Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 245 Chapter 240 The qualifications of the third godfather

After leaving Da Nang, Wang Daoqiu's fleet continued south. He first went to Champa State and reiterated the traditional friendship between the two countries with the king.He expressed the Ming Dynasty’s support for the King of Champa and welcomed the King of Champa to go to the Ming Dynasty in September this year to attend the 42th birthday of Emperor Jiajing.A large amount of silk, tea, porcelain, and jewelry were also sent to the King of Champa as state gifts.

The King of Champa reciprocated Wang Daoqiu's kindness, saying that the Champa Kingdom would always be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and that the Champa Kingdom would always welcome the people of the Ming Dynasty to visit and do business in the Champa Kingdom.He also took the initiative to lend Jinlan Bay to Ming Dynasty for free.

Cam Ranh Bay!He also took the initiative to borrow it without charging rent.The king of Champa had such a correct attitude, which made Wang Daoqiu, who was bent on destroying his country, feel that he was no longer a good person.

You must know that Cam Ranh Bay is the world's top natural harbor!Its harbor is more than ten kilometers inland and consists of two peninsulas, an inner and an outer bay, forming a gourd shape.

The inner harbor of Jinlan covers an area of ​​300 square kilometers, and the mouth of the bay is only 22 meters wide. Coast defense forts are set up on both sides of the strait, which can block the entrance to the invasion of the offshore fleet.Pingba Bay in the outer port has a water depth of [-] to [-] meters and can berth aircraft carriers and hundreds of warships.

Precisely because the entrance of Cam Ranh Port is narrow, the terrain is difficult and easy to defend, and the hydrological conditions are very good, it is a natural deep-water port.It also guarded the strategic passage between the Pacific and Indian Oceans and had important strategic value. Therefore, it was recognized as the first military port in Asia in later generations.

When Da Mao was at its strongest, Cam Ranh Bay was also Da Mao's largest overseas military base. It was not until 00 that Da Mao, who was poor and extremely weak and could no longer afford the cost of garrisoning troops in Cam Ranh Bay, reluctantly left Cam Ranh Bay. , and gave it back to Yue Yue.

Now that the King of Champa was so generous, he took the initiative to lend a good place like Cam Ranh Bay to the Ming Dynasty, but Wang Daoqiu was thinking about his entire family property.Do you think this makes Wang Daoqiu, whose conscience has not yet been eaten by dogs, feel ashamed?

They were too generous, and Wang Daoqiu's conscience couldn't bear it.So Wang Daoqiu, with his conscience condemned, gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, and took the initiative to tell the Champa King that Cam Ranh Bay would be used as a purely commercial port by the Ming Dynasty and would not station warships here, even if the fleet was here to supply supplies. Repair, must leave within ten days.

At the same time, Wang Daoqiu also took the initiative to express to the Champa King that in the future, all goods entering Cam Ranh Bay from the Ming Dynasty would be taxed to the Champa State at a [-]% tax rate.

It is said that kindness cannot control soldiers, justice cannot control wealth, and a soft heart cannot be a good diplomat.So Wang Daoqiu became soft-hearted. Later, Xu Jie and Hu Zongxian secretly scolded him to death, saying that Wang Daoqiu was siding with the enemy.

Not to mention Wang Daoqiu's soft-heartedness on the side of the Champa King. Wang Daoqiu, who was ashamed and conscience-stricken by others' kindness, left the Champa Kingdom and went along the Mekong River to Jingbian, the capital of the current Khmer Dynasty.

This Khmer Dynasty has always been a weakling with no integrity in future generations, calling everyone "Dad" when meeting them.The king who was the most hopeless and shameless even went so far as to go to the beautiful country’s government office after attending the UN General Assembly meeting, knelt down in front of others and said that he did not want to go back, and that he wanted to stay in the beautiful country and be his son.

For a majestic king to take the initiative to recognize the beautiful country as his father, is he giving enough face to the beautiful country?But when faced with the beautiful country, the Khmer king took the initiative to recognize his father with a look of disgust. Without saying a word, he called the former father of the Khmer king, the ambassador of a certain big country to the beautiful country, and asked the ambassador of a certain big country to Take your hapless son away quickly.Mud, as unlucky as he is, deserves to be called "Dad" in our beautiful country.

If you offer your country to someone else’s beautiful country, if you want to be a son to someone else’s beautiful country, they won’t want you.In the end, I was forced to become the son of a big country. Just tell me how unqualified the Khmer country is!
However, the Khmer people are not like that. They have always looked like they have no future. There was a time in history when they were in Nanyang.When his national power was at its peak, his territory included all of what would become Cambodia, most of Thailand and Laos, and southern Vietnam. He was the most powerful country in the history of Southeast Asia.

