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Chapter 1323
After the messenger told all the news he heard, Murad IV couldn't help laughing, very happy.

For Europe, the Ottoman rulers of all dynasties were ambitious.But without that strength, you can only keep this ambition in your heart.In the original history, troops were not dispatched until September 1683, but in the First World War in Vienna, they were still defeated by the European coalition forces.

As a capable Ottoman monarch, Murad IV was naturally happy to be attacked by the Ming army in Europe. He was even happier when he was attacked by the Ming army.

Compared to Westerners, Murad IV knew something about the Ming Kingdom, whether it was from the Mongols or from the records of his previous dealings with the Ming Kingdom.

After laughing for a while, Murad IV slowly stopped his laughter, and suddenly ordered his subordinates: "Send an envoy immediately to contact the leader of the Ming army in Tsarist Russia, that general named Li Dingguo, and tell him that if If the Ming army can agree to my conditions, I can send troops to help the Ming army fight those heretics together! As long as the Ottoman Empire and the Ming country join hands, I believe that the whole of Europe will lie at our feet!"

When his subordinates heard this, they all started chattering, saying that the Ming army had gone too far to get the friendship of Murad IV.With the support of the Ottoman Empire, the Ming army will definitely win the battle in the European battlefield.Anyway, from their point of view, there is only one meaning. It seems that from this moment on, if the Ming army does not have the help of the Ottoman Empire, it will be difficult for the Ming army to move forward, or the entire army may be wiped out.

After Murad IV said the conditions, they all added that they seemed to say that their king was too kind and treated the Ming army too well, so they should add more conditions.

On the contrary, Murad IV himself was not so inflated. After making up his mind, he asked someone to contact the Ming army in Tsarist Russia immediately.

After dealing with this matter, he was a little bit unmotivated about the current war with the Safavid dynasty in Persia.Because, in his eyes, he expects the Ottoman Empire to step on the whole of Europe!

After thinking for a long time, Murad IV made up his mind the next morning, and ordered his subordinates: "Send a letter to Safi, if he admits that the place we said is owned by Ottoman, then I can Stop fighting and sign a contract with him. If he disagrees, I will definitely lead my troops to find him!"

He sent troops this time because he knew the situation of the new emperor of Persia and felt that there was something to be gained.

In fact, what he learned was indeed correct.Safi was young when he succeeded to the throne, and he was cruel and restrained.During his reign, he ruthlessly eliminated anyone who could threaten his power, and executed almost all the princes of the Safavid royal family, as well as those courtiers and generals with outstanding achievements.On weekdays, he seldom pays attention to political affairs, and has no cultural or academic interests. It is said that he has difficulties in reading and writing.There is a bad habit of long-term alcoholism and opium smoking.

At this time, Murad IV felt that the opportunity was rare, and someone as incompetent as Safi could come and bully him at any time, so it was better to seize the opportunity when the Ming army was fighting the Europeans, and settle the European side first.

As for the Persian side, the incompetent Safi, who heard the news of the peace talks, would definitely happily agree immediately.Thinking of this, he began to prepare to withdraw his troops and prepare for the war against Europe.After all, European countries are still very powerful, and he is self-aware about this.

But the butterfly wings brought by Emperor Chongzhen continued to flap over Europe and Asia. Many things were different from the original history.

Inside the palace of the Persian capital city, the smell of alcohol was reeking. Several maids were holding the wine and waiting by the side, while Safi was holding the wine glass. It seemed that he was excited after drinking, and his face was good. He stared at the people below and asked: " Am I right, Shah Jahan actually proposed peace talks?"

"Your Majesty, yes, we, the Great Khan, are willing to negotiate peace, and we will be a country of brothers forever." The man below, obviously an envoy of the Mughal Empire, replied respectfully.

Safi was very happy when he heard the news. Although he didn't care about political affairs, he only knew how to drink and smoke opium all day long, but the eastern and western sides of the empire were occupied by two neighboring countries, so he was somewhat unhappy.I was a little worried at first, but suddenly heard that Shah Jahan came to ask for peace. This is his political achievement, so he forgot that the Mughal Empire was aggressive before, and he wanted to seize the important city of Kandahar, so he agreed.

