Zhu Jingyuan asked about the situation at the scene, and after a little consideration, he instructed:

"Command the patrol fleet to find a place to watch the other party's ship and its contents alone.

"Escort the messenger in charge of liaison to me alone with the letter from the so-called Tripoli Pasha."

Zhu Jingyuan has a slight interest in Tripoli.

Because this group of people, Zhu Jingyuan, the world's No. 1 navy in his last life, has a very close relationship.

If the United States is the protagonist of the online article, they are the first villain to jump in front of the protagonist and pretend to be forced by the protagonist, and be slapped in the face after the protagonist explodes.

The rulers of Tripoli, Tunisia, and Algeria are not secessionist forces in the conventional sense.

They were actually a group of pirates who were subservient to the Ottomans, collectively known as the Barbary pirates, and parts of Morocco were once occupied by them.

Before the industrial age, these pirates had long been entrenched in the Great Qin Sea, the northern coastal area of the Mozhou continent.

Collect protection money on passing ships, attack ships that do not pay protection money, capture and sell slaves of various tribes in Taixi, and extort ransom.

They have been living this way for at least two hundred years, and they have become accustomed to their presence.

By the eighteenth century, the size and organizational capabilities of the Anglo-French navies had grown to the point that the Barbary pirates could no longer compete with.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the Barbary pirates decided not to attack the British and French merchant ships, and the two sides continued to live in peace for a long time.

But the United States became independent in 1783.

After the independence of the United States, merchant ships could no longer fly the British flag.

As a result, in 1785, just two years after the independence of the United States, two American merchant ships were captured by the Tripoli pirates.

Tripoli Pasha demanded a ransom of $660,000 from the United States.

Under the influence of isolationism and decentralization, the US Federal Navy at that time had only one gunboat of less than 100 tons, which was maintained at Washington's own expense.

Therefore, the United States had no way to use force to recapture the prisoners at that time, so it could only choose to retreat and try to solve the problem through diplomatic means.

As a result, the pirates continued to plunder more American merchant ships, capture more crew members, and increase the ransom layer by layer.

After ten years of hard work, the Americans finally paid a ransom of $1 million in exchange for the release of the American crew by the Barbary pirates.

That's almost one-sixth of the U.S. budget at the time.

At the same time, the United States will have to pay more than $20,000 a year in protection fees in exchange for a guarantee from the Barbary pirates that they will not plunder American merchant ships again.

This humiliation made the Americans learn from the pain, and while bearing the burden of humiliation, they formally established the Admiralty and made great efforts to build the federal naval fleet.

The famous USS Constitution, the self-built first-generation Enterprise, and the first-generation Constellation were all approved for this purpose.

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This treaty became "the most favorable peace treaty ever signed between the Cessy civilization and the Barbary nations in a hundred years."

Historically, before the Industrial Revolution, the navy had gradually developed an advantage over the Barbary pirates.

However, there was still no absolute superiority on land, and it was not possible to directly land and occupy the territory of the Baba pirates.

At the same time, the traditional aristocracy held the power of the imperial court, and the motivation to exterminate these pirates was not very high.

On the contrary, the United States, which is in power by the real bourgeoisie, has very little tolerance for pirates who plunder their merchant ships and demand ransom and protection money.

After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the bourgeoisie came to power.

For two decades, from 1830 to 1850, the French gradually occupied all of Algeria.

In the frenzy of carving up Mexico after the Industrial Revolution, the French further occupied neighboring Morocco and Tunisia.

The lairs of the Barbary pirates on land were destroyed one after another, completely losing the ability to harm.

Although Tripoli continued to exist until the twentieth century, it was barely able to survive in the face of complete industrialization.

Eventually, in 1912, Tripoli became an Italian colony.

In this world, the industrialization of the Great Ming Peace was completed, but the previous world war gave the Barbary pirates a breathing room.

Now that the world war is over, the Ming Dynasty has subdued Egypt and is adjacent to Tripoli on the mainland.

As long as they don't stumble in the dark, it's only a matter of time before Da Ming exterminates the lair of these pirates.

It is estimated that this is also the real fundamental reason why the other party came to Zhu Jingyuan for gifts.

Zhu Jingyuan considered the current situation, considered the relationship between the three visitors, and arranged for the three of them to arrive at a similar time.

On the same day, on November 4, the 34th year of Taiping in Daming, Zhu Jingyuan met with people from three aspects in turn.

First of all, there was the Grand Vizierza Adin, who brought in a group of young girls.

After a brief greeting etiquette, Zaadin said very directly:

"His Royal Highness the Honorable Prince of the Great Food, on behalf of His Majesty the Ottoman Sultan, I have the honour to extend to His Highness the highest and sincerest thanks for His Highness's support at the League of Nations Conference."

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and nodded in response:

"Don't be so polite."

