Smuggling Daming

Since Shenzhou blocked the port of Goa, the city of Goa has been in chaos, especially those who listened to the propaganda of the domestic nobles, thinking that India is full of gold, and the local natives are also very stupid, and they will not cause them anything at all. They threatened, but now they provoked an enemy like Da Ming, whose warships were no worse than theirs, and even the port was blocked, and they couldn't escape if they wanted to.

Originally, after Da Gama escaped back, he kept the news of the defeat strictly sealed, in order to stabilize the hearts of the people in Goa, but he did not expect that the Ming fleet had already caught up with them, which made the news of their defeat impossible. Concealing it, the Portuguese fleet was almost wiped out soon, and the news that only Da Gama's flagship escaped spread throughout Goa.

What is worse, the current situation in Goa City is that the Ming Fleet blocked the port and already made the residents of Goa City panic, and now the news of the complete annihilation of the fleet that went to Malacca made the whole Goa suddenly fall into chaos. In desperation, this is not Europe after all, even if they want to ask for help from home, it will take at least more than a year for the rescuers to arrive, but there is no one to help them now.

People lose their minds when they are in despair, and these Portuguese who are far away from home are no exception. Therefore, when the news of the annihilation of the expedition fleet spread, the entire Goa fell into chaos, and the desperate Portuguese residents began to fight. Smashing and looting, and even a dozen rapes in one day, made the women among the residents of Goa afraid to go out alone.

During the civil strife in Goa, the surrounding Indian kings were also ready to move. Speaking of which, these Indian kings were very welcome to the Portuguese at the beginning, because the other party could provide them with many novel commodities, and the Portuguese also They will buy some of their goods. It can be said that except for some soil kings who have become enemies with the Portuguese due to trade and religious conflicts, the remaining soil kings are more welcome to the Portuguese, such as the several soil kings around Joa.It is the beneficiary of the transaction with the Portuguese.

However, since the Portuguese occupied Goa, they immediately showed their true colors, relying on their own military strength, wantonly oppressing the surrounding earth kings.It also took advantage of trade, and what made those local kings intolerable was that the Portuguese enforced their religion in Goa and strictly prohibited the natives from believing in Islam and Hinduism. As a result, the natives in Goa fled. It also aroused the dissatisfaction of the surrounding earth kings.

In the past, the Portuguese were too powerful, and although the local kings around them were dissatisfied, they did not dare to show it. Now the Portuguese are blocked in the port by Ming's fleet, and the fleet that Portugal relies on most has also been wiped out.This made the local kings around Goa no longer have any scruples, and they sent people to see Shenzhou, hoping to help them attack Goa. After all, they were oppressed by the Portuguese before, and now is the time for revenge.

For those earth kings who took the initiative to show their favor.Shenzhou was also very enthusiastic. After all, Wang Shouren's order to him was not only to drive the Portuguese out of Goa, but also to get him to take care of the relationship so that Ming could rule here in the future.

However, although Shenzhou expressed his friendliness to these earth kings, he did not fully agree to their demands, but only agreed that these earth kings could enter the outskirts of Goa to wipe out the Portuguese forces, but for the most elite Goa city.However, the natives are strictly forbidden to enter. After all, the Portuguese have managed to build Goa into a prosperous port after so many years of construction. If the natives are allowed to destroy it wantonly, then the property of Ming will be lost, let alone Goa. There must be a great concentration of Portuguese wealth in the city.Naturally, Shenzhou would not give up these wealth to others.

The reason why those local kings wanted to attack Goa so actively was that besides the accumulated dissatisfaction with Portugal, the most important thing was the drive of interests. No one knew better than them how much wealth there was in Goa. For the riches in Goa.That's why they were so active, but it was a pity that Shenzhou banned them from entering the city, which broke all their wishful thinking, but they did not dare to object, and there are many Portuguese settlements outside Goa. , responsible for planting crops such as tea and spices, there should also be a lot of oil and water.

After sending away those greedy earth kings, Shenzhou once again urged the warships in the fleet to get ready. If the Portuguese in Goa still did not surrender by tomorrow morning, he would bombard the port of Goa and enter by force. Goa, when he will no longer guarantee the safety of the Portuguese.

