Ibrahim was born into a large wealthy family.

His grandfather and father were both well-known local merchants. His mother was the youngest of his father's four wives. Similarly, Ibrahim was the youngest son in the family, having eleven brothers and more sisters.

Until the age of six, Ibrahim studied with his father's best friend, the wise man of the oasis.

In the course of his studies, Ibrahim showed great talent. He could memorize every word of the wise man's teachings and dictate every passage of scripture he read. He even copied charts from his great-grandfather's time.

Ibrahim's wisdom caught his father's attention, and in just four years, from the age of six to ten, he mastered the knowledge of navigation accumulated by his family for several generations, and began to learn his father's most valuable business experience.

"Ibrahim, you make me proud!"

The father, dressed in a white robe, lifted Ibrahim aloft in the air.

Strong arms, broad chests, loving eyes, and deep laughter make up Ibrahim's whole world.

His brothers were not jealous, and they were well educated, and the time spent at sea allowed the whole family to bond closer.

"Ibrahim is the pride of his father and the pride of everyone."

The eldest, Jaber, took Ibrahim from his father. He is married, but he has no children. The difference in age made him even more pampered - loved his youngest brother.

"Jaber, when you go to sea next year, I will hand over a merchant ship to you."

Ibrahim's father announced the news in front of the whole family.

Jaber was thrilled that his father's words meant that he would be independent. From this moment on, he will have his own ship, his own caravan.

"Ishaq, you go to Jaber's ship to help him."

"Yes, father."

"Haraf, you stay on my ship, you still have a lot of knowledge to learn."

Ibrahim's brothers followed their father to the sea. Most of his sisters are married. From the year before, he became the only child to stay at home.

"Ibrahim, don't worry, when the time is right, my father will naturally allow you to board the ship."

Year after year, waiting, Ibrahim spent the longest five years of his life. When he was fifteen years old and finally able to board a ship, a strange army suddenly appeared in the oasis where the family had lived for generations.

Fire-red armor, armor that glistens in the sun, sharp spears, terrible artillery.

With a roar, black smoke erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, and a huge iron ball fell from the sky, instantly smashing down an official residence. It was the most luxurious building in the oasis and the residence of an Ottoman official.

"Kill!"

The shouts of slaughter tore through the hot winds of the desert, and the flaming army swept the Ottoman-Empire army to pieces, and the battle ended almost at the beginning.

Ibrahim was excited, and he looked at this qiē almost excitedly.

The officials sent by the Sultan were insatiable, and the father and brother had to pay a great price to satisfy his appetite for paperwork to pass through the Black Sea.

The inhabitants of the area were also oppressed because they were a conquered people.

The arrival of this army changed a qiē.

Ibrahim didn't know what his life would be like in the future, and he couldn't take his eyes off what happened on the battlefield.

"Young master, danger, get out of there!"

"It's okay." Ibrahim pushed his servant's hand away, "It's still some distance from the battlefield, and besides, don't you see, they only attack the Sultan's army. ”

As it turned out, Ibrahim was right.

After the battle, the inhabitants of the oasis were still in shock. Ibrahim wanted to come forward, but was stopped by the servants. This time, the servant would rather die than let him go.

"Ibrahim?"

A familiar voice sounded in his ears, and Ibrahim looked up and was surprised to find that one of his brothers had actually ridden out of the strange army.

He was dressed in unfamiliar clothes, wearing only a familiar turban.

"Brother!"

The servant knelt on the ground, and Haraf jumped off his horse and strode towards his brother, "Don't be afraid, they are from the Ming Dynasty. The young general was a friend of his father. ”

The Ming army was cleaning up the battlefield, and the general who led this cavalry was Chen Ji, the grandson of Chen Heng, the Duke of Jingguo.

After returning from Korea, he was transferred to the command of Dingguo Gong. The Ming Dynasty went to war with the Ottoman-Empire-Kingdom, Shen Xuan was in charge of the seal, and Chen Ji defeated many competitors and led the vanguard of the left army.

Soon after the expedition, a group of big food merchants led by the lieutenant officer came to the army. They volunteered to act as guides and lead the way for the Ming army.

It is reported that this is thanks to Xingningbo.

Seeing the tributary caravans, Xingningbo made a proposal to the Son of Heaven to allow them to settle in the Ming Dynasty as a condition for the army to obtain a group of guides who were familiar with the local situation.

"Your Majesty, Great Emperor, your mind is as broad as the sea."

