Although Southeast Asian countries are small countries compared to Ming countries, their combat effectiveness and agricultural productivity are indeed not low.

For a long time in the agricultural society, superior climatic conditions promoted the development of civilization. Southeast Asian countries were all prosperous in martial ethics and could occasionally face the Central Plains dynasty.

During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, each of which had wars with Southeast Asia, and did not gain any big advantage.

Especially the Mongol Empire, which dominated the high latitudes, became immediately devastated once it reached the low latitudes. It failed to win the battle against Nanyue three times in a row. Instead, it lost its troops and generals. Later, it wanted to launch a fourth time, but the emperor died and it was left alone.

Not to mention the Chinese dynasty, Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands were also hit by their head-on attacks in the early colonial era. They also owned and used the mesh guns, early artillery, etc., and fought frequently.

It was not until the trend of the industrial era swept over and the industrialized British and French that they were involved in it and were caught in a slag and never recovered.

The current era can be regarded as an era of prosperous martial ethics among Southeast Asian countries. The army has a very good combat effectiveness. Su Yonglin was sure to defeat their regular army, but was not sure to swallow it in one bite.

Because his Ming Dynasty was also an agricultural country, not an industrial country, and could not provide the kind of war mobilization power that was a real industrial country that ruined the world.

So he had to be careful.

After encouraging and praising them for their compliance with the law and paying taxes, Su Yonglin sent away the merchants from Nanyue, then met with merchants from other countries. Finally, he met with merchants from Chameng.

Unlike merchants in all other countries, the merchants in Chameng Country mentioned two things to Su Yonglin in addition to presenting gifts.

The first thing was that the King of Chameng hoped to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and establish a very pure friendly vassal relationship. As for the Song Kingdom... who was that? I don't know it.

The second thing is that the King of Chameng hopes that the Ming Dynasty can reprimand the Li Dynasty, ask them to stop invading the Chameng Kingdom, stop this behavior of bullying the weak with the strong, and save Chameng Kingdom from the fire and fire.

Su Yonglin was a little surprised by these two requests.

"This is the request that the official envoy of the state will make to me. You are merchants, why did you make such a request to me?"

Not only Su Yonglin, but also the officials of the Maritime Bureau present were confused and dissatisfied with this. This was not within the scope of responsibility of their group of merchants. They had never mentioned this matter in advance. This was obviously a sudden attack, a sneak attack, and an act of not being morally polite.

The merchants in Chameng Kingdom obviously had expected this, and immediately knelt down and apologized, admitted their mistakes to Su Yonglin, and then told them the reasons for doing so.

They were indeed merchants, but because they were summoned by the King of Chameng before they set out for Guangzhou, they could be regarded as special envoys in a sense. Their purpose here was to seek opportunities to go north to the Ming Dynasty to pay homage to Su Yonglin and seek diplomatic breakthroughs.

But they didn't expect that before they headed north, Su Yonglin came by himself, which saved the boss's trouble and they were very happy.

The King of Chameng actually wanted to re-establish the vassal relationship between the Ming Dynasty and Chameng Kingdom, surrender to the Ming Dynasty by paying tribute, and then exchange for the Ming Dynasty's help to Chameng Kingdom.

As long as the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was willing to issue an edict to order Nanyue not to continue to use troops to the south, so that Nanyue could successfully stop the military operations of Nanyue against Chameng, then Chameng Kingdom was willing to return to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty with generous gifts, and to pay tribute from generation to generation, and he had no different intentions.

After hearing what they said, Su Yonglin did not respond at the moment, but just comforted them and told them not to worry. He would discuss with the officials to see what to do.

"This matter is very important. The Ming Dynasty also needs to seriously investigate the actual situation before making a decision. So when you are a little restless, you don't have to hurry up."

Su Yonglin dealt with these Chameng merchants and ended this symbolic conversation. He then found Ma Zi'ang, the head of the Tianwang Army, to consult him about the problems.

The affairs between Nanyue and Chameng Kingdom did not fall into the core interests of the Ming Kingdom before the successful destruction of Song Dynasty. They also had no relationship with the Ming Kingdom. Su Yonglin had limited energy, so there was no need to pay attention to it.

However, the territory of the Ming Dynasty has now reached this line, and there are future navigation plans and revolutionary plans. It is meaningful to have a comprehensive understanding of these countries in Southeast Asia and their current situation.

In ancient China, long ago, regarded itself as the kingdom of the emperor in the world, and regarded four countries as barbaric countries in remote areas. With the mentality of giving, they were allowed to contact and learn about Central Plains culture, waiting for them to come and seek vassal relationships.

The Central Plains Dynasty often does not take the initiative to look for them, understand them, and does not think it is necessary. It is normal for all directions to come and congratulate them, and taking the initiative to look for them will lose their identity.

At least there are fewer such behaviors at the official level.

Therefore, the descriptions of countries around the world and the changes in the country names in historical books of all dynasties are very good. They rarely pay attention to their political status, customs and customs.

And these are all things that Su Yonglin needs to pay attention to.

In addition to understanding the situation in the Lingnan region, the branches arranged by the Skynet Army in the Lingnan region also have the responsibility to understand the current political situation of Southeast Asian countries. To a certain extent, spying on external news has become their main business.

Their spies and peripheral forces exist widely in the form of business travel. They even met local people by learning local languages, and then used the local people's dissatisfaction with the regime to absorb local people as members of peripheral organizations to develop further intelligence work.

Therefore, the Skynet Army also learned a lot about the folk customs of Southeast Asian countries, and did not only focus on the political state.

Although Su Yonglin was dissatisfied with the Skynet Army's excessive emphasis on external information spying, he did not think that it was not important to spying on external information.

Ma Zi'ang did a good job in this regard, and knew a lot about the news about Southeast Asian countries. He could even be said to be an expert, so he will be one of the important leaders of the Southwest Group of the Skynet Army in the future.

Through Ma Zi'ang's detailed explanation, Su Yonglin roughly understood the political ecology of Southeast Asia during this period.

First of all, there were not so many countries in this period.

Dali counts one, the Bagan dynasty in Myanmar area counts one, the Nanyue counts one, the Champa Kingdom counts one, and then the Zhenla Kingdom and the Sanfoqi Kingdom.

Each one has a little scale, each one has a little strength, and each one is not that simple.

Their national regime has different levels of organization.

Some have higher organizational levels, the central government is relatively strong, and have strong military mobilization power.

Some are less organized, with strong local powers and powerful people everywhere, with kings, short-lived and brilliant.

At present, the main energy of the Ming Dynasty should be focused on Nanyue and Dali.

Before the demise of Song, the relationship between Dali Kingdom and Song was barely relied on, which was better than that with Nanyue. Song also recognized the independent status of Dali Kingdom. Dali Kingdom did not grit his teeth with Song, and the two sides maintained a terrifying balance.

Moreover, in terms of the state of Dali, there are many internal contradictions. The central government may not be strong, and the local governments also have many forces, which have more self-restraints and lack of progress. As long as there is no clear external danger, it is difficult for them to fully arm themselves.
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