The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

As Auburn explained the matter clearly, Levi did not order all the Dutchmen to be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks as Auburn imagined.

Instead, he opened his mouth and ordered.

"Keep an eye on these red hairs, don't let them do anything!"

"Report back to the imperial court and ask how to deal with this group of red-haired people who violated the imperial court's prohibition."

"Before the imperial court's reply arrives, all these red hairs will be thrown into the labor camp!"

Ming Dynasty built several fortresses and military ports in Malacca to garrison troops and defend the Malacca waterway.

Today, most of the land around these forts and naval ports is wild.

Daming wanted to farm around the fortress and military port, and develop trade, and the development of the surrounding area was something he had to do.

As we all know, many people will die in the process of opening up wasteland.

At this time, it is time for the labor camp to come in handy!

Liszt and others were escorted back to Malacca, and then landed in the commercial port of Malacca, and were sent to the post station in the port for resettlement.

Before Daming sent back the news, Liszt and others were not allowed to leave a certain range of the station.

It is no exaggeration to say that they have been banned!

However, after Liszt and others saw the life in the labor camp of the Dutch such as Auburn, they instantly lost their grievances.

Compared with being thrown into a labor camp, they are just locked up, which seems to be pretty good.

……

Si Rosen was an Ottoman.

Before the opening of new routes, the Ottoman Empire played a very important role in the trade between East and West.

Well, that's right, they are the famous Erdao dealers!

It is precisely because they taxed too hard that the Europeans had to start the age of great voyages.

Find a new sea route to the east to avoid the Ottomans.

Then things can be imagined!
With the discovery of the new sea route to the East, the oil and water that the Ottomans could obtain in the East-West trade was greatly reduced, almost directly cut in half.

The Ottomans were forced to give up the original way of making money by sitting on the ground and collecting money, so they could only learn from the Westerners and send a fleet to the East.

Get ready to take part in the trade between East and West!
It was under such a background that Xi Luosen led his team to the East.

And like Liszt, Xi Luosen came here with some political missions.

On behalf of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV, he came to the East to reconnect with Ming Dynasty.

That's right, reconnecting!

Because, before Jiashen, there was a connection between Daming and Osman.

Osman paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty several times, and even offered matchlock guns.

The Lumi gun recorded in Zhao Shizhen's "Illustration of Military Weapons" is the matchlock gun presented by Osman.

Rumi refers to the Ottoman Turkish Empire!

It's just that after Jiashen, the world changed, so he lost contact with Osman.

Of course, the biggest purpose of Xi Luosen's visit this time was to do business with Daming.

The contact between Daming and Ottoman on land is broken, so if you want to do business, you can only go by sea!

Fortunately, now Daming turned his attention to the sea. …

Not only seized Nanyang, but also occupied Malacca.

It was much more convenient for Osman to contact Daming.

Looking at the Strait of Malacca not far away, Xi Luosen gave an order.

"Order the brothers below, close the gun windows, put away the weapons, and prepare to be inspected by Daming!"

Daming is very strict on the inspection of ships entering and leaving Malacca.

What goods are on board and how many weapons are there must be checked in place.

But since there are no rules for navigation in this era, of course Daming will not require merchant ships not to install cannons.

If the merchant ships of this era don't have cannons, it's okay to say that in the port, no one would dare to make trouble under Daming's nose.

But if you go out of Hong Kong, that's not necessarily the case!

Learn about zero-dollar purchases from pirates and peers?
However, although it is impossible not to install artillery, Daming is not blindly letting these merchant ships go.

The Ming Dynasty stipulated that all foreign merchant ships must nail their gun windows to death before entering the port.

The gun window can only be opened after the ship leaves the port!

Otherwise, the Ming fleet and coastal defense forts would enter the port as soon as they found a merchant ship that had not nailed the gun windows.

It will be sunk directly!
Xi Luosen didn't want to gamble whether the coastal defense artillery group of the Ming army would open fire on them.

They had just nailed the gun port, when they saw a small black spot at the end of the sea level in the distance.

The small black dot expanded little by little, and the outline of the ship appeared.

It was the patrol ships deployed by the Ming army outside the Strait of Malacca that were approaching the Ottoman ships.

There was still a long distance between the two sides, so they semaphore each other.

Daming's patrol boat successfully boarded the Ottoman ship for inspection, and after the inspection, Xi Luosen and others sailed into Malacca.

Just after entering the Malacca waterway, Xi Luosen saw a series of blue-gray forts on the shore.

The blue-gray forts are lined up one by one, and the black muzzles are very eye-catching.

The artillery is aimed at the direction of the channel, full of deterrence.

Those turrets looked like top predators lying on their stomachs, ready to hunt at any time.

Don't dare to look straight!

Si Luosen's adjutant, Carter of noble origin, stood on the deck of the ship, counting the number of artillery in the fort group on the bank in detail, and opened his mouth unconsciously.

"130 for a cannon!"

"Your Excellency Xi Luosen, there are a total of 130 cannons!"

"Ming Kingdom has too many cannons!"

130 pieces of artillery, the number is not an exaggeration, but what you need to know is that this is only the first fort group they saw after entering the Malacca waterway.

How many such fort groups are there in a channel that is hundreds of kilometers long?
How many artillery pieces will there be in these fort groups?
Nobody knows!
Therefore, Carter was really stunned by the number of these artillery pieces that appeared in front of his eyes.

Xi Luosen was also full of shock.

But their shock didn't stop there. As they got deeper and deeper into the waterway, more and more merchant ships appeared in front of their eyes.

Commercial ships of all sizes come in and out of the waterway, inspect the goods, and pay taxes.

A large number of merchant ships entering and leaving the waterway brought incomparable prosperity, a large amount of goods, and a large amount of wealth and taxes...

Zhu Hongyu was able to spend a lot of money on the war in the Ming Dynasty, and the golden waterway of the Malacca Waterway made a great contribution.

The importance of Malacca as a throat connecting the East and the West is self-evident.

Daming can control Malacca, and the Lilan it brings is also unimaginable.

The Ottoman fleet led by Sir Rosen docked at the port of Malacca City, although this city on the throat of the East-West exchange is still very young.

But it is quite prosperous!

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