In the Middle East city of Baghdad, with the recent turbulent situation, Baghdad also changed hands several times. Initially, it belonged to the Timurid Empire, and then the Timurid Empire collapsed and disintegrated after being defeated by the Ming Empire.
Baghdad fell into the hands of the Ottoman Empire again, but soon after the Ottoman Empire provoked the Ming Dynasty, its strength was greatly reduced. The Persian Empire, who saw the opportunity, took the opportunity to seize Baghdad.
But soon, as the Ottoman Empire and the Ming Empire negotiated peace, the Ottoman Empire quickly recaptured this important city in the Middle East.
In a very short period of time, this ancient city changed hands several times. The entire city was devastated, with ruins everywhere. Innocent people endured the pain caused by the war, either crying or suffering alone.
In some dilapidated cities, people here seem much calmer.
For the people living here, they seem to be used to all this.
The fertile Mesopotamia has attracted too many strong men since ancient times, wars are too common, and every inch of land here is flowing with blood.
Everyone is used to it.
After the war, they were like weeds that had been burned by fire, quickly growing back tenaciously, quickly tidying up their homes, and continuing to live.
On the ruined streets, people are busy, either cleaning up the ruins, or selling some of their belongings.
Grain, dates, weapons, horses, camels, cloth, etc., these are the most common goods here. Of course, there are also some merchants who sell goods from all over the world here, which gradually restores the place.
The prosperity of the past.
The location here is quite good. It is in the fertile Mesopotamia and is rich in products. In addition, it is connected to Central Asia and West Asia to the north, the Persian Gulf to the east, and has direct access to the Indian Ocean. It can reach Tianzhu and the Nanyang of the Ming Dynasty.
To the south is the Arabian Peninsula, which is home to many tribes, and to the west you can reach the Mediterranean Sea, Europe, and Africa.
It can be said that the location here is quite good, and businessmen in the Middle East have liked to travel around and earn wealth since ancient times. Therefore, even though it has just experienced the war, Baghdad is slowly becoming more prosperous.
"Drive~"
"Drive~"
Accompanied by the sound of horse hooves, a caravan from the Ming Dynasty slowly entered the city of Baghdad, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.
People from the Ming Dynasty have only slowly begun to come to the Middle East in recent years.
Along with the people of the Ming Dynasty came the exquisite goods of the Ming Dynasty, such as porcelain, silk, cloth, sugar, spices, tea and other goods. There were too many, too many merchants because of their relationship with the people of the Ming Dynasty.
The trade between the two countries quickly made them rich.
The products of the Ming Dynasty are very popular, whether they are traditional porcelain, silk, spices, tea, etc., or new sugar, cloth, glass products, etc., they are very popular in the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, etc.
welcome.
Not to mention here in Europe, the price is high, and you can make a lot of money with just one hand. Therefore, whenever a Ming businessman arrives in Baghdad, it will immediately attract a large number of businessmen.
After all, in this era, there are still only a few people who have the ability to organize ships to go to Tianzhu. The main way of doing business for most Middle Eastern merchants is to rely on camels to travel around the country.
"Daming people~"
"Ming Dynasty businessman~"
As the convoy of Ming merchants entered Baghdad, the merchants in Baghdad soon became wildly excited. Before the convoy stopped, a large number of merchants were already following them, preparing gold, silver and goods in their hands, ready to buy Ming people.
things in hand.
Soon the convoy stopped in an open area. Xu Rong, a Huizhou merchant from the Jiangnan area, stepped out of the four-wheeled carriage and looked at the lively crowd in front of him.
"Post the notice first~"
Xu Rong said to the waiter beside him.
"Yes~"
When the clerk heard this, he immediately took out a large stack of printed sheets from the carriage, and dozens of clerks quickly began to post them around.
“What are these Ming people posting?”
When the people around them saw it, they immediately became curious and hurried to look at the notices posted one after another.
"The Ming Empire and the Ottoman Empire jointly offer a reward!"
"A reward for Aziz~Nasser, a Samara native, a nobleman, thirty-two years old, who killed five Ming people, and a reward of 20,000 taels of silver, as long as he can kill this person and take his head to the Ottoman Empire.
Or wherever Ming merchants are located, they can get twenty thousand taels of silver!"
The reward order was written in four languages: Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Daming. It also had a clear portrait and detailed description of the identity, age, gender, origin, etc. of the person being rewarded.
"Hiss~"
"Twenty thousand taels of silver is equivalent to twenty thousand Ming Dynasty silver coins!"
As soon as I looked around, I couldn't help but take a breath.
The reward amount of 20,000 taels of silver was so huge that everyone around him couldn't help but have red eyes.