After all, in his opinion, the Ottoman Empire is relatively stronger, and Murad IV personally led the army to fight.If we can stop fighting in the east, we can deal with the war in the west.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, someone suddenly came in and reported that the envoy of Murad IV of the Ottoman Empire had arrived.

This made Safi startled when he heard this, what's going on, why did the two enemies send envoys at the same time?
After calling in and asking, I didn't expect that they also came for peace talks.However, the Ottoman Empire went too far and asked him to admit the occupied places.If it was changed to before, Safi might have agreed, not wanting to cause trouble, wishing that the Ottoman Empire would not come to fight.But at this time, he felt that the strength under his rule was not bad. Look, Shah Jahan of the Mughal Empire had come to sue for peace.

So, he finally stood up once and did not agree to Murad IV's request, which made Murad IV's envoy return angrily, saying that Persia was waiting to bear the wrath of the Ottoman Empire!

As for the Mughal Empire, Safi agreed. After all, he didn't lose anything, and it was a very honorable thing.

Shah Jahan's envoy didn't say much, and hurried back to his country.

Originally in history, in this year, the Mughal Empire finally made an emergency landing in Kandahar, but because of the butterfly effect of the Ming army, Kandahar was still in the hands of Persia.

When Shah Jahan heard the messenger's report, he was surprised by the Ottoman Empire, but he didn't think much about it. Anyway, what he wanted had been achieved, so he quickly ordered the army to retreat.

However, he didn't pay attention to the fact that the army has been fighting in the north and Persia for years, and has been working hard to capture Kandahar.Who would have thought that in the end it was the Mughal Empire that first sued for peace and left the north in despair.This not only inspired the governor of Persian Kandahar, but also eclipsed the Mughal army, and their morale was inevitably hit.

Regarding these, Emperor Chongzhen was still unclear.But even if it was clear, he wouldn't care too much.For Ming at this time, even if your Mughal Empire attacked with all its strength, it was expected.Usually you brag on the Indian peninsula, saying that you are invincible, and you can do whatever you want, but now if you want to face the prosperous Ming, then come and try.

If it were replaced by Da Ming around the Persian Empire, they would rely on Safi’s actions, ignore the government, and kill all the royal men, ministers and generals with prestige and ability, just for this, Da Ming It can destroy Persia in minutes!How can it be like the Mughal Empire, which fought for so many years without even defeating Kandahar!

The Great Khan of the Mughal Empire also had the nerve to call him "Shah Jahan" ("Shah Jahan" means "ruler of the world" in Persian). It is really that the tiger is not at home, and the monkey is the king!

Let's go back to Daming. At this time, Daming has already returned to Nanjing.In late autumn, Nanjing is actually cold.

However, Nanjing at this time is extremely lively, countless people have left the house, just like the balloon experiment back then, the roofs everywhere are full of people.They were eating melon seeds, eating snacks, chatting, and basking in the sun by the way.

"I don't know what kind of airship the emperor mentioned? Could it be the same as the Kongming Lantern?"

"That's definitely not the case. Back then, I heard from the emperor that it was called a hot air balloon, and it was indeed similar to a Kongming lantern, but now this airship is completely different."

"What's the difference, can you tell me?"

"How do I know? Otherwise, why did I take the seat so early? I just want to see what this airship looks like!"

"..."

While they were talking, they kept looking at the area under the imperial city that had been under martial law from time to time.Earlier, carriages came from outside the city and stayed there, and many people were busy.But these people looked over and couldn't see anything, so they could only guess wildly.

While discussing, someone suddenly shouted, Yu Jia came, Yu Jia came out.Immediately, all the discussions disappeared, and the square in front of the imperial city immediately fell silent, and everyone turned their heads to look at the imperial city.

I saw the gate of the imperial city opened, and groups of civil and military officials came out and stood under the imperial city.And on the top of the city gate, under the canopy, stood Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou, and even the crown prince and harem concubine also went up to the top of the city. After a while, the top of the city was full of people. Obviously, People in the palace also came out to watch the excitement.

The drum sound of "dong dong dong" suddenly came from the imperial city, slowly and powerfully, echoing in the sky above the imperial city.

