Just as ships of hardcover opium were flying across the ocean and rushing towards Europe in large quantities.

The new foreign information that was deleted late was also sent to Zhu Zilong's original body, who was at the Asia headquarters of the South China Colonial.

In the encrypted letter, Liu Feng described and reported the situation in Europe, there was another content that slightly attracted Zhu Zilong's attention.

That's about the Ottoman Empire!

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The Ottoman Turkish Empire was an empire established by the Turks, and its founder was the Ottoman.

The Turks were first subordinate to the Sultanate of Roma, but later established a country in Turkey and became increasingly prosperous. At its peak, they reached the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, and had the majority of the territory of Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and the north, Hungary and Slovenia.

After destroying the Eastern Roman Empire, he established his capital in Constantinople and changed his name to Istanbul. He also regarded himself as the heir of the Eastern Roman Empire and inherited the culture of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Under the leadership of Barbarossa, his navy once defeated Spain and gained the advantage of the Mediterranean region.

Originally, as a major country spanning many continents, it was one of the strongest countries in the region, like Spain, France and Austria. However, in the past few years, Zhu Zilong attacked European countries.

The result was that they could take advantage of it!

In the European incident, Zhu Zilong and Daming were naturally the biggest winners. But it is undeniable that some countries also took the opportunity to drink some soup. While not getting weaker, their national strength also increased.

The Ottoman Empire is one of them!

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After learning the new information, Zhu Zilong's body decisively ordered to reorganize a fleet and set off for Egypt in the name of envoys and caravans.

In the letter, Liu Feng raised some concerns about the Ottoman Empire.

But Zhu Zilong didn't think so. As a time traveler, he knew that Suleiman I was about to die. Soon, the period of Sultan's feminist rights was coming!

The period of feminism in the Sultan was a period when the Turkish harem had great influence on politics, and the Queen Mother, who represented her son, exercised power. The entire palace would fall into a scheming battle between the palace. The Sultan of Kosem would induce political enemies to kill her in 1651 because of the regent.

At this time, just wake up the people related to Europe, and use the church as the appeal.

We began to deal with Türkiye and control the land trade channel. Bypass Türkiye's trade monopoly and establish their sea routes to Asia. This old empire will be sunset and will not be a major threat.

Then, teach the star fortress that Europeans would think of themselves sooner or later to countries that can be united. Türkiye has no choice but to do with such fortresses, and the Turkish cannons used by the Empire have become invalid.

So, what else to worry about?

In fact, in history that had not changed, the Ottoman Empire was increasingly weak and lost to the rising Austria and Russia.

What's more, during its existence, religious and modernization reforms were implemented more than once, making the boundaries between Eastern and Western civilizations increasingly blurred. This is also the cause of the fatal civil war!

Compared with the Ming Dynasty tens of thousands of miles away, European countries, especially Egypt and other countries, I hope that the Ottoman Empire will become a common enemy, right?

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After all, Ottoman was surrounded by madmen and himself, and he was also a madman. He not only played religious wars with Christ's madman for hundreds of years, but also defeated all the surrounding countries.

In fact, Central Asia is a place where birds do not shit, and it is unrealistic to travel long distances in such places.

So, Zhu Zilong replied to Liu Feng: "The Arab Kingdom fought a battle between the Three Rosses with the Tang Dynasty. It is known to the public. Central Asia is green. However, the Arabs could not enter China from the west. They had fewer soldiers and had to go far away and surrounded the army to be deployed..."

The subtext is obvious, that is, it is to look down on it tactically, but it is enough to bring together a group of European people, beat him up and restrain him.

Others are the same!

The Ottoman Empire did not border us at all, and was separated by Persia?

Persia is powerful?

During the Western Han Dynasty, even the Huns could not defeat them. When they were destroyed by the Arab Empire, they even ran to the Tang Dynasty to request the restoration of the country.

Now is the ocean era, and he cannot be an opponent of the Ming Dynasty in the navy. How can he play?

Take the land?

This is the high mountain and the road is far away. I have not returned after ten or eight years. This is the sword that is like a forest and arrow that is like rain. I wonder if I can come back after this! How many years of food and grass can be brought to cross the Pamir Plateau?

So, the stronger this empire is, it’s okay. It just so happens that it can bring hatred to the Ming Dynasty and be the target of Europeans.

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Compared with the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Zhu Zilong valued more on how to liberate Egypt from his indirect control in advance and exert influence in Egypt.

For Egypt, the relationship with China is special because the friendly exchanges between the two countries can be traced back thousands of years.

The Silk Road has been a bridge between China and Egypt since ancient times.

As the intersection of the onshore Silk Road and the maritime Silk Road, Egypt has had natural strategic importance since ancient times. It is also a major shipping route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, shaking the throat of the world's most important oil transportation line, and its strategic position is very important.

(Compared to this era, European countries do not know the importance of oil. It seems that it is not too difficult to control it!)

So, a month later.

The first group of Zhu family troops in the Ming Dynasty killed members from thousands of miles away, and disguised themselves as merchants and appeared on Egyptian territory.

I saw that the brilliant sun rose on the horizon. The winding Nile River pillowed on the vast Sahara Desert, flowing quietly in the morning breeze, and the earth appeared and disappeared in the morning mist!

The mysterious pyramids, the mysterious Sahara, the mysterious Nile... made Zhu Zilong suspect that ancient Egypt once had a place where time travelers existed. It was born and destroyed in the illusion of time and space!

Time flows quietly, and humans have been born from generation to generation, only the sun and pyramids, witnessing all this forever.

He stopped at the top of the mountain not far from the Nile River, held a telescope and observed carefully.

The hot wind mixed with tiny gravel made the Ming people very uncomfortable.

The Wanli Killing member behind him coughed slightly from time to time and complained softly: "This damn ghost weather, I feel like I'm going to be familiar with it... It's hard to imagine that there is such a hot place in this world..."

While complaining, some people took out the thermometer, but they didn't know it without looking at it, and they were shocked when they saw it.

Fifty degrees Celsius…?

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(If there is no time travel map given by Zhu Zilong in advance, and with Egyptian merchants leading the way, the temperature is actually a trivial matter.)

In this era, the entire Mediterranean world is still very empty. It is extremely difficult for outsiders to walk in the desert and find a city.

Of course, after finding people and cities, what's next is easy to say.

Since it has occupied the most fertile land in the entire Mediterranean civilized world, the Egyptians have little motivation to expand and plunder.

During the period of more than a thousand years, the entire ancient and middle kingdoms, the Egyptian army never captured land outside the Nile River Basin on a large scale.

Even if it is now under indirect control of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, it is just a matter of just handing in time!

Therefore, taking living and elderly care as an example, it is quite reassuring to settle down by the Kingdom of Egypt.

The people here are actually not wary.

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Chapter completed!