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Chapter 1644 Queen Mother Earl Sailing on Dry Land

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    The Ottoman Empire very much welcomes Representative Liu¡¯s arrival.

    The Governor of Egypt warmly entertained Representative Liu and quickly reported to Istanbul.  The Ottoman Sultan actually immediately invited him to the capital for a meeting.

    So Liu Zhengqi took an Ottoman galley in Alexandria and arrived in Istanbul at the entrance to the Black Sea. In the majestic audience hall of the Burtopkapi Palace, he met with the Turkish Sultan and Murad I.  And his mother, one of the most powerful women in the world today - Queen Mother Nurbanu of Sudan.

    This legendary woman, respectfully known as Nurbanu Sultan, whose real name is Cecilia, is a serious Venetian noble lady.

    Her father was the lord of Paros.  In the war of 1537 AD, the Ottomans captured Paros and took Cecilia captive to the palace in Istanbul, renaming her Nurbanu, which means 'smart girl'.

    This beautiful and elegant 14-year-old girl soon became the favored concubine of the previous Sultan, who was still the prince at the time. After the Sultan ascended the throne in 1566, she was established as the Sultan Queen and gave birth to the future Sultan Murad III.

    But because of her origin, she did not get the power that an imperial queen should have, and has been suppressed by the emperor's sister Mihelima Sultan.

    Until 1574 AD, the second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, when the previous sultan died, Nurbanu kept the funeral secret and hid the body in an ice coffin for twelve days until her son Murad rushed back from abroad twelve days later.  succeeded the Sultan.

    Because of the Turkic tradition, Nurbanu, who became the empress dowager, became the regent of the empire.  It was during her regency that Ottoman made a separate peace with Venice, the Holy Alliance collapsed, and relations between Ottoman and Europe eased.

    Under the rule of the empress dowager, who had the blood of Venetian merchants flowing in her body, the pace of Ottoman conquests slowed down, and the empire paid unprecedented attention to internal affairs and commercial interests.

    So the reconstruction of the Mediterranean-Red Sea trade route was put on the agenda.

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    History books from another time and space say that the Ottoman Empire controlled the Eastern Mediterranean and blocked the trade routes to the East, forcing the Portuguese and Spanish to find new routes and thus embarked on a great voyage.

    This statement is wrong and simply treats Osman as a barbarian.  But even a barbarian would not ruin his own job.  Especially after taking control of Egypt, the business between the Ottomans and Venice and Genoa was very happy.

    In fact, it was the two teeth of the Iberian Peninsula that were squeezed out of the Far East trade by the Mediterranean countries. They were anxious about not having enough fat to eat, so they wanted to find a new route to China.

    In the end, the Portuguese really found it. They bypassed Africa and came to the Indian Ocean all the way.  With their superior navy, the Portuguese boldly challenged the Ottoman hegemony in the Arabian Sea and broke their monopoly on Far Eastern trade.

    Of course the arrogant Ottomans could not agree.  But even though they had an absolute advantage in military strength, naval battles were not land battles, and the generation gap was difficult to fill with numerical superiority. As a result, the Portuguese were invincible, and the Ottomans' position in the Indian Ocean was soon in jeopardy.

    Business partners such as Venice, Genoa, and Greece once sent fleets to support the Ottomans.  They sailed the Calais battleship to Alexandria, where it was dismantled by Venetian shipwrights and then transported to Suez where it was reassembled.  Help pagans attack Catholic countries

    So belief is nothing, interests are fundamental.

    But both the Calais battleships and the Arabian sailing ships in the Mediterranean were severely lacking in firepower. As a result, their strength was ten times that of the enemy, but they were completely defeated, and the Portuguese completely lost their hegemony in the Indian Ocean.

    The Portuguese were unrivaled and had a huge appetite. Not only did they want to control the coast of the Indian Ocean, they also hoped to control the entire Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, completely blocking the 'Mediterranean-Red Sea' route, so as to monopolize trade in the Far East.

    And they really achieved their goal.  The two sides have been fighting in the Indian Ocean for hundreds of years, and fierce battles have occurred dozens of times.  Portugal used its insufficient military strength to block the Eastern trade between the Mediterranean countries and the Ottomans.

    It was precisely because they could no longer make money together that the Ottomans and the Mediterranean countries would lose their brains in the following decades.

    Queen Mother Nurbanu is determined to change all this, so that Osman and her motherland will no longer fight life and death, but make small money happily together.  It's a pity that the alliance is easy to make, but the enemy is difficult to defeat.

    Nowadays, the Ottoman Asian navy, using all its strength, can only protect the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.

    The low EQ theory is that they were divided and blocked by the Portuguese Indian fleet in these two bays.  I can't go out to sea at all

    So when a force that can defeat the Portuguesenbsp;The team members rested there for a month, and while waiting for the miracle to happen, they also went to see the Pyramids and the Sphinx.

    When they saw the magnificent pyramid, which was exactly as described in the textbook compiled by the young master, the team members were excited and increasingly believed that the Egyptians could create miracles.

    But a month later, Liu Zhengqi¡¯s reputation was blown.  Because after the Mamluks had recruited the civilians and prepared the giant trees for dry land boating, the craftsmen realized a serious problem. These three sea-going ships had pointed bottoms, not flat-bottomed boats like those in the Mediterranean.  We are still sailing on dry land. I am afraid that once we get ashore, it will capsize as soon as the support is removed

    Lao Liu had no choice but to discuss with them, how about we change.  You go back on the ship I left in the Red Sea. I will keep these three ships for my use

    This has the same effect as sailing on dry land, so the group has no losses and we can complete the task, right?  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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