Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 736, Persians in the Lion City

In a castle in Colombo, southwest of Ceylon Island, Adal is enjoying his wonderful life.

He is the 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 here slowly.

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 to sell gems and spices in the island of Ceylon.

However, in the past two years, with the arrival of the Daming Merchant Ship, they have also started to do some resale transactions.

Sell ​​myrrh, frankincense, ivory, coral, pearls, etc. from Africa to the Ming people, and then resell silk, porcelain, glass products, cloth, and sugar from the Ming people to the Middle East, Persia, and Tianzhu.

Just relying on such a simple transit trade, the Persians here in Ceylon Island have made a lot of money and become rich quickly.

Compared with the gradual selling of gems and spices in the past, the profit of transit trade is really too great.

The silk, porcelain, glass products, and sugar brought by the Ming Dynasty Merchant Ship are very popular in the Middle East and Persia, and the profit is more than ten times higher. One round trip, one round trip to Persia and Ceylon Island, the profits are astonishingly high. Driven by ten times, hundreds of times of profits, more and more Persian businessmen came to Ceylon.

This made Adal, the lord of the Lion City, more and more comfortable in his small life. Just collecting taxes here in the Lion City made him consider building an empire belonging to the Persians on the island of Ceylon.

"The hateful Portuguese blocked the Persian Gulf, sunk our merchant ships, and wanted to monopolize India's spice trade."

Adal's face showed anger. He just received the news that the Portuguese who 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 businessmen. , intending to monopolize the spice trade on the Indian side.

This is tantamount to bad news for merchants in Persia and the Middle East.

They have been relying on this business route to make a lot of money.

Spices from India are very cheap, but as long as they can be transported to the Mediterranean Sea and sold to Venetian merchants, the price can be multiplied several times immediately.

Now the Portuguese appeared here, and expelled them very domineeringly, sank their merchant ships, blocked the Persian Gulf, and dispatched ships to patrol the route.

This is tantamount to cutting off their source of income.

Spice trade is not the most important thing. With the emergence of Ming people and the trade with Eastern Ming Dynasty, silk, tea, porcelain, glass products and sugar from the East gradually replaced spices and became the most popular. trade goods.

Now that the Portuguese do it like this, with a knife in the middle, let alone getting rich, if you want to go back to Persia in the future, you will risk being sunk by the Portuguese.

"Damn, greedy Portuguese~"

"I curse you to go to Hell!"

Thinking of this, Adal couldn't help cursing.

Originally, he had already planned it out. As long as the development continued in this way for two more years, and tens of thousands of people migrated from Persia, he would establish his own kingdom here on Ceylon Island.

But now, everything seems to be like a dream.

If the Portuguese do this, let alone establish their own kingdom, they will lose their money in the future.

Adal couldn't help stroking his beautiful beard. He swore by his beard that he would definitely teach these Portuguese a lesson and let them know how powerful he is as a Persian.

Just thinking of the Portuguese battleship, he couldn't help but tremble slightly.

From the Persian businessmen who had just arrived in Ceylon, they knew that the Portuguese warships were very terrifying and their artillery was very fierce. Perhaps only the Ming Dynasty could defeat these Portuguese.

"The big thing is bad, the big thing is bad!"

At this moment, someone hurried in, and before the person arrived, he roared anxiously.

A'dal was stroking his beard. Hearing what someone said, he couldn't help trembling. With a pull of his hand, several strands of his well-groomed beard were torn off.

"Better something happens, or I'll kill you in honor of my noble beard."

Adal became angry immediately, and quickly looked at a full-length mirror, feeling very distressed.

Persians and Middle Easterners value their beards most, which need to be carefully groomed without a trace of disorder.

"On the sea, there are many, many ships on the sea~"

The visitor was immediately frightened and stammered.

"A lot of boats?"

As soon as A'dal heard this, his eyes widened slightly, he didn't even care about his beard, and asked quickly, "Whose boat is it?"

"The ships of the Ming people are many, many, hundreds of large ships!"

"Ming people?"

When A'dal heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

It's fine if it's a Ming people's boat, as long as it's not a Portuguese boat.

The Ming people are different from the Portuguese. The Ming people are more honest in business, and they are not arrogant or domineering. Although they have powerful force, they never use force lightly.

