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Chapter 1633 The Great Expedition

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    ¡¾Correction: Sorry, I just remembered today that the tenth anniversary of the group should be the fourth year of the Second Five-Year Plan, not the completion of the Second Five-Year Plan.  Therefore, this conference has been changed to the ¡®10th Anniversary Conference¡¯, and the report delivered by Zhao Hao has also been changed to the ¡®10th Anniversary Work Summary¡¯. I hereby inform you and express my deep apologies.  ¡¿

    While a thousand-person meeting was held on Tamna Island to grandly celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the group, in Lisbon, the capital of the Portuguese Empire, tens of thousands of miles away, a group of Moors wearing white robes and white turbans were cheering heartily.

    Lisbon is a fervently Catholic territory, and the young king Sebastian vows to devote all he has to eradicating the pagans like his uncle, King Philip II of Spain.

    It is very strange to see a group of Moors in such a place.  What's even weirder is that there are many oriental faces among them, also wearing the same costumes.

    These oriental faces are the same people who were ordered to stay in Morocco to establish a business office when Lin Feng sailed around the world.

    Speaking of which, it was the beginning of the third year of Wanli, almost three years ago. Time flies so fast

    Three years ago, there were one hundred Special Branch members and one hundred Marines.  There were also fifty crew members who had repaired the Ningbo and came to join them. A total of 250 people and three ships were stationed in Marrakech, the capital of Morocco, in accordance with the order personally issued by Mr. Zhao.

    The first year was very peaceful. After a year and a half at sea, everyone needed this kind of stability to recuperate and restore their body and mind.

    Of course, they were not idle either. The Special Branch officers pretended to be oriental businessmen according to the plan, and used the popular Ming Dynasty goods on the ship as capital to start business activities in the local area, trying to make friends with senior officials in Morocco.

    The noble oriental faces gave them great help, and the princes and nobles of Morocco were proud to make friends with them.  Even the young king Abu Abdullah Muhammad II often invited them to the palace as guests.  Listen to their fascinating stories about the far East and admire the various exotic curios made by the skilled craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty.

    King Abu also took good care of them and rewarded them with many fine wines and beauties from time to time.  They can even live comfortably in Morocco without doing anything.  There is a real danger of being too happy to miss Shu.

    Fortunately, these carefully selected task force members have very firm beliefs.  In line with their loyalty to the young master and the group, they quickly remembered their mission, recharged their batteries, and then split up to act.

    Taking advantage of their good relationship with the royal family, the Marines had no trouble collecting intelligence on Morocco and Northwest Africa and drawing charts of the relevant sea areas without any hindrance.

    In order to keep the three ships in good condition and familiarize themselves with the sea conditions in this area, the crew also started shipping along the coast of Morocco, and even went as far as the Azores Islands.

    Because their ships were strong and powerful, their craftsmanship was superb, their charges were fair, and they kept their promises, the shipping business became an instant success, allowing them to make a lot of extra money.

    However, the good times did not last long. In 1576 AD, the fourth year of Wanli, the situation in Morocco suddenly became tense.

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    To put it simply, the Saad dynasty that currently rules Morocco was established by Mahdi, the grandfather of King Abu, who overthrew the Watas dynasty, which was willing to be a puppet of the Ottomans.

    How could the Ottoman Empire, the common leader of the Arab world and at its peak, be able to swallow this breath?  A few years later, the Ottomans planned the murder of the Mahdi, and a struggle for the throne began within the Saad dynasty.

    The two major powers, Turkey and Portugal, took the opportunity to intervene and wanted to push their agents to power.  In the end, the Portuguese, who were close at hand, defeated the Turks, who were beyond their reach, and supported the eldest son of the king, Ghalib, who was the father of King Abu, to successfully ascend to power.

    The other two young princes, under the protection of Ottoman envoys, fled Morocco and took refuge in Constantinople.

    The two princes had been waiting in the capital of Luluo for twenty years, and finally received the good news that their brother Ghalib had passed away.  The Ottoman Empire first sent envoys to Morocco, brazenly announcing to King Amin that their sultan had designated his second uncle Malik as the ruler of Morocco and a vassal of the Ottoman Sultan, forcing him to abdicate immediately.

    King Amin naturally would not submit, so war clouds enveloped Morocco.

    Finally, at the turn of the spring and summer of 1576, Malik and his brother, who had been on the run for twenty years, arrived in Morocco with the support of the elite Ottoman guards and started a throne war with their nephew's supporters.

    As a result, King Amin's army was defeated again and again, and even he himself almost died at the hands of two uncles.

    At the critical moment, it was his friend from the Ming Dynasty who stepped forward. He led his men to rescue him from the rebel army with outstanding bravery, and fled to the seaside on a camel.  Relying on three Ming Dynasty ships??, it is simply not something that his small army can absorb.

    Although Sebastian accepted the advice of his ministers and led his troops back to Lisbon in dismay, the idea of ??conquering Morocco was never extinguished in his heart.

    The arrival of Amin, the deposed king of Morocco, plays into his plans!  Not only was the army well-known, there was no need to worry about being attacked by the Moors, but Amin also had many domestic supporters, which greatly reduced the difficulty of capturing Morocco.

    Sebastian spent a whole year to finally convince the nobles to support him in changing national policies and launch a great expedition with the wealth accumulated by the empire for generations!  Gobble up Morocco!

    Amin and others, who had been waiting for more than a year in the State Guesthouse in Lisbon, naturally cried with joy when they heard the news!

    ¡°Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Finally, there is hope for the restoration of the country" the Moroccans were jumping and hooting.

    ¡°Woo hoo, I finally have hope of returning to my country¡± People from the Ming Dynasty were also jumping up and down and shouting, in Chinese of course.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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