Abizhen is a talent, this was Chen Kan's previous view.
For a person who has the courage to covet the Ming Dynasty's treasure ship, you can't say that he is not a talent.
If the domestic forces hadn't caught him off guard this time, it would not have been as easy for Chen Kan to defeat Bolingbang.
But now, Chen Kan thinks Abizhen is a genius, even a great talent.
The Ming Dynasty's strategy to conquer the world is very simple. In Liaodong, it was to drive away wolves and swallow tigers. On the grasslands, it was to fight against divisions. In Nanyang, it was to cultivate poison like big fish eating small fish.
It's easy to say and not difficult to do.
But it is not that difficult to see through these things.
Just because Ming played the role of a judge.
In theory, the Ming Dynasty can take the lead in all disputes and killings in the world.
In the entire East Asia, or in the Chinese cultural circle, it can be said that it has become a law that the Central Plains plays the role of arbiter.
Since the Han Dynasty first regarded itself as the master of the world, it has lasted for thousands of years.
The adjudicator personally went to the court to decide the outcome. Such a thing has never happened in thousands of years.
Because the arbiter himself is already the existence that stands at the top of this world, and is the only existence.
Everyone's default is that the Ming Dynasty is the kingdom of heaven, and other countries in the world are vassal states of the Ming Dynasty.
So no one would think in this direction at all.
And until now, Chen Kan's plan is still a secret, and it's not because of how clever his plan is.
He just made clever use of the inherent thinking of the people in the world, just like no one thought that Sima Yi would violate the oath of Luoshui.
After all, how could a father seek to seize his son's property?
And now, Abizhen has thought of something that no one in the world has thought of.
Although it is only a small part, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a great talent.
It is a great thing for a person to think outside the box, not to mention that this person is just a Nanyang native king.
Chen Kan has always respected those who have the ability.
Therefore, he made an unexpected move.
He walked up to Abizhen personally and untied the rope that bound his hands.
"Come here, please sit down!"
After untying the rope, Chen Kan returned to the main seat and sat down.
The soldiers around him always treated Chen Kan's orders as imperial edicts, so even though they looked down upon Abizhen, a prisoner, they still moved a wooden pillar for him.
But Chen Kan's actions caused an uproar among a group of Sumatra nobles.
A group of old nobles would never have thought that their old master could become the guest of a Mingren general with just a few words.
Does that mean he still has the possibility of making a comeback?
How can they, those who betray the Lord, survive?
Thinking of the terrible consequences, some elderly Sumatra nobles suddenly turned pale, looking at Abizhen who was standing there in a daze, with fear in their eyes.
The most anxious among them is Suli Dongdong.
Although it was a decision jointly made by a group of nobles to abandon the old master and join Akito, if Abizhen was allowed to survive, how could he, the initiator, end up well?
I was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but I didn't dare to show it on my face.
There is no way, the Ming army is not a noble in the country, and those who disrespect the Ming army will really die on the spot.
No matter how panicked the old nobles of Sumatra were, it did not affect Chen Kan's courtesy to Abizhen. After finally meeting a great talent in Nanyang, it would be a pity to kill him like this or take him as a prisoner and take him back to the Ming Dynasty.
If he can be conquered, his plans in Nanyang may be accelerated for a few more years.
Su Lidongdong is a talent, but he does not have the qualifications to be a hero.
Nanyang is so big that it would be difficult to unify it without the qualifications of a heroic leader.
However, since he is raising voodoos, Chen Kan will not give up on any one or support any one. He will always let the voodoos fight each other.
So while he was polite to A Bi Zhen, he also didn't forget to appease Su Li Dongdong.
"Master Su, I feel the sincerity of you and everyone, and I have accepted the gift. Now that the city is leaderless, Master Su might as well go back and appease the people in the city."
Su Lidongdong was stunned, pointed to his nose, and looked at Abizhen in surprise, who was standing there in a daze.
