The next step was to discuss the boring details. For this reason, Mo San specially called several of his assistants to bargain with the other party. The Ottomans were not very sure about the type and quantity of arms they needed, or they were not very sure about their ability to pay. But it doesn't matter. Mo San had time to conduct this long and boring negotiation. After arranging the assistants, he began another action of his own, that is diplomatic and public relations - commonly known as gift-giving relationships.

While visiting old relationships such as Nasukh Pasha in Istanbul, he shrunk his head to get to know other powerful figures. For example, Sultan Ibrahim's teacher, Sultan Ibrahim, Sultan of the current Vizi Ahmed Pasha, Sultan of the Empress Dowager Kosem, Sultan of the Palace of the Palace of Lala Suleiman Aga, etc. However, these big figures either look down on Mo San or are very busy. Only the eunuch Lala Suleiman took the time to meet Mo San, which made him very happy.

Lala Suleiman Aga is an old eunuch who is in charge of many small and medium eunuchs, guards and slave male attendants in the Sultan's palace. At the same time, he maintains a good relationship with the biological mother of the Empress Dowager Kosem Sultan and the heir of Ibrahim Sultan, a former female slave from Russia. In short, he is a very not simple person. Mo San, who was born in later generations, is certainly aware of the energy of the eunuch of the court, so he gave Suleiman Aga a large gift, and Suleiman Aga also accepted it with a smile on his face. Both sides looked really harmonious on the surface.

Some people may say that Suleiman was a eunuch with status at least, so how could he receive gifts at the first time when he met? In fact, if you understand the degree of corruption in the Ottoman Empire at this time, you would not have this question. At this time, most Ottoman officials had to contribute a large sum of money to their superiors and competent departments when they took office, and their nature was like donating silver to get officials in the late Qing Dynasty. It is conceivable what would happen after such officials who spent money to buy official positions. Their expenses when they ran to the office would inevitably be transferred to ordinary people in the end, and this would undoubtedly aggravate the public grievances in the Ottoman country.

Therefore, it can be said that receiving gifts in the Ottoman country at this time was a trend. From the Great Weiqi (prime minister), the Guards Aga (commander), to the Pasha (governor), Sheikh (lord, chief, patriarch), and Baiyi (master, small bureaucrat at the bottom), almost no one did not accept gifts or gave gifts. This almost became a kind of official culture and unspoken rule of the Ottoman Empire at this time. In comparison, Lala Suleiman, the eunuch Aga, received more than 1,000 gold and silver coins worth more than 1,000 yuan, twenty precious furs, and some Dongzhu and other things that were brought back from the savage Jurchens. It was really nothing to say.

The leisurely days lasted until June 24th. On that day, Sultan Ibrahim's army began to land on Crete. The first battle was to siege Hanya, the port of Venetians. Sultan Ibrahim did not personally lead the army to fight with the Persians like his father Murad IV. He did not have such courage, so he decided to hand over the command of the army to the Agas on the front line, and it would be better for him to turn his attention back to the concubines in the harem. As long as the Agas handed over the seized spoils to him, he would not bother to care about anything else. I heard that those hateful Christian pirates hid all the treasures they had plundered for years on the island, and the Venetians also built large supply bases on the island, so the spoils should not be missing.

The 100,000 troops have begun to fight on the island, and the people behind are still slowly quarreling with the East Coast people about the types of weapons, quantity and price. The matter of buying guns in the last battle is really fucked, and it is just as good as the later Iraqi Maliki government in the Middle East faces ISIS. Perhaps such a thing is too ridiculous. Kara Murad Aga of the Ganeshari Legion could not bear it anymore. After asking Bektash Aga, Sultan Ibrahim, Sultan of the Empress Dowager Kosem and Sinsi Hauka, he finally decided to start accelerating the negotiation process, abandoning some details that are not necessary to be too entangled, and directly having face-to-face conversations with the East Coast people on the types, quantity and payment methods of weapons.

At this time, Mo San could no longer wander outside leisurely, and he returned to the venue. He had a verbal confrontation with the Ottomans. In early August, when the lengthy negotiations between the two sides had been in progress for more than a month, an Ottoman supply fleet was defeated near the island of Naxos. According to the person who fled back, with the help of the Pope, the Venetians received great sympathy and help from the Christian world. They formed a new Christian joint fleet and prepared to start fighting with the Ottomans for the control of the Eastern Mediterranean.

