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Chapter 712, Attacking Malacca

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    ¡°Pearls and coral?¡±

    "This is a good thing. Once the news spreads, I'm afraid countless people will go to Australia by then."

    After reading Guo Ye¡¯s letter carefully, Wang Shouren smiled and said.

    "Going to Australia is much easier and closer than going to Golden Continent. There will definitely be many people going there."

    Liu Jin also nodded and looked towards where he was heading. In the vast mist, he could faintly see a big city standing on the earth between the water and the sky.

    Malacca City!

    From Jiaozhi, Liu Jin went south and destroyed Annan and Champa successively, and established Jiaozhi and Xianglin provinces respectively. Zhang Mao and Yang Yun continued to suppress local rebellions in Jiaozhi and Xianglin.  , sorting out local powerful forces, another convenience is to attack Siam and Chenla from land.

    The country of Siam is now in the most prosperous era of the Ayutthaya Dynasty. It is powerful and has great national power, so it is relatively confident. It has always been the most ruthless one in the Nanyang region against Ming merchants.

    ??Specially levied heavy taxes on merchants of the Ming Dynasty. On the other hand, they are now constantly contacting Southeast Asian countries to unite against the Ming Dynasty, so originally they just wanted to teach Siam a lesson.

    In the end, Zhang Mao and Liu Jin also decided to attack Siam by water route. Zhang Mao and Yang Yun attacked Siam by land from Xianglin side, while Liu Jin and Wang Shouren attacked Siam by water route.

    However, Liu Jin was not in a hurry to attack Siam. Instead, he came to Malacca first, preparing to defeat Malacca first and control the choke point of the Malacca Strait.

    Malacca is a very important place.

    It is located at the core hub of transportation between the East and the West, and is the connecting link between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Whoever controls this narrow Malacca Strait is equivalent to controlling this important golden waterway.

    Now that Siam has united with other countries in Southeast Asia and wants to fight against the Ming Dynasty together, it is even more important to control such a place in its own hands.

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    "We really want to attack Malacca?"

    Wang Shouren next to him looked at Malacca City in front of him, thought for a while and asked again.

    He actually didn¡¯t understand why Liu Jin had to attack Malacca City. Malacca actually had a very good relationship with the Ming Dynasty.

    The history of Malacca is not long. In 1402, a prince from Sumatra established the Malacca dynasty here, which is a hundred years of history.

    ??In history, Zheng He would always stop at Malacca during his voyages to the West. Historically, he also paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty many times. Their king was also canonized by the Ming Dynasty emperor. After all, the relationship was really good.

    Wang Shouren felt that the attack on Annan and Champa was justified, but the attack on Malacca felt a bit unjustifiable. He did not hit the smiling man, but he unexpectedly attacked Malacca first.

    "Look at the map. The location of Malacca is really important. If we don't capture this choke point of the Strait of Malacca, it will be occupied by others in the future, which will mean that we are being strangled.  .¡±

    "Although Malacca has a good relationship with our Ming Dynasty, they did not agree to become a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty last year. In this case, there is no need to talk about feelings. Everything is based on the interests of our Ming Dynasty."

    Liu Jin pointed to the location of Malacca on the map and said.

    It is now the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, that is, 1502. Even if they do not occupy it, in a few years, when Portuguese influence spreads to Nanyang, they will occupy it.

    Historically, the city of Malacca was captured by the Portuguese in 1511 and became a Portuguese colony.

    With the rise of private armed forces, major commercial banks will definitely flock to places such as Burma, Tianzhu, Persia, the Middle East and Africa.

    "If Malacca is no longer in your hands and someone takes over it, it will be like being strangled by someone's neck, so it must be occupied."

    As for the so-called friendly exchanges, it is not worth mentioning in the face of Ming Dynasty's interests.

    We should learn from Westerners and abandon the so-called face, credibility, etc., and do everything only for profit.

    Of course, Liu Jin actually had another reason in his heart that he didn't say out loud.

    This Malacca can be regarded as the spread of Middle Eastern civilization and Indian civilization in Nanyang.We collected a little bit, but what we collected here was definitely not much. In other places like Java, Siam, and Sulu, they levied heavy taxes, which were several times higher than ours.  "

    Tunmo Taixi lowered his voice. It was not just Malacca that raised taxes, but also the entire Southeast Asian countries.

    "This is actually mainly due to last year, when we from the Southeast Asian countries went to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty forced us all to sign the Ming Dynasty vassal state agreement, but the agreement was too harsh, so no one signed it. Finally, we discussed it and we all agreed together.  Ming merchant ships were heavily taxed.¡±

    "This is something that everyone has discussed together. We in Malacca have a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty, so the tax collection is not heavy. The Java and Bo Ni countries not only impose heavy taxes, but also support pirates in looting the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty."

    Dun Motaixi then added, what he actually meant was that this was agreed upon by everyone, mainly to show Daming the color, and also to say that what he did was not excessive at all.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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