Chapter 617, Grandma Liu enters the Grand View Garden
"Ayutthaya?"
"Can it also be compared with Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty?"
Godala, the eastern king of Sulu Kingdom, thought so in his heart.
The Siamese people have indeed drifted a bit in recent years, but compared with the Ming Dynasty, Siam is definitely not even a little bit behind.
"The Ming Dynasty has changed too much now. It has expanded aggressively in the Southeast Asia region. I heard that a vast continent was found in the east, called the Golden Continent. I don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for us Southeast Asian countries."
"If Ming Dynasty continues to expand in the Nanyang region, all the countries in Nanyang combined will not be able to rival Ming Dynasty."
Godara's heart was filled with worries.
The Ming Dynasty's expansion ambitions in Nanyang are undoubtedly exposed. In the past, the Ming Dynasty only came to the Nanyang region to promote its national prestige, but now the Ming Dynasty wants to turn Nanyang into its own overseas territory. This is an essential difference.
This is also the reason why so many countries came to pay tribute this time. The tributes they paid were all fake. The real purpose was to find out the future strategy of the Ming Dynasty and whether they would invade them.
The fleet continued to move towards Tianjin Port, and gradually a piece of land appeared between the sea and the sky, and then gradually continued to expand, and finally slowly occupied the entire field of vision.
Because the New Year is approaching, winter is coming, and the wind is biting, but because Tianjin is right in front of us, everyone in the mission excitedly ran to the deck and looked in the direction of Tianjin.
“It’s too cold here in Tianjin~”
"According to what people in the Ming Dynasty said, we live on a huge ball. The further north you go, the colder it is. Our Nanyang region has no change all year round and is very warm, but here in Tianjin, winter is very cold.
of coldness.”
"I don't know if it will snow. I have never seen snow in my life?"
"It will definitely snow. I have never seen it snow."
"That's Tianjin. What's that tall thing? There are lights on it."
"I heard it's called a lighthouse, which is used to guide ships to dock in the port."
On the deck, people from various countries in Southeast Asia started talking.
The cold weather here is very new to them. People in tropical areas have never even seen snow.
"So many ships~"
Godala also looked in the direction of Tianjin.
The closer we get to Tianjin, the more ships there are on the surrounding seas. There are many kinds of fishing boats, whalers, merchant ships, etc. The entire Tianjin Port has become extremely busy before we even reach Tianjin Port.
"That's the whaler, right?"
"Is that a whale being held next to you?"
"What a big fish. I heard that this whale is equivalent to thousands of cows and hundreds of pigs. I heard from businessmen in the Ming Dynasty that this whale can nourish yin and yang."
"There are so many ships, they are so big~"
On the deck, everyone was talking one after another. Looking at the ships on the surrounding sea, everyone seemed very curious, especially about the whaling ships and whales. Many people had heard what merchants from the Ming Dynasty had said about whales.
At this moment, I saw the big whale being towed by the whaling ship, and everyone was shocked by the huge size of the whale.
In the field of vision, Tianjin gradually becomes clearer and clearer.
The entire Tianjin Port slowly appeared in front of you.
Tianjin Port is very huge. The docks are neatly arranged. The ships coming in and out are very orderly. The docks are extremely busy. A large number of workers are constantly loading and unloading. Four-wheeled carriages are constantly coming.
often.
Near Tianjin Port, tall buildings stand on the ground. The glass windows reflect dazzling light under the sunlight. Each residential area is neatly planned.
You can clearly see the spacious roads leading straight to the end of the field of vision. The roads are densely packed with people and traffic. There are many four-wheeled carriages, loaded with goods, coming and going. It is extremely busy.
In the industrial area farther away, huge chimneys stand on the ground, billowing smoke rises from them, and industrial areas are dotted here and there.
"This is Tianjin?"
Looking at the huge city in front of him, Godala was dumbfounded.
Although I had heard a lot of legends about Tianjin before coming here, I tried my best to imagine how prosperous and huge this city would be.
But when he saw this huge and prosperous city in front of him, Godala's mind went completely blank, and he really couldn't find any words to describe its hugeness and prosperity.
In the field of vision, the entire coastline is lined with high-rise buildings, and there is a very busy scene everywhere.
Every tall building is taller than the tallest building in Sulu. What's more important is that the Ming people used a lot of glass windows very extravagantly.
