Yun Xi looked at Fang Mingqian's back and didn't sit back for a while. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This time, Yun Xi asked Fang Mingqian to lead the sailors to explore the northern seas, in addition to paving the way for exploring the Americas, there are other reasons. If it weren't for this other reason, Yun Xi actually didn't need to let Fang Mingqian enter Beijing in a hurry, and then let him set off immediately.

The reason why he was in such a hurry was related to the fact that the envoy team of the Korean state came again.

It is said that since Zheng Yi, the New Year's celebration of the Ming Dynasty in the first month, came back from the Ming Dynasty and told the people in the country that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty agreed to trace them back to their ancestors, the entire Korean family was boiling!

Before, because someone from the Min family became the queen of North Korea, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty may be a special case after admitting that she is Min Zheng, probably because the emperor of the Ming Dynasty wants to grace North Korea, so he specially admits it. But this time, Zheng Yi's request was agreed, which shows that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty does not prohibit this kind of thing.

This person's needs are layered, and after satisfying the needs of survival, he thinks about other things. The big families in North Korea are all out of this situation, and everyone wants to put gold on their faces, so they all want to send people to the Ming Dynasty as an envoy, and then ask for permission to trace their ancestors.

It's not that North Korea doesn't have smart people, and it's not that no one suspects that Yoon-hee has other plans. But what does this have to do with everyone? Even if the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has other plans, it is the monarch's family who is unlucky, and it will not affect their families, which is the case in history.

Therefore, everyone is vying for the opportunity to send the Ming Dynasty again, not to mention the main envoy, even the deputy envoy, and many people are fighting again. However, as for the position below, there is no one to fight for, and the deputy envoy below does not even have the opportunity to meet Yun Xi in person, and it is useless.

Zhu Fangyuan naturally didn't want them to chase after them so much to recognize their ancestors, but he had no choice. Even when Zhu Chenggui was in power, he could only fight and pull these families, and he didn't dare to touch the common core interests of the families, not to mention Zhu Fangyuan.

The only thing Zhu Fangyuan can do is to use only his own power to appoint the chief and deputy envoys in exchange for benefits with the family. In the end, there were two families who were willing to pay the most, so they got the positions of chief and deputy envoys respectively.

These two families were also anxious, and asked Zhu Fangyuan to send them as an envoy to Daming immediately. Zhu Fangyuan also felt that it was boring to stretch it, so he agreed.

But this time Yun Xi was not so easy to speak. After Yunxi's envoy team in North Korea learned the names of the chief and deputy envoys in Daming, they studied the families behind them, and finally agreed to the deputy envoy's family's request to recognize their ancestors when they officially met with the Korean envoys earlier today, and rejected the envoy's family's request to recognize their ancestors. It's estimated that I'm going to be sprayed to death by my own family after I go back.,But this has nothing to do with Yun Xi.。

Originally, this matter and Yun Xi were not in a hurry to send someone to explore the reason, mainly because of a news brought by these North Korean envoys.

The Joseon envoys arrived in the capital on March 15 and were placed in the feudal pavilion of the Ministry of Rites. One of the first things the Korean envoys did when they arrived in the capital was to submit a gift list.

Yang Ben of the Ming Dynasty was still in front of the host and guest at this time, and when he saw that there were a lot of furs on the gift list, he asked casually: "There are a lot of furs this year." ”

Who knew that the Korean envoy said: "In the first month of this year, the king of our country personally commanded the army to brave the heavy snow to attack the Jurchen tribe in the northeast, because the Jurchens were unprepared for the snow, and our country captured thousands of Jurchens at once, killed hundreds, and seized a large number of furs, so the tribute was given to the kingdom." ”

At this time, the Jurchens were barbarians, and it was normal to expel and attack the Jurchens, so this envoy said it without care.

Yang Ben felt that Yun Xi seemed to attach great importance to such a thing through contact with Yun Xi, so he entered the palace to report Yun Xi.

Yun Xi suddenly became anxious, it would not be good if the North Koreans crossed the Tumen River. Therefore, Yun Xi urgently decided on the commander of the northward exploration, and asked him to immediately send troops to the north to explore.

Yun Xi returned to his seat at this time and took out a map that he had drawn by hand. Although Yunxi has never studied drawing, thanks to his familiarity with the Great Tohoku region in his previous life, if you have ever explored it, you should be able to see that this is a map of the coast of the West Japan Sea.

Yun Xi's fingers slid along the coastline from north to south, and finally settled on a place, and said to himself: "This place is the most valuable place in the entire south of Heilongjiang and east of the Ussuri River, and a king must be crowned here to keep this place!" ”

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Nine thousand six hundred miles west from Jiayuguan is Samarkand City, which was one of the three major cities in the world at that time, along with Constantinople, the capital of the Ming Dynasty and the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. At this time, the city also had a population of nearly one million near it, and it was the only great power in the world that could be compared with the Ming Dynasty at that time, the Timurid Empire.

