"Woo-woo-"

After a long absence, with the sound of the horn again, the place where it came out was still above the blue sea.

The difference is that this time the horn was answered.

"Woo-woo-"

On the coastline, a seemingly newly built harbor city appeared before the fleet's eyes.

It is located at the southern end of a long serpentine island, near the mouth of a river, and at the northern end of the island, it has a similar landform.

"Guogong and Zhengzhi, this is our advance team camp, and the local people call this place Haimen (Carmen City), so we call this place Haimen City."

On the deck, Yu Yu, the advance team returning to Daming, explained to Zheng He and others, and at the same time, they also saw the situation in Haimen City with binoculars.

It is said to be a city, but in fact it is a simple water village, which is very simple, with only a dozen or so ship spaces.

"Can you enter the treasure ship?"

Yang Zhan turned his head sideways and asked Yu Yan, but Yu Yan shook his head and said: "A treasure ship that can only enter five thousand materials, and a treasure ship that can only accommodate six thousand materials." ”

After receiving the response, Yang Zhan immediately ordered the fleet to anchor at sea, and at the same time gathered daily necessities from each ship on three horse boats, and sailed to Haimen City with Zheng He in horse boats.

Not long after, when they appeared on the shore, there were already hundreds of Ming soldiers in tattered clothes.

Maybe it's because Dongzhou is rich in materials, or maybe they have established diplomacy and trade with the three countries in Dongzhou, but in short, they are not as skinny as the soldiers in Kunlunjiao, and everyone is red-faced.

If it weren't for the fact that their clothes were dilapidated enough, Yang Zhan and the others would even think that this group of people were doing well here.

They led the way with small fishing boats, guiding the three horse boats of the Ming army to berth, and then immediately went ashore when the horse boats docked, and knelt down one after another:

"Daming Wansheng! Wansheng! ”

Although the group was in rags, their eyes were bright and scary, as if they saw hope.

Hundreds of soldiers on the horse boat disembarked and took control of the wharf, Zheng He and Yang Zhancai disembarked one after another.

The soldiers, holding parasols, brought seats and benches on the dock.

Yang Zhan and Zheng He sat down, and Zheng He sat down and asked, "Isn't Wang Ren here?" ”

"Returning to the envoy, Wang Qianhu took most of his brothers to prepare for the construction of Dongzhou City on the west coast."

The officials who stayed behind explained to Zheng He, revealing excitement in and out of their words.

"Do you know the situation of the Dongzhou Propaganda Envoy?"

Zheng He asked deliberately, but the hundred household officials shook their heads and said, "The last general has not been there yet, and he has been staying here for the past three years." ”

"What is the relationship with the three countries, and whether it can supply our fleet."

Compared with Zheng He, Yang Zhan is more concerned about the issue of supply.

Although they were reminded by the advance team that there was no shortage of water, vegetables, or food during the crossing of the South Atlantic, they did not have much of their daily necessities left after sailing.

"At the moment, we have established contact with the Yu family, the Yu family, and the Yin family, and at the same time, we have also stationed our people."

"Their local agriculture is not well developed, they don't even have horse-drawn carriages and horses, so agriculture is very backward, and they don't know how to fatten the land."

"When we arrived, we helped them build canals, led them to move their capitals, and combed the rivers, which helped them get out of the drought, and at the same time helped them solve some civil unrest."

The Baihu officials roughly explained everything they had experienced in the past three years, and Yang Zhan asked, "How many populations and how many troops does each of the three kingdoms have, and is it a king?" ”

"This ......" the Baihu official scratched his head: "Guogong, even they can't count it themselves, anyway, from our point of view, the southernmost Yin family (Inca) should be the strongest, with hundreds of city-states and hundreds of tribes under its command, there should be millions of people, and an army of fifty or sixty thousand." ”

"However, their army is poorly equipped, and Wang Qianhu and their king Sunupa went to the south to suppress the rebellious city-states in order to show the bravery of the Celestial Empire, and although our army was less than 500 people, it defeated more than 7,000 people in the southern city-states head-on under the leadership of Wang Qianhu."

