"Natalie? It was sent by Crimean Khan..."
Of course Huang Zhisheng knows what the main business of the Crimean Khanate is? These descendants of Genghis Khan are the largest "horse dealers" in Europe... and what they sell are high-end goods. They are not the kind of African "dark horses" that can only be used as coolies, but "horse traders" from Southern Rakshasa and Ukraine. "Golden-haired young horses", all of them are fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged, and have particularly voluptuous figures!
And this "horse" is a "young horse" sent to the Sultan's court in Vienna by the Khan of Crimea...it must be the "best of horses"!
Thinking of this, Ambassador Huang quickly took a breath, straightened his expression, raised his eyes and looked towards the door of the Hofburg Palace Banquet Hall, and then he was startled. Because what he saw was a tall and plump female warrior. From a distance, he knew that she had a perfect figure that was fascinating. The majestic mountain peaks were tightly wrapped and outlined by a pair of exquisite and very close-fitting leather armor. It has a full and round curve. The lower edge of the leather armor stopped at waist level, and underneath was a snow-white and tight waist.
This female warrior has wavy golden hair, deep-set eye sockets, gorgeous facial features that seem to have withered from ice and snow, and her red lips are tightly pursed, showing a decisive look.
The female warrior did not walk into the palace banquet hall alone. Behind her were two Sudanese Guards soldiers wearing large turbans. They both pressed the handles of their scimitars with one hand and looked at the back of the female warrior warily. , as if ready to draw a sword and kill him at any time!
Seeing this scene, Huang Zhisheng was still a little confused. What did this mean? Who is this female warrior? It looks fierce! Can it really be sent to the court of the Ming Emperor? There won't be an assassin to kill the king, right?
While he was in a daze, the female warrior had already bowed to Huang Zhisheng, and spoke in somewhat harsh Chinese: "Master Huang, Natalie from the Rakshasa Grassland wishes you good health."
Huang Zhisheng looked back at the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and asked: "Your Majesty the Sultan, she is..."
The Fat Sultan smiled and replied: "She is a female swordsman from the Rakshasa Steppe Cossacks. Her name is Natalie. She is only twenty years old this year. She was captured in a battle with the Crimean Khanate army last year... ....In order to catch her, Crimean Khan lost two of his best warriors. Crimean Khan originally wanted to execute her to avenge his warriors, but he was moved by her beauty and wanted to marry her. As his fourth wife. But she said that she belonged only to the greatest warriors, so the Crimean Khan sent her to Vienna."
"But you are not the greatest warrior," the Cossack swordswoman named Natalie raised her delicate face and interjected in fluent Turkish, "You don't even dare to compete with me in swordsmanship."
Sudan was not angry at all, but laughed loudly: "Natalie, you are right, I am not a great warrior. I am so fat and old, how can I beat you? So I am just a warrior." A great sultan...but the Ming Emperor was both a great emperor and a great warrior, and he never lost a battle!"
Huang Zhisheng said heartily: "I haven't lost a battle, so how come I was captured and almost killed by Ling Chi? But I heard that Emperor Zhu's martial arts is good... at least that guy there must be fatter than this one." Sultan can fight.”
Natalie smiled and said: "I hope so! If he can defeat me in a sword fight, I am willing to be his slave girl!"
Sudan smiled, turned to Huang Zhisheng and said, "Ambassador Huang, what do you think?"
"This..." Huang Zhisheng said heartily: "Is this a real fight or a fake one? If it's real, if the Holy One hits me, I will be unlucky. If it's a fake fight... .That will definitely make Long Yan very happy, and I will be able to achieve great success in the future!"
Thinking of this, he looked at Fat Sudan again.
The Fat Sultan just said with a smile: "She was sent to the Hofburg Palace by the Khan of Crimea himself...it can't be wrong!"
"Okay then!" Huang Zhisheng didn't ask any more questions, just smiled and said, "In that case, I will take her back to the Ming Dynasty and deliver her to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty."
Sudan laughed a few times, and then said to Natalie: "Natalie, Ambassador Huang has agreed to take you to Daming. You must behave well."
"Of course! I will let the Ming Emperor know how powerful I am!" After Natalie said this with a smile, she bowed to the Sultan, and then left the banquet in the palace under the "escort" of two Guards soldiers. hall.
Sultan looked at her back and smacked his lips: "She is really a beauty... I hope Emperor Ming likes her."
