My Daming New Empire

Zheng He's fleet can be turned into a golden fleet.

Zhu Zhanji deliberately pretended to think for a while and said: "It's fine if you don't make money for the first time. With this news, next time I go, I must take out my private money and give it to my grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, concubine, etc. In exchange for gold as high as a mountain, they no longer have to worry about gold and silver."

He deliberately showed a little childishness, because he wanted to tell Zhu Di through other people's mouths that he wanted to make money not for himself, but for them.

In this way, not only will you not lose a reputation for seeing money, but it can also add points to your image.

As for food, Zhu Zhanji didn't mention it this time, because it was still the beginning of Ming Dynasty, the population was sparse, and the land was deserted. Now the country's food can't be eaten up, and there is no need to import it.

The key now is to cultivate the idea of ​​making money through maritime trade for Zheng He and others. With the benefits, this door cannot be closed even if they want to.

After Zhu Di heard the news, he thought about it for two days, and asked Wang Yan to add a special team of eunuchs to the fleet, who would be in charge of barter trade and understand prices in various places.

In June of the third year of Yongle, Zheng He sailed to the West for the first time.

The fleet traveled across the sea from Suzhou Liujiahe to Fujian, and then from Fujian Wuhumen Yang Fan, first carrying a group of soldiers to Champa to participate in the crusade against Annan.

After Zhang Fu discussed Pingannan, on the first day of June in the fourth year of Yongle, Zhu Di announced to the world with the Pingan Nanzhao, changed Annan to Jiaozhi, set up the chief envoy, the commanding envoy, and the inspection envoy, officially turning Annan into a Ming Dynasty. Province.

Then Zheng He's fleet sailed southward towards Java, and landed in Semarang, Java on June 6 for trade.

At this time, it was called Mano Baxie Country, and it was called Java in ancient times in Java. It was densely populated, rich in products, and developed in commerce.

When Zheng He's fleet arrived, the country's East King and West King were fighting a civil war.The East King was defeated, and its territory was occupied by the army of the West King.

The crew of Zheng He's fleet went ashore to do business in the market, but they were mistaken by the occupying army as coming to aid the Eastern King, and 170 people were killed by the Western King Mano Baxie by mistake.

The officers under Zheng He called for the battle one after another, saying that the blood of the soldiers should not be shed in vain, and they were eager to declare war on the Mano Baxie Kingdom and take revenge.

After the manslaughter happened, King Xi was very frightened, and sent an envoy to apologize, and offered to pay 6 taels of gold as atonement.

Zheng He's first voyage to the West was unfavorable, and he lost 170 soldiers for no reason, which would inevitably lead to a large-scale battle.

However, Zheng He was afraid that once the massacre started, the Western countries along the way would fear that Ming Dynasty would come to invade, and later learned that it was a manslaughter. In view of the fear and fear of the Western King, the crime was punished, so he decided to turn hostility into friendship and deal with the incident peacefully.

6 taels of gold, this is not a small amount of money, Zheng He could not make the decision, so he sent a ship back to Daming to report the matter.

Zhu Di was used to generosity, and when he heard about this, he was going to cancel the other party's compensation with a wave of his hand.But it happened that he was reading Zhu Zhanji's treatise on internal sages and external kings.

Zhu Zhanji has been studying for three years. With Zhu Di's acquiescence, he began to study the Four Books and Five Classics in the next stage. At the same time, he has two Taoist masters, so it is inevitable to learn some Lao-Zhuang thought.

And what he happened to be holding in his hand was Zhu Zhanji's "Theory of Internal Saints and External Kings" written by Zhu Zhanji, which is equivalent to a propositional composition.

Ordinary students, seeing such a propositional composition, will definitely explain the topic with their own body, write about moral cultivation based on people's expectations, restraint, and etiquette, and then use various moral behaviors to express their attitude towards the world .

Moreover, in the eyes of ordinary Confucian students, the inner sage is first seen.

But Zhu Zhanji's article went in the opposite direction, directly focusing on the foreign king, and did not write about himself, but directly about seeking the country.

In this way, the layout of this thesis is countless times larger, but it also happens to be in line with his identity.

It's only been three years since I entered school, so it's a bit early to write a theory, but Zhu Di no longer treats this grandson as an ordinary person.

Although the language of this treatise is a bit plain and straightforward, it is concise and to the point.Zhu Zhanji analyzed the importance of economic and trade exchanges on the rule of Ming Dynasty and its influence on neighboring countries from the perspective of politics instead of economy.

