As Auburn explained the matter clearly, Levi did not order all the Dutch to be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks, as Auburn imagined.
Instead, he opened his mouth and gave instructions.
"Watch these red-haired people closely, don't let them cause anything!"
"Go back and report to the court and ask what should be done with these red haired people who violated the court's ban."
"Before the reply from the imperial court arrives, all these red hairs will be thrown into the labor camps!"
The Ming Dynasty built several fortresses and military ports in Malacca to garrison troops and protect the Malacca waterway.
Today, most of the land around these fortresses and military ports is still wild.
The Ming Dynasty wanted to establish farmland and develop trade around the fortress and military port, so it had to develop the surrounding areas.
As we all know, many people will die during the process of land reclamation.
This is when the labor camps come in handy!
Lister and others were escorted back to Malacca, and then landed at the commercial port of Malacca and were sent to the inn in the port for resettlement.
Before the news came back from the Ming Dynasty, Liszt and others were not allowed to leave a certain area of the inn.
It would be an understatement to say that they were imprisoned!
However, after Liszt and others saw the life of the Dutch in the labor camp in Oban, they instantly lost their resentment.
Rather than being thrown into a labor camp, they were just imprisoned, which seemed pretty good.
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Sirosin was an Ottoman.
Before the new routes were opened, the Ottoman Empire played a very important role in the trade between the East and the West.
Well, that’s right, they are the famous Erdao dealers!
It was precisely because they taxed so harshly that the Europeans had to start the Age of Discovery.
Find a new route to the east to avoid the Ottomans' attacks.
You can imagine what happened later!
As the new sea route to the east was discovered, the oil and water that the Ottomans could obtain from the east-west trade was greatly reduced, almost directly cut in half.
This forced the Ottomans to give up their original way of making money by sitting on the ground and collecting money. They could only follow the example of the Westerners and send fleets to the East.
Get ready to participate in East-West trade!
It was against this backdrop that Siren led his team to the East.
And like Liszt, Siroson also came with some political missions.
He came to the East on behalf of the Ottoman Sultan Muhammad IV to re-establish contact with the Ming Dynasty.
That’s right, just get back in touch!
Because, before Jiashen, there was a relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire.
Ottoman paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty several times and even donated matchlocks.
The Rumi gun recorded in Zhao Shizhen's "Military Illustrations" was the matchlock gun donated by the Ottomans.
Rumi refers to the Ottoman Turkish Empire!
But after the Jiashen period, things changed drastically, so contact with Osman was cut off.
Of course, the biggest purpose of Siroson's visit this time was to do business with Daming.
The land connection between the Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire was cut off. If you want to do business, you can only do business by sea!
Fortunately, Ming Dynasty has now turned its attention to the sea.
Not only captured Nanyang, but also occupied Malacca.
Osman wanted to contact the Ming Dynasty, but it was much more convenient.
Looking at the Strait of Malacca not far away, Siroson opened his mouth and ordered.
"Order the brothers below to close the gun windows, put away the weapons, and prepare to be inspected by Ming Dynasty!"
The Ming Dynasty inspected ships entering and leaving Malacca very strictly.
What kind of cargo and how many weapons are on the ship must be checked in place.
But since there were no rules for navigation in this era, the Ming Dynasty would certainly not require that cannons be installed on merchant ships.
If the merchant ships of this era were not equipped with cannons, they would be fine in the harbor. No one would dare to cause trouble under the eyes of the Ming Dynasty.
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However, although it would be impossible without artillery, the Ming Dynasty did not just let these merchant ships go.
The Ming Dynasty stipulated that all foreign merchant ships must have their gun windows nailed shut before entering the port.
Wait until the ship leaves the port before opening the gun window!
Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty fleet and coastal defense forts would enter the harbor as soon as they discovered that a merchant ship had not nailed the gun windows.
It will sink it directly!
Siroson didn't want to take a gamble on whether the Ming army's coastal defense artillery group would fire on them.
They had just nailed the gun window shut when they saw a small black dot appear at the end of the sea level in the distance.
The small black dot expanded little by little, and the outline of the ship appeared.
It was the patrol ships deployed by the Ming army outside the Strait of Malacca that were approaching the Ottoman ships.
There was still a long distance between the two sides, so they waved flags to each other.
The Ming Dynasty's patrol boat successfully boarded the Ottoman ship for inspection. After being inspected again, Siroson and others sailed the ship into Malacca.
Just after entering the Malacca Channel, Sirosun saw a series of blue-gray forts on the shore.
Blue-gray forts are lined up one after another, and the black muzzles are very eye-catching.
Each artillery piece is aimed in the direction of the channel, which is full of deterrence.
The forts looked like apex predators lying prone, ready to hunt at any time.
It makes people afraid to look directly!
Carter, Siroson's adjutant and a nobleman, stood on the deck of the ship, counting the number of artillery pieces in the fort group on the shore in detail, and opened his mouth unconsciously.
"One hundred and thirty-one cannons!"
"Your Excellency Silosen, that is a total of one hundred and thirty-one artillery pieces!"
"The Ming Dynasty has too many artillery pieces!"
One hundred and thirty-one artillery pieces, the number is not an exaggeration, but what you need to know is that this is only the first fort group they saw after entering the Malacca Channel.
How many such fort groups are there in a waterway that is hundreds of kilometers long?
How many artillery pieces do these fort groups have in total?
No one knows!
Therefore, Carter was really stunned by the number of artillery pieces that appeared in front of him.
Siroson was also shocked.
But their shock didn't stop there. As they went deeper and deeper into the channel, more and more merchant ships appeared in front of them.
Merchant ships, large and small, enter and exit the waterway, inspecting goods and paying taxes.
A large number of merchant ships enter and leave the waterway, bringing incomparable prosperity, massive goods, and a large amount of wealth and taxes...
Zhu Hongyu was able to spend a lot of money on the war in the Ming Dynasty, and the Malacca Waterway, a golden waterway, made a great contribution.
As the choke point connecting the East and the West, Malacca's importance is self-evident.
The Ming Dynasty was able to control Malacca, and the profits it brought were unimaginable.
The Ottoman fleet led by Silosan docked at the port of Malacca City. Although this city on the chokepoint between the East and the West was still very young.