Chapter 1159 Postscript Fifteen There is a great Han Kingdom in the west
Chapter 1159 Postscript 15·There is a great Han country in the west
Luoyang Palace, side hall of Chui Gong Hall.
The young emperor sat in the center, next to him sat the Queen Mother Ye, and in the back seat between the mother and son was Tao Jinfeng, the palace maid.
Prime Minister Deng Gongwu, Deputy Prime Minister Ge Congxin, Privy Councilor Han Chong, Minister of War Wu Jiying and other ministers were sitting on both sides.
"I once traveled nine times to pay homage to Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, and all the gentlemen!"
Zeng Jiuyou felt extremely uneasy. He sailed around the world on the order of the late emperor, but when he came back he found that the emperor was gone.
The normal transfer of power was okay, but there was a bloody coup.
Queen Mother Ye smiled and nodded, approvingly saying: "Commander Zeng has really worked hard. It must be extremely thrilling at sea, right?"
"With the blessing of the late Emperor's spirit in heaven, all dangers can be turned into misfortunes." Zeng Jiu said.
Queen Mother Ye exchanged some greetings and started to talk about the topic: "I have received all the records you have along the way. But there is too much information, so let's talk about it in person first. How many villages, towns and populations are there in the United States?
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Zeng Jiuyou took out a map and spread it on the conference table.
"This is the town of Lai'an. Sixty years ago, 300 immigrants were transported, all of whom were male death row prisoners. Later, some Japanese women were transported there, and they themselves married local indigenous women."
"If the foreign wives of their descendants are also included, there are 1,528 people over the age of seven."
"Further south is Xinxiang Town. Fifty-five years ago, 300 people immigrated, all of whom were male death row prisoners. The situation is similar to the previous group. Now there are 1,375 people over the age of seven."
"Continuing to the south, there are Meng'en Town and Huaide Town, with 1,056 and 1,091 people over seven years old respectively."
"These four small towns have very close contact with the indigenous people. Some of the words they speak are incomprehensible and I guess they learned them from the indigenous people. But there is no problem communicating in Chinese, and some people teach their children to read."
"It is impossible to accurately count the population at the sixth and seventh immigration points because there are gold and silver mines there."
"The gold and silver mines were mainly mined by troops sent by the imperial court to capture local indigenous people. However, there were also two to three thousand gold prospectors all year round. They were transported there by adventurous merchants. Some people were panning for gold while waiting to return by boat.
There are also people who married indigenous women and farmed and multiplied there."
"Totaling these two immigration points together, if you include the foreign wives of soldiers and gold diggers, the total number of people over the age of seven is approximately between 5,000 and 7,000."
Everyone present nodded slightly.
The garrison of American mines is rotated every three years.
The new imperial team has not cared about it at all in the past three years. Only this year did they send a fleet to the United States to rotate troops and bring back the gold they mined.
Zeng Jiuyou continued: "The rubber tree that Taizu Taizong mentioned may have been found."
Everyone's spirits were shaken.
Although I don’t know what the function of rubber is, it is the teaching of Taizu Taizong.
"Can you bring it back?" Deng Gongwu asked.
Zeng Jiuyou said: "I took a boat around to the east of the United States and found out. Because I didn't know when I could return home, and I was afraid that the saplings would die if I delayed for too long. So I left more than 20 people to escort the rubber trees back west on foot. They started from
The narrowest point in the middle of the United States, heading towards the gold mine where the Ming Dynasty garrison is located. You may die, or you may get lost."
Queen Mother Ye said: "All sea explorers, including you, will be rewarded heavily if they can come back. Those who cannot come back will be rewarded heavily with their families."
"Thank you Queen Mother!"
Zeng Jiuyou added: "At the southern end of the west coast of the United States, I also discovered the descendants of the second batch of sea explorers sent by Taizong..."
Privy Councilor Han Chong was surprised and said: "Aren't they missing?"
