Chapter 609 Austria and Venice are furious (please subscribe!)

Author: Linjiangjun

Chapter 609 Austria and Venice are furious (please subscribe!)

Ottoman bought 100 long-barreled cannons for five million silver dollars, and more than 66,000 heavy-duty standard matchlocks for twenty million silver dollars.

In the end, two second-level sailing battleships were purchased as a bundle for five million silver dollars.

In order to show the preferential treatment, Ye Mingzhu made the decision, and Liu Dian agreed and gave an additional five thousand Ming Dynasty sabers and a secret weapon as gifts!

As for armor, Prime Minister Mustafa Pasha is a kind man, so he was embarrassed to ask for it.

Such a large arms deal made the headlines of "Huangming Daily" the next day.

"Extraordinary, extravagant, the Ottoman Empire spent 30 million to purchase the Ming Dynasty's arms!"

"Extraordinary number, extra number, the Ottomans are suspected of provoking the Third Battle of Vienna!"

There is a street in Yingtian Gulou New District dedicated to the establishment of embassies for various vassal states, vassal states, foreign countries, etc.

As we all know, there are now three holy empires, Shenra, Shenming, and Shenmeng.

Shenluo and Shenmeng are highly similar. They are both elected. Each joining country has a certain degree of autonomy, but the gods have the final say.

The current emperor of the Holy Roman Empire is Archduke Leopold I of Austria.

Therefore, if the local chickens attack Vienna, other HRE kingdoms will also come to help defend it.

In addition, after the last Battle of Vienna, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, and Venice formed the Holy Alliance. Later, Rakshasa joined the Holy Alliance in 1686.

If the Ottomans provoked a war, they would have to face Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Venice, and Rakshasa at the same time.

The combination of these four countries is very strong, and they need an army, a navy, and Venice to protect them.

You know, Venice's Mediterranean galley fleet is also very powerful.

This street in Gulou New District gathers a large number of foreigners, so this street is also called Waifan Street by the people in Yingtian.

Coincidentally, the Venetian ambassador Shylock Tran was also on this street.

As usual, he was awakened by the sound of drumming from the Drum Tower.

The drum tower in Yingtian City is a building with a huge drum, which is usually used to beat the drum to call the police or to report the time on time.

Sherlock got up from the soft cotton mattress and looked at his wife beside him. She was still sleeping at this moment.

After coming to Ming Dynasty for more than half a year, Sherlock has slowly become accustomed to the life in Ming Dynasty.

For the Venetians, there is no profit to be had.

Being sent to the Ming Dynasty is definitely a connection.

This is a great place.

It's like being sent to a beautiful country to serve as a foreign missionary in later generations.

The point is, he was in the Ming Dynasty, and those Venetian merchants still had to beg him to do things!

Here in Ming Dynasty, Sherlock is basically very free. His daily routine is to drink tea and read newspapers.

Occasionally when the Ming Dynasty Football Super League starts, I go to watch the game.

By the way, he is a die-hard fan of Yingtian Football Club.

There is also a jersey in his wardrobe belonging to Yingtian team No. 10 star Li Aomei.

To be honest, Shylock enjoys this kind of life. Life here in the Ming Dynasty is much more comfortable than in Venice, especially in the capital of the Ming Dynasty. The roads are basically cement roads, extending in all directions, and the four-wheeled carriages are very comfortable.

They have to take a boat to go out all day in Venice, so it's easy to get seasick.

Sherlock put on his custom-made Hanfu, came to the window, opened the curtains, and the winter sunshine came into view. The street was already bustling with activity.

The cities of the Ming Dynasty are very different from those in Europe. The cities here are very clean and neat.

European cities are smelly and dirty, and there is no planning at all. You have to be careful when walking, and you have to look up from time to time to see if someone has suddenly dumped a basin of strange excrement.

After washing up, Sherlock came to Qiandenghui Tea House for morning tea as a habit.

"Mr. Sherlock, will we serve jasmine tea as usual?"

He is a regular customer of Qiandenghui Teahouse, and the owner knows that his favorite drink is jasmine tea.

"Dear Sherlock, you are here, sit down and have a drink together!"

Claudius, the Austrian ambassador, drank morning tea and read the newspaper. Now that he has arrived in Ming Dynasty, this has almost become a habit. If he does not drink morning tea or read the newspaper every day, he will feel uncomfortable all over his body.

It’s just that he is extremely heavy today!

"What happened? Why do you look wrong?"

The two communicated in Latin. Sherlock sat down opposite Claudius casually and asked.

The waiter from Qiandenghui soon brought over Sherlock's favorite jasmine tea, fried leek dumplings, melon seeds and the latest "Huang Ming Daily".

After Shylock came to Ming Dynasty, he fell into the habit of eating melon seeds.

Eating melon seeds has a long history, but the ancients did not eat sunflower seeds, but mainly watermelon seeds.

"Do you know about the visit of Mustafa Pasha, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, to the Ming Dynasty?"

Claudius put down the newspaper in his hand and said with a very ugly expression.

"I know, I heard about it a few days ago."

The Venetians seem to have no sense of urgency at all.

This ally is unreliable, Claudy secretly complained.

It’s no wonder, because Venice is a country in Italy.

Claudius looked at Shylock and said eagerly: "Just take a look at today's news headlines. The Ming Empire sold arms and weapons worth 30 million silver dollars to the Ottoman Empire."

"Now, our Holy Alliance will suffer!"

"What?"

The Venetian Shylock, who was originally in a good mood, couldn't help but exclaimed when he heard this.

"Dear Claudie, show me the newspaper quickly!"

Sherlock didn't even bother to drink the tea anymore. He quickly picked up the latest Ming Dynasty Morning Post and quickly looked at the news headlines. It clearly read "The Ming Empire sells arms and weapons worth 30 million silver dollars to the Ottoman Empire."

"Wait a minute, 100 long-barreled cannons, more than 66,000 heavy-duty standard matchlocks, and 2 second-level battleships!"

The more Sherlock looked, the bigger his eyes became.

"My God, the disaster of the Holy Alliance has come!"

The key is that the two second-level battleships are a bit too powerful in the Mediterranean.

This is the second-level battleship of the Ming Dynasty. In the Mediterranean, it can be used as a cannon to kill mosquitoes. One cannon can kill a galley.

Fortunately for Sherlock, the artillery and ammunition on the sailing warships sold to the Ottomans by the Ming Dynasty were all castrated versions, and their performance and power were reduced by at least 40%.

But it is enough to defeat the Venetian Navy.

Shylock seemed to have seen the end of the Venetian navy, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

In addition to the navy being defeated, the army will also be in trouble.

During his six months in the Ming Dynasty, Shylock was well aware of the power of the Ming army's weapons.

With these 60,000 muskets and a hundred artillery pieces on the battlefield, it would definitely be a nightmare for the Holy Alliance Army. The Ming Dynasty's muskets and cannons had already been tested time and time again.

Even the explosive version of the heavy matchlock gun can defeat the Rakshasa Army.

"No!"

Sherlock stood up and slapped the newspaper on the table.

"For the sake of God, I will never allow such a thing to happen. This will be a disaster for our European Christian world!"

A hard lesson, I asked for leave on the 30th of last month and forgot to use the leave slip, so my attendance was gone, woo woo woo
Chapter completed!