Just after Murad made the decision to join the Ming family, two infantry brigades of the Ming army landed in Aqaba, and then went north into Jerusalem, while Murad left the city and boarded a Ming cruiser in Aqaba, and he will next cross the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea to Yingtian, tens of thousands of miles away, to meet His Majesty the Ming Emperor and ask to be attached as a vassal state. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As for the Ming army that entered Jerusalem......

That was to ensure that there would be no surprises after he left, such as the rebellion of his generals, the breach of the line by Muslin, and of course, the conspiracy of the Christians.

It's unlikely, but it's a good idea!

It's also responsible for him.

At the same time as Murad left, a Maronite bishop also quietly boarded a small fishing boat and sailed away from Beirut under the cover of night, at this time the sea control of the eastern Mediterranean was still in the hands of the Ottoman navy, although France entered the war, but the French navy only operated in the western Mediterranean, and the Venetian navy was weaker and could only guarantee the sea control in the Adriatic Sea, and did not have the ability to extend his hand to the Arabian coast, so his itinerary was destined to be full of hardships.

But it's worth the risk to get the good news to Rome as soon as possible.

In fact, before the cruiser on which Murad had arrived in Ceylon, the bishop had already arrived in Messina, and then arrived in Naples on a Spanish warship, where he was taken to the Vatican by carriage.

"What did you say?"

Inside St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Clement XI said incredulously.

"Holy See, Jerusalem is about to be bathed in the glory of the Lord, and His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has promised that in the future we will be allowed to re-establish the Holy Kingdom in Jerusalem, and the Holy Cross will be re-erected on the Temple Mount!"

The bishop said excitedly.

"Holy See, Holy See!"

Then he shouted in panic.

Well, Clement XI fainted.

A group of cardinals, bishops and the like hurriedly stepped forward and pinched and shouted, and finally woke up His Majesty the Pope again, and after waking up, Clement XI shivered like a convulsion, and then raised his dry fingers, pointed to the roof tremblingly and shouted: "To Malta, quick, to Malta, to find the Knights of the Medicace, I want a crusade, I want a new crusade!" ”

"Uh, the Knights Medica are still there?"

Emperor Yang said in amazement.

He did forget about this stubble, in fact, the Knights of the Medics are still alive, they are still ruling the island of Malta, and they have real military power, after the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle of Bantore, there is no longer the ability to take them down, so the Knights of the Medics are still continuing their mission on this small island. In fact, they did not end up being killed by the infidels, they were finally threatened by Napoleon's cannons, they had to surrender and abandon their territory, and then run to the Malta Palace in Rome to become the smallest country in the world.

"It is said that this order has been on the island of Malta."

Lu You said cautiously.

According to information from Europe, the Vatican has invited Persilon, the head of the Knights of the Medicary, to Rome, and they are ready to reorganize a crusader army with the Knights Medicary as the core, and according to French intelligence, Louis XIV may have promised to send a French fleet to the Eastern Mediterranean, while seizing control of the Mediterranean, and escorting the Crusaders to reinforce the army of Maronite Christians. However, Louis XIV did this mainly for his arms, before our arms were loaded in Alexandria via Egypt, but since the start of the war, the Ottoman navy blockaded Alexandria, and our arms can only go around Africa, which takes too long, and he can't stand it there. ”

He continued.

"I'll just say, Louie doesn't have such kindness."

Yang Feng said.

Apparently he was still quite happy.

What a nostalgic name, Knights of the Medic, will the Templars, the Teutonic Knights, or all of them pop up next? Now that the life of the church is getting worse and worse, the rise of Protestantism has given these guys a huge impact, coupled with the fact that the Enlightenment ideas have begun to spread, and the church has become more and more synonymous with decay, the Vatican urgently needs to reshape its image at this time, and retaking the Holy Land and rebuilding Jerusalem is undoubtedly a very good propaganda tool.

Clement XI did not miss this opportunity.

As for Louie......

