If the trade routes are the blood vessels that transport wealth, then the East is the heart that pumps blood.

During the Song and Yuan dynasties, border management was quite lenient, and most of the goods could enter and exit freely. However, the Ming Dynasty seriously lacked the spirit of free trade, and when you bought something for him, you had to find ways to make him happy first, which was very difficult.

However, the most profitable goods are all from his family. Therefore, in order to earn money to live, I have to bow my head to others. These diplomatic measures are one of the measures. Everyone knows the importance of this matter.

However, the team is indeed lacking.

Although he looks stupid and big, Tuhuan is actually younger than Guo Kang, and he is 15 years old this year. It's not that you can't engage in diplomacy at this grade, but looking at him like that, he's not a good person.

As for the people around him, not to mention. Guo Kang even suspected that the most educated person in this house might be the little boy Constantine......

Looking for Guo Kang, it is estimated that it is also for this reason.

Although his father-in-law Guo Daxia has always been more ...... Pure, but his stepmother Huang is more famous.

The Huang clan was thriving, and when they migrated to Persia, they were already quite famous in the Ilkhanate. Later, when the Khanate collapsed, Mr. Huang led his people to escape the war and migrated to a small island in the Mediterranean.

The Huang family is known as the "Peach Blossom Stone Huang Family", and it is still named after it to commemorate the homeland. This island is also known as "Peach Blossom Island". The surrounding Persians and Greeks respected them, and scholars were impressed by the mention of the name.

It's a pity that although Guo Kang has also made up for a few years, the gap in cultural level is still relatively significant. His stepmother repeatedly tried to discipline him strictly, asking him to concentrate on his studies, but his stepfather persuaded him. The so-called book is hated less when it is used, and it is only at this critical time that he begins to wonder if his father-in-law is too doting on him.

"Who else did you ask for help?" He turned his head and asked Tuhuan.

"I also invited Sun Wenyuan, Sun Daguan." Tuohuan replied.

"Do you invite Sun 100,000?" Guo Kang was taken aback: "It's the other way around, can he help us deal with the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Guo Gongzi rest assured." Wang Da Lama said on the side: "Java Yuan is not a monolith, there are many doorways in their gang. This Sun Daguan, the old man can move him to help. ”

“…… All right. Guo Kang couldn't say anything.

Sun Daguanren, Mingyi, Ziwenyuan, claimed to be from the Dayuan court on the island of Java, and is a well-known maritime merchant today. Last year he came to Constantinople, negotiated several big deals with the Purple Horde, and visited various places along the Black Sea coast, and spent this time resting in the city.

Guo Kang had also chatted with him a few times before. According to his own introduction, his ancestor was a famous businessman in Suzhou when he was in the Yuan Dynasty, and later went to Yangzhou to do business. Soon, he accumulated a huge amount of family wealth, and the people of the time borrowed the ancient poem of "wrapping 100,000 yuan around his waist and riding a crane to Yangzhou", and gave his family the nickname of "Sun 100,000", which was extremely rich.

As the head of the family of this generation, business partners from the South Sea Islands to Egypt used to call him by this nickname, and this is how he came from.

Guo Kang also learned that in this world, when the Yuan army was on an expedition to Java, they successfully defeated the local leaders who planned to attack him, forcing the local princely states to surrender and gain a firm foothold.

By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Jiangnan was also in turmoil, and people from all walks of life were fighting endlessly, and most of the imperial courts were powerless. Many people chose to go to sea to escape and fled to the Nanyang region, where the Yuan Dynasty government still existed.

Later, Zhang Shicheng was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, and his supporters fled one after another, and there was another climax of going to sea. As one of Zhang Shicheng's big financiers, it was at this time that the Sun family was able to escape in time with the advantage of perennial shipping. After several tosses, he finally settled in the South Seas.

The Sun clan and other big merchants were rich enough to rival the country, and had their own thugs, families, and fleets. And in these years, maritime merchants, pirates and even navies are often interchangeable identities. With these strengths, they gathered together and claimed to still serve Emperor Shun as the main and use the name of the Great Yuan Kingdom. Because the important base is on the island of Java, it is also called "Java Yuan".

The relationship between the Javanese Yuan and the Ming Dynasty was quite bad.

Regardless of the fact that the Sun family has fought directly, many other wealthy businessmen and tycoons also feel the same way. The management of the Yuan Dynasty was lax, as long as you paid the money, don't rebel openly, the court was often too lazy to care, making their power quite huge. Like the Sun family himself, even if his hometown is lost, he can still dominate one side with the ships in his hand and the merchant inns and shipyards that the family has operated for a long time in Nanyang.

But the management of the Ming Dynasty was much stricter. Sun Shiwan pointed out that the government restricted the freedom of merchants and deprived them of their legitimate rights over servants. The court demanded excessively, competing with the people for profit all day long, and seized the wealth that the merchants had worked so hard to accumulate. After the founding of the country, it also restricted navigation, suppressed free trade, and wanted to monopolize the windfall profits of ocean trade.

Therefore, the big businessmen in Jiangnan all miss Dayuan. Insist on using the country name of the Yuan Dynasty because of this.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were still people who fled the country in pursuit of freedom. There were no escapers, and there were many people who secretly contacted them, helping to smuggle goods in peacetime, and reporting the news in wartime, hoping that the Great Yuan Heavenly Soldiers could fight back.

Sun Shiwan believes that this is the desire of the people, and it is also one of the sources of confidence that they are at a disadvantage in strength, but they still dare to confront the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the Liang King of the Yuan Dynasty in Yunnan was attacked by the Ming army and fled into Burma in defeat. The Tu King of Burma did not welcome the King of Liang, and the two sides fought all the way. Seeing an opportunity, the merchants extended an invitation to the exiled Liang forces, and the Yuan army marched southeast, passing through Siam into Champa and joining up with the Javanese merchants for supplies and support.

The Tran dynasty of Vietnam was also afraid of the Ming army, which had already pursued Burma, and decided to join forces with them. Under the mediation of everyone, the Siamese and Vietnamese armies, together with the Yuan army and the maritime merchants, repelled the pursuing Ming army.

However, the Ming Dynasty was like a leader, and it refused to admit defeat. Two years later, another Ming army invaded Vietnam from the north and fought as far as the national capital of Thang Long before being repulsed and driven away. After more than four years, several Ming troops came from Yunnan, Guangxi, and the sea, and the coalition forces were finally unable to resist this time.

Thang Long was captured by the Ming army, and King Liang committed suicide in defeat. The Tran dynasty in Vietnam was soon banned by the Ming dynasty, and the remnants of the defeated troops of the other princes continued to flee south. Sun and the others gathered a lot of people and horses, and escaped by boat again.

Fortunately, the Ming army really couldn't chase this time, giving them a moment to breathe.