The next second, a look of ecstasy appeared on his face.
The three words Su Guozhu have already stated everything.
"Yes, yes, thank you for the angel's reminder. The little king will return to the city to appease the people and issue the king's order. From now on, our Sumatra country will only obey the Ming Dynasty and guard the southern border for the Ming Dynasty forever. No more rebellion.”
Su Lidongdong knelt on the ground, bowed to Chen Kan, and hurriedly pulled a group of nobles who had not yet reacted out of the tent.
Chen Kan's words have made it very clear. From now on, the Ming Dynasty will only recognize him, Su Lidongdong, as the lord of Sumatra.
Whether Abizhen is alive or not will not have any impact on him.
Moreover, Chen Kan's words have given him enough time to rectify all the forces in the country. Even if Abizhen is to be released, it will definitely have to wait until he takes complete control of Sumatra.
If at that time, he can still be pulled down by Abizhen, then he can only blame himself for his lack of ability.
The excitement of Suri Dongdong was in sharp contrast to the lost Sumatran nobles.
But now he has no time to explain the reason to these stupid nobles. They are so afraid of Abizhen, so just let them go.
Chen Kan watched Su Lidongdong and a group of native nobles walk away, and then turned his attention to Abizhen, who was still stunned.
"Sultan Hannan Abi Town."
Chen Kan called out Abizhen's full name.
Abizhen looked at his free-moving hands in confusion, and then looked at the wooden pillars that Chen Kan's personal guards brought to him. He was even more confused.
One moment he was a prisoner, and the next moment he became a guest. Such a change was difficult to accept even if Abizhen was mentally strong enough.
"Sit down, I'm not in the habit of talking while standing."
Chen Kan spoke again, and Abizhen hesitated for a moment before sitting down on the wooden pier.
But before Chen Kan could ask, Abizhen asked: "You haven't answered my question just now. Isn't the Ming Dynasty afraid of Nanyang's backlash against the Central Plains? Others don't know, but I know that Nanyang's land and the vastness of the sea are not Lost to Ming Dynasty, you Ming people are not as powerful as you think, right?"
Chen Kan did not choose to answer Abizhen's doubts. This was a meaningless question.
Abizhen may have superhuman vision and be familiar with the history of the Central Plains.
But he didn't understand what a firearm was.
At best, he is the bigger one among the frogs sitting in a well and looking at the sky.
Chen Kan admitted that Nanyang is very large, and all the big islands combined have an area and population no less than that of the Ming Dynasty.
But population and land area don’t mean anything.
The two sides no longer exist in the same dimension. Even if he explains it, Abizhen will not understand it, let alone understand it.
But Chen Kan's silence, in Abizhen's eyes, made him interpret a completely different meaning.
The ambition flashed through his eyes. Abizhen sat up straight, looked directly at Chen Kan and asked, "What do you want to ask?"
Chen Kan stood up with his hands behind his back, walked into the middle of the big tent, and said calmly: "As you can see, the land of Nanyang is a bit too chaotic for the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty needs sea trade to bring endless wealth to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty is here Nanyang needs a spokesperson who is strong and completely obedient to the Ming Dynasty."
Abizhen frowned and asked: "You have already chosen Su Lidongdong, why do you want to spare my life?"
Chen Kan turned around and said with a smile: "Do you think Su Lidongdong can unify Nanyang?"
"No, but now, I am no longer the lord of Sumatra."
Abizhen's tone was indifferent, his eyes filled with strong hatred.
Of course Chen Kan could feel Abizhen's emotional changes, but he didn't take it to heart.
If he had no resentment towards Ming, how could he become Ming's pawn with peace of mind.
Chen Kan was willing to wait for him to unify Nanyang and gather enough power to seek revenge against Ming Dynasty.
