1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 584 The Princess' Southward Journey ([-])
On January 1647, 1, twelve ships from the Qi State immigrant fleet arrived at Nanping City (now Cam Ranh City, Vietnam).

After sailing on and off for nearly half a month, Princess Kunxing Zhu Yu seemed to have gradually adapted to the symptoms of seasickness.On the boat, some food can already be brought in, but the food is very simple and difficult to swallow, dry and hard pancakes, dried fish and meat mixed with many strong spices.Occasionally, when mooring at the shore at night, a special small iron stove is used to cook some rice porridge, which can barely be swallowed.

However, on the ship, her favorite thing is to eat the glass-sealed canned fruit provided by the fleet, which is sweet, juicy, and moistens her throat and lungs.In the first few days, I will open a can every day to enjoy, right as a meal.However, when she learned that not only the ship she was on, but also the entire fleet, there were not many canned fruits encapsulated in glass.For the many immigrants crowded in the bottom deck, not to mention canned fruit, even a sip of clean drinking water is a very luxurious thing.

I heard that even the sailors on the ship can't enjoy canned fruit easily. It is often after a few days that dozens of people can share a can of canned fruit together, and each person can only bite lightly Take a sip.

Embarrassed, Auntie Zhu stopped her extravagant behavior and distributed some of the canned fruits for her to other Ming officials in the fleet and some immigrants who were weak and sick.

During the voyage of more than ten days, Zhu Wei discovered something that shocked her, that is, the sailors would throw the sick and dead immigrants on the ship into the sea almost every few days. It's like throwing away a discarded item.Seeing this scene, Zhu Yu's face turned pale, and she ordered the officials of the Ministry of Rites to find them and ask them to ask the officers and soldiers of the Qi State Navy whether they were disregarding human lives and arbitrarily harming the people of Ming Dynasty.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites went fast and came back even faster.With a bitter face, he reported to Her Royal Highness that it is very normal for people to die of illness and death due to various reasons while sailing at sea.Moreover, he also repeatedly said that the space on the ship is small, and not every immigrant can have a good riding environment like the officials of the Ming Dynasty.Especially in the bilge, because the windows could not be opened for ventilation, various smells mixed in during the period, almost made people vomit, and everyone had to take turns boarding the deck to ventilate, and barely survived.

In such an environment, illness and death appear to be quite normal.Moreover, the captain claimed that, looking at all the countries and forces sailing at sea in the Nanyang region, only the ships of the Qi State had the lowest death rate. Migrants and sailors went ashore to rest.

In addition, the officers and soldiers of the Qi State Navy gave all immigrants a small slice of lemon every day to chew and eat.For this alone, the ships of the State of Qi can reduce the death rate of immigrants and sailors on board to the extreme.

Auntie Zhu didn't know why they considered chewing and eating a small slice of lemon every day so important, but she knew from the words from the officers and soldiers of the Qi State Navy that the people of Qi State attached great importance to immigration, and they did their best to do it for this reason. A lot of security work has been done, not to mention that immigrants from Ming Dynasty will not be randomly killed along the way.

But thinking that the conditions on the ship were so bad, and that during the [-]-mile sea voyage, only about [-]% of the immigrants would safely reach the mainland of Hanzhou, I was still very sad.If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't survive in Daming, who would be willing to take the risk of dying and crossing thousands of mountains and rivers to the remote Hanzhou continent?

This place named Nanping City is said to have been the territory of the Champa people in the past, because they married a princess to the Qi State, and this place was given to the Qi State as a dowry.

After Aimee Zhu got off the boat, all she could see was Ming people, a group of gray-clothed country soldiers like those from Changshan Island, holding knives and sticks in their hands, yelling loudly to the immigrants who filed off the boat, all lined up, Follow the scribes one by one to gather at the designated temporary resettlement site.For those who disobeyed a little, or those who made noise and disturbed people, the sticks were swung directly at them, and they were beaten to the ground, crying and screaming.

A few crude carriages brought the princess and a group of Ming officials into Nanping City, where they were arranged to stay and rest separately.Everyone has been notified that the fleet will stop here for five days to rest and carry out a certain degree of maintenance and repairs on some ships.Only after the immigration officials here have allocated the immigrants who have been stranded for several months to recuperate, they will be loaded on the ship and set off immediately.

Although it has only been more than three years since Qi State took over Nanping City, the entire region has developed very fast thanks to the large number of immigrants who stay here every year.A fortress castle with a circumference of three miles stands on the west side of the pier. Two long and narrow peninsulas enclose the entire bay into a gourd-shaped inner and outer bays. Although there are no forts for keys at the mouths of the two sides, there are scattered in the inner bay harbor. There are three pier forts, and more than [-] different types of artillery are deployed, which is enough to dispel the coveting of any malicious people.

Because it is the closest to Ming Dynasty, and moreover there are continuous spontaneous refugees fleeing to Nanping by boat, this most important naval base in Qi has gathered more than [-] immigrants, which is comparable to the population size of a local prefecture in Hanzhou.At the same time, there were more than [-] immigrants stranded in nearby Lin'an City (now Vung Tau, Vietnam) and Xinsheng Island (now Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam).

