The cousin's case has raised many doubts, and Xu Hao directly identified him, which basically eliminates the possibility that some officials will arbitrarily judge in order to save trouble.

It was also Xu Hao who didn't have time to spend it for a long time, so he had to reveal his identity, and personally went to the women's cell at night to comfort and instruct Xiao Yuying, and set off for Quanzhou, Fujian on the third day.

Cam Ranh Bay, which is also known as Cam Ranh Bay in later generations, is surrounded by mountains up to 400 meters high, with two mountains hugging the inner and outer bays in the shape of a gourd, and is one of the finest deep-water ports in the world.

Nearly 100 ships flying the battle flags of the Ming Navy Division were neatly moored on the docks of the Inner Harbor, sailors in light shirts sewn in silk strolled along the coastline, nearly 1,000 soldiers in the newly renovated barracks were practicing with muskets in hand, and the locals were isolated in the village behind the small pier, not allowed to set foot in this area.

As the first stop of the Maritime Silk Road, Champa had become a supply port for merchants in the Song Dynasty, Xu Hao asked for the cession of Cam Ranh Bay to the Ming Dynasty as a precondition under the pretext of sending troops to rescue, and after being unsurprisingly refused, it was leased to the Ming Dynasty for a period of 199 years.

In fact, to be honest, Xu Hao does not particularly value Cam Ranh Bay, and does not plan to operate it into a solid military port.

Due to the grievances and grievances between later generations and Vietnam, Xu Hao did not stop the imperial court from attempting to attack on a large scale, and was happy to see it happen.

At this time, Xu Hao was dressed in single clothes. Sitting in the governor's mansion on the big treasure ship, Mu Hui walked in and said, "The king of Zhancheng wants to see you again." ”

"Nope." Xu Hao replied with his head down.

"Then I'll let the officials of the Ministry of Rites deal with it." Mu Hui casually ordered, walked over and said: "I have read the history books you gave me in the past few days, this Champa and Annan and Zhenla have fought for more than a thousand years, and no one can help anyone, interesting." ”

Xu Hao raised his head and said: "The environment here is more complicated than Yunnan, the political system of Annam is basically equivalent to our dynasty, and the Champa belongs to Indian culture. The status of an official is equated with that of a Brahmin. There is no sin more than the killing of a brahmin, let him speak to the people. By the way, it was strictly forbidden for officials to sleep with slaves and maidservants, who were a more despised race in the local area than the lowest untouchables. Don't let the people of Champa be disdainful. ”

Mu Hui exclaimed with an exaggerated expression: "That wild man looks like a Kunlun slave. It's dark and short. Girls in their twenties look like old women in their forties and fifties, who rarely sleeps with them? ”

Xu Hao smiled and said: "If you haven't been close to a woman for a long time, the sow can still race the sable cicada!" Don't think I don't know the good things that the people below me do. Anyway, you are not allowed to hook up outside, but it doesn't hurt in Cam Ranh Bay. ”

Mu Hui changed the topic and asked with a smile: "The imperial court has appointed Zhu Neng as the general of Zhengyi, and my brother-in-law as the right deputy general, and he is about to attack Annan and North in the near future, when will we send troops?" ”

Xu Hao said: "Don't worry, you hurry up to find out the clear waterway, ready to cooperate with the landing of the army at any time, I am worried that the soldiers will not adapt to the climate and environment by land, you seize the time to continue to search for medicinal herbs and spices, I don't want to see a large-scale epidemic occur." ”

Waiting for Mu Hui to go out, Xu Hao finished handling the business at hand, got up and walked to the window to look at the blue sea and blue sky in the distance, with a salty sea breeze, for a while he was relaxed and happy, no one knew that he took advantage of the court's strong request to send troops to attack Nan'an, and led the fleet to the sea to rescue the Zhancheng State, which was actually to start the long-awaited preparation of going to the Western Ocean.

Xu Hao would not go to sea for political purposes in order to promote the national prestige of the Celestial Empire, and everything was aimed at opening up maritime trade routes and establishing colonial ports in a low-key manner.

In the past few years, because of the acquiescence of the imperial court, the Japanese have almost disappeared, and the people of Fujian and Guangdong have returned to the seaside for many years to make a living, and soon some merchants began to prepare a fleet, this time following the merchant ships as many as dozens, and there is an endless stream of new merchant ships coming to barter every day.

Xu Hao was very disgusted with the retreating tributary system, too lazy to satisfy the vanity of the emperor and ministers, the so-called first-class foreigners and fourth-class Han seem to have originated from the Ming Dynasty, and China's traditional etiquette in the treatment of barbarians is really vividly exerted.

In history, Zheng He traveled around and brought back so many vassal kings, rewarding thousands of silks, thousands of porcelain, and countless copper coins, and the copper coins given to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of the Wa Kingdom alone were 1.5 million, and the following year he was rewarded with 15 million coins and 5 million princesses, so that the Wa Kingdom did not have to mint copper coins by itself for decades.

Fortunately, due to Xu Hao's birth, all rewards have been canceled or reduced to an acceptable level, and recently Ashikaga Yoshimitsu took the initiative to compensate 80,000 taels of gold in the face of the powerful Daming sailor.

In addition, the envoys who entertained the tribute, all the expenses were borne by the Ming Dynasty, and they had to be rewarded with a lot of carriage and horse fees, and people sold their own goods while holding huge rewards, and returned with a full load of treasure ships for free, if it was for economic and military interests, it was just that, the Ming Dynasty sought the reputation of just a benevolent and righteous state, isn't it sick?

