Chapter 464: The Game
Abizhen is a talent, this is Chen Kan's previous opinion.
A person who has the courage to covet the treasure ship of the Ming Dynasty, you can't say that he is not a talent.
This time, if it weren't for the backlash of domestic forces that caught him off guard, I was afraid that Chen Kan would not be as easy as it is now if he wanted to break through Bolimbang.
And now, Chen Kan thinks that Abizhen is a genius, even a great talent.
The strategy of the Ming Dynasty to seize the world is very simple, what is implemented in Liaodong is to drive the wolf and devour the tiger, the grassland is to fight and divide, and the Nanyang is the big fish eat the small fish like raising Gu.
It's easy to say, and it's not hard to do.
But it's not hard to see through these things.
It's just because Da Ming plays the role of a referee.
The world's disputes and killings, theoretically speaking, can find the Ming Dynasty to call the shots.
In the whole of East Asia, or in the Chinese cultural circle, the role of the Central Plains as a judge can be said to have become a law.
Since the Han Dynasty first regarded itself as the main sect of the world, it has lasted for thousands of years.
The adjudicator himself has never happened in thousands of years.
Because the adjudicator himself is already the existence standing at the top of this world, and the only being.
Everyone defaults to the fact that the Ming Dynasty is the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and all other countries in the world are vassal states of the Ming Dynasty.
So no one would think in this direction at all.
And until now, Chen Kan's plan is still a secret, and it is not because of how clever his bureau is.
He just cleverly used the inherent thinking of the people in the world, just like no one thought that Sima Yi would break Luoshui's oath at the beginning.
After all, how can a father seek to rob his son's property?
And now, what the whole world didn't think of was partially thought of by Abi Town.
Although it is only a small part, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a great talent.
It is a very remarkable thing for a person to be able to think out of the box, not to mention that this person is just a Nanyang soil king.
And for those who have the ability, Chen Kan has always been very respectful.
So, he made an unexpected move.
He walked behind Abizhen and untied the rope that bound his hands.
"Come on, sit down!"
Untying the rope, Chen Kan returned to the main seat and sat down.
The personal soldiers around him have always treated Chen Kan's orders as holy decrees, so although they didn't look down on Abi Zhen, they still moved a wooden pier for him.
But Chen Kan's actions caused an uproar among a group of Sumatran aristocrats.
A group of old nobles would never have thought that their old lord could become the guest of honor of the Ming generals with just a few words.
Does that mean he still has the possibility of making a comeback?
How can they, the apostasys, stay alive?
Thinking of that terrible consequence, some of the elderly Sumatran nobles suddenly turned pale, and looked at Abizhen, who was standing in a stunned place, with a look of fear in their eyes.
And the most anxious among them is none other than Suridong.
Although it was a joint decision made by a group of nobles to abandon the old master and serve the Ming people, if Abi Zhen was allowed to survive, how could he, the initiator, have any good end?
I was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, but I didn't dare to show it on my face.
There is no way, the Ming army is not a domestic aristocrat, and if you don't respect the Ming army, you will really die on the spot.
How the old nobles of Sumatra were flustered did not affect Chen Kan's courtesy to Abi Town, and it was a pity to finally meet a great talent in Nanyang, so it would be a pity to kill him like this or take him back to Daming as a prisoner.
If he can be subdued, then his plan in Nanyang may be a few years faster.
Su Li Dongdong is a talent, but he does not have the qualifications of a hero.
Nanyang is too big, and without the qualifications of the hero, it is difficult to unify.
However, since it is Gu breeding, Chen Kan will not give up a certain one or support a certain one, and he must always let the Gu worms fight.
So while he courteously treated Abi Town, he did not forget to appease Su Li Dongdong.
"Lord Su, you and your sincerity have felt it, and the gift has also been accepted, and now that the dragons in the city are leaderless, Lord Su might as well go back first to appease the people in the city."
