"Your Royal Highness, now that the plague in the Golden Horde has stopped, and the supply of goods is sufficiently secured, this time I have brought three ships of female slaves, a full fifteen hundred!"

While leading the way in front, Marou Ali boasted to Zhu Hanhua about the "goods" he brought this time.

The plague mentioned in Maluari's mouth, Zhu Han had already heard of it. _o_m

In fact, this plague has another famous name in history, that is, the Black Death.

That's right!

It was the Black Death that cost Europe between one-third and one-half of its population in history.

Ten years earlier, the Golden Horde had laid siege to the city of Kaffa on the Crimean peninsula, and the surviving Genoese had returned to the Italian peninsula after the war, not expecting to bring the terrible plague back to Europe.

The Black Death, which lasted for several years, killed nearly 25 million people in Europe, and the last Black Death death frenzy occurred in the Slavic lands of Eastern Europe.

The terrible Black Death frenzy took a toll on all commerce, including the best-selling slave trade on the Eastern European Plains.

It is only in the last two years that the Black Death, which blocked the transmission route by killing a large number of people, has gradually disappeared.

The slave trade in the steppes of Eastern Europe gradually resumed.

The supply of goods in Marouali's hands is also gradually becoming more and more abundant.

Therefore, the 1,500 Slavic female slaves brought by Maruari this time were all of better quality than before.

Zhu Han knew that Maruali, a Persian merchant, was more able to boast about him. There wasn't much reaction either.

Because everything needs to be seen to be believed.

But.

When Zhu Han came to the dock and saw the 1,500 Slavic female slaves placed in the clearing, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Good guy, it's all good!"

Zhu Han saw that although these Slavic female slaves were about to have a long journey at sea, they all looked good, and their sloppy images were many times stronger than those with dirty hair and messy hair in the previous two times.

Clearly, these female slaves were treated better during the long journey.

Maruari had already seen these Slavic female slaves as his cash cow.

Ordinary slaves would be curled up in the stinking and stuffy cabins of their ships during their voyages, and would even be chained together, eating stinking beans or black bread, and drinking bitter, stinking water.

In this harsh environment, many strong *** subordinates will not be able to endure the harsh environment and get sick and die, not to mention those who are even weaker.

Every Slavic female slave can bring nearly a hundred times the income of Maruari, so he will not tolerate the easy death of a female slave worth hundreds of gold coins.

These 1,500 Slavic female slaves lived in carpeted cabins during the voyage, drank water and fermented grape juice, and ate the best sailors' meals, so that these 1,500 female slaves miraculously did not die, and all of them looked better and maintained their best appearance.

Zhu Han was also very satisfied with these 1,500 Slavic female slaves.

He looked at this little Slavic loli like Shcherbakova on the left, another Slavic little white girl like Trusova on the right, and then he saw several Slavic slave girls like the faces of stars in various movies.

"Maluali, what you brought is really a first-class product!"

Zhu Han couldn't help but praise it, and what immediately made Maruali happy was to kneel down and kiss the floor tiles in front of Zhu Han.

"As long as Your Royal Highness can be satisfied, Your Majesty is willing to do your best!"

Marouali, a Persian, was not only proficient in Chinese, but also proficient in idioms.

These 1,500 Slavic female slaves, in accordance with Zhu Han's previous regulations, had already been isolated and tested on the island east of Zhejiang, ensuring that they would never bring any infectious diseases to the territory of Daming.

So the next process is also familiar to everyone.

All these Slavic female slaves were handed over by Zhu Han to Natalie and Sophia, who carried out the first step of training and language training.

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When Natalie and Sophia, two women, saw so many Slavic villagers, not only did they not have the tearful empathy of their fellow villagers in their hearts, but they felt that these new female slaves were a threat to their status.

However, Natalie and Sophia, the two women, are very smart, they know that they have given birth to children for Zhu Han, and their status is already guaranteed, and they will not do anything too out of the ordinary, after all, these Slavic female slaves belong to Zhu Han's property, and any loss of property is not allowed by Zhu Han.

Therefore, the resentment of Natalie and Sophia can only be vented in the process of training these female slaves.

Zhu Han is still quite confident in the training methods of these two Slavic concubines, and believes that in less than a month, these Slavic female slaves will be able to take up their new posts and provide a steady stream of joy for the men of the Ming Dynasty.

