My Daming New Empire

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In Mount Ceylon, the fleet stopped for a short time. Wang Jinghong arranged for the fleet to meet them and prepared a lot of fresh vegetables.

It took two days to load these fresh vegetables onto the ship, and after passing through Guli State, they arrived at the base set up by the Ming Fleet in Kezhi State.

The Daming Naval Base in Kezhi State is the westernmost stronghold of the Ming Dynasty. It was built during the second voyage to the West. It has a pier, a water purification filter pool, and a large vegetable field.

When the Ming Fleet did not come, it was managed by local people.But when the Ming Fleet arrives, the residents here will vacate the port and sell all the vegetables grown to the Ming Fleet.

The small city-states in India have no concept of a country at all. They regard Ming Dynasty as the kingdom of heaven, and they pay tribute every three years, and when they are bullied, they will ask Daming to support them.

Just before Zhu Zhanji and the others set off, the main reason for Hou Xian's envoys to India was to support Bangge Chai so that the Delhi Sultanate would not go to war.

The Delhi Sultanate did not dare to disobey Daming's opinion, accepted the mediation agreement, and ended its aggression against Banggeci.

Today's Daming is the real kingdom of heaven, and the farthest radiating area is Kochi, where Zhu Zhanji arrived now, and this is also Cochin on the west coast of India in later generations.

Zhu Zhanji didn't stop all the way. The main reason is that the heads of more than [-] small countries in southern India are all gathered in Kezhi.

Half a year ago, after Wang Jinghong arrived in Kezhi, he started the construction project here.

They not only re-dredged the harbor, but also spent a lot of money and more than 10 people on the South Island inside the Fort Kochi Bay to build a large oriental palace.

Zhu Zhanji didn't know the place of Kezhi, and it was not an important area in later generations.

He has been to India several times, all to New Delhi, Mumbai, and the Hindu holy land of Haridwar and the yoga holy land of Rishikesh at the southern foot of the Himalayas in the north.

When the fleet arrived at Kochi and the entire fleet entered the bay, he realized that Kochi was actually a port city with an excellent location.

Because this natural harbor is almost the most perfect natural deep-water harbor in the world.

The entrance and exit of Kochi Bay are less than 500 meters away, and the north and south are islands, and Kochi Fort is located on the South Island.After the fleet came in, it was not a mainland. The north and south were still two independent islands, and the innermost one was the mainland.

Whether it is between islands or between islands and the mainland, there are wide locations where ships can be docked.

The city is on the outermost island, and there are several independent large islands in the bay, which are surrounded by mountains and are not afraid of the invasion of wind and waves.

Seeing the map here, Zhu Zhanji pondered.Even if Daming is not interested in the Indian continent, this place must be occupied.

From Zhu Zhanji's flagship into the harbor, the sound of gun salutes rang out.

Everyone was used to the noise, but the two sleeping koalas were awakened by the shock and crawled into the corner in fright.

Although koalas look cute, they actually smell bad because they eat eucalyptus leaves.

Because Zhu Zhanji didn't like it, the women lost interest in this kind of small animals, and they were even more afraid that they would smell of koalas, and Zhu Zhanji didn't like them anymore.

So when they finally left Nanzhou, they only took two with them.

If it can survive to return to Daming, it will be placed in the zoo in the palace in the future, and it will be a surprise for children to see.

Blowing the sea breeze on the Indian Ocean, a group of women are very excited to go to a popular foreign land and see a new world.

After all, they are still sixteen or seventeen years old, or even thirteen or fourteen years old, and they still like the bustling noise.

In later generations, there are many people who think they are mavericks, and they think they like a secluded place away from the world, but that is in an environment with Internet and food.

It really makes you have nothing, live in a pit, a shack, and grow your own food and vegetables.Not seeing a single person every day, not knowing any outside information, I am afraid that few people can bear it.

