"Kunlun Nu~"

Hearing Bihar's words, Du Mingen couldn't help but say.

Hearing Du Mingen's words, Bihar also paused slightly, and then looked at Master Huiming.

"Master Hou is saying that how can there be black people in this world."

Master Huiming smiled and hurriedly translated.

"I don't know about this, but the merchants of the A~La~Bo~ region like to sell these black people, they are strong, and rarely get sick, and they are the best slaves."

Bihar smiled and shook his head.

"The best slave?"

Hearing Bihar's words, Du Mingen silently remembered this.

At present, with the large-scale rise of factories and workshops in the Beijing-Tianjin area, the labor force required is very large, and many people will trade slaves from the grasslands, Korea, and the Japanese country to sell in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and the profits are quite considerable.

If the dealers of the Ming Dynasty knew this information, there would definitely be a large number of slave traders who went to the world outside the Ming Dynasty to sell slaves.

However, Africa is still too far away, whether it is the Nanyang region or this Tianzhu, the population is also very large, even if it is a slave trade, it should start from these places first.

"To the west of the Ottoman Empire, there is the vast Mediterranean, and to the north of the Mediterranean, there is a group of Christians who have been fighting against the Ottoman Empire for a long time, and they have been fighting each other for countless years for their faith."

"Historically, these Christians also built a very powerful empire, and even destroyed Persia at one point, and tried to invade our Tianzhu."

Bihar smiled and continued to speak slowly.

"Faith in Christ?"

Du Mingen frowned slightly, feeling that the people in these places seem to be very influenced by the sect~~ religion, Buddhism and India ~~ degree ~ religion here in Tianzhu, Ah ~ La ~ ~ Bo ~ The region has torn up the Blue Sect, and now there is a base ~ Du ~ Sect.

This is completely different from the Eastern world dominated by the Ming Dynasty.

In the East, the Ming Dynasty, Korea, and the Wa Kingdom, as well as Siam, Annam, and Luzon in the Nanyang region, are not very convinced of this aspect, and they do not care about these.

"This is a very noteworthy problem, if the Ming Dynasty and these areas have long-term contacts in the future, it will definitely be greatly affected, but these miscellaneous things can't be passed back."

Du Mingen's mind quickly thought about it, and instinctively kept enough vigilance against these things.

"If you can compete with the Ottoman Empire, then the countries in these places must be very powerful?"

Du Mingen thought about it, and also asked Bihar.

"They are indeed very strong, I heard that the year before last, there was a fleet called Portugal that arrived at Calicut in our West Tianzhu."

Bihar smiled and nodded slightly, and then said something shocking.

"Portugal?"

Master Huiming listened to Bihar's words, and he didn't know how to translate the word Portugal, so he could only transliterate it.

"Can you be sure that they belong to the country north of the Mediterranean?"

Du Mingen immediately frowned, it seems that it is not only the Ming people who are opening up sea routes, but these Europeans have also begun to open up sea routes.

"It is certain that they are the countries north of the Mediterranean, because their clothing is very different from that of the Ottomans, and they all carry crosses."

Bihar said with great certainty.

"This incident happened 2 years ago, when it caused a huge sensation in Calicut, and we in the Andra Kingdom also have contacts with Calicut."

"Cross?"

Hearing this, Du Mingen couldn't help but nod slightly.

Before he came out, Liu Jin had already told him about some things in Europe, and one of the most striking features of their religion was the cross.

"Hongzhi arrived in Tianzhu in the eleventh year, and their fleet must have bypassed Africa."

At the same time, Du Mingen's mind also came up with a map of the world, from Europe to Tianzhu, the most convenient route is to bypass Africa to reach Tianzhu.

"It's a pity, if only I could meet them here in Tianzhu."

Then Du Mingen also had a slight regret in his heart, the Portuguese arrived in Tianzhu from west to east, and he arrived in India from east to west, with a difference of 2 years before and after, and he did not meet together.

"They will definitely come to Tianzhu in the future, and when the time comes, they will definitely not be limited to West Tianzhu, they will definitely come to East Tianzhu, and they will definitely go back to Nanyang and our Daming in the future."

"Haha, in the future, our Ming will have another opponent at sea."

"The fact that their ships were able to reach Tianzhu from Europe bypassing Africa shows that their ships and navigation technology are very advanced and will not be inferior to ours." Peerless Tang Gate fo

Thinking of this, Du Mingen couldn't help laughing.

