At this time, Kurumus was no more than a large city of less than 100,000 people, and then it had the right to administer about 5,000 square kilometers of land in the vicinity, covering an area of about 3 to 50,000 square kilometers.

There are about two million people living in this land, but it can only be regarded as a large force.

In order to avoid the coercion of Timur, they abandoned their bases on the mainland and used the islands of Khurumus and Qeshm as their capitals.

In later generations, the country long since disappeared and became part of Iran.

When Zhu Zhanji's fleet arrived at Kulmus, the western center with the largest trade with the Ming Dynasty was now panicked.

The Khrumus did not run, and they had nowhere to run, fleeing from the threat of the Ming fleet, but falling into the control of the Timurids again.

And with their past experience in dealing with the Ming people, since they did not offend the Ming people, they were not afraid that the Ming people would kill them all.

Before Zhu Zhanji disembarked, Saifuddin, the lord of Kulmus, personally welcomed him with a small fleet and vacated the ports of Khurumus and Gesham Islands.

At the port, he boarded Zhu Zhanji's flagship and paid a courtesy to Zhu Zhanji.

The two did not understand the language, but through the translation of Zheng He and others, Zhu Zhanji also learned the reason why the Timurid people intercepted the Ming fleet.

The power of the Ming musket had spread to the Western Regions, which made the Timurid people full of worry. Today's Timurid people are still mainly cavalry, armed with scimitars and spears.

Because of the lack of raw materials, even bows and arrows, they are not numerous.

According to their assessment, they are on land, and the grenadiers can pose a little threat to the Ming Dynasty.

The grenadier is a very old branch of the army in the West, with origins dating back to the time of Leo III of the Byzantine Empire, where soldiers threw ceramic containers filled with Greek fire to attack the enemy.

There was also a special grenadier unit in the Ming Dynasty, and all positions used for defense, such as the defenders of the city and the Great Wall, would use hand-throwing firearms to kill and wound the enemy.

However, they are still different from modern grenadiers in the true sense of the word, and are more like an auxiliary branch of the army today.

Because they were afraid of the muskets of the Ming people, they put together a navy of 300 warships, wanting to stop the Ming army at the mouth of the sea and only allow a few troops to enter.

In addition to the navy, they sent a cavalry force of more than 5,000 people to garrison the land on the other side of the island to put pressure on the Ming Dynasty.

But they didn't expect that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not at all the army that paid attention to modesty and etiquette in the past.

Unexpectedly, in addition to muskets, Daming also had more powerful artillery, and before they could negotiate, they were almost wiped out.

The emir, with the remaining dozens of ships, did not dare to stay any longer at Khurumus, and they fled all the way north along the Persian Gulf, into the depths of the Persian Gulf.

Zhu Zhanji asked: "Since they fled in a hurry, then obviously they didn't have time to take away the commodities and gold that they wanted to trade with my Daming?" ”

The general secretary translated this sentence to him, and his face showed a trace of panic, and finally said helplessly: "Yes! ”

In order to trade with the Ming Dynasty, Timur collected a large number of horses, live sheep, wool, and cotton every time, but these materials were not of high value except for horses, so they would raise a lot of gold every time.

Since the two sides are at war, Zhu Zhanji will certainly not give them any more commodities, and will rob them of the materials and gold they have raised.

Although their army did not directly follow the rout yesterday, they also let Zhu Zhen directly lead the elite soldiers to follow, and controlled the trading point between Kurumus and the other side of the sea.

This trading point was the basis of the Kurumus's existence, and their country had very little farmland, and most of their food was fished and purchased from the Baghdadis.

In the trading point, there are more than 20,000 people who make a living from work, and most of the carpets, felt, and tents here will be processed and sold to the Ming Dynasty, and they can also earn some price difference and wages from the middle.

Of course, this trading point is not completely controlled by Kurumus, whether it is Shahru or Kumas in Baghdad, they will not let go of the control here, so it is a tripartite condominium zone.

This trading point was later known as Bandar Abbas, Iran.

Zhu Zhen has been here three times and is very familiar with the surrounding environment here, so he, the commander of the navy, will surrender his identity and control this place in the name of the forward.

The purpose, of course, is for the tens of thousands of horses, mountains of wool, and countless amounts of gold.

As long as no one set the fire, no one took these materials away, and when Zhu Zhanji saw that this place was not set on fire, he let go of most of his heart.

However, the problem now is that if the Ming Dynasty does not give the goods, they will snatch these things away, and when the Ming people leave, whether it is Shaharu or Kumas, they will not let Saifuddin go.

Therefore, when Saifuddin heard Zhu Zhanji's questioning, he was extremely frightened.

But the meat is on the case, and he has to follow, Shaharu and Kumas are later, but if he doesn't cooperate with Zhu Zhanji today, I'm afraid he won't even be able to get off the boat.

