open sea

Chapter 1108

Goa Port, India, where the Western Army is stationed.

Zhedong bird gunners unloaded a new batch of weapons and commercial goods passing through the Strait of Malacca from warships, and young officers commanded the banner troops of the local guards to move batches of cotton thread and iron ingots to Shanghai ships.

Qi Jimei, the commander-in-chief of South India, got off his horse and handed the reins to the guards in front of the yamen. Finally, he looked back at the bustling market under the scorching sun, straightened his official robes, and walked into the mansion.

The Turkic envoy wrapped in a turban, bearded and wearing Ottoman-style robes was coming out of the mansion. He stared at him with a worried expression, raised his hands stiffly, and left without waiting for his return, stepping on the servant's foot. He turned his back on his horse and headed north.

The Mughal army had no ships and did not develop a navy, but their warships were large and had many guns. They were pilgrimage ships directly belonging to Akbar, and their numbers were scarce.

Qi Jimei, who had just returned from the Lion Kingdom, was surprised to be glared at by foreign envoys like knives for no reason. In his impression, the Western Army Mansion had good relations with all surrounding countries, and this should not happen.

The Western military government is not as fond of being a father as the Nanyang military government. They hardly need any wars to rely on trade to get everything they want. Although they are neighbors of Mughal, Safi Persia and Ottoman, but Never involved territorial disputes or wars between them.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty, backed by the force of the Western military government, are detached from the outside world and independent of this land. Even if the merchants are doing business on the border of the war, everyone runs away. The shops of the Ming Dynasty can still operate normally, and even draw a peaceful area on the battlefield. , to protect the people.

This feeling made Qi Jimei feel so strange - he hadn't been stared at with hatred for a long time.

Walking into the main hall of the military government office, he saw the old but strong Western Minister Yin Zhengmao sitting on the top chair, with his arms propped on the tea table and his head resting on his hands, with the corners of his mouth drooping down: "You are back? Sit down, you It happened just in time, the Mongolian envoy just left."

"The humble official saw it, and met him when we entered the mansion." Qi Jimei sat in the hall after performing the military salute, spreading his hands helplessly and said, "Do you want Daming to give up the profits in the trade? He looks like the negotiation failed. "

Yin Zhengmao shook his head slowly, the corners of his mouth curled up stiffly, as if he was amused by Qi Jimei's relaxed tone, but he didn't smile, he just raised his left hand to let the guard standing beside him take the official document on the table to Qi Jimei, saying: "No Trade, the rebellion in the eastern region just conquered by the Mughals four years ago, the war spread to the two provinces of Bihar and Bengal, they sent a large army to counter the rebellion, saying that it was blocked by the Ming army's warships moored in the Ganges, and these ships sank They transport the baggage of the tankers."

"I don't even know that the military mansion actually parked warships in the Ganges."

Qi Jimei spread her hands in front of her body, her expression was extremely innocent, she opened her mouth several times in a row before cowardly saying: "Humble, I don't even know about my humble position."

Yin Zhengmao raised his hand and pointed to the outside of the yamen, saying: "Their envoys stayed in the old man's yamen for four days, and they said that the King of the Kingdom sent envoys to the east to meet His Majesty three months ago."

"The rider who came back this morning said that there is indeed a Liujia warship parked in the Ganges River. It is Bai Guwei's Yi Kongzhao's flagship Nanchang, and he was ordered to guard the abbot of Xishaolin Tianshi to teach in Bangladesh. Alas."

Seeing Yin Zhengmao's appearance, the old man was very angry: "That is a monk of wine and meat. How can a master eat two catties of beef a day? He also guards and teaches! What kind of law can he teach? He has been fighting all over Burma for two years. Four hundred temples."

"The old man didn't believe it at first, and insisted that it wasn't my Western warship. But the rider came back and said that it was our warship. There were also more than 200 merchant ships, more than 1 monks and warriors from Myanmar, and even war elephants. It's not my fault. Come and complain."

Yin Zhengmao was extremely helpless: "This old man is sixty-seven this year. It's not that Chen Lin from Nanyang and Chen Mu from Dongyang are so young. Why are there all these things under his rule?"

This is not the first time something like this has happened. Since Yin Zhengmao took office as Minister of the West, Lin Afeng was the first person to wipe his ass. That pirate leader robbed the lion country of gemstones, then attacked and robbed Goa, and then took the merchant ships of coastal countries. Messed up all over.

