1825 My New Daming

Chapter 260 Daming Dajin Comes Together to Help Persia (Please Subscribe, Please Ask Monthly Pass)
In the ninth year of Taiping in Ming Dynasty, at the beginning of November.

Four Arabian dhows filled with Persian wheat and Persian coal sailed into the port of Muscat, which was full of steam warships, but the masts of these four Arabian-style sailboats loaded with Persian wheat and coal were impressively suspended. With the big golden dragon flag and the envoy flag of "Dajin Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Imperial Envoy and Peace".

Surrounded by a group of yellow jackets, the ones who disembarked from one of the Arabian dhows that transported wheat turned out to be the foreman of the Kingdom of Jin, Minister Tianji, Tai Chi Pavilion Grand Scholar He Shen, and Lao Zhongtang.

He Shen was born in 1750 in the Western calendar, and will be 80 this year.However, his old man's body is still strong, and he can still travel all over the world for the Dajin Kingdom.This time he flew to Tehran on an airship of Daikin HNA, and then took a carriage to Ahvaz, which is adjacent to the Persian Gulf in southern Persia, where he bought two shipments of coal and two shipments of wheat, and then went to the sea. Carter, I helped Zhuge Weidao.

Yes, just to help.The colonists are enthusiastic people. If they don't stay at home, they like to travel thousands of miles to help others.

After being invited by Zhuge Weidao to his residence in the East Kuayuan of Heiwang Mansion, he and the old man clarified their intentions while sipping the Arabic coffee brewed by Ali himself: "Brother Daozi, this old man is here for you, for Daming Please help! No, I heard that you are short of coal and food here in Muscat, so I sent you 1000 tons of Persian wheat and Persian coal. Let’s use it first. If it’s okay, look back The old man will arrange someone to deliver it to you again!"

Hearing this, Zhuge Weidao burst out laughing, looked up at He Zhongtang, who had cultivated immortality, and asked with a smile: "He Zhongtang, the King of Persia agrees to you coming to help?"

He Shen shook his head and said with a smile: "To be honest, that Fateh-Arisa is a little ignorant of good and evil. He thinks that my Dajin Kingdom wants to plot his poverty, and he is not willing to let my Dajin Heavenly Soldiers enter the arena with dignity."

"Haha," Zhuge Weidao smiled, "Then this is a fool!"

He Shen nodded in agreement: "That's right, he's a fool! His uncle who was a father-in-law left him a lot of property, and he has been tossing him to this point. My emperor really can't see it, so he wants to see it in brother Helping him out of friendship, I didn't expect him to know what to do. This is really embarrassing!"

"It's really difficult, what should I do?" Zhuge Weidao asked with a smile.

He Shen frowned, "That's right, this stupid gentleman doesn't know how to be decent, so someone has to help him to be decent!"

Zhuge Weidao asked again: "Who is this person?"

He Shen pointed at Zhuge Weidao, then pointed at himself, and said with a smile: "Of course you Da Ming and our Da Jin went to Da Ming and Da Jin to serve him. If he doesn't know how to be decent, then he will I can't take it anymore."

"That makes sense," Zhuge Weidao nodded, "Then how can our two families help Persia together?"

He Shen said: "There must be a division of labor and cooperation in this matter. Some people pretend to be villains and others pretend to be good people." He glanced at Zhuge Weidao, "Brother Daozi, do you think this old man can pretend to be a villain with this appearance?"

"It's a little bit worse," Zhuge Wei said with a smile, "You are always kind and kind, and you don't look like a villain, or I'll pretend to be a villain!"

He Shen twirled his beard and said with a smile, "Then let's pretend to be a good man! Brother Daozi, do you know how this wicked man pretends to be?"

"I know, I know," Zhuge Weidao nodded, "I will send two Arabian sailboats to Qeshm Island to buy salted fish. Maybe someone will get lost on the island, and then I will send a few marine battalions and a few An armored cruiser to find it! If you find it, you will drive out the Persian defenders on Qeshm Island! Do you think this will work?"

