Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 712, attacking Malacca
"Pearls and coral?"

"This is a good thing. Once the news spreads, I am afraid that countless people will go to Australia again by then."

After carefully reading Guo Ye's letter, Wang Shouren said with a smile.

"Going to Australia is much easier and much closer than going to Golden Island. There will definitely be many people going."

Liu Jin also nodded, looking forward, the mist is vast, and a big city can be seen faintly standing on the ground between the water and the sky.

Malacca City!

From the Jiaozhi side, Liu Jin went all the way south. He had already destroyed Annan and Champa, and set up the Jiaozhi and Xianglin provinces respectively. Zhang Mao and Yang Yun continued to suppress local rebellions in Jiaozhi and Xianglin. , Sorting out local tyrants, another convenience is to start attacking Siam and Chenla from land.

The country of Siam is now in the most prosperous era of the Ayutthaya Dynasty. It is powerful and its national strength is at its peak, so it is relatively confident. It has always been the most ruthless one in the Nanyang region against Ming businessmen.

Specially levy heavy taxes on merchants of Ming Dynasty. Another aspect is that they are constantly contacting Southeast Asian countries to unite against Ming Dynasty, so originally they just wanted to teach Siam a lesson.

In the end, Zhang Mao and Liu Jin also decided to attack Siam by water. Zhang Mao and Yang Yun attacked Siam by land from Xianglin, while Liu Jin and Wang Shouren attacked Siam by water.

However, Liu Jin was not in a hurry to attack Siam. Instead, he came to Malacca first, planning to beat down Malacca first, and control the throat of the Strait of Malacca.

This place in Melaka is really important.

Located in the core hub of East-West traffic, it is the link between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Whoever controls the long and narrow Malacca Strait is tantamount to controlling this important golden waterway.

Now that Siam has united with the countries of Southeast Asia and wants to fight against Ming Dynasty together, then such a place must be controlled in its own hands.

After controlling this place, the Southeast Asian countries will have no way to support them, and Siam will be isolated. Under the attack of land and water, Siam's good days will come to an end.

"Are we really going to attack Malacca?"

Wang Shouren next to him looked at the Malacca city in front of him, thought for a while and asked again.

He actually didn't understand why Liu Jin insisted on attacking the city of Malacca. In fact, Malacca had a very good relationship with Daming.

The history of Malacca is not long. In 1402, a prince from Sumatra established the Melaka Dynasty here, which is a hundred years of history.

In history, Zheng He sailed to the West, and almost every time he would stop here in Malacca. In history, he paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty many times. Their king was also conferred by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. The relationship is really good.

Wang Shouren thought it was justifiable to attack Annan and Zhancheng, but he felt that it was not justifiable to attack Malacca.

"Look at the map. The location of Malacca is really important. If we don't take down the throat of the Strait of Malacca, it will be occupied by someone in the future. .”

"Although Malacca has a good relationship with our Ming Dynasty, they did not agree to become a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty last year. If this is the case, then don't talk about any relationship. Everything is based on the interests of our Ming Dynasty."

Liu Jin pointed to the location of Malacca on the map and said.

It is now the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, that is, 1502. Even if they do not occupy it themselves, in a few years, Portugal's power will spread to Nanyang, and they will occupy it.

Historically, the city of Malacca was attacked by the Portuguese in 1511 and became a Portuguese colony.

With the rise of private armed forces, major commercial firms will definitely flock to places like Myanmar, Tianzhu, Persia, the Middle East, and Africa.

If this Malacca is no longer in his own hands, and someone occupies it, it will be tantamount to being strangled by someone, so it must be occupied.

As for the so-called friendly exchanges, it is not worth mentioning in front of Daming's interests.

We should learn from Westerners and abandon the so-called face and reputation. Everything is only for profit.

Of course, there is actually another reason in Liu Jin's heart that he didn't say.

This Malacca is considered to be the central point of the spread of Middle Eastern civilization and Indian civilization on the Nanyang side. Breaking down here is tantamount to cutting off the eastward route of these two civilizations, so that it can be more beneficial to the Chinese civilization on the Nanyang side. spread.

You may not be able to see anything now, but in a few hundred years, you will naturally see it.

So regardless of the reason, Malacca must be conquered, and all the aborigines here must be expelled, turning this place into the territory of Ming Dynasty.

After hearing Liu Jin's words, Wang Shouren didn't say anything else.

Although it seems that Liu Jin is very belligerent now, Da Ming has fought many wars in the past few years, but Daming is not like what is written in the book.

