The expeditionary force boarded the ship and set off.
Among those coming from the capital, except for the more than 10,000 soldiers, the other nearly 8,000 are talents in various fields.
Doctor.
It is extremely cold in the north, so catching a cold and fever is a very normal phenomenon. There may be more troublesome things, so a doctor is naturally indispensable.
You should also bring along medicinal herbs that can reduce fever, dispel cold, and prevent frost.
artisan.
Some were firearms craftsmen, and some were skilled in other fields.
Firearms inevitably need to be repaired, and the main thing they carry is muskets, and cannons are too heavy and obviously not suitable.
There are some indigenous people living in the entire northern border, but their number is pitifully small. Not to mention muskets, a round of cold weapon charge by soldiers can easily take them down.
The purpose of the musket was more to protect against wild beasts, and after arriving in North America, it could effectively kill the enemy when conflicts broke out with local indigenous peoples.
There are also some other special talents.
For example, there are people in the Imperial Observatory who understand Feng Shui, people in the Embroidered Uniform Guard who have a high talent for languages, and there are also people in charge of record keeping, map drawing, and so on.
All in all, this configuration is very complete.
Huang Guan made a great contribution here.
Xu Huizu went to Tubo to fight a tug-of-war, which was too far away from the capital. The delay in the transmission of military reports was too high. Moreover, given Xu Huizu's situation, he had to win by playing it safe, and it would be difficult for any major changes to take place in a short period of time.
Zhu Ying then turned his attention to Southeast Asia again.
Public opinion is really a good thing. The emergence of official bulletins, especially after they were launched on a large scale throughout the Ming Dynasty, made it easier for the imperial court to control public opinion.
It's still the same routine, just like recruiting soldiers.
Zhu Ying's imperial edict arrived at the Dibao Office, asking them to publicize the benefits of going to Southeast Asia.
For example, you can pick up money everywhere in Nanyang now, opportunities to make a fortune are everywhere, and the scenery is also very beautiful.
How much money did a certain family earn from a trip to Southeast Asia?
How much does a certain worker earn in a month working in Nanyang?
"Uh, why do I suddenly feel like I've tricked someone into going to Ganguzi in northern Myanmar?"
Zhu Ying thought with some confusion.
Of course, this is all for better immigration.
The current situation in Nanyang is completely different from that in later generations.
First of all, there is the deterrent power of the Ming Dynasty there, with the navy stationed by the sea and the vassal king, King Wu, in charge.
As long as you are a registered citizen of the Ming Dynasty, you are three points superior to others there.
If a lawsuit arises, the local authorities will normally side with the Ming people. They are just a vassal state and do not want to cause disputes.
Now the coastal waters of Annan, Champa and Zhenla are all under the jurisdiction of the Ming Navy.
How could the miscellaneous soldiers in Malacca compare with the regular army of the Ming Dynasty? It was like a handover. When the Ming navy arrived in Malacca, the local natives tactfully gave way.
However, after receiving the latest information, Zhu Ying was speechless.
Because of the Ming Dynasty's propaganda, many people ran to Champa.
Due to the threat from the Ming navy, it was difficult for the Champa government to do anything, and it was unable to govern.
Song Zhong and Zhu Yunwen joined forces to deal a severe blow to the Champa nobles in order to open a Chinese school.
Especially some big nobles are the primary targets.
Although Zhan Wangcha was not a puppet, most of the political power was controlled by the nobles. After these nobles were defeated, Zhan Wangcha also wanted to take back power, but Song Zhong and Zhu Yunwen naturally disagreed.
They simply supported some small nobles to divide the property.
Therefore, the current Champa can only be described as a chaos.
Today, Champa is full of gangs and underworld forces.
The original one was the Cao Gang.
Those who could not make it in the Ming Dynasty began to move on a large scale after tasting the sweetness of Champa.
Zhu Ying cracked down hard on gangs within the Ming Dynasty, especially after the establishment of the Public Security Bureau throughout the Ming Dynasty, many gangs had no room to survive.