On the square below the imperial city, in the middle surrounded by the carriages, you can see the people there, and after hearing the sound of powerful drums, there is movement.When the people watching outside saw it, they stared at it with all their attention, wishing to see everything there.

After a while, slowly, something can be seen.Those who had seen the hot air balloon experiment last time could not help exclaiming after slowly seeing what appeared, "This...isn't this still a hot air balloon?"

"No, it's not the same as a hot air balloon!" Others immediately retorted, "Are you blind? You can't even see such an obvious difference?"

Indeed, the airship they saw was really similar to a hot air balloon, but it was a little different from a hot air balloon.There is no fire device, and the shape is no longer spherical, but long and flat, and there is something on the tail.

Those with more flexible minds suddenly realized after watching it for a while, and commented one after another: "So it is, so it is! This is the airship!"

"Why didn't I think of it! Really! Since the hot air balloon can take off, it is natural to consider how to artificially control the flight direction of the hot air balloon, and how it will move when there is no wind. Once these problems are solved, isn’t it just this airship!”

"..."

They were all right. It was for this reason that Emperor Chongzhen asked Xu Zhengming to make a hot air balloon first. After gaining experience, on the basis of this hot air balloon, he could naturally think about the airship.

Of course, it is said to be thinking about airships, but with the presence of Emperor Chongzhen, naturally a lot of thinking links are missing, and speaking out the ideas of later generations will speed up the process of the emergence of airships.

Now this airship is no longer inflated by burning on site, but directly filled with hydrogen.

The generation of hydrogen has already existed as early as the sixteenth century, but it was obtained by placing metals in strong acids.However, Emperor Chongzhen had already invented electricity. Although the storage and transmission of electricity cannot be solved well, electricity can be used to electrolyze distilled water and collect hydrogen.

Of course, everything is new now, so the requirements are not high. Anyway, it can be used to launch an airship.

Little by little, little by little, the airship lifted into the air, very slowly.

Looking at it, someone suddenly realized: "I know, why did I choose today's windless day? It turns out that the airship is afraid of the wind!"

Indeed, if the wind was strong, the world's first airship would not be able to withstand the strong wind at all.

Finally, after the airship reached a certain height, it stopped.

The operator under the belly of the airship was Xu Zhengming, the only apprentice of Emperor Chongzhen, and he shouted in the direction of Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I request to start the flight test of the airship!"

Emperor Chongzhen looked up and said with a smile on his face, "Yes!"

So, everyone looked up at Xu Zhengming, curious to see if the airship would fly according to people's will in the future.

For those who have seen a hot air balloon fly, this airship is not so shocking to them.But those who haven’t seen it last time, such as the newcomers to Nanjing, and most of the civil and military officials, they were originally in the capital, and they have never seen them. I was shocked, now I want to see Xu Zhengming start to fly according to his own will, no matter how knowledgeable and knowledgeable he is, he has never seen this scene before, he just looks up and looks at it motionless.

After waiting for a long time, just when they felt that their necks were going to be sore, an official suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "Look, the airship is moving forward, it really has to move, move..."

It was the first time they had seen people in the air, and with the help of tools, they could really fly.The excitement is naturally beyond words.But there is also one regret, that is, the airship flies very slowly.

Those experienced people, especially those who knocked melon seeds on the roof and watched after eating snacks, only saw the airship move a certain distance after they finished knocking the melon seeds and eating the snacks.

But no matter what, this is something that can be controlled by people without the help of wind power. You can fly there if you want.Such a thing is quite exciting.

It was almost noon when the experiment ended successfully. Emperor Chongzhen looked at the "buzzing" discussions above and below the city, coughed, and the drum stopped, and he began to speak: "I said before that heat will ascend to heaven, and people will rise to heaven." It can fly in the sky. In the past, hot air balloons were launched into the sky, but now, airships can also fly. But Zhu Qing should have seen that the flying speed of the airship is a bit slow, but what does it matter?"

Having said that, he raised his voice a little and said: "With technology in hand, the speed of the airship is slow. Then improve this shortcoming and make the speed faster. I told Qing and others that one day, this speed will be unacceptably faster. Fu, in the blink of an eye, it will fly away. Zhu Qing, do you believe it?"

(End of this chapter)