A number of officials and 1,000 craftsmen were left behind to recruit people to build fortresses and various fortifications, and to train Han Chinese who had reached the age of 16 to practice firearms.

Xu Hao finally made up his mind to turn the old port into a strong military fortress, not only to set up shipyards and arsenals one after another, but also to constantly attract displaced people to migrate overseas and set up military academies.

A month later, Xu Hao's fleet arrived at the port of Sambo, Java, where the history is always a striking coincidence, two hundred years ago, when the Yuan Dynasty's 20,000 expeditionary troops visited the area, when the Majapahit kingdom was in civil strife and the king was killed.

Maktarayasa surrendered to the Yuan army, and used a sword to induce the Yuan army to attack the rebels, and then the 20,000 Mongol army defeated 100,000 rebels and beheaded 5,000 people.

Ketarayasa, who did not want to stabilize the situation, suddenly attacked the officials of the Yuan Dynasty at the victory banquet, so that the Yuan army had to desperately break through the siege, trekking 300 miles of tropical rainforest to return to the coast, and after returning to Quanzhou, more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded.

Xu Hao saw this from the relevant records of the previous dynasty, and the Majapahit, like Annam, built up prestige by defeating the Yuan army, and thus rose strongly.

As soon as the fleet arrived at the port, they found smoke rising from all over the city, and there was civil unrest again, and the people fled in all directions crying and screaming, and King Wickrama led his army to chase and kill, and the rebels fought and retreated to the docks.

Xu Hao didn't plan to be good, and sneered: "During the Hongwu period, the Manchu Boyi dared to kill my envoy, can this revenge not be avenged?" Pass on my military order and wash this city in blood! ”

The lord of the country here, Wickrama, thought that the Ming army was a reinforcement found by the rebels, and was about to attack regardless of the order of 3721, but he didn't expect Xu Hao on the ship to be even more arrogant than him, and he ordered 10,000 cannons to be fired in unison.

The overwhelming shells covered one house after another, and the collapsed houses injured many people, and the warring parties were beaten by the crying fathers and mothers.

Mu Hui excitedly commanded the fleet to blockade the harbor and sent the 1st Janissary of the Navy to land in small boats, under the blow of artillery fire. When they landed on the shore, they raised their guns and fired at them.

Later, the Ming army sent a musket team of 10,000 people to carry out indiscriminate killing of the entire city, especially the Javanese people wielding war knives, regardless of men, women, old and children, all executed, and waited until the night when 100,000 people in the city died, and all the merchant ships on the port were looted by the Ming army, and the corpses were everywhere and the blood flowed like rivers.

Vikrama was so frightened that he had already turned his horse's head and fled out of the city, and his domineering and mighty appearance just now was gone, so he hurriedly sent someone to ask Xu Hao for his guilt.

Xu Hao did not relent, he remembered how the Malays and Indonesians treated the Chinese. And the excuse given is to avenge the dead officials, which is a high-sounding excuse in any country today, and even the people will only vent their anger on the king's head.

Of course, continuing to kill will definitely arouse the anger of the local people, and they cannot recklessly start a full-scale war before they gain a firm foothold.

Xu Hao was not polite to King Vikrama, and opened his mouth to ask for 60,000 taels of gold to atone for his sins, and Vikrama almost fainted when he heard it.

The current weak state of Manjapahit pays only one hundred taels of gold in tribute every year, and the number of Srivijaya is probably the same. The kingdom of Sumatra is worth only a thousand taels of gold a year.

60,000 taels of gold is equivalent to 20,000 tons of local specialty pepper, which is equivalent to ten years of trade income in the whole country of Majapahit.

The next day, Yao Guangxiao signed a compensation treaty with Vikrama on behalf of the imperial court. He also demanded that Majapahit cede the territory near the old port to the Ming Dynasty, stop collecting tribute from small countries, and open the port to finalize trade taxes and fees.

The First World War hollowed out the family foundation of the powerful Manjapahit, and finally Vikrama believed in the credibility of the Celestial Empire. The one who smashed the pot and sold the iron first paid 10,000 taels of gold.

Xu Hao was a man of his word, the former feud was temporarily written off, and all the Ming troops returned to the ship.

Three days later. The ambitious Bairi Missoula asked for permission to submit to the Ming Dynasty and annex the Manchurian kingdom to China, but Bairi Missula was assassinated by angry guards in the royal palace that night.

Baihua smiled and smiled, Xu Hao was a little apologetic, only a dead king is a good king.

In the name of revenge for Barry Missoula, the Ming army wiped out most of the aristocratic officials and 10,000 troops, and a large area from Manchu to Temasek, which later included Singapore, officially became Ming territory, and sent envoys to warn the King of Siam that Temasek was an overseas province of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Hao appointed Mu Yi as the first temporary governor of the province, transferred 10,000 people from the old port and left 5,000 troops, and Mu Yi was temporarily in charge of managing the military and government, waiting for the will from the imperial court.

In Manchurian and Temasek to build permanent castles and forcibly recruit locals to fortify the cities, Xu Hao wanted to build the Straits of Malacca into a general base for the fleet's westward advance, preparing to move hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese as much as possible.

Xu Hao's ambition was to make this place completely Han Chinese, and he would even go so far as to launch a genocidal war in the future.

The successive submissions and strong force of the three great powers of Malacca shocked Siam and sent envoys to pay tribute to the gold leaf. Xu Hao found that it was much easier than expected to control the entire strait, which shows that relying solely on force is far less effective than relying on a strong comprehensive national strength.

