my days with tyrants

Chapter 409 Final Chapter

The frightened priest, after listening to Isabella's words, hurried down the mountain to find the Patriarch of Athens.

Athens had a patriarch.

This is the religious center of Orthodox Christianity in Greece.

Even after World War II, the Greek king returned and the former Patriarch served as regent for a time.

Therefore, after receiving the report, the Patriarch immediately asked the Venetian fleet to surrender or leave, and encouraged the Athenians to begin besieging the Venetians in the city.At this time, Athens was actually a separate Principality of Athens, but its capital was in Thebes. This principality was actually controlled by two mercenary groups, the Navarre Mercenary Group and the Catalan Mercenary Group.The former was a mercenary group that emerged during the Hundred Years' War between England and France. Because of the internal struggles in France, they fled to the east to make a living, while the latter was the product of the Eastern Roman emperors who lured wolves into their homes. They always liked to lure wolves into their homes.But it was conquered by Bayezid before, and the Duke of Athens surrendered to him. After Bayezid was captured, they surrendered to Suleiman. After Suleiman surrendered to Manuel II, they then surrendered to Manuel II. Nuer II proclaimed his vassalship, in short, he proclaimed his vassalship without any sense of moral integrity.

They are a mercenary group.

There is Mao's moral integrity to speak of, whoever gives money is the father.

But the relationship with the Venetians is not good.

Originally, in history, Athens mainly fought with the Venetians after this.

and so……

The desperate Venetians surrendered.

In fact, not surrendering would be a dead end. Their warships had no ability to resist in front of the Ming naval guns. Although platoon warships were theoretically more flexible than sail warships and did not need to rely on wind direction, they were now blocked in the harbor.

Being flexible is useless.

Furthermore, the schooner battleships of the Imperial Army are actually very flexible.

As for combat effectiveness, it is not an era at all.

"Tell them that if they surrender to the Ming Dynasty, they will still be the dukes here, and the Venetian ships, goods and weapons stored here are all theirs, and only gold and silver will be dedicated to the Ming Dynasty.

If they refuse to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, then the fleet will land and kill everyone here. "

Yang Feng looked at the messenger in front of him.

This was sent by the Duke of Athens. They originally learned that the fleet was bombarding Athens, so they ran to meet the enemy, but after arriving here, they immediately changed their minds...

This is obviously unbeatable!

Since you can't beat them, of course you have to surrender.

They are just a mercenary group, and Bayezid knelt down as readily as he came.

Isabella immediately translated for him.

In fact, Yang Feng almost knows Greek.

"What about that person?"

The messenger said with bright eyes.

"The people belong to them. If you want, you can fight with them first."

Yang Feng pointed to a man obviously dressed in North Africa and said.

"Well, originally we were going to sell it to them."

The messenger said frankly.

Well, these bastards also work part-time as pirates, and North African pirates are the main force in capturing white slaves. Although there are no records of human trafficking in Navarre and Catalonia mercenary groups in history, if you think about it, you will know something like This kind of guy with no sense of moral integrity would definitely not stop doing this if it was profitable. It was impossible for all the white slaves sold by North African pirates to be captured by themselves.

There must be cooperating white forces.

"But how can we trust Your Excellency?"

The messenger said immediately.

Yang Feng took a step forward casually, and before he could react, his hand appeared on his neck, then he raised it with one hand and threw him directly into the sea water more than ten meters away.

The messenger screamed and fell into the water. The soldiers on the dock calmly dragged him out with hooks...

"Do you believe it?"

Yang Feng looked at the messenger dragged in front of him and said calmly.

At the same time, on the nearest warship, more than a dozen cannons on the side sprayed flames...

"Xiang, I believe it!"

The weak messenger said tremblingly.

"Go back and tell your Duke that you are now the subjects of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty has granted you the power to conquer the nearby lords who are unwilling to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. You send a group of soldiers to follow the fleet to the castle to accept the Ming Dynasty King Yan, who is you. The legendary commander of the Whip of God will later be the ruler of the Ming Dynasty in the west."

Yang Feng said.

The envoy quickly got up and wanted to leave immediately, but when he saw the unfriendly eyes of the Ming army next to him, he immediately remembered the rules he had just learned, kowtowed at Yang Feng's feet, then took a few steps back and stood up to leave.

"Leave some warships behind, and then the Venetians and Genoese will send ships over and let these pirates follow the fleet to rob these ships."

