Chapter 666: The Warriors Left Behind by Zheng He's Fleet
"What does the Lord mean by this?"
Upon hearing Ke Yili's inquiry, Wang Bing, who was a little confused about what the other party meant, could not help but frown at this moment.
"Dear Lord Marquis, this Guli city was taken by the Portuguese. If the Ming Dynasty still regards Guli as a vassal state, then this Guli city and port..."
Continuously answering Wang Bing's questions, this 'Ke Yili' once again held up the canonization edict and silver seal issued by Emperor Chengzu.
'Damn it, I said that you, an old boy, showed me this book of seals and seals as soon as you came up. Your feelings are here to pick peaches and take advantage of me. But this matter is really a bit fucking weird.
It's hard to say no!'
After hearing the appeal of 'Ke Yili', Wang Bing couldn't help but cursed in his heart.
It turned out that after seeing the Portuguese driven away by the Ming Dynasty, the Zamorin family, the king of Guri, who had almost completely become vassals of the Portuguese, now wanted to come and pick up what was already available.
However, since the Ming Dynasty fleet has not been here for more than a hundred years, they are also confused about Ming Dynasty's attitude, so they have to use the Ming Dynasty's canonization edict and seal to test. After all, the Ming Emperor claimed to be the emperor, and he always said it with golden words.
You can't slap yourself in the face, right?
"General Qi, a man named 'Gutieli' brought a few people to see him, saying that they are descendants of the soldiers who stayed here in the Western Fleet..."
Just when Wang Bing felt a little embarrassed by the appeal of 'Ke Yili', another report came from the descendants of the soldiers left behind in Zheng He's fleet, asking for an audience.
"Oh? I didn't expect that the soldiers who went to the West with Eunuch Sanbao would still have descendants staying here. Let them in quickly!"
When Wang Bing heard that the other party claimed to be a descendant of the soldiers who sailed to the Western Seas, Wang Bing immediately became interested, and naturally he had no time to pay attention to the unreasonable demands of 'Ke Yili'.
"Your Majesty the Marquis..."
"Tell him that there is no rush to return Guli City. For such a big matter, I have to ask the imperial court for instructions!"
Before "Ke Yili" could finish speaking, Wang Bing waved his hand impatiently, interrupted the other person's words, and began to signal Shuerhaqi and Manhai to see off the guests.
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"Bet Gutieri, Li Sixi...see the champion!"
What Wang Bing didn't expect was that when several people who claimed to be descendants of the soldiers who sailed to the West came in, there was no need for an interpreter at all. They just knelt down on one knee and performed the military salute of the Ming army in Chinese.
"You guys don't need to be polite. I didn't expect that almost two hundred years have passed, but you haven't forgotten the language of your parents' country. It's really rare. Manhai, please have some tea!"
With just one glance, Wang Bing directly determined the identities of these people without asking.
No way, although most of these people speak in a strange tone and their looks have some characteristics of Tianzhu people, the difference from the appearance of real Tianzhu people is still very obvious.
Especially the one named Li Sixi, he must have returned to his ancestors. His appearance is almost the same as that of a pure Han Chinese, and even his speaking tone is the purest.
"The Marquis is too complimentary. In fact, if it weren't for Brothers Sixi, we would have forgotten the language of our homeland..."
After hearing Wang Bing's praise, the leader named Gutieli opened his mouth to explain with a face of shame.
"Damn it, why don't you speak Chinese so fluently, and your appearance hasn't changed at all? Did you just come here? I thought you were a genetic mutation and atavistic.
Ha ha ha ha!"
After listening to Gutieli's explanation, Wang Bing couldn't help laughing heartily when he looked at the guy named Li Sixi.
It turned out that Li Sixi, who Wang Bing had previously regarded as an 'atavism', was originally a descendant of a Han businessman living in Manchuria. However, he was forcibly taken into slavery by the Portuguese for no reason more than ten years ago.
, brought here to Goa.
Later, he was rescued from the Portuguese by the fourth-generation "Gutieri" in front of him, and then became his deputy. Naturally, the Chinese that Gutierre and the others had long forgotten was relearned by his professor.
Because of his experience of being taken into slavery by the Portuguese for no reason, Li Sixi hated the Portuguese and all white people and Christians.
In addition, the fourth-generation 'Gutieri' in front of him was also a leader who was very tough on Portuguese and other white people and Christians. Their harsh methods against these people were directly regarded by the Portuguese as 'South Indian
'Strong rival.
There is no way, as long as you are a white man or Christian caught by their fleet, they don't care which country you are from, they will directly ask you "Do you want to convert? You must believe in Allah". As long as you dare to say
There is no need to say half a word, and the result and fate are naturally needless to say.
Therefore, the two were not only regarded as fierce rivals by the Portuguese, but were also dubbed the 'Expellers of the Portuguese' and the 'Bloodeaters of the Christians'. This title has even spread to Europe itself.
By the way, "Gutieli" is not a person's name, but a nickname similar to Wang Bing's "Champion", and it is also the name of a mixed-race Muslim community.
This Gutieri Muslim community developed and evolved from the "China Town" where the soldiers who stayed behind with Zheng He on his voyages to the West lived.
In the eleventh year of Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, a fierce conflict broke out during the negotiations between Vasco da Gama and King Zamorin of Guri. It was the leader of the Gutieri Muslim community at the time who led 80 warships to force him back. Subsequently, in the tenth year of Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty,
Five years later, they again defeated Vasco da Gama who came to invade Guri for the second time.
During the Jiajing three years later, because the Portuguese in Goa attempted to completely monopolize the maritime trade in the Ara Sea, they stipulated that only local Christian business groups could develop trade routes.
Therefore, the Gutieri Muslim community, which had previously been able to make some soup, had to cooperate with the Zamorin family, the royal family of Gutieri, in order to survive.
It was also at this time that 'Gutieri', a leader of the Muslim community, was named the hereditary fleet commander of the Guri Kingdom by the Zamorin family of the Guri Kingdom.
After that, for several generations, the fleet led by "Gutieri" provided escort for the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty and the Arabs, regularly attacked the fleets of the Western Barbarians, and fought fierce battles with the Portuguese fleets.
In the fifth year of Longqing, after the siege of Goa completely failed, taking advantage of the opportunity for the Portuguese to catch their breath, Gutierre, who was in office at the time, launched an attack on the Portuguese Chalai Fortress. Finally, on November 1 of that year
In August, it forced Castro, the commander of the Portuguese Chalai Fortress, to surrender, and achieved victory in the first formal surrender of the Spanish army in Asia.
However, after the Portuguese defeated the Guri Kingdom again in the 16th year of Wanli, I don't know if their backbone was broken, but the Zamorin family finally surrendered to the Portuguese. From then on, the Guri Kingdom almost completely became a puppet of Portugal.
,running dog.
The 'Gutieli' community, which was unwilling to surrender, would naturally no longer pay attention to the constraints of the Guli State. Then, under the leadership of the fourth generation of 'Guritie' in front of them, it became more active in attacking at sea and constantly attacking the Portuguese.
and the rest of the European fleet.
But what Wang Bing himself and the fourth-generation "Gutieri" in front of him didn't know was that without the emergence of the "variable" Wang Bing, in the twenty-eighth year of Wanli, the Gutieri community would have been destroyed by the Portuguese.
The people and their lackey Gu Liguo team up to defeat. The fourth 'Gu Tieri' and Li Sixi will eventually be killed.
"The imperial court is sorry for letting you stay alone in a foreign country for nearly two hundred years! However, from now on, you will no longer fight alone, the Ming Dynasty imperial court will be with you!"
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