My Daming New Empire

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Seeing that these natives were so well-behaved, he took an inch to coerce the local chiefs in this area to submit to Spain and pay tribute to the Spanish king.

Lapu Lapu, the leader of Mactan Island, a coral island near Cebu, firmly refused.After receiving the report, Magellan personally led the Spanish army in iron armor to attack Mactan Island.

Lapu Lapu led the islanders to rise up against the Spanish colonists and killed Magellan.

The inhabitants of the small islands in Southeast Asia are almost all peace-loving. They are docile by nature. As long as their interests are not really harmed, they will always accept outsiders with a studious and friendly attitude.

Because they did not have their own culture, they accepted the Green Church when the Arabs brought it to them, and later accepted Christianity when the Spanish conquered them.

In fact, they have no beliefs, they just learn foreign cultures with the mentality of a small country with few people.

Today's Green Sect has not yet become the state religion of Southeast Asian countries. At this time, Da Ming should strengthen its influence on them so that they can truly become citizens of Da Ming.

With such a large population, they become Daming's labor force and can bring more benefits to Daming.

Zhu Zhanji walked down the high gangway with his head held high, and all the people kneeling on the shore kowtowed three times in a row under the instruction of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and then stood up under the command of the officials.

The three kings on the Sulu Islands, East King Batu Gebahara, West King Mahala Gemading, and Dong King Batu Gebalab are actually the leaders of the three major tribes.

Today's Sulu Kingdom is not a real country either.

They still belong to the alliance system, and the management system is three sets instead of one.From the perspective of the state system, they are not as good as a centralized state like the smaller Boni state.

In history, that is, this year, the three kings led a delegation of more than 300 people to worship in Ming Dynasty after Zheng He's voyage to the west.

Zhu Di was in Beiping at that time. After they arrived at Yingtian Mansion, they were shocked by the prosperity of Ming Dynasty. Later, they went to Beiping to pay homage to the emperor and were received grandly by Emperor Yongle.

The three kings stayed happily in Beijing for nearly a month, and then returned home by boat along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.On the way back to the country via Shandong, Dong Wang unfortunately contracted an illness and died in Dezhou on September 15, 9th year of Yongle.

When Emperor Yongle heard the obituary, he was deeply mourned, so he sent a doctor from the Ministry of Rites, Qi Zhongqi, to Dezhou to bury Dongwang with the ceremony of a vassal king.

The eldest son of the Eastern King, Governor Ma Han, returned home to inherit the throne. The princess Ge Muning, the second son Wen Hara, the third son Andulu and more than ten attendants stayed in Dezhou to guard the tomb.

His descendants obtained Chinese nationality in the Qing Dynasty and took the surnames of An and Wen.Later, due to several major natural disasters in history, many descendants of the Eastern King left Dezhou and distributed in many places.

Then the descendants of King Dongdong have already integrated into China and become a part of China.

Zhu Zhanji developed in Southeast Asia in his previous life, and has a very clear understanding of the history, ethnic groups, and mineral resources of Southeast Asian countries.

He now knows that there is a world-class super-large gold and copper mine near Cebu in later generations.And the entire Mindanao Island, under 40.00% of the land, are various gold mines and copper mines. The entire island is almost a mine.

How to guide the economic development here, in fact, he already has a general framework in his mind, but all this has to wait until he truly becomes the emperor.

Wanting to change Daming's foreign policy is not something he, a great-grandson who has not yet been in charge of the government, can do.

His voyage to the West this time is to sort out the complex relations among the countries in Southeast Asia, become the arbiter among the islands in Southeast Asia, and control the entire situation in his own hands.

No matter whether these regions are included in the territory of Ming Dynasty in the future, or they become vassal states like Japan and North Korea, there is no need to rush to decide on these matters.

Because there is also a question of religious belief involved.

Today Southeast Asian countries, Sumatra, and Java have all established a development system in which the Green Church is the state religion.Manlajia, Boni Kingdom has also been profoundly influenced by the Green Sect.

The Battle of Talas between the Tang Dynasty and Arabia was a battle with far-reaching influence.In that battle, the Arabs captured some humble craftsmen from the Tang Dynasty, but it was these craftsmen who brought papermaking to the Arabs.

Paper mills were established in Samarkand and Baghdad immediately, and 100 years later, hundreds of shops in Baghdad employed scribes and bookbinders, and even began to establish public libraries, including the first library that opened book rental services to the outside world.

Subsequently, papermaking spread from Arabia to North Africa, Al-Andalus, and to Europe in the 13th century.

