Chapter 243 There are people from the Ming Dynasty here

In the afternoon, Yang Chen looked up and could easily see a huge continent not far away.

Many fishermen along the surrounding coast were looking at their fleet in horror from small boats.

Most of these fishermen are dark-skinned indigenous peoples.

“Why do these people look like coal? Everyone seems to have servility in their eyes.”

Zhu Biao stood beside Yang Chen. At this moment the fleet had begun to slow down slowly because they were about to dock in Sri Lanka. If they did not slow down, the fleet would crash into the shore in a while.

“Looking at their appearance, they should be the lowest class of Indians in the legend, that is, Shudras. According to their race, they are Dravidians and used to be the indigenous inhabitants of the Indian continent. It’s a pity that these untouchables are almost the same as those black people and have never developed their own civilization. According to the timeline, the native races in India should all be represented by the Aryans.”

Yang Chen took the map in his hand, looked at it carefully for a moment, pointed at Sri Lanka and said:

“Blake said that the Roman land in the Mediterranean had a brief trade with this land. This country is rich in spices and has a variety of food made with strong spices. Just as he said, Sri Lanka is now ruled by a kingdom called Mahishmadi. The king seems to be very strong. I heard that he has extraordinary arm strength and is a descendant of the son of a god.”

Upon hearing this, Zhu Biao felt a little surprised. He did not expect that a small country like Sri Lanka would dare to believe that they were descendants of gods. Even he, Zhu Biao, did not dare to say so in front of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the mythical legend of the True Dragon Emperor was basically inserted into their royal status by the people themselves, and it was not what Zhu Biao himself wanted.

“This Mohishimodi Kingdom seems to be very powerful. Has Blake ever told us the name of its king and how much armed forces he has?” Zhu Biao asked.

“The king. The king’s name is Bahubali. This is the guy who claims to be a descendant of the gods.”

Yang Chen introduced according to the records described by Blake:
“Baahubali also has a younger brother, Balaradevdes, who is as brave as Baahubali. He led his men in many battles with a country established under the Ashura sect in central India. The two sides fought back and forth, and there was no clear winner during the fierce battle, because the country under the Ashura sect was called Karakias, with nearly 200,000 people, while Mahishmadi had less than 100,000 combat members at most.

Although they have sophisticated weapons, they are no match for Karakias in terms of fighting, which has led to the Mahishmati led by Bahubali to stay in southern India and Sri Lanka. “

“It seems that the strength of this country is just so-so.” After understanding the simple situation before and after, Zhu Biao gave such an evaluation.

It’s not that he looked down on these countries, but since he went to sea, Zhu Biao was surprised to find that the so-called big countries were nothing compared to the Ming Dynasty.

Just like the Srivijaya Kingdom, it mobilized the entire country and united various small kingdoms and tribal chiefs in Southeast Asia, thinking that it could bring some pressure to the Ming military, but it turned out to be a group of mob.

Before the Ming Navy could really start to exert its strength, these guys all fell down on their own.

Zhu Biao had no choice but to accept it.

At present, Mahishmadi, under the rule of King Bahubali, seems powerful, occupying Sri Lanka and southern India, but it cannot even invade a kingdom under a religion.

A glimpse of the whole picture is enough to prove that King Bahubali’s claim to be the offspring of a god is just a facade.

Yang Chen also nodded in agreement with this point of view.

The so-called world war outside was nothing more than armed conflicts in a few cities within the Ming Dynasty.

Wait until the ship docks domineeringly at a suitable location in Sri Lanka.

Yang Chen and Zhu Biao began to slowly land on the Sri Lankan island. Their way of landing was very simple, which was to take some small boats with shallow draft and row slowly over.

Because the entire Sri Lanka does not have a port as advanced as that in Ming Dynasty and Southeast Asia.

This was the only way they could reach the island.

“This country is really backward. Don’t they know how to build a few roads along the seashore?”

Zhu Biao stood on the beach and couldn’t help but complain.

“Alright, Abia, considering their education level, they are already very strong to have developed to this point. Don’t complain about other problems. Look, someone is coming to find us.”

Just as Zhu Biao was grumbling in dissatisfaction, Yang Chen saw some figures beginning to appear in the jungle in the distance.

