In a sea area on the east side of the Black Sea, two ships were sailing towards the east amidst fierce waves. The flags of the Crimean Khanate were hoisted on the ship's masts, but this ship looked like it was built by the Ottoman Empire, because
Everything on the ship is in the style of Ottoman shipbuilding.
"Murad, how long will it take to reach Georgia?"
Haji, who was dressed as a Mongolian nobleman, suppressed the tumbling in his stomach and asked the people around him. The Haji next to him was dressed as an Ottoman Empire, wearing a robe and a big white bag on his head.
"According to calculations, we should be able to arrive in Georgia today."
"But now it is no longer called Georgia, but is called Nanyun. It has come under the rule of the Ming Empire, so the general should pay attention to this when talking to the Ming people, otherwise the Ming people may be unhappy."
Murad thought for a while and replied.
"Is Ming really that powerful?"
Haji pondered slightly, thought for a while and asked.
"General, everyone knows how powerful the Ming Dynasty is. Not only was our Ottoman Empire defeated by the Ming Dynasty, but even the Hax Khanate has surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. It needs to attack the Ming Empire with 100,000 good horses every year."
"The Timurid Khanate that previously ruled the South Caucasus was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty's attack. As for England, Portugal and France in Europe, they were defeated by a fleet of the Ming Dynasty and the Spanish."
"The ancestral land of the Mongols is now the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Mongols have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty."
Murad nodded solemnly and said.
He was originally a businessman from the Ottoman Empire, specializing in the Black Sea route. He had two ships traveling between the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire, and sold white slaves captured in the Crimean Khanate to the Ottoman Empire.
However, this war severely damaged the vitality and strength of the Ottoman Empire. The Crimean Khanate, which had always submitted to the Ottoman Empire, finally rebelled and broke away from the control of the Ottoman Empire.
As a businessman, he was also very unlucky. He was captured by the Tatars before he could leave the Crimean Peninsula. Then he followed the Tatars and took two ships of white slaves to prepare to go to the South Caucasus.
These white slaves were sold to the Ming Dynasty.
The Crimean Khanate rebelled against the Ottoman Empire, and the relationship with the Ottoman Empire naturally reached a freezing point. The traditional slave trade naturally had to change its partners.
The many legends about the Ming people had naturally spread to the Crimean Khanate long ago, and the captured Ottoman merchants also knew that the Ming Dynasty had a very strong demand for slaves, and they were quite generous.
This is good news for the Crimean Khanate, which relies on the slave trade, and it is in urgent need of selling all the slaves in its hands.
So this time, the Khan of the Crimean Khanate, Mingli~Gelei, also sent Haji and two ships of white slaves to the South Caucasus to trade with the Ming people. At the same time, he also hoped to establish a relationship with the Ming people.
Establish a friendly relationship.
(Note: When you see the name Mingli~Gelei, you will naturally know that it is a European name, but it happens to be the name of the Khan of the Crimean Khanate. This Crimean Khanate is the former
The Golden Horde was split from the Mongol Empire, which was split from the Mongol Empire. It has always been ruled by the descendants of the Golden Horde, so it should be named after the Mongols.)
(But in fact, the main reason is that there are very few real Mongolians. There were only tens of thousands of real Mongolians in the original Golden Horde. They ruled such a large territory, and most of the population were not Mongolians. In addition,
Due to the lack of own culture, he was quickly assimilated.)
(Just like many khanates in East Asia, they quickly became Sudanese. The Golden Horde is also similar. Minggeli~Gelei’s grandfather is called Baldy Timur, and he is the son of Genghis Khan’s eldest son Jochi.
The son, the brother of the famous Batu, can be known from here that he was quickly assimilated by the local people in just two or three generations.)
"Mongolia?"
After hearing Murad's words, Haji couldn't help but recall the glorious history of his ancestors. The huge Mongol Empire had an equally huge territory. At that time, the Mongols conquered the east and west and destroyed countless countries.
But in the blink of an eye, more than a hundred years passed, the once powerful Mongolian Empire disappeared, and the descendants of the Golden Family were scattered everywhere. The ancestral lands of the Mongols were all occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and the arrogant Mongols were now also occupied by the Ming Dynasty.
Give to rule.
Just thinking about it makes people sigh.
Haji is a high-level official of the Crimean Khanate. He has won the trust of the Khan. He has also followed the Khan for a long time and knows the dilemma that the Crimean Khanate is currently facing.
Mingli Khan was captured and imprisoned by the Ottoman Empire in the past, but later he chose to surrender to the Ottoman Empire and regained his freedom.
