“…… My dearest sister, I hope that you will explain to the Great Khan the plight of me and the kingdom of Egypt, and that he will understand who is the true ruler of the world today.

The two world empires of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty currently dominate all the world's oceans, with three separate continents, one of which is slightly smaller than Europe, and the other two are larger and richer than all of Europe. They have a population of more than 80 million, control 90% of the world's gold and silver, and produce 90% of the world's steel production every year. Their naval fleet spread all over the world, the largest of which had a displacement of more than 20,000 stones, and 60 extremely powerful guns.

So I can't disobey the will of the head of the Great Zhou Republic and the emperor of the Eastern Song Empire. Therefore, I was forced to join the anti-Temujin coalition. But I guarantee by my personality and reputation that the Egyptian army will never reach the east of the Sinai Peninsula.

Not only that, but Egypt could also secretly sell weapons and gunpowder from the Great Zhou Republic and the Eastern Song Empire to the Great Mongols.

Since the Great Zhou Republic and the Eastern Song Empire would soon issue an arms embargo against the Great Mongols. Therefore, in the future, Egypt will be the only country that can supply the Great Mongolia with high-quality gunpowder, steel and other military products...... Fair price guaranteed!

To Mosis, your dearest sister Sophia. ”

This is a handwritten letter written by Queen Sophia I of Egypt to the Holy Lady of Light, Moqisi, in the autumn of 1215.

The letter was sent to Murise of Rai through Alexandria's Order of Light.

The letter was later stored in the archives of the Great Church of the Bright Dome in Constantinople (Constantinople) and was not published until 400 years later.

This also allowed later people to understand a little truth about the "war against Temujin" that changed the world map back then.

And now, this handwritten letter from the queen of Egypt is in the hands of Temujin, the Great Khan of Mongolia and King of Persia.

Temujin was not in his new capital, Rai, but in the holy Christian city of Jerusalem, near the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.

Jerusalem, which belonged to the Empire of Dashi before the Battle of Rai, is now occupied by Temujin.

Temujin occupied not only the city of Jerusalem, but also the entire kingdom of Jerusalem. So he has now opened the passage to Egypt.

At his command, 50,000 Mongol troops would march into the Sinai Peninsula, and it would not be long before they could reach Alexandria......

But it was at this time that he received two letters from Alexandria at the same time.

One of them was a letter from the Queen of Egypt that he was holding in his hand, which had been handed over by the Holy Maiden of Light.

Another was sent by an Enterprising-class battleship to the port city of Jaffa near Jerusalem.

It was a letter from Admiral Wu Yachen of the Mediterranean Fleet of the Great Zhou Republic, in which Admiral Wu told Temujin: The Sinai Peninsula is now under the protection of the Great Zhou Republic! If Temujin dared to invade, he would face serious consequences!

Serious consequences are not empty words!

Because after delivering the warning letter with a sampan, the "Enterprising" class battleship violently bombarded the shore defense battery of Jaffa with 20 18-pound guns on the port side, causing serious losses to the Jaffa battery.

At the same time, Temujin also received reports that four battleships of the Eastern Song Dynasty navy had sailed into the Shatt al-Arab and sent marines to occupy the island of Abadan......

Temujin could not have taken the powerful army of the Western Song Dynasty to heart, because it was impossible for the Western Song Dynasty to rely on farming to grow in Persia. It can't be in 100 years!

However, the navies of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty could send tens of thousands of troops to Abadan Island in a few months, and then go north to seize Ahvash.

"Mu Huali, what do you think?" Temujin threw the Egyptian queen's letter on the table, and then looked at his confidant, Shomu Huali.

"Great Khan," Mu Huali said with a smile, "if you want me to say, let's not enter Egypt, what is good about Egypt?" It's a little bit of the lower Nile, and everywhere else it's sand...... For the sake of Egypt to be the enemy of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty, there is no benefit! ”

"I know this! I don't lack eyes! Temujin shook his head, "I'm asking you what you think of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty?" What exactly do they want to do? While organizing an alliance against me, he asked Sophia to sell weapons to me. What the hell are these profiteers thinking? ”

"Profiteers, of course, are mercenary......"

"Mercenary?" Temujin snorted, "Do you really think they're tossing for a few little bucks?" ”

"This ......" Mu Huali was also confused.

