The Prosperous Era of Longwan

"Boss, Boss."

A speedboat came from afar, passing through many large ships, and soon docked next to a large sea ship with a huge black flag.

A man stood by the boat and looked at the people on the small boat.

"What's the matter? So urgent?"

The man was not tall, but his skin was rough and dark, obviously the result of years of living on the sea.

"Boss, Boss Zhuang robbed a small merchant ship of the Yi people. When interrogating the sailors, they said they were going to Manila to transfer goods."

The sailor on the small boat said hurriedly.

"Manila, is it a Spanish ship?"

Although the Ming Dynasty government already knew that there were actually differences between Yi people and Yi people, they belonged to different countries, and recently a group of red-haired Yi people came to the sea, and they seemed to be from another country.

But pirates deal with Yi people all year round. The goods they robbed had to be sold after all, and they also had to buy various weapons and supplies, so they were more familiar with the differences between Yi people than the Ming Dynasty government.

Manila is actually based on the excellent seaport of Manila Bay.

However, the Philippines did not have a political system like a country at that time. The local area was still in the era of tribal alliance. Some indigenous tribes believed that there should be no harm in cooperating with the Spaniards, but some people believed that the Spaniards were not kind.

However, after a strong local tribe was defeated by the Spanish army because it was unwilling to cooperate with the Spaniards, the Spaniards, who showed strong fighting power, easily gained the loyalty of the Filipinos.

The powerful military force of Spain shocked and frightened the surrounding tribes. After the battle, many chiefs took the initiative to come to Manila to pray for peace and were willing to become subjects of the King of Spain.

As a result, the city of Manila began to take shape, and the Spanish fleet entered Manila in a mighty manner, making it an important fulcrum for the trade routes between the Spaniards, the Ming Dynasty, and Japan.

Lin Feng's pirate group occasionally heard about this place when trading with the barbarians, but now that it was mentioned, Lin Feng also became a little interested.

His base on Dongfan Island has been captured by the Ming army. He is now like a rootless duckweed, which is not a good thing.

Although they are pirates, they also need a base to rest, not to drift on the sea all the time.

Moreover, his fleet includes not only pirates and Japanese pirates, but also their families.

"It is a Spanish ship. The sailor said that the area around Manila is not stable, and there are many tribes around that are unwilling to obey their orders.

But the most important thing is that I heard that there are not many people in Manila now. Many Spaniards have come out with the fleet to trade, and the city is empty."

The sailor on the boat reported.

Hearing this, the idea that Lin Feng had previously had in his mind became clearer now, and he also knew that the second in command and he had the same idea.

Find a new base for them.

This idea has been lingering in his mind several times these days, but except for Dongfan Island, he can no longer think of any other place to land.

Penghu Islands, that is even more impossible to go, Dongfan has come to Ming troops, it is even more dangerous there.

As for the islands in the southern sea, the conditions are not good, and it is not suitable to stay as a long-term base at all.

Now that the second in command thought of Manila, Lin Feng also felt that it seemed possible, after all, the Spanish had not occupied there for a long time, only a few years.

And he was also very clear about the problem of the Yi people, that is, there were few people.

Lin Feng didn't know how many people there were in the Yi people's country, but there were really not many Yi people who arrived here.

"Go back and call the second in command back, let's discuss it."

Lin Feng stood at the bow and ordered his men below.

"Yes, I will go back and inform Boss Zhuang."

The thousands of people under Lin Feng's command were actually several pirates defeated by the Ming army, but he was the strongest and his ability was recognized by other pirates.

Finally, according to strength, and seniority, the ranking was determined.

The Boss Zhuang mentioned by the sailor still had seven or eight ships in his hands. He was sent to the front to make a forerunner, but he didn't expect to catch a big fish.

The Yi people's merchant ships not only had a lot of goods, but also a lot of gold and silver, which were hard currencies and could be used wherever they went.

The boat went away, and the people around them heard their conversation.

They were not afraid of attacking cities controlled by the barbarians.

Being a pirate meant living on the edge of a knife. There was no tomorrow, so it didn't matter who they attacked.

They knew their current situation very well. It was impossible for them to drift on the sea all the time. They had to take down a base as soon as possible to rest and replenish supplies.

It seemed that it was not bad to rob the barbarians' territory.

The coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty were becoming more and more difficult to rob.

As long as they approached the shore, there would be a warning gong, and then the people of the Ming Dynasty would hide everywhere, and the surrounding Ming army would quickly gather and rush over, leaving little time for looting.

The wealthy places were now protected by city walls, and they could not be conquered in a short time.

The barbarians' territory had not been attacked, so I didn't know if it was easy to attack.