Huang Zhisheng took over the topic of the Sultan and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will definitely feel your kindness... and a powerful Ottoman Empire in Europe is in the interests of the Ming Dynasty! Although the Ming Dynasty is not temporarily It is convenient to form an alliance with the Ottoman Empire, but this will not affect the friendship and common interests between our two countries. In fact, non-alignment is more conducive to Ming's support to the Ottoman Empire. Because once the two countries form an alliance, then your war with the Franks It will also become our war. By then, the trade in the Indian Ocean may be completely blocked by the navies of England and the Netherlands, and the sugar and gunpowder produced by the Ming Dynasty will not be able to be continuously imported into the Ottoman Empire."
"But you are also selling sugar pills to the Franks!" The Sultan's tone was already a little serious. "Louis XIV will soon become the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire...by then there will be 300,000 Heavily armed French troops join the war!"
"So what?" Huang Zhisheng smiled, "Your Majesty the Sultan, what do you have to worry about? Louis XIV has an army of 300,000, don't you have an army of 300,000? France has a total population of 20 million, and the Ottomans The empire also has a total population of 20 million... Louis has European Christians behind him, and you have Tianfang believers from all over the world behind you, how can you lose?"
"But Western Europeans are good at making muskets and cannons!" the Ottoman Sultan said worriedly, "and now that they have obtained white sugar from India, they can now develop sugar and gunpowder weapons!"
Huang Zhisheng smiled and said: "Your Majesty the Sultan, you can rest assured that our Ming Dynasty will never let the Ottoman Empire have no advanced munitions available! You should know that sugar gunpowder is just one of the many advanced munitions of our Ming Dynasty. We There are also a lot of advanced arms that can be provided to the Ottoman Empire... these are not available in Europe and India!"
Although he was bragging, he was wrong. Zhu Heji indeed has many high-tech weapons that can change the rules of the European battlefield!
For example, the cable-type fuse that has been popularized by the Ming army is an ignition device that can greatly improve the efficiency of grenades... and it is unique to the Ming Dynasty! No one else knows the secret of extracting white phosphorus from urine.
The fulminate fuze, which is more advanced than the white phosphorus fuze that is very prone to spontaneous combustion, has been successfully developed long ago, but has just begun mass production.
As for nitric acid G oil, it has been produced in small quantities after Zhu Heji mastered nitric acid and sulfuric acid, and Zhu Heji also knew how to passivate it so that it could become a safe explosive.
In addition, Minie's easy-to-open golden finger was also clicked by Zhu Heji!
Just one of the above is enough to sustain the Ottoman Empire for ten to twenty years. However, Zhu Heji will not sell good things at once... He now has to learn from the "toothpaste factory" and squeeze in bit by bit. Otherwise, the business would not last long, and the Ottoman Empire would wipe out Louis XIV at once.
If Europe were unified under the green flag of the Tianfang Sect, it would be a big trouble.
According to Zhu Heji's thinking, it would be best to let the Europeans fight back and forth in the future. It is best for the Ming Dynasty to be like the American emperor, stay away from war and concentrate on making money. At most, it would be to support the Shang and Yin families to fight a proxy war with the Europeans in the New World.
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On September 20, the ninth year of the Ming Dynasty, at the end of August 1688, outside Fugui Bay, the largest port in Shangfang Kingdom in the New World.
Fully fifty New World-type armed merchant ships rolled up snow-white waves and slowly sailed into the Fugui Bay Strait with the help of the warm sea breeze. It has now been several years since "Zhou Qianguang" and the others first arrived in the New World. The Ming Dynasty's New World-type armed merchant ships have completely penetrated the Pacific route. Now they would not only load people, livestock and goods on different ships, but also take different routes to the New World in different seasons.
Boats transporting people and livestock are in a hurry - people and animals have to eat and drink on board! So the longer it takes, the more food and water need to be carried, and the ship's carrying capacity naturally decreases. Therefore, ships transporting people and livestock usually gather at Nagoya Tenno Castle in Japan in June. They take advantage of July and August, when the wind and waves in the North Pacific are relatively small, and follow the ocean currents smoothly. It can be completed in a month. And just in case, the Ming Navy's Eastern Fleet also set up several Danshui supply ports on the North Pacific Islands, the Aleutian Islands.
