The core area ruled by the Srivijaya Kingdom is in the area around the capital Palembang, which is relatively northern compared to its sphere of influence.
In the south, there are many semi-independent subordinate countries with relatively independent political powers.
The relationship between these large or small local governments and the central government of the Srivijaya Kingdom is relatively subtle, similar to the conflict between the north and the south of the Bagan Kingdom. From time to time there will be some small frictions and collisions.
The unification of the Srivijaya Kingdom is the same as the unification model of countries in many other parts of the world. It is a relatively pure feudal system.
When the king was strong, they were in the Western Zhou style. The emperor commanded the world and his status was respected.
When the king is weak, it is the Eastern Zhou Dynasty model. The war between the princes in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods is arranged for you. He will shame you at every turn and even ask you how much the tripod weighs.
If the king is weak to a certain extent, these powerful feudal lords will sometimes cause you to have the Seven Kings Rebellion or the Eight Kings Rebellion, making your king want to cry without tears and his life is in danger. If anything goes wrong, they will immediately give you peace. In difficult battles, the king directly sacrifices to heaven.
Unlike the Chinese emperor, the Chinese emperor was definitely lucky.
Since the Qin Dynasty, there have been relatively stable unified political powers and systems such as the system of prefectures and counties, the system of official transfer, etc. to ensure the realization of centralization of power. As time goes by, centralization of power has become stronger and stronger, and the emperor's safety factor has also become higher and higher. ,
Feudalism, the feudal state and the founding of the country, under the centralized model, there is an unspoken rule that the imperial power does not go down to the county. On the surface, Chinese society has only had feudalism and no establishment for a long time.
But not entirely.
For example, during the period of Liu Bang's feudal state in the Western Han Dynasty, and the period when Taizu of the Ming Dynasty established the Nine Great Fortress Kings, it was a serious feudal state building. Those feudal kings had actual power, including military and financial power. They could do whatever they wanted. It's just parallel to the county system directly under the central government.
Others, such as the manor model period in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the Jiedushi separatist period in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, were also a bit of a serious feudal model, but generally speaking, centralized power was dominant for a relatively long time.
Therefore, the Chinese emperor's safety factor is really first-class. Compared with the Chinese emperor, the emperors and kings of feudal dynasties in other parts of the world are really miserable.
The political situation in the Kingdom of Srivijaya is relatively stable now, but unstable factors still exist. King Srivijaya is not only worried that the spread of Ming Dynasty's ideas will affect the instability of the core areas of the Kingdom, but is also worried that these ideas will become uncompliance by the southern subordinate countries. The reason for his own order.
In order to facilitate its rule, the Srivijaya Kingdom adopted Mahayana Buddhism as its state religion. It finally made the people more Buddhist and easier to bully, but they did not want accidents to happen.
But the Ming Dynasty is a big and powerful country, and the upper echelons of Srivijaya are not willing to offend the Ming Dynasty for this, which gives the Ming Dynasty an excuse to send troops to investigate. If it goes to war with the Ming Dynasty, it will just be boring.
Therefore, the Sriwijaya Kingdom adopted a flexible response strategy, accepting and protecting Ming merchants, but at the same time strictly restricting their area of action.
Moreover, the Srivijaya Kingdom was also relatively taboo about the exchanges between Ming merchants and the Han people in their own country.
Since the Ming Dynasty business travelers came to Srivijaya in large numbers to do business in the ninth year of Hongwu, the Kingdom of Srivijaya has consciously relocated the Han people living in the core areas of the country.
To this day, the number of local Han people who can still communicate freely with Ming merchants is very rare.
However, most of them were either developed into members of the Renaissance or became spies of the Skynet Army. Relying on their relationships with Han people in other areas, the scale of the local Skynet Army and the Renaissance secret organizations in Srivijaya was not small.
However, due to various restrictions, it is still difficult to develop local members, including the establishment of commercial agencies, and the senior officials of the Srivijaya Kingdom are hesitant.