On the contrary, the fight became stronger and stronger, more and more places were occupied, the people of Ming Dynasty became more and more prosperous, and the internal and external situation of Ming Dynasty also underwent tremendous changes.

This made him keep thinking, why is this happening?

If you think about it carefully, every time Da Ming engages in foreign wars, he can obtain huge benefits from the wars. Whether it is gold and silver wealth, or vast land, etc., Da Ming gains a lot every time, but his own losses are huge. negligible.

Even if Annan was captured, the losses of the Ming army were minimal, and the casualties were almost negligible. This is the reason why Ming became stronger and stronger, and it is also the reason why Emperor Hongzhi and the ruling and opposition parties all supported the use of force abroad.

There are benefits, there are benefits, and the loss is small. This kind of business will become more and more addictive.

Putting aside the so-called benevolence, righteousness, morality, face, etc. that bound him in the past, everything is only for the benefit of Daming, and the life of Daming is getting better and better.

More than a hundred large ships were getting closer and closer to the city of Malacca, and were soon discovered by people in Malacca.

All of a sudden, the whole city of Malacca was in chaos.

In the royal palace in Malacca City, the Sultan of the Melaka Dynasty, Mahmud Shah, is enjoying his own good life. Since he came to power, he has been in charge of the government and indulged in pleasure. Basically, everything has been handed over to Prime Minister Tun Mo Taixi. .

This Tun Motaihi continued to suppress the Malay nobles, which led to serious factional struggles within the Melaka Dynasty. It was already a big place, and coupled with serious internal fighting, this is also the reason why Portugal was able to easily occupy this place in history.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty~"

"The people from Daming are calling, the people from Daming are calling~"

Dun Motaixi hurried to the palace with a group of ministers, and shouted anxiously before they arrived.

On the sea outside the city of Malacca, there are more than a hundred big Ming ships, which frightened them. It is a big and small country, and they have never encountered such a thing.

The most powerful opponent they encountered was the Siamese, but although the Siamese were known as the first brother in Nanyang, they had never been able to defeat the Melaka Dynasty.

From here, we can know that this Siam is actually the five scum of war.

"Ming people?"

Ma Mosha raised his head in surprise, he seemed to have a good relationship with Daming all along, so why did the people from Daming call him?

"It's the people of Ming Dynasty. All the warships of Ming Dynasty outside the city are coming fiercely. Daming has already destroyed Annan and Zhancheng. Now it is estimated that they are here to destroy our Malacca again."

Dun Mo Taixi almost burst into tears, thinking carefully in his mind, he didn't seem to have done too many things to offend Daming people.

It was nothing more than suppressing the descendants of the Ming people here in Malacca, and it was nothing more than collecting more taxes on the passing Ming merchant ships. In addition, it seemed that they did not do anything to feel sorry for Daming.

This well-behaved Ming Dynasty actually launched an army to attack. With the small arms and legs of the Malacca Dynasty, how could it be the opponent of the Ming Fleet.

"Did you do something to offend Daming?"

Ma Mosha stood up all of a sudden, ignoring the delicious food and beauties, and hurriedly walked towards the city wall, while asking sharply.

He ignored the government and almost handed over all matters to Dun Mo Taixi, so it was natural to think whether Dun Mo Taixi had offended the people of Ming Dynasty.

"No, how dare I do something that I'm sorry for Daming, that is, like other places, a little more tax is levied on Daming's merchant ships."

Dun Motaixi said quickly.

"Just a little more tax?"

Ma Mosha asked again.

He knew very well that this Dunmo Taixi had no ability, no talent, and was greedy for money, which was the reason why he assuredly handed over the government affairs to him.

"A little bit more is collected, but we don't collect much here. In other places, like Java, Siam, and Sulu, they collect heavy taxes, which are several times ours."

Tun Mo Taixi lowered his voice, not only Malacca has raised taxes, but also the entire Nanyang countries.

"Actually, this is mainly due to last year when our Nanyang countries went to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty forced us all to sign the Daming vassal state agreement, but the agreement was too harsh, so no one signed it. In the end we discussed it and we all dealt with it together. Daming merchant ships impose heavy taxes."

"This is something that everyone discussed together. We in Malacca have a good relationship with Ming Dynasty, so the tax is not heavy. Java and Boni Kingdom not only levy heavy taxes, but also support pirates to rob Daming merchant ships."

Dun Motaixi then added, in fact, he wanted to say that this was an agreement made by the big guys, mainly to show Daming's color, and also to say that what he did was not excessive at all.

　If the private armed forces are opened up, will there be Qin, Chu or something~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)