Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1037, Erzincan Agreement

In Erzinzhan City, Yang Yun was leisurely looking at the newspapers from Daming, which was thousands of miles away. There was a thick stack of Daming Morning Posts sent over for more than ten days.

"The houses in Songhu have actually risen to more than [-] taels of silver per set. I knew that I should have invested in some houses in Songhu. The houses in Tianjin have not been able to rise in the past two years."

"That's right. The economy in the south has always been better than that in the north. That is, in the past few years, the rise of factories, workshops, and commercial firms has allowed the north to temporarily surpass the south."

"After the rise of factories, workshops, and commercial firms in the south, they quickly caught up with the north. Songhu is right at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and its geographical location is much better than Tianjin."

"Well, there must be room for improvement in the future."

Thinking of this, Yang Yun also picked up a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and quickly wrote a letter to his family, asking his family to invest in a house in Songhu.

As the new nobles of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Yun, Zhang Mao, and Liu Jin are very close, and have invested heavily in various fields and places of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Yun has his own factories, workshops, and commercial firms. He also has a large number of plantations in Nanyang, a large number of pastures in his fief Australia, and his own silver mines and gold mines in the Golden Island.

Here in the Western Regions and Hezhong, they also have their own cotton farms and pastures, which can be regarded as a big family business. In just a few years, they have accumulated such a huge family business.

Among them, a large number of farms, plantations, pastures, mines, etc., were all rewards obtained by him according to the military merit system of the Ming Dynasty after he marched and fought in battle.

Like the plantations in Nanyang, when they attacked the Nanyang countries, they opened up territories for Daming and the Son of Heaven. Naturally, generous rewards were indispensable. There are more than a dozen islands belonging to him alone, and they are all relatively large. islands.

The ranch in Australia is his fiefdom. He is named the Duke of Australia. There is a large grassland in Australia that belongs to him. He also sends people to manage it and buys some slaves to graze cattle, sheep and horses.

Under the new military merit system, as long as he can win, every soldier has his last time, let alone a leader like him, who has a lot of money, land, and slaves.

Moreover, he also learned from Liu Jin and Zhang Mao, and then invested in factories, workshops, commercial firms, etc., and even invested in overseas colonies.

All this is legal.

Not only him, every general in the army is actually similar, like Hou Huoying in Hezhong, who has a large number of pastures and cotton plantations in Hezhong and the Western Regions, and also invests in plantations in Nanyang, mining in Gold Island, etc. .

When it comes to ordinary soldiers at the bottom, each of them actually has a rich family background.

In every battle, the captured gold, silver, jewelry, etc. will be converted into taels of silver, and then distributed according to the proportion. Basically, every time a big victory is won, there will be tens of taels of silver when there are few, and hundreds of taels when there are many There was also a thousand taels of silver.

In addition, there are a large number of rewards in kind. When attacking the Western Regions and the Hezhong area, almost everyone received a large number of cattle, sheep, and horses as rewards. Everyone was inevitably assigned a few slaves.

As for the land obtained by expanding the territory, they also have a share, and basically they can get the best land, everyone is a rich man.

This is why the Ming army is now full of the opponent's desire and motivation to expand.

If the [-]-strong army had traveled thousands of miles to the Ottoman Empire, it would have collapsed without the enemy's attack. If the court wanted money but no money, and food but no food, it would have been impossible to fight.

But it’s different now. Even if the imperial court tells you that the food cannot be delivered, they will say, it’s all right, as long as an order to go to war is enough.

They can rob and find their own way. In short, when it comes to war, everyone likes it, because it is a good opportunity to make a fortune and a good opportunity to make contributions.

"Hmm~"

"This South Caucasus region is really good. The climate is mild and humid, the scenery is beautiful, and there are all kinds of prey. Maybe they can live here in the future."

Yang Yun was thinking about the harvest this time in his mind.

The [-] army marched westward, killed more than [-] enemies, captured hundreds of cities, and captured gold, silver, jewelry, and various property worth tens of millions of taels of silver, plus Afterwards, the Ottoman Empire's reparations and the like.

It is estimated that there will be an army of [-] at that time, and everyone will be able to get a lot of money.

Of course, the money is small. The real big one is the land in the South Caucasus region. The land here is not bad at all compared to the Hezhong region. It is very fertile and the pastures are also very good.

The area of ​​the entire South Caucasus region is also very large. Calculated, it is estimated that everyone will become a landlord here in the future.

"What are you thinking about?"

Liao Yuan found Yang Yun with a smile all over his face.

"I'm thinking about the elderly who will come here in the future. Don't say it, the climate here is really not good, with waterfalls and flowing springs, it is really suitable for elderly care."