Yang Feng turned to Zheng He and said.

The latter's trip to the West was not difficult. In fact, it was not as difficult as the last trip to the Americas. After all, the trip to the Americas would not see any land during the one or two months it took to cross the Pacific.But the voyage to Europe is all along the coast, where fresh supplies can be obtained continuously, especially fresh water. Although the situation along the way is unknown, the fleet is not landing to expand in depth, but is just passing by.In this era, except for disease, nothing could stop them. It could be said that they easily circled the Cape of Good Hope, and then continued north along the west coast of Africa until they entered Gibraltar without any trouble.After entering the Mediterranean, they followed Yang Feng's instructions and moved forward along the coast of North Africa. However, they encountered two merchant ships of the Medical Knights on the way and were simply sent to the bottom of the sea by Zheng He.

The latter controls Malta.

However, because of this battle, they were regarded as friends by a nearby Tunisian pirate ship. Zheng He's ship originally had Arab translators recruited in Aden. After solving the language problem, these pirates immediately realized that there was an opportunity to make a fortune. .Of course they knew about things in the East. They were originally trading with the Ottomans.

Next, under their leadership as guides, Zheng He obtained supplies along the coast of North Africa. During this period, the Medical Knights organized a fleet to try to take revenge, but were beaten unilaterally and immediately retreated to Malta.In the end, Zheng He's fleet sailed all the way to Egypt. When it arrived in Egypt, it was even followed by dozens of large pirate ships. The Mamluks and the Ming Dynasty already had trade. The He family even had a permanent resident in Suez before.What's more, the Mamluks at this time were very aware of the strength of the Ming army. They knew that the Aries Turkmen were now under their protection. They did not want to be scapegoats when the Ming army attacked the king's castle, so they defended Zheng He. Provide all the supplies you want.

Then Zheng He's fleet headed north.

As for the Venetian fleet, it was targeted halfway.

But the Venetians did not have the two cheating aids of hot air balloons and telescopes, so Zheng He's fleet kept following them, but out of their sight, staring at them with observations from the hot air balloons, and thus followed them to Athens. Just after entering the port, there was a traffic jam.

"If the king really wants to deliberately lure European countries to reinforce the castle and then solve the problem, then it will be useless even if we go. These sailors are all here to plunder. It is better to simply use Athens as a base and lead these pirates to plunder coastal ports. Moreover. They said that they have another country in the Iberian Peninsula, Granada. If we help, we can go there and cooperate with the Granada people to rob the coast of France and Spain, including the Papal States. If we really sack Rome, even if it is just to rob In places like Sardinia, European countries can only desperately gather their troops to rescue the castle to cut off our attacks on its coast."

Zheng He said.

It's a good plan.

but……

"I have to remind you, there is plague in Europe."

Yang Feng said.

"Ambassador, we are all here, which sailor cares about this? Besides, as far as we know, the Black Death in Milan has been effectively controlled, and since both Genoa and Venice have sent troops, it means that the plague is not too big for them now. harm.

What's more, even if someone is infected, it is impossible to return to the Ming Dynasty alive. "

Zheng He said.

Of course, the key is that he must satisfy the requirements of the sailors who followed him. The latter sailed tens of thousands of miles just to make a fortune. If Zhu Di delayed for a long time, they would be dissatisfied.They would be satisfied if they could act as a pirate ship and plunder as they pleased. As for the risk of contracting the plague...

They are all here, and they still care about this little danger?
Besides, as he said, if you are really infected, can you still return to Ming Dynasty alive?
Not even Gibraltar.

"Then it's up to you!"

Yang Feng said.

In the end it had nothing to do with him, he was just giving advice.

Then Zheng He arranged a warship to send him to the Ottoman port. After arriving, Yang Feng took Isabella to Basra by land, and then met a Ming merchant ship in Basra, which carried them back to the Ming Dynasty. .As for the surrender of Manuel II, of course it was accepted by the Ming Dynasty. He was named King of Rome, and the European part of the original Roman Empire was the Roman State. Both old and new Rome belonged to him...

Forefathers and ancestors, Rome is restored!

Manuel II can comfort his ancestors.

Of course, he still had to obey the imperial edict and enter the court. Considering the travel time, basically when Zhu Di had enough fun, he could enter the court.

Zhu Di was still the governor of the Western Regions.

