I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Strangling the Gulf of Aden created an important obstacle for Ming's westward fleet.

But fortunately, although Brother Abdul was beaten black and blue by his neighbors in the north, he still showed such a bit of martial virtue when he crusaded against the southern tribes.

Standing behind the Houthi armed forces in Yemen are their Shia compatriots, the Persians, and behind the Persians are actually the British.

But now whether it is Persia or the British, they have little spare power to manage Yemen.

When the Ottomans attacked Egypt, a partial army went south along the east coast of the Red Sea, destroyed the British stronghold in Yemen, and made the six sultanates in southern Yemen submit to the "caliphate" again.

This allowed the Ming Expeditionary Fleet, under the coordination of Ali Pasha, to carry out low-key replenishment in the Gulf of Aden in the name of an armed cargo fleet.

His Majesty Zhu Fugui was also able to eat roasted camels, a traditional Arabic delicacy.

In fact, today's breakfast is roasted camel, spider crab, shark pudding, parrot fish, Arabic big cake, vegetable salad, fruit, seafood, barbecue, coffee, juice, raw cheese, black tea and so on.

Accompanied by Lao Li, Zhu Fugui took a simple bite, and the two together achieved the goal of not wasting food.

Then, Zhu Fugui prepared to convene all the accompanying generals for the last pre-battle deduction.

After passing through Yemen, you will enter the Red Sea.

Both Arabia and Egypt have been infiltrated by British forces.

Zhu Fugui believed that sooner or later London would know about the arrival of the Ming Fleet.

Therefore, after entering the Red Sea, the fleet must race against time, advance quickly, and kill with one blow before the British and Russian sides are on alert.

But before the meeting, Zhu Fugui still had to wait for a period of radio waves.

A radio wave from Constantinople.

……

Constantinople, Dr. Cavusoglu's clinic.

A woman in a burqa looked left and right, and walked in hastily.

But she didn't come to dispense the medicine, but went straight into the clinic inside.

Here, a chubby Jew is drinking coffee.

He gently shook the simple glass in his hand, and smelled the aroma of coffee intoxicatedly: "Her Royal Highness, Princess Battenberg, don't you want a cup of hot Haitian coffee? I guarantee that they are much more delicious than Indian coffee!"

The woman took off her burqa, revealing a face that was very different from Middle Eastern women, with obvious German female characteristics.

She is the second daughter of the Duke of Hesse and the sister of the Russian Empress—Prince Julia.

She looked at the despicable Jew in front of her with disgust.

Sure enough, the tyrant's servant is also so disgusting.

Mr. Zhu Youjian will surely cry in heaven!

"I swear to God, I don't want to touch your filthy stinking money of heretics!"

Cursing, Julia put a document on the table and quickly stuffed a thick envelope into her Chinese rhyme bag.

Tang Sangui smiled and said nothing.

I am the earliest believer of Jehovah, the only Messiah who has been certified to walk in the world, you Germanic barbarian are nothing!

But there is no need to speak such bad words to each other.

After all, as King Pingxi of the Ming Dynasty and the King of Judah in Hebrew, he must be more graceful than a mere female prince of Battenberg.

Someone sent Julia away, Tang Sangui slapped his scared hands.

A man stepped out from behind the examination screen.

"Have you seen it, brother Shang Kexi, everyone in this world is not enlightened, are you still worried about your choice?"

Akshan, or the man who should be called Shang Kexi now, nodded repeatedly and said, "Believing the Russians is the biggest mistake in my life, and falling into Daming's arms is the greatest honor in my life."

Tang Sangui smiled and picked up the documents sold by Julia and flipped through them casually.

Suddenly his smile paused, and then it became even brighter.

"Brother, come and see this, it's very interesting."

Shang Kexi took the document, which was in English, but for a son of Ottoman nobles like him, he was very proficient in both English and French.

Looking at the content above, Shang Kexi's face turned white.

I saw that a small part of the documents Julia brought was about how to govern Constantinople.

Among them, the plan to use the head of the head of the Akshan Army as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the local factions, so that more than 2/3 of the MSL will withdraw from Constantinople is clearly listed on the paper.

