The Rise of the European Emperor

When Luhansan... Abu, Duke Ludovico occupied the city of Milan, the French army at the front was still in the dark. As Marin expected, the French army was waiting for a bumper crop on the Lombard plains. Then, the French army can mobilize rations from the Duchy of Milan. Unfortunately, all this was ruined by Lu Hansan. It's just that because of the backwardness of the message, the French don't know it yet.

At the same time, the 10 bronze heavy artillery pieces that Marin had promised to Gonzalo were also delivered to Naples. However, this bronze cannon is too expensive. A gun weighs more than 1 ton, 10 guns are more than ten tons, and the total price of 1 ton of silver is about to be spent.

What is the concept of a ton of silver? That's 23,400 gold coins. Still, Gonzalo gritted his teeth and bought it. Although Marin has said that he can borrow it, Gonzalo believes that the Spanish army still needs heavy artillery in the tough battle.

These 10 heavy guns, all of 14-pound caliber, were specially designed for the Spaniards by the East Frisian Foundry. After the design is completed, a blacksmith is arranged to create the corresponding iron mold. Then, pour the bronze liquid directly according to the program.

Casting iron cannons is very fast. A set of molds can cast several bronze cannons a day. 10 bronze cannons were cast in two days.

As for the style of the artillery, Marin decided to adopt the French artillery style and added the cannon lugs, but Wangshan did not. Moreover, there is no advanced two-wheeled gun mount. After all, Marin is not happy to give the best to the Spaniard. In Marin's mind, Spain is also his rival for the Americas.

However, even so, the performance of these guns is adequate. Moreover, in the Spanish army, there is no shortage of artillerymen who are good at aiming and shooting. Because the Spanish army is also equipped with a lot of artillery, but they are all rear-mounted Fran cannons. However, the aiming of the artillery, the principle is still similar. It is also possible to let those artillerymen control the Naxi heavy artillery.

After getting the artillery, Gonzalo let the artillerymen practice the use of this heavy artillery, and at the same time asked the smithy to step up the production of iron ball cannonballs. After all, once the war begins, the artillery will not stop bombarding the city gates, and there is a great demand for iron balls.

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At this time, 20 boats of Maomei had been loaded in the port of Kaffa, the Crimean Khanate. Art stood on the bow, waving warmly to say goodbye to the equally enthusiastic robbers of the Crimean Khanate...

It is said that after Art was detained in the Dardanelles on the western side of the Turkish Strait, the customs clearance documents he carried were sent to Istanbul.

After comparing the credentials of the Crimean Khanate, Sultan Bayezid II of Turkey found that it was indeed a document written by his ally Mungojirehan.

Bayezid II was very tolerant of the Crimean Khanate because he needed to rely on the army of the Crimean Khanate to suppress the Rus in the Eastern European steppe. He himself is also a very inclusive Sudan.

For example, when the two kings of Spain expelled the Jews, it was Bayezid II who sent ships to Spain to accept the Jews.

As a discerning monarch, Bayezid II naturally would not offend the Crimea thug. As a result, Bayezid II not only agreed to the passage of the fleet, but also signed the official customs clearance document representing the Ottoman Turkish Empire. In this way, the fleet will pass through the Turkish Strait without having to take out the customs clearance documents of the Crimean Khan.

However, Bayezid II is not a fool. Although a new customs clearance document was signed, the document also stipulated that the size of the fleet should not exceed 20. Moreover, they must pass through the Istanbul Strait, the easternmost part of the Turkish Strait, accompanied by Turkish warships. Moreover, when the fleet passes, it must sail close to the Asian side, not the Istanbul side.

This provision is also to prevent someone from attacking Istanbul, the capital of Turkey. After all, the city of Istanbul is right by the sea on the European side of the Istanbul Strait.

When passing through the strait, Bayezid II also enthusiastically sent a navigator to guide the fleet to the port of Kaffa on the Crimean Peninsula. At the same time, Bayezid II also asked the navigator to bring his condolence letter to Mungojirehan.

When the fleet arrived at the port of Kaffa, it was warmly welcomed by the bearded men of the Crimean Khanate. Although these bearded Tartars are robbers and bandits, they are still very polite when facing customers who are willing to help sell stolen goods.

After all, these Crimean robbers may not be able to use what they loot. It would be a pity if those unused property and slaves fell into their hands. Therefore, the Crimeans need a channel to sell stolen goods to deal with the looted population and stolen goods that are not needed. Thus, Port Kaffa was born…

This time, the attack on the Ryazan Principality was so great that the Crimean Khanate could not bear it. Not to mention the piles of property, just the population, the Crimean Khanate robbed as many as 40,000 people.

Among them, the young Mao Mei, there are 20,000 people...

About half of the other 20,000 are boys and girls, and the remaining 10,000 are young men...

In the slave market, however, the best sellers were young women and boys. Needless to say, young women, those Arabs, a man has several women. However, relying solely on the local Arabs, there are not so many women. Therefore, buying from the Crimean Khanate has become an important source of women.

Boys are also very popular, because boys under the age of 10 are brought back and trained for a few years, brainwashing and practicing martial arts every day. After ten years, these boys will be trained into elite warriors. That's how the famous Sudanese personal soldiers came.

