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1260 Poke the hornet's nest

In fact, what Emperor Chongzhen called the price was to spend some achievement value and add people. As for the achievement value consumed by temporary groups and photo-taking functions, he had already bought out. If the household registration system of a new vassal state was opened, it would not cost him much.

Of course, if you forcefully calculate all the costs of chat groups, the cost is indeed great. Just buying out temporary groups and taking photos is an astronomical number. However, the main purpose of Emperor Chongzhen's statement to the King of Tang was to let the King of Tang tell other vassal kings that other vassal states also use this household registration system. In this way, as long as the vassal states use a new household registration system, it will be under the control of Emperor Chongzhen.

At that time, he can give the factory guard authority to privately count the population, taxes and other contents of the vassal states, and he can clearly grasp the vassal states without going out.

The Tang King was not the group leader, so he naturally didn't know how much the price was. Although he knew that the emperor would definitely see the population, taxation and other content of the vassal states, he didn't care much about it. The reason for this is that population management has always been a management problem in ancient society, and the instant messaging system of chat groups can be very powerful and perfectly solved this problem.

Second, at this time, even the ambitious Tang King was not ambitious for the Ming Dynasty. In other words, they were raised as pigs since childhood. Although they had been enfeoffed and became vassal kings with real power, the things in their bones remained unchanged.

At this time, they never had any thoughts and wanted to guard against the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, at this time, they tried every means to gain support from the Ming Dynasty and get affirmation from the Ming Dynasty. Even if they knew about these population, taxation and other information, they would not care much about it. Of course, their descendants also thought so, and at this time they would not care about it.

It was precisely because of the above two reasons that when the King of Tang heard Emperor Chongzhen agree, he was immediately overjoyed. After saying thank you continuously, he immediately went to the chat group of the vassal kings and started his show again.

Emperor Chongzhen was diving and watching him perform silently.

The King of Tang said that he wanted to share his experience in governing the country, and Balabala talked about a lot of management difficulties he encountered. The most basic thing for a country is population management. When he said this, the King of Fu, who had already experienced something, agreed with King Yi, and another pile of bitterness.

Then, the King of Tang said that he had heard from Wei Zhongliang about the new household registration system and Balabala again. During this period, he received the approval of the vassal kings who were not enfeoffed. Because as long as the people in the Ming Dynasty, including the vassal kings, were all registered. At this time, they did not care about any privacy or not, and the emperor had the order, so he naturally had to implement it.

When the Tang King heard someone agree, he spoke even more excitedly, but because he knew that the emperor might see him speak, he did not dare to exaggerate it. He just said that he asked the emperor for permission and that the vassal states could also join a new household registration system, which could solve the population management problem very well. If you want to join us, hurry up and get on the bus together.

The King of Tang was already considered a relatively good job among the vassal kings. He didn't care about the population information of his country being mastered by the Ming Dynasty, let alone other vassal kings. As long as they could solve the problem and make their rule smoother, they would think more. For a moment, King Fu and King Yi immediately agreed, and the other vassal kings were not willing to fall behind. Even the vassal kings who had not been enfeoffed were yelling not to forget that they also wanted this new household registration management.

In this way, with the proactive request of these vassal kings, the new household registration system of the Ming Dynasty covered the vassal states.

Of course, the vassal states have separate folders to store information. The vassal kings and the people designated by the vassal kings can access these folders. As for other folders, they have no permissions. For this reason, Emperor Chongzhen did not just talk. He needed to add more chat group members. If it was the best for the vassal state, if not, he would have to send chat group members from the Ming Dynasty to act as the household registration administrator of the vassal state.

Just when Emperor Chongzhen and the vassal kings were busy with the new household registration management system, six sailing warships appeared on the Little Western Ocean, that is, the Indian Ocean sea in later generations. One of them was standing there on the flagship, and several Western Yi were standing there looking at the coastline in the distance. One of them said to the person standing in the middle and was watching with a telescope: "Captain, this place should belong to Bangladesh. A few years ago, the Portuguese were defeated by the natives here and escaped from here!"

These people were British, sent by Charles I to the fleet of the East. The leader was Captain Widdle. Their purpose was mainly to hear about the wealth of the East, and they also wanted to see what opportunities to make a fortune.

In the original history, this fleet would not set off from London until the ninth year of Chongzhen. But on this plane, due to the butterfly effect, it set off one year in advance.

At this time, Britain was not the empire that never set, but its strength was in an upward period. If in the original history, this fleet arrived outside the cross gate in southern Macau the following year, the Portuguese in Macau sent ships directly to stop the fleet because of their own interests, and they would not be able to trade.

There was no way, Captain Weidell led his fleet to Guangzhou, but clashed with the Ming Humen defenders and occupied the Humen Fort. They thought that the Ming Dynasty was as weak as the natives of other colonies, so they wanted to force the Ming Dynasty to trade with them, so they continued to move towards Guangzhou and plunder along the way. As a result, it attracted the Ming Dynasty's counterattack. In desperation, Weidell quickly asked the Portuguese to be a peacemaker.

In the end, Widdle compensated 2,800 taels of silver and promised not to come to the Ming Dynasty again. Only then did the matter be resolved and returned to Britain in shame.

Of course, on this plane, they only reached the coast of Bangladesh, which was still early before the Ming Dynasty!

Listening to the guide's introduction, Weidell looked into the distance. Suddenly, he found that two ships seemed to be coming to the direction of the coastline. He quickly adjusted the focal length of the telescope and looked carefully. After a long time, he asked a little strangely: "What's going on? The sailing warship must be from our Europe, right? But I have never seen the flag hanging on it before!"

These British people were a little curious when they heard this. The guide beside Widdle had also been to the East a long time ago and was not aware of the current situation. Therefore, after looking at it with the help of a telescope, he answered Widdle helplessly: "Captain, this flag should not be from Europe, and I have never seen it before."

