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Shen Guanyi continued: "The country we are visiting this time is Siam."

Chi Hongmo now also knows the situation in South Asia very well. In Indochina, apart from the historical "powerful country" Annan, the most influential country is Siam.

The Ayutthaya dynasty now rules Siam.

This dynasty has been established for hundreds of years, and like all feudal dynasties, its national power has been declining since its establishment.

Shen Guanyi said: "This time we go to Siam to mediate the war between Siam and Burma."

In Indochina, the drama of the Three Kingdoms' struggle for hegemony has been going on for a long time.

Annan is the closest to the Central Plains, and also the most thorough in learning from the Central Plains. Every new technology from the Central Plains is always spread in Annan first, so Annan has always been the overlord of the Indochina Peninsula.

However, Annan himself often fell into civil strife and division. For example, in the past hundred years, Annan could not even control the occupation of its own vassal states, so it was naturally unable to expand externally.

Burma and Siam are the other two countries competing for hegemony among the Three Kingdoms.

Because Annan has been trapped in the quagmire of war against the Central Plains and internal divisions from the early Ming Dynasty to the present, Burma and Siam have been in constant disputes for the past hundred years, vying for the hegemony of South Asia.

Today's Myanmar is so strong that it is even affecting the rebel forces in the Yunnan-Guizhou region of the Central Plains, and is also competing for hegemony with the declining Siam.

The current situation is that Siam is at a disadvantage. After discussing the situation in Nanyang, the cabinet gave Shen Yiguan and Chi Hongmo an order to go to Siam to promote a truce between Siam and Burma and use Siam to contain Burma.

Once Myanmar achieves the status of the hegemon in South Asia, it will inevitably affect the chieftains in the Yunnan-Guizhou region of the Central Plains. Over the years, Yunnan and Guizhou have always been uneasy because Myanmar is causing trouble.

However, Annan's war has greatly stimulated the Southeast Asian countries. It is not appropriate to directly send troops to punish Burma at this time, so the cabinet came up with this method.

Since ancient times, Siam has been a country that was very deferential to the Central Plains dynasty.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Siam relied on its good relationship with the Ming Dynasty and the advanced technology obtained from the Ming Dynasty to dominate the Indochina Peninsula. At that time, Burma was also its vassal state.

However, as the Central Plains began to isolate itself from the country, although Siam still maintained its tributary relationship with the Ming Dynasty, it could no longer receive support from the Ming Dynasty, and its development was lagging behind.

After several rebellions by the southwest chieftains, many chieftain chiefs and Han people from the southwest region fled into Myanmar, which has also promoted the technological development of Myanmar in recent years.

This time, the cabinet asked Shen to resume long-term trade with Siam and support the King of Siam in his struggle for hegemony with Burma.

After understanding the goal behind this trip, Chi Hongmo also said with emotion:

"It's no wonder that the surrounding small countries are afraid of the Central Plains. They are really scared."

Shen Guanyi nodded and said: "With our current strength in the southeast, it is not difficult to destroy a country. Annan is the best example. The cabinet believes that border stability must be maintained recently, so our mission this time is also to appease the South Asian countries. country."

Japan, Nagasaki Port.

Nagasaki, which belongs to the Hizen Kingdom of Japan, was originally just a small fishing village.

About ten years ago, in 1550, Portuguese merchants and priests took a fancy to Nagasaki Port. This is a rare natural port. Sea-going ships can easily sail into this deep-water port, and there are many islands near the port. The mountain is also a natural fortress.

Portuguese businessmen wrote to the Portuguese Far East authorities in Manila at the time, saying that this was a natural fortress and "no Japanese daimyo could conquer it by force."

With the rise of the Southeast and Su Ze forcefully taking back Macau, Portugal was afraid of losing this last Far East trade fulcrum, so it strengthened its operations in Nagasaki.

Last year, Nagasaki daimyo Omura Junchu converted to Christianity and took the Christian name Bartolomeo.

The Portuguese transported artillery and weapons regardless of cost, and even purchased cement from the southeast to build a fortress near the Nagasaki port, and finally completed the construction of the Nagasaki port.

With the prosperity of trade in Northeast Asia, Nagasaki, which has a very advantageous geographical location and excellent port conditions, prospered rapidly.

Silk, porcelain, and industrial products from the southeast filled the port of Nagasaki. A large number of merchants gathered in Nagasaki, exchanging the silver from the Japanese country for goods and sending them back to their own daimyo country.

The most profitable among them are the Portuguese iron cannons and the obsolete weapons from the Southeast.

As the intensity of wars in the Japanese Warring States Period escalated, the wars fought by the major names are no longer on a "village war" scale.

The fierce war gave birth to the pursuit of advanced weapons and war doctrines. Today, the proportion of artillery used among Japanese daimyo even exceeds the scale of use in Korean internal wars.

As the war in Korea gradually stabilized, Yi Sun-shin had some of the obsolete firearms transported to Japan again through the Donghai Trading Company, and relied on this income to earn the first bucket of start-up capital.

After the Nagasaki daimyo Omura Juntada converted, he announced that he wanted to convert all the residents of Nagasaki.

He ordered that those who were unwilling to convert to Christianity would be expelled from Nagasaki, and asked his samurai to convert all Buddhist temples and shrines into churches, or simply raze them to the ground.

Under Omura Juntada's strong push, more than 20,000 people were baptized in Nagasaki in less than half a year.

The "significant" advances made by the Jesuits at Nagasaki were considered a great success by authorities throughout the Far East.

After the huge defeat in Macau, the Portuguese were particularly terrified of losing trade with the Far East.

Especially after the Spanish were expelled from Manila, the Portuguese strengthened the defense of Malacca.

The huge profits from the Far East route made the Portuguese reluctant to give up. However, the rise of the great Eastern powers also frightened the Portuguese. Their insecurities were the same as those of other countries in Southeast Asia, and their attitude towards the great Eastern powers was very complicated.

Nagasaki represents the greatest progress of the Jesuit mission in the East and is also an important node for East Asian trade.

But at the same time, some people also took a fancy to Nagasaki.

When Kinoshita Tokichiro returned to Japan from Korea, he also inspected the ports around Japan.

In the end, he concluded to Oda Nobunaga that the key to determining Japan's advanced weapons is to have a port that can trade with the Central Plains.

Obviously, Nagasaki is such an excellent port.

The wealth of Nagasaki has spread among the Kyushu daimyo, and Omura Junchu's belief in paganism also makes him an outlier to the Japanese daimyo.

In fact, Omura Juntada is considered a relatively weak one among the daimyo of Japan.

Oda Nobunaga agreed with Kinoshita Tokichiro's judgment and mobilized elite members of his family to form a Kyushu crusade in the name of protecting the Buddha. He ordered Kinoshita Tokichiro to lead the team and march towards Nagasaki.