The demise of the empire is sometimes much faster than the world imagines!

The rapid destruction of the Safi Dynasty may have no effect on the Ming Dynasty thousands of miles away, but it caused an unprecedented sensation in the Near East and Europe.

Perhaps Europe once called itself a "center of civilization", but Europe at this time was not after the 18th century, nor after the 19th century. In Central and Southern Europe, they had to face repeated attacks by the Ottoman Empire.

In fact, compared with Europe, the Green World in the 17th century had more capital to look down on the world. Through thousands of years of hard work and expansion, the Green Church had grown from an unknown small sect on the desert beach to a large and fastest-growing religion in the world.

What did the world look like in the 17th century?

The Christian world has just revived, and the Chinese world is in turmoil and war.

To a certain extent, the Green Church is the master of this planet. Unlike Europe's expansion into the ocean, Green Expansion is rampant in Central Europe towards the Ottoman Turkey on the mainland, they ravaged Hungary and besieged Vienna. Thousands of miles away, another Green Empire, Mughal Empire, is also expanding its empire southward. If there is no external force to stop them, they will inevitably become conquerors of the entire peninsula.

Green and green are widely spread among the nations in Africa, Central and Southeast Asia as a belief. The ones they are most proud of are its "great empires", the Ottoman, the Safi and the Mughal Empire.

These three empires may have conflicts with each other, but they are enough to make any Lulu yearn for it. After all, this is a strong man who can stand out in the world.

In an era where strength is paramount, strength is undoubtedly the easiest to be recognized by people.

And now... Safi is perishing!

This news was like a thunder, first spread to the Ottomans, to the Caucasus, and then passed through word of mouth by Armenian merchants, Jewish merchants and Venetian merchants, and soon spread to Europe, and the whole of Europe was shocked.

After all, Europeans knew the Safi Empire very well. As early as the 1530s, they formed a Habsburg-Persian alliance with the Austrian Habsburg Dynasty to jointly fight against the Ottoman Empire militarily. In the face of national interests, the so-called belief is simply bullshit. In order to fight against the common enemy, what's the big deal if it's with the devil?

It is also because of this that in the past 100 years, the envoys of the Safi Empire have often entered and left the courts of European countries and have always been the guests of the courts of European countries. Now, when the news of the demise of the Safi Empire by the "Tang Kingdom", while the envoys of Safi were driven out of the court, European countries were also full of curiosity about this "Tang Kingdom that rose on the grassland".

After all, it was not just the Tang Dynasty that destroyed Safi, but they fantasized about whether Tang Dynasty would become their ally against the Ottomans.

So soon all kinds of rumors about the Tang Kingdom spread in Europe.

All the people in Tang Dynasty are actually Ming people.

What is the Tang Dynasty a rebellion in the Ming Dynasty?

Although such rumors have a lot of moisture, they are roughly the same. What interested Europeans the most is probably the Persians who forced the surrender of Tang to change their beliefs. This is simply considerate.

No one knows the threat of green and green better than Europeans. Whether it is Spain, Central and Southern Europe, they are all affected by the Ottomans and Moors, and there is no need to mention the Balkans.

Tang Kingdom, this is a typical ally who can cooperate!

Just as the Europeans were happily thinking about whether to not send people to contact the Tang Kingdom, another amazing news came to the Ming Dynasty in Europe and sent their mission to Europe!

The news came from the French, but no one knew the truth or falsehood.

The Ming Dynasty sent a mission to Europe?

Is this possible?

That empire that was so arrogant that even excluded the world from their homeland, would they actually take the initiative to send missions?

While Europeans were full of doubts about the authenticity of this news, the Ming Dynasty's mission fleet headed north along the west coast of Africa, and the biggest enemy along the way was wind and waves. After all, the Ming Dynasty fleet was very strong, and whether it was pirates or privateers from various countries, they definitely did not dare to provoke them.

After Zhang Mingzhen commanded the fleet to sail through the Cape of Good Hope, he encountered a strong storm soon. In the strong wind, the mast of a ship broke. Faced with such an environment, considering that this sea area was completely unfamiliar and the navigator was a Portuguese second-five-child, the Ming fleet's route in western Africa must be led by the Portuguese. Zhang Mingzhen suggested to Zhu Youbin to find a suitable bay along the coast as a sailing base so that Ming ships will rest by port in the future.

Zhu Youbin of course immediately agreed to this suggestion.

So the fleet began to take advantage of the opportunity of docking and resting to search for suitable harbors to set up strongholds. After the storm, within two days, the fleet discovered a bay, with a quiet bay, deep water and wide bays, which was a typical natural harbor that could escape wind and waves.

In another world, it is called Port Walvis, located in central Namibia, and is its second largest city. It is a natural port on the west coast of Africa.

"Zhu Shengwu, you lead a team of people down and take a look!"

Under the command of the captain, Zhu Shengwu immediately dozens of crew members hung down a rope and drove several sampans into the bay. While detecting the depth of the water, he looked at the bay in front of him.

The sea water in the bay is clear and green, with seagulls and wild ducks by the sea, and dozens of dolphins happily following the boats at the bow. It can be seen that they have no fear of people, and sometimes birds even land directly on the boat.

“This place is really good…”

Looking at the bay from the telescope, Zhu Youbin couldn't help but say, although the beach was a desert that was endless.

"Although it's a little more desolate, the environment in the bay is good. I think I'll take a rest here..."

As his words fell, on the sea in the distance, a group of whales spewed out water columns made Zhu Youbin smile.

"There are many whales here, so I think they are called "Whale Bay"!"

"Whale Bay" is also the nickname for Port Walvis in another world.

After resting in "Whale Bay" for more than half a month, the fleet continued to move forward after repairing the mast. When the fleet left, there was a simple port and a stronghold stationed by thirty people.

Well, there are more than a hundred slaves who have just been captured. There is no way, the fleet cannot leave many people here, and using slaves is inevitable.

Whale Bay Port also appeared on the Ming Dynasty's nautical chart and became the first stronghold of the Ming Dynasty on the west coast of Africa. Subsequently, the Ming Dynasty's fleet headed north and found as many as twelve bays along the way, without exception, all of which were natural ports in later generations.

Because of this, the fleet's itinerary was delayed. After all, every port needs to build a simple fortress.

So much so that it was not until May of the fourteenth year of Gansheng that the Ming fleet finally sailed across the African coast and approached Europe.

"Prince of the County? Are we going to Portugal?"

Faced with Zhang Mingzhen's problem, Zhu Youbin vetoed it without hesitation.

"Portugal is going to go, but not now. You must know that in the past two years, we have stolen many Portuguese colonies. Even if the fleet is strong enough, we cannot just break through. If it causes a misunderstanding and fight, even if we don't suffer any losses, the ending may not be good. After all, we will come here this time and we will sign a peace agreement with Portugal. Let's wait..."

It is not convenient to go to Portugal, so there is no need to go to Spain. After thinking about it, Zhu Youbin asked.

"Ask Sarnando, if you don't go to Portugal and Spain, where is the right place to go next?"

Sarnando is the Portuguese second-five-child on the ship. He is the Ming Dynasty who defected to Macau and is also the navigator for this trip.
Chapter completed!