Chapter 105: Braking with stillness
money? Although Mancajia is small and the country is poor, the King of Mancajia is not a man short of money.
Beauty is not enough to influence national decision-making.
After much thought, He Xi came up with the only option: guarantee and mutual trust.
Only in this way can mutual trust be truly established.
King Mancijia was no longer outside the Ming Dynasty system. But they are people within the Ming Dynasty system. And they are the most noble group of people in the Ming Dynasty system, that is, the clan kings.
This identity brings many benefits to King Mancijia.
First of all, that's the safety guarantee. This has been mentioned before. Not much to say.
Secondly, it is the right to speak. King Mancijia's status in Nanyang was no longer that of a servant state, but that of a vassal king with considerable say.
Then, there is the internal stability of Mancijiawang. Since King Mancijia is already a member of the clan, his status is guaranteed by the Ming Dynasty. If we consider future generations, this is even more important than the security guarantee provided by Ming Dynasty. After all, in Nanyang, a king may not be able to pass the throne to his son.
But with Daming's guarantee, there will be no problem.
He Xi felt that if an edict could make a country, even a small country, surrender to the Ming Dynasty wholeheartedly, then the edict would have been written in vain. As for some of the promises made, they are really nothing compared to the benefits Daming received.
Seeing that King Mancijia didn't understand the meaning of this imperial edict at all, Yang Yu immediately whispered something in King Mancijia's ear.
King Mancijia was overjoyed when he heard this. He immediately said in blunt Chinese: "Xiao Wang, thank you sir."
King Mancijia can understand Chinese but cannot speak it well. At the same time, I can’t write. After all, the Han people have been active in Southeast Asia for a long time as maritime merchants. It can be said that it cannot be ignored. It's normal for Mancijia Wang to understand a little.
He Xi immediately returned the greeting and said, "Your Majesty, you need to learn Chinese well from now on."
King Mancijia said: "Definitely, definitely."
He Xi said: "It's just that the matter was rushed, and the vassal prince should be polite. I didn't bring it, but I just wronged the prince."
King Mancijia, no, Zhu Man, the king of Zhongxian County in the Ming Dynasty, stammered: "No grievance, no grievance." No more words could be said. It depends on the interpreter.
After this incident, Zhu Man's attitude towards the Ming Dynasty changed greatly, and at least he no longer opposed the Ming Dynasty's forces entering Nanyang. Because he is now a part of the Ming Dynasty, even if the Ming Dynasty enters Nanyang, his interests will not suffer much loss.
On the contrary, it will gain more benefits.
Everyone sat down again and discussed the situation at hand.
Yang Yuxian said: "The King of the West of Java has stationed many troops. Although he can send troops across the sea, he may even have sent them now. You must not be unprepared. We have used various means to cover up, but the death of the Javanese envoy can still not be covered up. living."
He Xi was not too surprised by the situation in front of him.
The Ming Dynasty is far away, but Java is close. It is natural that Java can respond faster than the Ming Dynasty. Even before the Ming army arrived in Nanyang, the Manchurian Kingdom no longer existed, and He Xi also had a plan. Although the current situation is not great. But obviously not bad.
He Xi said: "How is the situation in the old port?"
Yang Yu said: "Jiugang has been closed for several days. According to some people, the fighting in Jiugang has resulted in heavy losses. Chen Zuyi will not make any moves for a while."
"Sir, how should we deal with this situation? Send troops?"
Zhu Man also stammered: "Xiao Wang can send troops."
You know, before this, Zhu Man had no intention of sending troops at all, and he even thought about what to do if Ming Dynasty wanted to send troops of his own? He didn't want to be deeply involved in this matter, just because if one day, Ming Dynasty left Nanyang, he could still try his best to seek forgiveness from Java.
Instead of forging a deadly feud with Java.
Now as the Ming Dynasty vassal king, he naturally wants to make Ming Dynasty's power in Nanyang as big as possible so that he can get a piece of the pie. He knew very well that even if he was the vassal king, he was still fake. It is almost impossible to share some benefits in Daming. But it is different in Nanyang. If Ming Dynasty only has a stronghold in Nanyang. As the Ming Dynasty vassal king, he will not have any benefits. But if the Ming Dynasty expanded massively in Nanyang, then he, the vassal king, could use the Ming Dynasty's expansion to expand his interests in a chain.