Because I don't know how the situation in Daming will eventually evolve, so many immigrant ships that come to Daming every year always try their best to transfer as many refugees from Denglai, Susong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong to Qi as much as possible. Hanxing Island (today's Miyako Island), Ping'an Island (today's Catanduanes Island in the eastern Philippines), and several overseas territories in Annan under the control of China.

If it were not for the consideration of material consumption and food supply at various immigration transfer points, as well as the construction speed of various supporting production and living facilities, the Qi State immigration fleet might have packed more immigrants in the above-mentioned areas.

When Zhang Wenqi, the general manager of the Annan area, saw that the accompanying fleet brought more than [-] marine soldiers who were about to be discharged back to the mainland, she immediately made a request to Qi Dajiang, the commander of the navy, to temporarily detain these soldiers and borrow a period of time to prepare for retaliation. The Kingdom of Cambodia made some military intimidation, showed off its force, and forced the other party to grant special status to many local Ming people in its southeastern territory of Ha Tien.

In recent years, Qi State has had conflicts with the Kingdom of Cambodia in neighboring areas, one of which is because of Linhai City.Qi State abruptly took an important piece of land along the coast when the original Cambodia regained Priango (around Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam today).The Kingdom of Cambodia has always wanted to get it back from Qi State, but the people of Qi State took out the contract that Guangnan State sold the entire Priango to Qi State, claiming that in order to maintain the friendship between the two countries, Qi State only needed After leaving this tiny place in Lin'an, he has exercised restraint and warned Cambodia not to make trouble by taking advantage of it.

Another point of friction is that Qi, relying on its strong sea power in the area, arbitrarily expelled fishermen fishing in the waters of Xinsheng Island, and even robbed their fishermen (supposedly recruited), which caused local officials along the coast to complain about this.

The latest point of friction occurred in the southeast coastal area of ​​the Kingdom of Cambodia - Ha Tien.Mainland immigrants may have been here hundreds of years ago, and there have been people who have taken root here, reclaimed wasteland, and established homes.The estuary area, which was originally full of tidal flats and swamps and silt, has gradually become a place where the land is fertile and the people are rich and the business is prosperous.

In the Kingdom of Cambodia, there has been a speechless operation in recent years. First, a king who believed in the true religion came to power through a coup, and then vigorously supported those Malays who supported him, alienated the former Chinese and Annan, and even expelled the Netherlands. The East India Company's trading stronghold, for which there was a small military conflict.

A few years later, in order to divert domestic conflicts, the king who believed in the True God Sect brazenly sent troops to attack Guangnan Kingdom and captured Priango, who they had given to each other as a dowry, which shocked several surrounding countries and forces.However, it cannot be said that the Kingdom of Cambodia provoked for no reason and challenged the Guangnan Kingdom. They saw that the two families of Annan Nguyen and Zheng were fighting, and they would definitely not care about it for a while, so they made a decisive move.

In the next few years, it may feel that its own strength has grown, and it has gradually become tougher on Siam in the west. For this reason, the two countries have continued to conflict on the border, which has caused the kingdom to increase a lot of military expenditures.

It costs money to fight wars and engage in friction. After searching the country, the Cambodian king and officials set their sights on the relatively affluent Ha Tien area.The officials sent here will implement donations and taxes in the area, and they will levy and extort money.

As Chinese Miao descendants of the same ancestry, several Han leaders in the Ha Tien area found Xinsheng Island and asked the Qi people to intervene to stop the greed and oppression of the Khmer people and protect the Han people in the Ha Tien area.

General Manager Annan was also a little annoyed by the friction incidents that the Kingdom of Cambodia caused from time to time, so he simply used this incident to teach the Khmer people a lesson and let them know why the flowers are so popular and why the Qi people's fists are so hard!

Originally, he was just going to mobilize hundreds of township soldiers from Nanping, Lin'an, and Xinsheng Island to enter the Haxian area, looking for an opportunity to kill the arrogance of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and warned them not to create unsafe factors in the area, and everyone is safe and sound. live.

Today, there are more than [-] marines ready-made. Naturally, Zhang Wenqi has to make good use of it, and leave a deep impression on Cambodia in a sledgehammer way.

"Although it is to protect our Ming people from being bullied by the natives, it is after all to invade the territory of other countries!" Aimee Zhu heard her maid Zi Ying say that Qi State will send land soldiers to protect the safety of the local Ming people. To enter the Ha Tien area of ​​the Kingdom of Cambodia, I couldn't help but be extremely surprised.

"He said that as long as it is occupied by our Ming people, even if it is the territory of another country, if they are going to be bullied, they will naturally send troops to protect them and punish the natives." Ziying said in a low voice.

Auntie Zhu frowned lightly, shocked by Ziying's incoherent words.Although the great scholars and officials in the imperial court would often say that in the whole world, could it be the land of the king, and the shore of the land, could it be the subjects of the king, but this concept is mostly limited to the Central Plains, within the Kyushu.But Cambodia and Annan are the land of barbarians. The people of Ming Dynasty live here, so they must be the people of Fanbang.

Could it be that the Qi State would not hesitate to fight the barbarians so that any Chinese people living in foreign countries would not be bullied?
(End of this chapter)