Chapter 670 Master of the World Center
Mehail was about to be mad and was so crazy. What a mess. Shashua and Ozerab ran away. What are you paying attention to them now? Is your throne important or are they both paying attention?
Yes, the two of them may indeed affect your throne, but that is only possible, and it will be something that will happen in the future.
But the Ming Dynasty is threatening to either implement the treaty or the destruction of the country is right in front of you. Do you still have the leisure to care about Shashua and Ozeranbu?
After calming down, Mahail continued: "Go to the emperor's title and send envoys to pay tribute. These are actually easy to deal with. After all, the Ming Dynasty would not be able to come to the royal court to supervise whether you have removed your title.
In short, everything now must give way to the stability of the situation. Even if Shashua and Ozerab do anything, as long as it does not affect the stability of the royal court and the country, they will temporarily ignore them."
Daroschijo finally nodded, saying that he had understood.
In fact, Daroschijo himself knew what the situation was now, but he was unacceptable to the sudden departure of Shashua and Ozerab.
With the return of Mehail, the entire city of Agra began to become lively. In addition to some people who were intentionally released, a large number of East India Company employees were arrested and not even interrogated. They were directly detained, waiting to get all the people together before handing over to the Ming people.
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Zheng Zhilong, Li Chengyan and others looked at each other, a little confused.
I just called Sharjah Han a "ruler of the world", and now he is a "three continents and two seas, the east and the west, and the master of Istanbul, the center of the world"?
Who admitted it? Who enthroned it? Didn’t it mean that the Ming Dynasty is the center of the world? What the hell are these barbarians?
But the only thing I have found out is this information. What should I do with these people?
After a long silence, Zheng Zhilong asked, "What should I do?"
Li Chengyan smiled wryly and said, "Ask me, who should I ask? If His Majesty and the civil and military ministers in the court know about this, it would be a big fun."
Zheng Zhilong said: "I know there will be a lot of fun, but what should we do now? Should we take this as nothing, send envoys to pay homage to their king, or go back and report to His Majesty?"
Li Chengyan said: "The people from the Jinyiwei have already started to act. It is estimated that the information here has reached the shore of His Majesty. Besides, our mission has nothing to do with this matter, right?"
Zheng Zhilong touched his beard and said, "You think it's possible to find another group of people to kill Sharjahkhan and do the last time in this Ottoman country?"
After shaking his head, Li Chengyan said: "It's not realistic. Eunuchs like Eunuch Ye are not everywhere. Even if they are brave and wise, they are afraid they will not be able to make good plans like Eunuch Ye.
If you don’t die when you hit a snake, there will be future troubles.”
Zheng Zhilong snorted and said, "Where did you come from to kill snakes? Isn't it enough to kill them completely?"
Li Chengyan sneered and said, "Yes, just kill them."
But do you think they are the six kingdoms? Or do you think they are all as useless as Mughals?
Even this Ottoman is a waste like the Mughals, but the Ottoman and the Mughals are connected by land. If these wastes join forces, what should we do?"
Zheng Zhilong said: "What do you think you should do? Otherwise, you go and negotiate with their king and rent the area where this canal is located?"
Li Chengyan pondered and said, "It's not impossible to rent it out, but who knows what His Majesty is thinking? Should he directly attack Ottoman, or would he talk to them about the loan?"
Given that Emperor Chongzhen never played according to the rules, Li Chengyan was too lazy to guess what Emperor Chongzhen would think.
This master thought about it and was about to be crazy about it. He couldn't help but get angry after finding out that someone dared to claim to be the master of the World Center.
As for military expenditure and army, will that man care? Even if the money in the national treasury is not enough, that man has enough money in his treasury. Isn’t it easy to cut people?
After shook his head, Li Chengyan shook off the messy thoughts in his mind and said, "In my opinion, we might as well continue to move forward and carefully observe where His Majesty pointed on the geometric map.
