People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 508: Can your navy withstand the flood of millions?
Of course, out of politeness, Lan Yu and Wang Bi couldn't say anything.

All they could do was enjoy the delicious food in front of them amidst the singing and dancing.

Xia Yuanji felt a bit tortured eating food that didn't suit his taste and listening to singing and dancing that were too loud for his ears.

But out of politeness they finished their meal.

After the meal, the Queen Mother was surprised to see that Xia Yuanji and Lan Yu had no intention of leaving. They asked, "What do you want after I've already entertained you? Do you really want to kill yourself?"

The Queen Mother felt a little psychologically traumatized by Xia Yuanji because she had said something wrong just now.

Now I just want to let Xia Yuanji leave quickly, otherwise I will be even more exposed.

After finishing his meal, Xia Yuanji watched the singing and dancing with great interest and had no intention of leaving at all.

He just wanted the Queen Mother to speak out herself about her family affairs.

If the Queen Mother doesn't want to say it, then wait in her family.

Sure enough, after almost an hour, when Xia Yuanji still hadn't left and the Queen Mother was about to lose all her patience, she finally spoke.

"Grand Commander, just ask whatever you want to know. I will tell you everything I know." The Queen Mother finally softened.

She is almost going crazy now. She didn't expect that people from the Ming Dynasty would be so difficult to deal with.

Xia Yuanji didn't waste time talking to her: "I heard that the queen is looking for Han descendants recently!"

The Queen Mother was a little surprised after hearing what he said. How could he be so direct? What should I say in response to what you said?

"Grand Commander, have you placed the Imperial Guards in my house?" The Queen Mother asked without hesitation.

Xia Yuanji did not hide it from her: "You are right, the Jinyiwei must be lingering among you."

Seeing Xia Yuanji admit it so readily, the Queen Mother finally understood why Xia Yuanji came directly to her house.

"So what does the commander-in-chief plan to do with us?" The Queen Mother decided to just go for broke.

Anyway, the family is already ruled by the Jinyiwei, so there is nothing to hide.

"Call back all your family members who are scattered among the people. If it's too late, you will only be able to bring back a pile of corpses." Xia Yuanji was not polite at all.

When the Queen Mother heard Xia Yuanji's words, she completely collapsed.

It can’t be that cruel.

Lan Yu was also watching her from the side.

In fact, at this time, Shang Hao felt particularly happy in his heart. He had never felt so happy before. Although the Queen Mother's family did not seem so strong, they were very special. After all, these people controlled the training of most of the Sanfuqi bureaucrats.

Although they are just a small family, they have been in Sanfuqi for hundreds of years. Many officials spontaneously believe that if they want to become an official, they must get real recognition through the Queen Mother's family. This seems to have become a rule in the officialdom.

It is precisely for this reason that the Empress Dowager's family cannot be dealt with by directly sending in the Embroidered Uniform Guards as they do with other families, and then controlling the patriarch of the family, or directly killing the patriarch and replacing him with a puppet.

Although this method is not difficult for the general public, there are certain problems with the loyalty cultivated among such people.

Therefore, Xia Yuanji and Lan Yu both believed that they had to break the spiritual beliefs of many families. As for the spiritual beliefs of many other families, these people still believed that the Queen Mother's family had the possibility of rising.

Through the constant surveillance of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, they also discovered that the Queen Mother was a very ambitious woman. No matter when the king was in office, she wanted to firmly grasp the power. Even though the king had been forced to commit suicide by her own people, she still wanted to control the power of Srivijaya.

As for such an ambitious person, it is not to mention that there is a big market for him in Sanfuqi, perhaps because of the special nature of the Queen Mother's family. Almost every king would marry a woman from the Queen Mother's family.

That is to say, Sanfuqi has both a king and a queen who has always been in the same family.

This political system is similar to the rule of two kings, and the Queen Mother's family has far greater political appeal than the king. This is very terrifying, and this is why every new king.

Although they would submit to the Queen Mother's family in the early stages, when they were strong enough, they all wanted to break free from the constraints of the Queen Mother's family.

But from the current situation, the fate of these kings is quite tragic. Those who resisted either died of illness on the road, or died prematurely, or suddenly disappeared. Everyone knows that this is the work of the Queen Mother's family.

