Chapter 34 The New Situation
As soon as Zhang Liao was released from the space-time system by Li Zhe, he discovered a major change in the surrounding environment. This place is already the second space-time, a remote small port along the coast of the Luzon Islands. Zhang Liao was in a state of embarrassment and appeared in this world in a red state. Even if there are no people around him, it makes him feel very embarrassed.
Li Zhe smiled, took out clothes for him in the space, and asked Zhang Liao to put them on, so that he could feel a little more comfortable.
"Look! Wen Yuan, this is no longer the era in which our Ming Empire is located. It is about a thousand years ago. The information I gave you in advance has been read. You should have already made it clear. I hope you can adapt to the situation here quickly. Next, you will be responsible for more important tasks. Alas! I don't know if you can do it!"
Unexpectedly, this casual sentence made Zhang Liao's self-esteem feel a little hurt. He had made all kinds of preparations and abandoned his family and son across thousands of years to come here to follow the footsteps of His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire. His determination is so great that how could Li Zhe underestimate him? Although he dared not directly refute Li Zhe, he still said with his throat:
"Your Majesty! I have read all the historical books you have sent, so why can't I understand the situation? This is still the earth where we live, but it's just another period of time, and the customs are different from that of my Ming Empire. But I am both Chinese. Is it so different for me, Zhang Liao, to be so adaptable to my lord?"
Oh? Zhang Wenyuan was stunned by his words. What he said meant was, did he understand the truth of the times so quickly? Traveling through time and space is really so easy for a person with an ancient knowledge background? Of course, Li Zhe didn't believe it! Even if he had been influenced by a certain degree of modern knowledge!
"Okay! If you really understand, I hope you are not boasting. You should know that this is not the continent where I live, but an island. I have given you the chart here. You can try to explore the surrounding situation in the future!"
Li Zhe pointed to the small harbor in front of him!
"Wenyuan, look at this, a small harbor - I named it Japanese port! Since you were once the governor of the South China Sea Fleet, you should have some understanding of port construction. Next, I will find some people for you and find some information you should have, and you just follow it. I hope you can build this port so that you can dock big ships. Not many, just dock two or three ships! I want you to build it into our private port and build several more warehouses on the dock.
In the future, our supplies in this world will be stored here, and the outside world will only be transported here. Your task is to successfully build this small port, turn it into our secret base, control the people I send to you, and train it into an elite like our South China Sea Fleet. In the future, I will be very useful. In this era, the great cause we are waiting for is just beginning, and you are my backing, you understand!"
Zhang Liao bowed and replied passionately:
"Don't worry, your Majesty, it's just a trivial matter! Wen Yuan will never disappoint Your Majesty!"
"Oh?" Li Zhe was stunned for a moment. Zhang Liao looked very energetic! "Wen Yuan! A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, so take it slowly! The first thing to change is the title between you and me. Here, although you and me are monarchs and ministers, the previous common etiquette will be cancelled for the time being! Otherwise, if you and the locals see it, it may cause some suspicion!"
"Thank you for your reminder, Liao knows it!"
Li Zhe shook his head and stood up and left.
In the next period, Li Zhe transported a group of people and supplies from Manila, explained Zhang Liao clearly to these people, and completely let him go. Many problems were left to Zhang Liao himself to solve. As the former commander of the South China Sea Fleet, if Zhang Liao could not even train such people, it would be too much of a loss.
As for such a huge difference in environment and understanding of time and space traveling more than a thousand years later, Li Zhe didn't know how Zhang Liao would adjust his psychology and body to face it. In fact, he didn't need to understand it. Li Zhe believed that he could handle such a hero who had left a brilliant page in history.
He has a lot of things to do. Zhang Liao's backup plan is just a layout for the time being! When it can be used, it is still far behind?
This is not just annoying thing in the late Ming Dynasty!
The situation here in Manila is also a bit out of control. When Li Zhe returned here, the atmosphere at the port was unprecedentedly tense. The soldiers on the warship came and went, the battle flags were flying, and boxes of ammunition were carried inside, and they were about to set sail and sail...
Li Zhe walked into Li Huamei's palace and met Li Huamei in front of him:
"Li Zhe! You are back, just in time, you look at home first! This time I must let these guys know how powerful I am!"
Li Zhe immediately wondered,
"What's going on? What's going on!"
"Hmph! You don't need to pay much attention to the matter between us pirates. Just wait for me to come back in Manila!"
Li Zhe was a little angry immediately.
"What? What is the matter between you pirates! Huamei, you are not a pirate now, you are the queen!"
Unexpectedly, Li Huamei didn't care about this at all, but said indifferently:
"What queen is just a name, and what's the point of doing it! Anyway, I don't understand politics, and it's all your idea after all. I only know how to fight! You'd better let me fight happily!"
Li Zhe shook his head, this woman!
"After saying that, what's the matter? You're so anxious. You're going to fight before I come back!"
"What's the matter? You don't know better." When talking about this, Li Huamei's face turned darker! "These guys from Nanyang just gave them a good look, and they don't know who they are! If I were to teach them a lesson, I really don't know who the fist is in the territory of Nanyang!"