Su Li Dongdong was stunned for a moment, pointed to his nose, and glanced at Abi Zhen who was standing in place in surprise.
In the next second, his face showed ecstasy.
The three words of the Lord of the State of Su have already indicated everything.
"Yes, yes, thank you angel for reminding me, Xiao Wang will go back to the city to appease the people, and issue a royal order, my Sumatra country from now on, only the Ming Dynasty will be the head of the country, and the Ming Dynasty will guard the southern frontier forever, and the children and grandchildren will never rebel."
Su Li Dongdong knelt on the ground, made a five-body bow to Chen Kan, and hurriedly pulled a group of nobles out of the camp who had not yet reacted.
Chen Kan's words have been made very clear, and in the future, the Ming Dynasty will only recognize him as the lord of Sumatra.
Whether Abizhen is alive or not will not have any effect on him.
Moreover, Chen Kan's words have left him enough time to rectify all forces in the country, even if he wants to release Abizhen, it will definitely wait until he completely controls Sumatra.
If at that time, he can still be pulled off the horse by Abizhen, then he can only blame himself for his lack of ability.
The elation of Suri Dongdong contrasts sharply with the soulless Sumatran aristocracy.
But now he didn't have time to explain the reason to this group of stupid nobles, they were so afraid of Abi Town, let them be.
Chen Kan watched Su Li Dongdong and a group of native nobles go away, and then moved his gaze to Abi Zhen, who was still stunned.
"Sultan Rare Aid Abi Town."
Chen Kan called out Abizhen's full name.
Abizhen looked at his hands that could move freely a little blankly, and then looked at the wooden pier that Chen Kan's personal guards had moved for him, and he was even more confused.
One second he was still a prisoner, and the next second he became a guest, such a change, even if Abizhen was firm enough, it was a little difficult to accept.
"Sit down, Ben Shuai has no habit of standing and talking."
Chen Kan spoke again, and Abizhen struggled for a moment, but still sat down on the wooden pier.
Just without waiting for Chen Kan to ask, Abizhen asked: "You haven't answered my question just now, isn't Daming afraid that Nanyang will attack the Central Plains, others don't know, but I know that the land of Nanyang and the vast sea territory are not inferior to Daming, and you Ming people are not as strong as you imagined, right?" ”
Chen Kan did not choose to answer Abizhen's doubts, this is a meaningless question.
Abi Town may have a superhuman vision and is also familiar with the history of the Central Plains.
But he didn't understand what a firearm was.
At best, he was the bigger frog in the well.
Chen Kan admits that the area of the South China Sea is very large, and all the big islands combined, the area and population are no less than that of the Ming Dynasty.
But population and land size don't mean anything.
The two sides are no longer the existence of one dimension, even if they explain it themselves, Abizhen will not understand, let alone understand.
And Chen Kan's silence, looking in Abizhen's eyes, made him interpret a completely different meaning.
The ambition in his eyes flashed, Ah Bizhen sat up straight, looked directly at Chen Kan and asked, "What do you want to ask?" ”
Chen Kan got up with his hand, walked into the middle of the big tent, and said lightly: "As you can see, the land of the South Seas is a little too chaotic for the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty needs sea trade to bring endless wealth to the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty needs a strong spokesperson in the South Seas who is completely obedient to the orders of the Ming Dynasty." ”
Abizhen frowned and asked, "Didn't you already choose Suri Dongdong, why did you want to spare my life?" ”
Chen Kan turned around and said with a smile: "Do you think Su Li Dongdong can dominate the South Seas?" ”
"No, but now I am no longer the Lord of Sumatra."
Abizhen's tone was indifferent, and his eyes were full of strong hatred.
Of course, Chen Kan could feel Abizhen's mood changes, but he didn't take it to heart.
If he has no resentment against Daming, how can he become a pawn of Daming with peace of mind.
Chen Kan is willing to wait for him to unify the land of the South Seas and integrate enough forces to seek revenge on the Ming Dynasty.
