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The year had come to an end.
Unknowingly, it had been a year since he transmigrated to this world.
During this one year.
From the blankness when he had just become the Xiang King to the decisiveness when he entered Qiongzhou.
To the continuous development of Qiongzhou.
It was a very short period of time, but only Zhu Bai understood how much he had experienced.
The development of the Bay of sanya started from scratch.
The excavation of the Ishigami Silver Mountain.
He started the war between the Wei Nation and the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
The rise of Japanese slaves.
These were all done within a year.
And the entire history, under his hard work, had already undergone subtle changes.
No one knew where the future would lead to.
As for Zhu Bai, now that he was officially in control of Qiongzhou Prefecture, he had already set his sights on Southeast Asia.
He wanted to build an unprecedented maritime empire.
Naturally, it was not just East Asia. Zhu Bai's gaze was fixed on the entire world, or perhaps the entire sea.
To the entire world, the importance of Southeast Asia was unquestionable.
Southeast Asia was the "crossroads" between Asia and Oceania, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The Strait of Malacca was the throat of this intersection, and its strategic position was very important.
Whether it was the Great Voyage Era in history or later generations.
Only by controlling the Strait of Malacca would it have absolute authority.
As a transmigrator, Zhu Bai naturally understood this point even more.
In fact, from the very beginning, his target was not Japan, but Southeast Asia, Malacca.
It was just that he did not have the ability to touch Southeast Asia or Malacca.
There were indeed no powerful countries in Southeast Asia. Most of the countries were extremely weak.
Rather than calling it a country, it was more like a native city-state.
However, in Southeast Asia, a giant had already risen.
That was the current Pirate King, Chen Zuyi.
Chen Zuyi's ancestors were from Chaozhou, Guangdong. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, his family fled to Nanyang and became pirates. It had been entrenched in Malacca for more than ten years and had become one of the world's largest pirate group leaders. At its peak, its members exceeded 10,000. There were nearly a hundred warships. They had plundered more than ten thousand ships and captured more than fifty coastal towns. Some countries in Southeast Asia had even paid tribute to them. Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty once offered a reward of 500,000 taels of silver to capture him. During the Yongle era, the bounty was as high as 7.5 million taels. At that time, the Ming Dynasty's annual financial income was only 11 million taels. This made Chen Zuyi the most wanted criminal in history.
In fact, many historians in the later generations believed that the main reason why Old Zhu closed the country was because the pirates were too rampant. Then, according to this logic, Chen Zuyi's pirate activities led to the Ming Dynasty's ban on the sea, and the isolation of the country led to the fall of China in modern times. In this sense, Chen Zuyi, an unknown figure, had unconsciously become a key figure in changing the direction of China's history.
With his interference, Chen Zuyi was not as powerful as he was in history.
However, the people had already passed, and there were more than a hundred warships.
In addition, he had been entrenched in Southeast Asia for many years, so it was almost difficult for Zhu Bai to resolve it. Therefore, he did not plan to make a move on him in the short term.
But now, with him taking full control of Qiongzhou Prefecture, this person had become an existence that had to be dealt with.
As for whether it could be resolved.
At this moment, Zhu Bai still had some confidence.
After a year of development, his strength had already reached an unbelievable level.
He only needed to prepare for a few more months before he could set off.
He believed that taking down Chen Zuyi in one fell swoop wouldn't be too much of a problem.
And faced with one matter, Zhu Bai naturally put aside all other matters for the time being.
Thoughts ran through his mind.
In the buildings, construction and recruitment began at full speed.
Time slowly passed by.
In order to prevent any accidents from happening, Zhu Bai directly spent almost three months preparing this time.
When the ships entered the sea one by one, he began to command the army to set off.
Under such circumstances, it was now August.
In August of the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang had the idea of moving the capital to Xi'an, so he ordered Zhu Biao to patrol Shaanxi. At the same time, the King of Qin, Zhu Wei, was summoned back to the capital because he had made many mistakes in the local area. Zhu Biao was also asked to take the opportunity to investigate the words and deeds of the King of Qin.
In the capital.
Zhu Yuanzhang sent his son off.
This was the only existence among the many princes.
"Crown Prince, you must remember one thing when you go this time. You just need to inspect Chang 'an and see if it is feasible.”
"Right, Twelve asked you to bring some imperial physicians over. I've already prepared them for you.”
