Dominate the Country

[New Year's Day, a year has passed in a blink of an eye. Can you think back on what you have done this year? Confused. ]

Should a tough declaration be backed up by more explosive actions?

When Sleman, the city closest to the Yogyakarta Palace, was engulfed in flames, what did Hamengku Buwono II feel?

That was obviously the Chinese's statement!

The Chinese may have disliked the rain there and were afraid that it would be difficult to light, so they specially sent 200 barrels of oil along the Progo River in a small boat!

The whole Sleman was burning in the black smoke.

And in the few days during that time, another batch of reinforcements from the Chinese Marine Corps arrived.

The pressure on Hamengku Buwono II was as heavy as a mountain. Whether it was the burning of Sleman or the arrival of the Chinese reinforcements, he was under great pressure. He thought that this Marine Corps came for his life and that China was ready to completely wipe out Yogyakarta. Even Grete had the same view, thinking that the Chinese had completely lost interest in talking. But he had no idea that this was just a very clever misunderstanding.

This support army was not coming for Hamenggu Buwono II, nor for Yogyakarta. After the high-level officials of the Nanyang Navy were extremely surprised to see the true identity of "Li Kun", they immediately took "remedial" measures - sending the navy's land combat force to reinforce Ye Tingyang to express their importance to the uncle of the country.

As a result, this force arrived at a very clever time, and then added a heavy weight to China in the bilateral negotiations.

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Batavia has been paying attention to the situation in Yogyakarta, and the news that the Chinese navy suddenly started fighting has reached here. Jacob was going crazy, but although he didn't know that a crazier news had crossed the yellow sand of the Sinai Peninsula, crossed the Red River, boarded a ship in the Gulf of Aden, and now reached India. But he is already Alexander now!

It's a pity that there are still thousands of miles of sea waves between India and the Nanyang. In the current era, the only thing that can be relied on is the ship. Otherwise, Jacob only needs to raise his hands.

Any governor of Batavia will immediately abandon all previous arrangements after learning that John Bull, the century-old good friend of the windmill, and the Gallic rooster have officially declared war, just to avoid giving the Chinese an excuse to continue to expand the incident.

There are not only three Chinese merchant ships in the Red Sea Mocha Port. When Xie Qinggao arrived at the Suez Port with great effort, he did not see any Chinese merchant ships here, but when he arrived at the Mocha Port with an Ottoman warship, a Chinese-flagged Western-style sailing ship loaded with arms had just arrived here.

The destination of this ship is the Suez Port, but now it doesn't need to go.

When hearing the news that the French on the European continent have officially declared war on Britain, all the Chinese in Mocha Port were shocked, and then they couldn't help but smile.

These seafarers are very clear about the situation in the South Sea, although the Surabaya incident did not happen at all when they sailed out of Malacca.

Five thousand muskets, thirty cannons, ten thousand sabers and two thousand breastplates were quickly transferred from the Chinese merchant ship to the Ottoman warship. Then the entire merchant ship was only loaded with a batch of stallions and feed, and half of the cabin was still empty, and Xie Qinggao and his party quickly set off on the way home.

Russia certainly gave in. But the arms trade between China and the Ottoman Empire has just emerged.

The Ottoman army is very large, but the Ottomans have limited funds. They can only look at China's new equipment with envy. The cannons that are directly turned out by boring machines are one level stronger than the old cannons in terms of weight and performance, but they just don't have money. So since the great Sultan, including the governors and governors of various frontier provinces, Pasha, they are very interested in China's large quantities of second-hand equipment, especially China's huge stock of old cannons. This performance is certainly inferior to China's new artillery, but it is better than the high-quality artillery cast by the Ottomans themselves, and it is only better than the Russian artillery. The most important thing is that the price is absolutely cheap, which is the best choice for the Ottoman Empire with a huge army.

The saber and breastplate are the equipment used by the Ottomans for their own Western cavalry.

Chen Ming didn't know that there was a theory on the Internet in later generations that the reason why the powerful Ottoman cavalry was getting worse and worse and was frequently beaten was that they abandoned their past traditions and carried out high-level Western cavalry training.

Chen Ming now doesn't know that there was such a theory on the Internet in his previous life, and even if he knew it, he would still sell sabers and breastplates to the Ottomans, as well as the short guns that are becoming more and more important to the cavalry.

The Ottoman Empire is a piece of fat meat. From a long-term perspective, the weaker they are, the better it is for China.

To be honest, China, which has already risen, really doesn't need the Ottomans to wait another hundred years before becoming the sick man of Europe. It would be best if they get seriously ill now.

