Chapter 1161 Postscript: The Great Ambition of the Seventeenth Prince of Tianzhu
Chapter 1161 Postscript 17: The Great Ambition of the Crown Prince of Tianzhu
Huangzhou Prefecture, Tongpan Hall.
The family gathered around the globe and read the "Da Ming Xun Bao" carefully.
The news of the circumnavigation finally appeared in the newspapers, and it was the front page headline.
Xie Yan did not express any opinions because on this globe, the maps of Europe, Africa and America were severely distorted.
When the Ming Dynasty drew its world map, it directly used maps drawn by Arabs and Greeks for a vast area from West Asia to Western Europe.
They made the Mediterranean Sea very large, so that the area of the Mediterranean Sea was almost the same as that of the whole of Europe.
The British Isles, turned into a flat teapot shape.
The Nordic region has been reduced to a handful.
Western Europe and Northern Europe are too far away for the Ming Dynasty to send people there to measure accurately, and there is no need for it for the time being.
Ming Dynasty scholars who study geography all know that there is something wrong with this thing.
The map was mainly drawn by Arabs. Not only was the European region severely deformed, Central Asia, South Asia and China were also painted in a mess. The geographers of the Ming Dynasty knew at a glance that it was extremely fake.
But, for Ming Dynasty, both Africa and Europe can be ignored.
There were no political or military conflicts.
Secondly, there is no market there. The combined consumption power of European countries is less than a fraction of the markets in India and the Middle East.
Well, we can’t call it the Middle East now. That’s a European concept of geography.
From the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, Central Asia is now called the "Western Regions", West Asia and Eastern Europe are called the "Near West", and Central and Western Europe are called the "Western Europe".
"Tianfang" is more similar to the political concept, including the desert religious countries in North Africa, which are also called the land of Tianfang.
Later India, Bangladesh and Pakistan were all called "Indian countries" by the Ming Dynasty.
Xie Yan didn't pay attention to places too far away. He mainly admired Daming and its surrounding areas. He felt particularly shocked every time he looked at the map.
The entire South Asian subcontinent has changed beyond recognition due to the rise of the Ming Dynasty.
The Bengal dynasty, which was supposed to have established the country decades ago and converted to desert religion, has not appeared until now. The people who rule Bengal today are the Rhina dynasty (Hindu) that should have been exterminated long ago.
Of course it was Daming who took action!
The prince of the Xina Dynasty, with his whole family and dozens of followers, fled to the merchant ship of the Ming Dynasty, and went all the way to Luoyang to borrow troops to restore the country.
The two sides quickly reached a political deal without much haggling.
The Ming Dynasty did not even use local troops, but only mobilized the navy and army from Southeast Asia to defeat the Desert Cult army that invaded Xina.
In addition to the strong fighting power of the Ming Dynasty, another very important reason is that the forced conversion of the invaders was unpopular.
Prince Xina led the Ming army to fight back. After three consecutive victories, the local Hindu princes responded one after another. The rest of the matter had nothing to do with the Ming army. Prince Xina could handle it himself.
In order to repay the Ming Dynasty for restoring the country, Prince Xina donated the port at the mouth of the Ganges River and a large area of surrounding land to the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, the Xina Dynasty became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
In other areas of the South Asian subcontinent, the territory of states was also shattered into pieces.
The Chola dynasty, which was extremely powerful at the time of Ju Ming, now only had a few pieces of land left, facing the island of Ceylon across the sea. In order not to be destroyed by neighboring countries, the Chola dynasty had already become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.
The narrow coastal strip to the north of the Chola Dynasty had become a colony of the Ming Dynasty, and a "Governor-General's Palace of India" was built.
To the north of the Viceroyalty of India was the Kalinga dynasty, which bordered the Rhina dynasty of Bengal.
This area is all Hindu, and the northwest is mostly desert religious countries.
Among them, the Delhi Sultanate was once the most powerful.
However, after the younger brother of King Dawan led his army to the Indus River Basin, the situation changed dramatically.
The maps and globes in Xie Yan's home are actually out of date long ago.
Four years ago, the Tianzhu Kingdom (Confucianism + Buddhism + Hinduism) established by the descendants of the Dawan lineage of the Zhu family had already captured the city of Delhi, and the Delhi Sultanate fell into pieces.
India took the opportunity to seize a large area of the upper reaches of the Ganges River.
Currently, India is moving south to attack Rajput (Rajasthan) because that is a very important source of war horses.
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Luoyang.
After the circumnavigation team returned, another delegation from Tianzhu arrived, led by Zhu Boyu, Prince of Tianzhu.
The kings and ministers of the Ming Dynasty looked at Zhu Boyu carefully.
Yan Xide, the Minister of Rites, couldn't help but ask: "I heard that the Tianzhu royal family has intermarried with local nobles for several generations. Is this rumor false?"
Zhu Boyu has some difficulty speaking Chinese: "The royal family did intermarry with the local aristocrats. The first generation was completely Indian aristocrats in appearance. The second generation intermarryed with Han Chinese and became more Han Chinese in appearance. I am the third generation of intermarriage, my mother
Although I am a local noble, I look more like a Han Chinese."
Queen Mother Ye asked her consort Li Chang: "Has Zongzheng Temple continued the genealogy of Tianzhu?"
Li Chang bowed and said: "Reporting to the Queen Mother, we have already succeeded. This Crown Prince of Tianzhu is the sixth generation grandson of Emperor Taizong, and he should be regarded as your Majesty's nephew by seniority."
