His Majesty the Emperor has no interference in the conflict between the maritime trade between the North and the South.

He just pardoned the arrested maritime merchants.

But the latter ships and cargoes are all confiscated.

As for the missing Yu Keqing, Nian Zai is the son-in-law of Lai Zhongyi, he will be pardoned as long as he finds out, but like other maritime merchants, if he is caught in the future, he will be hanged. Obviously, he is not ready to surrender on this issue. This is related to his core interests. Nanyang Company is his strategic support for expanding territory. For His Majesty, who is ambitious to start Indian conquest, any act of reaching out to his wallet at this time will definitely not tolerate it.

It’s easy to say that Yang Feng doesn’t interfere.

The Nanyang company, which received his support, continued to wipe out pirates in Nanyang. In order to intimidate the sultans, under the authorization of His Majesty the Emperor, he retaliated against the natives who had participated in the transaction before. Those who dared to collude with pirates would hang them!

Soon, gallows were erected in each port.

Then it was like a wind chime hanging over the dead bodies of natives.

The natives of Nanyang who were unable to withstand the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty finally decided to rise up and resist. After all, the style of the Ming Dynasty was getting worse and worse than in their memory. The heads of Majingdanau Sultan Kudrat, Sulu, Majingdanau and Ranau formed an alliance to resist the riot...

If you are not free, you would rather die!

Of course, they got what they wanted.

Because the new Nanyang Strategic Initiative Li Chunye immediately recruited 10,000 local soldiers...

Recruitment in Siam and Cambodia.

They all believe in Buddha.

And it is recruiting assaults, and then there is no need to give a musket.

After all, it is useless to give a coercion in Mindanao. It rains every day, and it can’t hold on to a flintlock. Besides, the steel crossbow is a good thing, plus the spear, machete, shield, and armor is useless anyway. Their environment is like a moving frying pan after wearing armor and exuding the sun.

In short, a ten thousand hungry wolves were transported by the Nanyang Company.

The navy was responsible for the sea blockade.

The rest is to let these hungry wolves and the sultans bleed each other.

Even the generals were natives.

In the end, Li Chunye easily completed the suppression of this resistance in a year. Kudrat fled to the deep forest to fight guerrillas. Ranau Sultan was captured and taken to Guangzhou Lingchi to execute him. Sulu Sultan turned against him and joined the attack on Majingdanau, so he was pardoned for his crimes. This war caused more than 200,000 deaths in the southern islands of the Philippine Islands such as Mindanao, Sulu Islands, and Cebu Island. The local soldiers who participated in the battle were basically rewarded for their contributions to the war. Then these local soldiers who fought for the Ming Dynasty took root in these places, hugged the women they had snatched, and guarded the Ming Dynasty for generations on the land they rewarded by the Ming Emperor.

And loyal.

This is absolutely unquestionable.

The success of using barbarians to control barbarians has increased His Majesty's confidence in this low-cost way of rule.

It's really very low cost.

The military pay is only one-third of the Imperial Battalion, and the equipment is not even one-third of the Imperial Battalion. After all, the muskets and plate armor of the Imperial Battalion are all good, especially equipped with a large number of artillery and rockets. However, the local soldiers are basically in a whiteboard state, and the imperial battalion also has to be rewarded with merits. The local soldiers rely entirely on robbing, and at most they have merits to give fiefdoms, but the fiefdoms are also robbed.

The cost is zero!

Those who die don't need pensions.

When you come out, you will pay the settlement fee, and the settlement fee is equivalent to working hard.

So then he recruited a large number of local soldiers in Nanyang again. This time he recruited from Nanyang Buddhists, recruiting 30,000 at one time, and then he also sent them with cheap equipment and transported them directly to Chittagong.

At this time, Chittagong had already belonged to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

Because it now belongs to the Arakans.

The Aragans had already paid tribute after being defeated by Li Chengliang. King Mingyesauji was enthroned as King Miaowu and officially included in the vassal state. He was controlled by the Zhaonan Provincial Administration Commission, so his territory Chittagong was also the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, they were also Buddhists. The missionaries had infiltrated severely before, but they were cleaned up after the Ming Dynasty conquered, but in general, they were still a Buddhist country, so they did not mind the rule of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty...

His Majesty the Emperor protects Buddhists.

In fact, there are rumors that the Emperor is the incarnation of Bodhisattva in the Southeast Buddhist country.

And there is also a Queen Mother of the Virgin.

Even the Yang Xiangguo, who ruled the north, was the incarnation of the Great Sun Tathagata. After all, on the grassland and on the plateau, he was unanimously confirmed that he was the incarnation of the Great Black Sky, and the Great Black Sky was the anger of the Great Sun Tathagata.

Both Bodhisattvas and Tathagata, and the Holy Mother, Lao Buddha. For the people of Central and Southern China who generally believe in Buddhism, it is simply a country of gods.

This area is all about Buddhism.

Myanmar, Siam, Cambodia, Laos, etc.

Only Johor Sultan is not.

But the Johor Sultan is very small, just a small piece south of the Malay Peninsula. Moreover, this part has actually been completely controlled because the Nanyang Military Authority entered Longyamen. He was not even considered a king, but was only a Johor Consolation Envoy, including those in Java, and those in Java were also Consolation Envoys. His Majesty the Emperor intended to distinguish that most of the Buddhist departments were kings, and the Sultans would have at most consolation Envoys.

After all, the title of Sultan was completely unrecognizable to the Ming Dynasty.

He is an indigenous chief.

