Chapter 1120 1115 [Be the most loyal dog in Ming Dynasty]
The Zeng family also traveled by boat.
When the gunfire sounded at the port, they immediately loaded the cargo onto the ship, even brought some food, and quickly sailed into the forest to the south.
In addition to family members, there are two clan brothers and more than thirty fellow villagers, who are considered the basic members of the Zeng family and are responsible for disciplining the indigenous slaves.
Another clan brother and cousin were running a shop near the port and had been captured by the Ming army.
These people were all deceived into making money, and each of them received a settlement allowance. When they found out that they had helped forge counterfeit money, the Zeng brothers coaxed and threatened them, raising their wages and threatening that they had committed a capital crime.
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Of course, the main reason is that I have enough money and I am lucky to be overseas.
"Don't think about going back again. The counterfeit treasures will kill you several times. It's useless to arrest our brothers to perform meritorious service. The officers and soldiers have already come to kill them. They won't let anyone here go!" Zeng Bofa was still threatening.
Zeng Boda also said: "Now we can only avoid the limelight first, and then find an opportunity to take a boat to Ceylon. The Han people there are autonomous, and they don't ask where they came from. We can change our appearance when we get to Ceylon."
The brothers' father had died long ago, their old mother was trembling with fear, and their wives, concubines, and children were also quite frightened.
Those relatives and fellow villagers said nothing. They were all diligent and loyal when they received high wages, but now they began to resent their employers for dragging them down.
The fleet has sailed into the forest, and everyone is alert, taking out their crossbows and pointing them at both sides of the river.
Because there are savage tribes deep in the forest, half hunting, half farming, still in the era of slash-and-burn farming.
Relatively speaking, Central Java and East Java had developed agriculture as early as the Tang Dynasty, and rice and other crops were exported to China and India.
This is not the case here in West Java, where agriculture is far behind.
West Java also has a tropical rainforest climate, with more rainfall in the wet season and less rainfall in the dry season, which is very unsuitable for ancient agricultural development.
No matter what kind of Java it is, it is still very impressive in modern times. Rice can be harvested nine times in two years!
"It's raining."
A fellow countryman suddenly said:
It is the wet season at this time, and rainfall in West Java has increased significantly. It does not rain every day, but it often comes at once.
Now it started to rain without any warning. At first it was just a drizzle, which seemed to remind humans to find a place to take shelter. Within a quarter of an hour, the rain suddenly became heavier.
On each ship, people lit charcoal and gathered around the brazier to keep warm and to prevent hypothermia due to excessive humidity. Some people were also responsible for tying the ship to a tree.
The rain came and went quickly, and it stopped in more than two hours.
But after a rain, most people's mood changed because the pursuers did not come and they stopped to think.
Zeng Boduan, a clan brother, said with full of resentment: "If the officers and soldiers come to Yecheng, my family in Fujian will definitely be gone."
Zeng Boda said angrily: "I asked you to bring your family here a long time ago, but you didn't want to. You said you would return home after working for a few more years."
When Zeng Bofa heard this, he felt bad and quickly smoothed things over by saying: "The imperial court sent troops this time, not necessarily because we forged treasure banknotes. It may just be to punish the Sunda King for attacking neighboring countries for no reason. I will send people again when the limelight is over."
Go back to Yecheng and ask about it."
A fellow countryman said: "With so many artillery pieces, Sunda will definitely be wiped out. When the king of Sunda is arrested, won't we be confessed and punished with meritorious service?"
Another fellow villager said: "It is true that the mountains and forests are full of indigenous people, and they may suddenly come out to rob us. Even if we go to the towns after passing through this area and are not familiar with the place, we can easily be robbed. We cannot defeat the indigenous people, because they are all here."
Gotta die!"
Zeng Bofa comforted him: "I am a courtier of the king. I know the nobles in the towns ahead, and we drank together in Coconut City. As long as we go there, there will definitely be no danger."
Another fellow countryman said: "The country of Sunda is gone, so what's the use of your acquaintance with those nobles? Who doesn't know that your Zeng family is rich? If you go there, you will be slaughtered like a pig!"
Zeng Bofa's heart tightened when he heard this, because this statement made sense.
For a moment, everyone was silent.
If you escape to the towns ahead, you will most likely be killed by the local nobles and robbed of goods. If you return to Coconut City, you will definitely be caught and executed by the officers and soldiers.
It is even more impossible to stay in the wild. Not only are savages likely to be killed in the forest at any time, but it is also very easy to get sick in the wet season of the tropical rainforest.
They have no way out.
Suddenly, a fellow villager aimed his crossbow at the shore, turned around and pulled the trigger towards Zeng Bofa.
Due to the softening of the bow caused by excessive humidity, the arrow had little power, but it was still enough to penetrate the muscle at such a close range.
Zeng Bofa fell down clutching his chest, pointing at his fellow countrymen and saying: "Stupid...stupid..."
Before he finished speaking, Zeng Boda had already raised his crossbow to fight back, but the man had already jumped towards him. The arrow was shot close to the flesh, but it caused little damage.
The fellow villager jumped on Zeng Boda and shouted at the others: "What are you waiting for? Take his brother's head back to Yecheng to atone for your sins!"
Everyone finally came to their senses, but they didn't know where to help.
The fellow villager shouted again: "No matter what, we are dead, but there may be a way to survive back to Yecheng!"
This finally worked, and even the brothers of the Zeng brothers came over to help their fellow villagers kill people.
