Muscat, Black King's House.

The so-called Black Palace, not a real palace, but a super mansion built by the black eunuch Hei Zhongxian on the seaside of Muscat according to the specifications of the Daming County Palace. The mansion consists of a main courtyard and an east-west cross courtyard. Among them, the main courtyard is more than 130 meters long from north to south and more than 80 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of about 11,000 square meters. The walls of the courtyard are also 2 meters wide and 4 meters high, and they are almost up to the city wall!

The east-west courtyard is about two-thirds smaller than the main courtyard, but it is also a large mansion covering an area of up to 4,000 square meters!

Inside the main courtyard there are five-fold courtyards, called five in and five out. The east and west courtyards are triple courtyards, that is, three in and three out.

Hei Zhongxian himself lived in the largest main courtyard, and the smaller ones were used to entertain guests, among which the western courtyard was lent to Zhuge Weien, who was the sixty-sixth brother of Zhuge Weidao. The East Cross Courtyard was originally lent to three black eunuchs who had just retired back to Muscat - these black eunuchs would also build houses in Muscat, but it would take time to build a house, and they could only borrow and live in the homes of the senior eunuchs before they were built. However, because Zhuge Weidao and they were coming, the black eunuchs who lived in the East Cross Courtyard had moved out, and the triple courtyard of the East Cross Courtyard housed the families of Zhuge Weidao, Li Chenghui and Chen Jian, as well as their relatives (orderlies, secretaries, etc.).

According to the original plan, the Persian Gulf Fleet was to sail into the Persian Gulf and be the presence of the fleet. However, because of the previous Battle of Goa, the three Blake classes of the Indian fleet were sunk and wounded. Of course, there are no more sunken ones, and the wounded have to go to the Hindustan shipyard for repairs, considering the skills of Indian workers in repairing ships, the British have no armor patrol in the Indian Ocean that can fight against the public level of Gojo Kingdom.

Although the Indian fleet still has many old battleships and shallow water heavy gunboats available, and it is no problem to fight a dozen fleet artillery battles, but without a working armor patrol, how the Indian Grand Fleet can maintain control of the Indian Ocean, or at least the Arabian Sea, is very problematic! Although the five "small cruisers" and eight fast cruisers of the Ming Persian Gulf Fleet are all outdated ship types, if they want to go to sea in a group to attack India's sea lines of communication, the head of the Indian Grand Fleet will be bigger.

In addition, without the "Great Armored Patrol" to open the way and seek the enemy, it is difficult to say whether the eight slow-moving old battleships can lock on to the opponent in the endless ocean.

Therefore, after Zhuge Weidao considered it, he simply let the Persian Gulf Fleet temporarily be stationed in the Gulf of Oman, with Muscat as its home port, and wait until the fleet's new home port in the Persian Gulf was built, and then transfer it over.

After settling the land headquarters of the family and the fleet (located in a house next to the Black King's Mansion), and arranging anchorages for each ship of the Persian Gulf Fleet, Zhuge Weidao asked Hei Zhongxian to come forward and invite the Sultan of Oman and the seven bitter desert pirate chieftains to the Black King's Mansion to discuss a big deal—a national deal!

"Isn't that a traitor! Our family knows, our family knows these things best" In the lobby of the Black King's Mansion, Sultan and the seven desert pirate chieftains had not yet arrived, and Hei Zhongxian was accompanying Zhuge Weidao and they were talking while drinking coffee. When he heard Zhuge Weidao mention the matter of the country's business, he immediately came to his senses, and his eyebrows danced.

When Zhuge Weien heard this, he quickly coughed a few times - where can he best know how to betray the country! You Hei Zhongxian is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty and a good eunuch, how can you know how to betray the country?

Zhuge Weidao ignored his sixty-sixth brother, and hurriedly inquired: "Old brother, according to you, can the emirates of the seven desert pirate chieftains be sold?" ”

"Huh?" Hei Zhongxian was stunned for a moment, "Brother Daozi, I heard you right, right?" The emirates of the seven desert pirates are also worried? ”

"Doesn't anyone care?" Zhuge asked.

