Since going to the West, Wang Jinghong has basically understood what kind of person his Royal Highness is.

In many ways, he resembles His Majesty, who ascended to the throne with great military exploits.

Although he seems to have a good personality, he never gets angry easily, and likes to be reasonable in everything. But in dealing with the enemy, he is more ruthless than that of His Majesty.

Many times, this highness did not look like a young man at all. He is thoughtful, old-fashioned, good at taking advantage of situation, and very good at layout.

This time he went to the West, he had a complete plan for everything, and he didn't need anyone to point out at all.

Don't say that he is still a young man, even an adult can't compare to him, that prince is forty years old this year, but in many ways, he is not as good as this grandson.

Although he is away all the year round and does not participate in the affairs of the palace, he also knows very well that basically most of the chamberlains have already bet on this highness.

Don't talk about those people in the palace, even he and Zheng He, aren't they now taking refuge in this highness!

Before His Highness arrived, he knew his intentions from the chamberlain who had arrived earlier.

The use of force against the Delhi Sultanate is certainly in the interests of the Ming Dynasty, but it will never be in the interests of His Highness.

Because there is a prince above him, and the more he does now, the greater the contradiction with the prince will be in the future.

What's more, even if this battle is won, he will not be able to do well, which will only make it more difficult for His Majesty and the crown prince.

A unified caliber has been formed, and Wang Jinghong said unhurriedly: "Your Highness, you have promised Your Majesty that you will return to Beijing in two years at the shortest and three years at the longest. If war breaks out now, Delhi is more than 3,000 miles away, and it will definitely not end within half a year, then Xizhou ......"

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "My Ming Dynasty is now full of morale, the muskets are sharp, and it only takes 10,000 soldiers to defeat them." ”

Wang Jinghong did not deny it, he was well aware of the combat effectiveness of the army on this continent. Because of the strict hierarchical division here, the soldiers did not want to fight for the nobles at all, except for some private soldiers, it can be said that they have no combat effectiveness.

Most of their soldiers were broadswords and spears, and if the battle was unfavorable, they scattered in all directions.

Although they also have some gunpowder now, which can make some simple hand grenades, they are not a threat.

Except for some elephant soldiers, it is possible to pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty, but in the face of firearms, no soldier can stop the Ming army.

Wang Jinghong firmly believed that as long as he was given 10,000 musketeers, he was contacting some allies and providing logistical help, and he would dare to make a military order to seize the other party's lord.

After listening to Zhu Zhanji's words, he nodded and smiled: "That's true, but if Your Highness doesn't stay here, what's the use of winning the battle?" If His Highness stays here, Xizhou won't be able to go......"

Zhu Zhanji laughed, this Wang Jinghong is like Zheng He, he will never directly advise, but through analysis, the pros and cons are presented in front of Zhu Zhanji, so that Zhu Zhanji can see at a glance which choice is better.

In fact, Zhu Zhanji had already dispelled the idea of attacking Delhi, and now he was just testing whether his subordinates were complicit.

This temptation was tempted at once, but he had no intention of punishing them. Whether it is Zheng He or Wang Jinghong, they are all internal servants.

In today's political environment, the eunuch group, the civil official group, and the military generals and nobles group stand together, and only the eunuch group is truly one with the royal family, and there is no direction dispute.

Military generals may take the initiative to provoke wars for the sake of merit, and civilian officials will deliberately set up obstacles to show their importance in order to seize power.

But in addition to being greedy for a few dollars, the eunuchs will never go against the royal family.

The political system of the early Ming Dynasty was significantly different from that of the Qing Dynasty, with the difference being that the entire country's economy was completely controlled by internal supervisors.

Although the imperial court had a household department, in addition to agricultural taxes, commercial taxes were almost none. Nowadays, whether it is the customs or large factories, almost all of them are internal control systems, so that the imperial court needs to ask the royal treasury for silver in order to fill the holes.

The reason why the civil officials opposed going to the West was not because the large amount of gold and silver earned by going to the West was not paid to the national treasury, but to the inner treasury.

The country's gold and silver circulation is all controlled by internal control, official kilns, weaving shops, including tea, except for internal supervision There are only some private guilds that control it, and the household department naturally wants to grab this income.

In Zhu Zhanji's view, the changes in Tumubao a few decades later were mainly a trap for civil officials.

Through a war that pushed the boat down the river, the eunuch group and the Xungui group were wiped out at once, and at the same time the imperial power was restricted, which killed three birds with one stone.

