Huang Taiji is dead?! Hearing such sudden news, Shi Lang and Li Huamei were quite surprised and even shocked! Shi Lang had a delicate look on his face, and there was some imagination in his mind, he had already begun to quickly analyze what kind of impact Huang Taiji would have on the internal power structure of the Liaodong anti-thieves, and whether the Dolgon who had fought him several times in the Tashan position and Liaoyang could reach the peak of power of the Liao thief group?

These ideas can only be confirmed and analyzed after Li Shouhan learns the details of Huang Taiji's death. However, at this time, it was an occasion to receive envoys from all over the world, and it was not possible to ask questions under any circumstances.

"Why did this kid Hua Chen stay in Lijiakou?"

Li Shouhan, who was on the main throne, did not have the thoughts of Shi Lang in his mind, and just asked where his fifth son Li Huachen, who went west with his eldest sister and eldest brother-in-law, went.

"Father, the fifth brother followed his sons and his wife to the sea this time, and shouted along the way, it is indeed better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. When the fleet first arrived in Kulrumos, it wanted to follow the example of the second brother, the third brother and others, stay in the local area, and also open up territory for our Nanyue army. However, Hua Mei was worried about the local customs, the people were fierce, and there were many races, different customs and beliefs, and complicated affairs, so she was afraid that the fifth brother's body would not be able to bear it, so she did not allow it. ”

"I didn't want to be bound by the wooden bones, the fifth brother brought it up again, although he was reprimanded by Hua Meishen again this time, but I watched the fifth brother devote himself to building a meritorious career, and I was afraid of breaking his heart. I also discussed with Hua Mei in private, if there is a suitable place, I might as well leave a group of men and horses and some ships to the fifth brother, so that he can go and show it. ”

When the fleet arrived at Lijiakou, the fifth brother proposed to garrison here where Europa and the Ottoman choke point were. Seeing its meaning, it was very resolute. Hua Mei and I couldn't stop him anymore, so they left 2,000 men, more than 10 large and small ships, more than 100 artillery pieces, and 500,000 silver dollars with him. ”

"I don't want us to go on the front foot, so the fifth brother on the back foot will send troops from Lijiakou. He crossed the sea to conquer the natives on the other side, conquered several natives and Spanish cities in one fell swoop, and used the wealth obtained in the cities to recruit natives as soldiers. Then go north to Lijiakou to intimidate the Spaniards! ”

Sure enough, the sons of the Li family are all good hands, and in the midst of it, this kind of bullying and bullying of the widows is superb.

In one fell swoop, he conquered several cities across the sea from Lijiakou in North Africa, and recruited strong soldiers among these Moors to form his own armed forces. Follow the swing north and threaten the Spaniards. At the same time, they proclaimed freedom of belief on their own turf. The premise is that you must obey my laws and systems, otherwise, cannons and steel knives will teach you how to be a man!

Such a move not only gave the Nanyue army a solid support for the point between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, and the key point between Europa and North Africa, but also because of the beating of the Spaniards in the Iberian Peninsula, the Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I next door was greatly happy, thinking that this was an angel sent by Hu Da to his side!

At this time, the Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I, who succeeded to the throne in 1640 from his eldest brother Murad IV.

One of his courtiers once described him as "the sultan fell into the hands of his cronies and companions, dwarfs, mutes, eunuchs, and ladies." Together, they made a mess of everything. It can be seen that such a monarch is in power in the court. What will become of the Ottoman Empire.

As a result, the Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I prepared to send his ministers on a fast boat to catch up with the fleet of Shi Lang Li Huamei and his wife, claiming that he would come to the east to meet His Royal Highness the Great Duke.

However, at present, the Ottoman Empire is also intertwined with various forces, and they all urgently need strong help to help them defeat their opponents in one fell swoop. After a struggle of interests between various factions in the country, a balance was finally reached in the shortest possible time. The Copleurus family has been recognized by various forces.

Thereupon. His Majesty's favorite retainer Muhammad. Corruch appeared with Winstanley, a key member of the Parliamentary Army of the Kingdom of England, at a dinner hosted by His Royal Highness the Duke of Lee to entertain distant envoys.

