My Daming New Empire

After all, the guests are nobles and officials, so they still need to show some face.They were embarrassed to steal the dishes, but because Zhu Zhanji didn't emphasize the wine glasses, when each of them left, the wine glasses were put in their arms, even Osman III was no exception.

This made Zhu Zhanji feel dumbfounded, but he also truly understood the demand for various materials in the West in this era.

Taking Marin as an example, there is only one iron pot in their entire country. Even Osman III saw the iron pot when he went to the Holy City to worship, so he spent a lot of money to buy one.

This iron pot is regarded as a treasure by him, and no one can use it except himself.

And because Marin is located in North Africa, it is only separated from Europe by a strait. Like the West, they are not without "iron pots".It's just that their pot is not so much a pot as an iron tripod, which can only cook soup, not stir-fry.

Such an iron pot is not affordable for ordinary people.There is less iron in the West, and it is more difficult to refine it, and the price of iron is expensive.Only the great nobles can spend huge sums of money and are willing to use hundreds of catties of iron to build an iron pot.

When the children of the nobles inherited the inheritance, they would beat out their brains just for taking a bite of this heavy iron cauldron.

How can their people cook without iron pots?In addition to using clay pots, it is to use stones.That's right, with stones.

In addition to grilling directly, they also baked bread on stones.So the whole of the West, it's not that they don't eat rice, they don't have the conditions to eat rice at all.

According to the introduction of the accomplices, there is almost a town in every European country, so they are willing to build an oven with iron, and then use this iron box to bake bread for the whole town.

The East knew noodles and steamed buns 1000 years ago, but because there were no pots in the West, they could not boil hot water or steam buns, they could only toast bread.

This kind of bread is not the same thing as the soft bread that has been fermented and added with white sugar cream in later generations, but a kind of unleavened cake similar to compressed biscuits, which is dry, hard and chewy.

High-quality black bread is generally baked with wheat flour mixed with a large amount of bran, while ordinary black bread will add wood chips, because adding wood chips is more resistant to hunger.

The world famous thing about black bread is that it can be used as a weapon.In the chronicles of the Middle Ages, there are many records of the embarrassing incidents in which a worthless and stupid thief sneaked into the poor peasant's house to steal, but unfortunately died under the housewife's black bread.

And when family conflicts occurred in the Middle Ages, countless men died from the black bread attacks of shrews. This happened not once or twice in European history books, but a social phenomenon!

So the taste of this thing is simply unimaginable.

Except when it is just baked, it can be eaten directly. At other times, if you want to eat this kind of bread, you have to boil it in a crock pot to swallow it.

But there is only one oven in a small town, so most people can only eat dry bread.

The same is true for bathing. Almost every household in Daming has a pot, which can be used to boil hot water for bathing.

But because they don't have an iron pot, it is very difficult to boil water, so they don't take a bath at all.

This is the current situation in Europe as the birthplace of modern civilization. The Renaissance has just begun, and their people are still living in a primitive society!

Zhu Zhanji thought proudly: Since you are still so backward, come and bathe in the glory of my Ming civilization!

Osman III did not calm down until the ninth day after seeing the Ming Fleet, that is, the third day after the negotiation ended.

Daming gave him too many surprises, so many surprises that he couldn't calmly face everything in front of him for many days.

Daming has too many good things, and they simply don't have the materials to exchange those good things with each other.Among other things, Daming filled half of the boat with the thin iron pan that he regarded as a treasure.

The enjoyment of a soldier of them seems to be more luxurious than that of a king.

At least, the tea he drinks is high mountain bitter tea grown by the Persians. Even bad tea is a luxury for him, and he only dares to drink one cup a day.

And a Ming soldier can enjoy the fragrant and good tea to his heart's content, which was unimaginable to him before.

The silk he is reluctant to wear is also worn by many soldiers. This silk dress can be exchanged for a beautiful virgin in Marin.

The more contact he has, the more he can feel the background of Daming, which is a very powerful, wealthy and civilized country.

