Chapter 609: Egypt
The Egyptian Red Sea was the only place for Zheng He's voyage, and the narrow sea between the Arabian Peninsula and the African continent was called the Red Sea. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The maritime trade here is developed, and it is also an excellent transit station from the West to the East. Egypt has always controlled this sea, and its prosperity is inseparable from this sea, so this is the place where Egypt relies most on wealth.
Zheng He's large fleet was not welcomed, and the king of Egypt saw it as disrespectful to Egypt and a robbery of resources. Especially when he saw the full cargo of Zheng He's returning fleet, this made the king and queen even more prolonged.
Zheng He made a serious mistake here, when he passed through here to go to the West, he used money to buy off the guards of the inspectors. But when he came back, he couldn't do it in the same way, and the greed of human nature directly pushed him into a dangerous situation.
When the officers on patrol saw the full load, they thought about swallowing it. The ancient Ming Dynasty in the far east, although it is powerful, is far away, and Egypt's own strength is not small, and they are not afraid of retaliation. Therefore, under the king's order, Zheng He's entire fleet was seized.
All the cargo was removed, even the hot air balloons and the spaceship, but fortunately the hot air balloons and the spacecraft were out of fuel, and the Egyptians did not know what they were used for. They are all directly classified into the cargo and pulled away!
Zheng He was very helpless about this, this Egypt was definitely a maritime merchant who treated the Ming Dynasty with prejudice, no wonder there were no Ming maritime merchants trading here.
Now that the goods and ships were seized, he blamed himself for his carelessness, and if he had been informed that he would have preferred to bypass the safe Red Sea of Egypt. Rather than facing an unknown natural threat, he was even more reluctant to encounter such a helpless thing.
Zheng He and his entire crew were not killed, but life was not easy, and some of them had become slaves and built the pyramids for them.
The rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled are now temporarily locked up, waiting for the king's disposal, and Zheng He, as the commander of the fleet, was lucky not to be made a slave. But more than a month has passed since he was caught, and not only has he not been able to see the king, but his life is getting more and more difficult day by day.
While he was sighing in the dark prison, the army led by Tang Ming finally arrived at the border of the Red Sea. As soon as the huge fleet arrived, it directly filled the outlets of the Red Sea and the open sea.
Egypt couldn't help but panic in the face of this sudden huge fleet, and when they saw the flag representing the Ming Dynasty flying over the fleet, they immediately understood that this was for their captured fleet.
Zhu Gaochi looked at the pale red sea in front of him with a telescope on the command ship, and asked Tang Ming curiously: "This sea is so red?" β
Faced with such an unsolvable problem as Zhu Gaochi, Tang Ming directly chose to ignore it. It was clearly not the time to say this, and Egypt had already begun to react quickly after the arrival of his fleet.
The dense ships of all sizes in the Red Sea continued to pour outward, gradually forming a confrontation with the Ming fleet.
Zhu Gaochi saw those small boats from the telescope, and couldn't help but pout: "It's too naΓ―ve to want to fight with us just because these small wooden boats are just because they want to fight." β
Huang Fu and Zhu Neng also saw the situation ahead clearly at this time, and agreed with Zhu Gaochi's conclusion. Zhu Gaoxi was no exception, although he didn't say anything at the moment, just the look on his face could already explain his thoughts.
Tang Ming didn't give any answer, he was also puzzled, this ancient Egyptian country would definitely not have this sea power. If only such a small ship had to fight, they would never have been able to hold the rich Red Sea here for so long.
Now it should only be a test for them, and the real strength should not appear in front of their eyes, and the ancient Egyptian country is no better than the small island country or the Luzon country.
This is an ancient country with the same mysterious civilization as the Ming Dynasty, if you don't have some strength, you can't say it. At least at this moment, Tang Ming believed that the true strength of the Egyptian state had not yet been shown.
Completely blocking the exit to the Red Sea, the Egyptian fleet began to send a small boat to investigate. This time, in the face of a huge regular army, Egypt was no longer too casual, but directly sent an elder who knew a little about the Ming language.
Tang Ming also wanted to know what happened to Zheng He and them first, so he accepted the Egyptian elder's request to see him.
The two sides each sent their ships to meet in the middle of the sea area of the confrontation, and Tang Ming personally dispatched, followed by the dog and a few sharpshooter battalions.
On the Egyptian side, there was a dark-brown skin elder, and a few slaves who followed, and that's it. It seems that they are not afraid at all that Tang Ming, who has unknown intentions, will be unfavorable to them.
The Egyptian elder was looking at Tang Ming, and the latter was also looking at him, and the two sides were silent for a moment, and finally it was the Egyptian elder who spoke first and said in a blunt Central Plains dialect: "Contemptible, the elder of the ancient kingdom of Egypt, Hal, came to ask the king on the order of the king what you mean by bringing a large army to surround the mouth of the Red Sea. Also, what is your identity and can you be the Lord? β
A sneer appeared at the corner of Tang Ming's mouth, and from the tone of this Hale, he clearly felt pride. In front of him Tang Ming, pride was undoubtedly looking for death, but in order to take care of Zheng He's situation, he could only suppress the anger in his heart for the time being, and said coldly: "I am Tang Ming, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and I am also the commander of this fleet. Do you not know what is happening to you today in Egypt? β
Halle obviously wanted to pretend to be confused, they had already discussed, after detaining Zheng He's fleet, as long as the Ming Dynasty came, they would claim that they had never encountered it.
"Honorable prince, please also make it clear that Egypt and the Ming Dynasty have never had grievances, and they are thousands of miles apart. Today, if you want to cause war with a large army for no reason, there will be casualties when the disaster arises, so please think twice. β
Halle seemed to have eaten Tang Ming, wiped his mouth and said that he didn't do it himself, and still wanted to hide it, without any influence from Tang Ming.
Seeing this attitude, Tang Ming's face turned cold again, and he said viciously: "It seems that the elder doesn't want to admit it, this king is willing to lead troops to come here from thousands of miles, so he is naturally not afraid of any war." To give you one last chance, what happened to our Daming fleet and all the crew? If you still don't want to admit it, this king will set foot in Egypt and go up and find it himself. (To be continued.) )