My Daming New Empire

Although the nominal capital of the Ottoman Empire is Bursa, it is because it is the territory of the current Ottoman emperor Mehmed I's younger brother Isa.

Mehmet I had no sense of belonging there, so Edirne is still the actual capital today.

When Samsun fled to Tekirdag in a hurry, he ran almost [-] kilometers in just one day and one night.The news that the Ming fleet smashed them and the Byzantine fleet and directly entered the Dardanelles was passed on to Muhammad I.

For the Ottoman Empire, this news was like a dark cloud covering the top, and the entire royal city fell into panic.

The Ottoman Turks were originally just a small tribe under the Seljuk Sultanate of Roma.

The area where they originally lived was the Khwarazm area of ​​Uzbekistan, which belonged to the Kay tribe of the Turks, and was a subject of the Khwarizm dynasty at that time.

They have been engaged in nomadic herding since ancient times, living by water and grass.Two centuries ago, the Mongols began to expand westward, forcing them to migrate.At first they attached themselves to the Roma Sultanate established by the Seljuk Turkmen, and obtained a fief on the banks of the Sakarya River adjacent to the Byzantine Empire.

After the death of the tribal chief Ertogrul, his son Osman succeeded to the throne and succeeded his father as the tribal leader.

In 1299, taking advantage of the split of the Seljuk Sultanate of Roma, Turkey officially declared its independence and named it "Ghazi", which established the embryonic form of the Ottoman state.

At the beginning of their founding, they had a natural fear of the East, because the Mongolian Yuan in the East was the source of nightmares and fears for all nomads.

Although they dared to compete for land with the seemingly invincible Roman Empire, he never dared to take a step east.This fear of the East is the shadow left by several times of almost extermination in the past few hundred years.

Their suzerain state, Roma, is just a branch of the Seljuks, a branch of the Mongolian Yuan Empire. For them, the Eastern Empire is a huge force that cannot be defeated.

Fifteen years ago, his mighty father, Bayezid I, conquered the entire Balkan Peninsula and brought Serbia under his command.Facing a branch of the Mongolian Yuan, the Timur Kingdom, was captured alive by the opponent, tortured to death.

This made the gradually inflated proud Ottomans recognize themselves again.

In his thirties, Bayezid I led the people to defeat the former suzerain Sultanate of Roma, then conquered the Balkans, and then defeated the allied forces of the Holy Roman Empire. He was called the hammer of God of War by European countries.

But this emperor, who had never been defeated in his life, faced the Timur kingdom in the east, and his only failure led to his death.

The Ottoman Empire was torn apart, and it took Muhammad I ten years to reunify the Ottoman Empire.

For the East, they have a natural sense of fear.

The arrival of Daming made them terrified from the very beginning. These Europeans didn't know about Daming, but he knew very well that this Daming defeated the mighty Mongol Yuan Empire and reunified the huge empire of the rich land in the east.

Although there were exquisite porcelain, soft silk, countless tea leaves, and mountains of spices there, the Ottomans never dared to challenge the power of Ming Dynasty.

They can only get some goods through merchants, and then sell them to Europeans at high prices.

But now, this great Ming did not know when, he ran to far away Europe, and even came to the Ottoman Empire from the west.

He really wanted to trade with Daming, but he was afraid of the other party's power. When he was still hesitating, Daming actually made a move.

What frightened him even more was that Daming defeated them and the Roman fleet with only [-] ships, and according to the information he received, Daming had more than [-] ships this time.

On land, the Ottomans have a natural fear of the Orientals. On the sea, only the Venetians in Europe have more water power than the Ottomans.

But now, there is another Ming.

He urgently convened a court meeting and wanted to take countermeasures.He didn't believe that Daming traveled tens of thousands of miles just to conquer them, on the contrary, it should be just for trade.

If Ming's needs were met in terms of trade, then war would likely be avoided.

Seeing the ministers gathered in the hall, he couldn't help but sighed.At the beginning, his fief was in Edirne, so although the Ottoman Empire still used Bursa as its capital, he spent most of his time in Edirne.

But Edirne was too far away from their Ottoman base camp, and only some nearby tribal elders could gather in this hall.

