Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 1031: New Type of Cannon 1
Opening ports to foreign trade is a major event that Yang Menglong has been working hard to promote.

Although the Ming Dynasty has always had a sea ban, the sea trade has never stopped. The gold and silver found in the Americas in Europe have continuously entered into the Ming Dynasty through sea trade, hundreds of millions.It’s just that the maritime trade has always been controlled by Jiangnan maritime merchants, and there is no such thing as the imperial court. The imperial court can neither participate in the maritime trade and the people’s competition for profits, nor can it collect taxes from it. Wanli collected a little, but the result was hacked like ink up.The Heluo Group headed by Yang Menglong realizes that this situation is very abnormal, and the direct consequence of this way of doing things is that the country is poor, the people are poor, and it is all cheap for the bastards in the middle.Moreover, Daming's interest in the West seems to be limited to their gold and silver, and he doesn't care about Western scientific knowledge at all, and he is even unwilling to have normal exchanges with the West. This is absolutely impossible.

In Zhu Yujian's words: "No matter how good the goods are, they have to be sold abroad to create more tax revenue for the national treasury, right?" Well, this emperor really got into money.

In addition to establishing diplomatic relations with Spain and the Netherlands, Zhu Yujian also tried to establish the same diplomatic relations with another powerful country.

The Ottoman Empire, a behemoth spanning three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa.

The Ottoman Empire was established by the Turks.

More than 1000 years ago, the Turkic people were a fearsomely powerful nation. They were furious and powerful, coming and going in the wind, crossing the desert, and invincible. At their peak, their territory spanned the Eurasian continent. The Central Plains Dynasty was pressed down like a giant, and the Central Plains Dynasty could not breathe; in the Middle East, it fought fiercely with the Arab Empire for years, and the outcome was irrelevant; in the West, it was chatting and laughing with the Byzantine Empire... This shows how terrifying the Turkic people were at the beginning. .But their luck was too bad. Not long after they reached their peak, the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Arab Empire rose one after another, sandwiching them in the middle.The Great Sui first intervened in Turkic internal affairs in the name of helping them carry out economic reforms, and the provocation directly caused Turkic to split into East Turkic and Western Turkic, and their strength was greatly damaged!After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, I felt that the Eastern Turks were still too powerful, what should I do?It's easy to handle, wouldn't it be enough to let them split again?So he helped Xue Yantuo to compete with the East Turks, and the East Turks split again, and was finally destroyed by the Tang army in the Battle of Yinshan, and the East Turks became history.A few years after the fall of the Eastern Turks, Su Dingfang, the madman who destroyed the country, led the Tang army to march westward, and fought the Western Turks again in one battle and wiped out them.After the demise of the Western Turks, only Xue Yantuo remained in the Turkic Empire. What should we do?Tang Jun said that allies without a common enemy are not as good as the paper in the toilet. Datang and Xue Yantuo soon broke out in an all-out war. Bozhu suddenly defeated Xue Yantuo's 20 army, and Xue Yantuo was finished.Since then, the grasslands of the Turkic people have all been brought under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and it has been 50 years in a flash. Fifty years later, there was civil strife in the Tang Dynasty. Empress Wu purged the generals of the Tang army, which greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the Tang army. In the battles between Qinghai and Tubo, Xue Rengui lost 50 troops in Dafeichuan, Li Jingxuan was defeated in Chengfengling, and almost wiped out the entire army. Wang Xiaojie lost more than [-] soldiers in Suluo Khan Mountain. A series of disastrous defeats shattered the myth of the invincibility of the Tang army. All the ethnic groups suppressed by the bloody rule of the Tang Dynasty rebelled, and the Turks were no exception.But the result was very cruel. Except for the Khitan, who was destined to do big things, those ethnic groups who jumped against the rebellion all perished under the suppression of the Tang Dynasty, and their heads hung in Chang'an.Datang seemed to be the nemesis of the Turks from birth. In the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks could not make any big waves. Even in the late Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao rebelled and captured Chang'an, and the Tang army still beat the Turks in the north. At the time of their demise, countless Jiedu envoys proclaimed themselves kings one after another, separatist regimes, but the Shatuo tribe was still fighting to support this crumbling empire, fighting Zhu Wen, Khitan, and... In short, who dared to move? Datang and the others will fight whoever they are, as if they have become the last guardians of Datang. If the Turkic kings of all dynasties saw this scene, the coffin would probably be overwhelmed!

