Chapter Eighty-Six: The Meeting of the Kings of the South Seas

Old Port.

No, the Old Port was already a name a long time ago. Now it's Newport.

King Zhou summoned the kings to join the alliance, and naturally it was also in Xingang.

It has been a long time since He Xi left Nanyang. But the plan left by He Xi has been influencing Nanyang.

The Old Port is one of the places with the deepest impact.

And now the Zhou Kingdom is the strongest among the Nanyang feudal states.

The reason is very simple, that is, the big cake that He Xi painted for King Zhou, that is, to control the river, bulldoze the land outside Xingang City, and turn the swamp into fertile land.

This is a tremendous achievement. After King Zhou became a vassal domain, he has been doing this thing.

Before the war between the north and the south, the king of Zhou, who had earned enough money in trade, did not keep it to himself, but threw it into the land. And these were all after the war between the north and the south, which gave the king of Zhou a very rich reward.

Without him, the grain that can be purchased by the Zhou State every year is as much as millions of stones. After all, it can be grown four times a year. As long as the manpower is available, it is not a problem how much food there is.

King Zhou's years of hard work paid off.

Although Nanyang is generally not short of grain, and Zhou Wang's grain is more for Beijing.

A lot of Beijing's grain is purchased from Nanyang.

Purchasing in Nanyang, it is naturally easy to purchase from Zhou Wang, which will reduce a lot of trouble. Because of the existence of Beijing's grain problem, Beijing has special preferential treatment for the purchase of grain when it sells to foreign countries.

In this way, when the goods in Beijing were in short supply, King Zhou was able to get goods from the north. When others can't get the goods from the north, things are scarce and expensive, so the benefits obtained by King Zhou are quite large.

But the biggest benefit of King Zhou is not this.

Although there is no shortage of Nanyang grain, there is no shortage of this one, and it depends on who it compares with. In this era, most of the people at the bottom are not enough to eat, even in Nanyang. Many of the so-called food shortages do not take into account the needs of this part of the population.

And the king of Zhou here has greatly increased grain production.

The biggest benefit is that it gathers a lot of people. Without him, food prices are low and the cost of living is low. And the people were glad to have children. After all, in these days, the people have always believed in having more children and more blessings. The reason why there are not so many children is not because of anything else. It's just that I can't afford it.

Moreover, the kings of Nanyang also brought the Central Plains medical skills over. Although Dr. Dai did not come, many of Dr. Dai's disciples were in Nanyang, and in the face of the plague in Nanyang, he used many means. There is even a school of medicine that is known as the School of Warm Diseases, which has expertise in tropical diseases.

During this period, because of the development of medical technology and the development of technology in all aspects, even if the war between the north and the south was a sea of corpses, on the whole, the population has increased at a high speed. In the Nanyang region, the population increase of Xingang is the highest in the whole Nanyang.

After the reduction of labor costs, Xingang replaced the Nanyang Governor's Office and became the center of Nanyang.

Xingang originally had a geographical advantage, and it was not much different from the Nanyang Governor's Mansion geographically across the sea. After Xingang became a trade center, Zhou Guo was able to collect more taxes, and some industries also took root in Zhou Guo.

Zhou Guo's strength is naturally improving step by step.

Even those who fled to Nanyang from the Central Plains, Japan, Goryeo and other places due to war or other factors. will also settle in Xingang, which will allow Zhou to have more foreign population.

In two or three years, the strength of the Zhou State became the crown of the kings of the South Seas.

In this era, there is more population, there is more strength, specifically in the Nanyang countries, that is, there are more Han people, or the Chinese population, which represents strength, and the foundation of the Zhou State is the best. After all, the old port was originally a gathering place for Han Chinese. Coupled with these advantages, it naturally has the status it has today.

The king of Zhou had this meeting to summon the kings.

The king of Zhou summoned the kings, in fact, to discuss the position of the war between the north and the south.

Before that, each king had his own problems.

Just because King Zhou has his own spare strength, King Zhou naturally wants to make a big noise. This is no longer the case.

The king of Chu finally ended the war against the two kings of Java.

This war did not end the division of the three kingdoms of Java. It's just that the king of Chu has gained an advantage on the battlefield, and the three parties have made an alliance again. The king of Chu took advantage of this war to transfer the internal contradictions. Many powerful vassals have been weakened a lot. And transfer the vassals of the heartland to the frontier.

Consolidated the position of the king of Chu.

And the county system began to be established in the direct territory of the king of Chu himself.

The king of Chu stabilized from the initial turmoil. This can be regarded as the possibility of interfering in the Central Plains. I didn't even think about it before.

However, the problem of the king of Chu is also very big.

The biggest problem is that there are two kings of Java and the East. They are always entangled with the state of Chu.

The Ming Dynasty's entry into the South Seas actually had a great impact on the South Seas.

