In fact, Majapahit should have declared its demise twenty years ago and split into East Java and West Java.
But just like East and West Rome, each claimed Roman orthodoxy, and East and West Java also each claimed orthodoxy. Currently, East Java occupies the royal city of Majapahit, but West Java often comes to pay tribute, and they all use the Majapahit sign.
In the battle some time ago, the Ming Navy defeated a bunch of new countries.
After the defeat of Majapahit, the regime completely fell apart and lost control of the surrounding islands. Major cities refused to obey the king's orders. The royal family of East Java fled to Bali for vacation, while West Java cowered on the island and did not dare to move. The first in Southeast Asia
The big country will automatically dismember itself.
In a very strange situation, the Ming Dynasty Navy poked it with his finger, and the Nanyang giant collapsed. As a result, as soon as Manzheng's letter was delivered to the capital, the situation in Nanyang had been turned upside down, and Wang Yuan and Zhu Houzhao were unable to respond in time.
Why is this happening?
Because Majapahit was founded by Hindus and was supplemented by Buddhism. However, its main commercial cities were seriously eroded by Green Religion. Once the central government lost its deterrent power, those cities became independent sultanates and instantly entered the status of coastal city-states.
Moreover, these sultanates were very fierce.
Take the Tammu Sultanate for example, its territory is only equivalent to two or three counties of the Ming Dynasty. However, in history, it not only completely destroyed Majapahit, but also fought hard with Portugal and its allies many times.
For the first time, he sent 100 ships to attack Portugal and returned with a great defeat; for the second time, he sent 375 ships to attack Portugal and returned with a great defeat, and the Sultan was killed; for the third time, he defeated Portugal's ally Sunda and captured its port.
It was renamed Jakarta; the fourth time, it completely killed the Sunda Kingdom and changed its royal city to the Banten Sultanate; the fifth time, it completely destroyed the Portuguese ally Majapahit and razed its capital to the ground.
These sultanates were really fierce, and later they even fought with the Netherlands. Even if they couldn't win, the first Dutch fleet returned with scars all over their bodies, and the ocean trade almost lost money. If it weren't for the intervention of Chinese businessmen at that time, the Dutch fleet would have lost money.
They couldn't buy supplies to go home because the nearby sultanate was unwilling to trade with the Dutch.
In the early winter of the fifteenth year of Zhengde, a large number of people from Guangdong and Fujian went to Nanyang.
They borrowed money from relatives and friends and even went to sea with usury, just to go to Johor to find gold. This is a life-and-death business. Life is difficult in their hometown anyway. What if they find gold?
Among these people, there are not a few who got rich suddenly, and even picked up gold nuggets directly in the river.
But more people are cheated to the point of death, or die unexpectedly in foreign countries. If they really can’t survive and don’t have the money to return home by boat, then they go to Singapore and open up wasteland in Longyamen. Anyway, you can get the land title after farming for more than five years.
The King of Malacca had no choice but to mobilize the Sudanese Guards, otherwise his army would not be able to defeat the gold diggers.
Many of those Chinese gold diggers were organized by maritime merchants. Not only were they equipped with swords, but some were also equipped with fire muskets, and they were the most advanced flintlock muskets in the Ming Dynasty. If the gold diggers were not leaderless, with their strength, they could all establish a company in Johor
A city-state!
If it is really qualified to establish a country, just like the Sultanate of Java, it can declare independence with only two to three thousand armed forces.
The Zhejiang Beiwa headquarters was full of power. Because he was ordered to supervise the three islands, in just over half a year, he owned thousands of acres of land (mostly reclaimed land) and owned thousands of indigenous serfs. Unfortunately, the indigenous people did not know how to farm.
And he was extremely lazy. Manzheng was very troubled by this and could only hire Chinese farmers as technical guides and supervisors.
Fireman Yasan, who was officially renamed Lin Yaoshan, also had his own large estate. He did not grow much food, but planted a large amount of spices, and he was not afraid of violating Wang Erlang's instructions.