The big food merchants accepted this condition. In fact, many of them have long wanted to stay here. It's just that the imperial court has a very strict inspection of the "foreign population", there is no official document, and the stay period exceeds the permit, no matter who you are, you will be driven away.

On the blacklist, the Japanese are at the top of the list. Again and again, still stubbornly relying on death. Working as a coolie in a port is also a hundred times better than going back to the Wa country to starve.

To be a pirate and a pirate? That's what you do.

With the strengthening of the coastal defense of the Ming Dynasty, the living space of the pirates and pirates was compressed to the limit.

Zhu Gaosui, the king of Zhao, led the fleet across the sea, like a giant beast, extremely fierce, whoever met it was unlucky.

The Ming Dynasty fleet held high the banner of justice and robbed pirates large and small. The pirates went into hiding, and they set their sights on the nearly extinct pirates. At the slightest disturbance, he immediately landed on the Japanese island "Heiwa". How the process is not for outsiders, only recorded in the history books, since King Zhao twice "visited" the Wa Kingdom and had a "friendly" meeting with the Japanese generals, the Wa Kou completely became history along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. The only place where they can be found is the Java Islands.

According to the grapevine, these Japanese robbers crossed the ocean on a Daming sea ship and caused trouble to Java.

For this reason, the king of the west and the king of the east of Java jointly protested to the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Zhu Di was leading the army to look for people to fight, and the kings of Europe were all rumors, hugging in the castle and praying to God, let the evil god leave quickly. Zhu Gaoxu was suffocated in Nanjing, unable to move in front of Chengshan's music every day, and was full of anger.

Java hit Zhu Gaoxu's gun-muzzle-on.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't find an outlet, so without saying a word, he threw the protest book back directly.

"There is no evidence, dare to slander like this, thinking that Da Ming is easy to deceive?!"

The Javanese envoys were horrified, and finally realized that the Yongle Emperor was not easy to mess with, and the crown prince in front of him was also not easy to mess with. Compared with the old and serious emperor, the crown prince in his year is obviously more popular. Looking at this posture, there is a great possibility of sending troops to Java.

The envoys knelt on the ground and bowed their heads, it was their fault, and the Japanese invaders landed on the island by themselves, and they had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty!

Past on your own?

The envoy gritted his teeth, although the widow was short, his endurance was strong, and the subordinate thought that it should be swimming!

Zhu Gaoxu: "......"

At this point, he can't continue to be embarrassed.

In the end, the matter ended with the king of the west and the king of the east pleading guilty and offering 10,000 taels of gold.

The issue of face is not on the minds of Javanese, but gold is a big deal. In order to raise compensation, Java dug three feet into the ground again, and also dug up soil in Sumatra to grab gold.

Naturally, the King of Sumatra would not sit idly by. After coming and going, the armies of the two sides fought each other, and one fight lasted for five years.

The Japanese who caused the war fled when the Javanese envoys were kicked back.

The widows are fierce, cruel, and scoundrel, but they are not stupid. The Javanese are ruthless, do not run, waiting to be retaliated against by the locals?

Where exactly these would-be robbers ran to is not clearly recorded in the official history. Only in the wild history is that they piloted the sea ships and became pirates, specializing in the European merchant ships. It is also said that they were taken in by the Ming Dynasty, and after returning to Japan, they became the largest "underground" force, and the Japanese generals were so pressed that they couldn't hold their heads up.

There is another theory that they died after leaving the island of Java. The ship sank to the bottom of the sea with the people. Legend has it that these pirates carried a large amount of gold and silver treasures, including five chests of gold alone.

There are many theories that many explorers have searched for shipwrecks in the waters off Java, but without exception, they have found nothing.

Later, Western scholars investigated the Java incident, and a familiar name reappeared in the materials.

First class uncle of the Ming Dynasty, Meng.

What role he played in the whole thing is impossible to verify due to incomplete historical data. The documents treasured in the Huaxia Museum can only be consulted by Huaxia researchers.

Western scholars were not discouraged and could not find Chinese historical materials, and a notebook left by a great cannibal made them feel like a treasure. Immediately after translating the entire transcript, a protracted debate erupted in the academic community.

Whether the Ming Dynasty government premeditated "invasion and occupation" of other countries' land.

The owner of the note was named Ibrahim, and according to the account, he was the son of a great food merchant.

"The army of the Ming defeated the army of the Sultan, killing and expelling the officials sent by the Sultan."

"The generals of the Ming Dynasty were young and friendly. He was invited to his home by his brother...... Although the beliefs were different, he was very polite and gained the favor of the wise......"