The reason they came to Sri Lanka this time was to find out what stage India is currently in, so that after they take over Sri Lanka, they can use it as a base to take care of the Ming merchant caravans sailing on the Indian Ocean, and then start to attack the north, that is, the Indian mainland.

Zhu Biao believed that the Ming Dynasty must take over this piece of land within a certain period of time, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would face a serious climate crisis in the future. Without a warm place like India as a granary, relying solely on Southeast Asia would not be enough to support the Little Ice Age of more than a hundred years.

“Protect His Highness and Lord Yang!”

Before the enemy got close enough, the more than 1,000 soldiers who came with them began to draw their weapons and take defensive postures to prevent the “enemy” in the distance from suddenly launching an attack.

Yang Chen observed the distance through the gap, intending to wait until the other party came within communication distance before the two began to communicate.

“Who are you? Why are you wearing Ming armor?”

A loud and pure Chinese voice appeared in front of everyone. Judging from the accent, it should be the people of the Ming Dynasty living near the capital.

The direction from which the sound came was very appropriate, and I knew it was the people emerging from the forest not far away.

“Brother Yang, did you hear just now? Someone on the other side seemed to be speaking Chinese.”

Zhu Biao looked at the person next to him and his heart couldn’t help but skip a beat.

One of the reasons why he agreed to let Yang Chen come to Sri Lanka was that he vaguely felt that there seemed to be someone he knew on the island.

Considering that his brother had been murdered by Chen Zuyi, Zhu Biao had reason to believe that Zhu Gang might be on this island.

“It seems that there are people from our Ming Dynasty on this island.” Yang Chen patted the guard leader on the shoulder and said:
“Okay, cancel the defensive state and see where the other party is coming from.”

“Yes!”

“Everyone put down their weapons!”

The sturdy commander gave an order without saying a word, and more than a thousand soldiers immediately put down their shields and spears.

Of course, they still have to be alert to their surroundings to prevent any unexpected events.

“I am Yang Chen, the Imperial Censor of Zhenjiang Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty. Who are you? Tell me your name.”

Passing by several commanders and soldiers, Yang Chen stood in front of everyone and said his name.

“The Censor of Zhenjiang Prefecture? Lord Yang! It’s Lord Yang! That’s great, brothers! We can go back to Ming Dynasty!” The man in the distance was stunned at first, and then he shouted excitedly.

In addition to him, there were a few other Han-looking guys who were equally excited. Yang Chen could feel their emotions from a distance.

“You guys just stand here and don’t move. Wait for us to come back!” The man did not completely lose his mind, but instead shouted at the other Dravidians in an imperative tone.

Those guys seemed to be very afraid of these Central Plains men. They didn’t dare to disobey their orders at all and just stood there in a daze.

Until the young man approached Yang Chen and his group.

Yang Chen asked first:

“Since you are Han Chinese, why are you here?”

The leading Han man, who was almost turning black due to the sun, first gave a standard military salute.

Then he quickly told his identity and origin.

“Lord Yang! I am Pan Feng, captain of the 30th warship of the Third Corps of the Hainan Island garrison! These people are all on our ship. At the beginning, Lord Wu said that it would be very dangerous for the Prince of Jin to travel to America with such a small number of people, so he sent us to follow His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin to America. However, we did not expect that when passing through the Strait of Malacca, we were suddenly attacked by a group of very powerful pirates. The Prince of Jin originally did not want to conflict with them. After all, the Ming Dynasty did not have control over Southeast Asia at that time.

But I never expected that this group of pirates would be so brutal and attack without asking any questions. When King Jin led us away from Hainan Island, he didn’t bring many weapons with him. When the shells were used up, the group of pirates rushed forward madly. “

At this point, Pan Feng’s face was already filled with tears, and he clenched his fists in anger.

“Afterwards, our fleet was completely dispersed, everyone fell into the sea, and the team could no longer keep up.

Fortunately, God was kind to us. Suddenly, a wave rose up in the sea. Chen Zuyi originally wanted to catch Prince Jin, but we followed the wave and escaped from danger together with Prince Jin.

Afterwards, while we were unconscious, several of our brothers were rescued by a Western merchant ship. We followed the merchant ship to this place with King Jin. Later, the Westerners claimed that they could not take so many of us and that if we went any further, we would have to pay. King Jin saw that they wanted to raise the price, so he led us to leave the merchant ship, refused to pay the money, and lived on our own on this island. “

“That means the third brother is still alive!”

