Chapter 186 The Ming Dynastys voyages to the West!
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"Your Highness, the plague in the Golden Horde has stopped now, and the supply of goods is fully guaranteed. This time I brought three ships of female slaves, a total of 1,500 people!"
Maru Ali led the way while boasting to Zhu Hanhua about the "goods" he had brought this time.
Zhu Han had already heard about the plague that Malu Ali mentioned. _o_m
In fact, this plague has another famous name in history, that is, the Black Death.
That’s right!
It was the Black Death that killed one-third to half of Europe's population in history.
Ten years ago, the Golden Horde besieged the city of Kaffa on the Crimean Peninsula. The surviving Genoese in Kaffa returned to the Italian Peninsula after the war, but they never thought of bringing the terrible plague back to Europe.
The Black Death lasted for several years, killing nearly 25 million people in Europe. The last Black Death death spree occurred in the lands of the Slavs in Eastern Europe.
The terrible Black Death craze caused great losses to all commercial activities, including the most popular slave trade on the Eastern European plains.
That is to say, in the past two years, the Black Death, which blocked the transmission route by killing a large number of people, has gradually disappeared.
The slave trade on the Eastern European steppes gradually resumed.
The supply of goods in Maru Ali's hands is gradually becoming more and more abundant.
Therefore, the 1,500 Slavic female slaves Maruali brought this time were all of higher quality than the previous ones.
Zhu Han knew that Malu Ali, a Persian businessman, was a boaster, so he didn't have much reaction to his words.
Because everything needs to be seen to be believed.
but.
When Zhu Han came to the dock and saw these 1,500 Slavic female slaves placed in the open space, his eyes suddenly brightened.
"Good guy, they are all top quality!"
Zhu Han saw that although these Slavic female slaves had been through a long sea journey, they all looked good, many times better than the dirty, messy and slovenly ones from the previous two times.
Obviously, these female slaves were treated better during the long journey.
Maru Ali has already regarded these Slavic female slaves as his cash cow.
When sailing on the sea, ordinary slaves would huddle in smelly and stuffy cabins, and even be chained together. They would eat stinky beans or black bread, and drink bitter, stinky water.
In this harsh environment, many physically strong slaves would not be able to bear the harsh environment and would fall ill and die, not to mention those more fragile women.
Each Slavic female slave can bring nearly a hundred times the income to Maru Ali, so he will not tolerate the easy death of a female slave worth hundreds of gold coins.
These 1,500 Slavic female slaves lived in carpeted cabins during the voyage, drank clean water and fermented grape juice, and ate the finest sailor food. Therefore, these 1,500 female slaves actually
Miraculously, no death occurred, and each of them looked better and maintained their best appearance.
Zhu Han was also very satisfied with these fifteen hundred Slavic female slaves.
He looked at the little Slavic girl on the left who looked like Shcherbakova, on the right he looked at another young Slavic girl who looked like Trusova, and further forward there were several Slavic female slaves who looked like stars in various movies.
"Maru Ali, what you brought is really top quality!"
Zhu Han couldn't help but praise him, and Malu Ali immediately knelt down and kissed the floor tiles in front of Zhu Han, which made Malu Ali happy.
"As long as His Highness is satisfied, I am willing to do my best!"
Maru Ali, a Persian, not only spoke Chinese proficiently, but he was also able to speak idioms proficiently.
According to Zhu Han's previous regulations, these 1,500 Slavic female slaves had already been isolated and tested for illness on the island east of Zhejiang, ensuring that they would never bring any infectious diseases to the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the next process is familiar to everyone.
All these Slavic female slaves were handed over by Zhu Han to Natalie and Sophia, who conducted the first step of training and language training.
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When these two women, Natalie and Sofia, saw so many fellow Slavs, not only did they not feel the empathy that they had when they saw fellow Slavs, but they also felt that these new female slaves were a threat to their status.
However, these two women, Natalie and Sofia, are very smart. They both know that they have given birth to children for Zhu Han, and their status is already guaranteed. They will not do anything too outrageous. After all, these Slavic female slaves belong to Zhu Han.
Zhu Han cannot allow any loss of property.
Therefore, Natalie and Sophia can only vent their grievances in the process of training these female slaves.
Zhu Han was relatively confident in the training methods of these two Slavic concubines. He believed that within a month, these Slavic female slaves would be able to take up their new positions and provide a steady stream of joy to the men of the Ming Dynasty.
