Chapter 854 Slaves and Traders Bring Peace
When the sky was about to brighten, Liu Xiaoyuan frowned and it took him a while to face his confidant. Liu An, deputy supervisor of the Rouen Customs, said: "What do they know they want so many white slaves?"
Liu An's face was a little pale, his eyes were slightly red, and he couldn't help but yawn. It was obvious that he had arrived from Rouen's mall island overnight to meet Liu Xiaoyuan. At the banquet where Selassi, Solomon and Lai Fu, Liu An had already drawn a lot of information from the two of them.
Liu An was surprised by the purpose of the other party. Although he had known for a long time that Selassi, Solomon and Lai Fu were for white slaves, he did not expect that the number of white slaves the other party needed was so large!
Just a young white female slave, she could speak one hundred thousand eighty thousand!
Originally, Old Man Liu An thought that the "black eunuch" was out of the palace to buy it and search for the stunning Europa for Saint Chen. But how could Chen Dexing use it for the 100,000 to 80,000 yuan? Moreover, the other party did not ask for a beauty, but only stipulated that the age was under 25 years old. If he was strong, he could relax until he was 30 years old.
"Prince, the young man didn't know what the other party wanted the white female slave to do, but he knew that the other party wanted to transport these white female slaves to Mingzhou."
Liu An reported the news that he had heard at the banquet and the white female slave would be transported to the Mingzhou continent!
"Go to Mingzhou?" Liu Xiaoyuan frowned. For Europe, Mingzhou on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean is a familiar and unfamiliar place.
It is said that it is familiar because almost everyone knows that there is such a place, that it is the territory of the Ming Empire, and that the second-class Indian masters come from there. But until now, it seems that no Europa has been to the Mingzhou continent. Because... the Ming Empire does not allow it! The reason is that the Europa has a disease on its body and will be transmitted to the Indian masters in Mingzhou.
But now... aren't you afraid that these Europa women will go to Mingzhou to pass on the disease to the Indian master?
"All those who go to Mingzhou... are all women?" Liu Xiaoyuan suddenly thought of something.
"It's all women!" Liu An said affirmatively. During the banquet last night, he made a lot of words from Lai Fu.
"So many white female slaves went to Mingzhou..." Liu Xiaoyuan thought for a while, then suddenly clapped his hands and said, "I'm going to get married! These white female slaves went to Mingzhou to get married and have children!"
"Marry?" Liu An was stunned and then laughed. "How is it possible? There are people in Mingzhou. Aren't those Indian (Indian) warriors from Mingzhou? Since there are men, there must be women."
Liu Xiaoyuan shook his head, "I don't know this. However, Chen Dexing was willing to spend money to buy white female slaves from Europa to give them to Han immigrants who were willing to settle down in Mingzhou. As for the women in Mingzhou... I heard that Mingzhou has suffered heavy epidemics in recent years, countless people have died, and the people are probably not left. If they plunder their women, they are afraid of arousing public anger."
The news of the smallpox epidemic in Mingzhou and the situation where Indians are prone to infection are not a secret in Europe. After all, there are tens of thousands of Indians living in Hong Kong and Macau. In recent years, I have become familiar with Europeans. I don’t know how many Indians have been revealed through their mouths, and how can they hide them from the truth and truth of Mingzhou?
Liu Xiaoyuan was so meticulous. After thinking about it carefully, the key points were already clear.
Mingzhou is a treasure land with a very wide land, sparse population, and a lot of gold and silver! It is a private land of the Ming Dynasty, and it cannot be affected by the Europa people. However, it is not easy to transport people to Mingzhou across the Pacific Ocean. Now, the Ming Dynasty is not the only one who lives in poverty. People live a life, and fewer people are willing to travel across the ocean to Mingzhou. Moreover, even if someone is willing to go there, they will probably make a fortune. After digging enough gold and silver, they will have to go back to their hometown. Of course, they will not take women, and it will be difficult to settle down there in the end.
Therefore, the Han people in Mingzhou must have more men and fewer women, and the proportion is unbalanced. If they want to live in Mingzhou, the Ming Dynasty court had to find wives for them. However, there is a rule in "Chen Li" that "Han people are not slaves", so naturally they cannot buy poor women in the Ming Dynasty. In this way, they can only find women for them in Mingzhou and Europa.
The population of local natives in Mingzhou has dropped sharply due to the epidemic. There are only a limited number of women available for providing, and Chen Ming's authorities are afraid of arousing public anger. So they can only spend money to buy from Europa...