For counterfeiting treasure banknotes, only brothers, uncles, cousins, cousins, etc. will not be implicated, not to mention they are just clan brothers. They are all just accomplices. If they commit crimes and perform meritorious services, they do have a chance of survival.
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Several people held the Zeng brothers down, and Zeng Boda roared angrily: "Idiots, you will die if you go back. Only by running away with me can you survive!"
Zeng Boduan looked ferocious, drew his knife and struck Zeng Boda hard on the neck.
Others also worked together to kill Zeng Bofa and control their mother, wife and children.
The pursuers sent by Zhu Xiaozhong withdrew to Yecheng because of a heavy rain, mainly because they heard from the guide that rainy days here were very dangerous.
Just when Zhu Xiaozhong sent people to chase him again, those guys who were fighting among themselves came back.
"Take them back to Guangzhou." Zhu Xiaozhong didn't know what to do with them, so he simply handed them all over to the investigators of the Criminal Department.
A few days later, the heads of the Sundanese royal family were first sent to the neighboring country of Mataram.
King Matalan was surprised and happy. The guy who always came to invade him was finally killed by Daming's father. But the Ming army seemed to take the opportunity to occupy Coconut City. Will they come to attack him in the future?
The messenger pointed at a pile of heads and said: "Anyone who dares to forge Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes and protect criminals who forge counterfeit banknotes will all end up like this! Do you hear me clearly?"
King Matalan knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the Ming envoy: "Keep this in mind, I will never condone counterfeit banknotes, nor will I make counterfeit banknotes myself!"
"I also want to warn the nobles in your country." The Ming envoy said.
King Matalan quickly said: "I will immediately send people to all parts of the country to promote the majesty of the Ming Emperor and tell them why the King of Sunda was executed!"
The Ming envoy smiled and said: "Very good."
Three days later, the head of the Sunda royal family came to Jianyi to govern the country.
At this time, King Kediri was called Jayabaya, and he was a famous hero in Indonesian history. Later generations were also given various mysterious colors, such as predicting the white people's colonization of Java, predicting the French Revolution, predicting the rise of Hitler, and predicting Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia in World War II.
, predicting the 911 incident in the United States, even predicting the emergence of cars and airplanes, etc... is nonsense.
Historically, under the rule of Jayabaya, the territory of Kagyiri expanded more than ten times, and even went to occupy islands such as Sulawesi and Maluku.
Looking at the pile of salted heads, Jayabaya lay on the ground and kowtowed, swearing that he would listen to Daming's father.
He warmly entertained the Ming Dynasty envoy, and only appeared worried when he returned to his palace at night.
The beloved concubine asked: "Is Your Majesty unhappy?"
Jayabaya sighed: "You don't understand even if I tell you."
"At the banquet just now, His Majesty had a pleasant chat with the envoy of the Ming Dynasty," the beloved concubine said.
Jayabaya said: "Who would believe that the country was destroyed because of counterfeiting of treasure banknotes? It was just because the port of Coconut City was prosperous and the Ming Dynasty found a reason to send troops. The next one to be destroyed was Matalan, and the next
It's our turn. In terms of rich products, especially grain output, we are the richest country in Java."
The beloved concubine panicked: "What should we do?"
Jayabaya sighed: "What else can be done? Jianyili is only a small country, how can it confront the Ming Dynasty? In the future, we must be more obedient to the Ming Dynasty and not give the Ming Emperor a reason to send troops. Matalan in the west must never be touched again.
, Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes cannot be counterfeited."
Similar to history, Jayabaya can only expand eastward.
The difference is that historically he was blocked by Srivijaya, but now he is blocked by the Ming Dynasty to the west.
If the Ming Dynasty did not send troops to intervene, this guy could swallow up most of the islands south of the Philippines!
Moreover, he was also good at literature and education, using Brahmin-style poetry as a carrier to encourage poets to create native Javanese literature, thereby integrating the scattered thoughts of various ethnic groups and further promoting the formation of national consciousness in East Java.
The next day, Jayabaya summoned the court officials: "You go and find the most beautiful woman in the country. I will send it to Luoyang to present to the Ming Emperor when I pay tribute. I will go to Luoyang myself!"
When Srivijaya was destroyed, Jayabaya was not so afraid, but instead he was a little gloating about the misfortune.
The collapse of the Sunda Kingdom really frightened Jayabaya.
Because among the countries that still exist in Nanyang, Kediri is the richest country. It has so much food that it is impossible to eat it all, and it even sells it to Chinese merchants every year.
The Sunda Kingdom is only rich due to maritime trade. His advice to govern the country is to provide real food, and rice can be harvested three to four times a year.
Is the tropical rainforest climate unsuitable for ancient agriculture?
However, volcanic ash brings fertility, and due to special geographical conditions, Java Island actually has two seasons, dry and wet. The phenomenon of separation of dry and wet seasons becomes more and more obvious as you go eastward on Java Island, and it is already a bit like a tropical monsoon climate.
With the blessing of modern agricultural technology, nine crops in two years is no joke.
Chayabaya's thinking is very clear. Since he can't defeat the Ming Dynasty, he will become the Ming Dynasty's most loyal lackey.
Going to Luoyang in person to offer beautiful women was just a way to show my attitude.
He would also promise to the Ming Emperor that the grain he would sell in the future would only be sold to Han merchants and transported to the Ming Dynasty. As long as the Ming Emperor gave the order, he would attack whomever the Ming Emperor ordered without asking for any reward from the Ming Dynasty.
Make the emperor happy and he will be stable in Java.
Then it continued to expand eastward. Even if it annexed a small country that submitted to the Ming Dynasty, the great emperor would only reprimand it a few times.