Najib's itinerary was very smooth. After passing through the jungle to reach Mersing Port, Najib forced several large fishing boats, then sailed north along the coast of the Malay Peninsula, and arrived in Siam (Thailand).
Then, Najib then took a fleet to enter Ayutaya City from Chao Phraya River (north of Bangkok), and asked Ramati Bodhi II, the king of the Siam Ayutthaya Dynasty, to meet Najib, but he was surprised to learn that Najib came by on a fishing boat. After all, the Kingdom of Malacca is also a strong country, and in terms of wealth, it is no less than that of the Kingdom of Siam. Even because he controls the main transportation routes in the Strait of Malacca, he is richer than Siam. And Najib is riding this time a shabby fishing boat, which does not conform to the image of the tycoon of the Kingdom of Malacca...
"Your Majesty, I'm here to warn you!" Naji was very smart and did not ask for help directly, but said to warn you. Sure enough, Ramati Bodhi II no longer thought about why Najib came on a small fishing boat, but asked what happened in the Kingdom of Malacca.
Then, Najib launched a trick to fool him and described a group of monsters with "yellow hair and green eyes" to Ramati Bodhi II. He held a 500-pound iron hammer and broke through the terrible "facts" of Malacca City...
Ramati Bodhi II was so scared that he swallowed his saliva and asked:
"Those evil ghosts are really so powerful?" The Siamese people believe in Buddhism. The most terrifying thing in their eyes is probably the evil ghosts.
Najib nodded sharply:
"Of course, Your Majesty also knows that our capital is 30,000 more troops. But facing thousands of yellow-haired evil spirits, after only one month of persistence, he had to defeat and retreat into the dense forest. The Zhaopian River leads to the sea in the capital of your country, and those yellow-haired demons like to drive a large ship to burn, kill and loot."
"Why are you here to ask for help from me, Siam?" Ramati Bodhi II asked nervously. His brain is now in a fierce ideological struggle. Should he send troops to rescue Malacca?
Naji shook his head and said:
"To deal with these yellow-haired evil ghosts, you may need to rely on the power of Shangguo. This time, the young minister passed by Siam to purchase some tributes and sent them to Shangguo Ming Dynasty, and asked Shangguo to send troops to restore the country."
"Okay, this idea is good!" Hearing that Siam would not need to send troops, Ramati Bodhi II immediately agreed.
"Who is buying goods in Siam to pay tribute?"
"No problem, I'll send officials to accompany you to purchase, and I guarantee that they will get it at a low price!" As long as Siam is not allowed to send troops, Ramati Bodhi II will ignore anything else. Moreover, he also hopes that the Malacca problem can be solved. Otherwise, the Malacca Kingdom will really perish, and Siam, which is adjacent to the Malacca Kingdom, will suffer.
Then, Najib bought a large number of Southeast Asian specialties at a low price in Ayutaya City. He then borrowed two large ships from Ramatibodhi II and went to Guangzhou as tribute boats.
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When he arrived at Guangzhou Maritime, Najib was like seeing his own father, kneeling down and crying.
Guangzhou Maritime Mansion Site was a little puzzled:
"I am the envoy, the death of your country's master last year, didn't you report it to the court? Why did you cry again this time?"
"I don't know what the emperor has. I am a full-scale capital of the Canadian country and have been defeated by a group of ghosts!"
"What?" Ding Haishan was shocked. Then he began to ask about the situation carefully.
Naturally, Najib did not talk nonsense like scaring Siam, but instead honestly explained the situation and showed that the enemy was strong, but it was not invincible. Otherwise, it would be bad that the Ming Dynasty would not dare to rescue.
Ding Haishan did not dare to take his own initiative. After asking the Guangdong Provincial Administration Commission, he sent a messenger to rush to the capital for 800 miles.
But the Ming Dynasty was a little too busy to take care of itself at this time, because the Liu Liu and Liu Qi peasant uprising broke out in the fifth year of Zhengde. The court mobilized 100,000 troops to suppress it, but it has not been suppressed yet. Therefore, there is no time to care about using foreign troops.
Therefore, according to Li Dongyang's opinion, Zhengde decided to send officials from the Ministry of Rites to the Malacca City, hoping to "destroy" the Portuguese.
Considering that Kong Tai, who was in charge of the Dongfan Island affairs, was also a "Western barbarian", Huang Qinghe, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites who was responsible for the mission to Malacca, stayed in Quanzhou and sent someone to ask Kong Tai to be the translator. Of course, he was an imperial edict, otherwise, he would not be qualified to ask Kong Tai to be his translator as his translator.
Kong Tai, who received the imperial edict, was a little surprised at first. But soon, he happily went to Quanzhou to help him play the guest translator...
Because Conte remembered what Marin said - to find a way to worsen the relationship between Ming and Portugal. As a translator, it is easiest to do things...
