At the beginning of April, the climate near the equator had not yet risen to a bearable level, and the temperature of twenty or thirty degrees was not so unacceptable under the sea breeze.

Selim bin Muhammad Murad, who had been sailing on waves for months on a Western-style galleon, looked ahead. According to the information he received from the Dutch in Ceylon, China had opened a trading port on the island of We, the westernmost island of Sumatra.

This small, active volcanic island, located in Jinghai, the southernmost part of the Jinghai Islands, only came into the sight of Chinese last year. Surprisingly, this small island has the conditions to become a natural harbor.

The Chinese then took possession of it in a brutal manner, and then opened up the ports of Sabang and Barohan, which choked the northwest mouth of the Strait of Malacca, and Barohan, a shipping port that served as a transportation center between Banda Aceh and the island of Weh in the western part of Sumatra.

This kingdom of Aceh, Selim knows, is a very pious heavenly country. It is the academic and cultural center of Oriental Tianfang, and the starting point of the pilgrimage from Jiamin to Mecca in the Nanyang region.

Selim set off for China this time, and the accompanying fleet carried several Acehnese who had returned home along the way.

As a diplomat of the Ottoman Empire, a veteran diplomat who had worked in Russia and Austria for many years, Selim was far less angry when he brought up the matter of Weis.

Calmness is one of the most basic qualities of a diplomat. What's more, isn't the world now just the law of the jungle?

When the Ottoman Empire was strong, they also overwhelmed the whole of Europe.

And when the Kingdom of Aceh was strong, it also beat Portugal and the Netherlands several times, attacked Malacca, conquered Pahang, Kedah, Perak, Nias Island and Indalapra on the Malay Peninsula, and expanded its power to the Minangkabau region of the central highlands of Sumatra?

Selim, from a personal and professional perspective, easily accepts this reality.

The Chinese have only captured the island of Wei, and with their current strength, they are directly attacking Banda Aceh, and the Kingdom of Aceh will not suffer the same?

Since the fall of the Kingdom of Aceh, Minangkabau has gradually broken free from the shackles of Aceh, and the countries of the Malay Peninsula have also freed themselves from Aceh's control due to the support of the Netherlands. Aceh's control of the pepper trade was also broken early by the Dutch.

Everything is like sitting on a slide, and the downward trend of the country's situation cannot be stopped.

The sunlight shines through the thin clouds, shining on the white concrete floor of Sabang Port, reflecting a silvery light that dazzles people's eyes.

Chinese officials stationed in Sabang welcomed Selim's entourage, although they wondered why Selim had come to Sabang instead of Penang.

As for Selim, as a veteran diplomat, he smelled an unusual smell from the expressions and attitudes of the Chinese opposite.

Although these Chinese in front of them are very attentive to their party, there is a hostility hidden in this subtle reveal. What's going on?

Selim felt that he had better do nothing until he thoroughly understood the political society of the East. But he forgot that not all the people in the entire mission were as well-behaved as he was, and that some of the people in this mission were anti-Chinese elements who were inclined to the Order and the Janissaries.

"Selim Pasha, Selim Pasha ......"

The Ottomans were not a people of the sea, and Selim did not like the wandering of the ship, and every day he would look through all the Chinese materials and information he had collected in the country, whether it was past or modern, until he was so sleepy that he could not open his eyelids, and he would not go to sleep.

At night, in the silence of the cabin, Selim lit a bright candle and a pair of eyes on the bridge of his nose, struggling to understand the rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty in China. The Ottoman Empire still had some intersections with the Ming Dynasty, and the "History of the Ming Dynasty" recorded that in the third year of Jiajing, the fifth year of Jiajing, the twenty-second year of Jiajing, the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing, and the thirty-third year of Jiajing, Lu Mi had sent envoys five times. "61 people at the peak amounted to more than 90 people. At that time, the Ottoman Empire was known as Lu Mi by the Ming Dynasty.

In the early Ming Dynasty, due to the emergence of the Timurid Empire, which spanned Central and Southwest Asia, the exchanges between the Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire were hindered at both ends of the Silk Road. It was not until after the fall of the Timurid Empire that the Ottoman Empire began to send official envoys to the Ming Dynasty. These missions took place during the reign of the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman I, after the annexation of Egypt and the conquest of Tabriz and Baghdad.

This is the only intersection between Osman and China, and all the materials that Osman put have become the focus of Selim's research. Although he knew that these materials were no longer applicable to China in this era.