Cao Bang is one of them.
Because maritime trade was profitable, the Cao Gang, which originally engaged in inland water transportation, also pooled some money to buy ships. Most of their backbone members followed to transport goods and sold them in Champa, and they quickly earned their first pot of gold.
In Champa, the leader of the Cao Gang was surprised to find that the local government was surprisingly weak, and in many cases, it was all about money.
Whoever gives more money can get more convenience.
The leader of the Cao Gang immediately realized that this situation was a blessing for the gang.
After returning to Ming Dynasty, he immediately decided to take a large number of gang members to Champa.
Those who are unwilling to go with us can be considered to have left the gang by giving them some resettlement money.
In just less than two months, the Cao Gang quickly took root in Champa and began to expand gradually.
The size of his gang expanded rapidly, and it was even more powerful than during the heyday of the Ming Dynasty.
This is incredible.
The Ming Dynasty was too lazy to care about the collision between the Cao Gang and certain local officials.
As a result, the Cao Gang was able to quickly establish its own network of relationships.
Even the stationed navy had been contacted by the King of Wu.
The news of the Cao Gang soon spread to the gangs in the Ming Dynasty.
Their days in the Ming Dynasty were really hard.
Except for some gangs that do have a strong background, most gangs find it difficult to develop under the crackdown by the Public Security Bureau, and the brothers in the gang can hardly afford to eat.
The news about the Cao Gang going to Southeast Asia spread quickly in the underworld.
Some people began to laugh, saying that there was no way to make money in such a barbaric land.
However, the slap in the face came too quickly and there was no time to react.
When the news reached the Ming Dynasty, the Cao Gang had grown to a size of 3,000 people in Southeast Asia, including a large number of barbarians, and even had their own territory.
"Three thousand people, can his Cao Gang afford it?"
Three thousand people is a big gang. Before the gangs in the Ming Dynasty were cracked down, the average large gang was only about four to five thousand people in size.
Now in the territory of Daming Dynasty, there are two or three people, which is already very good.
Hearing that the Cao Gang was doing well in Champa, the gangs in the Ming Dynasty naturally didn't want to miss out on this lucrative opportunity.
They all started to raise money to buy boats and find connections to go out to sea.
The purpose is to go to Champa.
There were dozens of gangs that went to Champa one after another.
Champa today has become a world ruled by gangs.
After completing the work at the Han School, Song Zhong returned to the Ming Dynasty.
"Your Highness, Champa is in chaos right now. These gangs are willing to do anything to seize territory, including poisoning, sneak attacks, assassinations, and so on."
"At the end, they went completely crazy and started fighting directly on the coastal docks, completely disregarding the surrounding situation."
"Fortunately, the navy was dispatched to suppress the situation, otherwise the entire dock would have been in chaos and many foreign merchants would have been affected."
"The garrison commander, Jin Kaishan, called all the gang leaders together and re-established the rules, ordering them not to harm innocent people, not to poison, and not to use firearms on a large scale to fight you."
"These lunatics, they took out the cannons at that time, I don't know where they got so many matchlock guns from, I have also checked, they are not produced in our Ming Dynasty."
"The Champa government is like a piece of crap. Some of the government offices have only a few dozen people, and they are not even as good as a gang. They don't even have a few muskets. I'm really worried that when they go to suppress the gang, they will be killed by the gang leader instead."
"Most of the high-ranking officials of these gangs are from the Ming Dynasty. King Zhan did not dare to send out the army, for fear of causing disputes with our Ming Dynasty."
"His Royal Highness King Wu has received a lot of money from the gangs and helped suppress the Champa government. However, Commander Jin has set rules, and these gangs have restrained themselves when they take action. At least they will no longer affect merchants and residents."
"However, the owners of restaurants and shops that opened on the territories of these gangs had to pay membership fees to ensure safety. As a result, the gangs began to fight for territory everywhere, and some internal rules were established during the fighting."
As Zhu Ying listened to Song Zhong's story, he felt as if he were witnessing the Hong Kong Young and Dangerous gang in later generations.