The Dutch, on the other hand, sat very aggrievedly in a position far away from His Royal Highness the Duke, and under the light of the lights, he could barely see His Royal Highness's facial features. However, the lowlanders were relieved. As long as His Royal Highness the Duke can ensure our commercial interests. Not to mention enjoying a sumptuous dinner in the banquet hall as well, even if we go to the toilet door to eat, it's not impossible!

As a very qualified merchant, the Dutchman's rituals were all exchanged for gold coins and silver dollars. As long as they can exchange those yellow and shiny hard goods, they can sell grain to the enemy, weapons to the enemy, and gunpowder to the enemy, so that they can use it to attack their own army.

However, the Dutch people will never know that the English turtle in front of them will leave a strong mark in the history of the development of human thought and philosophy in the future.

In January 1649, Winstanley published The New Laws of Justice, proposing the idea of common use of land and enjoyment of its fruits on the basis of public ownership of land. In order to realize this ideal, in April 1649 he led a group of poor peasants to the Saint George Hill in Selly County to reclaim the wasteland. This is the famous Digger movement in British history. As a leader of the Diggers, Winstanley left behind major works such as The New Laws of Justice (1649), The Proclamation of the Oppressed Poor in England (1649), and The Laws of Liberty (1651).

Moreover, he is regarded as the founder of utopian socialism.

In front of him, it can be said that the abbot before eating, wine and meat are piled up. Compared with the diet of the European turtles who had just crawled out of the Dark Ages of the Middle Ages at this time, the banquet hosted by the Duke Li Shouhan was extremely sumptuous. Especially considering the food customs of the visitors, the chickens and ducks on the table are listed, the fish and shrimp are piled up, and the cattle and sheep are on a plate.

"His Royal Highness the Duke, courtier of His Majesty the Ottoman Sultan, his Kur Muhammad. Koplulu, my most respectful regards to you. Shaking the wide sleeves of his robe, the satin robe on Kollurus's body shimmered seductively under the reflection of the lamplight.

The mouth is respectful, but Koplulu stands proudly. It's just that he crossed his hands in front of his chest and bent down slightly, which can be regarded as a salute.

The Dutch present couldn't help but sneer in their hearts, "You damned pagans, in the past, relied on the strength of the army to help us, God's people. Now I still want to use this set on Duke Li, but I'm afraid I'm going to be unlucky! ”

These Dutchmen are all old fritters who have traveled back and forth between Amsterdam, Lisbon and Nanzhong, and they are very familiar with the customs and customs of various places along the way, and they also have a close understanding of the customs, rules and regulations, customs and taboos of the Nanyue Army. They knew that anyone, even if you were the Pope of Rome, had to kneel down according to Eastern etiquette when he saw Duke Lee. Kowtow.

But today, this Koplulu only bowed and planned to fool the past, how can this be made?!

The people of the Nanyue Army present, starting with Li Peilin and the military attachés from Zheng Zhilong down, suddenly stopped drinking, and the entire banquet hall immediately quieted down, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little tense.

Some of the guards and soldiers on duty at the entrance and in the banquet hall have begun to adjust their state. Ready to pounce on him at any time and pull this barbarian messenger out and beat him up!

"You say you are an emissary of the Ottoman Sultan? Do you know what your sultan background is? Li Shouhan put down the wine glass in his hand and narrowed his eyes. The sound was unusually calm, like the surface of the water in a thousand-year-old cold pool.

Although he couldn't understand what Li Shouhan was saying, from his tone and tone, Koplulu keenly sensed that this oriental monarch was going to be angry!

"Your master. The so-called Ottoman Sultan is just a tribe under the former Ming Dynasty of the Lumi State, relying on the disputes of the Taixi countries, the Lumi State is declining day by day, and your Ottoman side has taken advantage of the situation! An army rebelled in Rumi. annexed the foundation of the old master, and then went to the east and the west to fight, so that there is today's trend! But how dare you be reckless in front of me! ”

Get! Li Shouhan has exposed the old foundation of the Ottoman Sultan! The Ottomans originally lived in the Amu Darya River valley in Central Asia, which was actually the Khorezm region of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and belonged to the Kay tribe of the Western Turkic Oghuz people, who were then vassals of the Khorezm Shah dynasty. Since ancient times, he has been engaged in nomadic herding and lives in pursuit of water and grass. Temujin led a large Mongol army that began to expand westward, forcing them to migrate. Initially, they attached themselves to the Sultanate of Rûm, founded by the Seljuk Turkmans, and were given a fief on the banks of the Sakarya River, adjacent to the Byzantine Empire. After the death of the tribal chieftain Ertogrul, he was succeeded by his son Osman (1258~1326). Following his father's tribal leader, in 1299, the Ottomans took advantage of the division of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm and officially declared their independence, giving the title "Ghazi", laying the foundation of the Ottoman state.