"With the strength of the imperial fleet, it is enough to wipe out the ...... of the Three Kingdoms"

It seemed that he was really worried that Yang Zhan would do this, and the Baihu official hurriedly explained: "However, their king is also a generalized king, and after seeing the strength of my Celestial Empire, he promised to establish trade with us, and also agreed to allocate some land for us to build an officialdom, but due to lack of manpower, we have not yet used it." ”

"In addition to the Yin family, it is the Yu family where we are the most powerful, they first used Mayapan as the national capital, and then moved the capital to a place near the river at the suggestion of Wang Qianhu, and built the national capital in those places."

"They are also city-states, with hundreds of city-states under their command, millions of people, tens of thousands of troops, and they are very civilized, so let's build cities in Haimen City and Dongzhou City in the west, and they are also very eager for the arrival of the fleet to bring them more advanced technology."

"Finally, there is the Yu family in the north, their population is not large, only a few hundred thousand, the army is more than 10,000 people, poorly equipped, living around a lake island surrounded by mountains, and they are relatively enlightened."

"Further north and south, there lived barbarians, some of whom hunted for a living, and some of whom ate people through prisoners of war......"

Speaking of those barbarians who eat people, Baihu officials can't help but feel dry mouths, and even Zheng He, Yang Zhan and others can't help frowning.

"More hunting, or more cannibalism?"

Zheng He asked, and the Baihu official also said: "Most tribes are hunting, but some tribes like to eat people. ”

"That'll do."

Zheng He breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "You send someone to inform Wang Ren, let them return here first, and introduce us to meet with the kings of the Three Kingdoms." ”

"As for the matter of the Dongzhou Xuanwei Division, there is no need to worry, the Oriental Fleet has been delayed for several months because of the Japanese matter, and I don't know if it has set off now."

"Yes!" When the hundred household officials heard this, they immediately gave orders to a chief flag officer behind him.

Soon, the chief flag officer sailed for the southern continent with fifty soldiers.

After they left, the Baihu official turned around and said embarrassedly: "Guogong, Zhengzhi, Qianhu official explained one thing, but the last general didn't know what to say." ”

"Don't worry." Yang opened his mouth, and the hundred household officials also squirmed.

Because the navy officers were relatively young, many of them were not married, so in the past three years, they inevitably married and had children in this land, and gradually multiplied.

The present advance party was nominally 749 men, but in reality it numbered 2,0016.

Hearing such news, Zheng He subconsciously looked at Yang Zhan, but Yang Zhan was not so pedantic, and just asked: "The person who has a marriage match in Daming, has he married a wife and had children here?" ”

"Marry ......" Baihu Guan bowed his head, because he knew that this practice undoubtedly violated the "Da Ming Law".

Although the "Da Ming Law" has been revised many times, the laws on marriage in it have rarely been changed, let alone concubines.

According to the "Da Ming Law": "Those who are over forty years old and have no children will listen to the concubine, and those who violate it will be punished with forty lashes", and the people in the mouths of hundreds of households have undoubtedly violated this law.

He thought that the Guild would scold them angrily, but he didn't want the Guild to wave his hand and said, "I will deal with this matter, and let them relax their lives for the time being." ”

"Yes!" Hearing Yang Zhan say this, the hundred household officials and many people behind them showed smiling faces, obviously they all committed this article, and it was not surprising.

For the garrison troops who are away all the year round, they don't know if they can go home in this life, so it is very common to marry a wife and have children in the garrison.

In the face of physical desires, many people can even abandon their aesthetics and throw themselves into the arms of women of different races.

Although Yang Zhan didn't know what the women of Dongzhou looked like, as far as the book was concerned, the difference between their appearance and that of the Han people was not very big, at least not like the women of Kunlun.

As for the concubine who violated the "Da Ming Law", it is not a big deal in Yang Zhan's opinion.

Although the Ming Dynasty forbade officials, officials, students, and sergeants to take concubines, it was not uncommon for them to take concubines in private.

Don't talk about others, even he Yang Zhan's Yue Guo Mansion also has nine concubines, but this kind of thing can't be put on the surface.

Even if the ministers who don't like the Western fleet know about the advance team, they will not pick on the thorns to impeach, after all, in such a thing as a woman, no one's ass is clean.

Zheng He saw that Yang Zhan didn't say anything, and he didn't punish this group of people, but felt that it was actually a good thing.