The Ming soldiers landed in the town of Kurumus and the trading point yesterday with great vigour, blocking the roads everywhere, and it is said that most of those who fled did not escape, because the Ming people had blocked the way to leave.

As soon as the 5,000 cavalry came into contact with the Ming army, they fled in a hurry.

They were able to gallop through Central Asia by relying on the mobility of the cavalry and personal force, but now everything is useless.

The barbed wire brought by the Ming army was only laid in two rows, and the horses could no longer rush through.

When the maneuver and impact of the cavalry disappeared, they became targets one by one in the face of the muskets of the Ming Dynasty.

The 5,000 cavalry lost nearly 2,000 men in just half an hour after dawn, and they could no longer care about opposing the Ming Dynasty and fled in a hurry.

Zhu Zhen was also afraid that he would lose too much if he pressed too hard, so he deliberately left a way out for the other party to escape.

Although some people were able to escape through the desert and the Gobi Desert, almost all of the belongings they carried were left to the Ming people.

This battle, which lasted less than an hour, made the people of Kurumus shocked, and they no longer dared to have two hearts, and as soon as Zhu Zhanji's flagship arrived, they hurriedly paid a visit.

Now if Zhu Zhanji's conditions do not cooperate, he believes that Daming can easily clean him up, and then let their brothers or children inherit his throne.

Seeing Saifuddin so cooperative, Zhu Zhanji felt much happier and arranged for Zheng He and Jin Kuo to check the goods belonging to Shaharu and Kumas.

Zheng He is a relatively good person, but Jin Kuo is Zhu Zhanji's trusted confidant. The two of them, one with a white face and the other with a red face, believed that a large amount of money would never escape the control of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, it was necessary to deliver a large number of goods in exchange for these goods, but how could you not be happy when dozens of ships of goods were saved at once?

Although he was not prepared to startle the snake, he continued to trade normally with the other party. But since they dared to block the way, since they had already fought, Zhu Zhanji didn't care about them.

Anyway, if you don't fight now, after two years Zhu Di comes over, there will still be a war.

The only trouble now is that the war has already started, so it will be a bit troublesome to send someone to draw a map of this place.

When the main fleet of the Ming Dynasty arrived, there was still some resistance on the shore, but it was quickly flattened.

Zhu Zhanji didn't give an order at all, Xue Lu and Zhu Zhen had already killed people, shocking everyone.

Needless to say, the people of the Timurid kingdom were arrogant and considered themselves to be the subjects of a great country, but now they have all surrendered.

However, for the sake of safety, Zhu Zhanji did not land and still lived on the ship.

Before the city was cleared, Zhu Zhanji summoned Zhang Fengshan and other Yulin health personnel, and decided to send them and the young army to jointly draw a map in a month.

The Timurid people left behind 3,000 horses in the local area, and Zhu Zhanji had people collect various local maps, and spared no expense to reward the maps of various places.

Now that the Timurs have been beaten, it is somewhat difficult to send someone to draw a map secretly. Although the Iranian plateau is not barren now, most of the ethnic groups here are nomadic, so it is difficult for people who seem to be foreign people to survive here.

Since this was the case, Zhu Zhanji simply sent a large army in the name of war, leaving only 10,000 Yulin Wei and half of the navy in the local area, and transferred an army of more than 40,000 people, pretending to attack the capital of Timur State.

In fact, the army has been gathering near the trading point, and nearly a thousand Lin Weixue and more than 2,000 elite musketeers of the young army have been ordered to gallop north in three directions.

A team of 1,000 musketeers would not be afraid even in the face of thousands of enemies, because the enemy had only knives in his hands and no muskets.

There is more than half a month, and all on horseback, you can explore two thousand miles to the north.

It's not a desert, there are a lot of indigenous gatherings, there are roads everywhere, and there are drinking points. After getting some local maps, as long as they are not surrounded by enemies, they can still be assured of safety.

Although the maps drawn by their locals are the same as the maps before the Ming Dynasty, they are out of proportion, but the roads and rivers are basically still drawn.

According to these maps, and then measure the exact latitude and longitude points along the way, then the scale of the map can be adjusted.

So this time, you don't need to be too detailed, just grasp the basic route.

This is also a helpless move, who let beat people and kill more than 30,000 people!

And in Kurumus, the inner eunuch happily counted the goods that originally belonged to Timur's kingdom, and the wool, carpets, and tents were now all turned into the spoils of the Ming Dynasty.

More than that, there is also a myriad of gold.

At the trading point alone, more than 100,000 taels of gold were counted, which is more than three tons of gold.

They originally wanted to trade with the Ming Dynasty, but they didn't expect that just because they blocked the Ming army's entry into the bay, the army was broken up and all the gold and goods were robbed.

Now, they have not yet received the goods of the Ming Dynasty, and one by one the merchants are like mourners.

