Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 5 The Orthodox Yuan Empire of the Han Nationality

During this period of time, on the one hand, the Java Yuan reorganized the army and built warships; up?Only by understanding this problem can we avoid repeating the same mistakes.

They believe that the reason for the decline of the Yuan Dynasty is not difficult to sum up, that is, endless civil strife.Whether it is within the Khan family or between the Khan and the Mongolian nobles, there has been a long-term lack of a stable system, which can only be maintained by a few outstanding leaders.The slightest turmoil and contradictions will lead to serious conflicts and internal friction, causing even greater damage to the already unstable order.

And this fragile system was brought by the Mongols.The organization of these people was too primitive, and their political level was too clumsy, which eventually ruined the good situation of the Yuan Dynasty.

It can be seen that Dayuan is good everywhere, but these Mongols can't.

If you want to revive the country's prestige back then and restore the country's status as Taizu and Shizu, you have to kick out these guys who only do bad things.Without the Mongols, Dae Won would be fine.

Therefore, Java Yuan called on merchants and scholar-bureaucrats to unite to establish a more complete Yuan Dynasty regime.In dealing with Western trading countries, the official country name they used in Latin and Greek was called "the orthodox Yuan Empire of the Han nationality".

Guo Kang always felt that this theory was a bit strange, and no matter how you looked at it, the Javanese Yuan was neither orthodox, nor a great Yuan, nor an empire.After all, they are just a federation established by a group of businessmen.

Moreover, not only him, many other people also found it very strange.Tuohuan complained to him, saying that the Roman attributes of the Holy Roman Empire may be higher than the Yuan Dynasty attributes of the Javanese Yuan.

However, Sun Shiwan's entourage told them that the Mongols who were excluded here were only the upper-class Mongolian nobles.Maritime merchants certainly did not reject all Mongols: when the Yuan Dynasty was still there, they frequently bought Mongolian slaves.So far, in the Javanese Yuan, there are still a certain number of Mongolian slaves and soldiers.

This line of thinking has also led to some strange results.For example, recently, when the two sides were at war, there were more Mongolian officers in the Ming army than there were in Java.

Tuo Huan doubts whether this kind of Yuan Dynasty is still called Yuan Dynasty.However, the Javanese Yuan stated that the Yuan Dynasty was not the Yuan Dynasty of the Mongolian Great Khan, but the Yuan Dynasty shared by the Great Khan and the scholar-bureaucrats.

When the Taizu Genghis Khan, the Mongols were still useable; when the Shizu Xue Chan Khan, many tribes and even the kings mainly made troubles, and they need to be taught a lesson;Therefore, they should discipline these Mongols well for Chang Shengtian and Genghis Khan, so as to be worthy of Da Yuan.

Tuo Huan said that he couldn't beat these people, so he could only give up.Anyway, it's about Kublai Khan's family. He, who claims to be a descendant of Batu, doesn't seem to need to take care of it...

However, Guo Kang still has great doubts about whether they can help.Because the Javanese Yuan and the Ming Dynasty have been rivals for decades.

After the regimes of Vietnam and Liang were defeated one after another, the Javanese Yuan has become the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty in the southeast.The Javanese pirates, with the cooperation of the old and young of the local Yuan Dynasty and the remnants of Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen, Chen Youding and other ministries, frequently attacked the coast and looted everywhere.

At the beginning, the Ming Dynasty tried to cut off their connection and curb the rampage of pirates through the Forbidden Sea.However, this kind of tactic is okay against small groups of pirates, but it is obviously not enough to deal with Javanese Yuan, a force with a regular army.

The Ming Dynasty also tried to relocate the coastal people in important areas, fortified the walls and cleared the land in areas that were convenient for landing, trying to cut off the supplies of the Javanese pirates and force them to leave as soon as possible.However, the migration behavior has affected the livelihood of the local people and caused greater dissatisfaction.

Fishermen and small businessmen who have lost their source of livelihood flock to the coast one after another, engage in fishing and black market trade privately, and even actively invest in Javanese dollars.The government repeatedly issued bans, but they failed to achieve the effect, and instead made the situation worse.The Javanese army even landed openly, attacked states and counties, and robbed treasuries.It also cooperated with the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in the Northeast to harass and harass the court from multiple sources, causing the court to suffer.

In the 12th year of Hongwu, the Hu Weiyong case broke out.He was accused of having secret dealings with Champa, an important buffer state between the Ming Dynasty and the Javanese Yuan.The incident fermented rapidly, and finally turned into a major case of colluding with Java Yuan to rebel, and the ruling and opposition parties were greatly impacted.

However, with this major case, the Ming Dynasty finally began to change its thinking. Instead of continuing to torment the fishermen, it tried to attack the supporters of the Javanese Yuan in the middle and upper classes. At the same time, it began to build a navy to destroy the enemy at sea.

Navy is very money-burning, and it continues to burn money.When the army is not in use, it can farm and cultivate land, but even if the ship is left there, it has to spend frequent maintenance.

Moreover, a ship is often useless, at least the size of the navy and the enemy must not be too far apart to produce value.One investment is not a warship, but an entire fleet.

Therefore, the Central Plains dynasty is often not very enthusiastic about this.

Expansion of the navy is often only feasible in two situations: either, the damage caused by the enemy is too great, which has far exceeded the high cost of the navy.Or, the benefits brought by the navy are so high that these costs can be tolerated.

The Ming Dynasty was forced to accept the former.But when the navy is established and needs to be maintained for a long time because of the war, it becomes a matter of course to pursue the latter to reduce financial pressure.

In fact, ocean trade routes are not only important to Zizhang, but also a huge source of income for any country.Although the Ming Dynasty was the origin of all kinds of refined products and looked very rich, such a large amount of taxation was not a small figure for them.I don’t care about these benefits when I can’t get them. Once I experience them twice, I don’t want to let them go.

The second round of war was mainly at sea. Although the scale was not as large as the previous one, it involved a larger area.The naval forces of the Javanese Yuan and Ming dynasties fought from Ryukyu to Manjika, and the entire Nanyang became a battlefield.

The Ming Dynasty once built a garrison in Manjaga, trying to block the strait, cut off the Javanese trade channel, and trap them to death.The Javanese Yuan circled to the south, looking for new routes, and at the same time formed an alliance with the Timurid Empire, drove away the Ming army, and regained its stronghold.And a few years later, the Ming army went south by boat from Cochin, trying to compete for the trade line again...

The sporadic fighting continued until Zhu Yuanzhang's death before it came to an end.However, after a few years of silence, the successor Tianping Emperor Zhu Biao launched a new war, trying to start from Luzon Island, and the two sides once again fought a pot of porridge.Strictly speaking, this round has continued until now, and it is not over yet.

(End of this chapter)