Since the imperial court has set up the Dongzhou Propaganda Division, it shows that Dongzhou is very important in the eyes of the imperial court.

Since it is important, it is necessary to have reliable oneself.

Not to mention anything else, as long as half of the current 2,000 people are left in Dongzhou, then the Ming Dynasty will have 1,000 people living in Dongzhou, and the value is self-evident.

If he could, Zheng He even wanted to leave the more than 7,000 people he brought this time in Dongzhou to marry a wife and have children, so that in a few years, Daming would be able to gain a firm foothold in Dongzhou, even if civil strife broke out in Dongzhou in the future, Dongzhou Xuanwei Division would be enough to protect itself.

Thinking of this, Zheng He began to let the sea soldiers land one after another, except for leaving 2,000 people to guard the ships, the remaining 5,000 people went to the island one after another, rebuilding this humble Haimen City, and at the same time seeing if the wasteland could be reclaimed.

Anyway, in the next time, they only need to wait quietly for Wang Ren to return, and take them to the capital of the Three Kingdoms, determine the tributary of the Three Kingdoms, and trade with the Ming is enough.

Compared with Zheng He's safety on the way, the situation of the Oriental Fleet, which should have set off half a year behind him, was not very good.

The war in Japan dragged Chen Xuan and them for nearly a year, and when the war ended, the soldiers they led were still stationed in Japan.

Because of this, Chen Xuan and his men could only lead more than 1,000 people back to Nanjing, and after being received by Zhu Gaoxu, they went to Yangzhou in Jiangbei to recruit navy, and after three months of training, they went to sea in mid-February to go to the East.

The Oriental Fleet is composed of 12 6,000-material treasure ships, 20 5,000-material treasure ships, 30 3,000-material Daifuku ships, and 50 5,000-material horse ships, and the entire fleet is composed of the East China Sea and Toyowei, with a total of 11,200 naval forces and 112 ships of various types.

A few days after Zheng He and the others arrived at Dongzhou Haimen City, Chen Xuan and Yang Xiong arrived at Mutsu City in northern Japan.

At this time, this place has become the officialdom of the Ming army, and the guards here have the intention to resist, but they are defeated in the hands of Zheng Jun, the Oriental consolation envoy.

Due to his meritorious service in counterinsurgency, Zheng Jun was promoted to the Oriental Propaganda Envoy, and the Ming army was stationed in Yinqi, Jinyin, Mutsu, Tsuruga and other places, including Whale Haiwei, Beihaiwei and later Dongyang and Donghaiwei, a total of four guards and horses.

Of course, the current Dongyang and Donghaiwei are still under the jurisdiction of Zheng Jun.

"Hurry up, hurry up, all the materials must be checked and sealed, among which fresh water is the most important, and more should be loaded!"

On the dock of Mutsu City, tens of thousands of Ming troops are maintaining order, and the people who are responsible for the work on the pier are the people of Mutsu.

Although they are serving other countries, they are much happier to serve than to serve their own guards.

The Ming Dynasty has infiltrated Japan for ten years, and even the people of Mutsu who live in the north know very well that the work for the Celestial Empire is done on the same day, and there is no such thing as arrears.

In addition, the Ming army also liked to settle the settlement in rice, which was a rare experience of aristocratic days for Japanese civilians who were short of materials.

The work for the guardians is free, and even if you have a salary, you can at most support yourself that day.

But working for the Celestial Empire is different, working for the Celestial Empire, the daily wage is two catties of processed rice, which is an expensive thing that they hail as silver relics.

Two catties of silver relics can be exchanged for five catties of corn when they are taken outside, and five catties of corn are enough for one person to eat with wild vegetables for five days.

If you work for Daming for a month, you can earn rations for the next five months.

Because of the reputation here, after learning that the Toyo Fleet needed a force, the people of Mutsu, who had been recruited by the Ming army to repair the harbor, flocked to it, and even lowered their wages to join it.

Chen Xuan did not deduct wages, but let them come as many people as they wanted.

Because of his military order, the entire city of Mutsu and the surrounding people basically flocked to the port to help the Ming army clean up the large number of marine life at the bottom of the warship, as well as collect fresh water and make dried vegetables and fish.