Everyone thought it was his Western Army's ship, and it was hard for him to get rid of it and start working. He planned to clear up the pirates first. Nanyang's Gao Gong sent a letter asking him to work with Lin Feng, Later, the emperor simply gave Lin Feng the title of king.

This time there will be another great monk, I don’t know which tendon is wrong, he wants to get involved in the war of the Bangladeshi rebels, call tens of thousands of Buddhist boats to lock the Ganges River, and send the Mughals to suppress the rebellion. Cut it off, occupy Patna Fortress horizontally, and drive out the counter-insurgency army.

"The old man said long ago that Mang Yinglong's remnant soldiers should not have fled into the temple back then. Sooner or later, troubles would arise."

As soon as Yin Zhengmao said he was a monk of Tianshi, Qi Jimei understood.

An acquaintance, when he had [-] Zhedong bird gunners stationed in Burma, he invited Tian Shi to teach gun stabbing skills.

"That's a man from the Nanyang Military Mansion. He was the first spearhead under the command of Dongyang Chen Shuai. When Chen Shuai returned to the capital, he asked the cabinet for instructions on the grounds that there were many temples in Burma. pass."

"A man from the Nanyang Military Mansion? That's because you only know one thing and don't know the other. He is from Shuai Yu." Yin Zhengmao and Yu Dayou have partnered several times, and he knows all of these things well, saying: "As early as the 32nd year of Jiajing, Japanese pirates invaded Hangzhou. , the third division took the forty imperial monks as the forerunner, and the leaders of the monks were Tianzhen and Tianchi, who defeated the Japanese pirates. Later, all the monks were ambushed and killed by the Japanese pirates. "

"The time of day is that he will go down the mountain. He voted Yu Shuai to serve in the army for [-] years, and then broke the law and died and was taken in by Chen Shuai... Where in the world is there such a thing, huh? Chen Shuai has no good intentions! The emperor and the cabinet don't know about the spread of Buddhism. But Chen Shuai knows it, if he chooses this abbot to spread Buddhism to the west, what kind of Buddhism can he teach? Is it the Dharma of the bird gun or the Dharma of Frangji?"

"It's the same this time. Tianshi led hundreds of monks and soldiers from Guangcheng into India. They served porridge outside the city and accidentally injured the counter-insurgency army. 44 monks were killed. Tens of thousands of defeated Burmese soldiers were gathered into temples. The boat crosses the sea, he is going to fight!"

In fact, Yin Zhengmao was not too annoyed by Tianshi, what annoyed him the most was the Western Army Mansion.

Speaking of which, your Nanyang Military Mansion, regardless of Gao Gong in the past or the current Chen Lin, is the overlord of the Nanyang Hundred Kingdoms, and no matter what happens under his rule, he can decide with one word; In the Spanish war, he also received the emperor's Shangfang sword, so he can act on behalf of the emperor overseas.

What about his Western Army?

Pirates, pirates, Jianguo can't control it; monks, monks can't control wars.

Very powerless!

Qi Jimei couldn't feel the imbalance in Yin Zhengmao's heart at all. He thought it was quite reasonable. If you killed the monk of Daming, then don't blame the monk for beating you, right?

Letting the monks come to beat you alone has already spared the sympathy.

"Marshal, what should we do? Do we want to help the war? This is the abbot of West Shaolin personally appointed by His Majesty. The cabinet has an official document asking them to spread Buddhism to the west."

"Assist in the battle? Still use the aid?"

Yin Zhengmao shook his head and said: "He doesn't need us to help in the war, Tianshi has already issued an order for monks and soldiers to ask for help, not only monks in Burma, but also Wutai Mountain, Funiu Mountain, Shaoshi Mountain, Jiulian Mountain in China, and even monks who went to North Korea and Japan to ask for help. The boat is on the way, and we still need our help? That monk is a lunatic."

Qi Jimei blinked, feeling a little numb to the current situation: "Then, with so many people, what should we do with the luggage?"

"Baggage? You can ask Minguang Hexing Prosperity, which is not too big of a deal to watch the excitement. Merchants and merchants have jointly signed to ask the Western Army to sell gunpowder and pay nine times the tax to Bengal."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)