The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven Chapter 106

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April 24, 1842 may be a date that will go down in history for Omanis.

On this day, on the burning coast of Zanzibar, the East African overlord Oman admitted defeat for the first time in nearly a century on board the super-class battleship "Venecia".

In this battle, their proud navy paid a heavy price for 19 battleships, 15 frigates, 38 galleys, and a large number of arson ships and self-destruct ships.

Not only that, a total of more than 18,000 people were killed or missing in Oman, including Navy Commander-in-Chief Mayed Pasha.

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More than 2,000 houses were destroyed throughout Zanzibar Port, and civilian ships were lost. Two of Sultan Sayyed the Great's eight sons were killed in this battle.

Although there is hatred between the country and the family, the monarch does not seem to intend to take revenge on the other party; on the contrary, he is very optimistic about the trade between Ao and Saeed's son Majid who strongly promotes it to Franz and Friedrich. their cloves.

The clove tree can extract fine spices and sesame oils. Clove oil is a yellow oil with a strong fragrance, which can be used to make various high-end spices and perfumes and cigarettes, and even used as medicine in parts of Asia and Africa.

However, the origin of this spice is not Zanzibar and Benba. They used to be the flagship products of Indians, but now the output of cloves in the two places of Sanben has exceeded 60% of the world's output, almost monopolizing the global trade of similar commodities, and has become a veritable country of cloves.

This is where Arab businessmen are powerful. They are able to bend and stretch, and have extremely flexible moral lower limits. Even sworn enemies can do business without scruples.

In fact, the war reparations of half a million pounds and the loss of the land south of Bagamoyo did not bother the Said Dynasty. What really made them unacceptable was the loss of the powerful fleet they relied on for survival and the accumulation of hundreds of years. self-confidence.

Once upon a time, the majestic Oman Empire punched Portugal, kicked the Netherlands, invited the Arabs, explored East Africa, and crossed the Indian Ocean. The Zawasan pirates that the British dare not fight, they dare to fight, and Mombasa, which the British dare not take, has long been their colony.

Oman has been the overlord of the western Indian Ocean since the Age of Discovery, but Saeed knows that the glory of the past does not represent everything.

He is not a fatuous and incompetent monarch, on the contrary, he is very business-minded and strategic, so the East African overlord immediately thought of forming an alliance with the Austrians.

In order to maintain its influence in the Persian Gulf and the Western Indian Ocean, this is an inevitable choice, just like the covenant with the British was signed back then.

And the sultan also tried to actively expand business relations with Austria and strengthen the bond between the two countries.

At the same time, he also needs to rebuild a stronger fleet and a more detailed and reliable intelligence network to ensure that this shame will never happen again.

On the other hand, on the Austrian side, it was not until the end of the war that Franz and Friedrich understood why the Omani navy could respond so quickly.

The reason is that the other party's capital has moved from Muscat in the Persian Gulf to Zanzibar, and their naval headquarters has naturally come to this small East African island.

But because it happened only in recent years, there is no mark on the chart on the own warship. This made Franz feel chills down his spine. He only knew that a certain wicked navigation often misled people into dead ends, leek fields and the like.

But compared with our own overseas intelligence department, it is simply weak! The sea chart that has not been updated for several years has directly sent the long-distance fleet into the enemy's lair.

Bagamoyo and Zanzibar across the sea, only less than a day's flight. The behavior of the imperial navy in Bagamoyo is undoubtedly a serious provocation to the Said dynasty.

Of course, the proud Omanis also overestimated their own strength. They thought that they could directly destroy the invading enemy fleet through undeclared war.

After all, the victor is not to be condemned, as long as the powerful sea forces of the great powers can be wiped out, then naturally no one dares to come out and make irresponsible remarks to them.

It's a pity that dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

The difference in strength between the two sides for nearly a hundred years is not easy to smooth out. In addition, their stupid strategy angered their opponents. The Austrian Imperial Navy perfectly implemented the policy of "beating the dog in the water", which made the casualties of the Arabs as high as one To an incredible degree.

And the culprit of all this is still at large in Bagamoyo, how could Franz and Friedrich let them go.

The next day, the ocean-going fleet visited this ancient port again.

Although the welcome crowd was significantly smaller this time, their enthusiasm has become stronger. After all, the Austrians have defeated their long-standing enemies—those Arabs who were once invincible, those demons who charged them blood taxes, those who forbid They were scumbags involved in the slave trade.

Now those damned heretics have finally received their retribution, and their time is coming...

But the first thing Franz did when he came to Bagamoyo was to ban the slave trade, which surprised many people. After all, the slave trade was the most profitable business in Bagamoyo at this time, and it was not one of them.

"Listen, I'm only here for three things, ban slaves! ban slaves! **** ban slaves!"

His short, if slightly rude, off-the-cuff speech had the assembled audience chattering.

"His Royal Highness, you have wrongly blamed us. The culprit who teased you and your country is not us. All this is the fault of that damned Benny Elbin! Just punish him alone!"

The very flexible businessmen in the audience chose to abandon their cars at this moment to save their handsome men, and began to criticize Erbin and his party. After all, sacrificing others to fulfill themselves is a compulsory course for every ocean-going businessman in this era.

They had already figured out the way out before, and that was to arrest Benny Erbin and his accomplices to bear the wrath of Austria. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com In this way, not only can they keep their own property, but they may even become the new owners of the city.

Of course, it is obviously impossible to hide this trick from Franz, so he is not going to let these villains succeed.

Benny Elbin, though a disgraceful liar, was at least a man of ability and guts. Perhaps there is another possibility. He didn't want to deceive the Austrian guests, but some misunderstandings occurred between the two sides. The very deceitful chart may be just a momentary negligence.

"Send him here."

At Franz's order, two soldiers of the Austrian Marine Corps stepped forward and grabbed Benny Elbin's arms.

Seeing this scene, the businessmen couldn't help cheering from the bottom of their hearts, and threw sundries such as eggs and tomatoes to express their "indignation" at being cheated and their "loyalty" to their new masters.

In fact, I had sent someone to conduct an investigation before, which proved that Elbin was indeed a mixed-race child, but he was not an illegitimate child as he said, but a legitimate prince.

His father even banished all his brothers and uncles from the Weijin Kingdom for him to inherit the throne smoothly.

Benny Erbin was brought across to the young Grand Duke. At this moment, the former's mentality was overwhelming, and he didn't dare to look at the other party, especially after knowing his identity and witnessing this miraculous battle.

A never-before-seen emotion enveloped Elbin's heart, including admiration and awe and a little admiration and guilt.

"Do you want to be the Governor of Tanzania?" No false politeness, no detours and circles, but straight to the point.

Chapter end