At this moment, envoys from all over the country entered Persia, including those from Tsarist Russia.

Needless to say, everything that the Ottoman envoy Mustafa saw at the beginning, and what he was shocked, was all re-experienced by these new envoys.

Even because of the announcement of the imperial examination system at this time, free reading, etc., this kind of hottest topic, so that all the envoys just don't want to hear it, they all understand it clearly.

Generally speaking, the envoys of all walks of life represent the local elites, they are the local elites, they are the gainers, and they may not be very interested in the imperial examination system. However, the retinue of these messengers is different.

Who wouldn't want to go up if they could! Even if you can't do it, what about your own sons and grandchildren! If they live in the territory of the Ming Dynasty and can go to study, what if they can get ahead?

In addition, the Persian people burst into vitality because of the new policy of the Ming Dynasty. Their mental outlook will also infect them.

In short, the entourage of envoys from all walks of life has many temptations and yearns to become a member of the Ming Dynasty.

In the same way, when they entered the territory of Persia and marched all the way to the south of the town, they behaved extremely well-behaved!

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Lu Xiangsheng was very busy, at the beginning, when he heard that a certain tribe had arrived, please see the Ming Emperor, and he wanted to be a vassal of the Ming Dynasty and pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, he didn't think much about it. After all, for the Ming Dynasty, whether it was before or now, there are vassal states.

Later, however, when more and more messengers came, he finally began to face it squarely.

The emergence of this situation, Lu Xiangsheng is happy to see it after all. Since ancient times, all nations have come to the court, that is, when the Holy Son of Heaven is in the court, and the Ming Dynasty will be strong. In particular, there are some tribal states or something that I have never heard of before. This means that the prestige of the Ming Dynasty has spread to farther places, and it is subdued.

Among them, the country of Tsarist Russia, he heard Emperor Chongzhen mention it. This is from a big country.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't expect that the attitude of the envoys of Tsarist Russia was much more humble than that of the envoys of other tribes. Not only is the tribute list much richer than others, but they are even talking everywhere, including the Ming officials who pulled the post station to pull relatives, saying that their ancestors also came from the East or something.

This made Lu Xiangsheng speechless, their ancestors were Mongols, but our Ming Dynasty expelled the Tartars and founded the country, don't they know?

Seeing the envoys from all walks of life is really a bit much, this matter must be decided by the emperor himself. Lu Xiangsheng thought about it this way, so he decided to take them west to see Emperor Chongzhen. Because he has been busy for so long, it is time to report to the emperor.

So, Lu Xiangsheng set off with messengers from all walks of life.

He didn't know that although these envoys all wanted to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, they also had eyes watching, looking at the strength of the Ming army in Persia. In this respect, they are not the same as their entourage.

Of course, this is not to say that they will not surrender. This kind of vote because of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, their sincerity is directly proportional to the strength of the Ming Dynasty. If Da Ming is not as powerful as they imagined, then of course there will be less surrender. For the orders given to them by the Ming Dynasty in the future, different choices may appear.

All the way to Persia, and then to the city of Zhennan, they really didn't see a lot of differences. In addition, I also saw the situation of military defense in various places.

Seriously, these emissaries were a bit dismissive of the defenses of the towns and cities throughout Persia. Or to put it simply, many towns in the Ming Kingdom were undefended.

And among the people working in the fields, there are very few young people. Of course, they understand that this is the cause of all the military disasters.

However, this shows that if anyone can defeat the Ming army on the border, then Persia will be a big fat piece.

Many messengers thought so in their hearts, but they did not dare to show it. In any case, the Ming army wiped out the Mughal Empire and the Persian Empire in succession, and even wiped out more than 200,000 Ottoman troops.

Powerful, that's absolutely unquestionable!

But how powerful is it? The messengers were still curious. Now that the Persian governor of the Ming Dynasty took them to the border to meet the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, they wanted to see with their own eyes how powerful the Ming was!

In addition, they were also happy to see the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom. Because most of them have heard that the Ming Emperor was very generous to his tributary ministers. There are a lot of things to prepare this time, and the rewards should be abundant, right?

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Of course, Emperor Chongzhen didn't know about these, and he was not a roundworm in the stomach of these messengers. Besides, even if he knew, he wouldn't care. Because in his eyes, it's all scum!

Now he has been in Bitlis for a while. The Ottoman army was gathering more and more troops, more than 250,000. There was simply no way to accommodate so many troops inside the city, and there were all over the city, which was spectacular from the point of view of the momentum.

However, on the side of the Ming Dynasty, at present, Emperor Chongzhen can only use more than 35,000 cavalry troops, and there are nearly 45,000 or so infantry troops, totaling about 80,000.