After all the procedures were completed, Zhu Han's officials did not settle the gold or silver coins for Malu Ali, but gave him a few bills.
These bills are printed with exquisite and complex patterns, and densely packed text is also printed on them.
Moreover, the bill was stamped with the seals of the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment and the Royal Palace.
These bills were invented by Zhu Han and were used to pay for the slave trade.
Because after Persian merchants like Malu Ali brought goods, they did not simply return to Persia with gold and silver coins, but had to exchange them for various commodities in the Ming Dynasty and bring them back.
Therefore, it was not very convenient for them to use gold and silver coins. They had to verify the quality of the gold and silver coins and also enhance the security of their own storage. It was really troublesome for these Persian merchants.
So Zhu Han directly issued such bills to Malu Ali. With these bills, Malu Ali could exchange them for the goods he wanted at any shipping company in Daming City.
Of course, if Malu Ali does not want to exchange them for goods, he can also use these notes to exchange them for gold and silver coins at any Seven Seas merchant.
Today's Nanhai Company is no longer a simple goods trafficking company.
Under the guidance of Zhu Han, his second brother-in-law Li Zhen has turned Qihai Company into a super giant with 200 branches.
Every state capital in the Ming Dynasty has the business of Qihai Company.
The Jinyiwei spies of the Ming Dynasty also used Qihai Company to quickly establish intelligence networks in various places.
After settling the deal for this group of Slavic female slaves, Zhu Han asked Maru Ali about the situation in Persia.
The Mongols, who once roamed across the Eurasian continent, established the Yin Er Khanate after conquering Persia and other places.
However, not long ago, the Yin Er Khanate completely fell apart and declared its demise.
Today, places such as West Asia and Persia are already in chaos.
Now that Zhu Han, the Persian merchant like Maru Ali, has a basic understanding of Persia and other places, it is time to send the Ming Dynasty's own ocean-going fleet to explore.
Malu Ali had also known for a long time that Zhu Han wanted to send the Ming Dynasty's navy to Persia and other places.
The Ming Dynasty's army crossed thousands of miles of ocean to go to Persia. Naturally, it could not be a simple sightseeing trip. _o_m
The purpose of the Ming Dynasty was nothing more than land and wealth.
Maru Ali knew all this, but he was not afraid that Persia would be invaded by the Ming Dynasty.
Because, for Persian businessmen like Maru Ali, they had no concept of a motherland at all.
Since the fall of Sasanian Persia, Arabs, Turks, Khorezmians and Mongols have taken turns to rule the land of Persia. The local Persians have never been able to control their own destiny. No matter who comes, they are subjects.
Therefore, if the Ming Dynasty's army could enter Persia and establish its rule, Persian merchants like Malu Ali would not have much resistance.
Even Malu Ali is very much looking forward to the Ming Dynasty's army being able to establish rule in Persia, because Malu Ali himself is now an official of the Ming Dynasty and has a good relationship with His Royal Highness the Ming Dynasty. Once the Ming Dynasty establishes its rule in Persia,
, will inevitably appoint himself as the local agent in Persia.
Malu Ali is indeed a clever businessman, and he has a pretty good guess about Zhu Han's psychology.
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Zhu Han learned from Maru Ali that since the demise of the Mongolian Yin Er Khanate, the West Asian Persia area has fallen into a melee between warlords from various places.
According to the historical trajectory, this situation will last for decades, until the rise of the famous cripple Tamerlane will control this area under his own brutal rule.
Therefore, according to Zhu Han's prediction, the Ming Dynasty only needed to send a few elite soldiers and generals, led by Maru Ali and other Persian merchants, to enter the coastal area of Persia and establish some strongholds to easily intervene in the local situation.
The Ming Dynasty's army had absolute advantages in training and equipment, but the fragmented small warlords in Persia had very low combat effectiveness.
Judging from what Maru Ali said orally, the combat effectiveness of the local Persian warlords is probably not comparable to that of the Goryeo army.
Zhu Han's Ming Dynasty's strategy of going to the West was intended to imitate the historical British East India Company model, use the Ming Dynasty's navy as the vanguard to open up the Maritime Silk Road, and bring all Nanyang, Tianzhu, Persia and Arabian maritime merchants under his control. , established the maritime order of the Ming Dynasty.
Then, Zhu Han supported Maru Ali and other Persians who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty to establish local rule and unite the separate Persian warlords, just like the British conquered India. Correct update @
As long as the Ming Dynasty established its own ruling power in Persia, it would be able to advance and attack and retreat and defend in the future.
