The frightened priest, after listening to Isabella's words, hurried down the hill to find the Patriarch of Athens.

Athens had a patriarch.

It is the religious center of the Orthodox Church in Greece.

Even after World War II, the Greek king returned to the former patriarch for a time as regent.

So the patriarch, having received the report, immediately demanded that the Venetian fleet surrender or leave, and encouraged the Athenians to begin a siege of the Venetians in the city. At this time, Athens was actually a separate Duchy of Athens, but the capital was in Thebes, and this Duchy was actually controlled by two mercenary groups, namely the Navarre Mercenary Group and the Catalan Mercenary Group. The former was a mercenary group that emerged during the Hundred Years' War between England and France, as France moved to the East to make a living, and the latter was the product of the Eastern Roman emperors luring wolves into their houses, and they always liked to lure wolves into their houses in this way. But here they had been subdued by Bayezei, to whom the Duke of Athens had been subjected, and after Bayezid had been captured, they had been subject to Suleiman, and after Suleiman had been subject to Manuel II, they had been courtiers to Manuel II, in short, to have no discipline at all.

They are mercenary groups.

There is a hairy festival at all, whoever gives money is the father.

But I don't have a good relationship with the Venetians.

Originally, after this, Athens was mainly at war with the Venetians.

So......

The cornered Venetians surrendered.

In fact, not surrendering is also a dead end, their battleships in front of the Ming gun, there is no resistance at all, although the row battleship is theoretically more flexible than the sail battleship, do not depend on the wind direction, but now it is blocked in the harbor.

Flexibility has a fart.

Again, the army's schooners are actually very flexible.

As for combat effectiveness, it is not an era at all.

"Tell them that they are still dukes here, and that the ships of the Venetians, the goods and weapons they have hoarded here, are all theirs, and only gold and silver are dedicated to the Ming.

If you refuse to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, then the fleet will land and kill all the people here. ”

Yang Feng looked at the messenger in front of him.

This was sent by the Duke of Athens, who originally learned that the fleet was bombarding Athens, so they ran to meet the enemy, but when they arrived here, they immediately changed their minds......

This obviously can't be beaten!

Since you can't fight, of course you have to surrender.

They were a mercenary group, and Bayezet knelt down as readily when he came.

Isabella then translated for him.

In fact, Yang Feng already knows almost Greek.

"What about the man?"

The messenger said with a twinkle in his eyes.

"The people are theirs, and if you want, you can fight with them first."

Yang Feng speechlessly pointed to an obviously North African dress and said.

"Well, we were going to sell it to them, too."

The messenger said frankly.

Well, these bastards also work part-time pirates, and North African pirates are the main force in capturing white slaves, although there is no record of human trafficking in Navarre and Catalan mercenary groups in history, but think about it, you know that a guy like this who has no discipline, if it is profitable, it is absolutely impossible not to do this, and the white slaves sold by North African pirates cannot all be caught by themselves.

There must be cooperative white forces.

"But how do we trust Your Excellency?"

The messenger then said.

Yang Feng took a step forward very casually, and before he could react, his hand appeared on his neck, and then he raised it with one hand, and then directly threw him into the sea more than ten meters away.

The messenger screamed and smashed into the water, and the soldiers on the dock calmly dragged him out with hooks......

"Convinced?"

Yang Feng looked at the messenger who was dragged in front of him and said calmly.

Just at the same time, on the nearest battleship, a dozen cannons on the side sprayed flames......

"Xiang, I believe it!"

The weak messenger said tremblingly.

"Go back and tell your duke, now you are a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has granted you the right to conquer the nearby lords who refuse to submit to the Ming Dynasty, and you send a team of soldiers to follow the fleet to the Junbao to be under the command of the Ming Yan King, that is, the legendary Whip of God, and he will be the ruler of the Ming Dynasty in the West."

Yang Feng said.

The envoy hurriedly got up, originally wanting to leave immediately, but looking at the very unfriendly gaze of the Ming army next to him, he immediately remembered the rules he had just learned, and kowtowed at Yang Feng's feet, so he took a few steps back and got up to leave.

"Leave some of the ships behind, and then the Venetians and Genoese will send ships over and let these pirates follow the fleet to grab these ships."

Yang Feng turned to Zheng He and said.

