Chapter 133: The Alliance of the Three Jewels
Chapter 133: The Alliance of the Three Jewels
Under the bonfires, the voices were everywhere.
The coconut king is no longer chic as before. He was carrying a Ming goose wing knife, covered in blood. Walking among the wounded, his expression was blank, and there was only one thought in his heart, and he said secretly: "This battle can't be fought anymore." ”
The sacrifice of the Coconut King's headquarters allowed this army to pass the most severe moment. It's valuable.
But many things cannot be measured in terms of value.
It's not who gets the most credit and who gets the most.
It's about who is the strongest and who gets the most.
The Coconut King has a deep sense of crisis at the moment, the Coconut King's headquarters is only tens of thousands, and he suffered a lot of losses in the Battle of the Old Port, and then some losses in the Battle of Coconut City. Today, too, it has lost a lot. At the moment, the army is still in the tens of thousands. But the Coconut King feels that the proportion of his own people has been reduced to a very dangerous point.
You must know that a considerable part of this army was recruited by the Coconut King to surrender and rebel. The coconut king's trust in these people is very low.
Even the Coconut King doubted that he had obviously arranged a strict sentry, why the Majapahit army could suddenly appear outside the camp, and he was worried that someone was secretly communicating with the Manjapahit Boyi, so there was the current situation.
Thinking of this, the coconut king could only sigh.
Even if he guessed, he didn't look it up.
Because the Majapahit Empire unified Java for nearly a hundred years, condensing the whole of Java into one. There was a lot of contact between the nobility in various places. It was normal to have dealings with nobles from all over the world. And the current situation can't be checked by him.
"It's time to talk." The Coconut King couldn't help but think.
It was at this time. The people below suddenly came to report that He Xi was coming.
The coconut king's face changed slightly, and he couldn't help but say, "What a coincidence." ”
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The coconut king can only meet He Xi under a pagoda. Without him, there would not have been a single intact tent in the entire battlefield.
He Xi came all the way, and he also stepped on blood.
The corpse can be dragged away, but the ground simply has no time to be cleaned.
He Xi saw the coconut king and said: "I didn't expect that King Wulu would do this, originally, King Wulu asked me to preside over the peace meeting, but now it seems that he is not sincere in his intentions, this is my mistake." I wanted to turn around and leave. But when you come here, you always have to meet the king. ”
The coconut king didn't believe a word about He Xi's words. He even suspected that He Xi had a secret communication with the east. However, as an outstanding statesman, he would never show his feelings on this occasion. Because he also wants to negotiate.
The coconut king said: "Lord He doesn't know, if there is no battle today, I estimate that Your Majesty's negotiation heart is fake, but with today's battle, the negotiation heart is real." ”
Although the Coconut King has rebelled and become the new King of the Coconut Kingdom. But he was still accustomed to calling King Wulu His Majesty.
He Xi pretended not to know or understand, and said, "Why is this?" ”
The coconut king said: "As long as Your Majesty can destroy me, he will never talk to me more." But now he can't destroy me. will admit reality. The previous peace talks may have been fake, but the current one is real. ”
He Xi said: "Then you mean to talk?" ”
The coconut king said, "Talk." ”
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Both sides are interested in negotiating. But in reality there is still some distance from negotiations. Finally, we finally negotiated in the Three Treasures.
The three treasures are He Xi's name for Semarang.
The reason why Semarang has a "ridge" is that there are a group of people who died in the line of duty who went to the West to bury here. Not anymore. Although this trip to Java was not without casualties. But He Xi asked, and almost everyone chose the plan to bring the ashes back to their hometown after cremation. I don't want to be buried in a foreign country and be a ghost in a foreign land.
And the Three Jewels, not only the Three Jewels eunuchs, Buddhism has the Three Jewels, and Taoism also has the Three Jewels. It's also a good name.
The reason for negotiating in Sambo is that both sides do not want to negotiate on each other's turf. So negotiate on the territory of the Ming people.
Yes, before the negotiations, the two sides unanimously decided that the place of Sanbao belonged to the Ming Dynasty.
No matter how they talked, He Xi was not in vain in Java.
