India, Madras, inside the Indian headquarters building of the British East India Company.

In the drawing room of the king's special envoy, Baron John Churchill, at this time, in addition to the baron himself and Ji Dabao, a professor of oriental studies at the University of Cambridge in England, there were also two guests wearing flower feathers. They were the exiled leaders from Annan Kingdom.

Ma Jia Tuhai, the Emperor of Li and Zheng Zhu, fled to India, and Zhang Ying, the ambassador sent by Kangxi Khan to Madras.

Tu Hai and Zhang Ying each held a copy of the letter translated by Ji Dabao himself and looked at it carefully for an unknown amount of time. Both of them opened their mouths and looked stunned.

I don’t know how long it took before I heard Ma Jia Tuhai hesitate and say: “Could it be that the great state of Yin, Tianyi Shang and Shang Fang were destroyed by King Wu of Zhou two thousand years ago?

The remnants of the Shang Dynasty?"

Zhang Ying was born in Liangbang and was more knowledgeable than Ma Jia and Tu Hai. Hearing what Tu Hai said, he nodded and said: "It's possible... they are probably the survivors of Shang Dynasty. The lower official once lived with Kong Shenggong.

I have read the "Book of Yi Zhou" passed down by his family. It records that Prince Lu's father fled north and disappeared. This prince Lu's father was Emperor Xin's son Wu Geng. The "Book of Yi Zhou" said that he was

After the Sanjian Rebellion, he led the remnants of the merchants to flee Chaoge, and his whereabouts were unknown. He might have fled across the ocean to the New World..."

It turned out that after Baron Churchill returned to Madras, he received an order from London asking him to find out "the relationship between the Shang Fang Kingdom of the New World and the Ming Dynasty" - during this period, a mysterious ancient Shang Dynasty who may have come from China was discovered in the northwest corner of the New World.

The rumors about Fang Guo shocked the European continent!

A Ming Empire in the Old Continent is enough to cause headaches for the Western powers. Wouldn't it be even more troublesome to have the Shang Fang Kingdom in the New Continent?

And this Shang Fang country actually has flintlocks and cannons, as well as a large number of horses, cattle and sheep, and can nomadic herdsmen. Of course, it also has wheels... This kind of hard power is really new, the Indians in the Americas

No country can compare with them.

It's okay to say that horses, cattle, sheep, and wheels are nothing to visitors from the Old World. The Chinese must have had them 2,000 years ago, and it's not surprising that they were brought to America when they crossed east...

..It’s just that those people have lived in the Americas for more than two thousand years, but they didn’t spread the technology of raising horses, cattle, and sheep to the Indians. It’s really weird.

But guns and cannons cannot be something that the Chinese had more than 2,000 years ago. How could King Zhou of Shang want to have "guns and cannons"? How could King Wu of Zhou attack him? After Shang Fang fled to America,

There were no strong enemies to fight with them. The most powerful weapon in the hands of those Indians in Zhou Dynasty was a stick with obsidian inserted in it. Bronze weapons were enough to deal with them. How could merchants develop "merchant guns and cannons"?

Therefore, the leaders of the Western powers in Europe are very suspicious that there is some kind of connection between this Shang country and China... and it has even received the support of the Ming Dynasty!

This is troublesome... One of the reasons why it is difficult for Ming Dynasty to establish hegemony in the New World is that there are no people of its own in the New World!

Why was the Ming Dynasty so powerful in Nanyang? The new Ming Dynasty was originally established by "Chaozhou warriors", and Nanyang was full of their Chaozhou fellows and Minnan fellows. Therefore, the Confucianism and Nanyang trading companies of the Ming Dynasty easily penetrated

Nanyang, Chaozhou, and Hokkien people banded together again, and soon armed groups were formed under the organization of Confucianism and Nanyang Trading Company, with the support of the Ming Navy behind them, so no one dared to mess with them!

If there were millions of merchants in America, and Emperor Zhu developed the Henan Association, would there still be a new continent for Europeans?

So the news of the discovery of the Shang Dynasty in America spread to Europe, and European powers such as Spain, Portugal, France, and England, which had large colonies in the New World, immediately exploded!

Nanyang, which was just taken away by Emperor Zhu, is actually not the core interest of these European colonial empires... Except for the Spanish religious fanatics who snatched a large Philippine colony in Nanyang, the Portuguese colony in Nanyang is a

On Timor Island, the Dutch only have Batavia, Malacca and a few spice islands. These Europeans are not really "colonizing" in Southeast Asia. They just use these territories in Southeast Asia to obtain spices and trade with China.

