My Daming New Empire

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It was precisely because Zhu Zhanji mentioned the cultural heritage of Europe that Jin Chun and Xie Jin agreed to take European countries as the main targets of suppression.

In their view, both Timur and Ottoman are warriors and are not worth worrying about.What's more, these two countries are closer to Ming Dynasty and are easier to attack.

But European countries have their own unique culture, which is unacceptable to Confucians who regard Confucianism as more important than kingship.

Every Confucian has in his heart the ideal of carrying forward Confucianism.

This was used by Zhu Zhanji, so they became more passionate about how to conquer Europe.

"Your Highness, envoys from the King of England, the King of Genoa, and the King of Sicily have all arrived today and brought a large amount of gold and silver. But according to the news they brought back, the so-called Holy Roman Empire still has not received the envoys we sent. .”

"How is the message sent back?"

"The mission to Venice was warmly welcomed by the other party, but their parliament did not decide on the trade with my Ming Dynasty. At first they even wanted to monopolize my Ming's goods, but after seeing the quantity of goods, they gave up I came up with this idea. Yu Kuan was afraid that His Highness would wait for a long time, so he sent a ship to convey the message to the Sicilian mission."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "This Holy Roman Empire can be said to be the largest country in Europe today. Although this country is only a loose alliance, it is more difficult to make decisions because of its looseness. What's more, they are still in the country. We are fighting. Leave them alone for the time being, and send a message to Xie Zhenqi to wait patiently. Is there any news from the mission to the east?"

"The Mamluk kings and nobles are already raising gold and silver, and the rebels in Jerusalem are also willing to trade with Ming Dynasty. But the missions to Ottoman and Byzantium are still confronting each other."

Zhu Zhanji thought for a while and asked, "What time is it today?"

"The sixth day of October."

Zhu Zhanji pondered for a while and said: "Since we have conveyed the signal of trade, the other party has also read our cargo list, sent an order, and the four missions from the east will meet up, with the commanding envoy Qian Zhuang as the commander-in-chief. A profound lesson for the other party... But, don't expand the war, at most bombard Constantinople."

"Yes!"

The brains of Byzantium and Ottoman are about to come out now, and the mission of Ming Dynasty went at an untimely time, so they were stopped by the fleets of both sides in the Aegean Sea.

The three parties confronted each other, did not solve the problem, but did not allow the Ming Fleet to pass.But they have always treated the unfamiliar Deming Fleet with extra courtesy, so they stalemate there.

Zhu Zhanji's patience is inherently bad. He still wants to return to China with the help of the north wind after the new year. Although there are still a few months, if there is a large-scale trade, the time is simply not enough.

Now is not the future. In one day, a large amount of goods can be transported from the inland to the port.

Even if there is a tendency to trade, many goods have to be raised individually, and it will take a month or two before they can be transported to the port through other lords' areas.

At the port, the goods have to be counted and sorted, and several months have passed in a flash.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji didn't want to wait any longer. Since the other party wouldn't give way, let them make way.

What's more, he originally planned to weaken the defense of Constantinople at this time and let the Ottomans occupy this portal.

Back in the main hall, Zhu Zhanji wrote a secret letter and asked the servant to hand the letter directly to Qian Zhuang together with the messenger boat.

There are four missions to the east of the Mediterranean Sea, with forty ships, all of which are first-class warships of [-] shi and second-class warships of more than [-] shi.

Each ship has ten broadside guns and one bow gun. Even if the number of ships is much smaller than that of the opponent, when the opponent's battleship has no guns, the Ming fleet is invincible.

In Europe and Ottoman today, they only make copper cannons with a diameter of less than ten centimeters. This kind of fire door cannon can be said to be very low-level and has limited power. They are only used on land and cannot be installed on ships.

Because although the power of this copper cannon is small, it is not light. The ships in Europe are very small, and it is difficult for the deck to withstand its recoil.

Before the artillery was used on ships, they could only be targets in the face of Ming's fleet.

In the afternoon of that day, the two little Huangmen boarded a messenger ship with Zhu Zhanji's secret letter.

They do not have battleship escorts, this is because their speed is very fast, and it is difficult for ordinary ships to catch up.Secondly, the Ming Fleet has hundreds of ships cruising around, and they are not afraid of anyone daring to offend the order ships flying the Dragon Flag of the Ming Dynasty.

