At this time, Zheng He was docking at Temasek with the strongest and largest naval fleet in the world.

Temasek is now part of Manchuria but is temporarily ruled by Siam.

The kingdom of Manraka was founded five years earlier (1402) by Bairi Missoula, whose royal city is now the city of Malacca, and at its peak the territory spanned from southern Thailand to southwestern Sumatra.

Bairi Missoula was originally the prince of the southeast area of the old port of Sri Buddha's death, because Sri Buddha was captured by the Majapahit kingdom at that time, the prince fled from the old port to Temasek, for some reason assassinated the local chief, and then was hunted down and fled to the north, on the way to rest under a Manraka tree, he saw a hunting dog cornering a mouse deer, the mouse deer in self-defense, kicked the dog into the river. Feeling that this was an auspicious place, he named it Manraka and settled here.

In the early days, Manjapahit had to pay 40 taels of gold a year to Siam, and there was a threat of Majapahit to the south. In the first year of Yongle, Baili Missoula also accompanied the Beijing official Yin Qing to the Ming Dynasty to meet the Ming Chengzu, and officially paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zheng He was relatively safe after arriving here, and now the Manchurian state and the Ming Dynasty have established diplomatic relations, and it is in the name of a subject state.

When Zheng He was in Beijing, he also met with Baili Missoula, and this time when he passed through the city of Malacca, Baili Missoula received him cordially and gave him a lot of treasures.

Of course, Zheng He also returned a large amount of silk, tea, ceramics and other goods, showing the benevolence and etiquette of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty.

He went back to Malacca City in mid-January last year, and visited Bairi Missula again according to etiquette, but Bairi Missoula revealed a secret to him, your Ming Kingdom, it seems that there is a civil war, and there is no sea ban along the coast, because there are Ming Dynasty merchants and merchant ships, come here.

Zheng He was shocked when he heard this, and he couldn't believe it.

He was fine when he came, and now he goes back, and the Ming Dynasty has a civil war?

There are still merchants of the Ming Dynasty in Malacca, Zheng He stayed for two days, and when he met a group of merchants who had just arrived, he naturally knew it clearly.

Zhu Gaoxu, the king of the Han Dynasty, raised his troops in May last year and won successive battles, and now he has occupied Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Fujian, and other provinces, and the situation is very good.

The merchant also frowned and said, I hope that the king of Han will win, because the king of Han has already opened maritime trade, they can come here to do business, do you know, I transport a boatload of silk, how much can I earn?

Zhu Di opened the sea ban, and Zhu Gaoxu went the opposite way, and has firmly won the support of coastal people and businessmen.

Zheng He was very confused when he heard it, because he didn't know where to go.

In early February, he came to Temasek and the fleet came in to resupply.

After Bairi Missoula left Temasek and then ruled Siam here, he felt that the road was too far away, so he did not operate much, and in recent years Temasek has changed from a prosperous port to a small fishing village.

Zheng He stopped here, but he also felt that there was a sense of security here, the huge fleet of the Ming Dynasty could deter the surrounding Xiaoxiao, and the nearby kingdoms were far away from here.

But now there is a question in front of him, what should he do next?

At this time, there were already several people in their fleet who knew the news that the Han King had rebelled.

Zheng He thought about it and planned to call a few important people and discuss it together.

Zheng He went to sea for the first time with more than 200 ships, officers and soldiers plus crew and other personnel, about 20,000 people, the largest Zheng Hebao is 44 zhang long and 18 zhang wide, which is equivalent to 1340 meters long, nearly 60 meters wide, and has a displacement of more than 5,000 tons, while the Columbus fleet that appeared in the Atlantic Ocean 83 years later, the largest Santa Maria has a displacement of only 100 tons.

Of course, there are not many such big treasure ships, Zheng He's first mission to the West, there are sixty-six treasure ships called treasure ships, only five are five thousand materials, and the rest are two thousand materials, one thousand five hundred materials, in addition to these more than sixty treasure ships, the remaining more than two hundred ships are all less than five hundred materials, mainly four hundred materials, and one hundred materials.

Despite this, this fleet of more than 200 ships was already the strongest sailor in the world at that time, and there was no one.

In the original history, even the pirate Chen Zuyi was not his opponent, and he was completely annihilated.

The important figures in this fleet are Hong Bao, the deputy envoy of the inner transport warehouse, Hong Bao is Zheng He's hometown, when the Ming army invaded the Ming Dynasty, he was arrested as a eunuch with Zheng He, and then he has been following Zheng He, he is also the deputy envoy of this mission.

Then there were three commanders, Tao Degui, the commander of Zhenhaiwei near Suzhou, Gao Yong, the commander of Hainingwei near Hangzhou, and Cui Yong, the commander of Zhendongwei in Fujian, each of these five people received a large ship of 5,000 materials.

The more than 10,000 sergeants of Zheng He's fleet are basically from these three guards.

His fleet departed from Suzhou, and the first stop was to Fuzhou, most of which were men from Suzhou and Hangzhou, and at Zhendongwei took with them 2,000 Fujian sailors.

On the morning of the first day of February, Zheng He summoned Hong Bao, Tao Degui, Gao Yong, Cui Yong, and the five of them to find an uninhabited seaside together, and everyone looked at the sea and was silent for a moment.

Zheng He convened everyone to discuss something, in fact, everyone knew it, but it seemed that no one wanted to speak first.

Zheng He will look at the sea for a while, and look at everyone for a while.

