open sea

Chapter 1220 Wang Gang
The western territory of the Ming Empire was always changing, like an ant colony slowly expanding westward, gradually expanding in the Indian subcontinent.

Yin Zhengmao, Minister of the West, watched all this quietly and grandiosely happen in the lion country, and his comment on this was only two words-it's over.

In his eyes, Ming's western frontier is very weak, not as stable as the core land or Nanyang and Dongyang.

The San Francisco of Shanxi was entered into India by Buddhist clans and [-] monks and soldiers, which directly contributed to the change of regime in this land. When all this was a foregone conclusion, Yin Zhengmao discovered that the entire Western military government lacked sufficient understanding of this land.

The most important thing about a piece of land is the people who have lived on it for generations. To understand the people on this piece of land, you can start with their history. However, Yin Zhengmao encountered great obstacles in the process of realizing this point:

Natives have no history.

Not only did the natives not have the habit of recording history, the nobles of the city-state knew almost nothing about things outside their territories.

After mobilizing the power of the entire Western military government to collect all folk songs and legends, there is still no progress. In the local people's thinking, the world is a cycle of reincarnation, a process of continuous cycle. In the next life, all efforts and records are meaningless.

Even being invaded and ruled by the monks and soldiers seems to be not at all difficult for them to accept. They can fight well, but if they fight well, there will be many casualties, so just surrender; Surrender and live your own life obediently.

Just make do with it, don't think so much.

At first, Yin Zhengmao thought that the thinking of the local people was ignorant and funny—how could the world be a reincarnation?Regardless of politics or productivity, human beings have been making progress. In the earliest tribal period, people sages were called kings. Later, they honored the surname of Ji, and later entered the hereditary feudal aristocracy. , and then to the imperial examination, everyone can participate in the power game of the Central Plains Dynasty.

In the morning he was Tian Shelang, and in the evening he ascended to the Hall of the Son of Heaven.

The Central Plains dynasty is relying on these advances to resist and defeat one enemy after another, and expand the land to the edge of the unclimbable mountains and the endless sea.

People use the vicissitudes of time to describe the long time. The short spears in people's hands turned into strong crossbows, then firecrackers and cannons, and the food they ate changed from steaming to cooking. Here, even though the tone has long changed, the ancient texts are still used to recite the Book of Songs that has traveled through thousands of years.

The Western minister is super intelligent. On the one hand, he collected fragments of fragments from the Indian folks about this magical land thousands of years ago. ", and tried to collect the historical context from the fragments of minutiae.

He succeeded.

But the conclusions reached make the old man wonder if the world is really a cycle.

During the Shang Dynasty, the Indian subcontinent lived along the Ganges River with hundreds of villages of Dravidians, and then the Aryans in the northwest drove them south and ruled many city-states.

Then the Persians came and the Persians went; Alexander of Macedon came and Alexander went.

During the Qin Dynasty, Bactrians reappeared in the northwest, and this tribal alliance once again invaded the southeast, further encroaching on villages and city-states that had been occupied by the Aryans.

During the Han Dynasty, the Daxia people were evaluated by the envoys of the Han Dynasty as weak soldiers, and the facts proved that this was true. The Anxi people came and the Anxi people left, and moved westward with the Da Yuezhi people, and Daxia soon surrendered to the Da Yuezhi.

Then the Da Yuezhi was divided into five tribes, one of which, Guishuang, conquered the rest and established a huge country.

The good times didn't last long, and the Persians came again; the Persians had just left and the Turks came, and the Turks established the Delhi Sultanate, and after the demise of the Delhi Sultanate, Timur's descendants established the Mughals.

Yin Zhengmao found that with the valid information in his hands, every invasion of India has never been successfully resisted, not to mention the situation of the Han-Hungarian confrontation where the enemy is strong and we are weak, and the offensive and defensive positions are easy. Even the Song and Ming dynasties separated There has never been an example of chasing Yuan bandits in the north for a hundred years.

People who have lived in this land for generations have never resisted, repelled or even revenged.

And the ability to assimilate is really strong - those once powerful invaders entered here, and after living for 200 years, they will be defeated by the new invaders.

The world on this subcontinent is really an uninterrupted cycle of reincarnation.

The northern terrain of the Central Plains Dynasty is open, so the Great Wall was built to resist foreign invaders; while the geographical concept of India is naturally closed, except for the sea, all invaders will come from the northwest, and there are only two mountain passes in the northwest, so there is no need to build the Great Wall , the narrowest point is less than two hundred feet wide.

Even this [-]-foot gap couldn't be defended, and it was broken through time and time again.

In Yin Zhengmao's mind, he naturally imagined this mountain pass as Hangu Pass, and the land ruled by the Persians was Guanzhong. Once Hangu Pass was breached, Guanzhong's cavalry would be able to sweep across Pingchuan and reach Leiden.

How magnanimous God is to the world, and how thin he is to the Central Plains.

If there were no snow-covered plateaus, how could the Chinese Empire have been neighbors with such cowardly people for 3000 years?
But it's fine now.

Yin Zhengmao didn't care what the monks and soldiers led by the vassal king on the ground played, even if he beat Mughal so hard that he couldn't find him.

He only cares about the Indian Ocean, oh no, it is the Atlantic Ocean, and the troops deployed on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean will operate six commercial ports. The first is Gaolangbu in the Lion Kingdom. It was called Colombo in honor of Christopher Columbus.

Wang Dayuan was a folk navigator in the Yuan Dynasty and was born in Nanchang. At the age of 20, sailed from Quanzhou Port, passed through Qiongzhou, Champa, Malacca, Java, Sumatra, Myanmar, India, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Morocco, and then returned to Egypt, went out of the Red Sea to Somalia, Mozambique, and crossed the Indian Ocean Back to Sri Lanka, the lion country, from Sumatra, Java, through Australia to Kalimantan, the Philippines and back to Quanzhou, it took five years to complete the great voyage.

After returning from his second voyage, at the request of the local officials in Quanzhou, he wrote "The Chronicles of Daoyi". I came to Maraq in the northwest of Iran, which was the capital of the Ilkhanate at that time. In the place called Marujian in history, there was a chief from Linzhang, surnamed Chen, who led troops to guard Ganzhou at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. Entering this country during the expedition will never return.

When the Ming Dynasty did not go to sea, Wang Dayuan's "Daoyi Zhilue" was useless and no one mentioned it, but when the overseas military government opened and thousands of ships sailed to Sanyo, "Daoyi Zhilue" was printed on a large scale in China again and again.

Therefore, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty who are doing business in Gaolangbu, the lion country, also privately call it Wanggang to commemorate Wang Dayuan.

At the beginning of the 11th year of Wanli, Yin Zhengmao stood on the coast of Wanggang, and with his gradually cloudy and old eyes, he watched the completion of the ship coal station built by the emperor's decree at the port, and heaved a deep sigh.

A new era was coming, but he didn't know if he would still see it.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)