"Hahaha..." Liu Xiaoyuan suddenly burst into laughter when he thought of this.
"Why is the Prime Minister laughing?" Liu An, who was standing beside him, asked in a low voice.
Liu Xiaoyuan smiled and said, "Because the Ming and Meng peace talks are about to be completed, there will always be a hundred years of peace in the world!"
"Really?" Liu An was still puzzled.
"I can't be wrong!" Liu Xiaoyuan said with great certainty, "For the Ming Dynasty, swallowing 100,000 miles of fertile soil in Mingzhou is the foundation for all generations. Compared with Mingzhou, Europa is nothing, and it is difficult to manipulate. Without hundreds of thousands of soldiers, millions of immigrants are not enough to suppress it. Therefore, as long as our Great Mongolia can provide convenience for the Ming Dynasty to colonize Mingzhou, Chen Dexing will definitely not kill us! If we kill us, where will he buy so many white female slaves?"
"Sell it to Chen Dexing's white female slave?" Liu An seemed incredible and looked at Liu Xiaoyuan with wide eyes.
Liu Xiaoyuan nodded with certainty: "Of course! Confucius said: Diet, men and women are the great desires of human beings. Mingzhou has few people and wide land, so food is definitely not scarce, and what is lacking is women..."
This matter sounds strange. The foundation founded by Genghis Khan now has to rely on giving women to the Ming Dynasty to protect himself... If Genghis Khan knows, he will have to live out of his grave and be angry, but even if Genghis Khan is angry, it will be useless!
Because Chen Dexing ushered in an era of steel and H medicine! Today's war is no longer something that the backward grassland nations can control.
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Central Asia, the Mesopotamia, Henan, and Tongtian Pass. At this moment, a major battle to determine the survival of the Ili Khanate and the Mangetemuir Khanate is at its most critical moment.
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On July 12, the seventh year of the Tiandao of Daming, 80,000 Ming army, the Western Expedition Army and 120,000 Yili Khanate Army launched another battle that determined its destiny on the plain outside Tongtian Pass.
Liu Dou has now been promoted to lieutenant company commander and no longer serves in Guo Kan's Silver Armor Division. Instead, he transferred to Guo Kan, the musket army directly under Zhu Sijiu. Liu Zheng and Yan Zhongji contributed their musket corps, and the three of them gave Zhu Sijiu another thousand men. Zhu Sijiu used them and his disciples to form three spear barracks in a four-company system, which were assigned to three musket corps respectively.
Therefore, Zhu Sijiu's musketeer division was composed of musketeer, sword and shield and spearmen.
Moreover, all the soldiers of the entire division, whether they hold spears, swords, shields, or muskets, are equipped with full steel armor protection, which is definitely a heavy infantry configuration.
In today's battle, Zhu Sijiu came up and threw his newly built musket division into the attack. Under the command of the division commander of Zhu Sijiu, the eight thousand and hundreds of soldiers listed three unprecedented four horizontal formations on the battlefield. With the support of 144 cannons and 36 rocket soldiers, they began to approach the left wing of the Ilikhanate army front.
"Stable the formation! Stabilize the formation! Move forward..."
Liu Dou yelled loudly, and the blood all over his body seemed to be about to boil.
The front line formed by 120,000 troops was endlessly placed on the vast grassland. They held maces, maces and spears. They were wearing iron armor and leather armor, and some people rode war horses and held bows and arrows.
If such an army had not met the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition Army, it would have been an invincible existence at least in Persia, Dashi, and the Two Rivers. There would be no force that could threaten them at all.
But now, in front of the Ming Dynasty's powerful soldiers armed with steel and firearms, this Mongolian army is completely outdated.
"Dadada..."
The sound of drums sounded in the ears of each steel armored warrior. Everyone followed the rhythm so that the pace could move forward.
"God of immortality blesses the Mongols!"
The Mongols' shouts came from the front! Liu Dou looked up and looked forward. It turned out that the Mongols' cavalry had leaned forward, and the team of tens of thousands of people had already listed the formation on the grassland. They were about to launch a charge.
"Hollow square array!"
