My Daming New Empire

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As Iskandar was a king, even if he was the king of a small country, Huang Yuan could not be rude in terms of etiquette, and personally greeted Iskandar and his party at the gate of the small courtyard.

Through Fu An, a translator who is proficient in Persian, they exchanged pleasantries and entered Huang Yuan's living room.

The first thing Iskandar saw was a large topographic map, which was a large map of South Asia, far more accurate than any map Iskandar had ever seen.

This map alone can make Iskandar feel that Daming is full of talents.

He only encountered that his own territory was painted green, while the territory of Timur Kingdom was painted yellow.

He couldn't help looking at the map for a while before saying, "I have never seen such an accurate map. Not only every river, but also the mountains are marked. I wonder if you can send me a map like this." map?"

Huang Yuan said with a smile: "A map looks simple, but it requires countless people to measure it. If the king wants to obtain such a map, he should pay a corresponding price."

Iskandar did not have such extravagant hopes. In any era, an accurate map can be regarded as a country's most important weapon.

Even if the Black Sheep Dynasty devotes all its power to the whole country, it is impossible to draw such a map.

Hearing what Huang Yuan said, he immediately lifted his spirits and asked, "What price?"

Huang Yuan drew a circle with a pencil at the northern corner of the Persian Gulf and said: "In the south of the mouth of the Tigris River, there is a desert area, which is said to be rich in fire oil. Now my Ming Dynasty is about to go to war with Timur, and we need a lot of fire oil , so I want to ask the king to ask for this piece of land, so that my Ming Dynasty can also have a stable fuel supply point."

Only on this condition, Iskandar looked back at his prime minister, the other party nodded slightly, but pulled his index finger on the middle finger.

According to the agreement when they came, Iskandar understood that the prime minister had agreed to this condition, but it needed to be increased.

The Tigris River formed a delta at the mouth of the sea. In the southern desert of the delta, under the desert, there are spouts of fire oil everywhere.

The kerosene has no effect except burning, and because of the kerosene, the land there cannot be cultivated at all, and no one lives there.

But the area there is not small. It seems a bit of a loss if we just exchange a map for Daming.

Iskandar thought for a while and said, "Exchanging a large piece of land with a single map will hardly satisfy the elders of the tribe. If Da Ming wants the land there, he should offer more bargaining chips."

Huang Yuan nodded and said, "I would like to hear the details."

"We have been targeting Daming's musket..."

At this time, Fu An hadn't translated yet, and Huang Yuan still didn't know what he meant.But Fu An directly interrupted him and said: "Your Majesty, our Daming's musket will not be given to anyone."

Huang Yuan asked Fu An, understood what the other party meant, and said with a smile: "Fire guns cannot be traded, but I, Daming, are carrying five hundred scimitars this time, which can be exchanged."

The scimitar is the main weapon of the horse nation, and the cavalry of the Black Sheep Dynasty, the main weapon is the scimitar.

Throughout South Asia, the scimitar of Damascus is the most famous, but Damascus is under the jurisdiction of the Mamluk Dynasty. In the north of Damascus, there is also the White Sheep Dynasty, which is hostile to the Black Sheep Dynasty.

The Aries Dynasty, like the Mamluk Dynasty, is Sunni, while the Black Sheep Dynasty is Shia.The contradiction between the two factions is greater than that of the heretics.

The west is heresy, and the east is the enemy, so the weapons of the Black Sheep Dynasty can only be purchased from India.

Five hundred scimitars is not a small sum for the Black Sheep Dynasty.

These scimitars are a relatively important income from Japan's exports to Daming. They received orders from Daming, and then used the technology of making Japanese knives to make thousands of Arabian scimitars.

Daming is now except for some nobles who like to buy Japanese knives and buy them as decorations, these weapons have basically been eliminated.

These scimitars were commissioned by Daming to be produced by Dongying. Their Dongying knives are extremely sharp, but they are not resistant to cutting.A scimitar made with the same technology is no worse than an ordinary Damascus scimitar, and it can be sold at a good price when shipped to the West.

Five hundred scimitars are nothing to Daming, and it can be said to be very cost-effective if they can be exchanged for Kuwait in future generations.

But today, when oil has not been used, these oils are almost like waste.

So in Iskandar's view, they were satisfied that they could exchange a piece of barren land for so many weapons.

Chapter 84 Train

A war, especially a large-scale war, is never fought with a knife.

In that case, it would not be called a war, but a battle.

Although Zhu Di was a prodigal son in India and took advantage of it, in fact, Daming was not without gains, and it can even be said that the gains outweighed the losses.

His actions in India made hundreds of small countries on this land submit to Daming one by one. Although these countries are weak in strength, they have a large population.

Once these countries were stabilized politically, this piece of land became Ming's dumping ground.

There are many princes and nobles here. Apart from gold, they are also obsessed with exquisite porcelain, soft silk, and tea that can "cure all diseases" from the Ming Dynasty.

Indians are obsessed with tea even more than those traditional Chinese medicines that can really cure diseases.They believe that tea can not only clear the intestines, but also purify the mind.

In the original history, the British occupied India, and it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that tea was successfully transplanted in the mountains of eastern India, turning India into a big tea country.

But it is still the early Ming Dynasty, and there is no tea in the entire Indian continent except wild bitter tea, so Ming tea has become the best-selling commodity.

Zhu Di's stay in India is not meaningless, because he mainly needs to cooperate with the expedition of the Northern Route Army.

The North Route Army's expedition is scheduled to be after the Chinese New Year next year. Although the South Route Army's attack will be earlier, it is not suitable for more than half a year.

What's more, the South Route Army has to wait for the recruits who graduated from Habayashi Wei School to establish a complete intelligence system in Central Asia.

Only when the South Route Army and the North Route Army have established contact can the two sides cooperate.

Therefore, although this year's South Route Army has arrived in India.But apart from establishing frontier positions, preparing food and grass, military horses, and opening up the passage for India to enter Central Asia, it will not attack the Timur country for the time being.

This kind of large-scale war is never about morale, not conspiracy, but the competition of overall national strength.

What's more, the current Daming still has an absolute lead in weapons.

Therefore, now Huang Yuan is the busiest one. Except for him, most of the generals are worried about how to find more women to appease their subordinates.

Of course there were camp prostitutes in Ming Dynasty, but for this expedition, they needed to go to sea and take a boat, and none of those camp prostitutes were brought along.

Starting from Nanyang, many human traffickers arranged the chicken village next to Daming's military camp just like when Zhu Zhanji arrived a few years ago.

But this time the army is too large, and those few women can't meet the needs of the army at all.

It was not until India that this dissatisfaction was eased, because India lacked everything except women.

Huang Yuan was busy allocating military rations, raising kerosene, and arranged for craftsmen to help make kerosene bombs.What's more, they have to buy military horses everywhere to prepare for the army's expedition, and they are very busy.

His ability was brought into full play in this kind of busyness, even Zhu Di, the emperor, greatly appreciated Huang Yuan's ability.

Huang Fu's ability can be seen from Huang Yuan. At this time, Zhu Di couldn't help but regret that he didn't reuse Huang Fu in the early years.

And in the capital, Zhu Zhanji, the grandson of the supervisor, received the veteran minister as soon as Huang Fu arrived in Beijing.

Looking at Zhu Zhanji, who was sitting at the top, sitting upright like a bell, without anger and majesty, Huang Fu's heart was full of joy.

A few years ago, because his son entered the navy, he had no choice but to take refuge in this grandson who was still unknown at the time.