Reasoning is often only applied to reasonable people, and it is clear that politics is never too reasonable. At least in this era, no matter which country's regime, it is the so-called "meat eater", and they care more about profits. Otherwise, it is difficult to imagine why France recalled the Jews several times and then expelled them several times.

The Sultan of Mamluk was not necessarily a reasonable man.

But now before the army he was preparing was assembled, sending an envoy to reason with Ding Yi was undoubtedly an excellent plan from any point of view. Regardless of whether Ding Yi intends to be reasonable or not, even if Ding Yi tears his face, then Mamluk's side will also get the buffer time they need, and they can also create an image of an unreasonable enemy leader, so that the people at the bottom of Egypt will also have malicious intentions towards Ding Yi and the Ming army.

Of course, if Ding Yi is really pure and good enough to be reasonable, the Sultan is not worried about any complaints from the Mamluk of the Berhaili line, in that case, the Sultan does not mind sending the heirs of the Berhaili lineage ten or eight over, and will also give a generous gift to the Ming army, the plague god, to leave the country.

"In this way, the Sultan is still respectful to Daming?" Ding Yi did not answer the stubble, but nodded with a smile, and asked the messenger of Mamluk, who of course gave an affirmative answer, but Ding Yi asked, "But your caliph, Mustanjid, seems to be very arrogant?" The lonely king came to Egypt, and he didn't even have basic etiquette? Is this a provocation to the majesty of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty? ”

The caliphate, the puppet caliph of the Abbasid dynasty embraced by Mamluk, is a bit complicated to say. To put it simply, it's a puppet. A titular caliphate title with no real power. But Mustanjid is a caliph. Ding Yi's words can't be considered wrong.

Ding not only came to Egypt as a military and civilian governor of the four seas, but he was also the king of the Ming Dynasty.

This is not just an activity between two countries, government functions. Ding Yi is still a clan, he came to Egypt to hold accountable, to blame the three-hundred-year-old palace bloodbath, although it is very, but people are in accordance with the will of the Son of Tomorrow, not to say that they are sent by the ministries and cabinets!

Why Mustanjid, who has the title of caliph. Didn't you send a messenger to offer condolences?

The messenger was also very energetic, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed, and replied, "Great Highness! When the caliph heard that His Highness had crossed the sea thousands of miles and came to hold him accountable, he was shocked and bedridden! The Sultan did not dare to go beyond the Acting Order to send an envoy. ”

This is the so-called-to-, and then there is a whole set of back-and-forth tugging, and the main participants are the envoys of Xu Bin, Wan An and Mamluk, and everyone is saying some nonsense that no one will believe, and no one will care about absurd reasons. In the end, Ding Yi ended the friendly negotiation, gave the envoy a banquet, and then sent a few sets of glassware, and sent the delegation back to Cairo to resume his life.

"They need time. We need the same for us. Ding Yi said with a smile, this is the fundamental reason why he is willing to receive this mission, the Sultan wants to gather troops. Ding Yi also wants it, otherwise with the battalion of this guard regiment. A battalion of marines recovering from a serious illness, four foreign regiments with cold weapons. It's okay to hold Suez and march to Cairo?

Once out of the range protected by the naval guns, a total of six or seven hundred people, the marine battalion used the breech-loading guns of the cartridge bolts in order to facilitate supplies! After the machine guns and mortars ran out of ammunition, did they want to give the Mamluk cavalry with high-speed mobility a record of destroying all hot weapons with cold weapons?

Wan An stood up on the side and saluted: "Mr. Qiyu, the disciple has sent three communication ships of the Lightning to the direction of Mugudu, urging Senior Brother Shichang and Mr. Zhai to rush to Suez as much as possible. The destroyer flotilla, on the orders of the gentleman, began to actively search the waters of Suez for the ships of Mamluk. ”

Ding nodded and said to Cao Jixiang: "Let the Jews come over, and I will meet them to see if there are any resources that can be used by me." ”

At this time, Jewish Zionism had not really taken shape, and it was only after about three hundred years, after the anti-Semitism of Russia, France, and Germany had reached a certain level, that the Jewish doctor proposed Zionism, that is, the establishment of a Jewish state. [Don't expand on it, this can be said in the previous chapter.] Therefore, the Jews of the present time, when they come to see Ding Yi, have not yet had the courage and appetite to reach that point.

"Great Highness! It is a great honor for us to be summoned! They were a group of five, and after they had bowed, and after making such a speech, they stood there, bowing their heads and not speaking, as the Jews had probably adopted as the habit of "eloquence is silver, silence is gold," and there is no doubt that they would have made the most of it.

If they make a demand, then the next thing is what Ding Yi wants them to pay, or Ding Yi conveys their demand to Mamluk, then they will definitely usher in an even more tragic fate; And as soon as Ding spoke, they were much more calm.

