my days with tyrants

The melee in Guangzhou lasted for three days.

Three days later, as the last batch of Semu warriors trapped in Zhenhai Tower lit the five-story building and burned it to ashes, the Semu Rebellion in Guangzhou was completely put down.

In the end, nearly [-] dead bodies with colored eyes were cleared out of the city.

Of course, the soldiers and civilians who put down the rebellion also suffered [-] casualties.

In particular, many local gentry were the main targets of the looting by the lustful rebels, so they suffered the worst losses. In short, after this battle, those who were killed by the traitors, plus those who died at the hands of the lustful rebels, Guangzhou Not even one of the old powerful gentry remains.As for the next war, it was very simple. He Di was killed by his subordinates in Tuen Mun, and then his navy surrendered to Zheng He. Han Guan and others who controlled Guangxi and Annan surrendered. Only Huang Zicheng, Hu Zhao, and He Gui surrendered. and others, led the original Jianwen imperial camp to try to hold on to Meiling, but then there was civil strife among their subordinates, and a melee broke out in Ji'an.Huang Zicheng died in the rebellion, and his clan is missing. However, the little princess said back then that he would kill the nine clans, so the pursuit of his nine clans will continue. After all, this is what the ruling princess is watching.As for Hu Huzhao, He Gui and others, they were killed by the Hua Rong tribe in Ji'an who took advantage of the chaos. As for those who followed them, some died in the melee, some surrendered and were killed by Hua Rong. The remaining two to three thousand people escaped. The mountains at the junction of Hunan and Jiangxi became bandits.

Of course, the ending must be to be wiped out.

Because Xu Hui's ancestral tribe, which went south from the north, had joined forces with the King of Chu to go south to Hengzhou.

Xu Huizu will be responsible for the aftermath of Hunan, Guangxi and Annan.

In other words, Han Guan and other departments handled it.

After all, that is an army of more than 20.

However, these are easy to deal with. After all, they are all guards. After all, the guards can be abolished and the fields divided. All the main generals will be transferred to the capital. How to judge the performance in the future, Han Guan can still use these.

The main reason is that this guy has dirty tricks.

To the chieftains in Guangxi, he was a general like a butcher and executioner.

And King Chu could finally return to his vassal city of Jiaozhou to start his ambitions.

As for Chang Sheng, who traveled south from Fengyang, he was responsible for the aftermath in Jiangxi.

As for Yang Feng...

Humen.

"These are all yours!"

He pointed to the nearly a hundred schooners on the sea.

In front of him was Zheng He.

"As far as I know, King Yan is already preparing to attack Constantinople. He needs warships there. He Di and his subordinates are all criminals, and they also like Western trade. Just take them westward. What? You can set sail at any time, choose your route, and support your master however you want."

He continued.

Zheng He's identity is still an internal official of Prince Yan's Palace...

He was an internal official given to Zhu Di by Zhu Yuanzhang.

To be precise, he is Zhu Di's domestic slave.

No one dares to change this.

Although he was the naval admiral of the Ming Dynasty, his official status was that of an internal official of the Yan Mansion. He was just borrowed by the regent princess to command the navy as an internal official of the Yan Mansion. Now he can return it after using it.

"Ambassador, is it feasible if I lead them all the way west around the Cape of Good Hope on your map, then into the Atlantic Ocean and north into the Mediterranean Sea, and then join the King's Western Expedition Army in the Ottoman Empire?"

Zheng He said.

"Of course you can, but in this way you first have to solve the problem of whether your subordinates are willing to go. Let them follow you to Persia and Arabia. They are willing to go. After all, their merchant ships have long taken this route, and you will lead them to carry countless goods. , they can make a lot of money, and there is not much danger. But if they want to go to the Atlantic Ocean, it is difficult to say what the result will be, and they don’t know if it will be beneficial. If they risk sailing tens of thousands of miles to a foreign land for something that may not necessarily be beneficial, then You have to find a way to coax them into not killing you halfway.

I don't care about you anymore. "

Yang Feng said with a smile.

A great voyage in reverse!

It was a good idea for him to have this idea, and Zheng He's fleet originally went to East Africa in history, and even reached the coast of Kenya. At that time, the world he could know was probably that area.

You must know that the Europeans of the same period knew that the end of the world was the Sahara Desert.

but……

Yang Feng will not provide him with any help.

Because the long voyage to the Western Ocean would not bring direct benefits to the court, the court only needed the route from the Ming Dynasty to the Persian Gulf and Egypt to ensure maritime interests, and going around the Cape of Good Hope to Europe was unnecessary, and the effort and benefits were completely There's no comparison.This is only beneficial to Zhu Di. If he wants to conquer Europe, he must have a powerful fleet, a fleet that allows him to control the Mediterranean.

Zheng He’s one is fine.

These are all the schooners that Hedy has mastered in the past.

A total of 86 ships.

Not only the original Guangdong Navy, but also some armed merchant ships that specialized in routes such as India, Arabia, and Persia.In fact, his armed merchant ships and warships are basically the same. When he needs to increase trade, he will deploy fleets and fast ships to supplement the merchant fleet. When he needs to strengthen his navy, he will deploy armed merchant ships and incorporate them into the navy for combat operations, including the status of sailors. Blurred.