That's why I'm so positive.
He Xi said: "No trouble, Lord. The current situation is to stop with silence. No matter what Java does, we don't care. We just need to do our thing. The first thing we have to do is to build a city here. As the main port of the Nanyang Navy. It is also where the army is stationed."
"Prince, Yang Yu has already told you."
Zhu Man said: "There is no need for rent, this place is given to the court."
Originally, He Xi wanted to rent it. I got the island of Singapore, but today I have given too much. So much so that Zhu Man didn't care about the rent.
He Xi said: "Then thank you, Your Majesty. But there are some things that Your Majesty may not know. I came to explain to Your Majesty that in order to encourage the vassal prince to go to sea to guard, there is a special clause, that is, the vassal prince can purchase troops from the Ministry of Industry. Standard weapons. As long as the money is in place, everything will be no problem."
Zhu Man was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed. Said: "Can I buy anything?"
He Xi said: "Everything can be sold, but it depends on whether the imperial court has it. For example, the imperial treasury can't fit these swords, so you can have as much as you want. Now some warships and so on. Now The army itself is not enough, so it must first supply various naval forces, and then the local vassal kings. Then we have to wait."
Zhu Man was stunned and said, "Can I also buy warships?"
To be honest, Zhu Man has been jealous of the standard weapons of the Ming army for a long time. He is also considered a prince in Nanyang, and he also has many swords and swords in his hands. But in his collection, there was only a long sword made of star iron, which was better than the long sword in Yang Yu's hand.
And star iron is meteorite.
That is something that can be encountered but cannot be sought.
The long sword in Yang Yu's hand was not the first-class long sword in the Ming Dynasty. And even the long swords of Ming soldiers can be included in the ranks of swords in Nanyang.
This made Zhu Man incredible, and was even an important reason why Zhu Man turned to the Ming Dynasty. Javanese iron is also famous in Southeast Asia. But Zhu Man knew very well what Javanese iron was like, and he was not even worthy of holding swords and shoes in the Central Plains.
This in itself implies a huge gap in national power.
Therefore, Zhu Man was already satisfied with wanting a batch of swords, but now he never expected that warships could also be sold.
It surprised him very much.
It is not that there is no shipbuilding industry in Nanyang. It’s not like Nanyang didn’t have enough wood for shipbuilding. But the ships in Nanyang have a feeling that is hard to describe. Compared with the Arabian galleons, they are compared with the Ming Dynasty's lucky ships. The Nanyang ships were waiting to set off.
The number of ships in Southeast Asia is one of the measures of a country's strength.
It's not like Zhu Man hasn't thought about it. Want Ming's ships. It's just that he thinks it's wishful thinking. Never expected it. You can actually buy it?
He Xi said: "Others can't do it, but the Prince of Ming Dynasty can do it."
Sometimes, you can't really talk in vain. Although this title of vassal king is of great significance. But after all, they were all false, and now Zhu Man was very excited. But as time went on, there was no benefit at all. Maybe Zhu Man will wake up.
So, why should we give benefits?
The weapon is truth.
After all, the Ming Dynasty's standard swords and armor, and the armaments of various countries in Southeast Asia were simply not worth mentioning. Now, as the Ming Dynasty is undergoing a large-scale change of equipment, a large number of weapons can only be remade.
Of course, it's not that these weapons are bad.
After all, the Ming Dynasty is rising rapidly, without some of the problems in the middle and late stages. The weapons are also pretty good. The preservation is even better. It's just that Ming Dynasty has better ones, although these weapons are no longer used. But it is just as useful when sold to other countries, at least better than the weapons made by Java itself.
Hearing what He Xi said, Lu Zhongheng also became excited.
Because he saw the money. It took a lot of effort and money to get these weapons from the Ministry of Industry. But it still looks like it was picked up for free. After all, this thing has no use except to be recycled. It also has storage pressure, and it cannot be sold casually.
