A few days later, they received an invitation from Qitad to the port of Jaffa and instead asked them to visit him in Heraklion, the capital of Crete.

It is better to say it is an invitation than an order. Although Brissack and others were secretly dissatisfied, they finally took a steam passenger ship set up by Truchen in the port of Jaffa.

For Qitad, he was a little tired and wanted to find a stable place to rest. In addition, the fleet had been running around the sea for a long time, and it was time to stop and repair it completely. They were in Crete.

Heraklion rebuilt a large port, stocking up a large amount of fresh water, coal and some mechanical accessories to facilitate the supply and repair of ships.

Previously, the center of Crete had been moved from Heraklion to Chania to the west. That was because when the Ottomans conquered this island, Heraklion was greatly damaged. The port was killed and injured too many soldiers on both sides and sunk.

Too many ships have caused the port to be silted and cannot be transferred to Chania for development.

When they moved to Chania to develop, the hidden mysterious members slowly rose up. An emerging port was not something that the Ottomans had just transformed from a nomadic tribe. They could only rely on fighting

Genoese, the mysterious member of the Venetian banner.

After the Truchens took over, they took most of the islands in the Aegean Sea from the Ottoman Empire, just like the European countries in later generations treated Türkiye.

These islands are huge, and if they are occupied one by one, it will be too much effort. In the end, Qitad divided them into four, except for Crete, Santorin, Limnos, Gekche and other few.

The island was occupied by Truchen himself, and all the rest were given to the Kingdom of Solomon, the Knights of St. John (Knights of Malta), the Republic of Genoa, and the Republic of Venice.

Among them, the Knights of St. John won the islands of Cyprus and Rhodes, and the biggest gain was because they handed over the entire Malta archipelago to the Truchens.

The Kingdom of Solomon obtained some islands close to the Asia Minor Peninsula, which naturally contained the selfishness of Qitad. He wanted to use the power of the Mysterious Society to block the possible expansion of the Eastern Ottoman Sultanate to the Aegean Sea.

The other islands are divided equally by the two republics of Genoa and Venice.

Through these islands, he brought all the powers of the Knights of St. John, the Mediterranean commercial forces, and the Mysterious Society to his.

After the Ottoman Empire was divided into two halves, a large amount of supplies needed to be transferred from the sea through merchants from other countries. Qitad gave the profit to the two republics of Genoa and Venice.

This is also one of the reasons why he could easily enter Portugal and Tuscany, otherwise it would be impossible to do it with himself alone. In addition to the Medici family, Truchen Bank, and the Kingdom of Solomon, the reopened Medici Bank,

These two republics also have shares.

Through territory and capital, the Truqin Empire has actually joined forces with some forces outside the mainstream European forces.

Of course, since Kyoto City learned the lesson, not entering the enemy's territory easily has become one of his principles and one of the reasons.

Therefore, when Brissack and others came to Heraklion Port, they saw that in addition to them, the Grand Commander of the Knights of St. John, Duke of Genoa/Governor Adelno, Duke of Venice/Governor Alvesse

, I naturally feel a little bit more balanced in my heart.

After the Truchens took over the Port of Heraklion, it took three years to dredge the port, and retrieved a large number of artillery, ship wreckage, corpses, and corpses were buried in the mountain behind.

There are Ottomans, but more are Greeks.

After learning about this, Qitad's impression of the Pope became much better.

In addition, the Truchens also built a breakwater outside the port, thus restoring the port's glory in Crete.

Nowadays, Qitad has set up a Mediterranean province in the Mediterranean Sea, with the provincial government located in Malta, and Crete is also one of the province's regions, and the down payment is still set in Heraklion.

As soon as all the guests who were called entered the port, the red-bottomed golden dragon flag on the castle will first catch their eyes.

Two golden dragons with claws rushing left and right, then looked back at each other in the middle, and the two tails were intertwined in the middle. This pattern has become the totem of the Truqin Empire and a symbol of the Qitade family.

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In the Governor's Office, the Quitta De sits high in the main seat, and the rest sit on the left and right.

After a boring greeting, Qitade spoke.

"I heard that there have been a large number of pirates in the Aegean recently?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone nodded. Governor of the Republic of Genoa Adelno said: "That's true. Our country and Venice have the most islands, and ships are needed everywhere. From time to time, you will encounter pirate ships under unknown banners.

Attack, sometimes they even attack the islands”

Governor Alves, Venice, said: "What are the unknown flags? They are all star-moon flags. Obviously they come from the two Ottoman Sultanate countries in the east and west. Perhaps the Sultan has picked up the previous methods of training the navy and is developing.

Pirate of the Mujahideen”

He said it was not bad. Although the two sultans lost all their islands, they still had a long coastline after all. Qitad did not prohibit them from sailing, so that some sailors would become pirates again, and then reappeared the Barbary pirates.

Brilliantness may be possible.

Qitad looked at King Brissack, Solomon.

Brisak said: "There are naturally two sultans in this matter, but not all of them are."

As he said that, he secretly glanced at Qitade. Qitade understood and asked, "Is there any European power involved?"

Brisak said: "It's not just them, but some sultanate countries along the coast of North Africa are probably also involved, of course, in addition to the sultanate of Tunisia."

The king of the Sultanate of Tunisia, who is also a member of the Mysterious Society, is just under the banner of Islam.

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But this is not the case in Tripoli and the Sultanate of Algiers, they are still devout Islamic countries.

"Tell me what to do?"

Venice and Genoa naturally advocated vigorously clearing down, Solomon advocated ultimatum to the two sultanate countries, and the Knights of St. John simply advocated taking down the two sultanate countries completely.

Among these strengths, the most powerful naval force is naturally the Kingdom of Solomon. However, with Truchen there, Brissack dared not stand up.

Qitad saw the two famous European bankers sitting next to Brisak and said, "Since you are here, you might as well express your opinions."

Rothschild finally waited for the opportunity.

"Your Majesty, I suggest that this matter can be taken in two steps. The first step is to form a joint navy, formulate a detailed plan, and launch a strike against pirates"

"If the bandit crisis is alleviated, the next step is the distribution of profits of shipping. Since all countries are united under your flag, I suggest to form a shipping company with shares in all parties, called Aegean Shipping Company, which will deal with thousands of exchanges.

The distribution of interests of each island is carried out under the company's banner"

"This will cause less trouble"

Qitad nodded, "You are right, let's do this, why not lend to you two banks, and let all countries form a joint navy, King Solomon serves as commander-in-chief, deploy it in a unified manner, implement it separately, and fight against pirates"

"After forming a United Shipping Company, you two can invest the loan as principal, and representatives from various countries form boards and elect executive officers"

"As far as I know, the two sultans, plus Egypt, Tripoli, and Algiers need at least 30 million Truchen silver coins a year, and the sea transportation is very profitable. At a minimum of 30%, that is also three million silver coins."

"If you do well, you can still go deep into the Black Sea and Caspian Sea trade in the future. You know that the trade volume between my country and Europe is at least more than 300 million per year."

When everyone heard this, they all stood up quickly.
Chapter completed!