My Daming New Empire

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Because of the flu and gold rush, Ming's army stayed in Perth for more than a month. At this time, it was already the beginning of December.

A search for South Continent was originally planned to take three or four months, but now five months have passed, and the continent has not yet been circled.

Zhu Zhanji is very clear that since his group left Nanyang, all directions and waterways are unfamiliar.No matter how anxious the people staying in Nanyang are, it will be difficult for them to find themselves.

And there was no news of Zhu Zhanji for half a year, and it was impossible to pass the news to Daming. The current Zhu Di may have put a lot of pressure on them.

Time to go back...

As for the Boddington gold mine, it was left there just like the previous gold mine.

With the ability of the natives, it is impossible to mine gold mines at all. The most they do is to pick up some scattered gold nuggets or sand, which will not harm the interests of Daming.

What's more, when the Ming people brought more commodities, the gold in their hands finally fell into the hands of the Ming people.

On the fifth day of December, the army set out from Perth and sailed north along the west coast of South Africa.

This time it was against the wind again, and the speed was still very slow, but because it was sailing close to the coastline, life was not difficult.

There is no way to choose this season. If you come to Nanzhou along the northwest monsoon in January, it will be fast.

But it was the typhoon season in Nanzhou at that time, and the fleet only needed to experience one typhoon without knowing how many ships and people it would lose.

Originally, the fleet wanted to go to Timor Island once. Although the Timorese there had not directly traded with Daming, they were attached to Majapahit, and they had no connection with Daming.

But now the northwest wind is blowing, sailing towards Timor Island, it is a headwind.As a last resort, the fleet chose to sail northeast in the northwest of Nanzhou.

Along the way, although the main fleet has never docked, the students of Habayashi Weixue, under the arrangement of Zhu Zhanji, did a detailed survey and mapping of the entire coastline of Nanzhou.

From the waters near Darwin in later generations, the fleet returned to Turtle Island, and then turned due west from here.

As soon as the fleet arrived in the Maluku waters, they encountered the inner prison and the Nanyang left-behind fleet who came to greet him. Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw Zhu Zhanji and the others returning safely.

Zhang Yong and Zhang Qian, who stayed in Star City, have lost a lot of weight in the past six months. When Zhang Qian saw Zhu Zhanji, he shed tears with excitement.

Zhu Zhanji and the others have been there for half a year, but there is no news, and they will receive inquiries from Zhu Di almost every month in Nanyang, not to mention how much pressure they are under.

On the day of Lunar New Year's Eve, Zhu Zhanji's boat finally arrived at the Old Port.

Although it was still hot summer here, and they were going to spend a Spring Festival in the hot summer, everyone's mood was much higher.

This is not only because of the Chinese New Year, but also because in the Old Port, there are the most Chinese in Nanyang, and there is also the largest chicken village in Nanyang.

Zhu Zhanji had a good rest here for a few days. Everyone was exhausted during this voyage, and his women all lost a lot of weight.

I wrote a long letter to Zhu Di, including my experience in Nanzhou and some ideas on how to develop Nanzhou, Zhu Zhanji wrote it in.

Of course, what is more important is to copy all the navigation route maps from Nanyang to Nanzhou, the latitude and longitude of each island, and the orbit of the sun at different times in each area, and send it back to Daming.

With this nautical chart, even if Zhu Zhanji is not at home, Daming can directly send people to Nanzhou to prepare for future development.

After the fifth day, Zhu Zhanji had the mind to pay attention to the situation here in Jiugang.

Since the Ming army directly wiped out the Wanmao forces in Bengkulu, this area has now been directly managed by the Old Port.

Shi Jinqing has gradually become a real local overlord from a local power and nominal suzerain.

However, in implementing the Sinicization policy, he still did not come up with an effective management system, which disappointed Zhu Zhanji.

He is not Xie Jin. Jin Chun is a person who has been in contact with Zhu Zhanji for a long time and has accepted Zhu Zhanji's new thinking. He is still doing things in the same old way now.

