The arrival of new Oriental guests did not make the almost abused lands of Europe, Asia and Africa feel a little lighter. Under the mediation of Hillard, he sent a message to Bahhei to avoid the two river valleys and march west to Syria. Isda tried his best to push Bahahhai to go to the holy city of the 'Fertile Crescent', and Khazar preferred to open a trade route through the Gokaso Mountains and the Azerbaijan Plateau to the Damascus Sea.

It seemed that it was better to consider whether it was better to collect taxes at the port of the Levant or to rely on the rich agricultural areas to feed the horses. As far as the Fertile Crescent itself is concerned, the two rivers are the top priority, which is equivalent to the hinterland of the Central Plains in the Yellow River Basin. Moreover, the whole Crescent and Egypt, the Celestial Peninsula are mainly flat and hot deserts, more suitable for camels than for Mughal horses. Even if he did not know the history of the expansion of the Persian and Ottoman empires, and did not know the modern wars in Syria, Iraq, and Turkey, he could understand from the level of the terrain that when the Anatolian and Persian plateaus were in the hands of his brothers, most of the flat land he was assigned was a coastal stronghold, which needed to be controlled by sea power, and it would not be long before it became the wedding dress of others.

No matter how hard the outside world tried, the final compromise was based on practical interests, and the eldest son Namuban led 20,000 men into the Levant, the third Ahmad went south to clear the area around Banda with Tigul of Susa, and he himself took his youngest son Fegureh into the Anatolian Peninsula.

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Seeing that the flames of war were about to burn to Xiangbao, it was not appropriate to wait here for a long time, so the Ming Court sent three warships, escorted by the Bo Qiuge people, Zhou Ting and a thousand envoys, and went around the Cape of Good Hope to envoy to the European countries; The other two boats took Guo Siruo and other skilled workers in the field of public opinion and water conservancy, and headed straight for the Red Sea, making sure to explore the possibility of dredging the canal; The rest of the scholars and female scribes, before receiving the evacuation notice, seized the time to soak in the palace of wisdom to copy the classics, especially the works of several scholars named by the queen, such as Khorazmi, Batani, Biruni, Younis, Khayan, Razi, Sena, Zaharawi, Nafis, Beta, Dinavalli, Timia and others, in the fields of advanced mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, optics, physics, etc. In addition to this, the mission had the task of acquiring all the secular books available from the Bochugo or the Iberians, and in particular sending permanent personnel to the ancient Iberian city of Toledo, where the translation of the Celestial cultists and texts was most concentrated, and it was to carry out these scientific masterpieces before the Iberians expelled the Celestials completely. If the Mongol army approached Baoda, the entire fleet immediately withdrew from the Green Sea, sought a harbor in the Gulf of Aden at the Red Sea, and sheltered and invited Da Shi and scholars from other countries to board the ship and return to the East as much as possible.

He is very proud of the Dayu people's 'intellectual pilgrimage' to the Palace of Wisdom, not only generously released, but also specially given back hundreds of Greek classics and Persian classics translated into the language of the Great Food, and specially invited Oriental scholars to participate in various debates.

At present, the first edition has been printed 10,000 sets, of which 1,000 are hardcover, 3,000 are free for academic editions of institutions and academies, and 6,000 are generally bound editions that can be sold in bulk at a low price. The book has a total of more than 25,000 volumes, more than 1,700 volumes, from the 35th year of Sejong to the 8th year of Shenzong, it took 14 years, a total of more than 3,000 editors, clerks, pen clerks and more than 2,000 bookstore employees participated in the compilation and proofreading, only the table of contents and the attached list of personnel accounted for more than 160 volumes, up to the chief editor Xi Chuan Wang and his wife and the three editors-in-chief and other Fang family giants, or Zhi Shi Zaifu, who voluntarily returned to the Hanlin Academy, down to the engraving and typesetting of the untied hair of the small chamberlain, but all those who participated in this matter, all left their names in the register.

Over the centuries, the Great Cannibals carried forward the ancient Greek and Roman cultures, spread them to North Africa, and finally translated them into Western languages by the white-clothed eaters of the Iberian Peninsula opposite, shining on the European Renaissance. Greek science, which was very different from the Eastern way of thinking, was based on thinking, induction, and reasoning, and the Great Food advanced it into a new era, using practice and observation for laboratory research.

Now that the two empires representing the Oriental cultures are officially engaged in diplomatic exchanges, even if they are shrouded in the haze of the vultures, the sparks that collide are enough to have a profound impact on each other.