"Oh? Has anyone challenged Manila's authority? In this Nanyang!" Li Zhe was a little surprised!
"Oh! There was no challenge to Manila, but some people looked down on me!"
"Haha!" Li Zhe smiled, "There is such a thing? Our noble Queen of Manila, some people dare to stroke their beards on the tiger's head. I think these people really don't want to live anymore! But Huamei, you can make things clear, who is provoking this sentence in half!" This woman is so crazy that she always wants to fight. Do you think she was the pirate who had not had a day before?
Little Lizi, who followed behind, came to answer the conversation.
"Hey! Lin Kui and Zheng Yi, who are not yet the top ten kingdoms, are united now and bullying us! They are still threatening on the sea, saying, saying..." After that, Li Zi looked at Li Huamei's black face, and finally put her words in her stomach.
"What did you say?" Li Zhe continued to ask.
Little Lizi didn't dare to say it, but Li Huamei next to her couldn't help but say it out:
"I'm asking me to fill up the house for Lin Kuina's dead ghost and become the princess of the so-called ten kingdoms. Do you really think of me as a fool? Isn't it that I'm thinking of annexing Manila and getting rich and good! Hum! I don't even look at their teeth, whether it's enough for me to knock it! I'll attack Sarawak and capture Lin Kui, the little boy, alive. I'm going to kill him with my own hands. As for the red-haired and black-haired people, it's time for me, I'm going to care about them to die!"
What! Someone dares to make such an idea, and really thinks that I am fake! Li Zhe's heart immediately rushed upwards! But even if he was angry, he was different from Li Huamei after all. The more angry he was, the more calm he looked, and instead he suppressed his temperament and said to Li Huamei:
"Slowly, slow down! Huamei, stop first, let me figure out the matter first! The top ten kingdoms, Sarawak, why did the Dutch Red-haired Yi also participate in it? Isn't the situation in Nanyang quite good? Why did the wind change suddenly after I went out for a while?!"
Only then did everyone start to explain clearly with Li Zhe in detail.
The situation in Nanyang has indeed changed drastically, and Li Zhe is almost completely unrecognizable!
Li Huamei's capture of Manila greatly boosted the morale of the Chinese in Southeast Asia. The former rich people of South China were also ready to move. Some people immediately chose to surrender to Li Huamei and brought their families to Manila. However, some people were unwilling to give up their former power and devote themselves to Li Huamei, a female person! Instead, they took advantage of this trend and took the banner elsewhere!
These ten kingdoms are the largest of them!
The so-called ten kingdoms are actually the former Chinese pirates. They just gathered together to form a climate, occupying the island and becoming a king and becoming a overlord. They are known as the top ten pirate kings to dominate the South China Sea! Its location is in Sarawak, Borneo, and in modern time and space, Sarawak, Malaysia! This place is nominally belongs to the Sultan of Brunei in this time and space, but in fact it is a separatist force of the local states. As a matter of their own, the Chinese pirates also occupy a considerable area on it, with the center in Sandakan!
To the south of Sarawak is Kalimantan, the territory occupied by the Netherlands, and to the north are Brunei and Sabah. It is also a very rich place in this time and space. After the Chinese pirates raised their flags here, their momentum was also extraordinary, and immediately affected the general trend of the surrounding Borneo!
The local kings of Borneo in the surrounding area were also unwilling to be lonely and surrounded by loneliness. The forces and the ten kingdoms complement each other, and they tended to merge together to counterattack Kalimantan! It had seriously affected the layout of the South China Sea colonial forces in the Netherlands. The directors of the Dutch East India Company were also frustrated and had to shrink in various parts of the Southeast Asian region and concentrate their forces to deal with it. For a time, Borneo gathered heavily, and became a trend of storm.
At this time, the layout of the Dutch East India Company showed a disadvantage. The disadvantage of occupying large territory and fewer troops became increasingly prominent. Once the mobile forces originally stationed in various places contracted, the Dutch's control at sea immediately weakened, and the rule of the colonies in the South China Sea became unstable. The local kings everywhere were a little ready to move when they saw the changes in the situation.
The Tumen in Sumatra, Moluka and Java are secretly holding their breath and awaiting the result of the surging confrontation between the Netherlands, Chinese and Borneo Tumen Union in Southeast Asia.
In such a situation, Manila naturally needs to support the Chinese. Not to mention, the support for materials and arms is still spared no effort, and the merchant ships have already gone there.
At this moment, the pirate kings of the top ten kingdoms spoke out to form an alliance with Manila, and even were willing to obey Manila's orders!
It is naturally good to form an alliance. The Chinese are a family, so it is best to be able to work together. But the problem is that the requirement for alliance proposed by the top ten kingdoms is too outrageous. He actually wants the Queen of Manila Li Huamei to marry the most famous of the top ten pirate kings. It is said that he is one of the Lin Feng lineage who was passed down from the past - Lin Kui!
Chapter completed!