open sea

Chapter 1470

To be reasonable, Murad III's attitude of thanking Qi Jimei for saving his mother and endlessly rewarding him after taking office, almost pissed off his mother Nurbanu Sutan.

In the palace that once belonged to Suleiman I, there are thousands of exquisite Chinese porcelain collections.

Next to the porcelain, Queen Mother Nurbanu scolded Murad Sutan so that she couldn't hold her head up.

"Who told you to allow him to enter and leave the palace? You are handing him the knife. This person has a chance to kill you at any time. You will be killed by him before the child is born!"

Murad was like a little doormat when facing his mother, feeling aggrieved in his heart, he held back anxiously for a long time before he said: "I think they are very humble and gentle, and they saved you."

"It did save me, but it is humble and gentle? Have you read the book I asked you to read?"

Needless to say, seeing Murad like this, Nurbanu knew that he didn't look at him, turned around and glared at the black eunuch standing in the palace, and said angrily, "Get out, what are you doing here!"

When there was no one in the hall, there was only the sound of Murad Sutan's slight panting, and the Queen Mother Nurbanu felt dizzy. She slumped on the carpet in front of the throne with her eyes closed, and sighed long.

Her son is a bit too weak, unlike his predecessors, who experienced bloody battles before succeeding to the throne, not a Su Tan who has the power of his own, but he was pushed to this position by himself.

He is too easy to be trusted.

Since the appearance of the Western Army in the Arabian Sea, Nurbanu sent many people to collect information, and at the same time, he also paid attention to the records about China in the past.

At the beginning, it was just because of the large trade and the exquisite utensils from China in the palace, I wanted to know about the East. This was more out of a mood to relieve boredom, but later it was not like that.

Nurbanu has a bad impression of Daming, and he is full of fear, which stems from a bad relationship with the Western Army in the past.

About the Mughals.

A few years ago, countless Ming people, Japanese, and Burmese invaded the Indian subcontinent, beating the Mughal army to pieces, and the Mughal envoys in Istanbul asked Ottoman for help.

Nurbanu believed that Ottoman should help Akbar of Mughal, they had a common enemy, and Mughal could contain the east of Safi Persia for Ottoman.

At first Nurbanu wanted to rely on influence and Ming's trade dependence on the Ottoman sultanates to protect the Mughal Akbar, which she did.

During those seven months, which should be from the end of March to the beginning of November in the [-]th year of Wanli, Ottoman forbade Ming merchants to trade on the Arabian coast, and sent people to the Western Army Mansion to discuss with the Western Minister Yin Zhengmao about the use of troops by the Ming Dynasty in Mughal Negotiate.

The two sides failed to reach an agreement. Yin Zhengmao thought he was wronged. Akbar didn't apologize for offending the emperor. The emperor sent a group of monks to preach Buddhism. Blame it on my old man, and use my performance as a threat?

Yin Zhengmao was very angry, and made an appointment with the envoy to send Chinese warships to the coast to bring back all the merchants, and sent the Ottoman envoy away, telling him that the Western Army's lack of performance for the past three months must be made up from other places. .

In the following four months, Ottoman received information that their neighboring country, the Safi dynasty in Persia, who was eager to avenge their shame, had reached a secret agreement with the Daming Western Army to form a new army. military.

This transaction includes the purchase of 180 matchlock guns, [-] sets of military uniforms, [-] collar armors, [-] cannons, two Chihai-class thousand-ships, twelve [-]-material shark ships, and gun guns. Ammunition Gunpowder.

The transaction amount was huge, equivalent to 37 taels of silver, but the actual transaction with silver accounted for only one tenth, and the remaining amount was delivered in kind such as horses, minerals, pearls, wool, and grain.

In addition to iron, copper, gold, silver, and coal, they were also buying lead, which was not found and used by the Persians, that is, zinc.

Moreover, it was discovered by Osman at the same time as this news. It seems that Persia is still seeking a larger arms trade order, but the Western Army has not yet agreed.

The signal was very clear, and Nurbanu once again sent people to the Western Army to resume the coastal trade, and hoped that Yin Zhengmao would not continue to negotiate with Safi Persia on the next trade.

In the end, after some friendly negotiations, Osman bought 25 ships of Chinese fire from the Western Army at a price of [-] taels of silver.

Nurbanu Sutan was so angry that she originally wanted to buy porcelain and silk, but Yin Zhengmao didn't sell anything, and he ordered her to buy kerosene, because Yin Zhengmao knew that Osman didn't lack this.

Because of this, Nurbanu is full of gratitude to Qi Jimei, but full of jealousy towards the Western Army and Daming behind Qi Jimei.

She has realized that Daming, or the Western Military Mansion, has unconsciously become a powerful force in this area. When such a giant's tentacles suddenly reach out to her, no one can help but try to understand.

Later, she searched the palace and other places for possible information, including the present and past of the East, and became even more afraid.

Especially when her son said something like 'they look gentle', it drove her mad: "They are humble and gentle, but you don't know what they really look like!"

How many countries around them, how many vassals of Ottoman itself had their ancestors were packed up from the east.

Nurbanu almost pointed at Murad's nose and said, "They have a word called barbarians. If you can create this word, you already know whether they are humble or not, and whether they are gentle or not."

"The highest honor for their officers is Fenglang Juxu. It tells the story of a man in his 20s who drove the Huns away from his hometown. They used to do things like a few people rushing to other people's palaces to kill the king and change the dynasty."

Speaking of this, Nurbanu was terrified. Apart from worrying about the Imperial Guards, the Ottoman family also had to worry about foreigners from Ming Dynasty?
"A Ming businessman gave me some names, Ghost Place, Earth Place, Hungry Slave, Dog Soldiers, Turtle in a place with lush vegetation, Black Grandson, Despicable Newly Killed Fish, which one is a good name, do you know? Why are they called such names? Because they have all been beaten."

These names are Guifang, Tufang, Xiongnu, Quanrong, Qiuci, Wusun and Xianbei in order.

The transliterated name, which was originally decent, immediately became unremarkable after a second free translation.

Murad was dumbfounded by what his mother said, but at this moment, he couldn't go back on his word, otherwise it would greatly jeopardize his little prestige.

Everything can only be hoped on Qi Jimei's personal morality.

It's just that now thinking of Qi Jimei's face, Murad is a little scared from the bottom of his heart.

(End of this chapter)