After all the processes were completed, Zhu Han's officials did not settle gold or silver coins for Maluari, but gave him a few bills.

These bills are printed with delicate and intricate patterns, and dense text is also printed on them.

Moreover, the bill was stamped with the big seals of the household department, the military department, the criminal department and the British royal palace at the same time.

These bills were invented by Zhu Han to pay for the receipt of the slave trade.

Because after the Persian merchants such as Malu Ali brought the goods, they did not simply return to Persia with gold and silver coins, but exchanged them for various commodities in the Ming Dynasty and brought them back.

Therefore, it was not very convenient for them to use gold and silver coins, and it was really troublesome for these Persian merchants to verify the fineness of gold and silver coins and strengthen the security of their own safekeeping.

Therefore, Zhu Han directly issued this kind of bill to Malu Ali, with these bills, Ma Lu Ali can exchange it for the goods he wants in any city in Daming City.

Of course, if Marouali doesn't want to exchange it for goods, you can also use these bills to exchange them for gold and silver coins at any of the Seven Seas Merchants.

Today's Seven Seas Firm is no longer simply a trade in goods.

Under Zhu Han's guidance, the second brother-in-law, Li Zhen, has already run the Seven Seas Firm into a super giant with 200 branches.

Every state capital in the Ming Dynasty has the business of the Seven Seas Firm.

And the Jinyi Guards of the Ming Dynasty also used the Seven Seas Merchant to quickly establish an intelligence network in various places.

After securing the deal with this group of Slavic female slaves, Zhu Han asked Marouali about the situation in Persia.

The Mongols, who once roamed across Eurasia, established the Khanate of Yin after conquering Persia and other places.

However, not long ago, the Yin Khanate completely fell apart and declared its demise.

Today, places such as West Asia and Persia are already in chaos.

Now that Zhu Han, a Persian merchant like Malu Ali, has a basic understanding of Persia and other places, it is time to send Daming's own ocean-going fleet to explore.

Marouali also knew for a long time that Zhu Han wanted to let the Ming navy go to Persia and other places.

The army of the Ming Dynasty crossed thousands of miles of ocean to Persia, and naturally it could not be a simple sightseeing tour. _o_m

The purpose of the Ming Dynasty is nothing more than land and wealth.

Marouali knew all this, but he was not afraid that Persia would be invaded by the Ming Dynasty.

Because, for the Persian merchants like Marouali, they had no concept of their homeland at all.

Since the fall of Sassanid Persia, the Arabs, Turks, Khorezm, and Mongols have ruled the Persian land in turn, and the local Persians have not been able to control their own destiny, and whoever comes is a subject.

Therefore, if the army of the Ming Dynasty could enter Persia and establish its rule, the Persian merchants such as Marou Ali would not have much rebellion.

Even Marouali is very much looking forward to the Ming army being able to establish rule in Persia, because Marouali himself is now an official of the Ming Dynasty, and has a good relationship with His Royal Highness the British King of the Ming Dynasty.

Maluali is worthy of being a clever businessman, and he can guess Zhu Han's psychology without leaving ten.

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Zhu Han learned from Maluari that since the fall of the Mongol Khanate of Yin, the region of West Asia and Persia had fallen into a situation of warlords fighting in various places.

According to the trajectory of history, this situation will continue for decades, until the rise of the famous lame Timur will take control of the region under his own brutal rule.

Therefore, according to Zhu Han's prediction, the Ming Dynasty only needed to send an elite army to enter the Persian coastal area under the guidance of Marou Ali and other Persian merchants, and establish some strongholds to easily intervene in the local situation.

The army of the Ming Dynasty had absolute superiority in training and equipment, and the small warlords in the Persian region were very low in combat effectiveness.

According to Marou'ari's oral account, the fighting power of the local Persian warlords may not be comparable to that of the Goryeo army.

Zhu Han's strategy of going to the West in the Ming Dynasty was prepared to imitate the historical British East India Company model, with the navy of the Ming Dynasty as the vanguard to open up the Maritime Silk Road, and put all the Nanyang, Tianzhu, Persian and Arab maritime merchants under his own control, and establish the maritime order of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Han then supported Marou Ali, a loyal Persian to establish rule in the region, and united the Persian warlord armies in the same way that the British conquered India. Error-free updates @

As long as the Ming Dynasty establishes its own ruling power in Persia, then it can be attacked and defended in the future.

