After passing the Pauk Strait, we did not stop in the desolate Jaffna, but headed straight for Ceylon, which is today Sri Lanka.

People who have been to Sri Lanka are deeply impressed by this place. It was formerly known as Ceylon, and it is a typical tropical island country. It was once called the Lion Kingdom, the Shizi Kingdom, and the Sinhalese Kingdom in the Ming Dynasty.

Ceylon's economy is very simple in structure and is an absolute agricultural country. The most important export product is Ceylon black tea, one of the three largest tea producers in the world. Therefore, the country's economy is deeply influenced by the tea market. When tea rises, Ceylon will have money to spend; when tea falls, Ceylon will beg for food together...

As I said just now, Ceylon is also an island rich in gemstones, the world's top five gem producers, and is known as the "Gem Island". Especially rubies, sapphires and cat eyes are the most famous. But to put it bluntly, they are all sold and raw ore, and have no processing business, and their added value has been exploited by outsiders. Therefore, the biggest feature of this place is - poverty...

Another feature here is heat! We delivered some goods on the ship that need to be sold here, mainly cotton and linen products and ceramics, and the sales are excellent! We also bought some cheap red and sapphires, handed them over to the Blade Sea employees here, and took them back to the Ming Dynasty, and processed and sold by the Vest Chamber of Commerce.

However, at noon the next day after we arrived in Ceylon, we received an unexpected warning!

The owner of the hotel, Alihan, is a local in his forties and an acquaintance of the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce. After knowing that I was the boss of the Blade Sea Chamber of Commerce, when I went to dinner at noon the next day, Alihan suddenly walked to me, saluted and sat down, approached me and said softly: "Boss Sun! You shouldn't go west again lately! It's very dangerous!" He has been doing business here for many years and can speak languages ​​from all countries, so there is no problem with communication.

I frowned and said, "Why is it dangerous? Please tell me in detail!"

Alihan seemed very afraid, looked around and didn't dare to speak much, so he turned around and entered the inner room. I nodded to the others, then got up and followed in, and along the way I felt some unfriendly gazes from some locals.

I was puzzled, what's going on? Did Ren Hai offend people here?

After entering the inner room, Alihan was waiting for me. When he saw me coming in, he looked around and saw that no one was following him. He closed the door and invited me to sit at the table in the inner room.

"Mr. Sun, the Bandhai Chamber of Commerce is my old customer, otherwise I wouldn't have talked too much!" Ali Hanxian made his position.

I nodded, took out a ingot of silver and placed it on the table, bowed and said, "Of course I understand this! I hope the boss can explain it in detail!"

Alihan looked at the silver, but pushed it back to me and said, "I said this was not for the sake of silver, but for the sake of Renhai's friends."

After saying that, he lowered his voice and continued: "Recently, the war between Myanmar and the Ming Dynasty has begun!"

When I heard this, I suddenly remembered that at the end of the 16th century, the Ming Dynasty did fight an unknown battle with Myanmar! At this moment, I couldn't remember how to go through it in a hurry, so I could only nod and ask Alihan to continue speaking.

Alihan's voice became even lower: "Another cousin, I am working in the palace of Karihet. I heard that this war was nominally fighting between Myanmar and the Ming Dynasty. In fact, the Mughal Emperor also supported him behind the scenes, and there may be even more Portuguese red-haired small moves behind the scenes..."

After hearing this, I remembered it! In 1582, Queen Elizabeth of England sent merchant John Newbery with the Eastern Expedition to bring letters to the Mughal Emperor and the Ming Dynasty emperor, hoping that the three parties could trade in exchange for greater trade volume and profits, and exclude other countries from this huge business district in order to maintain the increasingly powerful imperial dream and better compete with Spain and Portugal.

However, when these British envoys passed through India, their letters were arrested by the Portuguese who had strongly intervened, and they were eventually unable to be sent to the Ming Dynasty. The Portuguese wanted to monopolize the trade between the Mughal Empire and the Ming Dynasty. They neither wanted Britain to trade with these two countries nor the two to trade with each other. However, the Mughal emperor was very smart and did not bewitched by them. The Portuguese on the Ming Dynasty were even more out of reach.

So after thinking about it, these red-haired ghosts finally decided to instigate Myanmar, which had been inconsistent with the Ming Dynasty, to invade the north and attack the Ming Dynasty!

Just imagine, how could the weak Myanmar fight with the powerful Ming Dynasty? But the reality is that this Ming-Myanmar War, which had been fighting for nearly 50 years, was at an disadvantage in the early stages of the war! The battle locations of the war were also concentrated in the "West Antarctic Border" of the Ming Dynasty, in other words, it was the modern Yunnan area.

This year in history, that is, the 11th year of Wanli, in the first month of the 1583rd year of the Gregorian calendar, the Burmese army burned and plundered Shidian and attacked Shunning and Zhanda. Wherever they went, "killing and plundering were indefinitely", which brought great damage to the local area. The Burmese army captured cities and plundered lands on the southwest border, killed people and set fires, and even went deep into Shunning Prefecture to peek at Tengyue, Yongchang, Dali, Menghua, Jingdong and other places, and the Ming court was shocked. The Yunnan local governor and garrison troops hurriedly took action to deal with the invasion of the Burmese army.

