In fact, Yang Sheng......

Well, the people of the Ming Dynasty have now habitually called Emperor Yang Sheng, anyway, the Holy Son of Heaven is in the dynasty, and the common people called the emperor in ancient times also called the saint. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, the Ming Dynasty is retro in many things, for example, no one uses the title of adult as an official suffix, because it is only qualified by princes, and it is not in accordance with the rules to call an official an adult, and it is okay for parents and elders. In fact, as a semi-elected magistrate, he has long ceased to be on top, after all, many ordinary people know that as long as they are willing, they are fully capable of ousting the magistrate from power. Another example is that there is no such thing as a lord, this is from the beginning of the Tatar after entering the customs, and then the bad habit of binding feet is gone, others may not be able to speak, but the gods of the present world are absolutely easy to speak.

Yang Sheng hated foot binding, and even described it as a sin, so naturally no one wrapped this or that.

Besides, people who like this custom are not what they used to be, in the past, those scholars were so full that they gathered together, holding Ji women's shoes as wine glasses, but now the scholars are ......

There are no more scholars left.

Even if you can't get into the civil service exam, you still have to learn a skill to support your family.

In short, the customs of the Ming Dynasty are constantly changing in the direction that Yang Feng expects.

In short, between Yang Sheng and Lao Mu, it is impossible to go back to the past, during this time his minions wantonly killed the warriors of the lord in the South Seas, destroying their faith, this kind of behavior has already caused the dissatisfaction of the Mughal Empire and the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Arab tribes, and even began to boycott the Ming goods, but those Ming merchants usually smoothed out the upper Mao, so they are just some small-scale spontaneous among the people, but he is afraid that it will become a fuse if he does this in Java.

After all, he grabbed land before, exploited the colonial people and grabbed slaves, this actually does not involve the issue of faith, in other words, those Mu Sling monarchs are the same as each other to grab territory, as for the exploitation of the people, he is completely the eldest brother, not to mention the second brother, and even those Southeast Asian people who were exploited by the Ming Dynasty, the standard of living is much stronger than the Arabs who can last a day with three dates and a few mouthfuls of goat's milk at this time.

As for the capture of slaves......

It is said that the main source of goods for the Ming slave traders to buy black slaves is those African Musling monarchs, the Sudan of Zanzibar is still the number one slave exporter in East Africa, this guy sold 50,000 black slaves to the Ming slave traders last year, and vowed to pat his chest and promise that he can catch at least 70,000 black slaves to his Oriental friends this year.

So that's not a problem!

But I'm afraid not anymore.

"Your Majesty, the Ottoman Navy has banned our merchant ships from entering the Red Sea."

Lu Yizhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce of the Ming Dynasty, hurriedly entered the palace to meet His Majesty the Emperor and said.

"Why?"

Emperor Yang said without raising his head.

At this time, the thing in front of him is obviously more important than this problem, because this is the radio transmitter that a group of scientists from Yingtian University finally came up with for him, but there is no diode yet, so he can only use a relatively rudimentary ore detector, and the signal sensitivity is not very high. And because the generator is still being developed, it can only be powered by batteries, resulting in a relatively short transmission distance, but there is no problem with communication within a distance of two or three hundred miles, so that in the future, the Ming warships will no longer need to rely on those communication ships to transmit intelligence at sea, and more importantly, the Ming Dynasty has officially entered the radio age.

When the DC generator is completed, you can engage in high-power long-range wireless communication.

In this way, Yang Feng does not need to erect those long-distance cross-sea cables.

However, in the short term, it is more convenient to have a cable telegraph between various parts of the country, and in fact, Yang Feng is not ready for civilian use in a short period of time.

In addition, this research team also got him a telephone, the first telephone system has been installed in the palace and the front of the cabinet ministries, and now Emperor Yang can use the telephone to call the ministers directly if he has anything.