"Who's worried about that?" Hei Zhongxian shook his head, "Brother Daozi, you don't know, right?" In the early years, the British East India Company sent fleets there. The fathers of those desert pirate chieftains thought that the British Empire had come to collect the colonies, but they were happy, and they were ready to sell their countries to India to live a good life! But the British didn't look down on it at all, and they only came to warn the seven chiefs not to rob the Indian Celestials who were going on pilgrimage. ”

And what's going on?

Zhuge said for the Taoist heart: "Fortunately, the East India Company did not buy the country of the seven chiefs, otherwise the oil tyrant would have become an Indian coolie!" But then again, the United Emirates, where no oil has been found, is also miserable. If you want to be a colony, no one wants it! ”

"Can Sultan of Oman agree to them selling his country?" Zhuge asked again for the Tao.

"The Sultan of Oman?" Hei Zhongxian smiled, "Of course I can't ask for it!" Why do you think Sultan would take the seven of them as younger brothers? And that wasn't forced by the East India Company? Otherwise, what good thing could he have to worry about the seven desert pirate tribes? Either to mediate the conflict for the seven of them, or to pay for the relief of the seven tribes of them. However, Na Sultan is very cunning, he must know that our Ming Dynasty wants to buy those seven emirates, and it is estimated that he will have to slaughter the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Is 1,000,000 silver yuan enough?" Zhuge asked with a smile.

"1 million?" Hei Zhongxian couldn't believe his ears, "Buy those 7 broken emirates for 1 million?" ”

Zhuge waved his hand for Dao and said, "It's not 1 million, but 3 million plus 7 counts. Among them, 1 million were given to the Sultan Sultan, 2 million were used to settle the people of the 7 emirates, and the 7 counts were given to the 7 chiefs, who would be the counts of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and enjoy the treatment of the Western Regions, the Snow Region, and the Grassland Guiyi. ”

Of course, this "buying plan" was set by the military advisors of the Zhuge family - the compensation is sufficient, the residents are moved away, the chiefs are supported, and there are no future troubles!

According to this plan, the seven bitter chiefs and their descendants will be nobles of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and after a few generations, they will all be enlightened in terms of appearance, beliefs, and national identity.

At that time, even if they are still worried about the oil in their hometown, it is nothing more than giving them a little dividend.

A similar way has been done since the time of King Zhuge Wuzhong. All the princes in the land of China since ancient times who were recovered by the Ming Dynasty, as long as they are sincerely obedient, their descendants are now Guiyi Marquis, Guiyi Bo, Guiyi Zi, and Guiyi Nan who live in Beijing. And it's completely sinicized!

Of course, Hei Zhongxian knew about these "righteousness" treatments, so he asked incomprehensibly: "Give so much?" Who is so wronged? ”

Zhuge Weidao said with a smile: "That person is not wronged, that person is the queen mother!" The treatment of the 7 Guiyi uncles is also from the royal family. Therefore, the future Gulf country is also the country of the Zhu family. ”

Buying national money, as well as the treatment of 7 Guiyibo, was nominally paid by the Empress Dowager Zheng with the internal funds of the Zhu Ming royal family, but in fact, the Zhuge family pulled the other seven families, plus the Zhu Ming royal family. Among them, the Zhuge family has the largest share, so in the future Gulf Kingdom Oil Company, the Zhuge family will also have the largest shares

Hei Zhongxian was stunned: "Queen Mother? What is the use of the Queen Mother buying a country? ”

Zhuge replied: "Of course, it is to settle the descendants of the Zhu family, before King Xiao Tang chose the king of Hawaii, this time it is time to arrange for King Xiao Gui or King Xiao Lu to come to the bay to be king." Although this bay land is barren, it is very important to the hegemony of our great tomorrow dynasty and to the current international situation, and we must firmly grasp it! ”

This explanation barely makes sense, holding the Persian Gulf poses a great threat to India, Persia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Suez Canal.

Hei Zhongxian nodded, the queen mother's meaning, of course he had to do it as a holy decree. Just as he was thinking about it, a "little black eunuch" walked quickly, came to Hei Zhongxian's side, muttered a few words in a low voice, and Hei Zhongxian immediately smiled: "Daozi, General Li, Ambassador Zhuge , the Sultan and the seven chiefs have arrived, let's go out together to greet them, and by the way, tell them the good news that Daming wants to buy the country!" ”

(End of chapter)