Zeng Jiuyou said: "They kept going south for some reason, and encountered a big storm offshore when they returned. Seventy percent of the entire fleet were missing. The ones I found were the thirty percent of seniors who luckily escaped back to the seaside.
Descendants. They got along quite harmoniously with the local indigenous people, and even left a letter for their descendants to pass on to the visitors from the sea."
"Where is the letter?" Queen Mother Ye asked.
Zeng Jiuyou said: "Those seniors probably didn't have paper and pen, so the letters were carved on an uneven stone. Moreover, most of them had died of old age and illness when the words were carved. Since there was no way to make rubbings, I could only copy them down.
The navigation records were handed in together. The general content of the letter was that he had failed to meet Taizong's expectations and could no longer return to the country to serve Taizong. If anyone later finds out, please copy the contents of the letter and burn it in front of Taizong's mausoleum to restore the emperor's order."
When everyone heard this, they were all startled.
No one expected that the content of the letter would be this.
Deng Gongwu's eyes suddenly became wet, and he sighed with emotion: "The ministers of Taizu Taizong's dynasty are all loyal and good, and they are definitely not comparable to the rebellious ministers and traitors of later generations."
Queen Mother Ye asked: "Can their descendants still speak Chinese?"
Zeng Jiuyou replied: "We can all speak some, and there are even many people who are literate. But after living together with the local indigenous people for a long time, they speak the dialect more fluently. They stumble when speaking Chinese, and they can no longer understand many Han vocabulary."
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Deng Gongwu said: "Your Majesty, you can send another group of immigrants to live with the descendants of Zhongliang. You should also bring more supplies to reward those Zhongliang descendants."
"It should be so." Queen Mother Ye agreed very much.
Zeng Jiuyou added: "The letter also said that if anyone later discovers it, please transport their remains back to their hometown for burial."
Queen Mother Ye said: "Send someone to transport their remains back, and then visit their hometown to see if there are any descendants."
Everyone sighed and sighed for a while before letting Zeng Jiuyou continue.
Zeng Jiuyou pointed to a severely distorted map of the Atlantic Ocean and said: "There is a current here (Brazil). Following the current across the ocean, you can reach the south of the Western countries, which is the west coast of Africa as mentioned by Taizu Taizong.
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Zeng Jiuyou's luck was very strange. If he continued to sail north, he would be able to follow the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Warm Current directly to the UK.
As a result, he repeatedly searched for rubber trees along the coast, left a group of soldiers and rubber saplings on the east coast of Central America, and continued to follow the ocean currents to the Gulf of Mexico.
In this case, just continue to follow the ocean current.
But as he sailed, he found that it was getting colder and colder. The road ahead was unknown, and it was difficult to ensure that food could reach Europe. So, he actually turned against the current and ran south, returning to the coast of Brazil to replenish food.
Then I tried to go directly east, but accidentally encountered the equatorial countercurrent of the South Atlantic Ocean, and finally landed in the Gulf of Guinea on the west coast of Africa.
Zeng Jiuyou said: "On the way from the United States to Africa, two of my ships were wrecked, and all the brothers on board were missing. The ships that were lucky enough to not sink were also badly damaged. I was planning to find a place to repair them.
The ship unexpectedly encountered the descendants of those who defected from the navy."
"What?"
"Really defecting from the navy?"
Everyone exclaimed in unison and quickly asked Zeng Jiuyou to continue speaking.
Zeng Jiuyi said: "They established a country in the northwest corner of the African continent, and they even named their pseudo-country the Great Han Dynasty. The place where I docked was rich in gold. At that time, their army came by boat and was planning to take away the newly mined gold.
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Wu Jiying, Secretary of the Ministry of War, asked: "How big is the territory of that pseudo-Han state?"
"I don't know," Zeng Jiuyou shook his head, "They have all converted to Desert Religion, but they do not abide by the teachings. I heard that the local people often rebel."
When Zhu Guoxiang and Ju Ming and their sons rebelled, the Berbers in North Africa overthrew the original regime and established the Almohid dynasty.