"Okay, okay, okay." He Shen nodded again and again, "After my Dajin soldiers enter Persia, I will persuade the king of Persia to sell this Qeshm Island to the Ming garrison! With this island, Hall The Strait of Hormuz is easy to block. If the big British fleet comes, you, Dao, can lead the fleet to hide in the Persian Gulf, and then block the Strait of Hormuz with mines, and you can rest easy."

Hearing what He Shen said, Zhuge Weidao nodded his head and said: "Okay, this matter is settled like this, we will send people to Qeshm Island to buy salted fish immediately!"

The entrance to the Strait of Hormuz is very narrow, between Ras Al Khaimah and Qeshm Island, the narrowest point is more than 50 kilometers.If you build forts at both ends and deploy cannons with a range of more than 20 kilometers, you can almost block them.

Of course, the current artillery technology is still a little bit uninteresting, but as long as the mine is cut off in the middle of the 50-kilometer water area, 25 kilometers will be blocked, and the remaining 20 kilometers will be divided by 2, which is more than ten kilometers of water surface.For shore-based large-caliber cannons, this is not a problem at all.

So after entering Muscat, apart from worrying about the demolition and construction of the pirate beach in Ras Al Khaimah, Zhuge Weidao was discussing with his staff how to get Qeshm Island. This island is actually Oman and the disputed islands of Persia.Supporting the Sultanate of Oman to seize it by hand seems to be more tenable in jurisprudence.

But what about after you grab it?

If the sovereignty of the island belongs to Oman, how can Ming take it?Concession land?Or a territory sale?The former has serious troubles in the future. Once the lease period is up, people may have to take it back!The latter is also troublesome. The sale of the disputed island to a third party must be agreed by both parties in dispute. Otherwise, what if the party who does not agree will take it back in the future?
The importance of Qeshm Island is comparable to Temasek Island and Batam Island, the Suez Canal, and Gibraltar. It will be the most important shipping node in the world in the future.It must be controlled in the hands of the Ming Empire as much as possible. It is not safe to be controlled by a vassal state or in the form of a concession.

Egypt, Alexandria.

On the second day after Heshen's visit to Muscat, Zhuge Weidao's elder brother, the Consul General of Ming Dynasty in Alexandria, sent Ali Pasha another shocking news--King of Jin is about to send troops to Persia!
"What? The Kingdom of Jin is going to enter Persia?" Ali Pasha, who was wearing a cool Arabian robe and fanned Zhuge Jun's goose feather, was taken aback when he heard the words, "What does Daoguang want to do?"

"Daoguang wants to go to the sea... that is the dream of the Kingdom of Jin for more than 100 years!" Zhuge Weixue said, "Pasha, don't hesitate to wait any longer. into the hands of Persia. What will you do then? Are you willing to be the governor of Egypt for the rest of your life?"

"But..." Ali Pasha frowned, as if he was still hesitating, "The British Consul General has made it clear that the territory and sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire except Greece are complete!"

"Pasha," Zhuge Weidao said, "the British are powerless to interfere... As long as you successfully capture Damascus, Baghdad and the Holy Land, and then support the Hashemites in the Holy Land as caliphs, you have the righteousness to rebuild the Arab Empire name.

What can the British do with you?Send troops to Baghdad?None of their fleets can enter the Persian Gulf.

It is impossible to send troops to Damascus. The large fleet of the Raksha people is still in the Eastern Mediterranean. The British would not want to conflict with the Raksha people there.

As for Egypt, it is impossible to be attacked by Britain, because when the Suez Canal was built, Ming Dynasty, France, Britain, Rakshasa, Austria, and Prussia jointly guaranteed that Egypt would always belong to you and your descendants. "

Ali Pasha took a look at Zhuge Weixue, and finally showed his cards: "Consul General, the Arab Empire must have a navy to protect itself. We cannot rely on the guarantee of the great powers for our safety. We must become a great power! Your Ming Dynasty is willing to help Shall we build a navy? But we can't afford battleships right now, can you give us a cheap but effective offshore defense ship? I need them to hold the Red Sea."

(End of this chapter)