Chen Huaiqing still didn't quite understand his son's plan, and before Chen Dexing's words were finished, he asked: "Dexing, why is the one who governs the Three Buddhas a trade department?" Why not set up a province? Also, what about the original king of Sriwijayaya? ”

The Trade Division and the Government are obviously two completely different concepts. At present, the administrative division of Beiming is the state capital (the level of the state capital is the same), the county and city (the level of the county and city is also the same) and the township (the level of the township is also the same), and there are no provinces and roads. Therefore, the establishment of the government in Sriwijaya is to officially incorporate it into the Northern Ming Dynasty.

The Department of Trade, on the other hand, is a very vague yamen, as if it were an agency responsible for overseas trade and assisting in the collection of taxes. It is indeed a bit unjustifiable for a trade department to govern Sriwijaya.

"My lord, this trade division is naturally set up for trade, nominally to protect the trade of the Strait of Malacca can be carried out normally, not to directly rule the entire Sriwijaya country. Because we don't have the power to rule the whole of Sriwijaya now. ”

Sriwijaya is not the Singapore of later generations, but a regional power with the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra as the main body in later generations, including countless large and small islands around it. The capital is located in Palembang, Sumatra, with a population of about a few hundred thousand to a million, and the country is a feudal monarchy, with hundreds of feudal lords, large and small. If the Northern Ming wanted to establish direct rule in the Srivijaya Kingdom, it would not work without tens of thousands of troops stationed in various places for a long time.

But it can't be done! It's not that the Northern Ming army can't squeeze out these tens of thousands, but that after they reach Nanfan, they will encounter an enemy more terrible than the Mongols - malaria! This mosquito-borne disease was almost incurable for Chinese in the 13th century. The cinchona cream used to treat malaria is still far away somewhere in Nanmingzhou, and no one has found it. Chinese, on the other hand, have had little contact with malaria before. Therefore, there is also a lack of sufficient resistance to the disease. If a large number of people are to migrate to Sriwijaya in a hurry, it will inevitably cause a large number of population losses. Now the development of the island of Taiwan is unusually slow. Until now, there is only one city in Tamsui City, which is also plagued by malaria.

And in the 13th century. There is only one way to overcome malaria, which is to develop and build on a large scale to turn the primeval forests full of mosquitoes, snakes and ants into cities and rice paddies inhabited by humans, so as to reduce the chance of malaria parasites coming into contact with humans.

Therefore, Chen Dexing's southern strategy is not the kind of whale swallowing method that makes people feel a lot of people, but a kind of cannibalization method that makes people a little uncomfortable.

At present, it is necessary to occupy large cities that are stuck in shipping arteries, such as Palembang, the capital of Srivijaya Kingdom, which has already allowed the development of Nanfan monkeys to mature the territory, and take it as a large stronghold.

For the territory full of primeval forests and all kinds of tropical diseases, then the only way to let the natives of Nanfan occupy it first - kill them all or something. If you can't do it either, the monkeys will drill into the primeval forest, and who will be able to go deep into it and chase them?

Therefore, for the indigenous princes of Nanfan scattered in the plague land, they can only fight and deceive - for the upper echelons of the indigenous people who are willing to submit, they will use Tiandao to fool them, and then arm them, under the command of the Northern Ming officers, to attack the natives who are unwilling to submit. Meantime. The Department of Trade itself can also hire the indigenous Sriwijaya who have converted to Tiandao as soldiers to organize a "puppet army" to suppress resistance and maintain rule.

"As for the original Sriwijaya kings and royal ......"

Chen Dexing paused. sneered: "They will definitely be killed by Pu Shougeng!" My Ming expedition was not to annex the Three Buddhas, but to hunt down and kill the bandits who were making trouble in Quanzhou. After the expulsion of Pu Shou Geng. Because he couldn't find the royal family of Srivijaya Kingdom, he had to reluctantly establish a trade department. Temporarily rule the straits. We don't have any interest in other sites. ”

No interest, of course, is impossible! But it's still necessary to pretend you're not interested. Otherwise, the countries of Nanfan may have to unite to oppose the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Huaiqing was silent, and there was no way to give his opinion for a while. In fact, he is a traditional Chinese-style adviser, an insider and an outsider. asked him to seek the Southern Song Dynasty, and he seemed to be a good hand. can ask him to seek Nanfan, but it will not work to seek the Three Buddhas - his plan will go to Annam and Goryeo at most, and out of the Confucian circle, Lao Chen's strategy will have to be blinded.

Therefore, you can't rely on Lao Chen for the matter of seeking three Buddhas, you can only rely on the goddess Stick Ink Lady. Chen Dexing turned his gaze to the pretty face of the iceberg beauty-like ink shadow girl.

"Shadow Girl, what do you think?"

Mo Ying Niang pondered and said: "When the minister was in the Heavenly Dao Academy, he once asked several Bai Fan teachers about the Western Ming Sect, only to know that the Manichi Sect is also inherited in the West, called the Christian Purification School. This sect was considered heretical by the Ecumenical Church, and Pope Gregory IX set up the Inquisition to suppress the Puritists. Since my Heavenly Taoism has entered the mixed land of all religions in the south, there should also be this heretical inquisition, so as to prevent hypocrites from mixing up with each other. ”

What the? Inquisition! This madwoman is going to burn people at the stake in Nanfan?

Although Chen Dexing was quite disgusted with this practice in his heart, he did not immediately oppose it. For when religion is linked to privilege and struggle, it is natural to prevent the infiltration of adherents of hostile sects.

