open sea

Chapter 844 Kingdom
Mr Philip was thinking too much.

Between the vast Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, there really is a Han Kingdom. They are related to Ming Dynasty, but have nothing to do with Chen Mu.

The Kingdom of Han had its own unique political system. Several kings jointly governed and jointly controlled the army. The general with the highest official position in the army was called the admiral, and he was equipped with [-] warships. The military rank also serves as the local chief.

Some officers also serve as tribal chiefs in countries on the east coast of Africa.

The country's main income is not the taxation of the people, but the plunder of other countries' fleets. Its tactics are like the Mongols on the sea. It gathers a prairie fire and disperses a sky full of stars. It is good at using a small number of fleets as bait to lure the enemy fleet into the ambush circle, and divide the troops to attack and fight quickly. quick decision.

But in terms of diplomacy, not only the Spaniards and Portuguese hated the Han Kingdom, they sheltered the Ottoman Empire of all beliefs and colors and fought against infidels under the banner of the Crescent Moon, the Turkic Safi Dynasty inherited the Persian heritage, and the Turkic Mongols established The Mughal Empire did not like them.

Even if the Han Kingdom didn't have the ability to threaten their huge country, they just didn't like it.

Hey, isn't this a coincidence?Yin Zhengmao didn't like this Han country either.

The Minister of Western Affairs of the Ming Empire even publicly stated at the banquet in Goa for the envoys from various countries: "I have suppressed pirates and bandits for the country all my life, so I said why they are silent, so they escaped here - dare to crack the earth Be king!"

The world environment is too exciting for Lin Ahfeng!
Just after repelling the fleet assembled by the Portuguese, Li Mao, the king of Dan who was in charge of the north in Han, heard that Ottoman and the Arab tribes built a port shipyard on the Arabian coast and mobilized Moorish pirates to conquer them; the four kings set fire to Ottoman's harbor At that time, the Ming merchants who bought goods in the east brought the news that Yin Zhengmao, the minister of Western countries, was raising troops to fight against the thieves.

To be honest, Yin Zhengmao couldn't bear it anymore. Originally, Lin Feng and others were pirates making waves in the Daming sea area. Zheng Shuo, at first he had a good impression of this group of people.

Although there are bad deeds of defrauding the jewels of the Lion Kingdom, looting Goa, Arakan and other places, Yin Zhengmao compares himself to the adults and doesn't care about them.

But the problem is that these people have been causing trouble for the Western Fleet.

Foreigners can't tell which is the Han Dynasty and which is the Ming Dynasty. The sun and the moon can learn from the sky. The Western Minister Yin Zhengmao has always wanted to convince people with virtue.

Just last year, his generals Zhang Yuanxun and Qi Jimei led two squadrons to escort merchants to and from the Persian Gulf. When they returned from Kuwait City and passed Bahrain, when their former military fleet wanted to dock in Bahrain, they occupied Portugal, which had been waiting for a long time. The fleet rushed out immediately, and the former army fleet survived until the main fleet arrived at the cost of the sinking of two [-]-material warships and the serious injury of a [-]-material battleship.

Later Portugal and the Ottomans lost Bahrain, an island rich in pearls.

Due to the weak national power of Portugal, Portugal’s overseas power cannot provide enough support in the local area. Once the governors of various places cannot overwhelm the local power, they will choose to integrate into the local area appropriately. This strategy, for example, the Portuguese in Macau and the Portuguese in Myanmar Burmese, the Portuguese in Bahrain also tried to move closer to Ottomans.

But this is just a strategy, not really close.

But the situation was different after the Han Dynasty cut off the southern African route. All the governors and parishes, including Goa, did not receive any support from their own country, and this kind of integration became real.

For example, the Portuguese who occupied Bahrain still paid pearls to the Ottoman Empire as a tax in exchange for proper protection. Sometimes, they would also accompany the Ottoman fleet to attack the Arab tribes.

People are usually not so narrow-minded when they are rich and powerful. This is the case with the Ottoman Empire in this era. It can ally with France, send envoys to Ming Dynasty, and accept a group of pagans from Portugal.

In fact, this is very interesting. Although the Christian world and the Middle East have fought their brains out for hundreds of years, the two sides have always had extensive diplomatic and commercial ties, and even wars cannot stop them.

Ottoman, on the other hand, has been introducing European talents during the long war. Their religious strategy is non-intervention and maintaining the status quo. Compared with Ottoman, who has an imperial demeanor, the methods of Catholic countries are extremely rough and incompetent.

The loss of Bahrain almost led to a state of hostility between the Western Army and the Ottoman Empire. What happened to this?
The Portuguese in Bahrain saw the warships of the Ming Dynasty approaching from a distance. They thought it was the plundering fleet of the Han Dynasty. Under the turmoil, they decided to strike first. Later, Zhang Yuanxun's gunboats burned and sank 31 large and small ships at sea. The Portuguese army With his Arab troops fleeing back to land, he was beaten up by Qi Jimei's Zhedong bird gunner equipped with Nanyang guns.

In the end, things were handled well. Yin Zhengmao did not want to go to war with a behemoth like Ottoman, and the Ottoman merchants in the port of Bahrain also had lingering fears about the failure of the Portuguese.

The Western Military Government received the land of Bahrain as compensation for the loss of the fleet, and the Ottoman Empire purchased [-] barrels of "Sichuan Fierce Fire" from the Western Military Government in the second year after the incident, which is now the sixth year of Wanli. happened before.

The so-called Sichuan Fierce Fire is the naphtha distilled from petroleum by the Sichuan Chengxuan Zhengsi and Bozhou Xuanweisi. The name of petroleum was not given by Chen Mu, but by Shen Kuo, who wrote "Mengxi Bi Tan" in the Song Dynasty. Sichuan was the first to use natural gas for cooking. It is unknown who the people are, but Shen Kuo called on more people to cook with natural gas.

The Ottomans also have weapons similar to the fire oil tank, which also use the air pump mechanism to ignite.

But this is not the first time that the Western Army has been attacked because of Han's misconduct.

The Western Military Mansion has been wiping Lin Feng's ass, and no one is happy to do this too much. No one can keep wiping others' ass, but Yin Zhengmao failed to start his expedition after all.

In October of the sixth year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli sent a few people from Beijing. These Jinyiwei and eunuchs brought letters and canonized edicts to read the orders from the Forbidden City to the Western ministers.

"Your Majesty wants to canonize four pirates!"

Even if Yin Zhengmao is not willing, he must not go against the emperor's will. If he is in the country, he may still argue, but when he is an overseas feudal official, he does not enjoy the freedom of speech like a minister in the middle of the country. Yin Zhengmao is very clear about this .

Helpless, the Western Military Government had to put down their flags and drums, and had to pinch their noses to assign warships to several small islands in the Han Kingdom to look for Lin Afeng's traces. How annoying is this?
　Good morning!

　　
　
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