The same promised to the Ming Dynasty, there was also a tribute to Beijing, and the Ming merchant ships had the right to dock anywhere in the two countries, as well as the right to operate spices, and a large sum of money. Wait a minute.
And in this negotiation, He Xi doesn't have to get too involved.
What He Xi needs to ensure is the division of Java, and under this premise, there is no need to worry too much about the details. On the contrary, the fairer He Xi behaved, the more he appeared to be fair.
The people who come to negotiate are the kings of the east and the kings of the west.
The two of them can be regarded as old friends, but now that they meet each other, what kind of feelings they feel in their hearts is difficult for outsiders to understand.
After a month of negotiations, this matter was finally settled.
Specifically, the demarcation of the border between the two sides will be discussed. Not only in the demarcation of the border within the island of Java, but also in the distribution of subject countries. Of course, this is a nominal distribution. After all, now that Java's long-term division has become a foregone conclusion, no one knows how long Java's power on the outer islands will be able to surrender to Java.
In the end, the three parties signed the Three Jewels Alliance.
As an intermediary, Daming said that the content of the treaty would be guaranteed in the future, and who would violate the treaty in the future. In the future, the Ming Dynasty will cooperate with the other side and attack it together.
This is what He Xi wants most.
In fact, everyone knows that this is just an armistice.
Coconut King needs time to straighten out the content and establish a real coconut country system. And the Majapahit dynasty also needed time to rectify the interior. Alleviate the opposition to the East King. Determine the throne of the East King, and so on. It is more important to reorganize the troops and prepare for a counteroffensive.
Now this situation, whether in terms of territory or strength, is strong in the east and weak in the west.
In fact, He Xi also has some confusion in his heart. Dongwang was a little too soft in negotiations.
However, in this all it is done.
He Xi transferred Shi Jinqing back from the old port. Become the Lord of the Three Treasures. Although now it is just a big rural village. But it needs to be left behind. And here is too far from the old port, and even farther from Daming. The officials from the Ming Dynasty even set off the old port, let alone here.
As a result, the original people of the old port could only be promoted.
This matter fell on Shi Jinqing's head.
When He Xi was about to return to the old port with the sailor, He Xi suddenly heard a message. His heart moved, and the doubts in his heart were quickly solved in an instant.
That is, King Wulu is dead. The king of the East became the fifth king of Majapahit and took over a ruined country.
In an instant, He Xi understood everything.
King Wulu is about to die, and this is the biggest problem and insecurity of Majapahit. It is also one of the reasons why Dongwang retreated step by step at the negotiating table.
For the king of the east, the most important thing is to sit firmly on the throne of the king of Majapahit. As for what was lost, it will be taken back.
He Xi was not too happy with this news.
He Xiyue knew more about King Wulu. The more he felt that he was a legend, he ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, hibernate under the ministers for several years, and finally regained power, integrated internally, expanded externally, and developed the Majapahit Dynasty to its strongest moment. But in his later years, he encountered such an opportunity. reminded He Xi of Tang Xuanzong.
More importantly, the tragedy of this later life, although it was not directed by He Xi. But He Xi added a fire to it after all.
Now that I think about it, there is something wrong with it in my heart.
He Xi is not ashamed, after all, the hero of the enemy, my enemy. Although King Wulu is a person, in the general righteousness of the country, He Xi will naturally not waver at all. And what really made King Wulu unbearable was not only the defeat of the army, but also the tragic death of his daughter, which had little to do with the Ming Dynasty.
It's just that He Xi couldn't help but think of himself and Zhu Yuanzhang. I only feel that life is in the world, even when I was young, I dominated the world, but there are also heroes who are twilight.
He Xi lamented not the tragedy of King Wulu alone, but the tragedy of all heroes in the world.
When heaven and earth borrow together, the heroes are not free.
He Xi is happy today, and when he reaches the twilight of his old age, he doesn't know whether he is better than King Wulu or worse than King Wulu.
However, this emotion was only for a while, and then He Xi secretly felt in his heart that it was time to go back.
Not to go back to the old port, but back to Daming, back to Nanjing.
Thinking of seeing his wife and son soon, He Xi's heart warmed.