The latter's trip to the West was not difficult, in fact it was not as good as the last trip to the Americas, after all, the trip to the Americas would not see any land during the month or two of crossing the Pacific. But the voyage to Europe, all the way to the coast, can continue to get fresh supplies, especially fresh water, although the situation along the way is unknown, but the fleet is not landing to expand in depth, just passing by. In this era, nothing could stop them except disease, and it could almost be said that they could easily bypass the Cape of Good Hope, and then continue to stick to the west coast of Africa and go north, until they entered Gibraltar. After entering the Mediterranean, they followed Yang Feng's teachings and moved forward along the coast of North Africa, only to encounter two merchant ships of the Knights of the Medical Knights on the way, and were simply sent to the bottom of the sea by Zheng He.

The latter controls Malta.

However, because of this battle, they were regarded as friends by a nearby Tunisian pirate ship, and Zheng He had brought an Arab translator recruited in Aden on board, and after solving the language problem, these pirates immediately realized that the opportunity to make a fortune had come.

Of course they knew about the East, and they were originally trading with the Ottomans.

Led by them as guides, Zheng He was resupplied off the coast of North Africa, during which the Knights of the Medicary organized a fleet to try to take revenge, but was beaten up and immediately retracted to Malta. In the end, Zheng He's fleet sailed all the way to Egypt, and by the time he arrived in Egypt, he had even followed dozens of large pirate ships, and the Mamluks and the Ming Dynasty had already traded, and the He family even had a permanent presence in Suez before. What's more, the Mamluks at this time were very aware of the strength of the Ming army, and they must know that the Aries Turkmen were now under their protection, and they didn't want to be substitutes for the dead in this situation where the Ming army attacked Junbao, so they provided Zheng He with all the supplies he wanted.

Then Zheng He's fleet headed north.

As for the Venetian fleet, it was targeted halfway.

But the Venetians did not have the two auxiliary powers of hot air balloons and telescopes, so Zheng He's fleet followed them all the time, but outside their field of vision, stared at them with observations from the hot air balloons, and in this way followed them to Athens, and blocked them as soon as they entered the port.

"If the king really wants to deliberately lead the European countries to reinforce the castle and then solve the problem, then it is useless for us to go, these sailors are rushing to plunder, it is better to simply use Athens as a base and take these pirates to loot the coastal ports. And they say that they have another country in the Iberian Peninsula, Granada, and if we help, we can go there and cooperate with the Granadans to seize France, the Spanish coast, including the Papal States. If we do sack Rome, even if it is only in Sardinia, the countries of Europe will have to desperately gather forces to rescue the castle to stop our attack on its coast. ”

Zheng He said.

It's a good plan.

But......

"I have to warn you, there is a plague in Europe."

Yang Feng said.

"Ambassador, it's all here, what sailor cares about this? Besides, as far as we know, the Black Death in Milan has been effectively controlled, and since Genoa and Venice have sent troops, it means that the plague has not done them much harm now.

What's more, even if he is infected, it is impossible to return to Daming alive. ”

Zheng He said.

Of course, the key is that he has to meet the requirements of the sailors who followed, the latter sailed tens of thousands of miles just to make a fortune, if Zhu Di delayed for a long time, they would be dissatisfied. So that they can be robbed as pirate ships as they please, and they will be satisfied, as far as the danger of contracting the plague is concerned......

They're all here, and they still care about the danger?

Besides, like he said, if you are really infected, can you return to Daming alive?

Not even Gibraltar.

"Then it's up to you!"

Yang Feng said.

At the end of the day, it's none of his business, he's just offering advice.

Immediately afterwards, Zheng He arranged a warship to send him to the Ottoman port, and upon arrival, Yang Feng took Isabella overland to Basra, where he met a Ming merchant ship, which carried them back to Daming. As for the surrender of Manuel II, of course, it was accepted by the Ming Dynasty, and he was crowned King of Rome, and the European part of the former Roman Empire was the Roman state, and the old and new Rome were his......

Fathers and fathers, the revival of Rome!

Manuel II can comfort his ancestors.

Of course, he still has to be edicted to enter the court, considering the round-trip time, basically Zhu Di has played enough, and he can also enter the court.

Zhu Di is still the governor of the Western Regions.

Rome is also the Western Regions!

