"Ahh Ahh Ahh …… This is Nima, who is scolding me behind my back! Just when Wen Hao and the others were deliberately calculating how to maximize their own interests in the competition for national interests, Hong Tao, one of the protagonists of their calculations, was sitting in the spacious emperor's palace and discussing with Maitini's younger brother Alin about going to the Great Food Country.

Located on the Sea King, the living room is more than 30 square meters, with three bedrooms and a study on both sides, and even a dedicated bathroom and kitchen. Having learned the lesson of the Golden River, the roof of this emperor's cabin was greatly thickened, and even a layer of copper plates was laid. Even if a cannonball hits it, it won't turn the emperor's palace into a sunroom.

But in this way, the helmsman, navigator, first mate, and captain on the stern tower are unlucky, and you can imagine what it would be like to step on the bright copper plate under your feet and the sun on your head on the unobstructed sea.

The person who designed this structure actually won the Imperial Diet Medal, if Hong Tao was given the choice, he was guaranteed to throw that guy into the mine to be reformed through labor, and only a landlubber would whimsically engage in such flashy things and make such a big emperor cabin on a battleship.

Unfortunately, he had no say in this matter, the Sea King was not under the jurisdiction of the Royal Navy, it was a ship that belonged to the special appropriation of the Imperial Parliament, and it was regarded as the national symbol of the Golden River Country, and the monument at the entrance of the library was the same character. Its main purpose is not a warship, but a water palace designed according to the warship, which is used to take the royal family to visit various countries.

The very purpose of its construction was to show the majesty of the empire to foreigners, so that there should be no silver where it can be gold, no copper where it can be contained, and no place where copper can be filled. Where nothing can be covered, gems are inlaid. Anyway, as long as there is sunlight. The ship had to be shiny. It's best seen from 10 nautical miles. In particular, the bow mast of the ship is actually a seventy-kilogram rat head made of pure gold, and the two mouse eyes are inlaid with rubies the size of eggs. When Hong Tao saw this thing, he hated it so much that the roots of his teeth itched, isn't this Nima scolding, scolding me for having pink eye!

"It should be my brother, he would be very angry if he found out that you went to his hometown and didn't take him with you." Alin has been in Port Calamba all these years to assist Bojiao in managing the big food merchants here. Although he doesn't have the scenery of Martini, he is famous in the eyes of the people of the Great Food Country. Who is Martini? Nobody knows! Lord Alin, who would dare not know!

"Don't be beautiful, in a few years your brother will return to your hometown like a king with his fleet, and even the king will have to kneel for him then." After seeing Wen Nan, Wen Hao Brothers, Maitini and Al Yin Brothers, Hong Tao was very glad that he was an only child. This Nima brother is full of pit people, although Cixi and Ciqi are not aware of each other's pits, but secretly they are not less struggling. Fortunately, there is still a brother Carl and William who love each other, otherwise Hong Tao would have to order, and no brothers are allowed in the empire. Either it's three, or there's a sister or something.

"It's the Cabalanta of the Governor of Po. Or Mega Town in Metini? "Alin was very unwilling, he was in business with Medini, and he did better than Medini. But since he was captured by Hong Tao, Medtini has come and gone, first becoming Hong Tao's translator and adviser, and later becoming the governor of the empire's overseas territories.

"Of course Cape Town is big, much bigger than Port Kalamba, and the whole of Ceylon under King Taba is not a tenth the size of Cape Town!" Hong Tao didn't calculate carefully, but just casually gave a general answer.

“…… Isn't that bigger than the empire itself, aren't you afraid that he will be half-hearted? I suggest that Imperial governors should have tenures to prevent them from forming their own forces overseas. "Medini doesn't know how to offend his younger brother, aren't they born to the same mother? It's really possible that none of those tribal leaders of A\La\Bo are a lot of daughters-in-law and a lot of children, and judging by their appearance, they shouldn't be a mother.

"This matter is being discussed by the Imperial Diet, and it is believed that a reasonable rule will be introduced. You better focus on this voyage, and don't give your brother eye medicine. "Hong Tao is convinced, he should really assign Wen Nan to Martini as an assistant, let Wen Hao help Alin, and then throw both of them to South Africa, one on the east coast and the other on the west coast, give the same help, and see which of these two pairs of brothers is more powerful.

"Where is the capital of the Ayyubid dynasty you are talking about? Is it Cairo, Damascus, Aleppo, Karak or Hormuz? Hong Tao didn't want to listen to Alin Ming's calculations anymore, this kind of nonsense was meaningless, he now wanted to understand what the Middle East was like at this time. The homework that was originally done by relying on memory in Jinhe City was basically abandoned after listening to Arin's introduction, and the Middle East at this time was a mess, with kingdoms, religions, and tribal territories mixed together, and they were not subordinate to each other, even if you gave yourself a map, you might not be able to understand who was the same as whom.

Since you are going to do business, you must always find the right port, you must always know which force you are trading with, and you must know who your sworn enemies are, otherwise it will be easy to be misunderstood. But the Ayyubid dynasty alone made him struggle with his brains, and if Saladin could crawl out of the grave and see the dynasty he had worked so hard to snatch down to a pile of small parts by his brothers and sons, he himself would not be able to recognize it for a while.

According to Arin's introduction, the biggest forces in the Middle East are the Ayyubid Dynasty and the Khorezm Kingdom. The Ayyubid dynasty was founded by Saladin, and its rule included both sides of the Red Sea near Cairo, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. Khorezm is a multi-ethnic state, with a predominantly populated population of Persians, Turks, and Araz, and its rule is mainly Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan.

However, this Ayyubid dynasty had already existed in name only, and Saladin divided the land between three sons and a younger brother during his reign, and as soon as he died, the country was immediately in chaos. The three sons and one younger brother did not obey anyone, and simply went their own way, Cairo and Damascus, and the western Arabian Peninsula, all claiming to be sultans.

Coupled with the simultaneous existence of the Turkic Zanji Dynasty, the Black-clothed Abbasid Dynasty, the Sultanate of Oman, and the nomadic Najdi and Bedouin tribes, there are dozens of countries on the list, and more are those tribes that nominally belong to a certain country, but in fact no one listens to them. Add to that the four Christian Crusader states on the Mediterranean side, as well as the Serge masters and the Byzantines, and the region is almost a United Nations.

In addition to the complexity of national and regional forces, there are also fierce religious conflicts in this region, the biggest of which is that the different sects of the ****** religion, Shia and Sunni ****** attack each other, which is even more devastating than the infidels. This conflict has been going on for thousands of years and has not stopped until the twenty-first century, with Iran being the representative of Shiism and Saudi Arabia and other countries being Sunnis. A look at the contradictions between countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran can be seen to understand how these two factions fought each other in the thirteenth century.

From this point of view, Christianity, which belongs to the same religious system, has been relatively well handled, and the old religion, Protestantism, and Orthodox Christianity have also fallen on each other, but they have not tried to kill each other, and they can coexist peacefully. However, these two major factions of the ****** sect did not succeed, and they fought for thousands of years, but as a result, both sides were defeated, and the more they fought, the weaker they became, and the more they saw no hope of reunification.

But this is also a good thing, if they don't fight among themselves, maybe Europe will be unified long ago, and Asia will be choked enough. Therefore, the tragedy of a country or nation is often the joy of other countries and nations. If you want to be strong, you must first unite at home, and then talk about the same external affairs. The theory that the outside world must first be secure at home is actually correct, but it requires great political wisdom in the ways and means of how to get out of the country and how to secure it.

(To be continued.) )