Returning to the main seat and sitting down, Chen Kan stretched out three fingers and said indifferently: "I will give you three days, you can recruit people in the city, and after three days, I will give you a thousand sets of standard swords in the Ming army, and you can also take some of the Sumatran warships, you can take these things to any island in the South Seas to establish your country, whether you can kill Sumatra or not, it all depends on your ability." ”
As soon as Chen Kan's words fell, a light flashed in Abizhen's eyes.
"Is that true?"
"Of course!"
"Good!"
After receiving Chen Kan's assurance, Abizhen immediately got up and walked towards the outside of the tent.
He didn't want to delay a moment.
Even if he knew that this was just a small game of Akito, he didn't want to delay any time, because he knew very well that this would be his only chance to turn over in this life.
Seeing that Abi Town was moving so quickly, Chen Kan couldn't help but smile on his face.
"Zhang Dong, follow him!"
With a casual command, Chen Kan began to pretend to sleep.
Zhang Dong took the order and followed behind Abizhen with a team of Ming soldiers.
Their main purpose is to protect Abi Town from dying at the hands of Suridongdong, and it has nothing to do with them whether Abi Town can recruit people.
The re-entry of Abi into the city caused panic in Bolimbang to a certain extent.
Especially the old aristocrats who have just settled down.
However, when they learn that Abizhen is here to recruit men, not to reinstate them, panic turns to mockery.
The soldiers of the city, the people, the nobles, who do not hate him now.
If it weren't for his greed, how could he have recruited the Ming army?
He tried in vain to recruit men in the city and go with him to other places to erect another mountain, and the fool went with him.
As a result, the aristocratic methods in the city came together, resulting in Abi Town almost becoming a street rat that everyone shouted and beaten.
In such a situation, three days passed in a flash.
There were less than three hundred people willing to follow Abi out of Bolimbang.
And these three hundred people, many of them are spies planted by the nobles in the city.
At noon on the third day, Chen Kan inspected the 300 people who were willing to leave with Abi Town on the school field that had been temporarily opened up.
Three hundred, this number, is not so much a support for Abi Town, but an insult to him.
For Abi Town, which once controlled a large country with a population of one million households and tens of thousands of soldiers, when it came time to leave the country, only 300 people were willing to follow him, what a ridiculous result?
Sad, and sad.
Of course, this is someone else's opinion.
Chen Kan doesn't care, Abi Town takes away 300 people or 30,000 people, the result is the same for Chen Kan.
As the main master, Abi Zhen also has no expression.
As early as the time he entered the city, he was ready to leave Sumatra alone.
Now there are still 300 people with him, which is already a good result.
Population is not a hard thing to come by in the South Seas.
The rainforest is full of savages.
If you have materials and weapons, you will have a population, an army, and a country.
After Chen Kan fulfilled what he had promised three days ago, Abi Zhen quickly led his three hundred men into the forest.
He couldn't take the main road, because he wasn't sure if Suridongdong would arrange for someone to intercept him on the road.
And the first thing he did when he entered the rainforest was to use the swamps and poisonous insects in the rainforest to kill more than half of the three hundred people under his command with lightning speed.
Most of the people were those who had been planted by the old nobles and wanted his life.
The remaining people in their early 100s are the ones who are truly loyal to him and want to go with him to establish a kingdom elsewhere.
Chen Kan didn't put too much energy into Abizhen.
As Abizhen thought, all this, in Chen Kan's eyes, is similar to a game.
If the seed is planted, it is good to be able to germinate, but it is okay not to germinate.
Abizhen is indeed talented, but it doesn't mean that Chen Kan must pin all his hopes on him.
After all, Abi is only one insignificant part of it.
Chen Kan's real killer move was Zhu Di's holy decree and Zheng He's fleet.
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Time passed imperceptibly, and Chen Kan's army was stationed in front of Bolimbang City, and it was basically a crime for the people in the city.