The west of Jiayuguan is the Western Regions, but this scope will be constantly adjusted, and the standard for adjustment is to change the political envoy department, for example, when Anxi is changed to Anxi Cheng announced that the political envoy department is not considered the Western Regions.

It still counts.

Isabella stayed in Daming for a year, then returned as Lord of Rome for more than half a year, only returning to the castle after Manuel II formally surrendered. During this period, because of Zheng He's constant attacks, European countries had no choice but to reinforce Junbao, but because of the intrigue between each other, it was basically a tactic to add fuel to the fire. The first to arrive was the Crusader army led by King Sigismund of Hungary, including Serbia, Bohemia, and Suleiman's Osmanian army, with less than 100,000 troops, and Zhu Di fought a decisive battle under the city of Junbao. But in the end, he was defeated by a coalition of 200,000 troops composed of the Ming army, the Persian army, the Turks, the Zhaosheng army, etc., and Suleiman fled to Adrianople, and on the way to learn that Issa had occupied Adrianople with the cooperation of the inner ghosts, he turned his head and surrendered to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di did not kill him, but let him continue to control Adrianople as a vassal.

Sigismund also fled.

But before he could flee home, he received news that Tokhtamysh and the Warat forces had invaded Wallachia and divided their forces into Transylvania.

After that, the HRE princes of Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, including Bohemia, were mainly entangled with Tokhtamysh......

Sigismund was also King of Bohemia, and was originally the Elector of Brandenburg and Emperor of the HRE.

The second wave of enemies faced by Zhu Di was led by the Papal States, including the countries of the Apennine Peninsula, Switzerland, Austria, Epirus and other countries, and the coalition led by Epirus, a theoretical Eastern Roman vassal, could not even piece together 100,000 people, a total of 50,000 or 60,000 people, but they were well-equipped, especially the famous Swiss mercenaries. But it was still useless, and even worse to lose, after all, a legion like the Swiss spear phalanx was simply a perfect target for the Ming artillery, and a field cannon shattered the honor of the Swiss mercenaries......

In particular, Zhu Di did not attack, but always kept defending, so they also faced heavy artillery, and a nine-pound cannon even fired a cannonball to reap the results of more than 50 people.

After this defeat, there were no more reinforcements to Junbao.

Anglo-French ......

Britain and France were actually still in the Hundred Years' War.

They are just a temporary truce.

However, Zheng He, with the help of the Granadas, went to sea and ransacked the coast of England, which made the French begin to secretly contact him, and it was clear that the French had begun to awaken to the hidden attributes of the Blasphemous Alliance.

Of course, these have nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty, this is the war between Zhu Di and Europe, in fact, this war lasted for decades, and it was not until Zhu Di's later years that he finally drank Beihai. As for the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty continued its glorious reign under its rule, supporting the outward expansion of several vassal kings while constantly promoting emigration in various ways, including to the distant Americas. Although with the help of the Ming Dynasty, the Native Americans were not completely destroyed in the ongoing plague, but the population also plummeted by half, and the rest regarded the Ming as gods and began to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. And the Ming merchants who continued to come to the Americas also began to enter their cities and spread the civilization of the Ming Dynasty to them, in short, it was a long process to change there, but the city-states of the Americas all paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty and received knighthoods.

As for the continuous immigration to the Western Regions, they all commanded the envoys in the Western Regions, and successively became the political envoys of the Chengxuan, but the process was very long, and when Zhu Di drank Ma Beihai, he only turned the river into the political envoy of the river.

As for Yang Feng, he stayed in Daming until his new Yellow River was dug through.

However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty had already transferred to a constitutional monarchy.

After that, he claimed that he could finally return to Daxia, and then took the whole family, including the ruling princess, to sail to say goodbye to Daming......

Farewell, of course, for the time being.

Because he claimed that a passage known as a wormhole between Great Xia and Great Ming had been established, they could travel back and forth between Great Ming and Great Xia frequently, including their descendants. At that time, Daming had only begun to enter the steam age, so he and his family appeared in Daming from time to time, and for Daming they were tantamount to gods who ruled everything.

The new book has been released, "I Have a Cornucopia", at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but I don't know how to get the link on my mobile phone, and I get it on the computer half a month later.

(End of chapter)