Returning to the main seat and sitting down, Chen Kan stretched out three fingers and said calmly: "I will give you three days to recruit people in the city. After three days, I will give you one thousand sets of standard swords in the Ming Dynasty." , you can also take away part of Sumatra’s warships, and you can take these things to any island in the Southeast Asia to establish your country. Whether you can kill Sumatra or not depends on your ability."
As soon as Chen Kan finished speaking, a flash of light flashed in Abizhen's eyes.
"Is this true?"
"certainly!"
"good!"
After receiving Chen Kan's assurance, Abizhen immediately stood up and walked outside the tent.
He didn't want to waste any time.
Even if he knew that this was just a little game played by Akito, he was not willing to waste any time, because he knew very well that this would be his only chance to turn around in his life.
Seeing Abizhen acting so quickly, Chen Kan couldn't help but smile.
"Zhang Dong, follow him!"
After giving a casual instruction, Chen Kan began to fall asleep.
Zhang Dong took the order and led a group of Ming soldiers to follow Abizhen.
Their main purpose is to protect Abi Town from dying in the hands of Suri Dongdong. As for whether Abi Town can recruit people, it has nothing to do with them.
Abizhen entered the city again, causing panic in Bolinbang City to a certain extent.
Especially those old nobles who have just settled down.
However, when they learned that Abizhen was here to recruit people, not to regain his position, panic turned into ridicule.
The soldiers, common people, and nobles in the city all hate him deeply now.
If it weren't for his greed, how could he have recruited the Ming army?
He actually tried to recruit people in the city to follow him to other places to build a new mountain, and it was only a fool who followed him.
As a result, the nobles in the city came out with all kinds of tricks, causing Abi Town to become almost a street rat that everyone wanted to beat.
Under such circumstances, three days flew by.
There are only less than three hundred people who are willing to follow Abizhen to leave Bolinbang City.
And among these three hundred people, many were spies planted by the nobles in the city.
At noon on the third day, Chen Kan reviewed the 300 people who were willing to leave with Abizhen at the temporarily opened school field.
Three hundred people, this number is more of an insult to Abizhen than support for him.
For Abi Town, which once controlled a large country with a population of one million households and tens of thousands of soldiers, when it was time to leave for a foreign country, only 300 people were willing to follow him. What a ridiculous result is this?
Desolate and sad.
Of course, this is other people's opinions.
Chen Kan didn't care. Whether Abizhen took away 300 people or 30,000 people, the result would be the same for Chen Kan.
As the main character, Abizhen was also expressionless.
As early as when he entered the city, he had already made preparations to leave Sumatra alone.
Now there are still 300 people following him, which is already a good result.
Population is not something difficult to obtain in Nanyang.
There are many savages in the rainforest.
As long as it has supplies and weapons, it will have a population, an army, and a country.
After Chen Kan fulfilled what he promised three days ago, Abizhen quickly rushed into the forest with his three hundred men.
He could not take the main road because he was not sure whether Suli Dongdong would arrange for someone to intercept him on the road.
The first thing he did when he entered the rainforest was to use the swamps and poisonous insects in the rainforest to kill more than half of the three hundred people under his command with lightning speed.
Most of the people were people planted by the old nobles to kill him.
The remaining people in their early 100s are the ones who are truly loyal to him and want to go with him to establish a kingdom in other places.
Chen Kan did not invest too much energy in Abizhen.
Just as Abizhen thought, in Chen Kan's eyes, all this was almost like a game.
Once the seeds are planted, if they can germinate, it’s great. If they can’t, it’s okay.
Abizhen is indeed a great talent, but that does not mean that Chen Kan must place all his hopes on him.
After all, Abi Town is just an insignificant part of it.
Chen Kan's real killer move was Zhu Di's imperial edict and Zheng He's fleet.
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A long time passed unknowingly, and Chen Kan's army was stationed in front of Bolingbang City, basically doing no harm to the people in the city.
On the contrary, Su Lidongdong killed a large number of people every day in order to stabilize the situation.