Herald boats are flat-bottomed and broad-sailed, and each boat can only hold a maximum of thirty people.But the speed can reach eight knots, and the tailwind can exceed ten knots.

Thirty people are divided into three shifts, taking turns to control the sails, and can travel day and night.

Starting from Ceuta, it is about [-] kilometers away from the Aegean Sea, and it takes about six days to arrive.

On the day of October [-]th, the two messenger ships quickly arrived at the predetermined sea area through different routes, and joined the missions that had been confronting each other here for half a month.

After the order was delivered, several other order ships sailed away quickly, and went to the Greek mission and the Jerusalem mission to gather troops.

Qian Zhuang received Zhu Zhanji's letter and did not dare to be negligent, and quickly assigned tasks, loosening the outside and tightening the inside, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.

At the beginning, they often exchanged some supplies with each other, such as exchanging a little food for each other, so that Tong Shi could communicate with each other frequently.

But now Zhu Zhanji decided to hurt the opponent first, and then talk about it. Qian Zhuang didn't dare to leak information about his preparations because of his communication with the opponent.

On October [-], the Greek mission arrived first, and two days later, the Jerusalem mission also arrived smoothly.

Four fleets and forty warships converged on the sea, occupying a sea area several miles wide.

At this time, Qian Zhuang dispatched an officer, and at the same time issued a final warning to Byzantium and Ottoman, and immediately moved out of the sea to allow the Ming fleet to pass.

The Byzantine and Ottoman generals thought that Ming's chief general was insane. Even if the other side's reinforcements arrived, they only had forty ships, but they each had more than three hundred ships, and their military strength was more than ten times that of the other side.

Ottoman's general Samsun also comforted him in "good faith": "I have sent letters from your country back to the capital, but those big men will definitely be slower to make decisions, so I think it is wise to continue to wait." .”

But the officers in charge of the Ottoman side are all Han Chinese and Muslims from Daming Honglu Temple, and they only know Dashiyu.

Yang Pinxuan, the leader of the general affairs, smiled proudly: "My Da Ming's blade points to everything. Before that, I just waited for His Highness's order, but since His Highness has given the order, even if his body is broken, he will not hesitate to fight."

Samson looked at Yang Pinxuan, shook his head and said, "This is a wrong choice. Since you want to fight, then go ahead and I will let you know the glory of my Ottoman Empire."

With the raising of a red flag on Qian Zhuang's flagship, Ming's warships quickly converged from all sides, which surprised the Ottomans and Byzantines.

Although the Ming fleet seems to be attacking, why are they still huddled together?

(Train in the afternoon, arrive home at noon tomorrow, and the [-]-word update will be a little later tomorrow.)

Thank you for seeing people with lights, Zhang Degong of the Great Sui Dynasty, I spit you out, thank you for the reward of bamboo sticks

Chapter 55 Differentiation

The Byzantine Empire is just the name Zhu Zhanji gave them based on historical memory, but in fact, from the fourth century AD to the present fifteenth century, there has never been a record of the name Byzantine appearing in the Roman Empire in the past thousand and 100 years middle.

Zhu Zhanji doesn't remember the origin of the name Byzantium. The reason why it is named according to historical memory is because there are too many Roman Empires in history.

From the ancient Roman Empire, to the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, including the most powerful Holy Roman Empire, the Holy See State, the inheritance of the name Rome in Europe has not only never been cut off, but also all countries use the name Rome to flaunt their authentic inheritance.

As a long-standing empire inherited from the ancient Roman era, the Byzantine Empire was gradually marginalized because it was located on the front line of the East-West war and far away from the center of Europe.

For such an empire that declined due to the Great War, it is logical that Da Ming should support them so that they can continue to be a meat grinder for the East and the West.

But at this time, Zhu Zhanji's personal emotions played a greater role, and he didn't have any good feelings for the empire.

Because the decline of this empire has nourished the rise of another empire.And the harm caused to China by this empire is far greater than the harm caused to China by the later generations of Japan, that is, the Russian Empire.

Although they were captured by the Ottoman Empire and driven to the cold north, they never gave up on opening the passage to the east.

Their decline made Russia, a small principality located in the extremely cold region, a powerful country, and in the next few hundred years, it began to develop eastward, forming the largest country in the world.