PS: I don't want to say anything these days, it's just worse. At the end of the year, I didn't say anything about the sudden work, but another fool came and showed off in front of the leader. I made a mess of my original plan and added a lot of work.

I am here for the peace and friendship between our two countries.

Almost all diplomatic emissaries are slogans. However, it is the purpose of the truest and most stripped stripes that is wrapped under the ornate and tall garment.

It was also under such a grandiose banner that Coplulu came to bring the interests of the Ottoman Empire and his family.

"Commerce? Open ports? Tax issues? ”

For such emissaries, the officials of the Ministry of Rites have seen a lot, and have formed a whole set of effective procedures, and even the basic documents have a fixed format, but the name of the country, the geographical location of the port of development, and the relevant tax rates, and the obligations of both parties are not filled.

From the perspective of the state, in the eyes of the Ottoman court, the wars in European countries have been fought for more than ten years, and there is no intention of stopping at the moment. It seems that with the support of a steady stream of munitions and supplies, this war has a protracted and continuous momentum. (Moreover, any country or aristocracy that is swept up in it will never dare to stop!) Want to get out of the war?! Look at the ever-increasing cannons of your neighbors around you, kill the red-eyed army, you dare to stop and withdraw from the battle, then your territory, subjects, castles, villas, mistresses, children, gold coins, jewels, horses. It is possible to become someone else's property. And you yourself may have to serve God and his old man. Although they all claim to be the most devout believers in God, no one wants to go to serve his old man and enjoy glory in his old man's aura. ）

Therefore, he has always regarded Europe as his own forbidden territory. The Ottoman monarchs, who had always wanted to completely bring down the cross, remembered the famous saying, "Take advantage of your illness and kill you!" ”

On the one hand, they fought against the European countries, marched westward and northward, and fought all the way to the Ukrainian steppe, snatching all the land originally owned by the Mongols, and crossing the sea at the same time. Marched south, making the territory of the Nubians and Arabs his own, as well as Egypt, which was rich in wheat.

However, in this way, the amount of ammunition, supplies, grain and grass needed is a huge astronomical amount. What's more, there will be countless soldiers who will be on the front line for the nobles.

Not long ago, Gonzalez, who passed under the nose of the Ottomans, relied on a group of Japanese mercenaries under his command to greatly deflate the Spaniards in Portugal. Moreover, thousands of mercenaries left to His Majesty the Sultan as money for the road and for the nomination. In the Balkan Peninsula, the blood of those fierce mountain people was spilled into a river, and countless castles that took tens of thousands of horses to besiege for several years in the past. Under the frenzied attack of this group of mercenaries, soon the main tower of the castle was flying with a flag representing the Ottoman Sultan.

Although the price paid is half of the wealth in the castle, compared to the consumption and casualties of tens of thousands of troops for several years, such mercenaries can be regarded as cheap and good.

So, under the ingenuity of King Gonzalez I, he patted his chest and expressed his willingness to be in the middle of the match. The Ottoman Empire decided to send Koprülu to Canton to meet Duke Li and reach an agreement on trade and the recruitment of mercenaries within Duke Li's territory.

In the public and private, Koplulu also came with the mission of the family.

"After the envoy goes back. The Sultan of our country asked me to be the governor of the provinces. Therefore, in order to suppress the rebellions in various places, I will not dare to make a mistake for those Pasha with bad intentions, and I must have a strong armed force in my hands! Therefore, I am willing to use my family's private wealth to recruit at least 10,000 Japanese soldiers and horses for me to drive. ”

Koplulu also got straight to the point, and after handing over the Ottoman Sultan's credentials and gift list to Li Shouhan, he bluntly stated the purpose of both public and private.

As a Kul system similar to the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, it provided institutional support for the prosperity of the Ottoman Empire and the concentration of power in the sultan alone. Boys who had been selected from all over the country and came from good families grew up under the care of the Sultan and became the so-called Sultan Kur, that is, the Sultan's slaves. Note, however, that here, the slave of the sultan is not some derogatory term, not a symbol of some lowly status, but a status similar to that of a servant of the emperor.