Comrade Zhu Di repeatedly expressed compassion that he could not bear the separation of flesh and blood, and could not bear this kind of torture to happen to the people of all countries. It's so fucking hypocritical, isn't it cruel for Han people to be eunuchs?

In short, Xu Hao absolutely did not allow navigation to become a monopoly to satisfy the luxury enjoyment of the emperor and nobles, and all gains must be converted into real treasury income as much as possible.

There were 2,000 slaves bought at very low prices on the shore, working in the newly opened fields, and the craftsmen brought with them were building hundreds of spired warehouses.

Each merchant ship had to carry half of the rice back to the sea, and the freight was offset by customs duties, and in just two months, hundreds of thousands of stone of grain arrived in Jiangnan smoothly, quickly stabilizing grain prices.

Southeast Asia is blessed with a unique climatic environment. Three crops and four crops of rice a year, perennial fruits are sufficient, intelligence shows that the total population of Annan has reached an astonishing 3.8 million households, probably nearly 10 million people, Xu Hao does not know if there is water in it, but even if the population is reduced to half, it is difficult to occupy it for a long time.

The population of the Champa city is about three or four million, and the main belief in Brahmanism is based on Xu Hao's previous statement, Buddhism as the state religion that has been replaced. The population of faith is also quite large. It was the peak of Islam, and about 20,000 or 30,000 Cham people had converted to the white clothes.

Because of rampant piracy and war, Han merchant ships were generally reluctant to go deep into the South Seas, and Champa was regarded as a transit point for communicating with the South Seas. With this, it has the strength to fight long-term wars with neighboring countries.

The second stop in Java was later Indonesia. The population is terrifyingly close to 100 million. It is also the place where the Han people live the most, and the pirates led by Chen Zuyi roam the South Seas, and there is a conflict between the new maritime merchants and the traditional smuggling maritime merchants. In the past two years, many unknown merchant ships have been robbed and killed, and most law-abiding businessmen regard them as a fearful path.

The Philippines, which is across the sea from the Champa city, ushered in the first founding of the country in history, only a dozen years ago, the barbarian aborigines were ruled by immigrants, and they did not reach the Philippines by traditional routes.

Xu Hao discovered this more than a decade before history, and sent warships that were warmly welcomed by the three kings, and now he is ready to colonize the newly discovered islands of Cebu and Horaku, where hundreds of thousands of natives have a tradition of cultivating rice, and then establish a base to conquer Oceania.

Leaving everything to Mu Hui and the officials to take care of, the hot and humid temperature became cool and pleasant at night, and Xu Hao took three hundred people to Zhenla in a small boat.

Zhenla is the Cambodia of later generations, and now the Ming Dynasty calls it Ganwu, and it was renamed Cambodia in the Wanli period. Like Annam, Chenla was an autocratic central feudal dynasty, with a relatively well-established hierarchical feudal order, which produced a unique and splendid civilization, with a very developed agriculture and a criss-crossing network of ditches and water throughout the country.

The arrival of the Ming army immediately ordered a temporary truce between the sworn enemies of Zhancheng and Zhenla, among which the city and even the country were occupied by Annan, and the Lai of Zhanba naturally couldn't ask for it.

Chenla's situation is not very good, the government is corrupt, and the war with Champa Siam for many years is now declining, and the famous Angkor Dynasty is about to come to an end.

Xu Hao really wanted to see the splendid Angkor Wat, but unfortunately it took too much time, and he had no intention of taking the cultural heritage of mankind as his own, and the Cambodian people had no grudges against China.

With the officials of Zhenla as his guide, Xu Hao came to visit the nearest city, which was an important military town to defend against the Champa state.

From a distance, the city is about fifteen miles long, made of stones superimposed, up to two zhang, looks very strong and sturdy and does not grow weeds, but there is no female wall, there are five city gates, each city gate has two inner and outer two, the east side of Chaozhenla is two city gates, and the rest are all one gate.

This scale and craftsmanship are almost no less than the small cities of the Central Plains, it can be seen that the civilization of the Angkor Dynasty has reached a certain height, seeing is believing, it is said that there are more than 100 hospitals in Zhenla, and post stations are set up along the way, it seems that it should be true.

A wide moat surrounds the city, and a stone bridge spans it, on both sides of which stand hideous stone statues, like Chinese stone generals. The city gate has five stone carved Buddha heads, facing west.

The brothers next to him immediately let out an exclamation, and the Buddha statue in the middle was shining with gold, and the whole thing was decorated with gold leaf.

Xu Hao, who was riding on a horse, scolded with a smile: "Don't be so unproductive. ”

The dress of the Zhenla people is very interesting, quite like the ethnic minorities in Yunnan, men and women have cones, bare chests, wrap cloth around the waist, and go out with a large cloth wrapped around the chest.

It is said that the king used golden cloth, the pattern is extremely gorgeous and exquisite, the source is naturally from the Jiangnan embroidery workshop, although the country can also weave cloth, but the things of the Celestial Empire represent dignity.

The common people were not allowed to wear flower cloth, the only exception was the Han Chinese, who could openly wear silk and satin, and the locals did not dare to offend.

Suddenly, Xu Hao was stunned, and saw dozens of richly decorated elephants slowly coming out of the city gate, followed by a string of soft sedan chairs in gold and silver colors, with umbrella covers like clouds, all decorated with red juan from the Central Plains.

The accompanying Han officials spoke a little jerky Chinese, and said respectfully: "Lord Qiyu, in order to prevent the people of the Cham from having bad intentions, the lord of the country did not tell him, and he hoped to atone for his sins." (To be continued......)