This dynasty controlled the coastal areas from Morocco to Libya, and even half of Spain was their territory.
A hundred years passed and it fell into decay. A vigorous uprising broke out in the Iberian Peninsula. The ancestors of the Spaniards held high the cross and began to kill and expel Desert Cult believers.
In North Africa, the Marin tribe among the Berbers gradually grew stronger by repeatedly beating the Spaniards.
In the end, the Marin tribe became brave and wanted to be the boss. Regardless of the fact that the Spaniards were still rebelling, they led their army to kill their caliphate.
When the Ming Dynasty navy that escaped from Southeast Asia arrived on the coast of Morocco, the Almohid dynasty was in a three-way melee.
The dynasty's army was defeated steadily. When the Caliph heard that a powerful navy had arrived, he sent an envoy to ask the Ming navy for help. He immediately provided a large amount of supplies and promised to give these navy the territory of the Marin tribe.
The defected navy of the Ming Dynasty came all the way to plunder and was worried that there was no place to settle down, so they hit it off with the Caliph.
Where have you seen muskets and artillery in the Marin tribe’s army?
What's more, they are rebels to begin with and naturally lack legitimacy.
The Ming Dynasty defected to the navy because it was invited by the Caliph. After three consecutive victories, the rebels who had joined the Marin tribe defected one after another.
Then, the Ming Dynasty defected from the navy and fell out with the Caliphate!
The reason is simple: the place given to them by the Caliph was too poor and located in a border area where multiple forces intersected.
The two sides bargained and couldn't come to an agreement.
The Ming Dynasty defected to the navy and was so angry that they stopped chasing the remnants of the Marin tribe and instead attacked the Caliph's army.
After defeating the Caliphate's frontline army, the Ming Navy sailed directly to attack Marrakech, the capital of the Almohid dynasty.
This dynasty had long been in decay and could neither suppress the Spanish uprising nor defeat the rebels of the Marin tribe. Hearing that the Ming Dynasty had defected to the navy and headed for his capital, the caliph fled overnight with his entourage and troops.
What follows is a bit embarrassing.
The defected navy of the Ming Dynasty was an outsider after all. They occupied Morocco by force, and desert believers rebelled from time to time.
The Caliphate fled to the coastal areas of North Africa. There was not much left in the army, and he had to continue fighting with the remnants of the Marin tribe. Those rebellious Spaniards could only rely on local nobles to suppress them.
No one has a hard time with all the forces involved!
Eager to gain a foothold, the Ming Dynasty defected from the navy and took the lead in lowering its stance and seeking cooperation.
They are willing to convert all of them to desert religion and respect the Caliphate as the master from now on. The Han Kingdom they established will also become a tributary state of the Caliphate.
The Caliph must also reciprocate, that is, recognize the Ming Dynasty's defected navy's right to rule Morocco, and order the clergy in Morocco not to incite rebellion.
Just a few years later, the Marin tribe was completely pacified. The Caliph felt that he was capable again and secretly incited the believers in the Han Dynasty to rebel.
Those believers have long wanted to rebel.
Because the Han people who fled here imposed brutal taxes on them. On the surface, they converted to desert religion, but in fact they were all false believers, and the teachings were completely destroyed.
Facing the rebellion, the Han army could no longer endure it. They brutally suppressed the rebels and clergy, and then marched towards the Caliphate's territory.
After the Caliphate was defeated, he quickly sued for peace again, compensated a large amount of money and food, and gave the Han King the title of Sultan.
"Where did the gunpowder that defected from the navy come from?" Wu Jiying asked.
Zeng Jiuyou said: "They have craftsmen on board who can not only make gunpowder, but also repair firearms. They adopt local orphans and teach them various skills. Now they can produce their own gunpowder, and they can also make guns and cannons. Only
But they don’t have machines, and their methods of making firecrackers and artillery are very backward.”
Queen Mother Ye asked: "They all abandoned the Confucian sages and really converted to desert religion?"