"It's another Cao Cao! I plan to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes! Li Peilin, who was looking at the two distant envoys from the side, couldn't help but sneer on his face.

"But your envoy never said how many mercenaries the lord plans to recruit in the Wa Kingdom?"

"It depends on what the king wants. However, the Sultan of our country said that at least 20,000 or 30,000 men, all of whom were well armed and armoured. We can calculate the cost together. ”

Hum! Not Cao Cao yet? The emperor only plans to recruit 20,000 or 30,000 people, and you yourself plan to recruit 10,000 private soldiers, don't you have a plan in mind?!

Words and words of Muhammad. Koplulu was also born in Kuer, first mixed in the palace, then went to the pro-army to boil qualifications, and finally went out to become an official in various places, a bit similar to Xuan Ye's imperial guard. Before 1640, he had served as a magistrate in many of the newly conquered areas of the Ottoman Empire, and he was well acquainted with the situation in various parts of the Ottoman Empire.

As the founder of the family of Colelu, who had held power in the Ottoman Empire for fifty years, Colelulu was governor of some of the most important provinces of the Ottoman Empire from 1644 until 1652. Judging from his tenure, the rebellion in various Ottoman lands around 1650 was not unrelated to him.

During this time, another coup d'état took place in the Ottoman Empire, and Tehan, the daughter-in-law of the Empress Dowager Kseim, who was obedient to the government, ousted her mother-in-law from power. Due to the lack of strength of Tehan, he relied on the power of the noble ministers, so the noble ministers who had been crushed by Kesem also took the opportunity to raise their heads, and finally knocked Tehan out of power seven years later and took control of the power of the Ottoman Empire.

From this time until the arrival of the Venetian navy in Istanbul in 1656, rebellions were raging throughout the Ottoman Empire, a harbinger of disintegration. And the Battle of Dardanelle, which led to the outbreak of this crisis, feels a bit like the change of the civil fort of my Celestial Empire! The Ottoman Empire was almost completely wiped out, and then the Venetian navy descended on the city of Istanbul. The entire Ottoman Empire was in a panic, and the vast number of nobles and generals collectively exerted their efforts. Tehan was knocked out of power, and the era of hanging the curtain to listen to politics ended. And then Mohammed in his 60s. After serving as Grand Vizier, Koprülu held Istanbul and defeated the Venetian navy the following year.

As a result, as soon as this guy came to power, the rebellions in various places were quickly quelled, and there are ghosts to say that these rebellions have nothing to do with him!

Even more outrageous, the defeat of the Ottoman navy at the Battle of Dardanelles was on June 21, 1656. The Venetian navy was almost completely wiped out at the Second Battle of Dardanelles on July 19, 1657. Do you think a country that is falling apart, rebelling everywhere, and whose navy is on the verge of total extinction will be able to quickly wipe out most of the enemy country's navy in the same place a year later? (It is conceivable that after the collapse of the Weihaiwei Beiyang Naval Division, another Celestial Empire Navy came to Tokyo in 1895 to annihilate the Combined Fleet.) Do you think it's possible? ）

It's not just the outrageous battles at sea, but also the ones on land! Under the command of Coprülu, the Ottomans quickly regained the lost territory previously occupied by Venice, and of course, in the process, they also gave the Janissaries a bloodbath. And after the death of this guy, his eldest son, eldest son-in-law, and second son successively assumed the position of Grand Vizier. The last to serve as Grand Vizier was his nephew. The Copleuru family has been the Grand Vizier for nearly 50 years, which is similar to the Yuan family of the fourth and third princes of China.

Although Li Shouhan and Li Peilin did not know about this grand cause that had not yet been established by Koplulu, the two of them had already sniffed a trace of it from his intentions.

"Commerce? Nature is superb! Our Nanzhong has always been a country based on industrial and commercial farming. Pay attention to navigation, since your envoy said that your lord is willing to start trade with our Nanyue army, the people in despisy will naturally welcome it. However, I don't know what your envoy intends to trade with. Li Peilin, as the head of the government affairs of the Nanyue Army, knows that it is not easy to make this big mess of firewood, rice, oil and salt. Proposed trade to the Ottoman Empire. Naturally, he was quite enthusiastic.

