424th Geographical Discovery

The third century was shorter than Wei Dongsheng had imagined.

In 1465, Wei Dongsheng died in the assassination of Jiaozhi chaotic thieves at the age of 51.

Compared with the first emperor of Wei Xia and the achievements of the second Jin Dynasty, the third Wei Dongsheng's influence on the Wei Xia dynasty is very small, and the name can only exist in the local biography of the Jiaozhi domain. Therefore, the death of Wei Dongsheng's third generation did not bring any turbulence to the Wei Xia Dynasty.

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After the preparation time on the 18th, the fourth life experience kicked off.

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In 1464, Wei Shansheng passed away and his eldest son Wei Liangzhi succeeded to the throne and was the sixth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

From Wei Anhao to Wei Shengying, Wei Yongfeng to Wei Shansheng, and then to Wei Liangzhi, the people gradually accepted that the system of enfeoffment was a historical regression. Wei Liangzhi Shuntian extinguished the idea of ​​cutting the vassal vassal, and turned to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to treat the five kingdoms with different surnames, the nine vassal vassals at home, and the six vassal countries overseas. Wei Liangzhi proficiently used diplomatic wisdom and used the topic of "establishing a virtuous" or "establishing a protagonist" to instigate Lu to fight for the throne; when Lu was busy in internal fighting, Wei Liangzhi instigated the four counties of Henan Province and greatly weakened Lu At the same time, the prestige of the country also prompted the kingdoms of Zhao, Jin, Wei and Zhou to carry out a thirteen-year war around the ownership of the Earl of Weihui and the Earl of Luoyang. Years of war.

The Jiaozhi domain showed the advantages of the enfeoffment system, while Weihui's Thirteen Years' War in Luoyang showed the disadvantages of the enfeoffment system.

From the perspective of the real world, the so-called Weihui Thirteen Years War in Luoyang can be simply described as Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi people fighting for actual control of northern Henan. Compared with the unifying Zhu Ming dynasty in the real world, the people of the five provinces did not have to suffer from Wei Hui's 13-year war in Luoyang.

Back to the perspective of world history.

The northern vassal states were tired of war, and the people were also suffering from war. Everyone gradually missed the benefits of a unified dynasty. With the help of Wei Liangzhi, the people longed for the emperor's grace, and the northern vassals also obeyed one after another. The imperial prestige reached the highest peak since Wei Shengying. If we keep working hard, Wei Liangzhi may have the opportunity to annex the northern vassal states through diplomatic means.

Unfortunately, just as the situation was very good, the Imperial South suddenly ushered in a new challenge.

Because with the slow development of natural science and the steady improvement of navigational technology, the small and transparent vassal states in the two empires of Yue Kingdom and Weiguo have been exposed for a long time. When the Central Plains continued to fought against and against the vassalization of the vassal vassal, the Yue Kingdom and Weiguo took the opportunity to absorb a large number of war refugees. One year and ten years, of course, there is no obvious effect. When the time scale is calculated in a hundred years, the royal family and the northern vassal states suddenly Yue Guo and Wei Guo have established the current first navy and second navy.

The northern vassal states just showed a tendency to ease, and the southern states of Yue and Wei rose up again, and Wei Liangzhi wanted to cry without tears.

The plan to cut the faculty is completely hopeless.

Speaking of the ocean, it is a surprise brought to Wei Dongsheng by the Wei Xia Dynasty.

Considering that the inferior product Tomorrow Ring is only an educational product, and considering the restriction of prohibiting the dissemination of social science and natural science, Wei Dongsheng never took pains to start the era of great geographic discovery. Unexpectedly, Wei Dongsheng's unpractical era of great navigation was quietly activated by the two vassal states of Yue and Wei.

Looking back at the history of the Wei Xia dynasty, due to the imperial family's focus on cutting the northern part of the vassal, the Yue Kingdom and the Wei Kingdom gradually became marine trade brokers from Southeast Asia to the Central Plains. With such a gradual and gradual development, Vietnam has not only monopolized East Asian maritime trade by virtue of its geographical advantages and human resource advantages, it has also consolidated the navies of Shunta, Foqi, Luzon, Borneo, and Haixing into the Indian Ocean as a leader. After Yipiyiyishang and Juanjiao merchants (Middle East, West Asia, etc.) engaged in numerous naval battles, Vietnam took the lead in establishing maritime hegemony in the South and Indian Oceans.

There are struggles and cooperation between the vassal states. Since the Vietnamese country is unable to single-handedly defeat all competitors in South Asia, West Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa, it simply uses covenants to share the benefits of maritime trade with other vassal states. Among them, due to the highest degree of threat to the Patriotic State, the Yue State often deliberately suppressed the second child of the maritime hegemony system and united with the five southern vassal states to limit the Patriotic’s trade share.

In order to break through Vietnam's maritime blockade, Weiguo had to try to break out of the traditional maritime trade zone and explore new trade zones along the East African coastline.

Unlike the real-world voyage documentaries, Weiguo’s ocean exploration has no aggressive marches or exciting eulogy to legends. Commercial interests push the ship to go south, walk for a while and stop for a while, set up trading points with a smile when encountering valuable trade items, and desperately declare bankruptcy when encountering a barren plateau. After failing again and again, and succeeding by chance again and again, Weiguo Maritime Merchants bypassed Africa unknowingly and stepped on South America unknowingly.