Zeng Jiuyou laughed and said: "The Caliphate is equivalent to the leader of the Desert Cult. He was beaten by them once and moved his capital, and once he was beaten by them and sued for peace, how could he really convert. And the Desert Cultists there are different. The previous dynasty was
Because polytheism was allowed, it was overthrown by the current dynasty. There are a large number of polytheists among the people, and they are taking advantage of them."
"How to use it?" Tao Jinfeng asked.
Zeng Jiuyou said: “Forcibly promoting polytheism, we brought out all the gods that the local people believed in before, and even introduced the cross religion from across the Taiwan Strait. Now the believers there can believe in desert religion and cross religion at the same time, and they even talk about the two religions.
The gods are the same person."
Tao Jinfeng smiled and said: "This is indeed interesting."
Zeng Jiuyou said: "Now there are a lot of various gods there, including cross gods, desert gods, and many old local gods. There are also those who worship Haotian God and Tathagata Buddha, and even..."
"Even what?" Deng Gongwu asked.
Zeng Jiuyou lowered his head and said: "They really deserve to die. They actually regarded Taizu and Emperor Taizong as gods, and even built statues of them in their puppet countries."
When everyone heard this, they all couldn't laugh or cry.
Zeng Jiuyou said: "They killed all the disobedient clergy. They also married local nobles and adopted a large number of orphans to train the army. Desert cultists rebelled every now and then, and they suppressed them severely every time. It seems that there has been a rebellion in the past few years.
It’s become a lot less.”
Northwest Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, where the religious situation is extremely confusing.
First of all, the polytheistic beliefs of various tribes have never disappeared. Then there is the Spanish and Portuguese cross-beliefs, which have also always existed, and can coexist with desert believers.
Even the most devout desert believers follow religious doctrines selectively, and drinking alcohol is as common as drinking water.
A group of navy bastards who defected from Nanyang, in order to prevent the Caliphate from continuing to cause trouble, completely disrupted those beliefs, and even worshiped Zhu Guoxiang and Ju Ming as gods.
"How do you know so clearly?" Deng Gongwu asked.
Zeng Jiuyou said: "What we encountered at that time were the mixed-race sons who defected from the navy and captured us and the damaged ships. Those who escaped from the navy were still alive. Deputy Admiral Yang Wenhu became the pseudo-king, and all the officers became prisoners.
He became a nobleman, and the soldiers became officers one by one."
"Yang Wenhu helped his ministers repair the ships and gave them a lot of supplies. He asked his ministers to return home to speak on their behalf, asking the Ming Emperor for forgiveness, and that the puppet Han Dynasty was willing to become an overseas vassal of the Ming Dynasty."
At this time, the Han Dynasty not only owned Morocco, but also owned one-third of Spain.
The Spaniards, who had always been ruled by desert believers, launched uprisings from time to time, which the Caliph was unable to suppress.
The bastards of the Han Dynasty, under the guise of helping the Caliphate to suppress the rebellion, crossed the strait and attacked the desert sect nobles.
Those Desert Cult aristocratic armies were attacked from both sides and were quickly defeated.
The King of Han took the opportunity to enfeoff the nobles, because if he continued to enfeoff the nobles, the Han people who defected with him would rebel.
At the same time, he announced religious freedom and won the enthusiastic support of the Cross believers, who even honored the Han King Yang Wenhu as "Priest King Saint John".
Today, all the noble lords in the southern third of Spain are Han Chinese.
Some people found that there were more Christian believers in their territory and simply converted to Christianity. But they were also false believers and did not observe monogamy at all. They all had wives and concubines.
As for the Pope?
I only know Taizu Taizong and Emperor Dingtai, who is the Pope?
Except for Yang Wenhu's navy, which can relatively maintain combat effectiveness, the army of the Han Dynasty has long been localized. Due to low productivity, most of the armed forces of the Han noble lords are not equipped with firearms, and they are just like novices fighting each other.