The bustling city of Manhattan's pier shocked Amor Tolan.

At the same time, I am also very envious.

He didn't know when the ports of the Ottoman Empire could be so prosperous.

If the port of his motherland can also be so prosperous, then their national strength will be greatly enhanced.

It's just that because their only access to the sea, the 'Mediterranean', was controlled by the Europeans, the Ottomans had no way to carry out maritime strategy at all.

In fact, this was an era of maritime supremacy, and the insightful people in the Ottoman Empire had long seen this.

However, the Ottoman Empire's naval strength and warship construction skills were still far behind the Europeans, so they had no way to compete with the Europeans.

Therefore, the fleet of the Ottoman Empire could only watch itself trapped in the Eastern Mediterranean, and could not enter the Atlantic.

Look at the Europeans, who opened up routes to the East and explored the American continent, which brought them a lot of glory and benefits.

On the other hand, the Ottoman Turkish Empire could only live by guarding its own one-third of an acre of land.

If they weren't red-eyed, it wouldn't be possible.

But now they have a chance, and now that the European countries are involved in the chaos, there is no way to scruple and suppress their Ottoman Empire.

If you do it right, maybe the Ottomans will have a place to enter the Atlantic Ocean and start their maritime age.

It has to be said that these people in the Ottoman Empire have some vision.

The current chaos in Europe is really a good opportunity for them.

This kind of opportunity doesn't happen all the time.

It's just that the Ottoman Empire itself wants to fulfill its ideals and goals, and there are many thresholds to cross in the past.

First, they need to address the food crisis that is already beginning to manifest in the country.

Originally, Egypt was a food supply country, and Egypt was also conquered by the Ottoman Empire. Declared a vassal to the Ottoman Empire.

However, in Egypt, I don't know what the reason is, but in the past two years, there has been an outbreak of plague and natural disasters, and the grain production has been reduced for three consecutive days.

As a result, the Ottomans were no longer able to get food from the Egyptians to alleviate their domestic crisis.

And Europe can't buy food, which makes the crisis even more serious.

The Ottoman Empire had the intention to buy grain from the merchants, but those black-hearted merchants suddenly raised the price of grain very high, even if the Asman Empire had a little money in their hands, they were frightened by the price of grain.

The most rear. They had to come to the Americas to see if there was any hope here.

Of course, there is an abundance of food in the Americas, so you can say how much you want.

A number of the lands around the major cities of the Song Empire have been reclaimed.

And last year, there was already a harvest.

It's just that they won't sell this grain to Europeans, because these grains are not sprayed with any pesticides and are not genetically modified. Absolutely no pollution.

So, everyone decided to keep this food for themselves, and at most take out some of it to sell to the virtual world.

You must know that these grains have been inspected by the Metaverse Realm. Because it is absolutely green food without pollution, its price is very high.

This can be regarded as a great source of wealth for the Song Empire to the virtual world.

But some people have to ask, so where did the people on the Song Empire's side and the grain sold to those Europeans come from?

The reason for this is simple. Genetically modified rice or other grains.

Moreover, the grain sold to the Europeans was mixed with some poisonous rice, or polished aged rice.

Because these things are cheap. Huaxia Kingdom in the virtual world is easy to buy by contact, saving trouble.

According to Professor Liu, who is far away in Ontario, it is to use this food to 'benefit and change' generations of Europeans.

Don't say it, the Americas provided a large amount of these 'additive' grains to the Europeans, and they were very grateful to the Song Empire in the Americas.

Even, they regarded the Song Empire as the embodiment of justice, truth, goodness and beauty, and they were great good people.

God is pitiful, these Europeans don't know the thoughts of the high-level people of the Song Empire, otherwise they would not be so grateful to the Song Empire.

Originally, the target was only Europeans.

Now it looks like the Ottoman Empire is going to get involved.

There's nothing too hard about that.

Anyway, if you want to 'benefit', then let's do it together."

Zhang Tie quickly turned countless corners in his mind.

For the Ottoman Empire, to be honest, Zhang Tie didn't have a good impression either.

Although his culture was not very good, he also knew what the Ottoman Empire was like.

Its ancestors were the Turkic people who often harassed the interior of China in history.

Since the beginning of the fight against Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing have solved them.

