Since Chen Zuyi's military training in July, although he has ruled the pirates of the entire South Seas, his ambitions have swelled more and more. He needed a territory, and neither Lombok nor Johor could meet his needs. The first is that Lombok is too small, and even if the entire Natuna Islands were to be taken away, the territory would still be too small, plus the population is sparse. He can't be a pirate leader for the rest of his life!

The most important thing is that in July of the third year of Yongle (1405), Zheng He will arrive here with a huge fleet, and this famous eunuch will take this place into the territory of the Ming Dynasty! Zheng He led 27,000 troops to the West for the first time. Although he is not afraid of him now, the cost of angering the entire Ming Empire will be huge. So it's better to avoid its edge.

Johor is sandwiched between the Kingdom of Pahang to the north and the Kingdom of Temasek (Manchuka) to the south, although it is also possible to conquer them. But how many soldiers can Johor be able to recruit alone? Now, after they have recruited new soldiers, the lack of young and strong labor has caused a lot of impact. For example, the farmland is full of old men and old women, and there is a serious shortage of young and strong laborers in the workshops and docks in the city, so the boss can only hire some strong women to work.

Now the people of Johor are sad and happy, they are not short of jobs, but there is a shortage of manpower. In other places, the big girls and little daughters-in-law all spin and weave at home, and all the people in Johor have come out to work in the workshops, which is really to treat women as men!

And Ben Kieran. Apu. The status of Prince Manajaka was just right, and Chen Zuyi was able to use the convenience of the Bo Ni Kingdom to develop his army and power. Many of those rumors in the capital of Boni were let out by him, in order to improve his reputation. Don't underestimate prestige, it may not have much effect in normal times, but it has unexpected effects at critical moments.

In January of the 31st year of Hongwu (January 1398), Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, began to linger on the bed, and he had long lost the momentum of swallowing mountains and rivers. But what Emperor Zhu does has nothing to do with us.

Let's say that Chen Zuyi runs to the top of the mountain almost every day, rain or shine. The people around him didn't notice that his temperament was quietly changing. If Lin Xian was far away in Mersing, or Chen Mancang in Zhiliang City, they would be surprised to see Chen Zuyi at this moment. Because Chen Zuyi's original reckless atmosphere gradually disappeared, it was replaced by a noble and elegant temperament that seemed to be born.

Why does Chen Zuyi run to the top of the mountain every day? is to imitate Ben Kiran's movements, and if you imitate more, you will naturally make the same movements as Ben Kilan, and your temperament will become similar. He also asked Ben Kiran to keep recounting his past since he could remember, especially some of the things that had a great impact on him, and he had to keep them in his heart.

If you want to pretend to be a person, and have the same temperament as that person in your bones, you also have to remember what he has experienced before, only in this way can you deceive everyone with the greatest chance of deceiving him until he is deceived into the grave!

When the day of the last test results came, Chen Zuyi asked people to call a few people close to Songhai. He sat with Benkiran at a stone table at the top of the hill, dressed in identical clothes, and spoke softly in Malay while drinking tea. The lingua franca here in Nanyang is Malay, and most people can understand part of Chinese. During the Ming Dynasty, more than 10 percent of the Han people lived in Nanyang, so Chinese was second only to Malay.

When Songhai, Hu Sanwa, and Zhao Changle, who came from Swallowing Moon Island, were talking and laughing to the top of the mountain, the three of them naturally came to the stone table and were about to salute. The three of them were stunned for a moment, and when they saw the two identical bosses, they all looked at the three of them with a smile.

"Boss?! Which of you is the boss? Hu Sanwa was still in such a hurry, and couldn't help but watch carefully, as if looking at something strange, and kept circling around the two.

"Who can tell today and invite him to drink at night!" Two identical people spoke, in Malay, and the voice was very special, with a sense of nobility that was born with it.

"Be careful, if you guess wrong, you will punish him for cleaning the barracks for one day!" At this time, the other also spoke in Malay, and the voice was exactly the same.

"That's... Then let's discuss it and guess again, please give me some time! After speaking, Song Hai stared at the two intently.

The two of them nodded at the same time, and their movements were very natural and smooth. Songhai was like a balloon that had been punctured, "I have no choice, what about the two of you?" ”

"Don't worry! With my Hu Sanwa here, you just lie down and win! Hu Sanwa said confidently, and after speaking, she circled around the two of them, and her eyes kept turning. When he turned to the two of them and began to get impatient, he suddenly let out a loud cry and looked down the mountain.

"Not good! Look, the Hall of Righteousness is on fire! After saying that, he immediately looked back at the reaction of the two.

One of them moved his neck imperceptibly, and then laughed with the boss next to him. It's amazing, Chen Zuyi's tone of voice was not the same as that of the eldest prince before, but now it is the same tone as hell.

"You! You're the boss! Hu Sanwa pointed to the old man whose neck moved slightly and said loudly.

"Are you sure?" The accused boss asked playfully.

"Sure!" Hu Sanwa confirmed loudly that he could feel the slightest difference between the two. Maybe it's his talent, although he loves to play tricks, but his observation and intuition have always been accurate, and he has never made a mistake!