He must also hope to drive a French nail in the Arabian Peninsula, according to the previous tacit understanding, this place is the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty, in the current situation, it is difficult for him to have the courage to reach out there, but now it is Yang Feng who takes the initiative to invite it is different, since Yang Feng has opened the door and allowed the power of Christians to pass, of course he will not be polite, and the Knights of the Medicaries are actually under the protection of Spain or him, and the Knights of the Doctors control Jerusalem, which is equivalent to him controlling Jerusalem.

This is also a good opportunity for him not to miss.

In this way, it is certain that the French navy will come, the medical knights will come, the French and Spanish armies will come, and the Maronites will enter Jerusalem in a big way, and then after these free thugs arrive, he can completely ignore the situation in Jerusalem, and then transfer Murad's 30,000 Mamluks back to Egypt from there, plus the new Egyptian envoys' armies, and concentrate on dealing with the Egyptian elders.

But it's not an easy job.

At this time, Egypt has been completely ignited by religious fanaticism, those peasants who have been suppressed for hundreds of years, almost all the cities have turned into fortresses, and almost all young adults have taken up arms, and then clamored to turn Egypt into a cemetery of Ming imperialists, the next thing the Ming army needs to face is at least a million crazy and full of Bao main warriors, if you want to completely eliminate the troubles, you must completely clean these guys, That is, city by city keeps killing.

But that's a hassle.

It's not that he thinks it's too bloody, in fact, Emperor Yang has already reached the realm where life is just a number, and he doesn't care if he kills all the Egyptians if he needs to, anyway, he has already carried tens of millions of blood debts, and he doesn't need to think about the conscience of carrying millions more lives.

But the problem is that it is not a good deal economically.

Because what he needs is an economic colony, not a no-man's land.

He needs countless cheap coolies, can continue to provide cotton for the Ming Dynasty, but don't underestimate cotton, at this time cotton is equivalent to the oil of later generations, is a strategic resource, the pillar of the Ming industry is cotton spinning, and the nineteenth century Britain is almost the same, has become the world's factory. The country is full of large and small cotton mills, printing and dyeing factories, garment factories, button factories, shoes and socks factories, now even the black uncles in Africa wear cotton cloth produced in the Ming Dynasty, but domestic cotton is not good, even if there are good varieties, after all, it is still limited by the environment, before the development of cotton-producing areas in the Western Regions, it is still mainly dependent on imports from Egypt, Yemen, India and other places, and then woven into cotton cloth and sold all over the world in exchange for real money.

Egypt plays an important role in this.

Egypt is also an important market.

Egypt, which has no people, can neither provide him with cotton, nor can it act as a dumping market for him, and it is not very interesting to plunder the army alone in the process, what he needs is industrial development, what he needs is raw materials, what he needs is a market, not a bunch of gold, silver and jewelry, these things can only make a few people benefit, but not the whole country can follow the profits, on the contrary, after killing all the people, the domestic factories cannot sell the goods, but will make countless people who eat this food face the danger of unemployment.

So he can't make no man's land.

It's easy to kill all the Egyptians, it's enough to spread a little virus, no more, pour the cholera virus into the Nile, and the whole of Egypt will be down, but this will not do him any good, of course he can do things that harm others and benefit himself, but things that harm others and are not beneficial to himself should be done as little as possible, and it would be best if he could take a perfect means of conquest.

"The perfect conquest?"

Yang Feng was there looking at the map in a daze.

Suddenly, his gaze fell on a place.

If......

"Your Majesty, a telegram from Yinzhou has arrived!"

Just when Emperor Yang suddenly had an idea, Xiao Guizi, or Gonggong Gui, who was honored by the outside world, ran in and shouted with a telegram in a very gaffe.

A telegram from Yinzhou came.

The latest wireless telegraph of the Ming Dynasty in the distant Jinshan City of Yinzhou, sent the world's first telegram across the Pacific Ocean to the receiving station of Yingtian, although this telegram was actually transmitted after many relays, only one station at a time, but people still use high technology to make the information in less than half a day across tens of thousands of miles, of course, this efficient communication technology is not ordinary people can enjoy, in fact, the wireless communication facilities of the Ming Dynasty are only for official and military use, and the old wired telegraph is still used by civilian people.

But enough for Emperor Yang.