However, the current situation in Champa is more in line with the interests of the Ming Dynasty.
Originally, Zhu Ying wanted to cause chaos in Champa, and from another perspective, these gangs can also be considered migrating immigrants.
"Were there many casualties in the fight?" Zhu Ying asked casually.
He was more concerned about the situation of the Ming people there.
Song Zhong replied: "These gangs are also smart. Most of them have bought large ships. While fighting for territory, they also engage in maritime trade."
"The local Zhan people live in poverty and are willing to join the army for little money. The casualties are mainly from the Zhan people or sailors recruited from other countries."
"There is also slave trade over there. Those who came from the Ming Dynasty were also worried about their own safety. They were from a foreign land, all for the purpose of making some money. Why would they risk their lives with their own family? Therefore, they set a rule that they could not kill their compatriots unless they were in a fight to the death. If they were captured, they could pay to redeem them."
"It's inevitable that there will be some casualties, but overall it's pretty good."
Zhu Ying was quite satisfied with this.
Although our Ming Dynasty has a large population, we cannot lose it so easily.
…
The rear hall of Kunning Palace.
The people living here are naturally Zhu Ying's concubines.
As the Crown Princess, Ye Yueqing lived in the main hall in the middle.
At present, including Ye Yueqing, Zhu Ying already has seven concubines.
In terms of sleeping with the emperor, the rotation is exactly every seven days.
Except Ye Yueqing and Xu Miaojin, they are Han Chinese.
The others came from Goryeo, Annan, Japan, Champa, and Zhenla.
Goryeo, Annan, and Japan, this side is not so bad, they are all Asian faces.
Zhenla and Champa are both a mixture of Chinese and Western cultures.
I have to admit, it has a unique flavor.
In fact, normally speaking, during the crown prince stage, it is rare for a monarch to have seven concubines like Zhu Ying.
If it were another crown prince, he would easily be accused by civil officials of being obsessed with beauty.
Even the Crown Prince Zhu Biao only had one main and one side.
The other princes were roughly the same, like Zhu Chong, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di, etc. Even though they had become vassal kings, they did not marry concubines on a large scale.
But under the current circumstances, no minister dared to say anything.
At the very beginning, when Zhu Ying had not yet reorganized the censors, some censors did report to Zhu Yuanzhang and impeached His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for being obsessed with beauty.
Originally, this was just a procedure for the censors. Whether His Majesty would punish the Crown Prince or not had little to do with them.
However, when Zhu Yuanzhang received this memorial, he became furious.
Our eldest grandson finally came back.
How much suffering he endured outside.
Ten years of life and death.
Do you know how our eldest grandson has been through the past ten years?
Now that you're back, why can't you enjoy yourself?
Zhu Yuanzhang did not punish censors before because he wanted them to serve as supervisors and to allow them to speak without being punished for their speech.
But when it comes to the Crown Prince, I'm sorry, we can only make an exception.
He immediately ordered the Embroidered Uniform Guard to severely beat up the censor who had submitted a memorial to impeach the Crown Prince.
He won't be beaten to death, but at least he will have to lie in bed for several months, and half his life will be gone.
Zhu Ying was unaware of this, so there was no further incident of the censors impeaching the crown prince.
Everyone knows that the Crown Prince is His Majesty's Achilles' heel.
A letter was delivered to the back hall of Kunning Palace by the eunuch.
"My Lady, this letter was sent from Champa in Southeast Asia. The sender is Lady Nafei's father."
The eunuch respectfully handed the letter to Ye Yueqing.
As the master of the rear palace, Ye Yueqing has great power over the concubines.
The concubines' food, clothing, maids, eunuchs, and even leaving the back hall all required Ye Yueqing's permission.
Except for Xu Miaojin, other concubines are from other countries, so the delivery of letters also needs Ye Yueqing's consent and review.
"No need to look at it, send it to Na Fei."
"Yes, madam."
In fact, in Ye Yueqing's view, although these concubines who married far away in the capital gained wealth and glory, they also lost a lot.