In the struggle with the Golden Horde, its strength began to grow continuously, and finally last year, it successfully destroyed the Golden Horde and replaced the Golden Horde's position on the Kipchak grassland.
This year, we seized the good opportunity of the Ming Dynasty to start a war with the Ottoman Empire and successfully got rid of the control of the Ottoman Empire.
But Mingli ~ Grai is obviously not satisfied with this. The former Golden Horde was very large, and now it is divided into the Crimean Khanate, the Kazan Khanate, the Siberian Khanate, and the Astrakhan Khanate.
The Crimean Khanate was just one of them, inheriting the Kipchak region at the core of the Golden Horde.
Therefore, Mingli~Gelei naturally wanted to destroy several other khanates and unify the entire Golden Horde. If possible, he even wanted to restore the glory of the Mongol Empire.
But all this requires strength. Years of wars have greatly weakened the strength of the Crimean Khanate. In addition, after rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, it lost the most important white slave trade, which hindered the development of the Crimean Khanate.
It became even more difficult.
The Crimean Khanate urgently needed to continue its own white slave trade, selling the white slaves plundered from the Ross grasslands in the north in exchange for grain, iron, salt, cloth, etc.
The white slave trade existed in the past during the Golden Horde, but the Golden Horde was so powerful that the slave trade was only a small part of the equation. It was different in the Crimean Khanate.
The economy of the Crimean Khanate was almost entirely supported by the white slave trade. It was very large in scale and almost became the foundation of the Crimean Khanate.
The main sources of slaves in the Crimean Khanate were the Russians in the north, who were the ancestors of the Russians who later became world-famous, followed by the Slavs in Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and other places who believed in Catholicism or Orthodox Christianity. In addition, the slaves in the Caucasus region
The Caucasians were also an important source of slaves for them.
In addition to launching wars to plunder slaves on its own, the Crimean Khanate would also take advantage of the hostile relationships between surrounding countries, cooperate with some countries, or find leading parties to capture and sell slaves.
One of the biggest features of the Crimean Khanate's white slave trade was its massive scale. In a war more than 20 years ago, the Crimean Khanate captured tens of thousands of slaves at one time and sold these slaves to the Ottoman Empire.
After that, the Crimean Khanate tasted the sweetness and never stopped.
War was launched almost every year to plunder the surrounding areas, so that Eastern Europe and the Rus region had been plundered by the Crimean Khanate for a long time, leaving scars all over the place. For a long time, their development was far inferior to that of Western Europe.
Of course, these are all things for later. The current dilemma faced by the Crimean Khanate is that it urgently needs to sell the slaves in its hands and exchange them for the property that the Crimean Khanate needs.
The two ships of white slaves Haji brought this time, totaling more than a thousand people, were all slaves accumulated this year. They were all Russians plundered from the Russian grasslands. Such white slaves were in Crimea.
There are tens of thousands of them in the country, all waiting for slave merchants to come to the Crimean Peninsula to buy them.
The two ships continued to advance on the Black Sea, cutting through the waves, and finally arrived at the West Pole Port in the afternoon of that day.
"Dang~dang~"
In the West Pole Port, the watchtower first spotted the two ships, and the bells rang soon.
"There are two ships~There are two ships~"
Those who heard the news immediately looked towards the sea hurriedly, and soon saw the flag of the Crimean Khanate flying on the mast of the ship.
"They are Crimean Tatars~"
"They are Crimean Tatars~"
The local Caucasians in West Pole Harbor screamed in horror. They had been plundered by the Crimean Khanate for a long time, which left an extremely deep impression on them. At the same time, it also left an unforgettable fear. As long as they saw this
flag, they will choose to run away immediately.
In the West Pole Port, the Caucasian people who were busy running were running faster than rabbits one by one. They were so frightened that some of them screamed while running. When they saw children and women, they quickly told them to run away, especially women. In these Caucasus areas,
The most valuable thing is also the favorite object of the Crimean Tatars.
The originally orderly and extremely busy Xiji Port suddenly turned into chaos due to the arrival of the Tatars, so much so that the Ming army stationed here were dumbfounded.
Each one of them waited until his eyes looked at these Caucasian people like frightened birds, not understanding what was going on.
Just two Crimean ships, are they so scary?
Didn’t you see dozens of Ming Dynasty’s powerful battleships in the port?
Didn’t you see that there are hundreds of powerful artillery pieces on both sides of the port, enough to block the sea area, making it impossible for any ship to enter the harbor?
Didn't you see that there are tens of thousands of Ming troops stationed here? These tens of thousands of Ming troops are enough to deal with several times the number of elite troops. How can these Caucasians be frightened like this by just two ships?
