After living in Luzon for a year, Zhao Zhenji was hired as a professor at Yanzhou University, where he lectured on "The Book of Changes" and "Mathematics".
After earning some money and receiving travel expenses from Wang Ce, Zhao Zhenji continued to travel around the world.
He first went to the two sultanates that split off from Sulu, and found that the Han people were hostile there, but no one really dared to attack the Han people. Except for the merchants in the spice trade, ordinary Han people had all fled. It was still possible to immigrate to Luzon.
Buying real estate by land.
The entire island of Kalimantan, in addition to the Sulu Sultanate on the northern coast, there are other large and small sultanates, such as Banja, Sanfa, Sukadana, Landak, etc.
Zhao Zhenji found it very interesting that these so-called sultanates were actually city-states.
One small city forms a country, and several large cities form a country, and they only occupy the coastal areas. Deep inside the island are various savages and natives.
Zhao Zhenji stayed in Sumatra for several more months and observed the politics of these Sudanese city-states in detail. He soon discovered that religion and ethnicity were secondary. These city-states were controlled by merchants, and even the Sudan himself was a big merchant.
Merchants are profit-seeking and like to make quick money. If not necessary, they will never develop water conservancy or industry and commerce. They only know how to sell spices, timber and seafood. Common people and savages are the targets of exploitation, and merchants are above the laws of the country.
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Further south, Java Island is also home to a large number of Sudanese city-states, which is inseparable from the Ming Navy.
When Zheng He went to the Western Seas, he brought back some green believers on the ship, and some even stayed in the Ming Dynasty to settle down. Several of them came to Java Island, and a few more were gathered along the way. A total of nine believers went to Java Island to preach. Therefore, the Green Church
The missionaries are called "Nine Messengers" in Java.
Due to wars with the Portuguese and the Ming Navy, the Buddhist country in Java declined rapidly, and major coastal cities became independent sultanates one after another.
The Sultanate of Java Island is even weaker. Now it is all surrendered to the Nanyang Navy. The Han people enjoy various privileges on Java Island. As long as they have private armed forces and do not touch the spice gardens and cities of the Green Cults, the Han people can enclose land at will on Java Island.
, you can capture Javanese natives as serfs at will.
Therefore, there are many Han manors in Java, and most of them are pirates.
For various reasons, they no longer wanted to do their job, so they donated their pirate ships to the Nanyang Navy, obtained the protection of the Nanyang Navy, and took their men to Java Island to enclose land. Even ordinary sailors could enclose thousands of acres.
Land, and captured countless indigenous people as serfs - it was very dangerous in the early days of starting a business because they could not enclose land on the coast and could only go deep into the mountains and forests of the island. The climate, environment, snakes, insects, rats, and ants were very deadly, and the mortality rate was even higher than when they were pirates.
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Most of the Han manors in the interior of Java island grew spices and tobacco leaves, which were sold to green merchants in the Sultanate, who then sold them to Ming merchants or Nanyang navy merchants.
Further west is the island of Sumatra, which is known as the "Golden Island" or "Golden State" among the Han people.
Sumatra is a country without conquests in Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth, but today only the northwest coastal areas remain, and there is the Aceh Sultanate further west.
Under the expansion of Portugal and the Ming Dynasty, all the Green Sect merchants near the Strait of Malacca ran to Aceh and established a sultanate here. Therefore, their combat effectiveness was very "powerful", and they once killed the Portuguese in history.
, almost captured the city of Malacca.
Why do you need to put quotation marks around "strong"?
Because in another time and space, they organized more than 200 warships to sneak attack Malacca, while Portugal only had one Karak sailboat at that time. More than 200 Green Sect warships besieged a Portuguese warship. They fought for a long time but failed to win. Until decades
Later, it was equipped with new artillery and finally defeated the Portuguese fleet.
When Zhao Zhenji passed by this place, he happened to encounter a decisive battle between the Nanyang Navy and the Aceh Navy.
The Nanyang Navy dispatched a total of 12 warships, and the Aceh Navy had 258 warships. The two sides fought for eight hours, from morning to evening. The Aceh Navy was almost completely wiped out, and only dozens of ships fled to the Java Sea.