"The Spaniards began to colonize the gold mountain?"

Yang Feng looked at the telegram with some surprise.

This telegram reported to him the unexpected news that the Spaniards in Mexico had begun to cross the Sonoran Desert and establish colonies in the south of the Golden Mountain, and the original history, according to Yang Feng's data, began at the end of the eighteenth century, and it was not until the discovery of gold mines that large-scale colonization began, but by that time it had been replaced by the Americans, that is, they were hundreds of years ahead of schedule.

"According to European intelligence, the number of Europeans emigrating to Yinzhou has increased dramatically in recent years, especially the British East India Company, whose main business is now in New England, and the French East India Company's business focus has also shifted to Louisiana, Spain has been severely damaged in the war, and in order to make up for the financial difficulties, it has also intensified its plundering of the colonies around the Caribbean. They could no longer touch the east of the Cape of Good Hope, and could only go all out to open up Yinzhou, and the common people were tired of the life of those kings who fought together every three or five years, and were equally willing to stay away from Europe and go to the colonies, which is probably because of this reason. ”

Lu You said.

His analysis was right, after the Europeans were expelled from Asia, they had no choice but to go all out to colonize the Americas, and in this case, Philip also gave the order to colonize California in advance.

As for the common people of Europe, they are indeed tired of their seriously over-energetic monarchs at this time, and those kings have been like chickens for decades, and they have not been allowed to live well for almost a day. The Thirty Years' War scorched Europe before it could catch its breath, the English Civil War, the Spanish-French War, the Anglo-Dutch War, the Heritage War, the Franco-Dutch War, the Nine Years' War, and then the War for the Spanish Throne and the Great Northern War, in which these monarchs played with great and small fights on average every five years. Before the common people had time to wipe away the blood and tears of the last war, they had to rush to the next battlefield, and the princes of Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and the HRE almost randomly cut each other, cutting the people in a daze.

They're really going to collapse.

Simply Lao Tzu Tama will not serve, Lao Tzu will go to the colony to go in the past, and it is better to be tired than to be pushed to the battlefield by you as cannon fodder.

Especially now that the war with the Ottoman Empire is going on, the common people who hate war are running to the colonies even more, and the number of whites in New England, Louisiana, Mexico and other places has skyrocketed, so it is inevitable to open up new colonies. Especially after the Ming merchants landed on the west coast, those old colonists were more vigilant, after all, this dragon is now notorious, there used to be a vast Pacific Ocean, but now the Ming steam ships from Asia to the Americas are no slower than they are from Europe to the Americas, and even those large sailing ships can get to California in less than two months.

Moreover, at this time, Jinshan City, the first stronghold of the Ming Dynasty on the west coast, had been established, and even gold was mined on a river near Jinshan Bay, so that the Spaniards could not hold it back, and if they didn't hurry up, the good place would be occupied by others.

"Leave them alone!"

Yang Feng handed the telegram to Xiao Guizi and said.

Gonggong Gui is now the commander of the Jinyi Guard Confidential Division, in charge of the wireless telegraph stations in various places, responsible for the intelligence collection and processing of various places, basically equivalent to Emperor Yang's confidential director, and he is also the first eunuch in the Ming Dynasty to be knighted, and that is also the well-known Viscount Gui.

In fact, Yang Feng's palace is equivalent to the headquarters of the Jinyi Guard, including his dragoon guards also belong to the Jinyi Guard Security Division, which is in charge of the palace and the security of the palaces and the emperor's car, and the Attendant Department is responsible for Emperor Yang's secretarial work, the Confidential Department is responsible for communication and intelligence processing, the Inner Court Department is responsible for the miscellaneous affairs of the palace, and the Discipline Department is responsible for the internal law enforcement of the Jinyi Guard.

The Department of Internal Affairs, the Intelligence Department, and the Secret Service Department belong to the three outer divisions, and the Secret Service Department is not the secret service team of the Internal Affairs Division, the latter is the armed police, but the former Shadow Army, a huge spy organization with more than 120,000 people, controls the whole world for Emperor Yang, and even as far away as South America.

And this is exactly what he relies on at all. (To be continued.) )

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