The entire city of Mutsu prospered because of the arrival of the Tokai Fleet, and even ordinary Japanese civilians were generous.

This scene made the faces of those former samurai ugly.

"These guys, don't they have the righteousness of their family and country in their hearts?"

"The army of the Celestial Empire is really vicious, and it actually uses such a vicious means as distributing food to buy people's hearts."

"It's a pity that the guys in the shogunate were blinded, and the guardian lord was driven out of the Mutsu ......"

Sitting in the private room, the samurai in the wine shop shouted and cursed in a low voice, but they didn't want to think that the wine shop under their feet was opened because of the influx of Daming wine products.

Without the influx of sake products from the Ming Dynasty, it would have been impossible to produce sake products on a large scale in Japan.

They were reluctant to bring everything that Daming brought, so they could only whisper and scold behind their backs.

For this kind of person, the Ming army in Mutsu City didn't bother to pay attention to them, because they had more important things.

"The shipping lanes and currents to the East have been figured out, but we have to leave at the end of this month."

"If we delay for another two months, there is a high chance that it will collide with a storm in the ocean."

In the Mutsu City, when Chen Xuan's voice sounded from a Ming-style yamen that had just been built, in addition to him, there were Zheng Jun, who was currently the Oriental ambassador, and Chen Xuan, the Marquis of Pingjiang, who commanded Yang Xiong.

Pingyue Bo Yang Wen was old, and after returning to Nanjing after the war, he returned home to rest, but before returning to the army, he recommended his own son Yang Xiong to Zhu Gaoxu, seemingly hoping that Yang Xiong could participate in the Oriental Fleet and continue to establish meritorious achievements.

Zhu Gaoxu did not refuse, so Chen Xuan, who commanded the Oriental Ocean this time, got a good helper.

"Wouldn't it be too risky to explore the shipping lanes without an advance team?"

Standing in front of the five-foot-long and wide sand table, Zheng Jun looked at Chen Xuan with some concern, but Chen Xuan said boldly:

"According to my previous experience in going to the West, there will be basically no problems with the map given by His Highness."

"Sending an advance team was rejected by the storm before, so we won't be so unlucky this time, right?"

"Besides, time waits for no one, if we set off now, we can reach the west coast of Beizhou in fifty days at most, and then we can find the Dongzhou Propaganda Envoy on the west coast all the way south."

Chen Xuan said, and at the same time clapped his head: "As long as there is enough fresh water, food, and fuel for four months, even if we fail, we can come back safely." ”

"If you're worried about failure, I'll be responsible!"

"!" Zheng Jun scolded with a smile: "I'm not going again, I'm here to be responsible for sending supplies to you later." ”

"If you don't go, you still talk so much?" Chen Xuan looked at Zheng Jun speechlessly, while Chen Xuan's son Chen Zuo chuckled: "Since everything is decided, let's set off in five days." ”

"Calculating the time, after four days at most, there will be enough grain, fresh water, and coal."

"Okay!" Seeing that Chen Zuo also said this, Chen Xuan immediately made a decision, and Zheng Jun could only shrug his shoulders and talk to them about other things.

As it turned out, the Guardians of each country did not recognize Ashikaga Yoshitsugu's throne as the king, so in the past few months, there have been many rebellions in various countries.

Zheng Jun did not dare to leave Japan, mainly because he was worried that after he left, many guardian associations would be in chaos, and Ashikaga Yoshiji would not be able to control the overall situation.

In the current situation, Ashikaga Yoshiji is not majestic enough, and the strength of the Ashikaga shogunate is weakened, and only by relying on the Ming Dynasty can he maintain his rule.

However, in such a situation, once the Ming army failed, many of the Kanto guardians would rise up in an attempt to overthrow the Ashikaga shogunate and the Ming rule in Japan.

In the final analysis, Kanto has not benefited from tomorrow's trade.

Compared with the Kanto Guardians, although the Kansai Guardians are also dissatisfied, no one dares to express their dissatisfaction after all, after all, they still have to do business with Daming to maintain their luxurious life.

In the current situation, seventy percent of the sugar in the Japanese market is imported from Daming, and in addition, Daming's grain also occupies a large share of the Japanese grain market.

