"You know, at present, our Ottoman Empire's conquest army is almost all over Eastern Europe, and the caravans that enter the Black Sea through the strait are all going to our enemy countries, because they are worried that someone will secretly sell arms to the enemy countries, the royal family personally sent someone to supervise it, responsible for searching the passing fleet, that person is a royal commissioner, no one will give face, even the Duke has to let him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The reason why the Ottoman Empire did not seal the strait is because Istanbul is the largest port in the world today, and there are countless ships coming and going every day, which can provide the empire with huge profits and recruit more troops, and it will be a big loss to seal the strait.

Moreover, the Ottoman Empire was invincible in countless battles, from the soldiers to the marshals, all of whom developed a sense of pride, believing that no one could cross the Strait blockade, even though it was true.

Countless batteries have been set up on both sides of the strait, and they are all equipped with powerful long-range cannons supervised by Urban, once they find that someone dares to break in, there will be no less than 80 cannons within five minutes, in that case, I am afraid that the most powerful navy of this era will not be able to withstand the overwhelming bursting shells larger than the head, and what is even more embarrassing is that they cannot fight back, when the ship-borne artillery meets the shore artillery, especially the shore artillery designed by Urban, can only be hung and beaten.

It seems that the strait is more difficult to penetrate than the city of Istanbul.

However, if you can't break through, you can outwit it.

Zheng Fei asked the officers to press the fleet for a few more days, so that they could have enough time to contact the daughter of the strait garrison, otherwise the time would be too urgent and no valuable information would be obtained.

......

The light was dim, fainter than a candle, and the officer took a dagger to carefully cut off the beef from the roast pork leg and put it on the plate, and asked with a smile, "Shall you have a drink?"

"Didn't you say you couldn't bear it?"

"Hey, that was before, and now I can give it up because you just gave me a hundred gold coins. ”

So saying, the officer silently walked over to the cabinet and took out a fine bottle of red wine, which had been given to him by a merchant from France a few months earlier.

Zheng Fei felt that this officer was quite cute.

He smiled and sat down happily, but in order not to waste his precious time drinking wine and eating meat, he asked something else.

"Are you Turkish?"

"It's not. The officer sneered, and a trace of grief appeared between his eyebrows, as if lamenting fate.

"Then you are ?......"

"I am a Byzantine, and after the fall of my country ten years ago, I and my men were taken prisoner and incorporated into the Ottoman army, and the Ottomans gave us the name of Miscellaneous Soldiers. ”

The officer paused, swallowed his wine, and sneered again.

"Otherwise, have you ever seen an elite army sent to take care of the docks? We use the crudest weapons, and we can only take care of the porters sleeping on the stacks of containers, except for receiving foreign ships. ”

Porters are Zheng Fei's purpose.

"Are you in charge of this whole beach?" he said, eating a crispy piece of roast pork, which tasted good.

The officer shook his head.

"How can I have so much power, this stretch of beach is divided into ten areas, I am only in charge of one of them, my good friend for many years is in charge of the other, it sounds like I can make a profit, but in fact most of it falls into the hands of the royal task force and the Strait Guard, we can only secretly hide a small profit. ”

The officer chewed on the pork, and suddenly thought of something: "Oh yes, don't tell me about the pork roast in the house, many of the ruling class in Istanbul are believers, I don't know why their religion prohibits eating pork, I'm afraid of getting into trouble." ”

Wow.

Zheng Fei was overjoyed.

This is simply a godsend!

"Then you'll have to do me a favor. Zheng Fei stretched out his hand and pulled the plate in front of him.

The officer was momentarily stunned, then quickly cleared his thoughts and suppressed his smile.

"Are you threatening me?"

"Of course not, it's a deal, and I can give you ten times as much when it's done. Zheng Fei pointed to the small cloth bag containing a hundred gold coins.

The officer's is not very good, and after a blink of an eye, he roughly calculated, and it was about 10,000 silver coins, and with this money, plus those that were secretly deducted before, he could simply retire and buy a small manor in the countryside!

He had never met such a generous businessman, out of caution, he tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, slowly exhaled, and looked at Zheng Fei coldly.

"What do you want me to do?"

If there is something dangerous, he will not do it.

Zheng Fei raised his eyebrows, picked up the bottle of wine, filled his flask, and smiled.

"Don't worry, you don't have to pay anything, you just need to make a call for me. ”

"What's the call?" the officer thought, "It's not going to be me going to rebel against the Beach Guards, is it?"

The officer was in charge of a tenth of the beach, but in essence his power was only to manage the merchant mooring ships and supervise the porters, and the real security guards were the descendants of the Ottoman legions, who were brave and skilled in battle, and guarded the first line of defense in Istanbul.

"Call~ Gather the laborers in the area under your management and your friends, and come with me, I am in dire need of manpower now. ”

"What?!" The officer stood up, stared wide in astonishment, glanced out the window, and lowered his voice and exclaimed, "Do you know how many laborers there will be? More than two thousand!"

"Of course I do. ”

"Why do you want so many people as a merchant? Well, even if you're a navigator, you don't need so many sailors, do you?"

"I'm not a navigator, I'm a ......"

Zheng Fei stood up straight, held his head high, and immediately smiled slyly.

"Great, navigator. ”

The officer's expression was more distorted than Fang Cai, and he looked at Zheng Fei with an incredible gaze, his stiff facial muscles shaking, as if he wanted to laugh, or maybe he wanted to say something.

It took more than ten seconds for him to slowly calm down and calm down.

"I'm not interested in sailing or anything, but seriously, I admire you ambitious navigators, and many people may say that you are dreaming of making a fortune by sailing, but I think it's also a blessing to live in a dream. ”

Obviously, he didn't intend to ignore Zheng Fei's exaggerated requests, thinking that he was a daydreaming madman.

Well, but it seems to be late at night.

Zheng Fei didn't feel humiliated by this, because he understood-

No one will look down on you until you win.

After thinking for a moment, he looked at the officer seriously.

"Can you come with me on the boat?"

"Which ship, yours?"

"Yes, I'll show you a few things. (To be continued.) )