Chapter 245: European Visitors
In a huge reception room.

Zhu Biao, Yang Chen and the others who came down from the fleet were sitting here.

In front of me is a very long table with many delicious foods on it, most of which are local specialties cooked with Chinese cooking methods.

Zhu Gang raised a glass of wine, came to Zhu Biao and said excitedly:
“Brother! I didn’t expect that I would see you again! This is really surprising! I had already planned that it would take at least five years to return to Daming, but I didn’t expect that you and Brother Yang would find me first!”

“Hahaha! Third brother! You are such a bad boy! You made my father, your second brother and I very worried. From the moment you left the South China Sea and there was no news, my father sent Brother Li to the island in Southeast Asia to search for you. Later, we found a survivor of the Ming army stranded on the island and learned that you were suddenly attacked by Chen Zuyi’s pirates in the Strait of Malacca.

Afterwards, my father and I decided not to tell my mother about this for the time being. As you know, my mother is not young anymore. If she suddenly knew what happened to you, if she had a nightmare one day, her body would definitely not be able to bear it.

Later, I discussed this matter with Brother Yang, and soon we decided to focus the Ming Dynasty on the south.

Nowadays, Ming Dynasty has two railways leading to the south, one is Guangdong and the other is Fujian. With railways, it will be very easy to transport equipment and build warships.

In less than five months, the South China Sea completely became the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The tribes established by the Han people above Luzon also officially merged with the Ming Dynasty, and the entire Luzon Islands were taken over to establish a transit station for the Southeast Asian maritime archipelago.

Seeing that you were away for longer and longer periods of time, I thought this couldn’t go on, so I suggested to Brother Yang that we go out, and two months ago we officially went out to sea.

Passing through Hainan, Wu Zhen gave me a hundred warships, a total of 10,000 people. When we arrived at the Riau Islands, the fleet first destroyed the Srivijaya Kingdom and the Bolin Kingdom, killed Manaja Wuli and Chen Zuyi to avenge you, and re-established the order of the trade fleet in the Strait of Malacca. Now the entire Southeast Asian archipelago has become the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Those foreigners who want to go to the Ming Dynasty to do business need to pay us, otherwise they can’t pass through the Strait of Malacca at all. “

Zhu Gang had an expression of disbelief on his face. He did not expect that during the time he was away from the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had actually begun to develop at such a speed. One should know that when he left Zhenjiang Prefecture for the last time, the Ming Dynasty was still using rail carriages.

It was less than two years, or at most a year and a half, and steam engines could be used in the Ming Dynasty. Such progress was so astonishing.

Zhu Gang swallowed his saliva and tried to calm himself down before he came to his senses and asked about the other brothers’ situation.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Biao said excitedly:

“Let’s talk about the second brother first. After you left, the second brother also wanted to follow me to leave the Ming Dynasty, so we began to plan our departure. Finally, when the time came, the three of us boarded the latest steam-powered ship developed by Brother Yang.”

“That thing is called a yacht!”

Yang Chen suddenly interrupted and corrected Zhu Biao’s wording.

To be honest, he didn’t understand why Zhu Biao could still use the wrong words even after he had reminded him several times.

Zhu Biao reacted and laughed:
“Yes! It was a yacht. The three of us took a yacht and led a fleet of 100 people to Southeast Asia to avenge you. Afterwards, the second brother told us that he wanted to go to Bali Island and use it as a starting point to go to the Australian continent in the southern hemisphere. After our discussion, he finally decided on his idea.

According to the time calculation, he might have reached the Australian continent. In addition, he will go from the Australian continent to New Zealand further north.

I believe that when the second brother lands on these two territories, the territory of Ming Dynasty will be even larger.

As for the fourth one,

Speaking of Zhu Di, Zhu Biao couldn’t help but smile.

This made Zhu Gang even more curious. What had he, the fourth brother, done to make his eldest brother look like that?
After a moment, Zhu Biao said calmly:

“Before you left Ming, wasn’t Old Four already in a mess with the three Jurchen tribes in the northeast? Ever since Yang Chen successfully developed the steam engine and the steel suitable for forging railways, the railway from Ming to the Far North has been expanding.

The supply of the fourth brother’s reserve force was continuously replenished. Several brave generals under his command led the Ming soldiers into the territory of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. We got a map left by Kublai Khan from a defector from the Yuan Dynasty. The map clearly marked where the Mongols would hide every winter. Following those reminders and traces, we quickly found the hiding places of the young emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and various generals. Then we waited until the weapons and equipment were transported to the far north, and then we took them down in one fell swoop.