Businessmen are certainly mercenary...... But how can it be possible to create two world empires by mercenary intentions alone?

"Great Khan, they must have a conspiracy!" "They want to...... I want both the Great Mongolia and the Western Song Dynasty to lose! ”

"Maybe." Temujin nodded.

This answer is not very reliable, but Temujin can't think of a better answer.

Mu Huali said again: "Since Sophia is willing to sell weapons to us, why don't you buy some from Egypt and try it...... Weapons are given to us, and it is always beneficial. ”

Temujin, who possessed most of Central Asia and most of Persia, already had a reliable supply of weapons.

However, high-quality muskets and large-caliber siege heavy artillery, light and easy-to-use field artillery, or the products of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty are better.

As for the output and quality of black powder, it is undoubtedly the best product of Da Zhou. Because the Great Zhou controlled the world's best sulfur and saltpeter producing areas, and the gunpowder industry of the Great Zhou Republic started very early, and now several powerful gunpowder factories have been formed, which can produce high-purity granular black powder.

Although the black powder of the Eastern Song Dynasty is not as good as that of the Great Zhou, it is no problem to rank second in the world.

Therefore, to be able to buy guns and gunpowder produced by the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty, it was impossible for Temujin to refuse.

As for what is better to buy than to buy, or what to buy than to build, Temujin would not have considered it so much. Anyway, the Mongols under his command can only use it, and they have to rely on foreigners to build guns and cannons...... If you are not of my race, you must have different aspirations! It's okay to use them, but it's also dangerous to really raise them too strong!

"Good! That's it! Temujin said, "Muhuali, I have made you the king of the Taishi, guarding Jerusalem, and you are all responsible for the transactions with Egypt.

In addition, Jerusalem is a holy place for Christianity and Celestial Christianity. You can't destroy Celestial and Christian churches, and you have to welcome pilgrims, but don't forget to charge a proper entrance tax.

We'll be short of money for some time to come! So you can't miss any opportunity to make money. ”

……

"Brother Sixteen, let me tell you, the last thing we lack here is money!"

After Wu Guohao was twelve years old, he never thought that anyone would be richer than himself, and now he finally gained knowledge.

Before the age of twelve, he didn't know that his family was particularly rich, because his father wanted to train him to be a soldier, so he was sent to Yanjing Army Primary School at a very young age, and he also let him use a pseudonym.

It wasn't until he was twelve years old that he began to study the history of the Great Zhou Republic that he discovered that the Republic Bank and the Bank of Tianjin were originally his family's property......

But today, when he met a group of cousins with mines at home in Guigu in Xinhua Province, the United States of America, he realized that he was not the richest human being.

Guigu in Xinhua Province is a valley located in the south of the Xinhua Bay area, which was the retirement place of Wu Yixin in his later years, and now it has become a place where the rich gather.

In the valley, there are not only many mansions, but also a large number of business headquarters. Most of these comptoirs were engaged in the development of gold, silver and copper mines, and some were bank-owned.

And their masters are almost all descendants of Wu Haogu. Either a descendant of the Righteous Faith, or a group of lords of Dominions in North and South America.

In short, they are all masters who have mines at home and make money lying down.

"Brother Sixteen, if you want to make money, you have to find and open mines." An old man wearing a cotton robe, without a little gold and silver embellishments on his body, looked very simple and said to Wu Guohao with a smile, "There is gold, silver and brass here in the Americas, but it is really not good, and saltpeter in South America can also be sold for a lot of money." What kind of factory do you open? ”

"yes, how much money can you make by opening a factory? It's better to open a Qinglou Chu Pavilion to make money quickly! Gold diggers make money easily, and they spend money with a lot of money. Go to the east coast to find an Egyptian merchant to buy some white slave girls and bring them back is several times the profit! ”

"It's not bad to open a bank, some gold miners are reluctant to eat, reluctant to use, and when they make money, they will remit it back to their hometown, and the income from exchange alone has doubled ......."

"The casino is not bad, there are many gamblers among the gold miners, and if you find gold, you will come to gamble, and you will not stop if you don't lose everything!"