Yang Yun smiled and replied.

"Forget it, I still prefer to go back to our Daming land for retirement."

Liao Yuan smiled and said, "Just now we got news that our Daming fleet is bombarding Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. He Zhonghou also led his army to wipe out fifty thousand Ottoman troops. The Persians are taking advantage of the situation and preparing to attack Baghdad."

"Good~"

"I want to see how long they can hold on. If they still don't agree to our conditions, then our army will march westward. I don't believe it. If we annihilate one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand people, they will still be able to survive." So tough."

"Only pay ten million taels of silver, and all my brothers will drink the northwest wind."

When Yang Yun heard it, he couldn't help laughing out loud.

When it comes to war reparations, he looks very angry.

The more indemnities paid on this battlefield, the more these soldiers can get, and they are all distributed according to the proportion. The emperor will get the most money, and the imperial court will get a little bit, and the soldiers who fought bloody battles will also get a little bit.

So the more war reparations the better.

"Report~"

"Grand Vizier Ali Pasha of the Ottoman Empire asked to see him, and they said they would agree to our terms."

As soon as Yang Yun's words fell, his soldiers came to report in a hurry.

"Haha, they must finally bow their heads."

When Yang Yun and Liao Yuan heard this, they couldn't help laughing happily. Under the successive blows, the Ottoman Empire was about to be overwhelmed. Even though the conditions were very harsh, they still had to sign.

Soon, in the living room, Yang Yun received Ali Pasha with a smile on his face.

"General, I just received a decree from our sultan that our Ottoman Empire is willing to accept the armistice agreement proposed by the Ming Empire. Please also abide by the agreement and stop attacking our Ottoman Empire."

Seeing Yang Yun, Ali Pasha immediately said anxiously.

This time I was really in a hurry, and I didn't have to be in a hurry.

As soon as the Ming army made a move, it immediately wiped out the Bursa Army, and another [-] Ottoman army was wiped out. If the Ming army continued to attack, what would the Ottoman Empire do to resist it?

"Haha, I wish I had promised not to. At least the [-] Bursa Legion is still there, and it can still deter the Persians."

When Yang Yun heard this, he immediately laughed.

"Also ask the general to order the Ming Fleet in the Sea of ​​Marmara to stop bombarding our city."

Ali Pasha wiped the sweat from his forehead and said again.

"Don't worry, as long as you sign the agreement and start to implement it according to the content of the agreement, we will naturally stop the attack, but if you are just delaying the attack, I am afraid that all your plans will come to naught."

Yang Yun nodded slightly, thought for a while and said.

"Please rest assured, general, we will absolutely abide by the agreement~"

"The great sultan has already emptied the treasury of our Ottoman Empire. At the same time, he also ordered all the merchants and nobles in our Ottoman Empire to use their family property to pay Ming's indemnity."

"And the Sultan has already arrested the sinners who invaded Ming Dynasty and redeemed the trafficked Ming people in various places. We are very sincere."

Ali Pasha said very solemnly.

"That's fine~"

"Then sign the agreement~"

Yang Yun nodded in satisfaction.

Soon, under the joint witness of both parties, an agreement drafted in Chinese characters, Arabic, and Turkic was written.

Then Yang Yun, the Duke of Australia, represented Daming, and Grand Vizier Ali Pasha of the Ottoman Empire represented the Ottoman Empire. The two sides officially signed the armistice agreement.

This armistice agreement, because it was signed in the city of Erzincan, was called the "Erzincan Agreement" by later historians. The main content of the agreement is.

The Ottoman Empire ceded the South Caucasus region to Ming, and at the same time recognized Ming's right to rule the area, and no troops were stationed within a hundred miles of the border with Ming.

At the same time, several islands in the Aegean Sea were also ceded, and in the future, Ming ships would not need to pay taxes or be restricted by the Ottoman Empire when passing through the Bosporus Strait and the Sea of ​​Marmara.

As the defeated country and the party that provoked the war, the Ottoman Empire compensated the Ming Empire with [-] million taels of silver. Because the Ottoman Empire did not have enough wealth to pay in one go, it adopted the method of installment payment.

The initial payment is [-] million taels of silver. Daming is willing to accept the conversion of relevant valuables, and the payment must be completed before August [-]st in the [-]th year of Hongzhi.

The remaining [-] million taels of silver will be paid in installments of [-] years, and a total of [-] million taels of silver will be paid to Daming with principal and interest. Every year before the first day of August, [-] million taels of silver or the equivalent value must be paid. property.

As soon as the "Erzincan City Agreement" was signed, it spread rapidly in the first time.

(End of this chapter)