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  Chapter 740 737 [Embassy to the West]

   It is impossible for a person like Khabarov to come back, let alone become an officer.

  After the establishment of the Northeast Navy, the Yangtze River Navy is the backbone. If you want to expand the army in the future, you will definitely not recruit soldiers in the south, but mainly move to the northeast, aborigines and criminals-immigrants can be recruited in the Heilongjiang River Basin, and only aborigines and criminals can be recruited in the north.

  If this Cossack bandit who came here for refuge made military achievements, let alone the emperor could not see it, it might not even reach the ears of the Heilongjiang capital.

  The Tartar general Saihe who voluntarily surrendered at the beginning, because of his notoriety in the Northeast, has been killed by the military and civilian officials.

   This guy stayed in Liaoning as a big landlord. First, he was forced to divide the land, and he didn't dare to resist. Then he was reported to have killed the servant, and the government was watching, so he immediately investigated, and the previous crimes were also liquidated. All the male members of the family were executed, and the female family members were ordered to remarry to immigrants.

  The Tartar generals almost always ended up in this way, only a few did not do much evil and escaped the liquidation afterwards.

  Many of the civil servants in the Northeast were former scholars, and they blamed the Tartars for the demise of the Ming Dynasty. The military generals in the Northeast also hated the death of their comrades in arms at the hands of the Tartars. So the civil and military officials cooperated tacitly, staring at the surrendered Tartar generals all day long, and liquidating the crimes before surrendering if they committed any crimes.

  As for Khabarov, probably after capturing Lake Baikal, he will be useless to the Northeast Navy, and may die in a certain battle for no apparent reason.

   You know, once the aborigines are recruited to supplement the navy, these aborigines have a deep hatred for Khabarov!

   Zhao Han used this guy because he was familiar with the stronghold of the Cossacks, and at the same time he was well-known in the Cossacks. At critical times, he could even cause the Cossacks to fight among themselves. This is about the future of Siberia, and anyone can use it, even if he has committed many crimes in the past.

   Just when Khabarov was happy, the fleet of Chinese envoys to the West had already set sail in Shanghai.

  The envoy was Zhang Ruifeng, You Shaoqing of Honghe Temple, and brought twelve officials of Honghe Temple, two scholars of Imperial Academy, and two scholars of Qintian Academy.

  The commander-in-chief of the fleet is Fan Chao, who was born as a water bandit in Poyang Lake. He was transferred from the Yangtze River Navy to an admiral. There was a warship whose captain was Shi Lang, the son of admiral Shi Daxuan.

  The fleet has a total of twenty warships and six transport ships.

  Lu Tianxiang's status can barely be considered as an envoy, responsible for commanding 30 female officers of the Royal Horse Supervisor and 1,000 emperor's personal guards.

  The ship sailed to the waters of Quang Nam Province and replenished at the port of Thanh Hoa.

The local officials did not come to receive them, and only sent a county magistrate to the port to explain the situation: "My lords, Rong Bing, there are riots in Guangnan, and the county magistrates are defending the county. General Liu and General Ding are leading the army to quell the chaos. The border is safe for the time being, but you still need to strengthen your vigilance."

  Zhang Ruifeng said in shock: "There are rioters in Guangnan again?"

  The county magistrate smiled and said: "After this time, there will probably be a lot fewer rioters."

  The civil unrest in Guangnan was purely deliberately provoked by local officials. It was specially chosen in winter to forcibly take back the excess land of the landlords, which aroused the landlords of the Yue nationality and incited the people to rebel.

  The reason for choosing winter is to leave enough time to calm down the chaos and have half a year to let go. Summer is hot and rainy, and it will be no fun at that time. Datong soldiers may experience large-scale non-combat attrition due to weather reasons.

  Left chief minister Zhang Jiayu, right chief minister Sun Chuanting, justice Zhang Huangyan, enlightenment chief Shi Kefa.

   These four people are in charge of Guangnan Province, plus two divisions of the Datong Army. Moreover, 30% of the soldiers in these two divisions came from Guangxi wolf soldiers. With such a luxurious lineup, if the landlords of the Yue ethnic group can make trouble, it would be a ghost.

  Thanh Hoa and Ngee An are the places with the most rioters.

  Sun Chuanting personally moved to Qinghua to sit in the town, let Zhang Huangyan take charge of ransacking the house in Qinghua, and let Shi Kefa take charge of ransacking the house in Ngee’an. Those whose homes were ransacked were all big landlords who had instigated the rebellion, and even landlords who had not participated in the (apparent) rebellion would be affected.

  As for the leaders of the rioters, regardless of whether they are bewitched or not, they are all cut off anyway.

  This approach may seem bloody, but it is actually very gentle. Vietnam has been separated from China for hundreds of years, and it is easy to leave troubles without strong measures.

  As the Guangnan Envoy, Shi Kefa even ordered that all books in Nan language be banned.

   If anyone caught hiding Nanwen books privately, his home will be ransacked at least, and his head will be executed at worst!

   This policy is beneficial in the long run, but counterproductive in the short run.

  Nam script to Vietnam is equivalent to Korean script to North Korea. It is a phonetic script based on Chinese characters. It is despised by Vietnamese scholars and even suppressed by the Vietnamese court.

  But after Shi Kefa ordered the ban, the Vietnamese scholars who despised Nam Wen suddenly began to respect Nam Wen. There are even scholars who don't understand Nanwen, risking their family and family, spending money to collect Nuanwen books and hide them at home.

   Seven days later, the fleet arrived in Palembang.

  Neither Singapore nor Malacca are suitable supply points, because both places have insufficient food production. Only Palembang, with its dense population and developed agriculture, can provide sufficient supplies.