"Their reasons are the same as they are for the European countries, which is close to Mecca, and our ships used to defile their holy land, but only to deny our ships access to the Red Sea, and the trade of other places has not been affected, including the merchant ships going to Basra, and they can still call at the port, but the taxes have increased a lot, but this will not cause us any real damage, those Arabs and Persians will take the opportunity to smuggle our goods into the Ottomans in large quantities, but if the Red Sea is not passable, But it will have a serious impact on our trade with France. ”

Lu Yizhong said.

"I'm afraid Ahmet III isn't worried about what holy place we have defiled, right?"

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

At this time, the Ottoman Sultan was Ahmet III, which is the so-called Tulip Period, this emperor belonged to the Sunni sect, and it should be regarded as a moderate Sunni, as for the Hawabi faction, the founder of the Hawabi sect at this time, Hawab was still working as a small Zhengtai in Najd. Ahmet III was still relatively enlightened, not only learned the technology of Europe, especially France, but also trained the army according to the French military model, and even introduced the French luxury life into his court, so he was also an important buyer of luxury goods in the Ming Dynasty, and even used the high price of a ton of gold to buy the latest watch from the hands of the Ming merchants.

It would be too exaggerated to say that if he refused to allow the Ming merchant ships to enter the Red Sea because of the issue of the Holy Land, you must know that he also exports a large number of white slaves to the Ming Dynasty every year.

That is, the Christians of Europe.

And the real reason for Ahmet III to do this could only be the Mamluks of Egypt.

As a transit merchant in the arms trade between the Ming and France, the Mamluk warlords of Egypt, that is, those Beyi, also obtained a large number of new arms from it, and it is obvious that these arms have made Istanbul feel uneasy, and the Ming and Europe have been squeezed from two directions over the years, which has also made the Ottoman Empire feel the pressure urgently, Ahmet III has re-emphasized that as the boss of the Muslin world, he should also be a caliph, wanting to emphasize his righteousness in order to block the ambitions of the Shiite Persians.

The latter has been a major problem for the Ottoman Empire in its original history.

Although Sultan Hussein was actually the last monarch of the Safavid dynasty, Persia was still strong at this time, so Ahmet III wanted to show the authority of the Caliphate with his toughness against the Ming Dynasty.

But alas......

"He's forcing me to him!"

Emperor Yang said with emotion.

"Let Chen Ping go to Egypt again, and say that I want to invite those Beys to work together on a big plan, a big plan that they can enjoy for generations."

Then he added.

"Your Majesty thinks?"

Lu Yizhong said.

"I'm going to dig a canal, a canal that connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean, a canal that shortens the distance between Europe and Asia by 30,000 miles, a canal that starts from the port of Suez and goes to the Mediterranean."

Yang Feng said.

Well, the Suez Canal plan should be put on the agenda, only by digging this canal, can he really reach out to Europe, originally it took ten years from the start to the completion of the canal, and his current technical conditions are not much stronger than the original France, so it is estimated that he will have to dig for ten years, and it may even be longer, so that the day the canal is completed, that is, the day he really marches to Europe, but before that, he has to use this canal as bait first, Induce the Mamluk warlords to revolt against Ahmet III.

What this canal represents, I guess the Mamluk warlords know very well.

But theoretically, the land of Egypt belongs to the Ottoman Sultan, so even if this canal is built, the benefits can only be shared between Yang Feng and the Ottoman Empire, they will not get anything, and in order to control the interests of the canal, Ahmet III has to strengthen the military power in Egypt, and even simply destroy them first, it can be said that as long as Yang Feng officially proposed to the Ottoman emperor to dig this canal, it is the beginning of the demise of the Mamluk warlords.

Unless Yang Feng cooperates with them.

And Yang Feng's cooperation with them is actually more beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, because if he cooperates with Ahmet III, then the latter will definitely be qualified to ask for more things, after all, the latter is stronger, but if he cooperates with the Mamluk warlords, because the latter is weak and must protect himself under the military threat of the Ottoman Empire, then he must rely on the support of the Ming behind the scenes, which means that they will want less than Ahmet III in the distribution of benefits.

However, the Mamluk warlords had to solve the problem that Egypt belonged to the Ottoman Empire.

Or rather, Egypt must be established.