In 1470, the fifth year after the death of Wei Dongsheng of the Third Century, a patriotic ship was accidentally swept to Brazil in South America by a storm. However, until the advent of the Fourth Wei Dongsheng in 1483, Weiguo did not understand how vast South America was. They had always misunderstood that South America Brazil is a large and desolate island. The latest printed nautical chart, South America Brazil is the outline of a large island that has not yet been explored, and was named the Great Wilderness by the Patriotic State. Although Brazil in South America was extremely barren at this time, there still existed some primitive tribes along the coast that did not regard gold as money. The gold accumulated by these primitive tribes for countless years eventually went into the pockets of the maritime merchants of the Patriotic State.

What surprised the maritime merchants of the Patriotic Country more than Brazil in South America was their encounter with Portugal.

Portugal, one of the protagonists of the era of real-world geographic discovery, is also approaching its fate in an orderly manner. Around 1470, Portugal had established many outposts in West Africa, and was ignorantly trying to explore the seas from Nigeria to the Congo.

Patriotic armed merchant ships and Portuguese expedition ships met head-on in Southwest Africa.

Although they were unable to communicate smoothly with each other, and despite their severe religious and cultural conflicts, the terrifying commercial profits made the two companies quickly reach a cooperation agreement. Commodities such as pepper, cane sugar, porcelain, and silk were continuously imported into Europe through Portuguese intermediaries; currencies such as gold and silver flowed into the pockets of the maritime merchants of the Guardian.

In just ten years, Weiguo maritime merchants became the wealthiest group of people in the Wei Xia Empire.

Of course, the country of Vietnam is not willing to defend its country and enjoy the profits of European maritime trade exclusively.

However, after the establishment of the Jiaozhi domain, the Wei-Xia dynasty has formed a huge empire consisting of the royal family and twenty domains. Just like the Spring and Autumn Period after the decline of the Jizhou dynasty, vassal diplomacy gradually became the new normal for vassal states and vassal states, and many vassals could not bear the serious consequences of recklessly breaking the covenant. Take the maritime competition between Yue and Wei as an example. If Yue has no credibility and brutally tears up the previous covenant, the five southern vassals such as Shunta, Foqi, and Haixing will doubt Yue’s sincerity and unite with Wei. Vietnam, indirectly or directly raises the diplomatic cost of Vietnam to maintain maritime hegemony.

Since it can't forcefully destroy the trade routes that protect the country, Vietnam has to work hard to find a new Portugal and a new Europe.

In 1474, Vietnam’s huge rewards came to fruition, and the new continents such as Australia, New Zealand, South America and North America were quickly lifted in a short period of time. However, the Vietnamese state heavily rewarded the new routes for commercial profit, and high-quality colonies like Australia and New Zealand were so small that they could be ignored. The senior leaders of Vietnam resolutely abandon the southern islands such as Australia and New Zealand, and regard the more distant South and Central America as the golden route, because the indigenous states of Central America and the indigenous states of South America can quickly bring endless gold.

The Patriotic State successfully advanced into Africa and South America, Brazil, and monopolized the profits of European maritime trade; Vietnam established a Pacific route and monopolized the profits of American maritime trade represented by the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire.

When Wei Dongsheng arrived in 1483, neither the Yue Kingdom nor the Wei Kingdom realized that the Great Wilderness (Brazil in South America) and Penglai (America) were a continent. The newly published chart shows the Great Wilderness in the west of Kunlun (Africa), and Penglai in the vast sea in the east. The two are separated by thousands of miles.

Neither Vietnam nor Weiguo understood the meaning of the Penglai New World at this time, but the new Penglai route and the new European route unintentionally brought massive amounts of precious metals such as gold and silver to the two countries. Since the opening of the new channel, the purchasing power of gold and silver has plummeted, which also means that the prices of other vassals have taken off suddenly. There is harm when there is a comparison. Vietnam and Weiguo used the massive gold and silver of the new routes to build more new warships and armed merchant ships. The naval power quickly and greatly surpassed Wu, Lu, Zhao, Yan and Le. The traditional strong vassals such as Lang Guo.

Wei Dongsheng never expected that without his deliberate guidance, the Yue Kingdom and Wei Guo also successfully represented the Wei Xia Dynasty to participate in the great geographical discovery.

Moreover, combining the second-hand information with mixed truth and falsehood, the ship manufacturing technology of the Patriotic State is slightly stronger than that of Portugal, and its combat effectiveness is slightly stronger than that of Portugal. The Patriotic Maritime Merchants commented on Portuguese expedition ships and maritime merchants: they are stronger than Western (Indian Ocean) maritime merchants, do not expect to hit more with less; but not as good as us. If the number of ships is equal, they will definitely win.

This evaluation is not the arrogance of Weiguo Marine Merchants.

The Patriarchate and Portugal had numerous conflicts over the distribution of trade profits, but they still managed to contain Portugal in West Africa. The two have met for more than ten years. Portugal has never been able to break out of the southwestern corner of Africa. The colonies and trading points that Portugal tried to establish in southern and eastern Africa have been successfully purged by the Patriotic State again and again. Perhaps, trade containment does not perfectly reflect the combat effectiveness of the navy, but it can prove that the overall strength of the country is stronger than that of Portugal.

As the saying goes, peers are enemies. Both the Weiguo and Portugal are based on maritime trade. Whoever controls the sea better is eligible for more profits. It is impossible for each other to understand each other's intrusion into their own hinterland. Although the Patriarchate did not defeat Portugal as powerfully as possible, it cut off the eastward road of Portugal in this world, and it might be difficult for it to reach India and China. The splendor of the Portuguese colonial empire in the real world may also be cut off by the Guardian.

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