China's founding emperor, picking up his exploits, destroying the Manchu Qing Dynasty, fighting Russia, attacking Spain, suppressing the Netherlands, sweeping Japan, Korea and the entire South Seas, may not have met a strong opponent, so that his achievements were a little lacking in success, but he has been crowned with the title of 'Great Emperor' in the Western world early.

Since he started his army, he has won many battles and destroyed the enemy's attacks with superior forces, which has made him even more admired by many soldiers.

The Great Emperor of China will not be worse than Suleiman the Great in the future.

Although China's geography doomed it to be like the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago, it would have dealt an incomparably heavy blow to the entire Western world. But as long as the Chinese can beat Russia down, it will be the best and most favorable news for the Ottoman Empire.

Selim also did not want to see China spend countless amounts of money in the distant Americas, and when he was in Ceylon, he was confused when he heard that the Chinese had sent tens of thousands of troops to attack the American region of California, thousands of miles away.

There was a knock on the door, and there was a hurried, panicked call outside the door, it was his retinue Huda Banda.

Selim had a bad feeling in his heart, and he put down the book in his hand and opened the cabin door. Just looking at Huda Banda outside the door with a sweaty face, he hurriedly said after seeing Selim: "Selim Pasha, Mirza led people to fight with the Chinese at the dock." "Not only did they fight, but they also used knives. There were more than a dozen people injured at the scene, but Huda Banda didn't know it.

Selim's face changed immediately, and his eyes radiated a sword-like light.

Mirza? It was the deputy of the Legation Guard, a staunch anti-Chinese element from the Praetorian Guard. A die-hard supporter of Bayezet, one of the deputy envoys of the mission.

Selim, who was born with colored glasses to look at Mirza, had his first reaction that Mirza deliberately provoked trouble and deliberately created a discordant gap between China and Austria.

In fact, Selim really didn't wronged that Mirza.

The cause of this incident is the hotel and restaurant opened by the Chinese on the dock, do the Chinese open restaurants, where can there be no alcohol? And now the Indian white slave is so famous, this place is not far from India, and there are not only Indian dancers in the restaurant, but also a lot of them. As long as you are willing to spend money, you can bring people into the room at any time.

And the Aceh area itself is a very pious Heavenly Diocese, and the same is true of Wei Island. This celestial culture is originally forbidden to drink, and coupled with the relatively scantily clad Indian dancers dangling in front of the store all day long, the local parishioners are very unpleasant. But the situation is stronger than people, and the Chinese are much stronger than the people of Weidao. The local elders not only did not show their heads, but also tried their best to dissuade the local residents and Ah Hum from stirring up trouble and being patient!

What to say: Only those who endure can enjoy a complete and immeasurable reward.

Patience is painful, but its fruit is sweet. Forbearance is a heavenly virtue.

When we are faced with all kinds of trials and tribulations, we can only endure and pray to the God of great grace to extricate ourselves from our difficulties as soon as possible, and we must not be irritable and lose control, but should be calm, because calmness produces wisdom, and we must refuse to feel inferior, depressed, and disappointed, and not to be depressed because of bad luck, because sorrow will bring down the human spirit......

It's a pity that these words can only be cold water added to boiling water, not the hand that draws the match.

This bilateral contradiction has existed since the Chinese established themselves in Sabang.

If there were no Ottomans, and without the support of outsiders, the Weisians would have adapted to these things over time, just like the indigenous Celestial people living in Batavia, who were accustomed to these things little by little.

But aren't there Ottomans now? And the elder happened to be absent, and the elder went to Banda Aceh.

Ottoman is the first power in heaven, standing in heaven for hundreds of years, hitting Westerners again and again, it is a strong and powerful country, its sultan is the caliph of heaven, the sultan of all the sovereigns, and the sovereign of all monarchs. He is the protector of Quran!

In this era when the tiger's skin has not been completely smashed, the Ottoman Empire is like the Manchu Qing before the First Opium War, relying on the size of the Big Mac, it can still bluff many people.

And the Russians, who had just beaten the Ottomans down in a heads-up, were taken down by China in a blink of an eye.

St. Petersburg, whose face was disgraced, said: I had wasted too much strength on the Ottoman body before. This invisibly added another layer of gold dust to the Ottomans. After all, the strength of the Polar Bear Army is obvious to all in Europe, and even if the Ottoman army is weaker than Russia, it should not be underestimated, right?

The whole of Europe, singled out Russia, without the help of others, how many countries dare to say that they can support it?

Austria, or Prussia? Or the British, or the Spanish?

I don't dare to say it.

Except for the great Gallic!

