Chapter 214 The Great Alliance of EnemiesPlease order the full version
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Zhu Han's suggestion is actually the most practical.
The Ming Dynasty wanted to take the route of direct rule in the future when it conquered Goryeo, Japan and other places.
Therefore, these places must undergo a batch of repopulation. These places belong to a civilized ethnic population and are very respectful to the Ming Dynasty. Of course, they cannot simply kill them all.
Therefore, by changing the people in these places to live in another place, you can easily change their customs and habits, turning them from Koreans and Japanese into Ming citizens in Nanyang.
"Recruiting these naturalized people is a short-term means."
"For the long-term solution in the future, it is best to add more women of the right age to the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in advance. The people born in the future will naturally be the citizens of the Ming Dynasty, and the land here in Nanyang will remain stable."
The Nanyang area where Zhu Wenzheng was located had unique advantages in the slave trade.
There are constant disputes among the various small Southeast Asian countries here, and tribes of all sizes are also fighting every now and then.
The more frequent wars are, the more captives will be pushed onto the slave market.
Zhu Wenzheng only needed to spend some money to match each Ming Dynasty soldier with two or three female slaves.
In the future, a bunch of little babies will be born, which will increase the number of Nanyang Ming citizens.
After Zhu Han's guidance, Zhu Wenzheng suddenly became enlightened.
After he occupied the Spice Island here, it can be said that there is almost no shortage of hard currency in his hands.
The various spices produced in Nanyang were in short supply, whether in the Ming Dynasty or in places further west, such as Persia, Egypt, and Byzantium.
Zhu Wenzheng only needed to use the spices in his hands to exchange for large numbers of slaves to replenish the population of the Jingnan King's vassal in the Ming Dynasty.
Under Zhu Han's guidance, Zhu Wenzheng took action immediately.
He summoned various merchants and slave traders in Malacca to the palace.
Under the regulations of King Jingnan of the Ming Dynasty, all merchant ships coming to Southeast Asia for the spice trade in the future must carry a corresponding number of female slaves according to the amount of goods purchased each time.
These female slaves will be inspected by the Jingnan Palace of the Ming Dynasty. Only after passing the standards in quantity and quality can the merchants be qualified to engage in the spice trade.
Once this regulation was issued, it wouldn't take long for female slaves from all over the country to flood into the Nanyang territory of the Ming Dynasty.
at the same time.
Zhu Wenzheng, King of Jingnan in the Ming Dynasty, also sent his royal caravan to Goryeo, Ryukyu, Japan and other places to recruit farmers to farm in Southeast Asia.
The powerful people in these places are even more ruthless than those in the Central Plains.
The local lower class people were exploited like cattle and horses.
King Jingnan of Nanyang in the Ming Dynasty provided each person with a settling-in allowance of five taels of silver, and also gave him ten acres of tax-free land. All other reclaimed land, no matter how much, was tax-free for three years.
Moreover, Nanyang is a warm place. Except for being too hot all year round, you don’t have to worry about freezing to death or starving to death.
Therefore, in less than half a year, Zhu Wenzheng recruited more than 20,000 poor people from these places to join in the reclamation of wasteland in Nanyang.
These lower-class people from Goryeo and Japan had no cultural foundation at all. When they arrived in Nanyang, they naturally followed whatever the Ming government said.
It is not too simple to ask them to change their language and surname to Chinese.
After Zhu Wenzheng adopted this strategy, it took him less than two years to replace all the Nanyang indigenous people on the Spice Island, the core area of his domain.
As for how these Nanyang natives were replaced, it cannot be said that King Jingnan of the Ming Dynasty, who was kind and loving to the people, was killed.
Regardless of whether he died of illness, starvation or heat, or he was blown away by too many typhoons in the South Seas, there is not a single indigenous man in the Spice Island of the Ming Dynasty left.
For these Nanyang natives who are as humble as ants, even now there are still people discussing their existence. In tens or hundreds of years, Nanyang will all be ruled by Ming citizens, and no one will think about it.
How come there are no indigenous people in Nanyang?
After all, for a race that cannot even leave any male offspring, its existence and disappearance are as unnoticed as smoke.
Hundreds of years later, the citizens of the Ming Dynasty in this land of Nanyang will only feel that they have thrived here since ancient times.
The hot temperatures are baking the earth, making Tianzhu, which has just gone through the rainy season, look like a giant steamer.
Most Tianzhu people are shirtless, revealing their dark and shiny skin.