Rome is also the Western Region!
West of Jiayuguan are the Western Regions, but this scope will be constantly adjusted. The standard for adjustment is to change the Chief Envoy Department. For example, if Anxi is changed to Anxi Chengxuan Chief Envoy Department, it will not be considered the Western Regions.

It still counts.

Isabella stayed in the Ming Dynasty for a year, and then returned as a Roman princess. She walked on the road for more than half a year. She only returned to the castle after Manuel II formally surrendered.During this period, due to the constant attacks by Zheng He's fleet, European countries had no choice but to reinforce King's Castle, but because of the intrigues between them, it was basically a tactic to fuel the war.The first to arrive was the Crusaders led by King Sigismund of Hungary, including Serbia, Bohemia, and Suleiman's Ottoman army. With less than 20 troops, they fought a decisive battle with Zhu Di at the castle. .But in the end he was defeated by a [-]-strong coalition consisting of the Ming Army, Persia, Turks, and the Zhao Sheng Army. On the way to Adrianople, Suleiman learned that Issa had occupied Adrianople with the cooperation of an internal ghost. He turned around. Go and surrender to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di did not kill him, but let him continue to control Adrianople as a vassal.

Sigismund also fled.

But before he could escape back home, he received news that Tokhtamysh and the Oara coalition had invaded Wallachia and divided their forces into Transylvania.

After that, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, including Bohemia and other HRE princes mainly entangled with Tokhtamysh...

Sigismund was still the King of Bohemia. Originally, he was also the Elector of Brandenburg and the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

The second wave of enemies Zhu Di faced was headed by the Papal States, including the coalition forces of the countries in the Apennine Peninsula, Switzerland, Austria, Epirus and other countries, and the coalition forces headed by Epirus, a theoretical subject of Eastern Rome. They can't even put together 10 people, only 6 or [-] people in total, but they are well-equipped, especially the famous Swiss mercenaries.But it was still of no use, and the defeat was even worse. After all, legions like the Swiss Spear Phalanx were perfect targets for Ming army artillery. Field cannons shattered the honor of the Swiss mercenaries...

Especially Zhu Di did not attack, but always maintained defense, so they faced heavy artillery. A nine-pound cannon even fired a shell to harvest the victory of more than 50 people.

After this defeat, there were no more reinforcements for King's Castle.

Britain and France……

Britain and France were actually still in the Hundred Years' War.

They are just making a temporary truce.

However, with the help of the Granadians, Zheng He went to sea and plundered the coast of England. This caused the French to secretly contact him. It was obvious that the French had begun to awaken to the hidden attributes of the Sacrifice Alliance.

Of course, these have nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. This is a war between Zhu Di and Europe. In fact, this war lasted for decades, and it was not until Zhu Di's later years that he finally drank from Beihai.As for the Ming Dynasty, it continued to flourish under its rule. While supporting the outward expansion of several vassal kings, it continued to promote immigration in various ways, including to distant Americas.Although with the help of the Ming Dynasty, the Native Americans were not completely destroyed in the ongoing plague, but their population was also reduced by more than half, and the remaining people regarded the Ming Dynasty as a god and began to officially pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.Ming merchants who continued to come to the Americas also began to enter their cities and spread Ming civilization to them. In short, the change there was also a long process, but the city-states in America all paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty and obtained titles.

As for the continuous immigration to the Western Regions, each of the Western Regions' commanding envoys has gradually become the Chengxuanzheng Envoys. However, the process is very long. When Zhu Di drank from Ma Beihai, he only turned Hezhong into Hezhong Chengxuanzheng. Envoy.

As for Yang Feng, he stayed in Ming Dynasty until his new Yellow River was dug.

However, at this time, Ming Dynasty had already transitioned to a constitutional monarchy.

Afterwards, he claimed that he could finally return to Daxia, and then took the whole family, including the ruling princess, on a boat to bid farewell to the Ming Dynasty...

Of course, goodbye for now.

Because he claimed that a passage called a wormhole between Daxia and Ming Dynasty had been established, so they could often travel back and forth between Da Ming and Da Xia, including their descendants.At that time, the Ming Dynasty had just begun to enter the steam age, so he and his family who appeared in the Ming Dynasty from time to time were no more than gods who judged everything to the Ming Dynasty.

A new book has been released, "I Have a Cornucopia", written in the late Ming Dynasty, but I didn't know how to get the link on my mobile phone. It took me half a month to get it on my computer when I got home.

(End of this chapter)