"After the general and his brother left, my father returned. He said, 'Ibrahim, we will leave here and go by boat to live in the Ming Empire'. ”

"Da Ming, the great dynasty in the mouth of my father and brother. My father told me that the army of the Ming Emperor was very strong, and the army of the Sultan was no match. In order to obtain this opportunity, he and his brother were willing to serve as guides for the Ming army. If it is discovered by the Sudanese army, it is definitely a dead end, and the family will not be spared. But my father did it anyway......"

"The wise man said that unlike the Ottomans, the Ming-Empire would not be averse-conquest-tyrannical, nor would it force women to fill the Sultan's harem. In fact, many businessmen hoped to marry their daughters to the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately, there were too few nobles of the Ming Dynasty who had the same beliefs. ”

"When the family was ready to go, the father gathered his brothers together and told them that he had sold most of the land owned by the family to merchants in the Ming Dynasty, leaving only a small piece of the oasis. Like my brothers, I wondered, did the merchants of the Ming Dynasty buy a large piece of sand to dig up sand? What's even more strange is that the businessman who did so was not a ......"

Half a copy later, the handwriting becomes blurry and is missing.

Turning the pages of the fragments, there are bits and pieces of Ibrahim's life with his family in the Ming Dynasty. Reading between the lines, it can be seen that Ibrahim was very satisfied with life, and when he was thirty years old, he obtained "fame" and became an official, which made his family feel very honored. Many of the father's friends wanted to marry their daughter to him.

At this point, the note came to an abrupt end. Obviously, there is much more to come, but it has been lost to history and cannot be traced.

However, this information is sufficient for Western scholars to launch an attack on the Ming Dynasty at that time, and they claim that "the Ming government at that time systematically plundered-plundered-plundered the land where Ibrahim lived, and carried out shameful plunder-looting under the guise of merchants, which was no different from their behavior in Jiaozhi." ”

Those who hold the opposite opinion say that this inference is completely nonsense!

"Plundering the land? A desert? ”

"That's not a desert, there's oil down there, and the total reserves are the highest in the world!"

"Oil? Hundreds of years ago, when there was no steam engine, the people of the Ming Dynasty knew that oil was buried under the barren desert and waged war for it? No kidding, in the eyes of people at the time, these black liquids were not even comparable to a date palm tree. ”

The attacker was speechless, but he still did not want to give up, and continued to look for evidence in the vast sea of historical materials.

It's a pity that the truth is right in front of you, but no one wants to believe it.

There are no prophets who can see hundreds of years later, but there is one Xingningbo who broke into history.

The answer is as simple as that, but even the most imaginative scholars can't believe it. Even if someone asks questions, they are often ridiculed, "This is history, not a magical story of fantasy." ”

When later generations of scholars argued endlessly about the powerful dynasty hundreds of years ago, Uncle Meng, who set off a storm and changed the trajectory of history, had a headache for King Zhao's gift.

Every time the fleet returned, Zhu Gaosui would give Meng a "local product", a very special local product. Inspired by an alpaca given to Uncle Meng by Emperor Yongle.

Lions and ostriches are not uncommon.

African buffalo and American bison graze leisurely in the pastures under Uncle Meng's name.

Leopards and cheetahs can form a soccer team.

Birds of paradise with gorgeous feathers occupy the entire garden of the province.

Every day when he woke up to the sound of birdsong, Uncle Meng had to cover his head, not knowing whether to thank Zhu Gaosui for his "kindness", or to ask Grandpa Meng to fight with His Royal Highness King Zhao in the name of martial arts.

Not long ago, Zhu Gaosui sent a pair of kangaroos to Meng, but they were still a pair of males! Since then, every few days, a boxing match has been staged in the Earl's Court. The movement was so loud that it attracted the Zhu Zhanqi brothers to watch, and they ate by the way.

"The emperor's grandfather is on the expedition again, my father is angry, and the emperor's grandmother said that the weather is good these days, and I should lead Zhan Qiduo to walk outside the palace."

The New Year's doll is already a young man, and his appearance is particularly handsome. Along with it, there is a straight climb of the belly black and skin thickness dù.

instructed his family to prepare lunch, Uncle Meng looked up to the sky and sighed, the beautiful three-headed years are really gone.

If future generations know, Xingningbo, who can be called the "second strange man of the Ming Dynasty", will make such an exclamation, I don't know if he will be disillusioned.

Why the second stranger?

Since ancient times, China has paid attention to respecting teachers. The first place belongs to Xingningbo's master, Dao Yan.

Of course, the legend of Daoyan is another piece of history.