In this way, Mamluk must attack in advance to destroy the Ottoman army in Egypt as quickly as possible, and then defeat the Ottoman Empire at least on the Sinai Peninsula, and Libya in North Africa, of course, now Cyrenaica and Tripoli, both of which also belong to the Ottoman Empire, and the places in the south of them, Fingi and Fuer, are also Ottoman, which means that once Mamluk moves, he must unite and then go all out.

But for the sake of the charges after the canal is opened, it is totally worth it.

You must know that this is a canal that connects the two worlds of the East and the West, as long as there is this canal, all those merchant ships going back and forth between the East and the West will not go to the Cape of Good Hope, even if a ship collects a thousand silver coins, they will still go through this canal, a full reduction of 10,000 kilometers of voyage means that 80% of the crew can be killed, and a few months of time can be saved, compared to these, a thousand silver coins are a fart, and tens of thousands of various ships travel between the East and the West every year, which is tens of millions of income every year.

Well, Yang Feng really couldn't think of any reason for the Mamluks to refuse.

Chen Ping, the newly appointed chamberlain of the Ming Ministry of Foreign Affairs, immediately set off and went straight to Suez on a state-of-the-art propeller sail cruiser, as for the Ottoman ban, they have the ability to make the warship run at a speed of seventeen knots per hour! The scum of ten nautical miles at the fastest is not qualified to speak, and after this cruiser arrives in Colombo, it will take thirty cruisers there, although the Ottoman navy is not weak at this time, but unfortunately it refers to the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, as for the sea in Asia, even the British East India Company can beat them, and thirty cruisers into the Red Sea are enough to teach Ahmed III to be a man.

On the same day that Chen Ping set off, the Ming Nanyang Fleet arrived in Madras, that is, Chennai in India.

"Surrender or die!"

Li Hua, who landed on the shore, said proudly to the commander of the East India Company stationed in this fortress, just as he faced General Norris in the port of Chiraza.

The latter looked at him with sad and indignant eyes.

"Mr. Norton, don't have any illusions, until today, no fortress has been able to hold up in front of us for more than two days, and your little fortress, which is less than two hundred zhang long and wide, can it be compared to the city of Batavia, the city of Malacca, and the castle of Colombo? What's more, it's a castle less than three miles from the coast, not to mention our eighty-pound cannon, even the smallest fifteen-pound cannon, I can guarantee to cover your entire castle from the sea. ”

Li Hua continued to say proudly.

On the sea behind him, the huge Ming fleet was lined up, and on the six steam warships in the middle, the terrifying eighty-pound cannon muzzle was raised, and it was aimed at Fort George, as if it would let out an earth-shattering roar in the next moment.

Norton looked to both sides.

He was flanked by an ancient smoothbore cannon as the hastily armed East India Company colonists trembled.

In fact, the elite of the British East India Company has been buried in Chiraza, in order to make up the strong fleet of Admiral Bin, the East India Company not only took out all its warships and most of the armed merchant ships, but also filled almost all the young and middle-aged people in the East into these ships, in the face of the murderous Ming army, all they can do now is to arm those old, weak, sick and disabled, but if they really want to fight, these people may not be able to stop the Ming army for even two days.

"Colonel Lee, we surrender!"

Norton said with humiliation.

Then he waved weakly at one of the soldiers.

The latter hurriedly took out the white flag that had been prepared long ago, first lowered the flag of the East India Company and the British flag, and then slowly raised the white flag, and Madras became the first British colony to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this is just the beginning.

In fact, in the subsequent process of receiving the British colonies in India, the Ming army did not encounter any resistance, all the cities including Calcutta, Surat, and even Mumbai, all the British chose to surrender, they knew very well that their time was over, the era of British colonization of the East was over, all resistance was in vain, and their fate was sealed from the time when the port of Chiraza was blockaded by mines.

In that case, what's the point of revolting?

Even if you are a coolie on the construction site of the Ming Dynasty and wait for your relatives to pay the ransom, which is not too much, it is better than dying on the battlefield and being eroded by maggots and turning into white bones! (To be continued.) )