Steam Daming: Stop calling me to supervise the country

Chapter 314 The King's Hand
When O'Hara, the Hand of the Ottoman King, came to the other side of the Mediterranean Sea, he brought his escort to the outside of Suez, and sent someone to convey that he had come here.

When Zhu Zhanqian received the news, he was a little worried, afraid that the other party would see the current situation of his team, because their supplies hadn't arrived yet, and the food in the city was estimated to be enough for the soldiers for three days, so now they have to start reducing the food, Either exploit the people in the city of Suez, and Zhu Zhanqian will order the people in the city of Suez to distribute their food to the Ming army if it is unavoidable.

Now that the envoys of the Ottoman Empire have come, Zhu Zhanqian cannot let people see this situation, and must show the momentum of the Ming army.

Because it sent envoys, either to declare war or to seek peace, no matter which one it is, it is necessary to show one's strength.

After getting ready, Zhu Zhanqian went out of the city to meet him in person.

O'Hara is an old man with white beard who looks wiser. When he saw Zhu Zhanqian, he wanted to speak, but he was not sure whether Zhu Zhanqian understood it. It was a bit embarrassing for him to have no one around him who could speak clearly.

Zhu Zhanqian said in their language: "Just speak directly, I understand."

O'Hara was surprised that the other party could understand their language and thought it was an interpreter, but the interpreter was dressed so decently, and there were a group of guards around him, so he probably couldn't.

"Below is the Ottoman Empire, Hand of the King, O'Hara, Your Excellency."

Zhu Zhanqian pulled the reins of the horse, and said vigorously: "The fifth prince of the Ming Empire, the King of the Sea of ​​Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanqian."

What O'Hara saw and heard as the Hand of the King is very comparable to others. He learned about the Ming Dynasty from the Timurid Empire.

Across the Great Timurid Empire is the huge Eastern Empire. It is rumored that there was an empire called Tang hundreds of years ago, and then the Han Dynasty. Their silk and ceramics are still used by nobles. The empire is stronger than the mysterious Eastern Empire before it.

O'Hara is very curious about the Eastern Empire, and has done some research, but the distance is too far, so it is recorded in some ancient books. He also knows that Mongolia, which was called the Whip of God back then, was a nation of the Eastern Empire, and Now the fierce Mongolia was driven back to the grassland by the Ming Empire.

The young man in front of him is the prince of the Ming Empire.

"I don't know that Your Excellency is actually the prince of Daming, I'm sorry and disrespectful."

"You know our country?"

"I have heard it a little bit, but I don't know that His Excellency Haiwang is so proficient in our language. It really surprises me?"

Zhu Zhanqian smiled slightly: "I just learned it these days."

O'Hara was a little shocked, but felt that Zhu Zhanqian was talking nonsense, how could anyone learn so quickly?
"I don't know what your Excellency is talking about?" Zhu Zhanqian asked knowingly.

O'Hara came back to his senses, looked at the city of Suez and said, "Your Majesty the King of the Sea has come from afar. The king of the Ottoman Empire sent me to meet you and entertain you well. There were some trivial matters between you and me before. There may be some misunderstandings during this period, and I will take this opportunity to resolve the misunderstandings."

O'Hara spoke very well at the scene, and Zhu Zhanqian made a gesture of invitation: "In this case, please go to the city to talk about it. It doesn't seem like my Da Ming's way of hospitality outside the city."

The guard's eyes signaled O'Hara to be more careful. If they followed Zhu Zhan into the city, they would lose any initiative, and it would be up to Zhu Zhan to kill or cut.

The Fang of the Bay lost to the Eastern Empire, and they knew very little about the Eastern Empire, and they had no way of knowing what kind of people these people were, so let the King's Hand rush into the city with the other party, and they acted as guards It's considered dereliction of duty.

But O'Hara firmly followed Zhu Zhanqin and walked into the city of Suez.

"Your Excellency is very courageous."

O'Hara said fearlessly: "Your Excellency has done something like this at such an age, and this ability is the real courage."

After a burst of business exchanges, Zhu Zhanqian brought O'Hara to the city of Suez.

Both sides of the main street in the city were already full of Ming soldiers, and all the artillery was pulled out.

As soon as he saw O'Hara entering the city, several cannons fired from the city wall towards the open space outside the city, which startled O'Hara, and the horse was also frightened, almost out of control.

