On June 18, the twelfth year of Tianwu, Zhu Cihong officially issued an edict, announcing the abolition of the Kingdom of Annam, renamed Jiaozhi Province, and governed 15 prefectures, 41 prefectures, and 210 counties.

At the same time, an edict was issued to take Wang Fuzhi as the first governor of Jiaozhi Province, guarding the southwest and promoting education.

Since the Xuande Dynasty, Jiaozhi has been independent for more than 200 years, and has been included in the Ming Dynasty since then.

Zhu Cihong issued an edict to the world for this, and all the kings and civil and military officials congratulated him.

The military victory of the southern army in the southwest has achieved quite good results, and I would like to ask you if you look at the ancient and modern times, who can go thousands of miles deep and take the entire territory of Annam in just one month?

This battle is enough to prove Li Dingguo's extraordinary military command ability!

Such a general, if it is a big reward, wouldn't it chill the hearts of the generals?

On July 20, Zhu Cihong rewarded the soldiers of the Southern Expedition in the Fengtian Palace and canonized Li Dingguo as a marquis.

As a typical example of unscrupulously challenging the status of the Ming Dynasty's suzerainty, Annan was questioned by Xingshi and included in the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, which played a warning role for the Western Fanguo.

In mid-August, the king of Zhenla personally led the royal family and civil and military officials to request the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cihong made King Zhenla the title of prince and rewarded him with a large amount of money and land.

According to the past expenses of the Zhenla royal family, these rewards are enough for them to spend eight lifetimes, and they will not worry about food and clothing if they lose their titles.

At the same time, although Siam and Burma did not request to be attached, they were also frightened by the Ming Dynasty, and sent members of the royal family to the Hajj to ensure that they would keep their peace.

The two countries raised their hands in agreement with the strategy of resuming the three propaganda and six consolations proposed by the Ming Dynasty, and re-signed a suzerain-vassal treaty with the Ming Dynasty.

Politically, the king obeyed the edict of the Ming Emperor and was on call;

Economically, the annual tribute has quadrupled on the basis of the past, and both countries have used the currency of the Ming Dynasty as the base currency to realize the internationalization of the dragon yuan.

Militarily, Siam and Burma each leased two ports to the Ming Dynasty and allowed the Ming to garrison troops in order to maintain the stability of the vassal states.

The campaign against Annam greatly enhanced the Ming Dynasty's control and influence over the South Seas, and provided a guarantee for the smooth progress of the Western Ocean in the future.

At the same time, the establishment of Cochin Province turned Annam into a base and transit point for ships and trade with Southeast Asian and Western European countries, and played a strong role in promoting the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty and the economy of the vassal states of the Indochina Peninsula.

At the beginning of August, after more than two months of bloody battles, the military flag of the Nanyang Protectorate of the Ming Dynasty was planted on the head of the city of Batavia, and the island of Java, which had been conquered by European colonists for more than 100 years, was finally liberated!

So far, the entire land and sea area of East Asia and the South China Sea have become the territory of the Ming Dynasty! Flying the four-star golden sun flag, there is no place for Western colonizers!

The ambitious Zhu Cihong was still not satisfied, and ordered the Nanyang Protectorate to move to Nanfu (Batavia) to continue to develop Australia to the south.

In 1606, the Spanish navigator Torres sailed for the first time through the strait between Australia and the island of New Guinea, although they did not land.

In the same year, the Dutch made their first arrival in Australia and named it "New Holland".

Although Australia is surrounded by the sea, the vast inland and western regions have a hot, dry climate that is uninhabitable, and the northeastern coast is a pristine rainforest that is untouched and untouched with high temperatures and rains throughout the year.

For the Dutch and even the nations of the 17th century, Australia was a useless place in the harsh environment.

It was not until the end of the eighteenth century that British navigators discovered the east coast of Australia and declared the land to belong to the British.

What Zhu Cihong asked the Nanyang Protectorate to look for was the warm and humid southeast coastal area, that is, the Sydney and Canberra areas of Australia in later generations.

Zhu Cihong is ambitious, and only 30 years old, which is the age to make great achievements, and his eyes are by no means limited to East and Southeast Asia.

In September of the twelfth year of Tianwu, the second feat of the Tianwu Dynasty to the West began.

