Nanyang 1398: the Maritime Empire of Malacca

At the end of the fourteenth century, the stormy undercurrent of the Age of Discovery was surging. Majapahit declined due to civil strife, and the Siamese army pressed forward step by step. In the vacuum of Southeast Asia where the old hegemony collapsed, the future founding hero Parameswara was running through the dense forests with more than a thousand exiled tribesmen. More than a hundred years later, the artillery of Western colonists will blast this sea area, bringing with it centuries of slavery. In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Old Port. The pirate king Chen Zuyi was eating away at the foundation of a maritime merchant family in the name of being a helper. However, no one knows that this seemingly small family is actually the last major bloodline of the Srivijaya royal family that has been wiped out. The protagonist arrives at this time and becomes the owner of a fourteen-year-old boy who is being forced out by pirates. In order not to sit still and wait for death in the predicament, but also to create a shelter for the Chinese compatriots and Malay subjects before the colonial craze a hundred years later, he took only about 120 Chinese and slaves and retreated into Malacca's swamp full of crocodiles and miasma. He wants to use the principles of governance that transcend the times to establish order in the wilderness; Go deep into the Ming Dynasty and find out the great calculators and the geniuses who were suppressed by stereotypes and craftsmanship; It integrates Chinese craftsmanship with ancient Greek axioms and Arabic classics. With the rigorous deduction of the system and the difficult integration of Eastern and Western knowledge, a state machine with extremely high organizational efficiency was built to face the colonial storm sweeping the world head-on. The story begins with the hot and oppressive mourning hall in Old Port, and the smiling face blackmail of the Chen family steward who is called a helper but is actually an annexer.