Ceylon Island, later generations, was a world-famous tourist holy place and was once called the most beautiful island in the world. Although this sentence may not be accurate, it is enough to illustrate the beautiful scenery of Ceylon Island.

There is a strait between Ceylon and the Indian continent. It is also named after Ceylon. There are several small islands in the strait. When the Tamils ​​on the Indian continent migrated to Ceylon, these small ones were the first to arrive.

Island, so although these islands are not large in size, the island has a large population. In addition, this strait is a transportation route connecting the east and west sides of Tianzhu, and there are also many ships coming and going, making this place look very prosperous

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These small islands are small and cannot grow food at all, so the residents of the island make a living by fishing. When they encounter ships coming and going, they often take small boats to sell dried fish produced to the crew members on these ships.

However, this kind of selling is semi-forced. The passing ships must purchase a certain amount of dried fish from these fishermen according to their size, otherwise they will not be able to leave the strait at all.

When Li Zhen and Li Yun's huge fleet entered the Ceylon Strait, they encountered this kind of forced buying and selling situation. Moreover, the natives riding small boats were not afraid of the huge fleet, hundreds of small boats were densely packed.

Stand in front of the fleet, he shouted arrogantly to ask them to buy fish. Li Zhen and Li Yun didn't know what these natives were doing at first, but later after Zhao Qiu's translation and explanation, he realized these natives

Meaning.

In fact, it is no wonder that these natives are arrogant. This is mainly because at the southern end of the Indian continent, the Tamils ​​are the overlords here. Although the Tamils ​​also divide countless large and large forces inside, they are still very united to the outside world.

There was no need for the fleet to offend this local snake for the money of selling dried fish. After all, the Tamils ​​on these small islands have close ties with some Tamil forces. Offending them is quite good.

Because of offending the forces behind these people, most people chose to surrender to the other party. Anyway, the money was not spent in vain, and they could get dried fish. Although the quality of these dried fish was not very good, they could not kill people.

But today these Tamils ​​finally hit the nail on the head. Li Zhen and Li Yun did not represent the Tang Dynasty to spread light and benevolence, but to carry out violent invasion, so facing these Tamils ​​who were blocking the way.

Immediately ordered to continue moving forward, knocking all the small boats over with a huge hull. Li Zhen even issued a killing order, following Zhu Chong's destruction of pirates, shooting all the Tamils ​​who fell into the water. Although Li Yun felt a little

Cruel, but I didn't stop it even thinking about it.

After eliminating this small obstacle, Li Zhen and Li Yun commanded the fleet and captured several small islands in the strait in batches. The methods were also very cruel. Any Tamils ​​who resisted were wiped out by them.

As for the remaining Tamils, they were all loaded on a boat by them and sent to Ceylon Island. So in just a few days, the entire Ceylon Strait had fallen into the hands of Li Zhen and Li Yun.

The two sides of the Ceylon Strait also responded quickly to this sudden invasion of foreign forces. Ceylon Island was divided into two, and the south of the island was the sphere of influence of the Sinhalese people. The north of the island and the Ceylon Strait belonged to Thailand

The Meer sphere of influence. The Tamils ​​on the island responded immediately after learning that the Strait was taken over by Li Zhen, a huge fleet. They sent a hundred medium warships into the Strait, hoping to bring Li

Zhen and the others drove them out.

The Tamils ​​on Ceylon Island have formed a unified Tamil Kingdom, occupying half of Ceylon Island. Among the various forces in South India, they are also considered a medium force. They can send hundreds of medium warships at a time.

It is the elite naval force in the whole country. It is also worth mentioning that the so-called medium-sized warship is in the eyes of Li Zhen and the others. For the various forces in South India, it is already the largest warship they can own.

However, these narrow warships were killed when they faced Zhu Chong's more than a dozen main warships. These warships were all in terms of speed, size, flexibility, and weapons and equipment, as well as Zhu Chong's

The main warships are very different, especially each main warship is equipped with fifty artillery pieces. The combat method has long abandoned the platoon combat, and can only use artillery to bomb the opponent's warships into the seabed.

It is precisely because of such a huge gap that when the warships of the Tamil Kingdom encountered Zhu Chong's warships, the entire battle was completely uninformed. First, they were bombarded by artillery of more than a dozen warships, and at least half of them were fighting.

The ship was directly bombed into the seabed, and all the rest were damaged. In order to save ammunition, Zhu Chong ordered people to adjust the speed of the ship to the maximum, and then hit it fiercely. As a result, under the hard impact angle,

And under the squeeze of the high bow, the remaining warships could not escape their fate. Perhaps in a thousand years, someone would find these wrecks in the Ceylon Strait and then slowly study the first game of the East to the West.

war.

