When Pedru disembarked from the ships, his steps were vain, and he was not convinced by the combat power of these ships.

This is no longer strong, but a hegemon with a dominant position.

The question at the moment is, how many such ships are there, not to mention this, if there are dozens of ordinary ships that defeated him, then Portugal will be sent to death if they want to get their hands on this area.

Sit down and talk again, the way has changed, there is no need for Bai Minghe to ask in detail, only need to ask one direction. Pedru told him all he knew.

Bai Minghe frowned as he listened to Pedru and the scribe's translation, which he said to a scribe next to him: "For the record, the three Buddhas have actually existed in name only, divided into countless sultanates. These sultanates are supported by three forces. ”

The scribe wrote quickly, and Bai Minghe continued: "The largest are from the nobles of the Arab Empire, then the nobles of the Ottoman Empire, and a very small number of adventurers from Portugal. ”

Pedru mentioned again: "We are going this way because the Mediterranean Sea has been occupied by the navy of the Ottoman Kingdom, and several ports in eastern North Africa have also been attacked, and it is estimated that it is now also controlled by the Ottoman Kingdom, especially Egypt, where a land water transportation line can be built, and then the port of Suez will come here, which will take much less time than we bypass Africa." ”

"You mean, there's a canal?" Shira-naitsu was surprised: "Suez Canal? ”

"Yes, there is a canal, but your ships are not passable, and neither can mine, but there can be some small boats, and if there is a huge amount of money to repair some waterways, then your small boat may have a chance."

"Tell me!" Shira-naka Crane was intrigued.

Pedru is an officer. In Portugal the officers were certainly nobles and well educated.

"Your Excellency, back in the days of King Siniser III of Egypt, he ordered the digging of an east-west canal connecting the Red Sea with the Nile for the convenience of transportation. Suez is the name of this pharaoh. But this ancient canal did not last long. Then, five hundred years later, another pharaoh planned to reopen it, and the excavation was terminated after a long time, but it was terminated because of his death, and at this time, there were still some flat-bottomed boats in the canal to transport a small amount of supplies! ”

Shirana Crane believes that there is a waterway, but it is very shallow, and it is not able to be used for a long time due to various influences.

Pedru added: "Another three hundred years or so. Ptolemy II began to renovate the canal, which was continuously improved and rebuilt over a period of 1,000 years. Until 600 years ago, when the era of Caliph al-Mansur really lost its relevance, and more than 100 years ago, excavation began again, and the current transportation capacity may not be as high as it was 800 years ago. ”

Pedr's words surprised the people of Daming. It sounds like it's 2,000 years old.

The white crane was secretly calculating.

If you do the math, the original plan for this canal should have been in the thirteenth century BC. Until now, I really dare to say that it has been 3,000 years.

"Come on, arrange it. Calculate how much silver and manpower it would take to dig a 400-mile-long canal in the middle of the desert that could allow 2,000 cargo ships to pass. Recalculate. 5,000 materials, 10,000 materials. Silver is not a problem, nor is manpower, I need this canal. ”

Bai Minghe commanded, Pedru did not understand Chinese, and did not know what Bai Minghe was talking about.

In front of the white crane, Pedru naturally didn't dare to ask casually.

The white crane said: "This canal." Allows us to save a month of shipping and go straight to Byzantium! ”

"Order!" Wang Cheng clenched his fists hard.

When he heard about Byzantium, he understood, and the white crane had countless reasons to fight right now. Just one, fighting a war for Angela to restore the country, is enough to declare war on anyone, where there was once an empire larger than the Ming Dynasty, then it must also be a rich place.

Byzantium is pronounced in Chinese, but it is a transliterated name. Pedru heard: "Your Excellency, Byzantium has perished. ”

"No!" Bai Minghe shook his head slightly: "Byzantium is not yet, but the capital is occupied." Fight back, and regain the capital is still still the Byzantine Empire. The Ottoman kingdom will be very generous to provide me with 500,000, 1,000,000, or 2,000,000 men to build a canal for the passage of 45,000,000,000 Portuguese marks-laden warships! ”

The word ton, the white crane does not know if it appears.

Four Portuguese marks are 900 grams, and 45 million is about 10,000 tons.

There was not much shock at this number, the huge ship was quite huge, and it should have exceeded the carrying capacity of three thousand tons by visual inspection, and the displacement must have exceeded five thousand tons.

Pedru explained the current relationship between the countries in Europe, and Shirakawaru listened very attentively.

Especially in the case of the Ottoman Empire, of course, in Pedr's pronunciation it is Ottoman.

A guard whispered in the ear of the white crane: "My lord, there is a little incident in Da Nang. Annan Chen soldiers 30,000 confronted General Mao Wenhu, not to start a war, but to ask General Mao Wenhu to release a border city, because since General Mao Wenhu controlled Zhanxian Harbor, Annan has not had foreign trade for a long time. ”

Shira-namo nodded.