Although Akshan cannot rule out that this is a play directed and acted by this cunning Jew, but through contact with the Russians these days, especially the appearance of the genuine female prince, Akshan believes that the despicable and shameless Russia People do intend to kill themselves.

"Relax, my little brother."

Tang Sangui patted him on the shoulder from behind, and said, "The Russians are going to kill Akshan, the head of the Sudanese Guards. What do you care about? As long as you handle things properly for our emperor, Fengdu Wuguocheng The apartment has its own private room.

Not only that, as far as I know, His Majesty the Emperor has given an additional 200 asylum places this time. As long as you work hard, your wife and daughter can all live in Daming. "

"Uh... sons can't do it? I have 23 sons..." Shang Kexi hesitated.

"Niang Xipi!"

Tang San Guibiao scolded the Ming Dynasty, "23 sons? Didn't your prophets say that you can only marry four wives? How can you have so many sons?"

"Uh... that... maybe I'm not a devout believer..." Shang Kexi lowered his head.

"Forget it, you choose a few sons who are pleasing to the eye."

Tang Sangui covered his forehead, "Daming's naturalization regulations are very strict, your daughter is easy to deal with, and most of your sons will not be naturalized, but this king can entrust your old friend American Doctor Hou Potter to arrange for your sons, it is really not possible, Taiping Mr. Hong Taoliu of Niguo needs money very much. If you provide some sponsorship fee, we can arrange it properly, that is, those Taipinians are very fanatical about worshiping God. I am afraid that your sons..."

Shang Kexi opened his mouth, wanting to say something else, but in the end he had no choice but to accept his fate.

It would be better to go to Taiping Nation than to die in the hands of the Russians.

Tang Sangui nodded, and continued: "Check to see if there is any problem with the information on this German girl, especially whether the place where Mr. Abdul is being detained is consistent with what you know. If there is no problem, we will send a telegram to Long Live Lord Bar!"

Chapter 755 The vested castle must be in Greece

"Oh, dear Alexander, Alfred and the others haven't come yet?"

In Topkapi Palace, in the luxurious study room that originally belonged to the Sultan, Queen Maria asked her husband a little uneasy.

The only daughter's wedding was on August 8th, and now it was imminent, but the British fleet or convoy still hadn't arrived in Constantinople, and even the news of going on the road hadn't been received.

This made Queen Maria wonder whether the stupid and arrogant British would unilaterally mess up the engagement.

Although he is not satisfied with his daughter marrying into the British royal family, if the British unilaterally break the contract, there will be no place to put his face as a top European nobleman.

People in the world often say that Orientals care about saving face, but in fact this is nonsense.

Western aristocrats value face no less than Orientals.

It's just that those cattle-like mud legs in the West have never had dignity, and naturally they don't pay attention to face, and their number accounts for the vast majority of the population, so there is such an illusion.

Before, Victoria refused to give in and let her daughter rank behind her daughters and the Princess of Wales, which made Queen Maria extremely dissatisfied. Now that the British have not shown up for a long time, she is even more angry.

But for Alexander II, the next most important thing is of course the enthronement ceremony of the Eastern Roman Emperor. The wedding of his daughter is just the icing on the cake, and it will have to wait a little later.

So he shook his head and comforted his wife:

"Don't worry too much. Don't you know that we are now unbreakable friends with the British? They couldn't have deliberately ruined Maria's wedding.

After all, Alfred is a lieutenant colonel of the British Royal Navy. Now that the Ming people are pressing hard in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, he is also very busy. "

Queen Maria was not easily fooled, she frowned and said: "I have long heard that Alfred likes sailing, and even completed a round-the-world voyage a few years ago, such a homeless man can really give Mary Does ya bring happiness?"

"Okay, okay, don't say such naive words, you also know that as the daughter of the Roman emperor, Maria's marriage is not happy or not, the only thing we have to consider is whether it is worth it. "

Alexander II pinched his eyebrows and said, "Alfred is not only the second heir to the British throne, but also the first heir to the Greek kingdom...

