open sea

Chapter 371 Sulu
Chen Bazhi doesn't want to train troops for Ryukyu?

Shit!

He thought too much, and the more training the troops, the better. The big island of Ryukyu is likely to be the front line facing Japan and even Spain in the future. The more reserve troops the better, this is Chen Mu's combat concept, and he must implement it absolutely .

The so-called "don't want to" is nothing more than a trick of the mind.

The same thing of mutual benefit, if the promise is too straightforward, the person who makes the request will feel that he has suffered a disadvantage. This is the reason Chen Mu gave to Hachiro.

Although Chen Mu will definitely allow military training, and the imperial court will not obstruct the sale of armaments, there are still the most difficult problems facing the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Armaments are too expensive.

Bird guns, single-sided breastplates, armbands, various weapons, ammunition, and even small shark boats and artillery, even if they are not counted as food and grass, it takes 33 taels of silver to arm a soldier.

This is not to mention that General Chen will need 400% loss. To train 4 elite soldiers, he will need [-] men and [-] taels of silver, which is too scary.

In fact, it doesn't need so much. Chen Bazhi didn't kill the soldiers for the sake of killing. He was a lunatic and a fool. He killed the soldiers just to make the soldiers absolutely obey the order and not kill more people on the battlefield.

It is better to train soldiers in Luzon than in China, because they are new soldiers when they are recruited. If they are told that they will die if they violate military laws, they will be afraid; soldiers in China are not afraid, just to let people know that this is true. Kill a few more people.

Even so, he still killed so many people while practicing Beiwei in Luzon.

The situation in Ryukyu should be better. Through the mouth of Ryukyu officials, let the soldiers really know that the general will kill them, and they will carry out the military orders seriously. What's more, they are the best soldiers in Ryukyu. Maybe they only need to die a hundred Three or four can almost train soldiers.

The ship sent to deliver the news went to Manila, but did not see Chen Mu. It was worth continuing all the way west. Chen Mu had gone to Sulu Kingdom.

The situation of Sulu Kingdom is similar to that of Ryukyu Luzon, but it has not been invaded by Western barbarians. Its territory is around the Sulu Islands.

The land of the islands is barren and they eat less corn, and the people in the country mostly eat fish and shrimps, but they do not always suffer from famine disasters like Ryukyu, because their neighboring Luni country has rich grain production, and on the other hand, the trade between the people and Ming Dynasty is very prosperous .

"There are three kings in the country of Sulu, namely the East King, the West King, and the Dong King. Their people cook the sea for salt, brew sugarcane for wine, and weave bamboo for cloth." The businessman Li Yuxi was Chen Mu's guide on this trip. From the Song Islands to the Sulu Islands, they landed at the port where Sulu and Borneo across the sea, and introduced: "The country is rich in pearls and gemstones, and there are many large pearls that are more than double in weight."

"Ming merchants traded with the local natives, and often made dozens of times the profit. The local food shortage required Ming merchants, so the merchant ships would often return with a few people as hostages, hoping to come back again." Li Yuxi said with a smile, holding his left with his right hand Daxiu said: "This is undoubtedly related to Luzon people. In the past, Luzon people said that Han people often came here. This is the first Chinese they have learned."

Li Yuxi knew what Chen Mu cared about, and said after consideration: "However, they often pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty every few years, but every time they pay tribute, they must bring other countries to pay tribute."

"Speaking of which, the Eastern King and his ancestors were buried in Daming, and died of illness when they returned from the tribute to the south. Grandpa Yongle ordered that he be buried in Dezhou with the etiquette of a vassal king."

There are two overseas vassal kings’ tombs in Daming, one in Fuzhou, Shandong Province, the tomb of King Sulu Guodong, and the other in Nanjing, the tomb of King Luni, both of whom went to bury Mingtu after paying tribute to Beijing during Yongle.

The King Luni in Nanjing is even more interesting. The Ming people called him Manaragana, but this word is not a name, but a common meaning of "king side by side" in Chinese novels.In Luni, people called the river where he first landed as the "River of the Chinese Broken Hand".

The Fan people of the Wuni Kingdom call him Raja, which means king; the Han people of the Wuni Kingdom call him the General Soldier, who was originally named Huang Yuanshou from Fujian. He paid tribute to Daming as king of the Luni Kingdom and was buried in Nanjing.

Before his death, he made three requests to Emperor Yongle, one is that "Jingtu must belong to the official side", let the Luni Kingdom and the Duanshou River Basin be included in the territory of Ming Dynasty; The first one is called Changning Zhenguo Mountain; the third one is "supporting the body in China" and was buried in Daming.

In other words, the Luni Country and the Duanshou River Basin are still the overseas enclaves of the Ming Dynasty.

The generals on the fleet were at ease, while the people stationed at the port were in a mess. Even though Chen Mu had sent someone to report earlier, the countless huge ships and ships coming from the sea with loud banners still caused great commotion.

"I trouble Mr. Li to disembark first to negotiate, so that the Chen Bing of Chen's fleet will not cause chaos in the country."

What Chen Mu said was not false. It seems that the Sulu Kingdom is far from the Central Plains. Although the port is prosperous, the livelihood of the people is not easy. Although the banners were sent out to welcome the angels, the soldiers on the shore were panicked and even guarded the wooden fences. A stance ready to fight.

"Commander, there are three forts in the port, and the one on the mountain is facing the fleet."

Ni Shangzhong came running from the stern of the ship. He is now the chief of the navy on the Chihai ship, and he is learning how to handle guns.But even if a naval battle does happen, it will be nothing to him until the final boarding battle.

Chen Mu also found this situation. Two of the three civil forts were empty, but the fort on the mountain near the palace was clearly visible through the telescope, and the muzzle protruding from the fort was facing them.

Moreover, he was very familiar with the cannon system on the fort. He waved his hand and said, "Don't panic, that's the boat cannon of the Francopier. A mile in the middle of the sea, even the most experienced gunners would need a hundred families to hit the coast—where did they get them?"

He carefully looked at the Sulu country's armaments on the shore. It was not surprising that there were firecrackers, three-eyed blunderbusses, and cold weapons, but they were actually mixed with bird blunderbuss and some Francophones, and they were different from the Ming Dynasty blunderbuss Francois machine.

Ni Shangzhong didn't think it was doubtful, he held the Changguan knife in one hand and pressed the waist knife in the other hand and said: "I bought it, it looks like the northern army's military equipment, I can't imagine that there is a strong army in Sulu overseas."

"purchase?"

Chen Mu shook his head, raised his finger and said, "Tell you, there must be a story about the origin of these guns."

Now all the countries in Southeast Asia have the ability to manufacture firecrackers. This thing has no technical content, just like Daming's imitation of birdcracks. It is something that can be made just by looking at it.

The small Frang machine with a bomb weight of one catty was not used in Ming Dynasty. The individual soldiers were too heavy and the size of the army was nothing more than the original version of the Western rotary gun. Now there are not many on Xiyi ships.

The most likely thing to buy is a cannon that looks like a five-pound cannon, which is a hard product from Portugal, but there is also a problem with that.

Not to mention whether the religiously fanatical Portuguese would sell guns to Sulu, even if they bought them, Sulu, as a sultanate, would not buy them. The two sides will fight when they see it.

Sure enough, Li Yuxi, who was waiting to get off the boat, came back again and brought back interesting news, saying: "The Portuguese barbarians are at war with the Sulu Kingdom. They have attacked Sulu several times recently, but they have all been repelled."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)