As far as Gu Ci's original intention is concerned, out of respect and habit for modern knowledge, she only hopes that the 'west wind will gradually move eastward' in advance, instead of being forced to accept Western civilization with a sense of superiority when the country is weak and the people are poor, but the effect of this foreign affairs activity will soon appear. In the equal integration of the two profound civilizations, it is not the political and cultural superstructure that will change the fastest, but the commercial activities.

The 'official' merchants, led by Xie Qiwei, did not follow the 1,000-strong delegation around Africa, but together with Guo Siruo, they went ashore on the Red Sea, went to Cairo to hire guides and fleets, and went to Iberia. Xie Qiwei hired two fleets, one was half the host, the owner was the Marin cannibal, and the other was the Hongmaoyi fleet, which was not popular with the Orientals. The communication of businessmen sometimes does not need to consider the position, Xie Qiwei heard that they have the reputation of 'sea coachmen', no matter what, he has to go up to see if the Hongmaoyi has a completely different appearance in the mainland.

At this time, European ships were mainly rowed oars, and most of the rocking slaves on the big food boats were captives or black 'shengfan', and these African natives were called 'zanjinu'. In order to deal with pirates or to fight at any time, the sailors were basically well armed, with swords, bows and crossbows, and the bow of the ship with hook ropes and heavy iron wrapping, all of which showed that their current naval warfare technology was still in the stage of hand-to-hand combat or sinking of the ship, and the large ships that led the voyage were often equipped with gun carriages to throw cannonballs as weapons, and of course, there was also the secret weapon bought from the whisk - 'Greek fire', a liquid combustible substance spewed out of a brass wooden pipe, similar to oil, and more violently exposed to water.

In addition to the necessary fire-fighting and self-defense equipment, the sailors and ships were not equipped with weapons, let alone gun carriages, and the shape was strange, the deck was narrow, the hull was like a belly, large and round, slow and clumsy, but cheap and spacious. Xie Qiwei naturally did not choose the Hongmaoyi merchant ship because of the low freight, what interested him was a story - the Hongmaoyi people who were cut off by Bo Qiuge at the Cape of Good Hope, in order to find another route to the East, once tried to detour to the northern ice ocean, frozen on Sanwenya Island, nearly 20 people in order to survive the long winter of eight months, relying on hunting and skinning to maintain food and clothing, and the deck was unloaded to burn the fire for warmth. Until eight people died, they did not use the cargo belonging to the customer in the hold, even though the clothing and medicine inside might have saved their lives. In the following year, when the snow melted, they returned the goods to Zhao, winning the collective trust of the maritime merchants.

The two waves of Dayu merchants met in Lisbon, the largest port of Pochuge, and arrived earlier than the mission, and although they did not bring oriental goods to do business, the merchants, wherever they go, are best at nothing more than sales and procurement. Jiang Jin, who is expected to become the future general manager of the Royal Book Company, and the eldest grandson of the former Danqing Pavilion Jiang Da Treasurer, soon discovered a huge business opportunity - Chinese typesetting and movable type printing, limited by the large number of Chinese characters, the process is complex and time-consuming, in contrast, whether it is the big food language or European languages, it is just a lot of 'musical notes' permutations and combinations, which is very suitable for the application of printing, and even further, like stamping, PIA symbols one by one in order on the paper, you can write it, even the pen can be used! As for how to print it quickly, let the Industrial Construction Bureau and GLI University study it!

He immediately wrote a letter to report the idea to the headquarters, and if it could be developed quickly, it would definitely sell for a large price, and the matter of copying the book could be much faster.

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After the Western fleet left the port, every half month, an armed merchant ship carrying coal and oil set off with it, going back and forth between Longmen and the fleet, and then the various information fed back was transferred from Longmen to Shangjing, and the first time Shenzong saw the information was two months ago. When the fleet passed through the Tianzhu Sea, a naval battle between Da Shi and Bo Qiuge had just ended, which attracted the attention of the imperial court.

Bo Qiuge and the Polo Dynasty teamed up to squeeze the big food out of the port of Sanjan (Gujarat) south of the mouth of the Shen River, and also intercepted the big food merchant ships near the port of Abbas at the mouth of the Green Sea, and even the Hongmaoyi were squeezed out of the Tianzhu Sea and could only dock at the ports outside the Red Sea, so that the entire Western spice market was loaded and unloaded in Lisbon, and the ports of Bosaro and Venice could not see even a piece of spice.