Moreover, the central point of the inner sage and the outer king reveals the idea that Daming should treat nationals and foreigners differently, applying the holy way inside and the kingly way outside.

Zhu Zhanji was only nine years old and had been in school for three years. Being able to write such a thesis already made Zhu Di unable to ask for more.

Since he agrees with Sun Tzu's thoughts, then naturally he can't dismantle his position at this time, so he pondered for a while and ordered: "Draft an order, accept the compensation from the Western King of Mano Baxie Kingdom, transport back the ashes of the killed soldiers, send them back to the hometown, and return them to the hometown. Give."

Zhu Zhanji of the deep palace did not know at this time, because of one of his essays, Zhu Di accepted the first non-war compensation in the history of Ming Dynasty, which also made the future diplomatic positioning a little bit. Variety.

After dealing with the dispute with the King of the West, Zheng He recruited local interpreters proficient in various languages ​​to understand the hydrology and national conditions of the countries in Southeast Asia.

Originally planned to go to Chenla, Ceylon and other countries, because of insufficient preparation this time, they have decided to return.

In order to transport the sergeants to Annan, the fleet this time did not carry much tradable goods.In Mano Baxie Country, most of these goods have already been traded out.

After returning to Sanfoqi, the remaining supplies can be exchanged.

At the end of the fourth year of Yongle, the fleet arrived at the old port of Sanfoqi. Shi Jinqing, the leader of the overseas Chinese in the old port, came to report that the pirate king Chen Zuyi had already set his sights on the fleet.

Chen Zuyi is the all-powerful pirate king in Nanyang. He owns more than a hundred ships, burns, kills, loots and commits all kinds of crimes in Nanyang countries.Because of the great power, all countries in Southeast Asia have nothing to do with him.

Chen Zuyi believes that Zheng He's huge fleet has treasures, but the 6 taels of gold has already moved his heart, not to mention the various materials that the fleet traded in the three countries of Southeast Asia.

But he underestimated Zheng He. During the Battle of Jingnan, Zheng He had already experienced many battles and showed excellent military commanding talents.

When Chen Zuyi led the pirates to attack, Zheng He was already prepared.

Sanfoqi is rich in fire oil, and Zheng He traded a whole ship on this trip, intending to transport it back to the capital.

Against the pirate's boat, he used a fire attack to burn down the pirate boat.The fire oil and water could not be extinguished, the pirate ship ignited a fire, and all the pirates cried and howled.

Seeing this, Chen Zuyi, who was in a panic, lost his aura of a pirate king long ago, and was captured alive by warship soldiers on the way to escape.

In this battle, more than [-] pirates were eliminated, and the largest pirate force in Southeast Asia was wiped out.

The people of Old Port rejoiced and organized a huge labor force to bring various supplies to the fleet.

In the spring of the fifth year of Yongle, Zheng He's fleet left the Old Port. In addition to being filled with various supplies from the trade, they also brought back the captured pirate king Chen Zuyi.

In May, the fleet returned to Yingtianfu, and the first voyage to the West, which lasted for two full years, came to an end.

The huge returning fleet attracted countless people to watch, especially those animals that had never been seen before, such as elephants, which made people dumbfounded.

The 6 taels of gold were shipped directly to the palace, but Zhu Di, who was lavish, was rewarded within a month.

Also transported into the palace were the property statistics from various places requested by Zhu Zhanji, as well as gifts specially given to the nobles in the palace.

Those animals were taken aback by Zhu Zhanji and the others, so they asked the Siyuan Bureau to exhibit them at the foot of Qingliang Mountain for a fee.

Those weird animals are shocking in this era.Many ministers also brought their families and mouths to see something strange.

And those ordinary people didn't care about a few copper coins, and it attracted tens of thousands of people to buy tickets to visit.

This made a group of eunuchs from the Siyuan Bureau smile and prepare to open the first zoo in Ming Dynasty for a long time.

Most of the supplies brought back by the fleet were sold in Yingtianfu. The hundreds of thousands of tons of goods had been sold for two months before they were all sold out.

Everyone is happy, only one person is unlucky, that is the pirate king Chen Zuyi.Zhu Di didn't even see him, and immediately beheaded him to show the public as soon as he gave an order.

Zhu Zhanji deliberately studied the materials that Zheng He and the others sorted out for a period of time before they were put away.

In modern times, he knows the mineral resources of any country and any region in the world.

Since this is not a foreign world, it means that these resources still exist, and no one understands the situation in this world without him.