"Huh! Brother Zong, today is a meeting for all the envoys. There is no need to talk about government affairs. Let's wait for you to rest for a few days, and it's not too late to discuss the labor of alleviating the boat turmoil for the time being! ”

Since Li Shouhan has spoken, Li Peilin naturally doesn't have much to say. I had to order the people of the ceremonial department to continue with the following link.

"The Ottoman Sultan paid tribute to the lord, and the list is as follows!"

The long list of gifts was raised in the hands of the Ottoman envoy and read aloud in Turkic, and the general of the Rite Division next to him translated it in a low voice. It was then repeated aloud by the officials of the Ministry of Rites and read aloud to everyone present.

However, after such a few links, it created a loophole for the officials of the Rite Division. They quietly changed the name of the gift given to Li Shouhan by the Ottoman Sultan. Originally, it was a gift from the Ottoman Empire to Li Shouhan from an equal or even slightly condescending angle, but it became a tribute from the Ottoman Sultan to Li Shouhan, the commander of the Southern Guangdong Army. The difference between the words. The subordination of the status of the two sides is a thousand miles away.

“…… 200 finest horses, 200 finest gem-inlaid double-barreled short firebolts, 500 finest firearms, 1,000 steel-inlaid gold wire gemstone sabers, 100 pairs of two-year-old peonies, 100 slave girls of Austrian, Hungarian and Greek princely blood, 100 Arab slave girls, 100 Berber slave girls, 200 Ukrainian Rus slave girls......"

A series of numbers, Li Shouhan's eyebrows danced. This is the rhythm of the five continents! Female slaves of royal and aristocratic blood in Austria, Hungary, Greece? There is no doubt that it was the Turks who had been captured in their campaigns all over Europe, and as for the Arab slaves, they were the first to get the moon. Buy it from the Arab tribes to which it is attached, or from the sheikhs. And the so-called Berbers must be black slave girls in Africa!

As the saying goes, it's human nature to think about it warmly. is a farmer, who charges a few more stones of rent, and has to think about asking for a concubine for himself, let alone a character like Li Shouhan?

It has tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, millions of heroes and thousands of ships. The administrative system, that is, the so-called civilian officials in the eyes of the world, has penetrated deep into the villages in the old areas, and has also penetrated into the towns and villages in the more stable areas, and the military cadres are even more fierce.

In addition, the treasury is abundant and the grain is abundant. Such a person, do you say that there can be fewer concubines and women in his house? Let alone. Our Liang Guogong is also a person who has been deeply poisoned by various pornographic cultures in the 21st century, and has been combined with the market erotic culture that has prevailed since the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Such a character, how can he be the kind of hypocritical Taoist who destroys people's desires with heavenly principles?

In the back house, in addition to Yan Mei'er, Li Muhua, Mei Shan Shilin sisters, Xiu Zhu, Ao Lei Yilan, Qi Muge and Zhuoma from Wusizang are famous. In addition to the ranked ladies, all kinds of concubines and beautiful maids are filled with pits and valleys. Some people once said with jealousy, in the past, Chen Shubao had ten beauties, Yang Guang had twenty beauties, and Tang Xuanzong Li Longji had tens of thousands of palace maids, but I was afraid that the beauties of all over the country and all ethnic groups in Li Shouhan's back house were no less than them. Even more so!

A gust of incense blew in, and under the guidance of dozens of red gauze glass palace lamps, forty female slaves carefully selected from among the hundreds of female slaves were holding long red lacquered wooden plates, in which were placed fine horse guns, double-barreled short fire guns, high-quality swords and other things. Or dressed in a horseback riding suit, with leather boots on his legs, a long-sleeved shirt with narrow sleeves, a wide belt tied around his waist, his waist was thin, the bust of his upper body was particularly prominent, and he appeared in the courtyard outside the banquet hall with the reins of the horses in his hands, and twenty fine Turkic and Arab horses and Don hippos in his hands.