In other aspects, Ye Yueqing never skimped on money.
In the room on the left side of the rear hall.
Ananya is copying a painting.
The painting used for copying was said to have been painted by an artist from Obaro when he saw the Ming treasure ship arrive at the coastal port of Champa.
At an auction house in the capital, it was sold at a sky-high price of seven thousand strings of treasure notes.
When Zhu Ying heard the news, he heard that the painting was of Champa, so he sent someone to buy it and gave it to Ananiya, so that she could remember her hometown.
Ananiya dipped the paint on her paintbrush, looked at the scene in the painting on the left, and carefully applied the paint to her own painting.
This painting is almost finished. From a distance it looks similar to the one on the left, but if you look closely you can see many differences.
This is not the first time that Ananya has copied. She has learned painting before, but the copying technique she uses comes from Europe, so there is a big difference.
The biggest difference is the colors of the two paintings.
The paint used by Ananya is obviously brighter than the copied painting. In comparison, the tone of the original painting seems a bit gray.
This is because the pigments of the Ming Dynasty were better than those in Europe.
"My lady."
There was a knock on the door. Actually, the door was not closed, but it was impossible for the eunuch to just come in.
Ananiya, who heard the sound, didn't pay attention, her hand trembled, and the painting went crooked, and it was obvious that the painting was ruined.
But she wasn't angry, because she was still studying anyway.
"Come in."
"Yes, madam."
The eunuch outside the door came in after getting permission, then bowed and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, here is a letter from Champa, sent by your father."
A hint of surprise flashed in Ananya's eyes, and she quickly said, "Bring it here."
The eunuch handed over the letter respectfully, then took two steps back and stood at the door.
Ananiya said casually: "You go down first."
"Yes, madam."
Ananya was very happy to receive the letter from home. She walked to the table under the windowsill, carefully opened the letter, and then unfolded it all.
The letter was written in Zhamu, and Ananya read it carefully.
But as she looked further, the light in Ananya's eyes dimmed.
The content of the letter mainly describes the current situation in Champa.
Nowadays, many gangs have suddenly emerged in Champa, all of which were founded by people from the Ming Dynasty.
They had a great influence on Champa, arbitrarily dividing the territories of various cities in Champa and collecting protection fees.
The competition between them had a great impact, and even the ports were occupied.
He is the governor of the port and his power is now greatly affected.
He hoped that his daughter would plead for mercy and ask the crown prince for help, so that he could use the power of the Ming navy to consolidate his own power.
The reason why Ananya's mood gradually became depressed was that she did not see any concern for herself in her father's letter. All the words were about how to maintain his own power.
Not even a word of missing you.
Ananya put away the letter, the light in her once bright eyes dimmed, and she felt a little depressed.
Looking out the window, Ananya was a little absent-minded.
She actually knew that her father never cared about her.
When I was very young, my father discovered my beauty and planned to use me as a tool for marriage.
The reason why it was not decided quickly was because my father was waiting for a good price.
It was not until King Zhan proposed to present a princess to the grandson of the Ming Dynasty that my father offered himself up.
Now, as he wished, she had accidentally become the concubine of the Ming Crown Prince.
And my father also jumped from an ordinary noble to the governor of Champa's coastal ports.
Although he is just a port governor and the territory under his jurisdiction seems not large, it is actually the most popular official position in Champa.
Many Champa nobles fought for this place because it involved most of the taxes of the entire Champa and was the place with the most money.
"As you wish, my father."
Ananya sighed and carefully placed the letter in the drawer of her dresser.
Then he stood up and walked out of the house.
If she wanted to ask the Crown Prince for help, she had to get Ye Yueqing's consent first.
Just as Ananya was about to go out, a child came running over, jumping and skipping.
"Mother, mother, I heard that my grandfather sent me a letter. I want to read it. I want to read it."
Behind the child, two palace maids ran over.
When he saw Ananiya, he bowed his head and saluted: "My queen."
This child, who is about to turn three, is Zhu Wenzhan, the child that Ananya gave birth to Zhu Ying.