But it was precisely because of this that the barbarians might not know of their arrival, and with their defenses lax, they could easily take Manila.

They thought so, and so did Lin Feng.

More importantly, Manila was two or three thousand miles away from the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty would not reach out to it.

Thinking that the Spaniards conquered the local natives by force and made them subjects of the Yi people, can I do the same and become the king of Luzon?

In the Ming Dynasty, the Philippines was also called Sulu, but people who made a living on the sea were generally called Luzon.

When Zheng He's fleet arrived here, they regarded several of the most powerful tribes here as local kings, including Badu Ge Bahara, the East King of Sulu, Mahala Ge Ma Ding, the West King, Badu Ge Ba La Bu, the Dong King, and others. They later led their families and hundreds of people to form a friendly delegation to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and were received by Emperor Yongle.

But in fact, there is no political system in Luzon.

Beijing City, Forbidden City Cabinet.

"Continue to develop in various parts of Nanyang and find out the situation there, especially the attitude of the Han people."

Wei Guangde instructed Liu Shouyoudao to keep paying attention to this matter.

"By the way, the Feilong Kingdom mentioned at the end, verify as soon as possible whether it is really the remnant of Zhang Lian, and what is their current situation."

In the intelligence of the Jinyiwei, it was mentioned at the end that a Han force appeared in the northwest of Jiugang a few years ago, with a number of nearly 10,000 people, which was very powerful.

They have occupied a piece of territory on the island of Sumatra, and the Bazhang Kingdom can't do anything to them.

The Jinyiwei learned from the Chinese living in Jiugang that they seemed to be the remnants of the Feilong Kingdom that had caused chaos in Fujian and Guangdong, and hid here at sea.

Wei Guangde had no interest in this kind of remnant force.

But they appeared near Jiugang, and Wei Guangde had to pay attention to it.

If the Ming Dynasty restored the Xuanwei Office of Jiugang, what choice would the remnants of the Feilong Kingdom make, whether to attack Jiugang and continue to be the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, or to surrender, or to flee far away, all need to be considered.

However, Wei Guangde prefers to let Yu Dayou directly deal with this remnant and prevent them from fleeing.

After all, it is a disaster, and it is best to eliminate it.

"According to the news reported back, there is a high probability that this group of people are the remnants of Feilong State.

Before, the local authorities had captured some people. According to their confessions, Zhang Lian, who was beheaded by the court, was actually someone else. Zhang Lian himself took thousands of remnants and fled overseas by boat.

They probably couldn't leave their homes, so they didn't get on the boat and escape with Zhang Lian, but wanted to sneak back.

The local authorities didn't dare to report these documents, but just kept them in the county government.

However, our Jinyiwei still received some news.

It should be noted that these confessions came from not only one group of people, but also from many places. They should have escaped at the seaside."

Liu Shouyou clasped his fists and replied, "As for the fact that Jinyiwei didn't report this matter at the beginning, it was mainly because of the huge impact and fear of causing shock in Fujian and Guangdong.

After all, when the court beheaded Zhang Lian, it once circulated the head around."

Wei Guangde nodded, understanding the considerations of Jinyiwei at the time.

If this matter is brought up, it will have a negative impact on the court.

"Add more people to confirm whether Zhang Lian is there."

At this moment, Wei Guangde was thinking about whether to let Yu Dayou lead the navy south to Jiugang after the Jinyiwei confirmed their identities.

Since the person escaped from Yu Dayou, let Yu Dayou catch him again and re-establish the Jiugang Xuanwei Office.

"In addition, more people should be sent to Temasek, especially how many foreigners there are in the city and how strong the army is."

Wei Guangde continued to order, "Temasek is on the other side of Jiugang. If I rebuild the Jiugang Xuanwei Office, I don't know how the foreigners in Temasek will respond."

"Yes, Wei Ge Lao, Jinyiwei will send more people to investigate the situation in Jiugang and Temasek."

Liu Shouyou hurriedly bowed and replied.

After leaving Wei Guangde's duty room and leaving the cabinet, Liu Shouyou quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Who would have thought that when the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were celebrating the peace in the world, this Wei Gelao in the cabinet was actually considering launching an expansion war.

That is, the Jinyiwei had received news from the cabinet a long time ago and knew that the earliest expansion was initiated by the Prime Minister Zhang Juzheng, who hoped to enhance his prestige in the court by expanding the territory of Liaodong by 800 miles.

Liu Shouyou also knew what happened afterwards, that is, Wei Guangde began to actively plan to restore the Xuanwei Division of Jiugang, and then Myanmar.

