The speed of the development of the Manraka Naval Division, perhaps no one could have imagined, is blessed with a unique environment, is a natural military port and commercial throat.

Yao Qisheng was the governor of Manraka, and this time he came to Jinling and got the opportunity to face the saint alone, so he got up and prepared on the fourth watch.

With a bright moon, Yao Qisheng came to the palace gate, and after being away from Beijing for so long, he faced the saint again, and Yao Qisheng's tempered heart was still pounding uncompromisingly.

In the Xinuan Pavilion, a small waiter held him a cup of tea, and Yao Qisheng held the teacup while warming up and drinking tea.

Finally, there was a sound of squirming footsteps, Yao Qisheng immediately stood up, and after a while, the eunuchs and palace maids came to the hall surrounded Hou Xuanyan. After a while, the palace people retreated, and only Hou Xuan played Yao Qisheng in the hall, and there was a palace girl. Although Yao Qisheng has never entered the palace, he also knows that this is the emperor's forbidden belly, and the inner minister Ma elixir rumored by the outside world.

"Give a seat."

Hou Xuanyan chuckled and said: "Yao Aiqing, I've been tanned a lot in the past few years, what a white-faced scholar, I came back and became Bao Zheng." ”

This not very funny joke came out of the emperor's mouth, but it was much more interesting.

Yao Qisheng nervously thought about most of it, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is still so handsome, and he looks much younger than he was at the beginning." ”

"Haha." Hou Xuanyan flicked his sleeves and said: "I also feel that my body and bones are okay recently, and I have left a lot of diseases after so many years of fighting, and I don't expect them to be cured, just don't torture people." Okay, without talking this nonsense, I came to ask you, what did you do as a governor in such a good position in Manraka? ”

Yao Qisheng had already prepared, without the slightest delay, and opened his mouth to say: "Your Majesty, there are a large number of merchants in Mangara, all of whom have rushed from the inland. Nowadays, merchant ships to the West are the most profitable, but the distance is prohibitive for many people. ”

When Hou Xuanyan heard this, his heart moved, and he couldn't help but interrupt: "What do you have in mind?" ”

As soon as Yao Qisheng saw His Majesty's reaction, he knew that his good luck had come, and His Majesty had no reason not to reward him for this matter.

"Your Majesty, there are some merchants who, when they arrived in Persia and other places, found one thing, that on their side there was a narrow river that could connect two seas. The minister thought that we, the Manraka sailors, could attack and control the locality, and then gather the people to dig a canal to connect the two seas. As a result, the voyage to the Western Ocean will be greatly shortened. This move can set up checkpoints to collect customs duties, and secondly, it can allow sailors to go on expeditions without having to sail for another half a year. Yao Qisheng said, his eyebrows fluttering.

The corners of Hou Xuanyan's mouth twitched, and he said to himself: "Suez Canal? ”

Yao Qisheng didn't hear clearly, and hurriedly asked, "What river?" ”

Hou Xuanyan came to his senses, and he knew when he was in junior high school that the opening of the Suez Canal had shortened the navigation distance between Asia and Europe by 10,000 kilometers. It connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean, connecting the Atlantic Ocean through the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

I didn't expect that these little ants, who are generally all over the world, would have such wisdom and have the vision to dig canals here.

"You're right, but I don't know if it's difficult to capture these places?"

What Hou Xuanyan didn't know was that Yao Qisheng's intelligence was actually not very accurate, and that place did not belong to Persia now, but to Egypt. It was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1517 and became an Ottoman province of Egypt.

The Ottoman Turks' frenzied conquest and expansion on three continents, Eurasia, Africa, is not to be underestimated. Their conquest of Constantinople cemented the Ottoman Empire's position as the hegemon of southeastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, and then the Ottoman Empire entered a long period of conquest and expansion, expanding its territory into Europe and North Africa.

The Ottoman Empire's land expansion was largely based on its strong centralized system, military innovations, and ironclad military discipline, while the Ottoman navy played an important role in its conquests, competing for and securing the Black, Aegean, Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean shipping routes in Italy and Portugal.

In other words, their sailors are not weak, but Hou Xuanyan doesn't know much about it, and Yao Qisheng is even more confident.

What they didn't know was that it was because of the Ottoman Empire's monopoly on trade between Western Europe and Asia. It was Queen Isabella I of Spain who supported Christopher Columbus in his search for a sea route to Asia.

Such a roadblock is actually not easy to remove, but now the two monarchs and ministers in the palace have blind confidence.

Dahua Sailor is only worried that there is no enemy, and he never cares how strong the enemy is.

The two gentlemen and ministers leaned together and began to discuss, Hou Xuanyan felt that such a courtier was the most comfortable to use, and he would not tell you any benevolence, righteousness, morality, and reasons for sending troops at all.

I needed to build a canal to make money in this place, so I .....

Then Ottoman Turkey was originally a branch of the Turks, and it was driven to the west, and that piece of territory was not grabbed?

Yao Qisheng took out a simple map from his bosom and said: "This map drawn by Naichen to the west of the South Seas is based on the dictation of merchants and the drawing of sailors who spent money. ”

Hou Xuanyan waved his hand and said, "Bring me the map." ”

Elixir walked over to a chestbed of pineapple flowers, and effortlessly retrieved a map of the Indian Ocean from the neatly arranged volumes.

"Look at me, I took it from the Dutch."

Yao Qisheng was overjoyed, and when he looked down, he saw that it was much more detailed than his own, and it was more credible.

Hou Xuanyan pointed to Sri Lanka Island in the lower right corner of India and said: "Take this island first, then you will have the opportunity to dig a canal." Our sailors needed a place to stop, otherwise it would be too strenuous to sail back and forth. ”

"Your Majesty is wise, but I don't know what the situation here is."

Hou Xuanyan smiled, in his Soochow University, there are many foreigners who have already told the imperial court. In Sri Lanka, what the Chinese today call the Lion Nation, a three-way scuffle is going on.

In 1521 the Portuguese fleet landed near Colombo.

In 1588, the Portuguese army defeated the attack of the Kingdom of Starvaca at the Battle of Colombo, and since then the aborigines and the Portuguese have been at war.

Then there's the familiar script, the Dutch are coming, and now the forces on the island are vying for it. The Dutch clearly had the upper hand, and soon defeated all their enemies and dominated the important island until a hundred and fifty years later when it was lost by the British and became a colony of the empire on which the sun never sets.

"It's this island, the situation is very complicated now, it's too troublesome to sort it out and then choose a strategy, you go and defeat everyone, and then occupy this island."

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