His favorite is Daming people.

Every time a merchant ship from Daming comes over, it can bring him huge wealth.

This time, when he heard hundreds of large ships coming, he immediately became overjoyed. These hundreds of large ships can carry a lot of goods. At that time, he can collect a heavy tax again, and buy Daming people at a premium. Commodities can be sold at a high price after changing hands.

Then he sold the gemstones purchased with the land price on the island to the Daming people at a high price. With such a simple transaction, he could earn a lot, a lot of silver and gold.

"Perhaps we can consider buying some warships and artillery from the Ming people. In this way, we can teach the Portuguese some lessons and let them know how powerful we Persians are."

A'dal couldn't help thinking so in his heart.

"boom!"

But before he walked out of his castle, there was a burst of roaring outside.

"Hey~"

Then, accompanied by a whistling sound from far to near, shells fell from the sky into this small lion city.

Immediately, countless screams resounded in the lion city, and the panicked women even made terrifying screams. Under the terrible artillery attack, houses everywhere turned into ruins in a blink of an eye.

"what happened?"

A'dal's head is buzzing, who is attacking us?

"It's from Daming, it's from Daming!"

"They're firing at us!"

Soon, someone ran over in a hurry, sweating profusely and said anxiously.

"Ming people?"

"What are they shooting at us for no reason?"

A'dal was dumbfounded, the steamed buns were confused.

In his impression, the people of Daming are gentle and elegant, like gentlemen. Even if he collects more taxes, the people of Daming often don't have any objections.

Daming people give him the feeling that they are 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 the reason, and directly fired at them.

"Where did we offend the Daming people?"

A'dal's head was buzzing, and he didn't care about the danger, so he hurried to the castle wall, and immediately saw large ships forming formations on the sea.

The side of the battleship was aimed at the Lion City, and with billowing smoke rising, one after another shells roared. At the same time, at the port outside the Lion City, the ships of the Ming people were berthing, docking, and disembarking from these ships. A team of Ming troops.

These Ming soldiers were well-trained, and they lined up neatly after disembarking, like blocks, occupying the port in a blink of an eye.

They are extremely well equipped, wearing armor and helmets all over their bodies, most of them hold shining swords in their hands, and a few carry muskets, bows and arrows.

At the same time, some cavalry disembarked quickly, gathered in the open space, and then quickly drove towards the castle, surrounded the Lion City firmly, and rushed to kill people when they saw them.

"He's really from Daming~"

A'dal was a little unbelievable, the dragon flag of Daming was very easy to recognize, and the boats of Daming were also easy to recognize, it was unmistakable, these were people from Daming.

"City Lord~"

"It's Daming~"

"There are so many of them, what should we do now?"

Someone came to A'dal in a hurry and shouted anxiously, there are too many people in Daming.

Hundreds of large ships, teams of Ming troops got off the ships, and soon surrounded the Lion City firmly. The Persians in the outer port did not even block their wave of attacks, and they were killed very quickly. The captives also become captives.

The warships of the Ming people were still bombarding, and the roaring shells made people's expressions change.

Well, for no reason, the Ming people actually attacked them, they couldn't figure it out, it seemed that the Persians really hadn't sinned against the Ming people.

The walls of this small Lion City are very short and not strong, how could it possibly withstand the attack of the Ming people.

"Let everyone prepare to fight, pass the order down, everyone will come to fight at the top of the city, and must defend."

Adal was also panicked. At this moment, he very much hoped that it was the Portuguese who came to attack. At least the number of Portuguese was small, and they still hoped to be able to block their attack.

But these Daming people in front of them, there are too many of them.

Hundreds of large ships, a steady stream of people began to land, and the Lion City was soon surrounded by them. With the thousands of Persians in the Lion City, what did they use to resist the attack of the Ming people?
But even if they can't stop them, they still have to resist. They can't just let them go. Once the Ming people attack, who knows if the Ming people will kill them all.

At this moment, he finally understood the horror of the Daming people. The Daming people are definitely not as gentle and gentle as they have seen before. They also have a cruel and terrifying side.

　We rabbits generally don’t bite people, but when we bite people, it’s not normal~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)