Hearing King Chu's roar, Salah was immediately dumbfounded. He had learned the Ming Dynasty dialect, and of course he knew what it meant to divide the body with five horses.
At the same time, he really couldn't understand that he came to propose marriage properly, but the other party didn't treat him well, but actually wanted to kill him.
"I am an envoy of the great Ethiopian Empire, you cannot kill me!"
"If you kill me, the army of my Ethiopian Empire will kill you all."
"I came to propose marriage with good intentions, and I didn't cause any offense to you."
Salah kept roaring and struggling, trying to propose marriage properly, but who could have imagined that it would lead to death.
"Shut up~"
"I, the Princess of Chu, are so noble and noble. How can you barbarians be qualified to propose marriage?"
A minister immediately reprimanded angrily.
"Why are you not qualified?"
"Our great Ethiopian king is a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Our king's bloodline is equally noble and holy. How could he not be worthy of your princess of Chu?"
When Salah heard this, he couldn't help but get excited.
Ethiopians have always considered themselves white and Arabs from the Middle East. As for their king, he claims to be a direct descendant of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He prides himself on being of noble status and extraordinary dignity, even in the past.
At that time, the Spanish Kingdom of Castile was still interested in marrying them.
But in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, they were barbarians and had no qualifications to be worthy of their Chu princess. This made Salah feel very humiliated and was severely despised.
"What about King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba~"
"They are just barbarians."
"Just look at the betrothal gifts when you propose marriage. You don't even understand the etiquette. What are you if you are not a barbarian?"
Another minister couldn't help but sneered.
"Drag it down and cut it into pieces~"
"Save someone for that lazy toad, go back and tell him to wait until I destroy the country."
When the King of Chu listened to the conversation between his ministers and the other party, his face turned black and he roared angrily.
Talking about such things made King Chu feel that he had no face at all, and he wished he could lead his army to destroy the Ethiopian empire now.
"No~no!"
"You will definitely regret it, you will definitely regret it, and the great His Majesty Naod will definitely take revenge!"
Being dragged out, Sahara couldn't help shouting loudly.
Seeing being dragged out to beat Salah, King Chu's face turned dark and his eyes were red, like an angry lion.
"My lord, it is easy to kill this Salah."
"But this will definitely anger Naod, who will soon send troops to attack our Chu country."
Liu Jiang stood up and said worriedly.
"Just come and come~"
"I'm still afraid of him."
The King of Chu replied childishly, but he soon sat down in his seat, regained his composure, thought for a while and said: "Qin Yuan, you should set out immediately to exterminate the rebellion. You have to do it quickly, you have only seven days.
Suppress the rebellion. If the rebellion is not suppressed within seven days, come back immediately."
"Purchase more weapons and equipment from Tianjin Ocean Trading Company and prepare for war."
"In addition, ask for help from other vassal states and colonies and ask for their support."
"Purchase grain from other vassal states and colonies in large quantities, stock up on grain, and prepare for a protracted war."
"But your lord, there is not much money left in our treasury."
"Pick up the antique calligraphy and paintings in the palace and sell them. If it's not enough, I'll get them on credit first. I won't believe it. I won't get any money on credit."
"Yes~"
Upon hearing this, the ministers nodded quickly and began to prepare quickly.
"Our Chu State must build a powerful army that can overwhelm the armies of all directions. I will never let my descendants endure such humiliation like me!"
King Chu looked at the ministers who were preparing, clenched his fists tightly, and secretly made up his mind.
When I was the King of Chu in the Ming Dynasty, I lived a very comfortable life.
I often feel that what Emperor Hongzhi did was average. If he were the emperor, he would definitely do better.
But after coming overseas and establishing his own vassal state, he understood the difficulties of being the king of a country.
When he wants money but has no money, and when he wants people but no one, he will suffer such humiliation.
Only at this moment did he understand that the emperor was definitely not that easy to do. He was just a small Chu State, and the area he controlled now was only the size of a state.
It would be really difficult to manage such a huge empire with a territory as huge as the Ming Dynasty, with a population of hundreds of millions.
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On the other side, Addis Ababa, the capital of the Ethiopian Empire, is an ancient city with a history of thousands of years.
In this ancient city, you can see churches built with rocks and castles full of European flavor everywhere. Although it is far away from Europe, it is an enclave of Christianity. Beliefs, architecture, customs, politics and many other aspects are influenced by the Christian world.