The Ottoman Empire, located in the far reaches of the sky, has a long tradition of cavalry, which also plays an important role in the Ottoman army. However, in the past hundred years, their cavalry has been defeated by Europeans again and again, which has made the Ottoman cavalry uncontrollably embark on the path of learning from the enemy, just like their current army.

As long as the Ottomans still need breastplates, China can supply them on a large scale and cheaply, as long as the Ottomans can pay with gold or excellent stallions.

However, in China, including Chen Ming, after the initial superstition about cuirassier cavalry faded, they all realized the shortcomings and inconveniences of the Western wall cavalry. Compared with this cold weapon unit with strong impact in frontal attack, China's new generation of cavalry is more and more like hussars.

Because China's vast territory inherently determines the decline of the status of cuirassier cavalry with huge limitations, compared with this wall cavalry unit that requires mixed multi-arms cooperation, the Chinese military hopes that its cavalry is a "traditional cavalry" that can fight alone, long-distance raids, including dismounting and fighting on foot - Russian Cossack cavalry units are becoming more and more popular with Chinese cavalry units.

Or the disciplined Cossack light cavalry unit, without breastplate, can flexibly use firearms, can dismount and fight in line, and can also form neat cavalry squares. This is the complete cavalry in the eyes of the Chinese military!

Chinese cavalry does not distinguish between hussars, dragoons, hunters, cuirassier, and musket cavalry. China's environment and geographical conditions determine that they only need a comprehensive standard cavalry.

In horizontal comparison, the Cossack-style Russian cavalry is the most appropriate.

Before China established formal diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire, China had already begun to introduce Arabian horses, Indian horses, and European war horses. Mixed with the Don horses they obtained in the war, the horses from Central Asia, and the Mongolian horses owned by China itself, the new war horses were bred from their bloodline.

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Along the familiar sea route, along the Indian Ocean in the summer southwest monsoon's "clockwise" help, the ship arrived in India smoothly, after replenishing supplies and releasing a big bomb in Mumbai-the whole Mumbai was blown up by the news of the war between Britain and France, both the British and the French looked dazed. Some British and French people who were just close business partners became hostile countries in the blink of an eye. Perhaps before this Chinese merchant ship arrived in Malacca, the news of the implosion had spread throughout India. Then the ship sailed along the west coast of India. They have to bypass the Indian version of Cape Comorin, pass through Ceylon, and then go straight through the Bay of Bengal to the Andaman Islands. After that, the news can be transmitted back to the country at the speed of flying.

Cape Comorin is the southernmost tip of the Indian continent and is known as the "End of the World" of India. With Cape Comorin as the boundary, the Indian sea can be divided into three parts, the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Arabian Sea in the west, and the vast Indian Ocean in the south. The three huge seas converge here to form the breathtaking "three-color sea" spectacle.

In the 21st century, Cape Comorin attracts countless tourists every day because of its wonderful three-color sea and unique geographical location. But in ancient times, this place, called "the end of the earth" and "the end of the sky" by Indians, was a holy place on the Indian continent for two thousand years-a temple of Lord Shiva. This god worshipped by countless Indians is the famous god of destruction. It has both reproduction and destruction, creation and destruction!

To a large extent, it reflects the Indians' intuitive feelings about Cape Comorin.

Death and disaster breed vitality and hope.

For sailors, such a hellhole is a place that any sailor hates. Although Cape Comorin is just a "mild" little brother compared to the bad Cape of Good Hope, Xie Qinggao still hates it.

However, Xie Qinggao is not afraid. Compared with the Cape of Good Hope, where the accident rate is high, Cape Comorin is really much easier.

Zheng He's fleet could pass through here, so there is no reason why they couldn't. At that time, the Chinese called Cape Comorin Gambari. To this day, the Padmanambapuran Palace, where Cape Comorin belongs, still preserves two yellow rosewood chairs given to the king by Chinese Ming Dynasty merchants. Successive kings have loved them very much. One is placed in the reception room, where he sits to welcome guests, and the other is placed in the council hall. Chinese iron pots are also very popular in the coastal areas here. Locals call this kind of iron pot "Chini Chati". In the local language, "Chini" refers to China and "Chati" means wok. At the end of the royal restaurant of the Padmanambapuram Palace, there are 12 Chinese vegetable jars lined up. It is said that they were gifts given by Zheng He to the king. The glaze is still shining.

Of course, in 1498 AD, when Da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in Calicut, India, there was no trace of Chinese ships in India.

The ship that Xie Qinggao was on had a very ironic name - Peace.

It is really interesting that the ship that transported half a division of weapons and ammunition to the Ottoman Empire in one breath actually took such a completely opposite name.