Historically, it took hundreds of years for the Western powers to finally conquer and control the South Seas, and for the Ming Dynasty, it seemed like a breeze.

Drinking water and thinking of the source, Xu Hao is particularly grateful to the ancestors of the Han people, if there is no ancestor to establish a strong and unified Central Plains Dynasty, how old will the Nanyang countries recognize you? Magellan's death fell at the hands of the indigenous Filipinos, and the Portuguese and Dutch expeditionary forces searched for a foothold for thirty or forty years.

For this reason, Xu Hao did not hesitate to spend 3,000 taels of gold to build a majestic temple of the Yellow Emperor, and rewarded the entire fleet.

Running Nanyang is not a day's work, Xu Hao stayed for a few days and embarked on a journey to the Indian Ocean, this time with a hundred flowers.

When the fleet was sailing on the vast sea, Yao Guangxiao came over with a pale face, looking weak because of seasickness.

Hundreds of staff officers were busy making plans and analyzing the various information provided by Baihua, while Xu Hao sat on his chair and tasted fragrant tea as if nothing happened.

Yao Guangxiao slowly sat down and closed his eyes for a moment, regained a little energy, opened his eyes and asked, "What do you want?" Is this a question shared by His Majesty and me? ”

Xu Hao said with a smile: "With the strength of the good wind, send me to Qingyun." I said that I was going to establish a country overseas. How is it? ”

Yao Guangxiao smiled bitterly: "Although seeing is believing, overseas is not a barbarian land, but these subject countries are fighting each other, the population is large, the environment is complex, how easy is it to build a country?" Besides, if you are not such an ambitious person, you must have other plans. ”

Xu Hao chuckled: "I remember telling you that this world is not immutable, every country has to forge ahead in order to survive, and the end of resting on one's laurels is the destruction of the country and the destruction of people." With such a vast world overseas, how can our DPRK be indifferent to this? If we are only satisfied with the coming of all nations, we will sooner or later miss the opportunity, because other powers will never give up the pace of conquest, and will gradually encroach on the countries of the South Seas, and then hit our doorstep. ”

Yao Guangxiao said in a deep voice: "In addition to the strong enemy in the north, dare to ask where the other strong enemies are?" ”

Suddenly, an old voice came, "If the master can live for a hundred more years, he will be able to see that scene." ”

Yao Guangxiao hurriedly got up and saluted: "The poor monk has seen the old man. ”

It was Xu Da, who had lived in seclusion in Liaodong for many years. This is also the reason why Xu Hao is relieved not to go to Liaodong, there is no more suitable candidate than Xu Da, Zhu Qiaoqiao has benefited a lot in recent years, and Dalian has become a prosperous business. All the secrets of the Xu family are in her hands.

Before he died, Xu Da wanted to see the outside world in his life, and he came by following the ship.

There is no need for Xu Hao to explain, Xu Datong guò Fengwu has learned a lot of history, how can he not know that it is true?

Xu Da sat down and said leisurely: "The master is a celestial man. But I don't know that the person who presided over this trip should have been Ma and the eunuch, right? ”

"What? Horses and? Yao Guangxiao was a little confused, turned his head to look at Xu Hao, and saw that he was smiling and silent.

Xu Da said with a smile: "Ma He has gone to the West seven times. He became a national hero in history, but except for a good story in the history books, it had no substantive significance, but the Europeans later sailed around the earth and discovered the American continent one after another.

Don't you know that the Europeans originally intended to find the wealth of my Ming and India? It turned out that the earth was round, and found here from the Americas, establishing colonies for trade.

The American continent later gave birth to the United States of America, which was the most powerful nation of all time, and to which the whole world was subserved. ”

Yao Guangxiao was shocked and hurriedly asked: "The poor monk didn't dare not believe the words of the old man, and dared to ask me what happened to me at that time?" ”

Xu Da said faintly: "It has been extinct for many years. ”

"What?" At this moment, Yao Guangxiao's face completely changed color, from pale to miserable white, and then a trace of blood rose, and he said angrily: "How to perish? Please ask for details. ”

Xu Da said: "You ask him." ”

Xu Hao faced Master Daoyan, who had fought side by side and cooperated inseamlessly, and didn't want to hide it from him, so he said helplessly: "The reasons for the demise are too complicated, and it will not be clear for a while, anyway, it is exactly the same as the rise and fall of the previous dynasties, the emperors in the court did not act, the party struggled constantly, the eunuch party was chaotic, the people were displaced and rose up, and the foreigners took advantage of the situation, and the Southern Song Dynasty finally perished in the hands of the current Jurchens and established the Qing Dynasty." ”

Yao Guangxiao asked again and again with a complicated expression, and finally sighed: "I see, no wonder Gongzi attaches great importance to the management of Liaodong and the construction of sea ships, it turns out that it is not for his own selfishness!" ”

Xu Hao was so moved that he almost didn't cry, after so many years, only the second grandfather Xu Da knew what he was for, and now there is another Yao Guangxiao, it can be said that he has a confidant in life, what more can he ask for!

Xu Hao said with emotion: "One person's strength is not enough to achieve things, and it takes many like-minded people to work together, and what I want to do can't be trusted by others, fortunately, my grandfather saved someone by chance, so that he can understand who I am." ”

Yao Guangxiao smiled bitterly: "Who can live without death in a hundred years?" Since Gongzi is not for usurping power, then for the sake of my Han descendants, how dare the poor monks support it? I only hope that Childe can solve my confusion from time to time. (To be continued......)