A bunch of particularly wealthy mine owners and capitalists have little interest in opening factories or anything - who can set up factories and do manufacturing if they have gold and silver mines at home? This kind of small money is just too hard to earn.

"Brothers," Wu Guohao replied with a smile, "Brother is going to make a real big deal this time!" It is a big deal to make full use of the geographical advantages of North America! ”

"The location of North America? Isn't it gold, silver, and copper? ”

Of course, a group of mine owners only have mines in their eyes! And iron ore and coal mines are not looked down upon, that thing is the treasure of industrialization, and it is still in the era of factory handicrafts. And there is no handicraft industry in North America, handicraft products are imported from the Old World, and here we are in charge of digging gold, silver, and copper - these three metals are directly currency!

This is the equivalent of "printing money", and it is hard currency that cannot be harder.

You can print money, what else can you buy?

Wu Guohao just smiled bitterly, and knew that there was nothing to say to these people, so he smiled and said: "Here's the thing, the Führer feels that the population in North America is still too small, and the development speed is still not enough...... That's why I want to speed up development. And the 'Temujin Encirclement', oh, do you know that? ”

I really don't know...... Everyone who has a mine at home is confused.

Who was Temujin? Is it an iron seller or a wood seller?

Wu Guohao had no choice but to be patient and explain how Temujin and the Great Mongol State rose, how they attacked Xiliang, and how they threatened the interests of the Great Zhou Republic.

As a result, the mine owners still don't understand...... What does this Temujin have to do with North America? He is a Mongol and has no navy, even if he has a Mongolian navy, can he beat the navy of the Great Zhou Republic? So he can't come to America at all!

Wu Guohao didn't know that this was actually the origin of isolationism! This place in the Americas is so good, you have everything, and life is very good. And there are two oceans to protect, and the enemy can't easily come. So I don't care much about the outside world......

However, although these mine owners don't care about things in the world, they are still very loyal to the motherland of the Great Zhou - as long as the motherland of the Great Zhou does not touch the gold and silver mountains in their homes.

They also have no objection to using the gold, silver and bronze from the official treasury of the United States of America to give subsidies to businessmen who invest on the east coast of North America.

Anyway, there is a lot of gold, silver and copper in the official treasury...... I can't run out of flowers! And as more and more gold, silver and copper mines are discovered, there are more and more stocks in the North American official treasury, and the amount is almost moldy!

And this group of mine owners living in "Guigu" are actually "politicians", they are all parliamentarians of the United States of America, and they have the right to vote to decide the future and fate of the country.

With their support, Wu Guohao will be able to go to Wu Guohua, the Grand Commander of the United States.

Wu Guohua was a descendant of Wu Yixin, and unlike the Yijiu faction, which gradually faded out of the top echelons of power in the Great Zhou Republic, the Yixin faction now firmly controlled the power of the United States of America, and the various mine bosses were very satisfied with the rule of the Yixin faction. And the class below the mine boss is busy looking for mines, mining and making money from the gold miners, and no one is interested in making a revolution. Moreover, the United States of America has no foreign enemies, but the Yin natives are a little more troublesome, but it is not a big problem. Their weapons are outdated, and their populations have been reduced so much by various epidemics that they are basically not a threat.

Therefore, Wu Guohua, the general commander, actually has nothing to do, he goes to work for an hour every day, handles very little official business, and then all kinds of entertainment and outdoor activities. My favorite thing to do is hunting, not with a bow and arrows, but with a musket.

When it comes to muskets, you might as well say a few more words. This part of North America claims to have a gun for everyone! Gun ownership is over 150 percent, with an average of three guns for two people.

And most of them are good guns, which are much better than the smoothbore guns used by the army of the Great Zhou Republic - the army has always liked bargains, while the gold diggers in North America have to face looting and indigenous attacks, so they need good guns to save their lives. Therefore, I am not afraid to spend money, and of course I buy good things.

However, there are no guns produced here in North America, and all the guns bought and sold on the market are smoothbore guns imported from the Republic of the Great Zhou. Why produce it yourself? Gold, silver, and brass can't be spent!

So Wu Guohua, who had returned from hunting, heard that his distant cousin, Wu Guohao, the big boss of the Republic Bank and the Bank of Tianjin, actually wanted to start an iron factory and a gun factory on the east coast of North America, which was a bit incredible.