The Tokugawa shogunate seized Uesugi and put him under house arrest, and the Uesugi family's fiefdom was seized, and the Uesugi family's retainers became slaves, but they did not pursue the crimes of the wall-rider daimyo in order to buy people's hearts.

Yonezawa is finished, whether he can leave the title depends on how the Tokugawa family operates, and maybe he will send one of his own people to be Yonezawa Daimyo in order to increase his strength.

No one in Wajima Kanto said that they were against the war anymore, and they followed the strong and the Tokugawa family to attack.

Kansai's strong fan didn't dare to make a mistake, and he was dormant for the time being, and he was obedient for a while.

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At the same time that Houjin was in Wajima, Daming went to the South Seas.

Sin Chew or Sing Island, also known as the Lion City, is separated from Indonesia by the Straits of Johor to the north and the Singapore Strait to the south, and adjacent to the southern mouth of the Straits of Malacca.

Of course, there were many small countries here at this time, and the place names were naturally different from those of later generations.

The reason why Wang Hongyu values this place is that it is the southern entrance of the Strait of Malacca, which is the main route of maritime communication between the East and the West. It has an important strategic position here.

There is also a reason that there are Chinese people in many surrounding island countries, which is the foothold of the Chinese on the southeast coast from the Southern Song Dynasty to make a living in the South Seas, and they have created great wealth with the diligence and wisdom of the Chinese.

Far away from the motherland, these Chinese people lived in a foreign land, and suffered oppression, exploitation, plundering and bloody suppression by local and Western powers, and were slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people at one time in later generations.

In order to counter the Western powers' containment of China's maritime trade, control the maritime trade routes from the source, so that the tragedy of the Chinese will not happen again. A year ago, Wang Hongyu built a small fishing village in the area in the form of a lease into a port, Sin Chew, also known as the Lion City.

This move was of great significance, and Wang Hongyu was certainly not satisfied with the form of lend-lease to help Portugal regain its colony in the South Seas from the Netherlands in the near future, and help Portugal recover from the rule of Acebanya.

In return and for the purpose of protecting these colonies, Portugal was to give a portion of the colonies to the Ming Dynasty. Wang Hongyu will establish a province or special zone in Nanyang.

The construction of Sin Chew Port has been going on for more than a year, and the port has been completed not long ago.

In order to protect the port, the Lion City was initially built from a small village into a Chinese-style fortress, which was not large at this time, and must have expanded around it in the future, and the scale was of course much larger than that of later generations.

The pattern of a country within a country is too small, and Wang Hongyu considered that in the future, he would turn this place into a part of the territory of Huaxia, at least the size of a medium-sized province.

Merchants found that in recent months a fleet of ships had traveled between Sin Chau and Guangxi, Hainan, and Guangdong. Most of them are armed merchant ships, and it has been heard that other ships at sea pay protection money to this fleet for their safety.

However, this fleet has a new term called "escort", as long as the merchant ships of China pay a certain fee appropriately, they will be protected by this fleet, and the merchant ships of other countries can also be "escorted" if they pay twice the protection fee.

It is said that pirates did not dare to plunder this fleet, even the Netherlands, which have risen to prominence in recent years, and it is said that this fleet also does business with pirates.

This fleet is mainly for business, and the "escort" is only incidental work. However, the merchant travelers slowly discovered that the fleet used Sin Chew as a base and began to build the Lion City.

Over the course of a few months, the Lion City was transformed into a strangely shaped castle, which was called a "fortress" by some Western merchants, and it is said that there are many "fortresses" in the West. Purely for defense, the Lion City's "Fortress" has a Chinese architectural style.

This polygonal castle has eight corners, each of which resembles a river tower, which is also octagonal. Each bastion is three-storey, and the shrinkage of one layer is smaller than that of the other, and the bastion is beautiful and generous, and has become a landmark building in Nanyang.

There are warehouses, shops, hotels and restaurants in the Lion City. There are also various styles of residences that can be bought for permanent living or rented temporarily. Many businessmen bought a courtyard house from the Lion City and transferred their assets to the Lion City.

There were also many pirates in Nanyang's commercial development, and the wealthy merchants did not dare to store their assets in the villages, because ordinary places were often patronized by pirates, and ordinary shops had to transport money and property away every day, otherwise the shops would become a cornucopia of thieves.

But the port of the Lion City

It is said that the cannons on the fort can hit more than ten miles away, and there are several modified big sand ships parked in the port, and the cannons installed on the ship have no longer a range than the cannons on the forts, and they can also hit 10 miles away.

This modification of the large sand boat has a large carrying capacity, and it has been converted from a flat-bottomed boat to a sharp-bottomed boat, which is much safer in the sea than before. The shipboard has more guns than the Western large warships, and for safety reasons, water panels have been added on both sides.

The water cloaks can not only protect the ship, but also hide troops in the back, and set up furlong cannons and various guns in it, which is convenient for attacking approaching enemy ships and eliminating enemies who try to board the ship.

On the walls of the Lion City and in the fortress, there are Furang cannons that can be turned, as well as Hongyi cannons with the same range as the forts, and the soldiers defending the city use bird guns, carrying guns, turtledove foot guns, and short-range and long-range fire guns.

This is the financial and material resources that a fleet can have, and there is no flag of any country, the captains and managers of this fleet are all Hermes-Epitek, there are sailors everywhere, and half of the guards are short Japanese people.

Many people are curious to ask who is the leader of the fleet? Being able to put on such a big battle is definitely not an idle person, it must be a well-known figure in Asia, but a few months have passed, and no one has seen the leader of the fleet.

This fleet was not the official fleet of the Ming Dynasty, because it was impossible for the official fleet of the Ming Dynasty to be escorted by Japanese people. But judging from the fact that the managers of the fleet and the Lion City are all Han Chinese, the leader must be a Han Chinese.

In order to deal with the Dutch navy and pirates, Wang Hongyu's arms expansion warfare was carried out secretly, especially the large dock where warships were built was strictly ***, and no one was allowed to approach the dock without Cai Fuyi's order.

Because Cai Fuyi received the order of Tianqi and Wang Hongyu, the preliminary results of shipbuilding were not leaked first, and the construction continued, and then suddenly attacked when the order was given.

No one expected that the fleet currently building Sin Chew would be the great pirate Liu Xiang. Of course, Liu Xiang definitely didn't have such a large financial resource to build Xingzhou's ports and armed merchant ships, and she didn't even have the money to build those cannons.

Those cannons were all built by Cai Fuyi's ordnance workshop in Guangdong, and as for the funds for the construction of the Lion City, Wang Hongyu asked the giant merchants in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to raise funds, and in the future, Liu Xiang's income in Xingzhou will be given to these merchants according to shares.

Although Liu Xiang has a lot of trade contacts with Ace Plate Duck and the Netherlands, she is now a member of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Hongyu's choice of Liu Xiang as the school color was carefully considered. Liu Xiang is actually a middleman between Ace Plate Duck and Portugal, and has economic ties with the newly rising Netherlands.

In addition, Liu Xiang is a native of South China and has been engaged in smuggling and piracy along the coast of Guangdong, and Liu Xiang is very familiar with Nanyang.