Therefore, the route across the Pacific in summer is very safe, but this time window is a bit short, only two months a year. In order to maximize the efficiency of transporting people and livestock, the Ming Navy's Eastern Fleet and Nanyang Trading Company usually organized dozens of New World-type ships to make a concentrated trip, and then waited for them to return to the Ming Dynasty before loading grain, ironware, cloth, porcelain, etc. The supplies slowly took the "windless route" in the Central Pacific towards the New World - the so-called windless route did not mean that there was no wind at all, but that the wind was relatively light. Basically, a trip lasts up to four months!
In this way, a ship can make at most two trips to the New World a year, one trip for two months and one trip for four months. Since there are ocean currents to take advantage of on the return journey, one trip every three months is enough. If everything is connected just right, it will be twice a year. However, a group of crew members cannot make more than two trips, and must follow the procedure of operating two ships in three groups of crew members.
Now sailing into Fugui Bay are fifty armed merchant ships carrying "people and livestock". Twenty of them carry about 6,000 passengers, and the remaining thirty ships carry 5,000 cattle, sheep or horses.
When the fleet sailed into the bay, the decks of the twenty New Continental-type passenger ships were filled with passengers who had been bored on the small sailing ships for more than two months. Some of these passengers were Han Chinese, some were Mongolians, and some were Japanese women who had boarded the ship in Nagoya. They were all crowded on the deck, curiously looking at the new world in front of them.
Cering Dunduobu and Guo Youde's eldest son Guo Shaoqian were both standing on the command deck of the flagship Pacific, holding telescopes and looking at everything in front of them.
On a coast facing the entrance of Fugui Bay Strait, about thirty miles away from the Strait. A brand new "two-thousand-year-old city" had suddenly appeared in front of the two of them.
The "ancient city" is built on the edge of the beach with blue water and white sand. The city wall facing the sea is tall and majestic. The city wall is made of hard stones wrapped in rammed earth, and the stones are bonded with cement, so it is extremely strong. The surface of the city wall has a large inclination and is a slope, which can effectively defend against artillery. Two trenches were dug outside the city, and there were several triangular pyramid-shaped fortresses built with sandbags to provide cover for the city wall.
If you look carefully, you can also find bronze cannons mounted on the sloping city walls and the triangular fortress!
There are two trenches and a low sheep and horse wall outside the city, which provide additional protection for the already strong castle.
Next to this new and solid ancient city, a commercial port was built. The commercial port is connected to the pier, and there are many wooden houses built inside. They are all completely traditional Chinese-style houses, and they are all new.
The "ancient city" and the commercial port are surrounded by wheat fields. The land in the Fugui Bay area is quite fertile, the climate is very suitable for wheat growth, and the land is relatively flat, so large areas of farmland have been reclaimed, most of which are planted with wheat. It is already the spring wheat harvest season, and the golden waves of wheat stretch as far as the eye can see, seeming to indicate the prosperity of this continent.
There are dots of fishing boats on the sea. Most of these fishing boats are owned by indigenous people. Many of them have white sails and they are still using fishing nets to catch fish... Obviously, the productivity of these indigenous Indians has improved a lot!
They now not only learned to use sails, but also used nets to catch fish, used wheeled vehicles after landing ashore, and used iron tools to cut and cook the fish and shrimp they caught.
It is now approaching lunch time, and smoke is rising from the market next to the pier, mixed with the unique aroma of grilled fish, filling the area around the pier.
The scenery of the Yin and Shang Dynasties is truly unique.
When the fleet approached the dock, the dock had become very lively. The merchants who were doing business in the commercial port and the indigenous people who set up stalls and sold barbecue outside the pier all crowded in to do business.
In the port, two assault boats flying the flags of "Dabang Yin and Tianyi Shang" were routinely guarding the huge fleet. "Shang Dynasty infantry" wearing cloth breastplates were already carrying flintlock rifles. There was a queue on the pier.
Cering Dunduobu just watched all this quietly, quietly assessing the combat readiness level of this Shang country... It must be said that the Shang army here in Fugui Bay is still working very hard to prepare. Fighting. They have only been here four years, and they have already built two "gatekeeper" stone fortresses at the entrance of Fugui Bay Strait, and also built a large city in Fugui Bay.
Moreover, these castles are not "naked cities" without defenses. Instead, they are equipped with artillery, dug trenches, built sheep and horse walls and peripheral fortresses, and are very tightly fortified.
In addition, the navy and infantry of Shang Fang Kingdom were extremely vigilant, and they did not relax their vigilance just because the fleet of the Ming Dynasty entered the port.
This shows that the spirit of everyone in Shang Fang Kingdom is tense!
