Everyone in Zi Zhang knew that the Javanese Yuan and Ming dynasties had been hostile for a long time. Therefore, Guo Kang was very suspicious that asking Sun Shiwan for help was asking for trouble.

If you include the vassal states and tribes, the Javanese Yuan's power covers almost half of Southeast Asia, and it seems to be very powerful. But in fact, their territory is dotted, not like the Central Plains and Temuji of the Ming Dynasty.

The rivers of the Khanate and the Balkans of Purple Tent are connected into one piece. The real territory of the Javanese Yuan is a series of large and small seaports and surrounding ancillary areas.

Merchants use these port networks to provide supply depots and havens for ships to maintain shipping lanes. Outside the port areas, there are usually areas where handicraft industries gather, followed by large plantations, mines and forest farms.

The large number of craftsmen gathered in the handicraft industry area not only maintain the ports and ships, but also produce various commodities for trade. The forest land provides wood for navigation, the mines provide raw materials, and the plantation estates provide rations and supplies for nearby residents.

cash crops for trafficking.

Outside of these places, it has little to do with them.

Between the various ports and outside the Javanese reclamation areas, there are many large and small indigenous groups. Some are just primitive tribes, and some have formed relatively complete kingdoms. The Javanese have only a general interest in them and only

They are required to obey themselves, join the trade network, abide by their own trade rules, and pay variable amounts of tribute. Some tribes with relatively reliable planting capabilities will be required to plant prescribed crops, which will be purchased centrally by merchants. The upper limit of jurisdiction

, that’s generally the case.

Previously, the great powers and overlords in the Nanyang region all adopted this structure, which was called the "Mandala system" in later generations. To the natives, although the Javanese Yuan had more control, the overall nature was not

Not too much different. This is also the tacit understanding gradually formed with the local people over more than a hundred years since the Yuan Dynasty conquered Java.

On the other hand, Javanese actually cannot trust the locals.

The backbone of the Javanese Yuan's armed forces were the servants and fleets of wealthy merchants such as the Sun family of Yangzhou, the Chen family of Fujian, and the Wu family of Lin'an. In addition, there were the Ruan family and Hu family who came to seek refuge after Annan Kingdom (Vietnam) was annexed by the Ming Dynasty.

After the defeat of King Liang, the Duan family of Dali escaped, etc. These Jiangnan Han people, Jiaozhi people, and Dali people formed the core part of the army.

Since the number was still too small compared to the Ming army, the Javanese Yuan Dynasty would also organize a larger peripheral army as a supplement, and Siam was one of the main sources. They swung back and forth between the Ming Dynasty and the Javanese Yuan Dynasty in order to

To maintain independence, it often turns a blind eye to the latter's efforts to recruit troops on its own territory.

In addition, Javanese has also widely recruited mercenaries to fight for itself. To the east, there are ronin gangs from Japan. To the west, there are Turkic-style armed forces who fled after the Delhi Sultanate was defeated by Timur. Although these people have uneven combat capabilities

, but also supplemented Javanese military power.

As for the natives on the Southeast Asian islands, the Javanese Yuan had little confidence in their combat effectiveness. At the earliest, they had mobilized the indigenous troops of the vassal to fight, but their extremely poor performance made the Javanese Yuan officers believe that the side effects

It has exceeded the positive effect.

Most of the indigenous armies have almost no effective effect except to replenish their numbers. They will only consume supplies in vain. They will always collapse quickly on the battlefield, bringing negative psychological effects to friendly forces. If you take this kind of person with you,

, it’s better not to bring it.

Theoretically, if they are strictly trained, the indigenous army should not be so bad in combat effectiveness. However, the Javanese Yuan has dealt with various indigenous forces. Many of them only temporarily surrendered and resented their actions to compete for ports and land.

. Therefore, the Javanese Yuan was not at ease to train them. He only occasionally sent a few vassals to serve as cannon fodder. They could not even face the Ming army and could only suppress other tribes.

With the expansion of trade, ocean trade routes became more and more open, and they gradually discovered some new methods.

Timur's Western Expedition that year penetrated the east coast of the Mediterranean, bringing the region into a long-lost unified situation. After that, smooth trade routes allowed an endless stream of Slavic slaves to set out from southern Russia, pass through the Caucasus, and enter Persia along the two rivers.

Gulf, and then transported all the way to the East. Soon after, the Purple Horde also joined in and opened a route from Constantinople to the Port of Damascus, allowing the flow of slaves to continue to increase.

These white slaves were unfamiliar with the place and did not speak the same language. To the Javanese, native slaves were unreliable and could easily arouse the anger of local tribesmen, but white slaves did not have these shortcomings. Some of them were more loyal and stronger.

Yes, you can also supplement the progress.

Therefore, from that time on, the Javanese became one of the main buyers of white slaves, filling them into plantations in Java, Luzon, and Borneo.

Since the Ming Dynasty monopolized a large number of handicraft products and also tried to crack down on Javanese dollar trade all day long, Javanese dollars have been trying to use self-produced products to replace the Ming Dynasty's smuggled goods, which have become increasingly risky and unstable in supply in recent years. These silks

, ceramics and ironware, although there are still some problems at present, they are also quite popular in the West, allowing them to make considerable profits.

However, Western buyers often cannot provide bulk products that are valuable and can be supplied for a long time, so that the ship can be brought back. If it is not full, it is a waste of precious transportation capacity. The slave trade across the Indian Ocean just makes up for this shortcoming.

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