Since then, the Northern Yuan Dynasty has completely disappeared, and now there is no country in the north of the Ming Dynasty that can threaten us.

It’s funny to say that you are called the Lion King in Sri Lanka, and the fourth brother is called the Northern Bear King by the Tatars, Oirat people, and Eastern Slavs in the Far North. The King of Jin and the King of Qin of the Ming Dynasty actually have such nicknames of “King” outside, which is really interesting to us.”

There is no need to brag about Zhu Di’s combat capabilities. As long as he is given enough weapons, he can take over the entire north. Now more than half of his army are surrendered Mongols and Slavs, and initially these people were simply dissatisfied with Zhu Di.

However, as the number of wars increased and the amount of money earned became heavier, no matter what race you were, you all submitted to Zhu Di’s command without exception.

Not only that, the power of the Ming army began to spread to the northwest.

After the Northern Yuan Dynasty was destroyed, some Yugoslavs and Siberians in the Siberian steppes became part of the Ming Dynasty’s territory. The next enemies were the Tibetans in the northwest and those who claimed to be the orthodox Mongolian khanates during the Yuan Dynasty’s rule over the Central Plains.

For example, the Golden Horde, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, the Uzbek Khanate, the U-Tsang Khanate and the Timurid Khanate which bordered India to the north, etc.

The ancestors of each Khanate were dissatisfied with the existence of Kublai Khan. They established their own kingdoms and their descendants have continued to this day.

Each of these khanates had previously taken action against the Rurik Dynasty of the Great Moscow Park, but the current emperor of the Rurik Dynasty, Dmitri Donskoy, was a very wise monarch of the Rurik Dynasty.

He led his men to drive out all the enemies who had previously invaded his country.

If Yang Chen and Zhu Biao’s speculation is correct, Zhu Di might have already started taking action against these Khanate forces.

There is also the Great Moscow Park. After taking care of the northwest and unifying the entire Xinjiang and Tibet, Nepal will become a springboard for the Ming Dynasty to attack northern India.

The entire Asia and even Eastern Europe will become the territory of the Ming Dynasty!

“Hiss! The fourth one is really as terrifying as my father said!”

Zhu Gang learned from his eldest brother that his younger brother’s sudden effort almost made the northern part of the Ming Dynasty belong to the Ming Dynasty. Thinking about his current situation, he couldn’t help but laugh.

“If the fourth brother saw me in this situation, he would probably look down on me as his eldest brother.”

Maybe it was because he had experienced setbacks or because he felt that the gap between himself and his brother was getting bigger and bigger, but Zhu Gang seemed very lonely in his words. Zhu Biao thought that this state was absolutely unacceptable, otherwise, if one was not careful, it would make a person fall into despair.

As a prince of the Ming Dynasty, you must be determined to win. How can you be affected by other external things?
Zhu Biao immediately reminded the other party and boosted their morale by saying:
“Third brother, you don’t have to be like this. The fourth brother can achieve such results now, to a large extent, it is inseparable from Brother Yang. Don’t you think about how powerful the Ming army is now? In the future, the Ming can successfully occupy the whole of Europe. Only then can we have a real competition.”

Hearing this, Zhu Gang felt much better. They hadn’t seen each other for such a long time, and his attitude just now was indeed not very nice.

So he took the opportunity to ease the atmosphere while introducing the two ladies around him.

“By the way, brother, I haven’t introduced you to the two wives I married here.”

Zhu Gang held tightly with his left hand the foreign woman on his left who was dressed in gorgeous clothes and covered in glittering decorations.

“Her name is Tamanna Bhatia, the eldest princess of Sinhalese.”

The one on the right looks very similar to Patiya, but she is much younger, probably less than 20 years old. From the beginning, she looked at Zhu Biao and Yang Chen with curiosity and awe with her thick eyebrows and big eyes. “Her name is Anushka Shetty, the little princess before.”

Zhu Biao had learned from Pan Feng about Zhu Gang’s new love before. Zhu Biao did not feel anything about this. After all, he was alone and helpless in exile abroad. As a hot-blooded man, if he could remain calm when meeting a beautiful woman, Zhu Biao would worry whether there was something wrong with his third brother.

Zhu Biao would feel happy instead that his third brother was now accompanied by two smart, well-behaved, sensible and beautiful foreign women.

At least this didn’t cause any problems for his brother.

