The Chinese Fleet went west and swept through the stronghold of the Red Hair Fan in the Indian subcontinent, and the Red Hair Fan was invincible and had to retreat to Africa.

However, they were not reconciled, and in order to restrain the pace of the Chinese march, they adopted the method of "privateers" to attack the Chinese sea lanes.

A privateer is a type of civilian vessel authorized by the state to possess arms and to attack merchant ships (and even warships - if possible) against other countries, mainly enemy countries. Its essence is state-sponsored piracy.

The privateers mainly started with the red hair, and the British always believed that the use of such armed civilian ships to trouble the enemy was the most effective and cheapest way.

In fact, many governments have since used these permits as a state tool to strengthen their navies, allowing them to have an additional maritime force capable of attacking enemy merchant ships without increasing their budgets.

The Hongmaofan took this way to deal with the Chinese, and it did cause great trouble to the Chinese, the Hongmaofan ships plundered the ships and attacked the coastline, causing a lot of losses to the Chinese, resulting in the Chinese shipping was not smooth, and the defense had to be strengthened, thus increasing the cost.

Now the territory controlled by the Chinese is too big to be guarded against. The civilian ships were all armed with guns and guns, and they fought when they saw the enemy, or they were accompanied by escort fleets.

The battleships of the Southeast Fleet are like hunting dogs, searching everywhere and hunting down the privateers of the red hair, but the red haired fan is still very violent, just looking at the fact that the red hairy fan is chasing and killing the Chinese merchant ships in front of Yan Changwu today, which makes him lose face and can't help but go crazy.

How could the red-haired fan be rampant, and the Southeast Fleet, under the leadership of the fleet commander Hong Xiguan, advanced to the Arabian Half Bird and captured Aden!

The port is located on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Aden on the southwest coast of Yemen, at the entrance and exit of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, and is a key point of transportation between Europe, the Red Sea and Asia and the Pacific Ocean. It is also the largest seaport in Yemen,

At the beginning of the 16th century, the Portuguese invaded Aden.

In 1517, the Turks annexed all of Yemen to the Ottoman Empire.

At the beginning of the 17th century, a popular uprising broke out, and the Ottoman army was driven out, after which it returned.

It is located at the "end" of the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire is not strong enough to firmly control Yemen, but it has considerable influence, plus the local forces are intertwined, and there are red hairy fans who enthusiastically come to make do, which is very lively.

The place also has a bit of a relationship with China, for the Ming Dynasty, in the far Middle East, there is a beautiful "overseas wonderland", where the gem trade is prosperous to the ground full of gems, the scenery is like a feng shui painting "beautiful and moving", the "History of the Ming Dynasty" to define it as "Adan".

During Zheng He's voyage to the West, the ruler of Adan accepted the title of emperor of the Ming Dynasty and became an unsightly and untouchable ocean-going vassal state of the Ming Empire. Later, the Ming Empire "banned the sea" on the grounds of "ocean voyages", and the Ming Dynasty gradually lost contact with "Adan".

Now that the Chinese are back in Aden, the plan is not to leave!

The Southeastern Army dispatched 2,000 marines and 3,000 armies to easily capture Aden.

"There's not much production here, and the environment is harsh!" The young staff officer said.

"But the port is good!" The older staff officer said.

The port of Aden at sea is calm and calm, ships can pass and dock smoothly all year round, and its water area is large, and a large number of ships can be berthed.

The sun was scorching, and outside the city was a desert wilderness, and the climate was hot, and the heat rose on the ground, distorting the scene of objects in the distance.

If you look down from a high place, a piece of earthy yellow, rarely see the green of life, in Yemen, even people and animals are difficult to drink, how can there be water to raise trees! There is no shortage of yellow sand and barren hills, and the vitality of Yemenis is so tenacious!

The city is a mud house, and the people sit lazily on the ground or stand with little energy, with a plant leaf in their mouth, a bit like grass, chewing non-stop, and after eating, they will be refreshed.

This is their hobby, that is, chewing kart, here adults, the elderly, teenagers, men and women, rich and poor are all chewing kat every day, also known as kat grass or qiaocha, in the eyes of others, kat and grass are no different, but in the hearts of Yemenis, it is a rare delicacy.

Every day, after lunch and dinner, people are bound to get together to eat Carter. They are already addicted, as if they have taken drugs, and they have long become their "national snack".

Chewing grass is a social way, similar to cigarettes, alcohol, tea or betel lang in other countries, where the tribal chief invites you to eat Carter to save face.

Of course, the officers and men of the southeast will never dare to touch this kind of grass, and military discipline is strict, and anyone who eats Carter will be expelled from the military once discovered!

The army commander is Chen Xinji, the leader's uncle, and he is also the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, the third person in the army.

Not only the military, if the civilian people find that they are addicted to drugs, they will be forced to undergo drug rehabilitation, well, the cost will be paid for themselves!

If you have money, you will give money, and if you don't have money, you will pay through labor.

The domestic crime rate is extremely low, the prisons in many places are empty, and the crime rate in Daming on the other side of the sea is also very low......

"Our strategy is to be able to control an area along the Gulf of Aden that is deep enough to strategically protect the maritime security of the Gulf of Aden, and we do not seek to use this as a base to continue westward!" Hung announced the leader's strategy.

"That is to say, we want a suzerainty, but we don't want to take too much responsibility, if they provoke us, we will kill them all and create a no-man's land!" Hong Xuguan said indifferently.

The Chinese know very well that they are coming to a place that is doomed!

The local addicts in Aden sit and watch the city change the king's flag, there is grass for everything, and precious water resources are used to grow grass.

"It's not easy to get a foothold here!" The staff officers said one after another.

There are as many as hundreds of tribes in Yemen, and there are one, two, three, four, five or six tribes near Aden alone, each tribe wants to be big, plus outside forces such as Ottoman Turkey and Arabs, and the competition for resources between tribes for many years has never really stopped, and the internal friction is serious for many years, and the hatred between the tribes is very deep.

Economy?

Plant grass to get hi;

Grow wheat to survive, and even then, where there is a shortage of water, there is a shortage of food.

The economic source depends on the rewards of the coming and going ships, and it is not easy to eat enough, and it is even more difficult to make a fortune.

Resources are scarce, the resources that are not much are wasted (water carter), and the government decree is blocked by the tribes, making it difficult to develop.

In this way, the peripheral forces, the tribes, the Carter grass, the water source, the religion ...... All kinds of reasons are intertwined, so that the Chinese who dare to announce "dare to call the sun and the moon to change the sky" do not dare to say anything arrogant, but can only build their own small home and live behind closed doors in Aden!

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