In a castle in Colombo, southwest of Ceylon, Adar is enjoying his wonderful life.
He was the city lord of the Persians on the Island of Ceylon. His ancestors came to the Island of Ceylon to sell gems, spices, etc., and finally settled down slowly on the Island of Ceylon.
As more and more Persians came to Ceylon, they finally established the Lion City here.
With the Lion City as the center, the Persians also occupied a piece of land on the Island of Ceylon. However, the Persians and Middle Easterners who came to the Island of Ceylon were mainly merchants, mainly coming to the Island of Ceylon to sell gems and spices.
However, in the past two years, with the arrival of the Ming Dynasty merchant ship, they also began to do some resale transactions.
Myrrh, frankincense, ivory, coral, pearls, etc. from Africa were sold to the Ming Dynasty, and then the silk, porcelain, glass products, cloth, and sugar of the Ming Dynasty were resold to the Middle East, Persia, and Tianzhu.
Just relying on such simple transit trade, the Persians here on the island of Ceylon made a lot of money and became rich quickly.
Compared to the gradual selling of gems and spices in the past, the profits from the transit trade are much greater.
The silk, porcelain, glass products and sugar brought by the Ming Dynasty merchant ships are very popular in the Middle East and Persia, and the profits are more than ten times. One trip back and forth to Persia and Ceylon, the profits are astonishingly high, almost
Driven by tenfold or hundreds of times profits, more and more Persian merchants came to Ceylon.
This made Adal's life as the lord of the Lion City more and more comfortable. Just collecting taxes here made him consider establishing a Persian empire on the island of Ceylon.
"The hateful Portuguese actually blocked the Persian Gulf, sank our merchant ships, and wanted to monopolize India's spice trade."
Adal's face showed anger. He had just received news that the Portuguese who had recently arrived in Calicut, India, were very arrogant. They not only attacked and occupied Calicut, but also began to blockade the Persian Gulf and expel Middle Eastern and Persian merchants.
, intending to monopolize the spice trade in India.
This is tantamount to huge bad news for merchants in Persia and the Middle East.
They have been making a lot of money from this trade route.
The spices here in India are very cheap, but as long as they can be transported to the Mediterranean and sold to Venetian merchants, the price can immediately increase several times.
Now the Portuguese appeared here and expelled them very tyrannically, sank their merchant ships, blocked the Persian Gulf, and sent ships to patrol the routes.
This is tantamount to cutting off their financial resources.
The spice trade is not yet the most important. Now with the emergence of the Ming Dynasty, the trade with the Eastern Ming Dynasty? Silk, tea, porcelain, glass products and sugar from the East have slowly replaced spices and become the most popular.
Trade goods.
Now that the Portuguese are doing this to them, are they going to cut me down? Not to mention making a fortune? If I want to return to Persia in the future, I will risk being sunk by the Portuguese.
"Damn, greedy Portuguese~"
"I curse you to hell!"
Thinking of this? Adal couldn't help but cursed.
He had already planned it. As long as it continues to develop like this for two years, after tens of thousands of people have migrated from Persia, he will establish his own kingdom on the island of Ceylon.
But now, everything seems to be like a dream.
If the Portuguese do this, let alone establish their own kingdom, their future financial resources will be cut off.
Adal couldn't help but stroke his beautiful beard? He swore by his beard that he would give these Portuguese a lesson and let them know how powerful he was as a Persian.
Just thinking of the Portuguese warships made him tremble slightly.
How did the Persian merchants who had just arrived in Ceylon know that the Portuguese warships were very terrifying and the artillery was very fierce? Perhaps only the Ming Dynasty could defeat these Portuguese.
"Something bad is going to happen, something going bad is going to happen!"
At this moment? Someone walked in hurriedly and started yelling anxiously before they arrived.
Adal was touching his beard. Hearing the words of the visitor, he couldn't help but tremble. When he pulled his hand, several strands of his carefully tended beard were torn off.
"Something had better happen? Otherwise I will kill you to honor my noble beard."
Adal was immediately angry. He quickly looked at a full-length mirror and looked carefully, feeling extremely distressed.
Persians and Middle Easterners value their beards most, which need to be carefully taken care of without any disorder.
"On the sea, there are many, many ships on the sea~"
The visitor was immediately frightened and stuttered.
"Many boats?"
When Adal heard this, his eyes widened slightly. He didn't even care about his beard and asked quickly: "Whose ship is it?"
"The Ming Dynasty has many, many, hundreds of large ships!"
"People from Ming Dynasty?"
When Adal heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
It's fine if it's a Ming Dynasty ship, as long as it's not a Portuguese ship.