At this time, in the luxurious palace of the city, a man who was not tall, but very burly, sat on a luxurious seat and listened to what the person standing below was saying. Although this person is not good-looking, he has an extraordinary momentum. If you look closely, you'll see that there is something wrong with one of his legs.

This man was the ruler of the vast lands from Asia Minor to the Western Regions, from the Kazakh steppes to the northern shores of the Arabian Sea, Pozi Timur.

He listened to the envoy in front of him, who had already returned from the Ming Dynasty, and said, "...... The Great Khan, the new emperor of the Ming Kingdom, when I returned from the Ming Kingdom. Having completely taken over the power of the whole country, the feudal lords and generals who guarded the various regions had no intention of independence or rebellion. ”

Timur said: "Oh, the new emperor of the Ming Kingdom is only twenty-one years old this year, and he was only twenty years old last year, and he completely took over the country, and none of the vassal kings everywhere rebelled?" ”

Manraha said, "Yes. ”

Timur didn't say anything more for a while, as if he was thinking about something. He did not speak, and no one else dared to speak, so for a moment there was no sound in the hall, and it seemed as if it were empty.

Manraha guessed that Timur was thinking about why the Eastern countries were able to pass on so smoothly, but since Timur did not speak, he could not rashly put forward his research experience.

After a while, Timur came to his senses and said, "Don't mention the rest, you have already reported it last time when you went to the Ming Kingdom." Let's talk about what you think of the new emperor of the Ming Kingdom, a person called 'Zhu Yunxi'. "The three words 'Zhu Yunxi' were uttered by him in Mandarin.

Man Raha was also prepared, and immediately after hearing Timur's words, he said: "According to my observation, this new emperor of the Ming Kingdom is still very smart. The countries of the East, unlike our country, do not have a local class of feudal lords, but have a huge bureaucratic class. The bureaucracy had no military power, let alone independent administrative power, so it could no match the emperor, who could pass his orders to every corner of the country if he wished. ”

But the bureaucracy also has its own collective interests, and if the emperor touches their collective interests, the bureaucracy can confront them by sabotage. The previous emperor of the Ming State used to massacre the bureaucracy to purge it, but the effect was not obvious."

"The reason why I think the new emperor is smart is that he obviously wants to reform the bureaucracy, but he does it carefully step by step, and every step does not touch the bottom line of the bureaucracy, but he wants to achieve his goal step by step."

"Also, the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom led his troops to fight against the Mongols three years ago."

"Oh," Timur suddenly came to his senses and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Manraha said: "I don't really know what is going on, after all, I can't ask directly. However, according to the information received, it should be an unexpected war. The current emperor of the Ming Kingdom went on a tour of the north, and when he was still a hundred miles away from their northern border, he was attacked by the Mongols and suffered heavy losses. ”

"The current emperor of the Ming Kingdom escaped by chance, and immediately organized an army to counterattack, and the Mongols fled all the way, but in the end they could not get rid of it, and were completely wiped out in a place on the bank of the Troubled River, all the young and middle-aged people of the tribe were killed, and the surviving women and children were exiled to an island."

"All killed," Timur muttered, "hasn't the emperor of the Ming Kingdom always been tolerant of foreigners, and this time he is so ruthless." ”

Manraha laughed: "Great Khan, tolerance is something that I have not experienced and cannot empathize with. I have experienced this, and eighty or ninety percent of the guards around me have died, who is still tolerant? ”

Timur said: "That's the same, no matter how good-tempered a person is, he will be mad when he is bullied." ”

Then Timur asked Manraha many questions about the battle. Of course, Manlaha knew that Timur would be very concerned about this battle, so he also collected as much information as possible.

Timur said: "It seems that most of the battle was not personally commanded by the Emperor of Ming, but was commanded by a general. It's rare to be able to keep your sanity when you're angry like that, and to be a person who does big things. You go on to say, is there anything else? ”

Man Raha said: "In addition, when I met the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, I felt that the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom was very confident, and he felt that all his methods were correct. Because I don't know much about the political system of the Eastern countries, I don't dare to make a conclusion about whether he can succeed in reform, but confident people are not easy to deal with. ”

After listening to Manlaha's words, Timur muttered: "An emperor who is confident and cautious in doing things, but can still guarantee sanity at critical moments, plus the system of the Ming Kingdom. The east attack to fight the Ming Kingdom, the odds of victory are not great. ”

Fei Si on the side said: "Who in the world can stop the army led by the Great Khan!" ”

Timur ignored this sycophant and said: "There are also the Mongols of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Mongolian steppe, as a descendant of non-Genghis Khan, I rashly call myself the Great Khan of Mongolia, and they must not want me to conquer the Ming State again, so that their Mongolian headquarters will have no room to turn over." So they are also friend or foe. ”

However, Timur was obviously a very ambitious Great Khan, and said proudly: "No matter whether the Eastern Expedition is won or lost, and the odds of victory are great, I will compete with the Ming Kingdom!" When the western expedition defeated the Ottoman Empire again and relieved the worries, the army was sent to the east! ”