Chapter 1723 Father will tell you after the capture of Egypt
Hearing his son's words, Yun quickly looked sideways, then was stunned for a moment and asked: "Why do you think it should be one of these two places?"
"My son once heard his father say that the most valuable places in the world are the Central Plains and India. If we occupy these two places, the Ming Dynasty will have no worries and there is no need to capture other places. Moreover, there are many foreign countries in Southeast Asia that are still independent. If
If we want to expand our territory, wouldn't it be easier to conquer these foreign countries in Nanyang? Why go to the west to seize land? So the son thought that his father would not occupy large areas of territory in the west."
"The land west of Egypt is too far away from the Ming Dynasty and is not connected by sea. It is very difficult to occupy it, so it will not occupy the land west of the Mediterranean."
"Since it does not occupy a large area of land, and it occupies the land west of the Mediterranean Sea, it must be a choke point. The two places the son pointed to are, one is where the Red Sea connects with the Indian Ocean, and the other is Egypt and Suez.
The son believed that it was most likely that his father would seize these two places, which are the chokepoints connecting the east and the west."
The moment he heard Wen Di's words, Yun even had an idea in his mind why he was not the eldest son. However, he immediately suppressed this thought and said with a smile: "Wen Di, you are right, my father wants to seal the title."
Your place is Egypt, and the most important thing you must capture is Suez."
He was going on to talk about the important status of Suez, the original alliance with Castile, and the Ottomans, a powerful local leader who also wanted to go south to seize Egypt, but suddenly Wen Di came back again.
He said: "Father, my son still has something to puzzle about."
"What's the matter?" Yun's words were held in her mouth, and she almost couldn't breathe, so she paused and said.
"The son just guessed that his father wanted to occupy these two places because the Ming Dynasty occupied these two places for the greatest use. But the son also believed that even though these two places were the most worth occupying in the western land, the Ming Dynasty occupied these two places.
The gain outweighs the loss. My father is a wise man and he should have realized this, so why do we still want to occupy Suez?" Wen Di said.
As the son of a former part-time pirate, Wen Di knew much more about business than other princes, but for this reason he felt that it was not necessary for the Ming Dynasty to occupy Suez. As mentioned earlier, now it is Fu, the Tianfang country needs the Ming Dynasty's goods, not the Ming Dynasty
It is true that the goods imported from Tianfang and Fu were bought by many people in the Ming Dynasty and the price was high. Male and female slaves with golden brown hair from the West also gradually became similar to the "Kunlun slaves" of the Tang Dynasty.
"Servant" gadgets are deeply loved by wealthy families, but after all, there are very few such goods. It is still the Ming Dynasty that exports more goods to Western countries, and the West exports less goods to the Ming Dynasty.
In this case, the Ming Dynasty did not need to occupy Suez at all. Anyway, no matter who occupied Suez and other places, they would not cut off trade in order to make money. At most, they would collect a little more tax. Westerners would buy it anyway, and the extra tax would be transferred to them.
If the merchants of the Ming Dynasty would not suffer losses, why should they seize Suez?
Yun thought for a while and felt that it was better not to tell him her true thoughts for the time being. She just said: "First of all, because it is in the middle of the trade between the East and the West, the Mamluk country is very wealthy, but they don't need too many goods. There are so many
It is a waste of money to put it in their hands. Whether it is taken away by the Ming Dynasty or taken away by the country, it is better than putting it in their hands."
"Secondly, my father cannot tell you now. He will tell you after the capture of Egypt and your return from Egypt."
"Yes, father." Hearing what his father said, Wen Di didn't ask any questions.
After that, Yun talked about the alliance with Castile and also mentioned the intentions of the Ottomans. Wendi did not care about the threat of the Ottomans, but thought to himself: "After taking this place, we have to give it to
Castile, why do we have to send troops to capture it? What on earth is my father planning?'
But his attention was immediately taken away by the next point. "Father, my son wants to marry the princess of Castile as his official wife?" Wen Di said with an excited expression.
Seeing her son lose his temper like this for the first time today, Yun thought to himself: 'You behave like a young man like this.' He said: "You are not the princess of Castile. The current princess of Castile
The monarch is young, and the previous monarch only has one child and no daughter. There is no princess who can marry you, so you want to marry the princess of Aragon. Aragon and Castile have very good relations, and they are almost the same country.
In a country, the current king of Aragon is also the uncle of the current king of Castile, so marrying the princess of Aragon is not much different from marrying the princess of Castile.”
"Can it still be like this? Can the royal family of this country go to neighboring countries to inherit the throne? Since the relationship between the two countries is so good, why don't they merge into one country?" I only had a superficial understanding of the Fu country before, but this is the first time I heard that the Fu country is completely different from the Ming Dynasty.