"Mother still has to go to Auntie's place, can you come back and check it out?"
Looking at Xiao Wenzhan, Ananya, who was originally a little depressed, suddenly felt brightened up.
Women are weak by nature, but they become strong when they become mothers.
Ananya thought a lot. She really wanted to help her father, not because she was his daughter, but also because of her child, the future King of Zhan.
She knew that Zhu Yunwen, the grandson of the Ming emperor, now occupied the former Wuli Kingdom and appointed him as a vassal king.
She wanted her children to take charge of the entire Champa, so her father would be an important help in the future.
"No, no, I want to see it."
Xiao Wenzhan immediately started making a fuss, pulling at the hem of Ananiya's skirt and refusing to let go.
Ananya had no choice but to take Xiao Wenzhan back to the room and take out the letter from the dressing table and give it to Xiao Wenzhan.
Little Wenzhan is very cute.
Her big eyes inherited Ananya's appearance, and her overall looks are more oriental, with a bit of mixed-race flavor.
Even though he is still a few months away from three years old, you can tell that he will definitely be a handsome boy when he grows up.
Xiao Wenzhan was very happy holding the letter.
In fact, he didn't even know many Chinese characters, let alone Chinese characters.
"Mom, what did grandpa say in the letter?" Xiao Wenzhan asked happily.
Ananiya paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "Your grandfather said he misses you very much and hopes you grow up quickly and go to Champa to play with him."
Xiao Wenzhan said unhappily, "Why doesn't grandpa come to play with me?"
Ananya explained: "Because my grandfather is over there and holds an official position, many people follow him for meals. If he comes over, then there will be no one to take care of them."
Xiao Wenzhan was a little unhappy: "Okay."
Ananiya touched Xiao Wenzhan's head and said, "You are still too young. We have to take a long boat ride to get to grandpa."
Then she gestured: "When you grow up to this height, mother will take you to play with grandpa, okay?"
Little Wenzhan looked up at his mother's hand and said with a smile, "Okay, I will eat well and grow up quickly. When I grow to this height, mother must take me to play with my grandfather."
Ananya smiled and said, "How could mother lie to you? But there is something else in your grandfather's letter. Mother is going to your aunt's place. Can you go and have fun by yourself first?"
Xiao Wenzhan blinked and nodded sensibly.
Ananya didn't think much about it. She put the letter back in the drawer and took Xiao Wenzhan out, letting the palace maid play with her.
But what she didn't know was that when she went to the main hall, Xiao Wenzhan secretly ran back, climbed onto the stool nimbly, opened the drawer and took out the letter.
"Your Highness, Your Highness."
The palace maids' cries were heard outside.
Xiao Wenzhan took the letter into his arms and said proudly, "This is a letter from my grandfather, huh."
In Xiao Wenzhan's little head, he has already thought about how to show off to his older brothers and sisters.
Because they have never received a letter from their grandfather, but they already have one.
…
In the main hall of Kunning Palace.
Ananiya explained her thoughts to Ye Yueqing.
She didn't hide anything and basically told everyone what was in the letter.
"Please help me, sister."
Ye Yueqing nodded: "Since your father is in trouble, just tell His Highness."
"Your Highness is busy during the day, and Xiang Fei should be in bed with you today. Just tell her and switch."
Ananiya said quickly: "Thank you, sister. I will go to Xiangfei's place later."
After getting Ye Yueqing's consent, Ananiya knew that the matter was basically settled.
The Crown Prince was very kind to them and would comply with their requests on many things.
evening.
After a busy day, Zhu Ying returned to her bedroom.
Unlike ordinary couples, neither the Crown Prince's Consort Ye Yueqing nor other concubines would sleep in the same room every day.
Zhu Ying had her own separate bedroom, and at night, the concubines would take turns to sleep with her.
Seeing Ananya in the bedroom, Zhu Ying was a little puzzled.
Because according to the order, it seems to be Xiang Fei.
"Did I remember the date wrong?"
"Never mind, they're all good."
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