Each of them looked at the army advancing on the road with numb expressions. There was neither fear nor joy in their eyes. They were as emotionless as animals walking around on the road.
"This is really a rich land! It's even better than the place in the river!"
Timur sat on his horse and looked at the surrounding land, feeling envious in his heart.
Since receiving help from the Deli Sultanate, the Western Chagatai Khanate has stabilized the situation.
In particular, Wang Baobao, who had just conquered the territory of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, was busy digesting the newly expanded territory and was not in a hurry to launch an attack on the Hezhong area occupied by Western Chagatai.
Therefore, when the situation in the Western Chagatai Khanate stabilized a little, the Delhi Sultanate immediately extended an invitation to employ them.
The Delhi Sultanate itself was a country established by Tianfang Sect mercenaries. Whenever a battle broke out, soldiers would be hired from the Tianfang Sect's territory in Central Asia to fight in India.
Because Timur and others had experience fighting against the Easterners, who naturally referred to Wang Baobao of the Mongolian and Yuan Empire, they were hired by Firuz Shah of the Delhi Sultanate to come to India to attack Duan Gong.
These mercenaries not only came from the Western Chagatai Khanate, but also many came from Khwarazm, Khorasan and Kabul.
There were more than 20,000 people in total. The nominal commander was Jailedisha, the prince of the Delhi Sultanate, and the actual general was Timur.
These mercenaries from Central and West Asia marched on the land of Tianzhu, full of greed and desire for everything around them.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! If it were not for the fact that they are brothers of the Tianfang Sect with the Delhi Sultanate, they would have already started to rob without regard to any discipline.
"How to deal with those Easterners? Timur, do you have a good idea?"
asked Jaledisha, the prince of the Delhi Sultanate.
Not long ago, the Delhi Sultanate launched several smaller attacks on Duan Gong.
Sometimes the number of troops sent out was three to four thousand, and sometimes it was nearly 10,000.
However, the soldiers of the Delhi Sultanate often bullied weak chickens in Tianzhu, and their combat effectiveness had already been severely degraded.
The successive attacks allowed Duan Gong to easily defeat several hundred soldiers with his surgical strength.
It was under this circumstance that the Delhi Sultanate had no choice but to hire soldiers from the Tianfang Sect in Central Asia.
These Tianfang Sect warriors from the mountains and grasslands of Central Asia have honed their will and fighting skills in wars and hardships all year round, and their combat effectiveness is far stronger than that of the Delhi Sultanate's army.
However, the cautious question from the prince of the Delhi Sultanate still made Timur feel insulted.
"Your Highness, we are inspired by God and will definitely gain all the advantages to defeat the Easterners in Bengal. We don't need any complicated strategies at all. We only need to spread out our heroic warriors to destroy their
Army warehouses and cities!" Timur said with confidence.
The fact was just as Timur expected.
When this group of more than 20,000 Tianfeng mercenaries arrived in Bangladesh, their ferocity and bravery immediately defeated the local Tianzhu soldiers under Duan Gong.
The number of Dali troops in Duan Gong's hands was less than 10,000. With such a small army, it was completely insufficient to rule an area equivalent to the size of the entire Yunnan region.
Therefore, there are more than 20,000 indigenous soldiers recruited from the local area in Duan Gong's army.
But the combat effectiveness of these indigenous Indian soldiers is very low.
They were only responsible for the defense of cities and fortresses. Although they had the greatest defensive advantage, they were easily defeated by the mercenaries led by Timur.
These Tianfang Sect mercenaries in Central Asia have no mercy at all against these Brahmans.
Tamerlane's soldiers not only killed all resisting enemies on the battlefield, but also looted the city after capturing it.
Every city fell into a horrific hell.
Many native people of Tianzhu were frightened by these ferocious Tianfang Sect warriors.
Under this terrifying effect, the ruling order that Duan Gong had finally established gradually began to be shaken.
Although Duan Gong only lost some of the most peripheral territories, it still had a very large influence on the hearts of the people inside.
According to the spies' reports, the mercenaries led by Timur were extremely powerful in combat and were definitely not comparable to those of the native Catholics.
Under this situation, even though Duan Gong lost a lot of territory, he still did not dare to take the initiative.
He gathered his troops and mainly defended the area around New Dali City.
In other important cities in other places, some of his subordinates will be sent to supervise the operations.
Duan Gong's cautious behavior, in the eyes of Timur and other Tianfang Sect mercenaries, was definitely a sign of fear of showing incompetence.