The women who walked in front and presented Li Shouhan with the finest firearms and swords produced in the Ottoman Empire were quite enchanting. The exposure of her dress is completely opposite to the civilian woman in Li Shouhan's consciousness who is wrapped in a smock and only shows her two eyes. Wearing a small shoulder that just covered the twin peaks, a thin gauze skirt with a light waistline, slender legs looming, and the plump and flat little belly was simply exposed uncovered.

It seems that the religious system is really set up for ordinary people. They ask others to wrap up tightly, but the women around them want to do their best to be enchanting and seductive. Li Shouhan remembered the arrogant, lascivious, corrupt and depraved lives of the legendary Arab princes. Looking at these female slaves in front of me, they are even more slanderous.

Two female slaves with excellent figures walked over, one holding a silver kettle, and the other holding a small cup as thin and delicate as an eggshell on a silver plate, a few steps away from Li Shouhan. A strong aroma rushed into his nostrils. The two slave girls first bowed to Duke Li, and then poured the silver kettle, and the dark and silky liquid poured into the small cup, and a long-lost fragrance wafted into his nose to lift his spirits.

"This is real Turkish coffee!" Li Shouhan couldn't help but be a little eager to try, and he didn't know whether he was going to try the long-lost Turkish coffee, or whether he was going to try these two superb slave girls who had been trained by the Ottoman court.

However, with Li Shouhan's status today, he wants to try anything, and he has created it single-handedly, and the Nanyue Army Group he represents will definitely not let him have such an opportunity! "The lord is the most important thing about the safety of the world, how can he be in danger lightly?" This was the unanimous opinion of the top brass of the Nanyue Army.

Although there was almost a small hand coming out of his throat, and the crotch was even more leaping, Li Shouhan could only watch his two own personal soldiers stop the two female slaves.

These two expressionless guys, one reached out and took the coffee cup in the slave girl's hand, looked at it carefully, and found that it was just a holy porcelain cup produced in Nanzhong, although the price was expensive, but it was not a rare thing, and he couldn't help but snort lightly, raised his glass and drank the coffee in one gulp. After a few slight smacks in his mouth, he stood aside and waited. On the other hand, the splitter snatched it from the slave girl holding the silver kettle, looked at it carefully, and found that there was absolutely no design mechanism such as separation and heart turning pot, so he nodded.

For such a move, Coplulu not only did not care, but felt that as the master of an empire, it should be like this. In order to dispel the doubts of the people around him, he stretched out his hand and asked the soldier to pour him a cup of coffee, and drank it all in the same way, with some unsatisfied lips.

"That's it! Put Master Koplulu's coffee here alone. Let's go and see the good things that Lord Koplulu has sent! ”

Everyone suddenly got up and left their seats with a bang as if they had been pardoned by the emperor, and rushed into the courtyard, and almost no one noticed the language sickness and flaws in the words of the lord of Fangcai. (One of the language problems: Your title is just a prince, although it has reached the peak of the title, but how dare you call yourself lonely?) It's clear that his heart can be punished! One of the flaws was that no one had ever told him what the drink was, how did he know it was coffee? ）

The importance attached to horses and firearms was carried out from top to bottom in the Southern Guangdong Army.

In order to have sufficient mobile forces, the Nanyue Army spends a lot of manpower, material and financial resources every year on the introduction of horse breeds and the breeding of horses.

In terms of investment in firearms, no expense is spared. Maple Ridge Laboratory, Nanzhong University, is a good blend of all kinds of whimsical ideas, constantly carrying out the process of exploration, experimentation, failure, and summarization, and collecting every little bit of experience like Scrooge collecting scattered silver.

Relying on these, the Nanyue Army had a large-scale, low-cost, and powerful firearms unit, and horses that could barely be used.

In the legend, the country of Lumi is the Ottoman Empire in front of it, and the firearms are extremely sophisticated, and the Ming Dynasty has also organized the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War to imitate it many times. The famous Lu Mi Gong is admired by countless people. Now that they have such an opportunity to observe the highest level of Ottoman firearms design and production at close range, how can these civil and military officials let it go? (To be continued.) )