"What do you want?" It is obvious that Ding Yi will not fall into such a trap.

In the face of power, all wisdom and skill became dimmed, and the Jews had to speak, because sitting on it was the king of Jinghai of the Ming Dynasty, the only light they could hope for in the midst of their suffering.

To Ding Yi's surprise, their appeal was not to restore the country!

"Your Highness, my grandfather, was a citizen of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty, but Mamluk brutally killed him! Now that the army of the Ming Dynasty has arrived, I beg Your Highness, for my grandfather, to get justice! One of them, who looked to be in his sixties, knelt down and said this to Ding Yi.

The other four Jews also knelt down one after another, all of them in a general way, about their grandfather, or even great-grandfather, who was a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, who was killed by Mamluk and wanted Ding Yi to get justice for them.

Ding Yi listened and taught them to get up, and said with a wry smile: "Come forward." "Really look carefully, I can't see the slightest hint of Chinese mixed blood! This is too to say that it is the people of the Ming Dynasty out of thin air, right? Ding Yi shook his head, and then asked, "Do you have ancestral guides, documents, and the like?" ”

Originally, Ding Yi thought that this was true, but who knew that the five Jews nodded and said: "We have relatives and friends in Huaxia, so we can trust them to the past and ask them to send the road guide and documents." "This scared Ding Yi, this era is not thousands of years later!

In this era, in China, where the illiteracy rate was the lowest, there were really many people in more than a dozen villages who had never been to the county seat in their lives. Thousands of miles away, in Egypt, which is obviously much more backward than China, there are Jews who swear that they have relatives and friends in China!

What's the concept? At least they have to communicate with their relatives and friends in China, and they have to exchange letters every year before they dare to be sure, right? And Huaxia to Egypt, not to mention the land route, the Timurid Khanate and the first division of the Ming Dynasty, held back their strength to do one, an avalanche, everyone rested, altitude sickness is not only the first division of the Ming Dynasty, but the Timurid Khanate has many servant troops, the army base is large, and the influence is small; The first division of the Ming Dynasty, which followed the strategy of elite soldiers, was many times stricter in comparison.

Sea routes, sea communications, once a year, in this era, is also incredible.

"Do you have any correspondence?" Ding glanced at Cao Jixiang, but asked the five Jews.

"Returning to the Great Highness, there is."

Is there really one? Ding Yi was frightened again.

The letter was submitted very quickly, and it was really a recent letter.

It's just that as soon as Ding looked at the letter, he smiled, nodded, and waved at the five Jews, and Cao Jixiang immediately arranged for them to retreat.

"Lao Cao, you're playing too much." Ding handed the letter to Xu Bin and said to Cao Jixiang with a smile.

Because the brand of the king of soldiers is really something that Ding Yi can't erase, he knows too much about the army, as soon as he picked up the letter, he looked at him and knew that it was a soldier from the Marine Battalion, a letter from Huaxia, the kind of hometown parents who asked for literacy, the letter written on behalf of Ding Yi, that kind of tone and tone, Ding Yi really understood it at a glance.

Cao Jixiang came over with a smile on his face: "Young master, young master, let the old slave defend himself!" This is not a violation of military discipline! ”

"Do you still have the face to say that you didn't violate military discipline?"

"That's right, there are a few soldiers in the Marine battalion, whose families are not very good, and the people are not prosperous, and they usually go to the city on vacation, and they have a good time with the children and grandchildren of these Jews. I heard that they wanted to recognize their relatives, so they set up ancestral tablets and taught them to perform a big ceremony. Young master, it was all in front of the tablet that threw the hexagram, and the winning hexagram taught the Jews to make a big gift, not the winning hexagram, so we can't force the ancestors to accept the relatives for the sake of money! ”

Victory hexagram is a simple divination in China, two hexagrams, thrown out, one positive and one negative is called victory hexagram, generally understood as auspicious hexagram, or the meaning of the ancestor agreed to the request.

When Ding heard this, he couldn't help laughing, and even the old gentleman Xu Bin was shaking.

Ding Yi, who finally took a breath, pointed at Cao Jixiang and scolded with a smile: "Good guy, you really opened the river of history!" ”

"I've heard of the art of passing on behalf of the teacher, there is such a thing as accepting apprentices on behalf of the teacher, the ancestors of several generations ago, and the relatives have passed away a long time ago!" Huaxia soldiers, on behalf of his great-grandfather, accepted the great-ancestor of a certain Jew as his righteous son, let's put it all way, Ding Yi turned his head to look at Xu Bin, "Have you heard of Mr. Yanghao?" ”

"The old man is lonely and unheard, and he has never heard of a secret marriage, but I have never heard of this kind of thing!" (To be continued......)