Zhu Cihong appointed Wu Zhong as the chief envoy, and the admirals Liu Guoxuan and Lan Haoran as deputy envoys, led more than 56,000 officers and men, took 100 warships, and carried more than 200 merchant ships, set sail from Shanghai, and sailed westward.

This time to the West, politically, the Ming Dynasty wanted to formally establish diplomatic relations with European countries and establish embassies.

On behalf of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Zhong will negotiate with several major European powers to jointly establish a new world order and carve up the world's colonies.

The Ming Dynasty was first optimistic about Egypt in northern Africa, where Emperor Zhu planned to open the Suez Canal, the closest sea route from Asia to Europe.

Without this canal, the Ming Dynasty would go around the coast of Africa in a large circle when it went to Europe, which was time-consuming, laborious and dangerous.

Of course, the Grand Canal has to be dug for at least ten years, and some of the African black brothers are busy.

Militarily, at the invitation of King João IV of Portugal, the Ming Dynasty wanted to garrison troops in the Portuguese Madrid Islands in the Atlantic Ocean for a long time.

In addition, India, the Ming army had to send a naval fleet to Mumbai to be stationed there, develop the local area, establish overseas bases in the South Asian subcontinent, and promote the prestige of the Ming Dynasty to Central Asian countries and develop vassal states.

All this will be deployed in the process of the second voyage to the West.

In addition to going to the West, the trade route from the South Seas to the Americas has never stopped, and the Ming Dynasty continues to migrate to Brazil every year.

Since the Ming Dynasty had formed an alliance with Portugal, Louis XIV had worked with France to put pressure on the Netherlands, eventually bringing the Brazilian colonies back to Portugal.

There are relatives here, and Daming has a foothold in South America.

After all, Portugal's power in the Americas was weak, and it needed to rely on the Ming Dynasty.

As the saying goes, all roads lead to Rome, and Zhu Cihong not only vigorously developed maritime trade, but also rebuilt China's ancient Silk Road since ancient times.

The traditional Silk Road, starting from Chang'an, the ancient capital of China, reaches the Mediterranean Sea through Central Asian countries, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, etc., and ends in Rome, with a total length of 13,000 miles.

The Silk Road is the intersection of Eastern and Western civilizations connecting the Eurasian continent, and it is also an ancient road for successive Central Plains dynasties to export culture to the West, and Zhu Cihong has no reason to give up.

In October of the twelfth year of Tianwu, Zhu Cihong put forward the strategic concept of building the Silk Road Economic Belt at the court meeting.

So far, the three world trade routes of the Ming Dynasty have been fully launched, showing the national strength and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty to the world with a strong attitude, and striving to develop into a global political, economic and cultural center.

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This volume is over, and for book lovers who can't catch up, it can also be regarded as the end of the book.

Because from the next volume, that is, from the next chapter, new "little protagonists" will appear.

Originally, I planned to take the crown prince Zhu and His Majesty as the new little protagonists, but then I thought about it and it was not suitable, the starting point was too high, the internal contradictions were not intense, there was no national hatred and family hatred, it was boring to write, and it was boring for you to look at.

There are fewer and fewer follow-ups in this book, and I know that there are more and more people who are reading pirated copies, and there are many people who can't keep chasing them, and I am bored writing myself, and I don't have the passion I had before.

So I simply reopened a role, a traverser.

The following setting and plot are mainly intended to show the new face of the Tianwu Dynasty from all aspects through the new protagonist, to set off the greatness of Emperor Tianwu from the side, and to deduce the process of unifying the world by the second generation of the leadership team headed by the crown prince, as well as internal struggles.

The key point is that the second traverser is only the "little protagonist", Zhu Cihong is still the "big protagonist" of this book, and the whole book runs through to the end, suppressing all villains, even other traversers!

So he is called the last ruthless man of the Ming Dynasty, because there is no more ruthless existence than him.......

Final tip: The new protagonist is Xu Qingshan's son, who will not overthrow the Ming Dynasty, nor will he have the ability to overthrow the Ming Dynasty!

Let's watch it as a side story! The number of words is not much, about two volumes of hundreds of thousands of words, written to the end of the Tianwu Dynasty, and the book is finished after writing.

If you don't like it, just think the book is finished......