Therefore, after hundreds of years of terrifying oppression, not many people dare to stand on the king's side.

The new king can get a certain degree of support and dare to fight against the new policies being implemented by the Queen Mother's family and the king. This is an opportunity for families that are not of very noble origin.

The political ecology of Sanfuqi is destined to be a state of seniority and the big fish eating the small fish. As long as you bring down your enemies, you will have the opportunity to become a new elite.

However, these people's choices were not able to overcome the Queen Mother, so after the king was deposed, those people were quickly liquidated.

But the Queen Mother never expected that his decision weakened the fighting power of the entire Srivijaya, which led to the exposure of Srivijaya's weakness of being only superficial during the war between Srivijaya and Majapahit.

What they didn't expect was that the Queen Mother personally ordered the Ming Navy to come to help, but they didn't see that the Ming Navy had actually been standing by during the war between Srivijaya and Majapahit and saw clearly that Srivijaya was very weak.

So although the Ming Navy helped Srivijaya expel Majapahit and annexed Majapahit, the Ming Navy soon annexed Srivijaya in return.

I guess anyone who saw this result must have regretted it so much that his intestines would turn green. He regretted two main things: first, he should not have restricted the new king's military power, especially he should not have kept the 30,000 troops in his hands and not sent them out.

As a result, the king had to temporarily put together an army to fight against Majapahit. It was said that in order to put together enough troops, the king even released all the prisoners in the prison.

Even at this point, the Queen Mother did not let go and firmly controlled the 30,000 elite troops.

The Queen Mother should have thought at first that the Majapahit Kingdom was just bluffing this time, just like before, and would return home after looting and smashing at the border.

But she still forgot that when the Majapahit Kingdom saw that the internal struggle in Srivijaya was so fierce, the king and the queen mother became enemies and never had any contact with each other again, and even wanted to kill each other.

Will the Majapahit Kingdom be limited to just snatching a few things from the border and bringing them back as before?
Since you have such huge internal conflicts, why don't I take this opportunity to annex your territory.

Even if you can't become fat in one bite, you have to take a big bite.

Such an opportunity only comes once in a lifetime, so this is the consequence of a woman's indecision and arrogance.

The consequences were very serious. Majapahit not only defeated the army that Srivijaya had put together, but also caused many massacres of civilians on the border, so that the civilians were directly disappointed with the entire Srivijaya court. The second regret was definitely the Ming Navy. When the Ming Navy swept the pirates in the South China Sea, many people thought that the Ming Navy must not only be domineering on the South China Sea, but must find a few footholds.

Just like the base set up in Annan and the trade distribution center established in Champa, these are naval bases of the Ming Navy.

So don't provoke the Ming Navy easily.

But the Queen Mother refused to listen. She thought that there was hatred between the Ming Dynasty and the pirates, and that the pirate army could be eliminated by simply asking for help from the Ming Dynasty navy.

But what she didn't expect was that although the pirates were colluding with Majapahit at this time, their purpose was not to occupy the entire Srivijaya.

The pirates had already lost most of their elite troops at this time. All they wanted was negotiation conditions with Srivijaya, hoping that Srivijaya would allocate a small territory for them to settle down. This was the reason why the pirates cooperated with Majapahit.

Besides, the relationship between these pirates and Srivijaya was actually closer, but what was unexpected was that the pirates only wanted a negotiation condition, but the queen mother wanted their lives. She directly joined forces with the Ming Navy to destroy the pirates and the Majapahit Kingdom.

In fact, the Queen Mother at that time was still hoping that the Ming Navy would destroy the pirates and Majapahit and then leave, and with the 30,000 elite troops in her hands, she would be able to regain control of the entire Srivijaya and even annex Majapahit.

The beads on her abacus clattered, but she didn't expect that the Ming navy would not leave after arriving.

So now the Queen Mother is regretting it to death, especially now, when she is obviously the master of Sanfuqi, but she has to compromise when facing Xia Yuanji and Lan Yu in her own home.

Especially when she heard Xia Yuanji directly tell her that it would be best to gather back all the family members who were scattered among the people, otherwise it would be too late and they might only be able to carry back the corpses.