Crowds of Chinese Jiedu envoys rebelled and destroyed the Tang Dynasty, but the Turkic people who were supposed to be the mortal enemies of the Tang Dynasty fought to defend the glory of the Tang Dynasty, and even named the country they established as the Later Tang Dynasty, isn't it very strange? funny?

With a super-powerful pervert like the Tang Dynasty suppressing them, the Turks could not get along in the east. Many Turks had seen this clearly after the tragic defeat in Yinshan, so when the Tang army marched westward under the command of Su Dingfang, When they entered, they didn't say a word, they rushed over in the smoke and dust all the way from Central Asia and the Middle East, and escaped from the front of the Tang army far away.Life in the Middle East was not easy either. At the beginning, the Turks could only serve as mercenaries for the princes of the Middle East. When the Arab Empire declined, they gradually became stronger and established the Seljuq Empire.The Seljuk Empire did not exist for too long. It was already finished when the Crusaders came. However, the Seljuk Turks took root in the Middle East and finally established their own country in today's Turkey. In the Battle of Manchikot, they annihilated the main force of the Byzantine army, captured the Byzantine emperor, and gained Byzantine territory in Asia Minor. They soon became strong again.Finally, they captured Constantinople. The Byzantine Empire, which had survived for 800 years, collapsed under the edge of the scimitar and turned into the dust of history. The Ottoman Empire established by the Seljuk Turks stood majestically in Europe. On the subcontinent, after hundreds of years of expansion and hard work, it has become one of the world's behemoths, and the whole of Europe trembles under their scimitars and crescent flags.

Daming started to deal with the Ottoman Empire very early. There was a time when the Ottoman Empire sent missions to China almost every year to pay tribute to Daming, and Ottoman’s advanced weapons also entered China through this—for example, lol The secret gun was introduced to China by Ottoman.This country is so rich, if you can do business with them, you will definitely be able to earn a lot of money from them, and even some things that are more precious than money, such as oil... Although oil is not very useful now, it is very powerful. The needs of the world have already begun to take shape, and there is a sea of ​​oil under the yellow sands of the Middle East. Naturally, Daming cannot let go of such a good place!

"How should we deal with the Ottomans?" Zhu Yujian asked curiously as he flipped through materials related to the Ottoman Empire.

Yang Menglong stretched his lazy face and said, "It's not easy to deal with them!"

Zhu Yujian rubbed his temples and said, "What's the matter? Isn't there a normal country to deal with Daming?"

Yang Menglong shrugged and said, "Do you think every country is like Daming, and the emperor is supreme?"

Zhu Yujian smiled bitterly: "I really thought that every country was the same!" He slapped his forehead and shouted: "Why am I bothering with this? Isn't there a person who is well-informed and knows the Ottoman Empire like the back of his hand? Come and ask her. Don’t you already know?”

Yang Menglong was a little curious: "Who is so powerful?"

Zhu Yujian said: "That is the Countess, Catherine. Her country has fought against the Ottomans for hundreds of years, and she knows the Ottoman Empire well. If you want to know the inside story of the Ottoman Empire, you must find her..."

Yang Menglong rolled his eyes: "It seems that this is really the case."

Zhu Yujian asked excitedly: "Where is she now? I want to see her!"

Yang Menglong said uncertainly: "It seems to be in Shenyang, right? You know, her brain is not normal, she likes to run to the battlefield, and she will go where the fight is fierce."

Zhu Yujian said: "Call her back!"

Catherine, who was wandering around the front line in Shenyang, sneezed several times inexplicably.It was very rude for a beautiful woman with such an elegant temperament to sneeze, which made her a little embarrassed, but fortunately, no one cared about it, everyone had something to do.Just about a hundred meters away from her, hundreds of civilian husbands were yelling and pulling horses, struggling to drag several cannons with thick and long barrels to the west gate of Shenyang.The caliber of these cannons has reached 130 mm, and the barrels are several meters long. Great effort is required.Many soldiers also joined the ranks of pushing the cannon carts, and everyone shouted and pushed forward, that was full of excitement!
This is a new type of naval gun shipped from Wuhan. The range, rate of fire, and accuracy are all greatly improved compared to the 120mm naval gun currently equipped in large quantities. Shooting, just from the black muzzle and slender barrel, Catherine could see the destructive power contained in these iron guys.Unfortunately, Shenyang has become a testing ground for these cannons. The engineers will use Shenyang's city walls to test the power of these new cannons, so it is only natural that everyone is as tired as a dog shouting and pulling cannons.

Catherine looked at the city wall of Shenyang, which had been bombarded in tatters by rounds of artillery fire, and hoped that it could last longer so that more treasures of the Ming army could be forced out...

(End of this chapter)