Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 617, Missions of Southeast Asian Countries

"Xiang Gong~"

Xu Wan'er and Li Zhen came to Liu Jin's study in a hurry, and found Liu Jin who was busy.

"what happened?"

Liu Jin looked at the two of them, both of them knew that they would never come to disturb him when he was busy with things, but now they came to look for him, and their faces were still angry, as if something happened .

So Liu Jin put down what he was doing and asked with a smile.

"Sir, aren't you in charge of the tax reform now? Heavy taxes will be imposed on gambling houses and brothels, and the people in the brothels have already spoken out."

"If heavy taxes are really imposed on them next year, they will speak ill of you everywhere."

Li Zhen pouted her lips angrily, and when she heard the maids under her command say this, she was so angry that she was half dead.

"Talk about me?"

"Say something bad about me?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately laughed.

He knew that tax collection would offend people, but he didn't expect that some people would start to resist fiercely before it even started, and even pointed the finger at him.

It’s okay, it’s good and normal for someone to resist. At that time, there will be an excuse to ask Emperor Hongzhi to set up a tax police. Without a strong tax collection agency, it is naturally impossible for everyone to pay taxes honestly.

"They said, they said, Mr. Mr., you are unrestrained, and you want to be guarded at night every day..."

Li Zhen said without hesitation, and when she got to the end, her face flushed and she couldn't speak.

"In short, it is enough to say bad things about you, Mr. Xiang. If it is very bad, it will greatly damage your reputation."

"I'm really pissed off. If anyone dares to talk nonsense, I won't demolish their dirty place."

Li Zhen said angrily.

"Yes, when the time comes, let's see if I don't call my brother, and seal up all those dirty places, so that they dare to speak ill of my husband."

Xu Wan'er was also half-dead with anger.

Liu Jin is a good man. He never goes to those fireworks places. He is either busy with state affairs or staying at home with his wife and children. In the hearts of both of them, Liu Jin is the most perfect. No one is allowed to speak ill of Liu Jin , especially with regard to this aspect.

Whether Liu Jin is promiscuous or not, the two of them naturally know best.

"Haha, what's so terrible about gossip?"

"As long as you believe in me, other people, I don't care what they think of me."

Liu Jin laughed immediately, thinking it was something.

If I even care about such a little thing, then I don't want to be an official above the court. You must know that compared with the swords, lights and swords above the court, these are nothing at all.

"Msister, you can't say anything. This gossip is so gossip. Three people become tigers. If you really let them talk nonsense and tarnish your reputation for nothing, it will not work."

"What's more, our family is actually so easy to provoke."

"Xianggong is doing things for the court and for the well-being of the people. If they really dare to speak ill of him, I will definitely not let them go."

Xu Wan'er still said angrily.

"Okay, okay~"

"Don't worry, lady, don't get angry."

Liu Jin smiled and quickly comforted him.

"By the way, where's the baby?"

Liu Jin quickly changed the subject, and shifted the topic to the child.

"The nanny is bringing it."

Li Zhen replied.

"Well, in the next few days, the missions of Nanyang countries will arrive in Tianjin. Then I will take you to Tianjin to see how the Nanyang people are doing?"

"What is there to see in Nanyang people, but I heard that the football here in Tianjin is very good, should my husband take us to watch football?"

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Li Zhen thought for a while and said.

"Okay, football is football. I'm so busy these days, I haven't watched football for a long time."

Liu Jin readily agreed.

"That's great, it's better to be fair~"

When Li Zhen heard this, she immediately kissed Liu Jin happily.

After this kiss, the maids who followed immediately covered their eyes with their hands, blushing all over their faces.

……

In the waters of the Bohai Sea, several large merchant ships were rapidly heading towards Tianjin Port, followed by dozens of much smaller ships, moving forward on the sea mightily.

These large ships belonging to Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., Ltd. returned from Nanyang. The ships were full of goods from Nanyang, such as pearls, corals, agates, jade, precious stones, ivory, emeralds, precious agarwood, and boxes. Gold and silver, and cane sugar boiled from Nanyang and Ryukyu plantations.

Seeing that the New Year is coming soon, it is the time to buy new year's goods. These things are very popular in the Beijing-Tianjin area. There are many rich people here, and everything is very easy to sell.

The crew members are also eager to return home.

I have been busy at sea for a whole year, and I have gained a lot. The Chinese New Year is coming soon. This is the last trip before the Chinese New Year. The next time I go to sea will be after the Lantern Festival in the coming year.

Whenever thinking of this, the crew wished to return to Tianjin Port immediately, return to their homes, and take a good rest for a while.

Now it is in the Bohai Sea, and it is very close to Tianjin Port. Many crew members came to the deck in a hurry, looking west and in the direction of Tianjin Port from time to time.