To the east, the Delhi Sultanate of North India could be raided, and to the west, the fertile lands of the two river basins could be controlled.

The future world is a world in which land and sea hegemony coexist, and the Ming Dynasty must take the first step in its maritime strategy as soon as possible.

Zhu Han's concept of a strategy for going to the West has basically entered the stage of concrete implementation.

Everything is basically ready to go, just waiting for a suitable time to go.

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The Ming Dynasty slaughtered all sides on the Mobei grassland, not only conquering the Mobei tribes, but also capturing the little emperor Aiyou of Mengyuan.

Now, under the influence of Zhu Han, he plans to exert his power on the ocean.

All of Daming's actions seem to have forgotten that he has another hostile force.

Sichuan, Chengdu.

Emperor Chen Youliang of the Han Dynasty always had a gloomy face in the congratulations of the civil and military officials, without a look of joy.

Not long ago, Chen Youliang sent tens of thousands of troops to attack the various Tibetan tribes in western Sichuan.

The Tubo Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty in history can be described as loving and killing each other.

And they have the same fate.

When the Tang Dynasty fell into the division of feudal towns and fell apart, the Tubo Dynasty on the plateau also fell into the warlord melee division.

Moreover, the division of the Tibetan melee was even more serious, until the Mongols conquered them, and the Tibetan tribes were still in a situation of chaos.

When the Red Turban Army raised troops and turned the Yuan Dynasty upside down, various tribes in Tibet frequently launched raids on Sichuan and other places.

Especially after Chen Youliang led the army to occupy Sichuan, the Tibetan tribes were basically loyal to the Yuan Dynasty, and they even plundered the Chen Han regime.

Chen Youliang definitely couldn't tolerate this, and he sent tens of thousands of troops to crusade against these Tibetan tribes.

After nearly half a year of campaigning, all the Tibetan tribes around Sichuan were defeated one by one and surrendered to the Chen Han regime.

But Chen Youliang couldn't be happy.

Because these Tibetan tribes are so poor, Chen Youliang sent tens of thousands of troops and spent countless grains, grasses and military salaries, but he got a group of poor Tubo tribes who didn't even have an iron pot.

The living environment of the Tibetan tribes is harsh, and the production level of agriculture and animal husbandry is very limited.

If a little disaster happens, it is difficult to even support himself, and now even if he surrenders to Chen Youliang, he can't squeeze much oil and water at all.

The war against the various tribes of Tubo was basically a loss for Chen Youliang.

Today, there are not many families in Chen Youliang's warehouse.

Moreover, what made Chen Youliang even more depressed was that these conquered Tibetan tribes were not only poor, but also did not even contribute much manpower.

The warriors of the Tibetan tribe are in Gao. (This chapter is not finished!) )

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On the original, all the dragons and tigers were alive, even if the weapons and armor were very simple, they were not afraid of death and dared to fight.

But these Tibetan warriors, once they left the plateau, came to Sichuan and joined Chen Youliang's army.

But they were dizzy all day long, slept at least seven or eight hours a day, and could not march and fight at all.

Chen Youliang was also very helpless about these Tubo warriors who "went up to the mountain as a tiger and went down to the ground like an insect".

Hoping that a bunch of sleepy bugs would not be able to fight, they could only be dismissed.

In fact, Chen Youliang did not know that this was a common physiological reaction, the Tubo soldiers on the plateau were in a state of low oxygen all the year round, and they were accustomed to the environment on the plateau.

If these Tibetan warriors were allowed to adapt a little longer, they would soon be able to regain their combat effectiveness.

However, Chen Youliang did not have the patience to train the Tibetan warriors to serve him.

Subduing these Tibetan tribes made Chen Youliang not get any increase in national strength.

It can only be regarded as allowing the Chen Han regime to show the strength of a regional overlord.

However, all this came with the news of a series of victories in the Ming Dynasty, which made Chen Youliang's hard-won martial arts seem so humble.

"Zhu Chongba, now that he has not only subdued Liaodong, but also allowed Zhu Han to subdue Mobei, it will be difficult for the Mongols to threaten the Ming army."

In the apse of the Chengdu Imperial Palace, Chen Youliang was convening his younger brother Chen Youren, Prime Minister Zou Pusheng and others to discuss. Initial update @.

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