On the Annam side, continue to the west is the mountains, primeval forests, not to mention how much trouble there is in transportation, the important thing is to go there is poorer than them, Da Nang is indeed the most needed trading port in Annam, even if you don't trade with the Ming Dynasty, you can also trade with Nanzhang and Siam.

To the north, it is the Ming Dynasty. Siming City used to have some trade, but now it doesn't.

Because Siming City is further north, it is the pearl farming area of the white crane, General Mao Yijian blocked the road over there, a little bit of small trade in the border market, Da Ming doesn't care.

Guangdong's trade went to sea, and the trade in Annam was not worth exposing the pearl farming area.

"Send the rest of the guests to rest, and let a few guests who have status and understand the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty accompany them. Pass the official warrant, here will be handed over to the Shagara Dragon King, a qiē according to the original plan, if they encounter trouble, they know what to do, Fan Liang over there he knows in his heart, we go to Da Nang! ”

The white crane said that he wanted to leave, so he must have left immediately.

Without letting the Dragon King of Shagara act again, this ship stayed here to deter this sea area, of course, it must be worth fighting, and the enemy with a little strength will be dispatched.

On the ship, Bai Minghe asked people to prepare a telegram, which he sent to Nanjing as soon as he could be contacted.

For nothing else, the white crane wants to see Angela. Because the little thing he felt he knew about the history that was played out on television, especially in Europe, seemed to be somewhat different from the reality of the moment, at least Portugal's involvement in North Africa was at least many years earlier than in later television.

Moreover, according to later records, it took eleven years to build the canal in the eighteenth century.

But according to Captain Pedrone, the canal began to be built more than 3,000 years ago, and the name Suez was taken from the name of the Egyptian pharaoh more than 3,000 years ago. A few days later, Bai Minghe finally sent a telegram when he was close to the port of Suizhenla, and several guards relayed it, and contacted the capital in half an hour.

Zhu Qiyu, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty who was personally directing the test of the multi-channel Tianyin machine, was in front of the telegraph.

Seeing that a telegram was coming, Zhu Qiyu, who had been studying here for a long time, saw the number on it and knew that it was sent by a terminal, which belonged to the Third Fleet of the Fujian Navy Division of the Ming Dynasty.

After the translation, Zhu Qiyu just looked at him, and the lieutenant in charge here held the telegram in front of Zhu Qiyu.

"Ask him, what's strange you've found?" Zhu Qiyu opened his mouth to ask what he didn't need a reason, because he was the emperor.

The telegram was soon sent back, and Bai Minghe was already not 100 miles away from the port of Shuizhenla, and was considering whether to enter the port to go around, and he was very helpless to receive the telegram of this rhetorical question, so he had to explain: The Portuguese have established themselves in North Africa, and have been to South America, and the Srivijaya has existed in name only, and it has been divided into countless small states, chaos!

The last word is very conspicuous, and chaos represents opportunity.

Emperor Ming took the telegram and sent it for a long time, pointed to the lieutenant in charge here and said: "Call back, let him wait, I have to think about it." Go ahead with the experiments here, and if you succeed, you'll be rewarded. ”

Zhu Qiyu walked out of the telegraph room, thought about it, and thought that this was an opportunity, but how to use this opportunity?

"Pass Yu Qian here." Zhu Qiyu said to Wei Shaoqing.

The office area of Bai Minghe in the outer courtyard of the White Horse Pavilion has now been occupied by Yu Qian, obviously according to the number of people on Yu Qian's side, plus the official business that needs to be handled, not to mention that when Bai Minghe is not in Nanjing, Yu Qian needs more people to take charge of Bai Minghe's chores here, so in the end, even if it accounts for two-thirds of the office area, it is not unexpected.

Of course, it will definitely not be all occupied, after all, there is still a place for the white crane.

Fortunately, the White Horse Pavilion is big enough, and Sun Yuanjun even stated that if Lord Yu Qian needs a place, they are willing to move north to the Zijin Pavilion north of the White Horse Lake and vacate the entire White Horse Pavilion.

Yu Qian was naturally embarrassed to ask for it, but Sun Yuanjun still ordered people to renovate the Zijin Pavilion, ready to let out the entire White Horse Pavilion at any time, this is a little too close to the market, sometimes early in the morning you can get to the shouts of the vendors outside the wall, it is better to move to a quieter place to live, this White Horse Pavilion has completely become an office place.

Yu Qian, who was directing the officials to follow him to the allocation of office houses in the capital, heard that Banzai wanted to see him, so he hurriedly walked to the side courtyard of the White Horse Pavilion.

"Yu Aiqing, can you take a look at these two telegrams?"

Yu Qian took the telegram and bowed after reading it: "Long live, what do you think Bai Minghe was thinking at that time when he took in the Byzantine princess?" ”

"Interesting!" Zhu Qiyu was reminded by Yu Qian that it was the first time for Bai Minghe to go to the South Seas, and at that time he was very good to these exiled remnants of the Byzantine Empire, so why is this qiē?

For the sake of women, Angela is indeed beautiful, but if the white crane is lustful, ......, I am afraid that no one in the world will believe it! (To be continued......)