Voltaire, who had opened a window to his heart, left satisfied. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to him, he will go back to resign to His Excellency the Consul, and then return to France to do a more meaningful work, to spread the truth to the French people, who are still in ignorance, to lead them to the light, to tell them that they are free and equal, and that they can live happily ever after. In order to help him complete this great mission, Emperor Yang or His Excellency the Marquis, generously presented a ticket to the Universal Company, and also signed a check for 10,000 dragon yuan, it is estimated that Voltaire will definitely not have to worry about livelihood in the next few years.

Of course, he didn't have to worry about that.

His family is still quite rich.

His mother was still from a noble family.

"Your Majesty, the results of the investigation are out, this person really only cares about ideology, about science and technology, he has only read a few simple popular science books, these works are not controlled, even in bookstores can be both, but according to the investigation of the university in the Shuntian jurisdiction, there are many similar situations, and most of them are for science and technology content, and there are even a few lawbreakers who use it to make profits."

After he left, the Jinyi Wei Internal Affairs Division commanded the envoy to report it.

"A bunch of rubbish!"

Yang Feng said with a gloomy face.

"Damn it!"

The commander quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty.

"Find out what it is at once, those foreigners have not left, if they haven't left, then never let them leave!"

Yang Feng said.

"Minister, let's do it!"

The commander said in a cold sweat.

This job is easy to do, it is nothing more than putting it in a sack and sinking in the Beihai, although the security of Daming is very good, but it is not good enough to not even have a missing person, and the police station will not find it for a period of time, and it will become an unsolved case, not to mention that it is a foreigner, and it is already good if the police station can check it.

Yang Feng nodded indifferently.

There is no need for him to continue to worry about this matter, and this is not something he needs to worry about, in fact, in this way, those foreigners will not get anything really valuable, and valuable ones will not appear in the public library, but someone will help them make a profit This kind of thing needs to be taken seriously, this is in the university, in case they buy the technicians of those enterprises and scientific research institutions with a lot of money, he doesn't believe that the nearly 200 million people of the Ming Dynasty are so conscious that they can resist the temptation of money.

"The Ministry of Industry has made a list of all enterprises subject to technical control, and all enterprises have been stationed in Jinyiwei."

Then he added.

This can only be like this, fortunately, even if there is an outflow, it is impossible to shake the advantages of the Ming Dynasty, after all, the gap has been too big at this time, even if the Europeans get a little leaked technology, it will not help, and without the support of a complete set of industrial systems, many technologies are useless.

Emperor Yang then returned to the palace.

But as soon as he returned to the palace, Du You, who was left behind in Beijing, brought him unexpected news.

"Your Majesty, the Egyptians defeated Damascus."

Du You said.

"Defeated? How could Murad's technological superiority be defeated? Rifled guns, rifled guns and rocket artillery can't beat smoothbore guns and smoothbore guns? ”

Yang Feng said in amazement.

Well, Murad did lose, the Mamluks with rifled guns and rocket artillery, really lost to the Ottoman army with smoothbore guns and smoothbore guns, because the latter still had a powerful weapon, and they still had countless cannon fodder. At first, they did, but at first the Arabs, who were also part of the conquered peoples, were not very interested in resisting the Egyptians, for whom Ahmet III's face was quite annoying. For example, at this time, the most influential Sharif in the Arab world, the guardian of the temple and the patriarch of the holy family of Hashem, Said II, explicitly rejected the request of the governor of the Hejaz to let him lead his troops into battle.

In fact, he wished that the Ottomans would be defeated, and then he would dominate the Hejaz and restore the glory of his ancestors!

But after the invasion of the Ming army......

Everything has changed!

Because the Ming army went north to his home, after the fall of Sana'a, the Ming army was already less than a thousand miles away from Mecca, if it landed at the port of Jeddah, it would be even two days to hit the cannonballs to the Forbidden Temple, in the style of the Ming army, it is needless to say what will happen next, in this case he needs Ahmed III, he needs the latter's army to save him.

After all, Ahmet III still holds the title of caliph and is obliged to protect the Holy Land.

So Murad and Mamluks, all of a sudden, from the fighters for freedom, degenerated into accomplices of the Eastern Devils, and Sayyid II immediately issued a call for all the loyal subjects of the Zhen Lord, and the demons from the East and their minions to fight to the end, and to fight a Sheng war to defend the glory of the Zhen Lord. Then the warriors of the entire Arabian Peninsula all went into action at once, rushing to Damascus and the Hejaz from all over the country, and even the Saud and Rashid families in Najd sent tribal armed forces to the war. Then the Mamluks were overwhelmed by the tide of cannon fodder, after all, they were only rifled guns and rifled guns, not machine guns, and finally Murad Sultan defeated Damascus.