The Aceh Sultanate was destroyed. Crazy Nanyang Navy officers and soldiers rushed into its capital port city, burning, killing and looting for two days and two nights. The looted goods would make European monarchs jealous to death.
The country next door, Sumatra, was another country that the Ming Dynasty did not conquer. It was so frightened that it surrendered to the Nanyang Navy and promised to pay a large tribute of gold and silver to the Nanyang Navy every year.
The Malay Peninsula and Sumatra have almost become the world of the Han people.
This is the first place where immigrants were immigrated, and the first batch belonged to gold diggers. Now the number of Han immigrants and their families and descendants has almost caught up with the indigenous people on the island. The political ecology is even more bizarre, it is autonomous by gangs, and the leaders are all the original gold diggers.
.After some gold mining sites were exhausted, they gathered people to occupy the land, captured the native savages as slaves, and built manors and villages one after another. If any internal disputes occurred, they would go to the leader of the society to resolve them.
After forming a community, these gangs also built their own schools, teaching the traditional Four Books and Five Classics, with Guan Erye and Mazu as their patron saints.
Zhao Zhenji was very interested in gang autonomy and visited several communities.
It is said that he was once the censor of Youqiandu in the Ming Dynasty. The leaders of the major gangs warmly received Zhao Zhenji. Not only did he receive all meals and accommodation, but they also gave him a sum of money when he left.
Along the way from North Korea and Japan, Zhao Zhenji discovered a more interesting phenomenon after witnessing various strange social ecology.
Except for a small amount of gold and silver coins minted in the Luzon Kingdom, all other places use Ming Dynasty official coins: Zhengde Yuanbao and Zhengde Tongbao!
North Korea is using Ming Dynasty official money, Japan is using Ming Dynasty official money, and Southeast Asia is also full of Ming Dynasty official money. I heard that even in the pirate islands further south (Australia), the pirates there are also using Ming Dynasty official money. In addition, far away, Ming Dynasty official money is used.
In the land of Yinzhou, the Inca people also accepted currency transactions.
Countless gold, silver and copper mines flowed into the Ming Dynasty, and then turned into countless official money and flowed to various places. Just casting money and earning the difference every year brought huge profits to the Ming Dynasty.
And Daming's products can earn back the money...
Some people are already minting coins privately, and they are casting them with steam engines. The quality is comparable to official coins. Most of the private money flows out of Guangdong, because it was the first place to imitate steam engines. The imperial court is now sending Yushi and Jinyiwei to investigate the case. Once such a case is
If found out, it is a serious crime of treason.
Zhao Zhenji completed a book in Singapore, expounding the overseas circulation of official money in the Ming Dynasty, called "The Theory of Money", which was translated into Europe and renamed "The Empire of Money".
Then, Zhao Zhenji was warmly invited by the Nanyang Navy Admiral to visit Johor City as a guest.
After working as a teacher at the Nanyang Navy Johor Official School for half a year, Zhao Zhenji once again completed a book that elaborated on the political ecology and social structure of various places, called "Political Commentary", which was translated into Europe and renamed "Colonial Empire".
In fact, Zhao Zhenji also ignored one phenomenon, that is, wherever he passed, the Han people had a supreme and lofty status, and the foreigners were deliberately imitating the customs and fashions of the Han people.
Even in a bunch of Green Religion countries in Southeast Asia, aristocratic merchants took the initiative to learn Chinese and Confucian etiquette.
From time to time, the sultans would wear Confucian shirts, a square turban, and jade pendants around their waists to play role-playing games. They also like to wear Ming Dynasty silk Taoist robes and a black gauze hat to show their identity and status.
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The reason why Zhao Zhenji ignored these phenomena was because he thought it was normal...
When Zhao Zhenji traveled to India, he had left the Ming Dynasty for three full years, and it was also the seventh year that Wang Yuan was named King of Tianzhu.
India is even more special!
The central and southern parts of the subcontinent are Wang Yuan's main immigration areas. The number of Han people and their families (including Indian wives, but not children) has exceeded 600,000.