The ally that Da Shi found was not Ottoman, who was also a Celestial Cultist, but Venice, which was unwilling to live next to the spice market. Ideology is always to serve interests, there are no eternal friends, let alone eternal enemies, and in response to the sea power of Bo Qiuge, Venice, which once fought endlessly in the Levant, formed an alliance with Da Shi. With the help of Venice, a Nestorian state, Da Shi assembled the new warships sent by Venetian merchants by land on Hanes Island, at the mouth of the Red Sea, and together with Ma Mulu, pulled up a fleet of 100 ships, gathered nearly 10,000 people, and set off for Sanjan.

More than a dozen Venetian ships are the only big ships in the Great Food Fleet, mainly row oars, not equipped with too many gunwales, let alone Greek firearms, only the head and tail are installed throwing gun carriages, and the rest of the big food ships are all sloops and small sailing ships, let alone long-range heavy guns. So the main means of attack of this fleet were broadside battles and a small number of artillery. There were less than twenty ships in Bo Qiuge, all of them were large carrick galleons, equipped with simple throwing gun carriages on both sides, and the weapons of more than 2,000 sailors were strong bows and crossbows purchased from Dayu, and the range and lethality were stronger than those of the great sailors.

At first, according to the traditional tactics, the big cannibals prepared to collide head-on, and approached the sailing ship, sending the warriors with white scarves on their heads to hand-to-hand combat, but they did not expect that the stone bullets flying from a hundred yards away could break their decks and masts, and the range and power of their own guns were far inferior to those of the other party, so they could not pose much of a threat. When the nimble big food boat approaches the sailboat in a roundabout way, the tall side and sturdy hull are more than able to withstand the impact of such a small vessel. The spinnakers and sails hung from the four masts provided enough power to speed up or turn the boat, and with the Polotics, who were more familiar with hydrology and ocean currents, the Botchugo could easily shake off the large locust-like eating boats. The big sailors with scimitars finally got on the gangway, and when they tried to board the ship, the high side of the ship made it difficult for them to climb, and the bows and crossbows of the Bochu Ge people on it were very happy.

The Mamu Army fleet was the first to abandon the battle and leave, and the rest of the Great Food Fleet was even more collapsed and was beaten to pieces.

The battle ended with a great victory for Bo Qiuge, with almost no losses, and the use of long-range weapons destroyed at least half of the small ships, changing the previous mode of having to engage in broadside battles to decide the victory, and began to develop new shipbuilding technology. In one fell swoop, Bo Qiuge took control of the western port of Sanjan and the eastern port of Jida in the western part of the Tianzhu Sea, and almost became the only maritime agent for goods from the East to the West, which was a veritable maritime overlord, and in the future, Lisbon would completely replace Venice and become the center of European trade.

Of course, if the Dayu fleet is not so well-equipped and mighty, maybe they don't mind another naval battle to determine who is the boss of the sea, after all, it is not the ship that can win in a naval battle.

Ming Ting found his own hidden dangers, thinking that the big ship is easy to shake, not suitable for long-distance sailing, and there are many things worth learning in mast technology, the galleon on the opposite side is not much smaller than the Yu ship, but equipped with slash sails, foremast, foresail, top sail, etc., and even details such as sail horn ropes have been copied and recorded.

The Great Cannibal who had swept thousands of armies lost so badly, completely lost its advantage at sea, completely lost the control of the Tianzhu spice trade, and was hit hard, and the Venetian merchants who shared the same fate with the Great Food in this naval battle were even more slumped, as the mainstay of the Whirk Navy, the influence of Whirat in the Damascus Sea will be further reduced, then, the enemies of the two empires of Big Food and Whirat, will usher in the opportunity to counterattack.

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All kinds of information returned by the fleet, except for the top-secret 'military' information, were all collected in Gu Ci's hands, and she annotated and classified them in a unified manner, and then presented them to the imperial review. Half a year later, when she went to Beijing, she was really stunned when she saw the magical 'typewriter' idea put forward by Jiang Jin, and she didn't care about reading the catalog of hundreds of boxes of books and the overview of Europe, so she immediately asked Yiqing to arrange for the professors of Gregory University to set up a project, and Wang Xi Chuan and his wife had a new task, and the "Literature Dictionary" should add a 'translation volume'.

Seeing that she was busy chattering, Yuan Yi led her to the small study under the map of the world, and clicked on the earthworm-like Dongying, "I'm going to send Qinde to go next spring, what do you think you want to explain?" ”

“…… Ask for silver! Lots and lots of silver! ”