Wu Pu said that the imperial court had at least two major benefits to doing this. First, setting up more protective palaces in the vassal waters of the Ming Dynasty, which can consolidate the barriers of the Ming Dynasty and resist the invasion of foreign barbarians.

Secondly, it can enable the court to expand tax sources, obtain huge trade income, and turn sea routes into wealth routes. The Maritime Silk Road can attract Portuguese from 60,000 miles. The Ming Dynasty used its difficulties. What is the reason to turn a blind eye to this trade route of wealth?

If Zheng Ruo once proposed the "sea control" - the control of a certain sea area by the warring party.

What Wu Pu proposed was the complete idea of ​​"sea power" - a country's ability and influence in marine space!

Their thoughts are the essence of Ma Han's "Sea Power Theory" more than 300 years later. It is far ahead of countries around the world and is enough to support a strong maritime power to take off.

It was precisely through these two views that Zhao Hao instilled his ideas on maritime power and grand vision into Jiangnan Group and his generals!

Moreover, Wu Pu is still alive, Zhao Hao has sent someone to Fujian long ago, hoping to invite him to go out to the Danluo Island Navigation School to teach. Unfortunately, the old man is old and can no longer go out...

But no matter whether Wu Pu could see that day, with the institutionalized Protectorate and Maritime Department, he used the legal rule of the Celestial Kingdom over the vassal seas, and the thoroughly solidified Zheng He's voyage to the West, and his propositions that completely solidified Zheng He's voyage to the West from the military and trade aspects, would become the guiding ideology of Zhao Hao and Jiangnan Group and the Royal Marine Transport Corporation of the Ming Dynasty, guiding them to advance into the depths of the ocean!

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After searching through the twenty-one history, there is a saying that describes a prosperous era, "Eight directions come to pay tribute and all countries come to pay tribute."

From the Qin and Han dynasties to the present two thousand years, generations of the Central Plains dynasties in China have incorporated countries in their own spheres of influence through canonization, detention and tribute, and built a huge political order system that exists in East Asia, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Asia.

In this system, the emperors of the Central Plains dynasty were the co-lords of the local and foreign vassals. The emperor carried out direct administrative management in the central area of ​​the country, and ruled the rulers of the external vassals outside the country. The local and foreign vassals defended each other, forming the concept of "the world" of the world that "the world is the king's land under the world; the shores of the land are the king's ministers".

Even the king of the country who lost his country liked to make a big fuss about this. For example, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, when he was in power, the tribute trade was vigorous. Every first month, he always performed a hundred operas in Luoyang and had fun with envoys from various countries.

This "world system" reached its peak in this dynasty. As soon as Emperor Taizu established the Central Plains, he quickly sent envoys to Goryeo, Chameng, Annan and other surrounding Yuan vassal states, informing the Ming Dynasty to follow the Yuan Dynasty and ask them to submit to the Ming Dynasty. So Goryeo and other countries sent envoys to express their surrender to the Ming Dynasty. For a time, the Ming Dynasty unified the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor was sacred and sacred, and the emperor was benevolent, righteous, ritual and music. Therefore, all the Chinese barbarians did not respect their relatives. They were promoted to the extremes of the sky and earth, and they had no such prosperous situation since the people's livelihood.

This is also why Zhu Yuanzhang hated the Yuan Dynasty but still wanted to regard the Mongolian Yuan as the righteous dynasty, because in addition to the rule of law he had built himself, he also had to inherit the world system passed down from the Qin, Han, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties.

During the Yongle period, with the patrol of Zheng He's invincible fleet on the Indian Ocean and Emperor Chengzu's sweeping of the northern Mongol Yuan forces, this "sect leader state-vassal state" system of the Great Ming world reached its peak.

Under the "coercion" of the invincible army and navy of the Ming Dynasty and the "inducement" of the "full trade and weak" tribute policy, there were as many as 65 countries and tribes that expressed their submission to the Ming Dynasty!

However, this tribute system has a major flaw, which is that it is a loss. The tribute states come to pay tribute, and the local local products are brought away, but a large number of Central Plains treasures are taken away, which put a lot of financial pressure on the Central Plains dynasty. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty restricted the number of times the tribute states come to pay tribute, usually one tribute every three years, one tribute every five years, or even one tribute every ten years.

The reason is that there is no surplus grain from the landlords, so they can't afford to reward these guys who deliberately fetch the sheep.

Of course, there is no total waste of money in this world. The Ming Dynasty lasted for two hundred years and built an unprecedentedly huge world system. In addition to the widespread spread of Chinese civilization in vassal states and the general peace around it, the greatest wealth is to shape the golden sign of the "Celestial Kingdom"!

Although this sign in China is not only able to satisfy the vanity of the monarch and ministers, it is simply a loss-making item. The Ming Dynasty itself was so poor that it was a sensation. When it was too late to see those beggar-like vassal states, the emperor and ministers would not care about this vanity at all.

Otherwise, Liu Daxia would not have dared to burn the priceless Zheng He chart at the beginning, and he would have been very proud of saying nonsense such as "destroying the people and burning the purity", but no one would have punished him.