  The governor of Palembang has already taken office.

  Even the first batch of immigrants, a total of 1,200 people, have come to Palembang from the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong to settle in Palembang.

   After supplying food and drinking water, the fleet crossed the Strait of Malacca and arrived at Chittagong in Arakan (Myanmar's affiliated state).

  This port belongs to the country of Arakan in name, but it has long been leased to the Portuguese.

  The Portuguese, although they built colonial castles, were unable to rule effectively and had to cooperate with the pirates here.

  Chittagong is the largest pirate den in the Bay of Bengal!

  The Portuguese often join forces with pirates to plunder weaker fleets, and the Portuguese are responsible for selling the stolen goods.

   Four of the Chinese envoy fleet are new ships. Made of century-old oak wood, it is equipped with the most advanced artillery and integrates the most advanced shipbuilding technology of the East and the West. The largest ship has a displacement of 900 tons.

  The cunning Portuguese colonists and the ferocious Arakan pirates became hospitable after observing them from a distance.

  If you want fresh water, there is fresh water, if you want food, there is food, as long as you give money, it will be delivered to you immediately.

   Even, the Portuguese provide special services. Soldiers went to brothels in groups, and they could get a 20% discount on whoring fees. If there were not enough prostitutes, they could immediately go to the countryside to **** them.

  Scholars from Qintian Academy are responsible for recording the geographical and hydrological conditions here when they dock for supplies.

  Scholars from the Hanlin Academy landed to go to the city for a stroll, taking a translator to appreciate the customs.

  The officers observe the castle here and make the best plan to attack the castle.

   There are also officials from the Ministry of Commerce on board the ship, inquiring about the price situation at the port, and inquiring about the special products here.

   That's what they're doing along the way, not just diplomacy.

  Elder and prestigious scholars from the two academies are unwilling to go to sea at all, and all the students who come here are graduate students of Jinling University.

Pan Wei, who was only 18 years old, walked ashore for three days and returned to the cabin after supplies were completed. He wrote in a pen: "Chittagong is the territory of the Arakan Kingdom, and Arakan is also a subsidiary of the Toungoo Kingdom. There is a Portuguese castle in the port, and there are many pirates in the port. The population of the city is mostly Portuguese, Arakanese, Persians (Arabs), Bengalis, and Indians... The city is dirty and messy, with many pubs and prostitutes... Passing along the street, There are many drunks and prostitutes. You need to be careful of theft, my interpreter accidentally got your money purse stolen... Alas, this Hong Kong is a place where men thieve women and prostitutes, it is not a civilized place!"

  Lu Tianxiang took the female officer and guards and ran to the city excitedly, only took a few glances before returning to the boat.

  The next stop is Pulicat, a Dutch colonial port, located at the mouth of the Bennell River in India.

  This is not the territory of the Mughal Empire. It belongs to a small country called Jinji, and there are large and small states in the country. To the north of Jinji Kingdom is the Kingdom of Golkonda, and to the south is the Kingdom of Tanjore.

   This time, instead of leaving after supplying supplies, I went along the river to the capital of the country to engage in diplomacy.

  Lu Tianxiang set off with the female officials, and all the civil officials, as well as a thousand emperor's personal guards and a thousand naval soldiers.

   Along the banks of the river, there are farmlands everywhere, and it looks like agriculture is very developed.

  But you can see hungry people everywhere, with dark skin, squatting on the side of the road and not knowing what to do. There are also so-called practitioners, wearing tattered clothes and paint on their faces, sitting there all day waiting for alms from believers.

  The state religion here is Christianity, but the people at the bottom mainly believe in Hinduism, and there will be religious vendettas every now and then.

  The sultan of the Jinji Kingdom can also manage the area around the capital, and the other places are all governed by the princes of the Tubang, and it is enough to pay taxes to the sultan regularly every year.

  I heard that the Chinese envoys were visiting, and Sudan received them warmly.

  Lu Tianxiang has already started to regret it, what the **** is going on overseas. She didn't meet the war, and she saw some messy things, even the capital of a country was filthy, and she even saw someone peeing on the street.

   After meeting with Sudan, Lu Tianxiang disappeared, and stayed in the residence arranged by Sudan, waiting to go back to the ship.

   As for diplomatic work, Zhang Ruifeng is fully responsible.

  Zhang Ruifeng submitted the letter of credence to Jinji Sultan, and the two countries reached an equal diplomatic and trade relationship. Then, he sold two loads of silk and two loads of cotton cloth to Sultan Jinji, and exchanged them all for silver coins here.

  Sudan Jinji was very generous and gifted two female slaves, one to Zhang Ruifeng and the other to Lu Tianxiang.

  Zhang Ruifeng did not dare to accept them, and handed over all the female slaves to Lu Tianxiang for management.

  So, beside Lu Tianxiang, there were two more maids.

   Zhang Ruifeng learned that there are many small countries nearby through the introduction of Jinji Sultan. To communicate one by one, it would take years of monkeys to reach Europe.

   Therefore, for the next journey, we will only choose those with stronger national strength to engage in diplomacy, all the way to the country of Bijapur in the west of the Indian subcontinent.

  Bijapur and Golkonda, these two countries, are the main forces preventing the Mughals from going south, and they have fought against the Mughal Empire for hundreds of years.

   Next, it was to meet the Mughal emperor, which was the first empire they visited.

  In order to ensure safety, Lu Tianxiang and Zhang Ruifeng brought a total of 3,000 troops ashore, scaring the Mughal officials to summon the army.

  (end of this chapter)