If there is indeed a canal where it can be made, no matter whether it is rented or what, this piece of land must be in our hands.
If there is no way to make a canal there, or if the burden is too high, what's the point of us fighting the Ottomans to death? Are you not those barbarians who are cheaper than Mughals?"
After a while of consideration, Zheng Zhilong said, "It's okay. Anyway, how to explore is the business of the civil servants of the Ministry of Works. It has little to do with us. As long as we send them to the place, our affairs will be all."
Li Chengyan said with a dark face: "I am also a civil servant, and it is my business to deal with these barbarians..."
Zheng Zhilong said with a shameless face: "Different, different. What is our relationship? How can those poor people compare to you?"
Seeing that Li Chengyan snorted coldly and did not speak anymore, Zheng Zhilong laughed twice before shouting and ordered: "Set up! Keep moving forward!"
It was not until half a day that the fleet led by Zheng Zhilong arrived at the location of the Suez Canal or the ruins of the destroyed canal.
The officials of the Ministry of Works, who were shouted out from the cabin, looked at the ruins in confusion, and couldn't help but exclaimed repeatedly.
From the ruins in front of you, you can see that the ruins of the entire canal are about a hundred feet wide.
This means that if this canal is normally opened, it should be able to accommodate six Fu Ship warships with a width of fifteen meters at the same time.
Gong Fenglan, Langzhong of the Ministry of Works, sighed: "If this canal was indeed built hundreds of years ago, how much would it cost to its material and people's power?"
Right Minister Song Yunxian said: "No matter how much money this canal costs, just look at the ruins he has, you can know that the canal can be dug again, but I don't know what the situation on the opposite side is like?"
Seeing Song Yunxian looking at him, Zheng Zhilong said with a confused look on his face: "What do you think I'm doing? We are a warship and we can't fly to the opposite side to let you see!"
Song Yunxian said anxiously: "What should I do? If you can't see the situation opposite, how can you know if the canal can be dug again?
Even if it is dug by force, can the canal be used? Will it cause any adverse effects?
For such a large project, if there is no calculation, how much manpower and material resources are wasted?"
Li Chengyan said: "If you must have wanted to go over and take a look, there are actually two ways.
One is waiting for the winter, go around from the Cape of Good Hope, and finally go around to the opposite position to see.
Another way is to abandon the boat and land. Let’s walk over and observe the situation opposite to see if we can dig it up again?”
Song Yunxian bowed and said, "Then let's go to the shore!"
The first method Li Chengyan said was simply a nonsense. He clearly wanted to dig the canal from here and then go to England, but now he has to go around the Cape of Good Hope?
What else is it? Just go straight to the army and go over to fight. As for supplies and other things, what does it have to do with the Ministry of Works?
What Li Chengyan wanted was this effect, which was to let these people from the Ministry of Works land and then slowly observe through this ruined land.
Zheng Zhilong stopped the people who wanted to return to the cabin and said in a deep voice: "Don't forget, we can run rampant on the sea, but it doesn't mean you will still run rampant when you get ashore.
Since this barbarian country dares to call itself the master of the world center, it must be of some strength. If you land on the shore, will there be something wrong?"
Li Chengyan said: "Transfer from a hundred households from the ship, and lightly equipped with us to go ashore. Unless the army of this barbarian country comes to encircle and suppress it, what are the fears of the rest?"
After looking at Li Chengyan, Zheng Zhilong said, "I will set you up a thousand-household office. Even if I encounter a large army of barbarians, I think I can protect you and wait for you to come back!"
Li Chengyan smiled and said, "I'm thankful for this!"
After nodding to Zheng Zhilong again, Li Chengyan and others also returned to the cabin to prepare.
The benefits of having too many people in the Ming Dynasty once again reflect that it is really easy to find a genius who is good at language.
Li Chengyan and others took the interpreter and the entire Thousand Houses' troops to board the shore of the Suez Canal in a small boat.