However, those who can do business with the Ming are not ordinary businessmen, this place has been monopolized by the big tribes of the Timurid country, and small merchants can't enter at all, so they can only choose to cooperate with the big forces.

So even if he robbed these goods, Zhu Zhanji didn't feel the slightest guilt in his heart.

When we set out from Kezhi, the fleet of merchant ships was empty, and there were not many goods needed by the Ming in India, and the goods of dozens of ships were exchanged for two ships of gold and silver, but now, these empty ships were all full.

The porters at the docks, after a dozen or so people died under the muskets, could only move the goods honestly.

Before the soldiers of Yulin Weixue came back, Zhu Zhanji was not in a hurry. It took half a month to load the mountains of cotton, silk and linen, wool and so on onto the ship.

At this time, except for one of Zhu Zhanji's spare flagships, all the other ships in the fleet were full of cargo.

Zhu Zhanji asked people to leave two ships of cotton, and the other ships were ready to return to Daming.

In addition to loading the ships, Zhu Zhanji also sent a small fleet to pursue the fleeing emir, but when he went around the bay, he only found the ships they had abandoned and burned, and the people did not know where they had gone.

But the Ming fleet did not run away, they searched a large circle, as long as they found more than 800 stones, all of them were set on fire and burned.

They don't know how many ships they burned, so that the entire tribes along the Persian Gulf coast, one by one, dared not speak out, and all returned to the primitive society.

The construction of a big ship is never an easy task, and the wood used to make a big ship alone will have to be done in the shade for more than three years at the most stupid.

As soon as the Ming army burned, in two or three years, they were not afraid to build a large number of warships.

Zhu Zhanji has no interest in going ashore to pursue the enemy, so this matter should be left to Zhu Di to do later!

What's more, although the current Timurid country is divided, their soldiers are very strong in combat, and if the Ming people do not have muskets in their hands, they may not be opponents one-on-one.

If Zhu Zhanji were to start a war on land, even if he could win the war, the process would be difficult.

There are not many people around him now, and if there is a loss, he is distressed, and he will not make Zhu Di happy.

This kind of thankless work, let someone else do it.

As long as you can draw a map of the south and go back to Zhu Di, it will be a great achievement to go back.

When the 3,000 people sent out came back one after another, Zhu Zhanji deliberately said in front of Saifuddin that the road was dangerous and it was difficult to send troops, and he was not ready to fight Timur's country.

At this time, Saifudin was really going to cry.

He always hoped that Daming would be able to fight Shaharu and beat the other party into fear and dare not go south.

But now Da Ming doesn't fight, and when Da Ming leaves, he will be the unlucky one.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji didn't bother to care about him, anyway, they were a nation, and Shaharu would never kill him, just ask him for some goods.

They have to make a lot of money in their deal with Daming this time, even if they hand it all over to Shaharu, it won't hurt their bones.

Zhu Zhanji didn't think about robbing them too, but he still couldn't do it after thinking about it.

First of all, after the Ming Dynasty, the conquest of Timur needed such a stronghold in the south. If there is nothing here, a large number of Ming soldiers will come in the future, and logistics will be a big problem.

Secondly, it is still a matter of the image of a country, the Ming Dynasty, the Celestial Empire, can not put on a bandit style, which is very unfavorable to the future rule, management, and formulation of international rules.

What's more, grabbing it once will trigger a hundred years of hatred, so it's better to keep it and earn their money slowly.

Zheng He had not been idle during this time, but his energy was not focused on dealing with the Timurid people, but on the Arabian Peninsula on the other side of the strait.

Most of the land is desert, with only a few mountains and oases. So neither the Mamluks nor the Ottoman kingdoms, including the Timurid kingdom or the Black Sheep dynasty, which now occupies Baghdad, have any interest in it.

In the northwestern part of the peninsula, it is still part of the Mamluk dynasty. But in the southwest, there are still small tribes that struggle to survive in an oasis in the desert.

Zheng He took advantage of the large army stationed in Kurumus, and also went to the various tribes on the other side to understand the situation, and wrote an overview of the countries in the Western Regions like Chen Cheng and Ma Huan in the past.

Zhu Zhanji did not restrain him, but supported his actions very much, because the current Ming Dynasty lacked understanding of the outside world.

For thousands of years, because of its rich land, China has always been in a corner of the country, and has never developed to the outside world.

And the influence in the world is also small and pitiful.

Putting aside their own national pride, the influence of the Chinese on the world is actually minimal.

Among the great empires recognized by the world as influential in the world, there has never been a name for the Eastern Empire. In this regard, not to mention that compared with the Mongol Yuan Empire, it is also very inferior to the small Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire.

The reason why the Chinese have been bullied at the top of Nanyang, and why the Chinese have not been welcomed all over the world in later generations, is because the influence of civilization has never been accepted.