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It just so happened that the Ming Dynasty did not understand Portuguese, and Portugal did not understand Chinese. As the only bridge that can communicate with both sides, it was too easy to do some tricks during the translation process.
Of course, Kong Tai must not deliberately translate the words of greeting each other into swearing words like "Nima Coin". After all, both sides are educated and high-IQ people. If they translate this way, a fool can see the problem.
However, it is still okay to say the meaning of both parties in different tones...
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When the fleet arrived in Malacca City, Albukirk personally brought people to welcome the Ming envoy Huang Qinghe. After all, Portugal also hoped to engage in normal trade with the Ming Dynasty.
Albukirk extended his hand enthusiastically, intending to shake hands. But Huang Qinghe had no reaction and just bowed his hand...
This is normal. This is the case with the etiquette of the East, and they bowed each other. But Albukirk's face was a little bad at that time. He stretched out his hand and did not respond. It was very embarrassing, okay?
So he turned his inquiry to Kongtai, who was guest-starring translator. Kongtai explained in Latin (common European aristocratic terms):
"This is a custom of the people of the Ming Dynasty... Well, they thought that handshakes were too dirty, so the hands of both parties did not contact each other, but they just bowed each other at a distance..." Kong Tai's words were mostly fine, but he deliberately added the sentence "I think handshakes were dirty".
Sure enough, when he heard Kong Tai say that the other party felt that the handshake was dirty, Albukirk's face suddenly turned dark and he felt insulted...
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"Where did you come from? Why do you want to occupy the capital of our Ming Dynasty?" Huang Qinghewen asked in a slight sense.
And Conta's translation is not that polite:
"Where do you come from the barbarians? Why do you attack the territory of my Ming Empire?" This sentence translates to the same meaning, but the tone varies greatly.
Albukirk was indeed a little angry:
"Barish? We are the great Portuguese, not the barbarians. Please respect our Portuguese Kingdom, we are equal!"
However, when Kong Tai translated it to Huang Qinghe, it became:
"We are not some kind of people, but civilized people, no less than the civilized people of the Ming Dynasty. Our Portuguese kingdom is equal to the Ming Dynasty! The Portuguese monarch is the same as the Ming emperor!" There is nothing wrong with the translation of this sentence, and it is even very pertinent.
But the bad is that the people of the Ming Dynasty did not agree with it...
"Hmph!" Sure enough, Huang Qinghe was dissatisfied.
You should know that the Ming Dynasty had a deep plot of "the country of heaven and earth". Especially the scholars of the Ming Dynasty naturally had a feeling of "being superior to others". It was simply an offense to the Ming Dynasty for such a "small country" like Portugal who dared to say that they were on par with the Ming Dynasty!
Moreover, at this time, Kong Tai also kindly told Huang Qinghe that the territory of Portugal was about the same size as that of Zhejiang Province in Ming Dynasty...
OK, Huang Qinghe is even more unhappy now. Even if there are forces like Mongolia that have as many provinces as large as those of the Ming Dynasty, you still have to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. You, a small country that is only the smallest province of the Ming Dynasty, actually want to be on par with the Ming Dynasty.
So, Huang Qinghe said angrily:
"Portugal is just about the same size as the smallest province of the Ming Dynasty. The King of Portugal is about the same as my governor of the Ming Dynasty. What qualifications are there to be on par with my Ming Dynasty?"
Then, Kongtai translated "truely" to Albukirk:
"He said that the Portuguese king was only equivalent to the governor of one province in the Ming Dynasty, and was not worthy of being compared with the Ming emperors in dozens of provinces..."
There is nothing wrong with this translation, but Albukirk was angry. After all, Portugal was his motherland, and the king of Portugal was also his loyal monarch. Looking down on the king of Portugal, he looked down on him. Moreover, Portugal also has provinces. However, Portugal's province is only equivalent to a state or a prefecture-level governor in the Ming Dynasty, but it is equivalent to the mayor of a prefecture-level city in later generations. To describe the king of Portugal as a provincial governor, it is indeed a bit contemptuous. But Albukirk didn't know that a province in the Ming Dynasty was bigger than Portugal...
So, the two sides quarreled in different languages. Kong Tai was sandwiched in the middle, seemingly trying to persuade the fight, but in fact he was fanning the flames, leaving no traces...
As a result, the talks between the two sides naturally collapsed. Albukirk finally stated that Malacca City and Kuala Lumpur were already lands of the Kingdom of Portugal and would never be returned. Huang Qinghe also threatened with anger. You wait for the heavenly soldiers to arrive, and then leave...
Before leaving, Kongtai spread his hands at Albukirk helplessly and said:
"There is no way, the people of the Ming Dynasty are so arrogant..." Then, in a blink of an eye, he followed Huang Qinghe like a traitor.
Chapter completed!