"Your Excellency O'Hara, this is our Daming's welcome ceremony. We only fire cannons when we welcome friends." Zhu Zhanqian still smiled and explained to O'Hara.

O'Hama is not a child, and it can be seen that Zhu Zhanqian is giving him a blow.

The Ming soldiers and firearms on this street were indeed scary enough. He sighed in his heart that with so many firearms, Sehalim III deserved to lose.

Cannons, firearms, battle armor, and the throwing firearms around the waists of unknown warriors. He has already roughly known the various firearms of Ming Dynasty from the messenger who reported the news. Not to mention defeating Sehalim III, it is not impossible for the army to fight to his own capital.

Looking at the appearance of the Ming army, he couldn't help but think of an old proverb in Mesopotamia, a widow with a big bird in front of her door is purely a bully.

Now the opponent is overwhelmed by momentum, because looking at the other party's attitude is for peace talks, he must be made aware of his own strength, and he must not be made aware of his shortcoming of insufficient supplies.

O'Hara said: "My lord, may I meet our general Sehalim III first." He wants to make sure that Sehalim III is still alive, why?Because Sehalim III was the king's illegitimate son.

There were many illegitimate children in ancient times. In fact, everyone is prone to make mistakes in modern and ancient times, but in ancient times there was no protection from Xiao Du, Xiaojie and Xiaogang.

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Zhu Zhanqian took O'Hara to a courtyard, and before entering the door, he said: "Your Excellency, I have to say that your General Sehalim III is really a tough guy. He hasn't eaten anything these days since he surrendered." , has been peerless, and only drank some water."

He was vaccinated first, and when he walked into the house, he saw the extremely thin and weak Sehalim III, who was completely different from the strong Sehalim III who was galloping on a galloping horse a few days ago .

When O'Hara saw Sehalim III, he at least made sure that he was still alive, and said, "Can you give him something to eat, rice cereal, or something like that?"

"Your Excellency O'Hara, he is still on a hunger strike and refuses to eat."

"Don't worry, Your Excellency, I will persuade him to eat." O'Hara was still smiling.

But who can't see it, is Sehalim III on a hunger strike?That was not giving him anything to eat, but Zhu Zhanqian even treated the prisoners of war kindly, at least he was not tortured, nor was he missing an arm or a leg.

O'Hara came here this time to do it. He was already out of shape when he saw Sehalim III. After all, the two sides had fought a battle before. If Sehalim III, their peace talks would not be able to proceed smoothly. Now Sehalim III At least Halim III is fine, if he is weaker, he will be fine after a few days.

Zhu Zhanqian's eyes signaled his subordinates to go down and bring in some food for Sehalim III.

O'Hara, in order to prevent Sehalim III from being extremely hungry and eating too much at one time, only gave him liquid food. Older people see more things, and they always handle things more thoughtfully.

"Your Majesty the Sea King, General Sehalim III is fine now, let my guards take care of him. He is just hungry and is fine. On behalf of our Ottoman Empire, I want to communicate with you about something." Oha Ma saw that Sehalim III was basically fine, so he got down to business.

"Row."

The two came to Zhu Zhanqian's place, Zhu Zhanqian asked him to sit down and made him tea.

"This is our Daming's tea. I don't know if you have tasted it." Zhu Zhanqian handed the teacup to O'Hara.

The Ottoman king's hand did not have any doubts. He raised his glass and drank it, expressing his trust in Zhu Zhanqin and his fearlessness in his heart.

Sure enough, O'Hara spat out in one gulp.

"Your Excellency, it's a little hot." Zhu Zhanqian was startled.

O'Hara originally wanted to show her courage, but unexpectedly suffered a loss, and her mouth became numb.

O'Hara pretended to be calm and said: "Let's get down to business. Your Excellency's Ming Empire has never had any enmity with our Ottoman Empire. It can be said that there is no intersection. I heard that the Ming Empire is a state of etiquette. Why did your Excellency come to our country?" Occupying our city is even more of a battle with our army."

A seasoned diplomat will always put himself on the side of justice from the very beginning.

Zhu Zhanqian shook his head and said: "From the first day we arrived in Suez City, we never thought about confronting the Ottoman Empire. Unfortunately, General Sehalim III didn't seem to want to have any communication with us. We launched an attack on us immediately. We can't sit still. We can only fight back in order to protect our own lives when we have to. It's just that our soldiers are too strong, so we beat Sehalim General III’s cavalry has suffered serious losses, it’s really unavoidable.”