Wang Yuan's immigration rate was extremely fast, with only about 100,000 people allowed by the Ming Dynasty official.
For example, the emperor asked Wang Yuan to take 8,000 military households away, and Wang Yuan took away 8,000 households directly, bringing tens of thousands of people with him. Another example is that the emperor rewarded Wang Yuan with 1,000 craftsmen, and asked Wang Yuan to repair the palace and bring his family with him.
There are nearly ten thousand people. Neighbors, relatives, friends, etc. can come along.
A railway was built in the south of the Yangtze River, connecting Hangzhou to Zhenjiang. The abolished Cao army and Caohu army could not be resettled. Except for part of the border towns and some of them converted into road protection troops, the others were all transported away by Wang Yuan.
In the past seven years, an average of 50,000 people have immigrated every year, and the freight and resettlement fees for immigrants have accounted for 50% of Tianzhu’s financial expenditure!
The Tianzhu Navy had no choice but to find its own way out, and the central government temporarily had no money to allocate military expenditures. Some of the ships carried goods to the Ming Dynasty for sale, and were just in time to pick up immigrants on the way back; some of them expanded to the west, engaged in colonial trade in the coastal areas of East Africa, and plundered the people of East Africa.
gold, silver, precious stones and ivory.
Portugal's colonial ports in Mozambique were all robbed by Wang Yuan's Tianzhu Navy.
It's easy to grab. As long as the naval battle can be won, the land battle is easy to control. The Portuguese colonists here attacked the Monomotapa Kingdom (Zimbabwe) several times, but were defeated by the African natives.
After the Tianzhu Navy captured Mozambique, they went to attack Zimbabwe just like the Portuguese.
There is no other reason, except that there are two specialties here - gold and ivory!
In order to quickly capture Zimbabwe, Wang Yuan even sent a thousand musketeers there and organized them into the Tianzhu Marine Cavalry Regiment.
He did not engage in genocide or slave trade. Wang Yuan's colonial policy was very benign. He united with local tribes to overthrow the king's brutal rule, and then used food and commodities to provide favors and seize the king's gold mines.
Ask the local indigenous people to help hunt for ivory. As for the gold miners, they are all from the tribes directly under the king. No matter how they are mistreated, they will not arouse the hostility of other tribes.
The entire Mozambique and Zimbabwe have become colonies of Tianzhu, constantly grabbing gold and ivory.
As for the neighboring island of Madagascar, Wang Yuan also claimed possession, but only occupied part of the coastal area. There was an indigenous country in the middle of the island. Wang Yuan was too lazy to attack the country, and only forced the indigenous people to plant sisal in large quantities as a
Sisal production base in Tianzhu, this stuff can be used on sea ships and steam engines.
Zhao Zhenji traveled to a place in southern Tianzhu and witnessed a massacre with his own eyes.
Local aristocratic men were killed, women were assigned to immigrants, and a large number of low-caste and untouchable people were arrested to build roads, canals, and mines. The freed land was just the place to accommodate a new batch of immigrants.
When the surrounding Indian aristocrats learned about this tragedy, they just pretended not to see anything and did not dare to unite and resist. They quietly studied Chinese and practiced Chinese characters every day, because as long as they became Han Chinese, they would obtain human status.
Safety and property protection, you can even pay less taxes.
The difficulty of naturalization has been increased. Now you must be able to write 300 Chinese characters...
There are also some people who would rather die than be naturalized because they have to give up their original beliefs. They tried to revolt, but were suppressed every time. Now they have surrendered and are in a state of waiting to die without cooperation or resistance.
Among other things, Tianzhu's infrastructure construction is very intensive, because a large number of untouchables are whipped to work, and the length of official roads and canals is increasing every year.
In this bloody immigration settlement, some civil servants are giving lessons to the new immigrants.
In other words, propaganda is the way Chinese people expand their territory overseas, so that new immigrants can heartily approve of their land grabbing behavior.
Zhao Zhenji didn't know whether it was right or wrong, so he just watched silently.