The deck of the 'Red Coral' was also full of people, but these people were Nanyang people in strange clothes, not Ming people.

Du Mingen, the Marquis of Taiping, opened up a route to Nanyang, and the major business houses of Ming Dynasty traveled frequently to and from Nanyang, which greatly strengthened the exchanges and connections between Ming Dynasty and Nanyang countries.

Coupled with the fact that the Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more powerful now, it directly seized Manila in Nanyang and renamed it Crescent City. It is also here to set up provinces, government offices, and appoint officials.

This frightened the Nanyang countries, so after the Nanyang countries communicated with each other, they also sent a huge mission to Daming, preparing to pay tribute to the Emperor of Ming, and to show Daming that they and Daming have been friendly for generations Neighbors will always be Daming's vassal state, and they will never do anything that hurts Daming Ziming like the people of Lu Song.

Always, this time they came to Daming to convey friendly and peaceful wishes to Daming.

Daming is too strong~
The strength of Luzon is not small, and it can be considered among the countries in Southeast Asia.

But the Marquis Taiping of Ming Dynasty almost destroyed the Luzon Kingdom simply and easily. Even the capital Manila has now become the Crescent City of Ming Dynasty.

This strength is too terrifying.

What's more important is that Ming's strength in the Nanyang region has rapidly expanded. With Crescent Moon City as the center, the entire Nanyang region can now see large and small Ming merchant ships and merchants.

At the same time, there are Ming merchants who are opening up and building plantations in many places, especially here in Luzon, where a large number of plantations have sprung up, and the Luzon Kingdom dares to be angry but dare not speak out.

It can only retreat step by step, and now a large area in the north of Luzon Island falls under the jurisdiction of Daming Crescent City, not just limited to the original one hundred miles.

There is no way, the Luzon Kingdom was abolished in that battle, and it was completely frightened.

Taipinghou Du Ming launched a massacre in Crescent City, killing all the officials from the king to the common people in the Lusong Kingdom. Many natives who rebelled were even more merciless and burned to death. Let them know The side of Daming Thunder.

So this time, the Luzon Kingdom also sent a mission, prepared a generous tribute, and prepared to ask Daming to draw a clear territory with Daming, otherwise the entire Luzon would be taken by Daming.

Luzon, Sulu, Champa, Siam, Annan, Java, etc., a total of more than [-] Nanyang countries, large and small, sent missions, prepared tributes, and came to Daming to pay tribute on a merchant ship of Tianjin Ocean Trading Company.

It is nothing new that countries in Southeast Asia came to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, when Zheng He traveled to the West, there would often be Nanyang missions to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. Even in the Chenghua Dynasty, that is, when Emperor Hongzhi’s father Ming Xianzong, there were Nanyang missions to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

However, from the late Chenghua Dynasty until the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, it has been almost thirty years, and there have been no Nanyang missions to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

The main reason for this is that Daming has closed the country and implemented a strict maritime ban. Of course, Daming has always wanted to save face.

The tribute from the missions of other countries often has to be returned several times. With the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national power, the Ming Dynasty court is no longer able to swell the face and pretend to be fat like before.

I had to order the Nanyang countries not to come to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute frequently, so gradually no one came to pay tribute.

Now that there are contacts, as a vassal state, it is natural to go to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute.

Of course, another very important reason is that as the merchants of the Ming Dynasty began to spread all over the countries in Nanyang, the situation on the Ming side was also spread to Nanyang.

The change and development of Ming Dynasty, the richness and strength of Ming Dynasty also made the Southeast Asian countries yearn for it, and they sent missions to Daming to take a look.

Among them, Godala, the Eastern King of the Sulu Kingdom, even came here in person. The Sulu Kingdom's mission is also the largest, with hundreds of people, and there are more than a dozen ships from the Sulu Kingdom alone.

However, for the safety of the mission, all the important figures of the mission took the merchant ships of Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., and the ordinary members took the ships of their own countries.

"I heard that Daming's Tianjin is very prosperous, with tall buildings and feasting, and I don't know how it will compare with our Siamese Ayutthaya."

On the deck of the 'Red Coral', Godara, the Eastern King of the Sulu Kingdom, was looking in the direction of Tianjin, but he heard the discussion of the officials of the Siamese Mission.

At this time, Siam was under the rule of the Ayutthaya Dynasty (Ayutthaya Dynasty). In 1500, it was the strongest and most prosperous period of the Ayutthaya Dynasty, and it was one of the most powerful countries in the Indochina Peninsula.

So the Siamese in this period were quite confident.

　At this time, Siam, or the countries in the entire Nanyang region, were actually still very backward. Taking Siam as an example, they gradually used paper to replace the original Bayeux to write characters in the middle of the Ayutthaya Dynasty, that is, after 1550.

　　
　
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