If trade routes are blood vessels that transport wealth, then the East is the heart that pumps blood.

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, border management was quite tolerant, and most goods could enter and exit freely. However, the Ming Dynasty seriously lacked the spirit of free trade. To buy something from him, you had to find ways to make him happy first, which was very laborious.

However, the most profitable products are all produced by his family. Therefore, in order to make money to live, he has to bow to others. These diplomatic measures are one of the measures. Everyone is well aware of the importance of this matter.

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However, the Tuhuan team is indeed lacking in strength.

Although he is taller than Guo Kang, Tuohuan is actually younger than Guo Kang. He is only 15 years old this year. It's not that he cannot engage in diplomacy at this grade, but looking at him, he is not a good candidate.

As for the people around him, not to mention. Guo Kang even suspected that the person with the highest level of education in this room might be the little boy Constantine...

It is probably for this reason that I came to Guo Kang.

Although his adoptive father Guo Daxia has always been relatively pure, his adoptive mother Huang is more famous.

The Huang family had a prosperous cultural background, and when they migrated to Persia, they were already quite famous in the Ilkhanate. Later, the Khanate collapsed, and Mr. Huang led his people to escape the war and migrated to a small island in the Mediterranean.

The Huang family is known as the "Peach Blossom Stone Huang Family", and they still use this name to commemorate their homeland. This island is also called "Peach Blossom Island". The surrounding Persians and Greeks respect them very much, as long as they mention this name

, scholars all have impressions.

It is a pity that although Guo Kang has been working hard for several years, the gap in educational level is still relatively obvious. His adoptive mother repeatedly tried to discipline him strictly and asked him to concentrate on his studies, but his adoptive father persuaded him not to do so. As the saying goes, you will hate the book when it is used.

It was only at this critical moment that he began to wonder if his adoptive father was too doting on him.

"Who else did you ask for help?" He turned around and asked Tuohuan.

"I also invited Sun Wenyuan, Sun Daguan." Tuohuan replied.

"You invited Sun Shiwan?" Guo Kang was surprised: "It's the other way around. Can he help us deal with the Ming Dynasty?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Guo." Lama Wang said from the side: "The Javanese Yuan is not monolithic. There are many people in their group. This old man, Sun Daguan, can persuade him to help."

"...Okay." Guo Kang didn't know what to say.

Sun Daguan, whose name is Yi and whose courtesy name is Wenyuan, claims to be from the Yuan Dynasty in Java Island and is a famous large-scale businessman today. Last year, he came to Constantinople and negotiated several big business deals with the Purple Horde Khan.

I went to inspect various places along the Black Sea coast, and I happened to rest in the city during this time.

Guo Kang had also chatted with him several times before. According to his own introduction, his ancestor was a famous big businessman in Suzhou during the Yuan Dynasty. Later he went to Yangzhou to do business, selling silk and porcelain on the surface, and private salt secretly.

Soon, he accumulated a fortune of tens of millions. People at that time gave his family the nickname "Sun Shiwan" based on the ancient poem "Riding a crane up to Yangzhou with a hundred thousand guan in his waist", saying that he was extremely wealthy.

As the head of the family of this generation, business partners from the Nanyang Islands to Egypt are accustomed to calling him this nickname. This is the origin.

Guo Kang also learned that in this world, when the Yuan army went on an expedition to Java, they successfully defeated the native leaders who planned to attack them, forcing the local princes to surrender and gain a firm foothold.

By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Jiangnan was also plunged into war. People from all walks of life were fighting endlessly, and most of the court was powerless. Many people chose to take refuge at sea and fled to the Nanyang region where the Yuan Dynasty government still existed.

Later, Zhang Shicheng was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, and his supporters fled one after another, and there was another climax of going to sea. As one of Zhang Shicheng's major financial backers, the Sun family was able to escape in time by taking advantage of their perennial shipping business.

After many twists and turns, he finally settled in Nanyang.

Big businessmen such as the Sun family are extremely wealthy and have their own thugs, servants and fleets. In these days, merchants, pirates and even navy are often interchangeable identities. With these strengths, they gathered together and claimed to still be

It was dominated by Emperor Shun and used the title of Dayuan. Because its important stronghold was on Java Island, it was also called "Java Yuan".

The relationship between the Javanese Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty was quite bad.

Regardless of people like Sun who had directly fought in the war, many other wealthy merchants also felt the same way. The Yuan Dynasty had loose management. As long as they paid the money and did not openly rebel, the court often didn't bother to take care of them, which made them quite powerful.

Like Sun himself, even if his hometown is lost, he can still dominate with the ships in his hands and the business stores and shipyards his family has operated for a long time in Nanyang.

But the management of the Ming Dynasty was much stricter. Sun Shiwan pointed out that the government restricted the freedom of merchants and deprived them of their legal rights over servants. The imperial court made excessive demands and competed with the people for profits all day long, taking away the savings that the merchants had worked hard to accumulate.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they also restricted navigation and suppressed free trade, hoping to monopolize the huge profits from ocean trade.

Therefore, all the big businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River miss the Yuan Dynasty. This is also why they insist on using the name of the Yuan Dynasty.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, people continued to escape from the country and pursue freedom. For those who did not escape, there were also many people who contacted them secretly, helping to smuggle goods in peacetime and informing them during wartime, hoping that the Yuan Heavenly Soldiers would fight back.

Sun Shiwan believes that this is what people want, and it is also one of the sources of confidence that makes them dare to confront the Ming Dynasty despite being at a disadvantage.

At this time, King Liang, who had been granted a title in Yunnan during the Yuan Dynasty, was attacked by the Ming army and was defeated and fled to Myanmar. The local kings of Myanmar did not welcome King Liang, and the two sides fought all the way. Seeing the opportunity, the maritime merchants sent a message to the exiled King of Liang's forces.

Invited, the Yuan army marched all the way to the southeast, passed through Siam and entered Champa, where they met up with Javanese merchants and received supplies and support.

The Vietnamese Chen Dynasty was also afraid of the Ming army that had pursued Myanmar, so they decided to join forces with them. With the mediation of everyone, the Siamese and Vietnamese armies joined forces with the Yuan army and maritime merchants to repel the pursuing Ming army.

However, it was as if the Ming Dynasty was overpowered and refused to admit defeat. Two years later, another Ming army invaded Vietnam from the north and fought until near the capital, Thang Long, before being repulsed and driven away. More than four years passed.

, several Ming troops came from Yunnan, Guangxi and the sea, and the coalition forces finally couldn't resist this time.

Thang Long was captured by the Ming army, and King Liang was defeated and committed suicide. The Chen Dynasty of Vietnam was soon banned by the Ming Dynasty, and the defeated soldiers of other princes continued to flee south. The Sun family and others collected many people and fled by boating at sea again.

Fortunately, the Ming army really couldn't catch up this time, giving them some time to breathe.
Chapter completed!