Historically, this period of time was actually the era of Nanyang Huihua. The most populous country in the world is Indonesia. That is, Indonesia. And the transformation of this region from Hinduism to Hinduism began in this era.

And when He Xi came, this era was changed into the era when Confucianism was introduced to Nanyang.

The king of Chu is the biggest example.

Among the kings of the South Seas, Zhou Chu is strong. Without him, the strength of the King of Zhou is that the King of Zhou and the Nanyang Governor's Mansion face each other across the sea, which is the core area of the Ming Dynasty's rule in Nanyang, and the people around him dare not challenge. And the strength of the king of Chu was fought by himself.

The king of Chu only brought tens of thousands of soldiers over, the reason why he was able to do so. It is related to the ability of the Ming soldiers. After all, even the military ideological equipment of the King of Chu has reached the point of elimination on the battlefield of the Central Plains.

But there is no problem at all in fighting these barbarians.

However, the king of Chu did not rely only on force, and the king of Chu imitated the system of vassals established by the Zhou Dynasty, which perfectly adapted to the level of productivity in Nanyang. Under the system of the King of Chu, the nobles and officials who were originally subordinate to Java all defected to the King of Chu. Only then did the king of Chu establish a system to support tens of thousands of troops to fight, and only then did the king of Chu and the king of Java fight several times, and they all won a big victory.

Of course, the king of Chu also has his own problems, that is, in addition to the direct jurisdiction of the king of Chu, the king of Chu has other vassals in other places, each with his own ghosts, and even has repeated rebellions. But for the king of Chu, this is not a matter.

The king of Chu can handle it himself, and even the king of Chu has prepared a new plan, that is, Xia Jun Yimin, either to seal the generals who followed him to Nanyang as princes, or let these princes speak Han and marry Han women to claim to be Han people.

Otherwise, those princes who believed in Hinduism could believe in Buddhism. After all, Hinduism has deep roots in Buddhism. And Java also has a certain Buddhist tradition. And the princes who return to *** must also believe in the Hui *** that has been passed down from China.

Otherwise, they will be disposed of.

Of course, it's slow work.

The king of Chu didn't think about it in one step, but he didn't want to hide it either, it was a conspirator. The nobles below experienced it themselves, and these princes also understood it, so many Confucian scholars who were sent to Nanyang by He Xi became Xiangwowo. Even many princes wanted to marry their daughters to these Confucian scholars and make them their advisors. There was even a Confucian who became the heir after being married to a nobleman.

Directly became a nobleman.

There is a fiefdom.

The king of Chu is also happy to see this.

After all, it was easier for the king of Chu to understand each other when dealing with Confucianism, and it was not easy to cause strategic miscalculations.

In the same situation, how could the king of the east and the king of the west not learn.

As a result, both the Eastern and Western kings began to study Confucianism. Or sinicization. They began to give themselves Han names, and established a state system of the Zhou system, and after re-straightening out the relationship between the upper and lower levels, the combat effectiveness of the two kings of the east and west did not improve significantly, but there was a lot of unity internally.

Don't underestimate the Confucian order. Don't go too far. The mere question of why Java was divided into East and West was soon the result of the collapse of the internal order. If at that time they practiced Confucianism, then they

If there is a fierce internal strife, it will not fall apart into two countries, so that He Xi has an opportunity.

After Java suffered a big loss, its acceptance of Sinology was quite high. Even many Japanese fled to Nanyang because of Japan's demise, and because they knew Chinese, they were invited to various places and treated as guests.

In short, anyone who understands the knowledge of the Han Chinese is very valuable.

He Xi's doctrine was the most widely spread in the South Seas.

Not for anything else. It was because Java was beaten the most by He Xi. That's why I'm more and more convinced.

Therefore, in addition to Beijing and Liaodong, the whole Nanyang is also a prominent school.

In such a situation, the strength of East and West Java is stronger day by day, which is the reason why the king of Chu is already very powerful, but he can't destroy the two countries for a while, they are no longer what they used to be.

And the situation of Chu is also a microcosm of the Nanyang vassal states.

In the past three years since the start of the war, the north and the south have been at war, the trade routes have been cut off, and the natives have fought back, but with the opening of the trade route with Beijing again, the goods of Tianliang have come to Nanyang again, and all the previous situations have been calmed down one by one.

Although some vassal states behaved very strained in this wave of war. However, on the whole, there was no loss of the capital.

The reason is also very simple. The Nanyang Governor's Mansion is here, and Lu Zhongheng, as a veteran, will press the Lu family to Nanyang, how can he allow such a situation to occur, once the situation below is urgent, Lu Zhongheng will either personally lead the team, or call on nearby princes to support.

The wars in various places have been pacified.

Now, as far as Nanyang as a whole is concerned, they actually have the ability to send tens of thousands of troops to intervene in the war in the Central Plains.

It's just that the kings of Nanyang have communicated before they came, and all sides have different opinions, and no one can convince each other, so there is this conference, and everyone has something to communicate face-to-face.