Such a huge amount is enough for someone to become rich overnight. You must know that even in the Ming Dynasty, an ordinary person's annual income was only a few dozen taels of silver.
It takes hundreds of years to earn it.
For the more barren and backward Middle East, 20,000 silver dollars is absolutely an astronomical figure. Even for the many businessmen in Baghdad who travel all over the world to do business, this is also a huge amount of wealth.
"Lord~"
"Twenty thousand Ming Dynasty silver dollars~"
"The reward is still offered in the name of the Ottoman Empire and the Ming Empire. It is absolutely guaranteed to be true and valid."
"Aqiz~Nasser, I know this big noble, the Nasser family of Samara is a very famous big noble around us."
"I didn't expect that he would be offered a reward~"
"Isn't it mentioned above that he killed five Ming people, so he was offered a reward."
"This Ming Dynasty man is not easy to mess with. Just because five people died, he directly offered a reward of 20,000 silver dollars to arrest one person. The key is to get the Ottoman Empire to jointly offer a reward and arrest him."
"Isn't that right? The Ottoman Empire invaded the Hezhong area of the Ming Empire. As a result, the Ming Empire directly sent troops to attack the Ottoman Empire. Hundreds of cities were slaughtered and millions of people were sold to the Ming Dynasty as slaves.
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The people around me were constantly discussing while watching.
Reward orders were posted one after another, with each person being rewarded clearly written on them.
There are nobles from the Ottoman Empire, who basically killed and maimed the Ming people in their hands, so they were rewarded; there were also businessmen from the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire, who were offered rewards for selling Ming people; there were also cavalry from the Ottoman Empire,
Officers, etc., were rewarded for ordering the killing and massacre of Ming people in the Hezhong area and luckily escaping back.
In short, what these people have in common is that they offended the Ming Dynasty. The lowest reward was at least 5,000 taels of silver, and the highest reward for Enver, an Ottoman officer, was as high as 100,000 taels of silver.
This Enver was one of the few high-ranking generals who escaped from the Transoxiana region and returned to the Ottoman Empire. He directly commanded the massacre of a town in the Transoxiana region, and because of his foresight, he escaped arrest by the Ottoman Empire officials. Now he is also on the bounty and wanted list.
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"As long as you find one, you will get rich~"
"Isn't that right? Didn't it say above that as long as you provide valuable information, you can get certain rewards. You don't have to kill these wanted criminals."
"There's a guy here who looks a little familiar. It seems like I've seen him somewhere."
"real or fake?"
"I don't remember either~"
Everyone looked at the reward notices carefully, their eyes turned red, and they quickly compared them with the people they met in their minds. It was originally very lively, and the people who gathered around the caravan also quickly gathered around each one.
Near the reward list.
"If you dare to kill us Ming people, even if you escape to the ends of the earth, you will never have a chance to live a peaceful life for a day!"
Xu Rong looked at the people gathered near the reward orders and listened to their discussions, and couldn't help but smile.
In fact, it was not only his caravan that was entrusted by the Ming court to carry these reward lists to various places, but Ming merchants doing business in the Middle East, Persia, Europe, Africa, the Ottoman Empire and other regions were also entrusted with this entrustment.
The Ming court asked them to take these reward orders to various places where they were doing business, and to offer rewards to these people on a large scale, and the rewards were set very high. Anyway, it was the Ottoman Empire that ultimately paid the bill. Of course, even if the Ottoman Empire did not pay, the Ming Dynasty
A huge amount of funds has also been prepared here to pay the bounty.
There is only one purpose, and that is to let people all over the world know the consequences of offending the Ming Dynasty. If you kill a Ming Dynasty person, you must prepare your whole family to be retaliated by the Ming Dynasty people, and be prepared to be rewarded by the world.
With the expansion of Ming Dynasty and the increase of foreign trade, merchants of Ming Dynasty are also walking in every corner of the world. Whether it is Tianzhu continent, the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, or various European countries, there are merchants of Ming Dynasty.
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Their safety is naturally very important. It is not enough just to have a powerful Ming Empire behind them. Everyone must also know how ruthless the Ming people are, and let everyone know the consequences of offending the Ming Dynasty.
So taking this opportunity, the Ming Dynasty also offered this sky-high reward, with the purpose of telling the people of the world the consequences of offending the people of the Ming Dynasty.
For businessmen like Xu Rong who travel around the world, this is naturally what they want to see the most. Doing business has not been easy since ancient times, especially when you have to face thieves, bandits, etc.
With such a sky-high reward, Xu Rong believed that it would be safer to walk around the world in the future, because before touching the Ming people, he had to weigh how much money his head was worth.