After pausing, he guessed a little, "There are no sail warships in the East. I guess, which colony this may belong to? But it shouldn't be. No matter which colony it is, it should have the flag of the country to which their master belongs!"

After guessing, no one could guess anything. When Widdle saw it, he curled his lips slightly, and said with a hint of disdain: "No need to guess, fight formation, surround them, grab them and ask, and you'll know the situation!"

There are six warships on their side, and there are only two warships on the other side. There is definitely no problem with six on two. Moreover, the British Empire has no friendly forces here, so no matter who they face, they will not be wrong anyway.

When the captain's orders were heard, the others could not help but nod. It was just such a simple thing. So the flagship immediately issued an order through the flag words and prepared to start the war.

What they did not expect was that the two sail warships opposite with overlapping flags of red sun and yellow moon seemed to immediately realize their intentions and immediately called them the common flag language.

"Captain, the opponent warned us not to show hostility, and we must do what the other party could say." The lookout soldier on the flagpole shouted loudly to the bottom, with a hint of amusing in his words.

After hearing this, Widell said that when his side's force was stronger than the other side, it was naturally impossible to be obedient. He didn't answer at all, which means that his previous orders were still valid.

So, the six sail warships continued to deploy combat, but before they could finish preparations, the lookouts on the flagpole reported loudly: "Captain, the enemy is about to escape!"

When Widdle heard this, he immediately raised his telescope and looked over. Sure enough, the two sailing warships did not engage in the battle, but turned a corner and fled to the coast.

"Haha, see where you are running away!" Weidel sneered and immediately ordered, "Follow up and keep the battle alert!"

There is a routine for those who go out to colonize. If they see that there is a advantage to take after they come out, then they will take advantage of it. If there is no advantage to take, then it depends on the situation. In short, they will bully the weak and fear the strong.

In this way, six sail warships chased two sail warships with overlapping flags of red sun and yellow moon, and went all the way to the coast.

After a period of time, the route was getting closer and closer to the coastline. Weidell suddenly discovered through a telescope that there were many ships near the sea, which looked like civilian ships and cargo ships, but were not armed ships anyway. Most of them were ships from the east, and few Western sailing ships.

"Is there a bustling port here?" Weidell turned to ask the guide.

The guide was also confused. When he came here a few years ago, there was no prosperous port here. But now he can see with his naked eyes that there are many passing ships on the seaside near the coast in the distance.

I don't understand! In desperation, the guide shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, saying that he didn't know either.

Soon, either the two escaped sailboats in front of them were warned, or they saw them themselves, and the cargo ships and other things began to flee in the same direction and speed up.

Seeing this situation, Widdle showed a smug smile on his face. They had seen such situations many times after they set out from London. Such things often happened on the indigenous coastlines. He led his fleet in and could basically rob. Otherwise, he would not have gone so far without supplies.

Not only Widdle thought so, but the other British men on the six sailing warships all showed cat-playing and mouse-like smiles. Everyone seemed very relaxed.

As the coastline was getting closer, Widdle and others saw it more and more clearly. They were all people with vision, and immediately realized that it seemed that it was really prosperous.

So, a flag was heard from a sailing warship, and the flag soldiers immediately reported to Weidell: "Please ask other warships for instructions. If the attack on the port is smooth later, can we attack the shore directly?"

After all, they only have six warships. If the shore is a large indigenous city, there may be too many people on the other side. After the indigenous people react, they may be outnumbered. However, if the indigenous people go ashore and rob them before the indigenous people react, the gain will be great.

After hearing this, Weidell pondered for a moment and replied, "Everything will be the same!"

Finally, these British warships saw the port on the coastline. They saw that the houses on the shore were lined up one after another and covered a wide area. It was obvious that they were indeed a very prosperous place. As a result, these British men who had sailed from afar screamed excitedly. In their eyes, the more prosperous the place, the greater the harvest!

However, just as they were about to fight around the indigenous port, they saw ships coming out from the port in the distance.

At the beginning, Widdle didn't care. No matter how stupid the natives were, they would not surrender. They would definitely fight back. However, after he simply killed the natives' resistance, everything would be fine.

He thought so, holding the telescope, just as he was about to look, suddenly, the lookout soldier on the flagpole lowered his head and shouted, with horror in his voice: "Captain, retreat quickly, poke the hornet's nest, it's all sail warships! Captain, retreat quickly..."

When Widdle heard this, he was shocked and quickly looked over with the help of a telescope.

The lookout soldiers were right. The ships that came out of the port were like the two sail warships I encountered before, all of which were covered with red sun and yellow moon flags. It can be seen from both sides of the ship that there were many cannon positions. The most important thing is that these sail warships are one after another, and I don’t know how many there are in the port. Anyway, there is no need to count them. The number of sail warships on the opponent is far more than the six of their own.

Damn it, it really hurts the hornet's nest. How come there are so many sailing warships here?

Weidell cursed while confused, and then quickly ordered: "Retreat, retreat quickly, retreat quickly!"

It has to be said that these British people have the first-class ability to escape. All the crew cooperated and cooperated, and the six sail warships immediately fled, and the speed became faster and faster. Slowly, they finally threw away the warships that caught up.

When they fled to the safe sea, the other warships spoke flags and asked what to do next?

Widell thought about it, although he didn't understand why there were so many strange sailing warships here, he thought about his mission and finally decided to continue sailing eastward.

However, he didn't know that the person chasing his fleet was Liang Xiaozhen, the commander of the Ming Navy. His subordinates were not as familiar with the sailing ships as Western Yi. After being escaped, he looked at the direction of the Western Yi's escape and entered the chat group.
Chapter completed!
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