He had already decided in his heart that the appearance of Daming would not allow him to focus all his energy on the West.He should move the capital back to Bursa so that he can control the entire empire.Or simply go all out and take Constantinople.

But before they could make a decision, the second group of messengers had already arrived in Edirne, bringing the news that Ming had destroyed the Kribahar Fort within six hours.

When Muhammad I heard that because Kairaz did not attack the Ming fleet, the Ming fleet arrived in Canakkale but failed to capture Canakkale, he really made up his mind.

"Immediately send an order to order the tribes to raise gold and silver. I have decided to conduct a huge transaction with Daming."

In Constantinople, after receiving the news that the Kribahar fortress was destroyed in six hours, and more than 2000 soldiers could only surrender to the Ottomans, the 58-year-old Manuel II even set fire Can't come out, full of panic.

16 years ago, Constantinople was almost occupied. Because of the westward advance of the Timur Kingdom, Bayezid I was captured, and it was given to the Roman Empire with only a few castles left. It was the Byzantine Empire, they have always called themselves the Roman Empire, but it is not the same thing as the Holy Roman Empire.) left a respite.

But Manuel is very clear that the Ottoman Empire, which has already occupied the Balkan Peninsula, including most of the territory of Greece, is not only a few castles left, but also the Roman Empire on the Morea Peninsula can resist.

In the past ten years, he has been strengthening the defense of the Morea Peninsula, and at the same time contacting the maritime overlord Venice. If Constantinople really can't survive, he can only retreat to the Morea Peninsula.

The sudden appearance of the Ming Empire has brought surprises to other countries, because it means that the trade route between Europe and the East has been opened.

But for the Roman Empire, this seems to be a catastrophe, because the emergence of Ming Dynasty will definitely stimulate the policy changes of the Ottomans.Regardless of whether they want to go east or west, they must first solve Constantinople in the hinterland.

He didn't understand why Ming ignored the mighty Ottoman Empire, but insisted on targeting the crumbling Roman Empire.

Manuel would not believe it if it was really because the soldiers of the Kribahar Fortress fired at them.

But whether he believed it or not, he now had to face the artillery fire of the Ming Fleet.Outside the city of Constantinople, the Ming Fleet is already watching.

Although they only had forty ships, each of them was larger than their ships, and their ships had artillery, which was not something their ships without artillery could resist.

They have Greek fire on their ship, but the range of the Greek fire is too short. When they can't get close to the Deming fleet, they have nothing to do with the Deming fleet.

At this time, the envoy of Ming Dynasty brought a letter, and Manuel couldn't help vomiting blood when he saw the letter of credence written by the grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty himself.

Daming really came to trade. If he knew this earlier, why would he take the risk to stop him? Now he has lost dozens of ships, a strong fortress, and thousands of soldiers!

Constantinople guards the gateway to the Eurasian continent, and its location is indeed very important.

According to the understanding of people in this era, this place must be a battleground for military strategists.

But Zhu Zhanji is very clear that although the location is important, it is a powder keg.

What Zhu Zhanji needs to do is to contain Europe, not to participate.This gunpowder keg is still left to them to fight, just watch the excitement by yourself.

Rather than wanting this powder keg, Daming might as well buy a place on Crete with the Venetians as a trade center.

The island of Crete in Greece is located in the center of Asia, Europe, and Africa, and it is now the territory of the Venetians.

But the Venetians now only control a part of the area. This island with an area of ​​more than 8000 square kilometers was first coveted by the Byzantine Empire. After the decline of Byzantium, it faced Ottoman prying eyes.

After the Ottoman occupation of Constantinople, a large number of Greeks fled to the island and jointly managed the island with the Venetians to resist the attacks of the Arabs.

But in the 20th century, after more than [-] years of war, the Ottomans finally seized the island and later allowed the island to be self-governing.

Until the nineteenth century, the island was united with Greece and became part of Greece.

Zhu Zhanji is not interested in European land, there are still too many places in this world waiting for Ming to occupy.

But having no interest in land does not mean that Ming does not want to set up military bases and trade centers.

The Mediterranean is the commercial center of the three continents. In the west, Zhu Zhanji wants to occupy Ceuta and Gibraltar, and set up military bases and trade centers there.