The Peace passed Cape Comorin safely, then entered the Gulf of Mannar, and then plunged into the Palk Strait between India and Ceylon. The strait is connected to the Bay of Bengal in the northeast and the Gulf of Mannar in the southwest. It is about 270 miles long and only 130 miles wide at its narrowest point. There are intermittent islands in the strait, like a bridge.

"Damn, the wind and waves are getting stronger!"

Xie Qinggao had put away his notes long ago and couldn't continue writing. The ship was shaking like a drunk man. They might have encountered a hurricane. Xie Qinggao once again felt the taste of crossing the Cape of Good Hope. The large ship loaded with thousands of tons was tossed around in the waves, and was manipulated at will like a toy wooden boat.

The sound of the wind outside was like a ghost howling. When the window of the boat was opened, the strong wind blowing in made it difficult to breathe.

"It might be bad depending on the situation..." Xie Qinggao's face looked ugly because the wind and waves outside were too high.

Xie Qinggao, who subconsciously felt the danger, quickly packed up all the necessary things, just to prepare for the worst case scenario.

There are always unlucky times when sailing on the sea. The probability of shipwrecks in this era is very high, and now they are very unlucky to encounter a hurricane at night.

This is the last thing people who sail on the sea want to encounter.

In the event of a hurricane, even the most skilled driver may capsize, and even the slightest carelessness can lead to a catastrophe. And their current ships are not Chinese-style sailing ships that are easy to maneuver, but Western-style sailing ships that are complex to maneuver.

Xie Qinggao could hear the horses screaming.

"Master Xie, are you ready?" At the same time as the knock on the door sounded, the familiar voice of the guard captain also rang.

Xie Qinggao stumbled and opened the door. The two faces inside and outside the door were all pale and faintly frightened. If the ship sank on the sea, there really would be no place to run.

"Is it a hurricane?"

"Definitely a hurricane."

"Is the captain sure of getting through safely?"

"The captain said we should try our best and prepare ourselves for survival." Because of Xie Qinggao's special status, they can be said to be the most noble people on the entire ship, and their safety is also the most important thing to protect.

Soon the captain of the guard ran back with a bunch of gourds and four gourds tied around his waist. If the ship really sank, then it would be a matter of fate.

"There are sheepskin bags outside." The crew members were already blowing hard.

With the help of the guard captain, Xie Qinggao appeared staggeringly on the deck cabin with two large boxes and four gourds wrapped around his waist.

Just when he was about to ask the captain, the ship suddenly shook violently, and the amplitude was greater than ever before.

"I heard a noise!" There was a very violent sound, and Xie Qinggao became even more nervous. He really heard a cracking sound just now, and before his words could completely fall, a series of crackling and booming sounds came over. . The entire cabin felt like an earthquake, and everyone rolled into a ball involuntarily at this moment.

Oh my god, the ship veered to the left.

"The mast is broken, go and chop it down——"

Xie Qinggao was so dizzy that he hadn't started yet. He was filled with fear. If the whole ship had a big flap, no one would be able to escape. I saw that several crew members had stood up, opened the equipment cabinet on the side, took out the ax from it, and then staggered out of the hatch.

This is the life of a seaman. Why do they get paid so much? Why are you having such a wild time before you even get to the shore?

It is because their industry is life-risking, and their lives are likely to be like a tiny speck of dust falling into the vast sea the next time they go to sea.

In such weather, the crew members holding axes and looking at the mast outside might be hit by a big wave and all of them would be gone.

Seamanship is truly a profession for the brave. Xie Qinggao looked at the huge waves several stories high outside through the window. Even if he knew that the mast was broken, dragging the hull of the ship, and the whole hull was about to capsize, he did not have the courage to rush outside.

The three major hardships in life are boating, forging iron, and grinding tofu. Seafarers top the list. Years of wind, sun, and rain, and traveling through wind and waves, there is always the risk of capsizing and death. Drinking water from the rivers and seas, eating and living on boats will have severe effects on the body in the long run. Moreover, we are often alone in a boat drifting between the sea and the sky. Apart from our fellow sailors, we are lonely and lonely.

For them, battles with strong winds and waves occur every day. If you don’t have the spirit of adventure and extraordinary will, you should never choose this career. But apart from the impression of bravery and hard life, seafarers also give people the impression of depravity. Sailors and depravity are almost inseparable.

Although Xie Qinggao had previously known why seafarers were so dissolute at the docks on the shore, the long-term boring and monotonous life made it easy for them to indulge their long-repressed desires during the short berth time, to live and drink, and to indulge in extravagance.

But he could understand it, but he couldn't tolerate it. He didn't like the crew.

But today he has changed, looking at the crew members working hard on the deck, "Goddess Mazu bless me, as long as I protect my disciples from this disaster today, my disciples will never look down on sailors again." Xie Qinggao was really scared now.

"Sailors need to work hard!"