Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 1013: South Sea Storm (4)

Once chaos is released, it is not easy to restore order and stability. After all, too many vested interests are involved and stirred up, especially in a newly opened treasure house. While the new groups are building their own order system to ensure the maximization of their interests, a new force suddenly breaks in and stirs up the situation. The key is that this force has an incomprehensible influence in this area, and collisions and calculations are inevitable.

In the Nanyang region, there is a place that cannot be ignored. The connections and influences generated through this place are of concern to too many groups.

What is sad is that this place is far away from Southeast Asia, but on the contrary it is under the Meiji era. This is a place that no one can and should ignore.

Guangdong Provincial Administration Commissioner's Office.

Trench mirror.

A residential house somewhere.

"How are the talks with those Western barbarians about the attack on Ryukyu going?" Li Dan frowned, glanced at the people in the hall, and said in a low voice.

"For this matter, we have made a lot of plans, and spent a lot of gold and silver. In order to attract Wei Zhongxian and his entourage in Dongfan, we even offered a lot of rewards to ambush the ships transporting grain in the waters of Luzon and Phnom Penh."

"Someone said something ugly right up front!"

"For the sake of Ryukyu, I have made a guarantee with the shogunate and some daimyo, especially the Satsuma Domain. If in the end, what should be done is not done, the Japanese will not let it go!!"

“Who isn’t like that?”

Liu Xiang raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced at Li Dan and said, "I have made a clear promise to the Dutch because of this matter. If I fail to achieve the expected results, I will be hated by everyone in Nanyang in the future."

"I have just said everything that needs to be said. If you want to achieve this cooperation, then you should put aside all your calculations and little thoughts. Don't think that you are the only one who is smart and others are fools!"

Liu Xiang's suggestive words made Li Dan's face look a little ugly, and some of the other people sitting in the hall also looked around.

Obviously they each have their own calculations and ideas.

"Okay, now's not the time to talk about this."

Xu Xinsu frowned and said, "Why did we get together? Even before this, we went to such great lengths to set up this situation. What was the purpose? I hope you all will not forget it."

"It's only been a few years, and the Ming court has controlled Dongfan and seized Ryukyu. In order to develop the two places, Wei Zhongxian even sold official positions and released a group of ruthless people such as Zheng Zhilong and Zu Dashou, stirring up the situation in Nanyang and causing continuous changes."

"In addition, with the continued unrest in the southeastern provinces, it seems that the Ming court has suffered a lot of losses, but what is the reality? How many people have been arrested and killed before and after this?"

"There is also Zhili Xin'anzhou. Thanks to Chen Qiyu's hard work, its scale is constantly expanding. Not to mention that Chen Qiyu is now the governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi, and there are too many resources that can be deployed."

"Why are we all gathered together? Even the Japanese and the Western Barbarians are subtly connected because of us. Isn't it because the Ming court attaches great importance to maritime affairs?"

Li Dan and Liu Xiang had different expressions and different thoughts in their hearts. If it was in the past, they would not believe that they would get together one day. After all, their interests were not involved with each other, not to mention that the ocean was big enough. Even if they had large fleets under their command, they would not easily meet each other.

But as time went on, because of the opening of the Ming Dynasty to the sea, and because the Ming emperor who was far away in the capital city dispatched groups of people to different places to do their own things before and after, and because the northern Ming Dynasty continued to promote the opening of the sea, it planned to build corresponding industries and there was also a General Administration of Customs that was responsible for taxation... This series of changes and influences led to changes not only in the Ming Dynasty itself, but also in areas outside the Ming Dynasty, which were subtly affected by corresponding changes.

"There is something ugly that I want to say first."

Xu Suxin lifted her robe and said, "If we fail to seize Ryukyu this time and then severely damage the Ming court's maritime power, then when the so-called General Customs Office gradually starts to play a role in Dongfan, you will just have to wait and see. It won't be long before Zhili Xin'anzhou will also set up a General Customs Office. By then, when Zhili Songjiang Prefecture gathers together, one in the north and one in the south, all the places along the southeast coast will gradually set up a General Customs Office."

"By that time, if you want to use some connections to engage in smuggling trade, don't even think about it!!"

"Not to mention that Wei Zhongxian and his men are not pushovers. Would they not fight back if they were schemed against like this? Humph, by then, who knows what will happen in Nanyang."

Xu Suxin's words made many people look unhappy.

Originally, some people still held on to their hopes, but at this moment, everyone realized that if they did not find a way to break the impasse, they would be locked down step by step by the changes in the Ming court.

Among the people present here, there are those who represent the interests of East Japanese maritime trade, those who represent the interests of Southeast smuggling, those who represent the interests of Southeast Asian Han merchants, and those who represent the Western barbarians. Their respective interests are now being continuously infringed and damaged because of the changes in the Ming Dynasty's attitude towards maritime affairs.

This was unimaginable in the past.

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Yes.

The Ming Dynasty reopened its maritime policy during the Longqing reign and has not changed it since then. However, although the maritime policy was reopened, the central government was unable to effectively control it.

This has led to many local events being deliberately concealed and tampered with by some groups during the reporting process. This has resulted in the central government not only failing to benefit from maritime-related interests, but also suffering losses.

But things are different now.

Zhu Youxiao used another method, a visible and tangible way, by implementing different policies in various places and asking the groups responsible for implementation to do the corresponding matters well. In this slow process, the policy continued to expand and even influenced each other.

This is amazing.

One day, the General Administration of Customs, which is active in the coastal areas of the northern provinces, will gradually push this order system southward, which will be equivalent to having a complete closed loop.

During this process, there are people responsible for anti-smuggling, those responsible for maritime deterrence, and those responsible for external development and infiltration. They are also not idle.

Once these trends gradually evolve from being parallel to each other to cross-integration, the Ming Dynasty will have internal and external barriers for maritime affairs. No matter where the problem occurs, the corresponding authorities will be able to solve it in a targeted manner, instead of having problems but not knowing how to solve them.

(End of this chapter)