Thinking of these two places, Liu Shouyou actually had another idea in his mind, that is, Jiaozhi and Nurgan Dusi abandoned during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, thinking that this Wei Gelao would not also want to restore actual control over these two places.

However, his idea was unfair to Wei Guangde.

Wei Guangde did care about the Northeast for a time, but considering that the Ming army was struggling to defend Liaodong and could not really surrender the Jurchen tribes, it was meaningless to move the Ming army northward to the Nurgan area under this circumstance.

When Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji of the Ming Dynasty gave up the Nurgan Dusi and withdrew his troops to Sanwanwei, that is, Kaiyuan, Liaoning, he actually made a small calculation. The input and output were not proportional, so he chose to give up.

Although there were many criticisms of Zhu Zhanji's abandonment of this place in later generations, it was believed that it was the abandonment of the Nurgan Dusi that led to the complete collapse of Zhu Di's painstaking eastern defense line.

In the original strategic deployment, the Ming Dynasty encircled Mongolia from the south and the east.

However, after losing the Nurgan Dusi, the role of Liaodong in containing Mongolia from the east was seriously overestimated, and in fact it did not play a role in containing Mongolia at all.

Not long after Liu Shouyou left, Wei Guangde's duty room welcomed another guest.

"Li Dudu, please sit down, Lubu, serve tea."

Wei Guangde welcomed Li Chengliang in and asked him to sit down, and then looked through the strategy for governing Burma handed over by Li Chengliang.

After a quick look, Wei Guangde found that it seemed similar to the Ming Dynasty's strategy against the Jurchens in Liaodong, that is, to treat the local chieftains in Myanmar as the leaders of the Jurchen tribes, and find a reason to clean up the tribes that developed too fast.

Wei Guangde didn't have much expectations, so he was naturally not disappointed.

Although it was far from what he wanted, the direction was probably right, that is, to control the strength of the local chieftains and prevent them from becoming too powerful.

Without sufficient strength, they naturally dared not rebel.

Just like the current Jurchen tribes, except for Wang Gao who had been beheaded, the other tribes seemed to be obedient.

In order to dig out the Jurchen tribal leaders with evil intentions, Wei Guangde even agreed to Qi Jiguang's plan of playing the long game and fishing for big fish, and asked Atai and Ahai to contact the various Jurchen tribes and summon the old tribes to develop and grow.

When the time comes, Atai and Ahai will be eliminated together.

After reading the regulations brought by Li Chengliang, Wei Guangde lowered his head and thought for a long time before saying: "General Li, in fact, in my opinion, if the chieftain's territory is demarcated from the beginning, and he is not given the opportunity to annex the surrounding areas and grow stronger, wouldn't it be possible to avoid the suffering of war?

Why do we need to use the method of raising poisonous insects to let them kill each other internally, and then the court will send troops to suppress them."

At this point, Wei Guangde shook his head.

"Wei Gelao, the southern barbarians are cunning. If they communicate secretly, I am afraid they will avoid the eyes and ears of the court and it will be inconvenient to investigate.

Instead of doing so, it is better to indulge them, or even incite them to kill each other internally and consume their strength. Then the court will have a reason to send troops and can achieve the rebellion at the lowest cost."

Li Chengliang said hurriedly.

Since Wang Gao was executed, under Li Chengliang's rule, people from the Jurchen tribes continued to rebel, and their heads became the ladder for Li Chengliang to be awarded the title, which may not be without Li Chengliang's secret calculations.

In fact, at that time, the Jurchen tribes were still a mess, and there was no tribe that dared to rebel one after another.

So in the end, Li Chengliang had to go down in person, secretly supporting Nurhaci to start his career, and playing the trick of raising an enemy to protect himself.

However, at this time, Li Chengliang's crime in Liaodong was exposed, and the court finally transferred Li Chengliang back to the capital.

Unexpectedly, this move made Nurhaci grow rapidly like a tiger out of a cage. When Li Chengliang returned to Liaodong again more than ten years later, he found that Nurhaci was suspected of being too big to be removed.

In particular, Li Chengliang returned to Liaodong again because Li Rusong died in battle, and the Li family had no generals who dared to fight.

In desperation, Li Chengliang could only choose to give up the six forts in Kuandian and shrink his troops. As a result, he was dismissed again until he died of old age.

It can be said that the strategy that Li Chengliang gave Wei Guangde to govern Myanmar was essentially the strategy he implemented in Liaodong, but in a different place.

Wei Guangde shook his head and smiled faintly at Li Chengliang: "Do the Liaodong Jurchens obey their leaders?"

"Well, they should."

Li Chengliang frowned and replied.

"Then win over the tribal leaders and give them what they want. How can a group of scattered people dare to resist the Ming Dynasty?"

Wei Guangde said.