Since the affairs of southern Xinjiang were handed over to Huang Zhiting, Gao Pragmatic has not worried much, but only learned about them from various reports received or explored by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

It was not without a few times that he wanted to fine-tune Huang Zhiting's arrangement, but in the end he endured it. One is that Huang Zhiting's handling has no major flaws, and the other is that he attaches great importance to the principle of employing people without suspicion, plus he firmly believes that being a man must be trustworthy, including his wife, and he is not willing to be a little untrustworthy, so he simply "just looks at it and doesn't say it".

It can almost be counted from the time Gao Yuan was born, and the situation in southern Xinjiang can be regarded as stable.

From the perspective of Gao Pragmatic's plan, this period of stability may not be short, at least three or five years, at most seven or eight years, and Gao Pragmatic has no intention of moving more.

It is cool to expand the territory, but it is not enough to fight the territory, and it is also necessary to be able to establish a long-term and stable rule before it can really fall into your own pocket. Alexander's conquest looked cool, but as soon as he died, it fell apart, and the empire did not survive.

Of course, the reason why Alexander the Great's death would cause such serious consequences also had a lot to do with the fact that he had no queen at that time, and although Gao Pragmatic was not the "Great", he had a queen now, and he was also the eldest son, and he was the most legitimate successor in legal theory.

However, he may not necessarily be able to ensure that his foundation is stable, and even he himself cannot ensure that what can really ensure this is to let Jinghua always remain vigilant, not blind and not aggressive.

Li Shimin is such a powerful person, and he has to settle down and develop himself first when he is in the Weishui Alliance, not to mention that he is highly pragmatic. Besides, he is the emperor, and Jinghua's rule in southern Xinjiang is not justified, so it is even more careful.

However, he also knew that Wong was now eyeing two targets, one in Arakan, further west in Burma, more precisely Chittagong in Arakan, and the Malay Peninsula further south in Siam.

Chittagong was targeted by Huang Zhiting himself, and Gao pragmatic did not hint at anything, and rarely even mentioned it.

The reason is not complicated, if you want to attack Chittagong, there is almost only one road by land, and it is easier for the other side to defend, and if you want to take the sea route, Arakan itself is a country founded on a navy, not only the strength of the fleet is not weak, but also the coastal defense fortifications must be relatively complete. In the event of a war, what kind of losses the fleet will cause, no one dares to say that it can be predicted in advance.

Second, Chittagong is adjacent to the Kingdom of Bengal, and Bengal has been conquered by the Mughal Empire for nearly a decade.

The Mughal Crusade itself did not make Gao Shishi so afraid, after all, the current superior strength of the Mughal Empire was actually cavalry. Therefore, the great Jinghua retreated a little eastward, retreated to the mountains of western Burma to fight mountain warfare with the Mughal Empire, and had a garrison army used by wolf soldiers as "instructors" or "model troops", and was not afraid to play with the Mughal Empire in the mountains.

But not afraid does not mean that there will be, the Mughal is an empire, the land area is now about four million square kilometers, not much smaller than the Ming Dynasty, and it is different from the Ming Dynasty, it is still under the rule of the third emperor Arbuck, it is the heyday, and the national strength is very strong.

In short, the Mughal Empire should not be too afraid of tug-of-war now, and although Gao Pragmatism can also be claimed to be not afraid, he at least suffers a loss - Jinghua fights and spends his own money, and the countries in southern Xinjiang have just come out of the war, how much surplus is there? If you don't post it upside down, it's well governed.

So whether or not you can win is one thing, and whether it is worth it or not is another, and it is not cost-effective to risk a war with the Mughals for the sake of a mere kingdom of Arakan. Chittagong sailors are certainly a fortune, but they are not absolutely irreplaceable, at least after the opening of the sea in the Ming Dynasty, Gao Pragmatic now recruits sailors in the southeastern coastal provinces, which is no longer as difficult as in the early years.

Another goal of Wong is the Malay Peninsula, and the emergence of this goal has a lot to do with high pragmatism. The main reason is that when Gao pragmatic explained the situation in the South Seas to her, he repeatedly emphasized the importance of the Strait of Malacca.

"Half a hundred cars, thousands of miles by ship", at this time when the means of transportation are backward, the advantages of shipping are self-evident. As a major maritime communication route and shipping hub, the strait is bound to be a battleground for soldiers.

The Strait of Malacca is the gateway to Asia. At the dawn of the age of the oceans, whoever controls this place will be the hegemon of the Asian seas.