's stronghold.

Therefore, Zhu Heji's strategy of sending troops to Southeast Asia without depriving the Western powers of their economic benefits was acceptable to the Western powers. The two sides would not break up and start a war... Even the trade war was caused by the Dutch.

The Portuguese surrendered without fighting.

But the New World is different!

That is the core interest of countries like England, France, Spain, and Portugal!

Moreover, the New World and the European continent are across the sea. The distance from Ireland to Newfoundland is less than two thousand miles. If this merchant country swept the New World under the auspices of the Ming Dynasty, then the west coast of Europe would be in the future.

They are all likely to be attacked by the Ming-Shang joint fleet!

In addition, the good days of the European powers were actually gold and silver from the New World!

Wasn't their idea of ​​starting a trade war with Ming Dynasty just to use the gold and silver in their hands to fight against Ming Dynasty's neck?

If the New World of America was taken by the Shang Dynasty, what else would the European powers have to fight a trade war with the Ming Dynasty? Not only could they not fight the trade war with the Ming Dynasty, but even the war with the Ottoman Empire for Central Europe would not be fought because they had no money.

By then the entire Christian civilization will be in crisis!

Therefore, "investigating the merchants" became a major task that Baron John Churchill had to complete before returning to Europe.

Baron John Churchill first approached Ji Dabao, an expert in Oriental studies who was following him, and obtained from him a book about the period of King Wu's conquest of Zhou - "The Legend of Angels", which is the English version of "The List of Gods".

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! John Churchill also studied the "Legend of Angels" very seriously. He has a certain understanding of the history of King Wu's defeat of Zhou... and he

He also pointedly pointed out an obvious mistake made by King Zhou and Shen Gongbao. They did not use "angels" intensively, but invested limited "angels" in batches, making it a fueling tactic. If they had many at once

Please click "Angel" and concentrate on "Angel" to fight the battle of annihilation. Ji Fa and Jiang Ziya have already lost the war.

Of course, John Churchill also knew that the story of "The Legend of Angels" was untrue... The story of a fox turning into a beautiful woman was immediately known to be a fairy tale. So he still asked Ji Dabao to find Zhang

Ying and Tuhai, two "experts" who knew more about Shang's history, came to inquire.

"Baron," Ji Dabao said to Baron Churchill in "old English" after listening to the two experts Zhang Ying and Tu Hai, "Ambassador Tu believes that the Shangfang Kingdom in the northwest of the North American continent is the China that perished 2,600 years ago.

Ambassador Zhang, who is a descendant of the Shang Dynasty, said that in an ancient book called "Book of Yi Zhou" there is a record that Lu Fu, the son of the last Shang king, led his people to flee and ended up unknown."

""The Book of Yizhou"?" John Churchill asked, "What book is this? Who wrote it?"

Of course Ji Dabao couldn't answer. As a professor of Oriental studies at Cambridge University, his knowledge was obviously a bit small...so he could only throw the question to Zhang Ying.

Zhang Ying smiled and said: "The so-called Yi means lost. "Yi Zhou Shu" is the deleted part of "Zhou Shu" in "Shang Shu". It is said that the sage Kong once deleted "Shang Shu" and changed it from "Shang Shu".

Some contents were deleted from "Book of Zhou" and compiled into "Book of Yi Zhou". Among them is the incident of "Lu Fu ran north". But where exactly Lu Fu ran to the north is not recorded. In other historical materials

Among them, Father Lu died in the Three Prisons Rebellion."

Ji Dabao listened carefully to Zhang Ying's explanation, and then said to John Churchill, "Baron, this book "Yi Zhou Shu" was written by Confucius using the deleted parts when he revised the "Book of Zhou", a history book of the Zhou Dynasty.

Therefore, the content about Lu Fu leading his tribe to escape was deleted because there is no record of them in subsequent historical materials. Instead, there is a record of Lu Fu dying in the war."

Baron Churchill nodded and said: "The bodies of those who died in the war may not necessarily be found, and the missing persons will be recorded as dead if they are never found... It seems that this last prince of Shang

This is the case. So, are there any records about these missing businessmen in later historical materials?"

Ji Dabao's memory does not exist, but whether it exists or not, one has to ask Zhang Ying and Tu Hai.

Zhang Ying is very knowledgeable, so it is up to him to answer this question.

But before Zhang Ying could answer, Tu Hai frowned and answered: "There seems to be records in this regard..."

There seems to?

How can it be?

Zhang Ying was stunned. Just when he was about to refute Tu Hai, Tu Hai said: "It seems that there is a record in the book in the Four Books and Six Classics..."