The moment Zhu Biao learned the news, he was extremely excited. He originally thought that his brother might have died and the throbbing in his heart at that time was just an illusion, but he did not expect it to be true.

At this time, Zhu Biao walked past Yang Chen, walked up to him, eager to know the truth, and grabbed his shoulders and shook him wildly.

“Tell me quickly where King Jin is!”

Pan Feng was a little confused because the sun was gradually setting and the afterglow was shining on Zhu Biao’s face. As the commander of the fleet, Pan Feng was not qualified to see Zhu Biao wearing the prince’s dragon robe.

But he was very smart. He knew from Zhu Biao’s words and actions that the young man in front of him must be the brother of their boss, Prince Jin.

He quickly said:

“Your Highness! Now the King of Jin has led us to officially become the master of this island!”

After hearing what Pan Feng said, Zhu Biao was particularly surprised and asked for more details.

“Tell me in detail, what’s going on?”

Pan Feng just explained slowly.

It turned out that after Zhu Gang rejected the help of that group of Westerners, those Westerners began to trade goods with the two major countries in Sri Lanka, using some Western materials with very simple production processes to trade with the Sinhalese Empire and the Tamil Empire.

As a prince of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gang would not give up so easily and choose to do nothing. He sent several Ming Dynasty warriors who followed him from the sea to enter the two dynasties to inquire.

After two days of understanding, I finally grasped the basic information of this island.

First of all, in addition to the Sinhalese Dynasty and the Tamil Dynasty mentioned above, there is also a force close to the north, and that force is the Mohishima marked on the map that Blake gave to Yang Chen.

First, let’s talk about the power structure of the Sinhalese Dynasty. The previous ruler of this dynasty was called Rajvikram. He originally led the Sinhalese Dynasty to defeat the Tamil Dynasty and become the sole ruler of this land.

Unexpectedly, King Baahubali, also known as the Mahishmadi Dynasty, sent his younger brother Bharadwaj to Sri Lanka from the other side of the strait, and forcibly tore a piece of meat from the territories of the two forces to form a three-way confrontation.

Shortly before Zhu Gang and others arrived on this continent, Bharadwaj joined forces with the Tamil Empire to launch an aggressive war against the Sinhalese Empire.

King Raj Vikram died in front of the gate of Hyderabad. This battle made the entire Sinhalese dynasty completely angry. They sent most of the male soldiers out of the city to fight to the death with Bharadwaj and the Tamil army.

Prince Aditya led all the male warriors who were able to fight in the final decisive battle with the two waves of enemies.

By the end of the battle, more than half of the forces brought by the Mahishmadi dynasty were destroyed. Even Bharadwaj was seriously injured and almost died on the battlefield. The general of the Tamil dynasty was directly missing.

As for the Sinhalese Empire, all the male men who could fight were lost, and many male officials wanted to escape. At that time, only Queen Sivagami, her eldest daughter Anushka Shetty, and her youngest daughter Tamanna Bhatia were in charge of the basic order of the remaining Sinhalese Empire inside the city.

In fact, according to tradition, the Sinhalese dynasty at that time could have been declared dead long ago.

The king died on the battlefield and there was no successor. It is no exaggeration to say that the dynasty was in name only.

After learning about these circumstances, Zhu Gang led the few Ming soldiers under his command to the Sinhalese Dynasty to negotiate with Queen Sivagami.

Originally thinking that the other party was trying to play a trick on her, Shivagami did not take the other party seriously at first, after all, her husband and son had just died.

However, when Zhu Gang explained that he was a prince of the Ming Dynasty, Queen Shivagami was extremely surprised, especially when she saw Zhu Gang’s temperament. She directly chose to believe him and opened the city gate to welcome him.

It turns out that before Queen Sivagami married her husband, she was a Brahmin noble and had a deep knowledge of Indian history.

She has always had great admiration for the legendary Central Plains dynasty.

The reason for this is the special history of the late Khorisha Empire in India during the Tang Dynasty.

Alona Shun plotted to usurp the throne, and was so ambitious that he even dared to attack Xuan Ce, the King of the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, the outcome was tragic.

The entire kingdom was annihilated in one fell swoop by the troops Wang Xuance borrowed from Songtsen Gampo and Nepal.

He and the princess were taken away before they had time to enjoy life.

(End of this chapter)