Wen Di asked in surprise when the inheritance system was different.
"My father can't explain this well. Let Claviyo explain it to you when he returns from India." Yun said.
Wen Di did not dwell on this question because there were more worthy ones: "What does the princess of Castile and Aragon look like? How old is she? There seems to be some people in the country with yellow hair.
There are also people with black hair, brown hair, and gray hair. What color is her hair?"
"What does she like? Is she a docile woman? Or is she a hot-tempered woman?"
"Can she speak Chinese? Does she understand the customs of the Ming Dynasty? Can she be filial to her parents-in-law and take care of things at home like the daughter-in-law of the Ming Dynasty?" Wen Di asked a lot of questions in succession.
Listening to his son's question, the smile on Yun's face became wider and wider, and finally said: "Haha, Wen Di, you are still a young man, so nervous about your future wife."
"Dad, what's wrong with my son asking these questions? Haven't you always been unwilling to let us marry blindly? The second uncle and the fourth uncle are all the second aunt. The fourth aunt likes the person. The third uncle has also been secretly looked at by the third aunt. It's not
You only get married if you don't like it. The eldest brother's marriage is not a blind marriage. The eldest brother and his sister-in-law have known each other before. How come it turned into a blind marriage when it came to my son?" Wen Di said.
Yun laughed again, but his expression suddenly became serious, and Tong Wendi said: "You can also meet the princess of Aragon before marriage. Fu's etiquette for women is lighter than that of Ming Dynasty. But no matter how much you care about Aragon,
Whether the princess is satisfied or not, you can only marry her."
"Not only that, you can't take concubines. Although you can have a concubine, you can't officially welcome a concubine into your home. The children you have with your concubine can't inherit the family property, let alone inherit the throne, so you must have at least one child with your head wife.
Next child.”
"What? You can't take concubines, and children born from outside the family can't inherit the family business? What if the main wife has no children?" Wen Di asked in surprise.
"According to Fu's rules, if your main wife has no children, the family property and the throne will be inherited by your brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces. But you don't have to worry, if your main wife has no children, all the property and the throne of your outer family will be inherited.
The son born to you will be recorded in the name of your brother, and then he will inherit the throne as your adopted son. Or, you will abandon this royal family, and then marry a young princess from the Kingdom of Castile or Aragon, and have a child with her.
The child inherits the throne." Yun said. Although Fu's inheritance system is very strict on the surface, there are actually loopholes that can be exploited. However, both husband and wife are Fu nobles, so it is easy to offend the other party by taking advantage of such loopholes. However, this was not the case in the Ming Dynasty.
of concern.
Wen Di relieved his depression a little. As long as his son could inherit the throne, it didn't matter whether his concubine could come in or not.
But he was even more confused: "My father said before that after seizing Egypt, all the soldiers dispatched by the Ming Dynasty would evacuate from Egypt, and not too many Han people would be moved to Egypt; after his son married the princess of Aragon, he would have to follow the rules of the Fu royal family."
According to the rules, it can be seen that although the king of this feudal country in Egypt is a son, it is actually a Fu country, and the connection with the Ming Dynasty will not be very close. Even if the Kingdom of Castile must be allowed to control Egypt, the Ming Dynasty will
Why send your son to Egypt when you can just send troops to help?"
Yun hesitated for a while and said, "Father will explain this to you after Egypt is conquered."
"Can't you tell your son now?" Wen Di muttered.
Yun pretended not to hear his muttering and spoke again. "In addition to Egypt, I also asked the country of Castile to provide Tunisia, a place south of the Mediterranean Sea as a dowry. Since there is a dowry, Ming Dynasty will of course also provide it."
The bride price. My father will make another fiefdom for you in India."
"You still want to give your son a fiefdom in India?" Wen Di asked.
"Of course." Yun said. "This place won't be very big, but it should become a very important trade place between the East and the West. Father will have to consider the specific location."
Yun didn't care about the dowry and fiefdom matters. He proposed that Castile needed Tunisia as a dowry just to further stick Castile to the Mediterranean, and had no intention of controlling Tunisia; of course, in
The country of Castile does not need to control India's dowry gift. At most, it enjoys some trade privileges.
Yun said a few more things, and finally said: "Currently, the Kingdom of Castile has not captured Tunisia, so the attack on Egypt will not be launched in the next few years. In the past two years, you have been in the capital to learn more about the West.
After two years, Castile still has not captured Tunisia. If you are willing to stay in the capital and wait, you can also go to India to go to the dowry place."
