Chapter 18         Return

Wang Zhi still didn't believe in the kindness of the Lion Kingdom. After a few temptations, he believed it.

However, Wang Zhi discovered that there were a large number of Hui nobles in the Lion Kingdom. Of course, there were also many Hindu sects and Buddhism in the Lion Kingdom.

Overall, it is a country with complex religions.

It was just because of navigation and trade that Hui nobles had a great power in the country.

If this continues to evolve without external intervention, it is estimated that the Lion Kingdom will become a sultanate in decades, or one or two hundred years.

Wang Zhi dared not be unpredictable either.

Take the ship into the port of the Lion Kingdom.

Wang Zhi even chose a port that was close to the outside.

It is convenient to leave here at any time, and the people in the Lion Kingdom cannot stop them.

The only thing I worry about is night attacks.

So Wang Zhi restrained the sailors, and most of them were on the boat. Even if they could get ashore, they could only walk within the view of the boat and could not go far, just in case.

He immediately sent the Xian family's staff to discuss business.

Because Wang Zhi decided to return to the flight, he was preparing to sell all the goods he brought.

There are only twenty ships of cargo, and the Lion Kingdom cannot be eaten in one bite. It must be waited for people from other countries to eat it.

After all, the Lion Kingdom is more about re-export trade. The Lion Kingdom’s own consumption capacity is quite limited.

Even so, the Lion King took the goods with the greatest sincerity.

So Wang Zhi got what he had.

Use ordinary sacks to hold some stones.

However, these stones are colorful and crystal clear, and can be said to be gems. The most important of them are rubies and sapphires, each with excellent colors.

Of course, in Wang Zhi's opinion, the craftsmanship of the Lion people is a bit trendy. Many gems have not been well polished.

Wang Zhi is also a person who has seen the world. His sister naturally has countless gems in the prince's womb. Compared with these gems, some can beat them, and some can't beat them.

Even if there are some things that can be defeated, it is not that Concubine Wang’s gems must be good, but the grinding process is a problem.

With the craftsmanship of the court, even ordinary gems can be increased tenfold.

This whole bag can be exchanged for tens of thousands of taels of silver in Daming.

The Ming Dynasty gems are sold in terms of how many taels of silver are used. I don’t know how many of them are there in this whole sack.

This is not the only gain that the fleet has gained here.

There are nearly 100,000 taels of silver and tens of thousands of taels of gold.

Navigation is really a tenfold benefit.

Wang Zhi was a little ready to sail directly to the sky to see how many times the benefits he could have. But he quickly suppressed the restlessness in his heart.

On the one hand, the goods were all emptied.

Even if Wang Zhi still wants to go west, is it useful?

If there is no goods, go grab it? After all, Wang Zhi is not a pirate. He can make a guest appearance for a moment and specializes in pirate affairs. Wang Zhi still feels that he has a downside.

Another aspect is that Wang Zhi also asked merchants everywhere about the situation.

It can be said that as long as you pass here and enter the sea west of India, the surrounding areas are all Hui and Islamic countries.

Wang Zhi estimated that the situation he encountered in Alagan would be staged again in these countries.

Wang Zhi finally decided to return to China.

When Wang Zhi was about to go, Wang Zhi came forward to reach an agreement with the King of the Lion Kingdom, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty could trade directly here.

In this way, Wang Zhi's trip to the west was not completely fruitless.

At least, the Ming Dynasty merchant ships could cross the ocean and go directly to the Lion Kingdom to trade, without having to transfer in Aceh.

Of course, the Lion Kingdom does not guarantee whether there are any accidents on the way to the Lion Kingdom when the Ming ships come to the Lion Kingdom. It is just that the power of Huihui Maritime Merchant is very strong, but the Daming Maritime Merchant is not a fire stick.

It is not something that Wang Zhi is interested in if they fight like this.

Shortly after Wang Zhi left the Lion Kingdom, several ships came from the west.

These ships are not common in Southeast Asia and even South Asia, but in Western styles.

