiers got their wish, and asked for the power of the country to play tricks." The loyal courtiers were angry and grieved, and blood and tears flowed; With this blood and tears for the king's funeral, what else do you want? Whining and mourning, it's probably not my complaint. ”

It is Fang Xiaoru's last stroke before he died.

The children's voices were crisp, with a crying tone, and hundreds of civil officials who sang were trembling and heartbroken, and only halfway through the singing, some people were already crying softly, and then civil officials took the lead and sang along with the chorus, and soon almost most of the civil officials couldn't help singing.

(End of chapter)