The Qiantang Navy, which has expanded to nearly 10,000 people, are all landowners. If any officials give up their overseas territories, they will dare to fight tooth and nail and even take a boat directly to Beijing to kill them!
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Immigration from Southeast Asia was in full swing, but Wang Yuan was very leisurely in the capital.
His main responsibility was to be a teacher for the prince, and he also taught his two sons. The content of his teaching would make traditional Confucian scholars jump in anger.
The correct interpretation of "Huan Gong brought together the weak and supported the weak" should be that Qi Huan Gong united the nine princes to help those weak and endangered princes and small countries.
But Wang Yuan said to the prince: "Qi Huangong united the nine princes for the sake of hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, the Zhou Dynasty implemented a system of enfeoffment, and no one could unify China. What Qi Huangong could only do was to unite the nine princes.
Hegemony. Why can the Qin State be unified? Because the Qin State is located in the northwest borderland and is always in danger of subjugation, so it can truly reform to become stronger. The Qi State is rich, the people live in peace and contentment, and the nobles are rich and enjoy themselves, so the Qi State cannot reform."
Zhu Zaiyi asked: "Sir, what is the reform?"
Wang Yuan replied: "You, Ce'er and Su'er are playing Cuju. If you can't win with the ordinary method, then you can win with a different method. This is a reform!"
"The reform is also simple." Zhu Zaiyi said.
Wang Yuan shook his head and said: "It's not simple. If His Highness is strong and can win with brute force, then he won't think about changing his method. And after a weak person changes his method, he will be very strong, and His Highness will have no time to change his method. Any more
When it comes to the country, the weak people need to reform, but the wealthy gentry will block your reform. But the officials are very wealthy, and most of them don't want to reform, and the entire country will gradually become weaker."
"Is the Ming Dynasty also getting weaker?" Zhu Zaiyi asked.
Wang Yuan said: "The Ming Dynasty is getting weaker and weaker. If the law does not change, it will continue to weaken."
Zhu Zaiyi said: "Then I will change the law in the future."
This was heard by more than a dozen court officials, a few of whom were extremely pleased, and most of whom looked ugly.
The next day, dozens of impeachment memorials were handed in, requesting the emperor to replace the lecturer who taught the prince.
Wang Yuan asked to resign, but the emperor refused, leaving all officials helpless.
The disaster situation is very bad everywhere because there is not enough relief food.
Strong officials directly prosecuted people for murder and severely punished those who hoarded goods; moderate officials chose to win over and persuade merchants to sell grain at a fair price; unscrupulous officials collaborated with merchants and took the opportunity to make money in their own pockets.
The patrol censors were extremely busy, impeaching disaster relief officials for corruption, and there were many rumors of corruption. In the end, they could no longer tell who was real and who was fake, so they could only send people to investigate.
The only thing that pleased Wang Yuan was that the newly minted silver coins and copper coins were circulated throughout the country due to the disaster. The market acceptance was extremely high, and the court could make a net profit of tens of thousands of taels of silver every year just by minting coins.
But because of the matter of minting money, Qingliu and Jiang Bin got into trouble.
Wang Yuan minted money at the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry had the same function.
Jiang Bin saw that this thing made money quickly, so he colluded with the eunuchs and instigated the Minister of Industry, Li Hao, to ask the emperor for the job of making money. They used the same machine, cut corners and materials to make money, and frantically enriched their own pockets, leading to the emergence of negative attitudes in the market.
Doubts about new money.
Mao Cheng was the first to come out to impeach Jiang Bin, hoping to use it to severely defeat Jiang Bin, and secretly sent someone to contact Wang Yuan.
"Shilang Wang, the new money is your hard work, is it possible for the villain Jiang Bin to be so corrupted?" Mao Cheng seemed to have completely forgotten that he was impeaching Wang Yuan a few days ago and bowed to his face, "Shilang Wang, please cooperate and contribute to the national strength."