Compared with them, no matter which country it is, it seems that they are so far behind.

Although he didn't know the opponent's combat power, but the opponent could build a large ship that could accommodate more than 1000 people, he absolutely didn't dare to test the opponent's force value.

To his surprise, the other party offered to help them drive away the Portuguese.

This was indeed a surprise, because the Portuguese had not only occupied Ceuta, but were also eyeing Tangier. He was very suspicious that when the Portuguese gained a firm foothold in Ceuta, they would attack Tangier.

But having fought several battles with Portugal, he knew very well that he was no match for the Portuguese.

Now Daming promises not only to help them get rid of the Portuguese, but also to help them protect their homeland.Even if they wanted Ceuta as a base, Osman III agreed immediately.

And Xiuta and the others didn't want it for nothing, they were willing to take ten bags of expensive spices, ten bolts of soft silk, one hundred catties of fragrant green tea, and one hundred catties of tea bricks in exchange for this barren land.

Everything was according to what they said. After signing the official letter of credence, although Ceuta hadn't been defeated yet, the other party had already sent him these things.

All these actions are really the momentum of a civilized country.

In the eyes of Osman III, this is a truly civilized country, and no other country can compare with it.Compared with Ming Dynasty, all countries are barbarians.

Now, he is waiting for Daming's fleet to complete the deal with the tribal elders and set off.

He was already ready, and as soon as the Ming fleet left, he immediately went to Tangier to see how Ming would attack Ceuta.

From their battles, we can see their combat effectiveness.If their combat power is not strong, don't blame him for tearing up the contract in the future. After all, the cargo carried by the fleet is so tempting!

But if Daming's fighting power is strong, he will definitely implement the agreement seriously, and prevent the other party from grabbing any of their tricks.

The fleet stayed in Anfa for a full fifteen days, and the whole trade was still not over, but Zhu Zhanji decided not to wait any longer.

A group of internal supervisory officials in charge of trade have been left here to negotiate. They will write down everyone's needs and negotiate the terms of exchange with the other party. When the fleet returns, they can just trade according to the list.

In addition to them, there are two servants who are in charge of castration. They are both masters of castration, and they are responsible for teaching the people here to castrate those black people.

Castration is actually relatively simple. The key is disinfection and treatment after castration. If the problem of wound infection cannot be dealt with properly, the mortality rate is very high.

Restricted by the development of medicine, Daming's castration was only to cut off his penis.By the time of the Qing Dynasty, especially in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, people could cut off that thing directly and people would not die.

In order to live a little more, Zhu Zhanji thought about it and asked hundreds of accompanying doctors to prepare [-] wound medicines.

After these wound medicines were prepared according to the proportion, they were all crushed, wrapped in paper, and served for each person.As for whether they can survive, it depends on their own lives.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji does not want everyone. The ratio of male to female is strictly required to be ten to one. Young adults who are older than 12 and younger than 30 are the best.

As for women, there are at most a few thousand, and there are always some soldiers with a strong appetite who will not dislike their blackness and ugliness, and can satisfy their needs.

And these women will not be brought back to Daming, but will be arranged in various bases to wash, clean, and warm the beds for the soldiers.They are all strong and strong, and they can also help the leaders when they want to fight.

As for if they give birth to offspring, Zhu Zhanji has not yet considered this issue.

Those who can find their fathers will naturally be taken care of. I don't know who their real fathers are. The issue of raising them will be more complicated in the future!

However, these problems are not a big problem during the period of rapid expansion relative to the entire country.As long as their hearts are towards Daming, try to give them an equal development environment in the future.

Marin is relatively poor and there is not much gold and silver, so the scale of trade is not large.They traded with Daming, relying more on livestock and slaves in exchange.

Because Ming wanted to win over them to become a logistics base to suppress Europe in the future, it accepted such a troublesome trade method.

During this period of time, although Zhu Zhanji was personally arrogant, the contact between the soldiers and the locals was relatively gentle.