As early as the beginning of the fifteenth century, the Ming and Malacca formed a relationship similar to a strategic alliance, the Kingdom of Malacca became a regional power with the support of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty established a tributary circle centered on Malacca by setting up a nautical transit station in Malacca, and then controlled the shipping routes from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean, becoming the empire that controlled the Asian seas in that era.

In 1403, Zhu Di, who had ascended to the throne, inherited the tributary system and diplomatic ideas in Chinese history. As soon as he came to power, he sent envoys to the four sides to announce the succession of the imperial throne and reaffirm the empire's influence and control abroad. Immediately, envoys from Ryukyu, Japan, and Siam came to the Ming Dynasty one after another to pay tribute, and established a relationship between the clan and the canonization.

At this time, the Kingdom of Malacca was called Manraka by the Ming Dynasty. It was strategically located on a strategic channel and was highly valued by the Ming court, which soon incorporated it under the tributary system of the Ming dynasty. In October 1403, Zhu Di sent the eunuch Yin Qing to Mangara to give him a gift from the king, "Baili Misu was overjoyed, and sent an envoy to Sui Qing into the tributary party", which set a precedent for the Yongle Dynasty to be inscribed by the imperial pen.

Ming Chengzu also wrote an inscription to give Manraka, and the inscription praised Manshujia and its king: Wang Haoyi is good at thinking about the dynasty, and he wishes to be Yihua Feng in Binei County. However, what "Huafeng" was, Baili Mi Su Ra didn't really care much about it at the time. His greatest concern was to get rid of Siamese rule immediately, which was the essence of his friendship with the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of the founding of the kingdom of Malacca, strong enemies were surrounded by strong enemies, and Baili Misura fought for the space to survive with a soft body. On the one hand, it had good relations with the Kingdom of Siam, paying 40 taels of gold to the Kingdom of Siam every year in exchange for temporary peace, and on the other hand, it formed an alliance with the kingdoms on the Indonesian archipelago in the south, and at the same time took the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain, and established a suzerain-vassal relationship with political significance greater than substantive jurisdictional significance.

In 1406, Baili Misu led his wife and more than 540 courtiers to visit the Ming Dynasty with Zheng He's fleet, which was the largest foreign mission to visit the Ming Dynasty since the Ming Dynasty. During this visit, Baili Misura was courteous to the Ming court. On the 25th and 28th day of the seventh lunar month, the first day of August, the first day of September, and the 15th day of September, Ming Chengzu invited or rewarded the mission, and when the mission left Nanjing on September 18 to return to China, Ming Chengzu ordered a banquet in Longjiang Station. Such standard treatment was rare among the kings of the Ming Dynasty who received visits from other countries.

In 1411, Baili Misura visited China for the second time. In 1414, when Zheng He led a delegation back from his fourth voyage, Baili Misu led a delegation to visit Daming for the third time.

It is self-evident that Malacca was strategically important to the Ming Empire, and controlling the Strait of Malacca meant that the Ming would have a long period of maritime tranquility. The Ming Dynasty's control of the Strait of Malacca was achieved through the establishment of close suzerain-vassal relations and ocean shipping transit points.

For the century that followed, Malacca maintained a close relationship with the Ming Dynasty. During Zheng He's seven trips to the West, he visited Malacca six times.

The establishment of the Malacca shipping transit station meant that the Ming Dynasty had established a strategic buffer zone based in Southeast Asia, and the South China Sea at that time truly became the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty.

However, with the death of Zhu Di, the maritime strategy of the Ming Dynasty shrank sharply, and the sea began to be forbidden, and the "transit station" in Malacca and other places lost its meaning, gradually dispersed and collapsed.

And when the Ming strategy contracted more than 100 years later, the Portuguese came.

The Portuguese acquired a relatively authentic impression of China from Malacca, and their steps towards China also began in Malacca.

When da Gama's fleet arrived at Guri in the Kozhikode region of Kerala, in the southwestern Indian Peninsula, he systematically collected geographical and human data about Asia on a large scale, with the main goal being the Ming dynasty in the Far East.

After Portugal occupied Goa, it paid more attention to the Ming Dynasty. Gorea, a historian who has lived in India for half a century, said that he encountered Chinacota, which means "fortress of the Chinese", because the "white people with long black hair" also had many "official factories" in India.