Regarding this point, Zhu Zhanji has nothing to do.

Because his rule is currently in the interests of Ming Dynasty, he cannot be replaced just because of his shortcomings.

Then you can only change him slowly and let him do things in his own way.

In this process, the most effective way is to assign him direct and clear tasks.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Zhanji met Shi Jinqing, his daughter Shi Erjie, and his son Shi Jisun in the palace in the suburbs.

Zhu Zhanji made it clear that the Chinese language will be promoted on Sumatra Island. When he returns from the West, within a year, there will be at least [-] more Chinese-speaking people on Sumatra Island.

Speaking of this, he also made no secret of his disappointment with Shi Jinqing.

"Gu originally thought that you, as the head of the new Sanfoqi, would actively promote this policy after Gu May announced that the Nanyang countries would use Ming Mandarin as the common language, but Gu did not see your actions.

Moreover, most of the natives on the island still celebrate the Western Green Church festival. The most important Spring Festival in my Ming Dynasty is still only celebrated by the Han people, and those natives are excluded. "

Shi Jinqing tremblingly replied: "The veteran neglected his duty and let His Highness down."

"In addition to promoting the intermingling of Han people and natives this year, I only want you to vigorously promote Han festivals and clothing, so that the entire island's natives can't live without the control of Han people. Is it possible?"

Shi Jinqing hesitated for a moment, and replied: "I will do my best, and I will die!"

Zhu Zhanji understands that the thinking of a person like him has been finalized, and it is difficult for him to completely fall into himself if he does not take oil and salt.

He looked at his son and daughter again, and decided to focus on Second Sister Shi, the woman who left a tragic record in Nanyang.

The second sister Shi is also a capable woman. In history, he and Huang Guigu, the queen of Boni Kingdom at the same time, have left many records in history.

After Shi Jinqing's death, the second sister Shi took control of the power in Jiugang. Shi Jisun only served as the titular monarch for a while before being kicked out of power.

She controlled most of the southeast of Sumatra, but because Ming gave up Nanyang, the Chinese forces became rootless.

Since then, the various tribes have gradually stopped listening to the nominal capital of Old Port, and have gone their own way, with some attached to Aceh, some attached to Malaka, and some attached to Majapahit.

Thirty years later, Malaka unified the Malay Peninsula and began to attack the old port. The second sister Shi was already old at the time, but she personally led the army into battle. Because of the disparity in strength, she died heroically.

However, under the leadership of her descendants, the old port persisted for nearly 20 years before it completely perished.

Since then, the Chinese in Nanyang have no more to rely on, and have become lambs to be slaughtered.

It was not until more than 300 years later that a Chinese kingdom was formed on Borneo, but it was completely destroyed in less than 100 years.

After they left, Zhu Zhanji summoned Zhang Yong and Zhang Qian, and learned about the current power entanglement in the old port with them in detail, so that they would be a little bit on the side of Second Sister Shi in the future, and extend her support when she encountered difficulties. to help.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Zhanji convened generals and civil servants and held a plenary meeting.Inform them that after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the army will officially set off. This resolution was opposed by almost everyone.

The northeast monsoon blowing from the northern part of the Pacific Ocean forms a wind vortex with the local low pressure after reaching the equator.

The low pressure in the equatorial windless belt, even the monsoon can only retreat.The wind direction is affected in the Southeast Asia region, part of it forms the Indian monsoon, and part of it becomes the northwest wind.

Today's fleet sailing to the west is really sailing against the wind. Even though the sails of today's ships have been corrected by Zhu Zhanji, which is more conducive to the realization of Bernoulli's principle, sailing against the wind is still impossible in this era.

When sailing against the wind, no matter how strong the use of the sail is, there must be at least a [-]-degree deviation, otherwise the forward suction will not be formed at all.

If you head northwest at this time and go to India through the Strait of Malacca, you can almost only rely on the direction of ocean currents.