Fortunately, he had the support of the local Christians, so he retreated and held on to Jerusalem.

"Since they are playing sheng war, then let's also play sheng war, notify the propaganda department, and use the slogan of sheng war to promote this war."

Yang Feng said.

Since the Ottomans play the sheng war, the Ming also plays the sheng war, this is the battle between the Holy Religion and heresy, this is the battle of faith, this is the battle of the gods, otherwise it is not very good to inspire the fighting spirit of the people, after all, it is far away, and in a sense, it is impossible to fight with eight poles, once it falls into a protracted war, the common people will inevitably be a little incomprehensible, but the slogan of the battle of the Holy Religion is enough, anyway, everyone has shouted, this is their war against the Holy Religion, then the Holy Religion is of course going to fight.

"Order the fleet to bombard the Hejaz coast, the port of Jazan, the port of Jeddah, and the port of Yanbu, and tell Murad that if you hold on to Jerusalem, our army will continue to attack north."

Then he added.

As long as the Egyptians held Jerusalem, it was enough, and his request to the Egyptians was only to ensure the safety of the canal project, and holding on to Jerusalem would block the possibility of the Ottomans attacking the canal construction site, after all, there was still a Sinai Peninsula with almost no water supply in the middle, and Jerusalem and its vicinity The advantage of the Christian settlement in Lebanon in later generations also ensured that Murad still had enough allies to support, and then they only needed to ensure that the transportation route to Aqaba was unblocked, and the Ming Dynasty's arms and materials were continuously sent to Jerusalem.

If it really doesn't work, you can still land a Ming army in Aqaba, in short, there will be no problem for Murad to hold on to Jerusalem, and the rest is to slowly wear it down until the Ming army completely sweeps the entire Hejaz and fights from the south to the north.

"Your Majesty, will there be any changes in Murad? After all, he is also Muslin. ”

Du You said cautiously.

"Mamluk has no faith, gold is their faith."

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

Indeed, he didn't need to worry about Murad and those Mamluk warlords, although these people are also Muslin, but their beliefs are just that, in fact, the core of Mamluk is the slave army, these slaves come from anywhere, but most of them are not Muslin in the first place. Among them, the Orthodox Christians of the Caucasus are a large part, and the Balkans and Eastern Europe were raised by children who were sold from childhood, they have no feelings for Mu Dabeard, they are only loyal to those who can bring them gold, and there is even a Mamluk under the hands of the small Nacha in history, which shows what their faith is, and what the Ming can give them is precisely countless gold.

So he didn't care at all about Mamluk's will to fight.

As for the peasants of Egypt......

They had been ruled by the Mamluks for five hundred years, and there was nothing to worry about for such a people.

"Your Majesty, four of our businessmen have been killed in Istanbul."

At this time, an attendant reported.

The retreat of the Ming merchants in Istanbul was not complete, and in fact this kind of thing is difficult to do perfectly, and four Ottoman salesmen of Imperial Oil, because they were selling kerosene outside the country, did not get the evacuation order in time, and then were arrested by the Ottomans, and after shouting the slogan of sheng war, Ahmet III ordered them to be beheaded. It is said that this kind of thing is difficult to avoid, at this time to do business in a foreign country, usually the head is pinned to the belt of the trousers, maybe one day accidentally die, not to mention in the Ottoman Empire, a country with tense relations, that is, in the subject country to do business, and from time to time someone is robbed and killed by lawbreakers!

That's how the world is.

Foreign businessmen in Daming occasionally spread the news of their disappearance!

"They're Universal employees, right?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Yes."

The squire said.

The Ming still did not have any formal business establishments west of the Cape of Good Hope, and all their businesses were under the name of the Universal Company, including the kerosene business of Imperial Oil, although these employees belonged to Imperial Oil, but after passing the Cape of Good Hope, they immediately changed their status and became employees of the Universal Company.

"Summoning the Swedish ambassador, Charlie must give me an explanation, maybe he is also waiting for this news."

Yang Feng said.

The Universal Company west of the Cape of Good Hope, east of Cape Horn is under the protection of Charles XII, and outside this range is protected by Yang Feng, this protection of course includes the safety of personnel, this mode of operation has been going on for many years and is working well, not long ago several Swedes were kidnapped by indigenous tribes in Africa, and the Ming army landed and rescued, and now the employees of the Ming Dynasty were killed in the Ottoman Empire, then Charles XII must bear the responsibility for the poor protection, and he must also have an explanation.

Of course, this was a good thing for Charles XII.

Because he has been waiting for such an opportunity for a long time. (To be continued.) )