“Allahu Akbar!”
After receiving news of the successive victories, Sultan Firuz Shah of the Delhi Sultanate could not help but praise the omniscient and almighty God in the palace.
The super fighting power displayed by these poor Central Asian mercenaries like Timur gave Firuzsha a value-for-money experience.
You must know that to hire more than 20,000 Tianfang Sect warriors, Firuz Shah only spent the equivalent of 200,000 taels of silver.
Of course, in addition to this, all the loot taken on the battlefield belongs to these mercenaries.
It's just that these plundered trophies all belong to the rebellious Tianzhu natives, and there is no loss to Firuzisha at all.
Such a cheap price allowed him to win successive victories. Firuz Shah could not help but imagine that after pacifying Bengal, he would continue to hire these Central Asian Tianfang Sect warriors to attack Sindh and Kanda in the south to achieve the goal.
His dream of unifying Tianzhu.
Just as Firuz Shah was praising God for his successive victories, a soft voice came from outside the palace door.
"Father, I'm coming!"
Accompanied by the crisp sound of gold and silver jewelry clashing, a gust of fragrant wind drifted in from outside the palace door.
This is a typical Central Asian beauty.
Her fair skin, big emerald green eyes, curly chestnut hair, and gorgeous Tianzhu-style clothes fully reveal her mysterious figure.
"Alina, my daughter, come to your father quickly!" Firuzsha, who was always known for his cruelty, showed a rare kind smile.
Because he had a huge harem, Firuz Shah had more than a dozen sons and more than a dozen daughters.
But among them, the one whom Firuz Shah loves the most is this daughter...Princess Alina.
Alina is fourteen years old this year. Her mother is the daughter of a Persian noble. She has a formal wife status in Firuz Shah's harem, rather than a lowly female slave.
Moreover, Alina is not only sweet and seductive in appearance, but also very smart and studious.
Not only was she proficient in Persian, Udur and other languages, but she was also an excellent poet. In addition, she was also familiar with many legal provisions and the Koran, and often helped her father Firuz Shah Sultan make political decisions.
So Firuz Shah has always regarded this daughter as his treasure.
But no matter how precious a daughter is, she is still a daughter after all.
You always have to get married in the end.
Firuz Shah attached great importance to his alliance with Chen Youliang, and the princess agreed to marry was his favorite daughter Alina.
Firuz Shah wanted his daughter to go to the East and use her intelligence to control part of the political power to help the Delhi Sultanate gain huge benefits from Eastern trade.
The area of Bengal now occupied by Duan Gong will be recovered by Timur soon.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At that time, Firuz Shah will send someone to escort Princess Alina to Chen Han to get married.
Today, he called Princess Alina over, and what he wanted to say was exactly related to this.
"I am going to ask the palace guards to take you to Timur's military camp. These river people believe that they will be able to defeat those Easterners soon. By then, after capturing Bengal, the road to Cathay will be restored. If you can do it early,
Arriving in Han Kingdom one day will open the trade route between us one day earlier. For the sake of the kingdom, I have to say goodbye to you in advance, my daughter."
Firuz Shah said to Princess Alina.
As an envoy, Chen Youren brought a batch of goods with the merchant group, which made the Delhi Sultanate more than ten times the profit.
If it could conduct large-scale trade with Chen Youliang as early as possible, the Delhi Sultanate would have a steady source of wealth.
Firuz Shah of the Delhi Sultanate was very concerned about marrying Princess Alina.
Not only did he send out what he thought was an elite palace Gracchi guard to escort him, but he also prepared an unusually generous dowry.
More than fifty carriages were filled with local spices from Tianzhu, as well as a large number of rubies and gold jewelry, and more than a hundred excellent war horses purchased from the Hezhong area.
In addition, Firuz Shah ordered his men to prepare more than 300 good slaves, all of whom were purchased from Persian merchants, Armenians, Romans and other pagans.
These pagans were sold as slaves from childhood and have already been castrated. Now in their teens, they have been domesticated and become very docile, and can become the most reliable slaves of Princess Alina in the Eastern court.
These castrated teenage slaves are also a specialty of the Delhi Sultanate.
Not only can they serve their masters almost perfectly, but they are also proficient in legal documents, poetry and combat skills, and are qualified for any position in the palace.
Obviously, Firuz Shah wanted his daughter, Princess Alina, to have sufficient say in Chen Youliang's palace to help the Delhi Sultanate gain enough benefits.