Since Tumubao, the imperial power has been limited to the imperial palace, and the noble group has collapsed, and the eunuchs have no riddle about the qualifications to compete with the civil officials in such a situation.

Since then, the civil officials have held the power of the entire country, and this unrestricted power has led to unregulated corruption, and finally the Ming Dynasty has been played to the end.

Zhu Zhanji is not afraid that the current eunuch group will unite, because the 12 eunuchs, the 4th bureau, the 8th division, and the 24 yamen of the internal eunuchs, the conflict of interests in the middle is also very serious.

Moreover, there are military generals and noble groups and civilian official groups, and no matter how concerted they are now, they will not become a major disaster.

He only cares if these people in the inner prison are of the same mind as him.

After getting Wang Jinghong's answer, Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "You make arrangements, today I will meet the lord of Kezhi, as well as those Delhi people." ”

Standing at the entrance of the newly built main hall, you can see the sky reflected in the pink sky by the setting sun, and the sunset here is truly beautiful.

The long convoy carrying all kinds of imperial objects into the palace, Zhu Zhanji has to stay here for more than half a month, and the resettlement of thousands of people may not be able to be arranged today.

Liu Wan gathered by Zhu Zhanji's side and told Zhu Zhanji about some interesting things he encountered in this Kezhi country, and this trip to the West also enriched his knowledge a lot.

In fact, not only him, but everyone around Zhu Zhanji is the same. It has been more than a year since they came out this time, and they have walked more than 30,000 miles, and they can be called well-informed.

I don't dare to say anything else about this kind of exercise, at least their horizons are much wider one by one.

At this time, a small yellow door ran over and reported under the high platform: "The lord of Kezhi Country has brought all the princes to ......"

Zhu Zhanji nodded, spit out a "Xuan" softly, and turned around and entered the hall.

Li Liang's slightly shrill voice shouted: "The lord of Xuan Kezhi and the princes have come to see ......."

This sentence was passed out one by one by the inner eunuchs who were waiting in the front hall, all the way to the gate of the palace.

After a while, Ke Zhi, the lord of Ke Zhi, entered the main hall with more than twenty of his sons.

This Ke Zhi Kingdom established contact with the Ming Dynasty before Zheng He's first trip to the West, and the lord of the country at that time was still Keyili's father.

In the first year of Yongle, Zhu Di sent the lieutenant official Yin Qingyun to appease his country, giving him a gold tent, a gold Wenqi, a colored silk and a canopy.

When Zheng He went to the West for the second time, he came to the Kezhi Kingdom, and the lord of the Kezhi Kingdom then sent an envoy to pay tribute.

On the third trip to the West, Zheng He captured the lord of Ceylon, and the lord of Kezhi was very frightened, and hurriedly sent an envoy to pay tribute.

This time, their envoy had a very low posture and took the initiative to ask for a seal to seal the mountain in his country.

Zhu Di asked the inner supervisor to engrave the seal, and sent Zheng He to seal his king, Zheng He came to Kezhi, carved an inscription on the sacred mountain of Kezhi country, and ordered Le Shi Mountain.

Zhu Zhanji saw Ke Yili and took the initiative to mention the matter, saying: "This edict is only heard of by Lone, but he has not seen it with his own eyes, so I will arrange it tomorrow first, and Lone should personally climb the sacred mountain and read the text." ”

There was a general interpreter, but Yili hurriedly responded: "This is a grand event, Xiao Wang must arrange it properly." Can Your Highness give a few days of grace and let Xiao Wang get ready. ”

Zheng He on the side reminded: "Your Highness, the people of Kezhi live together, and the road is narrow, if you want to go, this safety must be arranged." ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "Then I'll go on the day I leave......"

Ke Yili listened to the translation, breathed a sigh of relief, and told Zhu Zhanji about some of the situation in their Kezhi Kingdom, and the words did not leave the meaning of wanting the help of the Ming Dynasty.

Today, these countries on the Indian continent are city-states, and each country is not very powerful, and the economy is even worse.

Whether it is Ming tea, porcelain, or silk, they are all in short supply.

Before there was no silk of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the homespun cloth here, it was also a very valuable local sari. The appearance of silk made the local earth kings particularly fond of it, and those women were beautiful in silk clothing.

Zhu Zhanji did not directly agree, nor did he refuse. When he traveled this time, he had brought some gifts for the various countries, but he was certainly not willing to help unconditionally, so it depended on their performance.

