Section 823: Walking and erecting a monument
A few days later, Han Jiang went out to sea.
The goal is not far, a few islands not far from Little Luzon Port, and then a long island.
Han Jiang wants to erect monuments on these islands.
In addition to the main monument, there are also stonemasons who are specially led to quarry, and then erect a monument and engrave the inscription.
The content of the inscription is very easy to understand, it is written. This is a certain year and month, when the Chinese expedition fleet arrived here, then the inscription was erected, building a city and living here, etc.
Han Jiang went around a big circle this time.
All the land around the South China Sea is exactly the same. Whether it is a large island or a small island, as long as the fleet meets it, erect inscriptions and then draw a chart.
The boatman is the hardest, and the hardest one is the stonemason.
Soon, the dozens of stones that Qian Xinyao prepared for Han Jiang were not enough. At this time, Han Jiang had just arrived at the northernmost end of Bornade Prefecture and quickly found a place to stop the boat and began to send people to the boat to mine the quarry.
The explosion continued for three days, and the stonemasons became tired.
In this way, after the ship set sail, the stonemasons developed the unique skill of carving monuments on the floating sea.
It’s okay to sway the boat, just sway with the people.
In this way, we erected monuments, quarry and erected monuments.
It took me forty days to arrive in Temasek.
Zhai Jian was not here, so he went to the place Han Jiang mentioned, which was the other end of the Maluojia Strait. Zhai Jian’s goal was not to build one city, but three.
Population is not a problem.
Five hundred households were transferred from the Central Plains, and one hundred military households could build a city and open up land.
When Han Jiang was two hours away from Temasek, he heard the sound of cannons from afar.
"Prepare for war!" After the captain of the flagship shouted, the flagship immediately began to hang the signal flag, the gun door opened, the bottom warehouse opened, and the gunpowder and shells were transported to the gun.
Shields, swords and weapons were wearing bamboo armor, and the sailors began to pull out the water dragon chariot.
This is a standard configuration during wartime. In case of attack by enemy ships, extinguishing fire is also an important task. Shield and sword warriors are always careful that enemies will rush over to fight melee battles on the deck.
Prevent it in case.
After the fleet prepared for a quarter of an hour, the flagship began to slow down. Eight warships surrounded the flagship, and four warships rushed to the place where there was gunfire.
Soon, the fleet saw both sides fighting.
One side was running, running desperately.
Then my own ship was chasing, chasing him to death.
The fleet on Han Jiang's side seemed to be chasing other people, so it was blocked when it went up.
Several more shots hit the other party's ship, and the other party did not dare to escape again, so he lowered his sails and slowed down.
The cannon mount reached the other party's face. As long as he dared to move, he would shoot him over. The pursuit fleet approached and the captain boarded Han Jiang's ship.
"Master, these are ships from the Kingdom of Juluo. They do not accept our inspection and want to pass through the strait."
The ship of the country of Juluo.
The Juluo Kingdom almost destroyed the southern country of India where Sarivo passed away.
The other party was taken on the boat.
What shocked Han Jiang was that the other party could speak Chinese and was speaking pretty well.
"We are not Jura, we are Gala."
What is the difference between Julu and Gala?
The captain of Han Jiang said that according to their records, these ships are the type of Zhuluo Kingdom. They have sunk at least ten ships and will definitely not admit their mistakes.
Han Jiang asked: "I have heard a legend that nearly 90% of the adult men of Sinhalese have read books. Then, let me prove it."
Ninety percent of people study.
This data surprised Han Jiang.
This is a good proof.
Bring paper and pen.
What was even more surprising was that everyone on the boat could write, but they could do it differently.
The leader stepped forward: "You are the Tang people, we are the Galla people. We defeated the Zhulu seven years ago, and we took back our homeland. More than five hundred years ago, we met the monks of the Tang people. And we have books left by the God of War."
The term "God of War?" is a bit surprising.
The person in charge wrote a name and said, "My name is Sagama..." The length of the string of names, Han Jiang forgot the beginning after hearing it, it was too long.
Han Jiangxin said, it would be nice to call this guy Sagama for now.
Sagama said again: "I have another surname in Han, Wang."
Another name was written out.
Han Jiang knows who this is.
During the Tang Dynasty, a seventh-rank official came to India. At that time, there was a man named Jie Ri.
After King Jie Ri died, one of his heirs beat Wang Xuance and locked up the entire envoy.
This Wang Xuance was so frustrated.
Going north, Tubo borrowed thousands of people and Nipo borrowed thousands of people.
Then like a strong wind, he first killed the people who beat him, and then more than 500 cities surrendered. This man directly destroyed all the people who were unwilling to surrender at that time.
Then, after a long list of kings, concubines, etc., they tied back to Chang'an.
This is a bit of credit.
The final record is.
Wang Xuance returned to Chang'an, gave him a reward, promoted his position and became a fifth-rank official.
In India, Wang Xuance was not in Chang'an, but was just a fifth-rank official, he was the God of War.
He is regarded as the god of war by many people in India.
"Okay, loosen the ties." Han Jiang believed that these people might not be enemies.
After loosening the ties, a captain of Temasek stepped forward and asked, "We ordered you to stop the ship. Since you can understand, why don't you stop the ship for inspection?"
“There are pirates here.”
Han Jiang glanced at the captain, and the captain stepped forward: "Master, there are indeed pirates, and there are also those who are we Han people who have been here to be pirates. However, this was a few months ago, and we have killed more than a dozen pirates."
After telling Han Jiang, the captain stepped forward again to the Sagama and pointed to the ship: "Have you ever seen pirates with warships like us, come and check their ships."
Soon, the ship was finished inspecting.
A list was delivered to Han Jiang.
"Yeah, gems and spices, are pretty good. What are your plans?"
"Go north, ask the Tang Dynasty to hand in a letter, and ask the Tang Dynasty to send troops to help us deal with Zhu Luo."
Han Jiang asked again: "Map, letter of the country."
Sagama does carry a map, and it's three.
One is their current region. Although they defeated the Zhuluo Kingdom, they did not drive all the strength of the Zhuluo Kingdom out of Ceylon Island. The other is valuable, the map of India. At present, India is not unified, and there are several countries of all sizes.
The last one is a chart.
There are eight ports.
Ceylon's fleet first went north, then followed the coast, arrived at the strait, and then went north directly. Their South China Sea docking location was Rinan County, then went north, to Leizhou and then to Guangzhou Prefecture. This was the route of the Maritime Silk Road in the Tang Dynasty.
After reading the chart, Han Jiang reads the book of the country again.
Chapter completed!