It stands to reason that there is a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides. It was supposed that the Ming army was on the defensive and the Ottoman army was on the offensive.

But in fact, it was the Cossack soldiers of the Ming army who were arrogant in the field.

There is no other reason, just because the prestige of the Ming army shocked them.

During this time, Emperor Chongzhen had already sown at least twenty C-grade eavesdropping seeds. Thus, the situation with the Ottoman army in Bitlis can be said to be clearer than anyone else.

Don't look at the huge number of the Ottoman army, in fact, as a standing army, there are only about 80,000, which is the same as the number of the Ming army. The others were motley armies, or improvised herdsmen, farmers, and so on. Even simply, those people who transport logistics are also included, and they want to rely on the number to strengthen their prestige.

If you don't know their actual situation, you may really be frightened by their tricks.

However, for Emperor Chongzhen, he is just right!

If you are fighting from God's point of view, please understand!

Lu Xiangsheng was already on his way here, and Emperor Chongzhen knew about it. Those messengers followed Lu Xiangsheng, and he also knew it.

Originally, through the eavesdropping system, he already knew the weakness of Bitlis's Ottoman army, so he thought about attacking it. But then I thought about it, yes, wait a minute, the audience is here, I have to invite them to watch a show!

As a result, Emperor Chongzhen stopped fighting for the time being, but began to consider capturing these Ottoman captives to build the infrastructure. That's right, it is necessary to engage in infrastructure construction on the Persian side, otherwise, sorry for the reputation of future generations!

But with so many people, no matter what, and not robots, the food consumption is definitely large. If it had been before, it would have looked like I would have had to kill more. But now, someone is bringing food, so you can take more prisoners.

Just thinking like this, planning, waiting, waiting, waiting, this day, finally waited for Lu Xiangsheng's group to arrive.

Not to mention how excited Lu Xiangsheng was to see Emperor Chongzhen again for several years, let's just say that the envoys from all walks of life, they saw that the Ming army was only about 80,000, but the opposite side was full of mountains, in short, as long as they saw it, it was all the banner of the Ottoman army, and they were stunned.

The first thought is whether it will be too dangerous in the Ming army, if this fights, it will definitely be affected by the pond fish!

But then, they found that outside the barracks, there were all soldiers of the Ming army galloping, and the Ottoman army's probe horses, or they would not go out of the camp, if they went out of the camp, it would definitely be several times the number of the Ming army before they dared to come out. That's it, it's still the Ming army's side that is pressing.

It's not that the difference in the elite degree of the two warring sides is too big, after all, they are all good players selected from the army. The reason why the envoys from all walks of life can feel this way is because the morale of the Ming army is high and the fighting spirit is high, and the Ottoman Tanma is obviously unwilling to work hard, so it will give people the feeling that the Ming army is pressing the Ottoman army to fight.

The next day, after estimating that they probably knew something about the situation on Bitlis's side, Emperor Chongzhen sent a decree to let them meet him.

For the famous Ming Emperor, almost no envoys dared to raise their heads to look at each other, at most they secretly glanced at it, and it was all under great pressure.

After the ceremony, the envoys presented their own list of tributary items one by one, and at the same time introduced how good these tributary items were!

It seems that during the Yongle period, there was a tribe that gave a giraffe to the Yongle Emperor, saying that this was a unicorn, so that the Yongle Emperor was overjoyed, auspicious!

However, Emperor Chongzhen's insight is not comparable to that of Emperor Yongle. If you really want to talk about it, in this era, in terms of knowledge, no one dares to say first.

Therefore, for their so-called rare treasures, how good and good things are, Emperor Chongzhen can't look down on them at all.

At first, he listened a little patiently, but after hearing it, he directly called it to stop, and said to the envoys below: "If you really want to belong to the Ming Dynasty and be protected by the Ming Dynasty, then pay tribute to the grain and grass." How sincere you can be depends on how much you pay tribute! ”

Hearing this, the ...... messengers were a little dumbfounded.

In troubled times, grain and grass are very precious. However, for the Ming Emperor, this is the most ordinary thing, so he won't ask Pan Bang for it, right?

The Ming Emperor is rich all over the world, and it shouldn't be more rare and bizarre. And then in order to show the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, do you give them things again?

I heard that the previous Ming Emperor was very generous!

Why does the Ming Emperor in front of him want grain and grass, and there should be no shortage of grain and grass in the army? Isn't it all piled up in the back camp?

Emperor Chongzhen saw their doubts and depression, so he said lightly: "I will destroy the enemy in front of me tomorrow, there are many prisoners, and I still need some food now." After that, I don't need it. ”

The implication is that your sincerity will be effective at this time.