Chen Kan waited outside the city for half a month, and Zheng He finally arrived late with his engineers.
When the two met, it was natural for them to eat and drink wildly.
Dou Xing handed over Bolingbang's treasure trove to the engineers under Zheng He's command, and was finally able to get out of the city for some air.
Chen Kan held a grand celebration banquet in the camp. In the central commander's tent, all generals from more than a thousand households in the two fleets were present.
As for the materials for the celebration banquet, they naturally came from Bolin State City.
A trip to Nanyang plundered the wealth accumulated by the two countries over the past century, and even razed the city of Malacca to the ground.
It can be said that all the strategic goals set when we arrived have been achieved.
The Ming Dynasty's battle losses were almost negligible.
Except for dozens of unlucky guys who accidentally died in the rainforest, there were zero battle losses on the battlefield.
Compared with the time Chen Kan went to the grassland, the results this time were greater, the impact was deeper, and the battle losses were smaller. It is certainly worthy of celebration.
The entire camp was plunged into a sea of joy.
Chen Kan is not afraid that Sumatra will launch a counterattack at this time, because the area around Daying has long been managed by her as a railway.
Countless landmines were laid outside the city. As long as Sumatra dared to come, Chen Kan would dare to blow them into mincemeat.
In the middle of the tent, Chen Kan and Zheng He sat opposite each other, their faces filled with unconcealable joy.
The reason why the two of them are happy is also very simple.
It can be summed up in two words - get rich!
Yes, get rich, or get rich.
It took Zheng He's eight thousand engineers and soldiers half a month to empty the treasure house in Malacca City.
Zheng He only made a rough estimate and came to an astonishing conclusion.
The wealth of the city of Malacca was actually worth the tax revenue of three years of the Ming Dynasty.
Now the Ming Dynasty's annual fiscal revenue is about 30 million taels of silver, which means that the wealth accumulated in the city of Malacca alone exceeds 10 million taels of silver.
And Sumatra's wealth will only be greater.
With so much wealth, even the two fleets combined could not transport it back.
But it's not a big problem. Regarding this kind of happy trouble, the two of them just hope that the more the better.
Besides, there is no solution.
The problem was that there were not enough ships to build. Anyway, Zheng He had enough engineers and soldiers, and the ships for transporting gold and silver did not need to be built many or too many exquisitely.
There are so many giant trees on Sumatra that several people can hug each other.
Just cut down the giant tree, hollow out the trunk, and fill it with gold and silver, and it will be a treasure ship for transporting gold and silver.
Too heavy to float?
This did not trouble the Ming Dynasty's skilled craftsmen. If a piece of wood couldn't float, they made it into a raft, and added a large number of animal skins to increase the buoyancy.
As for how the raft can be rowed, it is even simpler. The Ming Dynasty's treasure ship is the best power.
In terms of transferring money, the Han people have unparalleled creativity.
Moreover, Chen Kan had already sent men to Ming Dynasty to ask for help.
The Ming Dynasty had a total of nine treasure ships, but now only six have arrived from Nanyang. When Chen Kan and Zheng He's affairs are settled, the other three treasure ships should be on the way.
Therefore, the two of them have reason to be happy and deserve to be happy.
While changing glasses at the banquet, Zheng He suddenly picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "In the past five hundred years, the only person who has been able to hit such a distance is the Marquis. I will honor the Marquis with this drink."
Zheng He held a huge wine glass and drank five ounces of strong liquor in one gulp, which immediately attracted a round of applause.
Chen Kan had no choice but to smile and pay for the drink.
Then he shook his head and said: "General, you are going too far. I have long heard that your ancestral home has reached as far as the Black Continent, and you have destroyed countless countries along the way. My achievements are nothing compared to the general."
"This statement is wrong, this statement is wrong. The countries that are about to be destroyed are all small countries with a population of less than 10,000. They are incomparable to the Marquis's attack on the capitals of the two major Nanyang powers..."