However, what was both unexpected and unexpected to Li Chengyan was that there were people on the opposite side waiting for him to have about three or five hundred cavalrymen, and they had already formed a formation.
Although Li Chengyan had also seen marching and fighting scenes, he had no idea about the formation of the cavalry. He probably knew that his own cavalry and infantry were very good at fighting. At present, it was obvious that everyone was a slag in the battle.
After turning his head and looking at Qianhu beside him, he realized that although the Qianhu's expression was solemn, there was no trace of nervousness. He couldn't help but feel very stable: "The formation of the barbarian on the opposite side does not seem to be attacking us?"
Qianhu Fuwen advised: "The cavalry on the opposite side is similar to the Tartar cavalry, and the formation they are arranged is also a vigilant formation, not the kind of cavalry charge, so there is no need to be nervous.
Besides, with the few barbarians on the opposite side, our entire Thousand Household Office has enough troops to deal with. Even if it is several times more, the brothers can protect you and fight out!"
After nodding gently, Li Chengyan signaled to Tongzhi to go over and shout: "We are from the Ming Dynasty. We have long heard of the name of the Suez Canal, so we want to come and have a look!"
Tufixi Abhamad, the leader of this team, was ordered to check the movements of the group before coming.
Since this huge fleet entered the wood bones, it has been discovered to be swaggering, without any intention of hiding whereabouts.
However, what is the situation with his own navy? Abu Mahad still knows some of them, but basically nothing is the same...
To put it bluntly, there is no navy in the entire Ottoman Empire, only some pirates who clamor to threaten Europe!
It would be more reliable to expect these trash-like guys to take the initiative to face this fleet of twelve warships, which is better to expect the True God to come forward directly...
However, this fleet that made everyone feel frightened, sailed all the way to the ruins of the Suez Canal, and then put down a team of more than a thousand people, without any other actions, which really made everyone feel confused.
It is precisely because of this that Abu Hamad was sent out and brought hundreds of cavalry under his command to check the situation.
Seeing that someone on the other side could communicate in Ottoman Turkish, Abu Mahad couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
It’s good to be able to communicate. As long as you can communicate, you can figure out the purpose of their coming, and there is no need to rush forward and fight desperately as soon as possible.
After hearing the people opposite him want to see the remains of the Suez Canal, Abu Mahad felt a little more relaxed.
Just a canal that is constantly being activated and re-destroyed, let them see what can be missing?
After first showing a big smile, Abu Mahad said, "I want to see the canal, there is no problem!
But you must tell me where you came from, who are you, and what do you want to see the canal?
At the same time, in order to ensure your safety, I can send two hundred cavalrymen to follow you to see, and I hope you don’t refuse!”
Li Chengyan nodded and said, "We are from the Ming Dynasty, coming from the far east, just to see the canal, or to see if there is any possibility of digging the canal again, of course, we can pay the money!
In addition, your unit will send cavalry to accompany you at will, and we are willing to accept it. I hope your unit’s cavalry can ensure our safety in life!”
Abu Mahad nodded and said, "Of course! As long as you don't make any misleading actions, your safety will be guaranteed!
However, you still have to wait patiently here, wait for me to report and see what my superior officers will make a decision."
Li Chengyan nodded in agreement, then turned his head and said, "Let's camp for the time being, let's get in touch with these barbarians.
In addition, let your brothers be on guard and don’t let these barbarians rush over and destroy us?”
Fu Wen advised: "Don't worry, Lord Li, even if you have a few times more barbarians."
Seeing that the Ming people were indeed ready to rest, Abu Mahad accepted the proposal of sending troops to accompany him. He was even more happy and immediately took his confidant back to report the news to his superiors.
The upper-level officers who received the news also breathed a sigh of relief.
Facing the enemies on the land, no one will be afraid or retreat, but facing such a huge fleet, even if someone is replaced, I guess I feel a little worried.
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