Chapter 46: First Contact

Everything Chen Zuyi wants, Liang Daoming has become the biggest obstacle.

Without him, although the Han people have been in Nanyang for a long time. Even from the Tang and Song dynasties, especially after the death of the Song Dynasty, a large number of Song people were exiled to Nanyang, and some people even said that the name Luzon originally meant to travel to the Song Dynasty. It's just that I have to admit that the Han people are still weak in Nanyang.

On the one hand, the Han people were not concentrated in one place, but scattered throughout the South Seas. As far as Nanyang as a whole is concerned, the number of Han Chinese is not small. But a closer look at each place shows that the number of Han Chinese is small.

And the Han Chinese will be integrated into the local regime. After a few generations, it is very likely that they will change their names and surnames, and they will no longer see themselves as Han Chinese. There are naturally families that insist on their Han blood. But the vast majority of ordinary people don't have so much persistence. Moreover, the Han people generally brought advanced technology from the Central Plains with them when they went south. It has been wooed by the countries of the South Seas. If you marry with the local aborigines and change your name, even when you just start, you just call this name outside, and when you go home, you still call yourself by your Han name. It's not something unacceptable. But after a few generations, it's hard to say.

This also makes Chen Zuyi's basic plate not the old Han people in Nanyang, but a large number of Han people who are difficult to escape when they communicate in the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

And many of these Han people are in the hands of Liang Daoming.

In this regard, Muslims are completely different from the Han people, and the time period when Muslims entered Nanyang is not much different from the time period when Han people entered Nanyang. However, many Indo-Duc countries in Nanyang have now been transformed into Muslim countries. It has become the basic plate of Islam.

And did not follow the customs of the locals like the Han people.

became a sitting tiger in the South Seas, not a guest.

Chen Zuyi's idea of building a country overseas was not necessarily influenced by these Muslim countries.

If nothing else, if you look closely at the process of the establishment of Islam, at the very beginning, the Arab maritime merchants joined the internal strife of the South Seas as a force, what coups, invasions and so on. The means are by no means clean.

Chen Zuyi naturally felt that he could do it himself.

He couldn't go back anyway.

But that's for later.

Chen Zuyi's lofty ideals are one thing, but practical problems are another.

Unlike the Central Plains Dynasty, maritime trade was an important part of his domestic economy. This is determined by their geographical conditions. This kind of maritime trade is not only the trade between the East and the West, but also within the countries of the South Seas.

Chen Zuyi wants to gain a foothold in the South Seas, and the maritime trade must not be lost.

It can even be said that it is easy to find a piece of land in the South Seas. After all, although today's Nanyang is not vast and sparsely populated, it is based on a decentralized city-state system. Most of them are centered on a few core city-states, so that the more distant city-states are called ministers and tributes. A large central local dynasty was formed. But in essence, it is similar to the situation in the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods of the Central Plains. Many countries looked great in their heyday. However, once it fails, it can easily fall apart. The central city of the new dynasty is completely different from the old dynasty.

Because of this loose control.

Chen Zuyi has tens of thousands of horses, and it is very easy to find a place to stay. The South Seas have a hot climate and are well adapted to food production. It's easy to support yourself, but if you want to become bigger and stronger, you have to run trade.

Therefore, he actually knew that the news passed through the Dai family this time was risky. But Chen Zuyi's nature couldn't let him miss this opportunity, he originally wanted to find Liang Daoming to share this risk. But the shaft is not enough and conspiracy. Then he had to come on his own.

So, he sent his own brothers and brought a few ships north to Jingjiang.

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Chen Zuxiao, as one of Chen Zuyi's most trusted, is also responsible this time. However, for the sake of insurance and worried about the Ming court, what traps, traps and other means were used, he only brought a ship and brought some goods from the South Seas, such as spices, precious stones, agate, ivory and other goods.

All of them are light in weight and high in price.

It also avoided the sea area where the Daming Sailor had been haunted for a long time. Only then did it quietly enter Taiwan.