This bad news finally exhausted the last bit of patience of the Ottomans. While they transferred all the warships purchased from the East Coast that were docked in the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, they reached an initial military purchase agreement with the East Coast people at the fastest speed. The main content of the agreement was: the East Coast people would 5,000 32-C type flintlock rifles located in the Xinhua Port warehouse on Madagascar (the additional standard accessories are 41-year steel bayonets, iron strips, and rifle straps), 5,000 pairs of cowhide military boots,

Ten thousand cowhide ammunition packs, ten thousand armed belts, ten thousand cowhide water bags, six thousand spears, one thousand collar armor, a batch of telescopes and artillery measuring instruments, and forty various types of artillery and ammunition were sold to the Ottoman Empire at preferential prices. All the above goods were priced at 125,000 East Coast Dollar. The Ottoman Empire would pay the full cash in one lump sum, on the condition that the East Coast people immediately organized personnel to ship the goods. If there were additional arms orders in the future, the price and payment method would be discussed separately.

Many soldiers of the Ottoman Empire had been trained to use flintlock rifles, but they still used old cotlock rifles. In the era when the cotlock rifles were gradually eliminated in Western Europe, the Ottoman army was undoubtedly behind. Moreover, the Ottoman army still maintained a large number of cold weapon troops at this time, which was in sharp contrast to the number of spearmen in the European infantry phalanx, which showed that the composition and combat ideas of the Ottoman army were gradually falling behind. Such a gradually aging Ottoman Empire attacked the Venetians' tightly defended city blocks across the sea without the navy gaining an absolute advantage. The difficulties here are not ordinary.

This battle may take a long time! Mo San suddenly had such an insight in his heart, but he quickly shook his head and smiled. It would be beneficial for the East Coast people to fight for a long time. The longer the time is, the greater the demand for the Ottoman military purchases, and the more money the East Coast people earn. The domestic military factories have not yet reached the maximum production capacity in recent years. See if the more than 100,000 troops of the Ottoman Empire can make the domestic military factories that are awesome on weekdays cry out.

And the longer the battle, there is another benefit. That is, as one of the competitors of East Coast people in cotton cloth, the Venetians have been causing quite a lot of trouble for East Coast people in the Italian market. If this battle can hold them back and fight poverty, this small Mediterranean country that has just recovered from the economic depression may completely withdraw from the competition with East Coast people in the cotton cloth market because of lack of money to update equipment and decline in influence. This is definitely a major benefit to the sales of East Coast cotton cloth in the Italian market. Not to mention that this may also involve some of the energy of the two treasures, Austria and Spain, which will inevitably reduce the various pressures faced by the East Coast Republic in the New World.

After the agreement was reached, Mo San was not vague. He immediately asked two assistants to take his handwritten letter and copy of the agreement to go to Suez Port, and then took a boat to Xinhua Port to find the director of the Xinhua Port National Materials Deposit to ship the goods. As the plenipotentiary of the East Coast Republic in the Ottoman Empire, he had great power and signed a "rules-compliant" commercial agreement with the foreign government also happened to be within his authority, so it was not a big problem to send goods to Xinhua Port.

After Mo San's assistant set off, as if to celebrate the agreement between the two sides, on August 19, the Ottoman army captured the Port of Hania and seized a large amount of supplies and some artillery left by the Venetians. The news was quickly passed back to Istanbul. Sultan Ibrahim was very happy. He finally had time to withdraw from the group of concubines in the harem and received some Agas who came back to report the good news. His Majesty the Sultan encouraged them to continue fighting bravely, and at the same time he politely expressed his dissatisfaction with too little spoils. He asked the commanders on the front line not to only focus on siege cities and territorially, but to pay more attention to the collection of spoils.

The poor Greeks on Crete welcomed the island from the first day after the Ottoman army set foot on the island, welcomed them to rescue the Greeks from the rule of the harsh Venetians, but how did they know how much better the Ottoman army would be than those Venetians? Although the Greeks accounted for a considerable proportion of the Ottoman army, they had no sympathy for the so-called compatriots on Crete. They would not have fewer things to kill or rob.
Chapter completed!