On the contrary, in order to stabilize the situation, Suri Dongdong has to kill a large number of people every day.
And Chen Kan waited outside the city for half a month, and Zheng He finally led the sappers under his command to be late.
When the two of them meet, it is naturally inevitable to eat and drink nonsense.
Dou Xing handed over the treasure house of Bolimbang to the sappers under Zheng He, and he was finally able to go out of the city to breathe.
Chen Kan held a grand celebration banquet in the camp, and in the central commander's tent, all the generals of more than 1,000 households in the two fleets arrived.
As for the materials for the celebration banquet, they naturally came from the city of Bolimbang.
A trip to Nanyang looted the wealth accumulated by the two countries for a hundred years, and even razed the city of Malacca to the ground.
It can be said that all the strategic goals have been achieved.
And the battle damage of the Ming Dynasty is almost negligible.
In addition to dozens of unlucky people who died in the rainforest, there was zero battle damage on the battlefield.
Compared with the time when Chen Kan went to the grassland, this time the results were greater, the impact was deeper, and the battle damage was smaller, which is certainly worth celebrating.
The whole camp was plunged into a sea of joy.
Chen Kan was not afraid that Sumatra would launch a counterattack at this time, because the surrounding area of the camp had long been operated by her.
Countless mines were spread all over the outside of the city, and as long as Sumatra dared to come, Chen Kan would dare to blow them up into minced meat.
In the middle of the tent, Chen Kan and Zheng He sat opposite each other, their faces full of joy that could not be concealed.
The reason why the two are happy is also very simple.
It can be summed up in two words - make a fortune!
Yes, to get rich, or to make a fortune.
Zheng He's 8,000 sappers emptied the treasure house of Malacca City for half a month.
Zheng He only made a rough estimate and came to an astonishing conclusion.
The wealth of a Malacca city is worth three years of taxes in the Ming Dynasty.
At present, the annual financial income of the Ming Dynasty is about 30 million taels of silver, which means that the wealth accumulated in Malacca City alone exceeds 10,000 taels of silver.
And the wealth of Sumatra will only increase.
With so much wealth, all the clothes of the two fleets combined could not be brought back.
But it's not a big problem, for this kind of happy trouble, the two only hope that the more the better.
And it's not like there's no solution.
The ship is not enough to build ships, anyway, the number of sappers under Zheng He's command is enough, and the ships for transshipment of gold and silver do not need to be built much more beautifully.
The island of Sumatra is full of giant trees that several people hug together.
Just cut down the giant tree, hollow out the trunk, and fill it with gold and silver, and it is a treasure ship that transports gold and silver.
The weight is too heavy to float?
This is also difficult for the skilled craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, a piece of wood can not float, then make a raft, supplemented by a large number of animal skins to increase buoyancy.
As for how the raft can be rowed, this is simpler, and the treasure ship of the Ming Dynasty is the best power.
When it comes to transferring money, the Han Chinese have unparalleled creativity.
Besides, Chen Kan had already sent people to Daming to ask for help.
There are a total of nine treasure ships in the Ming Dynasty, and only six have come to Nanyang now, and when Chen Kan and Zheng He's side are done, the other three treasure ships should also be on the way.
Therefore, the two have reason to be happy, and they deserve to be happy.
During the banquet, Zheng He suddenly picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "In the past five hundred years, the person who can fight so far is the only one who can fight so far, and this cup will be honored by the Hou Ye." ”
Zheng He held a huge wine glass, and drank five taels of spirits in one gulp, which immediately attracted a round of applause.
Chen Kan was helpless, so he had to smile and lose a cup.
Then he shook his head and said: "The general is too much, Ben Hou has long heard that your ancestral home has been as far away as the black continent, and you have destroyed countless countries along the way, and my achievements are nothing compared to the general." ”
"This is a mistake, this is a mistake, those countries that will be destroyed are all small countries with a population of less than 10,000, and there is no comparison with Hou Ye's attack on the capitals of the two major Nanyang powers......"