Old Zhu warned seriously.
"Father, there is no need for the imperial doctor. Father is in good health and there will be no problem going to Chang 'an.”
Crown Prince Zhu Biao shook his head, indicating that he did not need a royal doctor.
As for Zhu Bai's reminder back then, he did remember, but he didn't pay much attention to it.
"You should wear it. If you catch a cold on the road, you won't have to suffer!”
Old Zhu shook his head and said with certainty.
"Imperial Father, your health has not been good recently. There is really no need for the imperial doctor.”
Zhu Biao shook his head.
After a few shirks, Zhu Biao ultimately did not bring the imperial physician along.
Although Zhu Bai had already reminded him, Zhu Biao didn't care too much about it.
Of course, he was more worried about his father's health.
Her father was a workaholic.
Once he left, he could predict that his father would deal with it all night long.
Zhu Biao was also afraid that something would happen to his father.
After sensing Zhu Biao's rejection, Old Zhu wanted to speak again, but in the end, he did not force it. After all, this was his son's filial piety.
The correction of history was once again reflected at this moment.
Zhu Bai's words did not have as great of an effect as he had imagined.
Perhaps even if he did, Zhu Biao might not have any other possibilities.
The long-term illness of overwork was not just a problem of a cold.
Zhu Biao was born in September of the first year of Longfeng. When Lao Zhu called him King of Wu, he made him the heir and studied classics with Song Lian. He had been carefully taught since he was young. Ming Taizu had high hopes for him and nurtured him in many ways. In the first month of the first year of Hongwu, he was made the crown prince and officially established as the successor.
After the birth of his second son, Zhu Yunwen. Zhu Biao was twenty-two years old that year. Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was already old, so he ordered that all future political affairs should be reported to the prince for disposal, and then reported to the emperor. He intended to let the prince go to the ministers every day to listen to the announcements of various departments and practice the state affairs.
From then on, Zhu Biao began to learn from his father's diligent thinking and assisted his father in handling daily government affairs.
As a workaholic, Zhu Yuanzhang was like this, and Zhu Biao had no choice but to be like this.
After the Prime Minister was abolished, Crown Prince Zhu Biao became the Prime Minister in name, and his tiredness was evident.
Just look at Zhu Gaochi behind him.
He was also sick from overwork.
They were also short-lived.
Even Zhu Bai hadn't thought of this for the time being.
He thought that he might be able to change something if he advised his elder brother.
He had even made up his mind.
However, in reality, this was not a matter of bringing the imperial doctor along or not.
Of course, at this moment, Zhu Bai didn't pay attention to this.
Three months of preparation.
Now, he had completed the integration of the entire power.
On the surface of Hainan Bay.
Large ships stood tall.
After three months of hard work, the number of his warships had already exceeded 300.
At the same time, the number of soldiers had reached more than 20,000.
This time, he was prepared to go all out.
He wanted to finish off Chen Zuyi in one go.
After all, once Chen Zuyi was taken care of, his control over Southeast Asia would be almost completed.
Southeast Asia might not even have much power in a few hundred years, let alone now.
Now, as long as he dealt with Chen Zuyi, it would be even simpler.
Of course, in order to avoid any accidents, Zhu Bai did not participate this time.
He only planned to lead the ship to encircle and annihilate Chen Zuyi.
Of course, before the siege.
The current Zhu Bai had already begun to lay out his plans.
He had not only spent three months preparing and crafting warships.
With a flash of his eyes, a map appeared in midair.
It was a map that came with the system.
Three months.
Zhu Bai sent people, cargo ships, and fishing boats to various places around Southeast Asia.
From the southern part of South Vietnam to Luzon Island, to the East East Timor, he had already deployed his ships there.
Now, the map of Southeast Asia was completely presented in front of him.
The most obvious one was Lu Song, who was surrounded by a large ball of red.
Zhu Bai couldn't help but be grateful for the bounty his cheapskate father had placed on Chen Zuyi.
This bounty immediately made Chen Zuyi the only one in red.
It could also allow him to quickly determine Chen ZuZuyi's location.
Without this bounty, if they weren't enemies, it would actually be a little troublesome for Zhu Bai to determine this person's location.
After all, Chen Zuyi was not a country, but a pirate. The hardest thing about pirates was to lock onto them.
Now, there was no such problem.
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