These generals of the Han Dynasty beat the Turks all the way to the west.

At the end of the day, the Turks could be regarded as having survived.

It's such a group of guys who made the Han Dynasty vomit blood, they actually ran to Europe, and beat the Europeans bitterly.

Even, it was called the 'Whip of God' by Europeans, leaving a record in history.

Thus, after fleeing, the Turks established a state near the Black Sea.

Then, after years of expanding their territory, now their power is very strong.

Eventually, the Turkic state was founded under the name of the Ottoman Empire, which was later changed to Turkey.

Zhang Tie still knows a lot about this history.

Since they are not good goods, if they are supplied with 'feeding' food, Zhang Tie will not feel that there is any psychological obstacle.

Eat, eat, change your genetic human beings for the benefit of all mankind.

"Oh, it turned out to be for food, I don't know how much your country plans to buy?"

Zhang Tie showed a look of understanding, and then asked.

Amor Tolan and his escort warriors were struck by the bustle of Manhattan's docks.

Because the more they walked towards the street outside the dock. Then the more lively it is.

These were in the docks of the Ottoman Empire, but they never existed.

"A lot, we need a lot of food." , Amor Tolan does not intend to hide anything from Zhang Tie on this issue. And even if he plans to hide some problems, Zhang Tie will not be fooled.

Now that there is a war in Europe, the impact on some neighboring countries will definitely be affected.

Everyone understands people, and this cannot be concealed at all.

Instead of hiding it for the time being and making people annoying in the future, then it is better to say it in a real way. Make a good impression.

Zhang Tie nodded.

"We can talk about this matter, anyway, Europeans also buy grain from us in large quantities and send it back to China, since you also want to buy it, then there is nothing you can't do."

The docks were crowded with people, and more often than not, European laborers carrying sacks.

Needless to say, they carried on their shoulders the grain that many European merchants had bought from Manhattan.

Because of the war in Europe, sales of some luxury goods produced in Manhattan have plummeted.

Fortunately, Manhattan doesn't make any money by referring to those things, not to mention that in the past two years, the Song Empire has already made about the same.

Because the war worsened. Food is much more than luxury.

Therefore, businessmen from Europe began to focus on grain exports from the Americas.

Grain bought here in the Americas is shipped to Europe. Then there is no problem at all in selling it for five times the price.

It can be seen that Europe is now short of food.

The triangular trade route from Europe to Africa and then to the Americas has been stabilized, as the profitability has led to more and more people joining the ocean-going trade.

The Empire, on its part, is not ready to join the battle for supremacy in the seas. So let the European businessmen earn these profits first.

After all, the situation on the side of the Song Empire has also stabilized.

And the shipyard has just begun to build a new batch of warships, even if they are built. It is impossible to join the battle for ocean supremacy right away.

They need to fortify the seas around the empire first, and wait until they have built more warships and have enough force to support them before they can start conquering the seas.

It's just that it takes a process.

This process will take at least two or three years.

"We have rice (poisonous rice + polished aged rice) and soybeans (genetically modified) and corn (genetically modified) here, I wonder which one are you going to buy?"

During the chat, Zhang Tie had already taken Amoltoran and his party to the office of the Ministry of Commerce at the junction of the wharf, port and commercial street.

The architectural style of this office is distinctly baroque, full of strong French flavors.

The furnishings and facilities inside are all French-style.

Because they were allies with the French, many merchants would travel back and forth between the empire and France, so it was very easy to get some furniture from the French.

Besides, there are still a lot of craftsmen here in Manhattan who came here after bankruptcy to make a living, so it was so easy to build such a French Baroque building.

Even, the material cost is saved, because there are so many materials here.

Here, there are many businessmen from all over the world waiting to get their business done.

After Zhang Tie and his entourage arrived, the clerks saluted Zhang Tie one after another.

The merchants, too, saluted him with respect.

For those businessmen, Zhang Tie is not an ordinary person, he is a person they will never provoke.

Because he holds the power of the empire's foreign trade, he is the empire's minister of commerce.

If you offend him, then you don't have to mess around with the empire anymore.

Amor Torran also felt the respect that people had for the young man named 'Zhang Tie'.

He knew that he must have a good relationship with this young man, for the sake of Osman and for himself. (To be continued......)