Compared with the Tianjin city in front of them, Sulu Port, the largest port in Sulu, looks like a small fishing village.
The wharf of Tianjin Port is very large.
Each pier can park many large ships at the same time. There is also a wide open space built with cement next to the pier, which is filled with all kinds of goods. There are mountains of fish products, and there are also goods transported back from all over the Ming Dynasty and overseas.
goods.
Each big ship is so huge that compared with the ships of the Ming Dynasty, the ships of the Southeast Asian countries are like toys.
"This is Tianjin?"
"As expected, it is the largest port in Ming Dynasty. It is really prosperous!"
"Aren't the buildings here too high?"
"So many people, so many carriages and horses~"
"There is also this straight road and the tall smoking chimneys in the distance..."
Not only the Eastern King Godala, but also the envoys from other countries were dumbfounded at this time. The Tianjin City in front of them exceeded their imagination of a big city.
Tianjin New City has no city walls, so it is unprecedentedly large in scale, and everything has been planned in an orderly manner in advance. This makes Tianjin City as a whole completely different from any city in this era.
Open, majestic, prosperous, lively...
A majestic atmosphere from the Ming Dynasty came towards them, making all these people stunned and dumbfounded.
As the ship slowly docked, a commotion and bustle immediately hit us.
The entire huge Tianjin Port is extremely busy. The terminals are classified into commercial terminals, cargo terminals, and fishery terminals. Every area is very busy.
Whenever a ship arrives at the port, a large number of people will inevitably flock over. Merchants at the fish shop rush to buy all kinds of popular fish products. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the consumption power in the Beijing and Tianjin areas has also increased accordingly.
, you are not afraid of the high price, but you are afraid that you may not have the goods in hand. Good fish is very popular.
Merchants from some trading houses are rushing to buy all kinds of goods arriving in Ming Dynasty from overseas. Pearls, jade, coral, jade, agarwood, ivory, rhino horn, etc. from South Seas are all hot commodities.
“There are so many people and it’s so busy~”
Godala stood on the deck and looked at the Tianjin Port in front of him. It was really too busy and there were too many people.
Sulu Port is a relatively large port in Nanyang, but compared with the Tianjin Port in front of you, there is no comparison at all. There are too many ships here. At a glance, there are neatly arranged ships everywhere on the pier.
Big ship.
"There are people from Nanyang coming to our Ming Dynasty~"
"There are people from Nanyang coming to our Ming Dynasty~"
This is, on the pier, I don't know who shouted, and suddenly everyone on the pier rushed over, looking at the 'Red Coral' and Godala and the others.
Everyone has curiosity, not to mention that in this era, only a few people can go overseas, so whenever a foreigner comes, it will inevitably attract a crowd of onlookers.
"These are the Nanyang people~"
"They are so dark~"
"Well, he's still very short~"
"How come their clothes are just like a piece of cloth? Don't they know how to cut them and wrap them in a piece of cloth?"
In the port, many people from the Ming Dynasty came to watch. Looking at the Nanyang people like Godala, they couldn't help but point and start discussing.
"There are so many people in Ming Dynasty~"
"Isn't that right? I heard that the Ming Dynasty has 60 million people. Our entire Nanyang countries combined are less than a fraction of the Ming Dynasty."
"The people of Ming Dynasty are really fair and tall."
"Their clothes are so gorgeous and beautiful."
Aboard the 'Red Coral', envoys from various Southeast Asian countries also looked carefully at the Ming people in the port and couldn't help but discuss with each other.
Godala looked at the port in front of him, at the dense crowd on the pier, and at the tall buildings not far away, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath.
This is the Ming Dynasty, and this is Tianjin Port. It is indeed not comparable to Sulu.
The ship was safely anchored, and officials from the Ministry of Rites, who had already come to Tianjin to wait, hurried over after receiving the news.
More than 30 delegations from Southeast Asia came to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. Together with the Korean and Japanese missions that arrived a few days ago, it can be said that this is definitely the most glorious moment of the Ming Dynasty in the past few decades.
The imperial court also attached great importance to this matter, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites were also very busy, having to entertain these foreign dignitaries.
Under the arrangement of the officials of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, Godala and other Nanyang envoys also stayed in the post house in Tianjin. They rested in Tianjin for two days before making arrangements to go to the capital to meet the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.
There were too many envoys coming at once, and the Emperor of Heaven did not have time to receive them one by one. He could only arrange them together and meet them together.
