Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 608 Winning the Strait of Hormuz (please subscribe!)
In the Jinluan Hall of the Yingtian Imperial Palace, Zhu Kezang sits high on the dragon chair, and the ministers of civil and military affairs are lined up on the left and right below.

In the middle is Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, leading Moses to kneel down respectfully.

"Grand Vizier Mustafa Pasha of the Ottoman Empire and Minister of Finance Shain attended His Majesty the Emperor of Ming!"

"Free gift!"

This was a formal meeting, and the two gave Zhu Kezang a big gift with a sense of humor.

After some fooling around yesterday, Mustafa Pasha once again affirmed his thoughts, and must take down Vienna!
Then the key to winning Vienna is Daming's attitude.

Standing up, Mustafa Pasha and Schein raised their heads slightly, carefully staring at the Shenwu Emperor Zhu Kezang in front of them.

Today's Zhu Kezang is wearing a bright yellow dragon robe with a golden silk feather crown, sitting upright.

Mustafa Pasha and Schein quickly lowered their heads slightly again, because this time when they entered the palace to face the Holy Spirit, officials from Ming Dynasty came here to tell them the etiquette and details they should pay attention to.

This is a formal meeting, not the private meeting like yesterday, staring at the emperor all the time, obviously extremely unethical.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Mustafa Pasha stood up, and respectfully handed over a gift list.

"Your Majesty the Great Ming Emperor, this is a gift from the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to you."

The old eunuch Li hurried down the steps and took the gift list, which had a very long gift list written in Turkic and Ming characters of the Ottoman Empire.

Clearly, Mustafa Pasha had prepared carefully.

"A big diamond from the Sea of ​​Light!"

"A pair of phoenix birds inlaid with diamonds and rubies!"

"Two gold holding pots inlaid with precious stones!"

"Ten jeweled hand mirrors!"

"Two BMWs!"

"Ten jeweled daggers!"

"Four beauties!"

"Four gem-studded gold jewelry boxes!"

"..."

The voice of the old eunuch Li was clearly transmitted to every corner of the hall, so that everyone could hear it clearly.

The ministers below all think that the native chicken is quite generous, but these things sound expensive.

Only Zhu Kezang felt that it was too rustic.

The treasures of the Ottoman Empire are almost all kinds of diamonds, gold, gems, emeralds, pearls and other world treasures "glued" to the surface of various utensils.

Perhaps from the perspective of craftsmanship or mosaic techniques, they are unique and unparalleled in the world.

But from an aesthetic point of view, Zhu Kezang really can't appreciate this almost "rich" decorative effect, just like seeing a person with rings on all ten fingers, do you think this person is rich or a commonplace?

"His Majesty the Sultan of your country has a heart."

Zhu Kezang expressed his thanks with a smile on his face.

"I hope His Majesty the Great Emperor will like it!"

Mustafa Pasha stood up respectfully again and replied.

"As the prime minister said, the Ottoman Empire and our Ming Empire have similar national conditions, and there is a lot of room for cooperation."

Above the court, the two sides were very harmonious, and soon reached four unlimited!

One is that there is no limit to Mingao cooperation, the other is to strive for peace in the Middle East without limit, the third is to maintain the security of Southern Europe without limit, and the fourth is to oppose European hegemony without limit!

Of course, these four upper limits are irrelevant. There is no upper limit, but there is a lower limit.

The most important thing at present is the matter of arms sales.

However, this kind of thing is naturally not suitable for the emperor to discuss. After the end of the court meeting, Liu Dian and Ye Mingzhu were in charge of negotiating arms sales with Ottoman Prime Minister Mustafa
The two of them have only one task, and that is to extract as much wool from the Ottoman Empire as possible.

The Ottoman Empire was very rich.

And Mustafa Pasha couldn't wait for this link.

"What's the price of Ming muskets and artillery?"

Inside the hall, Mustafa Pasha asked anxiously.

"The heavy-duty arquebus guns of the Ming Dynasty only cost three hundred silver dollars each, while cannons are more expensive. They cost fifty thousand silver dollars each."

"When you buy muskets and cannons, you will get some ammunition as a gift, and if you buy enough money, Daming can even give you some armored weapons as a gift."

"But, if you buy so many guns, you have to buy a few battleships to make sense!"

Ye Mingzhu learned and applied it flexibly. In Yingtian City, he had seen too many sales techniques, so he could use them now.

"Mr. Ye, isn't this a bit too expensive!"

"Mr. Ye, the ancestors of our Ottomans are Turkic people, and maybe we have some blood relationship with you Manchus. For the sake of our ancestors, can it be cheaper!"

Mustafa Pasha had done enough homework, and he insisted on becoming a relative with Ye Mingzhu. The two were absolutely incompatible.

"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one disadvantage of expensive things, and that is expensive!"

"Can't come up with enough money?"

"It doesn't matter, we can use other things to pay for the goods. You Ottoman Empire can defeat the Europeans with these weapons and equipment, and rob people in Europe and sell them to us as slaves."

"A slave can be sold for ten silver dollars. This 3000 million order only requires 300 million slaves. With this amount of people, it is almost enough to take down Austria casually."

"However, the loan must have interest. Why don't you sell some of your barren Arabian land? I think the land next to the Persian Gulf can be used as a naval base for Ming."

So, with a swipe of a pen, Ye Mingzhu casually circled a piece of land beside the Strait of Hormuz, which was given by Zhu Kezang.

That is, the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula, which is a treasure house of oil!

Could it be that it will be taken down by the Ming soldiers without bloodshed?
of course!
Because this land can deduct 1000 million silver dollars!

So the Ottoman Empire paid about 500 million silver dollars worth of gold, and then used the land of about 83000 square kilometers near the Strait of Hormuz to deduct 1000 million silver dollars, and the remaining 500 million silver dollars to conquer Austria and use white slaves to deduct .

The land sold by Osman is probably the territory of a certain emirate and Dubai in later generations.

It was sold to Daming like this, the key is that both parties felt that they had made a lot of money.

Mustafa Pasha felt that he sold the useless desert land at a high price. The area of ​​the oasis inside was not much, and the overall area was not large. He could sell 1000 million silver dollars, which was a bloody profit.

So much so that he felt that Daming was losing money, and he was a little embarrassed. After returning, he would definitely assist the Sudan to take down Austria, and then send more white slaves to Daming!
As far as Daming is concerned, only Zhu Kezang thinks he has made a profit, and the others don't know how valuable the things buried under that piece of land are!

In fact, even if no oil can be dug out at this stage, the Strait of Hormuz still has great trade value and can monopolize the trade in the Persian Gulf.

The key is to take it there, and you can backstab Osman casually!

So what exactly did Osman buy?

(End of this chapter)