Although the grain sold to Japan from Daming was much more expensive than in Daming because of the ocean, it was still much cheaper than the price of rice in Japan at 700 wen per stone.

600 wen per stone is the price of rice exported to Japan by the Ming Dynasty, and the annual export volume is about hundreds of thousands of stones, and it is basically provided to the samurai and aristocratic class.

In addition to grain, there are also various commodities such as soy sauce, vinegar, tea, and liquor, which either account for half or a third of Japan's share.

However, these shares do not refer to the Ming merchants who opened stores in Japan to sell, but unified in the Hiki and Mutsu markets, and the government-run merchants who guarded the countries of each country bought them back to the feudal kingdom and then sold them in their own stores.

Such a danger is well known to the guardians of all countries, but only a very few people can restrain themselves.

Their indulgence caused the Ming goods to flood in Japan, and at the same time, life in Korea became more difficult.

The direct trade between the Ming Dynasty and Japan has put North Korea on the verge of economic collapse at any time, and the country has even fallen to the point of bartering.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Fangyuan had sent an advance team from Kunlun Continent to collect news about the gold and silver mines, I am afraid that he would not be able to sit still now.

All of this stems from the historical changes brought about by Zhu Gaoxu, but compared with these changes, the more important change is Zheng He's envoy to Dongzhou.

On March 20, as the horn sounded, the Oriental Fleet under the leadership of Chen Xuan of Mutsu City set sail.

While he was riding the wind and waves, Wang Ren, who took twenty days to rush back to Haimen City, also saw the brand-new Haimen City and the fleet that he had been thinking about for three years.

Wang Ren wore a patched mandarin duck battle jacket and returned to Haimen City with more than a hundred soldiers, and also brought several priests from the Yujia Kingdom.

Although they had heard a lot about the Celestial Empire from Wang Ren's mouth, when thousands of Ming soldiers appeared in front of several priests, they couldn't help but kneel down and worship.

"Welcome to the arrival of the army of the Son of Heaven!"

The priests welcomed the Western fleet in a way that Wang Ren could understand, and the city of Haimen in the distance had been completely renewed.

The original wooden village has been turned into a stone city wall, and the area is several times larger than before.

Outside the city were a series of tents and shirtless soldiers who were cultivating wasteland.

After a quarter of an hour, Zheng He and Yang Zhan appeared in front of them, and the priests turned their eyes to Wang Ren, who also translated the identities of Zheng He and Yang Zhan.

After the translation, Wang Ren said: "Wang Ren, the official of a thousand households, see the Duke of Yue Guo and the envoy!" ”

"Get up, these are the officials of the Jade Family, right?"

Zheng He raised his hand to signal to get up, and at the same time greeted the priests who looked similar to the Han people with a smile.

In fact, if you look closely, there is still a certain difference in the appearance of the two sides, but this difference is almost equal to none in the world.

"Hui Zheng, these are the three priests of the main body of the Jade Family Country at the moment, and they have come to receive your summons by order of the king."

Wang Ren was sloppy, in fact, these three priests came to meet Zheng He, but in his mouth, they became Zheng He's summons.

However, he didn't think there was anything wrong with this, after all, the combat power of the Ming army had already fought on the land of Dongzhou, and their advance team had participated in the internal wars of the Yu family and the Yin family, and the results of each battle were daunting.

Now that more than ten times their main force has arrived in Dongzhou, it is no exaggeration to say that it is sweeping the entire Dongzhou, if the kings of the Three Kingdoms know the strength of Zheng He's fleet, I am afraid they will not dare to put on an unruly posture again.

Of course, as long as they abide by the agreement and do business with Daming honestly, then Daming is still very happy to help them get out of the predicament of famine.

Thinking of this, Wang Ren turned to look at the three apprehensive priests, grinned with big yellow teeth and smiled:

"The angel said that if you keep the agreement, then we can help you, but if you refuse, we will have to leave......"

Although he was smiling and saying that he would leave, standing behind him, the thousands of Ming troops didn't seem to think so.

Their eyes were surprised and fierce, and they seemed to be about to put on armor and fight with the Yu family if they didn't agree with each other.

In the face of these thousands of Ming troops, the three priests could only hurriedly laugh:

"We... We have no intention of refusing, the agreement is still ......"

(End of chapter)