Thirty thousand Nanyang local soldiers who arrived in Chittagong began to head north like this, but their results were rather miserable. After all, what they were about to attack was the Mughal Empire, which had expanded to Bangladesh and conquered the Bangladesh Sultanate. At first, the local soldiers under the banner of the Ming army reached Daka like a bamboo shoot. Even the navy of King Miaowu entered the Ganges with heavy weapons, but unfortunately, the reinforcements of Emperor Mughal soon arrived. The Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Army defeated Dhaka and lost nearly 20,000, and in the end less than 10,000 people fled back to Chittagong, and the Mughal army immediately chased and killed Chittagong.

Fortunately, Li Rubai's cavalry arrived and defeated the Mughal vanguard in Chittagong.

Then the remnants and defeated generals defended Chittagong.

This is OK.

After all, it was also the limit of the Mughal army's attack.

As long as the control is ensured at sea, it will be difficult for the Mughal army to break through Chittagong. Maritime control is a trivial matter for the Imperial Navy. The Mughal army, which does not even have a real large warship, cannot fight against the Henghai ships.

And His Majesty the Emperor was furious because of this failure...

This is the first time I have suffered a crushing defeat!

Although the losses were not large, they were only 20,000 local soldiers.

In addition, less than two hundred genuine Mingjuns.

But it's about the emperor's face.

So he immediately issued an order to recruit another 100,000 troops to the vassal states in the South China Sea. The Ming Dynasty was not short of people, and there were millions of subjects from all over the South China Sea. He decided to fight to the death with Emperor Mugul. At the same time, he ordered the Governor Zhaonan Military Affairs Li Chengliang to open a passage to Ah Hong, and then joined forces with Ah Hong to attack Mugul from the north and south.

The Assams actually had already resigned to the Ming Dynasty in the early years of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, they had not completely retreated to Assam. There was a control area in northern Myanmar. They fought with the Ming army who went south to pursue Myanmar. After being defeated, they immediately paid tribute to Zhu Yuanzhang. However, their name was quite chaotic. Moreover, more than two hundred years have passed, and their changes have been great, but now they are all called the Ahong Kingdom according to the new map, and they have been in trade with the Mu family over the years.

The Hukang Valley is not an eternal wilderness.

There has always been the land trade line between the southwest and South Asian subcontinents.

The trade volume is only small.

So immediately afterwards, Li Chengliang began to recruit chieftain soldiers in Zhaonan, preparing to open up the Hukang River Valley, and then enter Ah Hong in large quantities...

Of course, the chieftain soldiers who entered Ah Hong were also the ones.

"His Majesty the Emperor is getting worse and worse!"

Yang Xiangguo sighed.

Indeed, His Majesty the Emperor is getting worse and worse.

Behind the use of barbarians to control barbarians is a big banner from His Majesty. He only spent some money, but at this time he was not short of silver, but what the locals paid was their lives!

This is an era with a very low natural population growth rate.

Plague, famine, lack of medical care and ignorance, led to the natural population growth always maintaining a very low rate, especially those who died in foreign wars, which made the birth rate worse. The emperor took out money to coax the natives of the South and feudal lords, and kept filling the young and strong on the battlefield for him. While the population was sharply reduced, he was in an illusory dream because of the money.

Of course, it may not be illusory.

Those feudal lords were not fools either.

But the problem is that people are not worth it to them.

Just get money.

In order to reward Siam, the Cambodian kings rewarded him with 500,000 taels of silver at one time. For these two kings, they were just people like tens of thousands of animals, and they were not worth 500,000 if sold!

Besides, they could not have allowed their direct descendants to be recruited. The recruited people were all from the little feudal lords whom they were dependent on. These people were strong and threatened their power, and they were not afraid that their young and strong would be cannon fodder! If they were dead, no one would make them rebel, and the vacant land and women could be rewarded to their direct descendants, which was really the best for these kings.

But while their population has dropped sharply, new trading stations have been established within the territory.

A batch of new Ming immigrants arrived.

Nanyang Company does monopolize Nanyang trade, but the Ming merchants went to the territory of Nanyang vassal states to engage in inland trade without being under the jurisdiction of Nanyang Company.

Nanyang Company only goes overseas.

From land, inland water transportation, including inland plantations on Spice Island, these Nanyang companies have no right to interfere, and Nanyang companies only go outwards at the port.

Then, from the Irrawaddy River to the lower reaches, from the Red River to the Mekong River, and even on land trade routes, there were also a large number of merchants pouring into the Indochina Peninsula. They had extraterritorial powers as householders of the Ming Dynasty, and those vassal kings and chieftains had no right to take care of them. Even if they broke the law, they could only hand over the chief sent by the emperor to these kings...

It is equivalent to the deputy king.

Since he was a vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, of course, he had to follow the standards of a vassal king.

The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty all had their own descendants.

Similarly, the chieftain also had a Tongzhi sent by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He was also a local official in the past, but now he has become a free official.

These kings, chieftains and magistrates were directly under the jurisdiction of various places, and the subjects of the official Ming Dynasty, who had committed crimes in vassal states and chieftains' jurisdictions, only they could deal with them, which was basically equivalent to extraterritorial legal power.

With these favorable conditions, it goes without saying what those profiteers will do.

On the one hand, the young and strong were constantly hired by the emperor and threw away all the battlefields to consume. On the other hand, a large number of Ming merchants continued to pour in to receive the local soldiers and women who died in various places. The king and chieftains took the silver rewarded by the emperor and lived a life of despair. The local soldiers who had robbed the territory of the emperor would not go back. After all, they were the lowest level when they returned, but they were the rulers on the land rewarded by the emperor.
To be continued...