In June, the Eurasian Canal is full of gold and heatwaves, with a faint salty smell on the wasteland, and it is best to hide in the house or simply build a pergola outside to cool off.

However, the Asian-African port of Daming is crowded and lively.

With the opening of the canal, more and more merchant ships choose the Eurasian Canal as a passage to and fro, although the Eurasian Canal still has to charge, but compared with the detour of the Cape of Good Hope, this cost is not even half, more importantly, it can save more than half of the time, and even the merchant ships of the anti-Habsburg countries have gradually given up the detour and went straight to the Eurasian Canal.

For this, the Ming Empire, as well as Spain and Portugal are very open-minded, and the canal is not only for their own convenience, but also to make money.

Therefore, none of the three countries forbade the passage of merchant ships of any country, but all the merchant ships of the Daming Habsburg Alliance only charged a general fee, so that the merchants of the alliance countries were more competitive.

Qin Gongming stood on the top floor of a fortress, slowly scanning the scene in front of him with a telescope, he could finally go back to Daming, and finally he could see his younger brother, sister and newborn nephew, his heart was joyful and expectant, but more reluctance and pain.

This reluctance is understandable, after all, the Eurasian Canal was slowly built under his guard, but why did he feel pain in his heart?

The reason why he was in pain in his heart was because Taifu Sun Chengzong had died, and he had received the news of Taifu's death before the order arrived.

Qin Gongming can also be said to be the general of the Liaodong family, and the Dingliao Army under him was formed in Liaodong, remembering Sun Chengzong's guidance and reminders to him when he fought in Liaodong, his heart hurt like a needle.

Just as he was scanning the scene on the canal with mixed feelings, a huge fleet appeared on the sea in the distance, starting with a huge treasure ship warship, on which was the sun, moon and dragon flag of the Ming Empire.

Finally came, Qin Gongming immediately ordered: "Order, everyone, assemble on the spot, and prepare to hand over the defense." “

The guards scattered the orders, and the entire canal soon sounded a dense assembly order, and the merchants of various countries in the port, as well as the sailors on the merchant ships, and even the coolies who moved goods to and fro, stopped their movements and looked around nervously.

What is the Ming Army doing here? Why did you suddenly start to assemble, could it be that there was an enemy invasion!

However, soon they all breathed a sigh of relief, because what appeared on the sea was the warship of the Ming Empire, who did not know the Sun Moon Dragon Banner, it seemed that they were ready to welcome their comrades.

Sure enough, Qin Gongming, the general of the Ming Imperial Army, soon appeared in the port, and behind him, there was a neat row of Ming troops, and at a glance, he knew that he was preparing to meet someone, but the identity of the person who came should not be as high as him, because the port was not planted with colored flags or anything, everything was as usual.

Soon, the treasure ship giant ship sailed into the port and docked at the dock, which was the dock where Qin Gongming was, and this dock was also the largest dock in Asia and Africa, and only this dock could dock the treasure ship giant ship.

As soon as the ladder of the treasure ship was lowered, a group of Ming soldiers quickly ran down from the ship, along with Zheng Xing, commander of the South China Sea Fleet, and Li Mingfu, commander of the Wuwei Army.

Waiting for his guards to assemble, Li Mingfu immediately took the phalanx of guards and walked to the opposite side of Qin Gongming.

Immediately afterwards, he stepped forward, gave a standard military salute, and then said loudly: "The commander of the Wuwei Army, the three-star general of the army, Li Mingfu, was ordered to come to take over the defense of the Eurasian Canal. “

Qin Gongming solemnly replied with a standard military salute, and then said loudly: "The commander of the Dingliao Army, the four-star general of the army, Qin Gongming, has been ordered to hand over the defense of the Eurasian Canal, please accept it." “

After the solemn handover ceremony was completed, Qin Gongming immediately patted Li Mingfu on the shoulder and said, "Mingfu, it's been a long time, I'll take you to learn about the defense here." “

At this time, Zheng Xing also came up, and the three of them talked and laughed around the port, fortress and fort, and the defense of the Dingliao Army and the Wuwei Army was almost handed over.

About an hour later, the three of them returned to the port dock together, at this time, the Wuwei army had all disembarked, and the Dingliao army was boarding.

A team of soldiers, a war horse, quickly ran onto the battleship, a piece of artillery, a box of baggage, was also quickly hoisted onto the battleship, and after about an hour and a half, the Dingliao army basically boarded the battleship, and the treasure ship returned to the dock.

Qin Gongming and Zheng Xing said goodbye to Li Mingfu, boarded the treasure ship with their personal guards, and then, the treasure ship slowly left the port, even if the handover was over, it took less than half a day before and after, and even the Dingliao army on the side of the Great Bitter Lake completed the handover and came over by battleship.

Once all the warships had gathered, the South China Sea Fleet began to return in a neat formation.

At noon on the third day, the South China Sea Fleet arrived at the port of Mumbai in the west of South Asia, and Qin Gongming led the Liao army to leave the ship and go ashore and rush to the local railway station.

There, twenty of the latest trains have long been parked.

With the development of technology, the train power of Daming is getting stronger and stronger, and now there are more than ten carriages behind a locomotive, at least twenty cars, like the latest steam-powered train that stops at Mumbai Station, and there are twenty-five carriages hanging behind!

In other words, a train can almost carry 5,000 people and horses, and 20 trains can fit 100,000 Dingliao troops!

When they arrived at Bombay Station, the Dingliao army quickly boarded the train and rushed all the way to the north of the Ming Dynasty.

Nine days later, the train arrived in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Qin Gongming got off the train with a hundred guards, and the Ding Liao army rushed all the way to Zhenzhen Hewei.

This is a special benefit given to him by Zhu Cijiong, because he has not seen his sister Qin Mingyue, the queen of the current dynasty, for a long time, and he has never seen the crown prince Zhu Hetou, so Zhu Cijiong asked him to get off in the capital and go to reunite with the queen.

Also with him are Qin Yiming, the commander of the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force, and Ma Xianglin, the commander of the Second Army of the Border Guards, who are also the elder brothers of Empress Qin Mingyue, but one is a brother and the other is a cousin.

Qin Gongming was the latest, because Qin Yiming boarded the train directly near Delhi, leaving two or three days earlier than him, and Ma Xianglin was directly picked up by the East China Sea Fleet to the East Daying, and it took less than five days in total.

After Qin Gongming arrived in the capital, Empress Qin Mingyue specially held a banquet in Kunning Palace and warmly received her eldest brother, of course, Qin Yiming and Ma Xianglin were also indispensable, and even their younger brother Qin Weimin was invited.

Looking at his younger brother and sister, who he hadn't seen for a long time, hugging his little nephew, Qin Gongming couldn't help but sigh: "The speed of trains and ships is really terrifying, if there are no trains and ships, I will lead the army to rush back from the Eurasian Canal, at least half a year!" “