The two sides began to exchange fierce fire in Yunnan, but they were stalemate. It was not until Liu Ting and Deng Zilong's troops "meet the barbarians". With the cooperation of the local chieftain army, they defeated the Burmese army in Panzhihua land south of Yao Pass, killed Gengma chieftain Hanqian and Wandian Prefecture chieftain Jing Zongzhen, captured the younger brother of Emperor Jing Zhenzong, and won the Panzhihua victory that the balance of the war began to tilt towards the Ming Dynasty.

I can't remember the specific war process clearly, but behind Myanmar, there must be secret support from the Mughal Empire. The reason is that the Ming army's combat log at that time mentioned many times that the Burmese army had a large number of elephant soldiers! That is, the elephant used for war! This is a war weapon with extremely strong destructive power. This powerful army is the patent of the Mughal Empire. If it weren't for their secret help, Myanmar would not have gathered so many large-scale elephant soldiers to attack the Ming Dynasty in a small area!

In the early days of the war, this huge and invulnerable thing made the Ming army very scared, and the Ming army retreated step by step. However, General Deng Zilong found the key point in several confrontations with it - he found something that the elephant was afraid of! It was not a mouse, but a lion!

So in a battle not long ago, General Deng Zilong discovered the Burmese army's behavior of persuading surrender but actually spyed. He deliberately arranged the old, weak, sick and disabled in the camp, but dispatched the elites to the mountains to hide. The Burmese army was indeed deceived and began to attack Deng Zilong's camp! The ones who were in the brunt were hundreds of elephant soldiers showing their power!

However, Deng Zilong's troops were ready for a long time. They made a lot of fake lions. When the elephant soldiers rushed into the camp, Deng Zilong ordered people to ignite these paper fake lions. When the elephants saw it, my goodness! So many terrible things! They were immediately scared.

The elephant soldiers who were charging forward were no longer restricted and began to flee in the opposite direction! This caused a serious stampede! At this point, more and more elephant soldiers entered a frightened situation. The Burmese army was in chaos without fighting, and suffered great casualties! Deng Zilong's troops naturally would not miss such a good opportunity, and pursued with all their might and achieved great victory!

Alihan's voice sounded again: "Mr. Sun, look at your expression, you seem to know this already! You want me to be careful! Ceylon is not a territory of Mughals, and people are no longer friendly to the people of the Ming Dynasty. If you go west, it is hard to say that you will encounter misfortune! Bandhai is all good people! Good people should not encounter misfortune!"

After saying that, he folded his hands together and saluted me.

I put my hands together and gave me a gift, took out another ingot of silver, a total of two ingots, and pushed it to Alihan again and said, "If you can tell me this, it means you are using our Rib Sea as friends! Friends shouldn't talk about money, but this is my meal! Just treat it as a prepayment!"

When Alihan heard this, he was so embarrassed that his subordinates kept telling me not to talk nonsense and not to go west before leaving!

Of course I agreed, and went out and called everyone to rush back to the stronghold of Bianhai as soon as possible.

Sitting in the big room and closing the door, I told you the situation. To be honest, among the people sitting, except for me, I was from the Ming Dynasty, Haleha and Mavi were half a Ming Dynasty, and there was no other Ming Dynasty person. But they all knew that although I left my hometown, I was always concerned about the safety of the Ming Dynasty because of my second uncle, so I would care about the matter I knew today.

So now it has become a question of how to manage it.

Mo sent out an intelligence network on the first day we came, and to this day, he had collected some intelligence. In order to support Myanmar's invasion of the Ming Dynasty, the Mughal Empire gathered a considerable amount of material resources, especially a considerable number of elephant soldiers, and gathered from Kalihat to board the ship and headed to a port near Myanmar.

Recently I heard that a group of elephant soldiers were about to be transported, with about seventy or eighty heads. They are currently gathering around Kalihat and will board the ship to Myanmar soon!

Oh! And this situation? My eyes suddenly lit up. If we were not powerful generals of the Elephant Soldiers on 6, but at sea, the situation seemed to be completely different!

I asked Jiugui Zhengxiao to open the chart. I stared at it for a long time, and suddenly poked my fingers heavily in one position!

That night, Bianhai mobilized as a whole and made preparations. After the specific situation, I took a few people and took a boat west and then north, and rushed to Karihat first!

Although Alihan repeatedly warned me and reminded me that it was dangerous there, I was not afraid of anything! I would not be relieved if I didn’t go and see it myself!

Sitting on the boat, I patted the light-swallowing sword in my hand and said in my heart: "Second Uncle, Qi Lan is far away from overseas, but she will never sit and watch the Ming Dynasty suffer! If I can do ten, I will do my best to do twelve points! This is a dangerous place, I hope the spirit of the second Uncle in heaven will bless me!"

After saying this, I continued to look at the darkness at the bow of the ship silently, but I didn't notice that the three-color stone pendant on my chest flashed quietly several times, as if responding to my prayers!

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Chapter completed!