"..."
The two people's rainbow farts were going back and forth in a lively manner, and the group of generals in the field was even more lively.
They did not dare to come to the two coaches Zheng He and Chen Kan for a drink, so Dou Xing, Song Qing, Tan Cong, and Wang En, the four lieutenants whose status was second only to Zheng He and Chen Kan, suffered.
Especially Song Qing.
The fact that Chen Kan's strategy was so perfect this time has nothing to do with the fact that he led five thousand people deep into Sumatra.
Otherwise, the combined military strength of Sumatra and Manchuria would be enough for Chen Kan to drink a pot, no matter how sharp his artillery was.
Song Qing used his 3,000 men and 2,000 Japanese cannon fodder to attract more than half of the troops of the two countries, but his own battle losses did not exceed 30%. It is not an exaggeration to say that he used his troops like a god.
Even in the Ming Dynasty, few people could achieve this record.
Therefore, Song Qing is like a rising star, and it is normal for him to be chased by a group of people and drunk.
If anyone in the audience was unhappy, the only ones were the military judge guarding the door of the tent and a woman huddled in the corner.
The reason why the military judge was unhappy was simple. Drinking in the military was taboo, especially before the war ended.
It can be said that all the generals in the account have violated military law.
Unfortunately, no matter how unhappy they are, they can only hold it in.
There is no way, the leader of this army is called Chen Kan.
You must know that Chen Kan's fame in the Ming Dynasty was not due to his status as Zhu Di's son-in-law, but to his actual ruthlessness.
You must know that Donghe Town, twenty miles away from the capital, is still a place where ghosts are rampant.
No matter how hard-headed the military judge was, he would not dare to provoke Chen Kan, a ruthless man.
The military law in Chen Kan's army was just a show-off. This was the acquiescence of the entire Ming Dynasty. Even Zhu Di would not hold Chen Kan accountable for this reason. Naturally, they, the military judges, could only pretend to be deaf and dumb.
The other unhappy person was naturally the Japanese queen Mats Masako who was lucky enough to survive.
Two thousand Japanese soldiers were used by Song Qing as a death squad.
It is said that the battle losses under Song Qing's command did not exceed 30%. In fact, the battle losses were all Japanese soldiers.
Two thousand people were stunned but one thousand and five were killed by Song Qing.
In the end, these five hundred people, probably because Song Qing felt embarrassed, were able to survive.
Although Song Qing led his men to plunder several satellite cities, and all the spoils were returned to Housong Masako, the loot was not enough to make up for her battle losses, so she had reason to be unhappy.
However, no one paid attention to her displeasure.
After the war was over, Masako Gomatsu had no use value.
Chen Kan was preparing to find an opportunity to wipe out this wave of Japanese people.
However, due to the public view and the fact that Masako Gomatsu had revealed his identity as an envoy early in the morning, Chen Kan had not yet found a suitable opportunity to take action.
The food has passed three rounds, and the wine has passed the five flavors.
Chen Kan coughed twice, attracting everyone's attention to himself.
The generals calmed down and sat back in their seats, ready to listen to Chen Kan's speech.
Since today's banquet is a celebration banquet, it is naturally more than just eating and drinking.
How to divide the battle merits? It’s time to come up with a result now.
Seeing that everyone was quiet, Chen Kan nodded with satisfaction and waved to the corner, and a scribe with the look of a clerk came out with paper and pen in hand.
"Everyone."
Chen Kan spoke softly, and a group of generals immediately pricked up their ears, with expectant looks on their faces.
Conquering the capitals of two countries is enough to make everyone's mouth water.
Now that it's time to divide the spoils, they can't help but look forward to it.
"I called everyone here today. In addition to celebrating the victory, there is another important thing, and that is the first achievement of the tripod."
Chen Kan didn't disappoint them either. He didn't make any excuses, but went straight to what they were most concerned about.