To the east, you can conquer the Delhi Sultanate in northern India, and to the west, you can control the fertile land in the Mesopotamia.
The future world is a world where land and sea hegemony coexist, and Ming Dynasty must take the first step in its maritime strategy as soon as possible.
Zhu Han's conception of the Western Ocean Strategy has basically entered the stage of concrete implementation.
Everything is basically ready, just waiting for a suitable time to set off.
The Ming Dynasty slaughtered all sides on the Mobei grassland, not only conquered all tribes in Mobei, but also captured Aiyou, the young emperor of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.
Now, under Zhu Han's influence, he plans to exert his power on the ocean.
In all his actions, Daming seemed to have forgotten that he had another hostile force.
Chengdu, Sichuan.
The Emperor of the Han Dynasty, Chen Youliang, always had a gloomy expression on his face despite the congratulations from civil and military officials.
Not long ago, Chen Youliang sent tens of thousands of troops to attack various Tibetan tribes in western Sichuan.
In history, the Tubo Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty could be said to have fallen in love and killed each other.
And they also share the same fate.
When the Tang Dynasty fell into separatist vassals and towns and fell apart, the Tubo Dynasty on the plateau also fell into a great schism among warlords.
Moreover, the melee and division in Tubo became more serious. Until the Mongols conquered them, the various tribes of Tubo were still in a state of melee.
When the Red Turban Army rose up and turned the Yuan Dynasty upside down, various Tubo tribes frequently launched plunders in Sichuan and other places.
Especially after Chen Youliang led his army to occupy Sichuan, the Tibetan tribes were basically still loyal to the Yuan Dynasty, and even plundered the Chen and Han regimes.
Chen Youliang certainly could not tolerate this, so he sent tens of thousands of troops to attack these Tubo tribes.
After nearly half a year of fighting, all the Tubo tribes around Sichuan were defeated one by one and surrendered to the Chen and Han regime.
But Chen Youliang couldn't be happy at all.
Because these Tubo tribes were so damn poor, Chen Youliang sent out tens of thousands of troops and spent countless amounts of food and military pay, but he got a group of Tubo tribes who were so poor that they didn't even have a few iron pots.
The living environment of the Tubo tribe is harsh, and their agricultural and animal husbandry production levels are very limited.
If a slight disaster occurs, it will be difficult to even support oneself. Now even if you surrender to Chen Youliang, you won't be able to squeeze out much profit at all.
For Chen Youliang, the war against the Tibetan tribes was basically a business where he lost his pants.
Nowadays, Chen Youliang doesn't have much money left in his warehouse.
Moreover, what made Chen Youliang even more depressed was that the conquered Tubo tribes were not only poor, but they also could not contribute much manpower.
The warriors of the Tubo tribe are in Gao. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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Everyone on the original ground was full of vigor and vitality. Even if their weapons and armor were very crude, they were brave enough to fight and fight hard.
But once these Tubo warriors left the plateau and came to Sichuan to join Chen Youliang's army.
But everyone was dizzy all day long, sleeping for at least seven or eight hours every day, and was unable to march and fight at all.
Chen Youliang was also very helpless towards these Tibetan warriors who "went up to the mountains like tigers and went down to the ground like worms".
It was impossible to fight with a bunch of sleepyheads, so we had to send them back.
In fact, Chen Youliang didn't know that this was a common physiological reaction. The Tibetan warriors on the plateau were in a low-oxygen state all year round. They had become accustomed to the environment on the plateau, and suddenly came to the ultra-low-altitude oxygen-rich area of the Sichuan Basin.
A drunken oxygen reaction will definitely occur, and being drowsy all day long is the most common symptom.
If these Tubo warriors are given more time to adapt, they will soon be able to regain their combat effectiveness.
However, Chen Youliang did not have the patience to train Tibetan soldiers to serve him.
Conquering these Tubo tribes did not allow Chen Youliang to gain any increase in national power.
It can only be regarded as allowing the Chen Han regime to reveal its strength as a regional overlord.
However, all this, along with the news of a series of victories in the Ming Dynasty, made Chen Youliang's hard-earned martial arts look so humble.
"Zhu Chongba has now not only surrendered Liaodong, but also allowed Zhu Han to surrender Mobei. The Mongols will no longer be able to threaten the Ming army."
In the back hall of the Chengdu Imperial Palace, Chen Youliang was summoning his younger brother Chen Youren, Prime Minister Zou Pusheng and others to discuss.@ .
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