Compared with Shenzhou's high-spirited spirit, the city of Goa is gloomy and gloomy, especially the Governor's Mansion where Vasco da Gama lives, it is extremely depressing, people who come and go are in a hurry, and try not to go near the place where Vasco da Gama works , for fear of accidentally provoking the anger of the governor.

It is now dusk, no candles are lit in Da Gama's room, making it dark inside, and behind a large desk, Da Gama sits there with a haggard face, with two hands in the long In his curly hair, his face was full of pained expressions. The situation had developed to the present point, which was already beyond his expectations. Even now, he still couldn't believe that he was defeated by Daming so easily. hands.

Da Gama was the first European to reach India by sea. He led his own fleet around the Cape of Storms in Africa to India. Although he suffered a lot of losses, when he returned to Portugal with a ship full of spices , He was treated like a hero immediately, and the value of the spices he brought back was hundreds of times more than their voyage investment. It can be said that that voyage made him famous and rich, and he became a hot upstart in Portugal.

Originally, according to Da Gama's plan, he would spend his old age in Portugal, but because Portugal failed to attack Malacca a few years ago, Da Gama had to be ordered in the face of danger and returned to India to serve as the governor of India. For the details of Daming, he also ventured to Daming to pay a personal visit to His Majesty the Emperor of Daming.

It was also the experience of being an envoy to Daming that Da Gama thoroughly understood the details of Daming. Although Da Gama was surprised when he first arrived at Shuangyu Port under Zhou Zhong's rule, in his eyes Come on, Shuangyu Port, which is extremely developed in industry and commerce, is just a port of Daming, and it already has such a strong strength, then Daming, with its huge land, is definitely not an existence they can provoke.

However, the shock that Daming gave him was only Shuangyu Port. Before that, he took a boat to Beijing, the capital of Ming Dynasty. Although he rarely stopped the boat along the way, Da Gama quickly let him master the Some situations that could not be seen before, and when they landed from the place called Tianjin Wei, da Gama finally saw the other side of Ming Dynasty, that is poverty and ignorance, you must know that Tianjin is not far from Beijing, the capital of Ming Dynasty , so poor in a place so close to the capital, then other places can be imagined.

The next itinerary also confirmed Da Gama's conjecture that Da Ming was not as powerful as he had imagined before. Most of the ordinary people in Da Ming he saw were very poor, and they couldn't even afford food. In winter, many people He was still wearing single clothes, and the bureaucrats of Ming Dynasty were arrogant and stupid, and there were almost no officials like Zhou Zhong, the governor of the world.

After Da Gama met the emperor of Ming Dynasty, although Da Gama was very respectful, he was actually observing the ruler of this huge empire with his own eyes all the time, even though the emperor of Ming Dynasty was very young and very He is a heroic warrior, but he doesn't like to deal with government affairs, and he has deep conflicts with ministers, which makes Da Gama more at ease. He even lived in Beijing for a long time, in order to better understand the empire.

It was also after these multi-angle investigations and understandings that Da Gama finally made an accurate judgment on Daming. In his opinion, although Daming has an incomparably vast territory and an incomparably splendid history and culture, this The huge empire has entered the final stage, the people in the country are living in hardship, the officials are arrogant and stupid, and there are threats from the Tatars outside. It is said that those Tatars are the Mongols who conquered Europe back then. Ming has such neighbors, it is simply It is a gift from God to Europe.

After seeing the actual situation of Ming Dynasty clearly, Da Gama immediately started to attack Malacca for the second time after returning from Daming. Well, he is only one person, but the Ming behind him has already rotted from the root, so Zhou Zhong alone can't change anything at all.In addition, Vasco da Gama did not believe that Ming's navy would be stronger than Portugal's. The reason why Ming was able to win the last battle of Malacca was because he took away his warships by sneak attack. The Ming navy he saw at that time was definitely not his opponent.

It can be said that da Gama's analysis is quite reasonable. If Zhou Zhong was just an ordinary minister, he might not change the status quo of Ming Dynasty in just a few years, but it is a pity that Zhou Zhong has the absolute trust of Zhengde, so that He acted arbitrarily at sea, coupled with Zhou Zhong's advantage as a traverser, so in just a few years, great changes have taken place in Daming, especially the construction of Daming's navy, which is far beyond Da Gama's expectations However, when he entered the Strait of Malacca, he suffered the biggest defeat in his life, and now Portugal's hard-won foundation in India is in danger.