In 1508, King Don Manuel I of Portugal asked the commander of the fleet, Segra: "You must find out what is going on about the Qin people (i.e. Chinese, Ming), where they came from and how far they went?" When did they go to Manraka or other places where they traded? What goods do you bring? …… Are they Christians or heathens? Is their country big? Is there more than one king in the country? Where does their land expand? What countries do they live with? ”

In 1512, the Portuguese who conquered Malacca bought five Ming ship owners and began to plan a trip to the Ming Dynasty.

In 1517, the Portuguese officially reached the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, and around 1557, they occupied Macao by fraud and bribery.

The Portuguese colonists of course valued the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, and imagined that the Ming would fall into their hands as easily as Malacca, although they found that this empire was not something they could swallow in the hundreds of years they came to the coast of the Ming Dynasty, but the occupation of Malacca did open the most glorious history of the Portuguese maritime empire.

In addition to encountering powerful foreign enemies, another important reason for the demise of the Malacca dynasty was internal decline and strife. And the nominal suzerainty of the time, the Ming Dynasty, had long since ignored the sea power, and they showed indifference to the fall of Malacca.

The Ming court learned of the invasion of Malacca in 1520, nine years after Malacca fell into Portuguese hands. In the intervening nine years, the Portuguese had already crossed the South China Sea and entered the coast of Guangdong.

If it weren't for the presumptuousness of the Portuguese and the envoy of the Prince of Malacca, Muhammad, who came to Yanjing and sent a letter of help from Malacca to the Ministry of Rites, the Ming court might have been kept in the dark when Malacca fell into the hands of the Portuguese.

It was the Zhengde Dynasty at that time, and it happened that Emperor Zhengde had lost the ability to solve the matter at that time - he died after being sick for three months. However, at the suggestion of a group of ministers at the time, the imperial court finally responded to the fall of Malacca: Francois (Portugal) was not allowed to pay tribute, and Pires, the Portuguese envoy to the Ming Dynasty, was taken to Guangzhou in the spring and summer of the same year, and imprisoned as a hostage for the return of Malacca's territory.

In the face of repeated pleas for help from the Malacca court, the Ming court declared that it demanded that Portugal return Malacca, otherwise the mission would be seized until Malacca was returned.

This way of withholding envoys to deal with the armed occupation of the Portuguese is simply nonsense in the eyes of Gao Pragmatism, which is not only incompetent, but also a manifestation of a lack of international maritime outlook.

However, after all, at this time, the Ming Dynasty had no military presence in the Nanyang area, and its tributary relationship with these Nanyang countries was only a political commitment to each other, completely pale and powerless. To be precise, when the royal division such as Zheng He's fleet disappeared in the South Seas, the Ming Dynasty's weak diplomatic rhetoric and negotiations could not save the fate of Malacca's destruction, let alone proclaim the voice of the empire to the four seas.

In order to spread the voice of China to the four seas, it is necessary to have a strong fleet, and it is also necessary to effectively master Malacca.

Huang Zhiting was most impressed by the urgency of Gao Shishi, who compared the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean on the map at that time: "Winning Malacca is the beginning of Jinghua's control of the two oceans." ”

Wong has always had a pragmatic strategic vision, so she is convinced of his words, and has been thinking about how to take the Malay Peninsula ever since—yes, she will not just take the city of Malacca and control the entire strait from this stronghold, as the Portuguese did.

If she wants to take it, she will have to take it along with the land, and the whole Malay Peninsula must be firmly in her hands.

As for the truth, just like the Chinese dynasties must be together for a long time, the cultural tradition in the bones is winner-takes-all. Later, when a foreign educator mentioned the shortcomings of the Chinese students he led, he once said that the Chinese students were too strong in winning and losing, and they felt that they had failed if they did not take the first place.

In fact, this is also a kind of winner-take-all spirit, and even the tributary system is inseparable from this kind of thinking.

What is the spiritual essence of tribute?

is Lao Tzu's first in the world, "you don't want to be a concubine".

Even if Huang Zhiting is a woman, she is also influenced by this culture, so in her understanding, Gao Shishi wants to control Malacca, that is, to take the Malay Peninsula.

The husband wanted, and the southern Xinjiang was handed over to her again, so of course she began to plot the Malay Peninsula wholeheartedly.

Gao Shishi guessed what she was thinking from the action she had in her mind when she transferred Gao Rui Hin to Siam, and although he agreed to the transfer as always, he still wanted to warm his wife's mind a little.

After thinking for a long time, he went to the table and sat down, and began to write.

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