Confucianism is the foundation of the country in the East, but aside from a few East Asian countries, who knows what Confucianism is?

After the country became strong in later generations, it has spared no effort to promote the integration of oriental culture into the world, but it has been difficult. On the contrary, because the economy has developed, there are many people who take advantage.

Zhu Zhanji wants to promote global colonization and let the Chinese occupy most of the world, but it is not enough to fight and kill, but more importantly, to promote the influence of Eastern civilization on the world.

If future generations, regardless of whites or blacks, can follow the Oriental code of conduct, this will be the greatest success.

The Persian Gulf is already extremely hot in April, especially on ships.

Zhu Zhanji does not stay in the cabin on weekdays, and deliberately built a pavilion on the third deck to work in it.

"Today, another 400 laborers were recruited from the local area to sharpen the shells. But the stonemasons here are all new, and the production of cannonballs has not yet been replenished. Wechen has ordered more men to be called up to speed up the grinding of the shells. ”

A naval battle knocked out two-thirds of the shells prepared by the Ming Dynasty. Today's shell polishing is not an easy task, there is no special machinery, almost all by hand.

This matter is not difficult to do in Daming, there are special stonemasons, an apprentice chisels a rough shape with a chisel, an old stonemason polishes, and two people can produce four qualified shells in a day.

But here, it is difficult for a person to produce even one qualified one a day.

Huang Yuan didn't think of this problem at all at first, which led to the slow efficiency now.

Zhu Zhanji didn't blame him, and said: "I was negligent at the beginning, I only thought about preparing enough gunpowder, and I only thought that stones were everywhere, and I could make them by just looking for some people. Since it will take a while to polish the shells, then I will let Zheng He lead a fleet to the heavenly side......"

"Half a month is enough for them, and within half a month, they will definitely be able to replenish the shells."

Zhu Zhanji has also been annoyed by a group of cannibals recently, most of whom want to borrow the power of the Ming Dynasty to destroy the Black Sheep Dynasty and return Baghdad to the Arabs.

But of course Zhu Zhanji will not agree to this matter, the Black Sheep Dynasty is now in conflict with the Timurid State, and it is best to keep the enemy of the enemy for the time being.

Without enough benefits, Da Ming will not use swords.

As for the oil here, there is not even an internal combustion engine now, and oil has a fart use. Zhu Zhanji didn't know if he could produce a qualified internal combustion engine until he was old, and he would write down these problems in his suicide note in the future, so that future generations could be vigilant.

There is also the problem of the Suez Canal, he does not want to open it at all, preferring to let the Ming fleet go to Europe bypassing the whole of Africa.

If the Suez Canal is opened, then the Ming Dynasty occupies the area of South Africa, and there will be no businessmen willing to leave!

Many of these decisions will involve future generations, and the Suez Canal must not be opened until the South African region is developed.

As for the future, he can't manage so much.

Zheng He, who got the news, led two thousand cannibals and a fleet to the heavenly side, which was later Mecca.

Of course Zhu Zhanji won't go, if he does, unless he is leveled there.

After Zheng He and the others left, Zhu Zhanji issued a local notice to recruit talents who were proficient in Spanish.

These people are difficult to meet in the East, but here there are many of them, especially some merchants, who are fluent in Italian and Spanish in addition to Greek. If you want to find Latin talents, there are still a lot of them.

It doesn't cost much to recruit these people, one person can use them for half a year if they give them a bag of spices.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji recruited more than 100 people at once and arranged them in the fleet.

The only trouble is that some of them are proficient in various Chinese, but they don't understand Daming, so someone still needs to translate from it.

Zhu Zhanji also tried to communicate in Spanish with a businessman who was proficient in Spanish, and the two of them could barely communicate after half a day of dialogue.

Although the structure of Old Spanish has not changed much from that of later generations, many words and pronunciations are different.

In his first life, he first learned Spanish in Chile, which is in the same vein as Old Spanish, but it is only a matter of words and pronunciation, and if he does not pursue the speed of speech and communication, he can barely talk.

And when he spoke Xiyi, of course, he was behind other people's backs, and only a few close eunuchs knew.

He then had a few businessmen fluent in Italian and Spanish come and teach him a foreign language every day.

It will take a few months to get from here to Europe, and he has the foundation again, and when he arrives in Europe, there will be no problem with basic dialogue.

But English, he is not ready to "learn", and now the British upper class still speaks French, and there are few people who speak English at all.

In today's Europe, Latin is the lingua franca, Italian is also available, and French is also the least fluent.

In his previous life, Zhu Zhanji knew Spanish and a little Italian of the same language, so it was not difficult to learn.

As for French, he knew very little, and he had no interest in learning it at all.

(I want to write in detail, but I'm afraid that the plot will be too long outside, and I've been a little out of proportion in the last few days.) ）