The welcome ceremony in Kezhi was more grand than any previous one, because it was the first official appearance of the Ming imperial family in the West.

This is not only related to Daming's face, but also related to the situation in the entire Indian subcontinent.

Therefore, according to the information obtained in advance, except for a few countries whose leaders were too old or too small, they only sent representatives, and the leaders of other city-states came here in person.

Of course, it was mainly the city-states in the south who came, and the northern region was not sent over because of the influence of the Delhi Sultanate.

Instead, the Delhi Sultanate sent a large delegation to welcome them.

Zhu Zhanji knows the situation here better than anyone else, and he is very clear that the current Delhi Sultanate is a puppet of the Timur Kingdom, and they are deliberately eye-salting Daming.

Zhu Zhanji also consulted his subordinates on whether to punish them, but was persuaded to give up the idea later.

First of all, even if they landed from Mumbai, the distance from Delhi was 2000 or [-] miles. According to the current normal marching speed of [-] miles a day, this trip would take [-] days just to go back and forth, let alone fight.

Secondly, Zhu Zhanji can't finish everything. Zhu Di is now concentrating on crusade against Timur.

Zhu Zhanji stepped in, and if he was defeated, Zhu Di would rush to avenge him.If he wins the battle, Zhu Di will still annoy him.

As a grandson, you are dishonest, and you just want to take credit from your grandfather, do you still want to mess around.

So Zhu Zhanji has decided that what he has to do this time is to understand the topography of West Asia and prepare for future wars instead of taking credit.

As long as the other party doesn't provoke him, he will be more peaceful.

This time he went out, his main focus was on Europe. He wanted to make those country bumpkins in Europe feel ashamed and prevent them from developing the nautical industry.

The flagship finally docked firmly at a newly built pier on the South Island in the bay. Standing on the bow of the ship condescendingly, one can clearly see that not far from the pier is a magnificent palace-style building.

Because Zhu Zhanji paid special attention to greening, although the palace is mainly of brick and wood structure, it still retains a large number of trees.

In the eyes of Indians, it is too extravagant to build a palace just to welcome the arrival of a prince.

Zhu Zhanji had no intention of explaining that this was to prepare for Zhu Di's Western Expedition in two years, so that they would misunderstand and show the glory of Ming Dynasty even more.

After the nine gun salutes, the flagship also docked securely. Headed by Wang Jinghong, he led the vassal kings in southern India to bow down three times.

The dragon chariot that Zhu Zhanji showed was on the boat that arrived earlier, and it was already placed by the pier at this time, and eight horses were comforted by the groom, waiting for the departure.

The emperor's dragon robe is a five-clawed golden dragon. Although the dragon robe worn by Zhu Zhanji looks the same as the emperor's, it only has four claws.

Another difference is the crown.The emperor's crown has twelve crowns, while Zhu Zhanji wears nine crowns.

Following Zhu Zhanji's disembarkation, the royal dragon flag on the ship was also lowered, and the guard of honor of 99 people also stood on both sides of the red carpet below, waiting for Zhu Zhanji's arrival.

The current red carpet is of course not a carpet, but just red silk. Although silk is expensive, it is nothing to Daming.

But that kind of densely woven blanket is a luxury for Daming.

Not everyone can walk on this red carpet, except for Zhu Zhanji and the clan's children, only his concubine can walk.Even Zheng He, a deputy commander like Xue Lu who greeted him, could not leave.

This kind of pomp stunned almost everyone who came to greet him, those Indian vassals looked at Zhu Zhanji with envious and admiring expressions.

Silk is more expensive than gold, but now it is only for paving the ground.

There is also this majestic guard of honor and the fleet that covers the sky and the sun, all of which can not explain the prosperity of Ming Dynasty.

Many princes among them can only rely on small carriages to go out, and even some poor ones can solve the problem with a sliding pole.

It never occurred to them that traveling alone requires a hundred people to wait on them. Even when they spit, there is someone waiting with a spittoon.