After the Ming Dynasty's official envoy arrived in Palembang, Wang Kun, the head of the envoy and deputy director of the Renaissance Society headquarters, repeatedly proposed to King Champa of the Srivijaya Kingdom to set up a commercial agency, but Champa always made vague remarks and prevaricated him. .
This uncooperative attitude made Wang Kun very angry.
If you don’t drink a toast, you’ll get a fine drink, okay!
So Wang Kun asked people to inform Champa that if the Three Buddhas Qi Kingdom did not accept the Ming Dynasty's request to set up an agency, then he would not force him, he would go back and never come again.
Moreover, after he returned, the Ming Dynasty announced sanctions against the Srivijaya Kingdom. No Ming products were allowed to be sold to the Srivijaya Kingdom, and any business travelers who had dealings with the Srivijaya Kingdom would not be able to obtain Ming products!
You just wait to go to the black market and pay extremely high prices to be taken advantage of!
Wang Kun asked people to board the ship and leave Palembang after making the announcement.
As a result, the luggage of the accompanying team was not completely ready to board the ship. Champa was so frightened that he quickly sent his son Ata'a to chase Wang Kun and boarded the ship at an extremely fast speed. He yelled, "walk slowly, walk slowly," etc., and hurriedly explained.
Wang Kun felt that he had nothing to talk to them, so he was about to leave by boat. Atta'a quickly grabbed Wang Kun, explained to him, and begged him not to leave. He also said that the Three Buddhas Qi Kingdom was willing to let the Ming Dynasty set up an agency, and fully allowed the two countries to do so. country trade.
Wang Kun sneered.
"I heard that Ming merchants are quite restricted in their movement in your country. They can only enter from Palembang and are not allowed to land in other places. After landing, except for the six designated towns, no other places are allowed to set foot. Ming merchants and merchants are not allowed to enter. communicate with local Han people.
I really don’t know what laws the merchants of Ming Dynasty broke and what wrong things they did to deserve to be treated like this? Are the merchants of the Ming Dynasty some kind of outlaws who can be treated with such rudeness by your country? I really can't figure this out! "
Atta'a certainly knew that many of the restrictions imposed by the Kingdom of Srivijaya on Ming merchants were out of worry and fear, but now that they have spoken out, they are obviously making conditions.
If they refused on the spot, they might really leave and never come back. Neither Champa nor Ata'a dare to think about what would happen in the future.
But if you agree, what if Ming businessmen take advantage of these advantages to cause trouble in their country?
Ata'a read the original version of Hongwu's political commentary, and broke out in a cold sweat after reading it. He couldn't imagine whether it was a good thing or a bad thing for officials from such a country to come to them and ask for the establishment of an agency to manage trade.
Moreover, in the past few years, there were incidents of Ming businessmen having close contacts with local Han people. At that time, someone reported that local Han people and Ming businessmen had a very happy chat about Hongwu Political Commentary. Ming businessmen seemed to be very interested in Hongwu Political Commentary. Understanding.
Although there is nothing too surprising about this, the upper-level rulers of the kingdom are really taboo about it.
At that time, it was easy to deal with businessmen, but now they were facing a representative of a behemoth. The Srivijaya royal family really did not have the courage to refuse Wang Kun's request head-on.
Atta'a wiped away the cold sweat, smiled and said slowly: "There must be some misunderstanding. I also asked the angel to follow me to see the king. When I meet the king, everything will be easy to talk about. Everything will be easy to talk about."
Wang Kun snorted coldly and pretended to think for a while, but in fact he was observing Ata'a's expression.
Seeing Ata'a constantly wiping away cold sweat and looking anxious, Wang Kun finally relented and went with him to see Champa.
When King Champa of Srivijaya received Wang Kun, he was not arrogant at all, but rather like the uncle next door. He treated Wang Kun, who was more than 20 years younger than him, with an amiable and amiable manner.
All the delicious food and drinks were served, and he also pulled out his favorite concubine to serve Wang Kun for dinner and wine. If Wang Kun liked it, he would give this concubine to Wang Kun and take him back.