Queen Mother Ye smiled and said to her son: "This is your nephew." The little emperor stood up and bowed.
Zhu Boyu was so frightened that he knelt down quickly: "I dare not accept your majesty's gift!"
The little emperor nodded slightly, and Zhu Boyu quickly kowtowed in return.
Deng Gongwu asked: "You want to be a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. Have you discussed it with the Dawan Kingdom?"
Zhu Boyu replied: "We have sent people to discuss it."
The current situation is that the Kingdom of Dayuan is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and the Kingdom of Tianzhu is a vassal of Dayuan.
After the Tianzhu Kingdom destroyed the Delhi Sultanate, it thought it was strong enough and wanted to leave Dawan behind and directly become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. This would allow it to advance to a higher level out of thin air, and secondly, it would also break free from the shackles of the Dawan Kingdom.
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In order to please the country of his ancestors, Zhu Boyu even brought six girls.
Those girls were all about the same age as the little emperor. They were fair-skinned and beautiful. They were all daughters of nobles from the royal family of the Delhi Sultanate who were captured four years ago. They were also taught Chinese and Chinese characters in advance so that they would be ready when they came to Ming Dynasty.
Can adapt.
This flattery hit the horse's leg directly.
Neither Queen Mother Ye nor Prime Minister Deng wanted the young emperor to be exposed to women too early.
Yan Xide, the Minister of Rites, said: "Dawan has always been loyal and has not committed any mistakes. As the country of our ancestors, it is inconvenient for the Ming Dynasty to directly accept vassal states from subordinate states."
Queen Mother Ye made eye contact with several ministers, and then made a final decision: "You can go back and come back after you have reached an agreement with Dawan. You are not allowed to cheat, otherwise you will be severely punished!"
As the western barrier of the Ming Dynasty, the Dawan Kingdom had a much greater strategic role than the Tianzhu Kingdom. There was no need for the two countries to be unhappy because of their vassal status.
"I obey the decree."
Zhu Boyu was very disappointed.
He is still not strong enough, otherwise Daming would definitely agree.
When his ancestors founded the country in the Indus Valley, they still had too few troops. After the territory of Gejining was digested, the generals who were enfeoffed had been rapidly Brahminized, and the expanded army was all local soldiers.
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When they went to war with the Delhi Sultanate, although India always won, they besieged Delhi many times but could not break the city. They used precious homemade gunpowder to bombard the city, and twice the city walls collapsed. The defenders chanted jihadist slogans and actually succeeded.
Win the street fight.
Not only did the Han generals become Brahmins, but so did the soldiers they brought with them!
When the local army was expanding, the small soldiers became officers one by one, and scattered all over the place became landlords. They were very precious about their lives in the war, and they were no longer Central Asian soldiers fighting bravely.
It was not until four years ago, when the Sultan of Delhi passed away due to illness and the young Sultan had little prestige that Tianzhu conquered the city of Delhi in one fell swoop.
The chickens peck each other properly.
After leaving the palace, Zhu Boyu returned to Luoyang Sifangguan.
The more he thought about it, the more depressed he became. From then on, he determined to expand his territory and one day get rid of the Dawan Kingdom and directly become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.
Yes, Zhu Boyu had a very lofty ambition - to work hard to become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty!
He felt that his father's strategy was wrong. Rajput was full of deserts, and he could not rely solely on force to deal with the enemies there.
It can definitely be done through diplomacy.
The nobles there are all outsiders, but they lived hundreds of years earlier than them.
Since we are all outsiders, what are the irreconcilable conflicts?
After one or two victories, the two sides can sit down for peace talks and marriage. If the crown prince of Tianzhu marries the daughters of several Rajput tribal chiefs, then everyone will be their own people, and they can also get Rajputs.
The allegiance of the special cavalry.
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A few days before school started, Xie Yan said to his mother: "Mom, I want agate and top craftsmen."
Wang Yitong smiled and said: "You have a favorite woman? A gentleman is like jade, I will pick out some jade pendants for you."
Xie Yan said: "It's not used as jewelry."
"Then what are you going to do?" Wang Yitong asked.
Xie Yan explained: "Make a high-precision balance. Today's experimental balances are not accurate enough to verify Taizu's periodic table of elements."
Wang Yitong asked curiously: "How can the scale be made of agate?"
Xie Yan said: "It's hard to explain in a few sentences. Anyway, I need agate to make the parts of the balance. I also need a low-quality, corrosion-resistant metal to make the weight pieces."
In another time and space, aluminum sheets were used as weights and agate was used as the blade of the balance.
Now in the Ming Dynasty, it seems that no chemist has discovered aluminum.
Wang Yitong had always been dubious about his son studying chemistry, but he still agreed to help find craftsmen and agates.
At least, my son did not go looking for flowers and flowers, nor went to fight cocks and lackeys.
Finally convincing his mother, Xie Yan started looking for materials to make a simple air damper.
As a civil engineer, it is normal for me to understand the principles of air dampers, right?
With the air damper, even if you can't find aluminum as weight, it will be enough.
Xie Yan looked at the "Ming Dynasty Territory Map" in the study and muttered to himself: "Senior time traveler appeared and blessed me with the success of making the agate scale. When the time comes, I will give you a little shock to the dynasty you built. The Jade Emperor, Tathagata Buddha,