The result of this battle, which later called the "First Ceylon Battle" was destined as early as the beginning. The elite naval forces of the Tamil Kingdom lost all in one day, and the remaining naval forces were only a few small warships, patrol defense.

It’s okay to get out of the port, and it’s a dream to fight with others. The construction of a pro-war ship is not a matter of one or two days, so they temporarily lost the ability to compete for power at sea.

A Tamil force in Southern India originally sent a fleet, but after hearing the result of this naval battle, he was so scared that he immediately let the fleet return. However, these Tamils ​​were very united to the outside world and were not willing to let it go.

In failure, some Tamil leaders from Southern India gathered spontaneously to discuss the fight against foreign invaders.

Although the Tamils ​​are very united to the outside world and they are very hostile to the sudden arrival of outsiders, after more than a month of quarrel, they still failed to come up with a practical plan, and some people proposed to gather all the forces.

The navy fought to the death with the other side on the sea, but the result of the last naval battle had already made everyone feel scared. Moreover, the Tamil royal family on Ceylon Island was the strongest naval force among them. Now even the Tamil Kingdom has been defeated.

They probably don't work together.

But without a navy, the Tamils ​​would have no choice but to use Li Zhen and the others, so in the end these Tamils ​​could only think of one way, which was to block the entire coast of South China, prohibit Li Zhen and their ships from docking, and prohibit Southern China.

The merchants made transactions with each other. Li Zhen and the others could not stay on the sea forever, and they definitely needed supplies. But now no one in Nantianzhu traded with them, so they would not get supplies, and they would naturally leave.

However, when Li Zhen learned that the Tamils ​​in Southern India used this method to deal with them, he laughed. What they wanted was the hostility of the Tamils ​​towards them. Besides, it didn't matter if they could not get supplies from Southern India.

There is also a Sinhalese kingdom on Ceylon Island, and the other party is the old enemy of the Tamils. Now he is irreconcilable with the Tamils. I believe that as long as the Sinhalese have a little brain, they will treat them as guests of honor.

In fact, on the second day after Zhu Chong wiped out the Tamil royal navy, Wang Xuance took a mission of several monks from the Tang Dynasty and took various rare gifts to the Kingdom of Sinhala.

The current Sinhala king is named Sinkaya, who is a devout Buddhist. In fact, this is also a feature of the Sinhala kingdom, that is, all the people in the country, regardless of their wealth, are Buddhists, and their ability to understand Buddhism.

, it will also determine whether a prince can inherit the throne. Since Sinkea can defeat other brothers and ascend to the throne, he is naturally very profound in Buddhism.

As a ruler, Sinkea naturally understood that the enemy's enemy was his friend, so he was naturally very welcome to Wang Xuance's arrival, especially in the previous naval battles, which made him see the strength in Li Zhen's hands.

This also won his respect, so he welcomed Wang Xuance into the city very grandly.

The Sinhalese Kingdom is also known as the Lion Kingdom. The capital is called the Lion City. The most magnificent building in the city is not the royal palace, but huge temples. Buddha statues of all sizes can be seen everywhere on the roads, including monks wearing monk robes.

Respected, even some nobles who were on the bus had to give way when they met monks. Even when the king talked to monks, he had to find ways to make himself lower than the monks' heads, which was used to show that

Respect for Buddha.

Seeing this situation, Wang Xuance, who came to the Lion Kingdom for the first time, secretly called himself a strange story. The Tang Dynasty was also considered to be prosperous in Buddhism, but compared with the Sinhalese people here, it was still much worse. As for those who were in the Sui

The monks of the Tang Dynasty who came together were filled with tears of excitement, thinking that this was the real Buddha's country, and they had already made up their minds to stay no matter what.

After Sinkea invited the delegation into the palace hall, Wang Xuance immediately gave him various gifts, which were actually nothing more than some silk porcelain, and some gadgets, such as swords and swords made of stainless steel, and exquisitely made.

Glass crafts, Buddha statues carved with mutton fat and white jade, etc. are all flashy things.

However, these things are very precious gifts for Sinkeya, especially the three-foot-high jade Buddha statue, which made him even look like a treasure. He even said on the spot that he would invest in the construction of a Jade Buddha Temple and make this

The Jade Buddha is worshipped and the people of the whole country come to worship!

Wang Xuance was a literati and had a good study of Buddhism. However, he could not understand the fanatical religious beliefs of Sinkaya. After all, in his opinion, no matter what religion it is, it is a tool for the superiors to rule the people, but in

But the Sinhalese Kingdom turned around. Religion actually ruled the entire kingdom. Sinkaya, the lord of a country, spent a lot of national efforts to build a redundant temple for a mere Buddha statue? This made Wang Xuance, a Confucian disciple, really
Chapter completed!