"In that case, Gihano, you will go to the Golden Horde with my envoy of the Ming Dynasty in a few days, and Claviyo will return to the Central Plains with me." Yun Xi said.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Claviyo and Gijuano bowed down at the same time, both with happy looks on their faces.

Looking at their happy looks, Yun Xi was also very happy in his heart. He did not expect that the northern route of the Silk Road, which had just been planned, would work so quickly, and not only economically.

Once the northern route of the Silk Road through the Black Sea was opened, the role of Constantinople would increase. In the past, the Venetians and Genoese only went to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus to do business with the Slavs or the Golden Horde. So when the Ottomans launched the final siege of Constantinople, the Venetians and Genoese did not devote all their efforts to protecting the Eastern Roman Empire, because it was not economically viable.

But once the northern route of the Silk Road was opened, Constantinople, which held the Bosphorus, would become very important,8 and would definitely not want this important city to be occupied by the rising Ottomans, and would do everything in their power to help the Greeks defend it. Perhaps Constantinople will still be captured by 7 in the end, but at least it can be delayed for a few more years.

And these decades have been enough to allow Xi, no, the Ming Dynasty to open up the northern route of the northern route of the Silk Road. From the Caspian Sea, take advantage of the great rivers and go all the way to the northern route of the Barents Sea or the Baltic Sea.

Yunxi's real purpose was to delay the Europeans in opening new shipping routes, but it was difficult to delay the opening of new shipping routes by developing the Caspian-Black Sea trade route alone.

Some believe that it was the rise of the Ottomans in the Eastern Mediterranean that hindered trade routes and forced Europeans to open new shipping routes; But research in recent decades has rejected this conventional wisdom.

The merchants of the Tianfang Peninsula themselves are not strong in digestion, and only do transshipment trade, transporting goods from the East to Europe, how can they hinder the trade routes? Don't want to make money yourself? In fact, whichever power controls the Mediterranean will not have much of an impact.

The real reason for the opening of the new shipping routes, in addition to the technical conditions, was that the Mediterranean8 and the Celestial Cultists east of Egypt controlled the normal trade of the trade routes, which the Portuguese and Castilians could not touch. The original trade rules and "order" of the Eastern Mediterranean were avoided by the Portuguese and Castilians, and for them, it was the traditional trade rules and the original "order" that really blocked the trade routes. Judging from the atrocities committed by the Portuguese and Castilians in the process of opening up new routes, these adventurers were not merchants, but robbers, who did not intend to do business at all, and did not intend to gain profit by normal commercial means, but to plunder wealth directly. In order to grasp the initiative of direct access to wealth, we have to find another way.

The opening of the northern route of the Silk Road is to open up a 'new route'. The traditional Baltic coast was not well developed, and the Vikings, who dominated the seas in this area, were mainly pirates, and there were no normal trade rules and "order". Once the trade routes were opened, it would be a good way for up-and-coming countries like Portugal and Castile to seize the initiative in direct access to wealth, and they would certainly invest their resources in the south to the north, and they would have a good time fighting with the English, Germanic, and Slavs.

What's more, since it was technically believed that the earth was a sphere at that time, and the northern route of the northern route of the Silk Road was also opened, it is likely that they could also bypass the land and take the sea route to the East from the north, which would make most ambitious people sail ships to take the Arctic Ocean route to the East.

At this time, the Arctic Ocean route was impassable, but due to the slow spread of news in this era, it was already decades by the time the Europeans really discovered that this sea route was impassable, and they would take the southern sea route again to open up a new route, and the time would be much later than the history of Yun Xi's previous life. In this way, the purpose of delaying the opening of new routes for the Europeans was achieved.

The opening of new shipping routes was inevitable, and with the development of human technology, sooner or later it would be opened, and after the discovery of crossing the Strait of Magellan and Drake Passage, the southernmost points of South America, there were also Europeans who tried to bypass Canada from the north. Although his shameful failure, it is enough to prove the spirit of exploration of Europeans, or the spirit of not wanting to die for money. This spirit will sustain them in opening up new routes.

However, the new route of the Europeans opens up a year every night, which is one more year for the Ming Dynasty, and the more the Ming Dynasty can occupy the initiative in the future new international order.

Of course, Yunxi's thoughts Kraviyo and Gihanno didn't know. Jihanno basked in the excitement that he could make a fortune from it, and at the same time pondered what else he could sell for money in order to buy the goods of the Ming Kingdom.

This gorgeous dress is also sold. This dress is very novel in Daming, and there should be people willing to buy it. The spare clothes I brought with me were also sold, and I bought two clothes worn by the Ming people, and I could sell them to make a profit after returning to Castile. He thought.

After pondering everything he had brought with him, he even hit his own saber with his own saber. But the sword was heirloom, and he was reluctant to do so, so he wanted to pawn it to Claviyo temporarily, paying him twenty gold coins for him to keep, and then redeem it himself when he returned to Castile. This was rightfully rejected by Claviyo.

Yun Xi came back to his senses and was about to say something more, when he suddenly felt very hungry, looked sideways at the leak, and saw that it was already the beginning of the day, and said with a smile: "It turns out that it is already this time, no wonder I feel hungry." It took too long to talk to the two of them. ”

He was about to tell Wang Gong to go and pass the meal, but after another pause, he instructed him, "You go to the kitchen and let them prepare a meal for eight people." ”

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