The order of the division commander Dawei was conveyed one by one. The three musket corpses that were moving stopped at the same time, and then suddenly there was a dazzling array change. The original four horizontal lines quickly expanded into three regiment-level hollow square formations with a spacing of more than 200 steps. The outermost layer of the square formation was the sword and shield soldiers (also a four-company battalion) and they all knelt on one knee, and the shield formed a low wall, and the long sword poked out from the low wall. The sword and shield soldiers were spearmen inside, and they were kneeling in their positions. The spears were against the ground and extended from the gap between the large shields. The spears were three rows of musket soldiers, and the innermost were the officers of the regiment and division headquarters.
As soon as the formation was completed, the Mongolian cavalry started to charge. These cavalry started to charge from two miles away. They were more than three and a half miles away from the Ming army's battle formation. The reason why they were so far away was to avoid artillery. However, they were bombarded by rockets from the Ming army's artillery before. The formation was chaotic for a long time, and it was finally settled. Zhu Sijiu's musketeers had already taken the opportunity to advance more than one and a half miles.
The scene of thousands of horses galloping was very terrifying. The ground was trembling slightly by horse hooves, like a drum. However, the officers and soldiers of the Ming army's Musketeers Division were as calm as water.
The commander of the First Musketeer Division was Zhu Sijiu's fellow townsman, named Tang Ying, and was also the "Old Sir" who had been in the army for more than ten years. In the Ming army, there was the rank of colonel and the rank of viscount. Seeing the smoke and dust on the opposite side, he just yelled: "Musketeer preparation!"
"Minderman, check the fuse!"
The battalion commanders and company commanders below issued orders one after another. They were routine military orders. The ammunition of the musketeers was already loaded before they began to advance, and the fuse had been lit. Now it is just another inspection.
"Military soldier, three-stage attack!" Tang Ying ordered again. "The enemy is released and fires when he reaches 30 steps!"
The third-section attack is the standard tactic of the Ming army's musketeers to divide the musketeers into three columns, two of which are responsible for loading and one column is responsible for shooting. Since this tactic is used during defense, and the Ming army has rarely fought defensive wars for so many years, the Mongols have never seen it much.
"Boyan, have you seen this block array in India?"
The Mongolian army's main formation was behind more than two miles from their line. On a tall nest car, Yilihan Abaha and Kublai Khan's general Bayan stood side by side. Both of them were holding telescopes and staring at the front enemy.
"I have never seen it... But when I was in the Central Plains, I heard that the Ming army had a hollow square formation of the brigades." Boyan frowned, and the telescope in his hand was almost snatched out of water.
As soon as he went to the battlefield, he saw something wrong! The Ming army here is much more elite than he saw in Tianzhu. Not only is the formation neat, but the formation changes are very fast, as if they are flowing. Their artillery is also powerful. Not only can they fight accurately, but they can also set rockets, which are also accurate! As soon as the battle started, three or four hundred rockets hit the left wing of his own battle formation. It was so chaotic! In the end, Abaha transferred his three thousand-man teams of Qiexue Army to stabilize.
But as soon as this side stabilized, the Ming army's musketeers were pressing up.
Using musketeers to charge the formation... What kind of fighting method is this? Boyan was puzzled. There are also musketeers Kublai Khan, but they have always been used as archers. Even if they are close to the enemy, they are still under the heavy protection of the cavalry. Why are the Ming army coming up like this now?
"You can rush, you should be able to rush away!" Abaha gritted his teeth, "As long as the Warriors don't hesitate... Damn, Rockets!"
Halfway through his words, his face suddenly looked extremely ugly. It turned out that dozens of rockets with long tail flames rose in the sky ahead! Looking at the direction of their flight, they were used to bomb the Mongolian horse team in the charge.
These hateful rockets are not very lethal, but the scene of the explosion is too scary and people can tolerate it, but the horse cannot bear it. When the horse is shocked, the charge formation will be messy, and the impact will drop greatly.
"King Khan, the cavalry of the Ming army!"
Boyan exclaimed again, and Abaha quickly looked at it, and saw smoke and dust rising from the right wing of the Ming army's battle formation. Obviously, a large number of cavalry were coming. Abaha had heard of the reputation of the Ming army's "Eight Banners Horse Team" even in Persia. Although they were not many, they all had steel armor protection and were skilled in riding and shooting, which was not easy to deal with!
"They must have wanted to pursue our cavalry after failing to rush..." Boyan whispered, "King Khan, please throw your three Qixue Qianmen teams into it."
Before he finished speaking, a rumbling explosion came from the front, and the Ming army's rockets were already exploding among the running Mongolian cavalry.
Chapter completed!