The influence has been sustained ever since.
This is the miracle of black Africa and the beacon of civilization in the black African region.
Compared to the pitch-black world in other Black African regions, this is the only region in Black Africa that has an ancient and glorious civilization.
In the huge palace built of rocks, Naod was praying devoutly to God, praying that God could give him some guidance.
The Ethiopian Empire's life was not as easy as imagined. It was surrounded by sultanates of all sizes. Among them, Adal Sultanate on the east coast of the Red Sea had the worst relationship with the Ethiopian Empire.
Because of issues of faith, Ethiopia has been at war with seven or eight surrounding sultanates, large and small, for hundreds of years. Almost every once in a while, these sultanates will form an alliance to wage jihad against the Ethiopian Empire, trying to conquer this Christian land.
The enclave was wiped out.
Faced with such a situation, the Ethiopian Empire actively fought on the one hand, relying on strong force and its terrain advantages. The Ethiopian Empire has always been in an advantageous position and was often able to win wars.
However, this also attracted the attention of the powerful Mamluk Kingdom in the lower reaches of the Nile River in the north. The Mamluk Kingdom of Egypt often provided support to the surrounding sultanates.
This once angered the Ethiopians. In the early 14th century, the Ethiopian Emperor Amda Saiyon even threatened to divert the Nile River to retaliate against the Egyptian Mamluk Kingdom downstream.
In general, life for the Ethiopian Empire was not easy. They were on the roof of Africa, had limited resources, and were surrounded by powerful enemies. It was extremely difficult for them to persevere.
In recent years, as the Ming Dynasty began to enter Africa on a large scale, a large number of vassal states and colonies were established on the east coast of Africa.
The entry of such a powerful force quickly changed the situation here.
Mogadishu in the south was occupied by a royal family of the Ming Dynasty and established a brand new state of Chu. The state of Chu believed in Buddhism and vigorously suppressed the original Muslims and asked them to convert.
This caused strong dissatisfaction among the surrounding sultanates, large and small. For this reason, they went to war with the Chu State many times. The Chu State was a vassal state affiliated with the Ming Empire. The legendary Ming Empire was the most powerful empire in the world. Even though
Even the powerful Ottoman Empire was beaten to pieces by the Ming Empire.
Although the Chu State is small and has a small population, it has won many great victories and its territory has continued to expand, even to the Ethiopian Empire.
The battle with the Chu State allowed Naod to see the power of the Ming Dynasty. Although they did not have an advantage in numbers, the powerful cavalry had muskets and artillery, and the Ethiopian Imperial Army suffered heavy losses.
If the opponent's number had not been too small, the surrounding area must have fallen into the hands of the Chu State long ago.
This is a truly powerful and terrifying enemy.
He has already heard about all kinds of things about the Ming people.
Even through the ships of the Ming Dynasty, the Ethiopian Empire reconnected with the Christian world in Europe. Spain and Portugal both sent envoys to Ethiopia.
The European Christian world also attaches great importance to this Christian enclave. Even when the envoys from the Ethiopian Empire arrived in Spain, the whole of Spain was even more excited than when they had discovered the New World.
Through the Spanish and Portuguese, Naod learned how powerful the Ming Empire was. The Chu State in front of him was just an insignificant vassal state under the huge system of the Ming Empire.
But even such a small vassal state, with tens of thousands of Ming Dynasty people, is as stubborn as nails and stands firmly here in Izumo City, and is still rapidly expanding in all directions, replacing the original ones.
The arrogant sultanate was spanked to the point of peeing.
The Mamluk Kingdom of Egypt, which always likes to interfere in these matters, does not even dare to let out a fart about this.
Naod saw all this clearly, so he felt that if he could marry with the Chu State, the two countries could join forces to wipe out all these sultanates, large and small, and carve up East Africa together.
This is a vast land.
But who knew that the reaction from the Chu State would be so violent, as if they had suffered humiliation, and even the envoys they sent to propose marriage were killed, as they wanted to fight to the death with themselves.
"Proud Ming people, I will let you know that the blood of our Ethiopians is equally noble. We are different from these dark black people. We are the direct descendants of the noble King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Nobility flows in our blood.
bloodline!"
Thinking of this, Naod couldn't help but clenched his fists. It was the first time he was despised and looked down upon by others.