Although Victoria has always opposed Alfred's succession to the Greek throne, she hopes that her second son will inherit the ancestral land of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld according to her late husband's last wish, but..."

Alexander II did not continue to speak.

But he couldn't hide the hot light in his eyes.

Only then did Queen Maria understand why her husband changed his previous attitude and was so active in marrying his daughter to the British.

It turned out that he was plotting against Greece!

Indeed, Eastern Rome without Greece is not complete Eastern Rome, and Byzantium without Athens is not true Byzantium.

After acquiring Constantinople, it was hard not to look to Athens and the Peloponnese.

The Kingdom of Greece is not actually a legitimate kingdom.

At least in the eyes of the Ottomans, the Kingdom of Greece was nothing more than a rebellion, nothing more than a northern puppet.

In 1460, the Ottoman Empire annexed Greece and the Balkans.

They used Albanian bureaucrats to manage Greece, and then used Greek bureaucrats to manage Romania and the Slavs, maintaining the rule they wanted to be for a long time.

Until the London Conference in 1832, Britain, France, and Russia forced Ottoman to recognize the independence of Greece, and appointed Prince Otto, who ruled the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty and was only 17 years old, as the first monarch of Greece.

The Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld, the foundation of the British royal family, has a complicated relationship with the Wittelsbach dynasty of Bavaria.

It can be said that Greece is almost a puppet of the British.

The British even ceded the Ionian Islands to Greece.

This is also the behavior of a very small number of greedy British who voluntarily gave away the land, which shows the pure nature of the Northern Puppet of the Kingdom of Greece.

The Ottomans were under great pressure from the Russian Empire and relied on the British in the Crimean War, so they dared not speak out about it.

However, with the birth of the two camps of the Three Emperors Alliance and the Triple Entente, the Ottomans also planned to recover Greece.

It's just that it is extremely difficult for the Ottomans to regain Egypt, and they really have no ability to recover Greece. Therefore, Greece today is not only widely recognized by European countries, but also takes the opportunity to greatly expand its territory.

All this is not only privately given by the British, but also fueled by the Russians.

Although the Greek royal family is a Protestant from Bavaria, its people are mainly Orthodox and have always had a friendly relationship with the Russian Empire.

Alexander II also angrily reprimanded the Ottoman Sultan more than once, demanding to ensure the independence of the little brothers of the Orthodox Church.

But this time and that time also.

Now that Alexander II has settled in Junbao, he has become the object of his anger.

He has even begun to study the logic that Greece's independent jurisprudence is insufficient, and a part that should belong to Ottoman should be inherited by himself.

It's just that, after all, doing so is unfair, and it is easy to be resisted by the locals.

In Europe, where the territory follows the ruler, it would be wonderful if Greece could be obtained without bloodshed through marriage.

Of course, there are still many problems here.

For example, it must be ensured that Alfred dies before his daughter, and that they have no offspring...

Only in this way can his daughter become the first heir to the Greek throne.

To be honest, the chances of this happening are very slim.

But it's always good to have hope!

……

For several days in a row, the Russian side still had no news of the arrival of the British mission, which made Alexander II anxious.

He summoned the British ambassador and asked about the specific situation.

The British ambassador promised mysteriously: "Prince Alfred of the British Empire and the visiting delegation congratulating His Majesty the Tsar on the coronation will arrive in time and will bring great surprises. Please don't worry."

With such a guarantee, Alexander II could only suppress his arrogance and put all his thoughts on organizing the celebration.

Time soon came to the day of August 1875, 8 AD.

On this day, the weather is also very beautiful.

The sky over Istanbul was cloudless, and the sea breeze with a little fishy smell brought a bit of coolness to this ancient city.

Taksim Square is full of guests.

Under the arrangement of the Russian attendants, envoys from all over the world sat down in order according to their relationship with the Tsarist royal family and their international status.

Sitting at the top, holding a scepter, is Alexander II dressed up.

He is not wearing the traditional dress of the Russian tsars today, and the heavy clothes are not worn at all this season.

Alexander II was dressed in a purple silk robe with a strong Byzantine style.