If there had been such a blatant threat in the past, the Queen Mother would have had Xia Yuanji dragged down and chopped into minced meat to feed the dogs, but now she could only look pale and say in a pleading tone:
"Since the Grand Commander has already planted the Imperial Guards in my family, they will know everything after hearing it. Our plan now is just to obey the imperial examination system proposed by the Grand Commander in the court.

We must learn the Chinese characters and Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, we must let the children of our family read the Four Books and Five Classics and take the imperial examinations to enter officialdom.

This is all done according to the request you made in the court. I really don’t understand why you are threatening me like this today.”

Listening to her words, although Xia Yuanji may be younger than his son, Xia Yuanji's aura was so great that the empress dowager dared not look him in the eye.

Xia Yuanji sneered, put the teacup in his hand on the table, and then touched the wall of the cup with his hand, and the water spilled out: "The relationship between Daming and Sanfuqi now is like the water in the cup, which cannot be recovered after it is overturned.

We know what you are planning. You just want to use your connections and financial resources to train new officials in the future.

Even though Sanfuqi is still ruled by the Ming Dynasty, the foundation still has to be controlled by your people.

The officials sent by the Ming Dynasty are unfamiliar with the place, so we have to rely on you.

From now on I will have to rely on you to do things for me. Do you think such a good thing will happen?

If you had such a good thing, why would the Ming Navy use guns and cannons to destroy pirates and the Majapahit Kingdom?

At that time, the Ming Dynasty should have handed over Sanfuqi. Why waste my breath and talk to you about so-called reforms here?

You can fool children, but now you have tried to fool this governor.

Seeing that you are quite old, I will speak to you in a nice tone.

If there is a next time, the people who come here will be the Jinyiwei.

You are the Queen Mother in Sanfuqi, but in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, you are just a prisoner."

After Xia Yuanji finished speaking, the Queen Mother's face suddenly turned gloomy. She probably didn't expect that the young Xia Yuanji would be so hard to fool, and even saw through their plan at a glance.

Of course, this does not mean that the plans of the Queen Mother and others are not well thought out, but it can only mean that the political ecology of their entire country is too immature.

The path taken by the Ming Dynasty was the evolution of the politics of the Central Plains dynasties over thousands of years, and it was the accumulation of thousands of years of wisdom.

Thousands of years ago, the people living in Sanfuqi might still be living in trees.

How can this compare to the idea that they think is extremely clever, the strategy that they think is earth-shaking? However, in the eyes of Ming officials, this may be just thousands of years of old nonsense.

Why did so many people in the Central Plains dynasty know how to tell fortunes? Is it really fortune-telling?
Not also!

It is simply that the history of the Central Plains is too long, and humans have not changed since they evolved to this level, and their ways of doing things remain essentially the same.

What has happened over thousands of years has been pretty much the same, so how humans think is also pretty much the same.

A fortune teller can roughly guess your thoughts just by asking you a few questions. This is not fortune telling. This is similar to repeating history over and over again. It becomes boring after seeing it too many times.

Therefore, according to the high-dimensional political ecology of the Ming Dynasty, looking at the lowest dimension of Sanfuqi is equivalent to a dimensionality reduction attack, which is a brilliant way for the Empress Dowager and others to recruit talents.

In the eyes of scholars like Xia Yuanji who are well-versed in classics and history, those were strategies from one or two thousand years ago and were too old-fashioned.

If Xia Yuanji couldn't see it, then he really underestimated his IQ.

But the Queen Mother was an ambitious woman after all, and she had controlled the power of Srivijaya for more than ten years.

She was unwilling to give up, especially after being seen through by a young boy like Xia Yuanji. She was so angry and humiliated that she immediately exploded.

The grievances she suffered today were the most she had ever suffered in her life, especially after Xia Yuanji and Lan Yu came to her house, they acted like masters and she served them like a servant.

I carefully put on a smiling face and listened to them with a wronged look on my face.

Later, when they hoped that they would smile, Xia Yuanji and Lan Yu directly threatened them.

When she was even asked to pay with her life, the Queen Mother's dignity finally hit the limit and rebounded.

She was furious, "Grand Admiral, don't forget that your Ming navy, no matter how powerful it is, only has a few thousand soldiers, and even though Sanfuqi is a small country in a remote corner, it has a population of one million.

Even if I use flesh and blood to block your guns, do you think a few thousand navy can resist a million torrents?"

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(End of this chapter)