Hong Bao is his confidant and his fellow countryman, basically he will only follow him, what he decides to do, Hong Bao will definitely follow.

Tao Degui is a commander in Suzhou, and some of his family members are in Suzhou, and I heard that his nephew used to run a business in Suzhou, and Yin Degui is also very shrewd, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false words, and it is difficult to guess his thoughts.

Gao Yong, it's hard to say this, because Zhu Di did something stupid and increased the tax on all the surnames in the world.

Gao Yong was originally Ying Tianwei Qianhu, and he followed Li Jinglong to open the gate of Ying Tianfu, and after the Jing disaster, he was promoted to Jinwu Guard to command the affairs, which can be regarded as a meritorious service.

But Zhu Di later imposed heavy taxes on the surname Gao, and it is said that the relatives of Gao Yong's hometown were also affected.

In the second year of Yongle, Zhu Di was promoted to the commander of Hainingwei again, which actually meant to make up for and appease him.

Zheng He thought about it, and in Gao Yong's heart, I am afraid that he also has a little opinion about His Majesty the Emperor.

As for Cui Yong, who is more troublesome, Fujian Zhenjiangwei commanded the envoy, now Fujian is the territory of the Han King, and his family members are all in Zhenjiangwei.

Zheng He looked at everyone and felt a little bad.

The five of them were blowing the sea breeze on the beach, and they didn't speak, and after a while, Cui Yong couldn't stand it.

Cui Yong is tall and has a big voice, so he was the first to speak: "What did Zheng Envoy say?" Where to go next? ”

Everyone looked at Zheng He, but Zheng He remained silent and asked, "What does General Cui think?" ”

Cui Yong immediately said: "According to the end of the general, of course I will go to Java." ”

"Last time, the king of the West of Majapahit said that he would compensate 50,000 taels of gold, and the court should have a reply to this matter, Chen Xi is afraid that he is still waiting for us somewhere."

Tao Degui said cautiously at this time: "I heard that the old port north of Java has been occupied by the Ming army. ”

He didn't dare to say about the rebels, thinking about it, anyway, the rebels were also Ming troops, and when they went overseas, everyone was a fellow countryman.

Hong Bao's mouth opened, but he still didn't speak.

He originally wanted to say whether the Ming army in the old port would attack us, but now everyone didn't pierce the window paper, and they didn't mention the rebellion of the Han king, so he quickly shut his mouth.

Zheng He was also in a mess, he didn't know where to go next, so he simply wanted to delay: "Then it's decided, go to Java and see if Chen Xi has received a reply from the imperial court." ”

The rest of the generals said that there was no problem.

Zheng He wanted to summon them to discuss the matter, but a few people said a few words, and Zheng He felt that the problem was quite big.

In the fleet, I'm afraid, it has now been detached.

Everyone looked at Zheng He at this time, and it seemed that Zheng He didn't have anything to say, so he dispersed.

Zheng He watched Gao Yong go first, and then Cui Yong followed quickly, Tao Degui walked slowly, looking back at Zheng He as he walked.

Hong Bao stood beside Zheng He, and the two also looked at each other.

No one spoke at the moment, but it seemed to be clear and clear.

Gao Yong was heading in the direction of his ship, and soon there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and he turned his head to see that it was Cui Yong.

Both of them have a treasure ship of five thousand materials, but the location is different, and in the middle is Zheng He's ship.

Gao Yong knew at the moment that Cui Yong had something to say to himself.

He slowed down, and sure enough, Cui Yong quickly caught up.

When he came to Gao Yong's side, Cui Yong looked back, and Tao Degui and Zheng He were looking at them in the distance.

"Let's go, boss, go for a drink?" Cui Yong said: "Go to your ship." ”

Gao Yong thought about it and nodded emphatically.

In Zheng He's fleet, everyone has their own assigned ships, and Zheng He's flagship is called the treasure ship, and there are thousands of people on it.

Gao Yong, Cui Yong, Tao Degui, and Hong Bao each have a big ship of 5,000 materials, which are called Dajiang, Dacheng, Daxing, and Dafu respectively.

Gao Yong's Dajiang is full of soldiers and horses from his own guard, but there is a small eunuch in the palace, which is a bit of a supervisor.

Gao Yong took Cui Yong on the boat, and instructed his subordinates to get a few simple dishes and some wine, they were adrift on the sea, and the food was naturally not very good, but they had just come from the city of the king of Manraka, and Bairi Missula sent a lot of local food, and Gao Yong naturally got it.

The two of them found a room, put the food and drinks, and drank first.

Gao Yong estimated that Cui Yong had something to say to himself, so he didn't mention anything else, just talking about some things at sea, as well as the little girls from all over the world who had played.

Talking and talking, I don't talk much about the fact that Majapahit wants to compensate 50,000 gold, there are people in the Gao Yong family who do business, so he said, Majapahit is so rich, he should have increased the price at the beginning, and asked him 100,000 200,000, after speaking, he glanced at Cui Yong, and the rest of the words were not said, and our brothers can also share a little.

In his opinion, there is nothing wrong with this, a king of the family takes the initiative to compensate 50,000 taels of gold, and he must bargain and raise the price, not always doing business.

Cui Yong smiled when he heard this: "Majapahit is rich in gold, if you want me to say, just go in and rob him of light." ”

Gao Yong laughed, if the civil officials of the imperial court heard our words, they would have to spray us to death with saliva.

The Ming Dynasty and the Heavenly Empire, how can they do such a thing.

(End of chapter)