It’s just that later on, the Khmer Kingdom got older and lost its martial virtues, and could no longer control the younger brothers below.So the younger brothers started to grab territory one after another, thinking that they themselves would be the big brothers, and the Khmer country became more and more frustrated.

Especially after the rise of the Thai Kingdom in the mid-[-]th century, they defeated their former eldest brother, the Khmer, many times and attacked the Khmer capital Angkor four times, forcing the Khmer to give up large areas of territory and move their capital from Angkor to Angkor. Far away from the well of the Tai people, they shamelessly paid tribute to their former younger brother, the Tai people.In the original historical time and space, when Annan became stronger and destroyed the Champa State and directly bordered the Khmer, the Khmer would shamelessly surrender to Annan and pay tribute.Just like this, he was shameless and called everyone "Dad". When the Khmer Dynasty came to the throne, the king was still passing down the throne from generation to generation!Just asking you, are you convinced?
Wang Daoqiu had a very bad impression of this unqualified Khmer regime.Therefore, when he arrived at the well, he just politely gave him a national gift and invited him to visit the Ming Dynasty when he had time.As for the Khmer King's request that he would be a good baby to Daming and hope that when he was being beaten, Daming would come over and make peace so that he would pay less for the labor costs of beating him, Wang Daoqiu just laughed.Mudd, this is so mean, disgusting, so disgusting.

After his trip to Khmer, Wang Daoqiu arrived at the most important stop of his Nanyang diplomatic relations, Siam.

Today's Siam has its capital in Ayutthaya, transliterated as Ayutthaya, which means an indestructible city, so the flower people called it the Ayutthaya Dynasty.The Ayutthaya Dynasty was founded in 0 AD and was destroyed by the Burmese army in 17 AD. It lasted for 33 years and had [-] monarchs. It was the longest dynasty in the history of Siam.

When Wang Daoqiu arrived in Siam, he followed the map in the library and landed in Bangkok.Of course, Bangkok today is still a small fishing village, with no sign of the international metropolis it later became.

In [-], Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty officially canonized King Ayutthaya as the "King of Siam". From then on, the country's name "Siam" was officially fixed.From then on, in terms of organizational relationship, Siam was a regional franchisee managed by Daming Corporation.

In the original historical time and space, Siam had always been friendly with the Ming Dynasty. It sent envoys to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty more than 110 times, up to six times a year.

They paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty such luxuries as agarwood, hematoxylin, rhinoceros horn, ivory, green bamboo, and Huaxin.They obtained silk and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty, and then they acted as middlemen to resell the silk and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty and make a fortune from it.So to put it bluntly, the reason why Siam can have long-term friendship with Ming Dynasty and is willing to be the younger brother is based on interests and making money.

Interest is the strongest relationship. As the soul of future generations, Wang Daoqiu deeply agrees with this.Therefore, for Siamese monarchs and ministers who are clear-minded and know how to act as middlemen and earn price differences in this era of small-scale peasant economy, Wang Daoqiu feels that he and the other party should be able to talk together.

In addition, the Toungoo Kingdom in Myanmar next to Siam is becoming increasingly powerful. Not only do the two regimes have territorial disputes, but they also refuse to obey the other. They both believe that they are the boss and the other party should listen to them.

As a result, internal strife broke out in the Siamese royal family last year, and this year the Burmese army took the opportunity to invade Siam.In the original history, Siam was severely beaten under this powerful offensive by the Burmese army.After several years of hard work, I couldn't bear it anymore, so I had to bow my head and admit defeat, admit that the other party was the eldest brother, and cede territory to the other party to pay compensation.

In the following years, Siam still did not learn its lesson, internal conflicts continued, and family members often fought with each other. As a result, Siam's national strength was like Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and it was worse than the last year.

King Mang Yinglong of Burma saw Siam's unlucky appearance, so he took the opportunity to lead his army to invade Siam, and finally broke through the capital of Siam. The king's family, civil and military officials and a large number of people were captured and taken to Burma as slaves. The level of tragedy is comparable to the "Jingkang Shame" in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Siam then served as a vassal state of Burma for 15 years, until the mighty Emperor Naresuan the Great came to Siam.It is said that Naresuan, an old man, is not only highly skilled in martial arts and the founder of Muay Thai, but he also has a great military acumen.So the Siamese people, under the leadership of Narisuan, the fierce man, drove out the Burmese army, and the country regained its independence.

There are common interests and a common language, but the other party is in the midst of internal and external troubles, and needs a big brother to help him. So, is it difficult to negotiate the terms of cooperation?Therefore, Wang Daoqiu is full of expectations for this trip to Siam.

(End of this chapter)