In 1326, Osman's son Orhan (r. 1326~1360) succeeded to the throne, changed his name to governor, established a standing army, and annexed most of the Sultanate of Rûm. In 1331, he wounded the king of the Byzantine Empire and captured the city of Nicaea, where he moved its capital.

Afterwards. After several generations of conquests, Western Thrace, Macedonia, Sofia, Thessaloniki, and the whole of northern Greece were seized from the Byzantine Empire, forcing Bulgarian and Serbian rulers to pay tribute. In the Battle of Kosovo, he defeated the combined Serbian, Bulgarian, and Hungarian forces.

In the Battle of Fort Nicoo in 1396, the coalition forces of Hungary, France, Germany and other countries were defeated in one fell swoop, and nearly 10,000 crusaders were captured, and almost all of them were killed except for 300 noble knights who were ransomed with huge sums of money.

It can be described as invincible, vertical and horizontal.

However, historical experience tells us that it is often after the flooding of the Seventh Army, the shock of China, and the peak of martial arts, followed by the wonderful plot of Maicheng.

During the war with Timur the lame, the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid was captured. Got into the iron cage sedan that Timur had prepared for him.

The Battle of Ankara, although it temporarily alleviated the crisis of the Byzantine Empire, did not turn Constantinople into Istanbul so early. But it was only a temporary relief. A few decades later, the Ottomans became the dominant ruler in western Asia, southeastern Europe, and the eastern Mediterranean, and the Ottoman Empire expanded its land territory into Europe and North Africa through a powerful centralized system, military innovations, and ironclad military discipline. The Ottoman navy was no weaker than that, competing for and securing the Black Sea, Aegean, Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean routes from the Italian city-states and the Portuguese. In one fell swoop, it took control of Europe's trade routes to the East.

However, the battle of Ankara is an eternal pain in the hearts of successive Ottoman sultans. It has become a scale and wound that cannot be touched.

However, today Li Shouhan is going to uncover this reverse scale!

"Timur back then. In my Daming's opinion, he is just a Yuan concubine, and his people accept my Daming's canonization. If you are defeated by my Ming vassals, what kind of face do you have in front of me?! ”

I see! Li Peilin understood that the lord wanted to dispel the spirit of the envoy, lest he be too arrogant. What's so hard about that? Speaking of the ancient times. Who is my opponent in the Heavenly Empire?

"Your Ottomans are nothing but Turkic people! At that time, the Turkic Khan was defeated by my Tang Emperor, and fled all the way to the west, and his descendants rested along the way, so that he had the later Seljuk and other departments. And the Ashina family of the Turkic Khans is unknown to the number of officials in our Tang Dynasty. Now the lord of my family is a nobleman of the Li family in Longxi, and he is just an old slave of his family! I saw the old lord today, but what kind of majesty was there there?! ”

This robbery between the monarch and the minister. He was translated to Koplulu without hesitation, and the people present all changed color after listening to it. The people of the Nanyue Army were all in high spirits, and a touch of arrogance appeared on their faces, these guys in front of them were just some old minions, or minions of minions.

However, the members of the mission who came with Kollurus blushed and shouted and cursed in a low voice. I don't know what they're talking about. But judging from the look on his face, he was also angered by Li Shouhan and Li Peilin's words.

Zheng Zhilong was a little stunned behind his desk. Although he knew that his in-laws had always been thick and black, he never thought that this person would be so shameless? Timur in the Yongle period and Ashina in the Zhenguan period can be taken out by him to talk about things. Is there anyone in the world more brazen than him?

"Father is really amazing!" Shi Lang was smiling on the side, he had heard the missionary say it. In the land of Tessie, there is a saying, "If you are optimistic about a piece of land, just go and grab it." If you grab it, the defense lawyer will always be able to find it. "What's more. We didn't rob it, but took out the notes and history books from many years ago!

