The western territory of the Ming Empire has always been changing, like an ant colony slowly expanding westward and gradually expanding in the Indian subcontinent.

Western Minister Yin Zhengmao watched all this happen quietly and in a grand manner in the Lion Kingdom. His comments were only two words - Finished.

In his eyes, the western border of the Ming Dynasty was very weak and was not as stable as the core territory or the Southeast and the East.

The Three Feudals of Shanxi were enshrined by Buddhist royal family and 100,000 monks, which directly led to the change of power in this land. When all this was a foregone conclusion, Yin Zhengmao discovered that the entire Western Military Palace lacked enough understanding of this land.

The most important thing about a land is the people who have lived on the land for generations. To understand the people on this land, people can start with their history. However, in the process of Yin Zhengmao's realization of this, he encountered great obstacles:

Local people have no history.

Not only did the natives not have the habit of recording history, but the city-state nobles also knew almost nothing about things outside their territory.

When mobilizing the power of the entire Western Military Palace to collect all folk songs, the legend still cannot make any progress. In the local people's ideas, the world is a cycle of reincarnation, a process of continuous circulation. There is still a next life after living in this life, and there is still a next life after living in the next life. All efforts and records are meaningless.

Even if they were invaded and ruled by monk soldiers, it seemed that they were not unacceptable to them. They could beat them, but if they could beat them, there would be many casualties and injuries, so they would just surrender; if they could not beat them, they would just surrender directly. If they surrender, they would live their own life obediently.

It's over if you make do with it, don't think so much.

At first, Yin Zhengmao thought that the local people's thoughts were ignorant and funny - how could the world be a cycle of reincarnation? Whether in politics or productivity, human beings have been progressing. In the earliest tribal period, people were wise men and kings, and later they were respected by the Ji surname of blood. Later, they entered the hereditary of feudal aristocrats, and even practiced Qin politics for generations, and were awarded military merits as the best. Then to the imperial examination, everyone could participate in the power game of the Central Plains dynasty.

He became a farmer in the morning and climbed to the emperor's hall in the evening.

The Central Plains dynasty is relying on these advances to resist withering and defeating one enemy after another, expanding the land to the edge of the difficult mountains and endless seas.

People use the world to describe the long-term change. The short spears on people's hands turn into powerful crossbows and then turn into muskets and cannons. The food at the mouth turns from steaming to cooking and fried. Countless countries have been destroyed and annexed in this process. They are still here. Even though the tone has changed, they still use ancient words to recite the Book of Songs that have traveled thousands of years.

The Western minister was super-talented. On the one hand, he collected a few words about this magical land thousands of years ago from the Indian folk, and on the other hand, he sacrificed the greatest advantages of the Central Plains dynasty, got the "Stories of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" from the country, and tried to collect historical context from the details of the fragments.

He succeeded.

But the conclusion made the old man wonder whether the world is really a cycle of reincarnation.

During the Shang Dynasty, there were hundreds of villages of Darovidians living along the Ganges in the Indian subcontinent, and then the Aryans in the northwest drove them southward and ruled multiple city-states.

Then the Persians came, the Persians left; Alexander of Macedonia came, and Alexander left.

During the Qin Dynasty, the Daxia people appeared again in the northwest, and this tribal alliance once again invaded the southeast, further invading the villages and city-states that had been occupied by the Aryans.

During the Han Dynasty, the people of Daxia were evaluated as weak by the Han Dynasty envoys, and the facts proved that this was true. The people of Anxi came, the people of Anxi left, and moved west with the people of Dayuezhi. The people of Daxia quickly surrendered to the Dayuezhi.

Later, the Great Yuezhi was divided into five divisions, one of which was the Kushan attacked the remaining divisions and established a huge country.

The good times did not last long, and the Persians came again; the Persians had just left the Turks, and the Turks established the Delhi Sultanate. After the demur of the Delhi Sultanate, the descendants of Timur established the Mughals.

Yin Zhengmao found that with the valid information in his hand, every invasion that India has experienced has never been successfully resisted. Not to mention the situation like the confrontation between the Han and the Hungarians, where the enemy is strong and we are weak, and the offensive and defensive situation is easy, there is even an example of the Song and Ming dynasties expelling Yuan enemies from the north for a hundred years.

People who have lived in this land for generations have never resisted, repelled or even taken revenge.

Moreover, the ability to assimilate is very strong - those once powerful invaders will enter here and live for a hundred or two years and will be defeated by new invaders.

The world is really an endless cycle of reincarnation on this subcontinent.

The northern terrain of the Central Plains dynasty was open, so the Great Wall was built to resist foreign invaders; while India's geographical concept was naturally closed. Except for the sea, all invaders would come from the northwest, and there were only two mountain passes in the northwest, and there was no need to build the Great Wall. The narrowest part was less than 200 feet wide.

Even this two hundred feet hole cannot be kept, and it is broken through again and again.

In Yin Zhengmao's mind, he naturally imagined this mountain pass as Hangu Pass. The land ruled by the Persians was Guanzhong. Once the Hangu Pass was broken, the Iron Cavalry of Guanzhong could sweep the flat river and fight to Laiden.

God is so magnanimous to the world and how thin the Central Plains are.

If there were no snowy plateaus, why would the Celestial Empire be neighbors with such cowardly tribes for three thousand years?

But now it's fine.

Yin Zhengmao didn't care about how the monk soldiers led by the vassal kings on the ground were playing, even if he beat Mughal so hard that he couldn't find him.

He only cared about the Indian Ocean, oh no, it was the Atlantic Ocean, and the defense troops on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean would run six commercial ports, first of which was Gao Langbu of the Lion Kingdom. Gao Langbu was the name of Wang Dayuan, a navigator of the Yuan Dynasty. The Portuguese used to call this Colombo in order to commemorate Columbus.

Wang Dayuan was a folk navigator during the Yuan Dynasty and from Nanchang. At the age of 20, he set sail from Quanzhou Port, passing through Qiongzhou, Chameng, Malacca, Java, Sumatra, Myanmar, India, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, crossed the Mediterranean to Morocco, then returned to Egypt, went out of the Red Sea to Somalia, Mozambique, crossed the Indian Ocean to Sri Lanka, and returned to the Lion Country from Sumatra, Java, returned to Kalimantan, and the Philippines to Quanzhou. It took five years to complete the great voyage.

After returning on his second voyage, he wrote a "Brief History of Island Barbarians" at the request of the Quanzhou local officials. There were 100 island barbarians, of which 99 were witnessed by Wang Dayuan, involving as many as 220 countries and regions. It even recorded Malage in northwestern Iran, which was the capital of the Il Khanate at that time. In history, there was a chief from Linzhang, with a surname of Chen. He led troops to guard Ganzhou at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. He entered this country during the Western Expedition and did not return.

When the Ming Dynasty did not go out to sea, Wang Dayuan's island barbarians' narrative was useless and no one mentioned it. However, when the overseas military palace was opened, thousands of ships were shipped out of Sanyang, "The Island Barbarians' narrative" was printed on a large scale again and again in China.

Therefore, the Ming merchants who are doing business in the Lion Kingdom, Gao Langbu, also privately called this Wanggang to commemorate Wang Dayuan.

At the beginning of the 11th year of Wanli, Yin Zhengmao stood on the coast of Wanggang. His eyes gradually became turbid and old-fashioned as the completion of the ship and coal station built by the port in accordance with the emperor's edict, and sighed deeply.
Chapter completed!