Mo Yingniang continued, "In addition, I have heard that the Western Ecumenical Church has the right to levy tithes, and use the tax to maintain church expenses and missionary evangelism......

Not only do you want to burn people, but you also want to collect tithes! This woman's heart is black enough! But...... Her request was not excessive. Because the Heavenly Daoist Sect has now become a tool for the expansion and external struggle of the Ming Dynasty. And to maximize the efficiency of this tool, it will not work without money and power. Moreover, to put it more clearly, since the Heavenly Dao Sect's divine sticks have made great efforts to expand the empire, they naturally have to have corresponding rewards and powers.

Otherwise, the Heavenly Daoist Sect has neither power nor money, who would be willing to follow and be a living Lei Feng? Xiao Ai her mother, isn't that nun Juexin reluctant to join the Heavenly Daoist Sect now?

"Hmm......" Chen Dexing was silent for a moment, and finally nodded, and said, "Ying Niang, what you propose, the Lone King can agree." However, neither the jurisdiction nor the ecclesiastical tax could be applied to China itself. Moreover, the right to adjudicate and collect taxes must be agreed by the Lone King and the Huaxia King of the land where the Heavenly Dao Altars are located before they can be exercised. ”

Chen Dexing turned his head to look at his father again, Chen Huaiqing, whose face was not very good-looking, smiled lightly: "My lord, how did you arrange the matter in Quanzhou?" ”

Chen Huaiqing smiled reluctantly and replied: "Over there in Quanzhou, I think so, let's drive the tiger and devour the wolf...... First let the people of the Pu family make trouble with the Tianfang Sect and merchants in the city, and expel the officers and soldiers of the Song State. Then our army will go in again, drive Pu Shougeng and them away, and take Quanzhou Yifu. This Quanzhou Mansion is not a big place, but it has a population of more than one million, which can be equivalent to several Yanjing Mansions in the north. The annual tax is as high as millions of yuan, and you will never suffer a loss if you take it down. ”

"Shadow Girl, what do you say?"

Mo Yingniang stood up and arched her hand and said, "As long as the king sends 300 archers and guards, he can take Quanzhou for the king!" ”

Chen Dexing smiled and nodded, and said, "Then there is Lao Yingniang." ”

Mo Yingniang bowed down and said, "The minister will not disgrace his life." ”

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With a soft sound, Wang Lixin, the deputy envoy of coastal control and the governor of Quanzhou Prefecture, pushed away the two documents in front of him.

Two documents, one is the Quanzhou Tianfang Sect Haoshang, the undertaker Lang Ma Shoushan told the Quanzhou Taiyi Guan Taoist Fang Yushan to be a Tiandao demon, and to raise samurai, plotting against him. One is that the Quanzhou Prefecture regiment trained Zhao and Yu to report that the Quanzhou Heavenly Daoists had made a change and plotted to rebel.

Although the sources of these two documents are different, the content of the accusations is almost the same - both are rebellions and rebellions of Quanzhou Tiandao disciples.

For such a secret report, Wang Lixin, who was considered by Emperor Lizong to be handsome and talented when he was a Zhongjinshi, also completely believed it. Isn't the Heavenly Daoist Sect just a bunch of anti-thieves? Therefore, Wang Lixin did not dare to take it lightly.

Now sitting under him, one is the leader of the Baifan merchants in Quanzhou, and Ma Shoushan, who has the rank of Cheng Lang. He was also a white man, with a thick beard, a high bridge of the nose, and brown eyes. has ambition and skill, the whole Quanzhou, after the decline of the Pu family, is probably the most heroic of his Ma family. Like Pu Shougeng before, the Ma family, who was born in the maritime business, also raised a lot of thugs and dead soldiers, and recently hired dozens of Mamluk soldiers from overseas to look after the home and nursing home.

The other is Zhao Youyu, the representative of the Quanzhou clan. This regimental training envoy was born in the clan, and he passed the Jinshi (the backdoor Jinshi of the clan, and the ordinary Jinshi are not tested together, and the future is not very good, and it cannot be compared with the genuine Jinshi who is tested by ability), and his expression looks elegant, and he is a scholar doctor. Originally, with his clan status, he should not have been involved in military power. But now it is an extraordinary period, and the scholars and doctors have mastered the military power through group training, so naturally they can no longer prevent the clan from getting involved in the army - if the military power is in the hands of the heavenly family alone, it is taboo for the clan to get involved in the army. But now the military generals have square towns, the civilian officials have regimental training, and everyone has soldiers. The commander of the Zhao family's clan is the wings of the heavenly family. Therefore, Zhao Yuyu of Quanzhou and Zhao and Zhi of eastern Zhejiang were all ordered to hold group exercises, and many sects also sought to be sent in the group exercises.

As for the activities of the Tiandao Sect in Quanzhou, Fanshang and the Quanzhou clan (Quanzhou is the residence of the Southern Foreign Sect of the Great Song Dynasty, and currently governs more than 3,000 clans surnamed Zhao) must be the most nervous. The former mostly adheres to the Heavenly Sect, and does not deal with the Heavenly Daoist Sect at all. The latter is the Zhao family, of course they are afraid of the Tiandao anti-thieves, if the anti-thieves are allowed to enter Quanzhou, will they have a way to live? Therefore, these surnamed Zhao have been nervous these days, and when they heard some news, they ran to the prefect's yamen, urging Wang Lixin to order the suppression of the Heavenly Daoists in Quanzhou. (To be continued......)