He has been to the Golden Continent, and sailed all the way west from Daming, and has been to many places, and he has also seen too many countries.

But all of these countries are very small, very weak, and more importantly, they are relatively backward, especially in terms of navigation technology.

There are hundreds of large and small countries in the Nanyang region, but the navigation technology of these hundreds of countries is very backward, and the ships built are very small, which is also the reason why there are many countries in the Nanyang region.

Because shipbuilding technology and navigation technology are not good, the islands are relatively small and independent, and naturally large and small countries will be formed.

Now I finally let Du Mingen know that in this world, there are still countries whose shipbuilding technology and navigation technology can be compared with Daming.

They are also constantly opening up routes at sea.

This is a feeling of being an opponent.

"I really want to go to Europe to have a look, and see who is more powerful than our Daming in the countries of Europe."

At this time, Du Mingen's heart was even more eager to go to Europe.

It's just that this time, Du Mingen has no way to go to Europe, according to the plan of the fleet, they will go to Persia and the Middle East at most, and then go to Africa.

If you want to go to Europe, you have to bypass Africa, this voyage is very far, and if you want to return to Daming, you don't know if it's the year of the monkey.

"Are those European ships big?"

Du Mingen thought for a moment and asked Bihar again.

"We have merchant ships between Visaca and Calicut, and I have heard that these European ships are very large, and they should be about the same size as yours."

"But they don't have a lot of them, just four ships."

Bihar thought for a moment and replied.

Both Tianzhu, Calicut and Visa had a very frequent exchange, and the news came quickly.

"These Europeans are very domineering and savage, they are not like you Ming people, they are full of friendship and kindness, when they arrived in Calicut, they preached in Calicut without permission, and they also erected a stone monument here in Calicut, in order to declare Calicut their place."

Then Bihar said with a little anger.

Speaking of these Portuguese, the people on Tianzhu's side are more angry, these Portuguese and Ming people are completely two extremes.

The Ming people were friendly and peaceful, and they brought Ming silk and porcelain to Tianzhu, but these Portuguese were different, they didn't bring anything, but they still wanted doves to occupy the magpie's nest.

"Oh, and such a thing?"

"Can you tell me more about that?"

When Du Mingen heard this, he immediately came to his senses, it seems that these Portuguese are not fuel-efficient lamps, only four ships dare to occupy the magpie's nest on Tianzhu's side, and there must be a few brushes.

This is still very similar to Liu Jin, before coming, Liu Jin also told Du Mingen that on the routes along the way, if possible, he would also try to occupy some strongholds and establish colonial strongholds, so as to facilitate the exchange of merchant ships and the development of colonization in the later period.

However, Du Mingen still did it more tactfully.

There is no way, whether it is here in the Nanyang region or Myanmar, because the eunuchs of the Three Treasures went to the Western Ocean seven times, so many countries have a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty and have paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

And everyone's impression of Da Ming is very good, and Du Mingen's side doesn't need to forcibly occupy it at all.

Along the way, Du Mingen and these countries proposed to establish a piece of land to facilitate the exchange of Ming merchant ships in the future, and the people of these countries almost did not frown, and they were very happy to row out the land, and even took the initiative to send people to help build it.

Starting from Sulu and going west, Du Mingen has also established more than ten strongholds along the way, without spending a single soldier, everyone is very welcome and enthusiastic to help.

Especially when I think that I can often communicate with Da Ming in the future, I am even more excited.

Here in the South China Seas, these countries are very welcoming to the arrival of the Ming merchant ships, and I wish that the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty would often come here in the future.

Daming's reputation is really good, and everyone likes to associate with Daming.

Of course, this is also related to the strategy adopted by Du Mingen, where he goes to give gifts first, and a set of glass products will buy people in these places.

Isn't it just a piece of land to build a base, what a big deal?

What's more, Daming is a big country, powerful and rich, and he won't worry about his own territory at all, everyone believes in this, so they are very happy.

So much so that Du Mingen came all the way, with artillery and strong soldiers, but there was no place for it, and he originally thought that if they didn't agree or anything, they would use force to make them obedient.

Now I didn't expect that these Portuguese had mastered advanced navigation technology, and they were also constantly establishing colonial bases on the shipping routes, which is interesting.

"Of course you can~"

"They only have four ships, but their artillery is very powerful......"