And because of Taiwan's special situation, when this ship appeared in Taiwan through a narrow waterway, Jingjiang Domain knew about it at once.

He Xi wanted to see it for himself. But he was persuaded by Yao Guangxiao.

On the one hand, he is the son of a daughter, and he can't sit down. What are pirates? It is not an exaggeration to say that the knife head licks blood. He Xi personally received it, in case one of them couldn't get along. Or there is some other misunderstanding that causes a fire and what to do?

On the other hand, Yao Guangxiao is also worried.

Worried about the safety of Xinjingjiang.

Now, although Penghu has garrisoned troops. But because all the people of Penghu moved inward, Penghu was almost an uninhabited island. The consumption of maintaining the army on Penghu is very large. Therefore, in the end, the Fujian Metropolitan Division, after weighing the pros and cons, first put a hundred households and establish a hundred households. And let the people of that year go back if they want to go back. Gather people slowly. It was then formed and upgraded to a thousand households, or Penghu Wei.

He Xi estimated that this kind of construction will be slower than the construction here in Xinjingjiang.

Without him, King Jingjiang is a vassal king in the end. The cost of his construction was directly allocated by the central government. Fujian and Zhejiang provinces are only burdened. However, the local government will be responsible for the funds for the construction of Penghuwei. This fee may not be so pleasant.

The speed of giving money directly affects the progress of construction.

For a long time, the military strength of the Penghu side was negligible.

The main force of the new Jingjiang defense is the three guards of the king of Jingjiang, with a total of more than 10,000 people. But these more than 10,000 people are actually almost all school-age men in Xinjingjiang.

From this point of view. Xinjingjiang's strength is not strong compared with Chen Zuyi.

Moreover, Jingjiang City is still under construction. The walls were merely ravines, and their defensive power was limited. If Chen Zuyi comes to the nest, it is still unknown whether this side can stop it.

You can't have the heart to harm others, but you can't have the heart to prevent people.

In this case, He Xi can't be careless. You should be in the rear, ready to deal with the unexpected.

At least the maritime order of this era is close to disorder, and the degree of trust in the transactions between the two sides is not much higher than that of the underworld in later generations.

He Xi listened to Yao Guangxiao's suggestion and felt that it was very reasonable. I can only explain my meaning to Dai Mingshi and Iman.

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The two of them were very nervous about each other when they docked with Chen Zuxiao.

The good thing is that the deal is easy to close. Both parties are bartering, it should be the first transaction, and neither side knows the other party's bottom line. And there is a high premium for the goods on both sides. For example, pepper, although the pepper of the Ming Dynasty cannot be said to be more expensive than gold, it is also a first-class high-end product, and it cannot be used by non-dignitaries. I can't afford it. But in many places in the South Seas, the price of pepper is just like that. After all, the biggest impact of Zheng He's trip to the West was that a large amount of pepper poured into China, and the luxury goods, which were originally high, suddenly poured into the homes of ordinary people.

Since then, the people of the Ming Dynasty have the freedom of pepper.

This can show what the price of pepper is in the South Seas.

In the same way, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the trade routes were not smooth. Ming luxury, porcelain, silk, and so on. In the South Seas, it is the West, and many places are in short supply. The price has also soared very high, multiplying several times.

Iman is the richest man in Jinling, and at the same time, this Jinghai firm has shares in the royal family. In this context, even the official kiln of Jingdezhen can be made, you know, Chinese porcelain takeaway, there is even a special term called takeaway porcelain, although according to the requirements of Islam and Christianity, customized services are provided. But their skills, not to mention with the official kiln. It's a lot worse than the top folk kilns.

Otherwise, there would be no Annamite people who burn porcelain and call themselves Chinese porcelain. Westerners can't tell the difference.

After a transaction, both sides made a lot of money, and once felt that the other party was wronged. However, it was not long before he reacted. Both parties are long-term business people, and they are very shrewd, and they naturally know that it is not the other party who is wronged. But even at such a price, both sides still have to earn, and they make a lot of money.