Zayaden bowed again and continued to explain his intentions:

"His Majesty the Sultan wishes to give His Most Beautiful Princess, His Highness Irene, to His Highness as your handmaiden.

"And Rhodes Island, which is located in the Great Qin Sea, and sixteen carefully selected female slaves of various nationalities, as gifts for dowry. ….

"Please smile at your highness."

Slavery was prevalent in the Ottomans.

The Barbary pirates in places like Tripoli, as well as the Tatar vassals on the Black Sea coast, have long been capturing slaves.

The main way to deal with these slaves was to sell them to the Ottoman nobility.

However, after industrialization, the Barbary pirates were greatly reduced in their ability to capture them, and Lucia annexed the Tatars along the Black Sea coast.

The Ottomans had lost their main source of white slaves.

However, the Ottomans accumulated a large number of slaves of various nationalities, and these slaves produced a large number of offspring in their own country.

In many parts of the Ottoman country, the nominal population of Tessi slaves exceeded one-tenth, or even more than one-third.

So there may be very few newly captured slaves, but there are still many second- or even third-generation slaves.

It's not a matter at all to select a group of excellent ones to come out and give gifts.

As for sending the princesses to Zhu Jingyuan's maidservants, there was no pressure on the Ottoman Sultan.

There was a huge disparity between the status of men and women in the Ottoman sultans, and the Ottoman sultans themselves had a large number of wives and concubines, as well as a large number of slaves who could have offspring.

The status of the princess of the Ottomans could not be compared with that of other countries at all.

This Ottoman princess herself may feel lucky to be sent to the court of the Ming Dynasty and be a maid to the prince Zhu Jingyuan

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The real gift of the Ottoman Sultan was actually the land ownership of the island.

Rhodes covers an area of 1,398 square kilometers, at the foot of the peninsula of Asia Minor, on the edge of the Aegean Sea.

It's 1805, and all the islands in the entire Aegean Sea are Ottoman.

Of course, what Osman gave to Zhu Jingyuan was civil land ownership.

It's the same as the land around Baku that Zhu Jingyuan got in Persia.

Zhu Jingyuan could be used for farming, building houses, and opening factories, but the jurisdiction still belonged to the Ottomans.

Zhu Jingyuan imagined the location of Rhode Island, and seemed a little unhappy and said:

"The Sultan's intentions have been felt by the King, and the King is indeed interested in acquiring a private island in the Great Qin Sea.

"But compared to Rhodes, this king actually prefers Crete, I wonder if the Sultan can cut his love?"

Crete is the fifth largest island in the entire Great Qin Sea.

The total land area is 8,236 square kilometers, which is more than five times the size of Rhodes Island in front.

The key is the location of Crete, which is so much superior to Rhodes.

It is located in the middle of the western part of the Great Qin Sea.

It is more than 100 kilometers from the Peloponnese, more than 200 kilometers from the Asia Minor Peninsula, and 300 kilometers from the northern part of Mexico.

It is not too far from the three places, but it has a certain degree of independence.

Rhodes is only twenty kilometers from the Ottoman mainland.

If the Ottoman gave Zhu Jingyuan Rhode Island, it would be basically impossible for Zhu Jingyuan to travel and vacation there.

I have to arrange people to manage and operate, and the key is that I don't look down on that bit of income, and the development is also the benefit of the Ottomans, so it is more chicken.

If it was Crete that was given to Zhu Jingyuan, then he could go up and have a look when the situation stabilized.

But that's all, an island in the Great Qin Sea, Zhu Jingyuan can't attach much importance to it.

Zhu Jingyuan made such a direct request, because he didn't want to waste time on this matter, and there were two groups of people to meet later.

Urging the Ottomans to go straight into the bargaining process, and quickly say anything other than thanks.

Za Yading was also obviously stunned, and then he also keenly felt Zhu Jingyuan's intentions.

Therefore, Zayading basically did not hesitate, and directly agreed to Zhu Jingyuan's request, and at the same time put forward Osman's request:

"Since the Prince of Great Food likes Crete, His Majesty the Sultan should not be stingy with these lands, and will try to convince His Majesty the Sultan.

"It's just that His Majesty the Sultan has such a few requests, and I also hope that Prince Dashi and Da Ming can agree.

"First of all, I hope that Daming will continue to help the Ottomans build their naval fleet, and guide and help the Ottomans build ports and naval bases in Morocco and Congo.

"Second, after the Ming Dynasty exterminated the separatist forces in Yemen, Tripoli, Tunisia, Algeria and other places, it transferred the local population to the Ottomans.

"Then, after the Ming Dynasty has suppressed the rebels in these areas, they can set aside part of the land for the Ottomans to build ports in the coastal areas of Tunisia or Algeria.

"Finally, allow the Ottomans to send their own troops to destroy and conquer some of the rebels in these areas and regain some of the land......".

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