The western territory of the Ming Empire was always in flux, like an ant colony slowly expanding westward and gradually expanding in the Indian subcontinent.

Western Minister Yin Zhengmao watched all this happen quietly and loudly in the Lion Country, and his comment on this was only two words - finished.

In his eyes, the western frontier of the Ming Dynasty was very weak, and it was not as stable as the core territory or the South and East Seas.

The entry of the three feudatories of Shanxi into India by the Buddhist clan and 100,000 monks and soldiers directly contributed to the change of power in this land, and when all this was a foregone conclusion, Yin Zhengmao found that the entire Western military government lacked enough understanding of this land.

The most important thing about a piece of land is the people who have lived on it for generations, and to understand the people of this land, you can start with their history, but Yin Zhengmao encountered great obstacles in the process of realizing this:

The natives have no history.

Not only did the natives have no habit of recording history, but the city-state nobility knew little about things outside their domains.

In mobilizing the power of the entire Western military government to collect all the folk songs and legends, the local people still could not make the slightest progress, and the world was a process of reincarnation and continuous cycle, and the next life was over, and the next life was over, and all efforts and records were meaningless.

Even being invaded and ruled by monks and soldiers does not seem to be the slightest unacceptable to them, they can fight, but if they can fight, there will be many casualties, then surrender; If you can't fight, if you can't fight, just surrender directly, and if you surrender, you can live your life obediently and skillfully.

It's over after making do, don't think about it so much.

At first, Yin Zhengmao thought that the locals were stupid and funny - how could the world be a reincarnation? Whether in politics or productivity, human beings have been progressing, the earliest tribal period people sage king, later to the bloodline Ji surname as respect, and later into the feudal aristocracy hereditary, and even all generations of Qin politics, military merit awards to the people, and then to the imperial examination, everyone can participate in the power game of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Chao for Tian Shelang, twilight to the Tianzi Hall.

With these advances, the Central Plains Dynasty was able to defend and defeat one enemy after another, expanding its land into unclimbable mountains and endless seas.

People use the vicissitudes of life to describe the passage of time, the short spears in people's hands have become strong crossbows and then into firebolts into cannons, the food in the mouth has changed from steaming to cooking and frying, and countless countries have been annihilated and annexed in the process, and they are still here, even if the tone has long changed, they still recite the poetry that has passed through the millennium in ancient words.

On the one hand, he collected fragmented words about this magical land thousands of years ago from the Indian folk, and on the other hand, he sacrificed the greatest advantage of the Central Plains Dynasty, and got the "Tang Dynasty Western Regions Chronicles" from China, and tried to collect the historical context from the trivial fragments.

He did it.

But the conclusions reached made the old man wonder if the world was really a reincarnation.

During the Shang Dynasty, the Dravidian people lived along the Ganges River in the Indian subcontinent, and then the Aryans in the northwest drove them south to rule several city-states.

Then the Persians came, and the Persians departed; Alexander of Macedonia came and Alexander departed.

During the Qin Dynasty, the Bactrian people once again appeared in the northwest, and this tribal alliance once again invaded the southeast, further encroaching on villages and city-states that had been occupied by the Aryans.

During the Han Dynasty, the Bactria people were evaluated by the Han Dynasty envoys as weak, and it turned out that it was true, the rest people came, the rest people left, and with the people of the Dayue clan moving west, the Great Xia soon surrendered to the Dayue clan.

After that, the Otsuki clan was divided into five divisions, one of which Kushan defeated the rest and established a huge country.

The good times did not last long, and the Persians came again; As soon as the Persians left, the Turks came, and the Turks established the Delhi Sultanate, and after the fall of the Delhi Sultanate, the descendants of Timur founded the Mughals.

Yin Zhengmao found that under the proof of effective information in his hands, every invasion that India experienced had never been successfully resisted, not to mention the situation of the Han and Hungarian confrontations, where the enemy was strong and we were weak, and the offensive and defensive situation was easy, and there was not even an example of the Song and Ming dynasties chasing Yuan Kou in the north a hundred years apart.

O people who have lived in this land for generations, have never resisted, repelled, or even vengeed.

And the ability to assimilate is still strong - those invaders who were once powerful enter this place, live for a hundred or two years, and will be defeated by new invaders.

The world on this subcontinent is really an uninterrupted cycle.

The northern terrain of the Central Plains Dynasty was open, so the Great Wall was built to defend against foreign invaders; The geographical concept of India is naturally closed, except by sea, all invaders will come from the northwest, and there are only two mountain passes in the northwest, and there is no need to build the Great Wall, and the width of the narrowest part is less than 200 zhang.

I couldn't hold this two-hundred-zhang opening, and it was broken through again and again.

In Yin Zhengmao's mind, it is natural to imagine this mountain pass as Hangu Pass, the land ruled by the Persians is Guanzhong, once the Hangu Pass is broken, the Guanzhong Iron Cavalry can sweep a horse Pingchuan and hit Leiden.

How magnanimous God is to the world, and how thin is it to the Central Plains.

If there were no snowy plateaus, how could the Celestial Empire be neighbors of such cowardly people for 3,000 years?

But now it's fine.

Yin Zhengmao didn't care how the monks and soldiers on the ground played, even if he beat the Mughal so much that he couldn't find the north.

He was only concerned with the Indian Ocean, oh no, the Atlantic, and the troops on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean would operate six trading ports, starting with the Lion Country's Gao Langbu, which was named by the Ming Dynasty navigator Wang Dayuan, who the Portuguese used to call Colombo in honor of Columbus.

Wang Dayuan was a folk navigator in the Yuan Dynasty and a native of Nanchang. At the age of 20, he set sail from Quanzhou Port by boat, passed through Qiongzhou, Champa, Malacca, Java, Sumatra, Burma, India, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Morocco, returned to Egypt, went out of the Red Sea to Somalia and Mozambique, crossed the Indian Ocean and returned to Sri Lanka, the lion country, from Sumatra and Java, through Australia to Kalimantan and the Philippines back to Quanzhou, which lasted five years to complete the great voyage.

After returning from his second voyage, he wrote the "Daoyi Zhiluo" at the request of the Quanzhou magistrate, which is divided into 100 articles, of which 99 are Wang Dayuan's personal experience, involving as many as 220 countries and regions, and even recorded that Malag in northwest Iran, at that time was the capital of the Ilkhanate, and there was a chieftain who was called Malujian in history was a native of Linzhang, surnamed Chen, who led troops to guard Ganzhou at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and entered the country during the western expedition and did not return.

When the Ming Dynasty did not go to sea, Wang Dayuan's Daoyi Zhiluo was useless and no one mentioned it, but when the overseas military government was opened and thousands of ships went out to the three oceans, "Daoyi Zhiluo" was printed on a large scale again and again in China.

Therefore, the Ming merchants who are now doing business in the Lion Country Gao Langbu also privately call this Wang Gang to commemorate Wang Dayuan.

At the beginning of the eleventh year of Wanli, Yin Zhengmao stood on the coast of Wanggang, and his eyes gradually became muddy and old, and he sighed deeply as he watched the completion of the ship coal plant built by the port according to the emperor's edict.

A new era is coming, but he doesn't know if he can still see it.