"Four Books and Six Classics"? Zhang Ying was born in two rankings, and he has been engaged in research on rebellion studies for many years. What a smart person he is? You will immediately know what Tuhai means.

This "Anti-Jing" in the "Four Books and Six Classics" was created by Zhou Peigong!

It is said that Zhou Peigong was captured by the Ming army in the Battle of Ulan Butong, and then disappeared... Based on Zhang Ying's understanding of Zhou Peigong, this guy would never die if he could be a second minister.

of the Qing Dynasty.

And he, the "lost-all strategist", is not an enemy to the Ming Dynasty - his strategy must be "lost-all" when faced with the Ming Dynasty. The more enemies like this, the better!

So Emperor Zhu will definitely not kill him, and maybe he will be given an official position...

In addition, Zhang Ying also knew that many Junggar warriors who participated in the Battle of Ulanbutong were missing... In his letter to Kangxi, Galdan also accused Zhu Heji of fighting in Ulanbutong.

After the war, the prisoners were massacred.

But everyone knows that this possibility is unlikely. Because the Junggar Khanate was actually divided by Emperor Zhu, and many high-level officials of the Khanate, including the three brothers Anuktun and Cewang Alabutan, had already defected to the Khanate.

Zhu Heji.

Therefore, there was no need for Zhu Heji to massacre the captives of the quasi-division, and those Mongolians had no moral integrity, and no one would die for Galdan.

And the "Shang Fang people" who were grazing in the New World of America that Ji Dabao just mentioned sound a bit like Mongolians!

Thinking of this, Zhang Ying immediately said to Ji Dabao: "There seems to be such a record...but I can't remember it clearly. I have to go back to the Western Qing Dynasty to check the historical materials."

Ji Dabao said to Baron Churchill: "Baron, Ambassador Zhang and Ambassador Tu all said that there are records in this regard, but there are not many and it is difficult to verify. They have to check historical materials before they can be sure."

John Churchill thought to himself: "What else is there to prove? The descendants of the merchants are all in the New World!"

Thinking of this, he asked Tu Hai again, "Ambassador Tu, did you hear about the discovery of Shangfang Kingdom in the New World when you were in Daming Junior High School?"

Of course Tu Hai had never heard of it... When he left Guangzhou, the second wave of New World transport fleets had not yet returned, so no one knew that there was a Shangfang country in the New World and that it was sending people to the New World.

It has always been a secret, and Tu Hai was not involved at all. At most, he had heard some rumors.

So Tu Hai didn't know how to answer. Fortunately, Tu Zhongtang, who had been an official for many years, was still very good at talking, so he frowned and replied: "Actually, there has always been a country of descendants of Shang on the Shenzhou side.

That’s the country of Korea...that’s the country of Jizi. If there is still contact between the Shangfang State who crossed east and the hometown of Shenzhou, then they must be in contact with North Korea.”

Ji Dabao said to Baron Churchill: "Baron, Ambassador Tu said that there have been rumors about this in Korea... Jizi, the pioneering ancestor of Korea, was the uncle of the last Shang king, Emperor Xin, who led the army after the demise of the Shang Dynasty.

Some merchants crossed the sea to establish a country in Korea. If Father Lu once crossed east, then he must have received help from Jizi, and there must have been contacts between the Shangfang Kingdom in America and Korea in China."

This North Korea has always been closed to the outside world. To the West, those countries are quite mysterious. And from the map, North Korea is not particularly far from the Americas. You only need to pass through the Japanese archipelago and then follow the North Pacific warm current eastward to get there.

....If Jizi conquered Korea first, and Lu Fu went to seek refuge with Jizi, and with Jizi's help, he was inadvertent when crossing the Japanese archipelago, and entered the Pacific Ocean. It is very likely that he would have followed the ocean currents to the New World.

Baron Churchill thought hard about it and finally discovered the truth. He thought in his mind: "If this Shangfang country really originated 2,600 years ago, and has maintained contact with North Korea for more than 2,000 years,

...Then the population and level of civilization in this country will probably exceed imagination. Even if there are millions of people, it is normal to have a civilization that far exceeds that of the native American Indians.

And the Ming Empire has now merged with North Korea, so Emperor Zhu must also know about the existence of Shangfang Kingdom, and he has probably contacted Shangfang Kingdom and started to provide them with weapons and equipment. No wonder the Spaniards encountered the Shangfang Kingdom in the New World.

The Shang Dynasty people who used guns turned out to be the ambitious Zhu Heji who was causing trouble.
Chapter completed!