Chapter 187: The Mamluk Market
The Mamluk dynasty, as the last ****** dynasty in the Middle Ages that shimmered with the afterglow of ****** civilization, is also a unique wonder in world history in a sense. The Mamluks, who started as slaves, relied entirely on foreigners, i.e., slaves, to run the country, which is a must-have in comics.
The Mamluk dynasty was basically divided into two periods. In the early period, it was the Berhairi Dynasty, which means sandbar and river, referring to the island of Finji in the Nile, because the original Mamluks were stationed here.
The Mamluks of the Berhaili lineage are all Turkic and Mongol. They originally fled from Sassanid Persia.
Tragically, however, the Mamluks relied on slaves to sustain their country. Due to the great wars and closures in the East, there were fewer and fewer Mongol and Turkic slaves. So they had to bring in a large number of Caucasian mountain people from the Caucasus mountains. The range is very large, but the main thing is the Circassians.
That's right, the barbarians of the Circassian Emirate.
When the group arrived in Egypt, they converted to ****** religion and adopted the name of ****** religion, but they still formed internal gangs. As the power of the Berhairis weakened, the Mamluks stationed on the Cairo Acropolis began to seize power.
It is for the Bourgi lineage. Bourgi means acropolis, and miniature points are bunkers.
The Berhairi system can also achieve father and son succession, brother to brother, and the bulgi line is completely whoever has the biggest fist counts.
It is called the recommendation system. and the Holy Roman Empire a routine. However, the Holy Roman Empire had seven electors circled by the Golden Seal, and the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt was determined by who had the biggest fist and who was the best.
Now the Mamluks faced a new problem. There is no successor!
It is true that the Mamluks were born as slaves, but those in the previous generation were divided into the countryside under the Iqtar system, and the central government still needs to maintain its troops! That is why new slaves need to be introduced. Once the Sultan's Kasaji Guard (Praetorian Guard) and the Royal Mamluks are out of replenishment, the rest of the story can be imagined!
The previous Sultan Zahir Saifuddin Jegmeg died at the end of 1453, and he ruled for seven years, which is a very long time. He was succeeded by Mansour Fakhruddin Uthman. We call him Mansour for short.
This was also a young Mamluk officer. In fact, almost all of the Bulgi sultans were young governors. They are undisciplined, but they are quite resourceful.
Mansour wanted to reopen the slave trade. However, he didn't know that Qin Cang had long stopped the slave trade for hundreds of years. Population is the most valuable productive force, and the slave trade is a demented act. All the Slavs, Tatars, and other savages who came from the north and the Golden Horde were bought by Qin Cang with money, and then sent to run farms in various places after a short period of education. If you have a good brain, you can join the Chamber of Commerce to do business.
"What are we going to do? They had banned the slave trade a long time ago! In the business administration of Kafa, the messenger Ahmed whirled anxiously. On his side was a Venetian.
The Venetians were far inferior to the ****** in the Han Kingdom, but who made the Venetians a strong monopoly on most of the trade in the Eastern Mediterranean? Especially in the Mamluk dynasty, the Venetians had a complete monopoly on paper, sugar and pepper, which were the products they exported. And successive Mamluk sultans have imposed a state monopoly policy on these fist products. It was precisely this crazy policy of harming the whole country and benefiting himself that allowed the Sultan to have enough power to dominate the huge region.
It's so anxious here, in fact, Qin Cang's side is not stable.
"I think we can let go of a little bit of it. But we ask for access to the market of the Mamluks! We're going to set up barns along their coast! Dump our goods! Zhang Qi came up with his plan.
The territory under Mamluk rule was vast, Egypt, Libya, Nubia, Palestine, Hijaz, Syria, and many more. This vast area is inhabited by countless human beings. Although they are poor, as long as they are people, there will be a demand, there will be a market! The Black Sea trade circle had fallen into the hands of the Han Kingdom. In the three countries of Georgia, Trabzon and Kandal, the traditional merchant power has fallen apart. They were attached to the business circle of the Han people and took on the tasks of the lower reaches of the business circle.
At the same time, these three countries have also become a way for Qin Cang to corrupt other countries. For example, the Kandal Sultanate, because they are brothers of the same clan, so the Kandal Sultanate not only helped Qin Cang to dig the Bey Pazar alkali mine, but also helped Qin Cang's chamber of commerce to sell those money-making daily necessities in Asia Minor, from grain to wine, from iron pots to urinals, almost all daily necessities are imported into the Asia Minor Peninsula with Kandar as a springboard.
Similarly, Georgia is to the Black Sheep Dynasty. The Black Sheep dynasty, which had just overthrown the Aries dynasty in the Kurdish region, has risen in power again. Small Caucasian states such as Sylvan and Gazikumukh fell to the Black Sheep dynasty. Georgia secretly acted as a second-tier agent in the middle, and it was quite happy to resell goods.
That's the current situation. The Black Sea Economic Circle has gradually become a colony for the Han Chinese to export goods.
"We need a bigger market! Our goods cannot be imported into the Ottomans openly, and we will change to a bigger market than him! Zhang Qi declared.
The identity of the cabinet is unanimous.
Society determines ideas. Today's society is a commercial society, and even grain is a commodity that is sold all over the world. After ceramics, it was discovered that grain was the commodity with the largest amount of land sold and the most profitable commodity. Salt is going to stand in fourth place.
This year and last year, countless grains have been dumped into Wallachia, Transciavania and Hungary. Janos Hunyadi himself went to the city of Bloon to wait for the arrival of food.
That's the power of food.
"Then tell them that we are asking for the establishment of barns in the seaport cities of Tripoli, Alexandria, Antioch, Beirut, Gaza, Kaffa (Jaffa, which is not the same as the Black Sea). Otherwise, don't talk about it. Meng Zhuoyan said.
"What about slaves? We need a larger population! Qin Cang asked.
Meng Zhuoyan smiled mysteriously and said, "Isn't there a money pass in Luo Shengzhi?" We let the Mamluk merchants themselves go and talk to the Circassians. We'll just sit and collect taxes. ”
Tall!
Qin Cang couldn't help but crook his mouth. It turns out that all of them are not pure, and they have all learned badly!
Ahmed was dumbfounded.
"We don't have permission. Need to wait for approval. ”