The Ming Dynasty is different from the Portuguese. The Ming Dynasty people are more honest in doing business, and they are not arrogant or domineering. Although they have powerful force, they will never use force easily.
His favorite people are the people of Ming Dynasty.
Every time a merchant ship from the Ming Dynasty came over, it would bring him huge wealth.
This time, when he heard that hundreds of large ships were coming, he immediately became happy. These hundreds of large ships can carry a lot of goods. When the time comes, he can collect a heavy tax and buy the Ming Dynasty people at a high price.
Goods can be sold at high prices when resold.
Then he sold the gems purchased at the land price on the island to the people of Ming Dynasty at a high price. With such a simple transaction, he could earn a lot of silver and gold.
"Perhaps we can consider purchasing some battleships and artillery from the Ming people. This way we can teach the Portuguese some lessons and let them know how powerful we Persians are."
Adal couldn't help but think so in his heart.
"boom!"
But before he could walk out of his castle, there were bursts of roaring sounds outside.
"Hey~"
Then, accompanied by a whistling sound from far to near, cannonballs fell from the sky into this small lion city.
Immediately, countless screams rang out in this lion city, and the panicked woman even made terrifying screams. Under the terrible artillery attack, every house was turned into ruins in the blink of an eye.
"what happened?"
Adal's head is buzzing, who is attacking us?
"It's a Ming Dynasty person, it's a Ming Dynasty person!"
"They're shooting at us!"
Soon, someone hurried over, sweating profusely, and said anxiously.
"People from Ming Dynasty?"
"What are they doing to open fire on us for no reason?"
Adal was dumbfounded and confused about the steamed buns.
In his impression, the people of the Ming Dynasty were gentle and gentle, like gentlemen. Even if he collected more taxes, the people of the Ming Dynasty would often not have any objections.
People from the Ming Dynasty gave him the feeling that they were easy to get along with and easy to bully.
But now, the people of Ming Dynasty actually attacked them, and they almost didn't ask why, they just opened fire on them.
"Where did we offend the people of Ming Dynasty?"
Adal's head was buzzing, and he didn't care about the danger. He hurried to the castle wall and suddenly saw large ships on the sea forming a formation.
The side of the warship was aimed at the Lion City. As the thick smoke rose, shells roared towards the city. At the same time, at the port outside the Lion City, the ships of the Ming Dynasty were moored, docked, and disembarked from these ships.
Groups of Ming troops.
These Ming troops were well-trained. After disembarking, they lined up neatly, like squares, and occupied the port in the blink of an eye.
They were extremely well-equipped, wearing armor and helmets. Most of them held bright swords in their hands, while a few carried muskets and bows and arrows.
At the same time, some cavalry quickly disembarked, gathered in the open space, and then quickly drove towards the castle, tightly surrounding the Lion City, and rushed to kill anyone they saw.
“He is really from Ming Dynasty~”
Adal was a little unbelievable. The dragon flag of the Ming Dynasty was very easy to recognize, and the ships of the Ming Dynasty were also easy to identify. There was no mistaking them. These were people of the Ming Dynasty.
"City Lord~"
"He's from Daming~"
"There are so many of them, what should we do now?"
Someone hurriedly came to Adal's side and shouted anxiously that there were too many people in Ming Dynasty.
Groups of Ming troops disembarked from hundreds of large ships and quickly surrounded the Lion City. The Persians in the port outside did not even block their wave of attacks and quickly killed them all.
The captives also become prisoners.
The warships of the Ming Dynasty were still bombarding continuously, and the roaring shells made people couldn't help but change their colors.
Fortunately, for no reason, the Ming people actually attacked them. They were all confused about this. It seemed that the Persians really did not blame them.
The walls of this small lion city are very short and not strong. How could it withstand the attack of the Ming Dynasty?
"Let everyone prepare for battle. Pass on the order. Everyone comes to the city to fight. They must hold it."
Adal was also panicking. At this moment, he very much hoped that the people coming to attack were the Portuguese. At least the Portuguese were very few in number, so they still had hope of being able to block their attack.
But there are too many Ming people in front of us.
Hundreds of large ships and a steady stream of people began to land. The Lion City was soon surrounded by them. With the thousands of Persians in the Lion City, what could they do to resist the attack of the Ming Dynasty?
But even if they can't stop them, they still have to resist. They can't just surrender. Once the Ming people attack, who knows whether the Ming people will kill them all.
At this moment, he finally understood how terrifying the people of Ming Dynasty were. The people of Ming Dynasty were definitely not as gentle and gentle as he had seen before. They also had a cruel and terrifying side.