So there's no real way to tell the difference.

Entering the Mediterranean with this strength is like a pod of killer whales swimming into a school of fish.

Venice, Genoa, and those forces in North Africa that currently dominate the Mediterranean are all scum. The latter are still relying on platoon warships and primitive firearms, but these schooner speedboats can already play battle lines and the heaviest artillery. It has reached fifteen kilograms, and one ship can carry about thirty artillery pieces.

The speed is also not comparable to those of row oar warships.

Truly invincible.

Of course, the premise is that it can be passed.

They don’t need to worry about their route to East Africa, because the commercial route to Mogadishu, or Mugudusu, is already stable, with ships passing by almost every year in the past few years.The use of these schooners has greatly shortened the sailing time. The average commercial speed of five to six knots can allow the fleet to make a round trip once a year. Although the cargo capacity of these merchant ships is smaller than that of the Fu ships, for the huge profits of maritime trade, This is not important.But if you continue south from there, there are indeed ships that have been to Lamu Island. If you continue south, there will be no ships. The only advantage is that you have maps and knowledge of monsoons and ocean currents, but it is difficult to say what the situation along the coast will be like. .

After all, even modern people can only say that they have a rough idea of ​​what southern Africa is like in this era.

And Zheng He needed to go around the Cape of Good Hope.

Then head north along Africa.

You still have to enter the Mediterranean Sea, and then go all the way to the Aegean Sea to join Zhu Di.

For sailors, it is difficult to say whether such a long voyage is possible.

"Ambassador, you said that Constantinople is a thousand-year-old capital with gold everywhere, right?"

Zheng He said with a smile.

"Correct!"

Yang Feng said.

"Just say it again to those sailors, gold will take care of everything.

As for sailing, when I sailed to America, I couldn't find even a supply island along the way. Now I sail along the coastline, and there are enough supply points along the way. It's just a matter of stopping and moving forward. The only thing I worry about is the epidemic, but No matter what, more people will die from the epidemic than in America. "

Zheng He said with a smile.

Now that he said this, Yang Feng had nothing to say.

But speaking of epidemics, Yang Feng suddenly remembered that the Indians should be plagued by widespread plagues at this time, right?
"Also, don't dock in European countries. After reaching the Mediterranean, replenish supplies at North African ports. Ask King Yan to warn the chaotic forces in North Africa through the Ottomans, saying that the Ming Dynasty is attacking Rome and has nothing to do with them. They are the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The protector will start trade with them and bring them endless wealth."

He continued.

Zheng He looked at the sea not far away, where dozens of floating corpses of lewd people were floating by.

Yang Feng followed his gaze...

"Well, even so, the Ming Emperor is still their protector. Protection is based on clear rewards and punishments. Those who are guilty must be punished, and those who have meritorious service must be rewarded."

He said without changing his face.

At this time, North Africa should be occupied by a mess of chiefs.

Their main enemies were the Venetians.

Therefore, the fleet whose main purpose is to conquer Venice and Genoa should be welcomed by them. Besides, they cannot defeat this fleet. A huge fleet that has almost evolved to the [-]th century is not at all like those who still focus on gang jumping. Pirates in combat mode can provoke.What's more, if Ming merchant ships continue to pass by in the future, they can act as middlemen in trade with Europe. In this era, Ming ships should be strictly prohibited from visiting ports along the Mediterranean coast.Of course, in reality the trade on this line was of little value, because once Zhu Di captured Constantinople, he would be able to control trade in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, including the overland trade line in the Arabian Peninsula.

It was nothing more than beating up the Mamluks.

At this time, Ming's territory had reached Iraq.

There is the fiefdom of Ilhan, the king of Dingxi County in the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the capital of Tianfang.

His palace is in Baghdad.

This city commander is roughly modern Iraq, and then adds the border between Iran and Turkey or the Kurdish inhabited area, and Ilhan's nomadic subjects are nomadic in this area. In the cities of Kurds and Arabs, one by one the city lords The titans ruled their cities under the command of the Ming Dynasty, but under the control of Ilhan.

Then this capital commanded the envoys to be controlled by King Yan.

The area controlled by the Mamluks is in Syria.

So after taking Constantinople, Zhu Di could just attack it easily.

In this way, Yang Feng arranged the reverse of Zheng He's voyage to the West, and then he and the little princess boarded the ship to start their return journey amidst the farewells of the Guangdong soldiers and civilians. However, they would not return by sea, after all, the land route had been opened at this time.In fact, the army led by Chang Sheng had already arrived in Nanchang, and Hua Rong, who was the vanguard of Wang's division, eliminated the rebels in various parts of Jiangxi, especially the core areas of Ji'an and Ganzhou. After this battle, the Confucian gentry in Jiangxi They suffered heavy losses.In the two Confucian towns of Nanchang and Ji'an, those Confucian families who farmed and studied for generations were either turned against the party and caught digging for bird droppings, or died in the Semu Rebellion. Although the annihilation of the group was not expected, they were basically in ruins.