The unification and division of the Arab world allowed the Arabs to expand westward from South Asia to Africa, Europe, and eastward to the entire Southeast Asia region.

During the 700 years from the end of the eighth century to the fifteenth century, artists, engineers, scholars, poets, philosophers, geographers and businessmen in the Arab world emerged in large numbers.

On the basis of traditional academics, it retains and promotes the development of art, agriculture, economy, industry, law, literature, navigation, philosophy, science, sociology, and technology, and implements reforms and innovations in these areas on the basis of the foundation.

Together, their artists, scientists, luminaries, and workers created a unique culture that directly and indirectly influenced the social fabric of every continent.

This is the golden age of Islam, which is famous all over the world. Until the 21st century, the cultural territory of the whole world is left over from this era.

On the contrary, because Ming gave up Jiaozhi, it caused Ming to lose control of Southeast Asia.The area that Eastern civilization can influence is only Northeast Asia, which is far behind Christian civilization and Islamic civilization.

If Zhu Zhanji wants to bring these islands in Southeast Asia into the territory of Ming Dynasty, the first thing to do is to expel the influence of other civilizations on Southeast Asia. This is a very difficult task.

Today's East King Batu Ge Bahala and the others have actually been influenced by the Green Sect, but they have not yet made the Green Sect the state religion, which will happen more than 100 years later.

Because today's Ming Dynasty is far more powerful than the civilization represented by the Green Sect.

Facing Zhu Zhanji, the grandson of the Ming Dynasty, they were all very humble. The three kings greeted Zhu Zhanji together in an almost humble attitude.

When Zhu Zhanji's dragon chariot, which needs to be pulled by eight horses, was hoisted from the ship by a crane, dozens of mighty horses were pulled down, and thousands of heroic guards of honor were laid out in a compelling manner. After losing their momentum, everyone fell under Daming's powerful civilization.

All of this is beyond their imagination.

Zhu Zhanji invited the three kings to sit on the dragon chariot with him. The three of them were trembling, but refused, and then sat down by the skirt, waving to their subjects proudly.

With the sound of horseshoes ticking, the huge dragon chariot slowly drove towards Holo City.

Because the wooden city gate was too narrow, the soldiers of Daming tore down the gate of Holo City in a simple and rude manner, but the three princes not only did not take offense at all, but also repeatedly apologized to Zhu Zhanji, thinking that their city was too stingy up.

This city is really stingy, the city wall is only a one-meter-high earthen wall with a row of wooden fences on it, such protection is simply pitiful.

And their army is even more pitiful. Most of them have copper spears in their hands, and only a few generals have an iron knife.

The carriage arrived at the Three Princes' Mansion, which were actually three large houses, mainly made of wood, with only a circle of low earthen walls.The three houses are arranged in a character shape, and in the middle is a square.

Zhu Zhanji did not "see the strangeness", but comforted them in a soft voice, and invited them to Daming to see it.And promised them that Daming is willing to provide assistance to the Sulu Kingdom in various aspects such as construction and agriculture.

The three kings couldn't help being overjoyed, and their attitude towards Zhu Zhanji became even more humble.

The meeting between Zhu Zhanji and the three kings unfolded in such an unequal and friendly atmosphere, but all of this was so natural.

The civil and military officials of Ming Dynasty looked down on such a small country, but the subjects of Sulu Kingdom took it for granted.

They saw the fleet of Ming Dynasty, the might and civilization of the Kingdom of Heaven, and they were already overwhelmed by it.

Thank you for seeing people with lights, Shan Qingying, I spit on you, and the reward of bamboo sticks, thank you for your support

Chapter 12 Agents

In Luzon, Zhu Zhanji has set the nail on Xu Chai Lao.

Compared with a governor with false titles, he directly listed Luzon, an island equivalent to half the size of a province, as the state capital, and gave Xu Chai Lao the title of a fourth-rank magistrate with real power, and directly tied him firmly to the Ming Dynasty. big boat.

In order to return home, in order to transform the position into greater power.Even without Zhu Zhanji's promotion, Xu Chai will work hard to develop and control Luzon.

In addition, the intern civil servants Zhu Zhanji left in Luzon, the soldiers of the Habayashi Guard School of Surveying and Mapping, and the help of the staff of the Jinyiwei and the Information Department.

There is also a new type of musket, which is an advanced weapon that has surpassed the local for several generations. Xu Chai, who is already good at dancing, reassures Zhu Zhanji that he will definitely speed up the Sinicization of Luzon Island.