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The rainbow farts of the two are so lively, and the group of generals in the field is even more lively.
They didn't dare to come to Zheng He and Chen Kan, the two coaches, to fight for wine, so Dou Xing, Song Qing, Tan Cong, and Wang En, the four deputy generals whose status was second only to Zheng He and Chen Kan, suffered.
Especially Song Qing.
The fact that Chen Kan's strategy was so perfect this time had nothing to do with the fact that he took 5,000 people deep into Sumatra.
Otherwise, the combined strength of Sumatra and Manraka would be enough for Chen Kan to drink a pot of artillery, no matter how sharp Chen Kan's cannons were.
Song Qing used 3,000 people and 2,000 Japanese cannon fodder to attract more than half of the troops of the two countries, and his own battle losses did not exceed 30%, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he used soldiers like gods.
Just this record, in the Ming Dynasty, few people can get it.
Therefore, Song Qing is like a rising star, and it is normal to be chased by a group of people to pour wine.
If there was anyone in the audience who was unhappy, it was only the military judge guarding the door of the big tent and a woman cowering in the corner.
The reason for the displeasure of the military judges is simple: drinking alcohol is a taboo in the army, especially when the war is not over.
It can be said that now the generals in the entire account have already violated military law.
It's a pity that no matter how unhappy they are, they can only hold back.
There is no way, the commander of this army is called Chen Kan.
You must know that Chen Kan became famous in Daming not because of Zhu Di's identity as a son-in-law, but because of his real ruthlessness.
You must know that Donghe Town, twenty miles away from Beijing, is still a place where ghosts are rampant.
No matter how hard the military judge's head is, he doesn't dare to provoke Chen Kan, a ruthless man.
The military law in Chen Kan's army is decoration, this is a tacit acquiescence in the entire Ming Dynasty, even Zhu Di will not hold Chen Kan accountable for this reason, and these military judges can only pretend to be deaf and dumb.
And another unhappy person is naturally Masako Matsu, the queen of the Japanese king, who survived by luck.
The 2,000 soldiers of the Wa Kingdom were used by Song Qing as a death squad.
It is said that the battle losses under Song Qing's command did not exceed 30%, but in fact, the battle losses were all soldiers of the Japanese State.
Two thousand people were stunned and were beaten by Song Qing and lost one thousand and five.
In the end, these five hundred people, it is estimated that Song Qing felt embarrassed, so he was able to survive.
Although Song Qing ransacked several satellite cities with his men, and all the loot was returned to Masako Gomatsu, but that little loot was not enough to make up for her battle damage, so she also had reason to be upset.
However, no one paid attention to her upset.
After the war was over, Masako Gomatsu had no use value.
Chen Kan is preparing to find an opportunity to annihilate this wave of Japanese people.
It's just that due to the public's attention, and Gomatsu Masako has already indicated the identity of the envoy, Chen Kan has not found a suitable opportunity to start.
The dishes have gone through three rounds, and the wine has passed five flavors.
Chen Kan coughed lightly twice, attracting everyone's attention to him.
The generals quieted down and sat back in their seats, ready to listen to Chen Kan's speech.
Since today's banquet is a celebration banquet, it is naturally not as simple as eating and drinking.
How to divide the battle merits, it is time to have a result.
Seeing that everyone was quiet, Chen Kan nodded with satisfaction, beckoned to the corner, and a scribe came out with a pen and paper in his hand.
"Ladies and gentlemen."
Chen Kan spoke softly, and a group of generals suddenly pricked up their ears, with a look of expectation on their faces.
The defeat of the capitals of two countries is enough for everyone to eat with a mouthful of oil.
Now it's time to divide the spoils, and they can't help but look forward to it.
"Calling everyone over today, in addition to celebrating, there is another important thing, that is, Ding Ding's first merit."
Chen Kan did not disappoint them, he did not sell anything, but hit the focus of their greatest attention.