In Zhao Hao's opinion, this is the wise ruler and minister who are begging for food with a golden bowl. Although the "Celestial Kingdom" is just a gimmick in China, it is a perfect golden signboard when taken abroad!

How to convert this golden sign into a source of wealth? Wu Pu has already made it clear - don’t wait for the tribute country to come, and set sail and go out! Let the fleet follow overseas trade, set up a prophet in the strategic points of the route, set up a maritime authority in important trading cities, and extend the maritime power to the Persian Gulf!

In that case, wealth will roll in, and all the chronic diseases that plague the Ming Dynasty will be nothing!

Because the deposit had been paid for 200 years ago, the Ming Dynasty thought that all this would not cost too much. At least it would make the Portuguese, as well as the later Spanish, Dutch, and British people enviously want to go home to find their mothers.

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You know, how difficult it is for Europeans to set foot in this great world?

Take Portugal’s invasion of Malacca for example. In 1511 AD, in the sixth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese were as powerful as ever in Africa and India, gathering a powerful fleet including 11 Carac sailing ships, and approaching the maritime trade between the East and the West to rush to Malacca.

They thought that this time, like fighting in India, dozens of soldiers could defeat thousands of Indian national troops, but unexpectedly, they were stubbornly resisted by the King of Malacca. They fought hard for a month before they captured the city of Malacca with a generational navy.

However, the remnants of the Malacca Kingdom continued to harass the Portuguese ruling areas. In 1551 AD, that is, the 30th year of Jiajing, the Johor Kingdom established by the Malacca royal family joined forces with Java to attack the Malacca city, intending to recover the old capital, but was defeated by the powerful Malacca fleet in Portugal.

In addition, the surrounding countries were also very hostile to the Portuguese colonists. Aceh attacked Malacca several times, trying to drive away the Portuguese. The latest attack occurred in 1568 AD, which was last year. But it still couldn't do anything to the Portuguese fleet.

During this period, the King of Malacca sent envoys several times to ask for help from the sect leader, Daming, and even personally brought the gold seal document given by the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would support its vassal state again just like Zheng He persuaded Siam to retreat from Siam to invade Malacca.

The court did negotiate with the Portuguese to request the return of Malacca.

But there was no Zheng He's invincible fleet in the Indian Ocean. How could the pale and powerless imperial edict be subdued? The Folang Ji people ignored it at all, and the negotiations naturally ended in failure...

But this negotiation also shocked the Grape people, and then they realized that most Southeast Asian countries surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

The Portuguese envied the Ming Dynasty to death. If these countries were willing to accept them as their mainstay, why would they have to fight wherever they went?

So the Florians had the idea of ​​conquering the Ming Dynasty, and they could replace it with one and for all. As a result, they were taught to be a human being in the later Battle of Tuen Mun and the Battle of West Cao Bay... Although my Ming Dynasty was already so cute, I was not a little Florian, and I could run to the local area to play wildly.

In short, in the eyes of the Portuguese, the Ming Dynasty was incredibly stupid. It was so stupid that it was so stupid that it was left without a foothold and gave it to them for nothing. They only hoped that the sleeping dragon would sleep longer so that they could steal more treasures from the dragon's den.

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Although Mr. Zhao couldn't wake up the sleeping dragon for the time being, he had already tried his best to press the handprints of the sleeping dragon's claws, and could pull the flag into a tiger's skin, and protect the treasures of the Celestial Dynasty under the banner of the Ming Dynasty!

Looking at Mr. Zhao, who stood proudly on the deck, full of energy and red lips, Zheng Ruozeng couldn't help feeling a little sad. These things should have been done by the court. This is also the most precious wealth given to the Ming Dynasty by history, which is enough to allow the Ming Dynasty to easily get out of the crisis and be more brilliant and great for two hundred years!

Unfortunately, the court established by this old farmer not only did not cherish it, but was afraid of it like a tiger or wolf, and avoided it like a snake or a scorpion. Not only did he no longer go to sea, he also did not allow the people to develop into the ocean.

Then we can’t blame Mr. Zhao for interfering in his affairs.

Zheng Ruozeng, who was already in his twilight years, was very open-minded. He even had such an idea in his heart that even if Mr. Zhao established a new court overseas in the future, it would be better than now, and the Europeans embezzled the borders of the Ming Dynasty for nothing!

Zheng Ruozeng was shocked by his thoughts and couldn't help but cough violently.

"Let's go in." Zhao Hao quickly supported Zheng Ruozeng.

"No, no, no, no, no, no," Zheng Ruozeng shook his head, but still obediently walked towards the cabin door and said, "Since the young master has lofty ambitions, he wants to compete with the Folang Jiyi, the current coastal security team is probably far from enough."

"Well, Mr. Kaiyang is right." Zhao Hao nodded and said, "So we must continue to strengthen our strength."

As he said that, he smiled and said, "By the way, the coastal security team has been renamed 'Da Ming Royal Maritime Tanluo Guard Area'. Doesn't it sound much more impressive?"

"Be confident, remove the word "sea transportation" and call it "Ming Dynasty Royal Danluo Guard Area" more grand." Zheng Ruozeng smiled and said, "If you spend money, you have to maximize its effect."
Chapter completed!