"What about you?" The other boss looked at the other two with a playful smile in his eyes.

"Choose you, I think you're our boss!" Zhao Changle said, he observed the look in his eyes and felt that this was the real boss.

"I choose with the third baby, Changle, you have to believe the eyes of the third baby, his eyes are poisonous!" Songhai chose to believe Hu Sanwa without hesitation.

"Now that you've all chosen, let's see what's right and what's wrong!" This time it was the boss who had been chosen by Hu Sanwa and Songhai, and he spoke in Chinese, and his voice changed back to that familiar tone. This skill of changing voice is the result of Chen Zuyi's hard work for half a year, and he found that his ventriloquist talent value was very high!

"I don't believe it, let him speak in Chinese!" Zhao Changle has been staying with the craftsmen for a long time, and he has also been contaminated with the upright temper of some craftsmen.

"Zhao... Zhao... Hall Master, mud consumption ...... "Although Ben Kilan can understand Chinese, he really can't speak well, speaking Chinese is like an ordinary foreigner speaking Chinese, his voice seems to be unable to grasp the tone when he speaks, and it sounds strange and intonal.

When Zhao Changle heard Ben Kilan's strange Chinese, he gave up.

"Sanwa, if I hadn't moved my neck slightly just now, would you still be able to tell us?"

"Yes!" Hu Sanwa said confidently: "Although the boss and the eldest prince have exactly the same movement habits, and the speed and tone of speech are the same, there are still very subtle differences in your voice and movements. This difference may not be noticed, but I can see it! ”

"Oh? How did I not know you still have this ability?! Chen Zuyi was very curious.

"When I was a child, I discovered that I had this ability, but it was of little use!" Hu Sanwa didn't care about wiping her nose, so she sat on the stool by the stone table indifferently, poured herself a cup of tea, and drank it leisurely.

"Boss, you asked us to come up, didn't you just want to play tricks on us?!" Song Hai asked puzzled, he was still busy training recruits, and he had recently recruited twenty battalions of recruits. All of them were recruited from all over Nanyang, and some of them were low-ranking officers from the original country.

The Black Shark Gang now has seventy-four new battalions, and the old battalions are still twenty-two, with a total of 57,600 men, all of which are combatable soldiers. There is also a specialized cavalry corps in Johor, which currently has only ten battalions of six thousand men. There is no way, there are too few war horses, and you can only wait to get war horses to continue to increase the number of cavalry.

"Of course not, I just want to test the results of this half year, and now I am relieved. If you can't tell the difference, people who don't know it can't tell the difference! I'm ready to plan for the next step! Chen Zuyi said with a smile.

"Boss, are you going to Boni Country? Take me with you, I have good eyesight, and I might be able to do something great for you! Hu Sanwa said flatteringly, and he was the only one among the three who could pull down his face and speak like this. Songhai and Zhao Changle are both more upright, Chen Zuyi is whatever he says, and they will be meticulous to complete it.

"If you go along, you won't be able to be the battalion commander, you think about it!" Chen Zuyi thought about it, there really needs to be such a person by his side, maybe he can resolve a lot of trouble.

"As long as you can follow the boss, if you don't do it, you can't do it! I am willing to only be a guard for the boss! Hu Sanwa said with a smile.

"Boss, my old Sang is a personal guard, if you want to be a guard, I have to be!" Songhai suddenly interjected.

"Well, the three of you go back first, Ben and I still have something to say!" Chen Zuyi drove the three of them down the mountain, and only Li Yuanliang stood silently beside him. Everyone even ignored his existence, only when he was needed the most, he would stand up in front of the person who wanted to protect people, he was the most professional guard!

In February 1398, the 31st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the harbor wharf outside the city of Brunei, the capital of Boni State. At this time, the dock was already crowded, because the people of the city had heard that the eldest prince Ben Kiran had returned. After disappearing for a year and two months, he suddenly returned to the capital, which not only made the people feel curious, but also made some people in Boni very puzzled.

The eldest prince led the battalion officers who had originally sent him with him, including Pexin, Datu, and Haja, with his escorts, a total of 100 people. Ride on the boat and take off the steed, and head towards the Bo Ni Palace.

Their horse speed is not fast, followed by a lot of people pointing fingers, they have been ravaged by rumors for more than half a year, and the storyteller of the teahouse and wine shop continues to tell different versions of the adventures of the eldest prince vividly, which makes the image of the eldest prince firmly rooted in the hearts of the people.

When he arrived at the palace, the eldest prince Benkiran shook the reins hard, and then relaxed. Dismounted and threw the waist card on his body to the general of the Praetorian Guard guarding the door, this benevolent brother had a slanted scar on his face, "I have come to report to my father, and I hope that General Li will give you a good look!" ”

"Your Highness, wait a minute, the last general will go to your majesty!" The general of the Praetorian Guard surnamed Li and Pei Xin nodded and walked quickly towards the palace.

Benkiran's horses were taken by one of the Praetorian guards guarding the gate and tied to a stone stake not far from the door, which was specially used for tethering horses. About a quarter of an hour later, General Li returned to the palace gate a little breathlessly, "Your Majesty has an order, Prince Xuan is here!" ”