Ke Yili also sent an invitation to Zhu Zhanji, saying that tomorrow evening, a dinner would be held in his palace to entertain Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji readily agreed to this kind of diplomatic etiquette, and promised to bring several of his concubines to the dinner.

In Daming, women are not allowed to participate in banquets, even if they are relatives, they can only get together in the backyard.

However, the atmosphere here is different, but Yili was afraid that Zhu Zhanji would be angry at first, and when he saw that he agreed, he couldn't believe that Zhu Zhanji would agree.

After sending him away, Zheng He said unhappily: "These natives don't know etiquette, how can the ladies participate in the banquet, if there is some accident, they collide with the nobles......"

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said with a smile: "The so-called following the customs of the locals is nothing more than that. Since there is such a custom here, I agreed to it. What's more, the concubines are surrounded by chamberlains, palace maids, who dares to collide? There is no need to worry about the Duke of Dian Guo, Lone is not that old-fashioned, so now I will give you a task......"

He stopped complaining, and hurriedly said, "Your Highness, please speak." "You are familiar with this place, there are hundreds of small city-states here, and you are dizzy to read the information, you help Gu sort it out, according to the location of each country, and put it out on the map." Those who take refuge in my Daming are painted yellow, the light yellow of the heart to my Daming, the neutral green, and the red that disapproves of my Daming. ”

Without a map, Zhu Zhanji couldn't form a real concept when he looked at the information, because the records at this time were too brief and too deceitful.

For example, Kezhi Kingdom, in the records of the Ming Dynasty, is Kezhi, or Gupanpan Kingdom. It is also translated as Guozhen. Located in the southwest of the peninsula, it can be reached by a day and night from the northwest of Little Gülen.

This is still relatively easy to remember, and you can get a glimpse of the general direction at a glance.

There are also many small countries that only record what neighbors they are and who they are close to, but there is no detailed record of their location.

So Zhu Zhanji just saw the introduction, and he didn't know where it was.

The matter was arranged, and then the audience of the envoys of Delhi was announced.

The Kochi people represent ordinary Indians, with lighter skin tones and higher status, with a distinct national style.

But the race of Delhi is more complicated, although most of them are white, but they do not belong to one ethnic group.

Among them, there were Aryans, Slavs, Semites, Persians, Turks, and Mongols.

This is a hodgepodge of countries, and even the political system of the country is a hodgepodge.

In the second year of the opening of the Song Dynasty, Kutbuaibak, the governor of Delhi ruled by the Ghul Dynasty of Afghanistan, established himself as the sultan who ruled India, and set the capital in Delhi, marking the beginning of the Delhi sultanate's rule over India.

First the Turks entered the country, then the Arabs gained the upper hand, and finally all sorts of people were integrated into the country.

The Arabic numerals and symbols that are well known to outsiders were not actually invented by the Arabs, but by the Delhi people, and only spread through the Arabs.

They have only one thing in common, and that is that they believe in the Green Religion and have been able to hold it firmly for hundreds of years, relying on the same faith and a strong suppression of the Hindus.

This is arguably a dark period in India's history, and if it weren't for the Green Religion's occupation of India's holy sites and the most fertile northern plains, the Hindus would have wiped out Buddhism long ago.

In this respect, the Green Religion saved Buddhism.

This is the same reason that Timur defeated the Ottoman Empire and saved Europe in disguise.

If Timur hadn't defeated the Ottomans, the Ottomans would have destroyed the Byzantine Empire.

In the 29th year of Hongwu, the Battle of Nicoburg, the Ottoman Empire defeated the coalition forces of Hungary, France, Germany and other countries in one fell swoop, nearly 10,000 crusaders were captured, except for 300 noble knights who were ransomed with huge sums of money, the rest were almost all killed.

From then on, Europeans could only watch the Ottoman Empire expand and occupy the Balkans, and the Byzantine Empire was in danger.

But at this time, Timur the Cripple marched westward and began to march on the Ottoman lair.

In the first year of Yongle, Timur attacked the center of the Ottomans. In the Battle of Ankara, Timur's army defeated the Ottoman army, and the monarch Bayezid was captured.

This event temporarily saved the Byzantine Empire, and it was equivalent to saving the whole of Europe, at least Eastern Europe.

The Delhi Sultanate had nominally been a subject state of the Timurid state, and many of the people who could not get along in the Timurid state came here, increasing the power of the Delhi state and making their political system appear chaotic.

(There is something to do today, so I will change 4,000 words first, and I will make up for 8,000 words tomorrow.) It's October, and this month I want to add more, and I will write more than 220,000 words and strive for 250,000 words)