His only worry was how his father, the emperor and his mother would view Zhu Gang when he brought his two younger siblings back to the Ming Dynasty.

More importantly, as the Prince of Jin, Zhu Gang had already married and had children in the eighth year of Hongwu. His eldest son was named Zhu Jihui, who was the heir apparent of the Prince of Jin’s Palace.

Unfortunately, Zhu Gang’s wife died of poor health shortly after giving birth to Zhu Jihui.

As the Prince of Jin, Zhu Gang’s wife’s identity was certainly not simple. She was the daughter of Xie Cheng, Marquis of Yongping, one of the 24th marquises of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gang absolutely loved this wife. Although they had been married for a short time, Zhu Gang remembered her for a long time.

If it weren’t for the fact that Zhu Jihui was still young and needed someone to take care of him, Zhu Gang would never have married those concubines.

In the days that followed, Zhu Jihui was taken care of by the concubines in the palace, while Zhu Gang was deeply favored by Zhu the Elder and was given a lot of military power.

Often fight and kill enemies on the border.

After experiencing hardships and arriving on this island for the first time, Zhu Gang was actually not interested in the two princesses. He just wanted the brothers who followed him to have a meal.

But as time went on, even if Zhu Gang’s heart was as hard as a rock, he could not withstand the simultaneous gentle attacks from the sisters.

Especially when the two sisters’ father, mother, brothers and younger brothers were all killed in the battle, the only person they could rely on was the prince from the Dragon World as mentioned by their mother.

Compared to marrying Baahubali, who lived on the other side of the strait, Mahishmadi, Bhatia and Shetty preferred to become vassals of Zhu Gang.

“Say hello to my big brother.”

Zhu Gang gestured to his two new wives.

“I’ve met brother.”

“Hello, big brother.”

It can be seen from their tone that both of them are very nervous. After all, they have never met a man who looks very similar to their husbands but is more majestic than their husbands.

Zhu Biao nodded and smiled, and found some gifts from the prepared bag.

“Here, these things are given to you in advance. Pan Feng just told me outside that it’s just a small gift, not a respect.”

As the eldest sister, Pattaya subconsciously refused:

“No need, big brother. We didn’t prepare in advance to entertain you. It’s our fault. How can we accept your gift?”

“You’re welcome. My third brother landed on this island. It was you who took him in that allowed him to survive until now. Please accept the things. By the way, there is one more thing I must say. Your Chinese is quite good.”

“Just take the things from Big Brother.”

Seeing that both wives were still a little worried, Zhu Gang stepped forward to speak. With the help of their husbands, Pattaya and Shetty accepted Zhu Biao’s gifts.

They are actually very happy inside because it means they are recognized by their family.

Zhu Gang had told them many times before how strict the rules were in his family. Now it seemed that this eldest brother had a very kind personality.

“By the way, brother, why are there Westerners on your ship?”

From the very beginning, Zhu Gang noticed that Sophia was the most unique person in the crowd. Suddenly, he saw that everyone’s eyes were on him, and Sophia felt a little embarrassed.

Yang Chen smiled at her and said:

“They’re all looking at you, why don’t you introduce yourself?”

“Hello, my name is Sophia and I’m from Astoria, Scotland.” Sophia was not shy, but her voice sounded a little unfamiliar.

After two months of getting along, Yang Chen has improved Sophia’s Chinese level to the point where she can have basic communication with others.

The best way to learn a language is to live in another language environment. Once you take the first step, the subsequent learning depends on each person’s memory ability.

Generally speaking, unless you are particularly stupid, you can learn to speak a foreign language in a month.

Of course, being able to recognize and write in a foreign language is another stage.

In order to become familiar with the situation in the European world, Yang Chen gives Sophia overtime tutoring every day.

“Sophia is from Europe. Like you, she was attacked by Chen Zuyi and his gang, but she was arrested. Afterwards, Brother Yang and I avenged you. We saw her when we searched your house.”

Zhu Biao briefly introduced Sophia’s situation.

Understand the cause and effect.

Zhu Gang couldn’t help but laugh:
“Brother Yang is still the same as before. By the way, you two can call him Brother Yang. His words are more effective than mine in Daming.”

Bhatia and Shetty looked at each other and saw surprise in each other’s eyes.

I didn’t expect that Yang Chen, who seemed ordinary, actually had such a strong voice.

After the dinner, the sons-in-law left, and the remaining three people all went to the rooftop to drink.

(End of this chapter)