O'Hara looked a bit ugly, he really wanted Zhu Zhanqian to sit over from a different angle and listen to what kind of nonsense he was talking about, you are about to be wiped out by our elite army, the Bay Fang, now you tell me yes A justifiable counterattack.

Trying to keep his face unchanged as much as possible, O'Hara is relatively calm and sophisticated.

"His Excellency, since it is a misunderstanding, in order not to affect the friendship between our two countries, can you please take your army out of Suez City and return our city, as well as the captured Fang of the Gulf team."

Since you said that you didn't mean to occupy our city, then you should return it to me. O'Hara said these words in a fake way, but he knew that Zhu Zhanqian could not return it, and Zhu Zhanqian was not stupid.

"Our side also lost a lot in the helpless battle. We came here with a friendly attitude, but your Ottoman Empire started fighting without saying a word. Even if I can understand the thoughts of Your Excellency O'Hara, but my hand The soldiers below can't, they also lost their comrades, friends, and even brothers in the battle." Zhu Zhanqian shook his head.

O'Hara was not in a hurry or annoyed: "Your Majesty, this incident was beyond the expectations of both of you and me. May I take the liberty to ask you what you are here for?"

Zhu Zhanqian took a sip of tea: "There is a great adventurer in our country. He set off from Daming all the way to the west, bypassed the vast African continent, that is, the entire continent on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, and arrived in Yinggeland and Foshan. Lancy, let me tell you what you should know about these two."

O'Hara nodded, and Zhu Zhanyan continued: "But there he was captured by these two shameless countries with treachery, and after he finally escaped, he sailed west again and returned to the Ming Dynasty. It proves that the world is round."

Hearing this, O'Hara looked at Zhu Zhanqian in disbelief: "My lord, how could this world be round."

"Facts speak louder than words. I won't discuss this matter with you. Our adventurer set off to the west, but returned from the east where the sun rises. This is an indisputable fact, and it is also recognized in our country. It's over, I'm going to avenge our adventurer now, and I'm going to Ingoland and Francie."

"Just bypassing the vast African continent is too far away, so I want to enter the Mediterranean through the Ottoman Empire and reach these two places faster."

Using this method to attack other countries, no country other than Poland should believe in this matter.

"In this way, His Majesty Neptune does not need a city. I can sign an agreement with you on behalf of the Ottoman Empire. Your Highness's army can cross our country from the shore of the Red Sea and enter the Mediterranean Sea."

O'Hara dared to say such a thing, but Zhu Zhanqian felt that his authority was not small. As the second in command of the Ottoman Empire, he did not procrastinate in his work.

Zhu Zhanqian still shook his head: "Your Excellency didn't understand what I meant. I didn't want our team to walk across, but to drive our warship there."

O'Hara instantly understood what Zhu Zhanqian meant, and he wanted to dig the canal.

"Does your Excellency want to dig a canal?"

Zhu Zhanqian nodded: "I heard that there is an ancient canal here, which can go directly from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, so we are looking for this canal and digging it directly if necessary."

It is not a matter of a day or two for the Ottoman Empire to want this canal. In this case, it is convenient for Zhu Zhan to dig it.

It's just that letting foreigners live on their own land in this way is detrimental to the Ottoman Empire, and the king cannot agree.

O'Hara understands that it is difficult for the two sides to reach a common understanding on this matter, so he said: "His Excellency, can you return the fighters of the Gulf of Fang and General Sehalim III to me first, and I will take them and your Go back to the capital and explain the situation to the king with good intentions."

Zhu Zhanqian refused again: "I can return you one hundred fighters of the teeth of the bay to express my goodwill. As for General Sehalim III, I think he wants to stay in the city of Suez more. Our relationship It is very good now, I feel like a close friend, and at the same time, I will send a message to your king, this canal is about to be established by our Ming Empire."

"Your Excellency Neptune, are you trying to forcibly occupy my land?" O'Hara was angry.

"I don't want to have any conflict with the Ottoman Empire, but don't underestimate my determination to avenge my subjects. The adventurer who traveled around the world was named Zheng He. He was my good teacher and friend. I was in his I swore to avenge him before lying on my sick bed, and if anyone stands in my way of revenge, I will fight if I want to, my Ming soldiers never fear war."

(End of this chapter)