Although as early as the end of the 15th century, as Da Gama opened a new route to the East, the monopoly of the Tianfang people on the trade of the East was broken, and the traditional Mediterranean-Red Sea-India trade route was broken. However, this traditional trade route did not immediately decline because there were a large number of hungry Mediterranean merchants who continued to obtain sufficient oriental high-net-worth goods through the eastern coast of Egypt and then sold them to all parts of Europe.

Suez City is the center of Red Sea re-export trade. Suez was an important port in BC and was the starting point of the Eastern trade that was continuously operated and maintained by many empires.

As early as ten years ago, the Ming Dynasty merchant ships had sailed to this city. As an important trading port, the Ming Dynasty merchants naturally opened shops here. Near the port, hundreds of Ming merchants and friends operated their shops.

In the not-so-large harbor, you can always see the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty. Half a month ago, the two fast cruisers of the "Xihai" and "Haining" boarded by the Chinese mission were berthed in the Suez port area. When the Chinese mission headed north from Suez to Istanbul, the Ottoman capital, the drawing experts on the two cruisers were also busy sorting out the waterways and hydrological climates recorded along the way to provide accurate guidance for later generations. In fact, in the past decade, the Ming Navy has been doing such a job, through a large number of navigation records, which is also the reason why the Ming shipping is becoming increasingly developed.

After all, the national team has been fueling the fire.

On September 16, 1665, after Ottoman Sudan sent a messenger to convey the order, Pasha, the city of Suez, said in confusion when he took Sudan's order.

"Twist all Chinese businessmen out?"

"Yes, sir, this is the order of Vizie!"

The messenger replied loudly.

"All Chinese merchants must drive out of Suez City. Without Sudan's order, they cannot return to Suez! Lord!"

"But……"

After hesitating for a moment, Ahmed replied.

"But there are Chinese warships in the port! Where are the Chinese missions?"

"They have been seized,"

"What!"

Ahmed stood up in shock and shouted loudly.

"Who gave the order?"

"This is the order of Davizi."

"oh……"

When Ahmed heard it was Great Vizi's order, he immediately fell silent. After pondering for a moment, he said.

"Please tell Davizi that I will obey the orders and drive all the Chinese out of Suez!"

While the messenger retreated, Ahmed took the letter and fell into silence, while the servant beside him was just staring at him quietly.

Pasha was thinking about the problem. When Pasha was thinking, no one could disturb him, whether it was the guard or the black eunuch who served him.

Looking at the thin piece of paper in his hand, Ahmed spoke after a long time.

"Yilia, go and tell President Xu of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and tell him Sudan's order!"

"As for orders, sir!"

As the young guard was about to leave, Ahmed suddenly asked.

"Ilia, do you remember where your home is?"

Ilia looked back at Pasha with some surprise.

"I only remember being by the Delina River, as if near a castle..."

When talking about my hometown, Ilia's mood became heavy. He could not even suppress the sadness in my heart. It seemed that his mother's sad crying seemed to echo in his ears:

"Ilia, my son, don't forget your mother! Don't forget your name..."

That's why he never changed his name.

"The Drina River...it's a very long river!"

Ahmed nodded and said. The river flowed through the Balkans and stretched for hundreds of miles. Many of the guards came from there. They may not remember their names and hometowns, but they can always remember that river.

"I seem to live there too, but I can't remember where, after all, I've been away from there for a long time..."

Ahmed, who was nearly fifty years old, looked at the distance with an extremely complicated expression. He was also from the Guards. Like Ilia, he was forced to be a slave to the Guards under the "Demisheme system". However, by chance, he became Suezpasha with his military merits and the support of Davizi.

"But I still remember that winter was very cold and it was snowing. At that time, I seemed to be playing with snow or doing something else. I saw them coming over. It was a long line of horses. This was an Ottoman commander who led his armed guard. Later, I knew he was going to collect a certain number of Christian children in the countryside."

In the local area, these Christian children recruited were so-called "blood tribute". Of course, in the Ottomans, this was the "Dimesheme system" that lasted for hundreds of years. This system is not complicated, that is, in Christian families in the conquered areas, soldiers were recruited at a rate of 40 households. The recruitment was mainly teenagers aged 8 to 18. The reason is also very simple. Compared with adults whose thoughts and physiques have long been formed, teenagers with rough jade are undoubtedly the best objects of shaping and are more likely to be assimilated.

The Demisheme system is implemented every 5 to 7 years. On the day of the big army, an officer with a senior title will go to the designated area to preside over the recruitment work with the Sultan's authorization letter and a group of recruits, accompanied by several entourages. A few days before the officer arrives, the priest of the church in the place of requisition will be ordered to notify all local boy families who meet the requisition and send their children to the assembly site with their baptism certificates on the designated date.

"Because the last time the "blood tribute" was collected, it had been five or six years. So they chose it very smoothly that time, and there was room for choice. They collected enough healthy, smart, and well-known boys of ten to fifteen with no trouble. However, many parents still hid their children in the woods, asked them to pretend to be fools, lames, put them in tattered clothes, and made them unkempt. Some parents even made their own children disabled, such as cutting off a finger from their hands, for fear of being attracted to the Turkish chief..."

His eyes were set in the distance, and Ahmed continued.

"I remember, it seems that my parents hid me in the woods, but why did I run out of the woods? I can't remember it anymore. Maybe it was because I was afraid. When I ran out of the woods, I saw many people in the church, so I arrived at the church. They were choosing the children to send them over, and I walked over so stupidly, and I was selected like that..."

After a moment of silence, Ahmed continued.

"When I walked over, I seemed to see my mother. What does she look like? I can't remember clearly. I only remember that she seemed to be crying. When she saw me being pulled over by a soldier, she was frightened. She was just crying there, as if she was still calling my name..."

My name.

Ahmed suddenly fell silent. He seemed to have forgotten his name. What is my name?

Everyone should have their own name. Ahmed once had his own name. But it was not the name given by the Turk, but the name given to him by his parents. Even in his memory, he also clearly remembered that day, his mother also chased the Turkish horse team and shouted his name.

But it seemed that all this had been forgotten long ago. He even forgot his name, his mother's voice, and the increasingly blurred figure in his dream.

Although his figure became blurry, what about his voice? His mother's voice still shouted at him in her dreams.

But he never wanted to mention that name. Sometimes he even deliberately chose to forget. Why should he forget? Because forgetting can make him live a little easier. He doesn't need to pursue the figure in his dream or the sound in his dream. Of course, he doesn't need to call that name a few, the name that belongs to him.

But some things are unforgettable!

Just like that, he thought for a while, and suddenly he spoke.
Chapter completed!