Moreover, not only the sultans have the habit of cultivating personal guards, but those Turkish Pashas also have the habit of cultivating some such personal guards. Therefore, in the slave trade of the Crimean Khanate, women and boys were the main force and the most popular.

The rest are girls. This is so because girls are still years away from growing up. Those buyers, where do you have the heart to wait for the girls to grow up? It's better to buy ready-made young women and bring them back to vent their desires... Of course, there are also perverts who like girls, and they directly buy girls and go back...

The worst sellers are male slaves, including teenage boys. Most of the clients of the Crimean Khanate are from the Arab region, where males with reproductive potential are the most taboo to invade their homes. Therefore, in the Arab region, male slaves are not very popular.

of course there are exceptions. That is, Arabs like to castrate male slaves before they can be put into their homes with confidence...

Historically, since the rise of the Arab Empire, the process of selling black slaves began. However, the Arabs were ruthless, they caught black male slaves and castrated them directly. In this way, these male slaves have no chance of cuckolding Arab men.

Moreover, African men are out of character, but after castration, their character has become docile and honest. After all, the body does not secrete too many hormones, what can be dishonest?

During the Tang Dynasty, Arab merchants once sold black slaves to China, called "Kunlun slaves". These "Kunlun slaves" are basically castrated black men. Because of being castrated, these black slaves are honest and obedient, and they are very popular among the nobles of the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, the Tang Dynasty has an open atmosphere, and women are also bold. If these strong "Kunlun slaves" had not been castrated, many of the bold women of the Tang Dynasty might have been left with black cubs. However, there is obviously no such record in history, the reason is that those Kunlun slaves are basically castrated, and they can feel at ease in the back house...

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Alter brought 20 galleys, all over 200 tons. However, each boat can carry a maximum of 120 women. Then, the entire fleet bought 2,400 Mao girls at a time.

The Crimeans are obviously not happy about this. You know, there are 40,000 people in their slave camp. 2,400 people make a trip, how many trips will it take? And the 40,000 slaves are there, they consume a lot of food every day...

In this regard, Art has nothing to do, he can only do this first...

As if to promote hard-to-sell male slaves, the Crimean Khanate official said to Art:

"Mr. Alter, do you want to buy some young and strong male slaves to go back? They are very capable and cheap..."

Art looked at the hairy men with chest hair and was very unhappy:

"Haji, I have women on this boat. These women are all shipped back to others to be wives. You said I brought these big men with chest hair together, what if these grandchildren slept with those girls on the boat? Let the brothers in our country be the catchers?" After being with Marin for a long time, Art has also learned the word "catcher"...

"Hey, Lord Art, you don't have to worry about it. Look at it!" After that, the Crimean officer named Haji called in a few veterinarians...

"What are you doing?" Art was a little confused.

"Master Art, aren't you worried that these Ross men will sleep with the women on the boat? Let's solve the problem for you!"

"How to solve it?" Art was a little puzzled.

"Of course it's castrated! The brothers I invited are all good at castrating horses, cattle and sheep, famous veterinarians, don't worry! Besides, these male slaves from Ross should be given to us by us. Your welcome!"

While he was talking, there was a burst of screams...

"Well, well, Master Art, these men are no longer capable of harming the girls on the ship. However, they will have to rest for a few months before they can work." Haji said with a calm expression, as if Did a trivial thing.

"Ah... uh..." Art was stunned, and it took him a long time to regain his senses. Looking at a few big men with Ross chest hair still bleeding below, he asked Haji:

"Haji, don't you treat the wounds for them? Just do it casually?" Art had learned first aid from Marin, and naturally knew that the wounds needed to be disinfected. Even, the fleet usually prepares a lot of alcohol and gauze to prevent sailors from being injured.

"Ah? This... I don't understand. Our veterinarians have always been so rude. Is there any point in this?"

Art looked at the few big men with hair on the chest who were still howling, and couldn't bear it. So, he returned to the cabin, retrieved medical alcohol and gauze, and asked the doctor on board to help the tragic chest-haired men deal with the wounds below.

Looking at the movements of the doctor on board, Haji was a little strange:

"Master Art, what are your subordinates doing?"

"Disinfection, if it is not disinfected, the probability of these people dying is very high. With disinfection, they have a 90% chance of surviving!"

"What? Ninety percent?" Haji jumped up. For the Crimean Khanate, this is an absolutely earth-shattering event.

Why do you say that? The Crimean Khanate captured the men of the Rus countries as slaves, and they must be castrated before they can be sold. However, in this era, because there were no disinfection measures, and the Crimean Khanate was castrated with the help of barbaric veterinarians. This also led to the castrated Ross male slave, the chance of surviving is only a little more than half. After all, people are not as durable as animals...

In other words, of the tens of thousands of male slaves captured from Ryazan this time, only five or six thousand will survive after being castrated.

If the method mentioned by Art can make 90% of the castrated male slaves survive, it will bring huge benefits to the Crimean Khanate. Because, castrated hairy male slaves are also quite marketable. One more person to survive is just a few more gold coins...

In this way, after learning the disinfection method with Art's ship doctor, Haji let Art's fleet leave...

20 galleys loaded with 2,400 beautiful hair girls selected by Alter headed west all the way towards the Strait of Gibraltar...