Over the years, although the Nanyue Army had never competed with the Ottoman Army on land, the naval division and right-wing fleet of Zuo Tianpeng and others had many conflicts with the Ottoman Navy ships in the Indian Ocean, the Strait of Malacca, and the Moluccas Islands.

Moreover, according to the documents seized by Zheng Sen, several sultans who participated in the rebellion had anything to do with the Ottoman Empire. Everyone is waiting excitedly and a little nervously, as long as Li Shouhan's look, order, or the Ottoman envoy in front of him has any unfavorable moves, immediately take down this group of envoys on the spot, and then wave the army to the west!

However, Koplulu didn't feel angry at all, and after listening to the translation of the Tongshi, he tidied up his clothes, and said something smoothly and calmly in his mouth that was translated by the Tongshi.

"The foreign courtiers are savage and devoid of etiquette. Since the king pointed out the omission for the minister, the minister should correct it. ”

After speaking, under the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, the mountain shouted and danced, and bowed three times and bowed nine times.

I don't know if the official of the Ministry of Rites forgot, or if this guy doesn't know what level of etiquette is for three bows and nine kowtows, when he stood up after kowtowing, the eyes of the people in the Nanyue army were already much kinder when they looked at him.

However, everyone didn't know that the Ottoman Empire at this time, although its national strength could still surpass that of European countries, no matter how powerful the country was, it could not stand the continuous emergence of the mentally handicapped sultan in power, and the situation of women in power wasting national strength from within. In other words, things like listening to politics and eunuchs interfering in politics are not only a specialty of my Celestial Empire.

Since the beginning of the 17th century, the Ottomans have been coups d'état and rebellions, and the Sultan's army, which is equivalent to the Imperial Forest Army, conspired with the noble ministers to launch a coup d'état, and the one who was supported by them can be regarded as Osman II strangled to death with a bowstring. The noble ministers who killed Osman II and the pro-Sultan could not reach a compromise, so they brought out the mentally handicapped Mustafa I, who had been ousted from power and imprisoned for more than four years, to continue as Sultan. (Isn't it a bit like the mud bodhisattva Li Yuanhong in the Beiyang period?) ）

After Mustafa I had been sultan for a year, his younger daughter-in-law, Ahmet I's Sultana (Empress), Ksem the Greek, staged a coup d'état, imprisoned the brain-dead Mustafa I again, and then installed her own son, Murad IV, the nephew of Mustafa I, to the throne, when Murad IV was only eleven years old, and the power was in the hands of Walid (Queen Mother) Kseim.

However, Kesem clearly underestimated the ability of his son Murad IV, and when Murad IV was eighteen years old, the Sultan's pro-army rebelled again, hacked and killed countless ministers, and at the same time weakened Kesim's strength a lot, basically a three-lose situation.

The following year (1632), at the age of 20, Murad IV, with the support of his own pro-army and ministers, quickly put down the rebellion of the pro-Sultan, and then re-organized a new army, which also made his mother restrain a lot. Then he also wanted to support Murad IV's younger brother Bayezad to come to power, but Murad IV found a reason to kill Bayezadeh. After that, Ksem was much more honest.

Speaking of which, Murad IV was also a ruthless man, after he came to power, he swept away the decline and humiliation of the previous two sultans, quickly put down the rebellion in Syria, Lebanon and other places, and slaughtered the leader of the rebels, Fakhruddin II.

After two personal expeditions to Persia, he occupied Hamadan, Yerevan, Tabriz and Baghdad, directly conquering the two river valleys, and Murad IV was also the last Ottoman Empire to conquer in person.

However, Murad IV was a heavy drinker, and died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1640, and when he was seriously ill, he ordered that his brother Ibrahim I be killed immediately, because his brother was as mentally retarded as his uncle. In order to prevent a repeat of his uncle's old story, he decided to eliminate this hidden danger first, but his mother was adamantly opposed to doing so, so after the death of Murad IV, his mentally handicapped brother was put on the throne of Sultan by his mother, called Ibrahim I. At this time, the Ottoman Empire officially entered the period of women's temple administration.

In the turbulent era, the imperial power was weak and the relatives were autocratic. It's a great time for careerists to fulfill their ambitions.

Kollurus and his family were among the best of these careerists. (To be continued.) )