Yes, these people are Portuguese ships.

There are only three ships, and the leader is Diaz.

The Ming Dynasty has been open for decades, and its impact on the world is global, not limited to the Ming Dynasty and even Southeast Asia.

In this era, Westerners only occupied a small piece of international trade. The real trade was maritime trade between Arabia, India and Ming Dynasty.

Because only the trading volume between these three sectors can have significant benefits.

The Ming Dynasty's active participation in the ocean has been transmitted to the West decades later. Of course, when Chinese goods go to the West, they have to go through the Arabs and then through the Venetians, and the price has increased many times.

With the Ming Dynasty's active participation in trade, people from Western countries became even more jealous of the interests in this.

They are jealous of porcelain and spices, and even more so because of the prosperity of Foshan's iron industry, they proposed the sugar industry that was produced.

Yes, these white crystal particles can defeat the taste buds of any Western person. The interests in it are comparable to current drug trafficking.

But facing the expensive price that almost rushes to the sky.

It even stimulated the Portuguese to explore the East step by step.

Diaz was the first to bypass the Cape of Good Hope in history, but history did not favor him. After he bypassed the Cape of Good Hope, the fleet was exhausted and could no longer continue to advance eastward, so he returned to Portugal.

After him, Dagama inherited his career and was the first to come to India.

The Ming Dynasty's participation in the butterfly effect of the ocean made the Portuguese aristocracy's yearning for India even more intense, so Diaz brought supply ships, which was better than history.

So Diaz was the first navigator to arrive in India.

After Diaz arrived in India, they traded with Indian princes. However, they did not carry too much cargo and were ready to return. They heard that a Chinese fleet appeared in the Lion Kingdom.

In this era, the Westerners yearned for China was a kind of fanaticism, called China's fever.

So Diaz decided to meet the Chinese businessmen first.

But he came one step slower and missed Wang Zhi's fleet.

Diaz was very disappointed. In his diary, Diaz could only collect some information about the Chinese fleet in the Lion Kingdom and purchased some Chinese goods.

After all, Wang Zhi doesn't know how to do business. Such large-scale goods are purchased in Lion Country, but the price has actually been reduced. Within the past or two months, the Chinese goods in Lion Country will be the cheapest in India.

Diaz left the Lion Kingdom with regret.

His fleet could no longer allow him to continue to go east. After all, after such a long sailing, both the sailors on the ship and Dias himself were already very tired.

The ship is in a bad state.

In addition, it is also a long journey back to Portugal.

However, Diaz wrote in his log: "I will be back in the end."

The missed encounter between Diaz and Wang Zhi made the collision between the Ming and Portugal ten years late. Ten years later, when the Ming Dynasty met the Portuguese again in the Indian Ocean.

The Indian Ocean can no longer be called the Indian Ocean, it can only be called the Western Ocean forever.

However, at that time, the Ming Dynasty had changed things and people, so if we deal with it, Zhu Qizhen would no longer have to consider it. Because that was the matter of the new king.

Wang Zhi didn't know that he had missed a historic moment.

Maybe even if I know, I won’t care.

Because the people of the Ming Dynasty were so arrogant, they thought they were China and regarded foreigners as barbarians.

Even the Portuguese were just a little farther away from the Western barbarians. Whether to meet or not was not within Wang Zhi's consideration of whether he met them, so he was even more worried about the waterway.

After all, this route has not been used in the Ming Dynasty for decades.

Even the most experienced veterans can't use their experience here. They can only rely on Zheng He's needle route.

The so-called needle path is the angle formed by the compass and the stars in the sky, which is used to guide the direction.

However, although there are some twists and turns, the people Wang Zhi brought were always the first-class sailing talents in the Ming Dynasty. Although there were deviations, they were only a few dozen miles away.

When we arrived west of the Strait of Malacca, we became familiar with the sea conditions here. After making a little correction, we successfully entered the Strait of Malacca.

This made everyone feel relieved.
Chapter completed!