So to make a horizontal comparison, the military power of the Ottomans is still not weak.

The unstoppable windmills in the South Seas are nothing compared to the Ottomans.

Especially in the heavenly world, after the collapse of the Mughal Empire, the Ottoman Empire and Persia were the only two powers, but the latter experienced the glory of Abbas the Great, and soon declined, and now Karim Khan, who rules there, is also very powerful, but in the twilight of the hero, he is already a dying old man.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Orthodox people of Veisan and Persia are not in the same pot, and the only object they can pray to is the Ottoman Empire.

Today, the fleet of Osman and his party docked at the port, and the Chinese gave the port the highest standard welcome. These were also seen by some natives and hums, so they came up with the idea of using the power of the Ottoman Empire to 'settle' those hateful Chinese merchants. Such an idea can be said to be a perfect match for Mirzana.

Mirza, of course, knew that this kind of thing could not be known to Selim, so he secretly contacted his henchmen, and then joined up with Ah Hum and the natives, and went straight to demolish all the restaurants and hotels that had committed the taboo.

Of course, Chinese merchants won't do it, their own things, the land use certificate they got from the port authority, they can do whatever they want, why should they listen to you? You said you wouldn't do it if you didn't let it, how old are you? When the port authority certificate is fake, right?

The two sides did not have to talk about this matter at all, and Mirza did not plan to talk about it at all, and the Ottoman Janissary uniform he wore did not deter the Chinese at all. It is said that since the incident in Xi'an City on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Tianfang Sect has to be shouted and killed by everyone in the Han land. Moreover, the group of killers then launched several explosions, killing only a few three, and the wounded were more than a hundred.

The whole of China was stunned and outraged.

The tide set off by the whole society made the H people and Tianfang Temple in Han land silent.

This kind of environment has not yet affected the society of Nanyang, but it is absolutely impossible to say that these have no impact on the Chinese businessmen in Nanyang. Invisibly, the Chinese in Nanyang regarded the Tianfang Sect natives as a little lower.

There is no government to add fuel to the fire at all, it is completely spontaneous among the people, the aborigines who believe in Buddhism are the best natives, the natives who believe in the original gods are the second-class natives, and the natives who believe in heaven and one god are the lowest third-class natives.

Even if it is inland, some of the H Han mixed cities that have been well integrated before, such as the southern coastal cities and some cities along the Grand Canal, have caused ethnic disputes in the following time, and the domestic hustle and bustle has been weakened a lot in the South Seas, but do you want the Han bosses to make principled concessions when facing a group of Tianfang people? That's wishful thinking.

The two sides quickly moved their hands. Then there was a big mess, Mirza used his knife, and those Han people were not blind in vain, and they still had guns. When the gunshots rang out, not only the customs police in the port area were shocked, but even the coastal guards were dispatched.

Selim was desperate to crumple Mirza to shreds.

He hurriedly disembarked the ship, and immediately sent someone to contact the Chinese port authorities, and at the same time strictly ordered the sailors and the Praetorian Guards accompanying the fleet to not go out alone.

The person in charge of the port of Sabang soon came to meet Selim with a relaxed expression. Although some people in the Ottoman mission played a very unfriendly role in this matter, it is clear that Selim's performance is in line with China.

"Selim Pasha, please rest assured. We will definitely deal with this matter fairly. As for the few people involved on your side, rest assured that the wounds will be returned to the ship as soon as they are bandaged and treated. ”

"For Your Excellency's proper handling of the incident after the incident, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks on behalf of all the military and political officers and soldiers in Sabang Port."

The entire Ottoman fleet of sailors and guards was afraid of thousands of people, and this force was not busy because of Selim's constraints, which was really the greatest support for the Chinese government.

Selim is also very happy that his 'efforts' have not been in vain, and his flattery has not been thrown to the blind. "Ottoman and China are strategic allies and closest friends, and we have full confidence that China will make a fair and reasonable handling of this matter."

The smiles on both faces at the moment were so sincere, but they really underestimated it. This was an outburst of anger that had been stored up for a long time by the Sabang people of Weh.

"Jihad, Jihad ......"

"Holy war! Holy war! Holy war! God is great, God is great! ”

"Kick Kafir out of Wee ......"

Just when Selim and the Chinese officials thought that the matter could be over, a sudden burst of shouts swept through the port of Sabang like a tsunami.

"Oh God......" The sailors on a Western sailing ship in the harbor were stunned as they watched the natives of the island of Wee flock from the darkness to the port area of Sabang. (To be continued.) )